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will not be considered necessary to go into any detail of the history or progress of the Line, from Liverpool to Manchester and Warrington, as separate works have long since made the public acquainted with everything interesting regarding it. A slight sketch of the various applications to Parliament for power to complete the Grand Junction portion of the line will, however, not be uninteresting, especially as it exhibits the difficulties which invariably attend the promotion of a public good, when opposed to private interest. It is too often to be regretted, that the chief opposition to the efforts of those public-spirited individuals who originate such works, arises from persons whose real interests are not affected, but whose temper or caprice raise up a host of evils which exist only in their perverted imaginations. Men who propose and carry through, without regard to evil or to good report, such works as the Grand Junction Railway—who have