The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-07-09 00:00:00

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FRIDAY, JULY 9, 1841.

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THIS DAY

By Mr. TATTERSALL,
Tisis DAY (Friday), the 9th instant, at the Rooms, 15,
Great George-street, opposite Dr. Raffies's Chapel,
AVERY large Assortment of Modern HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE, and splendid Collection of EN-
GRAVINGS, from the best Masters, and removed for the
convenience of Sale ; consisting of Four-post 'Bedsteads,
large Camp Ditto, Feather Bed, Bedding, Swing Dressing-
glasses, Chimney and Pier Ditto, Parlour 4nd Bed-room
Chairs, Dressing Tables, Washing Stand, Carpets, Fire-
irons, Fenders, some very beautiful Mahogany Circular Loo
Tables, Pembroke Tables in great variety, Card Ditto,
Lounging Chairs, Oval Tables, large Chests of Mahogany
Drawers, Painted Ditto, Book-stands, Hearth Rugs, very
elegant Cabinets in Mahogany and Rosewood, Rosewood and
Mahogany Card Tables, Mahogany Wardrobe, Sofas, six
and one Arm strong Mahogany Chairs, hair seats, in good
condition, capital Eight-day Clock, by Cawson, particularly
recommended, very beautiful large solid Mahogany Circular
Library Table, with four drawers, several excellent Kitchen
Dressers, Tea Urns, Meal and Flour Binns, Copper Coal
Scuttles, Slop Cans, Kneading Troughs, Washing Stools, an
excellent Meat-safe, and several other Kitchen Requisites.
Sale to commence at Eleven o'Clock in the Morning.
Catalogues may be had at the Rooms; or at Belle View,
Woodside, Cheshire.

THIS DAY, (Friday,) the 9th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at
Whitaker, Carter, and Co.'s Office, Rumford-street,
62 Tierces Jamaica COFFEE.
400 Bags E. I. COFFEE, at 9d. duty.
Apply to MURRAY, SYME, andriCo., or to
WHITAKER, CARTER, and CO., Brokers.

THIS DAY. (Friday) the 9th instant, at Twelve o'clock ,i n the
Public Sale Room, Exchange Buildings,
About 200 Bags St. Domingo COTTON,
Ex Spinster, from Cape Hayti.--tApply to Messrs. PRELLER
and GABAIN, Merchants, or H. J. WEBSTER, Broker.

On account of whom it may concern.
Tins DAY, (Fridah) the 9th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at

No. 17, Oldhall-street,
450 Bags Mauritius SUGAR, slightly damaged by seawater,
Ex Mona, from Mauritius.—Apply to
GLADSTONE and SERJEANTSON, Brokers.

AND GENERAL COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER.

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[PRICE FIVEPENCE.

TO be LET, a FURNISHED HOUSE, for six months
Apply at 19, Canning-street.

TO be LET, for a term of years, Two newly-erected
WAREHOUSES, and several Sets of OFFICES,
situate in Harrington-street.
Apply to Mr. ADAM NORRIS, No. 39, Islington.

TO CHEMISTS AND DGIsTs.
TO be DISPOSED OF, in one of test Thoroughfares
in Liverpool, a CHEMIST DRUGGIST'S
SHOP. Receipts about £l5 to £l6 per week.
Apply to EVANS, SON, and Co., Wholesale Chemists,
Liverpool.

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NOW EXHIBITING IN BOLD-STREET,
WOMBWELL'S FIVE BEAUTIFUL GIRAFFES,
which are all in perfect health. They were taken by
Mons. Riboulet,land a company of the native hunters, in the
Plains of Abyssinia, and brought to England by the Great
Liverpool steamer, Captain Engledpe, and were landed at
Southampton. They were pnrchased by Mr. Wombwell at
an immense expense, as each animal cost near £lOOO. It is
impossible for any person to form any idea of these beautiful
quadrupeds without seeing them, two of which are thirteen
feet high. They will stop but a short time in Liverpool, as
Mr. W. has two machines building in the form of wggons
for their reception, which will cost him £5OO each.

GLASGOW, PAISLEY, AND GREENOCK

RAILWAY

THE STATUTORY HALF-YEARLY MEETING of
PROPRIETORS, was held Tats DAY, in the Sheriff
Court Hall,

ROBERT DOW KER, ESQ., in the Chair

Captain Iluish read the advertisern,eAt calling the meeting,
rind the following Report :
EIGHTH HALF-YEARLY REPORT.
Greenock, July 2, 1841.

