The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-06-17 00:00:00

RAILWAY FROM BELFAST TO DUBLIN BY
ARMAGH.
Loudon, Monday, June 6, 1836.
A T a MEETING of the PATRONS and-other GENTLE-
-111. MEN interested in this Line of RA ILWAY, held at
the residence of the Earl of Charletnont, 49, Grosvenor-square,
The Earl of CHAI{LEMONT in the Chair,
. .

A Circular Letter from the Secretary to the Committee of the
Dublin, Drogheda, and Navan Inland Line of Railway, the
several l'atrons of this Company, was read.
It was moved by Lord Acheson, and seco dby Lord
Dufferin, and unanimously resolved,
That it is the opinion of this Nleetin t "the fixed and
determined principle" put forward in original Prospectus
of the Company, "to have a comm iicatiou by the shortest,
most level, and least expensive Line, between Dublin and
Belfast, by Armagh, and that the different towns on each side
of the Line should, if it be considered expedient, establish
Branch Railways, "should not be abandoned, but steadily be
kept in view in all the measures of the Company; it being of
the greatest importance to preserve to the proposed Line the
prominent characteristic stated in the Prospectus, that "it will
complete the communication from the Metropolis of Ireland
by Belfast to Scotland and the North of England, and will
obviously he the course of conveyance for his Majesty's Mails,
as well as for Passengers and Goods."
It was moved by Cord Templemore, and seconded by Gusta-
vus Lambart, Esq., and unanimously resolved,
That it is the decided opinion of this Meeting, that in any
Railway communication between Dublin and the North of
Ireland, it would be impracticable to adopt a Coastwise Line
of Railway.
That no Line can be satisfactory to the North of Ireland, as
a trunk line, which does not pass to the West of Drogheda;
and, consequently, that the Coastwise Line of Railway from
Dublin to Drogheda, now under the consideration of a Com-
mittee of the House of Commons, can never be contemplated
for this purpose.
It was moved by Lord Acheson, and seconded by Lord
Temnlemore, and unanimously resolved.
That it would not be expedient fur this Company to bind
itself to the adoption, as far as Duleek, of the Line of Railway
proposed by the Promoters of the Inland Line from Dublin to
Drogheda, until it be ascertained, by actual survey, under the
direction of this Company, that such will be the best and
shdrtest Line, with a view to effect the objects contemplated by
them, of having the most direct Line from Belfast to Dublin
by Armagh; and that such adoption will not be injuriou*-to
this Company.
It was also moved by Lord Charlemont, and seconded by B.
Bolton Clive, Esq. M.P., and unanimously
.resolved.
Than it be recommended to the Provisional Committee to
consider the propriety of contributing, out of the funds of this
Company, to the assistance of the Proprietors of the proposed
Inland Line to Drogheda and Navan, in their opposition to
the Coastwise Line of Railway Bill.
And that in the event of the Drogheda Coastwise Line of
Railway Bill at present in the House of Commons being sent
up to the House of Lords, it being recommended to the Provi-
sional Committee of this Company to take the necessary steps
to be beard against it there.
(Signed)

CHARLEMONT, Chairman.