The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-09-17 00:00:00

REPORT

TO T HE SHAREH OLDERS INTHECALEDONIAN
RAI LWAY COMPANY.
Ey the PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE of
MANAGEMENT.

ARE-SURVEY of this Railway having now been com-
pleted by Mr. Locke, and several new features
having recently presented themselves in connexion with
the project, your Committee deem the present to be a
fitting opportunity for addressing you on the position.
and prospects of the undertaking. This course is, more-
over, desirable, in consequence of the Company having
been organised in the early part of the year, and of an in-
terval of comparative inaction having necessarily inter-
vened between the completion of the subscription and the
preparations for applying to Parliament.
It is not necessary to inform you that the selection of
the Caledonian Line was based upon the decided prefer-
ence given to it by the Government Commissioners above
all other routes of Railway communication proposed for
connecting England and Scotland ; but it is desirable to
advert, very briefly, to the nature of the Line to which.
that preference was given, with a view to a proper underl.
standing and due appreciation of circumstances which have
been developed since the Commissioners' Report was.
made, arid since the Prospectus of the undertaking was
published.
The Line preferred by the Commissioners, as combining
the greatest number of advantages in respect of " the
distances and gradients, the probable cost of construction
and working, the numerical and commercial importance
of the population to be accommodated, and the relative
traffic and other statistical properties, ' cons,sted of a
Trunk Railway, extending from Carlisle to a point about
seventy miles northward, and diverging from that point to
Edinburgh on the east, and Glasgow on the wrst. That
was the proposition submitted to the Commissioners, and
adopted by them "as being the general route which would
fulfil the greater number of requisites in the railway com-
munication under consideration."
All the information which your committee have been
able to collect has confirmed the soundness of the opinion
pronounced by those impartial judges. It is an important,
fact, that more than seven-eights of the whole population'
of Scotland are to be found to the north of the proposed
point of divergence to Edinburgh and Glasgow, compre'.
bending very nearly the whole of the manufacturing classes
of that kingdom. Such being the ( ase, it scarcely admits
of dispute, that the shortest practicable route to the seat
of such a population must afford the greatest accommo-
dation to the greatest numbers. To divert that route
from the direct line, for the purpose of benefitting a rem"-
nant of population, Would be to sacrifice the interests of
the public at large to considerations of a comparatively
trivial description. The Caledonian Line possesses the
advantages of affording accommodation by the shortest
route, and at the cost of one trunk line, to very nearly the
whole of the population of Scotland.
Such was the plan recommended by the Government
Commissioners and adopted by the Caledonian Railway
Company ; and, considering the importance, in every
point of view, of 'the districts immediately connected
with the Northern Termini of Edinburgh and Glasgow,-
it was not surprising that the traffic of the Line should
Directors
thereupon show a return of 8 per cent. as anticipated in the pro-
spectus. The public responded to those an,icipations,
and a short period sufficed to fill up the required sub-
scription,
Provisional
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ins ceridpi
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v, uponpaid which
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a deposit
thereupon concluded their exertions; and the committee
ogsinital of
who have now the honour of addressing you were ap-
pointed by the Subscribers' Agreement, and have the
satisfaction of bringing under your notice the following
circumstances of importance to this undertaking, which
have arisen or been developed since the prospectus was
issued :

First : The Act for the formation of the Lancaster and
Carlisle Rail%,ay has received the sanction of the Legisla-
ture, and that Line is already in course of being con-
structed.

