The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-10-22 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

We cannot inform " A Member" when Mr. Charles Kemble I
will deliver his readings at the Mechanics' Institution. The
lectures at the Collegiate Institution are invariably advertised
in all the Liverpool papers ; bit`, for some reason which we
cannot explain, the announcements of a similar description
at the Mechanics' are confined almost exclusively to the
Radical press.
A correspondent most pathetically deplores the great danger
passengers are exposed to, where our great areas, Ranelagh
place tor instance, and chief thoroughfares, are intersected
by other streets, in consequence f the rapid or furious driaing
of hired carriages ; more especia ly during the evenings of
winter &c., before the lamps are available. And when our
streets are lighted up,—he observes,—it is no easy task to keep
safe from the fearful perils alluded to.
The letter from Ormskick in or next.
The young lady who christened the George Canning Plot Boat
yesterday week was Miss Bullen and not Miss Banner, as we
erroneously stated.
Ve know nothing whatever of the party alluded to by " A
Churchman."
.1 An Assistant" and " Bearer" who addresses on the subject of
" holiday or half holiday along with the closing of the shops on the
day of the laying of the foundation stone on Wednesday next should
really have forwarded us their communications earlier. We should
have cordially seconded their views. At present we can only wish
them well, such an era in the history of this locality would have
waaranted a little sacrifice on the part of their employers, many of
forlorn, would, no doubt, like well enough to enjoy the scene them

Eby ttbrrpool &tanban.

TUESDAY MORNING, OCT. 22, 1844.

In another column we have offered a few remarks
upon the subject of the approaching Municipal
Election ; and find that, in doing the same, a con-
temporary of Saturday, the Journal, has thought
proper to raise an objection against the eligibility of
a gentleman, whose name is mentioned for the office
,of MaY•or for the ensuing year. We refer to Mr.
James Lawrence.

it seems that, by section 49 of the Municipal Ad,
it is provided "that on the 9th of November in
every year the council of the borough shall elect,
out of the aldermen or councillors of such borough,
a fit person to be the Mayor of such borough."
Mr. Lawrence happens to be amongst the number
of aldermen whose period of office expires on that
day; and the Journal, somewhat too hastily jumps
to the conclusion that, as such, being no longer one
of " the councillors or aldermen" he is legally in-
capacitated for election to the Mayoralty. For the.
satisfaction however, of our contemporary, and the
council, we beg to intimate that this very point has
already been raised before the Court pf Queen's
Bench, and twice decided in favour of the eligibility
of a retiring alderman under similar circumstances.
In the first of these the Queen v. Maddy, to be found
in the 18th volume of the Law Journal Reports, it
was decided that an outgoing alderman may be duly
elected mayor at the quarterly meeting on the 9th
of November; and that his election is not voided by
two outgoing aldermen having voted for him, such
outgoing aldermen continuing members of the
council until new ones are elected, which election
takes place after the election of mayor. In the
second case the Queen v. Stanley Lord Denman,
C.J. thus confirmed his former decision :
In the case of he Queen r. Stanley, Mr. Maddy, although
en retiring alderman, was still an alderman, and as such
one of the council, and eligible as mayor; and the election
of mayor being the first thing to be done at the quarterly
meeting on the 9th of November, was rightly elected
mayor. Being mayor end so, ex-officio. member of the
council, he was competent to givesany vote for which he
was not expressly disqualified ;. but any member of the
council, who is en out-going alderman, is expressly dis-
walifie,d from voting in the election of the new alderman.
IVir. Maddy wa sstill an out -going alderman, and subjeCt
to this disqualification. tie could not, therefore, vote'
originally for, Stanley's motion. if he could not vote
originally for him, the case never arose in which he would
have a casting vote for the tim, as mayor. It follows,
therefore, that Stanley was not duly elected."
So much then for the legal part of the question;
and now t hat we have had so prominently brought be-
fore us the consideration of Ms. Lawrence's claims to
the office, to which his friends are wishful to raise
aim, we may, however much we should have pre-
ferred leaving the selection in the hands of the
council, take the opportunity of saying a few words.
Mr. Lawrence has been a member of the Watch
Committee since the year 1836. He has sat as its
chairman for three years past; and the activity,
Thinness and impartiality which he has ever dis-
played in the discharge of his onerous duties cannot
be sufficiently admired. In cases of fire, especially,
be has always been amongst the first at his post,
and his services have been incalculable and most
praiseworthy. He is a member too of the markets
committee mi the highway board, upon which, as
in every department of the public service to which
he has devoted hithself, his attention has been most
unwearying and most useful. We know no greater
compliment that could be paid to the tradesmen of
the town—no appointment more likely to give
universal satisfaction—than Mr. Lawrence's elevation
to the office of chief magistrate.

