The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-11-26 00:00:00

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that application is
intended to be made to Parliament, in the next Ses-
sion, for art Act or Acts to enable a Company to be thereby
incorporated, to form and construct a Sea or Wharf Wall,
or Sea or Wharf Walls, along the Southern limits of a
Creek or Pool, called 'Wallasey Pool, together with Docks,
Basins, Cuts. Sluices, Jetties, Quays, Warehouses, Huts,
Sheds, and other Works, all of which will be situated
within or adjoining- the Parishes, Townships, and Extra-
Parochial Places of Birkenhead, Bidston, Poulton-cum-
Seacombe, and Wallasey, in the County of Chester, and
to inclose and reclaim and vest in, the said Company, so
much of the bed or soil of the said Pool as shall be within
the said Sea or V harf Wall, or Sea or Wharf Walls.
And it is further proposed by the said intended Act or
Acts, to authorise the Purchase, by the said Company, of
Lands a-id Buildings by compulsion or by agreement, aril
to vary or extinguish all existing rights and privileges
connected with such Lands, or with the Lands imme-
diately abutting on the said Pool, or with the waters of
the said Pool, or with any Streets, Roads, Paths, Water-
courses, or Streams, in the said Parishes, Townships, or
Extra-Parochial Places, which would in any manner inter-
fere with, or impede, the objects aforesaid.
And also to empower the Company to be incorporated
by the said intended Act or Acts, to levy Tolls, Rates,
and Duties, for, and in respect of the use of the Docks,
Basins, Warehouses, and other Works and Conveniences
to be provided as aforesaid.
And NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTHER GIVEN,
that a Plan and Section of the said intended Works, and
spewing the Line and Situation and Levels thereof, and
the Lands proposed to be taken for the purpose thereof,
together with a Book of Reference to such Plan, con-
taining the names of the reputed Owners, Lessees, and
Occupiers of such Lands, will be deposited for public
inspection on or before the Thirtieth day of November,
in the present year, with the Clerk of the Peace of the
County of Chester, at his office in Chester ; and a copy
of so much of the said Plan, Section, and Book of Re-
ference, as relates to each of the Parishes, in which such
works will be situate will be deposited with the Parish
Clerks of such Parishes respectively on or before the
Thirty-first day of December next.
Dated the Second day of November Oae Thousand
Eight Hundred and Forty-four.
MALLABY & TOWNSEND,
Solicitors for the Bill.
Offices, Argyle-street, Birkenhead.

IVOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that application is
. intended to be made to Parliament, in the next Ses
lion, for an Act or Acts to alter, amend, explain, repeal,
eiitarge, and render more effectual, an Act passed in the
third year of, the. rergn of her present Majesty, Queen
Victoria, intituled "An Act for making a Railway from
the City of Chester to Birkenhead ; " and another Act
passed in the third year of the reign of her said present
Majesty, Queen Victoria, .intituled " An Act to amend
the Act relating to the Chester and Birkenhead Railway,
and to raise a further sum of money for the purposes of
the said undertaking." And in the said intended Act or
Acts provision will be made to authorise the Chester and
Birkenhead Railway Company to construct a Railway,
with all proper works and conveniences connected there-
with, commencing by a Junction with the Chester and
Birkenhead Railway at or near the Station thereof in
Grange-lane, in the Extra-Parochial Chapelry or Town-
ship of Birkenhead, in the County of Chester, passing
thence through the same Extra-Parochial Chapelry or
Township, and terminating at Wallasey Pool, at or near
a place called Bridge End, in Birkenhead aforesaid. And
it is also proposed by the said intended Act or Acts to
authorise the said Company to purchase Lands by com-
pulsion or by agreement for the purposes of the said
undertaking, and to take powers to levy Tolls, Rates,
and Duties in respect of the use of the said intended
Railway and Works. And it is further proposed by the
said intended Act or Acts to alter, vary, or extinguish all
existing rights and privileges connected with such Lands,
or which would in any manner impede or interfere with
the construction, maintenance, or use of such Railway
and Works, and to confer other rights and privileges, and
to take powers to alter and divert a certain Road within
the said Township, called the Corporation Road, to the
extent which will be shown on the Plan to be lodged as
hereinafter mentioned ; and to take powers to alter and
divert within the said Township all such Highways,
Roads, Tramroads, Railways, Streets, Passages, Streams,
Sewers, and Watercourses, as it may be neeessary or ex-
pedient to alter and divert for the purposes of the said
undertaking.
And NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTHER GIVEN,
that on or before the Thirtieth day of November instant,
duplicate Plans and Sections, describirr, the Line and
Levels of the said intended Railway and Works, and the
situation of the Lands proposed to be taken for the pur-
poses thereof, together with Books of Reference to such
Plans, containing the Names of the reputed Owners, Les-
sees, and Occupiers of the said Lands, will be deposited
for public inspection with the Clerk f the Peace of the
County of Chester, at his Office, n Chester : and that a
Copy of the said Plans, Sections, and Books of Reference
relating to the said Extra-Parochial Chapelry or Town-
ship in or through which the said Railway and Works is
or are intended to pass or be made, will be deposited, on
or before the Thirty-first day of December next, with the
Parish Clerk of the said Extra-Parochial Chapelry or
Township.
Dated this Second Day of November, One Thousand
Eight Hundred and Forty-four.
JOSH. MALLABY,
Clerk of the Company, and Solicitor for the Bill.
Birkenhead.

'VOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that application is
tended to be made to Parliament, in the next Session,
for an Act or Acts to authori'e the construction of a
Railway with all proper works and conveniences connected
therewith and approaches thereto commencing at or near
a Timber Yard, in the occupation of John. Hall, in the
Abbey Foregate, in the parish of Holy Cross and Saint
Giles, in the liberties of the borough of Shrewsbury , in the
county of Salop, and terminating by a Junction with the
Chester and Birkenhead Railway, in the parish of Saint
Oswald, in the city of Chester, and county of the same
city, and passing from, through, or into the several
parishes; parochial chapelries, townships, hamlets, and
extra-parochial and other places of Hely Cross and Saint
Giles, Saint Mary, Saint Julien, and Saint Aikmond, in
the liberties of Shrewsbury aforesaid, and the bed and
shore of the River Severn, in or adjoining the same
liberties, Harlescott, Astley, Battlefield, Albrighton,
Preston Gubballs, Merrington, Middle Burlton, Hadnall,
otherwise Hadnall Ease, Yoreton, Wem, Broughton,
Clive, Alderton, Balderton, Grinshill, Bilmarsh, Sleap,
Nonely, Loppington, Wolverley, Northwood, Ellesmere,
Lineal, and Hampton's Wood, or some of them, all in the
county of Salop, Hanmer, Bettisfield, Penley, Halghton,
Bangor, Wallington, and Worthenbury, or some of them,
all in the county of Flint, Threapwood, Oldcastle, Cud-
dington, Chorlton, Shocklach, Oviatt, Church Shockluch,
Grafton, Caldecot, Tilston, Horton, Stretton, Codding-
ton, Crew, King's Marsh, Farndon, Barton, Churton,
Churton-by-Farndon, Churton-by-Oldford, Edgerley,
Aldford, Lea-cum-Newbold, Bruera, otherwise Church-
on-Heath, Buerton, Saighton, Huntington, Rowton,
Christleton, Littleton, Newton, Great Boughton, and
Saint Oswald, or some of them, all in the county of Ches-
ter, and Saint Oswald, and Saint John the Baptist, in the
city of Chester, and county of the same city, together
with another railway or branch railway, extending from
the before-mentioned intended new line in the township
of Penley aforesaid, in the said county of Flint, and ter-
minating at and by a Junction with the Chester and
Holyhead Railway at or near Sandeycroft Lane. in the
township of Saltney, in the parish of Hawarden, in the
said county of Flint, passing from, through, or into the
several parishes, or parochial chapelries, townships, ham-
lets, and extra-parochial and other places of Penley,
Hafghton, Bangor, Wallington, Wothenbury part of Al-
lington, Higher Kinnerton, Broughton, Lower Kinner-
ton, Bretton, Manor and Rake, Marford and liosely,
Saltney, and Ilawarden, or some of them, all in the
county of Flint, and the bed and shore of the River Dee,
in or adjoining to the last mentioned county, and in or
adjoining to the county of Denbigh or one of them, Pick-
hill, Sutton, Issa Coed, Ridley, Holt Borough, Holt,
Allington, Burton, Gresford, Caca Dutton, Dutton-y-
-brain, Dutton Dissaeth, or some of them, all in the
county of Denbigh Dodleston, and Lower Kinnerton,
or one of them, in the county of Chester.
And it is proposed by the said intended Act or Acts, to
Incorporate a Company for carrying into effect the objects
aforesaid, and to empower the same Company to purchase
lands and houses by compulsion or by agreement, for the
purposes thereof, and to levy tolls, rates and duties, for
the use of the said intended Railway and Branch. And it
is also intended to empower the said Company to alter,
vary, or extinguish all existing rights and priveleges con-
nected with such lands and houses, or which would in any
manner impede or interfere with the construction, main-
tenance, or use of such Railway, branch Railway, and
works, and to confer other rights and privileges.
And FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,
that it is proposed by the said intended Act or Acts, to
take power to alter and divert, within the several parishes,
townships, and extra parochial, and other places afote-
, sa'd, or some of them, all such highways, roads, tram-
roads' railways, streets, paths, passages, rivers, canals,
brooks, streams, waters, and water-courses, as it may be
necessary or expedient to alter and divert, for the pur-
pose of making and maintaining, or more conveniently
making and maintaining, or using the said Railway or
Railways, to be authorised by the said Act or Acts, or
any of the works or conveniences connected therewith.
And it is further proposed by the said intended Act or
Acts, to enable the Chester and Birkenhead Railway com-
pany, the North Wales Mineral Railway company, the
Chester and Holyhead Railway company, and the company
intended to be incorporated as aforesaid, some, any, or
either of them, to enter into, and carry into effect mutual
arrangements, as to them may seem expedient, for the
sale or lease, and transfer of the said intended Railway
and branch Railway, to the said Chester and Birkenhead
Railway company, the said North Wales Mineral Railway
company, and the said Chester and Holyhead Railway
company or some or either of them.
AND NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO GIVEN, that
on or before the Thirtieth day of November instant, du-
plicate plans and sections, 4rcribing the line and levels
of the said railway, branch railway, and works, and the
situation of the lands and property proposed to be
taken for the purposes thereof, together with books
of reference to such plans, containing the names of
the owners, or reputed owners, the lessees, or re-
puted lessees, and occupiers of the said lands and
property, will be deposited for public inspection with
the Clerk of the Peace of the county of Salop, at
his office in Shrewsbury, in the said county of Salop ;
with the Clerk of tke Peace of the county of Flint, at his
office in Mold, in the said county of Flint; with the
Clerk of the Peace of the county of Denbigh, at his
office in Ruthin, in the said county of Denbigh ; with the
Clerk of the Peace of the .consity of Chester, at his office
in Chester ; and with the Clerk :of the Peace of the coun-
ty of the city of Chester, at his office in Chester; and
that fit Ropy of so much of the.sait) plans, sections, and

