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BELGIAN GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAT
COMPANY.
Capital 1,750,0001., In 87,500 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. per Share.

DIRECTORS.
fir .Tohn 'Nicoll Robert Campbell, K.C.11. deputy-chairman of the
Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, Chairman
Henry Bainbridge, Esq. banker
Francis Frederick Clossman, Esq. chairman of the Great Luxus-
hourg Railway Company
William Shelford Fitzwi'llarn, Esq. director of the Essex and Suffolk
Railway Company
John Bowel, Esq. director of the Liverpool, Ormakirk. and Preatea
Railway Company.

In London—M BANICBRS.
yard essrs. Puget, Buinbridges, and Co. St. Panl'a•tharci*
In Liverpool—The Commercial Bank of Liverpool
In Brussels—The Societe Generale.
SOLICITORS-11fessrs. Lawrance and lime, Bucklerabury:
ENGINEER—Sir John Macneill, LL.D. F.R.S. and James Theneaft, .
Esq. F.R.S.E.
SECRIITART—H. C. Hastings, E,sq.
The Belgian Grand. Junction Railway will commence at the several
points of Tirlemont and Landen towards the north, and Huy, Namur,
Gosselles, and Chatelineau (Charleroi) on the south, and will directly
connect the provinces of Brabant, Hainault, Liege, Limburg, and
Namur with each other, and the Government lines of railway, 'as
also with the several lines of Liege and Namur, Landen and Haisselt,
Louvain and Jemeppe, Sambre and Meuse, anti by the Great Luxem-
bourg.

The provinces which the railway will unite were found by the
census of 1844 to comprise a population of 2,188,551, and the dis-
tricts which it will traverse are sitnated is the heart of Belitiltin• ant
comprise an area of 165 square miles. The entire length of the Bel-
gian Grand Junction Railway will be 102 English miles, and the in-
variable rule of the Belgian Government not to permit any competing
lines, must necessarily ensure to this Company the entire traffic of
the country through which this line will pass.
This portion of the country is emphatically termed the Granary of
Belgium, and, in addition M its vast agricultural produce, is rich in
ironstone, lead, mat hie, stone, and slate quarries. It has also nume-
rous distilleries, extensive breweries, ironworks, and large manufac-
tories of porcelain, glass, paper, beetroot sugar,. gunpowder, &e.
The great coal-fields of Charleroi and Liege, which are the most ex-
tensive in, Belgium, will, by means of this line, be enabled to supply
all parts of the kingdom at a very reduced rate. •
A considerable saving will be. effected in the cost of iron, and of
the locomotive engines and traffic material, which will be manufac-
tured at the Couvin works ceded to this Company.
Applications for shares, and for prospectuses and maps, to be made
to the Secretary, at the Company's offices, 64, Old Broad-street; to
Messrs. Lawrence and Plews, solicitori, Bucklersbury ; and to the
following sharebrokers :—Messrs. Carden and Whitehead, Thread-
needle-street, London; Messrs. Bradley, Ford, and Parker, Manches-
ter ; Messrs. H. Davies and Co., Liverpool ; Messrs. Chantrell and
Beyes, Leeds; Messrs. Wilkinson and Earle, null; Messrs. Bucha-
nan and Aitken, Glasgow ; Messns. Oswald, George, and Co. Aber-
deen ; Messrs. Labertouche and Stafford, Dublin ; Messrs.
ISsivling
and llowden, Edinburgh ; Messrs. Wreford, Nicholls, and Co., Bris-
tol; Messrs. Drury and Richardson, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; and to
Mr. W. 1). Wheeler, Meffield.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Directors of the Belgian Grand Junction Railway.
Gentlemen, -I request that you will allot ins shares of
201. each in the Belgian Grand Junction Railway Company; and I
agree to accept such shares, or any smaller number you may allot to
me, and to pay the deposit thereon, aid to execute the deed of set-
tlement, and all other necessary deeds, when required.
Dated the day of 1845.
Signature, with Christian Name at fall length ..... • • •
Residence • • •• . •• •
Profession, Trade, or other Description
Reference, with Christian and Surname, and Address..

