The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-11-10 00:00:00

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TRUSTEES.
BRANCKER. I WILLIAM POTTER, F,q

ROYAL BANK OF LIVERPOOL
SOLICITOR.

Sir. HENRY BREMNER, 3, Temple-court, Liverpool

SECRETARY PRO TEN

Mr. PETER LOWE, at the (Nice of the Company, Chapel-

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walks, Liverpool.
Offices of the Company-Chapel-walks, Liverpool, and
22, King-street, Guildhall, London.

PROSPECTUS.
PUBLIC attention has been so long engrossed by
one absorbing subject, that of the construction of Rail-
. . . ..e •1.- +11..t 1 ittln nr 1111 nnfira hou

ways in almost all parts o►
been taken of I loinestic inconvenience; nor has it occurred but
to few ~.orpong that the means of ►ocomotion in cities and towns

41-1-imbler classes at au expense wit

'ride in a carriage

,ppepret

d only by t'

warranted the expense, but the wants and necessities ot less
affluent persons becoming the subject of consideration, it was
~miectured, that if the diffusion of useful knowledge could be

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afforded by penny publications; the correspondence of tile
country carried on by a penny portage; and steam-boats
(as is the case in the Metropolis) raise large profits by
penny fares, there could scarcely be a doubt that, by
some happy change, a system might be introduced, add-
ing to these the advantages of a Penny-a-mile Omnibus,
thereby adding 'Free intercourse to Free-trade. The pro-
jectors spared neither time nor liains in procuring wen-
rate data of expenditure and' receipt of a single system
which they took for a basis, and which showed that this accom-
modation can be afforded at the price of one penny per mile on
orpeleze. and leave the capitalist a large percentage in the

shape of profits.-
respective otlices herein namen ;
the low
. charge to t,
-u and pay, and

iltl alt

they appe
le, yet wi,

enormous, consaie....°
considering how MUM" will rine ..._ . ,ne new system,
of the ,:,ÜBSCRIBERS and who never ride nor pay now, the amount will not be considered
The Company's Omnibuses are patented, and will be easy of
us exag&erated.
At •a' GENERAL. MPETINU . A 111 ,
SHA REI JOLDERS of and in the SHREWSBURY, WOLVER- entrance and exit, and about seven seats,. of a superior descrip-
HA bi PTON, ands SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE • JUNCTION'' tion, will be reserved Iv those who are willing to pay one penny
RAILWAY COMANY, specially convened as required by law, per mile extra for increased accommodation. These fares will
and held at the Swan Hotel, in Wolverhampton, On the 3d day be pre-paid,
so that no time will be lost in their collection.
of September, 1846, at Two o'clock in the Afternoon; the Pro- Arrangements are making to secure the exclusive use of the
visional Agreement entered into on the 30th of June, 1846, °e- patent Omnibuses within Liverpool and Birkenhead, and their
tween N. E. CocanunN, Esq., on behalf of the promoters of suburbs. They will start from such places as are most required
this undertaking, and Jamas R. Ilomi:, Esquire, on behalf of for passenger-traffic, will proceed on the average u mile, and
the promoters of the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway return to their starting-points. Other omnibuses will be in

obit Hartley be and he is now appointed the other