The Sun.
London, England, 1847-06-16 00:00:00

GROUP XXX.

The Committee met this morning at twelve o'clock;
Mr. Currie in the chair.

GREAT NORTHERN (ISLE Or AXHOLME
EXTENSION).

Mr. Sergeant WRANGIIAM suggested that the counsel
on the other side ought to be called upon at
this stage to say whether they had got the assent
of the Admiralty for their crossing the river Dun
with the competing line.

Mr. JAMEG saidit was premature. Negotiations were
then going on with the Admiralty, and their consent
would be produced in the course of the evidence for the
competing Bill.

The CHAIRMAN decided that the promoters should
continue their evidence in favour of the Bill.
Mr. J. Blackburn, farmer ot about 700 acres of land in
the neighbourhood of Stainfirth, said there were 900
inhabitants in the township on about 2,000 acres of good
alluvial soil, productive ot grain, &c. Their market was
Doncaster, which was reached by the Dun, and
was attended by factors from Wakefield, Barnsley,
Sheffield, and other places. These factors sold the grain
by weight, 60Ibs. to a bushel, and bought it by the im-
perial measure, whatever it might weigh; and as the
corn there weighed considerably more than 601b5., that
went to the middleman as his profit. The farmers or
the public were thus losers by the difficulty of getting to
the markets of Wakefield and other places. A direct
line was required in the district, as produce was brought at
present at an expense of 3s. per ton, but the railway
would effect a saving 1 f 2s. a ton on 1,200,000 tons a
year. Very much injury was sustained by driving
their fat cattle to market. A saving liken ise would be
effected by the railway on the carriage of coals which
were brought from the Barnsley and Silkstone fields.
Altogether, upon the matter of carriages, there would be
a saving of 14 per cent. on the rental, besides what
might be saved in travelling.

Similar evidence in detail' was called in reference to
the other townships in the district of the line.
The Committee then adjourned till to-morrow.

GROUP XXXIX.
THIRSZ AND LEEDS EZTENSION.

The Committee assembltd this morning at twelve
o'clock—Lord Charles Wellesley in the chair—when
they proceeded with the consideration of the short Ex-
tension Branch of the Thirsk and Leeds line, which is
about two miles in length, and is intended to unite
Durham with the Bishop Auckland Branch, for which a
Bill was obtained last session.
Mr. Brown described the engineering qualities of the
line, the principal feature of which is a double bridge
across the river, over which there are to be two road•
ways, one above the other—the upper one for railway
purposes, and the lower one for the ordinary traffic of
the district.

STANDING ORDERS COMMITTEE.
HOUSE OF LORDS.—(YEST Liati JAY.)
The following Bills were decided to have complied
with the standing orders :
Liverpool Gas.
Eastern Counties Railway(Maldon, Witham, and Brain-
tree Railway Purchase.)
Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland Junction
Railway Deviations.
East Lothia❑ Central Railway.
Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham Railway.
Peterborough and Thorney Line.
Chard Canal and Railway Extension.
The following Bills were postponed till Thursday next:
Scottish Midland Junction Railway (Amendment and
Branch to Laurenceltirk.)
East Lincolnshire Railway.

LAURENCERIRK. -- ABERDEEN RAILWAY. - The
railway operations in this immediate neighbourhood are
now advancing rapidly towards their completion. We
understand, that both Mr. Munro and Mr. Brebner expect to
li,ve their contracts finished, that is, altogether ready
for the permanent rails, by October next. The number
of men at present employed on Mr. Monro's contract is nearly
300, and on Mr. Brebner's above 100. Both these are only
sub-contracts from the company, but they, however, are very
beavy cuts.