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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-11-25 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

are intended to be made, will be deposited on or before
the 31st day of December in the present year, with the
parish clerks of those parishes respectively, at their re-
spective residences.
Dated this 3rd day of November, 1845.
PARKER, HkYES, BARNW
Lincoln'sEL IL, &
Fie TWISDEN,
1, nn lds.
POTTS'S and BROWN, Chester.
SLATER and HEELIS, Manchester.
JAMES WHEELER, Manchester.
LOXDALE and PEELE, Shrewsbury.
HENRY HEANE, Newport, Salop.

SHROPSHIRE UNION RAILWAY AND CANAL.
(WORCESTER AND SHREWSBURY.)
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that Application is
intended to be made to Parliament in the ensuing
Session, for an Act or Acts to authorize the construction
and maintenance of the following railways, or some of
them, or some part or parts thereof, with all proper works,
approaches, and conveniences connected therewith, name-
ly, a railway commencing by a jducticiri with the line of
the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolyerliampton Railway, as
at present authorized to bee made, at or near the Union
Workhouse, in the parish of St. Martin, in the city of
Worcester, and in the county of the same city, and termi-
nating at or near the'Abbey Foregate, near the English
Bridge, in the parish of Holy Cross and St. Giles, in the
borough of Shrewsbury aforesaid, which said intended
railway and other works connected therewith will pass
from, in, through, or into, or will be situate within the
several parishes, townships, extra-parochial, or other
places following, or some of the,m, (that is to say,)
Claines, Whistones otherwise Whitstones, Barbourne,
Saint George, Saint Oswald, Saint Martin, Saint Nicho-
las, Saint Clement, Saint John in Bedwardine, otherwise
Saint John, Saint John in Bedwardine, otherwise Saint
John, All Saints, Saint Peter, otherwise Saint Peter the
Great, Battenhall, Upper Battenhall, Lower Battenhall,
Michne Battenhall, and the Blockhouse, otherwise Block-
house Fields, otherwise Saint Pauls in the city of Wor-
cester and county of the city of 'Worcester ; Saint Martin,
Saint Nicholas, Saint Clement, Saint John in Bedwar-
dine, otherwise Saint John, Saint John in Bedwardine,
otherwise Saint John, All Saints, Hallow, Grimley, Saint
Peter, otherwise Saint Peter the Great ; the Blockhouse,
otherwise Blockhouse Fields, otherwise Saint Penis,
Whittington, Claines, Smite, Tappenhall, otherwise Ta-
penhall, Upper Tapenhall, Lower Tapenhall, Tollerdine,
Astwood, Bevere, Northwick, Bevere Green, Hawford,
Whistones, otherwise Whitstones, Barbourne, Saint
George, Acton with Doverhampton, Comhampton, Mount
Pleasant, Oldfield, Ras, Northampton, Holt Fleet, Tytch-
ney Holt, Mayeux with Chatley, Hadley with Hay Elms,
Ombersley, Winnall, Half-way-House, Northampton
Parsonage with Payers, Tapenhall, Sychampton, Ben-
netts, Uphampton, Brookhampton with Combampton,
Chatley, Acton, Hadley, Lineholt, Boreley, otherwise
Borlev, Powers, Parsonage, Dunhanapton, Shrawley,
Hartlebury, Hampstall, Astley, Lincomb, Titton, Mit-
t .n, Upper Mitton, Lower Mitton, Stourport, Parish of
Kidderminster, The Foreign of Kidderminster, Wolver-
ley, Kingsford, Blackstone, Wribbenhall, Hoarstone,
Bewdley, Holt, Little Witley, Ribbesford, Arley Kings,
Astley, Grimley, Hatton, Henwick, Netherton, and Ey-
more, in the county of Worcester; Upper Areley, other-
wise Upper Arley, in the county of Stafford ; Dowles, Kin-
let, Kinlet, Earnwood, Highley, otherwise Higley, Ne-
therton, Stanley, Alveley, Chelmarsh, Chelmarsh, Hamp-
ton, Sutton, Quatt, Quatt Quatt Malvern, Dud-
maston, Mose, Romsley, Quaff rd, Eardington, Oldbury,
Oldbury, Saint Leonard, Saint Mary Magdalen, Bridge
north the borough of Bridgnorth, Tasley, Nordlev Regis,
Astley, Astley Abbotts, Astley Abbotts, Willey, Willy,
Stockton, Stockton, Norton, Barrow, Barrow, Caugh-
ley, Linley, Linley, Broseley, Broseley, Swinny,
Rowton, Burton, Marsh, Jackfield, Madeley, Made-
