The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-03-25 00:00:00

TO VIP; HONOURABLE THE COMMONS OF THE
UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN & IRE-
LAND, IN-PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED,
The humble Petition if the several Persons whose names are here-
unto subscribed, being Owners and Occupiers of Pitoperty in the
• Borough of Cheltenham, in the County qf Gloypester,
SHEWETH,
THAT a BILL is now before a Commit of your Honour-
able House, entitled, " A Bill for m• mg a Railway front
Cheltenham and from Gloucester to jo. the Great Western
Railway near Swindon," to be called The Cheltenham and
Great Western Union Railway," wit branch to Cirencester.
That your Petitioners have long een aware, to keep pace
with the times, a Railway Communi ation from their Borough
to the Metropolis was indispensably necessary ; and that the
only question for their consideration was the most advantageous
route.
That •the Turnpike Road from Cheltenham to London is in
nearly a direct line over the Cotwold H ills, and by way of Ox-
ford, and was therefore, it practicable, the obvious line for a
Railway ; but
• That when the said Bill now before your Honourable House
was in agitation, it was widely disseMinated its Projectors,
and as generally believed, that such line was utterly impractica-
ble, and that no better line existed than the one then suggested.
That, relying on the good faith Of the said Projectors, and
influenced by their representations, many of your Petitioners
gave their assent to the measure, notwithstanding its obvious,
but, as they believe, irremediable evils.
And your Petitioners further show to your Honourable House
that, from surveys now making by Engineers of skill and emi-
nence, they believe that they shall be enabled to show that the
said representations were wholly unfounded; that a less difficult
line than the one proposed by the Bill before your Honourable
Reuse will be shown, and whereby there will be a saving in
distance, as compared with the Swindon line, of upwards of
twenty-miles between Cheltenham and London, and of upwards
of thirty miles between Cheltenham and Oxford. • •
And your Petitioners further show to your Honourable House
that the advantages of the said line suggested by them will be
Widely diffused, inasmuch as a direct Railway communication
wilt be obtained between Gloucester and Worcester and Oxford
and London, and in the benefits of which the inhabitants of
Herefordshire, Worcestershire' and Monmouthshire,- and nearly
the whole of South Wales will participate; whilst on the other
hand your Petitioners show to your Honourable House that the
.adoption of the Swindon line will be to divert the entire travel-
ling from the counties and district last named from its present
route through Cheltenham to the Metropolis, into an entirely new
tine through Stroud, along which not one coach from Chelten-
ham or Gloucester to London now runs, to the great and manifest
injury of your Petitioners and the other inhabitants of Chelten-
: ham, as well as to the loss in time and money of the travellers

themselves.
Your Petitioners further show to your Honourable House
that they do tit wish to interfere with- the passing of the said
Bill in so farats it tends to benefit Cirencester, Stroud, and the
other places in its immediate route; but they humbly pray that
they may be heard by counsel in support of the matters of their
Petition, and that the said Bill for making the Cheltenham and
Great Western Union Railway, as now before your honourable
House, may not be considered as affording to Cheltenham the
best means of communication with Oxford, the Metropolis, and
the Eastern and North-eastern Counties.
And your Petitioners will ever ptay, &c.
The foregoing Petition was in the space of about four hours
signed by the undermentioned residents of Cheltenham; and a
duplicate Petition now lies for signature at the Office of Mr.
BUBB, Solicitor, Chester Cottage.
Sir Wm. Burdett, Bart., Ma- Thomas Furber
gistrate, of Gloucestershire Abel Smith
Pearson Thompson, Magistrate, E. Jones
of Gloucestershire J. Ford
Edward Armitage, Magistrate, Thomas Cattrell
of Gloucestershire R. E. Sherwood
T. Barnard Chris. Call
R. A. Robinson Charles S. Timins
R. W. Colly, M.D. Warner W. Higgins
Wm. Cottony, M.D. P. Lewis
H. Elton T. Forbisher
Fulwar Craven, Magistrate for Thomas Culwick
Berks, Wilts, and Gloucester Charles Field
William Ingledew John Bridgewater
Stephen Yearsley William Bawling*
Edward James Plant I. Welwyn
Henry Camps ' W. Churchill
Tbamact Dta ,p
And! 74 other in*

Loutial Gentlemen.