The Sun.
London, England, 1858-09-09 00:00:00

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NEWSPAPER
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THE INDIAN COUNCIL-
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Yesterday, at one o'clock, the Council fo,k --attir.,-,:f. 41.2,,
held their second meeting, at the India • • '''',/lnal- --1:4-.....„ v&--.
Leadenhall-street. Lord Stanley, the Sc' , i'.... -'-'.:o; ,tki.7--;) re;
State, was again present in his capacity ' a \'''`:-- `470/5-14/
dent of the Council. The members in atte f lice= : --14.fivi4i
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were Sir Frederick Currie, Sir James Weirnogg, :',14-friti-:--'
Captain Eastwick, Mr. Aruthnot, Mr. AirilloughtMy -, 1S
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Major-General Sir Robert Vivian, Sir Henry Raw-
linson, Mr. Prinsep, Mr. Macnaughten, Sir Rm 7
Montgomery, Sir Proby Cautley, and Mr. Charles
Mills. The absentees (from indisposition, we be-
lief e) were Captain Shepherd and Mr. Mangles ;
ans 3. Sir John Lawrence could not, of course, be
present. Mr. John Stuart Mill, the disting,us'hed
held of the department of Indian correspondence ;
Mi. J. A. F._ Hawkins and Mr. F. W. Pridcaux,
assistant examiners, were in attendance on the
coincil, as were also Mr. Juland Danvers, and
other officers of the secretariat. In the course of
the sitting, which lasted. upwards of two hours, the
council appointed Mr. James C. Melvin to the office
of Assistant Under Secretary of State. That gen-
tleman has up to this time filled the office of deputy
seeretar3: to the Court of Directors' under Mr. J.
D. DiekinSon; the -secretary to the Court, and his _
new appointment is regarded as an indication of
the retirement of Mr. Dickenson from the respon-
sible position he has so long occupied in the home
establishment.

THE RAILWAY CO MN" UNICA TION BET IT ELY
EA WICK AXD CARLISLE.

A meeting of .representatives from local commit -
mittees, and from the various towns and districts
interested in railway communication between
Hawick and Carlisle, was held on Tuesday fore-
noon, in the Royal Hotel, Edinburgh. Mr. Walter
Wilson,. manufacturer, Hawick, was called to the
chair, and there were present besides, from Hawick
—Mr. James Turnbull, chief Magistrate ;. Mr. John
Pattison,, junior, magistrate ; Messrs. G. Wilson,
J. Wilson, I. Laing, A. Laing, manufacturers ; R.
Fraser, merchant, and T. Purdom, banker. From
Kelso—Dr. Murray. Kersknowe ; Mr. F. Roy,
Nenthorn ; Dr. W. Mackenzie, Mr. T. Henderson,
Shedlaw ; Mr'. Wm. Thomson, Over-Roxburgh ;
and Mr. James Tait, W.S. As representative
of the provost and council of Portobello—Mr. Hugh
Paton. From Selkirk—Mr. J. N. Murray, Philip-
haugh ; Mr. Bathgate, C.E., and Mr. 1). C. Alex-
ander, solicitor. From Galashiels—Mr. John
Cochrane, chief magistrate ; Mr. Henry Monteath,
manufacturer ; and Mr. James Hopkirk, Langlee.
From Dalkcith—Messrs. George Douglas, John
Chisholm, Wm. Porteous, and Mr. Alex. Mitchell.
From Jedburgh—Mr. John Ord of Muirhouselaw,
Mr. Wm. Riddell, Hundalee ; Mr. Wm. Scott,
Tympendean and Mr. Geo. Hilson, jun., solicitor.
Mr. John Jardine of Thorlieshope, Liddesdale. Mr.
Wm. nobkirk, corn-merchant; and Mr. Robert
Brown, brassfoundcr, Edinburgh ; and Mr. Edward
Glynn, Newcastle, who intimated that he attended
for Mr. Charlton of Hesleyside, chairman of the
Border Counties Railway Company.
After reviewing the past efforts for railway corn-
mimication between Hawick and Carlisle, the
chairman explained that this meeting was entirely
independent of the North British Railway Com-
pany, and that it consisted of a body of local com-
mittees associated for the purpose of considering the
best way of avoiding another contest in Parliament.
In his view the proper course was to apply for a
royal commission to settle the matter. In reply to
Dr. Mackenzie, he stated that sometimes the ex-
pense of such a commission was defrayed by the
nation, and sometimes by the parties on whose ap-
plication it was granted. This was a matter of more
than mere
.local importance, for the line between
Hawick and Carlisle was the last link to secure the
independent working of the railway traffic of
Scotland. The Caledonian, Edinburgh and Glasgow,
and Glasgow and South-Western lines, were
all working too-ether ; indeed the railway system
of Scotland had been swallowed up by the great
influence and power of the Caledonian Company,
and the only. way of obtaining an independent
system of through traffic from the north of Scot-
land—lnvernesS, Aberdeen, Forfar, Arbroath, and
Dundee—was through Fife, being the nearest route
to Liverpool and Manchester. The Caledonian Com-
pany had no interest in developing the traffic of
the district, and it was stated by Sergeant Wrang-
ham, in 1857, before a committee of Parliament,
that they only came forward with a scheme for a
line in order to protect their main line. It was
exceedingly likely that the Railway Department
of the Board of Trade would conduct the proposed
inquiry, and the expense, he understood, would be
from £l,OOO to £1,500.
The first resolution, moved by Dr. MURRAY,
and. seconded by Mr. Roy, approved of the con-
duct of the deputation to London last session in not
preSsing them for the appointment of a royal com-
mission.
The second, moved by Mr. TCRNBULL, chief
magistrate of Hawick, and seconded by Mr.
COCHRANE, chief magistrate of Galashiels, ex-
pressed the opinion that the objections which pre-
viously existed to the appointment of such a com-
mission are now removed.
The third, moved by Mr. PATON, and seconded
by Mr. MITCHELL, Dalkeith, declared that the
construction of a railway from Scotland to Eng-
land is a matter of national importance, and proper
for inquiry under the authority of the Crown.
In moving this resolution, Mr. PATON remarked
that in this matter the meeting ought not to take
the side of the North British Railway Company or
the Caledonian ; he believed both companies were
anxious that the object of the meeting should .be
carried into effect.
The next resolution, moved by Mr. E. GLYNN,
Newcastle, and seconded by Mr. ORD, of Muir-
honselaw, was as follows :—" That this meeting
having understood that all attempts have failed to
effect a.reconciliation of the conflicting interests of
the parties promoting the respective lines of rail-
way from Hawick, by way of Langholm, and by
way of Lidelesdale to Carlisle, and being unani-
mously of opinion that it will only be through the
intervention of a royal commission that the con-
flicting interests ana opinions that exist on the
subject can 'be speedily settled, resolve to apply to
all the railway companies, landowners, and others
interested, requesting them to unite in obtaining
the appointment of a royal commission to examine
into the best line of railway communication between
the central parts of Scotland and the north-west
and north-east parts of England."
All these resolutions were unanimously adopted,
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