The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-11-26 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

PROSPECTUS OF THE
SCOTTISH MIDLAND JUNCTION RAILWAY.

Capital, £300,000, in 12,000 Shares of £25 each.

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

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The Right Honourable the Earl of Airlie, Lord-L'eute-
nant of Forfarshire, Chairman.
The Honourable John Stuart Wortley, M.P. for the
West-Riding of Yorkshire, Deputy-Chairman.
The Most Noble the Marquis of Breadalbane.
The Viscount Arbuthnot, Lord-Lieutenant of Kincar-
dineshire.
The Right Honourable Lord Wharncliffe.
Lord Frederick Gordon H allyburton, M.P. forForfarshire.
The Honourable John Arbuthnot.
The Lord Provost of Perth.
The Lord Provost of Aberdeen.
The Provost of Forfar.
The Provost of Brechin.
The Provost of Inverness.
The Provost of Peterhead.
Sir James Ramsay, of Banff, Baronet.
Sir John W. P. Muir Mackenzie, of Delvine, Baronet.
J. J. Hope Johnstone, Esq., M.P. for Dumfriesshire.
William Lockhart, Esq., M.P. for Lanarkshire.
James Anderson, Esq., Banker, Blairgowrie.
Andrew Archer, Esq., of Balbrogie.
Johh Brown, Esq., of Parkhead.
George Buchanan, Esq., Stanley Works.
Archld. Burns, Esq., Manager of the Central Bank, Perth.
Archibald Campbell, Esq., of Blythawood.
Charles Clark, Esq., of Princeland.
David Craigie, Esq., Manager of the Perth Bank.
Colonel Dalgairns, of Balgavies.
James Farquharson, Esq., of Invercauld.
Major Gammell, of Lethendy.
Robert Geekie, Esq., of Rosemont.
Alexander Geekie, Esq., of Baldowrie.
J. V. Hagart, Esq., of Glendelvine.
David Hood, Esq., of Balluderon.
William Hutchison, Esq., Banker, Forfar.
Patrick Small Keir, Esq., of Kindrogan.
Colonel John Kinloch, of Logie.
Patrick Kirkaldy, Esq., Fullerton, Meigle.
George Knight, Esq., of Jordanstone.
John Leadbetter, Esq., Glasgow, of the firm of Lead-
better, Adamson, and Company, Dundee and Blair-
gowrie.
William Farquharson Macdonald, Esq., of St. Martin's.
John M`Nicol, Esq., Craig, Myth.
John Marshall, Esq., Luncarty, Bleachfield.
Robert Monteith, Esq., of Carstairs.
Patrick Murray, Esq., of Simprim.
Miingo Murray, Esq., of Lintrose.
David Nairn, Esq., of Drumkilbo.
P. Wedderburn Ogilvy, Esq., of Rutbven.
Laurence Oliphant, Esq., of Condie.
Charles Playfair, Esq., of Denbead.
Captain Popham, R.N., Belmont Castle.
William David Proctor, Esq., Glammis.
Robert Clerk Rattray, Esq., of Craighall.
Glas Sandeman, Esq., of Bonskeid.
Peter Small, Esq., of Dirnanean.
Archibald Turnbull, Esq., of Bellwood.
Hugh Watson, Keillor.
James Whitson, Esq., of Isla-park.
BANKERS.
The Perth Banking Company.
The Central Bank, Perth.
The Dundee Banking Company, Dundee and Forfar.
ENGINEERS.
Joseph Locke, Esq., F.R.S.
J. E. Errington, Esq., Member of the Inst. C.E.
SECRETARY.
Christopher Kerr, Esq., Town-clerk of Dundee.

