THE THREATENED RAILWAY MONOPOLY.
[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."]
SIE,—In a note in the Spectator of February 18th you call attention to the serious questions involved in the proposed amalgamation of the South-Eastern Railway and London, Chatham, and Dover Railway, questions which will in all probability demand the attention of the Cabinet, while a prominent Cabinet Minister, Mr. Akers-Douglas, is a director of the latter company. Allow me to point out that the English amalgamation does not stand alone this year. We are threatened in Ireland with a still more insidious and far- reaching monopoly in the proposed amalgamation of the Waterford and Limerick Railway with the Great Southern and Western, which would deliver over the whole South of Ireland to the absolute domination of the latter company. The issues at stake are too large to be dealt with adequately in a letter, but the two projects, the English and the Irish, raise much the same large questions of principle, and should be considered together, as the adoption of either would seriously prejudice the other.—I am, Sir, &c.,
Dublin, February £ihid. MONTEAGLE.
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