The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-10-15 00:00:00

OFFICES, STRAND, LONDON.

HONORARY DIRC-CTORS.
P of Rutland. K.G. Viscount. Torrinaton.
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—',ll .of Stamford and Viscorm .Campdeu.
-Earl
WarrSington. Lor ayleich.
p radbroke. rd Feversham.
-3TI Untie. Lord Stanley, M.P. a.rl of `fair.
And Luventy-two er Members of Parliament and
Gentlemen.
Prldrs Proprietary of this Company exceeds 1960 in
nmber.
ta:lrheu share of Public Favour this Institution has ob-
in ed, 'proves the appreciation of its system by a numer-
'°%body or insurers.
a• *vet", kind of Life Insurance, of Deferred and Irnme-
iate,A. •
be a eontitles. and of Endowments 'for'Children, may
--rnO'ished at this'Office on terms as low as is con-
sistent with security.
Yktlividend of Four 'per Cent. is now in course of pay-
ment to the shareholers in this office. A BONUS of
ione-half-halfthe profits on LIFE POLICIES held by Share-
lders, and effected since Ist January, 1843, will be
`lven at the end of every Five Years, in addition to the
sum assured, or by reduction of premium. In order to
Insure the benefit of the first quiquennial division, Poll-kle..!_ must be effected before the Ist January, 1844.
0 Detailed Prospectuses may be obtained at the Office,
r will be forwarded., post free, upon anplication.
In the Fire Department, Insurances are effected at the
lowest rates. The usual Commission to Solicitors.
Agents are appointed in all the Principal Towns in the
Kingdom, and where Agents are not appointed. persona
in active life, and desirous of being appointed, may apply
'to W. SHAW, Managing Director.

THE MANCHESTER FIRE AND LIFE
ASSURANCE COMPANY.

MARCH 24.
OFFICE, 98,ESTABLISHED
KING-STREET,MANCHESTER.

DIRECTORS A/
THOMAS AI ARKLAN
JAM ES WOOD, Esq.
John Barlow, Esq.
John Brown, Esq.
Edmund Buckley, Esq.,.
M.P.
John Burtm'Esq• "
James Consterdine, Esq.
JoThomas Fleming, Esq.
Jnhn Gould, Esq.
George Grundy, Esq.
Vgilliam Hall, ,E ,
Esq.
h as om Hiltonsq.
ras. R. Hodgson, Esq.

ND TRUSTEES.
D, ESq•I Chairman.
•, Deputy.
Rich "

man.
ole, Esq.
Marshall, Esq.
oseph Peel, Esq.
Richard ?rest, Esq.
Samuel .Pullein, Esq.
John Reid, Esq.
Charles Smith, Esq.
J. B. Wgnklyn, Esq.
R. P. Wilcock, Esq.
Gilbert Winter, Esq.
George Withington, Esq.

BAN
Sir Benjamin Hey

ERS.
.00d, Bart.-and Co.

FIRE DEPARTMENT.
I\T°Tit-E IS 'HEREBY GIVEN, that all Fire Poli-
ut
Ppies due at MIOEIAELMAS must be renewed within
°c' days from that date, or they become void and of
s''or!
•CE IS ALSO GIVEN, that the following Bo-
s and Dividend are now payable at the Company's
"se' N 0,98, ;King-street, Manchester; or by their
reel,siv
A e Agent:,
viz.
'leturn Bonus of £lO per Cent. onall Fire Insurances
last°Tee for two years preceding the 25th,day of March

AZ. •
of th „Vend of Interest of £5 per Cent. on the Shares
laeii,bek,ompany with
A"'" US of 1.:6 per Cent. in addition thereto for the
on e"ve Years, being a present payment of £ll Der Cent.
upwach Share, and making an average interest thereon of
Ilitar(18 of £6 per Cent. per annum.
QP2I-towiNG EXAMPLES OF SOME OF THE.RETURNS
PAYABLE ON FIRE POLICIES WILL,BZSTEXHIBIT
KITH ADVANTAGES TO BE OBTAINED BY INSURING
H THIS COMPANY :-

IV ,"IRIS COMPANY :
p`''Qf
-Name OF THE ASSURED.I Term of Money
Policy. Returned.
—......._ T
46.8,1
.4' a. d.
38.014 Orferod and Co.
48.110 Callender and Co. 5 .. 50 4 6
42,78 a i• and J. Lees
4.073 Rev w. H Bateson, M.A. 2.. 6 16 0
49., G T. Holdsworth, Esq. M.P. 5• • 41 15 1
;7.584 W, - 'Lowe, Esq
;„8•911 Jahn Derbyshire 4 .. 15 16 ,8
0.910 IT• POolev and Son
'''' 332 ;',,,• OKden, Esq 3 .. 14 15 8