Agents in kdinburgh.—Messrs. Hope & Oliphant, W.S.
Agents in Perth.—Messrs. J. & J. Miller, Writers.
Agents in Strathmore.—Messrs. C. & J. Kerr, Dundee.
Parliamentary Agent.—G. H. Lang, Esq., 11, Park-
street, Westminster, London.
THIS Line will be carried through the great Valley of
Strathmore, and will form a connecting link between
the Scottish Central Railway terminating at Perth, and
the Arbroath and Forfar, and Aberdeen Railways.
The existing Railways from Arbroath to Forfar and
from Dundee to Newtyle will serve as feeders to this
Railway, which will also afford the shortest route south-
wards for the traffic of the whole of the north-eastern
counties of Scotland, containing in the aggregate a popu-
lation of upwards of 500,000; and the Scottish Central
Railway, connecting with the Edinburgh and Glasgow
and the great Lines uniting England and Scotland, will
bring to its southern terminus at Perth the traffic north-
wards from England, from the manufacturing and mine,
ral districts of Scotland, and from the cities of Edinburgh
and Glasgow.
The Valley of Strathmor.., through which the Railway
will to carried, is the most extensive tract of level land
in Scotland. It is fertile and populous, is studded with
towns and villages, and is the seat of important manufac-
tures, which are capable of great extension, though their
progress has been hitherto impeded by the high price of
coal, and the want of cheaper and more rapid means of
communication. _ _

A survey has been made of the district between Perth
and Forfar, a distance of 32 miles, and from the facilities
afforded by the almost uninterrupted level of the country,
and the existence of local Railways, which may be acquired
at a moderate price, Messrs. Locke and Errington have
estimated the expense of forming the Railway, including
stations, connexions with existing Railways, and every
contingency, at £300,000.
It is intended to follow the system now so generally
pursued, of constructing in the first instance only a single
line, but providing land and bridges sufficient fora double
line, if afterwards found necessary.
It has been ascertained, after a careful scrutiny by a
Committee of five gentlemen of the &strict, that the
revenue, arising chiefly from local sources, will yield a
return of seve❑ per cent., wholly independent of the in-
crease likely to arise from the formation of the Aberdeen
and Scottish Central Railways.
The undertaking has the support of all the towns and
of almost every landowner on the line, and a considerable
amount of the capital required has already been subscribed
in the district.

The capital has been fixed at £300,000, divided into
12,000 shares of £25 each. A deposit of £1 10s. per share
to be paid at the time of allotment, and subscribers to sign
the parliamentary deed when required to do so.
It will be a provision of the Act of Incorporation, thtt
no subscriber shall be liable for more than the amount of
his subscription.
Application for shares may be made to
Messrs. FORSYTH and PRITCHARD,
and Liverpool.
Messrs. TOD and ASHTON, JJJ
No application will be attended to unless accompanied
by a reference.