WORCESTER AND SOUTH WALES
JUNCTION ;RAILWAY, via MALVERN, LIWIRTET
and ROSS.

The Provisional Directors of this Company have the satisfaction
of announcing to the Shareholders that -the traffic en the line ha s
been taken by experienced parties, the Parliamentary Surveys
made, and every necessary arrangement is in active progress to in -
sure a successful aPplication for an Act in the next suasion of Par -
liament. By order,- . W. BORROW,/ Secretary.
7, Walbrook, October 20,1845.

111 HE EASTERN COUNTIES, BARKING
11 AND THAMES„JUNCTION RAILWAY, A.ND'ItbAL AND
COASTAWISDOWIC, WItIrSTEAN-15Ci4r WHARF.
(Regiatered Provisionally.)
Capital 500,0001., in 20,000 Shares of 25L each.
Deposit, V. 12s. 6d. per Share.'
PIOVLSIONAL COMXITTEZ.

Lord Georg. Lennox

The Hon. P. H. P. Berkeley, M.P.
The Hon. A. F. Berkeley, Tuntingdon, Sus,sex
Sir Edward Pyre, Bart. Clifford-street

The Hon. Captain John Arbuthnot Kean*, Navy and Army Club
The Hen. Adolphus Capel
James Adams, Esq. Thames-street
Henry Weech Burgess, Esq. Temple-park, Hampstead, director of
the Great Leeds and London Direct Railway, and (Poole, Doncas-
ter, and Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Great Grimaby Rail-
way, and of the Derby, Uttoxeter, aid Stafford Railway
James Burness, Esq. Stratford-grove, Essex, and 64, Cornhill, di-
rector of the Stafford Potteries, Liverpool, and Manchester Direct
Railways
John James Cavan, Esq. 7, Charles-street, St. James's-square, di-
rector of the Eastern Counties, Junction, and Southend Railway
Miles Dormer, Esq. 31, Hans-place, Sloane-street, Chelsea, director
of the Eastern Counties Junction and Southend Railway, and
Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Railways
Thomas Terrand Dearden, Esq. Rochdale, director of the Eastern
Counties Junction, and Southend and Staffordshire Potteries
Railways
Captain Seth N. Fisher, director of the Warwick and Worcester
Railway •
Rev. H. H. Fowler, Manchester-square, director of the York anot
Lancaster Railway
Captain Farrington, R.N. West Cewes
Thomas Finlay, Esq 69, Cambridge-terrace, Edgeware-road
Captain Twistleton Graves, Duke-street, St. James's, director of the
British Mutual Life-office
John Esq. St. James's-street, director of the York and Lan-
caster, and Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Railways
Thomas Harley, Esq. 11, Benioniond -place, Stockwell
Thomas Hodges, Esq. Connaught-terrace, Ilyde-park
Thomas Hawker, Esq. 1, New Broad-street
Win. Kempe, Esq. Teign-villa, Teignmouth, Devon
D. B. Major, Esq. Albert-terrace, Knightsbridge
Nathaniel Ogle, Esq. Heath-lane Lodge, Twickenham, director of
the York and Lancaster, and Eastern Counties Junction and South-
end Railways
Alexander Macdonald Ritchie, Esq. director of the York and Lancas-
ter Railway
James Reed, Esq. Northbury-house, Barking
F. Robinson, Esq. Barking
William Shaw, Esq. director of the London and Birmingham Exten-
sion, and South and Midlands Junction Railways, and managing
director of the Royal Farmers' and General Fire and Life and Hail
Insurance Company
Tason, E. W. Esq. F.R.S. 10, Russell-place, Bedford-square
James Vickers, Fsq. Markham, director of the Armagh, Coleraine,
and Portrush, Sligo, and Shannon, Dorking, Brighton, Arundel At-
mospheric Railway
Colonel Verner

