The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-05-14 00:00:00

eittratton.

INSTRUCTION IN FRENCH AND ITALIAN.
I DE LA CLAVERIE begs to inform his Friends
• and the Public that, having retuned from the
Continent, he has RESUMED his TUITION in the
FRENCH and ITALIAN LANGUAGES.

Terms, &c. may be known at his Restdence, 17, Great
Orford-street, where may be had the best Elementary
Works for the Study of the above Languages.

LIVERPOOL COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION.

VISITOR.
The Right Rev. the LORD BISHOP of CHESTER.

PRINCIPAL.
The Rev. W. J. CONYBEARE, M.A.,

LATE FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.
rrHE following UNIVERSITY EXHIBITIONS
I- have been founded in connexion with the UPPER
SCHOOL of this Institution, each tenable for 3-1- years,
one of which will be filled up Annually, according to the
following table:—

following table:— - - - -
Tenable at When Candidates Ensttranct Rotirts.
Name cf the Yearly what first must have __
Exhibition. ' Value. University. vacant. entered before
BRITISH COMMERCIAL LIFE INSURANCE
The MACNEILE June,
Oxford, COMPANY,
EXHIBITION.
£4O. Cambridge 1845. August,lB44.
or Dublin. No. 35, CORNHILL, LONDON.
Established in 1820.
The GLADSTONE INCORPORATED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT.
EXHIBITION. *
£3O. Oxford. June,
Feb., 1815.
1846. CAPITAL £600,000.
PATRON—His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex.
The MASTERS'
Oxford, June, DIRECTORS.
£5O. CambridgeAut,lBls.
1847. gus Sir Robert Alexander, Bart. Sebastian G. Martinez,Es
EXHIBITION. or Dublin. Thomas Benson, Esq. Archbd. Fred.Paxton,Esc
John Cattley, Esq. Wm. Henry Porter, Esq.
The CANNING* n Not vet June, A .ugust,lB46. John Cox, Esq. Denzil I. Thomson, Esq.
EXHIBITION. 3‘." fixed. 1848. i 1 George Green, Esq. _ Geo.H.Weatherhead,M.]

Sir Robert Alexander, B:11C Sebastian G. Martinez,Esq
Thomas Benson, Esq. Archbd. Fred. Paxton,Esq.
John Cattley, Esq. Wm. Henry Porter, Esq.
John Cox, Esq. I Denzil I. Thomson, Esq.
George Green, Esq. Geo.H.Weatherhead,M.D
Managing Director—E. Fernie, Esq.
.Actuary—J. Goddard, Esq.
Auditors—T. Gorton, Esq. D. Grove, Esq.
Physician—Septinaus Wray, M.D., Salisbury-square,
Fleet-street.

* The GLADSTONE and CANNING Exhibitions will be
probably increased before the first vacancy.
Lord FRANCIS EGERTON also gives an Annual Prize
of £2l.

Two Potter Scholarships and Two Mac Neile Scholar-
ships (each of the value of £lO 10s.) an annually vacant
in the MIDDLE SCHOOL. There are also Two Nomina-
tions annually/row/ the Middle to the Upper School.
Four 214olyneux Scholarships and Two Mac Neile Scho-
larships are annually vacant in the LOWED. SCHOOL, each
of the value of a free nomination to that school. There
are also Two Nominations annually from the Lower to
the Middle School.

Bankers—Messrs. Glyn, Halifax, Mills, and Co. London
THE Directors offer to the Public two modes of In-
surance,—the one securing a fixed amount without
profits, on payment of a low Annual Premium—the other,
entitling the Insurer to participate in the profits on pay-
ment of a higher rate.
At the septennial division in December, 1835, a:Bonus
of £26 7s. 10d. upon the premiums paid was declared
amongst the Insurers on the high Scale, and at theisecond
sexennial division up to December, 1841, another Bonus
was declared, averaging £3O 14s. per Cent. on the Pre-
miums paid.

Pees.—Upper School, £2l, (Sons of Clergymen £l6
165.), and £l5 in the Preparatory Class.
Several of the Professors and Masters receive Boarders.
A detailed Prospectus may be had on application at the
College.

Insurances for one and seven years effected at very re-
duced rates.
One-third of the Premiums on Insurances for the Whole
of Life is permitted to remain unpaid for the first seven
years, and is then continued as a permanent loan if de-
sired.

