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economical means •f transit secured. The accompanying map svi

show mere distinctly the course of these great leading lines. There
►ill thus remain, se far as Scotland is concerned, only one line of
traffic unaccommodatei, ♦iz., between Edinburgh and the north_
east of Scotland and Lancashire. It is true, the existing amount
of intercourse between these districts is as yet limited, but still, in
lqing oust the lines of communication between the two countries,
it is essential to keep it in view ; and it fortunately happens, that
I among the many schemes promoted for local objects, and for which
Parliamentary notices have been given, there is one, viz., a line
front Edinburgh to Ilawick, which, if extended to Carlisle, will
"',lfer, even on this cross traffic, the full benefit of railway corn.
Ibunication, at the expense of a very small additional outlay of
apltal.

T. explain this, your Conantittee again request your attention to
the accompanying map. From it you will observe that a straight
line, if drawn nearly duo north from Birmingham, Lancaster, or
Carlisle, would pass through or close to Hawick, Edinburgh, and
Dundee, from which last point, by a slight deviation eastward, it
I,ould reach Aberdeen. Now, It so happens that this straight line
I,ot only passes through the most practicable country for a rail.
*AY between its north and south termini, but opens up by much
the most fertile and thriving of these districts in the south and
l'"t of Scotland, to which the great trunk lines would not them.
Ives extend.

The northern portion of the line of communication thus described
hoB been already taken up by parties of influence and capital. Par.
Ilarn eet ary notices have been given for railways extending the
*hole way from Burntisland, •n the north side of the Frith of
Forth opposite Edinburgh to Perth, Dundee, and Aberdeen. The
or, as it is called, the Edinburgh and Northern Railway, forms
the first section of this line to the north of Edinburgh. It avails
',self of the improved steam ferry across the Forth, eisteblished by
114 Grace the Duke of Buccleuch and Mr. Gladstone, of Fasque,
and intersects the rick mineral and agricultural county of Fife.
ocitipared with any line by way of Stirling, it shortens the die.
taoee between Edinburgh and the most important towns in the
Korth of Scotland, from thirty to fifty miles. The section to the
aceth of Edinburgh is that projected by the North British Railway
"b2pany to Hawick, already mentioned.
byt he geemeal system of international railway communication
Ill* described, it will be seen that three principal lines are pro.
ded. The first of these gives the most direct line from London
*4 Edinburgh ; the second the best line from London through
l'ancashire to the West of Scotland ; and the third the shortest
4e across the Island, from Carlisle to Edinburgh and the north.
butt of ,Scotland.
from collateral advantages might be pointed out as resulting
the above arrangement, but these will be more properly ex.
"lainei when discussing the merits of your line in detail.
Ia a 'Wine point of view, your Committee regard it as one of
too blest important characteristics of the scheme new explained,
that although in itself mere complete than any other, it can be
tiketed by a comparatively mall expenditure of capital beyond
at is required for these new lines of railway, which are about
. bo constructed solely for the accommodation of existing local
'll6c. This statement requires a little explanation.
1.2 t has been mentioned that it is intended to form a railway from
t7inburgh to Hawick. The line has been planned, and is under.
kat by tile North British Railway Company. The object is to
;tend the Dalkeith Railway, now belonging to that Company
(Which is at any rate to be improved and adapted for locomotives),
t
the thriving manufacturing towns of Galashiels, Selkirk, and
~"lek
'Ma, situated in the midst of the best wool-growing and
ki nufacturing district in Scotland. On the other side of the
ii.and, the Ayrshire Railway Company have intimated their iuten.
4 (without meaning to interfere with your undertaking) to
1.461tte their long.projectei scheme of a Branch Railway to Cum-
hi,for the purpose of bringing into their line the passenger traffic
41 that district, and of opening up the large mineral fields of the
1'404 of Bute, Sir James Bogy/ell, and Lord George Bentinck,
4to,hich the celebrated blackband ironstone has been distinctly
al. "Wised to exist ; and where extensive additional iron-works are
"t.it is believed, to be erected under leases recently entered into.
413"11 being the case, the whole length of new railway will require
completing the two trunk lines from
t,(14.e Made for the purpose of
41-ikurith to Carlisle, via Hawick, and from Glasgow to Carlisle,
41,0Mtries, will be—
CI::k to the Dumfries line, near Carlis.ei ay...... 25 wiles.
4'l, to Carlisle

