The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-04-15 00:00:00

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T a MEETING of the COAL and IRON-MASTERS,
lA. held at the, HOTEL, DUDLEY, On FRIDAY, the 12th of
February, 1836, to.take into Consideration a proposed NEW
LINE of CANAL from BIRMINGHAM to LONDON,
MICHAEL GRAZEBROOK, Esq., in the Chair,
Mr. DUGDALE HOUGHTON attended and laid before the
Meeting a Plan of a Line of Canal proposed to be made
between the Stratford-on-Avon Canal and the Regent's
Canal at London ; and it appearing from Statements made
to the Meeting, that besides the great advantage of avoid-
ing the passage of 124 locks, the proposed line would effect
a saving between Birmingham and London by Canal Con-
veyance of 361 miles—that the Reduction or Saving in the
freight of Iron to London by such line woul amount, ac-
cording to the calculation of experienced arriers, to full
Fifty per cent. on the present charg at in respect to
Coal and Coke the advantages would equally great, and
that the Saving in the freight of M ufactured Goods and
General Merchandise from- Birmingham to London, and
vice versa, would amount to Twenty Shillings per ton—
RESOLVED,
That it appears to this Meeting that the proposed Canal would
afford the best and most direct line of Water Communication
practicable between the Midland District and the Metropolis,
and by the communication it would open with other Canals,
would be the means of establishing, via Birmingham and Wol-
verhampton, a line of Canal Conveyance between London and
Manchester and Liverpool decidedly superior to that now ex-
isting ; that such Communication would benefit in a highly im-
portant degree the Mining Districts of Staffordshire, Worces-
tershire, and Shropshire, and be productive of immense advan-
tages to the Manufacturing, Commercial, and Agricultural In-
terests of the kingdom at large.
That the Subscribers to the Survey of the proposed Canal be
requested to convene a Meeting. of those desirous of promoting
the undertaking, for the purpose of forming a Company, and
taking all nedessary m ,asures preparatory to applying to Par-
liament for powers to carry the plan into effect.
MICHAEL GRAZEBROOK, Chairman.
Per pro. The EARL of LICHFIELD—SAML. GEORGE,
Bentley Iron Works.
FRANCIS DOWNING, Dudley.
W. H. SPARROW and Co., Bilston Iron Works.
PHILIP WILLIAMS and SONS, Wednesbury Oak
Iron Works.
G. and E."I'IIORNEYCROFT, Shrubbery and Bradley
Iron Works.
M. and W. GRAZEBROOK, Netherton Iron Works,
near Dudley.
JOHN BARKER, Chillington Iron Works.
JAMES POSTER' Stourbridge Iron Works.
GEORGE JONES, Coselv Iron Works.
WM. WARD, Priestfields-Iron Works.
JAMES BATSON, Great Bridge Iron Works.
EDW. DIXON, Horseley
SAML. DAWES, Bush Farm Colliery.
For Sir H. D. C. ST. PAUL, Bart.—RICHD. BRA DLY,
Willingsworth Iron Works.
BRADLEY, BARROWS, and HALL, Bloomfield Iron
Works.
WALTER WILLIAMS, Albion Iron Works, West
Bromwich.
EDW. AMPHLETT, Horselev Colliery.
Per pro. W. and G. FIRMSTOINTE—H.- C. FIRMSTQNE,
Lays Iron Works, Dudley.
JOHN ROUND, Hang,e Collery, Brades, Tividale.
JAMES SPITTLE. Wednesbury Colliery.
TIPTON FURNACE CO., Tipton Furnaces—per C.
BIRCH.
CHARLES BIRCH and Co., Bilston Furnaces.
CHAVASSE and Co., Cutler's End Colliery.
CHAVASSE, MILLS, and CHAVASSE, Bilston Old
Colliery.
JOHN DUDLEY; Corbyn's Hall Iron Works. Per pro.
ELIZABETH HOLLOWAY--SAMUEL HOLLOWAY,
Square Field Colliery.
Per pro. BANNISTER, BANKS, and Co.—GEo. BAN-
NISTER, Tividale Colliery.
RICHD HAINES, Coph-all Colliery.
JOHN TURTON FEREDAY, Brades Colliery and
and Monmore Green Collieries.
RYDING and HUNT, Swan Colliery.
JOHN RYDING, Ball's Hill Collieries.
B BEST—for R. SMALL, J. H. SHEARS, and J.
TAYLOR, Ctrngreaves Iron Works.
THOS. and ISAAC BADGER.
PHILIP WILLIAMS and Co. Union Furnaces West
Bromwich.
GEORGE PARKER, Conygree Furnace, Tipton.
HOUGHTON and FOLEY, Furnace Colliery.
JOHN HOUGHTON, Whimsey Colliery, Oldbury.
HENRY DOW;UNG—for BORDESLEY STEEL COM-
PANY, Birmingham.
JOHN WIIEE LEY and Co. Brettell-lane Iron Works,
Stourbridge.
JOHN BAGNALL and SONS, Goldshill Iron Works,
West Bromwich.
JOHN and BENJ. GIBBONS, COrbyn's Hall and Level
Iron Works, Dudley.
EDWARD PAGE and SONS, noway Iron Works,
West Bromwich.
JOSEPH PARTRIDGE, Coal-master, Hill Top, West
Bromwich.
W. and J. MILLINGTON, Summer-hill Iron Works,
Tipton.
BLACKWELL and JONES, Russell's Hall Iron Works,
near Dudley.
BLACKWELL, JONES, and OAKES, Buffery Iron
Works, near Dudley.
RICHARD SMITH, Mineral Surveyor, West Bromwich.
JOSEPH HADLEY, Smethwick lion Works.
JAMES ROBERTS, Iron-founder, West Bromwich,
Heath.
lIENJAMIN HUNT, Sheepwash Iron Works, Tipton.
JOHN HENRY BATE--for the EAGLE FURNACE
COMPANY, Great Bridge.
J. Rontasea—for BIRMINGHAM COAL COMPANY,
Toll-End.
JOHN RUSSELL, Sparrow's Forge, near Wednesbury,
Wm. Jo oNsoa—for the HORSELE/ COAL add IRON
COMPANY, Tipton.
For the TRUSTEES and EXECUTORS' of THOMAS BLOIS
PRICE, Bilston Brook and West Bromwich Iron
Works—Wm. TOMETS.
HOLLIS. SOLLY and SON, Tividale Iron Works.
FRANCIS PINCH, Great Bridge New Colliery.
'THOS. DAVIS, Ridgacre and Crook Hay Collieries.
West Bromwich.
SAMUEL BILL, Coal-master' West Bromwich.
JOHN TILDASLEY, Aston Junction Forge, Birming-
ham,
THOMAS MORRIS, Wednesbury and Tipton Collieries.
THOM AS NOCK, Great Ocker Hill Colliery.

LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM CANAL,
CAPITA L, THREE MILLIONS.
IN SHARES OF £lOO EaCH.—DEPOSIT £2.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. •
Chairman—Francis Downing, Esq.
Badger, Thomas, Esq, Dudley.
Barker, John, Esq., Wolverhampton.
Bradley, Richard, Esq., Tipton.
Bullock, Edwin, Esq., West Bromwich.
Cotterill, Thomas, Esq., Birmingham.
Chance, Robert Lucas, Esq , Sinethwick.
Chance, William, Esq., Biiminghain.
Dixon, Edward, Esq„ Dudley.
Foster, James, Esq., Stourbridge.
Finch, Francis, Esq., Great Barr.
Gresley, Richard, Esq., Meriden.
Grout, Joseph, Esq., London.
Griffith, John, Esq., Alveston.
Flawkes, Thomas, Esq., M.P., Hi ey.
Ilaines, Richard, Esq., Weet Bromwich.
Hunt, Thomas Yate, Esq., Brades.
Moilliet, John Lewis, Esq., Birmingham.
Mason, James, Esq., Birmingham.
Molineux, C. Henry, Esq., Dudley.
Robins, William, Esq., Stourbridge.
Ryland, Samuel, Esq.' Warwick.
Richards, Theophilus, Esq., Birmingham.
Round, John, Esq., Sedgeley.
Scott, Robert, Esq., Birmingham.
Sparrow, W. HanburT, Esq., Wolverhampton.
ScholefielJ, Joshua, Esq., M.P., Birmingham.
Smith, Richard, Esq., London.
Williams, Walter, Esq., Haudsworth.
Williams, Philip, Esq.. Tipton.
Webb, John, Esq., Burton-upon-Trent.
With power to add to their number.
SoLicrroits.—Messrs. Ingleby and Wragge, Birmingham ;
Messrs. Baxendale, Tatham, Upton, and Johnson, 7, Great
Winchester-street, London ; Messrs. Wilson, Bell, and
Steward, 35, Lincoln's Inn Fields London. •
ENUlNEEits.—James Walker, Esq., F.R.S. L & E., London ;
John Thotu,s, Esq., London.
SURVEYoIt.—Mr. Dugdale Houghton, Birmingham,
B A NKERs.—Messrs. Taylors and Lloyds, Messrs. Molliet and
Son, Birmingham; Birmingham Banking Company; Messrs.
Dixon, Dalton, and Co., Dudley ; Messrs. Hankey and Co.,
7, Fenchurch-street, London ; Messrs. V ere, Saptc, Banbury,
Muspratt, and Co., 77, Lombard-street, London.
.CONDITioNs.
I.—The Act of Parliament will provide that no person shall be
responsible beyond the amount of his Shares.
I—Deposit of £2 per Share to he paid, and no further call will
be made Until the Act be obtained.
3.—The Deposit shall be available to the necessary expenses of
tee undertaking.
4.—lnterest at the rate of 31,per cent, will be allowed on the
calls, until the completion of the Canal.
s.—Calls will be made after the Act is obtained, by quarterly
payments of £G sa. per Share:
PROSPECTUS of a Line of Navigation from Birmingham
to London, commencing at the Stratford-on. Avon Canal,
in Warwickshire, and ending at the Regent's Canal, London,
to he c tiled "The LONDON and BIRMINGHAM CANAL

