The charges by coaches for passengers are 42_s._ inside, and 21_s._ outside, and for parcels 1_d._ per pound. By waggon, the charge is 5_s._ per cwt. By fly-boat, for packages and general merchandise, 60_s._ per ton; and for iron-castings in boat-loads, 32_s._; for pig-iron, 25_s._ per ton. Thus the coach charge for luggage, at ten miles per hour, is 1_s._ 9_d._ per ton per mile; waggon charge, for a rate of three miles and a half per hour, is 10¾_d._ per ton per mile; and goods by fly-boat, at two miles per hour, 6½_d._ per ton per mile; and the lowest rate for pig-iron 2½_d._ per ton per mile. These charges are calculated upon a distance of 110 miles. £ Twenty-two coaches pass daily each way, which, at 227,600 15_l._ per coach (the expense of working it), cost per annum Goods per van and waggon 36,300 Goods per canal, paying from 40_s._ to 60_s._ per ton, 146,000 about 180 tons per day Making a total annual amount of £409,900 for only a portion of the business; as in the above statement none of the coaching or posting that falls upon the Holyhead road, at Coventry, Northampton, and many of the towns nearer London, is taken into the account. The above amount is calculated from what passes through Birmingham only, and that exclusive of posting. In addition to the above traffic, there are upwards of 2,000 tons that pass daily through Birmingham, besides an equal amount upon the Grand Junction Canal. There is also the whole of the business that arrives at the different towns upon the line; and it is ascertained that the passengers by stage-coaches only that pass through the towns near London, are upwards of four times the number that pass through Birmingham. But if it appears that a considerable profit would arise from conveying but a portion of the business by a railway, it will be much more satisfactory than if it were dependent upon the whole for an adequate return. And yet, as it appears that passengers are taken by this mode of conveyance in half the time in which they can be taken by any other, and at half the cost, and that goods are conveyed in one-sixth of the time and at a lower charge, the great probability is that a considerable portion will immediately be sent by it. We will now inquire what would be the cost of conveying by a railway between Birmingham and London, the passengers and goods which are now paying by the roads and canals 409,900_l._ per annum.