books of reference as relates to each of the parishes from,
in, or through which the said railway, branch railway,
and works is or are intended to pass or be made, will be
deposited, on or before the Thirty-first day of December
next, with the Parish Clerks of those parishes respectively.
Dated this Fourth day of November, One Thousand,
Eight Hundred and Forty-four.
MALLABY and TOWNSEND,
Solicitors for the Bill.
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Offices, Argyle-street, Birkenhead.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that application is
intended to he made to Parliament, in the next ses-
sion, for an Act to amend, explain, alter, and enlarge some
of the powers and provisions of the Acts relating to the
Docks and Harbour of Liverpool, passed, respectively, in
the Bth year of the reign of Queen Anne, in the 3d year
of the reign of King George the First, in the 11th year of
the reign of King George the Second, in the 2d, 25th,
39th, 51st, 53d, and 59th years of the reign of King George
the Third, respectively, in the Gth and 9th years of the reign
of King George the Fourth, respectively, in the session
held in the 11th year of the said last-mentioned reign and
the Ist year of the reign cf King William the Fourth, and
in the 4th year of the reign of Her present Majesty, and
in the sessions held in the 6th and 7th and the 7th and Bth
years of the reign of her present Majesty. And it is pro-
posed by such intended Act to amend, explain, and regu-
late the reviaion of the rates payable under the said Act of
the 4th year of the reign of Her present Majesty.
GEORGE WORTHINGTON,
Solicitor to the Trustees of the Liverpool Docks.
Liverpool, sih November, 1844.

