The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-04 00:00:00

THAMES EMBANKMENT AND ATMOS-
PHERIC RAILWAY, from WHITEHALL-PLACE and
111:NGERFORD MARKET to the nearest possible vicinity to LON-
-1)ON-BRIDGE and the BANK, with extensions to the termini of the
Blackwall and London-bridge Railways.
Provisionally registered.
Temporary °Tees, No. 32, Charing-cross. ,
Capital, 2,000,0001., in 80.000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit 21 10s. per Share.
PROVISION AL DIRECTORS.
The Earl of DEVON, Chairman.
Major JELF SHARP, Delany Chairman.
Philip Anstruther, Esq.
Charles Barry Baldwin, Esq., M.P.
Edward Henry Chapman, Esq.
William Rickford Collett, Esq., M.P.
Sir Archer Denman Croft, Bart.
.. Captain Kelly, R.N.
Sir William Magnay, Bart and Alderman.
James Matheson, Esq., M.P.
Major-General Sir James Reynett, K.C.H.
Andrew ,:pottiswootle, Esq.
ENotNEts.--Thonta.s Paoe, ES4I.
SOLIC I TORS— eFsrs. Erbl..es acid Nasoci, lied Lion-square.
A ILCUITECTS AND Sun VEYORS essrs. Fowler and Austin.

BA NRERS.
The Union Bank of London, 4, I'itll-mall East, and 14, Argyll-place.
The Commercial Bank of London, Principal Office, Lothbury.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS—Messrs IlUgh Innes Cameron and George
• • ••• • • Bain, IS, Parliament-street.
- •• • SECRETARY, ram TEM.—E. W. Williams, Esq.
It has been . ler some time the object of her Majesty's Commis-
sioners of Metropentan Improvements to carry out the important
plan of an Embankment of the Thames, so as to improve the naviga-
tion, and; at the same time; provide a splendid drive and prome-
nade. along the Middlesex shore, froM Whitchall-placc to Blackfriars-
bridge.
The attainment of these great objects has hitherto been impeded by
various difficulties, and it is now proposed to obviate the most im-
portant of them, by the formation of a company to execute Mr.
Page's plan of the embankment, being that which was selected by
the Met,opolitan Commissioners, and to combine with it an Atmos-
pheric Railway, from Ilungertbrd-market, or its neighbourhood, to
the vicinity of London-bridge and the Bank, and from thence to the
Blackwell .Railway, near Fenchurch-street, with a branch across the
river. to join the various railways terminating at the London-bridge-
station.
It is obvious that this great undertaking cannot be carried into
effect vVithout the sanction of the Government and the City authori-
ties. For the purpose of obtaining this the Provisional Directors
have been for some time in communication with the Metropolitan
Commissioners, to whom proposals have been submitted regarding
the execution and management of this work, for which they have
every reason to expect a favourable consideration.
Fully impressed as the promoters of this scheme were, from the
beginning, vi ith the import nice of the extensions to the Blackwell
and London-hri ige railways, it was not their Intention to have pro-
ceeded, in the first instance,_ further-than the vicinity of London-
bridge and the Rank; but they have received such offers of support
and co-operation from many influential parties anxious to promote
a junction with these lines, that they have resolved, after the fullest
CollSht ration, to enlarge their original plan, in order to include the
whet, of these objects in one complete and comprehensive scheme.
Co,sidering the advantages which must naturally result from con-
necting so many railways, viz., the Blackwell, Eastern Counties, and
Northern and Eastern on the one side, and the Brighton, South
Eastern, Greenwich, and Croydon, on the other, with Charing-cross
and the intermediate stations, there is every reason to expect that a
plan so comjehensive will receive the most cordial support front all
parties interested in these various lines,
From the community at large the promoters of this scheme rest
their claims for support on the following important public grounds :-
1. The formation, without expense to the country, of 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 recreatio,, and at the same time relieving one of the greatest
thoroughfares to the City from part of tho vast traffic which now
obstructs it.
2. The improvement of an important part of the navigation of the
river, together with the sewerage, and the removal from its northern
shore of the umightly accumulations of mud and unwholesome mat-
ter which now so disfigure it.
3. The connexion of the principal towns and sea-ports of the
southern and eastern coats with the centre of the metropolis.
Great pains have been taken by the e' gineer, in connexion with
the public accommodation, to provide for the interests of these whose
property may he affected by this work, and by the adoption of the
atmospheric principle all inconvenience to the passengers and public
from noise, smoke, &c., will be avoided.
The engineer has estimated the works to be constructed, and, as far
as possible, valued the properties that it will be necessary to purchase,
and, upon these data, he feels satisfied that the proposed capital may
be ri lied upon for covering every expense.
The Provisional Directors have endeavoared, by the closest inves-
tigation. to come to some accurate result as to the traffic between the
projected termini ; but this is one of those peculiar cases in which it
is exceedingly difficult to form an estimate which may not appear
exaggerated, and they are, therefore, induced rather to submit the
following general calculation. and to state that they feel quite con-
fident that an ample return will be realised to afford a very good
remunerative interest for the capital Invested. Nobody can reasdn-
ably doubt this, when they see the-multitudes thst are continually
passing and repassing to and from the City, on foot, in omnibuses
and other carriages, steam-boats, &c., without taking into considera-
tion the very largely increased traffic that must accrue by the junc-
tion 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 present, twenty minutes to
half an hour, this saving alone of valuable time to men of business,
Rc., moat insuve a powerfht sopp,•rt to this undertaking.
Th.- hdlowing table, late taii.se tiering two days, will give some
ides of the enormous traffie which is constantly going on between
the City and the West End :

Average.
Steamers hake about 370 trips per day.... 16,100 passengers
Omnibuses about 2,120 journeys per day 2,,e00 ditto
Cabs and private carriages, about 6,556 ... 13,000 ditto
Foot passengers, about ••••••••• • • • • • • • • • 76,000 ditto

125,0[0 persons daily
pose one-fourth of the passengers by the steamers
snd e,rriages go by the railway, running each way
every flee minhtes ..... ••• • •
Take one-tenth of the foot passengers .
Add passengers to and fro, from the .lifrerent ra:l-
- connected with the Black wall and the Lon-
don-bridge termini, about • .

30,000 daily,

An average of 4d. each rives 500/. per day, or •• • .X 182,500
With the atmospheric principle, the expenses will
certainly not be above one-half of the usual amount
(say 20 per cent.) ............ ..... •• • • 36,500

Leaving clear.. • • ••••• • •• X 146,000
Or Above 7 per Cent. upon the capital, without including the usual

increase,

The usual power will he taken to allow interest at 4 per cent. per
annum on the deposits, as well as on all future calls, from the date of
the passing of the Act till the opening of the railway.
Applications for shares may be addresed, in the annexed form, to
the Provisional Directors, at the temporary office of the Company.
32, Charing-crass; to the SoliciOrs and Parliamentary Agents, and
to the following Agents and Sharebrokers :—Mr. H. J. Williams, 80,
Old Broad-street, London ; Messrs. Forsyth and Pritchard, Liver-
pool ; Messrs. Johnstone and Bradley, Manchester; James Pearson,
Birmingham ; and Luke Arnold, Bristol, of whom prospectuses may
be obtained.

FOAM OF APPLICATION FOR SNARES.
To the Provisional Directors of the Thames Embankment and At-

mospheric Railway.
Gentlemen—l request you will allot to me shares of 251.
each in the above Company ; and I hereby undertake to accept the
same, or any lesser number that may be allotted to me, to pay the de-
posit of 2/. 10g. per share thereon, and to sign the Subscribers' agree-
ment and Parliamentary contract when required.

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