Soconlly : A. company has been organized for the es-
tablishment of a Railway, called the " Scottish Central,"
leading from Perth to Sterling, and thence, southward, to
Castlecary, where it is to be connected with the Caledo-
nian Line, by a short extension of the latter. The whole
capital required for the Scottish Central Railway has
been subscribed ; and a deposit of ten per cent. has been
paid thereon. It would be difficult to exaggerate the im-
portance of this new feature in the undertaking. It
forms a third Terminus to the Caledonian Railway no
less important than the connexions with Edinburgh and
Glasgow ; and Mr. Locke bas stated, that, in consequence
of saving on other !mats of the Line, the Castlecary
Extension of the Caledonian Line can be constructed
without exceeding the capital upon which the prospectus
proceeded. This connexion will secure to the Caledo-
nian the traffic between the northern parts of Scotland,
(including the important towns of Stirling, Perth, Dun-
dee. and Aberdeen,) and the western and southern parts
of England.
Thirdly: by the extension of the Caledonian Line to
Castlecary a junction will be effected at that place with
the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, by which the towns
of Falkirk, Linlithgow, Kirkintilloch, and others will be
brought into direct communication with the Caledonian,
manifestly to the advantage of both undertakings.
Fourthly : By the prospectus it was contemplated that
the Caledonian Company should avail themselves of other
Railways in the neighbourhood of Glasgow as an access
to that city. Following out that intention, your Commit-
tee are upon the point of concluding arrangements with
the Proprietors of certain existing Railways of a satisfac-
tory nature both as regards the public and the Caledonian
Company. Among the advantages which will be thereby
secured is the use of an eligible terminus at Glasgow.
within a few yards of the Exchange of that city.
While your Committee have thus in view one connec-
tion with Glasgow, very advantageous in many retpects,
they do not intend to pledge the Caledonian Company to
the exclusive use of the Railways alluded to. This
freedom of action is reserved by your Committee with
reference to a proposed Line. called the " Clydesdale
Junction Railway," which will be of the greatest benefit
to this undertaking. The Clydesdale Junction will con-
nect the Caledonian Railway with Glasgow on the bide of
the city opposite to the terminus already referred to,
thereby affording to the Caledonian Company a double
communication with that city. . _

The Clydesdale also extends to the Harbour of Glas-
gow, from which the other tern-dims is separated by the
intervention of a part of the town.
The Clydesdale line is moreover connected with existing
Railways leading from Glasgow to Paisley and other ma-
nufacturing towns of Renfrewahire, and to the Seaports of
Greenock and Port Glasgow.
Your Committee are happy to state, that they have con-
cluded arrangements with the Provisional Committee of
the Clydesdale Junction, of a description beneficial to
both Companies, and on such terms as to enable the Cale-
donian Company to avail themselves, with advantage, of
that line to any extent which their traffic may require.
Under these favourable circumstances you will be at no
loss to attribute to its true cause the original determina-
tion of the promoters of the Caledonian line to trust to
other railways for their connexion with Glasgow rather
thin to incur the large expense of forming an independent
line for themselves.
Lastly : Your Committee have much satisfartion in
stating Mr. Lccke's expressed opinion, that a large saving
in the construction of the works, will be effected upon the
estimate given in the prospectus, particularly upon that
portion o the line which diverges to Edinburgh, and
which your Committee have always consider ed a most im-
portant part of the undertaking.
In aid of the foregoing explanation, your Committee
refer to the Map which accompan4es this report, It af-
fords convincing evidence of the judicious selection of the
Caledonian Line. It has seldom, if ever, happened that
any newly-projected Railway could beast the possession
of so many contributing Lines already in existence or sure
to be immediately formed. The Map shows that the

GAINSBOROUGH, SHEFFIELD, AND CHES

TERFIELD RAILWAY.
SHORT AND DIRECT-LINE;

CAPITAL, .C 50,000, IN 15,000 SHARES OF £5O

EACH. •
DEPOSIT, X 3 PER SHARE.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Wm. Jno. Bagshawe, Esq., The Oaks, Sheffield.
Wilson Overend, Esq.. Sheffield.

Benj. Burdekin, Esq., Sheffield.
Richard Bayley, Esq., Castle Dyke, Sheffield.
Thomas Crestvick, Esq., Ecclesall Grange, Sheffield.
Henry Wilson, Esq., Westbrook, Sheffield.
Henry Houldsv, orth, Esq., Chairman of the Manchester
and Leeds Railway Company.
William Entwisle, Esq., M.P., Deputy-Chairman of the
Manchester and Leeds Railway Company, and a Di-
rector of the Wakefield, Lincoln, and Boston Railway
Company.
Robert Gill, Esq., Mansfield Woodhouse, Notts, a Di-

