The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-10-21 00:00:00

LOCAL SOLICITORS

Bridgewater— Mes.os. Trevor an 4 Son.
Tauttion—Robert Hicks Warren, Etq.
Iltnittster—John Baker, J till.. Esq.
Chard—Wil ant Domett. E•q.
Axtninster—Henry Knight, Esq.
Crewkerne—Messrs. Sparks.
BT id port—
Lytne Regis—

PBC/SPEC'fUS.

This undertaking ;ill, in a great measure, carry out the
objects of the act obtained in 1 25 for making a ship canal
for uniting the Bristol and Etiglisn channels. It is intended
to form a harbour at Stolford, in Bridgewater Bay, below
the mouth of the river Paire.t, the place adopted by the
late eminent engineer Mr Telford, alter bestowing great
pains in the selection of a suitabb, harli ur and entrance
to the canal in the Bristol channel, and to construct a
railway from th rice to Bridg ,water, Taunton, Ilminster,
Crew kerne, Beaminster. Bride rt and its harbour, and
trout Iluninster to Chard, Axminster, and Lyme Regis;
and, as a branch is intended to be made by the Exeter,
Yeovil, and Dorchester Rail.v ay Ccmpuny to Axmouth, a
direct communication between the Bristol Channel and
three important seaports in the English Channel will he
effected.
Siolford posses es peculiar advantages for a seaport.
There is the deepest water along that coast ; and steam-
packets and vessels will be able to enter within, and de-
part from the harbour at all times, without reference to the
state of the tide, except vessels of great draught of water,
which also will be able to do so very early on the flu , of
the tide. It is therefore obvious that SUilford, with
the proposed internal railway communication extending
throughout the whole of the west of England, may be-
come the principal packet station and port, on the English
side of the Bristcl Channel, for Wales, Ireland, the West
Indies, Atnerica, and, indeed all parts of the world.
'I he proposed line of railway passes Combwich, Canning-
ton, mid Bridgewater, on its route to Taunton, almost on a
perfect level. The length from Stolford to Bridgewater
will be seven and a half miles; whereas the distance by
the river (the navigation of which is very intricate, and
continually subject to interruption) is about twenty miles.
'the immense saving in time, expense, and risk is very ap-
parent. From Bridgewater to Taunton, Ilminster, and
Chard the railway will adopt the lines of the Bridgewater
and Taunton and Chard Canals.
At Bridgewater it is intended to connect the line with
the proposed London, Devizes, and Bridgewater Direct
Western Railway, whereby thirty miles of distance will be
saved between London and Bridgewater. It is also in-
tended to connect the line with the proposed Bridgewater
and Minehead Junction Railway, with the branch from
Bristol and Exeter Railway to Yeovil, which passes through
or near Langport, South Petherton, and Ilctiester ; and at
Taunton with the ntam line of the Bristol and Exeter
Railway Company, and the proposed North Devon and
Cornwall lines; also with the proposed Exeter, Yeovil,
and Dorchester Railway, and the S. u,hern Coast line.
This line will intersect every railway which now exists
or may be made running estward and westward between
the two channels; and rails will be laid down to suit both
the broad and narrow gunge carriages, should both guages
be adopted in the West of England. The extensive inter-
communication thus effected cannot fail to secure an im-
mense traffic in passengers, minerals,
largeau and merchandise.
The
manufac-
turing''he rtnowilwn•sayopassingf
C an through
ningt(!n, Bridgewater, Taunton,
ll-
minster, Crewkerne, Benninger, Chard, and Axminster,
on its route to the three ports of Bridport, Lyme Regis,
and Axmouth, comprising a district containing 2501X10
inhabitants, will be the means of tianspott of Welsh and

