The Sun.
London, England, 1836-12-19 00:00:00

LONDON AND GLOUCESTER.
TRINd LINE.
From Euston Grove to

SWINDON LINE.

Tring
From Oxford Branch to
Andoversford
From Gloucester Depot to

FroM Paddington Depot to
Swindon
From Purton to Sapperton ll4
From Gloucester Depot to

Sapperton
,From Murton to Swindon 2

Andoversford
From Oxford Branch to
Tying

M.
7 Tunneli 3

cu.
6 ...... 1,350.

!2 Tunnels 1

76

The excess both ways is 617 feet, or an average excess
each way by the Trine Line 30Si feet ; equal as above to
an increased distance of fifteen miles between Gloucester
and London.

LONDON AND CHELTENHAM.
Feet(

From Euston Grove to
Tring Summit .... . 348
From Oxford Branch to
Andoversford
From Cheltenham to Ditto 339
From Oxford Branch to
Tring

From Paddington Depot to _
Swindon ..
From Purton to Sapperton 114
From Gloucester to Chelten-
bath
From Cheltenham to Sap-
perton . .
From Purton to Swindon
M. CH.
12 Tunnels 1 76

M.
7 Tunnels 3

. -1
6

809

Aggregate excess 403 feet ; average each way 2011 feet,
equal to ten miles increased distance between Cheltenham
and London.
The Gradients between Oxford and London may be stated
generally' to consist of sixteen feet per mile upon the Tring,
against four feet per mile upon the Didcot Line.
The Gradients between Gloucester and Cheltenham
and London, may be stated the same as above (with two
inclines of almost unprecedented steepness for Passenger
Traffic, being 1 in 30 and 1 in 44) upon the Tring Line,
against the same scale of Gradients on the Swindon Line
for forty-three miles (with one plane of 1 in 71) and the
remainder (76 miles upon the Great Western Railway) not
exceeding in any case six feet per mile There is also an
inclined Plane of 1 in 82 on the London and Birmingham
Line near Euston Grove. _ _

The Report alleges that the Committee of the House of
Lords deducted from the estimates of the
,Swindon Line,
half the Gloueester Traffic, and the whole of the. Chelten•
ham Traffic, and that the Swindon Railway was declared
by a resolution of the House of Loids not to be a com-
peting Railway with the Tring Line.
It is denied that any deduction was made by the Lords
from the Swindon Traffic, and the minutes of evidence will
disprove the assertion. The promoters of that Company
did indeed skew, as they were advised to, do, that their
whole Traffic from Cheltenham to the Metropolis did not
exceed 36,800/. per annum, a sum obviously inadequate to
maintain any separate Line, unless combined with other in-
termediate Traffic ; such as exists between Gloucester and
Cheltenham, and Stroud and Cirencester, with the Trade
between London and the latter commercial districts, in
which the Tring Line can never participate.
It was in reference to the admitted fact that no Railway
communication for the service of the Manufacturing Trade
of Gloucestershire was offered by the Tring Line, that the
Lords would not recognize it as competing in the main ob-
jects proposed by the Swindon Company, but to urge that,
as respects Cheltenham and Gloucester Traffic to London,
the Tring Line is not a competing Railway is a manifest
absurdity.
The merits of that question will be brought before both
Houses of the Legislature, and they must judge, first, whe-
ther there is a public necessity or adequate Traffic for a
second Line to London from Cheltenham, and secondly,
whether the Tring Line is the best that can be obtained.
Abundant evidence will be furnished to establish the con-
verse of both these propositions, if indeed any should be
II wanting, beyond the positive admissions of the Engineers,
employed in the last Session against the Swindon Railway.
Many influential landowners on the-Tring Line, have an-
nounced their determined resistance to the measure, and
will not fail to press ;these points to issue in opposition to
any compulsory power for taking their property, merely to
gratify.the vindictive feelings of a few individuals, against the
interests of other existing companies. The circumstances
under which this scheme was promoted and is kept alive,
shall be thoroughly investigated, and it will then be ascer-
tained whether the, identical parties who are now urging
forward the Tring Railway are not, in fact the most cla-
inoraus in.vindicating, for their own benefit in the North,
the very principle of security for incorporated companies
from competition, which they so grossly violate in this case.
The Proprietors may indeed passively permit the En-
gineer and Solicitors to divide the remaining spoil in Par-
liamentary warfare, but if they rightly understand or pursue
their own interests, the transfer of 41. per share into their
own pockets would be the unanimous demand of every Sub-
scriher, in preference to a blind perseverance in that which
must infallibly lead to the ultimate loss of all that has been
paid.

The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield are enjoying
the society of a select circle at Busby Park, Derbyshire.
A baker's man, at Stutgard, was lately seized with
a most singular monomania. He got a fixed idea into his
brain that he was destined to remain fixed at one spot, with-
out stirring, until the snow fell. On the Gth inst. he placed
himself; at daybreak,. in front of his master's house, very
lightly clad, and stayed in one position till 12 o'clock, when
he was removed by force, every argument to convince him
of the absurdity of his notion having been tried in vain. He
was taken to the hospital, complaining oldie danger he was
in from having quitted his post.