The „ -- -
Making in al'
120Pital requires for which way be reugbly estimated at
v-'l' Per stile, or 1,9.16,0001.
t .our Committee are s• satisfied of the capabilities of the line
"weeft Hawick and Carlisle, and •f its importance t• you, not
t 01), an a part ef tie general plan Us be submitted to Parliament,

lit as a branch and feeder to your line, that, with the unanimous
••, ocurresce of a meeting of your extraordinary Committee of
el aeagernent, they have undertaken to the Board of Trade, to apply
Parliament in &subsequent session for power to make it, in the
event
of the general scheme of international communication
•ro-naentioned being adopted.
Another most important characteristic of the scheme now de-
-2,114d Is, that it interferes in no way with the interests of any
sting line of railway, but furnishes new feeders both to the four
Zeit lines of railway referred to at the outset, and to all the
gtish railways with which the projected lines are to be connected.
our Committee, however, would not be discharging their duty
440 they not, in the next place, shortly te call your attention to
I°rigirt and history of another 'Aar:, which is about to be brought
et-. 1 Parliament under the name ef the Caledonian Railway, and to
14h.tralt the public and private advantages it holds cut with those
ch Ittay be obtained by the scheme already described.
't will probably be known to all of you that the Royal Centrals-
yith;,_"ri, Sir Frederick Smith and Professor Barlow—who were '
i4-nointorlin 1840 to report on the projected railways between Eng-
-1141311 Scotland—proceeding upon the assumption that only one
41. , Old be made, expressed a preference for a line passing over the
ground which oecnpiee the centre of Scotland. In doing so,
*e'er, the Commissioners carefully reeerved the question which
a, the various routes ought to be preferred, in tile event of its
I found practicable to make two or mere lines. The following
6
4.
"1.112,4 words :—" Were this otherwise (via., were more than
4t. no to be made), we should subdivide the question into two
41440, and consider, in the first instance, which of the several
would be the most suitable for a cornesunioation by Lancaster
^
*Glasgow, as well as to the West of Scotland and to the North of
limn, and which would be the boat route by Newcastle to
ikt,
s„Tko line thus preferred by the Commissioners, " under the
hi'liesitlen that at present one line of railway only can be formed
11::,4 the South to Edinburgh and Glasgow," recommended itself to
ehlefiy in consequence of its having two forks or branches at
oth•''rthern extremity, the one terminating in Edinburgh, and the
oh," in Glasgow ; but the barren character of the Irountry through
'NI it would run, and probably some consideration of the extra
ape
het ose of working it, arising from the steep gradients rendered
egsary by its summit of 1,000 feet, induced the Commissioners
Ei4eard their opinion that " it was hardly to be expected that such
Moral
would command much support as an investment from the
)),,,,.6tal *peculator ;" and to add, that," unless the principal landed
14k-r)rieters along the line would feel disposed to give the under-
)o44 their hearty support, rather with a view to the increased
t;4. It would give to their property, than to a large remunerating
let,t&ndi. there seems considerable doubt whether it will ever be
44110 publication of that Report, and the facts it disclosed, in
4:0 of lending to the early execution of the ateattock or Central
°, had. the effect of deterring the public from embarking In it,
444
of directing their attention to the more profitable Investment
Atejl._entei by the East Coast Line from Newcastle to Edinburgh.
Notth British Railway, being the &eels portion of that line,
444 accordingly brought forward In 1542—was sanctioned by an
he:th sr Parliament obtained last session—and is new in course of