LIVERPOOL, ORMSKIRK. AND PRESTON
R A I LWAY.

IVOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that application is
11 intended to be made to Parliament, in the next Ses-
sion, for a Bill for making and maintaining a Railway or
Railways, with all proper stations, erections, works, coin-
munications, approaches, and conveniences connected
therewith, to commence at or near the Borough Gaol, on
the east side of Great Howard-street, in the Town and Bo-
rough of Liverpool, in the Township and Parish of Liver-
pool, in the County of Lancaster, and to terminate, by a
Junction with the Lancaster and Preston Railway at or near
the terminus of the said Lancaster and Preston Railway,
in the Town and Borough of Preston, in the Township
and Parish of Preston, in the said County of Lancaster,
which said Railway and other works are intended to be
made and to pass from, in, through, or into the several
parishes, townships, chapelries, hamlets, and extra-paro-
chial places following, or some of them ; that is to say,
the Parish and Township of Liverpool, Kirkdale, Bootle-
cum-Linacre, Parish and Township of Walton-on-the-
Hill, Orrell, Orrell and Ford, Aintree, Netherton, Li-
therland, the Parish and Township of Sephton, Melling,
Cunscough, Melling-cum-Cunscough, Lydiate, Maghull,
Halsall, the Parish and Township of Aughton, Bicker-
staff, Burscough, Lathom, the Parish and Township of
Ormskirk, the Parish and Township of Rufford, Glebe,
the Parish and Township of Croston, Bretherton, Ulnes
Walton, Mawdesley, Much Hoole, Little Hoole, Hoole,
the Patish and Township of Leyland, Longton, Faring-
ton, Hutton, Howick, the Parish and Township of Pen-
wortham, and the Parish and Township of Preston, all in
the said County of Lancaster.
Together with another Railway or Branch Railway,
extending from and out of the said intended Main Line
of Railway, to commence at or near Adlington-gate-house,
in the said Township of Longton, in the said parish of
Penwortham, in the said County of Lancaster, and to
terminate, by a Junction with the Blackburn and Preston
Railway, in the Township of Walton-in-le-Dale, in the
parish f Blackburn, in the said County of Lancaster,
which said Branch Railway is intended to be made and to
pass from, in, through, or into the several parishes,
townships, chapelries, hamlets, and extra-parochial places
following, or some of them ; that is to say, Longton,
Farington, Penwortham; Walton-in-le-Dale, and Black-
burn, all in the said County of Lancaster.
Together with another Railway or Branch Railway, ex-
tending from and out of the said intended Main Line of
Railway, to commence at or near to Lydiate-lane, near
the Town of Ormskirk, in the Township and Parish of
Ormskirk, in the said County of Lancaster, and to termi-
nate at or near the Junction of Chapel-street and Church-
street with London-street, in the Town of Southport, in
the Township of North Meols, in the Parish of .North
Meols, in the said County of Lancaster, which said last
mentioned Branch Railway is intended to be made and to
pass from, in, through, or into the several parishes,
townships, chapelries, hamlets, and extra-parochial places
following, or some of them; that is to say, the said
Parish and Township of Ormskirk, Burscough, Scaris.
brick, Snape, Southport, Birkdale, the Parish and Town-
ship of Halsall, and the Parish and Township of North
Meols, all in the said County of Lancaster.
Together with another Railway or Branch Railway, ex-
tending from and out of the said intended Main Line of
Railway, to commence in the said Township of Ormskirk,
at or near to Greetly-hill, in the said Parish of Ormskirk,
in the said County of Lancaster, and to terminate at or
near to Blague-gate Collieries or Coal Pits, in the said
Township of Lathom, in the said Parish of Ormskirk, in
the said County of Lancaster, which said last-mentioned
Branch Railway is intended to be made and to pass from,
in, through, or into the several parishes, townships, cha-
pelries, hamlets, and extra-parochial places following, or
some of them ; that is to say, the Parish and Township of
Ormskirk, Burscough. Lathom, and Skelmersdale, all in
the said County of Lancaster.
And it is intended to apply for powers to make lateral
deviations from the Lines of the proposed works to the ex-
tent or within the limits defined upon the plans herein-
after mentioned or refereed to ; and also to cross, divert,
alter, or stop up all such turnpike-roads, parish roads,
and other highways, streams, canals, navigations, and
railways within the said townships, parishes, chapelries,
hamlets, and extra-parochial places aforesaid, or some of
them, as it may ba necessary to cross, divert, alter, or
stop up for the purposes of the proposed Works.
And Notice is Hereby further Given, that duplicate
Plans and Sec:ions of the said intended liailways and
Works, together with books of reference thereto, will be
deposited for public inspection with the Clerk of the Peace
for the County of Lancaster, at his Office, in Preston
aforesaid, arid with the Clerk of the Peace for the Borough
of Liverpool, at his Office, in Liverpool aforesaid, on or
before the 30th day of November instant, and on or be.
fore the 31st day of December next, a Copy of
so much of the said Plans, Sections, and Books of Re-
ference respectively as relate to each.of the parishes from,
in, through, or into which the said intended Railways and
Works, or any of them, are intended to be made, will be
deposited for public inspection with the Parish. Clerk of
each such Parish at the place of abode of such Parish Clerk.
And Notice is Hereby further Given, that it is in-
tended by the said Bill to incorporate a Company for the
purpose of making, maintaining, working, and using the
said Railway or Railways and Works, and for conveying
passengers and goods on the said Railway or Railways,
and on other Railways communicating therewith, and for
other purposes, and to obtain powers for the compulsory
purchase of Messuages, Lands, Tenements, and H eredita-
ments, and to levy tolls, rates, or duties upon, or in re-
spect of the said proposed Railways and Works, and to
vary or extinguish all rights and privileges in any manner
connected with the Lands, Tenements, and Heredita.
ments proposed to be taken for the purposes thereof, and
to confer exemptions from the payment of tolls, rates,
and duties, and other rights and privileges.
Dated this sth day of November. 1844.
LLOYD and WALN. Solicitors. Liverpool.

