The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-31 00:00:00

Railway andPnblic Companies in Parliament.

Yesterday in the committee on Metropolican
Railways the opposition on behalf of the East and
West India Dock Company was further proceeded
with, Mr Hickson; their secretary, being examined
at considerable length by Mr Round. The Dock
Company object to the introduction of the proposed
extension line across their waterways by swing
bridges as calculated to interfere with the naviga-
tion and the shipping, although on the other hand
the railway would furnish them with increased faci-
lities for the tnnsmission of traffic. The committee
have been over the ground, so as to be ocularly and
practically satisfied on the subject before coming to
a decision. In Mr Baillie's committee on the com-
peting Irish railways the case on behalf of the
Great Southern and Western and Midland of
Ireland was concluded. Mr Hope Scott, Q.C., then
addressed the committee for the Dublin Trunk Con.
netting Railway for a principal lino of five
miles from the Great Southern and Western at
King's-bridge Terminus, passing under and over the
the Liffey and the Royal Canal to the Dublin and
Kingstown near Sandymount, with six small lines
and junction curves, forming a railway belt round
Dublin. The required capital is £250,000 in shares,
and £85,000 loan. The proposed line near its com-
mencement will cross the Liffey by a bridge of 8
arches, and 4 miles further will be carried by a tun-
nel under the river seaward of the entrance to the
Grand Canal Docks at Ringsend. It is opposed by
the corporation of the port of Dublin. The evidence
of Mr. Moseley, the general manager of the Great
Eastern Railway, was continued in the committee
on the Great Eastern Northern Junctions Railway.
Landowners' opposition to the Bourton-on-the-
Water Railway was opened by Mr. Coleridge
against that bill. Mr. Merewether, Q.C., summed
up the opposition to the Lancashire Union Railways
on behalf of the Lancashire and Yorkshire. Evi•
deuce still occupies Mr. Wodd's Committee on the
proposed Feign Valley line. The bills passed in
Mr. Massey's committee include the Belfast and
Northern Counties Railway, for a branch to Port-
rush Harbour, and to raise for general purposes
£lOO,OOO on new ordinary or preference capital,
and 133,000 by loan ; Belfast, Ballymoney, and
Ballycastle Junction, for a railway between those
points of 15 miles, to raise £98,000 capital and
£32,000 loan; Bristol and South Wales Union Rail.
way, to extend the time for making their line to the
mouth of the River Avon ; Greenwich and South
Eastern Docks, to extend the time for taking land
and completion of works for five years; Midland
Railway, for extensions from Bath to Thornburg,
17 miles, and further capital of £236,000, and loan
L 78,600 ; Oswestry, Newton, and other companies'
amalgamation and arrangements bills; Severn Val-
ley Railway, to take lands, extend time, and raise
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12Ow,0a0y0, capital, and £40,000 loan; North Eastern
for additional lines and powers ; Ram-
melt's Patent Pneumatic Railways and Tubes ; Mid
Wales Railway, Workington Harbour, and Trent,
Ancholme, and Grimsby Railway. Before Lord
Redesdale ; the bills of the Caledonian Railway,
London and South Western (Chertsey Railway),
Salisbury and Yeovil, and Witney Railways wentrd
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age Committee, and the case of the bargemen and
others occupied that on the subject of the Thames
Conservancy.

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