The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-03-25 00:00:00

£14,500
Allowing Id. per ton for expense of working the
560,000 tons

There remains a net revenue of £12,167
or Eight per Cent. on the proposed capital of .£150,000.
In this estimate nothing has been included for the pros-
pective receipts from the Gonds traffic of the Edinburgh
and Glasgow and the ScoVish Central and Caledonian
Railways, for which, however, every provision has been
made in the proposed scheme, and included in'the esti-
mates. Looking to this source of increase of traffic, up.
wards of Ten per Cent. on the proposed Capital may rea-
sonably be expected.
Applications, in the usual form, for a limited number
of Shares, from Parties of undoubted respectability, will
be received by Messrs. lawiN and ASPINALL, 3, Ex-
change-street East, Liverpool, till Thursday, the 27th in-
stant inclusive.
Glasgow, 22d 3farch, 1815,

TII E ADJOURNED SPECIAL MEETING of the
PROPRIETORS of the CHESTER and BIR-
KENHEAD RAILWAY COMPANY, on the subject
of the SALE of the said COMPANY.tethe Chester and
Holyhead Railway Company, wilrbe held, at the CLA-
RENDON Rooms, South JOtn• street, Liverpool, on
SATURDAY next, the 2Qtlf instant, at Twelve o'clock at
Noon. wm,TAm JACKSON, Chairman'
Birkenhead, 22d March, 1845.

BIRMINGHAM AND OXFORD JUNCTION

RAILWAY,
I WITH A BRANCH TO STRATFORD-ON-AVON
CAPITAL £600,000, in SHARES of £2O each.

DEPOSIT PER SHAPE.
Provisionally Registered, pursuant to Act 7 and 8 Vic.,
cov. 110.

PROVISION AL COMMITTEE.
J. T. Alston, Esq., Liverpool.
W. C. Alston, Esq., Elmdon Hall, near Birmingham.
John Adams, Esq., Serjeant-at-Law, London.
F. P. Barlow, Esq., London.
Colonel Charles Oldfield Bowles, North Aston Park.
W. E. Boyes, Esq., Alkerton, near B inbury.
John Crosthwaite, Esq., LiverpoDl.
Sir George Dashwood, Bart., Kirtlington, Oxton.
Robertson Gladstone, Esq. Liverpool.
J. Gardiner, Esq., Southaro....'
J. Haddon, Esq., Leamiution.
Lawrence Hey worth, Esq., Liverpool.
Charles Lawrence, Esq., Liverpool.
John Lechmere, Esq., Steeple Aston.
William Marsh*ll, Esq., Husbands' Bosworth, Leices-
shire.

William Mathews, Esq., Edgbaston, Birmingham.
Charles Mann, Esq., Leamington.
J. W. Miles, Esq., Bristol.
John Moss, Esq., L verpool.
Charles Russell, Esq , M.P., London.
Francis RuffordlEsq.,Bellbroughton,near Stourbridge
John Roskell, Esq., Bath.
Major-General Smith, Rugby.
Samuel Edward Steward, Esq., Leamington.
T. H. Thorne, ESQ., Leamington.
George Walker, Esq., Bletchington, Oxton.
With power to add to their number.
BANKERS.

Birmingham—Messrs. Attwooci,Spooner, and Co
Bristol—Messrs. Mites, Hartord, and Co.
Liverpool—Messrs. Mess and Co.

Leamington and Warwick—The Leamington Priors and
Warwickshire Banking Company ; the Warwick and
Leamington Banking Company.
SOLICITORS.

Leamington and Warwick—Messrs. Patterson, Haynes,
and Hanbury.
London—Messrs. W. 0. and W. Hunt, 10, Whitehall.
Liverpool—Messrs. Clay and Swift.
THE object of this undertaking is to establish the
most direct and efficient railway communication that
can be formed between Birmingham and Oxford, connect-
ing, by the shortest possible route, the whole of the Lan-
cashire manufacturing districts and seaports with the
South of England and its long line of coast in the British
channel. The existing lines afford but a very imperfect
and circuitous communication through London ; and it is
singular that the competing lines of railway now before
the public do not supply the deficiency, or provide for the
objects now contemplated. Under these circumstances,
there can be no doubt that this railway will confer essen-
tial benefits on. the districts through which it is intended

to pass, as well as on the commercial and industrious
classes of the North ; and a very cursory inspection of the
map will satisfy the inquirer that the line is so peculiarly
situated as to command an unusually large amount of
through traffic, independent of its local resources, which
are very great.

It cannot fail to be observed that the Birmingham and
Oxford Junction will save a considerable distance on the
route towards the coast, besides furnishing to Warwick
and Leamington the most desirable railway communica-
tion for the traffic between those places and Oxford,
Reading, &c., while the cheapness of construction and
excellence of the gradients will enable the company to
convey passengers and goods at very low rates, such as
would not remunerate an expensive line, but which are
calculated to afford an ample return for the small capital
required for this undertaking.
The railway will commence by a connection with the
Grand Junction Railway at Birmingham, and proceeding
in nearly a straight line hyWarwick and Leamington, fall
into the intended Oxford and Rugby line near Fenny
Compton. The entire distance from Birmingham to
Oxford will thus be abott'62 miles.

The Stratford-on-Avon branch will join the main line
at Warwick or Leamington. From Stratford-on--Avon
to Moreton-in-the-Marsh, by an improvement of the
existing Railway, a distance of 14 miles, the communica-
tion from Coventry, Warwick, and Leamington, will be
complete to the Oxford, 'Worcester, and Wolverhampton
line, and from thence to Cheltenham.
It is confidently believed that this extension of the Ox-
ford line to the Grand Junction Railway at Birmingham,
taking Leamington ar.d.Warwick in its course, will furnish
such strong corroborative proof of the public importance
and necessity of the Oxford and Rugby line, now promoted
by the Great Western Company, as to ensure its success
in Parliament. If the broad gauge should be adop►ed,
arrangements have 'been made with the Great Western
Company, to run dispatch trains between London and
Birmingham in less than three hours—and also to pro-
vide, at low rates, means ofconveyance for every descrip-
tion of traffic, whether of passengers, carriages, horses,
cattle, or merchandize and minerals.

The Provisional Committee, however, promote this
measure as one of great national importance, and do not
intend it to be contingent in any degree on the .success or
failure of the Oxford and Rugby Railway, but they will
be guided in the final selection of the line, in the principle
of construction, and in the mode of working it, by the
evidence which may be adduced during the present
session, and by the result of the applications now before
Parliament, as far•as they may appear consistent with the
experience still to,be obtained on the relative merits of
the systems.

They need only add, in conclusion, that if the Oxford
and Rugby line is successful, the capital of X 600,000 will
be ample, as the country has been carefully examined.
No engineering difficulties exist, and there will be no tun-
nel throughout the line.

The landed interests affected by the proposed Rail-
way are very favourable, and the bill will be applied for
in the next Session of Parliament.

Applications for Shares may be made, on or before the
29th instant, to the Secretary, at the temporary offices of
the Company, No. 449, West Strand, London,,or to any
of the Provisional Committee. References to Bankers
must be given where the parties applying for Shares are
not known to any of the Committee of Management.
London, 15th March, 1845.