THE NORTHERN CHURCH OF ENGLAND
SCHOOL,

F ou. THE SONS OF CLERGYMEN St OTHER GENTLEMEN,

ROSSALL HALL,
NEAR FLEETWOOD-ON-WYRE.

Persons going to any part of the world and all special
risks are insured at adequate premiums.
The Company's Policies are purchased at their full
value. Claims are paid in three months after satisfactory
proof of death.

VISITOR.
The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Chester.
PRESIDENT.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Derby.
VICE-PEESIDENTS.
The Right Hon. Lord Francis Egerton, M.P.
The Right Hon. Lord Stanley, M.P.
The Right lion. the Earl of Balcarres.
The light Hon. Lord Skelmersdale.
The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Norwich.
The Hon. and Very Rev, the Dean of Manchester.
The Venerable the Archdeacon of Manchester.
The Rev. the Chancellor of the Diocese of Chester.
The Rev., the Rector of Winwick.
Peter Greensll, Esq., M.P.
J. Wilson Patten, Esq., M.P.
Fielden, Esq., M.P.
W. Tattoo Eger ton, Esq., M.P.

- Tables of Rates, with every information, will be given
by the nudernamed Agents.
By order of the Board,
EBENR. FERNIE, Managing Director.

LOCAL COMMITTEE FOR LIVERPOOL.
Joseph Cooper, Esq.
Joshua Renshaw, Esq. ...... Ranelach-street.
James Johnson, Esq.
William Geddes, Esq. Temple-place.

MEDICAL REFEREE.
Thomas Blackburn, Esq., Camden-street.
AGENTS.
Messrs. SHORTHOUSE and 11ADDEN,
1, Dale-street.

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

The Rev. John Owen Parr, Vicar of Preston, Chairman.
The Rev. Ellis Ashton, Vicar of Huy-ton.
The Rev. W. H, Brandreth, Rector of Standish.
The Rev. Richard Durnford, Rector of Middleton.
The Rev. Edward Girdlestone, Vicar of Deane.
The Rev. H. J. Gunning, Rector of Wigan.
The Rev. Charles Hesketh, Rector of North Meols.
The Rev. William Hornby, St. Michael's.
The Rev. John Hull, Vicar of Poulton.
The Rev. R. M. Master, Incumbent of Burnley.
The Rev. J. Streynsham Master, Chorley.
The Rev. R. Parkinson, Canon of Manchester.
The Rev. R. B. Robinson, Incumbent of Lytham.
The Rev. James Slade, Canon of Chester.
The Rev. J. W. Whittaker, D.D., Vicar of Blackburn-.
Peter Bourne, Esq., Liverpool.
Thomas Clifton, Esq., Lytham-hall.
Daniel Elleteon, Esq., Parrox-hall.
J. Nowell Farington, Esq., Worden.
Joseph lit-lden. Esq., Witton.
T. R. Wilson Ffrance, Esq., Rawcliffe-hall.
E. G. Hornby, Esq., Castle Park.
George Jacson, Esq., Barton.
John Master, Esq., Croston.
Lawrence Rawstorne, Esq., Penwortham.

The'Rev. ST. VINCENT BEECHEY,lncumbent of Thorn,
ton and Fleetwood, Hon. Sec. pro tern.
CLEMENT Rorns, Esq., Rochdale, Treasurer.
tANKERS.
Messrs. PEDPER and Co.,Preston.
Messrs. DENtgON and Co., 'London.

ri HE above School is to be founded upon nearly the
A- same principle as that of the School for the Sons of
Clergymen and others at Marlborough, but with a lower
annual payment for the sons of lay•nen, and a smaller
nomination fee.

The management is ,?laced in the'hands of a Council
of • twenty-four, composed of the • principal clergy and
laity of the neighbourhood ; of whom fourteen shall be
clergymen, and ten laymen, with power to fill up vacan-
cies. Seven of this number shall have power to act in
Committee. The Bishop of the Diocese shall•a'.ways be
the Visitor.

