The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-05 00:00:00

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right Honourable Lord Belhaven and Stanton.
Sir Windham Carmichael Anstruther, of Carmichael, Bart.
Sir Henry J. Seton Steuart, of Allanton, Bart.
Sir John Kirkland, of Clyrnpy.
The Honourable James Lumsden, Lord Provost of Glasgow.
James Bryson, Esq., of Hollandbush, Provost of Hamilton.
John Gibson, Esq., Provost of Lanark.
Christopher Saltmarshe, Esq., Middleton lodge.
Nathaniel Stevenson, Fag., of Braidwood.
James Harvie, Esq., of Brownlee.
C. M. Barstow, Esq., Edinburgh.
Lieut—Colonel Graham, of Mossknow.
William Robertson. Esq., of Lauchop.
Alexander Denniston, Esq., of Golfhill.
Alexander Campbell, Esq., of Bedlay.
William Gilmour, Esq., of Oatlands.
William Kippen, Esq., of Bushey.
John Fyfe, Esq., Dalmarnock House.
Henry Brock, Esq., banker, Glasgow.
A. G. Kidston, Esq., merchant, Glasgow.
James Tasker, Esq , merchant, Greenock.
• Robert Ewing, Esq., merchant, Greenock.
ENGINEER—Joseph Locke, Esq., London.
l3tetalicETkßY—Alexander Graharne,Esq., St. Vincent-street, Glasgow.
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R—George Crawfurd. Esq., West George-street, Glasgow.
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AaLIRMENTARY AGENTS—Archibald Grahame, Moncrieff, and
Weems.

BANKERS.
The Clydesdale Banking Company Glasgow.
The Edinburgh and Glasgow Bank Edinburgh.
The London and Westminster Bank London.
Messrs. Moss and Co Liverpool.
The Undertaking embraces several objects of great public utility,
whether viewed separately or in connexion with each other.
In the first place, the establishment of a railway by the most di.
tact route, from the city of Glasgow to the wealthy, populous, and
ttliPidlY increasing community in the districts adjoining to Hamil-
os Bothwell, Motherwell, Wishawtown, and the various coal and
4 Works in that part of the country ;
In the second place, a direct and uninterrupted railway commu.
41eation between the city of Glasgow and the inexhaustible fields
n.,
"' °lll and other minerals, lying in the lower valley of the Clyde,
1 3 Well as those tut% ersed by the Wishaw and Coltness Railway,
.
Wilsonton Railway, and other communicating lines.
The Provisional Committee have taken great pains to ascertain,
with
00 tL4ccutacY, the returns which may be expected from the traffic
e proposed railway; and after allowing for every contingency,
and n
deducting from the gross receipts 40 per cent. for working ex.
e-u
nt "as the results show a net profit on the capital of nearly 9 per
i.,_• Per annum, exclusive of the great additional traffic which may
". anticipated from the Caledonian line.
torTnhe Committee have also ascertained that the works may be
sh2leted within eighteen months after the Act of Parliament
have been obtained.
Abe Shares will be 50/. each, and it will be a provision of the
he Of Incorporation that no subscriber shall be liable for more than
b_e_ amount of his subscrip•ion. A deposit of 10 per cent., or 5/.
,o"ir. Share, to be paid at the time of allotment ; and Subscribers
have to execute the Parliamentary deed on receiving their
Scrip.

0f the proposed capital, upwards of 3,000 Shares have already
aeq
taken up by parties locally interested.
to 4Pplieation for Shares to be made in the form annexed, addressed
t. the Secretary, or to Henry Francis, Esq., 57, Threadneedle-
-1:1'"ut, London ; Messrs. Forsyth and Pritchard, Liverpool ; or Mr.
1,1.,7. Locke, Manchester ; from any of w hem prospectuses and
."511 may be obtained.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES,
40 the Provisional Committee of the
Clydesdale Junction Railway.

Date.

~ 1844.