BENEZER LUDLOW, Sergeant-at-Law, one of
La Her Majesty's Commissioners, authorised to act
under a commission of bankrupt, bearing date the 4th day
of February. 1802, awarded and issued forth against
SAMUEL JOSEPH CLEGG and JOHN WHITBY,
of Liverpool, i❑ the county of Lancaster, merchants,
dealers and chapmen ; and under a renewed commission
of bankrupt, hearing date the 4th day of February, 1824,
will sit on the 30th day of November instant, at One of
the clock in the Afternoon precisely, at the District Court'
of Bankruptcy, in Liverpool, to audit the accounts of the
assignees of the separate estate and effects of John
Whitby, one of the said bankrupts, under the said com-
mission, pursuant to the acts of parliament made and
now in force relating to bankrupts.
SHACKLETON, WRIGHT, and HUNTER,
Solicitors.
Liverpool, November 23d, 1844.

WHEREAS, a fiat in bankruptcy, bearing date the
24th day of October, 1844, directed to Her Ma-
jesty's District Court of Bankruptcy, at Liverpool, having
been awarded and issued forth against JOHN JOHN-
SON, of Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster, merchant,
and he being declared a bankrupt, and baying surrendered
himself to CHARLES PHILLIPS, Esq., one of her Majesty's
Commissioners of the said Court, on the Bth day of No-
vember instant, is hereby required to attend before the
said Commissioner, on the 10th day of December next, at
Tvvelte o'clock at Noon precisely, at the District Court
of Banlitptcy, in Liverpool aforesaid, and make a full
discove nd disclosure of his estate and effects ; when
and where the creditors are to come prepared to prove
their debts. And all persons indebted to the said bank-
rupt, or that have any of his effects, are not to pay or
deliver the same but to Mr. JAMES CAZENOVE, No. 1,
Sweeting-street, Liverpool, the Official Assignee whom
the Commissioner has appointed ;_ and give notice to
Messrs. LACES, MYERS, RIGGE, and RoscoE, Solicitors,
Union-court, Castle-street, Liverpool ; or to Messrs.
SHARPE, FIELD, and JACKSON, Solicitors, Bedford-Tow,
London.

