The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-03-26 00:00:00

PROVISION.

.L COMMITTEE.
ELHAVEN, Chairman.
rossknow, Deputy-Chairman.
J. J. Hope Johnstone, Esq.,
of Annandale, M.P.
iWilliam Lockhart, Esq., of
Milton Lochart, M.P.
James Oswald, Esq., of
Auchencruive, M.P.
A. D. W. B. Cochrane, Esq.,
of Lammington, M.P.
Thomas Houldsworth, Esq.,
of Coltness. M.P.
[ William Forbes, Esq., of
Callander, M.P.
JohnDennistoun,Esq.' M.P.
, John Campbell Colquhoun,
i Esq., of Killermont, M.P.
William Ewart, Esq., M.P.
Mark Philips Esq., M.P.
, Charles Hindey, Esq., M.P.
Colonel B. Elphinstone
J. Fullarton Elphinstone,
• Esq., Monkland
Robert Garnett, Esq., of
• Wyreside, Lancashire
Johnston Douglas, Esq., of
Lockerby
W. Maxwell, Esq., of
' Munshes
Charles Stewart, Esq., of
Hillside
J. Wightman, Esq., of
Courance
'David Dickson, Esq., of
I Hartree
Col. Macdonald, of Powder
Hall
Richard Mackenzie, Esq.,
1 of Dolphinton
Robert Monteith, Esq., of
Carstairs
William Forbes, Esq., of
Medwin
Thomson Carmichael, Esq.,
of Eastend
Robert Steuart, Esq., of
Carfin
Archibald Campbell, Esq.,
of Blythswood
James Ewing, Esq., of
Levenside
Henry Houldsworth, Esq.,
of Cranstounhill
William Dixon, Esq., of
Govan
John Tennant, Esq., of St.
Rollox
Alexander Dennistoun,Esq.,
of Golhill
Robert Findlay, Esq., of
Easterhill
Robert Bartholomew, Esq.,
Glasgow
William Cross, Esq., ditto
Laurence Robertson, Esq.,
ditto
Henry Breck, Esq., ditto
John Whitehead, sq., do.
Alexdader Hastie, Esq., do.
ENGINEERS.
Joseph Locke, Esq., F.R.5.4; J. E. Errington, Esq.,
Member of the Inst. C.E.
SECRETARY.

The Right Hon. Lord B]
Lieut.- CoI.GRAHAM, of M,
The Most Noble the Marquis

of Queensberry
The Right Hon. the Earl of
Cathcart,K.C.B.,K.S.W.
The Right Hon. Lord
Abercromby
The Right Hon. Lord
Elphinstonc, G.C.H.
Sir William Jardine, of Ap-
plegarth, Bart.
Sir Windham Carmichael
Anstruther,of Carmichael,

Bart.
Sir Frederick Pollock, M.P.
Rear-Admiral Sir Charles

Malcolm
Sir John Kirkland,of Climpy
Sir James Grant, the Hill,'
Carlisle
The Lord Provost of Glasgow
The Dean of Guild of Glas-
gow
The Convener of the Trades-
house, Glasgow
The Lo.d Provost of Perth
The Provost of Lanark

The Provost of Anderston of

Glasgow
The Provost of Calton, Glas

gow
The Chairman of the Grand

Junction Railway Compa.'
ny, J. Moss, Esq.
The Chairman of the North

Union Railway Company,
T. W. Rathbone, Esq.
The Chairman of the Lan-
caster and Preston Rail.:
way Company, George
Burrow, Esq.
The Chairman of the Man-
chester, Bolton, and Bury
Railway Company, James
Brancker, Esq.
The Deputy-Chairman of the
Lancaster and Carlisle
Railway Company, John
Wakefield, Esq.
The Chairman of the Garn-
kirk and Glasgow Railway
Company, Mark Sprot,
Esq.
The Chairman and Directors
of the Wishaw and Colt-
ness Railway Company
The Chairman and Directors
of the Monkland and
Kirkintilloch Railway
Company
John Dixon, Esq., of Knells,
Carlisle
G. G. Mounsey, Esq., of
Rocliff House, Carlisle
G. H. Head, Esq.,of Ricerby
House, Carlisle
C. Nicholson, Esq., Crown-
head, Kendal

Lieut.-Colonel Flumfrey, Associate of the Inst. C.E.
PARLIAdENTARY AGENTS.

Messrs. Archibald, rrabame, Moncrieff, and Weems.
AGENTS AGE IN EDINBURGH.
Messrs. ,Hope and Oliphant, W.S.
LENTS IN GLASGOW.
Messrs. M• chell, Henderson, and Mitchell.
BANKERS.
Messrs. Ma erman and Co
Messrs. M s and C 0.... ...... Liverpool.
Messrs. Wakefield, Crewdson, and Co Kendal.
Messrs. Head and C 0....
The Lancaster Banking Company .... Lancaster.
The Commercial Bank
The Royal Bank ....
The Commercial Bank
The Western Bank at Hamilton and Airdrie.

A BILL for the construction of a Railway from Lan-
-11 caster to Carlisle, being the first section of the Na-
tional Line to Scotland as recommended by the Govern-
ment Commissioners, having now passed the Committee
of the House of Commons, the parties who have long had
before them the project of the completion of that route
are now in a condition to submit it to the public.