Gentlemen,
u4,4:atshto become a Subscriber for Shares in this
les, „ttaklng, of 50/. per Share, the Deposit upon which, or on any
a4ci Umber of Shares that may be allotted to me, I agree to pay ;
s. 4 4lso undertake to sign the necessary Deeds, when required
--todo.
I am, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
Name.
•••••—__ • Address. ---

LIVERPOOL, ORM SK IRK, and PRESTON
RAILWAY, with a BRANCH to SOUTHPORT.
Capital, 600,0001., in 24,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit, 21. 10s. per Share.
Sit PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
tit .;""lag Hesketh, Bart., Ruffbrd Hall, Lancashire.
.hoinas Joseph de Trafford, Bart., Trafford Park, Lancashire.
lteh Weld Blundell, Esq., Ince Hall, Lancashire.
Duckenfield Bold, Esq , Liverpool, a Director of the Lan.
w;Ssi.ter and Carlisle Railway.
'an Boardman, Esq., Farrington Hall, Lancashire.
belt Browne, Esq., Wavertree.road, Liverpool.
.a.nUs Brandreth, Esq., Ormskirk.
1.
--`rick W. Caldwell, Esq., Meshnish, Argyllshire, and Golden-
ar,ares London.
Win Lani Cook, Esq., Kensington, Liverpool.
Jiunlarn Dixon. Esq., Govan, Glasgow.
Nowell Ffarington, Esq , Worden Hall, Lancashire.
\q`te Gradwell, Esq., Preston. li
Chiani rosberry, Esq., Everton, Liverpool.
~•'ll Groves, Esq., Liverpool.
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qnth Greenough, Esq., Southport.
Athr. Howell, E,q., Beaumont Villa, Shepherd's Bush, Middlesex.
Humber, Esq., Preston.
Henry Harrison Esq., Southport.
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s"arnits Kershaw'Orins and S
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h" Rosson, Esq., More Hall kirk,
Lancashiroe.uthport.
Clement Royds, Esq., Mount Falinge, Lancashire, Chairman of
the Preston and Wyre Railway Company.
William Gillibrand Unsworth, Esq., Manor House, Lancashire.
Daniel Waterhouse, Esq., Alybusth, Liverpool.
(With 'mower to add to their number.)

RANKERS.
Messrs. Williams, Deacon, Labouchere, and Co., London.
T ll_ Liverpool Commercial Bank, Liverpool.
Ile Preston Banking Company, Preston.
ENGINEERS.
B,lr. John Macneill, L.L.D., F.R.S.
'44106 Thomson, Esq., F.R.S.E., M. R.I. A.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS.
Dorrington, Haywood, and Ellicombe, Parliament-street.

