The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-11-17 00:00:00

ontrartFi.

NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.
CHESTER AND BIRKENHEAD RAILWAT

THE Directors of the above Railway invite TEN-
DERS for MAKING the EXTENSION LINE from
GRANGE-LANE STATION to the NEW DOCKS, at Bridge-
end, Birkenhead.
The Contract will consist of the usual Works, viz., Bridges?
Excavations, Embankments, Culverts, Drains, 'Retaining and
Fence Walls, and all other necessary Works for completing the
same, ready for the Ballast and Rails.
Plans and Specifications of the above Works are now ready
for inspection at the Office of the Resident Engineer to the
Company, in Birkenhead.
Sealer' Tenders, upon Printed Forms, which may be had at
the Office, to be addressed to the " Extension Line Commit-
tee," Birkenhead, marked " Tender for Works," and left at
the Resident Engineer's Office, Market-street, on or before
MONDAY, the 22d instant.
n The
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t, CPaoatrtnTwtireascetltoveerndowe,cirliiloncgbkeaardteecNrloegaorei.
sttiideoend
explanation that may be required.
The above Works to be commenced forthwith.
The Directors do not bind themselves to accept the lowest
WM. Tender.WEDNESDAY,43 attend,to
the
give 25th
an
JACKSON, Chairman.
instant, y

Nov. 17, Ism.

BIRKENHEAD DOCK COMPANY & HERCULA-
NEUM DOCK COMPANY AMALGAMATION.
VOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that Application
it intended to be made to Parliament in the next session,
for an Act to authorize and empower the nnion and consolida-
tion into one Company of the Birkenhead Dock Company, and
the fierculanean Dock Comnanv_ sand fm- inr.n.-nnratinT it new

company tor the purpose of carrying into execution ti
takiv 'of such two companies, and for vesting in sac

cOnsOlidated,cornpany (hicks, works, iWn-ds, property, ca-
pital, stock, shares, estate, and effeets, of the said two compa-
nies, and *tithe rights, powers, privileges, and authorities now
vested in •and exercised or enjoyed by such respective compa-
nies, and for enabling such new or consolidated company to
levy the tolls. rates_ and dntian trranted to the Find two comps-

nies reVectively in the same manner and subject to the same
powers, restrictions, obligations, and liabilities as the said two
companies respectively may now levy the 'same ; and to em,
vowel-such new or consolidated company to grant, fora longer
term of years than is prescribed by the Acts hereinbefbre
mentioned, the wharehouses, wharfs, buildings, and property
'beltmging to the said two companies respectively, 'or any of
'them, or any part thereof.
And it is intended 'to alter, amend, extend, and enlarge, and

The tiiken

lAJ 1C 1)1 pv.• a.ao ••••••••
bead Dock Company Act, 1845," and "The Herculaneum Dock
Act, 1846.—Dated the sixth day of November, 1846.
MALLABY and TOWNSEND, Solicit Ors for the Bill.

S HROPSHIRE UNION RAILWAYS.
=SHREWSBURY !FO WORCESTER.
PROPOSED RAILWAY FROM SHREWSBURY TO
WORCESTER,
WITH VOTIR BRANCHES, NAMELY,-TO THE SHREWSBURY

AND UrAMINOHAM RAILWAY AT COALEROOKDALE,-TO
THE'SHREWSBURY AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY IN THE
PAHIS,H OF MADELEY, NEAR THE AGVEDUCT HOUSE,-
TO ,KIDDERMINSVER,-AND TO THE OXFORD, WORCES-
MER, AND WOLVERHAMPTON RAILWAY AT WORCESTER.
,--AMENDMENT OF ACTS, AND POWER TO PURCHASE OR
VEISE THE SHROPSHIRE CANAL NAVIGATION.

:NarICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that Application is intended
ris Pnrlinmont in the ensuine Session for an Act to

ainehd, enlarge, anti consoimate or repeat Lae priyv thiuna,
401tre of them, of " The Shropshire Union Railways and Canal,
"''N-ewtown toCreVve, with Branches,Att 1846 ;" "The Shropshire
"Union Railways and Canal, Chester and Wolverhampton line,
'",Act 1846;" and " The Shropshire Union Railways and Canal,
Shrewsbury and Stafford Railway, Act 1846;" and to declare the
Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company referred to in

sum ACTS respeutivety arc
it is also intended by such proposed Act to authorize the said
-Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company to construct
and maintain the following Railways, or some of them, with all
proper works, approaches and conveniences, connected there-
with, namely ;—A Railway commencing by a junction with the
line of the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway, as at present
authorized'to be made near the Race Course, in the parish of
H ' 0' borough of Shrewsbury, in the

„oiy Cross and Saint Giles, inure
c,ounty of Salop, and terminating at San some Fields, hear Lowes
snore Basin; in the-parish of-Clainss,iii +h. Woreektar,
and County of the same City, which said intended Railway and
works mill pass from, in, through, or into, or will he situate
within the several parishes, townships, extra-parochial, brother
places followin g or some of tbem „that is to say„—The Stone Ward
Without, Holy Cross and Swint Giles, Abbey loregate, Coleham,
Trinity Coleham, Shrewsbury, Saint Alkmond, Saint Mary,
Saint Julian, Brace Meole otherwise Meole Brace, Sutton Mill,
Sutton, Longner, Uckiugton, Berwick Mavison, Cronkhill,

Emstrey
wise Attinotam

, Atcham otherwise Attingham, Atcham other-
Betton and Al kmere, Betton Strange, Little

Bert Betton, Cross Houses, Cantl9p, EattmtMascott, Bromp-
ton,, Berrington, Berrington, Donnin,gton,‘ Rushton, Norton,
Wroxeter, Eyton and Dryton, Wroxeter, Eaton Constantine,
Gritting, Harnage, Lower Cound, Upper Cound, Cound, Cres-
sage, Belswardine, Garmston, Leighton, Leighton, Shineton,
WYke and Bradley, Much Wenlock, Much Wenlock, Burnt

