The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-09-09 00:00:00

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THE STAFFORDSHIRE POTTERIES, AND
LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER
DIRECT RAILWAY,
PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED.
CAPITAL
DEPOSIT £21
12 965. ,
6d. per SHARE.000 SHARES of X 25 each

PROVISIONfrr COMMITTEE.
Wm. Ackerley, Esq., Wigan Director of the Liverpool

and Leeds Direct Railway.
William Ascroft, Esq., Bury, Director of the Liverpool

. .
and Leeds Direct Railway
Thomas Landord Brooke, Esq., Mere Hall, Cheshire.
Joseph Brown, Esq., London. Director of the London
and Birmingham Extension, and of the Oxford, South-
ampton, Gosport, and Portsmouth Railways
Thomas Byrom, Esq., Alderman, Wigan, Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds Direct, of the Manchester and
Wigan, and of the Liverpool, Preston, and North
Union J unction Railways.
William Lloyd Birkbeck, Esq„ 10, Gloucester-road,
Hyde Park, London, Director of the Liverpool, Man-
chester. and Great North of England Union Railway
Thomas Dixon Burrow, Esq., Settle, 'Yorkshire.
Joseph Bull, Esq., Iron Master, Manchester, of the firm
of Horton, Sims, and Bull, Manchester
William Caldwell, Esq., Alderman, Ince Hall, Wigan,
Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
The Mayor of Congleton
Richard Carpenter, Esq., J.P. for the County of Middle-
sex, and Deputy Chairman of the Warwick and Wor-
cester Railway
Richard T. Deane, Esq., Knutsford
John Dewhurst, Esq., Preston, Director of the Preston
and Wyre, and Liverpool, Preston, and North Union
Junction Railways
Colonel Robert Douglass, United Service Club, Director
of the Warwick and Worcester Railway
Henry Hill Eckersley, Esq., Mobberley, Cheshire
John Edwards, Esq., Chester
Captain Fisher, Junior United Service Club, Director of
the Manchester and Birmingham Continuation and
Welsh Junction, and Liverpool, Preston, and North
Union Junction Railways
Robert Fisher, Esq., Highbury Park, London, Director
of the Trent Valley Continuation, and Liverpool, Pres-
ton, and North Union Junction Railways
R. G. Fellowe, Esq., Hoole, Preston, Director of the Li-
verpool, Preston, and North Union Junction Railway
William Foster, Esq., Settle
James German Fisher, Esq., Preston
James Giles, Esq., The Elms, Lancaster
Peter Greenall, Esq., M.P.
Joseph Gilham, Esq., Hargreaves House, Oldham, Di-
rector of the Birkenhead and Holyhead Junction Rail-

way.
John Holford, Esq.. Rusholme Hall, Manchester, Di-
rector of the Liverpool, Preston, and North Union
Junction Railway
George Holt, Esq., Willow-hill, Crumsall, Lancashire,
Director of the Liverpool, Preston, and North Union
Junction Railway.
John Douglas Hopkins, Esq., Bedford-square, London
Director of the London and Birmingham Extension
Railway
Thomas Ingleby, Esq., Lawkland Hall, Settle, York-
shire, Director of the North Western, of the Clitheroe
Junction, of the Manchester, Liverpool, and Great
North of England Union, and of the Liverpool and
Leeds Direct Railways
Joseph Bulkeley Johnson, Esq., of Liverpool and Mort-
lake House, Cheshire
Frederick L. Jones, Esq., Lincoln's Inn, London, Di-
rector of the London and Birmingham Extension Rail-

way
John Lord, Esq., Standish Hall, Wizan, Director of the
Blackburn, Chorley, Wigan, and North Union Junc-
tion, and of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railways
John Long, Esq., Brook [louse, Knutsford
Dona'd Maclean, Esq., Brunswick-square, London,
Deputy Chairman of the Trent Valley Continuation
Railway
T. Oliver Anderdon, Esq., Q.C., Lincoln's Inn, London
Harry Mainwaring, Esq., Peover Hall, Cheshire
Thomas Morris, Esq., Fairhurst Hall, near Wigan, and
Brunswick Villa, Southport. Director of the Blackburn,
Chorley, and North Union Junction, and of the Liver-
pool, Preston, and North Union Junction Railways
Christopher Morris, Esq.. Wigan, Director of the Liver-
pool and Leeds Direct Railway
Peter Morrison, Esq., Princes-street Bank, London, Di-
rector of the Britannia Life Insurance Company
John Overend, Esq., Bentham, Yorkshire.
Jeptha Pacey, Esq., Polygon, Manchester
James B. Pender, Esq., Director of the Birkenhead and
Holyhead Junction, and Edinburgh and Peebles Rail-

