The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-05-14 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

(E. 5D fr .

TO SMITHS.

WANTED, a quantity of SMITHS' ASHES, for
Footpaths, delivered at the New Park, Birkenhead,
or at Woodside; also, a quantity of good fine GRAVEL.
Address to Messrs. Siotrtii & CHAPMAN, Contractors,
care of Mr. OSBORNE, Bookseller, Chester-street, Bir-
kenhead, stating price per cubic yard, and quantity that
can be supplied.

XIOOWANTED, to extend a very profitable Busi-
ness, at present doing £3 per week, for which
a third of the profits waldlie given.
Apply by letter, 'addressed to A. 8., Standard-office.

LIVERPOOL EASTERN DISPENSARY.
THE ANNUAL MEETING-of the :SUBSCRIBERS
to this DISPENSARY will be held To-MORROW,
(Wednesday,) the 15th instant, at One o'clock, in the
Board Room of the Parish Office; in Fenwick•street, to
receive the Report of the-Proceedings of the preceding
year, and'to elect the officers for the present one.
A. HENDERSEN, Hon. Secretary.

'SCOTTISH CENTRAL RAILWAY.
THE -SCRIP SHARES in the above undertaking are
ready to be Exchanged for the Banker's Receipts•on
applicetion to
M. WOTHERSPOON, :7, India Buildings.

GLASGOW, DUMFRIES, AND CARLISLE
"RAILWAY.
1 fTE SCRIP SHARES in the above undertaking-are
•ready to be Exchanged for the Banker's Receipts on
application to

M. WOTHRSPOON, 7, India Buildings.

to be traversed, and a large portion of the Capital has been
subscribed within the district.
From a consideration of the route and length of the
Line, it will be seen that the whole traffic of the various
Railways throughout the south and west of Scotland
must, in its progress to Aberdeen and the northern coun-
ties, fall into and be conveyed along this line.
The length of the line is sixty-six miles, including
branches. Commencing at the harbour and wet docks in
the centre of Aberdeen, it proceeds by the villages of
Cove, Portlethen, Skateraw, and others, to the county
of Stonehaven : thence through the fertile district of the
M'earns, near to the villages of Drumlithie, Auchinblae,
and Laurencekirk, by Marykirk to Brechin, and having a
branch to the docks at Montrose. From Brechin it is
proposed that the line shall be continued to Friockheim
on the one hand, forming there a junction with the rail-
ways already finished to Abroath and Dundee, and the
Edinburgh and Northern, through Fife ; and, on the
other hand, to be continued to Forfar, where it will meet
the Northern Junction Railway from Perth through Strath-
more, thus connecting it with the Scottish Central Line.
No tunnel is required on the whole length of the line,
the gradients are good, the value of the land is compara-
tively small, and the works are of a description which can
be estimated with certainty. In addition to the experi-
ence of Messrs. Grainger and Miller and Messrs. Gibb,
as Railway Engineers, the practical experience of the
latter as Contractors, under the firm of John Gibb and
Son, is well known, and will give more than usual confi-
dence in the estimate of cost. After the most careful
consideration of the whole works on the main line and
branches, and including the plant, the capital has been
fixed at £1,000,000 sterling.
The line traversed is very populous, and, besides the
other large towns above mentioned, Aberdeen alone con-
tains 75,000 inhabitants, and is the depot for the supply
of the important and wealthy district north of that city
with general merchandize. Aberdeen and the other towns
on the line are also important seats of the linen, cotton,
woollen, and other manufactures. The salmon and other
fisheries are of great magnitude. These afford a very
large item in the present carrying trade of the country,
which the advantage of a rapid transit so necessary to a
commodity of a perishable nature will largely increase.
This-trade, it is well known, has in lines of railway simi-
larly circumstanced, proved a source of great revenue.
A portion of the country traversed being deficient of
stone for building purposes, while the other is abundantly
supplied with stone of the finest quality and of different
descriptions, a large traffic will thence arise.
Its importance as an Agricultural district, in which the
finest Cattle are reared and fed in great numbers, requires
only to be mentioned to satisfy every one of the large
revenue which the Railway will realize from the transit
..af Live and Dead Stock.to the southern markets, to which
they are at present driven by tedious and expensive mettf- -
UO3S of conveyance. The Grain Trade also forms an im-
portant jtem in the anticipated receipts.
Tables of traffic have been prepared from the passenger
and carrying trade, exhibiting a clear revenue of upwards
of £BO,OOO, or of 8 per cent. on the capital of .-€1.000,000,
without reckoning on any new branch of trade to be
called into existence, or on any undue increase of that at
present existing.
It is proposed that the stock shall be divided into 50,000
Shares, of £2O each ; and, as the standing orders of the
House of Commons provide that 10 per cent. on the sums
subscribed shall be paid before a railway bill can be read
a second time, a deposit to that amount will be required
before applying to Parliament. A deposit of 20s. per
share to be paid as the shares are awarded, and the re-
maining 20s. before the Ist February, 1845. The amount
of future Calls to be payable at such time as the Commit-
tee may direct, and the shares of parties failing to pay the
Calls when required, will be forfeited, along with any
sums which they may have previously paid. The act will
provide that no subscriber shall be liable beyond the
amount of his subscription, that no more than £2. 10s.
per share shall be called for at any one time, and that
there shall be an interval of not less than three months
betwixt the Calls. .

After the act is obtained, 4 per cent. interest will be
allowed upon the Calls, from the date of payment until
the line is opened for traffic. If the act is not obtained,
the payments, deducting expenses, will be returned.
Applications for Shares in the form annexed, may be
made to Adam and Anderson, Blakie and Smith, or P.
and A. Davidson, Advocates in Aberdeen ; to G. and T.
W. Webster, Old Palace-yard, and Johnson, Farquhar,
and Leech, 64, Moorgate-street, London, the Parliamen-
tary Solicitors ; to Clark, Davidson, and Brown, 36,
Essex-street, London; Shiell and Small, Dundee; Lou-
smi and M`Donald, Arbroath; William Gordon, and D.
D. 'Black, Brechin; Adam Burness, Montrose ; Alexan-
der Smart and Kinnear and Monro, Stonehaven ; Duncans
and MlLean, and Gray and Jamieson, Perth; or to the
following sharebrokers,—namely, William. Gordon, Ma-
r ischal-street, Oswald, George, and Co., and James Black
and Co., Aberdeen; Robert Allan, John Robertson, and
Co., and Pillans and Home, Edinburgh ; D. B. Niven
and John Sturrock, jun., Dundee; W. H. Oliphant,
Perth ; M`Ewen and Auld, John C. Foulds, and James
Watson, Glasgow ; Moore and Gatliff, Huddersfield ;
William Walker and 'George Heaps and Co., Leeds ;
Railton and Son, Manchester ; B. and M. Boyd, 4, New
Bank-builuings, and C. •and J. H. M`Rae, 57, Moorgate-
street, London.
FORSYTH and PRITCHARD,
D. and J. B. NEILSON, or }Liverpool.
RICHARD SCHOLES,

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
TO THE PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE OP THE ABERDEEN

RAILWAY.
GENTLEMEN,-1 request that you will allot to me
Shares, of £2O eadh, in the proposed Aberdeen Railway,
on the terms and conditions of the Prospectus. I shall
pay the deposit and sign the necessary deeds when re.
quired.
Dated at
__ the day ,of 184.1.

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