The force of gunpowder is not shown till a spark lights
on it. So till temptation comes, we know not ourselves.
The busy man, say the Turks, is troubled with one de-
vil, and the idle man is tormented with a thousand.

Why is a young Lady like a bill of exchange? Because
she ought to be settled as soon as she comes to maturity.
When is a boy older than his father ? When he is a
post-man and his father a post-boy.
THE ALLOTMENT SYSTEM.—Sir Charles Napier con-
siders that nothing will so much tend to ameliorate the
condition of the labouring classes as the allotting to them
small portions of land. The gallant officer says that some
time since he, with certain others, took an Acre, which
has been quite he making of them.—Punch.
HINT TO SCOLDING Wives.—" And I dare say you
have scolded your wife very often, Newman," said I,
once. Old Newman looked down, and the wife took up
the reply. `` Never to signify—and if be has I deserved
it." "And, I dare say, if the truth were told, you have
scolded him quite as often." " Nay," said the old wo-
man, with fa beauty of kindness which all the poetry in
the world cannot excel, " how can a wife scold her good
man who has been working for her and her little ones all
the day ? It may be for a man to be peevish, for it is he
who bears the crosses of the world ; but who should make
him forget them but his wife. And she bad best for her
own sake—for nobody can scold much wLen the scolding
is all on one side.—Bulwer's Studen,.


PROSPECTUS OF THE
SCOTTISH MIDLAND JUNCTION RAILWAY.

Capital, £300,000, in 12,000 Shares of .C 25 each.

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

The Right Honourable the Earl of Airlie, Lord-lieute-
nant of Forfarshire, Chairman.
The Honourable John Stuart Wortley, M.P. for the
West-Riding of Yorkshire, Deputy-Chairman.
The Most Noble the Marquis of Breadalbane.
The Viscount Arbuthnot, Lord-Lieutenant of Kincar-
dineshire.
The Right Honourable Lord Wharncliffe.
Lord Frederick Gordon H allyburton, M.P. forForfarshire.
The Honourable John Arbuthnot.
The Lord Provost of Perth.
The Lord Provost of Aberdeen.
The Provost of Forfar.
The Provost of Brechin.
The Provost of Inverness.
The Provost of Peterhead.
Sir James Ramsay, of Bamff, Baronet.
Sir John W. P. Muir Mackenzie, of Delvine, Baronet.
J. J. Hope Johnstone, Esq., P. for Dumfriesshire.
William Lockhart, Esq., M.P. for Lanarkshire.
James Anderson, Esq., Banker, Blairgosvrie.
Andrew Archer, Esq., of Balbrogie.
Johh Brown, Esq., of Parkhead.
George Buchanan, Esq., Stanley Works.
Archld. Burns, Esq., Manager of the Central Bank, Perth.
Archibald Campbell, Esq., of Blythswood.
Charles Clark, Esq., of Princeland.
David Craizie, Esq., Manager of the Perth Bank.
Colonel Dalgairns, of Balgavies.
James Farquharson, Esq., of Invercauld.
Major GamMell, of Lethendy.
Robert Geekie, Esq., of Rosemont.
Alexander Geekie, Esq., of Baldowrie.
J. V. Hagart, Esq., of Glendelvine.
David Hood, Esq., of Balluderon.
William Hutchison, Esq., Banker, Forfar.
Patrick Small Keit, Esq., of Kindrogan.
Colonel John Kinkel), of Logic.
Patrick Kirkaldy, Esq., Fullerton, Meigle.
George Knight, Esq., of Jordanstone.
John Leadbetter. Esq., Glasgow, of the firm of Lead-
better, Adamson, and Company, Dundee and Blair-

