The Express.
London, England, 1863-05-14 00:00:00

RAILWAY AND PUBLIC COMPANIES IN

PARLIAMENT.

On Tuesday two new committees of the Commons
met to matador the merits of two poops of new
railways for the Fasters °onetime diktatexidPfTtaed the Pro.
(agility. The fled coedited of Mr. Howes (chairman), mod
Mews. Rogers, Smollitt, Wyndham, and Vernon, the bills
before them being those of the Great Northern Rails
n
(extension from Oustou to Conant) ; Gnat Eastern Rail.
way (March to Spalding and Chatteris to Ramsey) ; Ker,
wring and Threpetone, Norwich sod Spalding (Wished,
extension and powers to Great Northers) ; Peterborough,
Wished), and Suttee, Hotheads North Jusetion, Bones
and Frierstcee Shore, and Lynn sod Sutton Railway.
The ease for the Great Northern Railway was taken. j(
proposed to authorise that company to make a line of 21
miles from a junction with their mein line at Genton,
in
the Wed Riding, to a junction with the Mariehret,„,
Sheffield, and Litholashire Railway, at its Odeon station,
to raise for that perpoee a farther sum of 332,0001.
by shares and OD, by loam. After hearing
omen' and evidesoe for the promotes on the sae,
the committee threw out the bill. The other committee,
consisting of Mr. Ingham (chairman), Messrs. Reptoo,
Greinwood, and Morrison, had before them the
°sweetly and Newtown branches, Leominster and
Shrewsbury and Welchpool, West Midland, ling.
too end Eardedey, Wolverhampton and Bridguorth,
wintry sod Newtown, and other railways. ;Ditto arnalgame.
bum—Worcester, Dean Forest, and Monmouth, Newtown
and Methyl:Jodi (agreement with Great Western), Wow.
and Midland Counties Junction and Weal Shropshire Pail.
ways. The first four bills being unopposed were eared over
to Mr. Massey, the chairman of ways and means, sod
the owe of the next bill on the rota wee opened and pro.
oeeded with. The settlement of the provisional clauses in
oonothicso with the bills of the Bradford, Wakefield, aid
Lied' Railway, the Midland Counties new lines in the Went
Riding, and of the Great North of Scotland railways cools.
pied the respective committees on these Lille. The came of the
promoters of the Potteries Junction Railway was concluded
by Mn. Calvert, QC., and the opposition ammo of the North
Staffordshire Railway opened. Furtharevidence was adduced
in the committees on the proposed new Brighton, bee, to
show that it would confer advantage and cocreeleade OD
Brighton and the localities by giving them a lend transport
route for the conveyance of coals and other commodities,
which they(did not altogether possess by the existing meals
of communication. Mr. Scott, one of the inspectors of
metropolitan coal traffic, was examined. It is stated that
the cloud of witemses in this contested case is somethiog
like 100 on each side." In the Lords;the clauses of the
Dublin Metropolitan Railway Bill were adjusted. They thee
threw out the proposed Wexford and Foniecorth_) Railway,
and broke up. The committee on the North Peden and
Stockton and Darlingtoa Amalgamation Bill took further
evidence pro and coo, and than adjourned to Thursday.
The following railway bills have received the royal amen:
—Vale of Llangollen Railway, Caledonian Railway (Cm.
stain and Dolphintou Branches sod Improvement Bills),
Busby Railway, Invernees and Aberdsse Junction,sod Cleve.
Lod Railway.
Yesterday in the House of Lord@ a committee, consisting
of the Duke of Richmond (chairman), Lords Cawdor, Legby,
Sheffield. and Carew, met to consider the merits of the Rid.
kind Railway Company's proposed extension into London ;
the Whitehaves, (demon, and Egremont Railway ; Staines
and Woking Railway ; and Manchester n Water.
works Bills. The was of the Midland Company for their
from Bedford to the north lids of the Instal.
Wea2 lime d
to join the Metropolitan Railway there, was
opened by Sir W. Alexander, and nineteen were examined
in its favour by Mr. Venable and Mr. V. Harcourt. The
bill is opposed by the London and North Western, Great
Northern, Metropolitan, and other railways. In the Com-
move the case of the Great &darn Company's
new lbw of 18 miles, from a junction with than MM°:d
d
Peterborough line at Doddiegtou to • jaocticia with the
loop lime of the Great Northers Railway at Spalding, woo
opened in Mr. Adsir's committee by Mr. Hope Scott. Wit-
OMNI were examined in its favour by Mr. Merewether,
Q.C. The opposition is on behalf of the Great Northers
and Norwich sod Spalding Railways, by Mr. Via.
ktheou. Meliae promised* cons the river New by • swing
bridge of tee openings, each 30 feet span and 10 feet high,
and five other arches of 30 fed open and nine feet high,
and the river Welland by • bridge of one arch 25 feet spaa
and 10 feet high. la the committee of which Mr. Mills is
chairmen, the general evidence for the promote!' of the
proposed new lime to Brighton closed, sad evidence as to
the dimmer* merits commenced. Mr. Turner, engineer
of the Loudon, Chatham, end Dover Railway, was ex-
amined at considerable length by Mr. Round, Mr. Somerset.
and Mr. Merewether, relative to the intended route sad
constructive estimates. The promoters had promised at
some fakirs time to run an extension to the Stays. and
Kemp Toms, Brighton, but he did not feel himself at liberty
to produce the plow; and sections. Mr. Merewether sub-
mitted that this should be dose, upon which the committee
' cleared the room, and subsequently decided that, although
they would not compel the production of the plan, they
would be at liberty to draw their own ideresos from the
' refusal. Further proceedings were taken on the cases of
the Edinburgh and Dunfermline Railway, and Bradford,
Wakefield, sad Leeds Railways in those committees. The
following bills have been passed in Mr. Niamey's commit-
' tee :—Brecon Junction, Cowes and Newport, Cork and
Youghal, Brighton (new lines and Crystal Palace), Charing-
cross Railway, Saffron Walden, Greenock and Weeows, Mid-
land Railway (Mangotsfield to Bath), Haylieg Railways,
' and New Milford Docks.