The Registration Court for the town of Greenock was closed =
Saturday. of 141 claims lodged, four weie rejected for want of sidliei.mt proof. Out of the 141 claims, there were 75 new claimant, that never had been enrolled, avid of these the Liberals have 47, and on the gross new registrations the Reformers have a majority of 40.
We think our readers: will be astonished when we state it as a fact which has been proved, that het■vcen Glasgow mid Paisley, where the line is joint between the two companies, the trailie in passengers is greater than on the railway In yawn Maliehester and Liverpool. This appears from the evidence of' Mr. Farquharson, of Paisley, who had access to time books of the Canal Company and of a coat:h company in 1835, when a competition existed, and when the fares were reduced W about the same average rate as will be cherged on the railway. Mr: Farquharson showed, that exclusive of extra and half-hour coaches, there travelled in that year between Glasgow, Paisley, and Johnston, at the rate of 633;290 passengers per annum.—Glasgow Herald.
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