The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-12-21 00:00:00

SECRETARY

Mr. T. B. Ho

gkinsou, Southport

PROSPECTUS

THE want of a convenient and ready access to Low
Water has long been felt to be a serious inconvenience to
the Visitors and Inhabitants of Southport, and the rapid in-
crease of the Town renders the construction of a Pier for that
necessity, and at the same time

pose al

vestment

Railway from Liverpool to Southport has now been in

The Manchester and Southport Railway, in course of con-
struction, will probably be opened in the ensuing summer,

Southport and Manchester and the densely populated district
Lancashire and the West Riding of Yorkshire, and
_ .
n hour and a quarter's ride of

Southport

Manchester withir

HelOs, through Oroiskirk:, to Southport.

The number of houses in Soutlipiirt has been increased by
more than one-fourth since the commencement of ISSI. Those
already built have been found insufficient to meet the demand,
and there can be little doubt but that increased railway accom-
mand much greater
se; but even at the
ie population would be more than

modation will necessarily tend to create a de

increas

For the purpose of adding to the attractions of Southport,
and providing for the wants and accommodation of its Inha-
bitants and Visitors, it is proposed to erect a Pier, to commence
from the Promenade, and extending from thence to Low Wa-
ter, a distance of about 1300 yards, with two lines of roadway
in the centre, adapted for light carriages, and a walk on each
side for foot passengers, thus affording to the public an exten-
sive and agreeable promenade over the sea at High Water, and
at the same time providing the means of bathing with comfort
and convenience at Low Water, and of access to and landing
from pleasure boats and other vessels with ease and safety at
all states of the tide.

The Revenue will be derived from admissions to the Pier,
and from pleasure and other boats landing and embarking

r passengers

It liar Leen ascertained that the amount paid in Southport
for the hire of donkeys and donkey carriages exceeds .t 3200 per
annum; for bathing in the sea, at fonrpence per bath on an

average; exceeds £5lO per annuli') ; and for sailing, at an aver
age of sixpence per pas.slnger,.exceed.s..36o per annum.

-From these facts, and from the rapid and robagle increase
of population, and taking the actual receipts at the Lowestoft',
Ryde, Scarborough, and other similar Piers as the basis of
calculation, it is confidently expected that the income to be
derived from the undertaking, after discharging all outgoings,
will pay an, ample dividend nn the capital employed.

Parties desiious of obtaining Shaies are requested to make
application, in the following Form, to the Chairman of the
Company; to the Secretary, Mr. T. B. HODOKINSON, Com-
missioners' Office, Southport; to Mr. ROBERT JOHNSON,
Vigiter-office, Southport ; or at the Office of Messrs. Woon-
COCK, PART, and SCOTT, Solicitors, AN igan, from whom Pros-
pectuses and Forms of Application may be obtained.

SOUTHPORT PIER COMPANY.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES,

To the Provisional Committee of the Southport Pier Company.
Gentlemen,- I request you will allot me Shares of .41
each in the proposed Southport Pier Company; and I under-
take to accept the same, or any less number, and to pay the
Deposit, anAiSign the necessary Deeds when required to do so.
Dated this day of , 185 .

THE EUROPEAN (AND AMERICAN) ELECTRIC
TELEGRAPH COMPANY.

INCORPORATED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT, 14 AND 15
VIC., CAP. 135.

IN CONNECTION WITH THE

SUBMARINE TELE-

CAPITAL aE

GRAPH COMPANY,

*,OOO, IN 40,000 SHARES, OF 45 EACH

OFFICES, 30, COIWIIILL, LONDON,

D,Tof[ECTORS

Lord de Manley, ' 'airman.
Sir James Car chael, Bart., Deputy Chair
W. J. Chap!' , Esq., M.P.
Samuel L g, Esq., M.P.
The Ho ..rable Frederick Cadozan
John asterman, Esq., J
Joh V. Brett, Esq
E est Bunsen,
' ear-Adm
Francis

Sir Richard O'Conor, K.C.H

rds, Esq

SECRETARY.
G. L. Parrott, Esq

Messrs. Masterman, Pe

ane, Lombard

Messrs. Davies, Son, Campbell, ii;ziftand, 17, Warwick-street,

Regent-street

oN the first of November last, this Companyopened a
subterranean line of Telegraph from their Offices, 30,Corn-
b 111. London. to Dover, where the wires are united to those of the

Submarine Telegraph between Dover and Calais, thus insuring
a direct communicat►on (without any break) between London.
and the Continent. The Submarine cable to Belgium will be
laid down between the South Foreland and Middlekirk (near
Ostend) in the ensuing month, when its wires will also be con-
nected with the wires of this Company at Dover; and a large
accession of business will thereby be obtained for the Euro-
pean and American Electric Telegraph Company. Traffic
arrangements have been made securing the European and
American Telegraph Company the exclusive privilege of con-
veying all messages to and from London and any part of the
Continent via France and Belgium.

The capital hitherto expended is £50.000, for which sum th
Company has obtained an underground Line of Telegraph
between London and Dover, constructed in such an efficient
manner, that a responsible contractor has guaranteed the
maintenance of the works for the annual payment of .tlOO.
All the preliminary expenses, the cost of obtaining the Act
of Parliament, and payment for patents, are also included in
the above-mentioned. expenditure.
Although this Line has been opened only six weeks, the net
returns already show a profit of five per cent. upon the Capite
general meeting, held on the Bth instant, unani-
hexapideenrdse,da;t aand this satisfactory result has induced the share-
mously to resolve that this subterranean system of Telegraph
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the necessary capital for this purpose,
providehave
of ,e 5 each to be paid up in full, will
issued; and as the whole expense of the under-
taking has been thus clearly defined, no liability can be in-
curred by the shareholders beyond the amount of their shares,
as the directors will undertake no new lines nor enter into any
further engagement without the consent of the proprietors.
Whilst the working expenses of the Company will be but
slightly increased by the proposed extension the business be-
tween these main arteries of commerce is to be of a
very lucrative description, and the ratio of profit bn the exist-
ingtine will be largely augmented. . . _

the works to LiierPool; Manchester, and Birmingbarn are
already in progress.

Appficationlor Shares may be made to Messrs. FOSTER and
BRA ITHWAITE. Stockbrokers, 68, Old Broad-street, City, on
or before To-morrow, (Wednesday,) the 22d instant.