The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-18 00:00:00

RAILWAY OF

GREAT WESTERN
BENGAL.

The Provisional Committee announce to the Applicants for Shares
in this Company, that the Allotment is completed ; and, at the same
time, take this opportunity of informing the Applicants who may not
receive Letters of Allocation, that In consequence of the great re-
quest by parties of respectability for the few Shares to be allotted in
this country, the Provisional Directors have been compelled to re-
fuse many parties to whom they would otherwise have gladly made
allotments, and to beg them to accept this announcement as the re-
ply to their applications. The Provisional Directors are desirous of
informing the parties to whom Shares are allotted, that the following
resolution has been unanimously agreed to by the Board :
" That interest after the rate of 4 per cent. per annum shall be paid
upon the Ist day of January, and let day of July in each year, 'upon
all calls paid up, on Shares duly registered tor that purpose, to be
paid until the opening of the Railroad at Calcutta, and that powers
be taken in the Deed for that purpose, and that the liability of Sub-
scribers shall be limited to the amount of their several subscriptions."
August 15,1845.

CHESTER and MANCHESTER DIRECT
RAILWAY.
With a Branch to Birkenhead.
(Provisionally Registered).
Capital 1,000,0001., in 20,000 Shares of 501. each.
Deposit 21. 15s. 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., Dldsbury, 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 Henry Hanmer, Bear-place, Berks, and 7, Devon-
shire-place, London
Fraser B. Henshaw, Esq., Lower Seymour-street, Portman-square,
London, a Director of the Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle
Junction Railway
Captain Sir John R. Hilton, R.N., Isle of Wight
J. Harney Higson, Esq., merchant, Manchester
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
National Provincial Bank of Ireland
W. King, Esq., Director of the Freemasons' Life Assurance Com-
pany
George Peter Livius, Esq., the Grove House, St. Cathbert's, and
Cauldwell Priory, Bedford
W. Horace Aleteyard, Eiq., 8.C.L., Middle Temple, and Chatham-
place

Benjamin Oliveira, Esq., F.R.S., Upper Hyde Park-street, London, a
Director of the Liveepool, Manchester, and Newcastle
.Junction
Railway
James Orrell, Esq., Culcheth Hill; I.Ccityoti - •
• James Ogden, Esq., •AI.D., Manchester •
David Price,'ESq , Manchester
Major• James Waller, K.H., St. James's-square
C. J. S. Walker, Esq., Longford, near Manchester
(With power to add to their number.)
ENGINEERS.
Sir John Rennie,
George Remington, Esq., C.E.
BANKERS.
Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co, London
National Provincial flank of England, Manchester
SOLICITORS.
London—Messrs. Sir George Stephen and Hutchinson, 29, Moorgato-
street.
Manchester—Messrs. Higson and Robinson, Cross-street ; It. B. B.
Cobbett, Esq., Marsden-street.
LOCAL AGENT.
Chester—John Walker, 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 coutlicting 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. From 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 like cause, is the great centre of
railway communication between the capital's of Ireland and of Eng-
land. To connect these two points by a direct and independent line
of railway must, therefo:e, 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 be, 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,y, Hereford, Gloucester, and South Wales,
te from Manchester to the south-western
parts of England, and to the mineral districts of Monmouth and
ill
Glamorganslare The communication with Bristol, Gloucester, and
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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, saving in the one case 18
thlsw
miles, and in the other 12 miles, besides the serious inconvenience, loss
of time, and expense of passing through Liverpool, and crossing the
water at that place. •
It is confidently expected that this line will be the precursor of
another scheme, of no ordinary importance—namely, to render
Chester an efficient port for large vessels.
This subject was entertained by Sir John Rennie in 183.5, 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
investigated, 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 fully 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
cill of the lock would be sufficiently low to admit vessels drawing 20
feet water to eater 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 the produce is now subject. It has not been thought
advisable to combine the two objects in one 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,
or as 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 atanchester, and will be quite inde-
pendent of any associations or influences that might tend to oppose
the growing desire for a moans of direct and independent communi-
cation between Manchester and the port of Chester.
The line has been carefully examined. There are •no difficult
earth-works to be encountered ; on the contrary it will be cheap,
and of easy formation. rower is reserved to the Committee to de
viate from the proposed line in the vicinity of Manchester, should
ulterior arrangemeuts render it expedient.
Applications for shares in the subjoined form, and for maps and
prospectuses to be made to the Solicitors, and to the following Share-
brokers :—Messrs. Shewell and Son, 25,Tokenhouse-yard ; Messrs.
Preece and Evans, 8, Cornhill ; and Messrs. Taunton and Bush, 2d,
Austin-friars. London; Messrs. Houghland and Leese, Mr. Locke,
Messrs. A. Birchali and Co., Manchester ; Mr. Morris Reynolds, Li-
verpoolN Bardwell and Sons Messrs.
, kSh fti ld • e e ,
; Messrs. T. N.
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Wellbeloved and Oastler, Leeds; Mr • E • A. Armitage, Wake-
field ; Messrs. Grayston and Earle, - Yoi k ; Mr. Thomas Board-
man, Blackburn ; Mr. W. H. Collis, -Birmingham ; Mr. Francis
Stamp, Hull ;Mr.L. Weatherburn, Huddersfield • Mr. Wm •
Cronheire, Halifax ; Mr. Chines sP6ucer, Nottingham; Mr.
Samuel Eyre, Derby ; Mr. James Stokes, Cheltenham ; Mr. Joseph
Clark, jun., Southamp on ;
Joan Thomas Holland, Coventry;
Mr. William M sson, Westford, I orkshire • Messrs. Payne and Freer,
Leicester; Mr. Wm. Tenikinsoil, pwcastle-under-Lyne ; Mr.
Richard E. Hide, Macclesfield ; Mr • Lea, Cheltenham ; Messrs.
Tate and Nash, Bristol. , Mr. William Miles, Worcester ; Messrs.
Read and Nicholson, Edinburg• Messrs. Roes, 1 erth, N. 8.; and
Messrs. H. and W. A. Tassie, Glasgow.
Applications for shares must be accompanied by a reference to the
Solicitors of the Company,
the sharebrokers, or some other respon-
s.b:c person.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SIIARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Chester and Manchester
Direct Railway
Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me Shares of 201. each
in the above Railway, and I undertake to accept the same, or such
less number as you may appropriate to me, subject to the Regula-
tions of the company, and to sign the necessary Deeds, and to pay,
when required, the deposit thereon of 2/. 15s. per Share.
Dated this day of 1845.
Name and Residence in full •
rPre"l9" and prolkasional residence in full—
Iteferenee ........
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CHESTER and MANCHESTER DIRECT
RA I LIVAY.
At a meeting of the Committoe of Management of this under-
taking, held this day, it was resolved that, in Qrder to comply with
the spinding orders gf the uotise of Lords, as recently altered, it is
expecl4ent't6 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 which
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,
A. BARRETT, Secretary.
29, Moorgitc-street, Augagt 14, 1,80.