ways
Cornelius Randall, Esq., Director of the Sheffield and
Manchester, and of the Manchester South Junction
and Altrincham Railways, and Chairmanof the Birken-
head and Holyhead Junction.
Frederick Ramsden, Esq., Seymour House, Old Trafford,
Director of the Birkenhead and Holyhead Junction,
and of the Liverpool, Preston, and North Union Junc-
tion Railways
Thomas Redmayne, Esq., Taitlands, near Settle, a Di-
rector of the North Western, Clitheroe Junction, Man-
chester and Liverpool and Great North of England
Union, and Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railways
Joseph
Sloane,
Esq., Knutsford
William Sloane, Esq., Great Wimpole-street, London,
Director of the Trent Valley Continuation Railway
Lee Porcher Townshend, Esq., Wincham Hall, Cheshire
Henry Taylor, Esq., Alderman, Wigan, Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds Direct, of the Manchester and
Wigan, and of the Liverpool, Preston, and North
Union Junction Railways
John Thompson. Esq., Wigan, Director of the Liverpool,
Preston, and North Union Junction, and Birkenhead
and Holyhead Junction Railways
James Upton, Esq., Oakey Lodge, Sedburgh, Director
of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Raiway
Thomas Waring, Esq., Sedburgh, Director of the Liver-
pool and Leeds Direct Railway
Sir William Wynn, Chairman of the North Wales Rail-
way, and Director of the Oxford, Southampton, Gos•
port, and Portsmouth Railway
W. Wood, Esq., M.D., Chetwynd House, Newport, Sa-
lop, Director of the Shropshire Mineral, of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire, of the Hud-
dersfield and Sheffield, and the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct Railways
Henry Wright, Esq., Brunswick-square, London, Direc-
tor of the London and Birmingham Extension Railway
(With power to add to their number.)

ENGINFERS.
Messrs. Gandell and Brunton.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. J. and T. Roscoe, Knutsford.
LOCAL SOLICITORS.
Staffordshire Potteries.—John Adams Stephenson, Esq.
Stoke-upon-Trent.
Manchester.—William Burdett, Esq.
BANKERS.

London—
Birmingham—Messrs. Taylor and Lloyd.
Liverpool—The Union Bank of Liverpool.
Manchester—The Union Bank of Manchester
Stafford—The Manchester and Liverpool District Bank.
Staffordshire Potteries and Newcastle—The Manchester
and Liverpool District Bank.
Northwich—Northwich Bank.
Wigan—Messrs. Thomas Woodcock and Sons, Wigan
Bank
Birkenhead—North and South Wales Bank.

THIS line of railway will commence at a point on the
Grand Junction Railway, at Stafford, and passing
from thence by Stone, Lane End. Fenton, Stoke-upon-
Trent, Shelton, Hanley, Burslem, and Tunstall, to Con-
gleton, it will proceed by Knutsford to Altrincham, where
it will join the South Junction Railway to Manchester,
an act for which has been obtained ; and from Congleton
by Northwich to Preston-Brook, where it will communi-
cate with the Grand Junction Railway, and proceed
thence to Liverpool. A branch from Stoke-upon-Trent,
by Newcastle to Crewe, affording accommodaiton to the
Silverdale and Apedale Ironworks, will connect the main
line with the important railways meeting at that point,
and give the shortest possible route from the Potteries to
Chester, Holyhead and Birkenhead. A branch will con-
nect the towns of Congleton and Macclesfield. A com-
munication will thus be opened from those places, and
from the salt district of Cheshire, on the one hand to
Liverpool ; and on the other to Manchester, the ports on
the Humber, and the eastern coast of England, and will
thus afford a great additional market for the produce of
the district, and facilitate the foreign trade from those
coasts.
An inspection of the map will show the importance of
the line of country proposed to be accomodated by means
of this railway • and some of the advantages attending it
will be as follow :
The Pottery district alone contains an immense popula-
tion, and the whole of that district is at present without
railway accommodation. The importance of the Pottery
trade is too manifest to require a moment's comment ;
and the principal part of that trade being connected with
Liverpool, it is highly important, in a national point of
view, that every facility should be given to the communi-
cation betwixt those parts. In no line of railway at pre-
sent formed or projected has the interest of the Pottery
district, as a whole been duly considered ; but by the pre-
sent line it is intended to afford accommodation to every
town in the district, and to give the best and most direct
communication betwixt the Potteries and Chester, Birken-
head and Liverpool, and also through Manchester,with the
ports on the Humber and the east coast of England, thus
affording facilities for a revival of the trade with Holland,
Belgium, and Germany, which, it is believed, will be at-
tended with important results to the future trade of the
Potteries.
The important manufacturing towns of Congleton and
Macclesfield, with their districts, containing also a very
large population, have likewise been, in a great measure,
overlooked in the railway arrangements hitherto carried
out ; and it is proposed by this railway to afford commu-
nication from those places by existing and projected
routes to the South of England, and to Liverpool, Man-
chester, Chester, Birkenhead, North Wales, and the
whole of the North and East of England and Scotland.
The proposed line of railway will afford facilities to the
coal districts of Staffordshire, Cheshire, and South Lan-
cashire. especially accommodating the large coal field
at Biddulph ; and will tend materially to reduce the cost
of that article in the country through which the line is in-
tended to pass.
The shortest and most direct route will be afforded by
existing and projected routes from Southampton, Bir-
mingham, and the whole of South Staffordshire, through
, the Potteries to the salt districts and the North of Eng-
land ; and the facilities of communication from the coun-
try intersected by this line to Liverpool, Birkenhead,
Manchester. Chester, North Wales, and all parts of the
North and East of England, and to London, Southamp-
. ton, Birmingham, and South Staffordshire, and all parts