The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-03-18 00:00:00

£17,528 0 0
2,024 0 0

port-of Carriages, Gigs, Horses, Dogs, .&(
taken at an average of only three per cent on
the Passenger Traffic, the per centage usually
taken in similar lines being five, yields....
Cattle and Sheep
General Merchandise, Heavy Goods, includ-
ing Stone from the Quarries in Morayshire
and Nairnshire to the west, Timber, Farm
Produce, Coals, Manures, Fish, Spirits, &c. 7,500 0 0
Goods Traffic on the Branches......
Passenger Traffic on Ditto .....

525 0 0
600 0 0

31,145 0 0

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level nature of the country, and its passing aver a light
gravelly soil, are of a very simple character. There are
els or viaducts, and the country abounds in all the
s, with the exception of iron, necessary for the
construction of a railway.

no tunne

ance for working expenses, and assuming one third of the
capital to be borrowed, according to the ordinary practice
of railway companies, at the usual rate of interest,.abews a
clear return of upwards of eight per cent. _

It is proposed,
line orrails, with t

in the first place, to lay down a single
he usual passing places, until the traffic
developed. The bridges are, however,

shall be n

purchasrid

Besides the advantages above enumerated, arising from
the local traffic, there are other and-important sources of

of the line will connect with t

originally cost £1,000,000, and on the improvement of
which £200,000 are now in the course of being expended
by Government. These improvements, which will he
completed before the Railway comes into operation, will
greatly increase the navigation, both of steamers and

two steamers ply to ice a-weelc, while a large and powerful
steamer is to be placed, on the opening of the Canal, in
the direct Liverpool trade. The whole of this extensive
traffic from Glasgow, Liverpool, &c., towards the couties
of Banff, Nairn and Moray, west necessarily pass along
the proposed Railway.

On the other hanii, towards the east, the line will be
continued by the contemplated railway from Elgin to
Aberdeen,—thus connecting all the towns and manufac-
turing districts on the west of England and Scotland,
through the Caledonian Canal, with the rich agricultural
country to the east of Elgin, and onwards to the city of
Aberdeen, and other towns on the east coast of Scotland.

Besides conctituting an important link in the direct east
and west communication of this part of the kingdom, the
present railway must of necessity form the northern out-
let of the contemplated great direct Central liailway from
Perth to Inverness, in continuation of the Scottish Cen-
tral and Caledonian Railways, thus completing the short-
est possible line between England and the southern coun-
ties of Scotland and the north ; and, iron, its position in
this respect, the Inverness and Elgin Railway will become
the channel through which will flow the whole traffic be-
tween the north and south.

The Capital will be divided into 15,000 shares of £2O
each. The parliamentary deposit of five per cent to he
paid upon the shares being allotted, and the Subscribers
to sign the Parliamentary Contract and Subscriber'
agreement, when required.
Power will be taken to pay interest at four per cent. on
the amount of the subscription paid up till the line is
opened, and no Subscriber shall be answerable for more
than the amount of his subscription.
Applications for Shares to he made, in the form an-
nexed, to Messrs. G. and P. ANDERSON, Solicitors, and
Mr. CHARLES STEWART, Solicitor, Inverness, the Inte-
rim Joint Secietare, ; to Messrs. MARTIN and Ross, 37,
Castle-street. Edioburgli ; Messrs. EDWARD WCALLUM
and COMPANY, StockbrAers, and Mr. WILLIAM CLEL-
LAND, Stockbroker, Edin,mgh; Mr. JAMES GRANT,
Writer, and Mr. GEORGE GATHERER, Writer, Agents at
Elgin; Mr. WILLIAM SCI ANDERS, Writer, Agent at
Forres ; Mr. ADAM DAVIDSON, Town-Clerk, Agent at
Nairn ; Nlessis. SETON 3tld REID, Sharebrokers, Glas.
gow : Mr. J. OLIPIIANT, Shan-broker, Perth ; Messrs.
s nnfi enur ANY, Sharebrokers, Aber-

•
deen ; Me srs. SCOTT, CAnTnottN, tu,d
Throgniort9n-street, LondoP ; Mr. J. B. ti

COTT, No. 16,
MAY, Share.