137 the Construction of this railway, a direct communication will
tonmade between Liverpool and the great Northern Lines, and a
y formed with the whole of the manufacturing districts of
,_"l,?hire, by the Blackburn and Preston Railway, and the Lan-
''"re and Yorkshire Junction.
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independent entrance into Liverpool, from the North,
ara„be or great public i
advantage, limited as the town now is to
;One outlet by railway
kead'h branch from the Main line of Ormskirk will provide the
enCof cheap and expeditious access to the rising and much-fre-
tlo, ted watering-place of Southport, and by a contemplated junc-
• xe _or this branch with the Liverpool and Manchester Railway at
ataLen, the shortest and most direct route to Southport will be
The
from Manchester and the Midland Counties.
lame:e,tr.°PoSed line has been surveyed by Sir John Macneill and
tes .snomson, Esq., whose report is highly favourable. The
ren;h
An.4nus in Liverpool is at present intended to be near the Bo-
• 66 Gaol in Great Howard-street, from which the line will pro-
,2° the west of Aintree Race Course by Maghull and
It "(on to the town of Ormskirk, and from thence by Burscough,
Ufsh,
and Croston, to- join the North Union Railway at Fa.
hsti. Where a junctiOn will be effected with the Blackburn and
'Ron Railway.
M 044 3; lower line to the west by Scarisbrick has also been surveyed,
‘alt through a country singularly favourable for the construction
a. Railway, but leaving out the coal fields (from which a consi-
-4ble revenue may be expected) and the town of Ormskirk.,
Which
Would have to be approached by a branch; the direct line is
,ete-i7fore deemed preferable ; at the same time, however, both will
LA,'" ature consideration before depositing the plans for Par.
Liihsen„ t'M The present circuitous Railway communication between
r•-•ui and Preston, and places to the north and north.east, is car-
- o°n by lines originally projected for other purposes, and the traffic
hill'eett
ently subjected to unnecessary expense, delay, and incon.
11,-.„enee. the only existing route being by the Manchester and
1,1,P.,!°01 Railway to Parkside, and thereon to Preston by the
ks.," Union Railway, a distance of 381 miles, usually occupying
2i.to 21 hours. The distance from Liverpool to Preston by
PtePosed direct line, is only 271 miles, which will be traversed
< • one
on hour, thus effecting a saving of I I miles, and more than
estialf the time.
sp,;;ni , together with the greatly diminished cost of construction,
t.„,' enable the Company to carry Passengers and Goods at such
'Nue
I curates as to ensure a considerable increase in the present
.snme.
—"handing advantages will be effected In the traffic between
and the towns of Blackburn, Lancaster, Kendal, Car-
h e,Penrith, Newcastle, Edinburgh and Glasgow ; and Companies
ItV;rig been formed for extending the Blackburn and Preston
le.,4"v..saY to Accrins<ton, Clitheroe, Burnley, Colne, Skipton, Keigh-
s "„) uingley, Bradford, and Leeds, these towns (all of which have
4"tislerable intercourse with Liverpool) will participate in the
nefits of the proposed direct line.
si.„' his line will form the direct route to Liver Pool for passengers
%,'"ro Ireland and the west of Scotland, by steam packets to Fleet-
V, in conjunction with the Preston and Wyre Railway.
40 the Coal of Bickersta, Lathom, and other
la*
ce.
skin . hitherto evaluable xcluded from the benefit offfe railway communica.
slbe
' access will be given: by the proposed line, while the car.
to Th Of coal will form a source of constant and increasing profit
e Company ; and, by means of a branch to connect with the
tie I Docks, in the immediate vicinity of the terminus, facili.
lint ;111 be afforded for the shipment of coal and merchandise. The
froroli‘l...li of necessity, from its direct course, become the mail route
The l'erhool to the north.
South Wliole length of line to be formed, including the branch to
eledin. ,P°", is 321 miles, and the estimated cost of construction, in-
-600,0-Aa wild, stations, engines, and other necessary outlay, is under
the C°l . which may be confidently relied on as sufficient, from
anti t-Z°urable nature of the'country through which the line passes,
It absence of any . expensive or difficult engineering works.
eD„ therefore proposed that the capital of the Company shall be
ire 001' (divided into 24,000 shares of 25/. each), with power to
Or adage ;it to 700,0001. in the event of its being deemed necessary
art ihcisabie by the Directors to continue the line to Preston, with
necesse_Parident terminus ; and to provide for this contngen.
erY plans and sections will be made and deposited in come.
'e with the standing orders of Parliament.
ttaft4p "tirnate of revenue has been made, based upon the existing
titan (torn which it apPears that after making an ample reduc-
antiar Working expenses, a dividend of 7.1- per cent. may be fairly
isnuicidDated without taking into accounf any of the traffic which
finililecrue by the continuation of the line already alluded to,
and T jackburn in an easterly direction, I
to or towards Bradford
th.`eds, which would be very considerable, and al•ra independent
lisle ;increased traffic by the opening of the Lancaster and Car-
ailwaY, and its continuation to Edinburgh, Glasgow, and the
, of Scotland.APPli • Nye cations for prospectuses or other information, and for
trette: CM the annexed form), to be made to the Provisional Com.
,t their office, No. 8, Exchange-alley, Exchange-street
bl'okes dverP°ol; Messrs. Forsyth and Pritchard, Stock and Share.
Ss. sr Liverpool ; Messrs. M'Ewen and Auld, Sharebrokers,
kroinicent-place, Wasgow ; Messrs. Thomas Cardwell and Sons,
/4edest.s, Manchester; Messrs. Bell and Rhodes, Sharehrokers,
tows I!ir. Thomas Wren, Broker, Preston ; Mr. Thomas Ash-
Stock ngs'-bAnk. Ormskirk ; and Messrs. C. and I. H. Macrae,
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To end Sharebrokers, 57, Moorgate-street, London :
"e Provisional Committee of the Liverpool, Ormskirk, and
(lentlen, Preston Railway.
-mares ofhereby request that you will allot me
44 I lie twenty-five pounds each in the above proposed Railway ;
,
reby undertake to pay the deposit thereon, or on any less
•ite N.4°l' shares which may be allotted to me. and to execute
itriscd't7rdlloentary contract and subscribers' agreement when re-
so
I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant,
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