The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-09-05 00:00:00

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tor an outlet on the ctrtir. By this resolve the domineering
influences that seek to ruin one company for the fancied gain
of another will receive a check from which they may
be glad to recoil without personal disgrace. It will
be seen by the documents issued by the directors,
that the board, in conjunction with a committee of
consultation, have dec:ded on extricating the undertaking from
its difficuhies, and from its isolated condition, by converting it
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into a section of a vigorous trunk line. The proprietors Cave
readily adopted the suggestion, and given earnest of their pur-
pose by subscribing to the extended undertaking. Not only
is the original purpose of connecting the line with the little
North Western to be carried into effect, but an effort is to be
made to obtain an independent entrance into Manchester by
way of Radcliffe and Cheetham-hill, a district described as
"teeming with traffic in passengers, merchandise, and mine-
rals." There is another advantage attending this new route to
Manchester from the north. The district is totally unoccupied.
After explicitly stating his conviction that the Blackburn could
not possibly derive any advantage from its past engagements
with the Lancashire and Yorkshire, the chairman observed, in
relation to the extension from Bolton to Cheethatn-hill

"He was quite certain that the time had come for them to
rise up and defend themselves, by getting a separate entrance
into the city of Manchester, which their property had a right
to claim, and in which claim the districts through which they
proposed to pass would support them before parliament. Parts
of the proposed route wore valuable districts, not possessing at
present any railway accommodation. They would not interfere
with the traffic of any other railway. They sought to go through
a country which was unoccupied by any other railway, and did
not wish to compete for traffic. It was no object of theirs to run
down the property of their neighbour, but to support their own."
Facts such as these disarm complaint, and show that sound
business principles have not given place to reckless retaliation.
We do not fear the opposition of the Lancashite and Yorkshire ;
its friendship in this matter will be much more dangerous.
There may, at the latest moment, •be offers of
compromise. The soft sawder of the London and
North Western to the North Staffordshire may be
imitated ; to be followed, of course, by repudiation, or
something approaching to it at the most critical period. The
Blackburn board is not without experience iu such tender
expressions and their results; and, if it is determined to
prosecute the extension, it ought to announce, in the strongest
possible language, that no compromise will be listened to—
that independence must and shall be established. It is dis-
tinctly announced that negociations are broken off—that even
hope is at an end; but there is no saying what a surprising
offer may effect. A working arrangement, a lease amalgama-
tion, subject of course to a proprietorial or parliamentary
contingencies, may be suggested at the eleventh hour. Arbiters
may interpose their good offices ; bills may be recommended
to be withdrawn ; and an apparent reciprocity established
only to be broken up when danger from parliament is
evaded, and public confidence shaken 1

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to horse riding, shooting, cricketing, or any other exercise
that causes full circulation at 4 moisture, it is invaluable,
as ,the garments made waterproof by this new process
admit free exhalation, and, at the same time, impervious to
water.