The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-05-14 00:00:00

PROSPECTUS OF THE ABERDEEN RAILWAY

CAPITAL, £1,000,000, in. SHARES of £2O EACH.

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

THOMAS BLAIKIE, Esq., Lord Provost of the City

of Aberdeen, Chairman,
The Right Honourable the Earlof Erroll, K.T., ;Lord-
Lieutenant of Aberdeens;h Arbuthnott, Theßight Honourable the Viscount
'Lord-
Lieutenant of Kincardineshire,
F
ble the Lord ;Forbes,
The Right Honourable The Right HonourablzrttieFaret
r Kintore,
The Right Honourable the Lord Panmure,
The Provost of Dundee,
The Provost of Arbroath,
The Provost of Montrose,
The 'Provost of Forfar,
The Provost of Brechin,
Alexander Bannerman, Esq., M.P. for the City of Aber-
deen,
Edward Ellice, Esq., M.P. for the East Fifeshire Btrgbs,
ofof Bal
Scobbach,quhain
George Duncan, Esq., M.P. for Dundee,
The Count
Adam, Esq,, Leslie,
Captain Barclay, of Ury and Allardice,
David Blaikie, Esq., of the firm ,uf John Blaikie and
Sons, Aberdeen,
Major-General Byres, of Tonley,
Newell Burnett, Esq., Aberdeen,
Patrick Chalmers, Esq., of Auldbar,
Lewis Crombie, Esq., one of the Baillies of Aberdeen,
William F. L. Carnegie, Esq., of Spynie and Boysack,
Robert Duff, Esq ~of Culter and Fetteresso,
Thomas Abercromby Dull', Eq., of Haddo,
Duncan Davidson, Esq., of Tillychetly,
James Farquharson, Esq., of Invereatild,
James Farquhar, Esq., of Hallgreen, Kmcardinshire, One
of the Directors of the Union Bank of London,
James Farquharson, Esq., Manufacturer, Auchinblae,
Colonel Fraser, of :Inverallochy and Castle Fraser,
Robert Grant, Esq., of Tillyfour, Convener of Aber—
deenshire,
Colonel Gorden, of Park, Convener of Banffshire.
Alexander Gibbon, Esq., of Johnston.
John Gordon, Esq., of Avochie and Drumlithie,
Andrew Gammen, Esq., of Drurntochty Castle,
John Taylor Gordon, Esq., of Nethermuir,
James Hadden, jun., Esq., of the firm of Alexander
Hadden and Sons,
Frederick Holland, Esq., of the firm of Richards and
Company,
John Angus, Esq., CityClexk of Aberdeen,
William Innes, Esq., of Raemoir, Convener of Kincar-
dineshire,
Alexander Jopp, Esq., Aberdeen,
James Kilgour, Esq., of the firm of Gordon, Barron, and
Company,
Clements Lumsden, Esq., Aberdeen,
Alexander Morrison, Esq., of Bognie and Montblttiry
Isaac Macbray, Esq., Torry Farm, Mail Coach Contr
tor, Aberdeen, as.
John Morice, Esq., of Tullos, Kincardineshire
in London,, Merchant
Alexander Pierie, jun., Esq., of
Pierie and Sons,f the firm of Alexander
Henry Paterson, Esq., Manager of the North of Scot-
land Banking Company,
Major George Thompson, C.B , Bengal
Fairley, Aberdeenshire, residing. in Engineers, of
Liverpool,
George Thompson, jun., Esq. ,Shipowner in Aberdeen,
David Wyllie, Esq., Cashier of the B
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The Royal Bank of Scotland and Branches,
The Union Bank of Scotland and Do., Edinburgh,
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The Commercial Bank of Scotland and Do
Sir Richard Carr Glynn and Co.,
Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, Tritton, and Co.,
The Union Bank of London,London,
Messrs. Beckett and Company, Leeds,
The Commercial Banking
ENGINEE CompanßSy, Liverpool,
Messrs. Grainger and Miller, Edinburgh,
Messrs. John Gibb, and Alexander Gibb, Aberdeen.

ARAILWAY, connecting the City of Aberdeen with
the southern lines through the populous towns of
Dundee, Perth, Abroath, Forfar, Brechin, Montrose and
Stonehaven, and the numerous towns and villages in' this
important agricultural and manufacturing district,
has
long been anxiously desired, and the land was surveyed as
far back as the year 1837. The execution of the under-
taking however, was deferred until the chain of railway
communication should be further advanced. This has
now taken place. Railways have been completed or are
England
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latndrrini of h
and thetsoe presentuthand
linewofest Scot-
. A
fresh
survey and estimate having been obtained, the undertak-
ing has since received the sanction of the Noblemen
laand
nd. Proprietors of the greater part of the lan
land projected
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COURT 'OF BA:NKRUPTCY, BABINGHALL-STREET,

MAY 1:

(Before Mr. Commissioner ronblanque.)
IMPORTANT TO LOAN SOCIETIES.--THE INSOLVENT' LAW.

