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

LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY
REDUCTION OF FARES.
THE Public are respectfully informed, that on and
after SATURDAY, the 2d November next, the follow-
ind will be the Passenger Fares between Liverpool and
Manchester :
First Clars Fares 65. Od.
Second Class 4s. Od.
Third Class
DAY TICKETS (not Transferable) to Manchester,or
Liverpool and Beck on the same day Ten Shillings,
eqnalling each way Five Shillings.
The Public are further informed that from and after
the same date there will be Two Third Ong-Trains per
Day, one in the Morning and one i *e Evening, from
each end of the line.
The Times of Departure wt e published in bills of
the day.
The Directors feel tha ome explanation is due to the
Shareholders upon th nnouncement of so large an ad-
ditional measure o accommodation, and so important a
reduction of fares, within six months after the opening of
the Extension Line through Salford, upon which nearly
£250,000 have been expended, especially as the general
Seale of Fares on the Liverpool rnd Manchester Railway
has never exceeded, and has generally been below that of
the principal railways in England, including those in im-
mediate connexion with this district.
The Directors are happy to be able to state that the
traffic accounts for the quarter just ended exhibit a very
gratifying increase orer the corresponding quarter of last
year; a result, in part to be attributed to the Extension
Railway lately opened, forming a direct and continuous
line of communication with Yorkshire and the East Coast,
but in cart, also, to the general revival of trade, which the
Directors trust will he steady and permanent, giving in-
creased activity to the internal truffle of the country.
This favourable state of things has encouraged the
Directors to adopt a more decided course than they would
otherwise have been justified in doing; and they cheer-
fully recognize the broad and general principle that the
public may fairly claim to participate, from time to time,
by means of increased accommodation or reduced rates,
in the continued success of the company.
Moreover, they will not conceal from the Proprietors,
that in the present position of railway interests, with a
superabundance of unemployed capital and a speculative
spirit abroad, which, every day, conjures into shape and
promise new and rival projects, existing lines must be
prepared, even at some sacrifice, to supply the public with
ample accommodation, on the most reasonable terms, if
they would maintain the ground which they have heretofore
occupied—each in its own locality.
For this purpose the outlay of additional capital must
be required, the return for which can be expected only
from an increase of traffic, consequent on the increased
prosperity of the country. But the Directors feel assured
that a deference to public opinion, exemplified by the
course of policy now recommended, will best enable them
to maintain a safe position, and to defeat, if need be, the
attempts of rival and hostile undertakings.
By order,

HENRY BOOTH, Manager.
Liverpool, 14th October, 1844.

ST. HELEN'S & SOUTHPORT, WIGAN, RAIN-

FORD, AND LIVERPOOL RAILWAY.
THE Public are respectfully info-wed that it is proposed
1. to CONSTRUCT a LINE of RAILWAY, with
the r Branches, to accoinpliah the following irepor-
tant_4-bjects:—

First : To bring the extensive Coal Districts to the west
of Wigan, comprising the Coal Fields of Winstauley, 80/jive,
/jive, Ruinford, and Kirkby, into a cheap and easy com-
munication with Liverpool, via the,expool anti Man-
chester Railway.

Knore direct commoni-
North, by the propused

Second : 'ro effect a shorter a
cation b tween Liverpool and t
new Line, to Wigan.
And Third: By a Rail v from St. Helen's, through
the Coaltields of Bicke .taff and Lathom, to join the
Enston and Southport ailw,,y at a place west of Ruffml;
thereby affonliiig to tt Town of Ormskirk a pod railway
communicaiion witl Liverpool, Manchester, Preston, and
other places already connected by existing railways, he•
sides completing a railway commnnication between Man-
che:ter, Stockport., and the Manufacturing Districts as
Well a: between Wolverhampton, Birmingham and the
great Iron Districts, and the agreeable Watering-place of
ouTurota.

