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London, England, 1837-09-26 00:00:00

PORTS. PEA no
2.
Stoat Wine, from th wood 24s.
~-,. R
Fine old ditto, ditto
Good crusted ditto
.
uperior old ditto 34s.
Very Curious of the most celebrated vintages 4os. and 465.
_ Fine old crusted ditto in pints and half pints
Maiden first quality 2Bs.

CAYES
Good stout Wine
Onto Sherry flavour
Superior ditto, very fine
Genuine Pontae, excellent
SNERRIES.
Very Good 22s.
Excellent ditto, pale or broo-n 2Bs.
Pine old ditto, straw coloured...
Very superior ditto 40s.
Marsala, first quality 24s.
Pine old Rota Tent
345.
345.
Old Lisbon and Mountain
nucellas excellent
West India Madeira 34.
Old East India ditto, very 525. 58s.
fine

n,arkling Champagne 6os. 70s.
Ularets
A Large Assortment of Wines always on Draught.
SPIRITS. GALLON.
Ili Rectifiei Spirit of Wine
• V.nAlish Gin, of the first quality Bs. Otl. to 9s. 4d.
Al(tuls's celebrated Old Tom .. 10s. 6d.
Tile Best Old Jamaica Rum l2. Od. 13s. 4d.
Very Good French Brandy °-is. Od.
Ile best Old Ditto, very excellent 965. 6d.
Irish and Scotch Whiskies, genuine from
the Still ... 12s. Od. I6s. Od.
Patent Brandy lBs. Od.
Fine Old Rum Shrub . l2s. 61.
- _Bottles, hampers, &e., to be paid for en delivery, and the ameunt
retired when returned.
N 0 Orders from the Country can be attended to without a Re-
mittance.

W. MOULS,
No. 8, HIGH-STREET. NEWINGTON-BUTTS.

BRISTOL AND EXETER RAILWAY.
A:r THE HALF-YEARLY GENERAL
RA MEETING of this Company, held at the MERCHANTS'
ja37L,L, in the City of Bristol, on IN URSDAY the 31st of August,

FREDERICK RICKETTS, Esq., in the Chair ;
It was unanimously Resolved,
Moved by T. R. GUPPY, E-4, and seconded by GEORGE
Joxrx, Esq. ;
..,]• That the Report of the Directors now read be received and
'Kopt.d, and that they be requested to print the same.
Moved by PETER MANE, Esq., and seconded by E. W.
MlLLszEsq.; . . .

2. That the best thanks of the Proprietors be given to the Dirsc-
t,6ll for their very able and efficient attention to the interests of the
'ftpany.
- - -

Moved by CHARLES B. Fairy, Esq„ and secondosl by
MICHAEL HINTON CAVTLE, Esq. ;
Z. That the cordial thanks of this Meeting be respectfully pre-
alth ed to the Society of Merchant Venturers, for their kindness in
granting the use of their Hall. .

FREDERICK RICKETTS, Chairman.
The Ch:irrnan having - z quitted the chair, it was taken by SAUL.
NVAairre,l:sq. ; and
M. H. C.Nan.s, Esq., moved, and Wm. Watsox, Esq.,
Th seconded;
Tticicaztrr the
hearty thanks of this Meeting be given to FItEDERICK
8; Esq., for his able and excellent conduct in the Chair.
SAML. WARING.