"11Azad*.
Tae Mot of tkis decision of Parliament in favour of an East
nc,cast Line, which removes the only ground on which the Royal
40445tissioners had preferred the Central Line, Is net even yet ge.
antri•ill known. Acoordingly, the scheme of a Bsattock Railway
14 ;eh was revived last spring, with some modifications that led to
yell•doption of the new name of the Caledonian Railway, has been
tai,,el•llY received by the public under the erroneous impression
' It has still the sanction of the Commissioners' authority.
-100 line, as thus revived and modified, is meant to extend
4* Carlisle, to a point at or near Lanark, and to diverge there
al:. two branches, one running to Edinburgh and the other towards
ni4h,g"r. A subordinate branch Is proposal, from a point about
Mlles distant from Glasgow, to join a projected railway,
'On M. *Monists Central Railway, at Castleearry ; whereby a
44 h'etion with Stirling and the North would be atabrded. The
:gall towards Glasgow is net intended to be carried so far as
Nil City, put, at some distance from it, will run-1, into certain
11.!rai railway: belonging to separate Companies, and constructed
ta.'"tiella for the pqrpose of conveying coals to the high levels on
ell-11'01th lade of Glasgow ; and 2, into another projected line,
ell the Clydesdale Junction, which is intended to convey
(11:9411 and passengers to the low levels on the south side of
ktrel.t°w. This complicated plan will be best understood by
l'"lee to the accompanying Map.
bun contrasting this scheme with that of which the G asgow,
Zitries, and Carlisle Railway is intended to form a part, your
a:l4-:•ittee feel bound to consider, preferably, their bearing ea the
irei interests of the country.
nitilta-The length of the Caledonian Railway, excluding the
st.t"ecary Branch, which is said to be about eight miles long, is
acted inn
she Prospectus, as being 112 miles, and the cost is there
nr,,4tated at 1,1500,e00/. In a subsequent report, published by the
ilt,t4oters, it is stated, that, " In consequence of savings en other
abOf the line, the Castlecarry extension of
.the Caledonian Line
la, • constructed without exceeding the capital upon which the
rat' proceeded." But, even after allowing this correction
e original esitimate, ef the acuracy of which your Committee
sxpe no means of judging, and without attempting te calculate the
"se of a proposed branch of about lb miles long to Dumfries,
the C widening the guage, and otherwise altering the mineral
he for.' mentioned, or the expense of the Clydesdale Junction
wh; ••ieally forms a part of the scheme, it would appear
that
th 'ea Pre.-- • iternational communication proposed by
the 0 single line or- -auld, without accommodating any
"tent oeal traffic, actually canes
"leciao. ompany, san expenditure of upwards
Cr 400 C I i
' would be required for
tomlei'"o/• more than the whole sum tha. ~ich your Coni.
14ittee n
8 the two trunk lines of communication w-_
ninre already pointed out.
Talc, i "cond
aala, --Y —Your Committee beg to refer you to the ComparMilt
ofnil Distances on the accompanying Map, from which you
with
tehlsserve-1. That the North British Railway, in connexion
to • Projected lines from London to York, and from Newcastle
1-eed:•,,ick.,. affords the shortest
.communication from London,
hot 0,1 .'"is and Newcastle, to Edinburgh and Stirling; and that,
eniy the Fife Line, but even by the Scottish Central Rail.
114,1:hich would be reached by the Eeinburgh and Glasgow
tt,,,,,ia•Y.,it forms the shortest route from London and the important
2,
.a,ove-mentioned to Perth, Dundee, and Aberdeen.
on:_.`"lat the Edinburgh, flaWick, and Carlisle Railway mint-its the
t line twin Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol,
gitinnurgh ; and, in connexion with the Fife and Northecu
t. Porn', Dundee, and Aberdeen. 3. That the Glasgow,

