The Sun.
London, England, 1831-01-25 00:00:00

EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAILWAYS,
TO THE SUBSCRIBERS TO THE GARNKIRK AND
EDINBURGH LINE.

GENTLEMEN,
SOME weeks ago I used the freedom of ad-
dressing you in this form, and of warning you that
your Committee were hurrying you into the expense of a
Parliamentary contest for the sake of carrying a parti-
cular line, which, however necessary to the success of the
Garnkirk and Glasgow Railway, has nothing to recom-
mend it in a general point of view. My prediction has
proved correct, and you are now on the brink of the
whirlpool of a contested Bill ; but it still lies with your-
selves to decide whether you will be engulphed. If there
he any one of you simple enough to believe that your
Committee have selected, and are pushing on, the
Garnkirk and Edinburgh Line on public grounds, and
with reference to no interests but that of the public and
'yourselves, let bins peruse the following anatomy of your
Council, and then reflect whether an unbiassed choke of a
line can be expected from it :-
1. Messrs. Grainger and Miller, engineers for the Garnkirk
and Glasgow Railway, and for the Blythswood Tunnel Scheme.
The siiggesters of the Garnkirk and Edinburgh Line.
V. Mr. Hill, agent for the Garnkirk and Glasgow Railway, and
also for the Tunnel Scheme.

a Mr. Davidson, ditto, ditto, a holder of Garnkirk and Glas-
gow Railway Stock, and of 2,900/. in the Tunnel Scheme.
4. Mr. T. Sprot, W.S. brother of the proprietor of Garnkirk,
a large holder of Garnkirk Railway Stock, awl of Shares in the
Tunnel Scheme, agent for both of those concerns.
5. Mr. Speirs, holder of 5,2581. in the Tunnel Scheme.
Mr. Thomson, holder of Garnkirk Railway Stock.
7. Mr. Tennant, proprietor of St. Rollox, and grounds ad-
joining, where the Garnkirk Railway terminates. A large
holder of Garnkirk Railway Stock. A holder, by himself, or his
family, of 3,0001. in the Tunnel Scheme. A director of both
concerns.

d. Mr. Sprott, proprietor of Garnkirk Estate. A large holder
of Garnkirk Railway Stock, and a director of that concern.
9. Mr. Lang, proprietor of the Lands on the Garnkirk and
Glasgow line. A holder of Garnkirk Railway Stock. Holder of
1,100/. in the Tunnel Scheme.

10. Mr. Cooper, Mr. Tennant's partner in St. Rollo): works.
A holder of Garokirk Railway Stock, and of 1,000/. in the Tunnel
Scheme.

11. Mr. Hussey, Mr. Davidson's father.in-law.
12. Mr. Crass, a large holder of Garnkirk Hallway Stock.
Holder of 1,0001. in the Tunnel Scheme.

The remaining three members of your Committee,
Messrs. Gray, Stevenson, and Donaldson, are not, so far
as I know, similarly interested ; but what weight can they
have in such an assemblage of Garnkirk Railway and
Blyths,,vood Tunnel proprietors, who must have thirty or
forty thousand pounds embarked in these two speculations ?
" Oh, monstrous !---but one halfpenny worth of bread
to this intolerable deal of sack !"

Of the two lines of Railway proposed between Edin-
burgh and Glasgow, it is now perfectly understood, and
generally admitted, that Mr. Jardine's south line will meet
with no opposition ; but the line which you are to he
made the instruments of endeavouring to force on the
public, is certainly to be opposed by-Ist, The Union
Canal Company; 2d, The Edinburgbshire Road Trustees;
3d, The Bathgate Road Trustees; 4th, The Ballochney
Railway Company; sth, The Kirkintilloch Railway
Company ; 6th, The Proprietors of the Glasgow Junction
Canal; besides, in all probability, the Inehbelly Road
Trustees, the Port Dundas Road Trustees, the Garscube
Road Trustees, and the Dumbarton Road Trustees, near
Glasgow, and a number of landed proprietors on the Edin-
burgh and Garnkirk line, and others, whose most impor-
tant interests are intended to be wantonly sacrificed in
order to provide a feeder to the Garnkirk Railway and
Blytbswood Tunnel.

In the prospect of such a ruinous expensive contest ,
have your opinions been asked, or your wishes consulted ?
Have your Committee put to you the reasonable and simple
question, " Are you willing to hazard your money in an
all but hopeless attempt to force the Garnkirk line ?" Or,
is it not the case that you hare never once been consulted
or recognized even in the selection of your soi-disant
Committee, engineers and agents ?—Now is your time,
however. Upon the meeting of Parliament next month,
you will be returned, upon oath, as subscribers to the
project, and parties to the approaching contest, unless you
previously address a letter to Messrs. Hill and Davidson,
solicitors, Glasgow, withdrawing your names, and desiring
them not to return you as subscribers to the undertaking.
Neglect this,—and twelve months hence, when you are
called upon to pay your 10 or 20 per cent. of expellees,
you will regret not having taken the advice of
AN ADVOCA TE FOR FAIR PLAY.

P.S.—Since writing the above, I observe that a call of
" one and a half per cent., to be immediately paid," has
been made upon you ;—this has been done without any
general meeting of the subscribers ever having been held ;
and if you comply with the demand, you will thereby
not only throw away your money, but commit yourselves
in such a manner as to render it next to impossible for you
afterwards to get out of the undertaking.