The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-10-29 00:00:00

The Right Hon. Lord Rendlesham,M.A.
Robert Ransome, Esq., Ipswich
Jams Allen Ransome, Esq., Ipswich
Wiliam Rodwell, Esq., Ipswich
Joseph Shaw, Esq., Huddersfield
T. 0. Springfield, Esq., Norwich
Charles Steward, Esq.. Ipswich
Lawrence Squire, Esq., Ipswich
John Tollernache, Esq., M.P.
The Hon. Arthur Thellusson
Abel Towler, Esq., Norwich
Thomas Hutton, Esq., Brome
Edward Willett, Esq.. Norwich
John Wright, Esq., Norwich
William S. Wilson, Esq., Norwich.
With power to add to their number.
ENGINEER.
Joseph Locke, Esq., F.R.S.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Few, Hamilton; and Fews, Covent Garden ;
Messrs. W. 0. and W. Hunt, 10, Whitehall; and
Messrs. Staff, Steward, and Tillett, Norwich.

SECRETARY.
James F. Saunders,Esq.. Brook street, Ipswich.
BANKERS.

Norwich Messrs. Gurneys and Co.
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/1 •••• . • East of England Bark.
Ipswich
Messrs. Bacon and Co.
Hull Messrs. Pease, Liddell, and Co.
Huddersfield
Halifax
Stowmarket
Diss . Messrs. Dyson and Co.
11 Messsrs. Oakes, Bevan, Fincham, and Co
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London .

BY this undertaking it is proposed to establish a direct
Railway communication between the city of Norwich
(the metropolis of the eastern district of England)
join the
the
town and port of Ipswich, at which p'ace it will the
Railway to London.
The Line will pass through the towns of Diss and
Stowmarket, and through or near Long Stratton, Eye,
and Mendlesham, and Needham Market and the adjacent
populous districts, and will be in near communication
with the towns of Ilarleston, Bungay, and Beccles, and
ihe River Wavenhey, to which places an extension may
be advantageously m-de. It also combines the advantage
of a direct communication with the port of Yarmouth.
;Very considerable commerce and intercourse has
always subsisted between Norwich, Diss, and Ipswich,
which this project will greatly facilitate and increase.
This Line will be an extension of the Eastern Union
Railway, and will, by means of the Eastern Counties
Itail.vay 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 interests 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 ha.
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 th-6 present traffic bet Ween 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 cent. 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, £650,000, will enable
the Company to complete a double Line from 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, not 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 thus be in direct communication, at
Ipswich. with the line of steamers proposed to be esta
blished from Harwich harbour to Hanaburgh, 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.
ApplicationsAr Shares may be addressed to Messrs.
FORSYTH and PRITCHARD, Liverpool; and J. B.
LOCKE, Esq., and JOHN BARLOW, Esq., Manchester, of
whom Prospectuses may be obtained.