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THE CONQUEST OF SINDE.

The following are additional extracts from the in •
teresting work of General William Napier on this
subject. After noticing the changes made by Lord
Ellenborough by the removal of a vast number of
useless political agents, the General furnishes the rea-
sons which would have justified his Lordship in re-
sorting to arms much earlier than he actually did :
REASONS FOR THE WAR.
" Lord Ellenborough was more than justified in his
sweeping reform. And it was a conviction that the loose
mode of intercourse hitherto carried on with the Ameers
had led to mischief, and was derogatory to such a power-
ful government as the Anglo-Indian, which induced Sir
Charles Napier at once to assume a frank though stern
tone with these Sindian rulers. For well he knew, that
however much modes and customs may differ with na-
tions, man is intrinsically the same all over the world,
and to be governed by his passions. He held it shame-
ful and wicked to tempt the Ameers by any appearance
of infirmity of purpose, to display their arrogance when
the Governor-General had assured him th sword of
vengeance would be inexorably bared for the first fault.
They had, however, already been tempted, by an un-
steady diplomacy acting on proud minds, into a course
full of danger for them, and he was to make a true and
faithful report of their misdeeds. This he effected twelve
days after his arrival at Sukkur, showing a list of
offences more or less grave, but the whole proving a
settled design for war, when opportunity offered. Sup-
ported by evidence, as good as could be obtained where
the secret machinations of Princes, who had the power
and the will to destroy those who informed against them,
were to be laid open, this list of offences certainly war-
ranted a resort to arms, or the imposition of a fresh
treaty under pain of war.
" Against the Ameer Roostum of Kyrpooi they proved
secret intereourso with foreign States, contrary to treaty
and with designs hostile to the British ;
,maltreatment krf
British servants ; obstructions to the commerce and na-
vigation of the Indus ; illegal imprisonment of British
subjects, and, through the agency of his Minister, Fut-
teh Mohamed Ghoree, aiding the escape of Mohamed
Shurreef, a public enemy, which happened about this
period.
" Against the Arneer Nusseer of Hyderabad, was the
assembling of troops to attack Shere Mohamed of Meer-
poor, upon a boundary dispute which had been referred
to the British arbitration ; perfidiously inveigling the
assistant political agent to meddle privately in a dispute
between the Ameer and his subjects, and then charging
this his own act against the British Government as a
breach of treaty ; repeated wilful violations of the
eleventh article of the treaty, with an avowed determi-
nation to set it aside ; delaying the transfer of Shikar-
poor, when he knew of the disasters in Affghanistan ;
secretly coining base money to defraud the British Go
vernment in the payment of tribute ; exacting illegal
tolls, refusing to refund, and obstructing the navigation
and commerce of the Indus ; opposing the free supply
of the bazaar at Kurrachee, and preventing his subjects
from settling and trading in the British cantonment ;
employing troops to menace the possession of another
Arneer, when the dispute had been referred to the Bri-
tish authorities, thus violating the third article of the
treaty, which guaranteed to each Ameer his separate
dominions ; neglect of tribute, and finally, exciting by
letter Beebruck, the chief of the Booghtee tribe, to take
up arms against the British troops, who were, he said,
retreating worsted from Khorassan, the name by which
the Sindians generally designated Affghanistan.
" These offences, which were all violations of treaty,
had been continued from early in 1841, up to September,
1842, showing a settled enmity; and at the very moment
of Sir C. Napier's arrival at Sukkur, Nusseer and Roos-
tum, the chief Ameers of Upper and Lower Sinde, con-
tracted a secret alliance and confederacy, offensive and
defensive, against the British power. They sought to
draw Ali Moored into their views ; they prepared to
send away their wives and children; they collected their
troops, enlisted many of the Affghans who had followed
General England's column from Quettah ; issued in-
structions to all their feudatory chiefs to be in readiness
to take the field, and held councils with the chiefs of the
Miirrees and other Brahooe tribes. The English troops,
they said, were as their spies informed them, so weak,
miserable, and sickly, they could not resist, and if they
were healthy,' had they not been driven from Affghanistan!
Let the priests proclaim a religious war against the
Feringhee caffirs! When they went against Khorassan
and Caubul, they made us promise three lees of rupees
yearly for tribute. Now they have been driven from
thence, and we have an answer ready when the money is
demanded!'

