The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-24 00:00:00

WEST MIDLAND RAIL . AY.—The un-
precedented Applications for Shares in this Railway, lb
Allotment of which is now being proczeeed with, precludes the pos.
sibility of the Directors appropriating so many to the diftCrent appli-
cants as their respectability would otherwise entitle them to.
Important negotiations are now pending between this Company and
other influential existing lines, which, together with the Directors'
anxiety to amply provide for local interests, will, it is hoped,
be received as a sufficient reason for so much necessary disap-
pointment.

No. 16„596.

By order,
Mansfield, Oct. 21, 1845.

T. H. RIGBYE, Secretary

PRICE WITH A
, SUPPLEMENT, •-• •

Richard Galloway, Esq. merchant, Alexandria and London
Thomas Newtc, Esq. London and Paris
Edwin Smith, Esq. director of the Lynn, Peterborough, and Wis.
beach Railway
George Evans, Esq. 3le'bury-terrace, Regent's-park
Thomas Roberts Thellusson, Esq. 16, Hyde. park street
James Adair, Esq. .director of the Geole and Doncaster Railway
Jame; Gernon, Esq Conduit-street, Ilanover•square
W. Shaw, Esq. director of the South and Midlands Railway
J. Baretto, Esq. Portland-place, London
(With power to add to their number).
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
John Bagshaw, Esq. Chairman. ,
Major-General Parlby Duncan Dunbar, Esq.
Captain Macdougall James Adair, Esq.
Captain ATarne Captain Denny
Thomas Roberts Thellusson, Esq. Samuel Rhode, Esq.
Thomas Newte, Esq. Adolphus Pugh Johnson, Esq.
James Cockburn, Esq. James Lamb, Esq.
Richard Green, Esq.
(With power to add to their number.)
BANKERS IN LONDON.

Iklessrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths
The Union Bank of London
Sir Claude Scott, Bart. and CO.
BARKERS IN CALCUTTA—The Union Bank.
CONSULTING ENGINEER—Sir John Rennie, C.E.
ENGINEER—J. A. Galloway, Esq. C.E. M.I.C.E.
AGENTS AT CALCUTTA—Messrs. Hogg, Frith, and Sands.
SOLICITOR—John Foster, Esq. 66, Jermyn-street, St. James's.
• The Intention of this Company is, in the first instance, to construct
a line of railway from Calcutta to Diamond Harbour, with ware-
houses and buildings there, and docks, as soon as deemed desirable ;
ani to continue the railway to George's Point at a future period.
The length of the main line is about twenty-four miles, and the
branch about ten miles.

The project of making a harbour and railway, to escape the dan-
gerous and tedious navigation to and from Calcutta, is neither new
nor uncalled for. The attention of many eminent authorities has
been directed to It, who have severally .pronounced it necessary,
practicable, and likely- to be most profitable. And Lord Auckland,
while Governor General of India, was so satisfied of the expediency,
or rather, the necessity of such an undertaking, as to promise a grant
of the land necessary for the works, and to give the sanction of his
name and anthority.
Great as are the present difficulties and dangers of the existing na-
vigation, there is no security that at some period or other the
channel may not bp totally obstructed and rendered impassable for
vessels of any considerable burden, by reason of the shifting and
accumulation of sands from powerful inundations and freshes caused
or aided by the south-west monsoons.
This s
that the
are Govern. n
os
teanmelentofis borne
Captain a;mong
wwills
C.hßom. Gire theta nenlaw, Esq., formerly Secretary to the Marine Board, and
Captain Lloyd, Marine Surveyor-General.
anxious that railways should be established in India. The railway
now proposed ought to be the first to be so established, inasma, Is
as it has already been surveyed and reported upon by Major
Boileau, and several officers of the Bengal Engineers ; that it is
very short compared with other projected lines, as being almost
esthe from
great
India
native
merchants, declare
ment,Re centtheoverlaiid European,dis dispatches
necessary to any railway that may be constructed in the Presidency
of Bengal; and as the whole of the most valuable imports and ex-
ports of this portion of British India must pass along the line, both
for shipment and internal consumption. The country through which
the railway will pass is entirely a dead level; and the soil for the
most part consists of a hard stiff clay, very excellent for the ma-
nufacture of bricks, and the construction of docks.
It is estimated that (according to " Wilkinson's Oriental Com-
merce") at the least 3,500 British and foreign vessels will enter the
harbour at different periods of the year • that the passenger tragic,
with the carriage of goods, harbour dues,
&c., will average 273,000/,
a year; and, in addition, both the shipowner and merchant will de-
rive considerable pecuniary advantages.
It may be well to enumerate a few of the many important advan-
tages the formation of this railway will afford to merchants, ship-
owners, and commanders of Indiamen.
At present the pilotage for a vessel from the Sand-heads to Calcutta
(taking the average draft of water of each ship at eighteen feet) is
about 501., including, lead-money, row-boats, &c. ; by shortening
the distance, the pilotage will be reduced in proportion.
The fact that ships, daring a period of seven months of the year,
viz., from the beginning of April to the end of October, not being
able to lie at their own anchors on account of the violence of the
freshes and the south-west monsoons, are obliged, in consequence of
their insurance, to lie at the Honourable East India Company's moor-
ing buoys, at an expense varying from thirty shillings to two pounds
per day, and that each ship on the average lies four months at the
moorings at the rate of 321. per mens., a saving will he effected of
1281. on each vessel.

