The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-05-27 00:00:00

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That two-thirds of the wheat and potatoes, the staple
agricultural produce of the district, produced from an ex
tent of ninety square miles, contiguous to Ormskirk, i
disposed of in the densely populous manufacturing dis
tricts of Preston, Blackburn, Accrington, Chorley
Burnley, Colne, Bolton, Darwen, and Manchester, b
means of carts and canal, at an enormous cost
loss of time and labour to the agriculturist.
That your Petitioners will be much injured in conse-
quence of the increasing facilities of conveyance by
Railway communication to the manufacturing districts,
about to be afforded to the growers of Irish produce, with
whom, in consequence of the smallness of rents, wages,
and taxes, paid in that country, as compared with those
paid in this district, your Petitioners will be unable to
compete, should not equal facilities be afforded them, by
some more direct and expeditious communication with the
same markets.
That Ormskirk is peculiarly adapted for manufactures,
from its natural resources, its coal, (which is particularly
applicable to manufacturing purposes,) its contiguity to a
district which has been aptly termed the Granary of Lan-
cashire, its redundant population, and especially from the
abundance and purity of its water, which has been pro-
nounced unequalled, in Lancashire, for print, and chemi-
cal and other works.
That your Petitioners conceive that a Line of Railway
which would bring them in direct communication with
the Port of Liverpool, and with Preston and Blackburn,
and the manufacturing districts east of the latter town,
would be of incalculable benefit to your Petitioners ; and
is indispensably necessary, as your Petitioners conceive,
or they will be placed at a manifest disadvantage, com-
pared with other districts provided with Railway commu-
nication.
That two several Bills are now pending in your ho-
hourable House, respectively entitled " A Bill for making
a Railway from Southport to join the North Union Rail-
way at Buxton, all in the County of Lancaster," and "A
Bill for enabling the Liverpool and Manchester Railway
Company to extend and enlarge the said Railway, and to
make certain Branch Railways, and for amending and
enlarging the powers of the several Acts relating to the
said Railway," which have for their object, the making of
indirect Lines of Railway, which will inflict serious injury
on your Petitioners, passing, as they would do, at a con-
siderable distance from Ormskirk, and taking a circuitous
route (through a district almost destitute of population)
to the places of greatest moment to your Petitioners,
without any apparent or definite object, thereby rendering
them worse than useless to your Petitioners.
That your Petitioners are of opinion, that the Liver-
pool, Ormskirk, and Preston project, with its Branches,
having for its object the most direct Railway communica-
tion with Preston and Blackburn, and passing through the
town of Ormskirk, is calculated to be of the greatest be-
nefit and advantage to your Petitioners and the public ge-
nerally.

a serious

That the Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston project
would not withdraw the legitimate traffice of any existing
Railway ; and if carried out, would tend to reduce the pre-
sent charge of tonnage from fifty to seventy-five per cent.
on the prescut expensive mode of transmission to the
tradesmen and agriculturists of the town of Ormskirk and
its district, besides being a great public advantage, in a
commercial and manufacturing point of view, by opening
a more direct communication with Preston, Lancaster,
Carlisle, and the north, as well as Blackburn, Burnley,
the east of Lancashire, and the west of Yorkshire, to the
Port of Liverpool.
That it is proposed to take one of the Branch Rail-
ways set forth in the last above mentioned Bills, and by
the eighth schedule to the said Bill, called the St. Helen's
and Rufford Branch, over the following roads on the level,
namely,—a certain highway in Bickerstaff, described as a
highway leading from Rainford to Ormskirk, numbered
106 on the plan ; two others, in Lathom, described re-
spectively as a highway from St. Helen's to Ormskirk,
numbered 58, and a highway from Ormskirk to Winn,
called Cross Hall Lane, and numbered 109; another high-
way, in Burscough, described as a highway leading from
Ormskirk to Lathom, called the Dark Lane, and num-
bered 2 ; another highway, in Burscough, described as
leading from Ormskirk to Tarlscough, numbered 128,
which will interfere with the free course of the said high-
ways respectively, and render them, if so crossed, unsafe
to your Petitioners and the Public.
Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray your honoura-
ble house that the said respective Bills may not be allowed
to pass into law as they now stand, and that your Peti-
tioners may be heard by themselves, their counsel, agents,
and witnesses against the respective preambles thereof.
and against such of the clauses and provisions in the said
Bills respectively contained as affect the rights and inter-
ests of your Petitioners, or that such other clauses and
provisions may be introduced in the said respective Bills
as may be necessary for the protection of such rights and
interests, and that your Petitioners may have such other
relief in the premises as to your honourable house may
seem meet.

And your Petitioners will ever pray, &c

WHITEHAVEN AND FURNESS JUNCTION

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RAILWAY.
LANCASHIRE EXTENSION.
COMMITTEE.
The Earl of Lonsdale, Chairman.
Matthias Atwood, Esq., M.P.
William Ormsby Gore, M.P.
William Thompson, Alderman, M.P.
Sir John Beckett, Bart., Stratford-place.
John Peile, Esq., Vice-chairman of the Whitehaven
Junction Railway.
Benjamin Currey, Esq., Palace-yard, Westminster.
James Clay, Esq., Alexander-square; Brompton.
Stephen Phillips, Esq., New Broad-street, London.
Richard Till, Esq., Guild Hall-buildings, London.
George Pew, Esq., R.N., Whitehaven.
Thomas Ainsworth, Esq., The Flosh, Cleator.
Peter Fisher, Esq., Whitehaven.
Rowland Penningt;,,Esq., Whitehaven.
William Miller, E Whitehaven.

/ SEONL: NITEOERRS.
Gorge Stephenson, Esq.
Messrs. Armitstead and Musgrave, Whitehaven.
Messrs. Royißlunt, Johnstone, and Walton, 37, Great
George-street, Westminster.

THE Provisional Committee of the Whitehaven and
Furness Junction Railway desire to acquaint the
shareholders of this undertaking, that in conformity with
their original prospectus, which they issued in December
last, it is their determination now to proceed with the ex-
tension of the Line Southwards, as then contemplated and
stated, (the surveys of which have been sometime in their
possession) with a view of extending the Whitehaven
Railway by way of Ulverston into Lancashire, and of con-
necting it with the large Manufacturing Districts in that
County and Yorkshire, for which purpose the necessary
steps will be taken for promoting a Bill in the ensuing
Session of Parliament, and due notice will be given
thereof.

By order of the Board,
JOHN MEYER, Secretary.
Guildhall-buildings, London, 91h May, 1845.