ley, Coalport. Iron Bridge, St. Luke Iron Bridge,
Coalbrook, Coalbrook Dale, Benthall, Buildwas,
Buildwas Abbey and Lands, Burnt Houses, Much Wen-
lock, Much Wenlock, Wyke and Bradley, Shineton,
Leighton, Leighton, Garmston, Belswardine, Cound,
Cressage, Upper Cound, Lower Cound, Harnage, Gold-
ing, Eaton Constantine, Wroxeter, Eyton and Dryton,
Wroxeter, Norton, Rushton, Donnington, Berrington,
Berrington, Brompton, Eaton Mascott, Cantlop, Cross
Houses, Betton, Great Betton, Abbots Betton, Betton
Abbots, Saint Chad, Little Betton, Betton Strange,
Betton and Alkmere, Atcharn, otherwise Atting-
ham, Atcham, otherwise Attingham, Emstrey, Chil-
ton, Cronk Hill, Berwick Maviston, Uckington,
Longner, Sutton, Sutton Mill, Meole Brace, otherwise
Brace Meole, Saint Julian, Saint Mary, Saint Alkmond,
Shrewsbury, Coleham. Trinity, Coleham, Abbey Foregate,
Holy Cross and Saint Giles, and the Stone Ward With-
out, in the county of Salop. Also a railway diverging
out of the said first-mentioned intended railway at or near
Swinney Farm, in the parish of Broseley, in the said
county of Salop, and terminating by a junction with a
certain projected railway called the Shrewsbury and Bir-
mingham Railway, at or near to the Holyhead Turnpike
Road, near Oaken Gates, in the parish of Shiffnal, in the
said county of Salop ; and which said last-mentioned in-
tended railway, and other works connected therewith, will
pass from, in, through, into, or will be situate in, the se-
veral parishes, townships, extra-parochial, and other
places following (or some of them), that is to say,—Bar-
row, Barrow, Caughley, Swinney, Stockton, Stockton,
Norton. Broseley, Broseley, Coalport, Sutton Maddock,
Sutton Maddock, Brockton, Brockton, Madeley, Made-
ley, Kemberton, Kemberton, Stirchley, Stirchley, Daw-
ley, Dawley Magna, Dawley Magna, Dawley Parva,
Shiffnall, Shiffnall, Woodside, the Hem, Shaw and Wyke,
Blythebury, Prior's Lee, Malinslee, Pain's Lane, Worn-
bridge, Wombridge, and Oaken Gates, in the county of
Salop. Also another railway diverging out of the said
first mentioned intended railway at or near Sansome
Fields, in the parish of Claines, in the city of Worcester,
and county of the city of Worcester, and terminating at
or near to the western end of the bridge over the river
Severn, at Worcester, either in the parish of Saint Cle-
ment, in the city of Worcester, and county of the city of
Worcester, or in the parish of Saint John in Bedwardine,
otherwise Saint John, in the said county of Worcester;
which said last-mentioned intended railway will pass
from, in, or through, or be situate within, the several pa-
rishes, townships, and extra-parochial or other places fol-
lowing, or some of them, that is to say,—Claines, Whis-
tones, otherwise Whitstones, Saint George, Saint Os-
wald, Saint Nicholas, Pitchcroft, The Butts, Saint Cle-
ment, All Saints, Saint Andrew, Saint John in Bedwar-
dine, otherwise Saint John, Saint John in Bedwardine,
otherwise Saint John, and Henwick in the city of Wor-
cester, and county of the city of Worcester ; and Claines,
Oldbury, Wick Episcopi, Saint John in Bedwardine,
otherwise Saint John, and Saint John in Bedwardine,
otherwise Saint John, in the county of Worcester. Also
another railway diverging out of the said first mentioned
intended railway, at or near the confluence of the rivers
Salwarp and Severn, in the parishes of Claines, and Om-
bersley, or one of them, in the county of Worcester, and
terminating at or near the above-mentioned western end
of the bridge over the river Severn ; which said last• men-
tioned railway will pass from, in, or through, or be si-
tuate within, the several parishes, townships. and extra-
parochial or other places following, or some of them, that
is to say,—Ombersley, Chatley, Mayeux with Chatley,
Hadley with Hay Elms, Tapenhall, otherwise Tappenhall,
Claines, Hawford, Bevere, Bevere Green, Common Hill,
Northwick, Barbourne, Hallow, Grimley, Henwick, Saint SHEFFIELD, ASHTON-UN DER-LYNE, AND
Clement, Saint John in Bedwardine, otherwise Saint MANCHESTER RAILWAY.