SCOTTISH MIDLAND JUNCTION RAILWAY.
A Meeting of the Provisional Committee of the Scot-
tish Midland Junction Railway was held in Coupar
Angus, on Saturday, 26th Oetober, 1844.
The Lord WHARN CLIFFE in the Chair.
Colonel Dalgairns presented the Report of the Sub-
committee, appointed on 23d current, to investigate in
regard to traffic, which Report was read, and ordered to
be ingrossed in the minutes. The following is a copy :
"The Committee have to report, that they have had
before them Messrs. Stone and Bryers, under whose su-
perintendence the traffic has been taken, also the persons
employed under them to take the actual traffic, and from
whose statements the Committee are satisfied that the
traffic has been taken with due care, and that the same has
not been overstated.
" The Committee have also examined the Bocks made
up from the Notes taken by these parties during the fort-
night from the sth August, and also the Abstra is taken
from these Books, and after carefully investigating and
checking these, they are completely satisfied of their ge-
neral correctness.
" Some of the Books for subsequent fortnights have
also been examined and checked, in so far as the time of the
Committee allowed, and no material error having been dis-
covered in them, the Committee consider themselves jus-
tified in assuming the general correctness of the statements
of six weeks' traffic submitted to the Committee.
" The Committee are satisfied that, if any error has
been committed, the traffic has been rather understated
than otherwise; and they have, therefore, no hesitation
in reporting, that the extent of traffic exhibited in the
Table prepared by the Sktere.ary, and submitted to the
Committee, is a fair return of the existing traffic in the
district between Perth and Forfar, and such as they feel
themselves enabled, upon sound and bona fide grounds,
to recommend to the Provisional Committee as the basis
of their calculation of the probable receipts upon the
proposed Railway. " J. DALGAIRNS.
GEO. BUCHANAN.
HUGH WATSON.
W. D. PROCTOR.
JOHN M'NICOLL."
Lord Wharncl ffe congratulated the Meeting on the very
satisfactory Report the) had received, and expressed his
entire confidence in its accuracy. He recommended that
the Prospectus be re-issued, amending it by noticing the
result of the accounts of traffic, and the confidence with
which it may now be assumed that the concern is certainly I
safe as an investment, since the traffic actually now exist-
ing, as most carefully taken and subsequently tested, with-
out any prospective increase, affords, calculated at very
moderate rates a gross income of £25,854 9s. 10d. arising
chiefly from the local traffic of the district. If from this
even 45 per cent be deducted for costs of working, there
remains £14,219 of net income, equal to 41 per cent on
£300,000, which the Engineer has stated, and the Chair- i
man has full confidence, rightly stated, will be sufficient
for executing the works, assuming that only a single line
of rails is laid at present, but purchasing land and secur-
ing width of bridges and other conveniences for a double
line. So even without the increase of traffic consequen-
tial on the making of the Railway, there is a fair return
for capital. If there be the usual addition for consequen-
tial increase of traffic, say 100 per cent on the passengers,
the additional receipts at the rates assumed will be
£12,876 10s. and if 45 per cents for costs of working be
deducted (probably more than enough on the additional
traffic) be again deducted, the return on the capital will
be fully 7 per cent. Over and above all this there is the
great accession of thorough-going traffic naturally to arise
from the projected Railways to Perth, and from Aberdeen
and the North, which are to connect this Railway, for
local traffic, with the centre and west of Perthshire, and
with Fifeshire and Stirlingshire, and with the eastern
parts of Angus, and with Kincardine and Aberdeen, and
to make this Railway a link in the great chain of railway
communication between London and Aberdeen, and ulti-
mately, it is to be hoped, all the country north to Inverness.
It was ordered that, as recommended by the Chairman,
an amended Prospectus be now issued.
It was reported to the Meeting that the result of the
traffic for October promised to go beyond the average of
the preceding accounts, and that the Surveyors are of
opinion the traffic will continue during the winter months
beyond the average already reported, both on passengers
, and on weighable traffic.

Manta,

CLERK WANTED.

WANTED, a PERSON of respectability, having a
good knowledge of ACCOUNTS, of general busi-
ness habits, and unimpeachable integrity. The duties are
not onerous. Salary, £l2O a year.
The fullest particulars must be stated in the letter of
application, addressed to B. No. 4, Standard-office.

BOARD AND EDUCATION, IN SCOTLAND.
A CLERGYMAN of the Established Church of Scot-
.Cl- land, in a beautiful part of the country, and of easy
access to Edinburgh, receives into his Family a limited
number of YOUNG LADIES, to be Educated with his
own Daughters, by an accomplished Governess. The
accommodation is very superior, and every attention is
paid to health and comfort.
Terms and other particulars may be learned by applica-
tion to ROBERT WINGATE, Esq., Liverpool Apotheca-
ries' Hall; or Mr. SMITH, Bookseller, Prince's-street,
Edinburgh.

NATANTED, in the neighbourhood of Llangollen, a
'V COOK, DAIRYMAID, and HOUSEMAID.
The COOK must thoroughly understand making and
baking of bread and pastry, making pickles, preserves,
and soups, and the cooking of meat, poultry, game, and
fish. _ .

DAIRYMAID.—To assist in the milking of 15 or 16
cows, undertaking the general management of the dairy,
and as the churning is done by power, she will be required
to make herself generally useful in the house. She must
be enabled to write and understand accounts.
HOUSEMAID.—To understand the management of the
breakfast, drawing, and bed-rooms—superintend the linen,
mend the same, and also the stockincts ; the family being
small, will be required to undertake the family waiting,
and make herself otherwise generally useful.
Sunday visiting is not allowed ; nor letter writing, ex-
cept one hour in the week. Instead of Sundays out
one day's holiday a month, or two weeks to visit their
friends in the year, is allowed. The family attend the
Established Church, and require their servants to do the
same every Sunday. . The strictest investigation as to
character will be made.

Application (post paid) to J. M., Postoffice, Ruabon,
Denbighshire.
P.S.—English persons will have the preference.

VALUABLE MINING PROPERTY.

