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FORM OF APPLICATION FOR CHANGE OF SCRIP.

To the Secretary of the North London Junction Railway Company.
Sir,—l herewith transmit to you scrip certificates of shares held by
me in this Company numsered as at foot, and I undertake to make
the further payment of 14s. 6d. per share on the said shares, forth-
with, and to execute the new Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers'
Agreement when required.
Dated this day of 1841.
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FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SnARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the North London Junction Railway
Company.
I request you will allot to me shares of 201. each in the
capital of the above-named railway, and I will accept the same or
any less number, and pay the deposit of 21. 2s. per share, and sign
the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when re-
quired.
Dated the

day of 1845.
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NORTH LONDON JUNCTION RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given that no ilwther Applications for Shares
caa be received after TurasnaY, the 23e1 instant, in order to enable
the Company to be fully prepared to proceed with their Bill in Par-
liament at the next Session.

By order of the Committee,
Office, S, Flusbury-place South, 11. B. FARNALL, Secretary

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NrEST RATTAITAY.—Tha !tn.
preesedented Applications for Shares in this Railway, the
Allotment,pf which is now being proc3eded with, precludes the pos-
sibility of the Directors appropriating so many to the different appli-
cants es their respectability. would otherwise entitle them to.
Importantliegotiations are now pending between this Company and
other influential existing ,lines, which, together with the Directors'
anxiety to hlnply provide for local interests,' will, it is hoped.
be received as a sufficient reason for so much necessary disap-
pointment.

order,
Mansfield, Oct. 21, 1845.

T.H. RIGSFE, 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
deemectdesirable; and for continuing the railway to George's -Point
• at a future 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 their
Shares.)
Offices of the Company, 147, Fenchurch-street, London.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. "
The Right Hon. the Lord Viscount Combermere, G.C.8., G.C.H.,
late Commander-in-chief in India
Richard Green, Esq. shipowner, Blackwell
John Ragshaw, Esq. E.T. merchant, I, King William. street, City
Captain Charles E. Mangles, 11.E.1.C., maritime service, director
of the Royal Mail Steam-packet Company, 8, New Broad-street
Duncan Dunbar, Esq. (firm of Dunbar and Sons, shipowners,
Limehouse, and manber of the Committee of tile Shipowners'
Society)
Captain Denny, 11.E.1.C. maritime service (firm—Denny, Clarke,
and Co., Austin-friars; and F. Green and Co., Coruhill), moriber
of the Committee of the Shipowners' Society-
James Cockburn, Esq. (firm—Cockburn and Co., 11;.Neii Broad-
street)
Captain George Probyn, late of the E.1.C.M.5.; 21, Brcanstees-
square
Sir John Pirie, Bart. alderman of the City of London, director of
the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company
Captain Tucker (firm—Frederick Green and Co. 64; Conti ill)
Adolphus Pugh Johnson, Esq.-Lloyd's
James Lamb, Esq. Lothbury, late ofCalcutta
Sir John Key, Bart. alderman of the City of London
Samuel Rhode, Esq. 3, Crosby-square, Bishopsgate,street
George Mackintosh, Esti-London, late of Calcutta
Alexander Robertson, Esq. late of: Canton, Ralgownie-lodge, Aber-
deenshire, and Bristol
W. H. L. Frith, Esq. (firm erllogg,Frith, and Sands, Calcutta)
Allen Gilmore, Esq. merehrint (firm of Colville, Gilmore, and Co.),
Calcutta
Wan. Tulloch Fraser, Esq. Gloucester-place, Portman-square
James Reeves, Esq.'leyton, Essex
David Roxburgh, Esq. shipowner, London
John Anderson, Esq. ll.E.l.C.S.Lothbury, London
James Clift, Esq. director of the Argus Life Assurance-office
Thomas Lawrence, Esq. Lee-park, Blackheath
James Mathews, Esq. (firm of Grindley and Co.) East India agents,
Cornhill, London
D. Warren, Esq. 753 Old Broad-street, London
Major-General B. B..Pariby,.C.B.' H.E.I.C.S. 18, Rutland-gate
Major-General Thomas Morgan, H.E:I,CS..• Sing/eton44owi ,Ter-
quay, Devon
The Hon. Stewart nipntio,..touc, Dcubai Army
The Hon. John Oliphant Murray (late of the Bengal Company)
Lieut.-Col, Campbell, C.B. PallAnall
Major Sewell, Bengal Army, General Staff, Fort William, Bengal
Capt. Hamilton Blair Avarne, H.E.I.C.S. Waterloo-place, Pall-mal 1
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 Wardroper, Bengal Army
Captain-Charles Ogle, 44, Eaton-plaee, London
Captain Bellew, H E.I.C.S. London
Captain E. S. Ludlow, 11.E.1.C.5. London
.T. 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. 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, M.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-honse, Bayswater
Colonel Robert Cannon, K.S.F., late Assistant Commissioner at Ban-
galore
Captain Thomas Rooke, Royal Navy, Lymington, Hants
Captain Gould, United Service Chub
Captain Alexander Macdonald, London
Captain Robert Page, Chartim-house, Somerton
Captain Edward StlaT',l, 10, Melcomb-place, Dorset-square
Captain W. illis, Royal Navy, 26, Grosvenor-place, London
Csrat". 7:opßlewell, Royal Navy, director of the Central Kent

