The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-07-22 00:00:00

STANDING COUNSI
R. Ryclt-r Dean,

SOLICITORS

Messrs. W. and S. Cotton, 7, L

Birmingham
Bristol ....
Dal)lin ....
Dundee ....
Glasgow....

AGENTS.
Nathl. Lea, Esq.
G. Edwards and Sons.
Messrs. Smyth, Sons, and Du Beda
W. Shaw, jun., Esq.
Loraine M. Kerr, Esq.
Messrs. Alsop and Son.

Leeds. .
Liverpool Messrs. Hughes and Ronald.
Manchester S. Taylor, Esq.
Norwich ..
Sheffield
Forms of application and other particulars may be ob-
tained at the Society's Offices, 19,ldirchin-lane, London,
or from the Agents.

By order,
THOS. HODGSON, Secretary.
GHES and RONALD, 33, Dale-street, Liverpool

ROYAL INSURANCE COM
LIVERPOOL.

[REGISTERED.]

1, OLDH A LL-STREET,

CAPITAL, £2,000,000, in 100.000 Shares of £2O each

John Shaw Leigh, Esq

TRUSTEES

R. B. B. H. Blundell, Esq

THE LIVERPOOL, MANCHESTER, AND
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE JUNCTION
RAILWAY.
(PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED.)
Capital, £2,000,000, in 80,000 Shares, of £25 each.
Deposit £1 7s. 6skfer Share.
Under the sanction of the following Noblemen and Gen.
tlemen, Proprietoor4seEstates in, or otherwise con-
nected with, Lan ire, Yorkshire, Durham, &c.
His Grace the ante of Devonshire, K.G., &c.
His Grace the Duke of Cleveland, K.G., &c.
The Most Noble the Marquis of Londonderry, G.C.8.,
Lord Lieutenant of Durham, &c.
The Right Hon. the Earl De Grey,. K.G., &c.
The flight Hon. Lord Wharncliffe, Lord Lieutenant of
the West Riding of Yorkshire.
The Hon. Col. R. Pepper Arden, Pepper Hall, Y orkshire.
W. Standish Standish, Esq., Duxbuity Park, Lancashire,
and Cocken Hal!, Durham.
William Morritt, Esq., Rokeby Park, Yorkshire.
&c. &c. &c.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right Hon. Lord Beaumont, Carleton Hall, York-
shire.

The Hon. J. C. Dundas, M.P. for Richmond.
The Hon. W. N. Ridley Colborne, M.P. for Richmond.
The Hon. John Stuart Wortley, M.P. for the West Rid-

ing of Yorkshire. _
Saville C. H. Ogle, Esq., M.P. for Northumberland.
W. Hutt, E-q., of Gibside, M.P. for Gateshead.
Donald Maclean, Esq., M.P., Witton Castle, Durham.
George Dodd, Esq., M.P. Grosvenor-place, London.
John Hornby, Esq., M.P. fur Blackburn.
Theodore W. Rathbone, Esq., Allerton Priory, Liver-
pool, Chairman of the North Union Railway.
Reece Bevan, &-q., Wigan, 1 Directors of the North
Joseph Hornby, E:q., Liverpool, uninn
9911 V.

Charles Swainson, Esq. Preston, •• a., •
Sir Thomas George Hesketh, Bart., Raiford Hall, Lan-
cashir
C. 1). A
George

Rusland H

Lancashire

Christian Allnusen, Esq., Newcastle-upon-Tune, Director
of the Newcastle-upon-Tyne and North Shields Rail-

by the projected Welsh Midland Railway, the line of together with the through traffic already alluded to, will
which passes within two miles of the property, and ter- yield a most ample return on the proposed capital.
minates at the port of Swansea. A preliminary survey has been taken of the line, and
The demand for Anthracite Iron far exeeedsthe present the sections are nearly completed. The length of the
means of supply; and as it is now admitted to be of a line between Preston and Richmond will be from seventy
superior quality to any other description of Pig Iron made to seventy-five miles; and that no peculiar engineerine &f-
-in this country, whilst the cost of its production is less ficulties exist, the capital determined to be raised has
than that of Scotch Pig Iron, it cannot fail to command a been estimated to be more than sufficient fur the comple-.
remunerative price under ang possible fluctuations in the tion of the works.
Iron trade. The liability of each Shareholder will be restricted .14
The present selling price of Welsh Pig Iron is £5 per Act of Parliament to the amount of his subscription, and
ton, which, upon the estimated Capital to be invested in power will be applied for in the Bill to allow interest at
the Works, would leave a net profit of £3 per ton. But 4 per cent. per annum on all calls from the passing of
assuming the average price for the last ten years to be the Act until the opening of the line.
£3 per ton, and reckoning the profit at £l, or about one- Arrangements have been made with existing railway
third of the existing profit, the nett annual return will be companies now in connexion with this undertaking, by
£12.000 per annum, which sum will produce upwards of which a portion of the capital will be required to be re-.
eighteen per cent. upon the invested Capital. Large as served for them. Further arrangements are pending with
this return may appear, it is fully borne out by the docu- other companies; the Provisional Committee, therefore,
ments now in the possession of the Provisional Coco- reserve to themselves the right of m king such extensions
mit tee. of this project and of increasing the capital for carrying
Applications for Prospectuses and Shares to be ad- out any such extensions as they may consi 'er advantage-
dressed to the Secretary, Mr. J. G. HUGHES, at the ous, with the view of farming a cemprehensive system of
Office of the Company, 35 4Moorgate-street, or to Messrs. railway communication from the Northern and Eastern
HILL, FAWCETT, and HILL, Stockbrokers, 29, Thread- coast with Liverpool and Manchester and the manufao-
needle-street, London. turing districts generally.
The Committee have received a corn munication,through
Mr. Robert Stephenson, from Mr. Hudson, in connexion
with the Great Northern Lines of Railway, to the effeot
that he will give to this project all the assistance in his
power. _ .

Applications for shares must be n
of whom also Prospectuses may he
made in the annexed form, accompe
some member of the Provisional Com mitt e
Solicitors, or a Banker. AlN.lic Aim's fro
tally interested will hive a preference.

of the 1

FORM OF APPLICATION' FOR SHAM
To the Provisional Committc
chester, and Newc

I request you to all
in the above undertali
the same, or any less

me, and to pay the depo'it t
Parliamentary Contract aw
when required.

Dated the

day of

ryite Ju.c'to

Solicitors,
should be
;fetence to

e of the
rsons lo-

01, Ilfax-

Railway

25 each.
o accept
otted to

SHEFFIELD AND LINCOLNSHIRE
JUNCTION RAILWAY.
EXTENSION FROM LINCOLN 'lO BOSTON,

TATTERS H

WE are instru(
apply in the

to make an Extension of SH
COLN JUNCTION AILWAI
BOSTON.
This Extension will aroce-d in

from the Station of t
Lincoln to Tattershal
Boston, where it will j(

Throughout the
Bridge over the W

This extension will coral
from Sheffield to Boston, t
miles.

In announcing this 1

lessly to enter into

may be

Tepared to rr

line, between Line
factory arrangemel

ided to
an Act

m LINCOLN to

such Line, or any part c
Company, but the Dire(
mined to provide for am
beat Line from Sheffield
secured without any int
The Extension Shar,

An Line at
1 direct to

ly 0116

gat ,atis-
he use of
I Lifteoln

deter-

1 be rate

applications May b

I~IDCOIII

HAYWOOD

SMITE'

SHEFFIELD TO 11(
Via Sheffield and Linc

Solicit

Sheffield to I

Sheffield to Boston

Via Chesterfield and N,
Sheffield t,

mark Railway.
Cht.ver

Cliesterfi,l,l
Newark to I

Sheffield to Bost

Via Sheffield and Lineenvhire anc

York Kailwoys—
Sheffield to lietrwd

D.
'ORD,

43 miles,

Retford to Newa

Sheffield to Boston

12 miles

I miles,

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