The system of Education will resemble that in the
School connected with King's College, London, and in
the Marlborough School, and will consist of systematic
Religious Instruction, -Sacred Literature, Classics, Ma-
thematics, Modern Languages, Drawing, Music, &c.
A donation of £25, ''the holding of two £25 shares,
fully paid up, will entitle the bolder, or donor, to one
nomination. A donation of £5O, or the holding of ;four
shares of £25 each, will constitute the holder, or donor.
a Life Governor, and entitle him to have always one Pupil
in the School on his nomination. Shares to bear not ex-
ceedinc, five per cent. interest out of the clear annual
profits,' and to be paid oil-as soon as possible. SucSuch:pay-
ment, however, not to destroy the right of nomination
during the life of a Governor. Pupils so nominated, and
Sons of Laymen, will pay £4O; if Sous of Clergymen,
.30 4,nnually. The number of Laymen is not limited.
An easy method of paying the Nomination Fee, by in-
stalments, during the early years of a pupil, upon the
principle of Life Insurance, is provided for the Sons of
Clergymen after the first opening of the School. and Pupils
thus admitted will pay only £25 annually during the first
eight years of their residence at the School. The pay-
ments, in all cases, to inelkide every expense except Books.
The Provisional Committee are happy to state that the
Bishop of the Diocese hastxpressed his entire approbation
of the ,doove Institution, which will, it is hoped, prove
highly beneficial to that class of society whose wants it
principally aims at supplying. They trust it will be seen
that in carrying out this object, they have not studied the-
private advantage of any individuals, but solely the in-
terests of -the Clergy and the public at large. The same
motive has-entirely guided them in the selection of a site. I
They have felt that to raise ahuilding expressly for the
purpose would occasion a larger outlay of capital than
they are likely to obtain by the low rate of, nomination
which it has(heen deemed expedient to adopt ; and, they
therefore, propose to avail themselves of the offer of
Rossal-hall,-the seat of Sir P. H. Fleetwood, Bart. This
mansion is eminently adapted to the purpose, on account
of its size and situation. It has many suites of rooms,
and very convenient offices. it -is .situated on the sea
shore, in a very healthy and retired -part of the c )ast of
Lancashire, with good sands, meadows well-adapted for
play-grounds, and very produ'etive gardens. It is two
miles from Fleetwood, in the parish of Poulton-le-Fylde ;
and accessible by,railway and sea from all the manufactur-
ing towns in the North of England, from the North of
Ireland, the Isle of Man, and Scotland. 'ln addition to
former vessels, first-class steam veesels -now run twice a
week to and from Dublin, thereby enabling students to
keep their terms at that University with great-facility.

At a MEETING ,of the PROVISIONAL COM-
MITTEE, held at PRESTON, on TUESDAY, the 7th
instant, the Rev. IL GUNNING, Rector of Wigan, in
the Chair,
it was Resolved,

That the sum .01-i,r,000 being now subscribed in Dona-

tions and Shares, the Committee consider themselves
authorised to take steps for the opening of the School, as
soon :after Midsummer as the arrangements with respect
to the house and Masters will permit.
That.a General Meeting be lld in Preston 01.1 Wednes.-
day, June 12th, at Three o'clock in the Afternoon, when
the Bishop of Chester has kindly consented to take the
Chair, for the purpose of affirming the above Resolution,
and such others as may appear necessary for carrying it
into effect.

That the Committee are now prepared to receive the
names of Gentlemen, being in Holy Orders, and M.A. at
least of the Universities of Oxford or Cambridge, who may
be desirous of filling the situation of Head Master. The
Salary will he upon a graduated scale aceording to the
numoer of Scholars, but not less than £6OO per annum,
with apartments. The Education is expected to be such
as will qualify the Pupils for the Universities, and the
Testimonials must be sent in to the Secretary, if possible,
before the expiration of the present month.
That Clement Royds, Esq., of Rochdale, be appointed
Treasurer to the Institution.
That the Treasurer be directed to request payment of
the Subscriptions forthwith—the same to be paid either
into his bands, or those of Messrs. Pedder and Co.,
Preston ; or Messrs. Denison and Co., of London ; to the
account of the Northern Church of England School.
That the thanks of the meeting be given to the Chair-
man.

All applications for Prospectuses or Nominations to be
addressed to the Secretary, the 1,
ST. VINCENT
BEECHEY, Thornton Parsonage, near Preston, by whom
also Donations and Subscriptions in support of such a
Public School for our Rural Districts in the North will be
thankfully acknowledged.

PROSPECTUS OF THE ABERDEEN RAILWAY.

