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

Rp order,
Manede'd, Oct. 21, 1845.

T. U. Secretary

THE CALCUTTA AND GEORGE'S POINT
RAILWAY,
For constructing a line of railway from Calcutta to Diamond Il tr.
hour, with warehouses and buildings there, and docks, as soon a.,
(termed desfrable; and for continuing the railway to George's Paint
at a fltture period.
Capital 1,000,0001., in 50,000 Shares of 201. each.
A considerable portion to be reserved for India.
Deposit 7s. per Share.
(The liability of the Sh are shold er s to he limited to the amount of their
Shares.)
Offices of the Company, 147, Feuchnrelf-street, London.

PONAL COIUMITTEE.
Thc Right Hon. the LoRrdOVISI Viscount Combertnere, G.C.8.,
late Commander-in-chief in India t*:a.
Richard Green, Esq. shipowner, Blackwall
John Bagehaw, Esq. E.I. merchant, I, King IVllliam-street, City
Captain Charles E. Mangles, H.E.1.C., maritime service, director
of the Royal Mail Steam-packet Company, 8, New Broad-street
DUIICaII Dunbar, Esq. (flrnt of Dunbar and Sons, shipowne;
Limehouae, and member of the Committee of the Shipowners"
Society)
Captain Denny, 11.E.1.C. »whittle service (rirm—Denny, Clarke,
and Co., Austin-friars; and F. Green and Co., Cornhill), member
of the Committee ot the Shipowners' Society
James Cockburn, Esq. (firm—Cockburn and Co., 11, New Brea/-
street)
Captain George Probyn. late of the E.1.C.M.5., 21, Bryanaten-
square
Sir Joint Pirie, Bart. alderman of tint City of London, director ca the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company
Captain Tucker (firm—Frederick Green and Co. 64, (oronill)
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, At
deenshire, and RiiStol
W. 11. L. Frith, Esq. (firm of Iloga.;, Frith, and Sands, Calcutta)
Allen Gilmore, Esq. merchant Orin of Colville, (;ilmore, and Co.),
Calcutta
Tulloch Fraser, Esq. Gloucester-place, Pertmau-square
James Reeves, Esq.-Leyton, Essex
David Roxburgh, Esq. shipowner, Landon
John Anderson, Esq. 11.E.I.C.ta.Lothbury, Louden
James Clift, Esq, director of the Argus Life Assurance-oltice
Thomas Lawrence, Esq. Lee-park, Blackheath
James Mathews, Esq. (tlnn of Grindley and Co.) East Ludt* a gents,
Conihill, London
D. Warren, Esq. 75, Old Broad-street, London
Major-General B. B. Parlby, C.D.' H.E.LC.S. 18, Rutland-gate
Major-General Thomas Morgan, 11.E.1.C.5. Sinleton-houae, Tor,
quay, Devon
The Hon. Stewart Elphinstone, Bengal Army
The Hon. John Oliphant Murray (late of the Bengal Company)
Lieut.-Col. Campbell, C.B. Pall-mall
Major Sewell, Bengal Army, General Stall, Fort William, Bengal
'Capt. Hamilton Blair Avarne, 11.E.1.C.5. Waterloo-place, Pan-wail
Major White, Pali-mall (late of the Bengal Army)
A. Kerr, Esq. 11.E.1.C.5. Edinburgh
Alexander Macdonell, H.E.I.C.S. Edinburgh
Major Ross, Bengal Army, London
Capt. Ouseley, Bengal Array
J. A. Layard, Esq., Ceylon Rifle Regiment
Capt. Frederick Bayley Wardroper, Bengal Army
Captain Charles Ogle, 44, Eaton-place, London
Captain Bellew, H E.I.C.S. London
Captain E. S. Ludlow, 11.E.1.C.5. London
J. Lloyd, Esq. late branch pilot, Bengal Establishment
Major Mercer, Bengal Army
Thomas Hunter, Esq. London, late of Calcutta
R. H. Mackenzie, Esq. 11.E.1.C.5. London
F. Esq. Montagu-square, Bengal Civil service
The 0. Wells,eL
Lord Charles Beauclerk, 8, Chesham-place, Belgrave-square
The Lord Sussex Lennox, 150, Piccadilly
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The Hon. Robert Gore, M.P. 21, Wilton-place
The Hon. Percy E. A. Freke, Grenadiert Guards, 3, Belgrave-sqnara
Sir Charles Ibbotson, Bart. Denton-park, Yorkshire
Sir James Hamilton Hay, Bart. Alderston
Sir John Campbell, Bart. of Ardnanturchan
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 (Mlles, Porchester-house, Bayswater
Colonel Robert Cannon, K.S.F., late Assistant Commissioner at Ban-
galore -
Captain Thomas Rooke, Royal Navy, Lymington, Kanto
Captain Gould, United Service Club