The peculiar advantage of the proposed scheme of Rail-
way is, that it will afford, at a comparatively small outlay.
(by making the of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway,
and by arrangements with St. Helen's Railway,) the
valuable option of several distinct modes of outlet fur the
produce of the great Coal Field which it is proposed to
intersect namely:
First: By the Liverpool and Manchester Line, to effect
a do ect railway communication with those towns.
Second: By the St. Helen's and Runcorn-gap Railway,
to Mown a short and direct communication with the river
Mersey, either for export to Ireland, fur the supply of the
Salt-works in Cheshire. or for the Steam-vessels which
now sail from the river Mersey to all parts of the world.
And Third : In ?Addition to a new railway communica-
tion from Edge-hill to the north end of the town, which
the Liverpool and Manchester Company have in contem-
plation, and will be prepared to execute as soon as the
traue of the pert shall require increased accommodation,
a connexion will also be formed ith the Leeds and Liver-
pool Canal, which the proposed Line will cross between
Ortnskirk and RefTwil, by a hid, a water conveyance to
the north end of Liverpool will be effected.
By the proposed scheme, while ample facilities will be
afforded to'the Proprietor to bring his Mineral Produe;s to
the general Market, existi..g interests will be respected,
and that waste of the- national capital be avoided, which
must be sustained where a million of money is expended
to accomplish objects which by more judicious arrange-
ments could be effected by a quarter of that sum.
To ensure the most skilful, comprehensive, and at the
same time economical system of Lines and of Working, of
which the district is capable, the Promoters are happy to
announce that they have engaged the services of George
Stephenson, Esq., who has consented to act as Principal
Engineer for the setting out and construction of the Line,
—in regard to which the interests of the Lauded Proprie-
tors of thexeuntry proposed to be traversed will as far as
possible be'eonsulted.

Further particulars, with the names of the Provisional
Committee, will shortly be published.
CLAY and SWIFT.

Liverpool, 7111 October, 1841.

LONDONDERRY & ENNISKILLEN RAILWAY.

CAPITAL, £500,000, in 10,090 SHARES of f5O each.
Deposit, £2 10s. per Share.

PROVISIONAL. COMMITTER.

Right Honourable the Earl of CharLemont, Lieutenant of
the County Tyrone.
Right Honourable the Earl of Roden.
Right Honourable the Earl of Wicklow, Lieutenant of

- the County Wicklow.
Right Honourable the Earl of Erne, Lieutenant of the
County Fermanagh.
Right Honourable the Lord Mayor o
Sir Robert A. Ferguson, Bart„ . ...).
County Derry.
Sir James Stewart, Bart., F,_ !
Sir Edmund Hayes, Bart.
Sir Robert Bateson, Bar
Alderman Humphrey, .
the Irish Society
The Honourable El . Cole, M.P. for Enniskillen.
./evieflie.....--
Rev. John Grey Pt zter,Belleisle.
Colonel Barton, Waterfoor, Pettigo, D.L.
William it: Corlett. Esq., M.P., London Provisional
William Edmund Ferrers, Esq. Committee of the
William H. Thomas, Esq., Dundalk and En-
John G. Frith, Esq., niskillen Railway.
Francis Macnaghttn, Esq.
George Tyrrell, Esq.
George W I,,itmore, Esq.
George Ho'yte, Esq., Edenmore, Raheny.
Without Henry, Esq., "Mounijoy-square, Dublin.
Thomas Mooney, Esq , Kilmacud house, Dublin.
Richard Wright, Esq., Pembroke-place, Dublin.
Peter Eckersky, Esq., Hollyhro,)k-park, Dublin.
Edward Atkinson, Esq.. Carrickhrenttan-house, Dundalk.
John Stratton, Esq., Dundalk.
Ninian B. M'lntire, Esq., Clover-bill, Dublin.
Connolly M'Causland Lecky, Esq., Londonderry.
Hugh Lyle, Esq., Carnagrave, D.L.
William Brown, Eq., Cumber-house.
William ilasktt, Esq., Mayor of Derry.
William Mackay, Esq., Derry.
Patrick Gilmour, Esq., Derry.
Andrew A. Watt, Esq., Derry.
Robert M'lnt re, Esq., Derry.
James T. Mackay. Esq., Derry.,
J. W. Johnston, Esq., Troy.
William Leathern, Esq., Thornhill, Derry.
John Munn, Esq., Derry.
Robert Bond, Esq., St. Columbia.
William F. M'lntire, Derry.
John Leathern, Esq.. Derry.
Oliver Bond, Esq., Pennyburn. .
Francis Regan, Esq., M.D., Derry.
Stewart Gordon Esq., Derry.
Frederick, H. Hemming, Secretary to the London
Committee.
Pitt Skipton, Secretary to the Derry Committee.
Sir John Macneill, Engineer, LL.D., F.R.S.
SOLICITORS.
Timothy Tyrrell. Esq., Guildhall, London,
and
Samuel Law Crawford, Esq., Londonderry.
LONDON BANKERS. .
Messrs. Robarts, Curtis, and Co.
IRISH BANKERS.
The Bank of Ireland and its Branches.
The Provincial Bank of Ireland, and its Branches.
Royal Dublin Bank.
Northern Bank Belfast,
}
B'-lfast Bank, and their Branches.
Ulster Bank,

