The Express.
London, England, 1865-09-08 00:00:00

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.

After our report left yesterday,
Oolonel LINDSAY, M.P., moved an araeadmeet to the
10th clause of the report, that the question of shooting
a site for the 001MintatiOTI of workshop. should be re-
considered by the directors.
Sir C. Kumar., 1!.P., seconded the amendment, not to
the groand that Almaden was the bort, bat that Oxford
TM the ware* plats Owl SOCA WOOL He was of °pintos
that ea inciellent site cook' be obtained at Reading,
cones apothems who happened to hare tea awe. of land
mat to the cotopany's owo property woe willing to sell it
to them at • fair prim, and there was so sanitary °Nettles
to the site. In pact of economy this was molly the bed
site, and they were booed to owasider that question, Weems
if they paid all their liabilities they WOUld, oo the chair-
man's owe showing, not bays 6d. to divide.

After some dhciission.
The CHAIRMAN, In reply, turning to the remarks of
Colonel Lindsay, observed that the only medical re.
port they had received was from a gentlemen of emi-
nence is the profession is Oxford, who had re-
ported favourably on the site, which was capable of
being rallied and drained at cionneratnely small cost
as compared with other sites, while in the point of
prim of land, cheap:me of the mutat, and various other
particulars, Oxford stood without • rival. He repeated
that there was one fatal objection to Abiegdoe, which was
that if the works were to be on the main line—sod it was
essential they should —then was no land at all suitable at
Abingdon within two or twousirrhalf miles of the town.
The same objection applied to Reeding, became the land
la the vicinity of the tee sores referred to was required ab-
solutely for other purpose', and that amount Itself would
be insufficient. Oxford was in an admirable portico, and
the corporation had sot only undertakes to build dwellings
on high ground is healthy Muslims, but to provide the
necessary school and church accommodation, while there
was already a surplus population who would supply the
wants of the sew ehissof artisans to be test there ; and there
wee no roma to mimosa that exorbitant wages would be
required. In addition to all this, although it was 'true that
so deeds had &then, passed, he considered the board Lid
gone so far in respect to Ottani that they could nut now
node. He denied the socorecy of Mr. Adams's @Unmoral
that there were (visions et the board ; on the metzsry, be
had bees streersonsly sapported by his colleagues 011 every
.cession. The subject of his resignation bad been rather
irregularly introduced, bet they might rest assured that if
be aid rages, it would he solely is 000 sequence of the
unremitting attention required at the hands of the gentle-
man who tilled the office of chairman, which was so
absorbing as to provost him attending at all to his private
buainees, and altogether put an end to scything like domes.
do lite. It was quite tem that the Irish traffic bad not as
vet become so fully developed as it most eventually become,
but that was solely owing to the fact that they mold not
at present compete with the splendid steam East of the
London aid North Western, supported as it was by the
co-operation of most of the Irish railways, mad that the
railways in the south of Ireland could hardly hold their own
unless they received some assistance from this company. As
soon as they could make up their minds to go to the exposes
of • splendid steam fleet, and to reader mach sasistanoe, the ,
Mob traffic would vastly increase, but io order to procure
it they must submit to • temporary smarm
The amendment was then put and lost, only about
6 hands being held up for it, and the report atd women
were ad ted, and a divideod, as proposed, was *greed to.
A resolution, carrying into effect the paragraph in the
report shoring the mouths foe holding the meeting, was
I next carried, and
A vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the proceed-
isda•