The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-06-02 00:00:00

De Vesci
O'Neill

Bolton

North wick
Lifford

Clonbrock

Crofton
Redesdale
Colchester
Rayleigh
Feversham
Tenterden
Skelmersdale
Wynford

Templemore
Abinger
Ashburton
De Freyne

Sinclair
Reay

6 Dynevor

Baget
Farnham
Alvanley
Ravensworth.
De Saumarez

LORDS

❑ghby de BISHOPS.
sby St. Asaph
Bath and Wens

Lord Belhaven paired for the bill, with the Earl Of
Lauderdale against it .

[A DVERTISEM ENT.]

TO THE LIVERPOOL SHAREHOLDERS IN THE
SHEFFIELD. ASHTON-UNDER•LYNE, AND
MANCHESTER RAILWAY_

BROTHER SHAREHOLDERS,-It has for some time beers
to me a subject of serioua doubt whether the Board of
Directors of our undertaking, honorable men as we admit
them to be, have, in their new projects, been pursuing
that course which is most likely to advance our interests
and improve the usefulness and consequent value of out
property. At the outset of this difficult underto,irrg, it
will be remembered by all who were origin*l-11. arehol-
ders, like myself, that one of the most im ant features
of the line was the fact that it promis o open out to the
manufacturing districts a cheap abundant supply of
fuel from the Yorkshire coal-fie s to the east of Penistoa
and Wortley. For this ob. t it was mainly contended
for, and supported through long period of depression, by
the millowners in the trict through which it passes.
For this object we pro cuted the formation of the most
arduous work to be t with upon any line of railway
viz. the summit to el of three miles, from the valley of
the Don to the v ey of the river Mersey (or Etherow),
on the Lancash. e side of the range of hills. It is now'
ten years sine the act of Parliament forming the com-
pany receive the royal assent ; yet the Yorkshire coal.-

Feld is tinoitened ; not an ounce of railway-borne coal has
ever reac d the Lancashire side, although the tunnel is
opened throughout; and without some change in the pct..,
licy of our authorities, that most valuable traffic and most
urgently-required commodity for the manufacturing dia..
tricts seems destined, by some fatality, to be kept ewer
from us, unless some company, more alive to the interests
of the country and of the shareholders than we are, should
volunteer to do for us what we ought long ago t 6 boa
prepared earnestly to do for ourselves.
Last year was a period of inflated railway pr.osperity And
projection. There was nothing to prevent our directors
from developing fully the interests of our excellent
under-
taking. How did we avail ourselves of it? We took into,
our hands the Barnsley Branch scheme, after it had been.
rejected upon its merits, and created its shares our own
quarters No. 3. The committee has just thrown it out
once more, upon its merits, closing that coal-field against ,
our approach to it. There was another coal-field lying
close upon our line—the Wortley coal-field—by passing
through which we secured the best possible supply of fuel.
for the manufacturing districts, the nearest route between
the east and west coasts, and the traffic westwards fromßotherham, the cattle market for the manufacturing disc
tricts of Lancashire, Cheshire, and the town of Mulches.
ter. We entangled ourselves, instead of availing our-
selves of this valuable adjunct, with the Great Grimsby
Docks and Harbour, and a line from Gainsbro' to Greg
Grimsby ; and sedulously kept aloof from the Wortley
coal, preferring to go in search of that commodity into the
monopolised and exhausted coal field of Lincolnshire. Wet/
allied ourselves for this purpose with the Sheffield al3'
Lincolnshire Line—one which can never serve our irate'
rests adequately. And now how are we situated. W
are, as I have already said, shut out from the Barnele/,
coal-field by the adverse decision of the Parliaments"
Corrimitee; and another company, the Horbury COol"
pany, has got possession of a line, the preamble heir*
proved, connecting our line with Rotherham, by rural
from near the station of the Huddersfield and Shekel
Line to Rotherham. A further line, the ManchestW
Midland, and Great Grimsby Junction, takes the tra
of the west eastwards to Gaindtiro', saving several miles 4
route between sea and sea, whilst we are still fighting :
the Sheffield and Lincoln, which it is now quite iu3Pc)sttei
ble that Parliament can ever sanction. To oppose the
Manchester, Midland, and Grimsby Line, we took up
most absurd line ever projected, the South YorkOlsg
Coal Company. That line the Committee has also. ea;
thrown out. We are, therefore, completely strands
and for our supineness deserve to be so.
I submit to my brother shareholders that it is nosy el.
;
time that we should come to our senses. I cast no •IlibsPfer
rations against those whose councils in our director'''. 00
'
brought us to this dilemma • but it is imperative thelope
connexion with the Sheffield and Lincoln should beSe
doned ; and that we should look around us and motrs'
best bargain now left within our reach. Our pats,lS
course, having the Great Grimsby Line to Gainsbir;O:
to get to Gainsbro' by the shortest route; and if t
verpool shareholders would bestir themselves, we dent
still succeed in that object, and possibly save soreefieiee'
funds and influence by refusing to fight for an ie4
scheme in committee. PO"
The Manchester, Midland, and Great Gritoshlproceti
tion, a line which it will be remembered was 114' orbor,
last year by the Board of Trade, would, with the stool
Line, from Peuiston or Wortley to Rotherham, apa
our purpose fully. They are our legitimate allies4o We
,
we cannot possess ourselves of one or both oft tharSt
ought at least, under present circumstances, to which
our stippoz,t from the Sheffield and Lincoln,
us red, gl
we should have been wise if we had never to sq.shs_.re"'
object in this hasty address is to urge nil fe"° proms`
tion
adsoisf int
heir Liverpoolinteres ttos
s. matte
isa movement for
tfboeor;b..cesisranet beoff
promoted by conceding to the present bias of.2ll,okid unt
Directors, who appear more enamoured of ellve
securing the Duke of ri otfolk's monopoly fir ee'"
setoiatni etontSsh.—effiltlE Ely
AN ORIGINAL PROPRIETOR IN rAii,WAiare
FIELD AND MANCHESTE3
eal dm t. hßa
Brother
hf
er serving
Shareholders, the i nteres t E s
Liverpool, 23d May, 1846.