The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-09-17 00:00:00

THE -LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

PARTNERSHIP IN A LADIES' SCHOOL.
NEIGHBOURHOOD, MANCHESTER.-PREMIUM, £l5O.

EXCHANGE OF CHURCH PROPERTY.
GENTLEMAN, holding a CROWN LIVING, in
a delightful part of the Country, of about £251 per
Annum, will be happy to EXCHANGE for a LIVING
of the same value, but where there is a larger sphere of
usefulness.

WANTED, a TITLE for ORDERS in Liverpool or the
Neighbourhood.

A YOUNG GENTLEMEN'S SCHOOL to be SOLD
in the Ne3glibourhood of Liverpool,
And a LADIES' DAY SCHOOL in Cheshire.

A LADY, of middle ace, end fully competent in Music,
Wanted as GOVERNESS in a Family.

Every particular given resneeting the Sutton-Coldfield
Grammar School, near Birmingham.
Apply to Mr. JO PH CRISP, Clerical and Scholastic
Agent, Commercial Hall, Gloucester-street, Liverpool.

The COMMERCIAL HALL constantly to LET for
PUBLIC MEETINGS, &c.

LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY.
THE Public are respectfully informed, that in con. fortuity with the Directors' published Report of the
24th July last, they will he prepared, on and after the Ist
of October next, to run a THIRD-CLASS TRAIN of
COVERED CARRIAGES, Every Day, to and.from Liver-
pool and Manchester.

Further particulars, of the Hour of Departure from
each-end, with a statement of Fares, will appear in the
Time Bills of the day.•
By order of the Directors,
HENRY BOOTH, Treasurer.
Liverpool, 10th September, 1844.

SOUTHPORT AND EUXTON JUNCTION
RAILWAY.

Caledonian will, from the moment it is opened, command
the following connections, in addition to its principal
Termini, in 'dinburgh and Glasgow:-
1. By the Scottish Central Railway,with Stirling, Perth,
Dundee, and the North bf Scotland generally.
2. By the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, eastward,
with Falkirk, Linlithgow, and the important districts of
which these towns form the centres.

3. By the same Railway, westward, with Kirkintilloeb,
Kilsyth, and Other towns and villages in that quarter.
4. By the Forth and Clyde Navigation, with Grange-
mouth and the Firth of Forth.

5. By the Clydesdale Junction, with Paisley, Greenock,
and Port-Glasgow ' • and
6. By the Clyde Navigation, with the Firth of Clyde.
Your Committe have likewise carried out the original
views of the promoters, by rrdering a survey and plans
-of a Branch to Dumfries, and three are now in course of
execution.
These various ramifications must always give the Cale-
donian Company the command of the railway traffic be-
tween Scotland and England.
This leads your Committee to the only other subject to
which they think it necessary to allude before concluding
this Report, and that is, the competition of other Lines.
Your Committee are of opinion, that much more impor-
tance has been attempted to be attached to that compe-
tition than it deserves. They say this without the slighest
disposition to underrate any real or Wel I • founded danger
from such a cause, but they look upon the danger in this
case as neither iminent in its circumstances nor serious in
its consequences.
The routes alleged to be Lines competing with the
Caledonian are the projected Railwys from Newcastle to
Edinburgh, by Berwick, and from Carlisle to Glasgow, by
Dumfries.
With regard to the first of these routes, your committee
do not regard it as a competing Line at all. It was de-
cided riot to be so by the Select Committee on competing
Railways appointed last session, by the House of Com-
mons ; and a statement to the same effect was made, in
Parliament, by the President of the Board of Trade.
The Caledonian Line must always •be the shortest and
cheapest route from Edinburgh to three-fourths, at least,
of all England. Any one examining a map may ascer-
tain that Berwick, while it is 57 miles distant from Edin-
burgh, it is only 14 miles to the southward of it. The
distance from Edinburgh to Liverpool, by the Caledonian
Line, will be 226 miles, whereas, by the route to Berwick,
it would be 304 miles, making a difference in favour of the
Caledonian of 78 miles.

v.
Under such circumstances, sour Committee are of
opinion, that the Caledonian Company has nothing to fear,
in any event, from Railway communication along the east
coast. . .