CAPITAL, £1,000,000, in SHARES qt.£2o EACH.

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

THOMAS BLAIKIE, Esq., Lord Provost of the City

of Aberdeen, Chth.rman,

The Riglit Honourable the Earluf Erroll, K.T., Lord-
Lieutenant of Aberdeenshire,
The Right Honourable the Earl of Kintore,
ViscountThLeießuitgenhtanHtoonfouKrianbelaerdthi,7esh;e,, Arbuthnott, Lord-
The Right Honourable the Lord Turbos,
The Right Honourable the Lord .Pannaure,
The Proi-ost of Dundee,
The Provost of Arbroath,
The Provost of Montrose,
The Provost of Forfar.
The Provost of Bream.
Alexander Bannerman, Esq., M.P. for the City of Aber-
deen,
Edward'Ellice, Esq., M.P. for the East Fifeshire Burghs,
George'Duncan, Esq., M.P. for .Dundee,
The Count Leslie, of Balquhain,
John Adam, Esq., of Scobbach,
Captain Bexclay, of Ury and Allardice,
David Bla kie, Esq., of the firm of John Blaikie and
Sons, Aberdeen,
Major-General Byres, of Tonley,
Newell Burnett, Esq., Aberdeen,
Patrick Chalmers, Esq., of Auldbar,
Lewis Crombie, Esq., one of the•Baillies of Aberdeen,
William. F. L. Carnegie, Esq., of Spynie and Boysack,
Robert Duff, Esq., of Cutter andfFetteresso,
Thomas Abercrornby Duty, Esq.,,of Haddo,
Duncan Davidson, Esq., of Tillychetly,
James Farquharson, Esq., of Invercauld,
James Farquhar, Esq., of Hallgreen, Kincardinshire, one
of the Directors of the Union Bank of London,
James Farquharson, Esq., Manufacturer, Auchinblae,
Colonel Fraser, of Inverallochy and Castle Fraser,
Robert Grant, Esq., of Tillyfour, Convener of Aber-
deenshire,
'Colonel Gorden, of Park, Convener of Banffshire.
Alexander'Gibbon, Esq., of Johnston.
John Gordon, Esq., of Avochie and Drumlithie,
Andrew Gammell, Esq., of Drumtoclity Castle,
John Taylor Gordon, Esq., of Nethermuir,
James Hadden, jun., Esq., of the firm of Alexander
Hadden and Sons,
Frederick ,Holland, Esq., of the firm of Richards and
Company,
John Angus, Esq., City Clerk of Aberdeen,
William tunes, Esq., of Raemoir, Convener of Kincar-
dineshire,
Alextuader.Jopp, Esq., Aberdeen,
James Kilgour, 3.Esq., of the firm of Gordon, Barron, and
Company,
Clements Lumsden, Esq., Aberdeen,
Alexander Morrison, Esq., of Bognie and Monthlairy,
Isaac Mtichray, Esq.., Torry Farm, Mail Coach Contrac-
tor, Aberdeen,
John Morice, Esq., of Tullos, Kincardineshire, Merchant
in London,
Alexander Piffle, jun., Esq., of the firm of Alexander
PierieManager of the North of Scot-
landC.B., Bengal Engineers, of
Faidey, Aberdeenshire, residing in Liverpool,
Henryr
Banking George andate
on s
I,
Company,
El 0 s so n
aio
George Thompson, jun., Esq., Shipowner in Aberdeen,
David Wyllie, Esq., Cashier of the Banking Company,
Aberdeen. .

BANKERS.
The Banking Company in Aberdeen and Branches,
The North of Scotland Banking Company, Aberdeen and
Branches.
The Royal Bank of Scotland and Branches,
The Union Bank of Scotland and Do., Edinburgh]
The Commercial Bank of Scotland and Do.,
Sir Richard Carr Glynn and Co.,
Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, Tritton, and C 0.., London,
The Union Bank of London,
Messrs. Beckett and Company, Leeds,
The Commercial Banking ompany, Liverpool.
EERS.
Messrs. Grainger and Miller, Edinburgh,
Messrs. John Gibb, and Alexander Gibb, Aberdeen,

Aeied as
RAILWAY, connecting the City of Aberdeen with
the southern lines through the populous towns of
Dundee, Perth, Abroath, Forfar, Brecbin, Montrose, and
Stonehaven, and the numerous towns and villages in
thishas
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br teaennt a
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far back as the year 1837. The execution of the under_
taking however, was deferred until .the chain of railway
s communication should be further advanced. Thi has
now taken place. Railways have been completed or are
projected from England and the south and west of Scot-
land to the southern termini of the present line. A fresh
survey and estimate having been obtained, the undertak-
ing has since received the sanction of the Noblemen and
Gentlemen, Proprietors of the greater part of the land§

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, BASINGUALL-SPREET,
MAY 9.