Forest of Dean coal and calm throughout it, and also the
interchanEel communication for merchandize.
The commodious harbour of Bridport, in atidltion to the
extent of commerce already existing there, will also, to all
probability, bocume an advantageous place of export for
the coal and iron of South Wales to the Channel -Islands
and western pacts of Fran, e, and may also be a packet
station, and thus the dangerous and tedious nav'gation
round ti.e Land's End, often long protracted in conse-
quence of the wind, which is favourable for nav;gating one
channel, being the reverse for the other, will be avoided.
This line will also render the fashionable watering-
places of Lyme Regis and Charmouth and the important
Port of Lyme easy of access from all parts of the King-
dom.
As the Bridgewater and Taunton and the Chard Canals
will be pursued, and form about one-half of the entire
length of the railway, that portion of the line will occa-
sion little or no interference with private property, and
will effect not only a great saving in the cost of the works,
but also in the time of their construction. and render it
available for traffic and profit much earlier than would
otherwise be the case.
Power is reserved to the Provisional Committee to vary
the course of the line, and to make extensions or abridg-
ments thereto, and to enter into such arrangments with
any other persons or Company as they may deem expedient.
The liability of the shareholders will he coLfiited to the
amount of their respective shares, and interest at the rate
of £4 per ceutum per annum, will be allowed on the paid-
up capital until the opening of the line.
Applications for Shares to be made in the subjoined
form to any of the Solicitors, or to the undermentioned
Brokers of whom copies of the Prospectuses may be ob-
tained:—Mr. J. W. SCOTT, 75, Old Broad-street, and
Mess's. CARDEN and WHITF.HEAD, Threadneedle-street,
London; Messrs. GEORGE EDWARDS and SON, Bristol;
Mr. RICHARD BALL, unton ; Messrs. BEST and BOW-
DITCH, Bridgewater; Mr. JOHN SANDFORD, Exeter;
Mr. G B. TORNS, Coard ; Messrs. BRADLEY, FORD, and
BAKER, Manchester; Mr. COGLAN, and Messrs- NEILSON,
Liverpool.

FORM OF APELICATI.N FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Bristol and English

Channels Coaneetion Railway.
I request you to allot me shares of £2O each in
the above undertaking; and I hereby engage to accept
the same, or any less number which may be allotted to me,
and to pay the Deposit thereon, and to execute the Par-
liamentary- Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when
required.
Dated the

flay of 1845.
Name in full --
Residence --
Business or Profession (it any)—
Reference

PONTEFRACT, DONCASTER, WORKSOP, AND
MANSFIELD JUNCTION RAILWAY.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that no farther
Applications for Shares in this Company will be
received afur SATURDAY, the 18th instant; and that no
attention can be paid to any which are not accompanied
by a reference to Bankers, Members of the Committee,
or the Solicitors to the Undertaking.
J. N. SPELLEN, Hon. Sec.
1, Royal Exchange-buildings, Oct. 13th, 1815.

PONTEFRACT, DONCASTER, WORKSOP, AND
MANSFIELD JUNCTION RAILWAY.
ALIBERAL Remuneration will be given to competent
SURVEYORS, wildng to be employed in the Sur-
veys now proceeding on this--Line.
Immediate applicAion'nay be made to the SECRE-
TARY, at No. I, Bakal Exchange-buildings ; to the En-
gineers, Sir JOHN MACNEIL and THOMPSON, White-
hall-place., London ; or to Messrs. UNwiNs and BICK-
LEY, Solicitors, Sheffield.

STAFFORDSHIRE POTTERIES AND LIVER-
POOL & MANCHESTER 'MEC]: RAILWAY.
THE PROVISIONAL DIRECTORS have to an-
nounce that the A L LoTm ENT of SHARES is
COMPLETED, and that the Letters to Applicants have
been sent Out 'lbis Day.
The Director- regte: that tlLey =
propriating Shares to many- S -
number of Apptierr
Shares to be allorta

ve been prevented ap-
iersons of high respectability,
fits so far exceeding the amount of

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By .rder, J. C. KEMP Secretary pro tem.
Striffordshire Potteries Railway Office,
1, Eope-street, Piccadilly, Manchester,
18th October, 1845.

