The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-03-06 00:00:00

GLASGOW, PAISLEY, AND AYRSHIRE RAILWAY.

The half-yearly General Meeting of the Shareholders of this
Railway was held here on Tuesday, when the following very
satisfactory Report. of the proceedings of the Directors was
read, and Resolutions entered into for taking the most vi-
gorous measures for proceeding with the •woiks. The reso-
lutions of the meeting will be found in our advertising co-
lumns :

REPORT BY THE DIRECTORS.

Since the last General Meeting of Shareholders, held on 20th
Dec. last, your Directors have been engaged in taking active
steps for the immediate commencement of tbe works., With a
v►ew to this, they made an equalising call of £5 per share,
payable on the 13th instant, under deduction of the £2 10s. of
deposit money, formerly paid np ; and they are glad to ob-
serve the prompt manner ►n which the call has been met, and
the ►ncreased demand which has taken place for the Company's
shares.

Your Directors have, conjointly with the Glasgow, Paisley.,
and Greenock Railway Company, made preparations for im-
mediately executing the line between Glasgow and Paisley.
Mr. Locke, the engineer on the Grand Junction Railway, has
been named engineer on this portion of the railway, and has
undertaken to open it in two years. Ilis,assistants have already
made considerable progress in laving it off, and be himself is
expected in the course of a few days, finally to adjust the work-
ing plans.
The Company's engineer, Mr. Miller, who has now nearly
completed the railway between Dundee and Arbroath within
the estimate, has undertaken to open. within the same period
the line between Paisley and Johnstone,. and he is at present'
engaged in Makin, it off.' When opened, your Directors look.
forward to the traffic on it being both very considerable and
profitable, as by the agreement with the Glasgow and Greenock:
Co., the trade between Glasgow and places beyond Paisley.
passes over the joint line. free of any tonnage, and is only sub-
ject to a proportionate share of the expense of maintaining the
joint line.
Your Directors will, in the course of a few days, be prepared
to commence the execution of the main line of railway be-
tween Ayr and Kilwinning, and the advertisements for con-
tracts are now prepared, and will be immediately inserted in
the newspapers. It is expected that this portion, of the Rail-
way will be opened in ab,.ut 15 months; and your Directors
anticipate that they will he able to conclude arrangements for
securing the relaying and straightening of the Kilmarnock and,
rroon railway, by the same date—so that the whole trade
between Kilmarnock, and Ayr, Irvine, Ardrossan, Troon, and
Saltcoats, will be thus accommodated. The remaining por-
tions of the line will be proceeded with at as early a period as
possible.
Your directors have given notices of an application to par-
liament next year, for making a short branch from the main
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that effect, was entered into with Lord Egliuton on behalf of the
promoters of the late Kilmarnock and Ardrossan railway, pre-
vious to the act of incorporation being obtained; but your Direc-
tors have reason to think, that the consent of his lordship, and of
the other parties interested in that undertaking, will be obtained
to the postponement of the application to parliament for another
year.

Your Directors might also have applied for various branches to
connect towns lying contiguous to the line,but they have refrained
from doing so for the present, in order that then attention may
be exclusively devoted to the formation of the main lines. They
would, however, remark, that it is one distinguishing feature of
this line, that there are numerous manufacturing towns and vil-
lages' lying on each side of this railway, and within a mile or
two of it, to which branches may ultimately be cat vied, and which
will serve as so many tributary streams, to increase the traffic
on the main line. . _

Your Directors cannot help adverting with pleasure to the
survey proposed to be made,. with a view to this railway being
extended to Dumfries, and tromthence to Carlisle. They under-
stand that a subscription for this purpose is now proceeding in
Dumfries-shire, and they would recommend that authority should
be given to your Directors to contribate a small sum toy ards so
• important au ()lied.
The superior nature of the gradients to which it is known can
he obtained for a railway to England by this route, as compared
with the line by Moffat, and the greater population of the
country, afford the strongest reasons to believe, that the
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will at no very distant period
form par t and
England. The Directors
have now to congratulate the Shareholders on the present
state of the Company. The public are daily coining to appre-
ciate none and more the advantages of this undertaking; and
your directors are convinced, that the inure this tine is gene-
rally known and examined, the more will it rise in public esti-
mation.

. -
EMIGRATION TO 'NEW SOUTH WALES.--II is in conternpla,
Linn by government to send tt ship to this port in the course of
the spring, for the conveyance, gratis, of married agriculturists,
not exceeding a certain age, uttii their wives and familieg,
the above flourishing colony.—Derry Jouinal.