The Sun.
London, England, 1846-07-21 00:00:00

Room D.

GLASGOW, DUIVEFIZZES, AND CARLISLD•
This Committee met to-day, at el:wen o'clock—Earl St. Germans
in the chair. Ail the other Membera of the Committee present.

The evidence on behalf of the Bill was nosumed.
Mr. Charles Wright, manager of the goods traffic of the Glasgow,
Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr Railway, examins7d—He had been en-
gaged in that department for the last five yea: S. He knew the
nature of the traffic between Ayrshire and EngOud well. The
traffic of the Glasgow and Ayr Railway had increased three-fold the
last five years. The line was opened in 1840 In 1841 tlte
of the line were 34,3151., while last year it was 104,5351. In 1841 .
the minerals carried along the line were 8,310 tons, yielding -
revenue of 585/. ; and in 1845 the tonnage was 180,430, yielding
12,700/. There was a considerable traffic between Ayrshi.'e an
Campbeltown, in Argylcshire. It was proposed to place a stiltnle',.
between Troon and Campbeltown, in which case a considerable yor-
tion of the traffic of the latter town would go south by the railer,,P;
Campbeltown had 26 distilleries, which consumed 11,000 tons in
grain, and produced 4,500 tons of whiskey. Ile calculated that there
would pass along the present line, to and from Campbeltown, 1,000
tons yearly of grain, whiskey, and cured fish, of which a large trade
was carried on at that place. A great deal of fish were also cured en
tile coast of Ayrshire ; and he thought 800 or 1,000 tons of.
these would pass along the line yearly. He was acquainted
with the Ardrossan and Fleetwood traffic, and he had found
considerable delay by this route, on account of the nature
of the harbours which presented difficulties from the denclent supPir
of water. On this account tile Ayrshire traffic had never been faifiY
developed. He had looked over the tables prepared by Mr. .Ander'
son, and with regard to the Ayrshire and English traffic he thought
it rather under than over-stated.
Cross-examined by Hr. Sergeant MITIINIV--He had not made the
statement respecting Campbeltown in the House of Commons whit'
he had now given. The arrangement about placing the steamer en!.
the Troon station had been male since then. It was very likely 01°
this arrangement was made since the rejection of the Caledonian
Extension. He believed that an arrangement was made for amal-
gamating the present line with the Ayrshire Company. The difficult,'
of landing and loading goods at Fleetwood and Ardrossan
be
believed arose from low water, occasioned by the ebb'
ing of the tide. He was not aware that a 'veil
large traffic between Ireland and the south of Enolse_
was carried on by similar harbours. Ile did not know that 71:
steamers employed were not well adapted for the goods traffic. in
had heard of the amalgamation of the London and Birmingin• ft
Grand Junction and the North Union Railways, but he thought
would be the interest of this united company to talc e the traffic 11
Liverpool rather than by Fleetwood. At present the most of the svhia'
key made at Campbeltown went to Glasgow, and all the cured Ml,'
He thought, however, with this line, the fish both from Carnpbet
town and Ayrshire would be sent direct. He believed that with
kinds of fish, cured and fresh, the railway would be preferred to sail-
ing vessels.