John, Saint John in Bedwardine, otherwise Saint John, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a SPECIAL
Wick Episcopi, and Oldbury, in the county of Worcester, 111 GENERAL MEETINGof the SHAREHOLDERS
and Henwick, Claines, Pitchcroft, Saint Clement, Saint of the SHEFFIELD, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, and
John in Bedwardine, otherwise Saint John, Saint John in MANCHESTER RAILWAY COMPANY will be held
Bedwardine, otherwise Saint John, in the city of Worces- at the Cutlers' Hall, in Sheffield, on WEDNESDAY, the 3d
ter, and county of the city of Worcester. day of December next, at One o'clock in the Afternoon,
And it is also intended by such Act or Acts to take to consider the expediency of entering into, and, if so
power to stop up, alter, or divert, whether temporarily or determined upon, to ratify and empower the entering into
permanently, all turnpike and other roads and highways, and carrying into effect by this Company, or by the Di-
railways, tramways, aqueducts, canals, sewers, pipes, rectors thereof in their behalf, offthe whole or any of the
streams, and rivers within the aforesaid parishes, town- arrangements or proposed arrangements hereinafter men-
ships, and extra-parochial or other places, or any of them tinned with all or any of the companies, and for all or any
which it may be necessary to stop up, alter, or divert, by of the purposes following, that is to say—
reason of the construction of the said intended railways I.—An arrangement following,
arrangement with the
and works, or any of them ; and it is also intended by Sheffield and Lincoln; ire Junction Railway Company,
such Act or Acts to enable the united Company of Pro- the Sheffield and Litticolnshire Extension Railway Com-
prietors of the Ellesmere and Chester Canal, in conjunc- pulp, the Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway
tion with other persons to be incorporated with them, to Company, and the Grimsby Docks Company, for an
carry into effect the said intended undertaking, or any part amalgamation of the said four Companies and their re-
thereof, and to take powers for the purchase of lands by spective undertakings, or all or any of them, with the said
compulsion or agreement, for the purposes thereof, arid Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manchester Railway
for levsing tolls, rates, and duties in respect thereof, and Company and their undertaking, upon terms to be agreed
to grant certain exemptions from such tolls, rates, and to at the said meeting.
duties : and it is further intended by such Act or Acts to 2.—An arrangement or proposed arrangement with the
vary or extinguish all existing rights or privileges in any Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal Com-
manner connected with the lands proposed to be pur- pany, for an amalgamation of that Company and their
chased or taken for the purposes of the said undertaking, undertaking with the said Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne,
or ehieh would in any manner impede or interfere with and Manchster Railway Company and their undertaking,
the construction, maintenance, or use thereof, and to con- or otherwise with the said Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne,
for otherrights and privileges. and Manchester Railway Company, jointly with tire said
And it is further proposed by the said intended Act or Sheffield and Lincolashire Junction Railway Company,
Acts to enable the Company who may be thereby autho- the said Sheffield and Lincolnshire Extension Railway
rized to carry the said intended undertaking, or any part Company, the said Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction
thereof, into effect, to purchase or Hee on lease the canal Railway Company, and the said Grimsby Docks Company,
known as the Shropshire Canal Navigation, or some part and their respective undertakings, or with all or any of
or parts thereof, together with all or any of the lands, them, upon terms to be agreed to at the said meeting.
buildings, rights and powers of the Shropshire Canal Na- 3.—An arrangement or proposed arrangement with the
vigation Company, and of any persons or corporations (if Hull and Barnsley Junction Railway Company, for sub-
any) interested therein ; and to enable the said last-men- scribing a portion of the Capital of that Company, and for
tinned Company, and such persons or corporations, to sell taking a share or interest therein, and in the management
or let and to transfer the same, and to dissolve the said thereof, upon terms to be agreed to at the said meeting.
last-mentioned Company, and to incorporate and unite the 4.--An arrangement or proposed arrangement with the
proprietors therein, or some of them, with the Company South Yorkshire Coal Railway Company, for subscribing
who may be so authorized to carry the said intended un- a portion of the Capital of that Company, and for taking a
dertakirrg, or any part thereof, into effect as aforesaid. share or interest therein, and in the management thereof,
And it is further intended by such Act or Acts, or by upon terms to be agreed to at the said meeting.
some other Act to be applied for in the next Session of s.—An arrangement or proposed arrangement with the
Parliae ent, to authorize an increase of the capital of the Boston, Newark, and Sheffield Railway Company, and
said United Company of Proprietors of the Ellesmere with the Nottingham, Mansfield, and Midland Junction
and Chester Canal, and the admission and incorporation Railway Company, for subscribing a portion of the Capi-
of new subscribers in the said Company for the objects tal of those Companies respectively, and for taking a share
aforesaid ; and to amend, enlarge, and repeal all or some and interest therein, and in the management thereof ; and
of the powers and provisions of the several Acts relating also for taking the same undertakings perpetually on lease,
to the Ellesmere and Chester Canal Navigation, passed upon terms to be agreed to at the said meeting.
