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

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SECRETARY.

Samuel Holdsworth, Esq

Tlus Railway will proceed from York to Lancaster,
about 72 miles, by the most direct practicable route,
and pass near Knaresborough, Harrowgate, Long Preston, :
Settle, and many other important places. The counties
of York and Lancaster comprise a population of 3,500,000
persons, and are, perhaps, the most wealthy and populous
divisions of the kingdom. The roads between York and
Lancaster are mostly carried over the tops of hills, and,
in winter, are nearly impassable. This line will pass along
the valleys, and the journey, now rarely made by coach
within twelve hours, may be performed on the railway in
two hours and a half.
It will provide facilities of access to all the great ma-
nufacturing, mining, and agricultural districts of the
north of England, to the Isle of Man, Ireland, Scotland,
and Wales; to Hamburgh, by connecting Morecambe
Bay and Fleetwood Harbour on the west coast with the
port of Hull on the east coast ; to the Lakes of Westmore-
land and Cumberland; to Harrowgate, celebrated for its
unrivalled sulphur, mineral, and chalybeate springs ; and
to the important intermediate districts between York and
Lancaster, which abound with valuable minerals and raise
vast quantities of live stock and agricultural produce.
Many places near the intended course of the line are
known to possess inexhaustible supplies of lead, iron,
slate, limestone, freestone, and other useful minerals, but
these are now comparatively unavailing from the great cost
of coals and carriage. The railway will rapidly develope
these sources of prosperity, by introducing coals at a low
price, and providing cheap carriage for mineral produce of
every kind ; it will also furnish a most desirable means of
transit for passengers and merchandise to and from every
part of the kingdom, and a cheap conveyance for immense
quantities of live stock and agricultural produce from the
rural to the manufacturing and mining districts. Many
completed and projected railways will intersect this line,
and greatly facilitate traffic and int( rcourse in every di-
rection. With the Directors of these railways, and of
various others which have a station at York or Lancaster,
the Committee will endeavour to make arrangements
likely to prove mutually beneficial, and they have much
pleasure in stating that the landowners along the line are
extremely favourable to the undertaking, and consider it
will materially augment the value of thtir possessions and
prove advantageous to the country and the shareholders.
It has been fully ascertained that the proposed line pre-
sents but few engineering difficulties, and that, although
it will pass through some very hilly districts, it may be
constructed along valleys, and with favourable gradients
throughout nearly its entire course. The liability of the
lders will be restricted by Act of Parliament to
unt of their subscriptions, and power will be
in the bill to allow interest at 4 per cent. per
annum on all calls, from the passing of the Act until the

opening of the line.
Applications for Shares may be addressed, in the form
annexed, to the undermentioned Brokers, viz. :—Messrs.
B. and M. Boyd, Princes-street; Messrs. Carden and
Whitehead, Threadneedle-street ; and Messrs. Wells,
Westropp, and Prinsep, 75, Old Broad-street, London ;
Messrs. Greystone and Earle, York ; Mr. Thackray,
Harrowgate ; Mr. Joseph Nelson,- Settle ; Mr. W.
Welch, Lancaster; Mr. ANTHONY LAURIE, and
Mr. MAY, Liverpool; Mr. Peter Leicester, and Messrs.
Cardwell and Co., Manchester • Mr. James Pearson, Bir-
mingham ; Messrs. Joshua Wood and Son, Messrs.
Watson and Co., and Messrs. E. King and Co., Leeds ;
Messrs. Brady and Staniforth. Hull; Mr. J. A. Butchart,
Huddersfield ; Mr. Hervey, Halifax ; Mr. Nightingale,
Wakefield; Messrs. Samuel Hutchinson and Co., Brad-
ford ; Mr. Luke Arnold, and Mr. George Edwards, Bris-
tol; Mr. G. R. Glindon, and Mr. Thomas Sandford,
Exeter ; Messrs. Hall Brothers and Co., Cheltenham;
Messrs. Hopwood and Palmer, Plymouth; Mr. Robert
Allan, Messrs. Hugh Munro and Co , Mr. David Kin-
-near, and Mr. James Pringle, Edinburgh ; Mr. W.
Pringle, Leith; Messrs. WEwen and Auld, Glasgow ;
Mr. William Gordon, Aberdeen : Mr. S. A. Gloug,
Perth ; of whom Prospectuses may be had ; or to the
Provisional Company, at the Offices of the Company,
Palace Chambers, St. James's-street, London.