The Sun.
London, England, 1845-11-13 00:00:00

the railway amalgamation of the districts in the .:cefoun-d
England was worth mentioning. He (Mr. Herven, die
that the London, Salisbury, and Yeovil ComP'Ventrs
Yeovil and Exeter, and the Cornwall and DeY°lle Mme
Company, had become identified in interest to
extent with another company having a ditelotak
verse interest—he meant the Manchester an es`
ampton Company.—(Hear, hear.) This was the In
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traordivary amalgamation of interests be had ever. "dor
(Hear, hear)—for the Manchester and eoutharol4l h the
t
pany bad been projected, not insidiously, but
te
avowed purpose of taking a certain amount of tto e...ore§
from the western part of England; indeed, fort. fast
purpose of diverting the whole of the West V",4e.,
India and China trade into the channel of Soutiell.a 19
(Hear, hear.) He said that their stated puree sailer
take the trade, the export trade of the north, t° of the
ampton, and prevent any of it going by the waY,,- Fit
Bristol and Exeter Railway, and by the direct line best/
mouth, the best port in the English Channel.—(Kerr' veg,
He took it to be an extraordinary exhibition of We.,84 pre'
when they saw men joining with their opponent 3,
tending to have a community of interests, when theibefort
had the most adverse interests to promote. lie inighntr' 'le t°
he sat down, advert to the traffic carried on from -100 g
Bristol.' It wag very considerable, and would nev,et.tiosle
to the Great Western Railway. It was the lerrhere
traffic of. he Bristol and Exeter line.—(Hear, hear;) twice!
were now three steamers from Hayle to Bristo,. jo
week, carrying on the average ninety passengers Bristol,.,
dition large quantities of goods, vegetables, ae'„ fro
t°
siderable time was occupied in making the veYegvaeof
Hayle to Bristol, compared with the rapidity woof 1;100
transit. Time saved was money gained, and °west°
it would cost more money to travel from the :ttig
part of Cornwall by railway to Bristol than itZ co
steam-vessels, still the saving of time would more LP- wiet•
pensate any man whose time was of any valtie gee
,
ever to him. He assumed, therefore, that old
portion of the traffic now carried by steamers rini oto
taken by milway from Cornwall over the Brrt'osi soi
Exeter line. It seemed to him that the Ihlices
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Exeter Railway Company need not trouble thent'' es'
entering into an arrangement three years before t e
piration of their lease, for it must be obvious that tli_nthei
sought to propitiate them by promises on the one hTife
to intimidate them by threats on the other, nanetj,,,,
view an object which they had reasons for not
which the Bristol and Exeter Shareholders would..e,° je• g
to look to.—(Hear, and cheers.) The Bristol and Bleropn fog
a right to ask complete amalgamation, or to `,7▪ 6fot
that they would be altogether independent of oiuo'
Western Company.—(Hear.) The drift of these °Net; 05'
was just this—that at present it was the interest of the
tol and Exeter Company to promote the extension et
dependent line from Exeter through Devon and co-
ii the
If a complete amalgamation should take
Bristol and Exeter and Great Western Railways, ail lila
interests of those parties would be to promote the be,sn
between the metropolis and Falmouth. It seemed `O,'',lloe
on a review of tile whole subject, that no narrow-o°' beet
stood any chance of success. He took it, then, that, thel,ool,l
the shortest, and the least expensive broad-gauge lnen erth.
be the one most likely to meet with ParliamentarYcii;loo'
No competing line with the Great Western and ,lerer'tlh
Junction had yet been put before the public, anuLid
they had a right to expect, from the position they
place bettree to
respect to their surveys of the line, and other nci,irllie
arrangements, that they should be enabled to go to 03
went with every reasonable prospect of success.---(Chetieeal.
The meetiegwas also addressed by several other geL efir
Mr. W. HILL then moved "That the report of the F~
ne,:,r be adopted and published, and circulated among
otor of the undertaki."
RICARDS having
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seconded the resolution, it IcssVilt
mMr . s H
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aalrirki
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were
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11,13-11,yted to the Chairman, who brielif
knowledged the compliment