Orfarod and Co.. 3 years
Callendar and Co. . 5 ..
I. and J. Lees
Rev W. H Bateson, M.A. 2
T. Holdsworth, Esq. M.P. I 5
VV.. 'Lowe, Esq 3
John Darbyshire... 4
I 5
J. Pootev and Son
~,k• OKden, Esq
"orthern Banking C 0...
---_____

41 17 4
14 15 8
33 5 11

5 -

p In 18
re'r•iu!
4!ld the
swell p 1

LIFE DEPARTMENT.
39, a B was declared onub of 31 per rent. on the
fs received on all Policies of four years' duration,
r °l,lowing Table will explain the advantageous po-
ail Life Insurers with this Company
MADE ON LIFE POLICIES.

foil ,b At the option of the Assured
No, Time Time in gum Or Annual
force. Insured.
............... Bonus added. Premium
Reduced
------.
916 je s. d. .ie s. d.
34u 4 Years 4000 214 18 8I g 9 2
4a,
agg 12 e
5000 766 18 7 60 1 9
10 10
3000 336 1 9 22 410
243, 14 snob 698 5 3 57 510
451 12
5000 832 11 3 55 1 11
159 a 4500 798 15 4i72 3 11
....,1-----ile
~.__::l____;_.___ 2000 140 19 0 812 5
5.00 671 16 2 30 14 4

and Division of Profits will take place in 1849.
Of tee Directors beg to announce that as all Life Policies
tithe e egtiDany, of four years' duration previous to that
t
Peri4Pe entitled to participate in the division, the presen
eipe, Particularly eligible for persons entering ; and
41;gailii so Ar voting lives.
and IV* are appointed in the principal loans and plaFes,
for e Direclom will be happy to receive applications
go' agencies,
ap,r rate,
Ur premium and all other particulars please to
h' to any of the Company's Agents, or to
HERBERT SPRING, Secretary.

AGRNTS:
44verp001...
Mr. RIC 1 ARD DAWSON, Exchange-
d
alley, Exci:ange.street We ;
Ps
ellent ead ..IVlVaecaasnrsti
Sir L Castle-street.
JAS. anti THOS. LEWIN, 48,
Or *ter' • • • • • Mrs. Elizabeth Weaver, Grocer.
b nukirk.• • • Mr. Richird Harkness.
wirSt. .... Mess's. H. and S. Procter.
l of
.. Mr. Richard Fildes.
Wiltil,"rt • • • Mr. Samuel Newsham, Solicitor.
Wire
-.Mr. John Stretch, Bank.
litan ..... Mr. John Acton.

PROSPECTUS OF THE BOLTON, WIGAN,
AND LIVERPOOL RAILWAY.

CAPITAL, £BOO,OOO ; in 16,000 Shares of £so.each.
Deposit £4 per. Share.

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The EARL OF BALCARRAS.
Sir THONAS BRANCKER, Liverpool.
MEYnic BANKEs, Wnistanley Hall.
JOHN CROSTHWAITE. Liverpool.
JAMES BRANCKER, Liverpoo
WILLIAM STUARX Liver .
JOHN WOODCOCK, Ban louse, Wigan.
HENRY SHAW. Lwi ate. Ashton, Wigan.
WILLIAM PEACE aigh, Wigan.
r0tdre..........—..
THOMAS TEBA , Winstanley.
JAMES BOTH ELL BARNES, Summerfield, near Bolton.
ROBERT STUART, Manchester.
WILLIAM DUNLOP, Edinburgh.
With power to add to their number.
ENGINEERS:
SIR JOHN MACNEILL, L L U. F.R.S.; and
JAMES THOMSON, F.R.S.E., M R.I.A.
SOLICITORS:
HENRY GASKELL, Wigan.
S. D. DARBISHIRE, Manchester.
-BANKERS: •
The ROYAL BANK of LIVER,POOL•
WOODCOCK and SONS, Wigwa.

