The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-05-17 00:00:00

PROSPECTUS

THE object of the present project is to form a line of Rail-
way whereby the trade and traffic of. Dublin wi,h the
North and North-western Districts of Ireland May be increased
and improved. The subject has undergone' [nature deliberation
and received the unanimous suppai t of the Bankers, Merchants,
and Traders of Dublin, and the Gentry and Landowners of the
Counties of Meath, Longford, Cavan. the Towns of Granard,
Trim,.Athboy, Kells, Navan, and various other Towns to be
benefited by the Railway; Petitions from which have been pre-
sented to Parliament. • -
The line that has been selected will be the sole medium of,
transport for 'Passengers and Goods and altAglicultural Pro-,
duce to the North and North-western Districts of Ireland; it
pass2s through a fertile and highly-cultivated countty, benefits
many large Market Towns, and embraces the emirs trade and
intercourse of one-half of It eland, comprising all the manufac-
turing districts, and having no Canal. or Water .Caniage to
compete with it.

It, is intended subsequently to extend the Line to Armagh,
there to meet the Railway from Belfast. The Line to Navan
forms the Main Trunk for any of the contemplated Railways to
the Western Districts of Ireland.
The Public is aware that it is the object of another Company
to carry a line of Railway, coastwise, between Dublin and
Drogheda, to the total exclusion of the Inland Country. The
line of Railway laid down by the opposing Company, adjoins
some small Towns • and Villages along the Coast, inhabited
chiefly by Fishermen, and having no existine• Trade or Traffic.
Balbriggan, the largest and only important Town on the line,
contains a population of 3,016 inhabitants, and has but 325 fa-
milies engaged in trade, manufacture, and handicraft. The in-
tercourse by passengers is so trifling, that but six public vehi-
cles are employed throughout the entire line, and should there
be hereafter any increase of traffic, this Railway can always be
successfully opposed by Water Carriage along the Eastern
shore.
The Coast line of Railway is nearly four miles longer than the
Inland line:—
Coast line to Drogheda, 32 miles 220 yards.
Inland line to Drogheda, 28 miles 530 yards.
Estimated ExpenSe of the Coast line, as stated
by the Engineer, is • .
Estimated Expense of the Inland line to Drog-
heda
There is here, therefore, an admitted excess in the outlay of
£144,000; also, in the annual expense of maintaining the 'two
lines, the excess of the expense on the Coast line over the In-
land line will he £lO,OOO a-year; this last will be evident when
the situation of the two lines is considered; the natural difficul-
ties of the Coast line, if they can be surmounted by the skill of
the Engineer, will be at an expense unexampled in the annals
of Railway Engineering. By reference to the Plan, it will be
seen that great sea works are to be constructed at email for a
mile and a half—an arm of the sea at Malahide for two miles, at
ten foot water to be crossed on an embankment forty feet high—
thirty feet of filling at Rage? slown strand .for a distance of two
miles—nearly four miles of a cutting at Melverton sixty-five feet
deep—a sea embankment on the shore towards Sherries, seventy
feet from the surface of the beach, and exposed to the whole
force of the ocean—a tunnel under Thornhill, and a second Tun-
nel half a mile long, to be constructed underMe/verton demesne.
Such works cannot be constructed at a less rate than £30,000 a
mile, if, indeed,, it be possible to form a correct estimate of the
expense in such an undertaking. The costs of maintenance
must be equally uncertain in amount, as the action of the water
on the shore may sweep away breakwaters and embankments,
althoneh constructed for the purposes of security, with the ut-
most skill, and with no regard to expense.
An opinion may be formed of the estimation in which the two
lines are held by-the inhabitants and land-owners on the ;re-
spective lines, by the fact, that whilst on the Inland line an
unanimous opinion prevails in its favour, on the Coast line se-
veral influential land-owners are opposed to that-line, and have
petitioned Parliament against it, and prayed to be heard by I
Counsel.

There has not been a single petition presented against the
.nland line.

There have been twelve petitions from various places pre-
sented against the Coast line.
The necessary surveys of the Inland line, from Dublin to
Drogheda and Navan, have been some time made; there is no
one engineering difficulty to be encountered. 'i'he►e is no Tun-
nel on the entire line, nor is there a single mansion-house or
demesne to be interfered with; a zealous and anxious co-opera-
tion of all the land-owners and occupiers on the entire line has
been secured.
The line to Drogheda is 28 miles 533 yards. -
Estimated Expense
Branch to Navan is 12 miles 835 yards. Es-
ti►nated Expense