i...ondon.
0., Lieutenant of the

Stewart.
Z.P. and D.L.
(7aistrueB, J .P.
P., Governor of the Honourable

It is material to state, that on application to the Ho-
nourable the Irish Society, v, thave so much interest in
the land upon which part
Line is intended to be
the following
made, they came to Resolution; and there
is every reason to believe that they
the land without charge :-:•-• will eventually give
II was Resolved,
the
eskilee siti construction
albe
" That in the opinion of this Society,
of a Railway from Londonderry to
highly beneficial to the public, and also to e disposedte
belonging to the Society. This Court is thereto!
to facilitate the formation of such a Line of Railway; and
upon the production of the Plans and Sections thereof, to
give the subject its most deliberate and favourable consi-
deration."
Applications for Shares to he made at the Company's
Office, Moorgate-street Chambers, London; and to the
rr o,i§iotial vuunnlittec, Londonderry.

GREAT GRIMSBY AND SHEFFIELD JUNCTION

RAILWAY

CAPITAL, £C,00,000, IN 12,000 SHARES OF £5O
EACH; DEPOSIT, £2 15:. PER SHARE.

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right Honourable the Earl of Yarborough.
Lord Worsley, M.P. for Lincolnshire, and Chairman of
the Grimsby Haven Company.
The Mayor of Grimsby.
Edward Heneage, Esq.. M.P. for Grimsby.
John Parker, Esq., M.P., Chairman o e Sheffield and
Manchester Railway Compa
Cornelius Randall, Esq., Mar . tester. Directors of the
Michael Ellison, Esq., She eld. Sheffield and
Joseph St. John Yates sq., Man- Manchester '
cheater. Railway.
Sir John Nelthorpe art., Scawby Hall, Lincolnshire.
Sir Robert Sheffiel , Barr., Barton, Lincolnshire.
John Angerstein, Esq., Weeting Hall, Brandon, Suffolk.
Ayscough Boucherett, Esq., Willingham. Lincolnshire.
J. G. Corbett, Esq., Elsham, Lincolnshire.
G. F. lleneage, Esq., Hainton, Lincolnshire.
The Rev. C. J. Barnard, Bigbv, Lincolnshire.
Alfred Arthur Wallace, Esq., Healing, Grimsby.
Richard Thorold. Esq., Weelsby, near Grk.sby.
W. D. Field, Esq., Ulceby Grange, Lincolnshire.
George Skipwortb, Esq.. Moortown Hill, Lincolnshire.
G. 11. Vernon, Esq., M.P., The Grove, near-)
Retford.
T. A. Ward, Esq., Town Regent of Sheffield. I Directors
James Dixon, Esc., Page Hall, Sheffield. of the
I
Mr. Alderman W oodcroft, Bennett Grange, Sheffield
Sheffield. Lincoln-
G. C. Holland, Esq., M D., Sheffield. shire
Wm. Frederic Dixon, Esq., Birley House, Junction
Shfffield. Railway.
James Wall, Esq., Attercliffe, Sheffield.
Abraham Howe, Esq., Broadfield, Sheffield.)
George Walker, Esq., O•gathorpe, Sheffield.
Colonel Dalton, Sleningford Park.
With power to add to their number.
ENGINEER.
John Fowler, Esq., Mem. Inst. C.E.
BANKERS.

