The Sun.
London, England, 1830-09-28 00:00:00

NEW RAIL-ROAM

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The Arlield iris, of Tuesday last, contains
among its advertisements an outline of a Rail-
road from Sheffield to Goole. Already a Com
pany had proposed a Rail-road from Sheffield to
Manchester, through the mountainous, lime-
stone, and other mineral districts of Derbyshire,
and thence alon the magnificent Railway from
Manchester to the port of Liverpool, thus pro-
posing new and admirable' facilities for the inter-
change of the coal of Yorkshire for'the eVeellent
limestone of Derbyshire, and, as compared with
the turnpike roads to the district, for the quick
and easy and economical conveyance to the ac-
customed port, of the goods manufactured for
the American branch of the Sheffield trade.

The following are among the advantages to
he derived from the Rail-road from Sheffield to
Goole:

" The practicability anti economy of a Rail-
way communication over the mountains of
Derbyshire having been ascertained, the atten-
tion of the merchants of Sheffield and Rother-
ham, and of the inhabitants of the West Riding
of Yorkshire, was naturally directed to the obVious
and great advantages which the level and popu-
lous and highly cultivated vale of the Dun pos-
sesses over the elevated and thinly peopled
wastes of Derbyshire. It was at once seen that
if such a bulky and heavy material as limestone
could, by the application of the principles deve-
loped in the late interesting experiments, be eco-
nomically transmitted over the sterile mountains
• of Derbyshire, it might, with a much smaller ex-
penditure of capital, and with a comparatively
trifling consumption of power, be conveyed to
every part of the level expanse of country on
each side of the Dun. It was perceived that not
only the rich clay and loam of the West Riding,
but the sands of the East Riding of Yorkshire
and of Nottinghamshire, and the Salt Marshes
of Lincolnshire, might, by, the operation of this
new adaptation of science, in supplying the lime-
stone of Derbyshire, at a comparatively trifling
expense, and to any extent, be cultivated and
rendered fruitful, in a degree, the very idea of
which would previously have been regarded as
visionary.
" It could not escape the notice of the owner
and occupieis of estates on the east coast of
Yorkshire, and along the course of the Trent in
Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire—those fertile
lands which abound in every kind of riches, ex-
cept mineral iches—that if the new step in the
march of science, which is arresting the attention
of the most exalted and noble personages in the
Empire, would enable the inhabitants of the
elevated moors of Derbyshire to enjoy the com-
forts of cheap coal fires, it would no less sub-
serve their own comforts by reducing to a mini-
mum the cost of this indispensable article—the
demand for which is universal and unlimited, but
the cost of which, although 'consisting almost
entirely of the expense. of transit, was, previous
to the late important improvements in mecha-
nical science, equivalent in many cases to a pro-
hibition, and the consumption of which was, in
every case, by the operation of the same cause,
limited to the smallest 'possible quantity.
In short, it could not fail to be perceived,
that in the rapid and economical transmission of
every kind of raw material, agricultural produce,
and manufactured goods, the projected Railway
communication to LW Eastern Ocean, down the
Valley
.of 'the .Dun, presented advantages. in-
comparably' 'greater than .:could be expected in
any other direction. The • country through
which it is to pass is populous, highly culti-
vated, and abundantly productive, thus afford-
ing the greatest assurance of a most extensive
trade along the whole line of the Rail-road.
The entire trade of these populous districts. with
London and the Southern Counties would also
be concentrated in this line, anti it should be
observed that the extensive districts which it will
connect furnish most opposite productions, and
therefore naturally require the utmost facilities
for the easy interchange of their respective com-
modities ;. for it is known that not only does the
manufacturing district immediately surrounding
the town of Sheffield derive nearly the whole of
Its corn and cattle, potatoes, and other agricul-
tural produce from the Eastern and Midland
Counties, anti that the town of Sheffield parti-
cularly derives its entire supply of those essential
elements of its prosperity, the steel irons of
Sweden and Russia, of that indispensable ma-
terial the timber of the Baltic, and of those no
Jetta important productions the wrought and pig
irons of Staffordshire (thousands of tons
of which valuable commodities are annu-
ally required for the manufactures of Shef-
field, and are derived entirely and only in
the direction of the proposed Railway), but
that the dense population of Lancashire is
supplied with a very considerable portion of its •
corn anti cattle from the same sources. It is
likewise known that these agricultural districts
are indebted to their Western neighbours not
only for the pure limestone of Derbyshire, which
is required in unlimited quantities as a prime
article of tillage even for the lands surrounding
the town of Doncaster (such being the necessity
felt for this valuable mineral, that the agricul-
turists in the neighbourhood of Conishrough
find it advantageous to cart it at a distance of
nearly thirty miles, as a superior tillage for their
arid mugnesian limestone soils), but also for the
whole Or the stone fior building purposes, which
is used- in those districts, and which, although
abundant and excellent in the neighbourhood of
Sheffield, is not found in Lincolnshire, Notting-
hamshire, Leicestershire, or the South-eastern
coast of Yorkshire—and for the whole of the
coal which these extensive counties; require for
domestic and manufacturing purposes, the de-
mand for which being limited only by the power
of supply (in this respect reversing the ordinary
relation of supply and demand), may be expected
to increase in a tenfold degree, when the facili-
ties for its cheap amid rapid transit, which the
Railway will provide, uhall be in hill operation."
The proposed capital of this last undertaking
is $60,0001., and the shares lOW. each. The
Shoylidd Iris says, that the list of shareholders
" is filling up as fast as the projectors could
reasonably have hoped or expected."
Some opposition is of course anticipated from
the owners of canals, &c., some of which at
isresent realize the enormous sum of 11)01. per
antoms,on 1001. shares, which have been sold
as high as 2,500/. each. Mr. M'Cullochs in
the boa edition of his Political Economy, has
some sensible observations on canal ands other
property, the excess- of which, above a' certain
amount sufficient to stimulate to .ativeritilre, ought
to be merle. available Lci the public.. One great
evil reaulting from allowing unlividnala to have
enormous returns from, what, origipauy were
antell investments, is, that.-66p-ropnetora often
stir heaven and earth to oppose unprovemeet
and even gain over Parliamentary Committee;
to their interest by corruption.
The following observatioila from the Journal
olluded to, are to the point ;—‘" That a hied