The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-04-22 00:00:00

LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM CANAL,
CAPITAL, THREE MILLIONS.

IN SHARES OF £lOO EACH.—DEPOSIT £2.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Chairman—Francis Downing, Esq.
Deputy Chairman—Francis Finch, Esq.'
Bassett, John Dollin, Esq., Leighton Buzzard.
Badger, Thomas, Esq., Dudley.
Bagnall, John, Esq., \Vest Bromwich.
Barker, John, Esq., Wolverhampton.
Bradley, Richard. Esq., Tipton.
Bullock, Edwin, Esq., West Bromwi h.
Cotterill, Thomas, Esq., Birwingha
Chance, Robert Lucas, Esq , Sinethwick.
Chance, William, Esq., Bilminghain.
Dixon, Edward, Esq., Dudley.
Foster, James, Esq„ Stourbridge.
Greslev, Richard, Esq., Meriden.
Grout,'Joseph, Esq., London.
Hawkes, Thomas, Esq., M.P., Himley.
Haines, Richard, Esq., Wert Bromwich.
Hunt, Thomas Yate, Esq., Brades.
Moilliet, John Lewis, Esq., Birmingham.
Mason, James, Esq., Birmingham.
Molineux, C. Henry, Esq., Dudley.
Potter, Peter, Esq., Gorway House, near Walsall.
Robins, William, sq. Stourbridge.
Ryland, Samuel, Esq.;Warwick.
Richards, Theophilus, Esq., Birmingham.
Round, John, Esq., Sedgeley.
Scott, Robert, Esq., Stourbridge.
Shore, Joseph, Esq., Birmingham.
Sparrow, W. Haubury, Esq., Wolverhampton.
Scholefield, Joshua, Esq., M.P., Birmingham.
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.
Soucurons.—Messrs. Ingleby and Wragge, Birmingham ;
Messrs. Baxendale, Tatham, Upton, and Johnson, 7, Great
Winchester-street, London ; Messrs. Wilson, Bell, and
Steward,'3s, Lincoln's Inn Field', London.
CONSULTING ENGINEER.--JainesWalker, Esq., P.R.S. L &E
Loudon ;
RESIDENT ENGINEERS.—.Tames Green, Esq., Exeter; John
Thomas, Esq., London.
SaRVETOR.—Mr. Dugtiale Houghton, Birmingham,
BAN/MRS.—Messrs. Taylors and Lloyds, Messrs. Moilliet and
Son, Birmingham; Birmingham Banking Company; Messrs.
Dixon, Dalton, and Co., Dudley; Messrs. Hawkey and Co.,
7, Fenchurch-street, London • Messrs. Vere, Seine, Banbury,
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
be made until the Act be obtained.
a,—The Deposit shall be available to the necessary expenses of
the undertaking.
4.—lnterest at the rate of 31 per cent. will be allowed on the
calls, until the comoletion of the Canal.
s.—Calls will be made ailer the Act is obtained, by quarterly
payments of £6 ss. Fer Share.
pSPECTUS of a Line of Navigation from Birmingham
to London, commencing at the Strai ford-on. Avon Canal,
in 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—

Ist.—To effect the cheapest and most direct practicable Line
of Water Communication between London and Birmingham,
and the great Mining districts of Staffordshire, Worcestershire,-
and Shropshire.
'2.—To obtain, by the communication it will open with the
Regent, Stratford, Worcester. Birmingham, Birmingham and
Liverpool, Ellesmere and Chester, Trent and Mersey, and
Bridgwater Canals, the quickest, cheapest, and most convenient
,li_n_e_ of Canal Conveyance' between London, Birmingham, Li-
;r1)" , ;rod_ Manchester. Also by a junction with the Oxford
Canal at Banbury. •
ury, an improved communication to the City of
Oxford.
al.—To givr, the facilities and advantages of water conveyance
to the valuable and .
ipcntensive districts through which the pro-
posed hoe
ofnavi.atof great and raplrapid'nn is intended to be taken—districts capable
materially contriltutea'pracivrent, and to which nothing can so
the metropolis and the gree' cheap and direct communication with
shire and Staffordshire. at manufacturing towns of Warwick-
It must be evident that the proposed undertaking embraces
objects of the highest natial importance, and cannot fail to
produce great and almost incaleutatle advantages to the Agri-
cultural,
Commercial, and Manufacturing Interests of the
Kingdom.
The extraordinary ficility that this Line wouldN give to L on-
c}iester, Bir-
Walsall,
Lon-
don and Liverpool, to the Alanufacturers of
Manchester,
minghatn, Wolverhampton, Dudley, Stourbridge,
and to the Proprietors of Mines and Works in the and
counties o
Stafford, Worcester, and Salop. must be obvious to tinietle most
superficial observer. Birmingham and Wolverhampton and
the contiguous Mineral Districts would then be situated about
midway bn the great thoroughfare water communication be_
tireeu London and Liverpool, and London and Manchester,
and, as Vessels would be passing, incessantly in each direction,
the increased facility and despatch could not but he productive
of the highest advantages. The racing in distance by the pru-