The crisis in the affairs of Ireland appears now

about to arrive which all sensible men have long
ago anticipated. The arch agitator, Daniel, has
tbought proper to make a Jim Crow movement ;
to jump round from Repeal to the senseless and
ricketty crotchet called federalism; to defer the ex-
pression of the craving of Ireland's masses for
nationalists, and to become the fawning slave of a

a new Whig alliance. But in attempting this, he
bus a little mistaken his powers. The pirouette of
the old imposter appears destined to he a solo per-
formance; for alas, " young Ireland" refuses to
dance at his prompting, or to be dragged in the
mire of his selfish and tortuous policy.
The split already has betrayed itself, in a letter
addressed to O'Connell by Mr. Duffy, of the Nation,
one of his recent companions in prison; and we may
with certainty discover from the tone of the writer,
which is firm and yet respectful, that the slippery
agitator has now very different materials to work
upon from those which, in times past, he has moulded
to his will :—that, in fact, he has instilled principles
and awakened hopes in the breasts of those earnest
and ardent men, who may be regarded as the young
blood of Ireland, which will not be suppressed pr
postponed at his mere and selfish caprice. These
men have learnt to contemplate the reality of national
independence, which O'Connell, in his anxiety to
mystify the eyes of the British people, has inured
even himself to view as something too shadowy and
unsubstantial for accomplishment. Whilst he has
been. making the cry of Repeal a convenient lure for
the pence, and shillings of his ignorant fellow
countrymen, they have been preparing in earnest,
for its achievement. Whilst he has prated of moral.
force as his only weapon, they have looked forward
to far other, more direct and bolder means of
working 3ut their objects; and they will no longer
submit to be duped by the timid and plausible
speciounesses with which their former leader has
been in the habit of gulling and bewildering the
mind of confiding Ireland. We may now, at length,
as the result of this movement, expect to see a little
light thrown upon the subject of Repeal. We shall
know at least what it means, and how the more
- daring and earnest of its advocates expect it to be
tarried.
I, W.- perfectly agree with the objections urged by
*lr. Duffy to the adoption of the principle of
ederalism in place of Repeal. There can be no
'.Lialf-way house, no compromise in such a question
as :this. Utterly delusive as we believe to be the
- expectations of the Irish people, of advantage to be
derived from a local and indepedent legislature, we
ook upon the present project of a federal parliament
fee a mere mockery, and its proposal as a paltry
iaubterfuge to enable a defeated bully to back out of a
rosition which'he feels to Le dangerous, and to en-
able him during the remainder of his unruly career
$o pocket the money wrung from his wretched
ocrilling what is dearer
countrymen, without
-10 him than any earthly object—the safety of his
precious person. But it will not do, Daniel. You
1 ust go on now with your eager and excited allies,
1P
et abdicate at once !

We are happy- to have it in our power to thank
Ilbe Directors of the Liverpool and Manchester
itailway, on behalf of the public, for the satisfactory

regulation of their fares, which they have now an-
nounced to come. into operation on the 2nd Novem-
ber. We could have wished indeed to see the first
class fare reduced a little lower still ;—say to 54. 6;l.
each way, with the return ticket at nine shillings;
but we must not be unreasonable. The principle
is conceded that a necessity exists for this, and
other old lines of railway, to come down from the
extravagant rates hitherto imposed upon travellers,
to a scale consistent at once with the convenience
of the public and a fair remuneration for the enter-
prise of proprietors. Experience is daily shewing
that the abundant capital now directing itself to the
formation of these undertakings will eventually
crush attempted monopolies ; and with this fact ad-
mitted by the chairman of the Liverpool and Man-
chester Company, in announcing their new regula-
tions, we may be assured that they will see the ne-
cessity of further concession whenever circumstances
arise to call for them.
A contemporary, we observe, who has moved in
this question of low fares in common with ourselves,
endeavours in his last publication to depreciate the
value of the boon now accorded by a complaint of
alleged insufficiency of accommodation in the
new carriages of the second class trains. We can
only say, for ourselves, that we have used them and
can see no reasonable ground for the complaint
urged. They are quite roomy enough for passengers
of ordinary dimensions.

We have seldom been more amused than by the
lame attempt of the Mercury to fabricate a political
grievance, out. of our re!rarks upon the question
now at issue between the Works Committee of the
Dock Trust and the warehouse owners. The poor
gentleman has been well prompted, doubtless • but
unfortunately the prompters have not succeeded in
driving, if they intended doing so, the real facts of
the matter into his stolid intellect. He is as deci-
dedly abroad as if he had just arrived from Kam-
skatcha to start in his career of local journalism.

It is almost a folly to notice such trash as the
Mercury delivers himself of on this occasion ; but
Unfortunately he fibs a little in his facts, and there-
fore we must set him right, for the sake of the nu-
merous wiseacres who imbibe his wisdom in the
cellars and taps where he finds his extensive circula-
tion N. . Our wise contemporary urges, in excuse
for Messrs. Evans and Aiken, who have certainly
managed their business very astutely, that the ware-
houses round the Albert Dock have, " in compliance
with the suggestions of Mr. Stewart"—a compliance
scarcely to have been expected from such all-suffi-
cient authorities—been built in detached blocks ;
that' some five feet have been taken to widen the
quay of the Salthou'e Dock, and, ergo, the Works
Committee were justified in taking the space, thus
given up, from the quays of the Albert Dock, and
converting it into warehouse accommodation. This
plea may stand for what it is worth. But when our
contemporary states that only " about one-fourth of
the space under the warehouses" has been appro-
priated " to the stowage of heavy goods," or, in
other words, to warehousing purposes instead of
quay room,-he states that which, in his own nolite
vocabulary, he would fill up by a very significant
line, thus : , but what we shall only term
such an erroneous statement as we firmly believe he
would not make, if he had ever inspected the ware-
houses in question, and knew what he was talking
about. A walk round the Albert Dock works
would convince him that he is wrong, and, of
course, he will acknowledge that he is so—some day
far distant. Vain men, like our friend of the Mer-
cury, take time before they confess that they are in-
fallible.

Another statement in the Mercury's article con-
vinces us that he is innocent of any knowledge of
the subject which has•drawn from him his remarks.
He says that " if the warehouse owners go to law
With the dock trustees"—a proceeding which be is
striving to bring about, and which we should be
sorry to witness, as we are satisfied that Ms un-
necessary—" the result can only be either the com-
plete stoppage of the works, with the loss of all
the money expended upon them, or their demolition
and erection on a different plan." Poor gentleman !
He may just as well tell us that tearing a leaf, and
that a blank one, out of that. elementary work to
which he' has apparently confined his studies, and
which is familiarly called "The Horn Book," would
haVe,'as its awful result, " either the complete stop-
page of the work's" of the pedagogue, with the loss
'of all the birch expended upon his unhappy subject,
or the," deniolition" of the alphabet and its " erec-
tion on a different plan." There is no more diffi-
culty 'tit tiiitkilleg 1.1. c work, in crucotion what they
were intended to.be, and what the act of Parliament
contemplated, than there would be in reducing our
contemporary's " high-lows" into slippers.
It would really be a treat if the Mercury would
confine his remarks to matters which he under-
stands. A treatise upon peg-tops or tet-totems
from his pen might send us to sleep with some com-
fort;, but the serious business of the world he ought
certainly to leave alone.

A correspondence appears in our paper this day
between Mr. John Moss, the chairman of the
Grand Junction Railway,. Mr. Geo. Carr Glynn, the
chairman of the London and Birmingham Railway,
and Mr. Ormsby Gore, on the part of the provi-
sional. committee of a proposed line of railway be-
tween Shrewsbury and Wolverhampton, which in-
volves a question so important in its results to the
interests of the shareholders of the two great lines
that we cannot resist the opportunity which it af-
fords'us of addressing to the respective boards a few
words of advice. But first let us endeavour briefly
to place the subject a little more clearly befcre our
readers than a hasty perusal of the lengthy and
somewhat disjointed document published may
perhaps do.
One of the principal causes of the collision which
took place recently between these two boards, and
excited such alarm in the minds of their constitu-
encies, was a disagreement between them with re-
spect to the line, and the mode of formation, of this ,
Shrewsbury and Wolverhampton Railway. The
Grand Junction directors, who had stirred in the
matter only at the earnest solicitation of a party in
Shrewsbury, wanted the communication with that
town to be made from Stafford, having ascertained
that " as regards the North (Manchester and York-
shire for instance), no point on their line further
south than Stafford could be considered as offering
any considerable accommodation; whilst, as regards
London and the East, they found that the Trent
Valley Railway would shorten the road to,London
nine miles, besides giving a direct communication
with Derbyshire and the East." Such a line was
accordingly determined upon, a subscription list
filled up, and preparations made for going to Parlia-
ment. At this point sprang up the rival Shrews-
bury and Wolverhampton scheme, which was
armly esponsed by the London and Birmingham
board, jealous alpart ntly of the !eaning of the Grand
Junction Boatd to the adoption of the Trent Valley
line ; .and a serious di,agreetnent between them en-
suedovhich was however terminated, or thought to be
terminated, by an arrangement entered into on the 3d
of July in which the course of the two. companies,
as to, the support to be given to any proposed new
lines, was laid down. The following was the stipu-
latieti. with respect to the Shrewsbury scheme, by
which it will -be -seen that the choice of the line tb
he formed, .viz., from Wolverhampton instead of
Stafford,: was conceded by the Grand Junction,
reserving to themselves, however, its formation.—
" The- LandOn and Birmingham Board is prepared,
with the cqncurrence of their Shropshire party
(whiClt!tbey will use their best endeavours to obtain)
to .withdrawfrom the guarantee towards the Shrews-
bury 'the Grand Junction, with the concur-
rence of their Stafford shareholders, undertaking to
make ii[ line to Wolverhampton, and guarantee four
per, ceni..on: the capital, and an equal division of
future profits ; the Shrewsbury Birmingham share-
holders (under the same condition as the Stafford
and Shrew-bury) having an option of half the capi-
tal, the*Grand Junction Company having a lease in
perpetuity, and working the line a manner conve-
nient to that part of the country.
This stipulation certainly appears plain enough,
and was -accepted at the time as perfectly satisfactory
to all parties. Misconstruction, however, will break
in Where ponerful parties, mutually jealous, are at-
tempted to be bound together by any mere form of
words. Misconstruction has broken in, each party
to the contract accusing the other of having evaded
its spirit, and meaning, and neglecting to ulfil its
provisions. The Shrewsbury party claim the right
themselves " to make the line," leasing it when
made to the Grand Junction Company, and repu-
diate having ever agreed to the interpretation which
the latter put npon the stipulation above quoted ;
whilst the London and Birmingham Board display,
to say the least of it, no great inclination to bring
their allies to reason and amity. The results it is

not difficult to foresee ;—a parliamentary contest, a
wasteful and unnecessary expenditure of the money.
of the shareholders, with no real and practical ad-
vantage to either of the parties or the public, and,
finally, the alienation of two powerful companies,
whose true interests lie in the same direction, and
can be best advanced by mutual friendship.
We must confess that a careful perusal of the
whole correspondence, as now published, has con-
vinced us that the course pursued by the Grand
Junction Directors has been straightforward, and
actuated by a desire to fulfil their portion of the
agreement, whilst that of the other parties cannot
he so characterized. The tone of the letters of Mr.
Moss, on the part of the former, is better than that
of the,chairman of the London and Birmingham,
who writes in a style too cavalier to lead to that
amicable and eouitahle termination of the quarrel
which is so desirable for the interests of all parties.
We trust that the good sense of Mr. Glyn and of
his colleagues in the Board will convince them that
a different tone should be adopted, and the candid
and pacific bearing of the Grand Junction Directors
met in a kindred spirit. There is no difficulty, by a
mutual effort, in extricating themselves from their
present position of antagonism, and every reason
why that effort should he made at once.

MUNICIPAL ELECTION.

The following +s a Hit of tb
the Ist of November nest,
dates, so far as at present kn+

Ward,

Retiring Members

le Councillors who retire on
and also a list of the candi-
)wn

CANDIDATES.
Conservatives.' Reformers.

Kvetton Thomas ,haw Thomas Shaw
Scotland Isaac Holmes Isaac Holmes .Jas. Brancker
Vauxhall Wm. Prestrn (R) Wm. Preston
St. Paul's Joshirt Edwards Rob. B. Hill

Exchange Henry Holmes ( R)'C.S. Middleton'
Castle-st. John Holmes (R) No opposition John Holmes
St. Peter's R. S. Henderson R.S. Henderson Thomas Bolton

Pitt street James Aspinall James Aspinall
G George G. G. Hamby G. G. Elornby No opposition
Rodney-st. H Lawrence Jn. Pemberton Win. Lassell
Aberormby. R. Gladstone Josias Booker 1

Lime street J. 11. Lloyd

St. Ann's

I.J. Parker

J.B. Lloyd

J. Parker

William Earld

West Derby .J. S. Leigh J. S. Leigh
S. Toxteth S. 1.. Trot►nan R. L. Jones IR. V. Yates
N. Toxteth A. Smith Wm. Mann .Geo. Holt

Upon the respective merits of the above list of candi-
dates our remarks must this week be, of necessity, very
brief, our spare being more than usually confined. The
number of new names brought forward will be our only
plea for at all referring to the subject, in the absence of
the space which would be required to do it full justice,
In South Toxteth Ward, Mr. R. L. Jones comes foraard
in the Conservative interest, in the place of Mr. S. L.
Trotman, who retires from the council. A more unex.
ceptionable candidate could not have been selected. Mr.
Wm. Mann, (of the firm of Stringer and Mann,) a mer-
chant of h'gh standing, and a sound Conservative, repla-
ces Mr. Alexander Smith in North Toxteth. Aber-
cromby Ward, from wnich we regret to find that AS r.
Robertson Gladstone retires will find a candidate either
in Mr. Josias Booker, or its old and well-tried represen-
tative, Mr. Procter. Mr. C. S. Middleton, an excellent
Conservative, and active member of the Dock Commit-
tee comes forward for Exchange Ward, from which M..
Henry Holmes retires. It is probable that Mr. Middle-
ton's seat will not be opposed.
A valuable candidate. who will be most influentially
supported, has presented himself for Rodney-street Ward,
in the person of Mr. John Pemberton. We trust that
every true friend to the constitution will rally to his as-
sistance and carry him triumphantly. We must not only
win the battle here, but win it decisively.
St. Paul's Ward has suffered a severe deprivation by
the retirement of its excellent Conservative member, Mr.
Joshua Edwards, over which the Radical Journal of
Saturday exults, whist it misrepresents the motives of
such retirement. We are happy to know that Mr. Ed-
wards carries with him the hearty approbation by his
constituents of his conduct whilst their representative,
and their regret at the loss of his services, exi.ressed at a
meeting held on the 15 of August last, and presented to
him by Mr. J. Briscoe, the chairman of such meeting.
We find, however, that his place will be efficietitly filled
up, a gentleman eminently calculated to represent the
Ward, Mr. R. B. Hill ha.ing consented to offer himself.
In Scotland Ward the retiring member, Mr. Isaac
Holmes, has been induced again to offer himself. The
Racicals nominate Mr. Jamss Brancker, who, in tthe
palmy days of Radicalism, would not enter into the coun-
cil. It is little more than a vexatious opposition, as we
believe Mr. Brancker- is not even desirous to succeed.
Our contemporary of the Courier said that Mr. Holmes
supported Mr. Thornhill last year; he certainly did no-
thing of the sort ' • he had declared he would not interfere
in any of the elections; nor did he this year. fie was
desirous to retire, but was persuaded to offer himself.
There is a large Conservative majority in the Ward, and
there is no doubt of Mr. Holmes being returned.

INCREASED COMMERCIAL AND INDUS-
TRIAL PROSPERITY OF THE BRITISH
PEOPLE.

The gratifying state of the national revenue for the
last few quarters, and especially the increase of the pro-
ductiveness of those portions of it which are usually con-
sidered as the test of the national progress, have prepared
most people for the conclusion that Great Britain, tinder
Conservative auspices and financial management, has
already attained a greatly improved and an improving
social position. Compare her now with herself three
years ago, and what a change is manifest ! She was then
an enfeebled and well-nigh exhausted patient, prostrate
under the united effects of bleeding and blistering, sudo-
rific and purgative. She has since gone through the
stages of rallying, slow convalescence, and recovery ;
and may now be said, in a social and financial point of
view, to have almost attained the condition of rubust
health. The results shewn by some statistical . data
just now before us will be sufficient to prove this beyond.
the poss,bility of cavil. And first we take a few of the
principal of our imports.
In the year ending the 6th Sept. 1843, we exported of
" Cotion manufactures," under which head are exclu-
sively meant manufactures of cotton, in a peVet:. ed date,
to the amount 0f....