Richard White, Esq. coal and ship-owner, Sunderland
Robert Moon Watson, Esq. coal and skip-owner, Croxdale Colliery-
office, Sunderland
George Harrison, Esq. ship-owner, Sunderland
Augustus Collingridge, Esq. Regent-street, Pall-mall, director of the
Merchant Traders' Insurance Association
Villiers C. Villiers Surtees, Esq. coal-owner, Newcastle, director of
the Avon and Severn Railway
(With power to add to their number).
COMMITTEE SF MANAGEMENT.
Henry Weech Burgess, Esq. B. D. Major, Esq.
Miles Dormer, Esq. W. Shaw, Esq.
John Holmes, Esq. Charles Waite, Esq.
Nathaniel Ogle, Esq. Captain Fisher.
CONSULTING ENGINEER—CoI. Laadmann, F.S.A. M.I.C.E.
ENGINEER—George Montgomery Lewis, C.E.
BANKERS—Commercial Bank of Loadon.
SOLICITORS—Messrs. Reed and Robinson, 31, Moorgate-etreet.
AGENT AT SUNDCISLAND—Robert Browne, Esq.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENT—Thomas Baker, Esq. Spring ,r-gardens
The attention of the public and of the civic authorities of this
groat metropolis, through the powerful medium of the public press,
has upon several occasions been excited by the detail of numerous
and almost daily occurring accidents on the river Thames. With a
view to abate, if not altogether remove an evil of enormously grow-
ing magnitude, the dangerous navigation of the river, the present
project is put before the public.

- Although the chief cause of this danger is acknowledged to be the
blocking up the navigation, by the numberless tiers of colliers and
their attendant barges, and their ingress and egress to and from their
station, still no efficient remedy has been hitherto proposed.
It is admitted by all that the only mode by which this great and
dangerous nuisance can be removed is by a dock, at a considerable
distance from the Pool, and a suitable and most convenient site has
been selected, in every way adapted for the object contemplated ;
and which not only combines facilities, in no ordinary degree, for
coal and coasting vessels to enter at all times of the tide, at a dis-
tance far removed from the Pool (about three miles below Woolwich).
but also at a locality, by the aid of a railway, from which the various
produce may be transmitted within half an hour into the very heart
of the City.
It is proposed to construct a dock at a point in that part of the
river, four and half miles below Blackwell, called Galllon's Reach,
and thence to carry a railway four miles long through East Ham,
Plaistow, and West Ham, to the Eastern Counties Railway at Strat-
ford, where it will join the Northern and Eastern Railway, and form
a central point from which goods may be transmitted to the various
Darts of the country which those railways traverse, and to London.
The spot at which the dock and works will be constructed has bean
selectvi as being a part of the river where at the lowest state
hsttaeteinorf theees
tide there will always be a sufficiency of water to permit
and egress or vessels, as a reference to the Admiralty charts will de-
monstrate ; by this arrangement they will be enabled to discharge
their cargoes, leave dock, and take in ballast (which is in the imme-
diate vicinity where the Trinity House dredge is generally working),
almost before they could have even reached their ordinary station in
the Pool, as at present. The great saving in time thus effected, it
is manifest, will be of the utmost consequence and advantage to the
owners of these vessels ; and by materially decreasing the cost,
would enable them to supply the consumer at a much less rate than
at present.

It is intended also to erect a sea-wall and wharf, 1,500 feet long
for the accommodation of passengers by steam-packets and other
vessels passing to and fro. The economy of time thus effected will
be very considerable ; for by the aid of this railway (bringing Shore-
ditch and the intended terminus at Finsbury within twenty minutes)
nearly three-quarters of an hour .will be saved over every other
mode of conveyance.
It is moreover to be remarked that from this spot Gravesend can
be reached in forty minutes, consequently the time consumed, from
Finsbury to Gravesend by this route, would be about one hour.
As the Eastern Counties Railway will be united to all the ether
great trunk lines, by means of the northern and southern eonneetlng
line just projected, it may be justly said that the Steam-Packet
Wharf now proposed will be the only metropolitan Continental ter-
minus.

