The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-29 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL AND BURY RAILWAY.
NOTICE TO SCRIPHOLDERS.
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The Act for the incorporation of the Liverpool and Bury Railway
Company having received the Royal Assent, all persons holding Scrip
Certificates for shares in this Company are requested to transmit the
same to the Secretary, at the Company's Offices, Liverpool, on or
before the 23d day of August next, with their names, professions,
and residence, distinctly written, in order that the same may be
correctly entered in the Register of the Company, in accordance with
" The Companies' Clauses Consolidation Act," i 545. A f rrtt Of let-
ter, claiming to be "registered, may be had on application to the
Secretary.

The receipt of the Scrip Certificates will be duly acknowledged,
and, on the completion of the registry, they will be exchanged for
Certificates under the seal of the Company.
Shareholders to whom Scrip has not been issued will be duly re-
gistered as they now = stand in the books of the Company, and all
Shares in respect of which no application for registry shall be made
before the SECOND DAT of SEPTEMBER (to which date the time of
registration lias been extended), by the actual holders of Scrip Cer-
tificates, will be registered as the property of the persons to wh
they 'Were originally allotted. Au early Notice will be given of the
First Meeting of the. Shareholders, at which those only who have
been registered will be entitled to vote.
By order of the Board,
JOHN S. HERON, Secretary.
Offices, 33, Dale-street, Liverpool,
August 3, 1843.

MIDLAND, BARNSLEY, DE WSBURY,
LEEDS, AND BRADFORD, RAILWAY.

Provisionally Registered. •
• The object of this Line is to make a short and direct communica-
tion between. Bradford, Cleckheatou, lleckmoudwike, and Dewsbary,
with Barnsley, Sheffield, and an Lntennediate places to London. By
the present route from London, the Sheffield and Barnsley passengers
and goods are brought byway of Nonnanton, it-distance of 12 j j miles
from ,Ilarnsley; and then either by Leeds to Bradford, a distance of
at least 20 miles, or by the Leeds and Mane!leiter Line to Brighouse,
a distance of at least 20 miles, making, the total distance from Barnsley
to Bradford, by Leeds, 32 miles, and by the Manchester line, 42
miles, The, distance from Dewsbau. to Barnsley, by the present
Railway, is 22 miles. The promoters of this line propose to com-
mence this Railway by a junction with the North Midland lino, at a
point below IlarnsleY, to Barnsley, and from thence in a direct course
to Dewsbury, reserving to themselves the power of making the line
to Bradford through the fleekheaton Valley, provided the west
Riding Junction and West Yorkshire amalgainateAt Ommanies do not
at the next session of Parliament Apply to make that part of the line.
The line at Dewsbury Will make a junction with the Leeds and Dews-
bury Railway, Wcst Riding Junction, and West Yorkshire
Amalgamated Scheme, and the present Manchester and T.eeds Rail-
way, at or near a place called Thornhill Lees; making the distance, as
the crow flies, to be as Willows :•--

Bart;sley to Bradford., • • •• • • • •
Barnsley to Dewsbury. • •
Barinl.:,y to Leeds •• • • •• •• •• •• •• •• •• 19 „
This 'line will, therefore, effect the following saving In distances:—
To Derby, London, &c, front Bradford, about .. 11 miles.
To Barnsley from Bradford.....:
To Sheffield from Bradford • • • • • • • •
To Barnesley from Dewsbury 12 „
To Barnsley from Leeds . 3
The proposed -Rue, in conjunction with the Leeds and Dewsbury,
West Riding Junction and West Yorkshire Railways, will bring, by.
the shortest route, to the populous] mantfactur:ng districts between
Barnsley, Dewsbury, and Bradford, the traffic front Leiceeter, Derby,
London, &e.
Tins Railway will also open one of the richest coal districts in the
kingdom.
If the present Hull and Barnsley Junction Railway project sbould be
obtained, this Railway will be a direct line to Hull. A rid in conjunc-
tion with other projects now before the public, will be a direct line,
front Shettleld,•Barnsley, Dewsbury, &c., to the North. '
When t tie survey is completed a detailed prospectus, with the names
of the Provisional Committee, will be 'published. The Capital re-
quired fOrthe undertaking to be divided into Shares of 201. each, and
two guineas deposit will then also be announced.
Applications for Shares may be made to Charles Robert Schole.s,
Registered Solicitor to'the Company, Dewsbury; or to Messrs. Sad-
low, Sons, and Torr.. Solicitors, 20, Chancery-lane, London.

