The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-10-20 00:00:00

MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND MIDLAND

JUNCTION RAILWAY.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a SPECIAL
GENERAL MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in the
above UNDERTAKING will be held on THURSDAY, the 29th
instant, at Eleven o'clock in the Forenoon, at the Cutlers' Hall,
in Sheffield, when the Accounts and Report of the Provisional
Directors will be presented—at which Meeting the Provisional
Directors will submit the following propositions, viz.:
" That Application should be made to Parliament during the
next Session, for an Act authorising the construction of the
proposed Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Junction Railway,
or such part thereof as the Shareholders at that Meeting may
approve of."
And that those Shareholders IVIIO inn ; not eel disposed to
join in a renewal of the Application to Parliament, shall be at
liberty to withdraw kola the Undertaking, told receive back the
amount of their Depbsit, after deducting the rateable proportion
of en incurred.'

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It will be necessary for each Shareholder attending the Meet-
ing to present his SCRIP CERTIFICATES, OR OFFICE RECEIPT
ACKNOWLEDGING THE RECEIPT OF THE SAME.

WILSON OVERE§o, Chairman.
By order, RICHARD MIRFIN, Secretary.
Offices, 103, Norfolh-street, Sheffield,
October 13th, 1E46.

THE LIVERPOOL, CROSBY, AND SOUTHPORT

RAILWAY.
[REGISTERED PROVISIONALLY.]

CAPITAL, .e 150,000, IN 7,500 SHARES OF .e2O EACH.
DEPOSIT, .t 2 PER SHARE.

PROVISIONAL DIRECTORS,
(With power to add to their number.)
WILLIAM BLUNDELL, Esq., Crosby Hall, Chairman.
WILLIAM Nicol., Esq., Liverpool, Vice-Chairman.
James Aikin, Esq., Liverpool.
Henry Cleaver Chapman, Esq., Liverpootr—
Thomas Chilton, Esq., Liverpool....-'
William Earle, Esq., Liverp
Eyre Evans, Esq., Liverpool.
Richard Formby q. M.D., Liverpool.
Robertson gladitone, Esq., Liverpool.
George Holt, Esq., Liverpool.
Hugh Hornby, Esq., Liverpool.
Cottingham Moss, Esq., Liverpool.
William Potter, Esq., Liverpool.
Emanuel Zwilchenbart, Esq., Liverpool.
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
William Blundell, Esq., Chairman.
William Nicol, Esq., Vice-Chairman.
Henry Cleaver Chapman, Esq.
Robertson Gladstone, Esq.
Hugh Hornby, Esq.
William Potter, Esq.
ENGINEERS.
George Stephenson, Esq.
G. P. Bidder, Esq.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. DUNCAN and RADCLIFFE, Liverpool.
Messrs. H. and W. TOOGOOD, 22, Parliament-street,
London.
BANKERS.
Liverpool—Messrs. Moss and Co.
Manchester—Messrs. Wm. Jones, Lloyd, and Co.
London—Messrs. Barclay and Co.

PROSPECTUS.
THE object of this Company is to construct a Line
of Railway between Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport.
The accommodation proposed to be thus given has long been
desired, but the difficulty of obtaining a convenient entrance
into Liveipool has until lately proved an insurmountable ob-
stacle. This difficulty the Liverpool and Bury Railway, now in
*course of construction, affords the means of overcoming, it
being proposed by the present scheme to make use of that line
for nearly a mile and a half out of Liverpool, and thence pro-
ceed, by way of Bootle, Seaforth Waterloo, Crosby, and along
the coast, through Formby, to Southport, affording to those
places and the adjacent farm districts a cheap ?and speedy
means of communication with Liverpool. On the other hand,
the benefits to the over-crowded population of Liverpool in a
sanitory point of view, by giving ready access to the rapidly
increasing Bathing Places along the coast, the district of Cros-
by, and the much-frequented and salubrious watering place of
Southport, as well as throwing open the intermediate country
for the purposes of Villas and Residences, cannot well be over-
estimated.
The undertaking is promoted by the principal Landowners
and other parties locally interested.
The Line is about sixteen miles in length,
_and,. being nearly
level is entirely free from engineering difficulties. A consi-
derable part of the land between Crosby and Southport, over
which it will pass, has already been given by the landowners,
and the cost of construction will be unusually small..
The liability of each- Shareholder will he restricted by Act of
Parliament to the amount of his subscription, and power will
be applied for in the Bill to allow interest at .t.'4 per cent. on all
calls from the passing of the Act until the opening of the Line.
Applications for Shares may be made, in the subjoined form,
on or before the Gth of November next, to the Solicitors, or to
any of the following Sharebrokers:—Messrs. D. and J. B.
NEILSON, or Messrs. ASPINALL and HUGHES, Liverpool ;
ROBERT. 111.EwEs, Esq., Manchester; or to Messrs. PULL,
FAwcwrT, and Hiuu 29, Threadneedle street, London.
In the allotment of shares, a preference will be given to par-
ties having local interest, and a reserve will be made for Land-
owners.
Liverpool, October, 1846.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Liverpool, Crosby, and
Southport Railway, (Provisionally Registered.)
GENTLEMEN ,-1 request yov will allot me Shares in
the above undertaking, on the terms of the prospectus, and I
agree to accept the same, or such less number as you shll
allot to me ; and I undertake to pay the Deposit thereon, and
to execute the Subscribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Con"
tract when required so to do.
Dated this day of

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