The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-01-07 00:00:00

COMPARATIVE TRAFFIC FOR 1838 AND 1839.

1838. 1839.
London to Maidenhead. London to Twyford.
£6,913 2 8 £12,710 0 0
7,154 10 5 12,360 17 5
7,579 19. 1 11,449 15 11
6,259 19 2 11,365 10 11
4,438 1 9 8,455 8 9
4,969 4 11 9,544 6 6

July
August .
September
October
November
December

£37,314 18 0
... 100

£65,885 19 6
176

Or as.

Distances
Or as.

221 miles
100

LEAMINGTON RAILWAY.
The projected line fronr Coventry to 'Leamington and
Warwick, is about eight and a half miles, and we understand
that the celebrated engineer, Mr. Stevenson, has gone over
the same, and expressed a most favourable opinion. of the
fac lity that the country offers, and the comparative'y low
rate at which it may be completed. It has been submitted to
the directors of the London:and Birmingham Railway Com-
pany, who highly approve the same, and have promised to
render every assistance towards its accomplishment. We
learn also that the Earl of Warwick, aware of the advantage

it will prove to the towns of Warwick and Leamington, will
support the application to parliament. We should be happy
could we add that Lord Leigh was a warm supporter ; but al-
though his lordship did oppose the line at first proposed (at
which no one Ought to feel surprise, as it cut direct through
the magnificent park of Stoneleigh, and passed near to his
noble mansion), yet the amended line leaving the latter at a
distance of two miles, removes these great and formidable
objections, and we doubt not that his lordship will, seeing
the great advantage it is likely.to prove to the public, be
induced to act with his accustomed noble and well-known

liberal feelings, and consent to the line as now proposed ; by
so doing he will . probably make some sacrifice of personal
feelinn-, but he will benefit his tenantry by giving greater
facility for conveying their produce—save them the present
not trifling expense of keeping the roads in repair, which are
too much cut up by the constant traffic of coal carts and nu-
merous other vehicles, that pass along to Leamington, will
also afford great accommodation to the public, and considera-
bly benefit Coventry, Leamington, and Warwick, the towns
near which he dwells, and which mainly consume the produce
of the respectable tenantry on his princely estate.
The immense number of persons who, with their fami-
lies, visit Leamington, from London, Manchester, and
Liverpool, and being engaged in the learned professions or
mercantile pursuits, can be absent, therefrom, for a short
time only, (leaving their families at Leamington,) Would be
enabled often to visit them when 4} or 5 hours only were occu-
pied in the transit each way, and which would be the
Case if the proposed Railroad was adopted ; but who, after
travelling 90 or 100 miles in 4 or 41 hours, are dragged along
the remaining ten in. but little less than half the time ; thus,
to and fro, are three hours of valuable time sacrificed, which
might be saved ; and if sued how -many more persons would
avail themselves of such a delightful retreat from the fatigues
of body and mind ! The greater the number of visitors at
Leamington, and the more convenient, cheap, and expediti-
ous the transit to Coventry, the more would that city be bene-
fitted by such additional number of visitors to whom its mag-
nificent churches, noble hall, and other antiquarian remains
must always be.objects of interest. Let but Coventry lend
a helping hand with the influential projectors, aided by the
spirited inhabitants of Leamington, and success will, we trust,
speedily crown their exertions.—Coventry Herald.

*EEIZI4Y RETURNS OF TRAFFIC ON RAILWAYS.

Passen- P.mile Panile Passeng
NAME. Cash. I
gers. pr.wk. p. day. per day
X. X. X.
Birmingham — 106881 95 131
South Western — 2186 371 51
Great Western .. 2007 651 j 9+
Greenwich 25999 8961 2361 3.3 i 3714
Manchester& Leeds 11585 6451 471 61 1655
Birming. &Derby — 787 204 I 3
York &N. Midland 20421 3981 271 j 4 291
Croydon
Midland Counties 37984 3234 21 3 5421
Eastern Counties 5155 7361
Glasgow & Ayr...: 13861 231
Ulster —
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