The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-08-05 00:00:00

THE STAFFORDSHIRE, POTTERIES, AND
LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER
DIRECT RAILWAY.
(PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED.)

SINCE the first Public Announcement the Line has
been somewhat altered to meet the wants of a larger
district ot country, and it is now intended to commence at
Stafford, passing by Stone, Longton, Lane End, Stoke-
upon-Trent, Shelton, Hanky, Burslam, and Tunstall, on
to Congleton ; and from thence by Knutsford to Altrinc-
ham, where it will join the South Junction Railway to
Manchester, an act for which has been obtained.
A Branch from Stoke-upon-Trent, by Newcastle and
the Apendale Ironworks, to Crewe;-Will COnnect the Line
with the impor-ant Railways meeting at that point, and
give the shortest possible route from the Potteries to
Chester and Birkenhead. _ _ _ _ ..

A Branch also from Congleton to Macclesfield will con-
nect those important manufacturing towns, and a Branch
from Knutsford to Macclesfield on the one hand, and
from Knutsford, by Northwich, to Preston Brook on the
other, will open a direct communication from Macclesfield
to Liverpool, and from the salt districts of Cheshire to
Liverp,ol, [lull, and the Eastern Ports of England.
The Surveys are nearly completed, and a detailed Pro-
spectus, with the names of a Provisional Directory will be
published in a few days.
Communications may be adlressed to Messrs. J. and
T. ROSCOE, Knutsford ; arid W. BURDETT, Esq., Man-
chester.

4th August, 1845.

RUGBY, DERBY, AND MANCHESTER
RAILWAY.
Provisionally Registered pursuant to 7 and 8 Vict. c. 110,

HIS Railway will commence at the Rugby Station of
.I. the London and Birmingham Railway, and will pro-
ceed in nearly a straight line to Derby, using so much of
the Leicester and Swannington Railway_ as lies in its
course.

From thence it will jOin the High Peak and Manches-
ter, Buxton, Matlock. and Midland Railways.
The principle of this Railway is to obtain a direct
through line between some of the most important districts
in the kingdom with the least possible amount of new
railway, and consequently the smallest expenditure of
capital.
The proposed Railway will form a direct continuation
of the London and Birmingham Railway, to iNlanchester,
and thus supersede the necessity of any direct Manches-
ter and London Railway, as the distance to London by
this route will be as short as by either of the proposed
direct Manchester and London liailways..
It will also establish the shortest direct communication
between Derby and London, Sheffield and London, and
between all the towns on the North Midland Railway and
London.

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The Manchester, Derby, and Rugby Railway will open
a direct communication between Manchester and Derby,
and will considerably shorten the distance between Man-
chester and Nottingham arid Manchester and Leicester.
The line from Derby to Rugby will establish the direct
communication from that town to London, which has
been so long considered desirable by the inhabitants.
The same apply to Sheffield, when the Sheffield
and Chesterfield Branch of the North Midland Railway
is made.
The support of the London and Birmingham, the North
Midland, and Manchester, Buxton, and Midlands Rail-
ways, may be expected for this line.
A report on the line, by one of the most eminent engi-
neers of the day, is in course of preparation ; after which
a detailed prospectus, with the names of a most powerful
directory, together with the amount of capital, &c., will
be published. In the meantime communications may be
addressed to the Company's Solicitor,
T. G. BREWER, Esq.,
13, Gray's Inn Square.

THE COVENTRY AND LEICESTER JUNCTION

RAILWAY

THE PROVISIONAL DIRECTORS have great
sati-faction in announcing to the Shareholders that
they have concluded an asrangement with the Coventry,
Bedworth, and Nuneaton Company, for incorporating
that Company with the Coventry and Leicester Company,
by which the United Company will obtain all the valua-
ble local and general support and influence secured by
each separately with increased advantages of a more
extensive project. _ _

The United Company will be called the Coventry,
Nuneaton, Birmingham, and Leicester Railway Company.

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The line will commence at Coy try, and proceed by
Bedworth and Chilvers Co to Nuneaton, thence to
Hinckley and Leicester, wilh a Branch from Nuneaton
to Birmingham. Care will be taken to provide the most
complete accomiDetration for all the intermediate places.
The superi eradvantages of the projected line are
already ex sivelv known, as was shewn by the great
demand or the original shares of:this Company, and haxe
been further proved by the circumstance that a rival
scheme with nearly the same project has been since
started.