The Sheffield and Bedard Bank. Sheffield and Retford.
Messrs. Smith, Ellison, and Co., Grimsby, Lincoln,
Gainsboreugh, Brigg, Caistor, and Market Rasen.
The TJnion Bank of Manchester, Manchester.
The Royal Bank, Liverpool.
The London and Westminster Bank, London.

SECRETARY.
Hurofrey, F.R A.S.
PA [ILI AMENTARY AGENTS.
Messrs. Dyson. Ha;l, Parkes, and. Coates.
SOLICITORS.

Messrs. Haywood, 13randev, and Gainsford, and Messrs.

Smith and liinde, Sheffield.
LOCAL AGENTS.
Mr. George Babb, Great Grimsby.
Messrs. I%larris and Smith, Caistor.
Mr. Thomas Rhodes, Market Rasen.
Messrs. Nicholson, Hett, and Freer, Glanford Brigg.

THIS Railway, by continuing the Sheffield and Lin-
colnshire Line from Gainsbnrough to Great Grimsby,
will complete, from Sea to Sea, from Liverpool on the
Western, to Grimsby on the Eastern Coast, that direct
East and West main trunk Line, which the Liverpool.
and Manchester, the Sin ffield and Manchester, and the
Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction Railways, extend
eastward as far a.: Gainsborough, and will furnish to most
important Manufa;Auring and Agricultural Districts, the
double advantage of rapid communication with each other,
and easy access to a near, cheap, and safe Port on the
Eastern Coast.

An arrangement has been entered into, of the most
satisfactory character. with the Grimshy Haven Company,
by which they undertake to apply for extended powers in
the next Session, of Parliament, to improve the Dock
accommodation at Great Grimsby, so as to make it very
complete, and capable of receiving first-class Steamers
and other large Vessels engaged in the Continental and
Foreign trade ; end the convenience aff:rded by the pro-
posed extensive Wharfs, and the Itailway and Dock to-
gether, for the export and import of goods, will be second
to none in the kingdom. Mr. RENDEL, the eminent En-
gineer, is now occupied,, on behalf of the Grimsby Haven
Cornpany,in completing theirpart of the above arrangrnent.
Great Grimsby being situated at the mouth of the
Humber, Vessels entering its Dock will save at least one
tide in lime, and avoid the risk, cost, and delay of a dan-
gerous river navigation; the clues are considerably lower
than at Hull; and, besides the shorter voyage and saf-r
and cheaper port, the distance inland by rail both to Shef.
field and to all the large Towns in the Midland Counties,
wig be less from Grimsby than from Hull. The imports
and exports, therefore, to and from thcse Towns, and also
a fair proportion of the Manchester Continental Trade,
may confidently be calculated to travel upon this line of
Railway.
To Passergerg, the advantage will be still more re-
markable, as a person will ordinarily be able to land at
Grimsby, and reach Sheffield before he could have landed
at any other Port on :he Humber.
'this Railway, from the Port of Grimsby, by communi-
cating with the Southern Line to London, will also form
by far the quickest route for the Mails from Hamburgh
and the Baltic to London.
The rich and productive districts through which it
passes, guarantee to this Line a large traffic in Corn and
Agricultural Produce, both IN estward towards the Manu-
facturing Consumer, and Eastward for Shipment Coast-
wise, whilst the present prices of Coal at Grimsby, and
throughout North Lincolnshire, ensure a return traffic
in Coals and Coke from the Yorkshire Coal Field to all
places on or near the line of Railway, and at the same
time an important saving in cost to the inhabitants.