(Before Mr. Commissioner Fonblanque.)
IMPORTANT TO LOAN SOCIETIES.-THE INSOLVENT LAW

lOINT OF PRACTICE.

His Honour said, in an insolvent case which came be-
fore him this morning, he should take especial care not to
allow solicitors attending on the part of loan societies to
oppose insolvents, without they appeared properly clothed
with authority. It appeared, in the case alluded to, that
the insolvent was opposed by a secretary of a loan society,
who had deputed a solicitor to attend ; but as the pro-
missory note upon which the money had been advanced
was only made out in the name of one party, and the so-
licitor did not pretend to say that he had been directed by
that party to attend, his honour declared he had no locus
slandi in the court. On the other hand, if attending as
the representative of the society, the promissory note
ought to contain all the names of the partners associated ;
but that was net the case, and hence there was a fatal ob-
jection on that ground. The commissioners were deter-
mined, his honour said, to give no facility to loan societies,
in the administration of bankruptcy or insolvency, without
those societies chose to undergo the ordeal and test of ap-
plolg-, for charters, and submitting to the pains and
penalties therein contained, since it was most certain that
numbers of them worked much evil among the community.
Mr. Sturgeon, who raised the point, said, in one case
which had passed through his hands, a poor cobbler, for
an advance of £2, had been obliged to pay two shillings
per week, for twelve months:
Mr. Commissioner Fonblanque said, he did not mean
to say that the society now seeking to oppose was op-
pressive in their charges or proceeding, but of this he was
quite certain, that many of them were the engines of ex-
tortion to those whom they proposed to assist. He was
therefore desirous that this determination of the court
should be as speedily promulgated as possible.

NORTHUMBERLANt AND DURHAM.--We regret to say
that the strike amongst the pitmen in this district still
continues, and with no certain prospect of a speedy ter-
mination. Laying aside the merits of the question, the
simultaneous inaction of twenty thousand men, hitherto
busily employed in carrying on the staple trade of Durham
and Northumberland, is an event that must seriously
affect every minor and subordinate interest, and if long per-
sisted in, can produce no other than the most calamitous
results.—Newcastle Advertiser.

1 HYDROPATHY.—A most interesting letter appears in
the London Times of yesterday, relative to the water cure,
and signed by the Earl of Lichfield, Sir G. Webster, Bart.
and twenty other gentlemen of England, including Mas-
ters of Art, Captains, and others of the first respectability,
now resident at Graefenberg, near Freiwalden, strongly
recommending the system from their own experience and
that of others ; and with particular reference to the death
lately of Sir F. Burdett, " which had been erroneously
seized upon as a means of deprecating it in the estimation
of the British public." They state that it was no wonder
a gentleman of the active habits of Sir P. Burdett, of 74
years of age, should die after having used the cure for a
short time, and then abandoning it for a new remedy.
That gentleman had left it off for several weeks before his
death, and when he relinquished it, declared that he had
never been so well for many years. "He returned to ha-
bits (say they) at variance with the cure ; inflammation
attacked him—grief for the loss of his wife overwhelmed
him—and he died." They do not say that inflammation
would not have occurred had he not left off the water cure,
bnt assert, from experience, that under it inflammation is
rare, and, when it appears, easily suppressed. The sub-
scribers then enter into a variety of instances of the ex-
traordinary efficacy of the cure that have fallen under
their own observation, or may be otherwise attested. They
say, "at different seasons of the last year, 1843, from the
Ist of January to the last day of December inclusive,
there were at Graefenberg 1050 patients, amongst whom
there were but 4 deaths, and it has come to our knowledge
that in the last two out of the four instances the patients
had come too late to derive any benefit from the cure, and
from the first were pronounced to be incurable by Priess-
nitz. We believe this report to be unparalleled, not only
in hospital returns generally, but even in the ordinary bills
of mortality. " After adducing a number of other facts,
they thus proceed :—a'l'e recommend only a fair trial ;
" Magna est veritas et prevalebit." For ourselves we
have heard, we have seen, we have tried, and, whilst most
of us consulted very eminent medical practitioners, and
strictly adhered to their prescriptions, we hesitate not to
say, that though eventually we may not all be radically
and entirely cured, yet, without having a particle of me-
dicine administered to us, many of us have already re-
ceived more benefit under the water treatment than from
anything we had previously tried. It is simple, safe,
strengthening, neeessarily connected with strict temper-
ance, and conducive to more equanimity and cheerfulness.
They conclude by stating, that while some diseases re-
quire but one, two, or three months in order to a cure
being effected, others require years, and that some few arc
as incurable by water as by any other known remedy.