This Company, however, is in possession of such ex-
clusive advantages by the local support of influential
landowners and other parties, added to priority of project,
and a favourable report of the Board of Trade, for a very
important portion of the line (being the only part which
has been submitted to that department), that it is obvious
that this Company will go to Parliament with every

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prospect of success.
In order to comprise the two schemes in one Act, and,
to invest the Provisional Directors with the requisite
powers, they have determined, under the advice of counsel,
to have a new Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers'
Agreement executed, and to issue new scrip of the Coven-
try, Nuneaton, Birmingham, and Leicester Company, in
exchange for the scrip of the Coventry and Leicester
Junction Railway Company, the Coleshill Extension, and
the Coventry, Bedworth, and Nuneaton Company. By
the terms of the arrangement with the Coventry, Bed-
worth, and Nuneaton Company, the Shareholders in that
Company will receive one share in the Coventry, Nun-
eaton, Birmingham, and Leicester Company in exchange
for each share held by them in the Coventry, Bedworth,
and Nuneaton Company, on payment of a deposit of
£1 ss. per share, and signing the Parliamentary Contract
and Subscribers' Agreement.

By order, HENRY CASSIN, Secretary
3, Church• court, Old. Jewry,
London, July 23rd, 1845.

COVENTRY AND LEICESTER JUNCTION
RAILWAY, AND COLESHILL EXTENSION.
THE SHAREHOLDERS in this undertaking are in-
formed that, in pursuance of the arrangement al-
ready announced, they are entitled to receive one share in
the united Company called the " Coventry, Nuneaton,
Birmingham, and Leicester Railway Company," in ex-
change for each share held by them in the Coventry and
Leicester Junction Railway and Coleshill Extenaion. The
Covuntry and Leicester and C Extension Share-
holders are further inform at preparatory to the issue
of new certificates thei rip must be left with the Secre-
tary for examinatio etween the hours of 11 and 4 daily,
fvom Monday, the 28th instant, to Tuesday, the sth of
August next,„lttith inclusive, accompanied by a statement,

at this office

Parties failing to send in their scrip within the time
specified will be understood to dissent, and will lose the
benefit of this arrangement, but may, on application to
the Secretary, any day after the said sth day of August,
between the hours of 11 and 4, at this office receive back
the full amount of the deposit of £1 ss. per share already
paid. By order,

H. CASSIN, Secretary
3, Church Court, Old Jewry, July 23rd. 1845.

COVENTRY, BEDWORTI-I,

AND NUNEATON

RAILWAY.
THE Provisional Directors beg to inform the Share;
holders that they have considered it to be the most
advantageous course for their interests, under the altered
state of circumstances in which the Company is placed by
the decision of the Committee of the House of Commons,
to make arrangements with the Coven and Leicester
Company for uniting the project is Company with the
more extensive project oft Coventry and Leicester
Company ; by which coal • n they feel assured that the
Shareholders of this C pan), will attain much greater
advantages than cou ave been realized by the passing
of the Bill in the esent Session, and such as will amply
compensate them for the additional deposit which it will
be necessary for them to pay.

By the terms of the arrangement the Shareholders in
this Company are entitled to receive one Share in the
United Compft to be called " The Coventry, Nunea-
ton, Birmingham, and Leicester Railway Company," in
exchange for each share held by them in the Coventry,
Bedworth, and Nuneaton Company, on payment of a
deposit of £1 58. per share, and signing the Parliamen-
tary contract and Subscribers' agreement. The Coventry,
Bedworth, and Nuneaton Shareholders are further in-
formed, that preparatory to the issue of new certificates,
their scrip must be left with the Secretary of the Coventry
and Leicester Company for examination, at No. 3, Church
Court, Old Jewry, between the hours of 11 and 4, each
day, from Monday next, the 28th instant, till Tuesday,
the sth day of August next, both inclusive, accompanied
by a statement, printed forms of which may be obtained
at the above office. Parties failing to send in their scrip
within the time specified will be understood to decline the
benefit of this arrangement.
By Order, G. B. BUNBURY, Secretary.
3, Church Court, Old Jewry,
Loudon, July 23rd, 1845

COVENTRY, NUNEATON, BIRMINGHAM, AND
LEICESTER RAILWAY COMPANY.

XTOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the PARLIA-
MENTARY CONTRACT and SUBSCRIBERS'

AGREEMENT will LIE F,OR EXECUTION, at the
times and places undermotflioned, between the hours of
Eleven and ree each ay
LIVERPOOL, on M due.
Adel phi Hotel.
MANCHESTER. on Thursday, the 7th August, at the
Queen's Hotel. -
LEEDS, on riday, the Bth August, at the Royal Hotel.
LEICESTER, on Monday, the 11th August, at Messrs.
Stone and Paget's Office.
COVENTRY, on Tuesday, the 12th August, at the

lay, the 6th August, at the

se, Burton-upon-