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

BIRKENHEAD, MANCHESTER, & CHESHIRE
JUNCTION RAILWAY.

CAPITAL. ,C 1 ,000,000 ; S AR 13 S , £5O EACH.

DEPOSIT, £5 PER SHARE.

PROVISIONAL COMMITTER.
Joseph Bailey, Esq., M.P.
Alderman Thompson, Esq., M.P.
W. R. Collett, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Chester and
Holyhead Railway Company.
William Jackson, Esq., Chairman of the Chester and
Birkenhead Railway Company.
Joseph Bailey, jun., Esq., M.P.
John Laird, Esq., 1 Directors of the Chester and
William Potter, Esq., Birkenhead Railway
William Laird, Eq., JJJ Company.
Robert Barbour, Esq., } M nchester.
Robert Gardner, Esq., a
David Harrison. Esq.,
J. Cheetham, Esq., }Staleybridge.
J. Leech, Esq.,
James Turner, Esq.,
Marcus F. Brownrigz. Esq., Liverpool.
Augustus Radcliffe, Esq.,
Harold Littledale, Esq.,
Joseph Travis Clay, Esq., Huddersfield.
J. W. Harden, Esq., Rock Ferry, Cheshire.

ENGINEER.
James M. Rendel, Esq., F.R.S.
SOLICITOR.
Joseph Mallaby, Esq.
BANKERS.
Messrs. Glyn, Halifax, and Co.. London.
Messrs. Brooke, Cunliffe, and Co., Manchester.
Union Bank, Liverpool.
Messrs. Dixons and Wardell, Chester.
THE SHARES in this Company having been all,lted
and the arrangements completed for applying to Par-
liament iu the next session, the Committee beg to an-
nounce the course which the Line will take.

The Railway will join the Chester and Birkenhead
Railway, by a branch near Bebbington, for the Birkenhead
traffic, and by a branch near Chester for the Shropshire,
Welsh, and Irish traffic. These branches will.unite near
Elton, and the Line then be continued to Frodsham, and
Preston Brook, (where it will cross the Grand Junction
Railway and form a junction with it,) and thence to Man-
chester by way of Altringliam, from which pl.ce a branch
will be carried to Stockport.
- At Manchester a Junction will be formed with the
Manch. ster and Leeds Railway.
After the most mature deliberation, the Committee have
determined upon the Plan thus indicated as the one most
practicable ►n details and most effective to accomplish the
great objects for which the Line was designed.
WM. JACKSON, Chairman to the Committee.
Company's Office, Birkenhead, 10th October, 18-14.

GREAT GRIMSBY AND SHEFFIELD JUNCTION

RAILWAY.

CAPITAL, £600,000, 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 Heueage, Esq., M.P. for Grimsby.
John Parker, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Sheffield and
Manchester Railway Company.
Cornelius Randall, Esq., Manchester. Directors of the
Michael Ellison, Esq., Sheffield. Sheffield and
Joseph St. John Yates, Esq., Man- Manchester
chester. Railway.
Sir John Nelthorpe, Bart., Scawby Hall, Lincolnshire.
Sir Robert Sheffield, Bart., Burton, Lincolnshire.
John Angerstein, Esq.' Weeting Hall, Brandon, Suffolk.
Ayscough Boucherett, Esq., Willingham. Lincolnshire.
J. G. Corbett, Esq., Elsham, Lincolnshire.
G. F. tleneage, Esq., Hainton, Lincolnshire.
The Rev. C. J. Barnard. Bigby, Lincolnshire.
Alfred Arthur Wallace, Esq., Healieg, Grimsby.
Richard Thorold, Esq., Weelsby, near Gri:nsby.
W. D. Field, Esq., Ulceby Grange, Lincolnshire.
George Skipworth, Esq.. Moortown Hill, Lincolnshire.
G. H . Vernon, Esq., M.P., The Grove, near-)
Retford. I
T. A. Ward, Esq.. Town Regent of Sheffield. I Director's
James Dixon, i so., Page Hall, Sheffield. of the
Mr. Alderman Ni oo !croft, Bennett Giange, I Sheffield &
Sheffield. }. Lincoln-
G. C. Holland, Esq., M.D., Sheffield. shire
I
Wm. Frederic Dixon, Esq., Birley Clouse, Junction
Sheffield. I Railway.
James Wall, Esq., Attercliffe, Sheffield.
Abraham II owe, Esq., Broadfield, Sheffield. j
George Walker, Esq., Osgsthorpe, Sheffield.
Colonel Dalton, Sleniugford Park.
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With power to add to their number.
ENGINEER.
John Fowler, Esq., Mem. Inst. C.E.
BANKERS.

The Sheffield and Retford Bank, Sheffield and Retford.
Messrs. Smith, Ellison, anti Co., Grimsby, Lincoln,
Gainsborough, Brigg, Caistor, and Market Rasen.
The Union Bank of Manchester, Manchester. .
The Royal Bank. Liverpool.
The London and Westminster Bank, London.

SECRETARY.
Lieut.-Col. Hurnfrey, F.R.A.S.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS.
Messrs. Dyson. Hall, Parkes, and Coates.
SOLICITORS.

Messrs. Haywood, Brarnlev, and Gainsford, and Messrs.
Smith and Hinde, Sheffield.
LOCAL AGENTS.
cieorge nano), Great ortmeby.
Messrs. Harris and Smith, Caistor.
Mr. Thomas Rhode., Market Rosen.
Messrs. Nicholson, nett, and Freer, Glanford 13rigg.

THIS Railway, by continuing the Sheffield and Lin-
colnshire Line from Gainsborough 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 Sheffield and Manchester, and the
Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction Railways, extend
eastward as far as Gainaborough, and will furnish to most
important Manufacturing 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 Grimsby 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 ; and the convenience afforded by the pro-
posed extensive Wharfs, and the Railway and Dock to
gether, for the export and import of goods, will. be second
to none in the kinglom. Mr. RENDEL, the eminent En-
gineer, is now occupied, on behalf of the Grimsby Haven
Ccimpany,incompleting their part of the above arrangment.
Great Grimsby being situated at the mouth of the
Humber, Vessels entering its Dock will save at least one
tide in time, and avoid the risk, cost, and delay of a dan-
gerous river navigation; the dues are considerably lower
than at Hull ; and, besides the shorter voyage and safer
and cheaper port, the distance inland by rail both to Shef•
field and to all the large Towns in the Midland Counties,
wi:l be less from Grimsby than from Hull. The imports
and exports, therefore, to and from these Towns, and also
a fair proportion of the Manchester Continental Trade,
may confidently be calculate,l to travel upon this line of
Railway.

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To Passengers, 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 Part on the 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 V, 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 terms to be mutually
agreed upon.

-This Railway has also the important advantage of the
cordial approval and support of the principal Landed
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, mutt 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 Somer..
TORS, or the. SECRETARY, at Sheffield ; to any of the
LOCAL AGENTS ; or to the undermentioned Sharebrokers
—Messrs. JOSHUA HUTCHINSON and SONS, Loti,burv,
London ; Messrs. JOHNSTON and BRADLEY, and Mr. J.
B. LOCKE, Manchester; and
Messrs. HENRY DAVIES and Co., Liverpool.