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RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

LONDON. BRISTOL, AND SOUTH WALES DIRECT.
MARLBOROUGH, OCT. 21.—A public meeting of the inhabi •
tants of the borough of Marlborough, convened by George
May, E-q , the mayor, in compliance with a requisition very
numerously signed, was held yesterday, at the Town-hall,
for the purpose of taking into consideration the best means to
be adopted fir promoting the proposed line. The Company
was represented by N. Giles, Esq., the Rev.. Sir Erasmus
W.:on, Bart, rector of Marlborough, General Parlby, and
other members of the Direction ; and there was also present
a large assemblage of the landowners, gentry, and inhabitants
of the district.
Mr. Reeve was voted to the chair, and in opening the
proceedings of the day, observed that it was on all sides ad-
mitted to be most desirable that a direct communication by
railway should he accomplished between Marlborough and
the other towns on the old western line and London; and
when a bond fide proposal was brought forward to effect that
great object, it was incumbent on them all to put their
shoulders to the wheel, and endeavour to carry it. The line
proposed was undoubtedly a good line for Marlborough, for it
gave it a direct communication with the metropolis • and,
what was equally important, with Bath, Bristol, and the
whole of South Wales. One railway had been already pro-
posed which would afford to Marlborough a communication
with Manchester and Southampton—the Direct Manchester
and Southampton, which would cross Marlborough, and
which at a previous meeting had met with unanimous sup-
port—he meant the Direct London and Southampton line.
And if they obtained the two lines—the cross line and the
direct line— the town would be very well off and its former
prosperity would return.
The Rev. Sir E. WiesoN then rose to move the first resolu-
tion. If the inhabitants of Marlborough felt sufficiently the
advantages of railway communication, to induce them to give
their cordial assent to the Manchester and Southamp-
ton, how much more strongly must. they be impressed
with the advantages of the present-scheme, which gave
to the inhabitants of Marlborough the benefit of a direct
railway communication with the metropolis? The London
Bristol, and South Wales line spoke for itself.
It commenced in London, passed on by the Great Western
line as far as Hungerford; from thence it proceeded to Marl-
borough ' • thence to Caine, having between these two towns
a short branch to Devizes.—(Hear, hear.) From Caine the
line would go on to Chippenham, where again it united with
with the Great Western, which it crossed; from thence it
proceeded, by way of Chipping Sudbury, to the Aust-passage,
which it was proposed to cross by a bridge, and, upon the
other side it would unite itself with the South Wales line,
which was the line of communication between London,
and, in fact, England and Ireland. The Great Western
Railway, having taken its course round by Swiudon,
instead✓ of adhering more closely to the old coach
road, had left the towns of Hungerfurd, Marlborough,
Caine, and Devizes to take care of themselves—the
line of communication between them and the metropolis on
the one hand, and Bristol and Bath on the other, having
been cut off. In the last session of Parliament a Bill had
been passed for constructing a 'sranch line from the Great
Western to Newbury, but Parliament, in granting that
lice, insisted that it should be carried on as far as Hunger-
ford. The present scheme, however, did not propose to
stop the e, but completely to fill up the gap the Great
Western Company had left, and to extend the advantages
of railway accommodation to Marlborough, Hungerford,
Caine, and Devizes (Hear, hear.) It was to take the
direct and old-established line of communication between
Bristol; Bath, and London, and it was the only one proposed
that came near the town of Marlborough.—(Hear, hear.)
No other company had come forward to supply the country,
and comp!), with the wishes of the people of that town, and he
wished • to impress upon them, that any proposal to give
railway accommodation to Marlborough on the part of any
company which might henceforth be made, would not have
the same claim upon the attention of those locally interested,
as if it had been made before. In this age of railways,
any town in the kingdom, however flourishing, it might
be, must, if it had nut the advantage of direct railway
cemmunicatii es with London, soon sink into nothingness.
He had, on a recent occasion, told Lord Bruce that if a
line were constructed which should place Marlborough
on a fair footing with other towns in the kingdom in
this respect, it would live, but without it, it must
sink into the position of a petty village.—(Hear, hear.)
Caine was circumstanced similarly to Marlborough, and,
at a meeting held in that town on the previous
day, resolutiens in favour of the proposed line were
unanimously agreed to ) The direct communica-
tion the line would give from and to Bristol was most im-
portant, as it would bring the traders from that port direct
to the markets of Wilts and Berks, without their being
compelled to ge many miles round for railway accommoda-
as at present. One tradesman of Caine would contribute
alone 1,500/. a year, taking the estimate on his present
trade ; but, looking at the beneficial change which direct
railway accommodation would certainly occasion, he did not
doubt that he would be enabled to bring traffic to the line to
double that amount. Coal was a most important hens of
household expenditure, especially to the poor, and by means
of this railway they would be enabled to bring up coals from
thence to Marlborough at an expence for carriage, as he was
I told, of only 2s. a ton.—(Hear, hear.) As was suggested to
him by a gentleman in the room, they might be delivered for
13s. 4d. a ton.
Mr. REID, of Marlborough, offered to contract for any
quantity of coals, provided the railway was made, at 13s. 4d.
a ton delivered.
Sir E. WILSON—The prOposed line was almost perfectly
straight from the Aust passage to the junction at Reading.
The Welsh traffic would, doubtless, take the shorter and
more direct line, and it followed, therefore, that that traffic
would come to the South Wales line. It was supposed by
some that the Aust• passage was an impracticable project.
But the bridge across that passage was now to be erected by
the 'Liverpool and Bristol Junction Railway Company, who
had subscribed the money for it, and who would carry
it into effect. The bridge was neither to be
a chain nor a swing bridge, but a fixed bridge,
in every way sufficient for the purpose of railway traffic.
The member for Bristol, Captain Berkeley, was with them.
He wee, in fact, their deputy-chairman ; and they might
reasonably conclude that they bad with them the interest of
the Berkeley family ; and yesterday, at Caine, they had the
declaration of Lord Shelburne, that finding his constituents in
favour of the line, he would support it. They had not yet
heard that the two members for Aylesbury had declared in
favour of it ; but he trusted that when they should be made ac-
quaintedwith the statement of Lord Shelburne, and the general
wish of their constituents, that they would follow the Noble
Lord's example. They had a right to assume that Lord Shel-
burne's declaration embodied also the sentiments of the Mar-
quis of LansdoVene, and if the members for Marlborough
and the Marquis of Aylesbury would attend in like mad-
ner to the .wishes and requirements of their constituents and
their tenantry; theie Would 'be 'three influential supporters
of the bill in either. House, and it would, without doubt, be
carried—(Hear, bear). One of their members was the Vice-
Chamberlain to the Queen, and the other was a Lord of the
Treasury; and with their support, together with that of the
friends they could command, the line must be ' carried.
Many of the most important land-Owners on the line had
also expressed themselves in favour of the-line. There:was,
therefore, nothing to alarm the prOmoters of the scheme :
they proposed the shortest and most direct line from London
to the Fishguard and Pembroke docks; they had the money
ready to carry it .out. The worthy baronet concluded by
moving the resolution,
T. HALCOMBE, Esq., seconded the resolution. ,
General PARLBY also spoke in favour of the line.
THOMAS SMITH, Esq.; supported the resolution, and was
sure the House of Commons could, never commit so gross an
injustice to the inhabitants of Marlborough as to refuse its
assent to a body of capitalists carrying out a work of such
great national benefit.
The resolution was carried unanimously.
Mr. HAYWOOD' the son of the agent of the Marquis of
Aylesbury, said that his father was unavoidably absent from
the meeting, but he felt great interest in the question, add
he was enabled to assure them that the Marquis was most
anxi, us to serve Marlborough ; Lord Bruce and Lord Ernest
had al ,o the same feeling, and he was sure they would sup-
port any scheme which, on consideration, they might con•
sider oil dieted to benefit the neighbourhood.:
Mr. HARRIS, of Caine, complained of the great loss he and
other traders suffered from the absence of direct railway
accommodation, and the insufficiency of the accommodation
afforded by the Great Western Railway. lie had seen the
' steward of the Marquis of Lansdowne that day, and was in-
formed by him that the noble lord would support any line
that would benefit the inhabitants of the locality;and tend
to the public good.
A resolution, exoressing the approbation of the meeting in
the proposed scheme was passed; and petitions to both Houses
were adopted in favour of the Bill.

