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Without minutely inquiring into the origin of the different modes of conveyance at present existing in this country and others for passengers and goods, I shall content myself with asking, Why were canals first established? and What was the great benefit arising from them, which caused so much as fifteen hundred miles in extent to be executed in less than a quarter of a century, at a cost of nearly twenty millions of money, and for the most part during a time of war, when the highest rate of tax

General Abstract of Expenditure of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway , to the 31 st of May 1830, [ from Mr. Booth’s Pamphlet .]   £ s. d. Advertising Account 332 1 4 Brick-making Account 9,724 Bridge Account [Bridges in number 63] 99,065 11 9 Charge for Direction 1,911 0 Charge for Fencing 10,202 16 5 Cart Establishment 461 6 3 Chat Moss Account 27,719 11 10 Cuttings and Embankments 199,763 8 0 Carrying Department, comprising—Amount expended in Land and Buildings for Stations and Depôts, Ware

The Speech of the Rev. John Corrie , F.R.S. , taken from the Report of the Town’s Meeting , held in Birmingham , March 4 th , 1831, in support of Railways . The Rev. J. Corrie said, that having been desired to introduce the business of the Meeting, he had undertaken the task, from a conviction that it would be no difficult thing to show the superiority of railways to all the established modes of communication, and the benefits which the town of Birmingham in particular would derive from that gre