The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-01-12 00:00:00

EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY,

HENRY CROSFIELD, Treasurer,
Liverpool, January 9, 1847.

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Miss Margaret Rathbone
Mr. T. Wren

LIVERPOOL BANKING COMPANY.
NINETEENTH DIVIDEND.
A DIVIDEND, for the Half Year ending the 31st
ultimo, after the rate of Eight Pounds per Cent. per An-
num, will be paid to the Proprietors, on application at the
Bank, on or after Mondaymext, the 18th instant.
By order of the Directors,
WILLIAM WILSON, Manager,

BANK OF LIVERPOOL.
TWENTY-NINTH DIVIDEND.
TirE DIRECTORS of the BANK of LIVERPOOL
DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE to the PROPRIETORS,
that they have declared a HALF-YEARLY DIVIDEND, at the
rate of 10 per Cent. per Annum, on the increased paid-up Ca-
pital of the Company, (being 12s. fid. per Share,) from the lst
of July to the 31st December, 1846 ; and that such Dividend
will be payable at the Bank of the Company, in Water-street,
on and after FRIDAY, the sth day of February next, between
the hours of ten and three on each `dali.
Dated at Liverpool, thirsth day of January, 1847.
By order of the Board,
JOSEPH LANGTON, Manager.
Each Proprietor will he expected, (if required,/ on applying
for his Dividend, to produce the Certificate or Certificates of
his Shares.
The Transfer Books will be closed to the sth of February
inclxsive.

LIVERPOOL UNION BANK.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a DIVIDEND
of FOUR PER CENT, on the Capital Stock of the Com-
pany, for the Half Year ending 31st December last, (being at
the rate of Eight per Cent. per Annum,) will be paid to the
Proprietors on and after the 14th instant.
The Transfer Books will be closed from the 6th to the 14th
instant inclusive.
The ANNUAL MEETKG of the PROPRIETORS will be
held, in the Clarendon Rooms, on TH URS DA Y, the 4th February,
at One o'clock. _

By order of the Board,
JAMES LISTER, Manager.
Brun:wick-street, 4th January, 1847.

EDINBURGH, LEITH, & GRANTON RAILWAY.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a STATED HALF-
YEARLY GENERAL MEETING of the PROPRIETORS
of the EDINBURGH, LEITH, and GRANTON RAILWAY
COMPANY will be held, within, their Office, 8, Ambercromby-
place, Edinburgh, on FR I DAlri t7ie 29th instant, at Two o'clock,
Afternoon, in terms of,and for the purposes mentioned in the
Company's Acts. -
No Proprietor who is in arrear is entiled to attend or vote.
By order of the Board,

Rail A. G.' FIELD, Secretary
way Office, 8, Abercromby-plare, Edinburgh,
911 i January, 1547.

LONDON

AND NORTII-WESTERN RAILWAY.

NOTICE

The Public are requested to take Notice, that on and after
the Ist of January, 1847, the PARKSIDE NEW BRANCH
will be OPEN, and the following CHANGES will take place:—
AND PARSIDE .
The TimesPRESTON of STARTING of the K
Trains will beSECTION as follow:
From Preston to Birmingham and London.—At 510 a.m.;
10 30 a.m. ; 3 50 p.m.; and 7 53 p.m.
From Preston to Liverpool and Manchester.—At 730 a.m.;
9 0 ;10 35 a.m.; I p.m.; 4 0 ; arid? op.m.
From Liverpool to Preston.--At 730 a.m. ;9 0 a.m.; 10 25
a.m. ; 1 30 p.m. ; 350 p.m. ; and 7 0 p.m.
From Manchester to Preston.—At 740 a.m. ;9 10 a.m. ;
10 35 a.m. ; 1 40 p.m. ; 4 0 p.m. ; and 7 10 p.m.
In consequence of the above Alterations, the detention at
Parkside of Trains, proceeding north and south, will be entirely
avoided.

