The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-12-24 00:00:00

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THE DIRECTORS of the CHESTER and BIR-
-1 KENIIEAD RAILWAY intend, at the Special
Meeting of the Proprietors to be held at the Clarendon-
rooms, South John-street, Liverpool, on the 31st day of
December instant, to submit, before proceeding to busi-
ness, a Re...notion that the Meeting be adjourned until
Tuesday the 14th d.iy of January next, at Twelve o'clock
let noon, at :he same place.
Important reasons induce the Directors to adopt this
comae, as most conducive to the interests of the Com-
pany.

WILLIAM JACKSON, Chairman.
Birkenhead, 23rd LI, ce,,ber, 1844.

A T a NIEETINg of the WATCH COMMITTEE,
1Z held this 14th day of December, 1844,
PrtvsE NT
Alderman DAVID HODGSON,, Chairman, &c. &c. &c.
Resolved,
That this Cotnmittee prohibit any one of the CON-
STABULARY FORCE from, either directly or indi-
rectly, est; ing tor, or receiving "C H STMA ROX PS"
from any Person whatever, on pain of INSTANT DIS-
M ISSA L from the Service.
Resolved also,
That in order to give the greatest publicity to this
Re..olotion, it be advertised once in each of the Liverpool
Newspapers, and Notices thereof printed and posted up
at all the Po!ice Office 4, Stations, and Bridewells, and
that the Superintendents be directed to read these Reso-
lutions in the presence of the whole Force.
Extracted from the Proceedings,
CAPES ASHLLN, secretary.

PORT OP T.TATR.RPOOL.
NOTICE.
THE owners of and the masters and commanders em-
ployed on hoard the ships and vessels belonging to
persons residing at this port, are required to MEET at
twelve o'clock at noon, on FRIDAY, the 27th day of De.
rember instant, at the Underwriters' Committee Room,
Exchange-buildings. in Liverpool aforesaid, the day ap-
minted by us, the undersigned, being owners and mas-
ters and commanders of ships and vessels belonging to
Persons residing at this port, pursuant to an Act passed
in the fourth and fifth years of his late Majesty's reign,
intitulrd " An Art to amend an Act of the twentieth Sear
of his Majesty King George the Second, for the relief
and support of sick, maimed, and disabled Seamen, and
the Widows and Children of such as shall be killed, slain,
or drowned in the Merchants' Service, and for otherpnr-
noses," to nominal, and Appoint Fifteen Persons to be
Trustees for Receiving, Collecting, ai‘d Applying the
Monthly Money or Deities payable at this Port, under
~rid by virtue of the said Act, and for the managemenS of
he Seamen's Ilesoilal at this Port.--Dated this 14th day
of December, 1844.
ROBERT RANKIN, WM. 'ROTHERAM.
J. NELSON WOOD, I WM. R. SANDBACII,
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WM. POTTER. JAMES M'AULAY
GEO. KENDALL, JAMES RITSON, ,
JAMES TYRER, JAMES BECKETT.
THOMAS ALLEN,
Secretary of the Trustees of the S-aman's Flosp:tsl.

WHITEHAVEN A 1715Tu
RAILWAY,
(Provisionally Reyisterf-d as required by the Act of 7
and 8 Victoria, Cap. 110.)

CA PITAL ,000,
n 17,500 Shares of £2O each.£3so Deposit £1 per Share.

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The EARL Of LONSDALE.
The EARL of BURLINGTON.
Matthias Attwood, Esq., NI.P,
William Ormsby Gore, Esq., M.P. •
Edward Stanley, Esq., M.P.
Samuel Irtun, E.q M.P.
Alderman Thompson, M.P.
Major-General Wyndham, Cockertnouth Castle.
Thomas Irwin, Esq., Calder Abbey.
F. L. B. Dykes, Esq., Chairman of the Maryport and
Carlisle Railway Company.
Matthew Plummer, Esq.. Chairman of the Newcastle
and Carlisle Railway Company.
John Peile. Esq., Vice-Chairman of the Whitehaven
Junction Railway Company.
Benjamin Curry, Esq., Palace-yard, Westminster.
!Imams Ainsworth, Esq., The Flash, Cleator.
John Wilson Fl tcher, Esq., Greysouthen.
Jos. Youn hussand, Esq , Ellerslie, Gusforth.
Henry Jefferson, Esq., Whitehaven.
Peter Fisher, Esq., Whitehav, n.
Samuel Linilow, Esq , Cleator.
George Pew, Esq., R.N., Whitehaven.
Rowland Pennington, Esq., Whitehaven.
George • uckham, Esq., Whitehaven.
Dickinson Birkett, Esq., Whitehaven.
James Clay, Esq., Bury-street, St. James's, London.
St-phen Phillips, Esq., 2, New Broad-street.
itichard Till. Esq., Guildhall-buildings.
With power •0 add to their number.

ENGINEER. __.-..
George Stephenson, Esq.
BANKERS.
The Whitehaven Joint Stock Ba k. Whitebaven.
Messrs. Spooner, Attorood, and Co., London.
rile London Joint Stock Bank, London.

SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Roy, Blunt, Johnstone, and Waltrn, Lothbury,
London.
Messrs. Armistead and Musgrave, Whitehaven.

THE object of the proposed Undertaking is the con-
struction of a Railway from the Town and Port of
Whitehaven, in Cureber:and, to join the Furness Railway
in North 1 ancashire, now in progress of formation, and
eventually to extend the same by way of Ulverston to
Lancaster.
The proposed Line will he nearly Thirty-two Miles in
length, commencing at Whitehaven, to which Town a
continuous line of Railway communication from New-
castle, Carlisle, and Maryper: is nearly completed, and
extending from Whiteheven Southwards by way of Saint
Bees. Netherto vn, G. sfor,h, Drigg, Ravenglass, 80. tle,
Wni'beck, a d Whichain, to Millom, and thence across
the Estuary of the Duddon, forming a Junction with the
Furness Railway, near Ireleth, and thence by the latter
Railway to the Shipping Ports of Pie! and Barrow, with
a Bran :h to Ulverston. The Steam B nits from Fumess
to Fleetwood will furnish a direct communication with
all tl a great Railvp ys in England.
The Rai'way will p ,ss thiough a Country rich in Agri-
cultural and Mineri Productions, the district being sin-
gularly favourable for its construction ; affording a cheap
and easy transit to good Marke!s, and to one of the best
and safest Harbours in the North of England; and by
means of it the great Coal District around Whitehaven,
which is only second in importance to the Newcastle and
Sunderland Collieries, will be made available for manu-
facturing and other purposes throughout the whole extent
of the Line where Coals ate now extravagantly dear.
It is proposed to purchase land sufficient for a double
Line of Railway, and to construct the bridges according!),
but until the traffic is fully developed, to lay down a sin-
gle line only : ano Mr. Stephenson has satisfied the Com-
mittee that the cost will not exceed the sum of £lO,OOO
per mile.
The existing Traffic has been carefully taken at dif-
ferent Stations between Whitehaven and Ulverston by
experienced local parties ; and from their returns it ap-
pears that the following is a very moderate Estimate of
the income likely to accrue to the Railway from such
Traffic, viz.:—
Passengers
£10,760
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Add the usual railway increase.... 10,760
Coal. Lime, Slate, Iron Ore, Mer-
chandize, &c..

12,358

Deduct One-third, the usual al-
£33,878
lowance fur Working Expenses..

11,292

Leaves ........ £22,586
Being a Return of nearly Six and a Half per Cent.
upon the proposed Capital of £350,000.
This return has been made without any calculation of
the large addition certain to be made to the traffic by the
transit of Pas,engers and Goods from Scotland into Cum-
berland and Lancashire, as well as from the Furness
Railway, connected as that Line is with the extensive
Iron Mines and Slate Quarries of the Duke of Buccleuch
and the Earl of Burlington, a portion of the products
whereof will naturally be drawn upon this Line for Ship-
ment at Whi,ehaven, to Scotland, and the North of
Ireland.
The Promoters of this undertaking have the satisfac-
tion of announcing that it is horn ured With the sanction,
and has the promise of cordial 8(4.p -ft, from all the
Noble Owners of those large Materal Estates previously
referred to. and from the principal Landowners along the
Line. And they have also the gratification of being as-
sured of the entire co-op.eation of the several Railway
Companies of which this Lineforms the count cling Link
between West Cumberland and the great Manufacturing
Districts of I ngland and Scotland.
The preliminary measurer have been taken to secure an
Act of Parliament in the ensuing session, and as the dis-
trict to be traversed is almost a continual level, there is
every reason, under Mr. Stephenson's superintendence,
to rely on the speedy completion of the Work.
It is proposed to raise the required capital in. 17,500
Shares, of £2O each. A Depcs't of £1 per Share is re-
quired to be paid prior to the Billgoing before Parliament,
in compliance with the Standing Orders, but no Wither
Call will he made until the Act of Parliament is obtained;
after which Three Months' interval will e'apse between the
Cells, none of which will exceed £3 per Share.
Tee Bill will contain all usual and proper Provisions
for limiting the liability of each Shareholder to the
amount of his Shares only.
Prospectuses to be bad of, end application for Shares
to be made to Mr. JOHN MEYER, Secretary, pro /fin,
3, Guildhall-buildings, London; to the respective solici-
tors in London or Whitehaven ; to any member of the
Provisional Committee ; c r to
WILLIAM DOWSON and SON,
8, Goree-piazza, Liverpool.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisiona Committee of the
Whitehaven and Furness 3 unction Railway.
Gentlemen,

I recoest the you will ajlre

,hares, of £2O each, in
he Capital of t propsed Wtebaven and Furness
Junction Railway; and In
hereby
hereby undertake to accept the
same, or such lesser number of Shares as may be
t+llut,ed
to me, and to pay the deposit thereon, and sigh the sub.
scrihers'-agreement and Parliamentary Contract, when
required.
Dated this

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