HOusps

brooliale, Coalbrook, 'lronbridge, Saint Luke Ironbridge,
Coalport, Madeley, Madeley, Jackfield, Marsh, The Tuckies,
Severn Hall, Stanley, Coalmoor otherwise Colemere, Burton,
nowton. Swinney, Broseley, Broselev, Linley, Linley, Coughley,
>Little Canghley, Barrow, Barrow, gorton, Stockton, Stockton,
Willey, Wiley, Astley Abbotts, Astley Abbotts, Astley, Nord-
ley Regis, Aston Eyres, Tasley, the Borough of Bridgnorth,
Bridgnorth, Saint Mary Magdalen Bridgnorth, St. Leonard
Bridgnorth, Oldbury, Oldbury, Eardington, Quatford, Roms-
ley. dose, Worfield, Sutton Maddock, Dudmaston, Quatt Mal-
vern' Quatt Jervis, (lima, Sutton, Hampton otherwise Hump-
tons Load, Chelmarsh, Chelmarsh, Alvey, Stanley, Netherton,
Highley otherwise Higley, Earnwood, Kinlet, Kinlet and
Dowles, Claverley, and Billingsley, in the•county of Salop ;
Upper or Over Areley otherwise Upper or Over Arley in the
county of Stafford ; Eymore, Netherton, Henwick, Hatton,
Grimley, Astley; Areley Kings otherwise Lower Areley, Ribbes-
ford, Little Witley, Great V% itley, Holt, Bewdley, Borough, of
Bewdley. Wribbea'hall, Blackstone, Hearstone, Netherton,
Sandbourne, Kingsford, Wolverley; the ,Foreign of Kidder-
minster, the Parish of Kidderminster, Burlish, Lickhill Moor-
hill, Mount Pleasant, Stourport, Lower Mitton otherwise
Lower Nlilton, Upper Mitton otherwise Upper Milton,
Mitton otherwise Milton,. Pansington Clareland, Titton,
Charrick otherwise Cherrick, Lincoiribe, Redstone, Ast-
ley, Hampstall, • Hartlebury, Shrawley, Dunhampton, Par-
sonage, Powers, Boreley otherwise Borley, Lineholt, Hadley,
Acton, Acton with Downhampton, Chatley, Brookhampton
with Comhampton, Uphampton, Bennetts, Sychampton, Tapen-
hall, Northampton, Parsonage with Pavers, Half-way house,
Winnall, Ombersley, Hadley with Hay Elms, Mayeux with
Chatley, Tytchney4-lolt, Holt Fleet, Northampton Rax, Old-
field, Mount Pleasant, Comhampton, Saint George;Barbourne,
Whistones. Otherwise Whitstones, Hawford, Revere Green
otherwise Beverley Green, Northwick, Bevere otherwise Bever-
ley, Astwood, Tollerdine, Lower Tapenhall, Upper Tapenhall,
Tapenhall otherwise Tappenhall, Smite, Ciaines, Whittington
otherwise Wittinton, the Blockhouse otherwise Blockhouse
Fields otherwise Saint Paul, Saint Peter otherwise Saint Peter
the Great, Battenhall,. Upper Battenhall, Lower Battenhall,
Middle Battenhall, Grimley, Grimley. Cum Hallow, Hallow,
Saint John in Bed% ardine otherwise Saint Jahn, Saint Clement,
Renwick, and Saint Martin- in the county-of Worcester; the
Blockhouse otherwise the Blockhouse Fields otherwise Saint
Paul, Middle Battenhall, Lower Battenhall, Upper Battenhall,
Battenhall, Saint Peter otherwise Saint Peter the Great, All
Saints, Saint Andrew, Saint John in Bedwardine otherwise
Saint John, Saint John in Itedwardine otherwise Saint John,
Saint Clement, Henwick, Saint Nicholas, the Butts, Pitchcroft
otherwise Pitchcroft Ham, Saint Martin, Saint Oswald, Saint
George, Barbouene, Whistones otherwise Whitstones, and
Claines, in the city of Worcester and county of the same city.
Also a Railway diverging out of the said.first-mentioned in-
tended Railway, at or near Benthall Edge, in the Parish of
Benthall, in the said county of Salop, and 'terminating by a
junction with the line of the said Shrewsbury and Birmingham
Railway, as at present authorized to be made, at or near to
C.,oalbrookdale,. in the Parishes of Madeley and Dawley, or one
of them, and which said last-mentioned intended Railway and
other works connected therewith, will pass from, in, through.
into, or be sPnate, in the several parishes, townships, extra-
parochial, and other places following, or some of them, that is
to say, Benthall,ironbridge, St. Luke's Ironlaridge, Burton
Marsh, Jackfield, Madeley, Madeley, Coalport, Coalbrook,
Coalbrookdale, Dawley, Dawley Magna, Dawley Parva, and
Malin's Lee, in the County of Salop.
. .

Also a Railway diverging out of 'the said first-mentioned in-
tended Railway, in the Parish of Brosely, at or near The
iWerps, and terminating by a junction with the line of the
,said Shrewsbury. and Birmingham Railway, in the Parishes
of Madeley and Stirchley, or one of them, in the said County
,of Salop, at or near the turnpike road from Dawley to
• Madeley, and near to the Aqueduct House, and-which said
last-mentioned intended Railway and other works connected
therewith, will pass from, in, through, into, or be situate in the
several parishes, townships, extra-parochial, and other places
.I.4.llowiug, or some of them, that is to say, Broseley,,Broseley,
Ironbridge, Saint Luke's Ironbridge, Jackfield, The Werps,
Swinney, Madeley, Madeley, Madeley Court, Madeley Wood,
Coalport, Norton, Rowton, Burton, Marsh, Kemberton, Kem-
•berton. Stirehley, Stirchley, Dawley, Dawley Magna, Dawley
Parvaand Malin's Lee, in the County of Salop.
Also, a Railway diverging Gut of the said first-mentioned in-
tended Railway, at or near to Lower Mitton, in the Foreign and
BoroUgh of Kidderminster, in the (jaunty of Worcester, and
-terminating at or near the turnpike road from Kidderminster.
Tto Droitwicii in. the Foreign of Kidderminster, in the ,said
ICOlinty of Worcester, and which said last-mentioned intended
'Railway, and other works connected therewith, will pass from,-
in,.through,,into, or be situate in the several parishes, town-
ships, extra-parochial, and other places, following, or some of
)hem,-that is to say, Stourport, Lower Mitton, otherwise Lower.
Milton,. Upper Mitton otherwise Upper Milton, Hartlebury,
Slitteti,,,Oldington, Borough of Kidderminster, Foreign of Kid-
dertninsta, , and Parish of Kidderminster, in the County of.
Worcester.
Aiwa Railway.diverging out of. the said first-mentioned in
tended Railway, in the parish of Claines aforesaid, and termi-
natitigat the line -of the Oxford Worcester and Wolverhamp- •
ton Railway, as at-present authorised to. be made, in the parish
of Clitipes• aforesaid, in the County of the City of Worcester
and C.aupty, of Worcester, or one of them, near the road from
Worcester to .FOrtfields Farm and Warndon, and which said
last-mentioned intended Railway and other works connected
therewith, will pass,-from, in, through, or into, or will be situ-
ate wholiy „in the parish of Claines aforesaid.
And it tii;alSo intended by such Act to take power to stop up,
A
alter or dished, temporarily or permanently, all turnpike and
other roads, ,and_ highways, railways, tramways, aqueducts,
canals, sewers, pipes, streams, and rivers, witiiin the aforesaid
parishes, townships, and places, or any of them, which it may
be necessary veto stop up, alter, or divert, by reason of the
construction t the said intended Railways and works, or any
of them, and it is also intended, by such Act, to take powers
for the purchase.of lands-and houses, by compulsion or agree-
ment, for the ptupses,thereof, and for levying tolls, rates, and
duties in respect thereof, and to grant certain exenytions from
such toiis rates, and duties. And it is further intended by
such Act, vary or extinguish all existing rights or privileges
in any manner connected .with-the lands proposed to be pur-
.thased orsaken for the purposes of the said undertnking, or
which would in any istanner,impede or interfere with the con-
struction, tnaintenance, or use thereof, and to confer other
:lights or privileges.
And Notice is hereby further given, that maps, plans, and
sections, of the said intended Railways, and works, and-of the
lands proposed to be taken for the purposes thereof, together
• with books of reference to ouch plans, containing the names of
the actual'or reputed owners, and lessees, and of the occupiers
of such lands, Will be deposited, on or before the 30th day .of
'November, in the present year; with the Clerk of the Peace-of
the County of Woocester, at his office in the City of Worcester ;
With ,the Clerk of the 'Peace -of the City of Worcester, and
• UQuiity .of the same City. at his 4Mice, in the said City of Wor-
.ceSter ; with the Clerk of the pears of the County of Stafford, at
his ()dice in Stafford ; with the Cleric of the Peace of thetjounty--
.of Sa op, at his Office in Shrewsbury t and that a copy of so
much.of•the said plans,. sections, and books of reference, as re-
Ades toeach of the parishes, in, or through which the said in-
(tended, Railways and works are intended to be made, will be
alep,.sited on or before the said 30th day of November, with the
Faris!) ('jerks of those Par.shes respectiyely at their respective