y where
marine monsoons,Elto
atoms
A vessel, under existing circumstances, takes at the least two
work will be accomplished with the greatest facility in one month,
or even less, by the carrying out of the railway and proposed under-
taking, saving the great wear and tear (no inconsiderable item), in...
months in discharging and taking in her cargo, whereas the salon
surance, interest, provisions, and seamen's pay, for an entire monies
at the least.
D with
part theCOatinndtr
south-west
vessels have lost, it is well known, from one to four anchors each,
are enormously high, the replacing of such necessary and valuable
articles amounts to a very considerable sum ; by the formation of tl.e
cables,prevalence o
&fe the.
; andile in eas
proposed railway and docks this item of loss will be avoided.
Desertion by the seamen will be averted, which has increased to
an almost incredible extent of late years, owing to the demand for
European sailors for the country trade, and the high wages sifered
Sera.
r nou etr
The safety of the vessels will be secured, and the constant lass
from the freshes, and plunder by the native crews of the valuable
cargoes of the sloops, bhurs, and other river craft, from which vessels
are loaded, will be averted ultimately; a saving which cannot be tot.
highly appreciated by shipowners and merchants.
By ships lying at Diamond harbour, the extra expense of steam-
tugs will be avoided, averaging for the passage, to Calcutta and
back, three days' hire at the present reduced rate of 30/. per day;
and all ship passengers will be saved a long and tedious river Jour-
ney, both ways, with the advantage of being enabled to join their
respective vessels at the latest moment.

thhoiLeus investigate attreactths the
of country
The promoters have memorialised the Count of Directors of the
It must be borne in mind that this line does not stand in thb same
rEeacsetivlenddiaasaCtoimsfipteatolyr-yonretplliye
fsinobinjectLeofsetchriestauriyileitackii:sigie,
hrailnld,
Est,
ploannfonylne3dt,:la
position (with regard to the necessity for a report of the engineer
great extent, and M-
ot execution, and, above all, providing a remedy far the
at times impassable. It is an essentially commercial enterprise
short, easy
difficult and dangerous navigation of the Hoogly, about which there
cannot be two opinions.
in-
volving aseoctv
it linesi outig tohfberyac i
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fia East a r
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the lndiae sinterioru sums
lCgoon
The Company will be managed by a Board of Directors in London,
assisted by a Board of Direction in Calcutta ; and arrangements wi:t
be immediately made to send out competent persons to promote the
interests of the Company.
•
It is estimated that not more than one-half of the proposed capita!
will be required until it is determined to construct the proposed
dividends will be paid in London and Calcutta, at the current
docks ; and calls will be made from time to tithe as the woe.",
p
A subscription contract will be prepared, to be executed by the
shareholders, and application will be made for a charter of incorpn.
ration, or Act of Parliament.
exchange.
rate r ooeefsds ei sl.
Tgj