THE RAILWAYS BETWEEN MANCHESTER

AND ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE.

It may be asked of us, whilst introducing the subject
of these rival undertakings to our readers,—" What in-
terest have the people of Liverpool in the mode of com-
munication by which Manchester is to be connected with
the manufacturing towns of Ashton-under-Lyne and
Stalybridge, neither of which occupy a very leading
position in the map of the world ? " Our answer will be
this. Very small affairs, in eppearance. lead often to
very great results ; and the settlement of this apparently
unimportant junction. railway will be found ultimately to
exercise very considerable influence upon the prosperity
of an undertaking in which the people cf this locality are
deeply interested—viz., the Liverpool and Manchester
Railway. We will endeavour to explain how this is to
i occur; and, n the first instance, briefly describe the rival
plans themselves :
The main line of the Sheffield and Manchester Railway
passes within about three quarters of a mile of the town
of Ashton, and about two and a quarter from Stalyb.-idge ;
and was originally intended to have communicated with
these two places by a branch of about two miles and a half
long, running through the former, and terminating in a
central part of the latter. Some opposition, however,
arising from feelings of local jealousy, occurred on the
part of some of the influential manufacturers in the neigh-
bourhood, who wanted their own locality to be approached
by the main line itself, and not merely joined to it by a
branch; and from this and other causes, such branch was
abandoned as a part of the undertaking.
The facilities which it would have afforded, however,
at length became so evident, that the directors of the
Sheffield and Manchester line were urged to resuscitate
the project. The branch was again surveyed; the bulk
of the land, which belongs for almost the whole length to
the Earl of Stamford and Warrington, was contracted for,
and the remainder purchased from the respective owners ;
and, having deposited their plans and taken the necessary
preliminary steps for an application to parliament, the
Sheffield and Manchester Company, we believe, proceeded
to the actual execution of the works. But here an un-
expected opposition arose. The Manchester and Leeds
Company, whose main line does not even approach Ash-
ton or Stalybridge, came forward with an opposition
branch (!) some six or seven miles in length, (the distance
to be formed by the proposed Sheffield branch being, to
Ashton three quarters of a mile, and to Stalybridge about
two miles and a quarter ;) and after much manoeuvring
and stirring up of local influences and jealousies, in-
duced a public meeting of the inhabitants, called upon
the subject of the respective merits of the two branches,
to declare that they (who four or five years ago re-
jected one of them as useless) could now do with
both I With this declaration to back them the
Leeds Company, with their absurd scheme, went
before parliament as a competing project to the le-
gitimate line of the Sheffield Company; and—strange
fatuity of a public tribunal !—the committee of the House
of Commons have, by deciding the preamble of both bills
to be proved, in effect given their sanction to THE FOR-
MATION OF TWO RIVAL RAILWAYS BETWEEN THE
SAME TERMINI, AT THE SAME TIME, the one making
the distance between such termini nearly double that by
the other

Under such circumstances, it may be argued that,
surely with such an utter hopelessness of a profitable
competition by their inefficient line against the better
and shorter one of the Sheffield Company, the directors
of the Leeds Company will not, after all, notwithstanding
their having succeeded before a committee of the
House of Commons, proceed to expend the capital of
their proprietary by its formation. Such would be the case,
were there not an under current at work, and ulterior
objects to be obtained by them which do not lie upon the
surface. Those objects may, in part, be divined by a
perusal of the following paragraph, which appeared in the
London Standard of Monday, the 6th inst., so evidently
biassed and untrue in statement, that we could scarcely
have believed that our respectable contemporary would
have given it insertion in his columns. After noticing
the fact, which we have already stated, of the preamble
of both bills being agreed to, the Standard remarks :