THE proposed Railway will commence near the Bolton
Terminus of the Manchester and Bolton Railway,
or by a Junction with are Bolton and Preston Railway,
about three miles from Bolton, as may hereafter be
de-
termined noon, and will pass through Dean Rumforth,
Lostock, Westhoughton, and AspuA, intersecting the im-
portant Coal Fields of that neighbourhood, to Wigan,
where it crosses the North Union Railway.
The Line then proceeds through the heart of the great
Coal District of Lancashire, taking the route of Pember-
ton, Winstanley, Upholland, Billinge, Rainford. Mos-
brough, Kirkby, and Knowsley, and passes through Wel.
ton and Bootle, terminating in immediate contiguity with
the North Docks in Liverpool.
The above sketch of the proposed Line will at once sug-
gest the various and important objects which its construc-
tion is calculated to attain. The large and rapidly-in-
creasing Towns of B(.1ton and Wigan, with their populous
neighbourhoods, will acquire a direct Railway communi-
cation with each other, and with Liverpool (the latter
town and intermediate district with Manchester also), in
the advantages of which the Town of Bury and the exten-
sive Manufacturing District on the Line of the Bury and
Rossendale Railway, and its projected extensions into
Yorkshire will participate. The Towns of Chorley and
Preston, and the District to the north of Wigan, will at
the same time obtain a shorter and more convenient Rail-
way connection with Liverpool.
The opening of the inexhaustible Mines of exeellent
Coal and Cannel, which lie to the extent of several miles
on each side of the Line for nearly s.6ths of its entire
length, and the greater portion of which bas hitherto, for
want of the means of transit, been unavailable to the pub-
lic, may, however, be considered as one of the principal
objects of the present undertaking. It is impossible to
estimate too highly the extent or the importance, in a
commercial point of view, whether for home consumption
or for exportation, of the Mineral riches which will be
thus brought into the Market. The very large supplies
of Coal already forwarded from a limited portion of this
important District, and by the very circuitous Canal Con-
veyance to Liverpool and the Manufacturing Towns in
Lancashire, may afford some idea of the extent of traffic
which will be the result of opening up the whole Coal
Field by a direct Railway communication, and which must
constitute such Railway the " Stockton and Darlington"
of the West. The importance of this element of the
scheme is enhanced by the immediate connection of the
Line with the Docks of Liverpool, thus affording the
most convenient means of Shipping Coals and Coke to
Ireland, where the consumption of both these articles is
rapidly increasing, and to the Continent. The vicinity to
the North Docks will also facilitate, in a great degree,
the Conveyance of Raw Produce and Manufactured Goods
to and from the Manufacturing Districts on the Line of
the proposed Railway, and of those in connection with it,
and will offer the greatest conveniences for the importa-
tion and tranatniesion, into the interior of Lancashire, of
Cattle and Live Sock.

Taking into consideration the large population which
will be thus benefitted, the increasing facilities of inter-
course which puhlic convenience demands, the immense
Commercial resources of the District, the consumption of
Raw Produce, and the equivalent return of Manufactured
Goods which the proposed Railway will at once foster and
supply, the Committee conceive that an impera, ive case is
made out for the construction of the Bolton, Wigan, and
Liverpool Railway. The projected Line is about 27 miles
in length, and it is estimated that the cost of its construc-
tion, including the purchase of Land, and ample allow-
pup; for contingencies, will not exceed Ftt1,0Q,909, Jt is

BLACKBURN, DARWEN, AND BOLTON

RAILWAY.
CAPITAL £250,000, in SHARES of £25 each.
DEPOSIT, £2 per Share.

PROVISIONAL COMMITTER.
John Fowden Hindle, Esq., W• .. fold Park, High
Sheriff of the County of .ncaster.
John Hornby, Esq., M.P. Blackburn.
John Ashworth. Esq., r" enshaw.
Thomas Appleton, Es. , Turton.
Stephen Blair, Esq., :olton.
John Brandwood, q., Darwen.
James Brandwoo Esq., Darwen.
Robert Burton, sq., Bolton.
Charles Edmo :ton, Esq.. Darwen.
James Greenway, Esq., Darwen Bank.
Peter Richard Hoare, Esq., Turton.
William Henry Hornby, Esq., Blackburn.
Robert Hopwood, Esq , Blackburn.
William Ford Hulton, Esq.. Hutton Park, Bolton.
James Kay, Esq., Turton Tower.
Charles Potter, Esq., Darwen.
Harold Potter, Esq., Darwen.
Adam Roxburgh. Esq., Entwisle.
Thomas Scowcroit, Esq., Bradshaw.
Eccles Shorrock, Esq., Darwen.
E. H. Sumner, Esq , Bolton.
William Wilson, Esq , Preston.
With power to add to their number.
BANKERS.
The Manchester and Liverpool District Banking Com-

parry.
CONSULTING ENGINEER.

