The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-01-22 00:00:00

GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY.

Foreign Packets.
er4M,, THE GENI4.,RAL STEAM N IGATION
. NU'mk COM PAN V'S fiat-rate ands )erior PACK-
ETS leave the CUSTOM- E, LONDON,
for
AM Li URGH, (carrying his Majesty Mails,) every Wed.
nesday and Saturday, early in the Morning, returning every
Wednesday and Saturday.
ROTTERDAM and the RHINE, (carrying his Majesty's
Mails,) every, Wednesday and Saturday Morning, at Seven
o'clock precisely, returning every Wednesday and Saturday
Morning. Reduced Fares-Chief' Cabin; £2 2s.
ANTWERP and the RHINE, (with a bag of letters from
the Postoffice;) every Thursday Morning, at Eight precisely,
returning every Sunday at the same hour. Reduced Fares—
Chief Cabin, £2 2s.

OSTEND and the RHINE, every Saturday Morning, re
turning every Tuesday night. •
CALAIS, every Sunday,. Morning, returning every Wed•
nesdav,Night.

BOCILWONE, every Wednesday Morning, returning every
Saturday Night.
For freight to Rotterdam and Antwerp apply to Messrs.
DE BIE and RAHN, 4. Crescent, Minories; and on the other
stations to Mr. NORMAN, No! 1, Water-lane, Tower-street.
Berths may be secured at the Offices of the Company, 37, Re-
gent Circus, and 69, Lombard-street, and at 61, Charing-
cross, and 56, Haymarket.
Powerful Steam Packets •may be engaged for Towing and
Excursions. CHAS. BESSELL, Secretary.
General Steam Navigation Company,
69, Lombard-stret, and 37, Regent Circus, London.

GLASGOW, PAISLEY, AND GREENOCK RAILWAY.
AT a PUBLIC MEETING, held in Greenoe on the2Bth
ult., WM. MACFIE, Ess., of Langho e, Provost of
Greenock, in the Chair, it was unanimously a. eed, on the mo-
tion of Sir MICHAEL HAW STEWAR ' I t., M.P., that the
formation of a Railway betwCen G 1...! • and Greenock, to
communicate with Paisley, Johnston ,nd Port Glasgow, will
be productive of the most important a. vantages to the Agricul-
tural', Commercial, and Manufacturing Interests of the Country
in general, and cannot fail to afford an ample return to the
Subscribers.

Measures for forming a Joint Stock Company. were immedi-
ately taken, the Capital Stock or which to be in the • first in-
stance £250,00tt, divided into £lO,OOO Shares. And such are
the evident advantages of this undertaking,. arising from the
commercial and manufacturing importance of the towns which
the line, not exceedir6, twenty-five miles, is to connect, in addi-
tion to the rich mineral district and the continued dense and
industrious population through which it will pass, that more
than one-half of the Shares were immediately applied for on the
_ _ _

A Provisional Committee has been appointed who have di-
rected Surveys to be made, and who will publish a detailed
Prospectus as soon as possible. Meanwhile, all applications for
the remaining Shires must be made to JAMES TURNIi", Town-
clerk of Greenock.
Greenock, Bth Jantial y, 1836.

NEW LINE OF RAILWAY BETWEEN BIRMING
HAM AND LONDON.

ANEW Line of Railway is proposed to be formed between
Birmingham and London; and a survey is now being
made under the direction of an eminent engineer., The details
of arrangement will not, however, be publish "immediately.
The object of the delay is to ascertain, befor e prospectus be
issued, the fate of the new project,'enti the "Manchester
South Union Railway." That sch t is a great experiment
upon which much, in regard to Rai ys, will hereafter depend.
The line of that Railway will supe •sede, so far as Manchester is
concerned, the Grand Junction Railway, which latter Railway
had a special reference to Manchester at the time of itsrojec-
' tion. Upon the faith of the act obtained for the Grand_p Junc-
tion Railway, the money necessary to complete the work has
been subscribed and paid; but, as the Railway is not yet in
operation, no dividend has become payable to the Sharehold-
ers. The South Union Railway, if it receive the sanction of
Parliament, will establish the principle (hat a new line of Rail-
way may be projected to accomplish a given object, without re-
ference to a previous line established to effect the same object
and with a company incorporated. There can be no difficulty,
if this principle be recognised, in establishing a New Company
for a Railway between Birmingham and London, as both a bet-
ter and shorter line can be submitted to the public. The New
Line cannot, if the South Union Railway Company obtain an
Act, be successfully opposed by the present London and Bir-
mingham Railway Company,—inasmuch as the Chairman of
the Committee of the South Union Railway is a heavy' Share-
holder, and the brother of about the heaviest Shareholder in
that undertaking. The public may rest assured that the New
Line will be at once announced, if the South Union Railway
succeed before Parliament.