The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-12-31 00:00:00

THE FHREWSBURY, OSWESTRY, & CHESTER
JUNCTION RAILWAY.

Provisionally Registered as required by the Act of 7th
and Bth Victoria, cap. 110.
CAPITAL, £400,000, IN 20.000 SHARES OP £2O EACH.
DEPOSIT, £1 PER SHARE.

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
W. 0. Gore, Esq., M.P., Porkington.
Townshend Mainwaring, Esq., M.P., Marchwiel Hall.
Sir J. R. Kynaston, Baronet, Hardwicke.
T. N. Parker. Esq., Sweeny.
Rev. C. A. A. Lloyd, Esq., Whittington.
Edward Harvey Lloyd, Esq., Aston.
Robert Roy, Esq., Brymbo Hall.
J. B. Ross, Esq., Edinburgh.
J. V. Loam., Esq., Belmont.
Thomas Penson, Esq., Oswestry.
The Rev. S. Donne, Oswestry.
Peploe Cartwright, Esq., Oswestry.
John Jones, Esq., Oswestry.
The Rev.• John Loxmoore, Llanymynecb.
Thomas 'Lovett, Esq., Fernhill.
Edward Tench, jun., Esq., Ruabon.
David Harrison, Esq., Stalybridge.
Geo. Madkintosh, Esq., 27, Upper Seymour-st., London.
Adam Duff, Esq., Blackheath.
Charles Wardell, Esq., 43, Westbourne-terrace, London.
Charles Heathcote Smith, Esq., 10, Melcombe-place,
Dorset-square, London.
William Forbes, Esq., 10, Gray's-inn-square, London.
Sir S. Walker, Chester.
Thomas Dixon, Esq., Chester.
John Williams, Esq.. Chester.
John Rogers, Esq., Chester.
William Brown, Esq., Chester.
John ,Rovle, Esq., Chester.
William Wardell, Esq., Chester.
(With power to add to their number.)
'RANKERS.
Messrs. Dixon and Wardell, Chester.
The London Joint Stock Bank.
The London and Westminster Bank.
ENGINEER.
Henry Robertson, Esq.
-SOLICITOR.
Mr. Kelsall, Chester.

"HIS Railway will 'form a continuation of 'the North
Wales Mineral Railway, and will complete the direct
aline of Railway from Shrewsbury to Chester; it will con-
nect the important towns of Shrewsbury and.Oswestry,
and the adjacent rich and populous districts in the neigh-
bourhood of Newtown and Welshpool, withthe Mineral
fields of North Wales and with Chester; by the Birken-
head Railway with Liverpool and the projectedqlocks at
Birkenhead; by means of the Holyhead Railway with the coast of North Wales and with Ireland; and by the
contemplated Railway from Chester to Preston-brook,
with Manchester and•the manufacturing districts of Lan.
cashire and Yorkshire, and the North of England. To
the South, it will afford the means of communication from
the districts which have been enumerated, with-the south-
ern and western counties of England and Wales.
It is a line called for by the local wants of the country
through which it passes, and is not a competing line with
any existing Railway.
The length of line itt,2.31 miles ; and to connect Chester
and Shrewsbury by any other line (without making use of
existing Railways) will injure the construction of more
than 36 miles of railway, and that over an agricultural
district thinly populated.

The existing passenger and goods traffic is,very consi-
derable ; and the mineral traffic in coal, lime, slaves, stone
for building purposes, and also in timber, is,very great,
and must largely increase, when a railway is constructed.
The traffic in general goods, from Bristol and Birming-
ham on the one side, and Manchester and Liverpool 'on
the other, towards the ,central districts of Wales, to
rexham, Ruabon, •Llangollen, Ruthin, Oswestry,
"Welshpool, Newtown, Bala, Dolgelly, and all parts of
Montgomeryshire, Merionethshire, and Denbighshire, is
1.-very extensive, and must•be carried along this line.
The cost of construction•will be moderate, as the coun-
,-try abounds in materials of the best description. There
:are only two points of the line where the vrorksere of an
ezpensive description—tbe,-crossing of the Dee and the
Ceriog—but including thine, the cost of the line, taking
into account the whole length, will be below an average.
,Application for Shares, on,•or before the 6th oflanuary
.next, to be made to
Mr. KELSALL, Solicitor, Chester ;
Mr. SCARTH, Solicitor. Shrewsbury;
Mr. EDGWORTU, Solicitor, Wrexham;
And Mr. THOMAS Linz, Oswestry.
And parties applying must state their names and ad-
dresses in full.