Though forming a distinct and independent Company,
this Line will have the active co-operation of the Directors
of the Sheffield and Manchester and Sheffield and Lincoln.
shire Junction Railways, to both of which, as well as to
the North and South Lines, it must act as a valuable
feeder; and as the most convenient and economical mode
of working the Line, power will be taken in the act to
lease it to the former Company, on terros to be mutually
agreed upon.
This Railway has also the important advantage of the
cordial approval and support of the principal Lauded
Proprietors through whose Estates it will pass.
The Line will be peculiarly favourable throughout for
cheap construction, and, from the excellence of its gra-
dients, will be capable of being worked at as low a cost
as any in the kingdom. The traffic now passing along and
near it is ascertained to yield a remunerative return upon
the capital required ; and this Railway, combined with
the improvement of the Port of Grimsby, must make the
whole length of rail from East to West of the most im
portant national character, and embrace an extent of
Traffic in the highest degree advantageous both to the
Proprietors in the present Company, and to those who
have invested in either of the above Lines.
Applications for Shares to be address d to the SOLICI-
TORS, or the SECRETARY, at Sheffield ; to any of the
LOCAL AGENTS ; or to the undermentioned Sharebrokers :
—Messrs. JOSHUA HUTCHINSON and SONS, Lothbury,
London ; Messrs. JOHNSTON and BRADLEY, and Mr. J.
B. Locite, Manchester; and
Messrs. HENRY DAVIES and Co., Liverpool.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Great Grimsby and

Shrjjield Junctio; Railway.
I request that you will allot me Shares in the
proposed GREAT GRIMSBY AND SHEFFIELD .JUNCTION
RAILWAY, on the terms mentioned in the Prospectus ;
and I agree to take all such Shares, or so many thereof as
may be allotted to me, and to pay the Deposit, and to
execute the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers'
Agreement, when required so to do.

Na me

Description
Residence

Date

Proprietors of Shares in the Sheffield, Ashton-under-
Lyne, and Manchsstcr Railway, or in the Sheffield and
Lincolnshire Junction Railway, are rcquetted to state the
Not of their bring so on the face of their application.

