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

NEWARK AND SHEFFIELD RAILWAY,.
Completing the Union of the Counties of Nottingham
and Derby tei:h West Yorkshire, Lancashire, and

Ckeihire.
CAPITAL, £600,000, IN 24,000 SHARES OF £25
EACH.—DEPOSIT, £1 10s. PER SHARE.

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
E. V. P. Burnell, Esq.,.Winkburn Hall.
J. E. Broadhurst, Esq., Crow Hill, Mansfield.
J. Branston, Esq., Newark. •
Henry Brodhurat, Esq., Woodhouse Place.
John Chambers, Esq., The Hirst.
E. T. Coke, Esq., Woodhouse Grove.
John Dodsley, Esq., Skeaby Hall.
S. Foster, Esq., Mansfield.
Martin Furniss, Esq., Mansfield.
Wm. Flint, Esq., Halam,
R. T. Forage, Esq., Southwell.
T. S. God!rey, Esq., Balderton.
J. Gilstrap, Esq., Newark.
It. Greenhalgh, Esq., Carr Bank, Mansfield.
Robert Gill. Esq., Mansfield Woodhouse.
Gething, ESQ , Mansfield. -
William Hollins, Esq., Pleasley Vale. •
Jonathan Ilardcastle, Esq., Blidworth Dale.
Samuel fort, Esq., Manseld. -
Francis Hall, Esq., Park h ail.
W. F. Handley, Esq., Newark. •
George Hutton, Esq., Carlton-on-Trent.
J. Handley, Esq., Musk ham Grange. •
Wm. Houldsworth, Esq., Farnsfield.
Charles Lindley, Esq., Mansfield.
W. J. Leacroft, Esq., Southwell.
J. J. Marfleet, Esq., Winthorpe Grove.
The Mayor of Newark.
Col. Rolleston, M.P., Watnall Hall.
George Robinson, Esq., Wirrhorpe Hall.
Captain Pigot, it.N., Southwell.
Wm. Sabine; Esq., Broornhill Grange.
James Sstmond, Esq , Mansfield 'Woodhouse.
Samuel Siddon, Esq , \Vest Bank, Mansfield.
Edmund Sykes, Esq., Mansfield Woodhouse.
William Taylor, Esq., Radcliff.
John Thorpe, Esq.. Newark. -
Thomas Treheck, Esq., Southwell.
Robert Watson, Esq., Mansfield.
Willi Wylile, Esq., Southwell.
J. C. Wylde, Esq., Southwell. -
J. C. Esq., M.D., Nottingham.
Ronert Warrand, Esq., Westhorpe. Southwell.
J. J. \Verge, Esq., Woodboro'.
(With power to add to their slumber.)
ENGIN EEn.
Joseph Gibbs. Esq.
SURVEYOR.
Mr. George Sanderson.
BANKERS.

London and Mancheater—Messrs. Jones; Lloyd, and Co.
Sheffield—The Sheffield & Rotherham Banking Company.
Mansfield and Chesterfield—Messrs. Robinson and Brod-
burst.
Chesterfield—The Chesterfield and Derbyshire Banking
Company.
Newark—Messrs. Handley and Co. and Messrs.- Godfrey
and Hutton.
Southwell—Messrs. Wylile and Co.
Nottingham—Messrs. 1. and C. Wright and Messrs.
Moore and Ro-,inson's Banking Company.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. R. and R. Caoarn, Newark.
Messrs. Parsons and Berm, Mansfield.
LONDON AGENTS.
Messrs. Barker, Rose, and Norton, 50, Mark-lane.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY.
Mr. E. B. -Langley.
THIS Undertaking, commencing on the Banks of the
A Navigable River Trent at Newark, passing through
the• Towns of Southwell and Mansfield, and connecting it-
self, at Chesterfield, with the existing and projected Mid.
land Railways, will form a continuous and direct commu.
nicarion between the Agricultural and producing districts
of Nottinghamshire and the South Eastern parts of the
Kingdom on the one hand, and the large consuming
Towns and Districts of West Yorkshire, Lancashire,
Cheshire. and the Port of Liverpool on the other.
In the event of the proposed London and York Line
being carried into effect, this Railway will also form the
connecting link between .Manchester,- Sheffield, and the
Metropolis, and will afford, by means of the London and
York Line, the shorter communication from the Metro-
polis to these impc;rtsnt towns.
A careful examination of the Country through which
this Line will pass, by Engineers of acknowledged emi-
nence, enables the promoters to state, that it may be
constructed with facility, and that its character is such as
to justify a confidence that it must prove highly remune-
rative to the proprietary, taking into consideration the
great amount of Traffic which must necessarily pass along
it, whether as regards Passengers, Merchandise. and
Agricultural Prodnce, or Minerals, inasmuch as the Dis-
trict is not provided with any means of Transit beyond 'the
ordinary Turnpike Roads.
Twelve Daily Coaches are now required to convey the
Passenger Traffic through the District which this Line
will accommodate, at once demonstrating its importance
and the necessity which exists for its construction. ,

This Line, intended to communicate with the existing
Mansfield and Pinxton Railway, at Mansfield, will form
the newest and most direct route that can be ma4ebttween
the Agricultural Districts to the East and South-east of
Newark and the great central Ceat Field of Derbyshire
and NottinghtnAhire, and thus enable the inhabitants of
those extensive Districts to supply themselves with Coals
of every quality at considerably less than two-thirds of the
present price.