" This result is a triumph for the Manchester end Leeds Com
patty, and ' a heavy blow and great discouragement' to th. -
Sheffield and Manchester, being the second, we believe we
ought to say the third, parliamentary defeat sustained by the
latter company during the present session—defeats to which it
has exposed itself by its manitold attempted inroads upon the
territories of its neighbours. At the last meeting of the Man-
chester and Leeds Railway the chairman stated that that Com-
pany would not have thought of carrying a line to Ashton in
opposition to the Sheffield Company, if the Sheffield directors
had not threatened an invasion of the Manchester and Leeds line.
Even now the heffield directors have yet anott er competing
project in hand for the next session, unless, indeed, their past
nrn-sue ess should have the salutary effect of inducing them to
pause. Whether this be the case or not, Ashton is wholly in-
debted to the monopolising schemes of the Sheffield Company,
for the possession of two lines of railway to Manchester ; one
of which, the Liverpool Junction, will give it an uninterrupted
railway communication with the great ports of • Liverpool and
Huil. as well as with that vast hive of wealth and industry which
constitutes the all but continuous town traversed through its
whole length by the Manchester and Leeds Railway. The
Sheffield directors have been the unwitting instruments of
conferring upon Ashton facilities of communication which must
add immensely to its importance as a manufacturing empo-
rium."

Now we submit that nothing more damning than this,
coming as it evidently does from the Leeds Company,
need be urged before the whole house, or as a dernier re-
sort before a committee of the House of Lords, to ensure
a rejection of this Leeds abortion. No sane man can-for-
a moment argue that the towns of Ashton and Staly-
bridge will be benefitted by being enabled to travel twelve
or thirteen miles to Manchester, instead of seven or eight,
or by having even the option of so doing. No man will
maintain that it can be good for the public that " a heavy
blow and a great discouragement" should be levelled
against the Sheffield or any other line; or that the Leeds
Company should be enabled to enjoy the gratification' of
having injured a rival, without benefiting the public or
themselves. But here lies the real ground of all this
glorification; and here we would request the attention of
our Liverpool readers.
Some two years ago it will be remembered the Leeds
Company succeeded in inducing the directors of the Li-
verpool and Manchester Railway to form a junction
line, by the southern bank of the river Irwell to
a station at Hunt's Bank, the latter company having an
avowed preference for a line to the south of Manchester,
which would bring them into connexion with the Man-
chester and Birmingham, and Sheffield and Manchester
lines, and the important towns of Stockport, Macclesfield,
Congleton, &c., on the former, and Ashton, Stalybridge,
Hyde, Mottram, Glossop, &c., on the other. We our-
selves urged at the time upon the Liverpool and Man-
chester board the importance of standing out for such
southern junction; but it was ultimately ruled other-
wise, partly, no doubt, in the confident anticipa-
tion that such southern junction would ultimately
be made notwithstanding the existence of the junc-
tion by the Irwell. Let us see, then, how the prospect
of a junction with the railways south and southeast
of Manchester is effected by the success of this Leeds and
Ashton junction. In the first place, it will be urged
against any southern junction that the traffic from Ashton,
&c., to Liverpool is provided for by the roundabout line
by way of Oldham to Manchester, and thence forward
by the Irwell line. There remains, therefore, only the
traffic of Stockport, &c., to be provided for; and we
speak advisedly when we say that a line will not be
granted through the heart of the town of Manchester to
provide for lids traffic only. So long as the passengers
to Liverpool from two important lines were to be accom-
modated, there was a strong—an irresistible case—for
such a junction ; but now there is no case whatever, and
as the result of the non-formation of that junction, the
lines interested in it must look forward to a serious
diversion of their traffic.

It is plain, then, that some prompt steps must be taken
to prevent an iiconvenience and an injury so serious ;
and to the directors of the Liverpool and Manchester
line we can suggest nothing so likely to be advantageous
to their interests as a vigorous opposition to this absurd
Leeds and Manchester project before the committee of
the House of Lords. In the success of such an opposi•
tion they are vitally interested ; and we trust they will
not hesitate in throwing their influence into the scale to
prevent this meditated " heavy blow and great discou-
ragement" being inflicted uponla friendly company.