The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-30 00:00:00

STOUR. VALLEY (No. XX.)

Mr. Stephenson, the engineer of this line, was cross-exa-
mined at great length on behalf of the Oxford, Worcester,
and Wolverhampton Company, but his evidence in chief
was unshaken.
The Committee adjourned at the usual hour.

GROUP XXII.
This Committee met to-day at twelve o'clock in Room A;
Mr. Home Drummond in the chair.
NEWPORT, ABERGAVENNY, AND HERE-
soup (EXTENSION TO TAPP VALE).
Evidence on behalf of the scheme was resumed.
Mr. Lewellyn,"a mining engineer, was examined at some
length, with the 'object of showing the great mineral resources
of the district, and the advantages which the proposed exten-
sion would confer.
Mr. Brown, of Abberville iron-works, Mr. Robinson, agen
of the extensive works at Colebrooke-dale, and other mine
iroprietors, followed with evidence as to the advantages th
and iron of the district would secure from the construe-
ion of the proposed extension.
The Committee adjourned till Monday at twelve o'clock.

GROUP XXIII.
The Committee met at twelve; Mr. Mackinnon in the
chair.

SOUTZE WALES.
Tim* Committee were ocexpieti for some time with the
aftusea of the 11111.

.-- The clauses, with several amendments and alterations,
litre-agreed to, and the Committee adieurned till Monday.
GROUP XXVIII.
The Committee on this group, comprising Captain Harris,
the Earl of March, Sir R. Lopes, Lord Edwin Hill, with Mr.
T. D. Ackland in the chair, met this morning at twelve.
PETUR33OI4OIIGH AND PoLRINGRASI
(EASTERN COITNTIES BRANCH).
The earlier part of the morning was occupied in a discus-
sion as to whether the counsel for the Ambergate and Great
Northern Companies should cross-examine generally as land-
owners, and it was at length decided that they should cross-
examine as competitors, but not as landowners.
The Committee then took the Eastern Counties Branch
from Folkinghana to Peterborough.
thhaaMmtr,inwTiiikLßOT opened on behalf of the promoters. He said
icwhasisa line to run from Peterborough to Folking-
about twenty-eightltfewmmileilselsonfgro,mandGwrsonutlhdamre,quanired wouldoo,oo obi!
for its construction.position between te loop It in fact occupied an intermediate
and York Railway, and and the main line of the London
wore w aisneinemtepnedteedntt,o
asnudppl
for which those lines
wouldy thetcaokuenturyp
the old road from Peterborough
place on the line would be Bou to Lincoln. The principal
of not more than four or five thousand awhere, although a place
one of considerable importances, being inhabitants, was yet
the county, and the place where te,ll,ng a polling place for
Kesteven were held. There was also quarter sessions for
in agricultural produce, and a great requirement
traffic
and fuel from the north-western counties. e,Tptetent for manure
the competing companies he did not conceive tc:)Pbl'esiti°ll of
consequence; but the company had unfortunatelye of much
that of Earl Fitzwilliam. The petitions from that nobleman,
and from his tenantry, were nighty- respectable; but thaenre
were others which savoured too much of London and York
zeal, not to be looked upon with a little suspicion. On the
other side the promoters had the support of Sir Gilbert
lleathcote, and several of the most influential proprietors.
Mr. Nicholson, a chemist and druggist, residing at Peter-
borough, testified to the transmission of a considerable
quantity cf oil cake through the district which the line was
intended to traverse.
Sir John Trollope, M.P., stated that he resided near the
proposed line, and that this was a very rich agricultural
district, anti that the line would just take a course where the
fen country met the high land. It was along the edge of
the declivity that the towns and villages are placed, and
they are both numerous and populous, being met
with at every mile, or mile and a half, of its course.
Bourn is relatively a place of considerable importance,
but the market is at present a bad one in consequence of the
badness of the means of transit, for although there is a water
navigation, it was a bad one, and the inhabitants with rea-
son complained much of the expense of the carriage of their
produce. A north and south communication is, in his opi-
nion, absolutely necessary, and in the course of time is sure
to be made, for the loop line of the London and York Rail-