The other projected Line is a proposed continuation of
the Glasgow and Kilmarnock Railway, by way of Dum-
fries, to Carlisle. If that project were to be sanctioned
by Parliament, it might, to a limited extent, compete with
the Caledonian in the west of Scotland traffic. It has
not, and never can have, any direct communication with
the Northern and Eastern Railways. The navigable river
of Clyde, and the city of Glasgow form insuperable bar-
riers to such a connexion. Beyond the western traffic,
therefore, the competition could not be extended ; and in
regard to it, it would be conducted by the rival Company
under the d'sadvantage of a great excess of distance. For
instance, between Glasgow and Carlisle the excess is 24
miles. Between Edinburgh and Carlisle, besides the in-
terruption at Glasgow. the excess of distance, by the Ayr
and Dumfries route, is not less than 70 miles. Competi-
tion on such terms would be so hopeless or ruinous that
your Committee cannot suppose that any influence which
the Glasgow and Ayr railway Company possess will be
sufficient to induce Parliament to sanction such an under-
taking.
On the subject of the merits of the Kilmarnock and
Dumfries Line, as compared with the Caledonian, the
Government Commissioners are very Explicit. "It is
true," says their Report, "that, as each of the three
(Nithsdale) routes is intended to form a Junction with
the Ayrshire Railway, or its branch to Kilmarnock, there
would be a shorter length of new Line to construct ; * *
but this is rather to be considered as an advantage to the
proprietors of that Line than to the public, whose fares
would be in proportion to the distance travelled over,
whether on the old or new Line ; * * and it would be
very unjust, for their exclusive advantage, to tax passen-
gers between Carlisle and Edinburgh and Glasgow, both
in time and expense, to the extent it would be requisite
in this instance. Viewing the matter in this light, it is
conceived that neither of the three Nithsdale Lines can be
recommended as a Main Trunk Line of communication
between England and Scotland." _

In conclusion, your committee have to state, that vigor-
ous mtacures have been commenced to obtain the Act for
the formation of the Caledonian Line. Your committee
anticipate that the Act will be passed and the Works
commenced early next summer ; but as there is already a
large sum of money in hand, a second call on the capital
will not be required b -fore the month of July, 1845.
By Order of the Committee,

21st August. 18:11. vI
BELHAVEN, Chairman.
KW Holders of Scrip in this undertaking will receive
copies of the Report and relative Map of the Railway,
upon applying to Messrs. FORSYTH and PRITCHARD,
Shareholders, Exchange-street, Liverpool.

LEEDS AND THIRSK RAILWAY.
AT a MEETING of the COMMITTEE, held this
day,

PRESENT,
H. C. MARSHALL, Esq. in the Cbair,
Christopher Beckett, ESQ. Thomas Mason, Esq.
Francis Thorp, Esq. D. W. Nell, Esq.
Wm. Whincup, Esq. W. Wms. Brown, Esq.
Wm. Driffield, Esq. J. Wordsworth, Esq.
Jonathan Benn, Esq. C. G. Medea, Esq.
Newman Cash, Esq. William Smith, Esq.
John Gott, Esq.
The Committee having now received and carefully
tested the Traffic Tables, showing each separate item, are
enabled to lay before the Public, as promised in their
Prospectus, the following Abstract, which fatly confirms
the favourable opinion they had entertained of the under-
taking :
Passengers' Traffic (including Coaches.
Private Vehicles, and Carriers' Waggons,
through and intermediate) £63,687 0 0
Parcels (including both Coaches and Car-
riers' Waggons)
Coal and Coke
General Merchandise (including Goods by
common Carriers and by Private Convey-
,197 0 0
ances) .... .
Wool, Flax, Yarns, Grain, Flour, Leather,
Fish, Lead, Iron, Timber, Lime, and
11,556 0 0
Manure
Horses, Cattle, Sheep, Calves, and Pigs .. 5,461 0 0
Sundries, of which no correct estimate

4,013 0 0
34,247 0 0

can be made.
Carriages, Carriage Horses, Passengers,
Luggage on which a charge is made,
Stone, Flags, Blue and Gray Slate.
Draining Tiles, Timber for Building
purposes, &c. &c.

T0ta1.... ..... £132,814 0 0
The Committee have also to state that a further Exa-
mination and Survey of the Line has confirmed Mr.
Grainger in his original estimate of £BOO,OOO es the
amount of capital required for the completion of the
undertaking, and of the practicability of obtaining very
favourable Gradients on the largest portion of the Line,
namely, from the Wharf to the Northern Terminus ; and
in the short extent of difficult country, from Leeds to the
Wharf. the Gradients are more favourable than some
which are at present in use for Locomotive Engines on
other Lines of large Traffic.
The Parliamentary Plans and Sections are rapidly pro-
ceeding, and all the arrangements for going before Parlia.
ment are in a forward staie.

Applications for the Shares not yet allotted may be
made to Messrs. PAYNE, EDDISON, and FORD, Leeds ;
or to Mr. JOHN DORNING. 19, Leigh-street, and Mr.
RICHARD DAWSON, Share Broker, Liverpool.