respectively in the Bth year of the reign of his late Ma• 6.—An arrangement or proposed arrangement with the
jesty King George the Fourth ; in the 11th year of the Sheffield, Wortley, Silkatone, and Wakefield Railway
reign of his said Majesty King George the Fourth; in the Company, for subscribing a portion of the Capital of that
first year of the reign of her present Majesty Queen Vic- Company, and for taking a share and interest therein, and
toria ; in the sth year of the reign of her said present in the management thereof, and also for taking the same
Majesty ; and in the Bth year of the reign of her said pre- undertaking on lease, upon terms to be agreed to at the
sent Majesty Queen Victoria; and also all or some of the said meeting.
provisions of the Act incorporating the said Shropshire 7.—An arrangement or proposed arrangement with the
Canal Navigation Company passed in the 28th year of the Company of Proprietors of the Peak Forest Canal, for the
reign of his late Majesty King George the Third, and to purchase of their canal undertaking, with its property and
vary or extinguish all rights or privileges (if any) claimed liabilities, at a perpetual yearly rent, and on terms to be
under the said Acts, or any of them, which would impede agreed to at the said meeting.
or interfere with the objects aforesaid. B.—An arrangement or proposed arrangement with the
And also to alter, vary, extinguish, or repeal the tolls, Company of Proprietors of the Macclesfield Canal, for
rates, and duties, authorized by the said last-recited Act
to be taken on the said Shropshire Canal, and to enable purchase of their canal undertaking, with its property and
liabilities, at a perpetual yearly rent, and on terms to be
the Company who may be authorized to carry the said in- agreed to at the said meeting.
tended undertaking, or any part thereof, into effect, as And NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTHER GIVEN,
aforesaid, to use and work the said canal, and to levy that at the said Meeting the various Branch Railways,
tolls, rates, and duties in respect thereof.
which the directors deem it expedient to project in exten-
And notice is hereby further given, that maps or plans eion of the main line of railway, (and which consist of the
and sections of the said intended railways and works, and Barnsley, Worsborough, Chapeltown, Whaley Bridge,
of the lands proposed to be taken for the purposes thereof, Hayfield, Dukinfield, and Glossop branches,) will be sub-
together with books of reference to such plans, containing I mitted to the shareholders for their assent thereto or dis-
the names of the reputed owners, lessees, and occupiers of sent therefrom ; and power shall be taken at the said
such lands, will be deposited on or before the 30th day of Meeting, if the said Meeting so determine, enabling the
November in the present year, with the clerk of the peace said directors to adopt and prosecute all necessary and
for the county of 'Worcester, at his office in the city of proper steps for carrying into effect the various arrange.
Worcester, with the clerk of the peace for the county of ments above mentioned, and for obtaining legislative
the city of Worcester, at his office in the said city of Wor- sanction thereto, and to the said proposed branches, in the
cester ; with the clerk of the peace for the county of Staf- ' next session of Parliament. and on other special matters.
ford, at his office in Stafford ; and with the clerk of the t JOHN PARKER, Chairman.
peace for the county of Salop, at his office in ShreaveburY, JOHN CEIAPMAN, Deputy-chairman.
and that a copy of so much of the maps or plans, sections JOHN PLATFORD. Secretary.
and books of reference as relates to each of the parishes in Company's Offices, London-road, Zlntiphester,
or through which the said intended railwaye and wPae 17th November, 1845,

BURTON-UPON-TRENT, STAFFORD, SHREWS-
BURY, AND NEWTOWN RAILWAY.
THE Committee of Management beg to announce that
they have now completed their investigation into the
several Applications for Shares in this Company, and the
Letters of Allotment have been posted.
The Committee regret, that, in consequence of the large
number of Applications received, tyey have been compelled
to pass over many parties of kpe'wn responsibility, whilst
they have been obliged to 3;ediice the Allotment in almost
every instance.
The Committee have the satisfaction to state, that the
Survey of the Line is completed, and they are assured by
their Solicitors that the Plans and References will be
ready to enable them to make an early application to Par-
liament in the ensuing Session.
By order,
R. HENRY RYLAND, Secretary.
No. 1, Moorgate, London, 13th Nov., 1845.

THE DIRECT LINCOLN, EAST RETFORD, AND
SHEFFIELD JUNCTION RAILWAY.
APPLICANTS for SHARES in this undertaking are
respectfully informed, that
At a MEETING of the MANAGING COMMITTEE,
held on the 14th day of November instant,
The Right Hon. LORD ED)VARD CHICHESTER