gowrie.
William Farquharson Macdonald, Esq., of St. Martin's.
John M`Nicol, Esq., Craig, Alyth.
John Marshall, Esq., Luncarty, Bleachfield.
Robert Monteith, Esq., of Carstairs.
Patrick Murray, Esq., of Simprim. - •
Wing() Murray, Esq., of Untrose.
David .Nairn, Esq., of Drumkilbo.
P. Wedderburn Ogilvy, Esq., of Ruthven.
Laurence Oliphant, Esq., of .7.ondie.
Charles Playfair, Esq., of Denhead.
Captain Popham, R.N., Belmont Castle.
William David Proctor, Esq., Giammis.
Robert Clerk Rattray, Esq., of Craighall.
Glas Sandeman, Esq., of Bonskeid.
Peter Small, Esq., of Dirnanean.
Archibald Turnbull, Esq., of Bellwood.
Hugh Watson, Keillor.
James Whitson, Esq., of Isla-park.
BANKERS.
The Perth Banking Company.
The Central Bank, Perth.
The Dundee Banking Company, Dundee and Forfar.
ENGINEERS.
Joseph Locke, Esq., F.R.S.
J. E. Errington, Esq., Member of the Inst. C.E.
SECRETARY.
Christopher Kerr, Esq., Town-clerk of Dundee.

Agcnts in Edinburgh.—Messrs. Hope & Oliphant, W.S.
Agents in Perth.—Messrs. J. & J. Miller. Writers.
Agents in Strathmore.—Messrs. C. & J. Kerr, Dundee.
Parliamentary Agent.—G. H. Lang, Esq., 11, Park-
street, Westminster, London.
PHIS Line will be carried through the great Valley of
Strathmore, and will form a connecting link between
the Scottish Central Railway terminating at Perth, and
the Arbroath and Forfar, and Aberdeen Railways.
The existing Railways from Arbroath to Forfar and
from Dundee to Newtyle will serve as feeders to this
Railway, which will also afford the shortest route south-
wards for the traffic of the whole of the north-eastern
counties of Scotland, containing in the aggregate a popu.
lation of upwards of 500,000 ; and the Scottish Central
Railway, connecting with the Edinburgh and Glasgow
and the great Lines uniting England and Scotland, will
bring to its southern terminus at Perth the traffic north-
wards from England, from the manufacturing and mine,
ral districts of Scotland, and from tl.e cities of Edinburgh
and Glasgow.
The Valley of Strathmore, through which the Railway
will Le carried, is the most extensive tract of level land
in Scotland. It is fertile and populous, is studded with
towns and villages, and is the seat of important manufac-
tures, which are capable of great extension, though their
progress has been hitherto impeded by the high price of
coal, and the want of cheaper and more rapid means of
communication. _ _

A survey has been made of the district between Perth
and Forfar, a distance of 32 miles, and from the facilities.
afforded by the almost uninterrupted level of the country,
and the existence of local Railways. which may be acquired
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expensepr price, Messrs.
formingLo c kte and h
e Railway, r r gitaoenl havedn including
stations, connexions with existing Railways, and every
contingency, at £300,000.
It is intended to follow the system now so generally
pursued, of constructing in the first instance only a single
line, but providing land and bridges sufficient fora double
line, if afterwards found necessary.
It has been ascertained, after a careful scrutiny by a
Committee of five gentlemen of the &strict, that the
revenue, arising chiefly from local sources, will yield a
return of seven per cent., wholly independent of the in-
crease likely to arisa from the formation of the Aberdeen
and Scottish Central Railways.
The undertaking has the support of all the towns and
of almost every landowner on the line, and a considerable
amount of the capital required has already been subscribed
in the district.
The capital has been fixed at £300,000, divided into
12,000 shares of £25 each. A deposit of £1 10s. per share
to be paid at the time of allotment, and subscribers to sign
the parliamentary deed when required to do so.
It will be a provision of the Act of Incorporation, that
no subscriber shall be liable for more than the amount of
his subscription.
Application for shares may b t made to
Messrs. FORSYTH and PRITC HARD,
and Liverpool.
Messrs. TOD and ASHTON,
No application will be attended to unless accompanied
by a reference.