" Here were ample grounds for a resort to force. Did
Lord Ellenborough eagerly seize the opportunity? Did
his General advise him to do so? The answer to these
questions will place their conduct in a true light, each
on its own pedestal, for their distinct position must
always be kept in view. Lord Ellenborough knew all
the odious process by which the treaties, giving him the
right now to resent these hostile measures of the Ameers,
were obtained. The General knew nothing of them, the
official correspondence explaining them was not then
published; he could not suspect its nature; he could not
ask for it, nor would it have been given to him if he had.
He could only look at the treaties as contracts, volun-
tarily made, and which he was in Sinde to uphold, both
as a political agent and as a military officer. As con-
tracts he saw friendship, alliance, protection, offered and
accepted by the weaker power; the promotion of trade,
commerce, and navigation; and in their effects the im-
provement of the people's condition. He saw those peo-
ple, of all classes, crowding into the British cantonments
to avoid the grinding exactions and barbarous tyranny
of their rulers. Ile saw those rulers debauched and
ignorant, trampling:for their pleasures, with the hoofs of
wild beasts, one-fourth of the fertile land which should
have fed the starving multitudes; and this with so little
remorse, that one had recently depopulated two villages
to make a Shikargah for his child of eight years old!
"It was with these things before his eyes, this suffer-
ing and wickedness on one side, this promise of remedy
on the other, that Sir Charles Napier made that report
to Lord Ellenborough which was to determine the latter's
course of action.
" And Lord Ellonborough's right to act, that also
must be considered, or there can be no just judgment 1"
" It was the right of necessity, the right of self-pre-
servation, a necessity he had not produced; ho found it,
but he was bound by it. In that consists its justice,
Take away this ground and it was a continuation of
Lord Auckland's aggressive policy ; yet always with
this palliation, that Lord Ellenborough sought no ag-
grandisement, put forth no mocking pretensions of friend-
ship to cover injustice. Standing on the right of treaties
concluded, he pursued the general interes's of humanity,
disregarding only the conventional rights of besotted
tyrants, men who themselves trampled upon all rights,
and were ever ready sword in hand to take from the
possessions of their neighbours. This is the worst view
that can be given of Lord Ellonborough's policy. But
he had also the plea of self-preservation ; and be it re-
membered, Sobdar of Hyderabad, and Ali Moored of
Kyrpoor, had with a good will accepted the treaties from
the first, and Shere Mohamed of Meerpoor, voluntarily
sought a treaty on the same footing as Sobdar, demur-
ring only to the payment of tribute.
" The origin of the Sindian war being thus placed on
a sound basis for fair discussion, the following view taken
by Sir Charles Napier will be more readily appre-
ciated ;
SIR CHARLES NAPIER'S REPORT TO LORD
ELLENBOROUGH.
" ' It is not for me to consider how we came to oc-
cupy Sinde, but to consider the subject as it now stands.
We are hero by right of treaties entered into by the
Ameers, and therefore stand on the same footing as
themselves ; for rights held under treaty are as sacred
as the right which sanctions that treaty. There does
not appear any public protest registered against the trea-
ties by the Ameers, they are therefore to be considered
as free expressions of the will of the contracting parties.
" The English occupy Shirkapoor, Bukkur, and
Kurrachee, by treaties which, if rigidly adhered to by
the Ameers, would render those princes more rich and
powerful, and their subject:more happy, than they now
are. If sticklers for abstract right maintain—as no
doubt they will—that to prevent a man from doing mis-
chief is to enslave him, then it may be called hard to en-
force a rigid observance of these treaties. But the evi-
dent object of the treaties is to favour our Indian in-
terests, by abolishing barbarism and ameliorating the
condition of society, by obliging the Ameers to do, in
compliance with those treaties, that which honourable
and civilised rulers would do of their own accord. It is
necessary to keep this in view, because though the de-
sire to do good would not sanction a broach of treaty, it
does sanction the exacting a rigid adherence to the trea-
ties by the Ameers ; and the more so that their infrac-
tions of them evinces the barbarism of those princes, their
total want of feeling for their subjects, and their own un-
fitness to govern a country. These things must be kept
in mind, or what I am about to say will appear unjust,
which is not the case.

" By treaty, the time for which we may occupy our
present camps is unlimited ; but there is such hostility
to us on the part of the Ameers---such a hatred of the
treaties—such a resolution to break them in every way
there is amongst their people such a growing attachment
to British rule, that the question arises, whether we
shall abandon the interests of humanity and those of the
British Government, which in this case are one, and at
once evacuate Sinde ; or take advantage of existing trea-
ties and maintain our camps permanently ?
" ' If we evacuate the country, future events will hie,.
vitably bring us back to the banks of the Indus, II we
remain, our camps will soon be filled with the Ameers'
subjects flying from oppression. These camps will
quickly grow into towns, and the people within them will
carry on a transit trade along the Indus, to the exclusion
of the subjects of the Ameers without. Among the
latter misery and poverty aojourn, for the exactions
of the Ameers will in a great measure destroy both com-
merce and agricultgre among their people.
'l' This Prodiices another question ; can such It state
of things long continue ? A Government hated by its,
subjects, despotic, hostile alilce to the interests of the
English and of its own people ; t 4 Government of low
intrigue, and 89 99118titnted OW it must in a few year