The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-11 00:00:00

RAIL WAY COMMITTEES,
HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(YESTERDAY.)
GROUP V.
The Committee met at twelve ; Lord IL Vane in the chair.
WINDSOR AND SOVTR-WESTERN
(STAINES TO WINDSOR).
The Committee were occupied ail the day with the clauses
v.t this Bill.

GROUP VI.

-rjr.vrElL, YEOVIL, AND DORCHESTER.

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(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)
AUSTIN then proceeded to open the case on behalf of
the Great Western Railway. The Learned Counsel pro-
ceeded st considerable length and with great minutenes to
enter into the early history of the Great Western and South-
'estern Companies, and to found upon it an argument
in favour of the Great Western Railway on the ground of
egaity—the Bills having been granted to the Great Western
Railway with a view of supplying the western districts of
England with railway communication, and the object of
Parliament in granting the London and Southampton Rail-
way, or the present South-Western Railway, was to give to
that line the south-western districts, and that alone.
The Learned Counsel had not concluded his address when
the Coiamittee, at his request, adjournel till twelve o'clock
=l•~srow.

GROUP XV.

EASTERN COUNTIES (CAZIER,IDGE TO

BEDFORD, &c.)
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.

Mr. Headley, of Cambridge, Mr. Upton, of Bedford, and
other witnesses were examined as to the great traffic which
might be anticipated along the line, and the present want of
.anoommodation for it.
'The Committee adjourned till twelve o'clock to-morrow.

GROUP XVII.

2111IIMAND (LEICESTER AND SWANNING-

TON WIDENING).
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.

The Bill thus became unopposed, and it was referred to Mr.
Greene, with the other Bills above mentioned.
The next Bill proceeded with was the
sou.rEc zwExpi,AND (EXTENSION FROM

NEAR. LEICESTER TO RITCHIN;.
Mr. TALBOT said the line was promoted by the South Mid-
land Company, and that the Leicester and Bedford, which
.had passed into the hands of the Midland Company, formed
a portion of it. It would afford the eastern part of the
county direct communication with the mineral and manu-
facturing districts of which Leicester formed the centre, and
would, besides, traverse a district now suffering from the want
of railway communication. It would be 108 miles in length,
aad would cost 2,500,0001.
Mr. BAXTER, on behalf of the Great Northern, opposed that
part of tke preamble of the Bill which set forth that it was
desirable that the line should be carried on from Hitchin to
Hertford by means of a line called the Hertford and Hitchin,
promoted by the Eastern Counties (thrown out this morning),
,on the ground that such a proposal was entirely at variance
with an agreement which had been entered into between Mr.
Hudson, on the part of the South-Midland, and the directors
of the Great Northern, to the effect that the line should
terminate by a junction with the Great Northern at Hitchin.
After considerable discus,ion, the preamble was amended
as suggested by Mr. Baxter, and after some local evidence
had been adduced in favour of the line, the Committee ad-
journed until to-morrow.
The Committee cannot pass the preamble of the Bill, (and
we may state that there is no reason to believe that they
—ill not pass it,) until the Commissioners have made their
report, which will take place in the course of a few days.