Speech of Counsel, on the 30th May, 1848, Before a Select Committee of the House of Commons, on Behalf of the Head, Lower and Assistant Masters of Eton Against the Great Western Railway Extension from Slough to Windsor (Classic Reprint) PDF Download

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ISBN: 9781528407601
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Excerpt from Speech of Counsel, on the 30th May, 1848, Before a Select Committee of the House of Commons, on Behalf of the Head, Lower and Assistant Masters of Eton Against the Great Western Railway Extension From Slough to Windsor Now, Sir, this year what have the College done? Nothing has been done in the way of absolute consent, no doubt, to any other than the Great Western Line, that is not pretended and when I come to the case of the Crown, nothing has been done in the way of absolute consent to any other Line, - there is no question about that, but can you doubt, after the Evidence of Mr. Carter, after the letters produced, that if the College can with proper con sideration to the Great Western Company, and their pledge to them, facilitate the introduction of another Line which shall not pass to the Westward of Eton, but go to the Eastward, beyond the River and through the Park, that they are ready immediately to consent to it? Sir, I will not fatigue you with reading those letters, I will not go through those letters in detail; you have the matter summed up by Mr. Carter in one or two portions of his Evidence; and I say that it is conclusive as to this, that supposing the two Companies to be agreed, the Great Western to be willing to coincide in such a plan with the south-western, and the Crown to give its consent, the College are ready at this moment to sanction such a Line. That is the history of the College part of the transaction; you will see how very little weight, under the circumstances, can be attached to their consent to the greatwestern plan - a consent which they gave, I say, in a moment of weakness, which they have adhered to honourably, but which they are perfectly willing to commute into another consent, under circum stances which the present case, in my humble judgment, renders it almost imperative should be considered by the Committee, and made the foundation of their proceedings in this matter. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.