The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-03-18 00:00:00

CANVAS AND BLOCKS.
GREGSON and Co. request the attention of Merchants,
Owners, and Captains of Vessels to their BLOCKS and
CANVAS, both of which will be found of the best quality—at
Prices very much below any other house—and can be supplied
in any quantities at a moment's warning, as a specimen of their
charges they add a list of their Bushed Blocks.

Size in Price of Size in Price of
Inches. Metal Bushed. Inches. Metal Bushed.
--- -- ---
4.... ....Os. 10(1. 15.... .... Bs. lid.
5. •• • .... / Oi 16.... ... 8 8
6........1 3 17.... ....10 • 7,1,
7....... . 1 51 18.... ....11 i
2 19.... ... .1` 31
4
9........2 5.-} 2i)... . .... 11
10........3 6t 21 —• • . s'• 16 71
11........3 101 22..... .17 52
12.... ....4 3 23. •• • ....18 2;
13... • ....5 11 24. •• • ....19 0
14........5 62

REED'S PATENT CANVAS, sold by GREGSON and Co.,
is made expressly for the Liverpool Mai ket, and will be found
on inspection to be of the very best quality and manufacture.
The superiority of tfieir Blocks will also appear on investigation,
to which they invite the public.
J. T. Gregson disposes of Ships, and every description of
their materials, by public auction or private contract, and at-
tends Wrecks in any part of the kingdom.
Queen's Dock, Liverpool, corner of Kitchen-street.

AT a MEETING of the SUBSCRIBERS to a SURVEY
lately made of an intended LINE of CANAL from the
Stratford-on-Avon Canal to the Regent's Canal, London, held
at Dee's Royal Hotel, Birmingham, on the ph day of March,
1836, to receive the Report of such Survey, a determine upon
the establishment of a Company fur the pug se of making such
Canal;
FRANCIS DOWNING, Esq., n the Chair,
a Plan and Survey of the Line of Cana aving been laid be-
fore this Meeting, and Statements havi, been made by which
it appears that, besides the advantage of avoiding the passage
of 129 Ltx:ks, the proposed Line would effect
.a saving be-
tween Birmingham and London. by Canal conveyance of 36
miles; that the reduction or Saving in the freight of iron to
Londe- •th Li ld --ording t - •hr

Aindon iy suc,. ine woh• aniouut, according to the talcue.
tion of experienced Carriers, to about 50 tier cent. on the pre-
sent charge; that in respect to coal hod coke the advantages
'would be equally great; and that the saving 'in the freight,
of Manufactured reds and general merchandise to and from
Birmingham and London may be reduced to about twenty
shillings per ton
. Resolved unanimously,
I.—That in the opinion of this Meeting the proposed Canal
-would afford the best and most-direct line of water cemmuoica-
tarn- practicable between the Midland District and the Metro-
polis, and by the, communications it would open with' other
Canals would be the means of establishing, by way of Binning-
hatit and Wolverhampton, a Inc of Camp Conveyance* between
London and Manchester and Liverpool decidedly superior to
that now existing; that such communication would benefit in a
highly important. degree the Mining Districts of Staffordshire,
Worcestershire, end Shropshire, and be productive of immense
advantages to the manufacturing, commercial, and agricultural
interests of the kingdom at large.
2.—That a Company be established for making the proposed
Canal, and that it be called " The London and Birmingham
Canal;" and that the Capital shall be raised by 30,000 Shares
of i.:100 each.
3.—That the following Prospectus now read be approved and
published:—
. Prospectus of a-Line of Navigation from Birmingham to
,Lon-
don, commencing at the Stratford-on-Avon Canal, in Warwick-
. -shire, and ending at the Regent's Canal.Loncion, to be called
"The London and Birmingham Canal." The great and
leading objects of the yr oposect undertaking are—
. lst.—To effect the cheapest and must 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
_ Stratford, WorceSter, Birmingham, Birmingham and Liver-
pool, Ellesmere and Chester, Trent and Mersey, and Bridge
water Canals, the quickest, cheapest, and most convenient line
of Canal Conveyance between London, -Birmingham, Liver-
pool, and Manchester.
3d.—To give the facilities and advantages of water convey-
ance to the valuable and extensive districts through. which the
proposed line of navigation is intended to be taken—districts
capable of great and rapid improvement, and to which nothing
can so mater laity contribute as a cheap and direct communica-
tion with the Metropolis and the great manufacturing Towns of
Warwickshire and -Staffordshire.
It must be evident that the proposed undertaking embraces
objects
,of the highest national importance, and cannot fail to
produce great and almost incalculable advantages to the Agri-
cultural, Commercial, and Manufacturing interests of the
Kingdom. The extraordinary facility that this line would give
to London and Liverpool, to the Manufacturers of Manchester,
Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Dudley, Stourbridge, and Wal.
salt, and to the Proprietors of Mines and Works in the coun-
ties of Stafford, Worcester and Salop, must be obvious to the
most superficial observer. Birmingham and Wolverhampton,
and the contiguous Mineral districts, would then be situated,
about midway on the great thoroughfare water communication
between London and Liverpool, and as vessels would he pass-
ing incessantly in each direction, the increased facility and dis-
patch could not but be productive of the highest advantages.
One grand feature of the proposed undertaking is the open-
ing of a cheap communication between the Metropolis and the
Great Coal Fields of Staffordshire and Worcestershire. In the
attainment of this object every inhabitant of London might to
feel himself interested, experience every day furnishing addi-
tional proofs that nothing but effective compelltioil from the in-.
teriur of the kingdom can insure to the householders of London
a regular and steady supply of Coal at moderate prices; perhaps
• it is scarcely possible for the most sangnine mind to form an
adequate conception of the benefits that would result from en-
abling the Midland Coal Proprietor to compete with the Nor-
thern Proprietor in supplying London with Coat. Monopoly
would be rendered impossible, combination frustrated, and free
'arid active competition completely secured.
-. With a view to render this concern as extensively useful as
'passible, the rates of tonnage will be Inv', and thus command
that great mass of business which invariably follows moderate
'charges.
Manure and road materials will be permitted to pass at low
rates. Wharfs wilt t,e provided where the Canal will intersect
main thoroughfares, and every encouragement be afforded to the
'Tree developement of the energies of the districts through which
the Canal will pass.
The proposed Navigation will possess all the improvements of
the best modern riatials where tunneling is necessary; two
tunnels with a towing path under each will be made; the sines
-of the canal trill be walled, and the greatest of all modern im-
provements, the double wwing path, will be,carried throughout
the whole line.
Confident in the superior -cheapness and convenience of
water conveyance (padicularly as regards raw materials and
heavy commodities) the promoters of this undertaking have no
hesitation in sisrenitting their plan to the public, in the face of
'the numerous Railways now in course of formation, every day
in their judgment furnishing further and satisfactory proof,
that though Railway conveyance may be prefer red for passen-
gers and light „noires, that require dispatch and will bear high
rates of transit, the great hulk of the trade of the country will
still be carried on through the medium of cheap navigable com-
munications.
• The calculations as to the revenue being founded on indis-
putable data, the promoters of the measure have no hesitation in
. stating that the prospect of remitneration is in the highest de-
gree encouraging, and that if due consideration be given to the
merits of the proposed line, to the great extent and simplicity of
its levels, to the superiority it will possess in respect to distance
and lockage, to the welt ascertained fact that a full supply of
water can be provided, the conclusion will be fully warranted,
that in a short time after its completion this realty grand inter-
nal communication, will yield such a return as Will entitle it to
he classed amongst the most productive and successful under-
takings of the kind in the kingdom.
4.—'l'hat Messrs. Thomas Badger, Joan Barker, Richard
Bradley', Thomas Cotterill, T. R. Cobb, Robert Lucas Chance,
William Chance, Francis Downing, Edward Dixon, James
Foster, Francis Finch, Thomas Yate Hunt, Richard Haines,
Joseph Grout, Richard Gresley, John Griffith, John Lewis
Moitliet, James Mason, Charles Henry Molineux, Samuel
Ryland, Robert Scott, Theophilus Richards, John Ileum];
irlia In- Han bury Sparrow, Joshua Schelefield. Richard Smith,
. and Philip Williams; with power to add to their number, he and
are hereby appointed Provisional _Directors, with full powers to
establish the Company, direct surveys, plans, and -eilimates of
the line of the proposed Canal, and`to take all necessary steps
for obtaining an Act of Incorporation in the next Session of
• Parliament. • -
5. Thai Messrs. Inglehy and Wragge, of Birmingham, and
Messrs. -Baxerplale, 'lattitn, Upton, and Johnson, of 5, King's
Arms Yard, Coleman-street, London ; and Messrs. Wilson;
Bell, and Steward, of 35, Lincoln's Inn Fields, Loudon, be and
are hereby appointed Solicitors to the (4,,,tnpanv.
6.—That James Walker, Ese.,. and John Thomas, Esq., be
and are hereby appointed Engineers to the Company.
7.—'l'bat Mr. Dogdate Houghton be and is hereby appointed
Surveyor to the Company.
B.—']'hat Messrs. Taylors. and Llo:ids, of Birmingham, the
Birmingham Banking 'Oonipany. arm Messrs. Dixon, Dalton,
and Co., of Dudley, be and are hereby appointed Bankers.
9.—That until the completion of the Canal, interest at the
rate. of 34 per cent. lie allowed to the So bscribers on each call
front the time the same shall be paid. •
FRANCIS DOWNING, Chairman.
'The Chairman havilig.Jeft the _Chair, and Edward Dixon,,
- Esq., being called to the same,
Resolved unattimously,—That the best thanks of the Meeting
' be and are hereby. given to Francis Downing, Esq., for his.
Support of the undertaking and fur his able conduct in t he chair.
EDWD. DIXON.