rector of die. Manchester and Leeds. and' of the

Wakefield, Lincoln, and Boston Railway Companies.
Leo Schuester, Esq., a Director of the Manchester and
Leeds, and of the Wakefield, Lincoln, and Boston
Railway Companies.
Captain Laws, R.N., Crumpsall Hall, Lancashire.
Thomas Clark, Esq., Mayor of Chesterfield.
Edward Humble, Esq., Renishaw, Derbyshire.
Samuel Butcher, Esq., Endcliffe, Sheffield.
Thomas Ellin, jun., Esq., Sheffield.
Henry Wilkinson, Esq., Endcliffe Hall, Sheffield.
Robert Younge, Esq., Greystones, Sheffield.
Roger Haywood, Esq., Houton Levet, Maltby.
Thomas Dyson, Esq.,Braith well Manor House,Yorkahire.
Thomas Didsbury, Esq., Rotherham.
Charles Frederick Younge, Esq., Sheffield.
Henry Jubb. Esq., Broomhill, Sheffield.
John Sansom, Esq., Moor Lodge, Sheffield.
John Green, Esq., Neepsend, Sheffield.•
John Newton Mappin, Esq., Sheffield.
Richard Ellison, Esq., Sudbrooke Holme, Lincoln,
Chairman of the Wakefield, Lincoln, and Boston
Railway.
The Rev. H.W. Sibthorpe, Washingborough, Directors
Lincoln, of the •
Edward Fowler, Esq., Lincoln, Wake-
T. M. Keyworth, Esq., Lincoln, field,
Thomas Wetherell, Esq., Lincoln, Lincoln,
Col. Cracroft, Hackthorn Hall, Lincoln, &Boston
Weston Cracroft, Esq., HaeFthorn, Lincoln, J Railway.
With power to add to their number.
ENGINEER.
William Cubits, Etq., F.R.S.
BANKERS.

Sheffield The Sheffield and Rotherham Banking
Company ; the Sheffield and Retford
Bank.
Gainsborough } •
Lincoln ..-.. Messrs. Smith, Ellison, and Co.
Chesterfield The Chesterfield and Derbyshire Banking
Company.
Boston Messrs. Gee and Co.
Bawtry .
Manchester.... Messrs. Cunliffe. Brookes, and Co.
London Messrs. Cunliffe, Brookes, and Co. ;
Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, and Co. ; the
London and Westminster Bank.
THE object of this undertaking is to construct the most
direct and perfect LINE OF RAILWAY from the
Town and Port of GAIN SBOROUGH, through SHEF-
FIELD, to the Station of the Midland Railway at
'CHESTERFIELD, thereby effecting a more expeditious
and economical communication between G'ainsborough,
Sheffield, and the Midland Counties on the one hand. and
between Sheffield and the Metropolis on the other ; and,
also, to bring into immediate contact the whole of Lin-
colnshire and the Eastern Counties, with the important
Manufacturing and Mineral Districts of • Sheffield, Droll-
field, and Unstone.
For detailed Prospectus see LIVERPOOL STANDARD of
September 3 and 10.

The Line will unite with the projected Wakefield, Lin-
coln, and Boston Railway, now merged in the London and
York, constituting, in conjunction with that Line, the
best and most comprehensive system of Railway commu-
nication between the Agricultural Districts of Lincoln-
shire and the Eastern Counties, and the populous Manu-
facturing Towns of Yorkshire and Lancashire.
From acareful estimate of traffic on data accurately taken,
the Promoters feel themselves fully warranted in stating
that a profit of at least £8 per Cent. will be realised on
the proposed Capital, after allowing £4O per Cent. for
working expenses.
Applications for Prospectuses, with Maps, or other in-
formation, and for Shares, (in the annexed Form) are
requested to be made to Messrs. INILSON, YOUNGB, and
PIERSON, or Mr. DtxoN, Solicitors, Sheffield ; or to the
following Sharebrokers :—Mr. Duncuff, Manchester ;
Messrs. H. and G. Towgood, 33, Throgmorton-street,
London; Messrs. WILLIAM REYNOLDS and SONS, and
Mr. JOHN HALL, Liverpool ; Messrs. H. and C. Beard.
shaw, Leeds ; Messrs. Moore and Gatliffe, Huddersfield ;
Mr. James Harvey, Halifax ; Messrs. Beaumont, Kenne-
dy, and Binks, Bradford and Leeds ; to Messrs. Collinson
and Flint, or Messrs. Trigg and Hodson. Hull ; Messrs.
Ea, p and Son, Derby ; Mr. James Pearson, or Mr. Lane,
Birmingham.
I ORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.