The following CHANGES will take place in the Times of
Starting of the Trains from
LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER,
" NAMELY:
The Trains now leaving Liverpool for Manchester and the
North at 8 0 a.m.; 10 15 a.m. ; 3 35 p.m. ; and 6 0 p.m., re-
spectively on week days, will be despatched at 7 30 a.m.;
10 25 a.m.; 3 50 p.m. ; and 7 0 p.m. And the Trains now
leaving Liverpool on Sunday* at 7 15 a.m., and 4 45 p.m., will
be despatched at 7 45 a.m., and 6 0 p.m.
An Additional Train will also leave Liverpool for Preston
Daily (Sundays excepted) at 9 0 a.m.
The Trains now leaving Manchester for Liverpool and the
North at 8 15 a.m.; 10 30 a.m. ; 1 45 p.m. ; 3 50 p.m.; and
615 p.m.. resnertivolv on • t• A - --!,. •- •

uuya, will De aespatched at
740 a.m. 10 35 a.m. ; 140 p.m. ; 4 0 p.m. ; and 710 p.m.
And the Trains now leaving Manchester on Sundays at 7 30 a.m.,
and 5 0 p.m., will be despatched at 7 35 a.m., and 6 10 p.m.
An Additional Train will also leave Manchester for Preston
Daily (Sundays excepted) at 9 10 a.m.
The Train now leaving Warrington for Manchester at 4 19
p.m., will be despatched at 4 30 p.m.
The Train now leaving Manchester for Warrington at 8 15
p.m., will be despatched at 7 0 p.m., and the Train now leav-
ing Manchester for Warrington at 1 0 p.m., will be discon-
tinued for the present.

LIVERPOOL AND BIRMINGHAM SECTION.
The 4 15 p.m. Train from Birmingham to Liverpool will stop
at the Basjord Station.
The Short Mixed Train now leaving Birmingham for star.
ford daily at 9 0 a.m., and Stafford for Birmingham at 6 45 p.m.,
will be discontinued during the Winter Months.

N.B.—Time-bills, with the above alterations, may be had at
the Company's Stations on and after the 31st instant.
By order,
MARK HUISH, General Manager.
Lime-street, December 24, 1846.

TO THE SHAREHOLDERS OF THE
BIRMINGHAM AND OXFORD JUNCTION
RAILWAY.
The Shareholders in this Company are aware, from the course
which was adopted at the General Meetings, held in November
and December last, of the strong dissatisfaction entertained by
an influential body of their brother Shareholders with the pro-
ceedings of the Directors, both as regards the proposed amal-
gamation with the Birmingham, Dudley, and Wolverhampton
Line, and the proposed sale of the•-M-iindertakings conjointly
to the Great Western Company.
At both Meetings distinct notice was given, in the most for-
mal manner,
on of ropthat theseefluestions would be submitted for the
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reconsideratlrietors, so soon as those then enti-
tled to hold Sher ere enabled, by obtaining the transfer and
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symbol of their,, roperty to give their votes upon subjects of
such vital importance to the Shareholders. ...i
Upon general principles the dissenting Shareholders are op-
posed to anything that would bear the character of repudiation,
but the unprecedented circumstances connected with this case
(amongst which the following are most prominent) fully war-
rant them in the course they have adopted.
The non-issue of the certificates for the shares for upwards of
four months; the consequent impossibility of obtaining legal
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Lue attrnission by the Chairman himself of the fact
of a refusal to register transfers; the extraordinary circum-
stances that before the certificates were issued, and when
therefore none of the changes of property which had taken
place since the passing of the act could be recognised, and the
real owners of the shares were thus precluded from expressing
their opinion at to the disposition of their own property, the
Directors call a Special Meetine. for

no less an ouject Irian to
alter the nature o the property, by an amalgamation with an-
other undertaking, (not being authorised to do so by any power
in their act, owing to which, most inadepuate terms were of-
fered for the Birmingham and Oxford Lines itself,) and then to
sell the line so amalgamated, (a proceeding equally unautho-
rised by their act,) clearly justify the holders of the chap..

