The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-01-22 00:00:00

SIR,—I have been

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your valuable eye snuff, which
I have taken copiously, that is, a 2s. 4d. canister weekly, I
am quite free from those excruciating pains, and can read the
smallest print, although I am in the 65th year of my age.
This is my third testimony, and I shall be most happy to give
it to you or to any respectable inquirer at my residence as
I remain, with gratitude, sir, your obedient humble
E. Ronsow.

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servant,
19, Bell-

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Skinner's -Almshouse

Zile-end, Jan. 26,1839

Sir,—l think it my incumbent duty to return you my grate:
ful acknowledgments of the efficacy of your invaluable " eye
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To W. Grimstone, Esq. ANN COLE.
To W.:Grirnstone, Eeq. inventor of Eye Snvjf, 39, Broad-et.
Whitehall, March 80838._
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tone,—Sir, I think it but justice that I should
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Sir, you have my permission to make this known
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Mr. Grimsl

gestion, thanl

I am, sir, your obedient servant,
J. B. LACHFIELD

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LONDON AND DUBLIN MAIL COMMUNICATION

We do not think the great advantage to the general inte-
rests of the Chester and Birkenhead, and the Chester and
Crewe Railways, is fully appreciated. At all events, it is a
topic on which we may well be excused devoting a little

ve now for a long time gives an ardent advocacy to
)vetnent of the mail and transit communication be-

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i London and Dublin. Our views as to the best and
direct route do not appear at present capable of being
ed out. But these lines of railways realise the next best

Is, therefore we trust soon to see them more used than
they are for London and Dublin travelling. The palpable
advantages may be briefly summed up to be—a shorter line
than by the Grand Junction Railway terminating at Liver-
pool—more convenient landing from and embarking on board
the packets on the Birkenhead than the Liverpool side the
Mersey—excellent and commodious hotels immediately con-
tiguous to the Birkenhead terminus of the railway—a better
from the river for the steamers—the whole embracing
in time, under judicious arrangements, from London
n, of at least one, if not two hours. The last is an
t which will be better appreciated in Dublin than
ere the common -complaint is that the English mail
_ often arrives after the country mails have left the
General Post-office, Sackville-street. We are informed, on

to Dubl
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good authority, that if this was adopted as the mail, or post-
office line, there would be a greater saving in the wear and
tear of the steam-packets. It is notorious they have better
lying on the Birkenhead than the Liverpool side the Mersey,
and there will be less danger of accidents by collision, such
as last week betel the Merlin. There would be not only,
therefore, a manifest saving of time to the public, but also a
saving of cost to the government. These are considerations
which cannot be long overlooked.
It may be asked, why—these advantages being so palpable
—this should not be the mail or post-office line ? We are
not sure but culpability rests on the General Post-office.
The two lines have been open several months, yet even the
London, Chester, and Holyhead mail still " drags its slow
length along" by way of Hartford, within sixteen miles of
coaching. arriving in Chester very often after the passengejs
who left London several hours later. If the post-office autho-
rities possess power to compel the mails to be carried on
railways on reasonable terms, this is inexcusable. If they
do not, it says little for the public spirit of any company that
throws obstacles in the way. But as this is a topic involving
the convenience of not only Chester and North Wales, but
also of nearly all Ireland, it is due to all interests that not
only should tha line of communication be adopted, but also
at the earliest possible period. At such a season as this,
even one hour, to say nothing of the convenience, is of great

importance
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apprehensive, however, that the Grand Junction
Railway Company, instead of facilitating this arrangement,
throws obstacles in its way. It is supposed to have an inte-
tagonist to it. On that topic we shall not speculate.
it to say, it has acquired what is almost tanta-
to a patent, as to the transit of passengers and letters
districts, the public ought not to be deprived
'vantage of its line or lines in connexion with
;ive greater advantages, than a part of its line
si th sorne other line is capable of affording. The
public have an interest which some companies ought to con-
sider ; and if they will not, then they ought to be forced to
bend to it. If the public interests are thus sacrificed to the
convenience or supposed interest of chartered companies,
parliament rfiliBi and will interfere. Such charters were
granted on the condition that the public should be better
served than before ; and it is not too much to ask, that
whatever is most convenient for the benefit of the public;
they ought to possess without let or hindrance.
Having drawn attention to the best line of post-office com-
munication between London and Dublin being via the
Chester and Crewe and Chester and Birkenhead Railways,
and the best and most convenient place in every respect for
packet embarkation and debarkation, being the Birkenhead.
coast of the Mersey, we feel that it is a subject on which the
public ought to remonstrate to the postmaster-general. If
the General Post-office selected this as the mail route, the
convenience for passenger traffic would be at once afforded.;
We trust our contemporaries on the other side of the channel
will not let the matter sleep.—Chester paper.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE,