The Sun.
London, England, 1846-05-05 00:00:00

GROUP XII),

This Committee met for the first Um' to-day in room 35 in the
new Houses of Parliament.
The following are the Members of thii Committee :—Sir W. Clay
(chairman), Earl Jermyn, Mr. P. Mnswnth, Mr. Curteis, and Lord
Shelburne.
The following Bills have been seferredto this group :—Caledonian
Railway Extension, Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, North British
(Carlisle Extension), Caledenian (Dumties Branch), Ayrshire and
Galloway, Glasgow and Belfast Union, Scottish Southern, North
British (Gretna Branch), Caledonian (Lengholm Branch).
The list of Bills was read over by thi clerk, with the petitions
against the Bills and the agents and comisel that appeared respec-
tively for each.
The Scottish Southern is off, it havingbeen petitioned against by
the majority of the scripholders, in I:gm:merit with the provisions of
the resolutions recently agreed to by Parliament.
At this moment the pressure became to great that the Committee
agreed to adjourn to a larger room, in order to accommodate the par-
ties present.
The Committee re-assembled in Roan 32.
THE GLASGOW, aumruzzs, AND CAR-
LISLE SULU:9;AT.

This was the first Bill taken tip. Counsel for the Bill, Mr.
Talbot, Mr. Austin, Mr. Andrews, Br. Martin, and Sir Thomas
Phillips. The principal opposition to the Bill Is the Caledonian
Railway, which has several competing branches to this in the group,
and were represented by .Mr. Sergeant Wrangbam, Mr. Hope, Mr.
Pickering, and Mr. Richards.
Evidence was then briefly taken as b the conformity with Mr. T.
Duncombe's resolutions and tables on the several points required, put
in and received.
Mr. Sergeant Arrnanws then proceeded to open the case on behalf
of the Bill. The line for which powers were sought was proposed to be
constructed from the Glasgow, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway, near to
Old Cumnock, to a point on the Caledonian Railway near to the crossing
of the river Sark. This was called the Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle
Railway with branches. One of these branches was from Sanquhar to a
point on the Caledonian Railway, and the other branch was frees a
point near to the York to a place called Canonbie. There was also
a little branch from the main line to Annan. The latter, however,
was not very material, but the other two branches were. Having
stated the line and branches proposed to be constructed, he would
call attention, in the first place, to the main line, which was the most
important. lie appeared before the Committee an the necessity of such
a line being formed to connect the northern part of Ayrshire and Ren-
frewshire with the north of England and England generally. He would

not trouble the Committee with evidence from Lanarkshire or Glas-
gow, as he was persuaded be could show that the traffic of the other,
parts Imperatively demanded such a line. of railway. The present
railway accommodation towards the south from Ayrshire, stopped
at Cumnock, and that from England towards that quarter of Scot-
land stopped short at Carlisle, so that there was a complete gap to
fill up. As the Bills at present sanctioned stood, goods for the south
sent from Ayrshire would have to go round by Glasgow,
for the south. The promoters of the present Bill sought to fill up this
gap. In dealing with the subject he would take Kilmarnock as the
centre of the district that wanted the accommodation most urgently,
and when he spoke of Kilmarnock, the Committee would understand
that he meant the district of Kilmarnock—a district, the worth and