The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-01-15 00:00:00

JANUARY 15, 1836.

radical candidates ►rho ►►ere proposed, but rejected as

justices.
The name which has attracted most notice is that of
Mr. JAMES BRANCKER, a gentleman who has " spent his
time and his money in the cause," who is the very idol
of his " fellow citizens," but whom the common council,
who owe all their honours to him, have treated in a man-
ner which is enough to make a milestone weep. It is
far front our wish to canvass all that the public say in re-
ference to Mr. JAMES BRANCKER, but we cannot conceal
that considerable surprise has been expressed. His best
friends say that he has been hardly, cruelly, and vindic-
tively dealt with. Others remark that he has been treated
exactly as he deset ves, and that it is a proper punishment
for his rashness and imnrudence in throwing himself into
the arms, and making himself the tool of a faction who
bate him and every member of his family. But it is a
painful subject, and we take our leave of it for the pre-
sent.

The second matter is in re DANIEL O'CONNELL, who
hai been invited to insult the protestants of Liverpool.
Will he come ? Yes, if he can come safely. But will
he come, seeing that his very name has already produced
dissension amongst the whips and radicals of this town ?
One party consider him the sworn ally and the main prop
of his Majesty's ministers. Another party do not deny
the connexion, but they are anxious that it should not be
confessed or openly avowed. Mr. EYRE EvaNs is evi-
dently no diplomatist, and Mr. LAWRENCE HEYWORTH
cuts a very miserable figure in the hands of the ultra
radicals who outvoted him !
The most important fact, however, and one which we
are sure will create consternation in Downing-street, is,
' that Mr. Councillor SHIEL has threatened to ABANDON
—aye, that is the word—ABANDON his 'Majesty's mi-
nisters if they should dare to abandon O'CONNELL, or
refuse to follow out his principles. Mercy on us ! What
will Lord.MELsoußNEatid Lord JOH:4 RUSSELL do under
the tet ror of this Menace •

LONDON LATEST NEWS.

City, Wednesday Evening, Half-past Seven o'clock.

We are informed, upon the best sutjority, that Sir John
Campbell has actually resigned the office of. Attorney-General,
and in high dudgeon too, at not having been appointed Lord
Chancellor. .Sir Charles Pepys has been appointed to this
latter high office, and Mr. Biekersteth is Master of the Rolls.
The resignation of Sir John Campbell may be considered as the
first screw drawn out of the present popish cabinet.
We have seen letters from Lima, fully confirmatory of the
miserable state of the republic of Peru. It appears, howev.lr,
that the usurpation of Salavery was likely to have an early
termination, as the Bolivian forces under General Santa Cruz
(who had allied, biuiself with the legal president Obregisto)
having advanced to Hudinanga, the capital of Rynencho, distant
about 100 leagues from Lima. It was uuderstood that Peru
`would be united to Bolivia, and that the former would he divided
into three and the latter into two independent states, all to form
a federal government under General Santa Cruz.

It appears by the accounts from New York that the commit-
tee appointed to investigate the losses by the fire, although they
had not completed their labours, were of opinion the loss would
be from fifteen to eighteen millions of dollars.

We have advices from Maragnon (Brazil) to the 22d of Oct.
They furnish the full particulars of the seizure of the Clio by the
Indians at Para, and of the massacre of her crew, but they do
not differ iu detail from the accounts previously received. It
is added, however, that when the intelligence was made to the
commander of the corvette Racehorse, he immediately made
preparations to sail for Para, and avowed his intention of forc-
ing the blockade, and of avenging this sanguinary deed.
In the Cousol Market, since our last report, there has been a
very heavy appearaoe, and the prices for the Account closed
at 921. The payment of the dividends has caused money to be
easy, and Exchequer Bills have been as high as 24 prem., but
this afternoon they closed at 20 to 22, and India Bonds at 6.
There has been great heaviness in the Spanish and Portu-
guese Bonds ; the former this afternoon left off at 49i ; the Por-
tuguese 5 per Cents. are 831, and the 3 per Cents. are 54. All
the Republican Bonds are flat—Columbian are 33, Chilian 451
.46, and Mexican 37-1 384. The Northern Bonds are at 101 i
102 for Belgian. Russian are at 10941, and Dutch 5 per Cents.
103. •

There has been a great degree of speculation in the Railway
Shares. The chief favourites
,have been the Preston and Wyre,
which are at 2 prem.; the Loudon and Greenwich, which are
9 prem.; the Dover, which are buyers at prem.; and the
Gravesend, whin are i a prem. London and Birmingham have
advanced to 55 prem.

PROPOSED MANCHESTER, DERBY, AND LONDON
RAILWAY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE MANCHESTER COURIER.

Brown-street, Manchegter,
7th of lat Mouth, 1836.

