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The evidence in behalf of the promoters of this line was
resumed.
Mr. James Eccleston, master of the Sutton and Colefield
grammar school, was examined and deposed to the great ad-
vantages which would be conferred by the line.
Mr. Joseph Oates, an inhabitant of Sutton Colefield, cor-
roborated this testimony.

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" - Mr. Swift, solicitor, was also examined in favour of the
line.

Mr. Towler, surveyor, and Mr. Kerr, engineer, deposed to
the nature of the works which were of the ordinary cha-
racter, and presented no peculiar difficulties.
This closed the case for the promoters, and further oppo-
sition having been withdrawn, the decision was deferred till
the Committee received the report of the Railway Commis-
sioners.
The Committee then adjourned till Monday.

GROUP XXVII.
The Committee met this day, at the usual hour, in Room 32
BOSTON, STAMFORD, AND BIRMINGHAM
(EXTENSION FROM WISBEA.CH TO SUT—

TON BRIDGE).

Evidence in favour of the line was entered upon.
Mr. William Skelton, agent to Guy's Hospital, was
examined at some length as to the advantages of the line by
Mr. MACAULAY.

Mr. George Prest, a shipowner and a trader to the Baltic,
was next examined—Could speak from his personal know-
ledge of the port of Sutton. The only port that could com-
pete with them was Hull, and he knew vessels of his own, of
six hundred tons burden, come up to Sutton-bridge. Send-
ing timber to Northampton by the present carriage cost 18s.
a ton.

Mr. Bromley, a land surveyor, was also examined. His
evidence went to prove that the neighbourhood of Sutton-
bridge had been vastly improved by the reclamation of some
four thousand acres from the sea. This land was nearly iu
a fit state for cultivation. The proposed railway would be
extremely beneficial.
Several other witnesses having been examined,
Sergeant KINGSLEY was heard in opposition to the Bill.
The Committee then adjourned.

GROUP XXxI.
The Committee met at twelve o'clock ; Mr. Shawe in the
chair.

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Mr. Hawkshawe, the engineer of the Manchester and
Leeds Railway, was called to give the particulars of the line,
when a long discussion ensued, in consequence of a suggestion
of the Committee, that an arrangement should be. entered
into between the rival companies, so as to grant the Bill of
the South Yorkshire from Doncaster to Swinton, with an
understanding that the Commissioners should dictate to the
North Midland Company the number of trains which they
should be bound to run from Swinton to Rotherham, as the
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GROUP XXXIII.
GREAT NORTHERN (EXTENSION to LEEDS,

WAICZFZELD, dr.c., AND DEVIATIONS).
Mr. Sergeant WRLNGHAM opened the case on behalf of the
Great Northern Company. The extensions of the Great
Northern Railway proposed to commence at Pontefract, and
proceed by two branches, one to the north, to Leeds, and the
other to the south, to Wakefield. The scheme was opposed
by the London and North• Western Railway, under the name
of the Leeds and Dewsbury Railway, and by the Midland
Railway Company, both of which had access at present to
Leeds. The Manchester and Leeds Railway Company were
favourable to the proposed scheme ; and the Learned Counsel
contended, at considerable length, that common sense and
common justice would dictate the necessity of allowing the
Great Northern Railway to bring its southern traffic into
Leeds, and afford thereby additional facilities for that traffic
going northward and to Scotland, which might be brought
up by the Great Northern Railway.
Evidence was then called in favour of the Great Northern
proposed extension.
Mr. Harkshaw, engineer to the Manchester and Leeds
Railway, examined in favour of the proposed Great Northern
Extensions and Deviations.

The Committee then adjourned till twelve to-morrow.

GROUP XXXV.
This Committee met to-day at twelve o'clock; Mr. Denis.
:oun in the chair.

COVENTRY, BANBURY, AND OXPORD
JUNCTION (BRANCH PROM SOVTILABI TO
COVENTRY).

The case on behalf of this Bill was proceeded with.
Mr. W. Williams, M.P. for Coventry, was examined ou
behalf of the scheme. He deposed that it would be a great
benefit to that city, that a direct communication should be
opened to Oxford, and thence another access to
London, than by the London and North Western.
Mr. Bagshaw, Mr. Turner, and Mr. Whealdon, gave
general evidence in favour of the line, and in explanation of
the traffic which might be expected.
After which the Committee adjourned till to-morrow, at
twelve o'clock.

GROUP XXXII.
This Committee met at the usual hour this morning in
Room No. 23, Lord Charles Wellesley in the chair.
YORK AND NEWCASTLE (HARTLEPOOL
DOCK AND RAILWAY BRANCHES).
The Committee were occupied the whole of the day in
hearing general evidence in favour of this scheme.

GROUP XLIII.
WATERWORD AND MrIVIZEICS.,
The Committee met this morning at the usual hour. Mr.
Protheroe in the chair.

The object of the Bill, which was passed last session, is to
make several deviations, in order to improve the old line,
which was survey with considerable haste, and consequently
not with that care and with that success which the promoters
had subsequently bestowed upon it. The principal deviation,
and the only one opposed, is at Bansha, in Tipperary.
Mr. Osborn, the engineer of the line, was examined rela-
tive to the proposed deviation at the town of Bansha. It
appeared that the old line would pass through a Roman
Catholic place of worship, and he stated that the deviation
had been proposed in order to avoid this, as the lower
class of Irish were opposed to their chapels and
burial grounds being interfered with. He stated, how-
ever, that a memorial had been got up by the inhabitants
in favour of the old line, as it would interfere with some
houses for which they expected to get compensation. He
was not aware that the timber which would be severed by
the deviation was above forty years of age. The deviation
was, in his opinion, much better than the old line, both with
regard to the expense and difficulty of construction. The old
line was got up with considerable haste in conseouence of the
short time which was allowed to Mr. Vignolles to survey it, and
prepare the plans. A saving of about 8.0001. upon the
original estimate would be effected by this deviation. He
believed the reason some of the inhabitants of Bansha op-
posed the deviation was, that they might get their land
taken, and be well paid for it. There was a great desire
amongst the poorer class of owners of land in Ireland, to
sell it, in order that they might obtain the means of emigrat-
ing to America.
Mr. Walsh, a landowner gave evidence in favour of the
deviation. The old line would injure thirty-two houses and
destroy eighteen. Generally speaking, the deviation would
be more essential and less injurious to the branches. But
three acres would be taken from the park of Mr. Baker, a
gentlemen residing near the town. One part of the line
would pass in a cutting, and the other be shut out by trees, '
so that the line could not be seen from his house; it cer-
tainly was not a case of residential injury.
The Committee decided in favour of the deviation, and
adjourned until to-morrow at two o'clock.

XLIV.
The Committee metGROUP this day at twelve o'clock, in room 3,
The first Bill taken into consideration was the