The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-09-07 00:00:00

BRITISH L-,ILVER, LEAD, AND COPPER MINING

COMPANY.
rHE Directors of this Company HEREBY GIVE
i NOTICE, that the ANNUAL GENERAL MEET-
ING of the SHAREHOLDERS will be held at the
CLARENDON Rooms, LIVERPOOL, 011 MoNDAY, the 15th day
Of October nest.
HENRY TRIBE, Secretary.
19, Austin Friars, 'London, Sept. 3, 1838.

THAMES HAVEN DOCK AND RAILWAY COM-

PARTY,

T the HALF-YEARLY GENERAL MEETING of
PROPRIETORS, held at the London Tavern,
Bishopsgate-street, on WEDNESDAY, August 29th, 1838,
JAMES ESDAILE, Esq., in the Chair,
It was moved by Mr. BROWNE, seconded by Mr. WALTON,
and carried unanimously,—That the Report as read he
received and approved, printed, and circulated among the
Proprietors.
It was moved by Mr.
,Busii, seconded by Mr. HILL, (of
Manchester.) and carried unanimously,—That the thanks
of this meeting be given to the Directors, for the persever-
ance, care, and economy, they have continued to manifest in
the undertaking.

It was moved by Mr. BROWNE, seconded by Mr. COVENTRY,
and carried unanimously,—That the whole expenses of the
visit by Steam-boat this day to Thames Haven by borne by
the Company. JAMES ESDAILE, Chairman.
It was moved, and carried unanimously,—That the thanks
of the meeting be given to the Chairman, for his able and
impartial conduct in the chair.

HENRY AMSINCK, Secretary.
It was moved, and carried unanimously,—That the thanks
of the meeting be given to the Secretary, for his indefatigable
zeal and exertions on behalf of the Company.
• JAMES E§DAILE. Chairtwm-
MANCHESTER AND BIRMINGHAM JUNCTION

CANAL.
Capital, £500,00°, in Shares of £5O each.
Deposit, £2 per Share.
PROVISIONAL CONimiTTEE:
WILLI sin LUPTON, Esq., Scarr Wheel House,)
JOHN HALL, Esq., West Batik,
DANIEL BRoADHURST, Esq.,
G. S. VEREDAY SMITH, Esq., )-Manchester.
THOMAS DEANE, Esq.,
NATHAN KNIGHT, Esq., Pendleton House, I
ELIAS CHADWICK, Esq., Swinton Hall, J.

JAMES SUTTON, Esq., Sbardlow Hall, near Derby.
THOMAS R. TRUEMAN, Esq., Mold Cotton Mills, Flintshire,
JOHN LONG, Esq., Knutsford,
Cheshire
THOMAS WRENCH NAYLOR, Esq., Middlewich,
WILLIAM HAZELDINE, Esq., Shrewsbury.
JOHN HORTON, Esq., Priors Lee Hall, S
Salop.
JOHN STANTON, Et h, Ellesmere,_
THOMAS EDWARD WARD, Esq., Plaskyuaston Iron Works,
Denbighshire.
SPENCER ROGERS, Esq..Watlands, the Staffordshire Potteries.
GEORGE HOLYOAKE, Esq., Wolverhampton.
With power to add to their numbers.
Engineer.—W. A. Provis, Esq.
Bankers.—Messrs. Jones, Lovds, and Co., Manchester and
London ;
Sir F. L. H. Goodricke, Bart. and Co., Wolverhampton ;
Messrs. Beck, Eatons, and Co., Shrewsbury.
Solicitor.—T. L. Marriott, Esq.
PROSPECTUS.