Total £635,751 0 3
The line commences on a level at the east side of Prussia-
sheet, in the City of Dublin, crossing Prussia-street and the
Circular Road in a direct line, passes over the Royal Canal at
the tail of the 12th lock, where a station and warehouses can be
constructed, and a direct communication by canal formed with
the Customhouse, Docks. and Harbour of Dublin, at the Quays
of the Iti;er Liffey. The line terminates close to Drogheda at an
elevation of one hundred feet over the River Boyne.
he terminus at Prussia-street is contiguous to Smithfield
Market, where all Cattle ar6 sold for the supply of the Liver-
pool and other English Markets, but can be further extended to
the waste ground at Dominick-street, or to the end of Constitu-
tion-hill, where it would form a junction with the new street
now proposed to the Pour Courts, and, into the southern direc-
tion of the Metropolis.
The Drogheda terminus affords great facilities for an exten-
sion to Armagh, across the plains of Ardee, there to join the
Belfast and Armagh Railway.
The Branch to Navan 'leaves the main trunk at Primates-
town, sixteen and a half miles from Dublin, a little westward of
the mail-coach road, and terminates at the Boyne River at
Naval), near the Upper Lock, at the point of junction of the
Canal navigation with the River.
The line to Drogheda is the most direct line that can be
formed to the North, and necessarily embraces all the trade and
traffic between Dublin and the seaport of Drogheda, Armagh,
Belfast, and all the North of Ireland, a population exceeding
850,(X)0 people.
The line to Navan embraces the entire trade of Navan, Kells,
Cavan, Clones, and Enniskillen, large and populous towns, and
in the centre of a peaceable and productive country, with a
population of 189,000 people.
The inland line for twenty-eight miles out of Dublin would be
a common trunk for any Railway to the 'Western and North-
western parts of Ireland, which, in point of level and material,
offers every facility to the formation of a Railway joining
Laugh-Erne, the s'eond largest Lake in Ireland, which con-
tains an area of 35,923 acres, possessing a water power equiva-
l'en't to the force of 35,0U0' horses; and the River which flows from'

PROSPECTUS OF THE EGREMONT AND LISCARD
JOINT STOCK LAND, BRICK.MAKING, AND
BUILDING COMPANY.
(Item t, £50,000, IN 5000 SPACES OF £lO EACtI.
THE Property consists of upwards of 41,000 square yards of
Land, situate opposite the Liverpool Northern Docks, on
an eminence a little northward of the Egremont Hotel and
Pier, in Liscard, and having a direct line of frontage of up-
wards of 600 yards to a road of 16 yards wide, which runs
parallel with (and only a narrow field's breadth of) the shore of
the Mersey, and commanding (from its elevation) unobstructed
views up and down the.river and of the surrounding country, is,
it is presumed, admirably adapted for the erection of Marine
The Estate is Freehold, and has a reserved right of a Car-
riage.and Foot Road down to the shore where there is a fine
gravel beach, well suited for Seabathing, and from its contiguity
to the established Ferry of Egreinont, and the projected Fei-
i les, (the Liscard arid Mostyn,) a punctual st r communica-
tion with Liverpool (which is only distant • out one mile) may
be relied upon.
The pu .e and salubrious air of this tof the Cheshire coast,
and its advantageous position as a ate:ing place, render this
scite at once a desirable retreat lo the private gentleman, the
valetudinarian, and the man of iness; advantages which will
be peculiarly obvious to the r idly increasing population of
Liverpool and its numerous O. tors.
The owner of this Estate lies the right of getting stone (free
fi urn any charge) from a quarry in the iironeeiate neighbour-
hood, and there is a deep stratum of Brick Clay on the Land,
of an excellent quality, with an abundant supply of sand and
water; .and it is
.proposed to cast the clayinimediately and make
as many bricks in the course of the summer as will be sufficient
for the election of the proposed buildings, thereby avoiding the
nuisance ever attendant upon makiug of this article, audat
once elreciing a great saving of e7:pense and loss in carting and
breakage. As it is a well known fact that the profits arising
front Wel:making are very great where a rapid consumption
can be. gi.aranteed, and as Coals can be obtained here at a low
rate, it is presuthed that this Company wilt realize a profit from
this branch of the undertaking which will alone repay them the
cost Pr ice of the land. •
- The whole of the above valuable property is offered for the
'sum of. £13,(X10, and it is deter niced to form a Joint Stock
Company, with a proposed Capital of £50,000, in 5000 Shares
of 1.30 each, for effecting the purchase of the Land, and for
making 'Bricks, and erecting Villas; but should it be hereafter
determined upon to sell out any considerable portion of the land
in leis-to suit she convenience 01- porcthase.s, in- preference to
this Company erecting the whole of the proposed buildings, not
one-half of the above capital may ever be requited.
The conditions of the Company are—
That the Capital is to be £50,000, in £5OOO Shares of £lO
each, and to be called "Tire Eyiemont and Ltsccwd Joint Sock
Lund, B,ickmakiny, arid Beading Company."
" That £3 per Share (with one shilling per Share for the ex-
penses of forming the Company,) be paid on allotment by sub-
scrinem
• That not more than £5 per Share be called for the first twelve
months, including the £3 deposit, nor more than £1 each call,
-of which thirty days previous notice with be given.
That.the Company shall be under the management of a Pro-
visional Committee, until five Directors are appointed by the
Subscribes at a general meeting to be called fur that purpose
after the allotment or the shapes.
That Directors to be holders of not less torn forty shares.
That the remainder of the capital be paid in calls as required
by the Directors, each call not to exceed £1 per. Share, and
thirty days previous not ice to be given of any such call.
That a Proprietor of five Shares shall have at all meetings
one vote; ten Shares, two votes; twenty Shares, three votes;
and forty Shares and upwards, five votes.
That absentees may vote by proxy, such proxy being a Share-
.
holder.
That a reserve of Shares, not exceeding 200, be made for the
Provisional Committee, on which they are to be entitled to the
same benefit as the subscribers on the shares allotted.-
That two of the Directors shall retire at each Annual Meet-
ing, but shall be eligible to be re-elected.
That the Shareholders shall not be liable beyond the amount
of their shares.
That a Deed of Settlement consistent with the above terms be
prepared, to be signed by the • Subscribers on payment of the
deposit, when scrip certificates will be delivered.
Applications for Shares, (if by letter post paid,) according to
the form underneatti, to be addressed to the Provisional Com-
mittee, at Messrs. BitAIINER and ATKINSON'S, Solicitors, Fen-
wick-buildings, Feowick-street, Liverpool ; Mr. Rom AaD
DAWSON, Share Broker, Exchange-alley, or to Mr. WILLIAM
°KILL, Share Broker, Dale-street, on or before the Ist day of
June next.

Egremont and Lacard Joint Stock Land, Brickmaking, and
Building Company.
Gentlemen,—l request you will reserve and secure for me
Shares in this Company, and in consideration thereof
I agree to take the said Shares and to pay the deposit of £3 as
mentioned in the Prospectus.
Name.

Business or Profession.
Residence.

HERCULANEUM POTTERY ESTATE.

TT has been resolved by the Proprietors of this Estate, that it
should be offered to the Public on somewhat similar terms
to those by which the Harrington Dock Company have become
possessed of the adjoining Laud.
The ESTATE cousists.of the Pottery, a
ing to it, in Lease to Messrs. Most and
building Yard, in Lease to Mr. Dune' '
Landing Slip and Pierequal to any on t '
forming the Park Teri ace ; about si-• -
quantity of uuenclosed Beach and •
whole containing, exclusive of Po
yards of FREEHOLD LAND, wi
420 yards lineal.
The southern boundary is airea enclosed by a sirorg Ashlar
Wall, and a considerable portion of the foundation and side
wails of a New Graving Dock (of the same dimensions as No.l
of the Liverpool Graving Docks) is built immediately adjacent;
and it is intended to form the entrance of sufficient width to al-
low the passage of first-class Steamers without the customary
and expensive method usually adcipted of unshippiug their
Paddle Boxes.

. the Dock belong-
Jimpson ; the Ship-
, Gibb ; an e7eellent
River; eight Houses,
:v Cottages, and a large
,nd to the eastward, the
is, above 150,000 square
a frontage to the fiver of

The great er..tent and compactness of this Property render it
capable of being turned to, most Profitable account: end for
Wharfs, Shipbuilders' Yards, Forwarding Agents, Deptils for
Goods requiring tranSbipment, Yards requiring great space con-
nected with a Shipping Station, or any of the general purposes
of a Commercial Town, this Estate offers advantages now no
longer to be met with.

Should it become desirable, a Communication from" the Wet
Dock with the portion of Land on the east side of Sefton-street
may be readily made by means of a. Canal.
Numerous applications for the Land, both to rent. and per-
chase Lots, have been made, and froth, its proximity to the
Docks, and the seat of the 'Flintier Trade, it will be occdpied as
fast as it can be prepared.'
It is intended that the Steamers to and from the Royal Pock
Ferry, which is directly opposite the Potteries, shalt p`iv to the
to the new Slip, and where Passengers, Carriages, and Cattle
can be securely shipped and landed; and the quiet and cooveni-
ent access to all purrs of the town from the Pier will uecessaiily
render it a pi incapal place of passage.
From the'extent of this Property the Proprietors are desirous
of being joined in this undertakicg by those whose occupations
tender the situation desirable, and who will consequently be
free from the liability of removal,; and to the Capitalist 'bete, is
a certainty of commensuiate return in the;future improvement
and increi,sed value of the Property, and that without the
sat attest risk.

It is intended, therefore, that a Company be formed for the
purchase and management of this Estate, having a Capital of
£220,0;10, in 2.20t1 Shares of £lOO each, which includes a con-
templated outlay according to the estimates made for finishing
the Woiks, of £40,000. A Deposit of £lO per Share to be paid
on allotment of the Shares, and the remainder of the Capital by
instalments every three months.

Plans and Descriptions of the Property, and Estimates of the
cost of cotnpleting the projected improvements, may be seen,
•and applications for Shares left, at the Offices of Messrs. LACE,
SoNs. and MYERS, Solicitors, Castle-street; Messrs. LOWN DES
and RoutNsoN, Solicitors, Brunswick-street; Mr. FottivTo,
Share Broker, Exchange; Messrs. H. BANNER, SON, and
TitomPsimr, Share Brokers, Castle-street; atid'Mr. WALTER
CLA RKE, Share Broker, Imperial Office. •