THE Proprietors of a MINE, now in successful opera-
tion, most rich and abundant in its Metallic Produc-
tions, and upon which they are erecting a powerful Steam
Engine and Machinery of every requisite description with
a view to its extensive working, desire to make a small
ADDITION to their CAPITAL ; which is scarcely ade-
quate to the prosecution of their undertaking on the pro-
posed scale. They are prepared to treat on terms of a
liberal nature ; and upon a principle excluding the re-
sponsibility which usually attaches to proprietorship in
in such undertakings.
Messrs. PRICHARD and COLLETTE, Solicitors, 57, Lin-
coln's Inn Fields, London, will communicate, to parties
disposed to treat, every necessary information.

LIVERPOOL NORTHERN HOSPITAL.
TO IRONFOUNDERS.
PERSONS desirous of TENDERING for the supply
of RANGES, BOILERS, STOVES, GRATES,
IRON BEDSTEADS, and IRON RAILING, required
at the New Hospital, in Great Howard-street, may see
the Specification at the Office of Mr. WELCH, Architect,
No. 7, Castle-street, Liverpool, where further particulars
may be known.
By order of the Committee,
EDWARD WELCH, Architect.

TARVIN HALL SCHOOL.
NEAR CHESTER,

tOR THE EDUCATION OF RESIDENT PUPILS
ONLY, under the superintendence and tuition of
the following resident Masters :
PRINCIPAL.—JOHN BRINDLEY, of Magdalen Col-
lege, Cambridge, Ph. D., M.A. of the University of
Giessen, formerly Second Master of the Grammar
School, Brigg ; and Head Master of the Oldswinford
Hospital endowed School, Worcestershire.
ASSISTANT.—CHARLES JONES, Trinity College,
Dublin.
FIRST CLASSICAL AND MATHEMATICAL MASTER.—
E. S. CROOKE, 8.A., Pembroke College, Cambridge,
in double honours.
FRENCH MASTER.—MONSIEUR BOIN, 8.A., of the
University of Paris.
GERMAN, DRAWING, AND MUSIC MASTER.—HERR
QUELLHURST, a Native of Hanover.
JUNIOR MASTER.—Mr. R. K. BROWNE.
DRILL MASTER, and Play Ground Superintendent.—
SERGEANT COX, late of the 40th Regiment.
The above Masters are resident.
TEACHER OF DANCING.—Mr. EDGAR WEBSTER,
Chester.
VISITING SURGEON.—Mr. GEORGE HARRISON,
Chester.
The objects aimed at in this Establishment are,
1. To insure a thorough Scriptural and Gentlemanly
Education, under Masters of high Classical and Mathe-
matical attainments.
2. To provide a sound Classical and Mathematical Edu-
cation for pupils preparing for the Universities and
learned Professions—and an equally sound course of bu-
siness instruction, with daily practice in the Modern Con-
tinential Languages for Mercantile scholars.
3. To maintain in every department the strictest Dis-
cipline, united with kindness and moderation, and the
absence of corporal punishment, except in extreme cases,
and then to be inflicted by the Principal only.
4. To treat the Pupils as members of the family, pro-
viding them liberally with domestic comforts at the same
table with the Principal and Masters.
5. To include under one cha-ge every expence both in
Educational and Domestic departments, that there may
no extras for Stationery, Printed Books, Washing, Medi-
cal Attendance, nor under any pretext whatever.
TERMS:
Under Twelve years of age . Forty Guineas per annum.
Above Twelve and under Sixteen years of age.. Fifty Gui-
neas per annum.
Above Sixteen years of age.. Sixty Guineas per annum.
Private Pupils are allowed a Private Study and seperate
Bedroom.. One Hundred Guineas per annum.
All payments to be made in advance, either Quarterly or
H al f-yearly.
Number of Pupils now in the School SIXTY-FIVE.
Tarvin Hall, September, 18-14.