Applications for shares, In the annexed forte, to be made to tke
Provisional Committee, at the offices sr the Company, 147, Fenchurch-
.e..,et:utrtho,nLyivLerpootturie,h
street,London, or to the undermentioned sharebrokers and agents :--
Mr. Joseph Clarke, South
Messrs. Capel, Cureton, and Lawford, Pope's Ilead.alley ; Messrs.
B. and M. Boyd, 4, Bank-buildings; Messrs. Johnson, Longden, and
Johnson, 22, Tokenhouse-yard ; Mr. Andrew Spit, 9, Tokenhouse-
ylrd ; David Armstrong, Esq. Dumfries; Messrs. Robertson and
('o.,‘ Royal Exchange, Edinburgh ; Messrs. Robert Allen and Co.,
Clegg, Manchester
Brothers, ess, tEe ix. ;el i a3tilig
Messrs. lleycock and Powell, Leeds ; Messrs. Buchanan and Aitken.,
Glasgow ; Mr. Walter Mackenzie, Glasgow ; Messrs. Tate and Nash.
ampten.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SIRRES.
rEAdvienrToircfln; ;3Mrerss.
rsJ.oshundit.'wleg,
The Directors of the Calcutta and Georges Point It •
Bristol; Messrs. Brady and Co., hull;
Railway Company,
Gentlemen,—ln consideration of your allotting to me
shares of 201. each in this undertaking, I hereby agree to pay posit thereon, or any less number of shares
the
de
area that allotted
may be allo tcs
me; and I also undertake to sign the
necessary deeds when require.t
so to do.--I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant,
• Profession ......................
. .
Date ..... .......

CALCUTTA AND GEORGE'S POIN
RAILWAY.
No further Applications for Shat es in this Company will be Tv:-
ceived 'after FRIDAY, 24th October, 1845.
CHAS. FOSTER, Secretary.

