The Express.
London, England, 1863-08-10 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, AT:GUST 10, 1863.

By the Coroner—Shears, my tenant, bas repeatedly com-
plained to me.
By Mr. Edwards—The water varies& foot OM in its depth.
I have not the control of the water. I am not aware that
the water Is dammed up.
By Mr. Durrant—l am not aware that the ditch was
bottomed. They were not made fences for stock. It is •
very bad fence.
Jeremiah Elvin—l am foreman of the plate-lavere. Isuit
Monday morning I was at work with Mr. Bloomfield. I saw
a bullock on the line just before the train passed for Lynn at
11.15. 1 sent a man to put it off. I never saw it coming
on. It got over the fence. The tram was not more than a
hundred yards off the bullock. I bade complaint front Mr.
Bloomfield this day fortnight, and from Mr. Sheringharu's
shepherd and Mr. Sheen.
Mr. J. S. Valentine, C.E., siud—The fences on the Lynn
and Hunatanton line had engaged bisserinus attention. He
believed they were efficient, and that cattle could not stray
upon the line. He had had a continued interest in the line,
and had been frequently upon it. As an engineer he had
frequently travelled upon the engine. He never saw cattle,
but he once saw • lamb early in the spring. He had many
years' experience both in this country and abroad, and he had
had no personal experience of an accident arising from cattle
on the line. The fence of which so much had been said
was a fence commonly used on lines which ran through • .
marshy district, and as to the observations which bad
been made u to the lowness of the fence, up-
posing the ditch remained full of water the fence
would have been more efficient than if it were high. In
that small portion to which Mr. Baum alluded the water
was not so deep, but it was under the eye of the gate-keeper
at Gaywood. There was a stream of water running into those
ditches, and he never saw those ditches dry. The two stops
on the ditches were left so that the water from Mr. Craun-
der's tannery should not pass that way ; but the water was
deeper below than above those stops. Mr. Bags., was under
• misapprehension when be said there was no fencing there.
The ditches on the Hunstanton line were not DOW so good
as those on the Lynn and Ely, being dry. The reason why
the low fence was put on tae Hunstanton line was because of
the soil. On the Lynn and Ely line no fences besides'
ditches were put up at all.
By Mr. Pitcher—Mostunquestionably,with the knowledge
I now, I should pat up a higher fence. Speaking of
Mr. Royston's land, the average depth would be from 18
inches to two feet. _

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By Mr. Edwards—lt is impracticable to fence against
Lim

The Coroner called attention to a case against the Gres
Western Railway, reported in Queen's Bench Reports
N.S., page 367, where it was held that lambs having been
killed, the company were bound to provide fences which
would keep them out.
Mr. Valentine said, in reply to Mr. Ward, that the ditch
in front of Mr. Bloomfield's field was cut as a ditch, and not
for getting soil for the embankment. The line was not
opened until the inspector of the Board of Trade went over
it ; and had it not been properly made the inspector would
not have allowed it to have been opened.
At the conclusion of Mr. Valentine's examination the
inquest was adjourned until Monday.
The government inspector and several of the jury, &c.,
went over the line on Saturday evening, as arranged.
Captain Tyler will report to the coroner when the inquest
is resumed.

THE WARD OR FARRINCDON WITHOUT AND
THE LONDON, CHATHAM, AND DOVER
RAILWAY.

At the last meeting of the Ward of Farringdon
Without it was resolved that a deputation of the Ward Com-
mittee should seek an interview with the directors of the
London, Chatham. and Dover Railway, with the view of
ascertaining what station accommodation they proposed to
make within the ward. The directors appointed Friday,
the 31st ult., for such interview, when the following fen.
Hemet, attended at the boardroom of Victoria Station,
Pimlico :—Mesas. Deputy Obbard, G. Walter. C.C. J.
Butcher, C.C. ; It. N. Philippe, C.C., F.S.A• G. S. Pedlar,
C.C. ;E. P. Spiller, C.C. ;S. Green, C.C.d ;J. Figgins,
C.C. ; Dr. Ross, K Morgan, T. K. Baker, H. Potter, J.
Lardner, J. Gilbertson, and Marshall Pontifex (clerk).
Upon being introduced to the directors present, Mr.
Deputy Obbard briefly stated the object they had in view
in seeking that interview. The ward of Farriogdon With-
out was now in a transition state, and the inhabitants were
anxious to know how some of its waste sites were to be ap-
propriated ; and they were also anxious to know bow far it
wee intended to disturb property within the ward for rail-
way purposes. Messrs. 'Walter, Potter, Botcher, Lardner,
and others, also put questions to the directors, to all
of which Mr. Holroyd, the secretary, replied. The
substance of the replies furnished to the ward com-
mittee may be summed up as follows :—The directors of
the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway have never
contemplated the formation of a station in Farringdon-
street. The only station in the City will be in Earl-etreet,
and that only a small one, the principal station being that
on the south aide of Blackfriars-bridge. It is the intention
of the directors to complete with all speed the communi-
cation with the Metropolitan Railway in Famogdoci-road,
for which purpose they have given instructions for the pur-
chase of only so much property as is absolutely necessary for
the construction of a set of rails for the up and down traffic.
They anticipate opening to the south side of Blackfriars-
bridge in October next, end to have the communication
complete with the Metropolitan Railway by the lot of
June, 18&4. They do not propose to erect an independent
station in Farringdon-rod, but to use the present station of
the Metropolitan Railway. 'Their powers for constructing
a branch line into the new market at Smithfield will shortly
expire, and will be abandoned.

The deputation having thanked the directors, withdrew
into an ente-room, when several of them expressed their
dissatisfaction at the answen given to them, and some
their regret that there wee to beno station in Farringdon-
street.

Ultimately Mr. Marshall Pontitex, who acted as clerk,
was desired to draw up a report of the interview, to be
presented at an adjourned meeting of the committee.—City
Press.