The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-20 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock.

SALE OF RAILWAY SHARES BY
AUCTION.—(THIS DAY.)
The sale of Railway Shares by Messrs. Lamond and
Co„ -want off rather firmer, but there was not much
&lane in prices. The fallowing are a few of the prin.
Oiled silos:—
iSublin and Belfast Junction ........ £3 10 0
Northern Counties Union 1 16 6
Buckinghamshire
North Staffordshire « .... 7 S
Manchester and Southampton 1 2 6
15.reat'Northern
SPanchester, B

Achester, ,uxten, and Matlock. .... .. 2 3 0
Paris and Lyons
Newmarket and Chesterford lO 0 0
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate..
Eastern Counties, York Extension .....
Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A) 3 17 6
Wept Riding Union
Aberdeen 26 17 6
Sambre and Meu.se
Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham .
South-Eakern and Dover, No. 4 5 3 0

RAILWAY COMMITTEES.

(THIS DAY.)

YiOUSE OF COMMON4g.
GROUP I.
The Select Committee appointed to consider the merits of
the BiHe comprised in this group
re-assembled in Room 30,
at the usual hour this morning ; Jr. W. 0. Stanley in the
IVZXD RENT) SCHEME.
103.XOUTOZT (
The general evidence in favour of this scheme was resumed.
Mr. John William Sudderland, a magistrate of the county
of Surrey, residing at Croydon. and Mr. Currey, of Purley
Lodge, Croydon, were called to prove that a second line to
Croydon would be an injury rather than a benefit to the
inhabitants of the neighbourhoed.
Mr. Mercer, grocer, of Maidstone, gave general evidence in
favour of the Brighton scheme.
Sir John Tylden, a magistrate of the county of Kent,
residing at Sittingbourne, preferred the Brighton scheme,
because he had more confidence in the South Coast Com-
pany than the South-Eastern. Besides, he understood the
South Coast Company were ready to bind themselves by a
clause to carry passengers at a very moderate rate—indeed
he could not better convince the Committee of the ad-
vantage of that clause than by stating the fact, that if
the fares the company proposed to bind themselves to
were charged on the whole of their existing line, there
would be a saving to the public of 40,0001. per annum.
He believed they were ready to bind themselves to reduce
theis, fares some 15 or 16 per cent.
OR cross-examination it turned out that the witness had
given his evidence on mere hearsay. He did not know of
his own knowledge what the reductions would be, nor did
he even know what were the existing fares on the Brighton
line.
A number of other witnesses were examined, but their
evidence merely went to show that they preferred the
Brighton to the South-Eastern line.
This Committee adjourned at the usual hour till twelve
o'clock to-morrow.

GROUP V.
The Committee met this morning at twelve o'clock. Pre-
sent, Lord Harry Vane, Chairman; Hon. Mr. Gore, Hon.
M. Sutton, Mr. Reid, and Sir E. Filmer.
WEN'DSO3II, STAINES, AND SOUTH-WES-
TERN (R.IOIIPSOND TO WINDSOR).

wrxrpsose, STAINES, AND SOUTH-117=-
TM= (STAINES TO ASCOT, dr.C.)

Mr. KENNEDY, counsel for opposing landowners, previous
to the merits of the Bills being opened, raised the question
before the Committee which was lately broached in the
House of Lords, and reported upon by the Railway Com-
missioners—whether the acts of the South-Western Company
had not been such as to disentitle them to a hearing.
The CHAIRMAN intimated that he had considered the
point before, and he was of opinion that it ought not then
to be raised, bat that, :if the Committee thought well, it
might be entered upon at another stage of the proceedings.
Mr. Horn, in the absence of Mr. Hill, Q.C., who, with
Mr. Macaulay, had been retained for the company, opened
the merits of the two projects. - He said, they applied to a
district which was bounded on the north by the Great
Western broad gauge line, on the south by the South-
Western, and on the west by a narrow gauge line, the Read-
ing, Guildford, and Reigate. In the same direction there
was another line in the course of construction on both
gauges, from Reading to Basingstoke, so that, if the district
so bounded were properly intersected by lines, it would have
most ample communication with the north, with the south,
the west, and the metropolis. The Wandsworth and Rich-
mond line being already in working by the South-Western,
they proposed by the present Bills to carry out the main line
to Staines, with a loop at Barnes, passing by Chiswick, and
returning bo the trunk line at Hounslow; from Staines, to
pass a branch on to Black Pots, near Windsor, to carry a
through line by Eghaui and Bracknell to Wokingham, there
to join the Reading, Guildford, and Reigate line, and to
'brow out two branches near Egbain, south to Chertsey and
to the Southampton line, near Farnborough, to Ili.lev. In
all, there would be al4out fifty miles of railway, accommo-
dating most thoroughly the district, at a ciy.t of about 20,000!.
a mile.

11jr. William Ashby, in the course of his examination, said
be lived at Itileworih. Was a cement and plaster a paris
merchant, manufacturing 12,000 tuns of these articles a
lie was of opinion the loop line by Barnes would be a gyeareari
advantage to Isleworth, where about 18,000 tons of flour
were ground annually. The millers, no doubt, would avail
theinselves of the company's depot in London, if the line
were made, and they would be greatly advantaged by the
line passing to Wokingham, as opening to them a great
barley country. To Staines 20,003 tons of goods were car-
ried yearly, at a minimum expense of 6s. a ton, which could
be ri.ducid to something like 2e. 9d. He reckoned the pre-
sent carriage to Windsor at 7s. 6d. which would give 15,0001.
a year, which by rail might be carried for 8,5031.
Cross-examined by Mr. GUMMY for the Great Western—
lie had been a member of a committee of inquiry, instituted
by the Great Western, and paid by that company.
Messrs. Bradshaw, Hammond, and Card, and other wit-
nesses gave evidence of the necessity of the projected lines,
and the advantage they would confer upon the country.
The witnesses were cross-examined by Messrs. Gurney
and Talbot, Mr. James, and Mr. Kennedy, on the part of
Ws Great Western and proprietors.
The Committee then adjourned till twelve o'clock to-
morrow.

GROUP VI.
SOUTH-WESTERN EXTENSION SALIS-
BURY, EXETER, AND YEOVIL, AND
EXETER, YEOVIL, AND DORCHESTER.
The business of the Committee commenced this morning
by calling
JUL C. Sharpe, who stated that he had applied to the
clerk of the peace for the county of Somerset for permission
to correct an error in one of the deposited plans, pursuant to
the order of the House of Commons, but that request had
not been complied with.
Evidence of a general nature was then proceeded with.
Mr. Payne, coal-merchant, of Salisbury, stated that the
opening of the line from Salisbury to Southampton, had
already lowered the price of Newcastle coal, and he antici-
pated still greater reductions in the price of that commodity.
The consumption of Newcastle coal was considerably more
than that of the Radstoek Collieries.

14r. Seymour, of Grosvenor-square, also gave evidence in
favour of this line.

Ray. Mr. Ruxtable, rector of Sutton, in the neighbour-
hotod of Salisbury, also gave evidence favourable to the
schemes of the South Western Railway, and of the advan-
tages which the ltnes would, when constructed, afford for
the conveyance of fat stock, manures, agricultural produce,
lime, and coals.
The Committee was occupied during the remainder of its
sittings in hearing evidence of a similar nature.