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

AFTER FRIDAY

Ju FRIDAY, the sth February next, at T ve o'clock, at
Currie, Huson, and. Co.'s Office, 1 ' ord-place,
21,500 ,East. India OX and CO
Lying in Dover's, 276 and 277. Bath treat, ex Ripley and
Perfect, from Calcutta.—Apply t')
CORIUE, lIIJSON, and Co. Brokers
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On FRIDAY, the sth February next, at Tyr ve o'clock, at
Corrie, Huson, and Co. s Office, Ru ord-place,
13,500 East India OX and' C HIDES,.
Lying in 304, Harbord's, New Quay x Magnet, from Cal•
cutta.—Apply to Messrs. TAYLOR, I OTTER, and Co., Met•
chants, or to CORRIE, HUSON, and Co., Brokers.

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On THURSDAY, the 11th February next, at •
18, Exchange-buive{ldi
152 Serous Guatimala IGO,
Just landed, ex Robert Finnie, from paraiso.-4.
JOHN and JAMES BARON,

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On THURSDAY, the 11th February next, at T elve o'clOck; at
W. Y. Bushby's Office, 9, Ext. ge-alley,
350 Boxes CASSIA L EA,
23 Tons SAYAN W D.
Apply to Messrs. ROBERT WISE and Co., Merchants, or to
W. Y. 130S1-IBY, Broker.

LIVERPOOL COMMERCIAL BANK,
ESTABLISHRD IST JANUARY, 1833.
THIRD DIVIDEND. •/ . .
THE Directors. have declared a Div Dof Three Pounds
Ten Shillings per Cent., for the HP Year endtnu en the
31st December last, being; at the rate of Seven per Cent. per
Annum; which will be paid to the Proprietors, on application
at the ank, on and after the '2sth instant.
By order of the Directors, • •
JAMES MACGREGOR, Manager.
Liverpool Commercial Bank, High-street,
January 12, 1836.

➢IANCHESTER AND CHESHIRE JUNCTION
RAILWAY.

Manchester, Friday Evening, January Bth, 18.30,
10TE have just seen, but at too late a period of the evening,
to lay !t before the Committee of the Manchester and
Cheshire Junction Railway, a printqd rospectus of an under-
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taking which has been presented er various aspects to thepublic,
public, and which, for the present, called the Manchester and
South Union Railway.
As this undertaking is started in avowed hostility to the
Cheshire Junction Railway,.ir we feel justified in noticing, al-
though without an opportunity of consulting our Committee,
one or two points contained in the Prospectus, as explicitly as
the shortness of the time and the vague generality of the (loot-.
went will admit.
The Prospectus states that the SOuth Union Railway " is in-
tended to unite Manchester with the Derby and Birmingham
Railway, passing through Stockport, the Poynton and Adling-
ton Collieries,.Macclestield. within three miles of Congleton, by
the reservoir at Leek, within five or six miles of the Potteries,
(to which a Branch can easily be carried,) near Tean, Cheadle,
Uttrixeter, and Burton-upon-Trent; and adds, it is calculated
" that the distance from Manchester to London by this route
will be math shorter than any other which can be taken."
Upon what data this " calculation" has been founded we can-
not undertake to determine, but we believe it will be obvious to
any person who carefully examines a map of England that if pas-
sengers by this line from Manchester to London are to go by way
of Birmingham, they will have not a " much shorter" but a de-
cidedly longer journey than by the Cheshire Junction and the
Grand Junction lines; what distance the South Union Company
may save by abandoning Birmingham cannotbe ascertained with-
out further information than the company have vouchsafed to
afford, but we confidently state our belief that, even after mak-
ing this sacrifice, the journey to London by the South Union
Line, will be longer than by the Cheshire Junction and the
Grand Junction lines. -
• But, were it otherwise, the saving of a mile or two in distance
is a matter of very small consideration when compared with the
great and undeniable advantages in the gradients which the
Cheshire Junction line presents over its rival. Hitherto, it is
believed that no survey has been made of the courtly through
which the South Union line is proposed to be carried, but its pro-
jectors are compelled to admit, at the outset, that they must
have recourse to " an inclined plane," with an assistant engine
near Macclesfield.
What this " inclined plane" must be, and what kind of " as-
sistance" will be requisite to surmount it, we have no doubt our
Committee will be prepared to show in the course of a few days,
by publishing comparative sections of their own line, and of
• such parts of the South Union line as they can ascertain.
It will then be for the public to judge whether the important
'traffic from Manchester and the populous and opulent district
An.. which it is situated ought to be carried over the hills and
through the crooked valleys, in order to afford some imaginary
advantages to the towns of Leek' and Macclesfield.
We feel satisfied that when all the facts are known, and dis-
passionately considered, the decisions of the public and a com-
mittee of the House of Commons will be in favourof the Cheshire
Junction line; and we have only to request that • any opinion
upon the merits of the new line may be suspended until the
projectors shall have published their plans, and taken their
levels. WHEELER and MARRIOTT.