In REPORT.
sa •
opuncaaM submitting to the proprietors a concise but correct tie-
of the Company's position, it is satisfactory to the directors,
tarbary,thba6 bearing
of several months of aggravated commercial diffi-
ag with peculiar pressure on every undertaking depen-
Matt on
the aplication of surplus capital, to be enables to state
mac with the exception. of such a retarded payment of the last tin-
t, as is necessaril consequent on the pe.riod, they have
hnot
that fact to communicate.whh can otherwise than strengthen
entire confidence in the ultimate distinguished success of the
.01 istol and Exeter Railway, hitherto entertained by all who are
eft'orlr'eegut.eu with its cheapness, its facilities, its security, and its
101 l he Particular facts establishing these advantages have been so
r /" demonstrated in their two former reports that the directorsl
from repeating them ; merely remarking on the additional
Session they derive from the defeat and abandonment, during the last
the w of Parliament, of every competing line betwixt London and
ai extern Counties, and a moral certainty, arising both from phy-
lhuPediments and the new requirements of the Legislature, that
a introduction of any ether is effectually precluded.
8
hi ece the last report two additional contracts, extending to the
en% road to Bridgewater, in the village of Lympsham, have been
entered :ed into on terms advantageous to the Company, arising from
asy nature of the ground.
greater portion of the land
;sandi urchased on the 11 milts
inuiprised in the two first contracts
....'esself of the favourable state of the weather to expedite the pro-
-ar of the work
wo4„,:dare, however,. of the large amount of capital at present em-
%fit, on the numerous and extensive railroads in progress through-
-4,._..ane kingdom, and desirous of giving the greatest effect to the
ativriTebele means of the Company, by not operating on too large a
pie: at a timeithe directors—though fully determined to cons-
tioris the line to Exeter—have resolved to finish and open such por-
k, °f it, commencing with Bristol, as will enable them to secure
weactual remuneration on the capital expended on its progress to
to,,st?Liand Uphill in the first instance, Bridgwater in the second,
goo'd, Taunton in the third, so that investment and return may, in a
to b,...".eliree, keep pace with each other. They purpose, therefore,
eutos.t the scope of this report chiefly to an exposition of such
opini'llaes as will best enable the proprietors to form a correct
atoiti uf the required outlay and ascertainable prooeeds on these
ons of their expenditure.
tekteite estimates of their engineer, which have been hitherto so sa-
ta,oily borne out by the contracts entered into for upward* of
lam ilrds of the distance to Bridgwater, and by the actual cost of
eost afreadypurchased. warrant the directors in assuming that the
°Pening the line to that port, including the stations,.loco-
exeeel "Ones, and every other expense, will, at the outside, not
u thirty-five pounds per share.
peeLatating the dividend to be reasonably anticiputed from this ex-
tut „—ure, they are so fully sensible of the extent of prejudice they
encounter, arising less from the misreprosentations of the
o.Nureated, than from the inconsiderate assumptions of a few who
ajekireir uainted with the facts of the question, and the credence
fiin the the many to assertions to which they have never exa-
ed
iue proof, that the directors would feel the declaration of
atoolr_!I lf to be unavailing, unless supported by that species and
of evidence which they well know must remain unshaken by
terest scrutiny.
141 / subjoin, therefore, as an appendix, an abstract, eorrecteol
the
time, of the traffic, proved before the Parliamentary
Aritt,,d Tee under the investigation of adverse counsel, and illus-
zniatis by such references as can leave little room for doubt in a
ecessible to the influence of testimony. To those who,
the celebrity which our great manufacturing towns
the b,,,,,°"aiihted from the magnitude and productions, rather than
t,heee welling wants and habits of their population, conclude that
10,aiicbelavt_onf necessity create an extent of intercourse, for which
u 01, I,
w.,al to seek a parallel in the other districts of the king-
appear remarkable that the coaches at this time daily
the "g betwixt London, Bristol, and Exeter, considerably exceed
tiverentire number plying between London . and Birmingham,
"Tun 41, and Manchester, before. the opening. of the Grand
be se`.l°'l, Railroad Yet such is the incontrovertible fact as will
and Y any one
..who takes the trouble to refer to the appendix
itZpos, plain ground, together with the acknowledged
which
Ohl
thiane s.hareholderse;h
°Ut tt:ltaand Exetern.itnural
that thet directors fe 1
alkod
tahuattly, expect a of a dividend of 13 per cent!
before-mentioned to Bridgwater. To this it may be
42urces of It is the peculiar advantage of this line to open up new
, Profit •
in Its progress, at suel short successive distances as
of riretY be Preeented by any similar undertaking. The oomph\--
r3fit riot intipti ten miles will enable the company, at an ample
41eta of °laded in the present or any estimate, to bring the pro-
iiiirs a vast coal field into the city of Bristol, at a
.chargeof one
t•lo Per to
'° the n • twelve additional miles, which bring theline
Southe,tamis,mouth of the Ax, and the natural harbour at Uphill
of Inrel line of communication betwixt the whole of the
staleo
and
Irrlid (including, of course, the southern coast of
r)teel; ealculat st°L
and London, of which the most sanguine can
f . the li e the advantages ; anti eleven miles more, by car-
. North ne te Brie
eoune gwater, will necessarily render it the medium
Detween the Western Countie.s, and Loudon, and the
Alth
°ugh
•• e work • ' " the subjoined accounts will shew, the outlay on
141:,and beeeroi
Preaeo • aided b ,r,!g heavy, the directors expect that the balance
,h,a the nee
the instalment now in coucse of receipt, will
hel'olderc essitY, for some months, of a further call on the
ieet, Tt of the er
Woof,t'aving been ',Patient charge.; to which the un.lertalcing is sub-
besicaultann,oxue:llyunder an expect ation that the whole hue
in el er.itiou—and, uud. r the teelirs that