NEWARK AND SHEFFIELD RAILWAY,
Completing the Union of the Counties of Nottingham
and Derby with West Yorkshire, Lancashire, and
Cheshire.
'CAPITAL, £600,000, IN
.24,000 SHARES OF £25
EACH.—DEPOSIT, £1 10s. PER SHARE.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTER.
E. V. P. Burnell, Esq., Winkburn Hall.
J. E. Broadhurst, Esq., Crow Hill, Mansfield.
J. Branston, Esq., Newark.
Henry Brodhurst, Esq., Woodhouse Place.
John Chambers, Esq., The Hirst.
E. T. Coke, Esq., Woodhouse Grove.
John Dodsley, Esq., Skegby Hall.
S. Foster, Esq., Mansfield.
Martin ',amiss, Esq., Mansfield.
Wm. Flint, Esq., Halam.
R. T. Forster, Esq., Soethwel
T. S.- Godfrey, Esq., &tided. n.
J. Gitstrap, Esq., Newark.'
R. Greenhalgh, Es.q., cair Bank, Mansfield.
Robert Gill, Esq., Mansfield Woodhouse.
William Gething, 'q_, Mansfield.
so
- William Hollins • sq., Pleasley Yale. ya
Jonathan Hardcastle, Esq., Biidworth Dale.
Samuel Burt, Esq., Mansfield.
Francis Hall, Esq., Park Hall.
W. F. Handley, Esq., Newark.
George Hutton, Esq., Carlton-on-Trent.
J. Handley, Esq., Muskharn Grange.
Wm. Houldsworth, Esq., Farnsfield.
Charles Lindley, Esq., Mansfield.
W. J. Leacroft, Esq., Southwell.
J. J. Marfleet, Esq., Winthorpe Grove.
The Mayor of Newark.,
Col; Ru!ieston, M.l'., Watnall Hall.
George Rubinson, Esq., Winthorpe Hall.
Captain Pigot, R.N., Southwell.
Wm. Sabine, Esq., Briannhill Grange.
James Sslmond. Esq., Mansfield Woodhouse.
Samuel Siddon, Esq , West Bank, Nlansfisld.
Edmund Sykes, Esq., Mansfield Woodhouse.
William Taylor, E tq., Radcliff.
John Thorpe, Esq.. Newark.
Thomas Trebeck, Esq. Southwell.
Robert Watson, Esq., :Mansfield.
Williim Wylde, Esq., Southwell.
J. C. Wylde, Esq., Southwell.
J. C. Williams, Eq., M.D., Nottingham. •
Rol,er.t Wurrand, E'q., Wetthorpe, Southwell.
J. J. Werge, Esq., Woodboro' Hall.
(With power to add to their number.)
ENGINEER.
Joseph Gibbs, Esq.
SURVEYOR.
Mr. Gee rge Sanderson.
pANKERS.
London and Manchester—Messrs. Jones, Lloyd, and Co.
Sheffield—The Sheffield & Rothe+ ham Banking Company.
Mansfield and Chesterfield—Messrs. Robinson and Brod-
hurst.
Chesterfield—The Chesterfield and Derbyshire Banking
Company. •
Newark—Messrs. Handley and Co. and Messrs. Godfrey
and Hutton.
Southwell—Messrs. Wylde and Co.
Nottingham—Messrs. 1. and C. Wright and Messrs.
- • Moore and IL-Jinson's Banking Company.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. R. and R. Caparn, Newark.
Messrs. Parsons and Bean, Mansfield.
LONDON AGENTS.
Messrs. Bar:ier, Rose, and Norton, 50, Mark-lane.
• ASSISTANT SECRETARY.
Mr. E. B. Langley.
THIS Undertaking, commencing on the Banks of the
Navigable River Trent at Newark, passing through
the Towns of Southwell and Mansfield, and connecting it-
self, at. Chesterfield, with the existing and projected Mid•
land Railways,-will form a continuous and direct commu-
nication between the Agricultural and producing districts
of Nottinghamshire and the South Eastern parts of the
Kingdom on the one hand, and the large consuming
Towns and Districts of West Yorkshire, Lancashire,
Cheshire, and the Port of Liverpool on the other.
In the event of the proposed Ltindoq,„ and Yolk Line
being carried into effect, this Railway will also form the
connecting lick between Manchester, Sheffield, and the
Metropolis, al d wi ' afford, by means of the London and
York Line, the short r communication from the Metro-
polis to these ina r rtant •owns.
A careful examit.a.tion ~f the Country through which
this Line will pass, by En,g :leers of acknowledged emi-
nence, enables the pi moters to state, that it may be
constructed with facility, . nd t at its character is such as
to justify a confidence that it must prove highly remune-
rative to the proprietary, taking into cansideration the
great amount of Traffic which must necessarily pass along
it, whether as regards Passengers, Merchandise, anal
Agricultural Produce, or Minerals, inasmuch as the Dis-
trict is not provided with any means of Transit beyond the
ordinary Turnpike Roods.
Twelve Daily Coaches are now required to convey the
Passenger Traffic through the District which this Line
will accommodate, at once demonstrating its importance
and the necessity which exists for its construction.

This Line, in'ended to communicate with the existing
Mansfield and Pinxton Railway, at Mansfield, will form
the nearest and most direct route that can be made between
the Agricultural 'Didtricts to the East and South-east of
Newark and the great central Coal Field of Derbyshire
and Nottinghamshire, and thus enable the inhabitants of
those extensive Districts to supply themselves with Coals
of every quality at considerably less than two-thirds of the
present price.
The whole country, North and South, will, by this Rail-
way, and the others with which it will communicate, be
brought within easy reach of the well-known Quarried of
Building Stone with which the District of Mansfield and
Mansfield Woodhouse abounds ; as will as with the Lime
produced in that neighbourhood, so celebrated for build-
ing and other purposes.
The Promoters are enabled, after a careful analysis of
the Traffic which will conic upon this Line, to state that a
profit of at least 74 per cent. will be realized upon the
estimated capital of £600,000 after deducting 40 per cent.
for working expenses. •
A Depo,4 of £1 10s. per Share must be paid on the
allotment of shares, and the liability of subscribers will he
limited by the Act of Parliament to the amount of their
respecti, e shares.r
Power will be taken in the Act to allow Interest at the
rate of £4 per Cent. per Annum cn the Deposits, as well
es on all future calls, from the date of each payment till
the opening of the whole Line, or until a Dividend be
declared.

Asa considerable porti,)n of the Shares are already ap-
plied for, no application will be received after the sth
November nest, on which day the Committee will meet to
allot the Shan: s.