ACTING ENGINEER.
Mr. John Watson.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Robinson and Hulton, Blackburn.

THIS projected Line is intended to connect the large
.I. manufacturing town of Blackburn. and the populous
and increasing townships of Lower Darwen, Over Dar-
wen, and Turton, with the important town of Bolton,
and at the latter Terminus to form a Junction with the
Manchester and Bolton Railway, by wbich a continuous
and unbroken Railway communication will be established
between Blackburn and Manchester.

It is proposed that the Line, commencing at the Joint

GREAT GRIMSBY AND SHEFFIELD JUNCTION
RAI LWAY.
CAPIT4L, £600,000, IN 12,000 SHARES OF £5O
EACH; DEPOSIT, £2 Iss. PER SHARE.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

The Right Honourable the Earl of Yarborough.
Lord Worsley, M.P. for Lincolnshire, and Chairman of
the Grimsby Haven Compa
The Mayor of Grimsby.
Edward Heneage, Esq. .P. for Grimsby.
John Parker, Esq., .P., Chairman of the Sheffield and
Manchester Railway Company.
Cornelius Ratatital, 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.

Tohn Angerstein, Esq., Weeting Hail, Brandon, Suffolk.
Ayscough Boucherett, Esq., Willingin.rn, Lincolnshire.
J. G. Corbett, Esq., Elsham, Lincolnshire.
G. F. Heneage, Esq., Hainton, Lincolnshire.

The Rev. C. J. Barnard, Bigbv, Lincolnshire.
Alfred Arthur Wallace, Esq., Healing, Grimsby.
Richard Thorold, Esq., Weelsby, near Gri:r.sby.
W. D. Field, Esq., Ulceby Grange, Lincolnshire.
George Skipworth, Esq., Moortown Hill, Lincolnshire.
G. H. Vernon, Esq., 1\1.P., The Grove, near-)

. . •
Retford.
T. A. Ward, Esq., Town Regent of Sheffield. I Directors
James Dixon, Esq., Page Hall, Sheffield. I
of the
Mr.. Alderman Woodcrolt, Bennett Grange, Sheffield &
Sheffield. } Lincoln-
G. C. Hol.and, 'Esq., M D., Sheffield. ( shire
Wm. Frederic Dixon, Esq., Birley House, I Junction
Sheffield. I Railway.
James Wall, Esq., Attercliffe, Sheffield.
Abraham Howe, Esq., Broadfield, Sheffield.)
___ ___ ....

, . .
George Walker, Esq., o.,gathorpe, Sheffield—.
Colonel Dalton, Sleningford Park.
With power to add to their number.
ENGINEER.
John Fowler, Esq., Nlem. Inst. C.E.
BANKERS.

The Sheffield and Retford Bank, Sheffield and Retford.
Messrs. Smith, Ellison, and 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.
Humfrey, F. R A.S.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS.
Messrs. Dyson, Hall, Parkes, and Coates.
SOLICITORS.

Messrs. Haywood, Bramley, and Gainsford, and Messrs.
Smith and Hinde, Sheffield.
LOCAL AGENTS.

Mr. George Babb, Great Grimsby.
Messrs. Marris and Smith, Caistor.

Mr. Thomas Rhodes, Market Rasen.
Messrs. Nicholson, Hett, and Freer, Glanford Brigg.

rr HIS 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 Gainsborough, 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 kingdom. Mr. RENDEL, the eminent En-
gineer, is now occupied, on behalf of the Grimsby Haven
Company,in completing 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 calculated to travel upon this line of
Railway.
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 Port 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 L;ne a large traffic in Corn and
Agricultural P►oduce, both VV 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, must 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 SOLICI-
TORS, or the SECRETARY, at Sheffield ; to any of the
LOCAL AGENTS ; or to the undermentioned Sharebrokers :
—Messrs. JOSHUA HuTcruNsoN and SONS, Lothbury,
London; Messrs. JOHNSTON and BRADLEY, and Mr. J.
B. LOCKE, Manchester; and
Messrs. HENRY DAVIES and Co., Liverpool.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Great Grimsby and

Sheffield Junction Railway.
I request that you will allot me Shares in the
proposed GREAT GRIMSBY AND SHEFFIELD JUNCTION
RAILWAY, on the terms mentioned in the Prospectus ;
and I agree to take all such Shares, or so many thereof as
may be allotted to me, and to pay the Deposit, and to
execute the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers'
Agreement, when required so to do.
Name
Description
Residence

Date

, Asbton-under-
Proprietors of Shull in the Sheffield