I request you will secure to me Shares
in the Gainsborough, Sheffield. and Chesterfield Railway,
upon the Terms of the Prospectus. And I agree to take
such Shares as may be allotted to me, and to pay the De-
posits upon the same, and execute the Parliamentary Con-
tract and Subscribers' Agreement when required.
• • Dated 1844.
Name.

Residence.
Trade or Profession.
To the Provisional Committee of the Gainsborough,
Sheffield, and Chesterfield Railway.

[AIiVERTISEM ENT.]
DOMAN CONFECTIONERY ESTADLISFIMENT. -- In
compliance with the wishes of numerous families of dis-
tinction, a central branch of the Dublin Confectionery
and Fancy Bread Establishment has been opened, at 20,
Berry-street, on such a new system of style and prices as
seems to astonish the public, as well as insure an im-
mense sale; indeed, so great a variety in the art of con-
fectionery and fancy bread could not be surpassed in Lon-
don, and certainly nothing has as vet appeared in Liverpool
to equal it. The proprietors, Feeny Brothers, wish to
bring under special notice the prices per pound of a few
leading articles, as it would take an entire column to form
a list of all:—Plain Wine Biscuits,sd., Cheese ditto, 5d.,
Butter ditto, 6d., Abernethy ditto, 7d., Mixed Wine
Ditto, 9d., Savoy, Rice, Sugar, and Imperial ditto, ls. 3d.,
Tournament ditto, ls. 4d., German ditto, ls., Prussian
ditto, Is., Sponge Cake, ls. 3d., Seed Cake, Is. 3d., Plum
Cake for weddings and christenings, ls. 3d., Almond Seed
Cake, ls. 4d.
IMPORTANT TO THE FASHIONABLE WORLD.—By far
the most influential of the graces that contribute to per-
sonal adornment is the Hair. Its recovery, preservation,
and improvement, proportionably concern the elegantes of
our fashionable circles, and any information which will
ensure these desirable results will be bailed as an inesti-
mable boon. The following extract from the letter of a
respectable chemist in Bridlington will be read with the
highest interest :—" A lady, a customer of mine, has
found great benefit from the use of your Balm. About
six months ago her hair nearly all fell off. f recom-
mended her to try your Balm of Columbia, which she
did. In the course of a few applications the hair ceased
to fall off. Before she had used one 3s. 6d. bottle it be-
gan to grow very profusely, awl she has now a beautiful
head of Hair. I am, gentlemen, yours respectfully,
" WM. SMITH, Chemist and Druggist,
" Market-place, Bridlington.
" To Messrs. C. and A. Oldridge,

" March 13. 1844." -
C. and A. OLDRIDGE'S BALM OF COLUMBIA
causes the Hair to curl beautifully, frees it from scurf,
and stops it from falling off, and a few bottles generally
restore it again ; it also prevents greyness. 3s. 6d., Gs.,
and Ils. ner bottle. No other pr:ces are genuine. Ask
for OLDRIDGE'S BALM, I, Wellington- street, Strand,
London. Sold by respectable Chemists, Perfumers, and
Stationers.

liox seldom do we feel, perceive, or think of the small
beginnings of disease which surround and operate upon us
in our enjoyments and intercourse with the world.

"The young disease, which must .subdue at length,
Grows with our growth, and strengthens with.our strength.'

An improper regimen acting upon a particular kind of
constitution, late hours, both of retiring to rest and rising
in the morning, lay the foundation of intestinal, as well as
skin diseases. Te all such we would recommend first a
change of system, and secondly, as a powerful assi taut
for the recovery of health that efficacious Family Medicine,
Frampton's Pill of Health, which has procured the appro-
bation of persons in every station in society.—See Ado.

SINGULAR MODE OF RELIEVING A BESIEGED CASTLE.
—There was a peculiar custom in Cheshire. During the
sanguinary feuds on the Welsh borders which succeeded
the conquest, and which continued more than two centu-
r'es, Randle Blunderville, the celebrated Earl Palatine of
Chester, 1181. and founder of the then impregnable castle
of Buston, was heseiged in the castle of Rhuddlaw, by a
numerous army of Cambro-Britons. He im m ediatelv'des-
patched a messenger to his constable, Roger Lacy,
Baron of Halton, who, in the exigency of the moment,
assembled at Chester, (it being the time of the fair,) a
great body of idle and dissolute people. including all the
fiddlers, minstrels, and players then present, besides a
considerable number of women, and other dissolute pvo-
ple ; with these he marched to the Earl's relief. The ap-
pearance of this motley multitude operated so strongly
on the fears of the Welsh, that they fled in all directions.
As a reward for the signal services thus rendered, the Earl
gave to " Roger Lacy" power over all the fiddlers and
shoemakers in Cheshire. The constable, however, pre-
sented his steward, Piers Dutton. with the authority over
all the shoemakers, reserving to himself only the right
over the fiddlers.—Polytechnic Review.
COMMENCEMENT OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, Olr
1830 TO 1840.—" On the publication of the ordonances, the
members of the Chamber who were in Paris met at each
others' houses to discuss measures of resistance. But it
was not from the members of the Chamber that the move-

