INLAND NAVIGATION.

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It is also proposed to repay the money for obtaining the act of par-liament out of the capital stock, if the application to parliament be at-tended with success.

PARTICULAR ADVANTAGES OF THE INTENDED CANAL.

The advantages arising from cheapness of carriage, and easy commu-nication between the distant parts of a country and the manufacturingtowns and fea-ports reciprocally, are so very extensive and complicated,that it is impossible to reduce them to any very exact estimation. Ifwe would attempt to estimate them at all, it will be necessary to disco-ver, as near as we can, how much the price of carriage is likely to bediminissied, and what quantities or kinds of goods will probably beconveyed by this navigation.

The course of the canal is from the Mersey, at Runcom Gap, intothe duke of Bridgewater’s canal, by Haulton ; thence up to PrestonBrook, to near Northwich ; and thence to Middiewich, Warmingham,Elton, Sandbach, Lawton in Chessiire, Harecastle, Burflem, Newcastle,Shelton, Stoke, Fenton, Trentham, Barleston, Darleston, Stone, Assiton,Sandon, Shutborough, Hay wood, Bishton, Wolfe ley, Rudgley, Wichnor,Drakelow, Burton, in the county of Stassord, Egginton, Weston, Aston;and thence into the Trent at Wilden in Derby shire.

The price of land carriage, in the neighbourhood of the canal, isupon an average about nine shillings per ton for ten miles. It is sup-posed that the tonnage upon the canal, for the same distance, will beabout two shillings, and the freight not above six-pence more, makingtogether two shillings and six-pence per ton; so that near three-fourthsof the present carriage will be saved to the public. And the differencebetween land and water carriage in other places confirms the justness ofthis conclusion. Land carriage, for instance, between Manchester and

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