A rencontre took place at an early hoar on Wednesday
morning last, between Mr. Potter,jun., son of the Mayor
of Newcastle, and Mr. Hernaman. editor of the Nucor:s-
ite Journal, when the former inflicted on the latter a
severe horsewhipping, in consequence of repeated perso-
nal reflections on the character of Mr. Potter, sen., hav-
ing appeared in the Journal. The matter, it is under-
stood, will undergo legal investigation.
FURS.—It will be seen by an advertisement in the first
page of our paper, that the branch of the Columbia River
Fur Company are offering to the public every new and
fashionable design in this useful and necessary article of
winter apparel, at prices, we hear the ladies say, sur-
prisingly low. The immense resources of the company,
and the fact of their concern, extensive as it is, being only
a branch of a still more important one, are things that
argue well for their being able to compete with any other.
establishment ; at least those of, our readers who are
about to purchase, should inspect their extensive stock.
The TEETH have ever been considered as forming one
co) the most pleasing ornaments of the human counte-
nance, and their preservation demands our utmost care
and attention. Indeed, if there be any loss that more
particularly affects the countenance than another, it is
that of the Teeth ; which the Dentist, however ingenious,
must ever vainly hope satisfactorily to replace by attificial
contrivance. The DECAY of the TEETH and GUMS
arises from various causes ; hot, principally, it tray be
attributed to early neglect, ill health, or the use of Tooth
Powders containing mineral substances and deleterious
acids, which give temporary whiteness to the Teeth, while
they corrode the enamel. To this fact, indeed, is princi-
pally to he attributed the long Botanical Research, which
was happily terminated by the most felicitous discovery
ever given to the world for the PRESERVATION of the
TEETH, GUMS, and BREATH. viz.—ROWLAND'S
ODONTO, or PEARL DENTRIFICE. Prepared
from Oriental Herbs with unusual care, and transmitted
to this country at great expense, ROWLAND'S ODONTO is
no less distinguished for its powerfully efficacious, anti-
dotal, and purifying virtues, in immediately arresting
caries, or decay in the Teeth, than for its stimulative
properties in fixing them (when loose) firmly in their
sockets, and in giving a healthy redness and firmness to
the Gums. Its corrective properties are in particular
most pleasingly displayed in respect to the BREATH—to
which it imparts a sweetness and fragrance not a little
gratifying to i's possessor. As the most efficient and fra-
grant aromatic cleanser of the Mourn, TEETH, and
GUMS ever known, ROWLAND'S ODONTO has now for a
long series of years occupied a distinguished place at the
Toilets of the Sovereigns and the Nobility throughout
Europe, while the general demand for it at once announces
the favour in which it is held by the public at large. It
should never be forgotten, that when wed early in life, it
effectually prevents all aches in the Teeth and Gums—
effaces all Spots and Discoloration whatsoever—eradicates
Scurvy—and, in a word, soon realizes the chief attribute
of Health and Beauty—A BEAUTIFUL SET OF TEETH !
Price 2s. 9d. per Box. The " Genuine Article" has the
words " A. ROWLAND AND SON, 20, HATTON- GARDEN,IS
engraved (by Authority) on the Government Stamp.
***All others are FRAUDULENT COUNTERFEITS ! ! !
ISLINGTON, LivEaPooc.—lslington, formerly " Folly-
Lane," was so called from a building which received
the name from its singular appearance. It stood on the
site of Christ Church, and was an appendage to a house
of entertaiment, called " Gibson's Coffee House," then
much frequented. The Coffee house being inadequate to
the wants of the customers, " mine host" applied to his
landlord, Alderman Shaw, to build an additional room.
The alderman having given his consent, Gibson erected a
tower, six yards square and six stories high, at the top 6f
which was a leaded roof, whence splendid views of the
surrounding country were obtained. These gardens were
the favourite resort of the upper and middle classes for
many years, and great regret was expressed on the tower
being taken down in 1769. The gardens were very exten-
sive, and well stocked with fine fruit trees and flowers.
There were two large fish ponds, in which fish of different
descriptions and water fowl were kept. There were also
howling-greens and skittle-alleys. The " Folly" was
noted for its fine ale, which was generally drank in the
gardens. A great gathering of the townspeople regularly
took place at Easter or Whitsuntide. Long after the
" Folly" had disappeared, the public-boluses in the vici-
nity were frequented by idle people at that period; hence
I arose " Folly Fair," which was diecontiuued in 1819.
1 Lacey's Pictorial Liverpool.