The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-02-09 00:00:00

annum.
The proceedings of the Health Committ
Mr. James Newlands

CHESTER AND BIRKENHEAD RAILW4Y

'early meeting of the

jun., Esq. -- the chairman, presided. The report, which
was read-by Mr. TOWNSEND, stated that the, Directors
had let the co

;he extension

engineer's estimate, to be completed in nine months, and
as the Birkenhead Dock Commissioners had publicly no-
tified that the first nnrtinn of their (locks would be open

had been 'made with the contractors to have such a com-

munica

iratige

by March as would enabl;them to work the locomotive
power direct from and to the dock quays, thus enabling
this Company, to participate at once in the traffic which
those great works would ensure to them. Arrangements
had been completed with the London and North Western,
Chester and Holyhead, Shrewsbury, Chester and Birken-
head, and Lancashire and Cheshire Junction Companies,

for the erection of a joint station at Chester. It wa-,
stated that the Directors had, in conjunction with the

Cheshire Junction Companies, taken an interest in the
111 Old Railway, feeling assured that the opening of that.
district would not fail to add largely to the passenger and
mineral traffic; that the bill for amalgamating the com-

iion Company, had passed the standing orders committee
and been read a second time in the House of Common=
and that prior to its introduction
.to the House of Lord

general meeting. The revenue account showed i nett
profit of £12,616 lls, 5d., out of which the Directors re-
commended that a dividend he declared of 14s. per £5O
share, 7s. per £25 share, and 2s. 3d. per £2O share ; the
income tax to be paid by the Company.
The CHAIRMAN proposed that the report be adopted,
and that the dividend be paid on a‘id after the 11th_ of
February. He said that the dividend of 14s.

hough very

much the same as that the proprietors had been accustomed
to receive, would, he rejoiced to say, on all future occa-

most important negociations with the commissioners of

Birkenhead, to secure the utmost facility
of passengers and goods across the

le transit

Mersey

The Com-

ing, so far as they could do it with regard to the inter

ofwthe Company: It might be a matter of surprise that
there had been no accession from the opening of the
Shrewsbury and Chester line, He rather thought the Di-

branches to coal districts, from which a
tradic is expected, have not yet been openec
month of April these branches will be opened,
that time sheds for the receipt of goods at Birkenhead
would be ready. April would also form an important era
in the history of -
should witties,

arge por

and before

great works which appeared to arm a prestige of the
future greatness of Birkenhead. The Warehouse Com-
pany also expected to be able to open eighteen warehouses
at the same time, and in order to accommodate this traffic
a temporary railway would be made, so that goods taken
from the vessels might be carried #long the line without
further impediment. Although, of course, they should
derive some advantage from this, he (the Chairman)
should not be expressing his own views if he said he
looked for very large results from this partial opening, fot
until these great works were completed, they
have a very large inerease'froin that source

should not
It would be

a work of time they could attract commerce from
the streams in which it had been accustomed to flow, but
when they looked at the-convenience and the cheapness of
the Birkenhead docks, there was no doubt the merchants
of Liverpool would send their vessels there.
Mr. COCHRANE seconded the motion, and it was car-

ried unanimously.
The CHAIRMAN then intimated that the Chester and
Holyhead Company had agreed to take an interest in the
Mold Railway to the extent of £60,004, the Birkenhead,
Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction £20,000, and the Di-
rectors of the Chester and Birkenhead Company asked
the proprietors to sanction their proceedings in also taking
an interest to the extent of £20,000. He concluded by
moving a resolution to the effect that the meeting approved
of the steps taken by the Directors, and that the shares
subscribed for be adopted as part of the stock of this

company, and that the DirectCirs be authorised to take
such steps as' they may deem necessary for the opening of