NEWRY AND CARLINGFORD RAILWAY.
MEETING IN LIVERPOOL.
AT a MEETING held THIS DAY, at the Wellington
Hotel Dale-street, of Merchants, Traders, and or her
inhabitants of Liverpool, interested in the promotion of
commercial intercourse between Liverpool and the north- 1
west and north-east of Ireland,
AUGUSTUS RADCLIFFE, Esq., in the Chair,
the following Resolutions, bring dtjely moved and seconded,
were unanimously adop ed
That FRANCIS CA_WITIL, Esq., a Direetcx of the
NEWRY and ENNISKILLEN RAILWAY, and of
the NEWRY .NAVIGATION COMPANY, having
explained the merits of the NEWRY and CA RLING-
FORD RAILWAY, and the accuracy of his statements
having been corroborated by the personal examination of
the proposed line by three of our body now present, we
regard the said line as essential and indispensable to the
full developement of the advantages likely to accrue to
both countries from a continuous and uninterrupted rail-
way communication being opened from Carlingfdrd Bay
to the Irish Western Coast ; and we hereby pledge our-
selves accordingly to give our best suoport to the
NEWRY and CAR LINGFORD RAILWAY.
It appearing from the statement of the London Secre-
tary, that applications for shares having already far ex-
ceeded the total number of shares at the disposal of the
company,
Resolved,—That NO FURTHER APPLICATIONS
whatever be received after FRIDAY next, the 24th inst.
That in the allotment of shares a preference be given to
the holders of scrip in the NEWRY and ENN
LEN RAILWAY, in conformity with the terms of the
prospectus of this company.
That, a list of names of a highly-inflnential Provisional
Committee having been read, the position of the Company
is considered such as not to require their publication in
' the newspapers.
The following gentlemen constitute the Committee of
Management :

CHAIRMAN.
Augustus Radcliffe, Esq., Birkenhead.
VICE-CHAIRMAN.
Francis Carvid, Esq., Newry.
Richdard Taylor, E,q , Liverpool.
Alexander Po-tley, , Newry.
George Guy, E,q , Newry.
John Rennie, Esq , Newry.
James N. Holmes, Esq , Liverpool.
(With power to add to th.'ir nnrnber.)
(Signed) A. RADCLIFFE, Chairman.
Liverpcol, Friday, Oct,iber 17, 1845.

NEWRY Ai;1) CARLINGFORD RAILWAY.

CAPITAL £200,000, in SHARES Of £lO each.

DEPOSIT Li is. PER SHARE.

LENGTH, TWELVE MILES.
ITOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that NO APPLI-
CATION for SHARES will be received after FRI-
DAY next, the 24th instant. Forms may be had from
Mr. THOS. H A MPSON. Mersey cham-
bers, Brokers in
Mr. E. M. NORRIS, 27, Back Castle- Liverpool.
street,
London Offices, 37, Moorgate-street.

SHREWSBURY AND TRENT VALLEY UNION
RA I LWAY.
Company's Offices, 68, Great George-street,
Manchester, October 3d, 1845.
The Committee of Nlanageo ent of the Shrewsbury and
Tient Valley Union Railway Company having this day
unanimously resolved that it is expedient, that this under-
taking should be combined with the Shropshire Union
Railway and Canal Company, and that, for this purpose,
the Shrewsbury and Trent Valley Union Railway Com-
pany should be dissolved, and its affairs wound up,—no-
tice
is hereby given, that the scripholders must forward
their scrip to these offices on or before the 31st October
instant, and signify, in the annexed form, their election
either to receive back their deposit,—which, in that event,
will be returned to thena,..,3thout deduction for past ex-
penses,—or to take,, in exchange for the scrip of the
Shrewsbury and Trent Valley Union Company, a corres-
ponding number. or Shares in the Shropshire Union Rail-
way and Canal'Company.
Parties who shall so elect may receive back their de-
posits forthwith, on depositing their scrip.
Patties who elect to take shares in the Shropshire
Union Railway and Canal Company may, in like manner,
on depositing their scrip, obtain a letter of allotment for
a corresponding number of shares in the new company ;
which allotment will be forwarded to original allottees
immediately after their scrip shall have been deposited ;
and, in other cases, so soon as the directors shall be sa-
tisfied of the sufficiency of the depositors.
Parties who shall fail to send in their scrip, and notify
their wi'hes on or before the 31st October, will be consi-
dered as having elected to receive back their deposits.
The parliamentary contract and subscribers' agreement
of the new company, t gether with a deed of release, will
lie for signature on and after Monday the 13th October
instant, in Manchester, at No. 68, George-street ; and in
London, at a place to be hereafter named ; and the scrip
of the new company will be issuable immediately after the
deeds shall have b•-en executed.
HENRY TOOTAL, Deputy-chairman.
R. FOSS, Secretary.