The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-03-31 00:00:00

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his arbitrator.
It was understood that, in case of disagreement, the ar-
bitrators.;
should call in an umpire, and report the result'
the general meeting of the Company in July nest.
A good deal of personality was indulged in througliotit
most of the proceedings, and motives were attributed.

A young lady, a widow, who describes herself as r:cbi;
handsome, has been advertising in the Frenc,,
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of this railway than by stating that it will enable the Mold a"u`"`` "i""5 '' '''." ' "'Au a"u u'''''"u ""'`"
district, which has neither railway nor canal at present, to tiful, and, moreover, declared that she had X 2,000 a-Sea
deliver coal and lime at Birkenhead at a cheaper rate than with the prospect of having £2,000 more before long. crr,
any other district in the kingdom ; and that as to the pub- likewise compelled to certify her desire, in a public adve
lic generally, it will effect a saving of nine miles of dis- tisement, to take unto herself a husban
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Ireland via" Holyhead.
No sooner was the Mold Junction Railway announced, the p 001..., _
than it received such an amount of support from the land- duetion of inipo
owners and gentlemen resident on the spot, as it seldom tion.
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falls to the lot of any railway to obtain. This success was Lafontaine, Braid, C
viewed with no little jealousy by certain busy inhabitants adiod cso enny: en: °ad,. all
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of Chester, who augured little less than destruction to the meamp,-;.
interests of '' • f the loss of the Mold .-- -

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that venerable city from
traffic, which traffic, by the way, it does not poss
and never can have, for the Welsh passengers, rather
than go nine miles round, will still continue to cross the
Dee at the ferry, whether there is a railway to Sutton or

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money and time, as compared with the more circuitous
route through Chester. This alarm, therefore, of the
Chester interest, as to the loss of passengers travelling to
Birkenhead and Liverpool, froth North Wales, is wholly
groundless, while, as respects minerals, I would ask, for
what reason consumers of coal and litre at Birkenhead
and in Lancashire are to be charged for nine miles of extra
distance by railway ? Such an additional charge, in these
days of cheapness and intense competition, cannot be jus-
tified for a moment, and it is something too much th at the
public are to be taxed to this extent merely to please the
Chester people. But no ! Ido them injustice ; the inha-
bitants of Chester, as a body, care nothing about the mat-
ter. The opposition to the Mold Junction Railway is
confined to a small knot of shareholders in a rival railway,
resident in Chester ; and I beg leave to tell them that that
opposition is to the last degree selfish and untenable. Can
it be contended for one moment that Mold bas not as much
right to a direct communication with Birkenhead for its
passenger and mineral traffic as Wrexham or any other
town ? " Oh, but," say these Chester gentlemen, " the
navigation of the Dee will be ruined; you cannot have a
direct road to Birkenhead without crossing the Dee, and
that must on no account be permitted." Why the very
same argument was used years ago, against improving the
ferry over the Dee at King's Ferry, and the city of Ches-
ter was defeated in that contest, and the right of the
Welsh public to the shortest communication with Liver-
pool was fully recognised by Parliament.
This outcry about the navigation of the Dee is really
ridiculous, when we consider that there is no intention on
the part of the Mold Junction Company of interfering
with the traffic of the river. They, believe, and will be