'POINT OF PRACTICE.

His Honour said, in an insolvent case which came be-
fore him this morning, he should take especial care not to
allow soticitors .attending on the part of loan societies to
oppose ins olvents,kwitbout they appeared properly clothed
with authority. It appeared, in the case alluded to, that
the insolvent was opposed by a secretary of a loan society,
who had deputed a solicitor to attend; but as the pro-
missory note upon which the money had been advanced
was only made out in the name of one party, and the so-
licitor did not pretend to say that he had been directed by
that party to attend, his honour declared he had no locus
standi in thecourt. On the other hand, if attending as
the representative of the society, the promissory note
ought to contain all the names of the partners associated ;
but that was not the case, and hence there was a fatal ob-
jection on that ground. The commissioners were deter-
mined, his honour-said, to give no facility to loan societies,
in the administration of bankruptcy or insolvency, without
those societies chose to undergo the ordeal and test of ap-
plying for charters, and submitting to the pains and
penalties therein contained, since it was most certain that
.numbers olthemmorked much evil amongthe community.
Mr. Sturgeon, who raised the point, said, in one case
Which had passed through his hands, a poor cobbler, for
an advance of £2, had been obliged to pay two shillings
per week, fortwelve months.
Mr. Commissioner Fonblanque said, he did not mean
to say that the society now seeking to oppose was op-
pressive in their .charges or proceeding, but of this he was
quite certain, that many of them were the engines of ex-
tortion to those whom they proposed to assist. He was
therefore desirous that this determination of the court
should be as speedily promulgated as possible.

NORTHUMBED.LANt AND DURHAM.—We regret to say
that the strike amongst the pitmen in this district still
continues, and with no certain prospect of a speedy ter-
mination. Laying aside the merits of the question, the
simultaneous inaction of twenty thousand men, hitherto
busily employed in carrying on the staple trade of Durham
and Northumberland, is an event that must seriously
affect every minor and subordinate interest, and if long per-
sisted in, can produce no other than the most calamitous
xesults.—Newcaslle Advertiser.
HYDROPATDY.—A most interesting letter appears in
the London Times of yesterday, relative to the water cure,
and signed by the Earl of Lichfield, Sir G. Webster, Bart.
and twenty other gentlemen of England, including Mas-
ters of Art, Captains, and others of the first respectability,
now resident at Graefenberg, near Freiwalden, strongly
recommending the system from their own experience and
that of others ; ard with particular reference to the death
lately of Sir F. Burdett, " which had been erroneously
seized upon as a means of deprecating it in the estimation
of the British public." They state that it was no wonder
a gentleman of the active habits of Sir F. Burdett, of 74
years of age, should die after having used the cure for a
short time, and then abandoning it for a new remedy.
That gentleman had left it off for several weeks before his
death, and when he relinquished it, declared that he had
never been so well for many years. "He returned to ha-
bits (say they) at variance with the cure ; inflammation
attacked him—grief for the loss of his wife overwhelmed
him—and he died." They do not say that inflammation
would not have occurred had he not left off the water cure,
bnt assert, from experience, that under it inflammation is
rare, and, when it appears, easily suppressed. The sub-
scribers then enter into a variety of instances of the ex-
traordinary efficacy of the cure that have fallen under
their own observation, or may be otherwise attested. They
say, " at different seasons of the last year, 1843, from the
Ist of January to the last day of December inclusive,
there were at Graefenberg 1050 patients, amongst whom
there were but 4 deaths, and it has come to our knowledge
that in the last two out of the four instances the patients
had come too late to derive any benefit from the cure, and
from the first were pronounced to be incurable by Priess-
nitz. We believe this report to be unparalleled, not only
in hospital returns generally, but even in the ordinary bills
of mortality." After adducing a number of other facts,
they thus proceed :—We recommend only a fair trial;
.. Magna eat veritas et preralebit." For ourselves we
have heard, we have seen, we have tried, and, whilst most
of us consulted very eminent medical practitioners, and
strictly adhered to their prescriptions, we hesitate not to
say, that though eventually we may not all be radically
and entirely cured, yet, without having a particle of me-
dicine administered to us, many of us have already re-
ceived more benefit under the water treatment than from
anything we bad previously tried. It is simple, safe,
strengthening, neeessarily connected with strict temper-
ance, and conducive to more equanimity and cheerfulness.
They conclude by stating, that while some digeases re-
quire but one, two, or three months in order to a cure
being effected, others require years, and that some few are
as incurable by water as by any other known remedy.