HUNGERFORD.--A similar meeting was afterwards held at
the Town-hall at Hungerford, at which D. Allen, Esq., the
mayor, presided. Sir Erasmus Wilson fully explained the
merits of the proposed line, and the great benefit it would
confer upon Hungerford, Marlborough, and the other towns
through which it would pass. Resolutions pledging the
meeting to support the line were passed, and petitions to both
Houses of Parliament in its favour were unanimously agreed
to—Earl Caernarycn and Lord Craven to be requested to
support the one to the Lords, and the county members the
petition to the Commons.

RAILWAY STREETS.
The question of•adapting railway viaducts to street traffic,
so as to improve instead of deteriorate the property they pass
over, and diminish the cost of their construction by the pro-
ceeds of new building frontages, will receive, it is conceived,
a practical solution in the experiment about to be tried on a
grand t.cale by the Thames Embankment and Railway Junc-
tion Company. The object of this Company is to form a
through communication with the railways entering the me-
tropolis from the east and west, and to connect them, by a rail-
way bridge, with the lines approaching the Thames from the
north and south. One part of this object it is proposed to
effect by a railway embankment between Hunger-
ford-market and Blackfriars-bridge, where the river is
broad and shallow ; hut it was left open fur consideration,
on the formation of the Company, whether the railway, in
passing to the east of Blackfriars-bridge, should continue in
front of the wharves, or, leaving the river at that point;
proceed behind the wharves, in a line parallel with them,
between Thames-street and Cannon-street, to the Blackwall
Railway, at or near the Minories.- The latter course has at
last been determined upon, after a careful survey of the two
lines, with a view to their, comparative cost, the wharf line
involving expensive constructions, and unlimited demands
for compensation, and the upper line a large. original outlay,
but a certain return of about two-thirds the amount by the
sale of ground rents.
It is nitend•sl, therefore, to form between the Minories and
Blackfriars-bridge—througn a mass of property, some por-
dons of it costly, but the greater part of so inferior a cha-
racter that it is styled the " back slums" of the City—a
new street, nearly as wide and as straight as Oxford• street,
with a railway viaduct for atmospheric carriages in the
middle, constructed with cast iron girders, supported by co-
lumns along the side pavement, resembling those of the
Quadrant. A model of the viaduct and proposed new
buildings on either side, has been prepared for public inspec
tion, and Messrs. Bridges and Mason, the solicitors of the
Company, have already commenced serving the necessary
notices for the property to be purchased.
The new street, which will give a frontage to Doctore-
commons, and open a view of St. Paul s from the south,
will, in connexion with the embankment line, if carried out
as intended, form one of the main arteries of? the metropolis.
It would appear, as described, to take the most direct as
well as the most agreeable course from east to west, even
for foot passengers ; and passeng6rs by the railway, we are
told, will reach the Bank in five minutes from Charing-cross,
or the sea at Southend within an hour and a half.
The chief City station willbe immedialy at the
bask o
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the statue of King William, facing London-te bridge ;tit
ards throughout the line. The architectural intended to to • have a station for omnibus traffic every live
hundredations of the railway embankment, in reference especially to
v