The Sun.
London, England, 1853-07-07 00:00:00

REPORTS OF SELECT COMMITTEES ON RAIL

WAY BILLS.

TYNEMOUTH DOCKS, AND MORPETIT AND SHIELDS
DIRECT.—Mr. Evans reported from the committee on
this bill, that they had examined theallegations contained
in the preamble of the bill, but the same had not been
proved to their satisfaction.
SOUTH WALES (POWER TO PURCHASE, &c.).—Lord
J. Manners reported from the committee, that by the
bill as originally introduced, it was proposed to author:ge
a lease or purchase by the South Wales Railway Com-
pany of the undertakings of the Llynvi Valley Railway
Company and Llanelly Railway and Dock Company, or
working arrangements between those companies, as well
as to grant further powers in reference to leasing and
selling the undertaking of the South Wales Railway
Company to the Great Western Railway Company, and
to authorise working arrangements between those com-
panies ; but the bill, as submitted to the committee for
their consideration, and as passed by them, contained
no provisions whatever in reference to the Llynvi Valley
Railway Company, or the Llanelly Railway and Dock
Company, and the further powers of leasing and sale by
the South Wales Railway Company to the Great West-
ern Railway Company were limited to the works to be
executed, or for the execution of which further time may
be granted by acts of the present session.
CHARD.—Viscount Jocelyn reported from the com-
mittee, that the works authorised by the bill will not
involve any further outlay of capital than the company
have already power to raise. The length of the proposed
new line is two miles, three furlongs, and 8.50 chains ;
and it will be constructed on a gauge of seven feet. The
steepest gradient is 1 in 100, and the smallest radius is
a curve of 30 chains. The estimated cost of the railway
is 25,0001., and the quantity of land required 18L acres.
Mr. P. Bruff was the engineer examined in support of
the bill. The committee were satisfied of the fitness in
an engineering point of view of the proposed railway,
and they had inserted in the bill the necessary provisions
for insuring the completion of the line.
KILKENNY AND GREAT SOUTHERN AND WESTERN.—
Yesterday the select committee of the House of Lords,
the Earl of Derby in the chair, declared that the preamble
of the bill for constructing this proposed line was " not
proved to their satisfretion, and that the committee had
arrived at this decision solely in consideration of the
financial position of the company, but the committee
considered the extension of railway communication in a
north-western direction from Waterford to Kilkenny in
itself highly desirable."
EAST KENT.--The committee of the House of Lords
on this company's bill, the Earl of Verulam in the chair,
have declared the preamble proved, inserting clauses to
to the effect that the South-Eastern Railway Company
shall make a station at Strood, to suit both their own
and the East Kent line, and that if the South-Eastern
Company make the portion of the line between the
Medway and the tunnel, the East Kent Company need
not do so.

SOUTII-EASTERN.—Yesterday the same select com-
mittee aiso passed this company's bill for a line between
Strood and Maidstone, and for dissolving the Canterbury
and Whitstable Railway.