The Sul:scribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Con-
tract will be ready for signature at the time the deposits
are received, and a copy will lie fir signature at one of the
Company's Bankers..at each of the following places :
London, Mauchest,2r, Sheffield, Chesterfield, Mansfield,
Southwell, Newark, and Nottingham.
References will be required from all applicants for
shares who are not known to some members of the Com-
mittee, the Solicitor., or respectable Sharebrokers.
Applioations r Shares, in the Form below, are re-
quested to he made to the Solicitors, Messrs. R. and R.
CAPARN, New-ark, and Messrs. PARSONS and BLNN,
NialtSfiOld to Meisrj. BARKER, ROSE, and NOti.TON,
50, Mark-lane, the London Agents ; or to the following
Sharthrokers :—Mr. WILKINSON, 8. St. Mildred's-court,
Poultry, London; Mr. 1. W. SCOTT, 3, Bartholomew-
Line, London ; Mr. HALL, 2, Mersey-street. Liverpool ;
Mr. J. Dursicorr, Manehestir; Messrs. WARBURTON
and Co., New-doge-upon-Tyne.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.

I request you will Fecure to me Shares in
the NEWARK AND SHEFFIELD RAILWAY, upon the
terms of the Prospectus. And I agree to take such
Shares as may be allotted to rue, and to pay the Deposits
upon the sa,e, and execute the Parliamentary Contract
and Suktcribers' Agreement when required ; and my re-
reference, pursuant to the Prospectus, it to
Dated , 1844.

Name.
- Residence.
Trade or Profession.
To the- Provisional Committee of the Newark
and Sheffield Railway, Mansfield.

SHREWSBURY AND WOLVERHAMPTON
RAILWAY.
TIDE Directors of the Grand Junction Railway, having
read the statement which has appeared in several
recent Newspapers, bearing the signature of Mr. Ormsby
Gore, Chairman of the Provisional Committee of a pro-
posed Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway, consider it
due to their Shareholders and themselves to offer the fol-
lowing obset rations on that statement.
Referring then, in the first instance, to the charge made
in it, that the Grand Junction Company have claimed to
dictate to four great counties " what Railway and what
Railway only" they shall ha •e
the Directors beg to
w state, (though they might I e hoped it would not have
efo
he, n necessary for them disclaim any such pretension
as regards any part of e country,) that not only have
they n. ver asserted presumed to set up such a claim,
but that, as respect the particular. Railway now in ques-
tion, they did no yen enter upon the consideration of it
until pressed s to do by parties at Shrewsbury. Upon
receipt of a qnisition, in January last, they obtained
from their Shareholders ate public meeting full and ge-
neral authority to construct a Railway to connect Shrews-
fury with the Grand Junction Railway, and they had
various surveys made with a view to the discovery of the
best Line ; they soon found that, as regards the North,
(Manchester and Yorkshire for instance,) no point on their.
Line further South than Stafford could be considered as
offering any considerable accommodation ; whilst, as re-
gards London and the East, they found that as the Trent
Valley Railway would snorten the distance to London
nine miles, as compared with the existing route via Wol-
verhampton and Birmingham, besides giving a direct
communication with Detbysbire and the East, Stafford
was clearly the best Terminus for the Railway from
Shrewsbury, upon public grounds; and at the same
time that a Ljne to that Terminus would be much cheaper
than any other which is attainable, and also be the most
promising as regards the prospect of traffic, because af-
fording improved communication will the North and the
East, as well as the South.
Accordingly the Directors made the necessary prepara-
tions for bringing the Stafford and Shrewsbury Line be-
fore Parliament next Session ; the Sut script:on List was
filled, and the deposits paid, inhabitants of Shrewsbury
taking some Shares.
To this point all that the Grand Junction Directors had
do ne was done at the instance, and with the concurrence,
of inh-thitants of Shrewsbury; "dictation," therefore,
cannot cutely 1.). charged against them, At a later date,
however, and (which it is material to mention) after the
P - .
uflication of the resoluti-ns of the Grand Junction Pro-
prietors authorising their Directors to prodeed with .the
Line, certain Professional Gentlemen (for in the fiat in.