The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-10-22 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

BIRKENHEAD FESTIVAL.

BIRKENHEAD FESTIVAL.

A ItRANGEIVIITB."-tiave been made with the Com_
missioners of Birkenhead for the STEAM-BOATS
to PLY throughout the NIGHT of the 23d instant, and
alsa with the Chester and Birkenhead Railway Company
for SPECIAL TRAINS to run from Birkenhead after
the Dinner and Ball.
Committee-room, Birkenhead, 15th October, 1844.

Messrs. W. 0. and W. Hunt. 10, Whitehall;- and
Messrs. Staff, Steward, and Tillett, Norwieb.
SCCRKTARY.

James F. Saunders,Esq.. Brook street, Ipswicb.
RANKERS.
Norwich Me!,srs. Gurneys and Co.
Messrs. Harveys and Hudson.
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Ipswich
..Messrs. Bacon and Co.
Hu11.... ...... Messrs. Pease, Liddell, and Co.

Huddersfield.. The Union Bank of Hudersfield.
Halifax Huddersfield..
Stowmarket ... Messrs. Oakes, Bevan,- and Co.
Diss
.
London . Messrs'. Glynn, Hallifax, Mills, and Co.
BY this undertaking it is proposed to establish a direct
Railway communication between the city of Norwich
(the metropolis of the eastern district of district of Eng-
land) and the town and port of Ipswich, at which place
it will johithe Railway to London.
The Line will pass through the towns of Diss and
Stowmarket, and through or near Long Stratton, Eye,
and Mendlesham, and Needham Market and the adjacent
populous districts, and will be in near communication
with the towns of Harleston, Bungay, and Beccies, on
the. River Wavenhey, to which places an extension may
be advantageously m de. It also combines the advantage
of a direct communication with the port of Yarmouth.
Very considerable commerce and intercourse have
always subsisted between Norwich, Diss, and Ipswich,
which this project will greatly facilitate and increase.
This Line will be an extension of the Eastern Union
Railway, and will, by means of the Eastern Counties
Railway from C tichester, give the city of Norwich and
an extensive and thickly populated country a direct com-
mnnication with London, fourteen miles shorter than by
the Norwich and Brandt.n and Northern and Eastern
lines.
The proposed Railway is strictly identified with the
agricultural, commercial, and tnatinfacturing interests of
the entire district, and, whilst it affords the greatest con-
venience to the public, it offers to the Shareholders a
prospect of, a very ample return on the capital embarked.
The Line has been surveyed by Mr. Locke, who has
reported, thatthe character of the country to be traversed
will render the Line easy of construction, and, as the gra-
dients are favourable, it will be an economical Line to
wutk. • • .

A careful estimate of the present traffic between .Ips-
with and Norwich has been made, which, after allowing
40 per cent. for the expenses of working the Line, shows
a return of. upwards of 7 per ce-it. on the capital re-
'quired.
The Map annexe:l to this Prospectus indicates the
course of the intended Line and shows the population of
the principal towns which will be accommodated by the
undertaking.

The capital proposed to be raised, £650,000, will enable
the Company to cimnlete a double Line from the termi-
nus of the Eastern Union Railway, at Ipswich, to Nor-
wich, at distance of forty-five miles : part of this Line
will have the advantage of participating in a double traffic
from being connected, not only with the Line to Nor-
wich, but with a Line now projected, branching from this
Undertaking at a point about fourteen miles north of Ips-
wich to Cambridge, through Bury St. Edmonds. as
shown on the map.
Norwich as well as Cambridge (and, eventually, by
other connecting Railroads, the whol of the manufactur-
ing districts) will thus be in direct communication, at
Ipswich, with the line of steame.s proposed to be esta
blished from Harwich harbour to Hamburgh, Rotterdam,
Antwerp, and Ostend ; will be within ten hours of the
last-named place ; and, according to the statement lately
published by the proposed European Steam-packet Com-
pany, within twenty-four hours of Harnburgh.
The usual powers wilt be taken in the act to allow in-
terest at„ four per cent. on the amount of subscriptions
paid up. •
Applications for Shares may be addressed to Messrs.
FORSYTH and PRITCHA.RD, Liverpool; and J. B.
LOCKS, Esq., and JOHN BARLOW, Esq., Manchester, of
whom Prospectuses may be obtained.