TT is proposed to apply to Parliament, in the next session,
to incorporate a Company for the purpose of constructing
a Navigable Canal from the Duke of Bridgewater's Canal,
near Altrinchain, to the Middlewich Branch of the Ellesmere
and Chester Canal, near its junction with the Tient and
Mersey Canal, at Middlewich, in the county palatine of
Chester, to be called " THE MANCHESTER AND
BIRMINGHAM JUNCTION CANAL."
The proposed Canal will be sixteen miles in length, and
and forms the shortest side of a triangle; the existing route,
by the Bridgewater and the Grand Trunk Canals, forms the
other two sides, and these being together thirty-four miles in
length, it is obvious that the proposed Canal will dal a saving
of eighteen miles of distance. To this must be added the
important advantage Of imprthed construction.
Among the principal objects to be attained by the forma-
tion of this Canal, are the following
:
lst,—lt will complete the best and most direct Uanal route
from Manchester to the Staffordshire Iron and Coal District,
and to Birmingham.
2ndly,—lt will afford an essential improvement (already
too long delayed) in the water communication between Man-
chester, the Staffordshire Potteries, the Eastern Counties,
and London.

3rdlv,—lt will establish a direct line of Canal between
Manchester and the Mines, Quarries, Ironworks, and Agri-
cultural Districts of Shropshire and North Wales.
4thly,—lt will open a much shorter Canal Navigation
between Manchester and the City and Port of Chester.

sthly-,—lt will give to -the towa of Knutsford, and the
highly productive agricultural part of Cheshire, through
which the Canal will run, the cheapest means of intercom-
munication, and of access to the Manchester Markets, and
Districts abounding in Lime and Coal.
It is proposed that the Canal shall be constructed upon the
most improved principles; and in reference to this object
Mr. Provis has laid down the line and formed his calculations.
Double towing paths throughout the whole line, walled
sides to the waterway, no contraction of the width of water-
way at bridges, and locks that can be passed in the shortest
time, are some of the intended improvements. These will
not only tend to lessen the cost of future repairs, and save
time and risk to the Carrier, but the Canal will be adapted
for increased rates of speed either by horse or steam power.
In its direction the Canal will be near's, straight, and in
its levels there will be only the general fall of the country.
It will avoid all parks and ornamental grounds, will pass
over land of only ordinary value, and be encumbered with
no physical difficulties.
It is an extraordinary fact that no Canal has yet been
made for the accommodation lf Manchester in its southern
traffic, and consequently the trade has been compelled to
adopt the circuitous, dilatory. and expensive routes intended
for other purposes. The proposed Canal will remedy the
evil, and give to Manchester a direct communication with
. the central and southern districts of the kingdom.
REVENUE OF THE CANAL

According to the evidence on traffic given before a Com-
mittee of the House of Lords on the Cheshire Junction
Railway Bill, in 1836, it was proved that the water carriage
between Manchester and the following places, viz., Birming-
ham, West Bromwich, Wednesbury, Worcester, Gloucester,
Wolverhampton, Dudley, Baston, Tipton, Stourbridge,
Stourport, Shropshire, Shrewsbury, South Wales, the Pot-
teries, Newcastle, Stone, Stafford, Nantwich, Chester, Mid-
dlewich, Sandbacil, Northwich, and Staffordshire, amounted
annually to 36-1,098 tons. The trade direct from Manchester
to London is not included in the foregoing, but is itself
nearly as great in amount;—or say together about 700,000
tons. These sources alone, if calculated at the moderate
tonnage rate of 12d. per ton per mile, would produce £70,000
per annum, and if for this be deducted .C5OOO for repairs and
maintenance, there would remain a clear surplus revenue or
profit of thirteen per cent., per annum upon the expended
capital.
It is, however, held by those conversant in the traffic of
Manchester and the surrounding districts, that much of the
Yorkshire and northern trade will be passed through the
proposed Canal on its way to London and the south. This
has not been included in the foregoing statement; but if,
added to the local traffic and that general increase of com-
mercial intercourse consequent upon increased facilities, it
may not be unreasonable to assume the probable profit at
twenty per cent. per annum.
Applications for Shares, in the following form, will be
received at the Company's Office, No. 90, Fountain-street,
Manchester.

To the Committee of the Manchester and Birmingham Junction

Canal Company.
Gentlemen,—l request that you will reserve and secure to
me Shares in the Manchester and Birmingham
Junction Canal, and in consideration of your•so doing, I
agree, on receiving notice of the allotment, to pay the de-
posit of two pounds per share in respect thereof, or of such
as shall be granted to me; and to execute the parliamentary
contract and subscribers' agreement, whenever called on so
to do.—l am, Gentlemen,
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