The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-11-08 00:00:00

RAILWAYS.

Thirty-five railway bills passed the legislature during the last
sessions, of which five are merely for the alteration of lines al-
ready authorized to be made, and 30 for new hues, the length
of which is 094 miles, 1 furlong 90 yards, and the estimated cost
of formation, £17,595,000, or at the rate of £17,700 per mile ,•
and the annual expense of working and maintenance £1,571
per mile. The most expensive lines are the London Grand
Junction, the estimated cost or which is £228,571 per mile, and
the expense of working £15,233 per mile ; the London and
Blackwell Commercial, the estimated cost of which is £183,588
per mile, and the cost of working, £8,573 per mile; and the
Deptford Pier Junction, the estimated cost of which is at the
rate of £131,806 per mile, and the cost of working at the rate of
£1,500 per mile. Of the 30 railways above enumerated, 19 have
no tunnels, and the remaining 11 have 27, the length of which
is 11 miles, 7 furlongs, 35 yards, or, upon an average, 775 yards
each. or those tunnels 5 are upon the Leeds and Derby, of the
length of 3,208 yards; 4 upon the Northern and Eastern, of the
length 1,770 yards ; 4 upon the South-Eastern, of the length of
5874 yards, and 3 upon the Ulster line, of the length of 1200
yards. The most objectionable curves are upon the Manches-
ter and Leeds line, of which there are 33 in a distance of 41
miles, and most of them of small radius. The curves upon the
other lines are generally favourable. Of these 30 railways, 17
have no inclined planes to be worked by assistant engines,
either stationary or locomotive ; the remaining 13 have 24
planes to be so worked, of which 3 aro upon the Manchester
and Leeds line; the first is 4 miles long, and the second 41
miles, both of them with an inclination of 1 in 165 ; the third is
3 miles, 7 furlongs in length, with an inclination of 1 in 136.
The steepest inclined plane is upon the 'lremoutha Railway,
the length of which is 4 furlongs 131 yards, with an inclination
of lin 9. The Newcastle and North Shields Railway has a
plane 400 yards long, with an inclination of lin 15i. And the
Merthyr 1 ydvil and Cardiff has 3 short self-acting planes, with
ay in
inclinationsazoe.f 1 in 18, 1 in 20, and 1 in 25 respectively.—,Flail-
way

LORD JOHN and the VOICE from SIIOREDITCH.

Lord John lay lolling in stately bed
With a green silk night-cap about his head—
O'Connell wears green—and 'tis thus Lord John
The green silk his l►ttle head putteth upon ;
For though he admireth Sheil's wild scream,
It is of O'Connell he loves to dream;—
For many sweet dreams of O'Connell he's had—
Dreams which have made his small heart glad;
Aud ,by binding his colours about his brain
Ho hopes to dream of him again and again.
But as we were saying, the Noble Lord
On stately bed was spread abroad,
His legs and his arms all carelessly toss'd
O❑ cambric cushions, down•emboss'd
With a gold colour'd canopy over his head,
And curtaius-of gold colour round him spread,
Loop'd up here and there with golden cord—
Such as beseerueth a Noble Lord.
That bed, on which lay this Lord so small,
Was the best spare bed in Holkharn Hall.

Light were his Lordship's twilight dreams—
Sometimes he revell'd in exquisite creams,
Which in Holkhain dairy fill many a pan,
All superintended by Lady Ann;
And sometimes he dreamt of old Mr. Coke
And John Wilson Croker's John Bull ified joke.
Then, over his fancy, would corn• and go,
Pheasant and partridge and double-bang Joe;
And lost were his thoughts of Ruda and Whigs
In peaceful punderiugs on Coke's fat pigs ;
And all the glories, great and small,
Which surrounded him there, at Ilolkhain Hall.

Pity it were such dreams as these,
Should be scatter 'd like chaff before the breeze;
But so it was, that, when morning broke
Lord John was disturbed b old Mr. Coke,
Who tapp'd at his door and cried, " Lord Russell!
"Why St. Leonardhoreditch is all in a bustle !
"The rascally, Radical, rabble rout,
"Declare that at last they have found you out!
"They swear you're the smallest of all the Patricians,
" And a MERE FARTHING HUSHLIGHT among Politicians !
Lord Russell he sat himself up on end,
And taking a look at his ancient friend,
He hastily asked—" Mr. Coke—is that you ?"
It is," gaud Coke, "and the news is true!"
" And true it may be," said Lord Russell, " for me;
For what care I, Mr. Coke, do you see,
have (mind we out,
ktwe tykei, say,
and the worth of their shout,
For the men of Shureditch?—tut—fiddle-de-dee!—
"Don't taik of such people, good Coke, to me.
AlWfuthd I hYeyC as
i,,,know h
very well how it is to be yot
"Should ever we Whigs be going to put."—
So saving Lord Russell lay down at his length,
And he stretch 'd himself in all his streugtn,—
Then cover'd himself with the counterpane,
And quietly went to sleepagain. Morning

A St'FFiciNNT Excusit.—An editor in Illinois excuses him-
self fur delay iu publishing his paper on the ground that the
ague has shaken all his teeth loose, and compelled Lim to use
butte Ladds to hold his trousers on.

THEATRE-ROYAL.
FOR THE lIENK FIT OF Mti. STUART.
ON. MONDAY next, the 14th instant, will be performed
Shakspeare's Tragedy of
CORIOLANUS;
OR, THE ROMAN MATRON.
Caius Mardi') Curiolanus
(His first appearance in that character.)
After which, an entirely new Ballet of Dance and Action, called
LA DILIGENCE;
OR, THE BANDITTI OF THE FOREST.
Principal characters by the Messrs. Ridgweys and Jonas and
Mademoiselle Marie.
To conclude with the admired Drama of
THERESE;
OR, THE ORPHAN OF GENEVA.
Carwin (the Advocate)
Tickets may be had of Mr. STUART, at his Residence, 17,
Upper Beau-street; and of Mr. PARKER, Box-office.