The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-04-16 00:00:00

'PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

JOHN GLADSTONE, Esq.,_ of Fasque—Chairman.
CAPTAIN WILLIAM RAMSAY, R.N., Deputy Chairman;
resident at Edinburgh.
The... Lord Provost of the City of Edinburgh.
The Lord Provost of the City of Aberdeen.
The Provost of Arbroath.
The Provost of Bumtisland.
The Provost of Cupar.
The Provost of Dundee.
The Provost of Kirkaldy.
The Provost of Montrose.
The Provost of St. Andrew's.
The Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce, Edinburgh.
Lord Frederick Hallyburton, M.P. for Forfarshire.
Sir Adam Hay, of Haystone, Bart., Banker, Edinburgh.
Sir James Forest, of Coniston, Bart.
Sir David Brewster, of Allerly, K.H.
John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune, Esq„ of Balfour.
James H. Burnett, Esq., Moray-place, Edinburgh.
Peter Cameron, Esq.. Thomaston Mill, of Messrs. Ca-
meron and Co., General Carriers.
W. F. Lindsay Carnegie, Esq., of Boysack, Chairman of
the Arbroath and Forfar Railway Company.
William Curr, Esq., Dundee, one of the Directors of the
Dundee and Arbroath Railway Company.
George Duncan, Esq., M.P. for Dundee.
William Stark Dougall, Esq., of Scotscraig.
Edward Ellice, Esq., M.P. for the East Fifeshire Burghs.
Colonel Ferguson, of Raith, M.P. for the South Fifeshire
Burghs.
George Fyfe, Esq., Dundee, one of the Directors of the
Dundee and Arbroath Railway Company.
John Gibson, Jun., Esq.. Charlotte-street, Edinburgh.
David Greenhill, Esq., Grant Lodge, late Bombay Civil
Service.
Archibald Home, Esq., one of the Directors of the Royal
Bank.
John Learmouth, Esq., of Dean, Chairman of the Edin-
burgh and Glasgow Railway Company.
Donald Lindsay, Esq., one of the Directors of the Royal
Bank.
James M. Melville, Esq., George-street, Edinburgh.
George Moon, Esq., Manufacturer, Russell Mill.
David Nairne, Esq., of Drumkilbo.
Erskine Douglas Sandford, Esq., Chairman of the Edin-
burgh, Leith, and Newhaven Railway Company.
Henry Stewart, Esq., of St. Fort.
John Thompson, Esq., Cashier of the Royal Bank of
Scotland.
Alexander Thompson, Esq., of Whiterig.
William Thomas, Esq., Banker, Dean of Guild and Dun-
dee.
William Tullis, Esq., Auchmuty Mill.
Patrick Wallace, Esq., St. Andrews.
Robert Wiseman, Esq., Cupar-Fife.
David Yool, Esq., Manufacturer, Blebo Mills.
With power to add to their number.
BANKERS.
The Royal Bank of Scotland and Branches.
The Union Bank of Scotland and Branches.
Messrs. Coutts and Co.
Sir Richard Carr Glynn and Co. London.
Sir Claude Scott, Bart. and CO.
ENGINEERS.
Messrs. Grainger and Miller, Edinburgh.
SOLICITORS.
Sir Charles Gordon and Co., Edinburgh.
Messrs. Richardson and Connell, and
Messrs. G. and T. W. Webster, London.

A RAILWAY through the Cour.= of FIFE has been
very anxiously called for as an object of National as
well as of great Local importance. The communication
by this route is the most diaect to the North of Scotland.
The City of EDINBURGH is at the one terminus, and the
enterprising and rapidly increasing Town of DUNDEE is
at the other; while the important City of PERTH presents
a central point for ready communication with the North-
ernand Middle Diftricts of the Country.
A very careful Survey has been obtained of the line to
Dundee ; and three Engineers have concurred in opinion
as to the direction of that Line. It commences at the
Royal Burgh of Burntisland, in connection with the Low-
water Pier, now nearly compkted there for the Burntis-
land and Granton Ferry. Large Iron Steamers are now
being built for the Service of the Ferry, which are intend-
ed to pass every hour during the day from either side.
From Burntisland:the Line proceeds by Kiughorn, Kirk-
aldy (with a branch to the harbour of that town,) Dysart,
New Inn, the County Town of Cupar, and Guard Bridge,
to Ferry-port-on-Craig and to Craighead opposite to
Dundee, where a Floating Bridge is about to be made by
the-co-operation of Government. The Line to Perth is
' intended to diverge from the main trunk at a point north
of the village of Kettle, and to pass by Collessie, Lin-
dores, Newburgh,.and Abernethy, to the South Inch of
Perth.
The length from Burntisland toisCraighead, including
the Branch to Kirkaldy, will be 39 miles. The length of
the Junction Line from Kettle to Perth will be 17 miles,
and from Burntisland to Perth 37 miles. The total length
of the several Lines will be 56 miles. The Summit Level
is only 273 feet above Burntisland Pier. The Gradients
are fivourable ; and there are no Engineering difficulties.
The tine, whether considered with reference to its esti-
mated cost, its permanent working, or the great traffic it
will command, is unquestionably the best which could be
selected.. By it the distance to Aberdeen, and to the
principal towns on the East Coast of Scotland north of
Dundee, is greatly shortened, as compared with any line
of Railway which has ever been proposed. From Aber-
deen to Edinburgh it is shortened 454 miles; from Perth
to Edinburgh, 401 miles ; from Perth to London, 37
miles ; from Dundee to Edinburgh, 544 miles ; from
Dundee to London, 54 miles ; and from Dundee to Glas-
gow, 54 miles. The time which will be occupied in tra-
velling from Perth to the centre of Edinburgh will be 2;
hours ; and between Dundee and Edinburgh, including
the Ferry and the Floating Bridge, it will be 24 hours.
Railways are already formed, and others are in pro-
gress, at both termini. At the north there is the Railway
from Dundee to Arbroath • and in further continuation
are the Lines to Forfar and to Newtyle. There is also
the prospect of the Line being soon still further extended,
in connection morthwards, to Montrose, Brechin, Aber-
deen, and the other important towns in the same direc-
tion. At the Southern Terminus it will be connected at
Granton Pier with the Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton
Railway, which, being carried to the centre of the City of
Edinburgh, there unites with both the Edinburgh and
Glasgow and the North British Railways. By the former,
continued by the Greenock and Ayr Lines, the communi-
cation will be extended directly to the great manufacturing
City of Glasgow, and the other important Depots of Trade
and Manufactures in the populous Counties of Lanark,
Stirling, Dumbarton, Ayr, and Renfrew; and by the
North British Railway from Edinburgh to Berwick, it
will be in direct connection with the great Southern Lines
on the East, and equally so with Lancashire and the south
west of England, either by the proposed new Lines of
Railway, or by those already formed.