The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-12-22 00:00:00

GENERA L HOLIDAY.

THE WORSHIPFUL THE MAYOR AND CORPORA-
TION OF LIVERPOOL

TIEFAVING requested that MONDAY, the 26th
inst. be observed as a GENERAL HOLIDAY, and
as the usual Christmas parties will be held on that and fol-
lowing das,
JOHN GIBBONS,
Of the Edinburgh Flour,
Bread and Fancy Biscuit Warehouse,
11, London Road,
Begs respectfully to call attention to the various articles of
CONFECTIONERY he manufactures for such Festivities.
Amongst which he can confidently recommend
THE ROYAL BLAIR-ATHOL CAKE. -
„ SCOTCH BUN.
„ SCOTCH SEED CAKE.
„ SCOT SHORT BREAD.
„ PRITCAITHLY BANNOCK.
And other superior Cakes, as peculiarly suited for private
parties, for presents, and, from the general nutritious quali-
ties, and inimitable flavour, for family use.
11, LONDON ROAD.

GUSTAVUS HAMILTON, Solicitor and Irish
Law Agent. (Firm G. Hamilton & Sons,) 30, South
Frederick-street, Dublin, and 47, Chancery-lane, London,
Master Extraordinary of her Majesty's High Court of
Chancery in England, for taking Answers, Affidavits, Proofs
in Bankruptcy, and depositions of Witneaes in Ireland, and
Commissioner for taking Affidavits in Inland out of Her
Majesty's Court of Queen's Bench, CoMmon Pleas, and Ex-
chequer in England, also. Master Extraordinary of the County
Palatine and. Duchy Courts of Lancaster ; Agent to the
Monarch Fire and Life Assurance Company of London. and
Local Solicitor. to the rnited.Guarantee and Life Assurance
Company of London.

IMPORTANT TO PARTIES FURNISHING.
GLASS, CHINA, AND EARTHENWARE.
tir WARD, CUT GLASS MANUFACTURER, 40, Bold
Street, Liverpool, is selling goods of such quality as
cannot be surpassed, at the following prices :
GLASS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION.
Cut half-pint Tumblers, from Os 414 to Is 6d each.
Pressed ditto Os 3d to Os 6d „
Cut Wines, of fifty patterns Os 3d to is 6d „
Cut Decanters, ditto
Cut and pressed Salts . .0s Id to 3s Od „
Cut and pressed Sugars and Creams, Os 6d to 10s Od „
Cut and moulded Water Bottles and

Glasses ....0s 9d to 7s 6d „
Cut and Moulded Water Jugs ......2s. 6d to 25s Od „
An immense variety of CHINA, in Breakfast, Tea, .
and Dessert Services.
Tea Cups and Saucers, blue fiure, is 3d per half-dozen.
Tea Sets, of burnished gold, from 10s 6d to £6 per set.
Dessert Services £1 108 Od to £lO „
EARTHENWARE, in endless 'variety.
Dinner Services, to dine twelve persons, a
variety of patterns and colours, from Os Od per sot.
Toilet Services, nine piece 5........ 0.5 s 6d 1,
N.8.---This Stock is of immense .extent, the quality is as
good as is manufactured, and the prices are from 10 to 20
per cent. cheaper than are usually charged.
OBSERVE—J. WARD, 40, BOLD STREET, LIVERPOOL.

MILNERS' HOLDFAST AND FIRE-RR;
SISTING SAFES, CLOSETS, DOORS,
CHESTS, BOXES, GUNPOWDER, MAGAZINES, &c,
AT MILNERS' PHCENIX (212°) SAFE WORKS,
WINDSOR, LIVERPOOL,
(Show Rooms, 54, Lord-street.)
LONDON DEPOT, 47k, MOORGATE-STREET, CITY.

GREAT FIRE }AT THE GUTTA PERCHA COM.
PANY'S WORKS, AND DEFEATED BURGLARIES.
" Gutta Percha Company's Works' City Road,
London, Bth June, 1853.
"SIRS,—We consider it only our duty to inform you of
the entire preservation of all the Books and Papers,* con.
tained in the large Safe you recently .supplied us with,
although exposed. during Sunday last to a fire which de-
stroyed the larger part of our Works--this is the more re-
markable, as the intense heat has in many parts melted the
outside of the Safe.
"We are of opinion, that so successful a vindication of
the merits of your invention cannot, on public grounds, be
too generally known ; and we therefore leave you at liberty:
to use this letter in any way you may wish.
" We are, Sirs, your obedient Servants,
THE GUTTA PERCILA. COMPANY,
"HENRY FORD BAItCLAY.
Messrs.lThomas Milner and Son, 47A,
Moorgate-Street, City, London.
Including £6,000 of cae and bills.

:ARLISLE AND SILLOTH BAY RAILWAY

AND DOCK COMPANY.

PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED.

CAPITAL, £135,000, in 5,400 SHARES of £25 Each,
Deposit, 10s. per Share.

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE,

PETER JAMES DIxoN, Esq., Mayor of Carlisle, Chairman
Joseph Ferguson, Esq., M.P., Carlisle.
John Dixon, Esq., Knells, Carlisle.
• William Halton, Esq.. Carlisle.
John Howson, Esq., Carlisle.
*Thomas Nelson, Esq, Murrell Hill House, Carlisle, Holder.
G. A. Thompson, Esq., Klrkhouse, Brampton.
Joseph Rome, Esq., Carlisle.
Robert Ferguson. Esq., Shadwell Lodge, Carlisle.
George Relph, Esq., Castle View. Carlisle.
Robert Elliot. Esq., M.D., Carlisle.
Mr. John Irvine, Carlisle,• Merchant.
Mr. George Robinson, Carlisle. Corn Merchant.
Mr. Wm. Robinson Martindale, Carlisle, Druggist.
• liir. Richard Jackson, Moss-Side, Wigton, Yeoman.
• Mr. Hugh McAlpia, Cummersdale, Calico Printer.
Mr. John Steel, Southerfield, Wigton, Yeoman.
Mr. Joseph Forster, Carlisle, Manufacturer.
Mr. Robert Pattinson, Whittrigg, lowness, Yeoman.
Mr. Jonathan Dodgson Can, Carlisle, Biscuit Manufacturer.
- Mr. John Clarke Ferguson, Stanwix, Carlisle, Manufacturer.
Mr. William Parker. Carlisle, Manufacturer.
Mr. Isaac Drape, Green-row Academy, Wigton.
Mr. Thomas Chambers, Pelutho, Wigton, Yeoman.
Mr. Joseph Hope. Carlisle, Wine Merchant.
Mr. John Wise. Whinciose, Wigton, Yeoman.
Mr. John Bushby, Carlisle, Merchant.
Mr. Robert Creighton, Carlisle, Timber Merchant.
Mr. Richard Pattinson, Carlisle, Merchaat.
Mr. William Carrick, Carlisle, Hat Manufacturer.
Mr. Edward McGibbon, Carlisle, Manufacturer.
Mr. Isaac James, Carlisle, Iron Merchant.
* Mr. Ellwood Brockbank, Carlisle, Timber Merchant.
Mr. Thomas Blacklock, Carlisle, Merchant.
Mr. Thomas Wright. Carlisle, Solicitor.
Mr. Jahn Sowerby, Carlisle, Druggist,
Mr. Henry Tweddle, Carlisle, Painter.
Mr. Robert Whitfield, Carlisle, Druggist.
Mr. James Slim!), Carlisle, Timber Merchant.
Mr. William Toppin, Carlisle, Merchant.
Mr. Richard Graham, Carlisle, Timber Merchant.
Mr. Hudson Scott, Carlisle, Stationer.
Mr. Isaac Brown, Carlisle, Merchant.
With power to add to their number.

ZNGINEBIL DOCK MNGINEER.
B. H. Blyth, Esq . Edinburgh. I J. B. Hartley, Esq., Liverpool

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MARLNE SURVEYOR.
Captain Chas. G. Robinson, R.N., F.G.S.
BANKERS.
The Carlisle and Cumberland Banking Company, Carlisle,
Messrs. Hankey and Co., London.

SOLICITOR. SECRETARY.
John Nanson, Esq., Carlisle. I Mr. John Carruthers, Carlisle.

PROSPECTUS.

THIS Company is formed for the purpose of constructing
a Floating Dock and Harbour at Silloth Bay, in the
SolwayFrith, on the Coast of Cumberland, and connecting
the same, by a Railway twelve miles and three quarters in
length, with the Port Carlisle Railway, and so with the
Junction of the Caledonian, Lancaster and Carlisle, and
Newcastle and Carlisle Railways, at Carlisle, twenty-one
miles distant.

A safe Port on the North-West coast of England, where
Vessels may enter and load and discharge at all times of the
tide, has long been required—the other Ports on that Coast,
as Whitehaven, Workington, Maryport, and Port Carlisle,
being dry harbours, and only accessible at tide time.
Sißoth Bay, in the Solway Frith, and distant about
twenty-one miles from Carlisle, is peculiarly well situated
for the construction of Floating Docks, and a Harbour ac-
cessible to Vessels at all times of the tide, night as well as
day, being a safe anchorage, with deep water close to the
shore, in, which large vessels may ride the whole of the
twenty-four hours -the depth of water at low water of the
highest spring tides being from three-and-a-half to five-
and-a-half fathoms.

