The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-11-03 00:00:00

Manchester—Messrs.
London—Messrs. Bard.

PROSPECTUS,

THE object of this Company is to construct a Line
1 of Railway between Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport.
The accommodation proposed to be thus given has long been
desired, but the difficulty of obtaining a convenient entrance
into Liverpool has until lately proved an insurmountable ob-
stacle. - This difficulty the Liverpool and Bury Railway, now in
course of. construction, affords the means of overcoming, it
being proposed by the present scheme to make use of that line
for nearly.a mile and a half out of Liverpool, and thence pro-
ceed, by way of Bootle, Seaforth, Waterloo, Crosby, and along
the coast, through Formby, to Southport, affording to those
places and the adjacent farm districts a cheap and speedy
means of communication with Liverpool. On the other hand,
the benefits to the over-crowded population of Liverpool in a
sanitory point of view, by giving ready access to the rapidly
increasing Bathing Places along the coast, the district of Cros-
by, and the much-frequented and salubrious watering place of
Southport, as well as throwing open the intermediate country
for the purposes of Villas and Residences, cannot well be over-
estimated: . _ _ _

—Theiadertaking is promoted by the principal Landowners
and other parties locally interested.

The Line is about sixteen milers in length,.and, being nearly
level, is entirely free from engineering difficulties. A consi-
derable part of the land between Crosby and Southport, over
which it will pass, has already been given by the landowners,
and the cost of, construction will be unusually small.
The liability of each Shareholder will be restricted by Act of
Parliament to the amount of his subscription, and power will
be applied for in the Bill to allow interest at ..,64 per cent. on all
calls from the passing of the Act until the opening of the Line.
Applications for Shares may be made, in the subjoined form,
en or before the 6th of November next, to the Solicitors, or to
any of the following Sharebrokers :—Messrs. D. and ,J. B.
irs'IsILSON, or Messrs. ASPINALL and HUGHES, Liverpool ;
~ItOBERT APEwax, Esq., Manchester; or to Messrs. HILL,
iriwcErr, and HILL, 29, Threadneedle street, London.

In the allotment of shares, a preference will be given to par-
ties having local interest, and a reserve will be made for Land-
Owners.

Liverpool, October, 1846

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES

To the Provisional Committee of
.the Liverpool Crosby, and

Southport Railway, (Provisionally Registered.)
GENTLEMEN,-1 request you will allot me Shares in
the above undertaking, on the terms of the prospectus, and I
egree to 'accept the same, or such less number as you shall
allot to me; and I undertake to pay the Deposit thereon, and
2 execute the Subscribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Con-
matt when required to do so.
Dated this

, 1846
Name-

Residence-
Description-
Reference-----

MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND MIDLAND
_ JUNCTION RAILWAY. _

AT a SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING of the
shareholders of the 3IANCHESTF , HEFFIELD, and
Aft) LAND JUNCTION RAILWAY at the Cutlers' Hall,
An Sheffield, on THURSDAY, the 21 ay of October, 1846,
WILSON OVEREND ,sq. in the Chair.
The Notice convening the eting, the Report of the Provi-
alonal Directors, and the A ract of the Accounts4havingiTen
read by Mr. Pierson, one the Solicitors of the Company,
It was unanimously esolred,
I.—That the Report,of the Provisional Directors now read,
with the Statement,of Accounts annexed, be received and
adopted, and that their proceedings be approved and confirmed.
It was also Resolved,
2.—That this Meeting hereby authorises and
Provisional Directors to take such steps as they consider neces
sary for,obtaining an Act of Parliament, authorising the con

empowers the

*Ai-fiction of the firoposed Lines of Railway, during the ensuing
Session; and also to enter into such negociations or arrange-
ments with any other Company or Companies as they may think

13 of the undertaking;

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3.—T bathe Provisional Directors are hereby fully empowered
to Pay to any Shareholder who may decline to join in the re-
newal of the Application to Parliament, in conformity with the
recommendation contained in the Directors' Report, previously
read, the Sum of Two Pounds and Ten Shillings per Share on
.Rl,hares held by such Shareholder in the Manchester, Shef-
"eAdp and Midland Junction Railway; and any further sum
becomehfter the final settlement of all Accounts, may hereafter
being seht in on or before the 14th day of November instant.
Sharesthe Directors are hereb byuori to dispose of the
the which may be renouncedy parties withdrawing from
„ further prosecution of the undertaking, iu stith manner as
aZnlay consider most conducive to the interests of the Com-

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4.----That the Report of the Provisional Directors, the State-
ment of Accounts, and the Resolutions of this ]sleeting, be
Printed and addressed to the Shareholders.
.—That the best thanris of this Meeting are &le)
hereby given, to the Directors for their past services.
and are
WILSON OVEREND, Chairman.
Thlt e Chairman having vacated theipiair,
teas unanimously Resolved, '
That the thanks of the Meeting be given to the Chairman for
ma able and impartial conduct in the Chair.
Office., 103, Norfolk-street, Sheffield.

MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND MIDLAND
JUNCTION RAILWAY,
THE PROVISIONAL DIRECTS of the above
Itailvvay are desirous of transniitti a Copy of the Pro-
ceedings of the Special Meeting of Sha fo ders,beld Tit 1 s DAY,
(Thursday,) at the Cutlers' Hall, in lettield, to all parties who
mty ho'd Shares in that Undert ng ; and as there are neces-
sarily many parties with whoa &tresses they are unacquaint-
ed, they request all Shareho rs who may not receive a Copy
of the Proceedings of the ting above alluded to, to apply at
the COMPANY'S ()rem .103, NORFOLK-STREET
SH EFFIELD,
when the same will immediately transmitted 'to them, with
forms whereby they may signify their intention of prosecuting
the Undertaking, or otherwise.
By order, -RICHARD MIRPIN, 'Secretary,
10; Norfolk-otrret, ShVield, October 29, 1246,