The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-06-19 00:00:00

GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY.

CARRIAGE OF GOODS TO AND FROM LONDON.
911 HE GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY
inform the Public, that, in order to ensure to the Lon-
don Trade the same advantage of moderate and uniform
Charges for the Carriage of Merchandise as is now afforded
by the Grand Junction Line between Birmingham and Liver-
pool and Manchester, they have, in conjunction with Messrs.
Chaplin and Horne, of London, made arrangements whereby
the Public who may be disposed to avail themselves of this
means of conveyance will obtain a considerable reduction in
the Rates, and avoid all uncertain or extra Charges, under
the head of Cartage and Porterage, on the delivery of the
Goods in London, or the forwarding of the Goods from
thence.

The Rates fixed will include all Charges of Delivery to the
receiver of the Goods in London, if resident within the limits
of the London Porterage Act, as also the Cartage and Por-
terage in London, on all Goods ,forwarded, with the excep-
tion of the Booking, when required, of Goods forwarded
from London.

Tne Scale of Rates will be as follows, including Delivery,
&e in London

For Iron and other Metals, Castings, raw
Sugar, Tallow, Lead, and other Coarse
Goods
For Packs, Drapery Trusses, Hardware
Packed, Butter, General Groceries, Pro-
visions. Oils, &c. &c. 6ls. Sd.
For Glass in Crates, Indigo, Loose Hides,
Spirits, Wines, &c., Tea, Manufactured
Tobacco, Woollen Yarns, &c.
For Plate and Crown Glass in Cases, Lug-
gage,, Poultry Dead, Raw and Manufac-
tured Silk Woolpacks 79s. Bd.
Light and hazardous Articles, such as Hats, Furniture,
Pictures, Light Glass Shades, &c., and single articles weih-
ine atom, 1 Cwt. will be charged at proportionately higher
-mem
Further particulars may be learned on application to the
Company's Agent, at the Wapping Station, Liverpool ; or
at the Merchandise Station. Liverpool-road, Manchester ; or
at Vauxhall, Birmingham ; as also at the following Offices
and Receiving Houses of Messrs. Chaplin and Horne, in
London :

Swan with Two Necks Lad-lane.
Spread Eagle Grace Church-st.
Cross Keys
George and Blue Boar
Golden Cross Charing Cross.
Universal Office, Regent Circus Piccadilly.
Griffin's Green Man and Still Oxford-street.
In order to prevent misconception, it is proper to state,
that the Company undertake, with respect to all Goods for-
warded by them as Carriers, all the responsibilities custom-
arily undertaken by other Carriers ; and that all communi-
cations on the subject of the Merchandise Business will be
promptly attended to by the Agents, at the Offices above-
mentioned.

The business, on the terms now advertised, will commence
on the Bth June next, on and after which time Goods will be
forwarded at the rates in question from Liverpool, Manches-
ter, and London ; as also at proportionately lower rates from
the Company's Merchandise Stations, at Warrington, Staf-
ford, and Wolverhampton, to London, or from London to
the said Stations. By order of the Directors.
Liverpool, May 30, 1840.

EMIGRATION FROM THE UNITED STATES TO

BRITISH GUIANA AND TRINIDAD.