residences. •
Mid it is farther proposed, by the said intended Act, to en-
able kite said /Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company
!? purchase.. or take on lease, "The Shropshire :Cana Nave •
gat ion," .orts9me part or parts thereof, together with alLoi any
of the lands, Windings, property, rights, and powers, of the
Company of Frogrietors of the Shropshire Canal Navjgation,
And of any Persons or Corporations (if any) interested
therein, and to enable the said last-mentioned Company,
end such Persons-or Corporations, to sell or let and to 'transfer
~aliie same accordingLy and to dissolve the said last-mentioned
`'"inpany.
And for the seve,ralmrposes aforesaid, it is intended by the
said proposed Act to ;titer amend. enlarge, or repeal, as far as
~
V), lie necessary, some or the powers and provisions of the
tc.ow)ng Acts of Parliairient, namely :—The Acts relating to
.ue Eliesinere and Chester :L:anal Navigastion, passed respec-
VYin the Sth year of the feign of His late Majesty 1412 g
me-Prge the Fourth ; in the 1; 01,year of the reign of His said late
leat y kin g George the Fouttb.; in the Ist year of the reign
of He
said r present Majesty; in the ptli year of the reign of Her
a Present Majesty • and in the Sth year of the reign of Her
1-01',.' Present Majesty; and in the. Session held in the 9th and
reC.Years of the.reign of her said pref.. tent Majesty ; the Act
tritg to the said Shropshire Caual Navigation, passed in the
th.. ' Tear of the reign of his late Majesty .K ing Geerge.Third •
the i 2
in,tAet relating to the Shrewsbury
.Cawl Savigatien, passed
timhe nil year of the reign of His said late Nlajestv King
ni-riTe the 'i hard ; and the several acts relating
to the Niolltgo-
- Canal, or Eastern Branch of the said Montgonie.:
the e Cunal, passed repeat in the 34th and 55th years of
thee reian of His late Majesty King George the Third, and in
2nd year of the reign of His !ate Majesty King Veorge the
4V'th ; and the several Acts relaijng to the Western Branch
Tie Montgomeryshire Canal, passed. respectively in the 55th
Year of +l,--:-- ~4. L.. 1.4,1 MliiP t King--orge the Third,
A V .

a„-x.u. rue reign oi His .
ir" In the 4th year of the reign of His
an) the Fourth.
Dated this 4th day of November, 18403
PARKER, HAYES, BARN WELL, 4
I, Lincoln's Inn Fields, Lond;c4
POTTS'S and BROWN, Chester.
SLATER and HEELIS, filanchester,
JAMES WHEELER, Manchester.
HENRY HEANE, Newport.
• I,OSDAIOE Aral PEELE, Shrewsbury

;Ate M 4 egY

4 TWISDEN,

THE BIRKENHEAD, LANCASHIRE, AND
CHESHIRE JUNCTION RAILWAY,

NOTICE .IS HEREBY GIVEN, that nu
11EXTRA-
ORDINARY MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS of
the BIRKENHEAD, LANCASHIRE, AND CHESHIRE
JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY will be held at the
TOWN-HALL, Birkenhead, in the county of Cheater, on
THURSDAY, the Third day of December next, at Two o'clock
in the Afternoon, for the purpose of considering and deter-
mining upon certain proposals for the Purchase of the Chester
and Birkenhead Railway, and the Works connected therewith,
and other the Effects and Property of the Chester and Birken-
head Railway Company, or for the Amalgamation of the said
two Companies, upon the terms and conditions which will be
submitted to the said Extraordinary Meeting; and also to
come to such Resolutions thereupon, or in any way relating
thereto, as shall to such Meeting seem advisable.
Dated this Thirteenth day of November, 1846.
By order of the Directors,
E. P. CHARLEWOOD, Secretary,

W.RKENHEAD,:LANCASHIRE, AND CHESHIRE

JUNCTION RAILWAY,

AND
CHESTER AND BIRKENHEAD RAILWAY
PURCHASE OR AMALGAMATION.