Captain Alexander Macdonald, LU.S.C., London
Captain Robert Page, Charlton-house, Somertou
Captain Edward Smith, 10, Melcomb-place, Doraet-equa re
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 Pow-ell, Esq. 16th Lancers, Maidstone
Dottin Maycock, Esq. 16th Laticere, Maidstone
John Inglis -Terdein, Esq. director of the Great Manchester, Rugby,
and Southampton Railway
Edmond Francis Dayrell, :Esq. Lillittgatone Dayrell, high, sheriff of
the County of Bucks
Henry D. Erskine, Esq. 3fount-street, Grosvenor-square
Frederick William Seymour, Esq. St. James's-square, London
H. Pratt Barlow, Esq, Kensington
Francis Parker, Esq. London
Richard Galloway, Esq. merchant, Alexandria and London
Thomas Newte, Esq. London and Paris
Edwin Smith, Esq. director of the Lynn, Titerlxwough, and Wis-
beach Railway
George Evans, Esq. Melbury-terrace, Itegent's4tark
Thomas Roberts Thellusson, Esq. 16, Hyde park street
James Adair, Esq. director of the Goole and Doncaster Railway
James Genion, Esq Conduit-street, Hanover. square
W. Shaw, Esq. director of the South and Midlands Railway
J. Baretto, Esq. Portland-place, Londott
(With power to add to their number).
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT,
.101111 Bagsha w, Esq. Chairman.
:%1 ajor-Genertd Parity Duncan Dunbar, Esq.
Captain 3.litedotigall ; James Adair, Esq.
Captain Avarne Captain Denny
Thomas Roberts Thellusson, Esq. tianntel,Rhode, Esq.
Thomas Newte, Esq. _ Adolphus Pugh Johnson, Esq.
James Cockburn, Esq. I James Lamb, F.sq.
Richard Green, Esq.
(With power to add to their number.)
BANKERS IN LONDON.
Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smith*, _
The "Union Rant of London
Sir Claude Scott, Bart. and Co. -
BANKERS IN CALCUTTA—The Union Bank.
CONSULTING ENGINEER—Sir John Rennie, C.E.
ENGINEER—J. A. Galloway, Esq. C.E. m.i.c.r.
AGENTS AT CALCUTTA—Messrs. Hogg, Frith, and Sands.
SOLICITOR—John Foster, Req. 66, Jermyn-street, St. James's.
The intention of thie Company is, in the first instance, to construct
a line of railway from Calcutta to Diamond Harbour, ,with ware-
househus and buildings there,
ton(ad docks, as soon as deemed desirable ;
o continue the railway eorge's Point at a future period.
The length of the main line is ahem 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
prom i.sekuackglarannti:
while Governor General ot India, was so satisfied of the expediency,
ktionggive the sanction of his,
oofr rtahteheLtahehneeeceesssaslit;
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name and anthority.
Great as are the present difficulties and dangers of the existing na-
vigation, there ie no security that at some period or other the
channel may not be 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 statement is borne out by eminent marine surveyors, among
whom the name of Captain Horsburgli stands distinguished ; with
C. B. Greenlaw' Esq., formerly Secretary to the Marine Board, and
Captain Lloyd, Marine Surveyor-General.
Recent overland dispatches front India declare that the Govern-
ment, the European, and the great native merchants, are muse
anxious that railways should be established in India. The railway
now proposed ought to be the first to be so established, inasmuch
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
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 tke year ; that the passenger traffic,
with the carriage of goods, harbour dues, Ike., 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 itnportant advau.
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-beads to Calcutta
(taking the average draft of water of each ship at eighteen feet) la
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 tha
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
nor day, and that eaelt ship on the average lies four months at the
moorings at the rate of 321. per mens., a saving, will be effected ot
1281. on each vessel.