In the corresponding year of 1844 the
amount under this item had reached .... £1,792,034
thus chewing an increase of upwards of ha, wilfions
sterling. Our exports of cotton yarn during the same
period had sustained a trifling decrease, thus furnishing
another satisfactory evidt•nce that the increased activity
of our commerce has taken a direction by which the na-
-I.ional industry is benefitted, and not exclusively capital
and machinery. The exports of the article " Earthen-
ware," in the year ending sth Sept. 1843, were to the
amount hi

In the corresponding year of 1844, the exports
under the same head were
shewing an increase of a hundr^d end twenty thovsand
poudds, also in an article exclusively of handicraft pro-
duction.

Under the head of " Hardware and Cutlery," we ex-
ported in 1843 to the nmount of £1,099,766,
and in the present year of £1,438,295,
chewing a difference in favour of the present year 'of
nearly three 12:faulred and pf th,usadd poie,ids.
The amount of exported " Linen manufactures" in
1843 was f:1,852,709,

and in 1844 4'2,111,821,
chewing an increase this year of ,wo hundred and fifty
thousana pen; ds.
In the article of " Metals," embrac:ng iron and steel,
copper, brass, and tin, we exported in the year ending
sth Sept. 143, to the amount of 1.3,405,563,
and in the same period ended sth Sept. 1844, £4,136,984,
chewing an increase in the present year of upwards of
seven hun :red and L,irty tlovsand pounds.
In the same way our exports a " Silk manufactures"
have increased by a ,af,abed ,11 usand pounds; our ex-
ports of raw " Wool " nearly that ; our exports of
" Woollen Yarn" one hund,.e,' and forty thoinaad;
whilst our e::ported " Woollen 51 anufaaures" have in-
creased above a miliion and a-half, or from,
in 1843 £4,574,212,
to, in 1844 L'6,!52,880.

'We have here, certainly, the proof of a vast increase
of mercantlle and manufacturing activity ; and yet it,
does not e:;hibit anything .like the full amount of the
nation's accession of pxoverity.. Whilst our,. eicil'ort
trade has been increasing, the home demand has xe-
ceived a still greater impulse, skewing, on the part of
the industrious masses, an increased power of consump-
tion, accompanied of course, as a natural and inseparable
feature of such a position, by a large accession of social
comfort and enjoyment.

WEST INDIES.—The Teviot, West Indian Steamer,
arrived at S, utharnpton on Sunday, bring the third time
she has arrived lat that port; the very day she was due.
The Teviot left Demerara nn the 19th ult., Jamaica on
the 23rd, Barbadoes on the 24th, and Fayal on the 12th
inst. The pipers by her which have come to hand do not
contain any news of importance.
Atter twelve trials in smooth water of 11. M. steamship
Rattler, fitted up with Mr. Smith's screw propeller, the
average speed gained was 111 statute miles per hour.
The Rattler is 688 tons, and 200 horse power ; and her
sitter ship the Prometheus, similar to her in every respect
with the exception of having padd:e-wheels. only reached
8.1 knots an hour. The Rattler has got her masts on
board, and is to be fitted for sea immediately ; and in
consequence of her success, the Admiralty have gives
orders for six other steam-ships, of a large class, to be
forthwith constructed on the same principle.
RAILWAY FOR THE POTTERIES.—A meeting to con.
sider the plans proposed for affording railway communica-
tion to the Potteries took place on Friday at Stoke-upon.
Trek. The secretary to the Grand Junction Railway
Company proposed a line to start from Stoke, pass
through Etruria, leaving Hanley to the right and New.
castle to the left. The grand point was to get a line to
Liverpool. The line would pass Stoke and Stow to
Stafford. The Chairman of the Chester and Birkenhead
Company (Mr. W. Jackson) said, they were prepared to
co-operate in forming a line from Birkenhead through
the Potteries to Rugby, and this the meeting approved of.
The latter line will pass from Trent Valley Railroad to
Birkenhead, through the Potteries and the valley of the
Weaver, joining the Cheshire Junction Railway at Prods
ham, and will, it is said, lessen the distance from London
to Birkenhead about twelve miles.-

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.