The whole country, North and South, will, by this
Rail-
way, and the others with which it will communicate, be
brought within easy reach of the well-knr,wn Quarries of
Building stone with which the District of Mansfield and
Wootihou*c abound* ; as writ as with the Lime
produced in that neighbourhood, sti.miebrated for build-
ing and other purposes. _ •

The Promoters are enabled, after a careful analysis of
the Traffic which wilt come upon this Line, to state that a
profit of at least 7 per cent. will be realized upon the
estimated capital of £600,000 after deducting 'lo•per cent.
for working
,expenses.
A Deposit of £1 10s. per Share must be paid on ;the
allotment of shares, and the liability of subscribers will he
limited by the Act of Parliament W the amount of their
respective shares.
Power will be taken in the Act to allow Interest at the
rate of £4 per Cent. per Annum on the Deposits, as well
as on all future calls, !corn the date of each payment till
the opening of the whole Line, or until a Dividend be
declared.

As a considerable portion of the Shares arc already ap-
plied for, no application will be received after the sth
November next, on which day the Committee will meet to
allot the Shares.

The Subscribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Con-
tract will be ready for signature at the time the deposits
arc received, and a copy will lie I,r signature at one of the
Company's Bankers, at each of the following places
London, Manchester, Sheffield, Chesterfield, Mansfield,
Southwell, New•atk, and Nottingham.
References ail be required from all applicants for
shares who are not known to some members of the Com-
mittee, the Solicitors, or respectable Sharebrokere.
Applktations 1;r Shares, in the Form below, are re-
quested to be made to the Solicitors, Messrs. R. and R.
CAPARN, Newark, and Messrs. PARSONS and BF,NN,
Mansfield ; to Messrs. BARKER, ROSE. and NOKTON,
50, Mark-lane, the London Agents ; or to the following
Sharebrokers :—Mr. WILKINSON'S, St. Mildred's-court,
Poultry, London; Mr. 1. W. SCOTT, 3, Bartholomew-
Lute, London ; Mr. HALL, 2, Mersey-street. Liverpool ;
Mr. J. DUNCUFT, Manchester; Messrs. WARBURTON
and Co., Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
_ FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.

-
I request you will secure to me Shares in
the NEWARK AND SHEFFIELD RAILWAY, upon the
terms of the Prospectus. And I agree to take such
Shares as may be allotted to me, arid to pay the Deposits
upon the sail e, and execute the Parliamentary Contract
and Subscribers' Agreement when required ; and my re-
reference, pursuant to the Prospectus, is to
Dated , 1844.
-Name.
Residence.
Trade or Profession.
To the Provisional Committee of the Newark
and Sheffield Railway, Mansfield.

SHREWSBURY AND WOLVERHAMPTON
RAILWAY.
THE Directors of the Grand Junction Railway, having
read the statement which has appeared in several
recent Newspapers, bearing the signature of Mr. Ormsby
Gore, Chairman of the Provisional Committee of a pro-
posed Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway, consider it
due.to their Shareholders and themselves to offer the fol-
lowing observations on that statement.
Referring then, in the first instance, to thecharge made
in it, that the Grand Junction!Company have claimed to.
dictate to four great counties f! what Railway and what
Railway only" they shall have, the--Directors beg to
state, (though they might have hoped it would not have
been necessary for them to disclaim any such pretension
as regards any part of the country,) that not only have
they never asserted or presumed to set up such a claim,
but that, as respects the particular Railway now in ques-
tion, they did not even enter upon the consideration of it
until pressed so to do by partiesat Shrewsbury. Upon
receipt of a requisition, in January last, they obtained
from their Shareholders at aipublic meeting full and ge-
neral authority to construct a Railway to connect Shrews-
fairy With the Grand Junction Railway, and they bad
various surveys made with a view to the discovery of .the
best Line ; they soon found that, as regards the North,
(Manchester and Yorkshire for instance,) no point on their
Line further South than Stafford could be considered as
offering any considerable accommodation ; whilst, as re-
gards London and the East, they found that as the Trent
Valley Railway would seorten the distance to London
nine miles, as compared with the existing route via Wol-
verhampton and Birmingham, besides giving a direct
communication with Derbyshire and the East, Stafford
was clearly the best Terminus for the Railway from
Shrewsbury, upon public grounds; and at the same
time that a Line to that Terminus would be much cheaper
than any other which is attainable, and also be the most
promising as regards the prospect of traffic, becaMse af-
fording improved communication wi h the North and the
East, as well as the South.
Accordingly the Directors made the necessary prepara-
tions for bringing the Staffi.)rd and Shrewsbury Line be-
fore Parliament next Session; the Sutiscription List was
filled, and the deposits paid, inhabitants of Shrewsbury
taking some Shares.
To this point all that the Grand Junction Directors had
done was done at the instance, and with the concurrence,
of inhabitants of Shrewsbury; "dictation," therefore,
cannot surely be charged against them, At a later date,
however, and (which it is material to mention) after the
publication of the re soluti .ns of the Grand Junction Pro-
prietors authorising their Directors to proceed with the
Line, certain Profeisional Geetlemen (for in the first in.