Mr. William Anderson, accountant, of Glasgow, examined—Pr.
posed that he had prepared the traffic tables of the present line. Table
No. 1 was the passengers by the existing coach from Kilmarn°',"
which he had taken from the way-bills. The sum agreed with n,
Burn's evidence. Table No. 2 was the Ayr and Dumfries colcdi
the number of which was also obtained from the way-bill. ne ",,
„,
not included the Dumfries passengers. Table 3 contained the in':A
seegers of the Edinburgh and Dumfries coaches. This he estim.'ll:l
to go up the main line to the Crawick branch. Table 4 contains'
the Dumfries and Carlisle coach passengers. Table 5 contained 00
local passenger traffic, obtained by stationing men along the line fat
a fortnight, in the months of September and November last. lie had
also, since the Bill passed the Commons, stationed men along
he
line. This was in June last. As he understood the Caledonian h
ed
stationed the men on the route, he stationed his men nearly In °I
same places as the other Company. He found the resgie
to be more than he had realised previously. T
would arise from a great number of coach passenge;:
at this time than the previous period. The revenue of the tableS ,
had named in addition to table 7, was in the first period 41,0001. 1,f,„
annum, and in June last 43,000/. Table 6 was the passsengere
the Fleetwood steamers, excluding the Glasgow traffic. He 16
added to the passenger traffic 150 per cent. for increase. He in
this addition on the data of the increase on the Ayrshire 1111,64
Table 7 was general merchandise by land, to which he had add
50 per cent. Table 8 was general merchandise by water. Tabled
was the cattle and horse estimate, founded on Messrs. Kennedy eV
lirown's evidence. Table 10 was the mineral•estimate, feundede,, ;
evidence given before the Committee. Ile had calculated the traT,,,
through from Kilmarnock and Carlisle, and divided the recell,_,'"'
allowing one-third for working expenses, one-third for way
to the Caledonian and Ayrshire Companies, and one-third for Pr,,er;
on the line. The summary of his table was for passengers 38,31.'t
general merchandise by land 10,0851.; general merchandise by vial;
12,500/. ; carriage of drain tiles, 3,6081. ; cattle, &c. 17,79'
minerals, 10,663/. ; mails, small parcels, &c., 6,5001.
Cross-examined by Mr. COCKBURN—Last year his estimate of ft's
crease was 100 per cent. He added nothing on goods last year, DI
he bad added 50 per cent. this year. Experience of the Ayrshire Dt'l's2„
the Edinburgh and Glasgow Companies had induced him to add
50 per cent. He had got returns from these coMPento
;knee last year, and these justified him in making the additional 5e
per cent. Ile believed that Mr Pare had this year, on the Shreff..%
bury and Hereford line, estimated 200 per cent. increase. The
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crease, no doubt, would depend a good deal on population. ee_:;9
not give the population per square mile on the Nithsdale line. nel',„o
not aware that the Ayrshire line had never yet reached
,re,
estimate made on that line before the Bill was passed, though '.1:4
only 100 per cent, was added for increase. He would be surPVT,O
were it so. (Mr. Cockburn here read an extract from the 16:_°.gasc,
of Evidence in 1837, given by Mr. Pare, in which the full T';4r
with an addition of 100 per cent., was set down at 117,0001.
annum, being 13,9001. leas than that given last YOrnar
Mr. Wright's evidence.) He had, in taking the
_4,0
senger traffic, swept the road of all vehicles. The N'" Dad
was then examined in detail with the object of showing that he of
over estimated the road-side traffic, and taken a wider ran%
country than he ought to have done. ro*
..
The witness, in answer to a question from Mr. Sergeant .V-a
„nail
here gave a list of the places at which he had stationed lip
in June last, in order to check those stationed b 1
Caledonian Company. He had taken all the cabin
sengers by the steamers as to go by the line, et!"_
had added 100 per cent. Ile had not made any special redUctioaot,
the 6,900 tons of goods estimated to go from Ayrshire to England' 1.•
recount of the goods supposed still to go by steamers, but his von
mate was 1,200 tons less than the absolute quantity rale'
him. He had added two thousand pounds for e"'‘,.,"to
carriage more than given in the Commons. That we'
uot
coal
ai Ile thought
rdistrictrefethatrence to whereap
peatetaotn ,aaysnadts
information derived from the witnesses after more careful considetorr
se
hapel eh
populationna tl
fortable.HeWbae
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Re-examined—ln iffooifcoal per head was n.o.tould
ned—ln his estimate he had carefully eXeh"
through traffic. Ile
had not taken any foot passengers.
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HOUSE OF COMMONS.
GROUP Lxvu A
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The Committee met this morning at tweiv.,,,dock, Lord --
in the chair.

SOUTH-WESTERN EXTENSION. itte
Mr. Stovin, traffie•master on the South-Western, was the firsto
JIM called, and gave evidence to show the necessity of extelle et
the line to London-bridge, in order to carry the increasing tray
the line to the City, and to intermediate places.

•
Mr. Gurney was about to call another witness when Vie'
The CHAIRMAN intimated that the Committee thought it cogs
cessary to accumulate similar evidence to the above, as they se-
sidered that the advantages of the extension were self-evident-
sides, it was reported in favour of by the Royal Commission, o'6loo
decision was entitled to its consideration. The Committee Werthooo
of opinion that it would not do undue Nary to the property of
who opposed or through whose property it would run. a suet
Mr. GURNEY said, after this intimation they would simply c--
engineer and surveyor.