A vessel, under existing circumstances, takes at the least two
dischargingmonths in and taking in her cargo, whereas the same
work Dill b greatest facility in one month,
e accomplished
or even less, by the carrying out of the railway and proposed
the
under-
taking, saving with the
great wear and tear (no inconsiderable item), in.
surance, interest, provisions, and seamen's pay, for an entire month
at the least.
During the prevalence of the freshes and south-west monsoons,
vessels have lost, it is well known, from one to 'bur anchors each,
with part of their cables, &c.; and in a country where marine stores
are enormously high, the replacing of such necessary and valuable
articles amounts to a very considerable sum ; by the formation of t
te
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 offered
them.
'f he safety of the vessels will be secured, 'and the constant less
from the freshes, and plunder by the waive 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 tor,
highly appreciated by shipowners and merchants.
By ships lying at Diamond harbour, the extra expense of steam.
tugs will he avoided, averaging for the passage, to Calcutta and
back, three days' hire at the present rednced rate of 301. 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 joist their
respective vessels at the latest moment.

The promoters have memorialised the Comt of Directors of the
East India Company on the subject of this undertaking, and have
received a satisfactory reply from the Secretary, J. C. MeWM, Esq.
It must be borne in mind that this line does not stand in the same
position (with regard to the necessity for a report of the engineer
sent out by the: East India Company to investigate the subject),
as lines of railway in the interior of India of great extent, and
volving the outlay of large sum; of money, through tracts of country
at times impassable. It is an essentially commercial enterprise--
short, easy of execution, and, above all, providing a remedy far the
difficult and dangerous navigation of the Iloogly, about which there
cannot be two opinions. _ _

The Company will be managed by a Board of Directors in London.
assisted by a Board of Direction in Calcutta ; and arrangements wi3
he 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 capital
will be required until it is determined to construct the proposed dock. ; and calls will be made from time to time as the work
progresses:.

The dividends will be paid in London and Calcutta, at the current
rate of exchange.

A subscription contract will be prepared, to be executed by the
shareholders, and arplication will be made for a charter of incorpo-
ration, or Act of Parliament.
ILleong;dsenteas, anclre.
Applications for shares, In the annexed form, to be made to the
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Johnson, 22, Toke - nhottse-yard ; Mr. Andrew Sym, 9, Tokenheuse-
co , Royal Exchange, Edinburgh ; Messrs. Robert Allen and CO s
Edinburgh; Mr. John Clegg, Manchester; 14Ir. Anthony Laurie..
yard ; David Armstrong.
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Messrs. He ; Messrs. Sudlow, Brothers, 5, Exchange-emit, Lire 1; ycock and Powell, Leeds; Messrs. Bnehana 01it,,g0„.; Air. Walter Mackenzie, Glasgow ; Messrs. Tat Aitken,.
Bristol ; Messrs. Brady and Co., Hull ; Mr. Joseph , e and Nash,
ampton. ( larke, SQuth•

FORM or APPLICATION FOR. SIIARF.II.
The Directors of the Calcutta and George's Point Railway Company.
Gentlemen,—ln consideration of Soar allotting to me
shares of 201. each in this undertaking, I hereby agree to pay the de
posit thereon, or any less number of shares that may be allotted to
me; and I also undertake to sign the necessary deeds when require.', so to do.—l am, GeutlemenNour obedient servant,
Name in full • • • . • •
Profession ....
Date
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Reference ........ .............

CALCUTTA Ati,p GEORGE'S POINT
RAILWAY.
No further Applications for Shares In this Company will 1e7,-.
cativo:l after Faivar, 24th October, loss.
CHAS. FOSTER, Se'retary.