ment was to emanate. Those who had any position to
compromise looked on, for the most part, with anxiety
and astonishment, waiting to see what current the dis-
turbed waters would finally take. "On the evening of
the 27th, a man, name unknown, appeared on the Quai
d'Ecole, and paraded the banks of the river with the tri-
coloured flag, which had been folded up and bidden away
for fifteen years." The symbol was adopted by the
people. The revolution.had commenced. Then followed
all those strange scenes of levity and blood, buffoonery
and heroism, which the history of Parisian revolutions
has familiarized to the imagination, but which, never-
theless, have an inexhaustible interest. The people arm
themselves wheresoever and howsoever they can. One
brings into the Place de la Bourse two large hampers,
full of muskets and accoutrements. T,ey come from the
Theatre du Vaudeville, where a piece had been played, a
few days before, which required that a number of actors
should be armed. To command men thus equipped there
there were extemporary generals, whose epaulets were ob-
tained from the wardrobe of the Opera Comique. The
students of the Polytechnic were, as usual, on the alert to
practice whatever they had learned of military science;
the younger sort entering into the war with the same
spirit that other schoolboys enter into any minor mischief
that is going forward. A student of the Polytechnic is
standing on the left bank of the river; he has a musket,
but no ammunition. A fellow-student, a lad of fifteen,
has a packet of cartridges, but no musket : " You shall
share them " said he, showing his treasure, " if you will
lend me the gun to shoot my half." A party of the royal
guard were corning over the bridge. He started with the
gun to hare his shots. He was swept off with others by
the fire of the military."—Blackwood's Magazine.
USE OF BATHS.—Sir George Lefevre, in an article en-
titled " On the use and abuse of domestic remedies,"
strongly recommends the use of a shower bath, which he
says can be employed with advantage and comfort in
many cases where the space is too limited for the esta-
blishment of a plunging bath, and he observes that i.s
refreshing effects in warm weather contribute much to
the perfection of the animal functions even in the most
healthy state. A morning shower bath, or if that cannot
be accomplished, one taken after the morning fatigues are
over, as a part of the ante prandinnt toilette, will often
secure a pleasant sensation for the evening, and add a
charm to the doles far niente of the remainder of the
day. It is a restorative to strength in those cases of
languor, attended without actual disease. Delicate fe-
males derive the most pleasurable advantages from its
use; and even during pregnancy it is not counter-indi-
cated, if proper precautions be adopted. The proper
hour of the day for it is immediately after rising, or before
dinner, and it may he used every other day with advan-
tage. It should rot be administered, however, without
certain precautions, and should be progressive as regards
its temperature. When first used, this should vary with
the season of the year. If it can be commenced in sum-
mer, Sir G. Lefevre recommends that the water be placed
over night in the bedchamber, so that it may possess the
same degree of temperature. The cold should not be
such as to produce a shock in the first instance, but when
the system has been initiated into its effects by degrees
the caloric should be lowered daily, so that the fluid may.
be cooled down to the freezing point, without anyrisk of
producing discomfort, but the certainty of luxurious sen-
sation. If commenced in the colder season, the water
should at first be raised to a comfortable temperature,
and afterwards gradually cooled down to the. same extent
as in summer. It is necessary to rub the body smartly
during the drying process, and thi4 too in a room free
from cold draughts and currents of air. A flannel dress..
ing gown should be put on immediately afterwards in the
winter season, and rest indulged in for some time. This
remedy is of great utility in nervous headaches, and those
produced by frequenting crowded assemblies, and indulg-
ing in the luxury of the table, and also in hypochondriasis.
—Lancet.