Extracts from the report of Messrs. Peck and Price, who
were appointed at a meeting of the free coloured people of
Baltimore, held on the 25th November, 1839, for the pur-
Tose of appointing delegates to visit British Guiana and
rinidad, &c. to ascertain the advantages to be derived by
coloured people emigrating to those places.
Baltimore, 1840.
The persons named as delegates, N. P. and T. S. P., are
two of the most industrious, intelligent, and respectable of
our coloured population.
N. Brice, chief judge Baltimore city court.
W. D. S. Worthington appointed chief judge Balt. do. do.
N. S. Keath, district judge United States court.
S. C. Leakin, mayor of the city of Baltimore.
Agriculturists are in great demand. Every plantation we
were upon, which were many, wanted from 40 to 50 hands
to carry on cultivation. Field labour is similar to the work
in corn-fields, and is done by task, of so many feet or yards.
The price for each task is 331 cents, which upon most estates
can be done in four or five hours. We saw a young woman
at an estate called Success, on the island of Leguan, finish
her second task by 12 o'clock, and did not appear at all
fatigued. In answer to a question put to her by us she said,
she could do three tasks any day, and if she felt inclined after
dinner, could do another task. We left her to visit several
other estates, and returned about half-past five o'clock in the
afternoon, and learned from her own lips that she bad done
her third task about half an hour; besides, each family has
a very comfortable cottage to be in, containing generally two
rooms on the first floor, and one above, with as much ground
attached as they can cultivate in v Beta des ; and the doctor's
bill for attending all the estates, paid b the proprietor. On
many estates are very fine schm Is, and would be many more
could persons be found competent. Lo tie undertaking. There
are at present a great many churches in any direction, and
would be many more, should it be required, as every profes-
sion is tolerated and encouraged.
In Guiana my estate has the aspect of a manufacturing
village : all the works are propelled by steam-engines, and
the mill fed by the same power. The workman's labour is
lightened by it in many ways. In Trinidad the manual
labour is greater. The labourers' cottages in general are
much more spacious and comfortable in British Guiana than
those now in use in Trinidad.
As there appears a desire among many persons to know
*whether we intend to settle in either of these places, and
which of the two are preferred ; we thought it advisable to
get through with the report to the public meeting, before we
declare our intentions. We now declare our preference for
Guiana.

NATHANIEL PECK.
THOMAS S. PRICE.

BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, June 17.—Our market con-
tinues extremely animated, every thing being eagerly taken off
the market as soon as offered, at gradually improving prices.
THE ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY CARRIAGES.—It is up-
wards of a year and a-half since we described the experi-
ments made by Mr. Clegg, in the Borough, on the mode of
propelling carriages by means of exhausting a pipe or tube
with which the carriages were connected, and then admitting
the atmospheric air, and, as it were, forcing the carriages or
train along, and thus superseding the necessity of gas or any
other power for the conveyance of a train along a rail or
tram-road. These experiments were very successful ; indeed
so successful, that few persons had any doubt about the ulti-
mate success of the principle of the invention. On Thursday
the experiments were exhibited on a large scale, on a railroad
which connects, or is intended to connect, the line of the
Birmingham, the Bristol, and the Thames Junction lines,
commencing within a short distance of Shepherd's-bush, and
running in a westerly direction for about three quarters of a
mile. The carriage put in motion, with the persons on it, did
not weigh much less than 12 tons, but it travelled with great
ease at the rate of 25 miles an hour. The exhausted pipe or
tube laid down, which was not the propelling agent, but the
means of its developement, was about nine inches in diameter.
The engine by which it was exhausted—namely, a pump,
worked by steam-7-rendered it fit for the operations required
in about two minutes and a half, and from the index, that is
quicksilver employed at the termini, it was ascertained that
the operation was performed simultaneously, at both ends of
the line. There was no noise, no smoke, and, what is better,
no danger of explosion, or of a power which could not be
governed. In short, the experiment was as successful as its
most warm well-wishers could expect, and showed that the
agency of steam is not a sine qua non on a railroad. Without
going into a minute history of railroads, it may be as well to
say, that this power may be applied to any railroad at a saving
of 70 per cent., and that it is of sufficient force to preclude
the necessity of tunnelling. It is applicable to almost any
gradients. The experiments were attended by a great num-
ber of the nobility, and by many scientific men. The Arch-
bishop of Canterbury, Lords Charleville, Radstock, and
Prudhoe, the Marquis of Doure, Lord Howick, and Lord
Stuart de Rothesay, &c., were on the ground, and expressed
their satisfaction at the result of the experiments.—Time.