The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-04-05 00:00:00

LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM CANAL, i
CAPITAL, THREE MILLIOVS.
IN SHAltlis OF £lOO EACH.—DEPOSIT £2.
PROVISIONAL cONIMITTEE.
Chairman—Francis Downing, Esq.
Badger, Thomas, Esq.. Dudley.
Barker, John, Esq., Wolverhampton.
Bradley, Richard, Esq., Tipton.
Bullock, Edwin, Esq., West Brumwich.
Cot terill, Thomas, Esq., Birmingha
Chance, Robert Lucas, Esq wick.
Chance, William, Escr, Bit ham.
Dixon, Edward. Esq„ Dud
Foote', James, Esq., Stourbridge.
Finch, Francis, Esq., Great Barr.
Gresley, Richard, Esq., Meriden.
Grout, Joseph, Esq., London.
Griffith, John, Esq., Alveston.
Hawkes, Thomas, Esq., M.P., Hanley.
Haines, Richard, Esq., Wert Bromwich.
Hunt, Thomas Yate, Esq., Brades.
Moiiliet, John Lewis, Esq., Birtninghans,
Mason, James, Esq., Birmingham.
Molineux, C. Henry, Esq., Dudley.
Robins, William, Esq., Stourbridge.
Ryland, Samuel, Esq., Warwick.
Itichkods, Theoehilus, Esq., Birmingham.
Retied, John, Esq., Setigeley.
Scott, Robert, Esq., Birmingham.
Sparrow, W. Hanburv. Esq., Wolverhampton.
Schulefield, Joshua, Esq., M.P., Birmiughatn.
Smith, Richard, Esq., London.
Williams, Walter, Esq., Handsworth.
Williams, Philip, Esq.. Tipton.
Webb, John, Esq., Burton-upon-Trent.
With power to add to their number.
Sostctroas.—Messrs. Inglebv and Wragge, Birmingham ;
Messrs. Baxendale, Tatham, Upton, and Johnson, 7, Great
Winchester-street, London ; Messrs. Wilson, Bell, and
Steward, 3.5, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London.
ENGINEERs,—James Walker, Esq., F.R.S. L & E., London ;
John Thomas, Esq., London.
Svtrvavott.—Mr. Dugdale Houghton, Birmingham,
BANKERS.—Messrs. Tavlors and Lloyds, Messrs. Molliet and
Son, Birmingham; Birmingham Banking Company; Messrs.
Dixon, Dalton, and Co., Dudley; Messrs. Hankey and Co.,
7, Fenchurch-street, London • Messrs. Vere, Sapte,Banburv,
Muspratt, and Co., 77, Lombard-street, London.'
CONDITIONS.
I.—The Act of Parliament will provide that no person shall be
responsible beyond the amount of his Shares.
2.—Deposit of £2 per Share to be paid, and no further call will
he made until the Act be obtained.
3.—The Deposit shall be available to the necessary expenses of
the undertaking. • •
CI-Interest. ntlitperee•nt.-xvill be-allcrrreti on the
calls, until the completion of the Canal.
s.—Calls will be made after the Act is obtained, by quarterly
payments of £6 ss. per Share.
IiaROSPECTUS of a Line of Navigation from Birmingham
to London, commencing at the Stratford-on-Avon Canal,
iu Warwickshire, and ending at the Regent's Canal, London,
to be called "The LONDON and BIRMINGHAM CANAL
NAVIGATION."
The great and leading objects of the proposed undertaking
are-
10.—To effect the cheapest and most direct practicable Line
of Water Cointnunication 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
Regent, Stratford, 'Wateester, Birmingham, Birmingham and
Liverpool, Ellesmere and Chester, Trent and Mersey, and
Bridgwater Canals, the quickest, cheapest, and most convenient
line of Canal Conveyance between London, Birmingham, Li-
verpool, and Manchester. Also by a junction with the Oxford
Canal at Banbury, an improved communication to the City of
Oxford.
31.—T0 give the facilities and advantages of water conveyance
to the valuable and extensive districts through which the pro.
posed line of navigatien is intended tube taken—districts capable
of great and rapid improvement, and to which nothing can so
materially contribute as n cheap and direct cotninueieation with
the metropolis and the great manufacturing towns of Warwick-
shire and Staffordshire.
It insist 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 Lon-
don and Liverpool, to the Manufacturers of Manchester, Bir-
mingham, Wolverhampton, Dudley, Stourbridge, and Walsall,
and to the Proprietors of Mines:and Wanks in the counties of
Stafford, Worcester,.and Salop.; must be obvious to the must
superficial observer. Birmingham and Wolverhampton and
the contiguous Mineral Districts would then be situated about
midway on the great thoroughfare water communication be-
tween London and Liverpool, and London and Manchester,
and, as Vessels would be passing incessantly in each direction,
the increased facility and despatch could not bat ho productive
of the highest advantages.• The saving:in distance by tits pro-
posed rotate toilf be thirtylfix miles, and tae ,Locks will. be reduced .
from or. huudied and seventy-twv forty-eight:

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