NAVIGATION."
The great and leading objects of the proposed undertaking
are—
lst.—To effect the cheapest and most direct practicable Line
of Water Communication between London and Birmingham,
and the great Mining districts of Staffordshire, Worcestershire,
and Shropshire. '
2d.—To obtain, by the communication it will open with the
Regent, Stratford, Worcester. Birmingham, Birmingham and
Liverpool, Ellesmere and Chester, Trent and Mersey, and
Bridgwater Canals, the quickest, cheapest, and most convenient
line of Canal Conveyance between London, Birmingham, Li-
verpool, and Manchester. Also by a junction with the Oxford
Canal at Banbury, an improved communication to the City of
Oxford.
al.—To give the facilities and advantages of water conveyance
to the valuable and extensive districts through which the pro-
Posed line of navig.ation is intended to be taken—districts capable
of great and rapid improvement, and to which nothing can so
materially contribute as a cheap and direct communication with
the metropolis and the great manufacturing towns of Warwick-
shire and Staffardshire.
It must be evident that
objects of the the proposed undertaking embraces
highest importance, and cannot fail to
produce great and almost incalculable advantages to the Agri-
cultural, Commercial, and Manufacturing Interests of the
Kingdom.
The extraordinaryi,f,atchileitymth, that this Line would give to Lon-
don and Liverpool,
ininghatn, Wolverharnpton I'ili'actuters of Manchester, Bir-
and toam,
the Proprietors of Alines ley, Stout-bridge, and Walsall,
I Works in the counties of
Stafford, Worcester, and Salop, must be obvious to the most
superficial observer. Birmingham
oblveerhampton
about
the contiguous Mineral Districts would then
London
iunication be-
midway on the great thoroughfare water situated
tween London and Liverpool, and L
passing incessantly
in and Manchester,
direction,
productive
of and, as Vessels would be
the increased facility and despatch could pot but be
of the highest advantages. 77te.owirog isi distance bl;
posed route will be thirty-sir miles, and the .Locks will be reduced
from one hundred and seventy-two to forty-eight.
One great feature of the proposed undertaking is the opening
of a cheap Communication between the Metropolis and the
Great. Coal Fields of Staffordshire and Worcestershire. In the
attainment of this object every Isitabitant of London ought to

THE RATCLIFF AND EAST METROPOLITAN
EQUITABLE GAS COMPANY.
CAPITA': £150,000, IN 30,000 SHARES OF EACII.
.t?poicii, £1 per Share.
DIai:CTORS.
T. Wood, Esti. J. Baring, '-q,
J. Salmons, big. ' J. Lane() , Esq.
C. Deacon, Esq. 'F. Clar • 'sq,.
H. Watkins, Esq. G. St • an, Lsq.
With power to adi to their mber.
EivGiNiii:it.—Sir Jo ennie.
Suilvitron.—John Par son, Esq.
Soi.ii:Frou.—J. Vic -ery, Es .q.
STANDING COUNSEL.—J. T. Platt, Esq., K.C.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENT.—Sir R. W. Sidney, F.R.S.
BANKERS.—Meirs. Ladbrokes, Kingscote, and Co.
SECRETAIti:—M r. "H olb rook.
vrilllS Company has been formed at the request of the in-
habitants of the eastern part of the Metropolis, who are at
present labouring under great disadvantages from the coalition
of two Companies wbo have been supplying that District.
The Directors find, from a careful calculation of the most
scientific Men. that they can furnish a superior article at 30 per
cent. under the price at present paid, and at the same time en-
sure a liberal Dividend of at least 15 per Cent. for the Capital
embarked.
The Parliamentary Bill is in a state of immediate forward-
ness. The customary forms will be strictly complied with. The
Bill will contain the usual Clause restricting the liability of the
Shareholders to the amount only of their respective Shares.
CONDITIONS.
1. The Capital of the Company will consist of £150,000, in
Shares of E. 5 each.
2. No Shareholder will be responsible beyond the amount of
his respective Shares.
3. The Deposit of LI per Share subscribed will be available
for the necessary expenses of the Undertaking, making Surveys,
applying to Parliament for the Act, &c., &c., and no further
Call will be made until the Act be obtained.
4. As soon as three-fourtbs of the Shares are subscribed, a
General Meeting of the Subscribers will be convened, when the
Plans and Estimates will be submitted to them.
5. Two Months' NOtiee will he given of any future Call, and
not more than El per Share will he required at any one time.
Applications for Shares to he made (post-paid) to the Secre-
tary, at the Company's Offices, No. 5, Adam's-court, Old
Broad-street, London. T. C. HOLBROOK, Secretary.

PROSPECTUS
FOIL FORMING A JOINT STOCK COMPANY
FOR THE PURCIIASEANT IMPROVEMENT OF LAND

-44-15.10INING THE BRUNSWICK DOCK:

TO BE CALLED THE " HARRINGTON DOCK COMPANY.'

CAPITAL £200,000, IN SHARES OF £lOO