The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-15 00:00:00

PROSPECTUS.

This Tommy has been formed by the Union of the Promoters
of the Thames Embankment and Atmospheric Railway Company
with the Promoters of the Thames Embankment and City Railway
Company. _ .

The object of the united Company is to carry into effect the re-
port of the Metropolitan Improvement Commissioners (7th February,
1844) recommending an embankment of the northern shore of the
Thames, letween Blackfriars and Westminster bridges, and preceding
reports of Conunittees of the House of Commons in favour of in-
creased facilities of traffic to relieve the narrow and over-crowded
thoroughfares which form the only existing communications between
the east and west end of the Metropolis.
This great public improvement has hitherto been delayed by the
difficulty of providing adequate funds from resources not Interfering
with the general taxation of the country ; but it has appeared to the
promoters of the present united Company that the object may sow
be attained, and be rendered a highly profitable investment for
capital, by combining with it the additional advantages of railway
communication.
It is proposed therefore to execute the line of embankment founded
ox the plan of Mr. Page, according to the recommendation of her
Majesty's Commissioners for Metropolitan Improvements, and to
combine with it a railway elf the atmospheric principle from Hunger-
ford,Market, or its neighbourhood, to the vicinity of London-bridge
and the Bank, and thence to the Blackwell Railway near Fenehurch-
street ; and also to join thovarious railways terminating at London-
bridge Station; either by one of the existing bridges, or by a new
bridge to be constructed for the object. -
It is obvious that this great undertaking cannot be carried into
effect without the sanction of Government. For the purpose of ob-
taining such sanction, proposals have been submitted to the Metropo-
litan Commissioners regarding the execution and management of the
work. and which the promoters expect will receive a favourable con-
sideration both from that board and the City authorities.
The- levels of the embankment and railway will be so arranged as
not to interfere with the wharves. The point where the line will
diverge from the river side, to join the Blackwell Terminus, will be
determined by the comparative cost and utility of continuing by the
river side to London-bridge, or of forming a new street, adapted to
the railway, parallel with the Thames.
The m.mes on the Provisional Committee show that the various
Companies whose railways the Thames Embankment and liailway
Junction Company is Intended to unite, will promote its progress ; and
the support of the public at large may be anticipated, for the following
among other important reasons.
Ist. A river-side terrace, equally Striking in point of appearance
and utility, affording a spacious -drive and promenade available for
the purposes of health and recreation, will be afforded to the public
without resort to the Consolidated Fund, while the most crowded
thoroughfares of the City will be at the same time relieved from part
of the vast traffic which now obstructs them, and by an improved
mode of railway transit, free from noise, smoke, and danger.
21. The improvement of the navigation of the River, and of the Me-
tropolitan sewerage, and the removal from the northern shore of the
unsightly and unwholesome accumulations of mud which now dis-
figure it.
3d. The connexion of the principal towns and seaports *f the
southern and pastern coasts with the centre of the Metropolis.
An estimate has been formed of the traffic between the projected
termini ; but to avoid the appearance of exaggeratloe, the Provisional
Directors submit only the following general calculation, which shows
an ample return for the capital invested. Nobody can reasonably
doubt this return who considers the multitudes continually passing
and repassing to and from the City on foot, in omnibuses and other
carriages, and in steam-boats, and without reckoning the very largely
increased traffic that must accrue by the junction with the above-
mentioned railways, and their many projected extensions. When it
is remembered also that the transit will occupy less than five minutes,
Instead of, as at preeent, twenty minutes to half an hour, the saving
insure a power-
alone of valuable time to men of business, &e., must
lid support to.this undertaking.
The following table exhibits the immense traffic between the City
and the West End :
Steamers averaging 370 trips per day .. 16,000 Passengers
20,000 ditto
Omnibuses ditto 2,120 journics per day • •
.. 13,000 ditto
Cabs and private carriages, ditto 6,588

49,000 ditto
76,000 ditto

Foot passengers, ditto

125,000 Persons daily.

If one-third only of the passengers by
steamers and carriages use the raihvay
And one•eight of the foot passengers • •
And of those travelling to and fro, from the
different railways connected with the
Brackwall and London-bridge tertnini .. 12,200

16,300
9,500

' The aggregate would be • • 38,000
Assuming that the improved mode of transit
will increase the number of passengers
about one-third (the usual calculation being
double) the dally'number will be 50,000.
An average of 3d. would give 6251. per
day, or .. .. • . £228,125 per annum
And deducting for expenses • • • • 57,000

There would remain • • £171,125
Or above nine per cent. upon the capital. An increase, too, may
be reasonably expected from the traffic of the eastern and western
lines of railway crossing the River for communication with the
central terminus, for which a Company has been formed, and with
which it is expected that arrangements will be made satisfactory to
all parties interested.
be addressed, in the annexed form, to
Applications for Shares may
the Provisional Directors, at the temporary, office of the Company,
32, Charing-cross ;to the Solicitors and I. arliamentary Agents ; and
to the following Agents and Sharebrokers :—Messrs. R. and W.
'lichens and Harrison, Threadneedle-street;. 3lr. H. J. Williams, 80,
Barclay, Allsop, and Mereter,Exchange-buildigs •
Old Broad-street;
M.essrs. Johnstone and Bradley,
Forsyth Mackenzie and Lawrence, 38, Cornhill, London ; Messrs'.
Forsyth and Pritchard, Liverpool ;
Manchester ; Mr. James Pearson. Birmingham ; Mr. Luke Arnold'
Bristol; Mr. Thomas Sanford, Exeter;
. Messrs. Watson and Co.,
Leeds; Mr. Robert Allan, and Messrs. John Robertson and Co.,
Edinburgh ; Mac Ewen and Auld, and leatilds and Cockburn, Glasgow;
of whom Prospectuses may be obtained. Such parties as are Share-
holders in the Blackwell, Croydon, and London, South Essex, and
London and Dover Railway Companies, are requested to signify the
same in their letters of application.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Directors of the Thames Embankment and
Railway Junction Company.
clealcmen,—l request that you will allot me shares of
].eachin the above Company, and I hereby undertake to accept
Inc same, or any lesser number that may be allotted to me, to pay the
deposit of 21. per share thereon, and to sign the Subscribers' Agree•
meat and Parliamentary Contract when required.
Name in full ........ .
....

Residence ......
Trade or Proftasion ..... .
Reference in full :• •

THAMES EMBANICMENT RAILWAY
JUNCTION COMPANY.
Chairman.—The EARL of DEVON.
• Shareholders in the Blackwall, the Croydon, the South Eastern
and South Essex Railway Companies, desirous of obtaining Shares
in the above united THAMES EMBANKMENT and RAILWAY
JUNCTION COMPANY, are requested to name the Company in
which they have a proprietary interest, in their letters of application.
z. W. WILLIAMS, Secretory pro tem.

Opese 32, CAugilig-Orm.