CHESTER and MANCHESTER DIRECT
RAILWAY.
With a Branch to Birkenhead.
(Provisionally Registered).
Capital ,000,00()1., in 50,000 Shares of 201, esteh.
• Deposit 21. 2s. per Share.
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
Colonel the Hon. LEICESTER STANHOPE, Ashburnham House,'
London, Chairman
Major JOHN T. CROFT, Regent-street, London, Deputy Chairman
David Ainsworth, Esq., Manchester
Samuel Barton, Esq., Didabury, Manchester
Hugh BeaVer, Esq., Manchester, and Glyn Garth, Anglesey
John Burgess, Esq., Boroughreeve of Manchester
James Farish, Esq., Lancaster-place, London
Major Ford; of Bodlondet, Carnarvonshire
Lieut.-Colonel
London Henry Hamner, Bear-place, Berke. and 7, Devon-
Fraser B. Renshaw, Esq., Lower Seymour-street, Portman-square,
Loudon, a Director of the Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle
Junction Railway
t Isle
Wlgh t
J. Manchester
CaptainliarLy n
Sir John
E. Huill,tomn Rc
of
Lieutenant-Colonel Hutchinson, 8.E.F.R.5., Director of the College
of Civil Engineers
T. D. Johnson, Esq., Aldermary Churchyard, London
John Joseph Keene, Esq., St. John's Wood, London, Director of the
r
National Provincial Bank of Ireland
W. King, Esq., Director of the Freemasons' Life Assurance Com
pany
George Peter Living, Esq., the Grove House, St. Cuthbert's,. and
Cauldwell Priory, Bedford -
Horace W. Meteyard, Esq., 8.C.L., Middle Temple, and Chatham-
place
Benjamin Oliveira, Esq., F.R.S., Upper Hyde Park-street, London, a
• Director of the Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction
Rail way
James Orreil, Esq., Culcheth Hall, Kenyon
JaineaOgilen, Eiq.''M.l)., Manchester • •
David• Price tr , Es, Manchester
Major James Waller, K.H., St. James's-square
C. J. S. Walker, E.sq., Longford, near Manchester
fit Goo-. William Prescott, hart.. of Theobalds, Il‘rta
- - - • • int.ta.V.'
Sir John Rennie, F.R.S.
George Remington, Esq., C. E.
BASHERS.
Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co., Loudon ..
National Provincial Bank of England, Manchester •
SOLICITORS.
London—Messrs. Sir George Stephen and Hutchinson, 29, Moorgate-
street.-
Manchester —Messrs. Iligson and Robinson, Cross-street R. B. B.
Cobbett, EN., Marsden-street.
Local. Aoenr —Chester—John Wulker, Esq.

The promoters of this Railway, encouraged by the favourable sup-
port which has been given to the project, and in compliance with
various recommendations they have received, ha: e determined upon
the addition of a branch to Birkenhead, which, although it will
manifestly tend to the advantage of the Shareholders and the public,
will be attended with comparatively little additional outlay. The
project will still retain its chief characteristic of a direct railway,
and by its connexion, near Warrington, with the Grand Junction
Company, is sufficiently comprehensive, without resorting to a com-
plicated system of branch lines, or materially conflicting with the in-
terests of existing companies.
The line will commence at the city of Chester, and. proceed by way
of Trafford. Frodsham, and Preston Brook, to: Warrington, thence
by Lymm and Stretford direct to Manchester. • Front a point on the
main line, near Frodsham, a branch will be taken to join the Chester
and Birkenhead Railway, so as to unite Manchester. in the most
direct manner possible, with the docks now being formed at Bir.
kenhead.
As Manchester, from its geographical position. is the centre of rail-
way communication, between Scotland and the most populous dis-
tricts of England, so Chester, from a im.caa„, is the great centre of
railway communication between the capitals of Ireland and of Eng-
land. To connect these two points by a direct and independent Hue
of railway must, therefore, be of the utmost importance, not only in
a local point of view, but to the "whole commercial intercourse of the
country.
This line will be the most direct route, by Holyhead, to Ireland.
and will. e, in all respects, by far the preferable channel of Inter-
course and transit between Ireland and the great manufacturing dis-
tricts of England. By the railways connecting Chester with Wrex-
ham, Oswestry, Shrewsbury, Hereford, Gloucester, and South Wales,
this will be the nearest route from Manchester to the south-
western parts of England, and to the minerals of Monmouth and
Glamorganshlre. The communication with Bristol, Gloucester, and
Exeter will be speedy and direct. On reference to the map, it will
be seen that a very considerable distance will be saved by this' line,
'
as compared with the present circuitous routes by Crewe and by
Birkenhead ; the former being 52 miles, and the latter 46 miles,
while the proposed line is only 34
miles,
miles, and in the other 12 miles, besides the serious inconvenience, loss
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of time, and expense ef
water at that plaee.
passing throughl. isvaevripnoog li,n the one case 18
and crossing the