By the construction of this railway, with its very important ad-
junct, a coal and coasting dock, a most valuable addition will be
made to the Eastern Counties revenue by calling into existence a
traffic which, under any other circumstances, could not be created;
thereby developing to the proprietors of that extensive line that its
capabilities have hitherto lain dormant, and only required the neces-
sary extension to the Thames with a dock to secure to it a national
depot for produce for all parts of the globe to ho disseminated
through the numerous and increasing extensions of the parent line.
The carriage of coal alone would add no insignificant sum to the
hitherto declared dividends of the Eastern Counties, when it is cola-
sidered that more titan two and a half millions of tons are animal),
imported into the port of London, which amount would be greatly
increased by means of the facility of railway transmission thus
afforded.
It may be proper to remark that it would be difficult to flnd, se
near the metropolis, a four miles course in every sense so eligible
for a railway, so free from obstruction, and so cheap of construction.
that the coal traffic of itself would yield an ample return far the
outlay.
Prospectuses, plans, and forms of application for shares, may be
had of the Solicitors, at the temporary Offioes of the Company, 31,
Moorgate-street, London, and of .hir. D. B. Major, 27, Change Alley,
Cornhill, London; and of the following brokers :—Messrs. Geo.
Edwards and Son, Bristol ; Mr. Goo. Smith and Mr. P. Leicester,
Manchester; Mr. James Jameson, Leeds; Mr. G. R. Glidden,
Exeter; Messrs. Flint and Tootal, Hull; and Mews. Thomas
Dickinson and Co., Newcastle-upon Tyne.

EASTERN COUNTIES, BARKING, AND
THAMES JUNCTION RAILWAY, AND COIL `ND
Co STING DOCK.
The Committee have much pleasure in announcing to the pablie
that they are fully prepared to go to Parliament in the ensuing see-
sion, and that they have received assurances of the most eordial sup,.
port from the ship-owners and coal proprietors in }Twenties aindli.
land, Shields, and other distriets in the north.
P.O. IdIRGAZY. 540M414%
31, Moorgateltrett, 27th Oct., 1845.

ALLETTE'S ATMOSPIIERIC RIL
A.
lor WAY AND CANAL PROPULSION COMPANY.
(Pro visionally Registered.)
Capital, 500,000/., in 20,000 Shares of 151. each.
Deposit, I/. per Share,
Viz., Is. 6d. per Share en allotment (being the largest
and
allowed to be received previous to complete registration, under 7 and
Vict., c. 110), and the remainder (18s. 6d. per Share) immediately
on complete registration.
PROVISIONAL DIRECTORS.
John Brightman, E9q. i Geo. Lewis Hollin
Jo gsworth, Pad.
Francis Chambers, Esq. George Thomas, Esq.
seph Henry, Esq. Lieut.-Col. Williams, R.E.
(Wit:. limited power to add to their number.)
ENGINEERS—M. A. Hallette and Lieut.-Col. Williams, B.E)
SOLICITORS—Meaers. Lane and Prideaux.
BANKEIis—MC6BI3. Williams, Deacon, and Co. ...
The chief objects of this Company are to carry int* effect a wadi.
tionai arrangement entered into with Mons. Hallette for the purchase
of his patent for all Europe, and to sell licenses to use It.
The promoters confidently believe that the atmospheric system et
Mons. Hallette is the most perfect and economical that has been In-
vented for-propulsion en railways and canals, and in this opinion
they are supported by that of many eminent men of 4cience and ex-
perienced engineers.
By the arrangement entered into with the inventor, the deposit
will be more than will be requires until a contract to use the
patent on a railway has been actually signed, and under any cir-
cumstances it it believed that 41. per share will be ample to carry out
fully the objects of the Company. The risk, therefore, will be small,
whilst the profit by sale of licenses, /Lc., in the event of the superiority
of the invention being acknowledged, must be immense.
A detailed prospectus, with form of application fur skaree, may be
had at the Company's offices, Winchester-house, Old Bread-street
or of Mr. J. H. Golding, broker, Warnford-court, Throgmorton-aired,
London.

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