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London, England, 1839-04-12 00:00:00

1 TOWN HALL, MANCHESTER, Arms. 9, 1831.
ANCHESTER AND BIRNIINGH AM
,MANCHESTER
EXTENSION RAILWAY.—At a numerous and
"y influential MEETING of the Bankers, Merchants,
Traders, and other Inhabitants of Manchester, convened by the
Boroughreeve and Constables, in pursuance of a requisition
signed by 319 of the leading Firms and Inhabitants of the town,
hand held this day " to take ii to consideration the best mode of
et2g effect to the resolutions passed at a general meeting of
inhabitants convened by the then Boroughreeve and Con-
stables, and held on the ?6th day of April last, pledging the
town of Manchester to give its support to an application to
Parliament in the present Session for an Act to authorize the
t Rconstruction of the Manchester and Birmingham Extension
ailway
THOMAS EVANS, Esq., Boroughreeve, in the Chair;
it It was resolved—
`-'4 the motion of SAMUEL FLETCHER, Esq. ; seconded by
RICHARD BIRLEY, Esq..
That this Meeting, fully sensible of the value of the interests
of this town and neighbourhood of the proposed Manchester
and Birmingham Extension Railway, and entirely approving of
the resolutions in support of the undertaking which were passed
tt heardw Public Meeting held in this Hall in April last, and having
Whichih surprise and regret of the extraordinary opposition
Which the measure is receiving in Parliament, namely, from
Railway and Canal Companies, does hereby approve
of and adopt the petition now read.*
On the motion of JAMES BURT, Esq. ; seconded .
Ilit.ansirAw, Jun., Esq.,
That such petition, signed by the Chairman on behalf of
fthe,Meeting, be forwarded te the Right Hon. C. P. Thomson
,Pr immediate presentation, with a request to him, in consitlera-
,!nn of the peculiar circumstances of the case, to call the atten-
-3o?!ou of the House to the subject ; and that a copy of the peti-
nbe sent to the County Members,—to Mark Philips, Esq. ;
n
,c4cldorou t Brotherton, Esq. ; and the Members for the other
ghs within the County, and that they be severally re-
Vested to support the
prayer of the petition.
un the motion of JAMES CONSTERDINE, Esq.,; seconded by
Wu. WANKLYIC, Jun., Esq.,
That a Committee be formed to co-operate with the promo-
ter of the Bill, to adopt such measures in support of it, either
ea tt to
ea
deee Pto or otherwise, as they shall see fit; such Com-
te their cuen_sist of the follow:ng gentleman, with power to add
The u number :
Boronghreeve and Con Robert Barbour, Esq.
stables.
Rupert Ingleby, Esq.
Samuel Fletcher, Esq. John Hargreaves, Esq.
Richard Birley, Esq. Hugh Beaver, Esq.
John Hyde, Es
James Co nsterdln• e, Esq. Henry M'Connell, Esq.
George Peel, Esq.
Johnl3radshaw,jun , Esq' Wm. Harter, Esq.
Robert Gardner, isq•
On the motion of ROBERT BARBOUR, Esq. ; seconded by
to That this meeting G. PEEL, E,q.,
:inrinent,aitia:ethetheq deprecates the attempt which is . making
comparative
so long the subject of discussion both
_ ongst the inhabitants of this town and district and in Parlia-
gadZi; advantages of a main line of rail-
through the town of Macclesfield, or by the course
of the Manchester and Birmingham Railway, by way of Con-
7ainngd this meeting records its entire approval of the route
ciPted, after full inquiry befote a Committee of the House of
°rts, namely, that by Congleton ; and its conviction thatd
hems •
bagitation of the Macclesfield question has been instigated
ii:rY some of the_publie Companies already referred to, merely to
teease the Parliamentary difficulties and expenses of the
eo__,nsior.l Company, and without either any serious purpose of
'minding the line, or, as this meeting believes, any means of
doing so.

q J O.N

(Sih reevd) gne THOMAS EVANS, Chairman,
tho Senior Consta
The Bormage havt•ng vacated, and George Wood, Esq.,
resolved
ble, being called to the Chair, it was further
On the motion of ROBERT OGDEN, SH Esq. ; seconded by Titos.
ARP, Esq.
That the best thanks of the Meeting be given to the Borough-
reeveA and Constables for their promptitude in convening this
leeting, and to Mr
chair. . Evans for his efficient services in the

( Signed)

GEORGE WOOD.