It is confidently expected that this line will be the precursor of
another scheme, of no ordinary importance—namely, to render
'hester an efficient port for large vessels.
This subject was entertained by Sir John Rennie in 1835, and sub-
sequently, in the same year, by the late Mr. Chapman, who wrote an
able report upon the capabilities of the river Dee. It was again
nvestigated, in 1837, by Sir John Rennie and Mr. George Remington,
and the practicability of forming a good navigable channel for vessels
of large burden, together with docks at Chestsr, was then ttilly and
clearly established. , . . .
The entrance channel would commence at Dawpool. which Is easy
of access (and infinitely preferab'e, in point of access and safety, to
the docks at Liverpool or Birkenhead), for vessels of large burden,
during eight hours every tide, both at springs
and neaps ; and the
:till of the lock would be sufficiently low to admit vessels. drawing 20
feet water to enter at all tides.
This railway, therefore, in connexion with the proposed docks,
will render to Chester and Manchester incalculable advantages. To
the former it will restore the proper position natural to so important
a city ; to the latter it will give another outlet, by sea, to the ma-
nufacturing 'districts, free of the heavy port charges, dues, and
risks to which thp produce is now subject. It has not been thought
advisable to combine the two objects in oce company at present,
but should it be found requisite, the two may -hereafter be amalga-
mated.
Merits of no • ordinary degree, therefore, may fairly be claimed for
this railway, 'whether taken In connexion with the proposed docks,
ores standing alone, combining as it does all the advantages of any
other lines, with this great addition, that it will be the high road to
the most convenient outport of Manchester, arid will be quite_ inde-
pendent of any - associations or influences that might tend to oppose
the growing desire for a rations of direct and
cation between Manchester and the port of Cheater.
The line has been carefully examined. There are no difficult
independentcetnumnl-
earth-worke to be encountered ; on the
contrary it • will be cheap,
and of easy formation. Power is reserved to the Committee to de-
viate from the proposed line in the vicinity
ulterior arrangements render it expedient.
Applications for shares in the subjoined fogn, and fur maps and
prospectuses to be made to the Solicitors, and o the following Share- '
of Manchester, should
orOkers :—Messrs. Shewell and Son, 25,Tokenhouse-yard ; Messrs.
Preece and Evans, 8, Cornhill; and Messrs. Taunton and Bush, 26,
Austin-friars, Loudon; Messrs. Houghland and Leese, Mr. Locke,
Messrs. A. Blrchall and Co., Thomas Leeds and Son. Henry Benton,
J. B. Lock, and Samuel Slater, Manchester ; Messrs. Neilsons,
Messrs. Healey, Mr. Crisp, and Mr. Morris Reynolds, Liver-
pool ; Messrs. T. N. Bardwell and Sons, Sheffield; Messrs.
Wellbeloved and Oastler, . Leeds ; Mr. B. A. Ammar. Wake-
field ; Messrs. Grayston and Earle, York ; Mr. Thomas Board-
man,'
ltrr.. JamesStokes,CiiarlesS Cheltenham ; Mr. Joseph
Clark, jun., Southampton ; Mr. John Thomas Nottingham ; Mr.
peneer,
Blackburn • Mr. W. H. Collis, Birmingham ; Mr. Francls
Stamp, Hull ; Mr. L. Weatherburn, Huddersfield ; Mr. Wm.
CsaronniuheelinsEy,
tyre, Halifax
Derby ;;
I.SA
Holland, Coventry;
Mr. William Mason, Bradford, Yorkshires Messrs. Payne and Freer,
Leicester ; Mr. Wm. Tomkinson, Newcastle-under-Lyrae ; Mr.
Richard E. Iline, Macclesfield ; Mr. Lea, Cheltenham ; Messrs.
Tate and Nash, Bristol; Mr. William , u
—lea,- Worcester; Messrs.
Read and Nicholson, Edinburgh; Messrs. Ross, Perth, N. 8.; and
Messrs. H. and W. A. Tasele, Glasgow.

Applications for shares must be accompanto
a teferenoe.to the
Solicitors of the Company, the sharehrokers, or some other reipon-
stb'e person.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR si/ARE,
To the Provisional Committee of the Chester and Afauchester
Direct Railway
, Shares of 101. each
wept the same, or such
less number as you may appropriate to me, subject to the Regale-
I h‘ay request
anydolu
ut on d alloturak me eto
itioattiheaneotfaleb::levee:tpany, and to sign the necessary Deeds, and to pay',
when required, the deposit thereon of 2/. 22. per shale.
Dated this • day of 18.15.
Name and Residence in ...• . • • • • • • •
Profession and professional reshiencein Mil• •
Reference.... • . • . ..... •

eMESTER and -MANCHESTER DIRECT
RAILWAY.
At a meeting of the Committee of Management of this under-
takbig, held this day, it was resolved that, in order to comply with
the standing orders of the House of Lords, as recently, altered, It la
expediCnt to reduce the amount of each share to 201., and to extend
the nuMber to 50,000, and that the deposit required be 2!. 2s. on each
share, and that, in consequence of this alteration in the amount and
number of shares and the deposit required, the period within whiff
shares must be applied for be extended to the 28th instant for the
London applications, and to the 30th instant for country applications.
BY order,
29, Itoorgate-street, August 14, 1845

A. BARRETT, Secretary