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London, England, 1829-03-12 00:00:00

will be injurious fo those proprietors, Orme property is t
situated near Newcastle, and Carli,le, and the other large I
towns. This I conceive to be a mistake, for it is quite
clear to me, that if we bring produce froth the" remotest I
parts of the county, we shall increase the comforts of the I
inhabitants, the population will consequently increase, and
the proprietors immediately surrounding will necessarily I
participate in the general benefit and improvement of the
neighbourhood. Who, for instance, ever thought that the
lands of Essex and Middlesex were less valuable, because
the inhabitants of London got hams from Cumberland, or
butter from Ireland ? Whatever increases the opulence of
any place, roust be productive of benefit, in the surround-
ing neighbourhood. if things are brought from a distance,
potatoes, for instance, from Brampton, something will he
taker. back is exchange for them ; the increased popula-
tion and wealth of the town will increase the value of the
property around it ; we shall see houses and villas spring-
ing up on every side of us, and the lands at Jestnorel and
Elswiek will let as well for keeping cows, for the produe-
tion of vegetables and other purposes, as they now do for
growing corn and bay.—(Applause.)—l now, Sir. come
to the consideration which induced me, in the outset to
anticipate a more than ordinary support from his Majesty's
Ministers. In the first place, there is a depot of arms and
ammunitien at Carlisle, and another at Tyneinouth; these
have been found convenient places as the kingdom is the
narrowest at this point, and hence the measure we are now
advocating becomes one of interest and importance to the
Government. Suppose there was a necessity for remov-
ing troops from this side of the country to the other, it
would now occupy about four days, whereas were a Rail-
way established, it would be effected in eight hours ! Is
that not of itself sufficient to recommend the measure to the
favour of Government ? But that is cot all, a few years
ago a friend of mine, General Dhow, made a survey of the
line, and recommended some rapid and easy mode of con-
veyance along it, as a measure of the greatest importance
to Government. I therefore confidently hope we shall
hay- the support of his Majesty's Ministers.—(Applause.)
Another point of view. and after all, perhaps the greatest of
any, is the rapidity of carrying goods of all descriptions.
The speedy executing orders for goods is of the highest irn-
portance, it nearly doubles your capital, and its advantages
altogether are so great, that the merehaute of Manchester
and Liverpool have found it necessary to make a Rail-way,
though they already had a Canal. That mode of convey-
ance was found to be too slow, and a quicker transit of
manufactured and other goods was considered indispens-
able. By a Rail-way, for example. we shall hare slates
front Cumberland in eight or ten hours, which now we
procure from Wales by sea, or from Cumberland in carts,
which are several days upon the road ; is that not a conei-
deratiou of importance? Is it of no importance to grocers
and others, to have their sugars and geode of all descrip-
tions brought so quickly? It is too °brims to Le doubted.
The Canal, at Carlisle, has already preeluoeti the greatest
possible benefit to the eountry. It has increased the popn-
latiou of Carlisle, as I before stated, and a few spirited in- I
divideals have established steam-boats to Liverpool, which
are of great advantage to the neighbourhood. The market
of Liverpool is now supplied with fat cattle, from Carlisle,
by these steam-boats, in about ten hours, without losing a
pound of flesh ; whereas formerly, the farmers had to drive
them to Skipton, and from thence they went to Liverpool,
and were above a week on the road.
Bet there is no end to the advantages that result from
such undertakings. When we have established this Rail-
wit', it will merely he the trunk, which in time will
spread its branches all around._(Appwase.)—lt has been
urged against Rail-roads, that they injure people's views,
and interfere with the comforts of individuals ; but how, I
would ask, can a Rail-road, on which there are no loco-
motive engines, be more injurious in those respects than a
turnpike road? Must it not, indeed, be less so? There will
he fewer individuals employed for the same quantity of
goods ; they will be conveyed with greater rapidity, and
infinitely less confusion. Why are we everywhere im-
proving and Macadamizing our roads but to approximate
them more nearly to a Rail-road ? The one is only a
more perfect conveyance than the other. There will be
a diminution of the public-houses; there will be no loiter-
ing on the road, no negligent carters drinking, or sleeping
in their carts, but all will be quietness, all will be order
and regularity, and there will be no injury to any one, ex-
cept what applies to every public communication, For-
merly I recollect, there was only one vehicle of convey-
ance between this town and Carlisle, and that was a sort of
whiskey, which was employed once a week for carrying
the Newcastle papers (for we in Cumberland had a taste
for reading; and seeing what was passing in the world,) and
now and then a solitary passenger; but now we haee two
coaches every day. We had then only two carriers, with
three or four miserable carts ; now, the road is covered
with carts, both by day and try night. All this chews
that as the country increases in wealth, as the people he-
come enlightened to their own interests, these improve-
ments meet take place, and necessarily ;rine out of the
state of the ,ountry. It is necessary that every means,
which our sagawity can supply, should be resorted to, to
enable this country to maintain the high place she has ac-
quired amoo the nations df the world. We are not now
g
contending with ignorant nannns ; an attachment to
.free
institutions is every where showmen
-capitalin—cita is spring-
ing, up, and improvement is ea, fives
ry quarter ;
and we mutt consequently exert ours: 31'es in proportion to
keep pace with, and I trust, to surpass all ethers.-e—CApe
planse.)