DERBY, UTTOXETER, AND STO
FORD RAILWAY COMPANY.—(THIS DAVeicl
A meeting of the shareholders of this company
et,
to-day at the George and Vulture Tavern, Lombard-5"-„,,
for the purposes of determining the dissolution of the eMire,
pany, and in the case of the dissolution being d
agreeclt,
whether such should be considered an act of bankructicl
with the view of having the affairs of the company wO-
- under the Joint Stock Companies Act.
Mr. Nash, Chairman of the Company, was called to al.
chair.
The Secretary having read the advertisement convening
the meeting,
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The CHAIRMAN said that the time was arrived .0;-. tl3
shareholders to elect scrutineers to take the votes or
shareholders.
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Mr. Wm. Roworth, of Nottingham, Mr . R. Sheppar-,
Mr. Philips were then elected. 0, of
The Secretary then read the Report of the Corny:ail the
Management, which stated that after the resolution 0 the
meeting in last March to dissolve the company, owing to
e 0
existence of the law relating to joint-stock companies, ''ber
being only 12,890 shares assentient, which nunioat
was insufficient, they were unable to carry
that resolution of the shareholders. However, the 1-,100
under which they laboured in common with a great 0u'730,4
of other companies, had been remedied, and it was
placed in their own hands, under the recent Joint D1',1,0
Company's Acts, 7 and 8 Vict., c. ill, to dissolve n
Company. The Conimittee of Management beg
to remind the shareholders that the undertakin.g„th,
which they had been engaged had not been proceeded
w 1
e)t
cowuiindgnsootlebly. to the etarrbolrse. iTnhtehyehisaudr,vehyosw,
efvoerr,wrheifcahsi
htoof
discharge the demands of the engineers, and had got 11 de'
one exorbitant demand by the payment of 125/. The 0.
mand of Mr. Higgins for 5,000/. was to be tried before
legal tribunal, but the action had not come on.
The SECRETARY then read the share account and 00900
account, from the former of which it appeared that 1%01
shares had been allotted to the public, to the Provierocsl
Committee 3,450, and reserved for amalgamation 1111 d
interests 1,600 ; 13,538 shares had been taken up iog
the public, 3,390 by the Provisional and Dian"bthe
Committee, while there remained in hand 3,072. Fro lea
cash account it appeared that the deposit on the s.4ers?
amounted to 44,4364 and the interest allowed by icl.,
&c., to 7081. 17s. 7d., making a total of 45,1441.
while the expenses incurred left a balance of 38,7151
in the hands of the treasurer.
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The CHAIRMAN said that the directors
pains in going through these accounts, andligei
been much longer than the committee desired. ing theif
ever, would have the effect of preventing his occupy
theY
time. The committee had thought it
right
to 'tell them t
had got 7001. interest on their money, and he thought tb4iiv
300/. more would cover their expenses. He would now beg
happy to hear any gentleman who might desire to addr"
th
x wished to know why the 1,300 shares Nv-.oh
0g
taken up had not been sold instead of bB5
epdinr.o tc meeting.boe,En
ino nr e pe
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alongethd thet senehe shares aatrshe
esi
nhrtaaeirdl
rwubapeyte.end kept
by
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retained in the hands of the Committee. far
lhat, now
the
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llandedwasog s
discussion
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Secretary, who read the Act of Parliament under w„'not
they had been convened to show that the meeting coulu
legally entertain the topics now brought before them.
The CHAIRMAN promised that on application to the ~,s of
mittee, permission would be given to inspect the book
the Company, with which Mr. Cowen expressed himself
wed

After some further desultory conversation. it was res°/.*,:f,
that the Company should be dissolved without bankrulno
and the Chairman stated that the Committee would rear'
the shareholders 11. 12s. 6d. per share, on Thursday rOtgincl
The thanks of the meeting were then voted to ling
ackriuwledged by the Chairman, after which the Wee
separated.

BIRTHS.
street,
On the 14th inst., Mrs. James Painter, of Berners--
of a son. rde
On the 15th inst., at Avening, the lady of Ale
Rooke, Esq., of a daughter. tbe
On the 16th inst., at Winterbourne Dauntsey, Wilts,
wife of G. Burtt, Esq., of a son. lady of
On the 16th inst., at Colmere Rectory, limits, the
the Rev. J. B. Bonnie, of a daughter. di of
On the 17th inst., at St. John's-hill, Battersea, the lady
the Rev. J. M. Soule, of a son. ers '
On the 18th inst., at Clapham, Surrey, the wife of the
T. Mac Gill, of a daughter.
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18th inst., at S.a
MN., assistant-0.. APaßnßclrEaf *Church, John Rei 010
On 2
to Mary Ann Elizabeth, yottliv
daughter of the late Uaj,'tain a C. Stovin, R.N.

WED.
At Cheriton, Kent, Mary, eldest daughter of the •late CCC
Macdonald, barrack-master. ~A LOW'
On the 10th inst., Jane, wife ofJohn Sinclair, of vw
Ma re sii eld, Susses

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