A Railway is now in course of construction from Carlisle
to Port Carlisle, which will be completed early next year,
and which at Drumburgh, eight miles and a-half distant
from Carlisle, will be within thirteen miles distance from
Silloth Bay. It is proposed, with the concurrence and
under the sanction of the Port Carlisleßailway Company, to
take advantage of this, and to construct a Floating Dock
and Harbour at Silloth Bay, and connect the same with the
Port Carlisle Railway, by a line of Railway twelve-and-
three-quarter-miles in length, joining the Port Carlisle
Railway. at Drumburgh, thus making the whole distance
from Silloth Bay to Carlisle twenty-one miles.

A large and increasing trade is carried on by Newcastle
and the other Ports on the East Coast of England, with the
West coast of England and Ireland, which the existing Ports
on the "West coasts are quite inadequate to accommodate. A
great part of the traffic is now conducted in sailing vessels
round the South of England or North of Scotland, the
former being a distance of about 1,000 miles, whilst if goods
carried across from Newcastle to Silloth Bay by railway were
shipped there, the distance to Ireland would be under 200
miles. The important and increasing City of Carlisle is now
one of the greatest railway centres of the kingdom, the
Lancaster and Carlisle, the Caledonian, the Glasgow and
South-Western, the Newcastle and Carlisle, and the Mary-
port and Carlisle lines all meeting there, and another lino
from Hawick to Carlisle, in continuation of the North British
is also in contemplation. The projected Harbour at Silloth
Bay would be the nearest deep-sea harbour to this great
centre of railways, and as the Solway Frith in which it is
-situated runs up so far into the land, as a glance at the Map
of England will show, the Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway,
with the Port Carlisle and Newcastle and Carlisle Railways
'would form a direct Railway connection between the Ger-
man Ocean and the Irish Sea at the narrowest part of the
Island. The Harbour at Silloth Bay would thus afford the
readiest and best Port for the coal, coke, and manufactures
of Newcastle and the surroundingadistrict sent to, the Irish
market. Steamers would also be enabled to ply between
Silloth Buy and the ports of Liverpool, Dublin, Belfast, and
other ports, by which short and easy passages would be
afforded at regular hours, quite independent of the tides.
It is proposed, in the first instance, to make a Floating
Dock, at Silloth Bay, of about four acres area, which would
serve as an Entrance Basin to Docks of a larger area, to be
constructed when the increase of trade should require them.
The Line from Silloth Bay to Drumburgh, on the Port
Carlise Railway, would pass through a fine agricultural
country, and a considerable income from local traffic and
passengers may safely be anticipated. A single line only
will be laid down in the first instance, but sufficient land
will be taken and works constructed for a double line when
the same may be found necessary. The landowners are in
general strongly in favour of the line, and some of them are
upon the Provisional Committee, and promoters of the under-
taking. The country through which the line passes is per-
fectly flat and level—there will be no heavy earthwork or
expensive works of any kind—and it is estimated that,
allowing liberally for all contingencies, the total costs of the
Railway, including the purchase of land, will not exceed
£65,000, being at the rate of £5,000 ,per mile. Contrac-
tors of undoubted respectability are ready to undertake the
construction of the line for this sum.

The Estimates for the Dock and Harbour have been pre-
pared by Mr. J. B. Hartley, of Liverpool, who has had great
. experience in the planning and carrying out of such works.
They amount to £60,500. The total estimated cost of the
works will thus stand as follows

Cost of Railway £65,000
Cost of Dock and Harbour
Parliamentary and Preliminary Expenses
and Contingencies

£135,000

The sources of traffic have been carefully inquired :into,
and fully tested by persons'extensively engaged in shipping
and manufactures, and in every way competent to make a
correct estimate of the various kinds of merchandise that
will enter the harbour and pass over the line.
Taking into account thepresent actual traffic from Newcastle
to Ireland, now carried by a long sea voyage round the island;
and which would be diverted into the new line, together
with the local traffic, a minimum return of £2O per mile per
week may be safely calculated upon for the Railway, which,
with the receipts from the Dock Dues, would yield a divi-
del:4 of upwards of six per cent., after allowing 50 per cent.
for working expenses.
The undertaking has the cordial support of the Port
Carlisle Railway Company. .
Arrangements will be made with this Company, under
the sanction of Parliament, for facilitating the carriage of
goods over their line.
Applications for Shares in the form annexed, and also
for 'Maps and Prospectuses, mar be made to Mr. Jonx
CARRUTHERS, the Secretary, or Messrs. W. & J. NANSON,
Solicitors at Carlisle; and the following Brokers :—Messrs.
F. W. Flint and Co., Hull ; Messrs. Redsdale and Myers,
Leeds; Mr. James Watson, Glasgow ; Mr. Oliver Howden,
Edinburgh ; Messrs. F. and W. Gillow, Liverpool ; Messrs.
Hoy land, Son, and Ball, Manchester ; Mr. 11. B. Jones,
Preston ; Bragg, and Stockdale, London; Drewry and
Richardson, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.