The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-09-16 00:00:00

THE STAFFORDSHIRE PurfERIES, AND
LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER
DIRECr RAILWAY.

PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED.
CAPITA', £2,400,000, in 96,000 SHARES of £25 each
DE;oosir 42 12i. 6d. per SHARE.

pßolf/0162.TAL COMMITTEE.
Wni.Ackerley, Esq., Wiem, Director of the Liverpool

and Leeds bireet Railway.
William Ascroft, Esq., Bury, Disiettrn; the Liverpool

and Leeds Direct Itailsv4aV
Staffordshire
John Ashwell, Esq., Lon n, Stadshire Potteries
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Joseph Bates, Esq., J Liverpool, of the Firm of
Messrs. Bates, Wil , and Co
Thomas Langford rooke, Esq., Mere Hall, Cheshire.

Joseph Brown,,Ksq., London, Director of the London
and Birmingham Extension, and of the Oxford, Routh-

ampton, Gosport, and Porrsmouth Railways
Thomas Byrom. Esq., Alderman, Wigan, Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds Direct, of the Manchester and
Wigan, and of the Liverpool, Preston, and North
Union Junction Railways.

William Lloyd Birkbeck, Esq„ 10, Gloucester-road,
Hyde Park, London, Director of the Liverpool, Man-
chester, and Great North of England Union Railway
Thomas Dixon Burrow, Esq. Settle, Yorkshire
._ _

Joseph Ball, Esu., Iron Master. Manchester, of the firm
of Horton, Sims, and Bull, Manchester
John Beech, Esq., L:►ngton, Staffordshire Potteries
William Caldwell, Esq., Alderman, Ince Hall, Wigan,
Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
The Mayor of Congleton
John Croudson, Esq., Town-Clerk, Wigan, Director of
the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
William Croudson, Esq., Bank Cottage. Alderman of
Wigan, and Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct

RaCiway.
Richard Carpenter, Esq., J.P. for the County of Middle-
sex, and Deputy Chairman of the Warwick and Wor-
cester Railway
John Cowburn, Esq., Settle, Yorkshire
Ralph Clews, Esq., Marsh-house, Newcastle-under-_ _

Lyne and iackfield Mills and Coal and Ironstone

Works, Burstem, Staffordshire Potteries
!harks Davenport, Esq., Tunstall, Staffordshire Potte-

ries
Richard T. Deane, Esq., Knutsford
John Dewhurst, Esq., Preston, Director of the Preston
and Wyre. and Liverpool, Preston, and North Union
Junction Railways
Thomas Ferrand Deerden, Esq., Coroner, Rochdale
Colonel Robert Doughss, United Service. Club, Director
of the Warwick and Worcester Railway
Sir Richard Dobson, F.R.S.. Director of the Birkenhead
and Holyhead Junction Railway
Henry Hill Eckersley, Esq., iVlobberley, Cheshire
John Edwards, Esq., Chester
Captain Fisher, Junior United Service Club, Director of
the Manchester and Birmingham Continuation and
Welsh Junction, and Liverpool, Preston, and North
Union Junction Railways
Robert Fisher, Esq., HigLbury Park, London, Director
of the Tnnt Valley Continuation, and Liverpool, Pres-
ton; and North Uniou Junction Railways
R. G. Fellowe, Esq., Regent's Park, London, and Hoole,
Preston, Director of tire Liverpool, Preston, and North
Union Junction Railway
William Foster, EFq , Settle

James German Fisher, Esq., Preston
James Giles, Esq., The Elms, Lancaster

Peter Greenall, Esq., M.P.

Joseph Gilham, Esq., tlargreaves House, Oldham, Di-
rector of the Birkenhead and Holyhead Junction Rail-
_ _ _

John Goodwin, Esq., Longton, Staffordshire Potteries
William Gibb, Et.q.,Alauchester

Richard Edensor Heathcbte, Esq., Longton-hall and
Apedale Hall, Staffordshire
_ .

John flolford, Esq.. Rusholme Hall, Manchester, Di-
rector of the Liverpool, Preston, and North Union
Junction Railway

George Holt, Esq.., Willow-hill, Crnmpsall, Lancashire,
Director of the Liverpool, Preston, and North Union
Junction Railway.

John Douglas Hopkins, EN. Bedford-square, London
Director of the London and Birmingham Extension
Railway

William Huglys ll,:ghes, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., and Al-
derman of London, Chairman of the Manchester and
Birkenhead Coutinuation, Director of the London and
Greenwich, of the Oxford, Southampton, Gosport, and
Portsmouth, and of the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and
Gl.ucester Junction Railway
Thomas Ingleby, Esq., Lawkland Hall, Settle, York-
shire, Director of the North Western, of the Clitheroe
Junction, of the Manchester, Liverpool, and Great
North of E6gland Union, and of the Liverpool and
L.:eds Direct Raiiwoya
Herbert Ingram, Esq., Acton Vale, Middlesex, arid
Swineshead Abby y, Lincolnshire, Director of the Am-
bsrgare, Nottingham, and Eastern Junction Railvv,y
E. Ward Jackson, Esq.. Liverpool
Joseph Bulkelcy Johnson, Esq., of Liverpool and Mort-
lake House, Cheshir
F

'rederick L. Jones, Esq., Lincoln's Inn, London, Di-
rector of the London and Birinitighatn Extension Bail-
way