The Directors have much gratification in presenting their
present Report. The Railway has now been opened for three
months ; and although this period is insufficient to bring into
operation the resources of the Line, or to mature those ar-
rangements which are essential to its complete success, yet
enough has been accomplished to indicate that the calcula-
tions of traffic, on which the Railway was first based, are
substantially correct, and to satisfy the Directors that the
expectations held out will be realized.

before proceeding to analyze the results of the traffic, the
Board beg to lay before the proprietors the following Report
of their Engineer :

ENGINEER

'S
RALF-YEARLY REPORT

To ROBERT D. KERB ESQ

Sir,—The Railway having been opened to the public on
the 31st March, with both lines complete, I have merely to
report that the Contractors have upheld the road to my sa-
tisfaction, and that the works, without exception, prove to be
of the firm and stable character anticipated.

The embankments, which are generally troublesome on a
new work, stand even better than I expected; and, notwith-
standino• the heavy traffic on your road, I do not doubt that
it will be kept in that thoroughly efficient state of repair, so
essential to the comfort of the public, at an unusually low
rate.

am carrying out Mr. Locke's plans for the Goods' Sta-
tions, as rapidly as possible, and adapting them to the pecu-
liar description of traffic, which we have now ascertained we
must provide for to a large extent.
Having, at the request of the Board, undertaken to or-
ganize the same system of out-door management, on this
Line, that I had established on the Joint Line ; I am glad to
state the result has been equally satisfactory, for your Trains
have now run upwards of 50,000 miles, and carried about
360,000 passengers in perfect safety.
The trip has generally been run within the hour, and this
time may ultimately be reduced; but I do not think a rapid
speed advisable on any new line, however perfect the arrange-
ments ; and the time-tables remain for the present, therefore,
as at the opening. _

The Locomotive Department has been carefully watched,
and especial pains taken in the selection of workmen for that
service. It is so vital a part of the Railway system, that I
am rejoiced to find the Directors wish to hold out every rea-
sonable inducement to their servants for continuing their
present exemplary conduct, by placing at my disposal pre-
miums, for exactness in time, and attention to their duties.
The system of rewards by premium, and puuishment by
fine, together with a uniform care for their comfort, has
hitherto produced, and will, I believe, best ensure respect-
able and-trust-worthy engine-men.
Time is requisite to produce perfect arrangement on a
Railway, as in every other great work ; but I trust a sincere
desire to afford every possible convenience to the public will
continue to distinguish your servants, while uuder my
I remain,
Your obedient servant,
Greenock, 21st June, 1841. J. E. ERRINGTON.

management

Next to the safety of the public, which it has been. the
unceasing care of all concerned with the management of the
Railway to secure, their convenience and comfort have en-
gaged the attention of the Directors and their Officers. The
Board felt that, by a close regard to these points, added to
the speed and regularity of the communication, they might
look for public support, in the face of an opposition which
they had to encounter, from the greatly reduced fares on the
River and Canal. It is satisfactory to find that their exer-
tions have been so far successful as already to obtain a large
proportion of passengers, and they contemplate a steady and
considerable augmentation, by giving those increased facili-
ties, and extending those advantages; which the Railway has
already partially afforded to all classes of the community.
In order to provide for this, it was necessary to make some
sacrifice at the outset ; and the Directors, finding that they
were unable to complete the arrangements required for the
public accommodation, employed several Steam-boats to work
exclusively with the Railway. This measure has produced
the effect which the Directors anticipated ; and although the
boats themselves have entailed a temporary expense on the

funds of the Proprietors, it has enabled the Board to make
satisfactory terms with several Companies, and negotiations
are now proceeding with others, which the Directors hope
will altogether relieve the funds from any further expense.
The Shareholders will also bear in mind the large proportion
of trade brought to the Railway by means of these boats.
Should, however, it hereafter turn out that these arrange-
ments do not work satisfactorily to the public, several of the
large Shareholders are willing to assist in establishing an
effective Steam-Boat Company, and placing at the command
of the Railway Company several fast and first-rate boats,
in which the discipline and regularity of the Railway will
be enforced.

In fixing the rates, the Board was not influenced by any
desire to injure existing interests, but to settle such a scale
of fares, as, when a considerable proportion of the existing
traffic should be transferred to the Railway, would afford a
satisfactory remuneration to the Shareholders for the capital
they had invested. These fares are unusually low, but the
Directors trusted that, as the expenses were in a great degree
a fixed quantity, while the receipts fluctuated with the
amount of traffic, a sufficient number of passengers might
be drawn to the Railway at low fares to produce a large
aggregate sum. The result already confirms the soundness
of this view.