Sir, I aria extremely sorry to say that, with all its ad-
vantages, there still does exist an opposition to this great
measure. lam sorry on every acconot, and not the least
because it will be attended with expense. It has, Sir,
been the anxious wish of the directors to soften that oppo-
sition as much as possible, and they have been desirous of
raving the funds as much, or more than if they had been
their own ; for their honour and interest are both at stake ;
but, I am sorry to say, they have not been able entirely to
remove it. In a line of 62 miles it was impossible not to
come in collision with the comforts, or supposed comforts,
of souse individuals ; hut, by the great skill of our engi-
neer, such eases have been reduced fro very few, and we
have avoided naming in collision with all the dwelling-
bouseson the line. Only three, indeed, occur to me which
are at all likely to be injured by the measure. My friend,
Dlr. Howard, of Corby, has a beautiful residence in that
romantic part of Cumberland, which it has been impoe-
bible to avoid. The Rail-road will pass near a delightful
walk where I have often been, lint Mr. Howard, with that
liberality and good sense for which Le is so distinguished,
saw that so important and valuable a measure rouse be ear-
ried through, and that his opposition, powerful as it whaled
have been, would only have caused expense and delay, and
could not have been succeesful,—he saw also that it would
improve his property, and, so an honourable man and a
patriot, he felt that it would benefit his native county, and
the country at large, and he not only withdrew iris oppo-
sition 'out borame a shareholder and a director. Bert he
has Lad no advantage at our expence, we have doue no morn
for biro than we have done for other gentlemen, for we
Lave alwaye been ready to obscure or ornament where it
!teemed necessary and desirable. The neat is another friend
of urine, Mr. Beaumont, of Bywell, near whence beautiful
and desirable residence the Rail-road unavoidably ;oust
pass, though, fortunately, on the opposite side of the rivow,
but, acting upon the same priocipics as Mr. Howard, arid
wishing well to his country, he gave up his dislike, and
is a large subscriber to the undertaking. The only other
ease, and I lament that one exceedingly, is ;J at of Mr.
Bacon, of Styford. I never saw Mr. Bacatile reahlooce,
but, lam told, it is a very pretty place, and, unfortu-
wetely, the Rail-road has to pass through part of hie estate.
It vas offered to Mr. Bacon to take it through any part of
his property, where he thought it could pass with the least
ineonven;ence to him, but all negociation was refused, and
the question resolved itself to this, shall we pass through
an acre of Mr. Becon't estate, or shall Ile give up the
eneasure altogether? Possibly if our engineer had met his,
mime arrangement eeight have been come to ; but no,
though the Rail. way would lie farther from hie house than
from Mr. Howard's, though the river intervened between
Mr. Bacon and us, and though, try alit means which we
offered to adopt, it may be excluded Inna. sight from his
gordens and pleasure-grounds, still he, nefontunately,
has not found it expedient to be reconciled, and La Las
said, that if we go through due inch of his land, he will
oppose it with all his power. I lament it, it will cost
us earne money, and I am exceedingly sorry for it.—
There are some ethers who oppose it, but they ore few, and
their grounds of opposition very feeble. Every nonioe will
be taken to reconcile them, and I trust their opposition will
be finally removed. But, whether or not, we must go
on, we will go on, and, I doubt pot, we shall succeed.
(Loud applause.)---In conclusion, Sir, Ido hope and trust,
and in doing SO, I Am only expressing the now:rest wish of
all :he directors, if there be any gentleman here neho can
throw :way light upon the subject, or who feels Mowed
aggrieved by' it in any way, that lie will have the good-
ness to point out bow it can be made better, or in what
way it will do hint harm. The directors court inquiry,
and they will feel obliged to any gentleman who will can-
didly state his objections to the measure, ic. the face of
this great meeting, that they may Lave an opporteo;ty of
answering and investigating them....-(Long and loud ap-
plause continued for some time on the teemination of this
speech.)

We are glad to hear that, with the Hackney
Coach Corntnigaioners, the whole system of monopoly in
Public, conveyance ill to be got rid of.