Sir John Key, Bart., Alderman of London
John Lord, Esq., Standish flail, Wion, Director of the
Blackburn, Chorley, Wigan, and North Union Junc-
tion, and of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railways
John Long, Eq., Brook !louse, Knutsford
Peter Legh, 'Esq., Booth's-hall, Cheshire
William Leathern, E.q., Thornhill, near Londonderry,
Director of the Londonderry and Coleraine Railway
Donald Maclean, Esq., Brunswick-square, London,
Deputy Chairman of the Trent Valley Continuation
Railway

T. OliverAnderdon, Esq , Q.C., Lincoln's Inn, London
Harry Mainwaring. Esq., Peover Hall, Cheshire
Thomas Morris, Esq., Fairhurst Hall, near Wigan, and
Brunswick Villa, S uthport. Dirtcror of the Blackburn,
Chorley, and North Union Junction, and of the Liver-
pool, Preston, arid North Union Junction Railways
Christopher Morris, Esq.. Wigan, Director of the Liver-
pool and Leeds Direct Railway
Peter Morrison, Esq., Princes-street Bank, London, Di-
rector of the Britannia Life Insurance Company
William F. M'lntire, Esq., Londonderry, Director of the
Londonderry and Enni, kitten Railway
George Augustus M'Dermott, Esq., Chesterton Hall,
Staffordshire Potteries
John Overend, Esq., Bentham, Yorkshire.

Jer ha Pacey, E q., Polygon, Ztilauche ter
James B. Pender, Esq., Ditector ot the Birkenhead and
Holyhead Junction, and Edinburgh and Peebles Rail-
ways

Cornelius Randall, Esq., Director of the Sheffield and
Manchester, and of the Manchester South Junction
and Altrincham Railways, and Chairtnanot the Birken-
head and Holyhead Junction.
Thomas Bailey Rose, Esq., Grove-House, Penkhall,

Staffordshire Potteries
Frederick Ramsden, Esq., Seymour House, Old Trafford,
Director of the Birkenhead and Holyhead Junction,
and or the Liverpool, Preston, and North Union Juuc-
tion Railways _ _ .

Thomas Redn;ayne, Esq., Taitlarvls, near Settle, a Di-
rector of the North Wtstern, Clithero, Junction, Man-
chester and Liverpool and Great North of England
Union, and Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railways

Henry Rugg, Esq., Gigglrsa►ck, near Settle, Yorkshire
Joseph Swinburne, Esq., Knotsford
William Sloane, Esq., Great Wimpole,ztreet, London,
Director of the Trent Valley Continuation Railway
Lee Porcher Townsbend, Esq., Wincharn Hall, Cheshire
Henry Taylor, Alderman, Wigan, Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds Direct, of the Manchester and
Wigan, and of the Liverpool, Preston, and North
Union Junction Railways _ _

John Thompson, Esq., Wiltan, Director of the Liverpool,
Preston, aod Nortti Union Junction, and Birkenhead
and Holyhead Junction Railways _

James Upton, Esq., Akey Lodge, Sedburgh, Director
of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
William Henry Walker, Murton House, near Longton,
Staffordshire Potteries

Thomas Waring, Esq., Sedhurgh. Director of the Liver-
pool and Leeds Diruct Railway
Sir William Wynn, Chairman of the North Wales Rail-
way, and Director of the Oxford, Southampton, Gos-
port, and Portsmouth Railway
W. Wood, Esq., M.D., Chetwynd House, Newport, Sa-
lop, arector of the Shr. pshire Mineral, of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire, of the Hud-
dersfield and Sheffield, and the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct Railways
Henry Wright, Esq., Brunswick-square, London, Direc-
tor of the Great Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton,
and of the Birmingham and Brighton Direct, South
and Midland Junction Railways
Joseph Loxdale Warren, Esq., The Lodge, near Market
Drayton and Consul, and Tittensor Mills, Staffordshire
Potteries
(With power to add to their number.)

EN GINV. ERS.
Messrs. Gandell and Brunton.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. J. and 'l'. Roscoe, Knutsford.
LOCAL SOLICITORS.
Staffordsh;re Potteries.—John Adams Stephenson, Esq.,

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Stoke-upon-Trent.
Manchester.—William Burdett, Esq.

BANKERS.
London—Commercial Bank of London

Birmingham—Mesars. Taylor and
Liverpool—The Union Bonk of Liverpool.
Manchester—The Union Bank of Mauchester

Stafford—The Manchester and Liverpool District Bank.
Staffordshire Potteries and Newcastle—The Manchester
and Liverpool District Bank.
Newcastle—The Manchester and Liverpool District Bank
Northwich —N or. hwich Bank.

Wigan—Messrs. Thomas Woodcock and Sons, Wigan
Batik
Birkenhead—North and South Wales Bank.

THIS line of railway will commence at a point on the
Grand Junction Railway, at Stafford, and passing
from thence by Stone, Lane End, Fenton, Stoke-apon-
Trent, Shelton, Hanley, Burslem, and Tunstall, to Con-
gleton, it will proceed by Knutaford to Altrincham, where
it will join the South junction Railway to Manchester,
an act tor which bas been obtained ; and from Congleton
by Northwich to Preston-Brook, where it will communi-
cate with the Grand Junction Railway, and proceed
thence to Liverpool. A branch from Stoke-upon-Trent,
by Newcastle to Crewe, affording accommodaiton to the
Silverdale and Apedale Ironworks, will connect the main
line with the important railways meeting at that point,
and give the shortest possible route from the Potteries to
Chester, Holyhead and Birkenhead. A branch will con-
nect the towns of Congleton and Macclesfield. A com-
munication will thus be opened from thQse places, and