The total sum received for this Company's proportion of
six months on the Joint Line, and two months on the Tho-
rough, is £9,708 2s. 7d. It appears from the returns that
2,017,361 passengers have been carried one mile. This gives
the average fare per mile, 1.15 d. The whole expense incur-
red in conveying this number, is £5,198 Od. 7d., or by the
same process 61 per mile; in other words, the cost has been
a shade above one halfpenny per passenger per mile ; this
includes the government tax, which absorbs nearly one-
fourth of it.

In making up these expenses, every usual charge has been
included, excepting maintenance of way, and fund for de-
preciation. The former of these will not form a burden on
the revenue for twelve months, and before that time, there
is good reason to believe, that the system of taxation will be
so changed, that the Proprietors will be relieved to an ex-
tent commensurate with the charge under this head. The
Directors have received tenders for the future upholding of
the road at a very small cost. but have not yet considered it
expedient to close with any one.
When therefore it is remembered, that during 4 out of 6
menthe, an expensive establishment had to be kept up for 7
miles, which, on that portion of it, has not been increased by
the opening of the whole Line—that the traffic is steadily in-
creasing—and that the expenses do not expand in the same
ratio—that no goods had been carried—that a considerable
part of the existing passenger traffic is still in the hands of
the Steam-boat proprietors, at a sacrifice of their fares
which the Directors believe cannot be continued—that the
Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, about to be opened, will
materially in cease the revenue, by connecting the East and
West Coasts ; and, lastly, that the extraordinary depression
in every branch of business this season has greatly checked
both business and pleasure travelling—the Directors feel
confidence in stating that the ordinary working expenses,
' even at their low fares, will be considerably under 50 per
cent.

The average number of passengers per diem, from the
opening to Ist June, including the proportion of the Joint
Line, has been £2,lsB—average number of passengers per
Train, 116.

The expense of locomotive power per mile is Is. 21d., and
this includes the cost of repairing one Engine used in the
construction of the road, and the expense of two spare En-
gines constantly kept with their steam up.
No subject has caused greater anxiety to the Board than

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the present mode of levying the government tax, and so im-
portant did they consider it, that they felt called upon to

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send a deputation to London to co-operate with other Rail-
way Companies in their endeavour to obtain a modification.
It gives the Directors much pleasure to report, that all poli-

tica parties seem to concur in the necessity 'for a change,
and they are satisfied, from the pledges given, that an altera-
tion may be soon expected.
The Company are not prepared to carry goods, excepting
on a limited scale ; but the Board are pressing forward the
necessary arrangements ; and from the promises they have
already received, and the power they possess to carry cheap-
ly, as well as speedily, there can be no doubt that a very
large proportion of this valuable traffic will come to the
Railway. In the meantime the business is carried on prin-
cipally through the agency of the Passenger Trains, and is
therefore very economically managed.
The Directors anticipate a considerable trade in coals ;
and they are negotiating with a Proprietor who offers to
send down GO tons per day as a minimum, which will after-
wards be greatly increased. A saving will be effected in
the price at Greenock, which will re-act beneficially on other
branches of the Company's business.
The Directors are also preparing to carry timber. The

local authorities are alive to the important influence which
the Railway will exercise on the Trade of the Port ; and
they are engaged in preparing, to a considerable extent, ad-
ditional Harbour accommodation, in direct connexion with
the Railway, and by which the Railway waggons will be
carried alongside the vessels.

The new Rill to empower the Company to raise £lOO,OOO
by the issue of fresh stock, received the royal assent on the
6th of April last, and in terms of the resolution of the Pro-
prietors at their special meeting on the 28th of April, Half
Shares to that extent have been created. These have been
readily taken by the present Proprietors, and now bear a
considerable premium in the market.
The works on the Railway have been some time out of
hand, and are in admirable order.
The Stations are still incomplete, but a very short time
will finish them. The permanent Engine Sheds are in use.
The funds which the new bill has placed at the company's
command have enabled the Directors to push forward all the
various permanent erections and conveniences, so important
for the conduct of a Railway ; and little remains now to be
done. _

The contracts are nearly cleared off. In settling with the
Contractor a difference has arisen on some items, and these
are referred to the arbitration of the Engineer, Mr. Locke.
The stock now at work is nearly all paid for.
The cost for construction is also nearly ascertained, ex-
cepting where final awards on land have not been received,
and pending the decision of the claim above referred to, is
about the sum expected at last half-yearly meeting. Any
further expenditure must depend on circumstances, viz., the
amount of trade and the consequent accommodation, required
for it, both in stations,
engines, waggons, and carriages. The
latter have already proved inadequate to the necessities of the
trade, and there has frequently been a deficiency when most
needed. The supply now in course of delivery will, it is
hoped, prevent a recurrence of the disappointments some-
times experienced ; and the Directors avail themselves of
this opportunity of acknowledging the forbearance and con-
sideration of the public generally, and their cheerful accept-