Of the proposed Capital of £1,800,060 one-third, or
£600,000, is already taken by the Railway Companies in-
terested in the success of the undFrtaking, and by land-
owners in the districts through which the line will pass.
The northern termini, for the present, being Edinburgh
and Glasgow, it is proposed (subject to such modifications
as may be found needful). to continue the Lancaster line
from Carlisle, and following the course recommended by
the Government Commissioners, along the valleys of the
An
La-
nark, .y, Symington, and La-
-70 miles from Carlisle,
ntoanddive the
rgeCaltyd
a e,pboi y
point
acbkoeurtb
to Edinburgh on the east, and (partly by means of exist-
ing lines of railway) to Glasgow on the west.
So long ago as 1836 Mr. Locke's attention was given to
this line, and surveys were made under his immediate di-
rection, since which time he has frequently examined it,
and be now assures the Committee that their object can,
beyond doubt, be attained (the number of miles of new
railway now to be made being only about 112) at an out-
lay not exceeding £1,800,000.
With regard to the advantage of this route as compared
with any other, the Committee need only select the fol-
lowing extracts from the Report of the GOvernment Com-
missioners, viz.:—" So far as regards the interest of the
traveller, both in respect to the economy of his time and
of his purse, the preferable route for the railway commu-
nication to Edinburgh and Glasgow would be by the pro-
posed Carlisle and Lockerby lines ;" and " if, therefore,
any parties should be ready to undertake the execution of
this proposed Clydesdale Railway, they would certainly

RIVAL RAILWAYS BETWEEN CARLISLE
AND GLASGOW.

To the EDITOR of the " GLASGOW HERALD."
SIR,—Will any of your readers, who posses the requi-
site information, have the goodness to answer the fol-
lowing questions?-
Ist. Is it true, as is currently reported, that, of the long
array of respectable parties who appear as forming the
Provisional Committee of the " Caledonian Railway," not
one of those connected with Glasgow has taken, or means
to take, a single Share in the undertaking ?
2d. Is it true, as is currently reported, that the names
of some of these parties were put down in the List with-
out their authority—while others were put down in con-
sequence of permission obtained two years ago, under
different circumstances ? _

3d. Is it true, as is currently reported, that some of the
most influential of .these parties have, since the publica-
tion of the Prospectus, withdrawn their names—deter-
mined not to allow themselves to be made the means of
decoying others to subscribe to an undertaking in which
they themselves have taken no Shares, and of the merits
of which, as compared with other Lines, they as yet know
little or nothing ?
4th. Is it true that the plans of the " Caledonian" Line
deposited last year, in terms of the standing orders of
Parliament, passed over, not along the Wishaw and Colt-
ness Railway, and in place of reaching Glasgow by the
Garnkirk Railway, as seems now contemplated, joined the
Pollok and Govan Coal Railway—which passes down the
surface of West-street, and terminates on the surface of
the Paisley Turnpike Road at Tradeston ?
sth. Is it true that the Table of omparative distances
now published, with the Pr pectu of the Caledonian,
Railway, refers entirely to t e di nce between the
" Caledonian" and the Nor Briti i" or East Coast
Line, and makes no mention of al "GI sow, Dumfries,
and Carlisle," or West oast Lin and bat the length
of the Caledonian is state as being t e same as the Cen-
tral Line reported on by the Parliamentary Commission-
ers in 1842; while, if now brought over the Wilsontown,
Wishaw and oltneitt Monkland and Kirkintilloch, and
Garnkirk Mine 1 Lin (as is talked of), it will be much
longer?
6th. Is it true t these ur mineral lines, over which
in succession it As oposed to carry the whole English
traffic with Glasgow, e many of them of a very imper-
fect construction—of o 4 feet 6 inches guage—crowded
with coal and ironstone waggons—in some places having
only a single line of rails—of a weight not exceeding
50 lbs. per lineal yard—crossing several important turn-
pike roads near Glasgow on the level—and having their
terminus at Glasgow 120 feet at least above the general
level of the city ?
7th. Is it true, as is reported to have been stated at the
public meeting held not long ago at Lanark, that the
ruling gradient of the Caledonian line will be 1 in 75,
and that for many consecutive miles ; and is it true that
the length of new line to be made will be 112 miles (be-
sides the expenditure required for the alteration and com-
pletion of the Mineral Railways, while the ruling gradient
of the Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle Line, will be 1 in
130, and the length of new Line 92 miles ?
Bth. Is it true that the natural summit of the Caledo-
nian Line is upwards of 1000 feet, and of the Glasgow,
Dumfries,_and Carlisle Line only 600 feet above the sea?

9th. Is it true that the alleged subscription towards the
Capital Stock of this undertaking, by the North of Eng-
land Railways, to the extent (as is said) of £600,000, is
only in expectancy, and that in not one of these Compa-
nies have the Shareholders yet been called together to say
whether they will, or will not, so subscribe ?
Categorical answers to these plain questions will enable
the public, especially at a distance, to understand whether
this undertaking has the real support of the respectable
parties in Scotland, under whose auspices it has beep
ushered before the public, and what confidence is to
be
placed in the vague statements of its merits contained in
the Prospectus. _

I am, Sir;
Your obedient ervant,
VERITAS.

Glasgow, 23rd Alarch, 1844.