SIR,—In looking at the advertisements of the Times news-
paper, published at Manchester on the 2d instant, I find one
signed by S. Tullley Harding, in which an assertion is matle
that a railway proposed to be constructed from Stockport, by
Macclesfield, and near Leek, to Burton-upon-Trent, when com-
pared with the Manchester and Cheshire Junction Line of
Railway, is a shorter way to London, and " the levels are, at
the same time, so superior, as to warrant au expectation that
a further saving in time will be effected." 1 know the whole
line of country through which this projected railway is proposed
to be made, and have levelled all the way from Manchester,
by Macclesfield, to near Leek, and know the ground on the
south side of Macclesfield is so very high that it is unfit for a
good railway to be made, especially between that place and
Stockport—a distance of about thirteen miles—where there
would be a gradient of one in 177) provided it can be made in
nearly a direct line, and also with an uniform descent, which
cannot be done without stationary engines and inclined planes,
It is most probable that the engineer, if any should ever be
employed to level the line, would be obliged to have two or
three inclined planes, with fixed engines, or take a very circuit
ous route, to lessen the rise per mile.
In order to make the railway from the station near Welling-
ton Bridge, Stockport, to the south end of the town of Mac-
clesfield, (which height must be attained in order to proceed
. any further than that place,) and with a gradient like even the
worst part of the main line of the Manchester and Cheshire.
Junction Railway, it would be necessary to take a circuitous
route, so that the distance from Stockport to that part of Mac-
clesfield would be in length twenty-three miles and upwards;
and let it be remembered, that, in the main line of the Man-
chester and Cheshire Junction Railway there is no more than
live miles with so rapid a descent, namely, sixteen feet ina mile.
Thus, then, there would be a rail Way from Manchester to ti'
south end of Macclesfield of thirty miles in length.
The distance of twenty-three miles is found by dividing the
difference of elevation,' viz : 374 feet by 16:
And yet, this is the way,by which the merchants and other
travellers from Manchester are expected, by Mr. Harding to
go to London, in danger of being killed by the breaking of a
worn out rope, at an inclined plane; or the neglect of the man
. who has the management of the break, in passing along' steep
-parts of the railway; or by going a very round about way to
avoid the necessity of having inclined plants.
Beyond the south end of Alacelesfield, after crossing Sutton
Brook, the railway may be made nearly level, to the south end
"of the Rudyard reservoir.
This last mentioned part of the line I.:have levelled for a pro-
jected canal; and, I know the levelling of the ground, for the
rails, would be very expensive ; and the river Dane is to be
crossed, about six miles beyond Macclesfield, and most likely,,
the Macclesfield canal, three times.
Fiona the reservoir the rail Way would descend to the canal at

Endpn, and cross it at a. plate-about one mile from Leek.
In descending from
,near Leek to Rocester, there is a deep
valley all'the way, 'and the descent of a railway
.would be very
rapid; and in this valley the'ie isa canal.and a river; and the
valley is, in some places. a, narrow glen—some of it so narrow
that it will' scarcely admit of a 'railway being made, without
-tunnels, the banks being. verrprecipitOus. • • '
I have seen nearly all that valley: it is crooked ; and the
canal and river Weithl have to be dossed many 'times, to find
near enough' straight fora railway. • :
The high part of the Kopased railway, where.it must cross
the Macclesfield canal; wouldhe a 44 feet above'the sea ; whilst
the' highestisart of the. Manchester. and Cheshire junction rail-
,way will be 2,51 feettabove:the sea, at low.water.
Knowing, 'as r do, this account' to be correct, also that the
'works gradient.la the Manchester and-Cheshire j nctiori rail-
way is one In 330, and that for a short distance, I do fearlessly
assert that the Stockport, Macclesfield, Leek, &c. line is not
" superior, in point of levels, lo the Manchester and Cheshire
junction railway," as stated in the advertisement before nr
timed ; but quite the contrary,—so much so, that locomotive
_engine ,power would he very expensive, as is the case with the
inclined planes in the Manchester and Liverpool railway.
The main line of the Manchester and Cheshire junction
railway is etcellent all through, both for safety and expedition
..in travelling.
have been an inhabitant of Manchester for more than 30
,'ears; and wish to guard my friends from being misled by a
specious representation which is very incorrect.
WILLIAM JOHNSON, Sen.,
Land Surveyor.

P. S.—Since writing the above, I have been endeavouring to
trace, upon the map of the country, from Manchester to Lon-
don, the line of railway as proposed to be made by Mr. Har-
ding, viz., from Manchester through Stockport, Poynton, and
Adlington Collieries, and Macclesfield, within three miles of
Cungleton, near Leek, Cheadle, Uttoxeter, and Burton-upon-
Trent; there to join a railway from Derby to Birmingham, for
which no act of parliament has been obtained ; awl afterwards a
branch out of this railway to Stone-bridge, for which, also, no
act is obtained; thence to proceed to London. I believe the
proposed line to be toner than the line from Manchester, by
NVilmslow and Sandbach, to near Crowe Hall, and thence, by
the grand junction railway, to Birmingham, and thence by the
London and Birmingham railway, to London.
It is not very clear where Mr. Harding's line runs; for in-
stance, be says it will pass through Poynton Colliery, a place
about five miles from his line at Stockport, and above 350 feet
above it, He surely does not mean his railway, commencing
at Stockport, to rise 70 feet per mile, with a gradient of one in
'75 for the first five miles: Yet it must either do so, or there
must be inclined planes and stationary engines for that distance.
But would ouch a railway be Keferred to one that is nearly
level? Surely not.

Captain Ashe, known as the author of " The Spirit of the
Book," and other publications, died last week at Bath, at an
advanced age. His whole life," says a provincial journal,
" was one continued series of strugles with misfortune, and he
ended his days in utter destitution and want."