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THE CALCUTTA AND GEORGE'S POINT
RAILWAY,
For constructing a line of railway from Calcutta to Diamond Har-
bour, with warehouses and buildings there, and docks, as soon as
deemed desirable; and for continuing the railway to George's Point
at a fhture period.
Capital 1,000,0001., in 50,000 Shares of 201. each.
A considerabte portion to be reserved for India.
Deposit 7s. per Share.
(The liability of the Sharesholders to be limited to the amount of thOr
Shares.)
Offices of the Company, 147, Fenchurch-street, London.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right Hon. the Lord Viscount Combermere, G.C.8., G.C.11 ,
late Commander-in-chief in India
Richard Green, Esq. shipowner, Blackwall
John Bagshaw, Esq. E.I. merchant, 1, King William- street, City
Captain Charles E. Mangles, H.E.1.C., maritime service, director
of the Royal Mail Steam-packet Company, 8, New Broad-street
Duncan Dunbar, Esq. (firm of Dunbar and Sous, shipowners.
Limehouse, and member of the Committee of the Shipowners'
Society)
Captain Denny, 11.E.1.C. maritime service (firm—Denny, Clarke,
and Co., Austin-friars; and F. Green and Co., Conduit), member
of the Committee of the Shipowners' Society
James Cockburn, Esq. (firm—Cockburn and Co II New B , r . street)
Captain George Probyn, late of the E.1.C.M.5., 21, Bryansten-
square
Sir John Pixie, Bart. alderman of the City of London, director of
the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company
Captain Tucker (firm—Frederick Green and Co. 64 Cornhill)
Adolphus Pugh Johnson, Esq. Lloyd's
James Lamb, Esq. Lothbury, late of Calcutta
Sir John Key, Bart. alderman of the City of London
Samuel Rhode, Esq. 3, Crosby-square, Bishopsgate-street
George Mackintosh, Esq. London, late of Calcutta
Alexander Robertson, Esq. late of Canton, Balgownie-lodge, Aber-
deenshire, and Bristol
W. 11. L. Frith, Esq. (firm of Hogg, Frith, and Sands, Calcutta)
Allen Gilmore, Esq. merchant (firm of Colville, Gilmore, and co.),
Calcutta
Wm. Tulloch Fraser, Esq. Gloucester-place, Portman-square
James Reeves, Esq.-Leyton, Essex
David Roxburgh, Esq. shipowner, London
John Anderson, Esq. H.E.I.C.S. l othbury, London
.
.Tames Clift, Esq. director of the Argos Life Assurance-office
Thomas Lawrence, Esq. Lee-park, Blackheath
James Mathews, Esq. (aril of Grindley and Co.) East India agents,
Cornhill, Lonqnn
•
D. Warren, Esq. i 5, Old Broad-street, London
Major-General B. B. Parlby, C. 8., H.E.LC.S. 18, Rutland-gate
Major-General Thomas Morgan, H.E.I.C.S. Singletcn-house, Tor.
quay, Devon
The Hon. Stewart Elphinstone, Bengal Army
The lion. John Oliphant Murray (late of the Bengal Company)
Lieut.-Col. Campbell, C.B. Pall-mall
Major Sewell, Bengal Army, General Staff, Fort William, t engal
Capt. Hamilton Klair Avarne, H.E.I.C.S. Waterloo-place, Pall-mall
Major White, Pall-mall (late of the Bengal Army)
A. Kerr, Esq. H.E.I.C.S. Edinburgh
Alexander Macdonell, H.E.I.C.S. Edinburgh
Major Ross, Bengal Army, London
Capt. Ouseley, Bengal Army
J. A. Layard, Esq., Ceylon Rifle Regiment
Capt. Frederick Bayley IVardroper, Bengal Army
Captain Charles Ogle, 44, Eaton-place, London
Captain Bellew, H E.I.C.S. London
Captain E. S. Ludlow, H.E.I.C.S. London
J. Lloyd, Esq. late branch pilot, Bengal Establishment
Major 3fercer, Bengal Army
Thomas Bunter, Esq. London, late of Calcutta
R. 11. Mackenzie, Esq. H.E.I.C.S. London
F. 0. Wells, Esq. Montagu-square, Bengal Civil fervice
The Lord Charles Beauclerk, 8, Chesham-place, Belgrave-square
The Lord Sussex Lennox, 150, Piccadilly
The Right Hon. Colonel G. L. Dawson Darner, 3f.P.
The Hon. E. S. Jerningham, South Audley-street, London
The Hon. Robert Gore, M.P. 21, Wilton-place
The Hon. Percy E. A. Freke, Grenadier Guards, 3, Belgrave-square
Sir Charles Ibbotson, Bart. Denton-park, Yorkshire
Sir James Hamilton Hay, Bart. Alderston
Sir John Campbell, Bart. of Ardnamurchan
Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Dashwood, K.C.B. K.T.S. Royal Navy
Admiral Ayscough, Royal Navy, Southampton
Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Barton, K C.B.
Colonel Stopford, 9, Manchester-square
Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Gillies, Porchester-house, Bayswater
Colonel Robert Cannon, K.S.F., late Assistant Commissioner at Ban-
galore
Captain Thomas Rooks, Royal Navy, Lymington, Hants
Captain Gould, United Service Club
Captain Alexander Macdonald, 1.U.5.C., London
Captain Robert Page, Charlton-house, Somerton
Captain Edward Smith, 10, Melcomb-place, Dorset-square
Captain W. A. Willis, Royal Navy, 26, Grosvenor-place, London
Captain Popplewell, Royal Navy, director of the Central Kent
County Railway
Captain Hutchinson, Royal Navy
T. Folliott Powell, Esq. 16th Lancers, Maidstone
Dottin Maycock, Esq. 16th Lancers, Maidstone
Jolm Inglis Jerdein, Esq. director of the Great Manchester, Rugby,
and Southampton Railway
Edmond Francis Dayrell, Esq. Lillingstone Dayrell, high sheriff of
the County of Bucks
Henry D. Erskine, Esq. Mount-street, Grosvenor-square
Frederick William Seymour, Esq. St. James's-square, London
11. Pratt Barlow, Esq, Kensington
Francis Parker, Esq. London