The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-18 00:00:00

Railway and Public Companies in Parliament,

Yesterday the case for the opposition of the cor-
poration of London to the East London Railway
closed in Lord Stanley's committee, and Mr Phinn,
Q.C., and Mr Murphey opened the opposition for
the London Docks, who object to that portion of
the line which proposes to run under their waters
ways and warehouses. The evidence yesterday was
principally confined to the alleged injurious effect
which the vibration caused by trains was calculated
to have on the vast stock of wines and spirits in the
dock company's vats and vaults, the probability of
which had excited, according to the witnesses, wine
merchants and brokers, considerable apprehension
in the trade, who were in the habit of drawing their
finest supplies from the dock depots. The commit-
tee of which Mr Hassard ie chairman, after hearing
' Mr Coleridge and Mr Cripps on the whole case of
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and Railway, and Gloucester and Led-
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mouth to elect to become, within six months, joint
proprietors of so much of the line as intervenes be-
tween Newent and Gloucester, with suspensory
clauses for two years, and should the Gloucester
and Ledbury not proceed then, that the Worcester,
Dean Forest, and Monmouth should be at liberty
to make their own line. If on the contrary the
Gloucester and Ledbury did make their line the
powers of Worcester and Dean Forest should cease.
Adjourned to Monday for further consideration of
clauses. In Mr Watlington's committee,after hearing
Mr Somerset, the bill for the Swansea and Neath and
Brecon Railway passed. After taking the evidence
of Mr Stewart, Secretary of the Company, and hear-
ing the opposition of the Lancashire and Carlisle, the
committe approved and passed the bill of the London
and North Western for various additional powers.
Mr Burke, Q.C., stated the case of the Wellington
and Drayton Railway, for an extension between two
points in the company's authorised line of 1862, at
Wellington and Longden, and for a lease or amal-
gamation with the Great Western. s6fter hearing
counsel and general evidence the committee passed
the bill. Sir F. Goldsmid's committee on the steam
boat bill of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln-
shire Railway took additional evidence in favour of
authorising that company
to work steam vessels
between their port at Great Grimsby and Rotter-
• dam, Antwerp, Hamburg, Bordeaux,Dieppe, Flush.
lug, Lubeck, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Revel, Cron-
stadt, St. Petersburg, and
lioningsberg, and for
that purpose to raise £250,000 by- new or preference
shares, and £83,000 by loan. In the Lords the bill
for the Wrexham, Mold, and Connah's Quay Rail-
way was passed, and the Argyllshire Roads and
Wisbeach Water Works came on in the other com-
mittees.

COMMENCEMENT OF THE WORKS AT SMITHFIELD.
----Yesterday morning the engineers connected with
the railway companies and new metropolitan market under
the Corporation, proceeded to set out the site for the new
Metropolitan Meat and Poultry Markets at Smithfield, and
to determine, in accordance with the working plans, the
points at which the Metropolitan loop line, and the London,
Chatham and Dover curve, from the junction at Skinner-
street—the former at the north-western corner of, the mar-
ket, and the latter at the south-western—are to enter the
underground surface of the proposed markets. Workmen
were also engaged all day in removing the pillar lamp posts
and the lamps, and in taking up the gas mains belonging
to the respective gas companies. The routes of the streets
which are to surround the market are also being staked out,
and we are informed that the works will be henceforward
carried out jointly by the Corporation and the companies
with as little delay as may be possible—those at the top of
li.ing-street, or the western end, being: first undertaken.