county Railway
Captain Hutchinson, Royal Navy
T. Folltott Powell, Esq. 16th Lancers, Maidstone
Dottin Maycock, Esq. 16th Lancers, Maidstone
John 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
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, Peterborough, and Wis.-
beach Railway
George Evans, Esq. Neltmry-terrace, Regent's-park
Thomas Roberts TbAlusson, Esq. 16, Hyde-park-street
James Adair, Fltq. .director of the Goole and Doncaster Railway
Jame; Go non, Esq Conduit-street, Hanover-square
W, glum, 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 Bagehaw, Esq. Chairman.
Major-General Parlby Duncan Dunbar, Esq.
Captain Macdougall James Adair, Esq.
Captain Avanie 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.)
RANKERS IN LONDON.
Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths
The Union Bank 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.E.
AGENTS AT CALCUTTA—Messrs. Hogg, Frith, and Sands.
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 ;
and 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 be totally obstruct.' 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.

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This statement is borne out by eminent marine surveyors, among
whom the name of Captain Horsburgh stands distinguished ; with
C. B. Greenlavi, Esq., formerly Secretary to the Marine Board, and
Captain Lloyd, Marine Surveyor-General.
Recent overland dispatches from India declare that the Govern-
ment, the European, and the great native merchants, are most
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 rray 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 traffic.
with the carriage of goods, harbour dues, &c., will average 273,0001.
a year ; and, in addition, both the shipowner and merchant will der
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) le
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 meus., a saving will be effected of
1281. on each vessel.
A vessel, under existing circumstances, takes at the least two
months in discharging and taking in her cargo, whereas the same
work will be accomplished wills 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-
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 four anchors each,
with part of their cables, &c. ; and in a country where marine stores
arc enormously high, the replacing of such necessary and valuable
articles amounts to a very considerable stun ; by the formation of the
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 fisr
European sailors for the country trade, and the high wages offered
them.
The safety of the vessels will be secured, Sand the constant loss
from the freshes, anti plunder by the native crews of the valuable
cargoes of the sloops, bhurs, and other river craft, from which vessel,
are loaded, will be averted ultimately; a saving which cannot be too
highly appreciated by shipowners and merchants.

ily 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 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 join Heck
respective vessels at the latest moment.
The promoters have memorialised the Court of Directors of the
EisT India Company on the subject of this undertaking, and have
received a satisfactory reply from the Secretary, J. C. Melvin, Esq.
It must be borne in mind that this line does not stand in the sane
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 in.
volving the outlay of large sums 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 for the
difficult and dangerous navigation of the Hoogly, 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 will
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 capital
will be required until it is determined to construct the proposer(
docks ; 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 application will be made for a charter of incorpo-
ration, or Act of Parliament.
Applications for shares, in the annexed form, to be made to the
Provisional Committee, at the offices ef the Company, 147, Penchn re te-
street, London, er to the undermentioned sharebrokers and agents
Messrs. Capel, Cureton, and Lawford, Pope's Head-alley ; Messrs.
B. and M. Boyd, 4, Bank-buildings; Messrs. Johnson, Loagden, and
Johnson, 22, Tokenhouse-yard ; Mr. Andrew Sym, 9, Tokenhoutts-
yard ; David Armstrong, Esq. Dumfries ; Messrs. Robertson[ and
Co., Royal Exchange, Edinburgh ; Messrs. Robert Allen and Ce..
Edinburgh ; Mr. John Clegg, Manchester ; Mr. Anthony Lamle,
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Powell,
Brm,eedthser;s,s, an rt,
10„Esxr.c.hBufeh-acnoaunanLdivaerpoitakv.
Glasgow ; Mr. Walter Mackenzie, Glasgow ; Messrs. Tate and Nast/.
Bristol ; Messrs. Brady and Co., Bull ; Mr. Joseph Clarke, Seutbo
amptoti.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
The Directors of the Calcutta and George's Point
aßgailewtaoy.
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Gentlemen,—ln consideration of your allotting to me
pay
shares of 201. each in this undertaking, I hereby re
posit thereon, or any less number of shares that may 'se alotted to
me ; and I also undertake to sign the necessary deeds, svheu requirel,
so to do.—l am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant%
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CALCUTTA AND GEORGE'S POI NT
. RAILWAY.
No further Applications for Shares in this Company will be re-
ceived afterlusave 24th October, 1845.
CLIAS, FOSTER, Secretary: