The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-05-12 00:00:00

GORSTS and BIRCHALL, Deputy Clerks of the Peace.

LIVERPOOL DOCKS.
LOANS OF MONEY.
THE 'COMMITTEE of the LIVERPOOL DOCKS
DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that they are willing to
receive'LOANS of MONEY, on the security of the Bonds of the
Trustees of the Liverpool Docks, at the rate of FOUR POUNDS
PER CENTUM per annum interest, Tor periods of either Five
or Seven Years.
All letters to be addressed to GEO-ROE WITH Ens, Esq., Trea-
surer•of the Liverpool Docks, Docl.Loffice, Liverpool.
By order,
DANIEL MASON, Secretary.
Dock-office, Liverpool, 20th November, 1845.

CON-TRACTS FOR COALS AND CANDLES.
Office of Ordnance, 131 k April, 1846.
11HOSE Persons who may be desirous. of CON-
TRACTING with the Principal Officers of the Ordnance,
to furnish, from the Ist of July next, to the 30th of June,"lB47,
such Quantities of COALS and CANDLES as may from time to
time be required for BarraCks and Ordnance Stations in Great
Britain and the Channel Islands,can receive particulars of the
Contracts on applying at this Office between the hours of Ten
and Four.
Tenders for supplying either Coals or Candles must be sealed
up and marked "render for Coals," or "Tender for Candles;"
and will be received at this Office, addressed to the Secretary
to the Board,on or before WEDNESDAY, the 28th day of May
next, at any time during. that day; but no proposal, either for
Coals or Candles, will `be noticed unless made on, or annexed
to,. a printed particular, which must be duly filled up and the
prices inserted in words at length.
Tenders to be made for the several Barracks and Stations as
joined together in the particulars of Contract.
By order of the Board,.
R. BYHAM, Secretary.

GREAT GRIMSBY AND SHEFFIELD JUNCTION
RAILWAY.
EXTENSIONS No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, and HUMBER
FERRIES.

NOTICE IS lIEREBY GIVEN, that a SPECIAL
MEETING of' the HOLDERS of SCRIP for QUARTER
SHARES and EXTENSION SHARES of this COMPANY will
be held, at the TONTINE HOTEL, in SHEFFIELD, OTI.THURS-
DAY,.the 14th day of May next, at Twelve o'clock at Noon, when
copies of the several bills now depending in Parliament, one
entituled "A Bill for making certain new lines and deviations
in the Line of the'Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Rail-
way, and for constructing a branch therefrom to the town of
Cantor, all in the parts of Lindsey, in the county ofLincoln,"
another entituled "A Bill for enabling the Great Grimsby and
Sheffield Junction Railway Company to make an extension
from the Market Rasen Branch of the Great Grimsby and
Sheffield Junction Railway to communicate with 'the city of
Lincoln, and also a branch to the town of Barton-upon-Hum-
her, and other works connected therewith;" another entituled
"A Bill to authorise the Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction
Railway Company to make an extension from their line of
railway in the parish of Bole, to join the Nottingham, Newark,
and Lincoln Railway, in the parish of Averham, with a branch
railway therefrom to the town of Newark-upon-Trent, all in the
county of Nottingham," and another, entitled " A Bill for
improving the ferries across the River Humber, "in-connexion
with the Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway,,,
will be submitted for the consideration of such meeting, in
pursuance of the resolutions of both Houses of Parliament.
The scrip, or bankers' receipt, must be produced at the
Meeting:.
To facilitate and expedite business at the time of meeting, it
is requested that. all Scripholders who can conveniently do so,
will present ththr scrip for examination at the Company's
Offices between Twelve and Two o'clock, during three days
previous to the -meeting, and a ticket will be delivered to the
holder in respect of the same.

Any Scripliolders who cannot personally attend the Meeting,
but who wish the Chairman to vote in respect' of their scrip,
may effect that by forwarding their scrip to the Secretary, at
Sheffield, to the Solicitors, at No. 2, Great College-street,
Westminster, two days previous to the meeting.
WORSLEY, Chairman.
J. H. HUMFREY, Secretary.
Great Grintsiry and Sheffield Junction Railway Offices,
April 30, 1846.