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0 THE
The follg is the Petition referred to :
1 HONOURABLE THE COMMONS OF THE
UNITED KING
IRELANDDO OF GREAT BRITAIN AND
The Petition of IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED.
the Bankers, Merchants, Manufacturers, and
Traders, of the Town of Manchester, assembled in Public
Meeting, this present Tuesday, the 9th of April, 1839,
That
HUMBLY SHOWETIT,—
application has been made to your Honourable House
aßailfor leave to bring in a Bill to authorize the construction of a
way from Stone to Rugby, under the title of " The Man-
chester and Birmingham Extension Railway."
That in the opinion of this Meeting, the intended Railway is
calculated to serve essentially the interests of this town ind
neighbourhood, as affording the shortest and best communica-
tion to and from Manchester and the manufacturing districts
of Lancashire, and the metropolis.
That auxiliary to the great object of securing to this district
1 the readiest access to London, the intended line will also afford
1 a Railway communication between Manchester and the whole
of the Eastern District, including the towns of Derby, Newark,
and Nottingham.
That these advantages will be secured by means of a Rail-
',ay which, it is believed, considering its length, is not exceeded
lii engineering properties and general excellence by any line of
Railway, either constructed or projected, in this country.
That your Petitioners need not impress upon your Honourable
Rouse the fact that the commercial prosperity of the vast trad-
ing community of and round Manchester will be M
greatly tooted by the utmost facilities of communication being afforded
With the various parts of the kingdom, and especially with
London, so that the manufactures of this, the great work-shop
of England, may continue to afford employment to our popula-
tion, and that in the march of trading competition the capital
and enterprise of the district may have fair and free exercise.
That, in putting forward a claim to these advantages, your
retitioners are only seeking for that which their townsmen and
neighbours, wile those who are interested in the welfare of the
town, are willing, out of their own resources, to accomplish, if
foe
be pleased to grant to them the necessary powers
or that purpose.
That the town of Manchester is almost alone in not having
!,already obtained its own direct line,—(.ther towns, not possess-
,igeither the like extent of population, trade, or capital, having
approaching
respective Railways to London, either in present use or
NI tehl.ng to completion ; and, amongst the towns so situated,
3-_,,,,petitioners may name Liverpool, Birmingham, Leeds,
'illti_ and Southampton.
the
11" notwithstanding the justice of placing Manchester. and
riraieitintiitoeyi/hubouring towns (which form, in fact, part of its aeonc°m-
the like footing in reference to Railway commu-
pic, 4 various other towns that have been named, your
bow"'loners find with surprise and regret that the application
Making to your Honourable House has been met with an
and
position of the most extraordinary (indeed, in its character
41.__ezetent your Petitioners believe of an unprece.dentefd) kind,me. 1.47 h line is an opposition, not upon the question othe
trl:leot the ,or the right of 31auchester to its possession, but,
heie r the pretence of objections of form, to prevent. the
tßille
ye_ g brought at all into the House, and stop inquiry at h
very threshold.
de hat the Standing Orders of your Honourable House (an-
ele. present construction of which any parties,
h 5 no interest or property in the line, are
permitted to be
be.tr„ d before the Selectfor Private
though hav-
.nus complaining
this made the means of delaying, from the 22d of February to
Orders) have
thets •!; !n e , and may even yet further delay, the introduction of
he .ill huo your Honourable House, the promoters having
roun,darnteiorne toefcwh
1,: engaged in a contest of enormous cost upon, for the most
have been inquired into b
hniicehal,mquaeystions, the character of which, and. . thes
Of which 46, three w
...negations, 46 only of h.
befeoerestismneahtecdobinymthitetefeacetotnhtaatinpie:gi.ti4osn,
that even of
the nu b are duplicate objections, and .
ich have been successlly entertained,
m er sustained scarcely any affect the properties of the
complaining parties.
Z_That the opposition is in fact whatever it may be in name,
.:. opposition of combined RailwaY and Canal Companies to de-
4°that an undertaking calculated, a.s the think, to ith
h'l,.Monopoly which they are interested in upholdinginterfere andw th e
..:.°4le in uprooting ; and thus the London and Birmingham, the
c 1 Junction, and the Midland Counties Railway Companies,
i,''n the Trent and Mersey and other Canal Companies, have
'e'en the real parties before the Committee, and not the Land-
Thaterawhose interest they affected to protect.
per,,,,..: your Petitioners believe that the promoters of the Bill, if
ho.`"%ted to lay their case before the House, will be enabled to
1.,81,,w tau cone of these Companies have any just ground of com-
;„Vit against the undertaking, and as to one of them in parti-
• "'ars that the opposition of that Company need not have been
Zhtectirrecl, but, on the contrary, its co-operation. would have
en secured, ,if the promoters
in of the Extension Line had con-
rled to sacrifice the prciple of competition which an inde-
ldent line will secure, and which they deem it to be the
41r right of the public to require.
/oThat your Petitioners conceive that the Standing Orders of
ur Honourable House were intended for the protection of
hindowners, and . not as an instrument of oppression and
p..4assing opposition to a great public measure byH combined
that mniPan • and they respectfully represent to your on.house
to theyiesshall deem. it to be a hardship and injustice to the
v,,,n of Manchester if such an opposrietioionfobremeadllotwhoetdottoe pre-
e especially as your Petitionersb
It ings before the Committee int this case have satisfied many,
'clistomed to act on such
.Co.mmittres,
t„not all those Members of your HontobuartaablleiteHraoluesoemwphboanaeree
their being
fleeted in them with a view to
vth the Standing Orders is impossible, and
.that a change must
o,lexiing, and to put an end to the right
Th., as operated
- wnich h so grievously iii.thitshiens
jMusntcieee.
nos) "` Your petitioners fully confide in of your
„aurable House, and pray— .
may be permitted kb:,llat leave may be given to bring in the
rßmililttreedlattoinig)astso
a itwellailway, and that the same intothe
. "ring the present St—sion.

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