,iic
'mu...plain and uxtord Railway, who are dissatisfied with
the result of these irregular proceedings, in resisting to the ut-
most of their power the accomplishment of the objects so pro-
posed, and in protecting their property and interests by those
means which the law has provided. The dissentient share-
holders were satisfied, that as soon as the opinions of the real
holders of the shares could be ascertained these views would
be readily responded to; and all doubt upon the subject is now
removed by the laree MPIIR

..tire or suprt which th ha
already received, placing ..
beyond a question the fact that a con-
ve
siderable majority of the Shareholders are decidedly opposed
to the arrangements proposed by the Directors, and are deter-
mined to annul them, and to secure for the Birmingham and
Oxford Company at least as good terms as those offered by the
London and North-Western Company—el 5 pershare premium.
The Shareholders are well aware of the argument which has
been adduced by the Directors to justify their nroceedings—
that in consequence of the views PritPrtoir..,l 1...

u Parli ort
the subject of competition, there was no alternay tive buatment to dis-
pose of this line to the Great Western Company, although the
result might be that they must have it An rhnh. „..,

pis it is replied•

firstly, that the

musinterm
as
were at least bound (as trustees for the proprietors) to obtain
full value for their property ; and the universal admission that
the Birminghom and Oxford is a ten per cent. line, (more was
originally stated,) sufficiently indicates,_ without further refe-
rence to the offer of the London and North-Western Company,
that the price offered by the Great Western is inadequate. Se-
condly, as the dissenting Shareholders consider that the only
result which can be expected from competition is to secure
(ultimately) the lowest charges to the public consistent with
safety, they contend that this would have been more certainly
and readily accomplished by an arrangement with the London
and North-Western Company, who, while they are ready to
give increased terms to the Birmingham and (lyfnrii nronrie-

tors, are alsoprepared to secure to the public a scale of charges
lower than those provided for by the Birmingham and Oxford
act,_and considerably lower than those of the Groot Western

Railway

As ttie dissentient Shareholders are now desirous of at once
completing their arrangements for effecting the objects above
alluded to, and as they will be greatly facilitated by a know-
ledge of the entire support they may rely upon, they rP(lllelat
that their brother Shareholders who concur with them in opi.,
nion will transmit their names, with the number of shares held
by them, without delay, to the following parties :—Air, E, J.
MOZLEY, Liverpool; 4, ..._r. T _ HOMAS GASQUOINE, 15, New
Market-buildings, Manchester; Messrs. COLMORE and litmus,
Solicitors, Birmingham—by whom any necessary information
will be furnished, and all Shareholders are particularly re-
quested to retain their proxies
_until annlied to by the Com-

inittee of the dissentient Shareholders. '
Signed on behalf of the Dissentients,
January 5, 1847.

B. J. MOZLEY.

THE ANNUAL MEETING of the SUBSCRIBERS
to the above CHARITY will be' held, at the Clarendon..
rooms, on MONDAY, the 18tIt instant, at Twelve o'clock pre-
cisely. (Signed)

STRANGERS' FRIEND SOCIETY.
THE Treasurer gratefully acknowledges the receipt
of the following additional DONATIONS
Thos. Bolton and John Crosfield, Esqrs., s. d
Treasurers, part of an unappropriated
Fund for distribution to the Poor of
Castle-street Ward
James Lawrence, Esq
George Holt, Esq
Thomas Sands, Esq
William Hope, Esq
Joseph Hornby, Esq
Seacombe Ellison, Esq
Richard Alison, Esq
Miss E. R. Heath ..
Miss Colquitt
Thomas Avison, Esq
T. P

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the HALF-
YEARLY MEETING of the PROPRIETORS of the
LIVERPOOL NEW GAS and COKE COMPANY will be held,
pursuant to the Acts of Incorporation, on WEDNESDAY, the
27th instant, at One o'clock in the Afternoon, at the Office,
Newington.
N.B.—The Books for the Transfer of Snares will be Closed
from the 25th instant, an 4 until the 7th of February.
By order, of the Committee,
W. F. Gas-offire, Newington, Liverpool, ARNITT, Chief Clerk.
12th January, 1847.