IVO.TICE IS HERESY ,GIVEN, that Application is
_LI intended to be made to ,Parliament, in the next Session,
for an Act or Acts of Parliament, to alter, amend, explain, en.
large, ,and render more effectual, or to repeal some of the
powers and provisions .of "The Birkenhead, Lancashire, and
Cheshire. Junction Railway Act, 1846," and of the several Acts
relating to the Chester and Birkenhead Railway, passed re.
spectively in the ;eventh year of His late Majesty King William
the Fourth and the first of the reign of Her present Majesty,
and in the third and fourth, and the eighth and nin.h years of
the reign of Her present Majesty.
And
.further Notice is hereby given, that it is intended by
the said Act or Acts, or some or ,one of them, to enable the
Chester and Birkenhead Railway Company to demise and lease
fora term of years, orin.perpetuity, or otherwise, to sell, dis-
pose of, and absolutely makeover to the said Birkenhead, Lan-
cashire, and Cheshire Junction Railway Company. the Chester
and Birkenhead Railway and Works, or -any of them, or any
part thereof, and ail or any of the Property and Effects of the
said Company, and alLor any of the powers, rights, and privi-
leges belonging to the said Chester and Birkenhead Railway
Company in connection therewith, or in relation thereunto,
and to enable the said Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire
Junction Railway Company to accept and take such lease, and
to purchase, accept, and enjoy the same Railway and Works,
and other Property and Effects, or any part thereof, and to
exercise such powers, rights, and privileges, or any or every of
itieniffiaffalifermPlE angxonsolidate _We said Chester and_
y and into tne said Birkenhead, Lan
ottshire, and Cheshire Junction Railway, and to disineorporate
and dissolve the said Chester and Birkenhead Railway Com-
pany, and to alter and vary the rates, tolls, and duties at pre-
sent demandable, or recoverable, for the use of the said rail-
ways respectively, and to enable the said Birkenhead, Lanca-
shire, and Cheshire Junction Railway Company, or the said con-
solidated Company, to levy and receive the same or other rates,
tolls, and duties in or upon, and in respect of, the said Chester
and Birkenhead Railway and their Works, and to confirm and
legalize.all contracts and agreements adopted or approved of,
or acted upon.by or between the-said Birkenhead., Lancashire,
and Cheshire Junction Railway Company and the Chester and
Birkenhead Railway Company, or the Directors of either of the
said companies, and any other contracts or agreements which
may be made and executed, or be adopted or approved of, or
acted upon, byor between the said Birkenhead, Lancashire, and
Cheshire Junction Railway Company and the Chester and Bir-
kenhead Railway Company, or the Directors of either of the
stud Companies •, and to extend and make applicable to the
said Consolidated Company, and all the property, works, mat.
tern, and things belonging thereto, or connected therewith, all
or any of the powers and provisions of the said " Birkenhead,
Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction Railway Act, 1846."
And it is also intended by the said Act or Acts to enable the
London end North-Western Railway Company to raise funds,
and out of their Corporate or other funds to become interested
in the said lease or purchase, and to contribute to, he purchase
of the said Cheater and Birkenhead Railway and undertaking,
or to contribute or hold shares is the Company or undertaking
to be formed by the amalgamation of the Chester and Birken-
head, and Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction
Railway Companies; and to enter inlo such contracts, ar-
rangements, and agreements with the said Birkenhead, Lan-
cashire, and Cheshire Junction Railway Company, and Chester
and Birkenhead Railway Company, or either of them, in refe-
rence to sueh purchase or amalgamation, as they shall deem
expedient, ancl As may be mutually agreed upon between the
said London and North-Western Railway Company, and Bir-
kenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction Railway Com-
pany, and Chester and Birkenhead Railway Company, respec-
tively; and for such purposes to alter, amend, extend, and
enlarge some of the powers and provisions of the several Acts
t. the Londou anti North-Western Railway,

following relating lo Luc
pr some of them, (that is to ,sll}',l-I.ocal and personal Act 41i
and 9th Victoria, chapter 15,6, local and personal ts 9th and 10th
'Victoria, chapters 67, 80, 82, 152, 182, 184, 193, 201, 231, 232,
233, 244, 248, 261, 269, 309, 328, 331, 359, 368, 369, and 396.
Dated this Seventh day of November, One Thousand Eight
linadro,l ;yid Forty-Six.
.LOYD and WALLA, S •
olicitors fpr the Bill.
I(MEPLI 41ALLAB