The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-10-22 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

B 1 KEN a- A D

VOCAL TUITION AT BIRKENHEAD.
Air ISS WHITNALL begs to announce that, at there-
Y'l. quest of numerous Families resident in Cheshire,
she intends commencing giving
LESSONS IN SI G.
ONCE A WEEK, RKENHEAD.
Applications for terms c. to be made to Miss W., at
her Residence, 2, U T Duke-street, Liverpool.
October, 1844.

3IRKE,NHE,I4.IO FESTIVAL.

BIRKENHEAD FESTIVAL.

A RRANG6II7!&-:sl'STave been made with the Com-
missioners of Birkenhead for the STEAM-BOATS
to PLY throughout the NI Tof the 23d instant., and
also with the Chester an - trkenhead Railway Company
for SPECIAL -,.•S to ruu from Birkenhead after
the Dinner and,OM.
Committee-room, Birkenhead, 15th October, 1844.

Messrs. W. 0. and W. Hunt, 10, Whitehall; and
Messrs. Staff, Steward, and Tillett, Norwich.
SECRETARY.
James F. Saunders,EFq.. Brook-strect, Ipswich.
BANKERS.
Norwich Messrs. Gurneys and Co.
Messrs. liarveys and Hudson.
If
East of England Bank.
Ipswich
ft Messrs. Bacon and Co.
• .
Hull Messrs. Pease, Liddell, and Co.

Huddersfield. • } The Union Bank of lludersfield.
Halifax. Huddersfield.:
Stowmarket Messrs. Oakes; Bevan, and Co.
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Messsrs. Oakes, Bevan, Fincham, and Co.
London Messrs. Glynn, Hall fax, Mills, and Co.
Y this undertaking it is proposed to establish a direct
LP Railway communication between the city of Norwich
(the metropolis of the eastern district of district of Eng-
land) and the town and port of Ipswich, at which place
it will jointhe Railway to London.
The Line will pass through the towns of Diss and
Stowmarket, and through or near Long Stratton, Eye,
anti Mcndiesham, and Needham Market and the adjacent
populous 'districts, and will be in near cemmunication
with the towns of Harleston, Bungay, and Beccles, on
the River Wavenhey, to which places an extension may
be advantageously to .de. It also combines the advantage
of a direct communication with the port of Yarmouth.
Very considerable' commerce and intercourse have
always subsisted between Norwich, Diss, and Ipswich,
which this project will greatly facilitate and increase.
Tais Line will be an extension of the Eastern Union
Railway, and will, by means of the Eastern Counties
Railway from Colchester, give the city of Norwich and
an extensive and thickly populated country a direct com-
munication with London, fourteen miles shorter than by
the Norwich and Brandon and Northern and Eastern
lines.
The proposed Railway is strictly identified with the
agricultural, commercial, and manufacturing interews of
the entire district, and, whilst it affords the greatest con-
venience to the public, it offers to the Shareholders a
prospect of a very ample return on the capital embarked.
The Line has been surveyed by Mr. Locke, who has
reported, that the character of the country to be traversed
will render the Line easy of construction, and, as the gra-
dients are favourable, it will be an economical Line to
work.

A careful estimate of the present traffic between Ips-
wich and Norwich has been made, which, after allowing
40 per cent. for the expenses of working the Line, shows
a - return of upwards of 7 per ce-it. on the capital re-
quired.
The Map annexed to this Prospectus indicates the
course of the intended Line and shows the population of
the principal towns which will be accommodated by the
undertaking.
The capital proposed to be raised, £G50,000, will enable
the Company to ermplete a double Line front the termi-
nus of the Eastern Union Railway, at Ipswich, to Nor-
wich, a distance of forty-five miles : part of this Line
will have the advantage of participating in a double traffic
from being connected, nut only with the Line to Nor-
wich, but with a Line now projected, branching from this
undertaking at a point about fourteen miles north of Ips-
wich to Cambridge, through Bury St. Edmonds. as
shown on the map.
Norwich as well as Cambridge (and, eventually, by
other connecting Railroads, the whole of the.manufactur-
ing districts) will this be in direct communication, at
Ipswich, with the line of stearnets proposed to be esta
blished from Harwich harbour to 1-lamburgh, Rotterdam,
Antwerp, and Ostend ; will be within ten hours of the
last-named place ; and, according to the statement lately
published by the proposed European Steam-packet Com-
pany, within twenty-four hours of Hamburgh.
The usual powers will be taken in the act to allow in-
terest at four per cent. on the amount of subscriptions
paid up.
Applications for Shares may be addressed to Messrs.
FORSYTH and PRITCHARD, Liverpool.; and J. B.
LOCKE, arid JOHN BARLOW, Esq., Manchester, of
whom Prospectuses may he obtained.