The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-10-07 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

CONSULTING ACTUARY.
J. J. Sylvester, Esq. M.A. F.R.S., Actuary of the Equity
and Law Life Assurance Society.
SURVEYORS.
Arthur Mee, Esq., Catlton-chambers, Regent-street ;
Frederick C. J. Parkinson, Esq., Sackville-street
SECRETARY.
George Cumming, Eft'.
THIS Company, in addition to all the usual business of
assurance companies, offers to the public a new sys-
tem of loans, more beneficial to the borrower, and yield-
ing a better return to the shareholder than any system at
present in use.
A reference to the Prospectuses of the Company (which
have been already advertised at length in the papers) and
which contain specimens of the tables, will show the mode
by which the Company will effect these objects.
The Company will, also, advance money on Annuity.
Mortgage, or other security.
Prospectuses, containing specimens of the tables and
Forms of application for Shares, and every information
can be obtained from, and applications for shares made
to, the Secretary, at the Company's Offices, No. 5, St.
James's-street, London ; Messrs. DAVIES and Sox,
Solicitors, 21, Warwick-street, Regent-street ; Messrs.
TUCKER, BARNETT, and ELLIS, brokers, Change-alley.
Cornhill ; JOHN EYKYN, Esq., broker, Change-alley,
Cornhill, London ; ROBERT M`EWEN, Esq., broker,
Manchester ; J. B. MUNDY, Esq., broker, Bath ; Messrs.
JOHN ROBERTSON and Co., brokers, Messrs. GORDON,
STUART, and CHEYNE, W.S., and JOHN R. CALVERT,
Esq., W.S., Edinburgh ; Messrs. MEIN and CUNNING-
HAM, brokers, Glasgow; W. N. Fist", Esq., North
British Exchange Company, Aberdeen; GEORGE GA-
THERER, Est] , solicitor, Elgin; and
D. and J. B. NEILSON, LIVERPOOL.

CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY,
E Directors of the Chester and Holyhead Railway
Company inform the Shareholders that, in accordance
with the intimation already made to them, Surveys are in
active progress, and the necessary preparations making to
enable the Company to apply to Parliament in the next
session for powers to construct the following BRANCH
LI

iNES :-
1. To MOLD and the MINERAL DISTRICT of
PLINTSHIRE.
2. Throughout the VALLEY of CLWYDD, accom-
modating in its route,RHYDDLAN, ST. ASAPH,
and RUTHIN.
3. To accommodate the traffic of the CONWAY
VALLEY and LLANRWST.
By order, GEORGE KING, Secretary.

BUXTON, MACCLESFIELD, CONGLETON,
AND CREWE RAILWAY.

PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED.
Capital £BOO,OOO, in 40,00,1 Shares of £2O each.
Deposit £2 2s. per Share.
The Names of the Provisional Committee will be pub-
lished in a few days.
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
William Jackson, Esq., Birkenhead. Chairman
Joseph Paxton, Esq., Chatsworth, t
Deputy-Chairmen
John Pickford, Esq., Congleton,
W. R. Collett, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Chester and
Holyhead Railway Company
Wm. Reid, Esq., Director of the Paris and Rouen Rail-
way Company
Jos. Hornby, Esq., 1 Directors of the Grand Junction
Lewin Mozley, Esq., J Railway Company
Robert Williamson, Esq., Ramsdill-hall, Cheshire
Joseph Bullock, Esq.,,Congleton
Sir J. Walnasley, Liverpool Directors of the
Wm, Potter, Esq., Birkenhead Chester and
John Somerville Jackson, Esq., Birkenhead
Birkenhead Railway Corn-
James Burt, Jun., Esq. Manchester pany.
T. Grimsditch, Esq., Macclesfield
Charles Potts, Esq., Mayor of Chester
ENGINEER-IN-CHIEF.
George Stephenson, Esq., C.E.
SOLICITORS.
John Latham, Esq., Town Clerk, Congleton
George Sawkins, Esq., Leek.
BANKERS.
Messrs. Glyn, Halifax, Mills, and Co., London
Liverpool Union Bank, Liverpool
Messrs. Cunliffe, Brooks, and Co., Manchester
North and South Wales Bank, Birkenhead
Messrs. Fowler, Gaunt, and Co., Congleton
Messrs. Williams and Co., Chester
Messrs. Brocklehurst and Co., Macclesfield
SECRETARY.
John Andrew, Esq.
COMPANY'S OFFICES, BIRKENHEAD.
THIS Railway will commence at Buxton by a junction
with the Manchester. Buxton, Matlock, and Mid-
lands Junction line, and will be carried by Bosley, Mac-
clesfield, and Congleton to Crewe, by which it will be im-
mediately connected with the Grand Junction Railway,
Warrington, Liverpool, and Birkenhead.
From Bosley the line will be continued to Macclesfield,
there to unite with the Manchester and Birmingham Rail-
way.
The chief object contemplated by this measure is to
open a direct railway communication between Derbyshire,
Cheshire, and Lancashire.
Consequent on this project, and by means of Compa-
nies already formed, access will be provided from Che-
shire and Lancashire, by way of Buxton, to Sheffield and
the whole of Yorkshire.
Accommodating in its course the towns of Maccles-
field, Leek, Congleton, and Sandbacb, (the seat of the
silk manufacture,) containing a population of 80,000 in-
habitants ; the line will also invite a very evtensive traffic
from the iron districts of Wolverhampton, the manufac-
tures of the Staffordshire Potteries, the inexhaustible coal
fields of Biddulph, the salt works of Lawton and the
Witches, the mineral districts of North Wales, and Der-
byshire, the port of Liverpool, and the rising and rapidly
increasing commerce of Birkenhead.
In alliance with the Grand Junction and Chester and
Holyhead Railways, this project will furnish the nearest
and best means of intercourse from Yorkshire and the
east coast, through Derbyshire and Cheshire to Ireland.
The local traffic of the various districts comprehended
in this line will be found of the highest importance.
The limestone quarries of Buxton (probably the best in
the kingdom) will be open to the iron works of Shrop-
shire and Staffordshire, and cannot fail to prove a great
source of profit.
The Cheshire salt works will be furnished with the most
direct access to Yorkshire and the seaports on the east
coast.
The coal fields of Biddulph will be opened by a short
branch of about four miles, and a cheap and abundant
supply of the very best coals will be thus afforded to the
salt and silk districts of Cheshire. Chester and the ra-
pidly increasing population of Birkenhead and the neigh-
bourhood on the one hand, and to Buxton and North
Derbyshire on the other.
The slate quarries of North Wales will be thrown open
to the eastern coast by the nearest route.
The conveyance of cattle from the Rotherham and
Sheffield markets into Cheshire, will form a great ingre-
dient in the Company's traffic ; whilst the cheese from
Cheshire will have immediate means of transit to the
eastern districts ; and the silk manufactures of Cheshire
insure a direct access into Derbyshire and Yorkshire.
The Liverpool and Birkenhead Docks will receive and
transmit to all parts of the world the various merchandize
and productions of Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Cheshire, and
the central districts of England.
During the summer mouths a great accession of visitors
and tourists may be expected from Cheshire to Buxton,
thence to witness the romantic and beautiful scenery of
the River Wye, Bakewell, Chatsworth, Matlock, and
Dovedale, to which it is proved there have been nearly
100.000 visitors annually, a number continually increasing.
The extraordinary increase of travelling which every
additional facility creates, and the unexpected influx of
trade which every new railway brings to the district with
which it is connected, render it probable that the advan-
tages which will he actually realized by this line will ex-
ceed the expectations of the most sanguine of its sup-
porters.
It is proper to notice that this line will form an impor-
tant auxiliary to several railways in actual or prospective
operation, which it proposes to connect together, without
being a competing project to any in existence, and at the
same time to observe that no other line can be formed to
compete with this.
From Crewe to Buxton the distance is short of twenty-
six miles, and adding the line to Macclesfield of five miles.
and the short I ranch of four miles to Biddulph, the whole
length of railway to be constructed is less than thirty•five
miles.
The gradients have been carefully examined , and through
the chief part of the line, from Crewe beyond Bosley, are
extremely favourable, and the remaining portion to Bux-
ton presents considerably less engineering difficulties than
the appearance of the country at the first glance indicates,
and none but such as will be easily overcome.
The Capital proposed is considered ample for the pur-
pose of construc.ing and working the railway ; and power
will be taken in the act to allow £4 per cent. per annum
on all calls and deposits, until the line is actually opened.
Applicants for Shares, who are personally known to
members of the Provisional Committee, are requested to
refer to one of such committee; those who hold stock in
the Grand Junction, Chester and Birkenhead, and Ches-
ter and Holyhead Railways, or in the Manchester, Bux-
ton, Matlock, and Midlands Junction, respectively, are
requested to state that fact in their applications. Other
applicants will be required to give reference to some
Banker or other party of known respectability in London,
or the town from which such application is made.
A Prospectus and Forms of Applications for Shares
may be obtained on application to the Bankers of the
Company, in Liverpool, Chester, Manchester, and Con-
gleton; to the Solicitors; or to J. DUNCAN, Esq., 72,
Lombard-street, London.
In the allotment of shares local interests will have due
consideration.
The Company has had the gratification of securing the
the invaluable services of George Stephenson, Esq.,under
whose direction the line will be laid out.
Applications may be made in the following form, to the
Provisional Committee, at the Offices of the Company, in
Birkenhead.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Buxton, Maccles-
field, Congleton, and Crewe Railway.
Gentlemen,--I request you will allot to me
Shares of £2O each in the above undertaking ; and I
hereby agree to accept the same, or such less number as
you may appropriate to me, subject to the regulations of
the company ; and to pay the deposit, and to sign the
Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers Agreement
when required.
Dated this day of , 1815.
Name in full—

Residence

Business or Profession
Name and Residence of a Referee of respectability.

IMPORTANT.
CHANGE OF NAME.
THE CHESTER & WOLVERHAMPTON RAM-
WAY will, in all future advertisements, be called
" THE DIRECT LONDON AND LIVERPOOL
RAILWAY COMP.NY."

DIRECT LONDON AND LIVERPOOL
RAILWAY, _ _

BY A JUNCTION FROM CHESTER TO WOLVERHAMPTON.
THROUGH NEWPORT AND WHITCHURCH.
(Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and 8 Vict., c
110.)
CAPITAL, £1,000,000, in... 50,000 Shares of £2O each