SCOTTISH MIDLAND JUNCTION RAILWAY.
A Meeting of the Provisional Committee of the Scot-
tish Midland Junction Railway was held in Coupar
Angus, on Saturday, 26th Oetober, 1844.
The Lord \VHARNCLIFFE in the Chair.

Colonel Dalgairns presented the Report of the Sub-
committee, appointed on 23d current, to investigate in
regard to traffic, which Report was read, and ordered to
be ingrossed in the minu'es. The following is a copy :
"The Committee have to report, that they have had
before them Messrs. Stone and Bryers, under whose su-
perintendence the traffic has been taken, also the persons
employed under Them to take the actual traffic, and from
whose statements the Committee are satisfied that the
traffic has been taken with due care, and that the same has
not been overstated.
"The Committee have also examined the Books made
up from the Notes taken by these parties during the fort-
night from the sth August, and also the Abstra'ts taken
from these Books, and after carefully investigating and
checking these, they are completely satisfied of their ge-
neral correctness.

" Some of the Books for subsequent fortnights have
also been examined and checked, in so far as the time of the
Committee allowed, and no material error having been dis-
covered in them, the Committee consider themselves jus-
tified in assuming the general correctness of the statements
of six weeks' traffic submitted to the Committee.
" The Committee are satisfied that, if any error has
been committed, the traffic has been rather understated
than otherwise; and they have, therefore, no hesitation
in reporting, that the extent of traffic exhibited in the
Table prepared by the Secretary, and submitted to the
Committee, is a fair return of the existing traffic in the
district between Perth and Forfar, and such as they feel
themselves enabled, upon sound and bona fide grounds,
to recommend to the Provisional Committee as the basis
of their calculation of the probable receipts upon the
proposed Railway. " J. DALGAIRNS.
GEO. BUCHANAN.
HUGH WATSON.
• W. D. PROCTOR.
JOHN M'NICOLL."
'Lord Wharncl:ffe congratulated the Meeting on the very
satisfactory Report the) had received, and expressed his
enure confidence in its accuracy. He recommended that
thelProispectus be re-issued, amending it by noticing the
result of the accounts of traffic, and the confidence with
which it may now be assumed that the concern is certainly
safe as an investment, since the traffic actually now exist-
ing, as most carefully taken and subsequently tested, with-
out any prospective increase, affords, calculated at very
moderate rates a gross income of £25,854 9s. 10d. arising
chiefly from the local traffic of the district. If from this
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£300,000, which the Engineer has stated, and the Chair-
man has full confidence, rightly stated, will be sufficient
for executing the works, assuming that only a -single line
of rails is laid at present, but purchasing land and secur-
ing width of bridges and other conveniences for a double
line. So even without the increase of traffic consequen-
tial on the making of the Railway, there is a fair return
for capital. If there be the usual addition for consequen-
tial increase of traffic, say 100 per cent on the passengers,
the additional receipts at the rates assumed will be
£12,876 10s. and if 45 per cents for costs of working be
deducted (probably more than enough on the additional
traffic) be again deducted, the return on the capital will
be fully 7 per cent. Over and above all this there is the
great accession of thorough-going traffic naturally to arise
from the projected Railways to Perth, and from Aberdeen
and the North, which are to connect this Railway, for
local traffic, with the centre and west of Perthshire, and
with Fifeshire and Stirlingshire, and with the eastern
parts of Angus, and with Kincardine and Aberdeen, and
to make this Railway a link in the great chain of railway
communication between London and Aberdeen, and ulti-
mately, it is to be hoped, all the country north to Inverness.
It was ordered that, as retommended by the Chairman,
an amended Prospectus be now issued.
It was reported to the Meeting that the result of the
traffic for October promised to go beyond the average of
the preceding accounts, and that the Surveyors are of
opinion the traffic will continue during the winter months
beyond the average already reported, both on passengers
1 and on weighable traffic.