SHEFFIELD AND LINCOLNSHIRE JUNCTION
RAILWAY.
NOTICE `IS HEREBY GIVEN, -that a SPECIAL
MEETING of the SCRIPHOLDERS of this COMPANY
will be held at the TONTINE HOTEL, in Sheffield, on THURS-
DAY, the 14th day of May next, at Two o'clock in the Afternoon,
when a copy of toe Bill now depending in Parliament, intituled
"A Bill for making a Railway, from Sheffield to Gainsborough,
with Branches," will be submitted for the consideration of such
meeting, in pursuance of the resolutions of both Houses of
Parliament. _ _ _

The Scrip or Bankers' Receipts must be produced at -the
Meeting.
To facilitate and expedite business at the time of Meeting, it
is requested that all Scripholders who can conveniently do so
will present their Scrip for examination at the Company's
Offices, between the hours of Twelve and Two o'clock, during
three days previous to the meeting, and a ticket will be deli-
vered to the holder in respect of the same. Any Scripholders
who cannot personally attend the meeting, but who wish the
Chairman to vote in respect of their Scrip, may effect that by
forwarding their Scrip to the Secretary, at Sheffield, or to the
Solicitors, at No. 2, Great College-street, Westminster, two
days previous to the meeting.
J. J. SMITH, Chairman.
J. H. HUMFREY, Secretary.
Sheffield and Lincolnshire .hinction Railway Offices,
Sheffield, April 30, 1846.

SHEFFIELD AND LINCOLNSHIRE EXTENSION

R AILWAY.
NOTICE IS :HEREBY GIVEN, thatz SPECIAL
I MEETING of the SCRIPHOLDERS of this COMPANY
will he held at the TONTINE HOTEL, in Sheffield, on THURS-
DAY, the 14th day of May next, at Four o'clock in the After-
noon, when a copy of the Bill now depending in Parliament,
entituled "A Bill far making a Railway from the proposed
Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction Railway to the City of
Lincoln," will be submitted for the consideration of such
Meeting, in pursuance of the resolutions of both Houses of
Parliament.

The Scrip or Bankers' Receipts must be produced at the
Meeting
. . _

To fa-cilitate and expedite business at the time of Meeting, it
is requisite that all Scripholders who can conveniently do so,
will present their Scrip for examination at the Company's
Offices between the hours of Twelve and Two o'clock, during
three days previous to the Meeting, and a ticket will be deli-
vered to the holder in respect of the same.
Any Scripholders who cannot possibly attend the• Meeting,
but who wish the Chairman to vote in respect of their Scrip,
may effect that by forwarding their Scrip to the Secretary, at
Sheffield, or to the Solicitors, at No. 2, Great College-street,
Westminster, two days previous to the Meetin.
J. J. SMITH, Chairman.

J. 11. HUMF.REY, Secretary.
Shejied and Lincolnshire Railway Offices,
Sheffield, 30th 1846.

SHEFFIELD AND 'I,TNCO SHIRE SIINCTION

RAILWAY.

SHEFFIELD AND LINCOLNSHIRE EXTENSION
RAILWAY,

GREAT GRIMSBY AND SIIEFFIELD JUNCTION
RA 1 LW AY EXTENSIONS.
rrilHE Scripholders in these Lines will probably feel
I interested in the following Correspondence:—

Sheffield, 27th April, 1846,
Sir,—Statements from at least one shareholder in the Shef-
field, Ashton-undcr-Lyne, and Manchester Railway Company
having appeared in the public papers, <Piestioning the propriety
of the amalgamation already agreed upon of that company with
the Sheffield and Lincolnshire, and the Great Grimsby and
Sheffield Junction Railway Companies, and the Grimsby.Docks,
we shall feel obliged by your enabling us to state authoritatively
that the Directors of the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and
.Manchester Railway Cempany still adhere to the determination
of eartwing that amalgamation into effect.
We are, sir,-your most obedient servants,
WORSLIZ.Y, Chairman of the Great Grimsby
and Sheffield Junction Railway and
Grimsby Dock Company.
JOHN J. SMITH Chairman of the Sheffield
and Lincolnshire Junction Railway Coin-
pan
To John Parker, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Sheffield,
Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manchester Railway
Company.

COPY.
Morley's Hotel, Trafalgar-square, London, April 29,1846.
am directed to forward you a copy of a resolution of
the board of directors of the Sheffield, Ashton Winder-Lyre, and
Manchester Railway Company, passed at their meeting this
morning.
I have the honour to be, air, your obedient servant,
JAMES MEADOWS, Secretary,
John Jobson Smith, Esq.

A letter from Lord Worsley, the chairman of the Great
Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway, and Grimsby Pock
Companies. and from John Jobson Smith, Esq., the chairman
of the Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction Railway Company,
adverting to a disposition on the part of one or more of the
shareholders in the undertaking to disturb the proposed amal-
gamation of the compaipies and requesting an authoritative
declaration of the directors' views on the subject, having been
read,—
Resolved unanimously,--That the directors, adhering to the
opinion that the amalgamation, as agreed upon, is highly con-
ducive to the interest of this company, they declare their deter-
mination to use every effort to • carry the same into effect, and
their conviction is, that in se doing they will recciVe the co-
operation of the great body of the shareholders. •