The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-01 00:00:00

GROUP XXVIII.

The Committee on this group, comprising Captain Harris,
the Earl of March, Sir R. Lope's Lurd Edwin Hill, with Mr.
I'. D. Ackland in the chair, met this morning at twelve.

PETERBOROUGH AND POI.Z.INGHADI
(EASTERN COUNTIES SEANCE).

The earlier part of the morning was occupied in a discus-
aim 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 nut aslandewners.
The Committee then took the Eastern Counties Branch
from Folkingham to Peterborough.
Mr. TALBOT opened on behalf of the promoter's. He said
that this was a line to run front Peterborough to Folking-
ham, which is a few miles from Grantham, and would be
about twenty-eight miles long, and would require 460,(Na1L
fur its construction. It in fact. occupied an intermediate
immition between the loop and the main line of the London
and York Railway, and was intended to supply the country
for which those lines were incompetent, and would take up
the old road from Peterborough to Lincoln. The principal
opflancoet onm otrh:tlhianne
f%o'norul(d)r bfle Bourn, v
ethtia a
ilh eledirneh,
4ahlitthatrilutsg a
,h
was Set
,et
one of considerable importance, being a polling place for
the county, and the place where tile quarter sessions for
Kesteven were held. There was also a considerable traffic
in agricultural produce, and a great requirement for manure
and fuel from the north-western counties. The opposition of
the competing companies he did not conceive to be of much
consequence; but the company had unfortunately incurred
that of Earl Fitzwilliam. The petitions front that nobleman,
and froin his tenantry, were highly respectable; but there
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
Heathcote, and several of the most influential proprietors.
Mr. Nicholson, a chemist and druggist, residing at Peter-
borough, te9tified to the transmission of a considerable
quantity of oil cake through the district which the line was
intended to traverse..

Sir John , Fro Lope, stated that he resided • near the
proposed line, and that this was a very rich
agricultarul
district, anti that the line would just tyke a course where the
fen country met the high land. It was along the ,Age of
the deciivitv that the towns and villages are placed, and
they Are 'both numerous anti populous, being met
with at eyery mile, or mile and a half, of its course.
Bourn is fell. tively a pace of con,iderable importance,
hut the nruk-t is ar present a bad one in cons, queuce of the
battne.ss of the means of transit, for although there is a water
navigation, it was a bad one, and the inhabitants with rea•
son e,,mpl,tint,tl mud, of toe expense of the carriage of their
Produce. A north an sout.h communication Li,4 "1,,-
nion, almJuteiy in the course of tilau is cure
to he made, for the hop line of the London and York Rail-
way would lie *lnn use to the district. but the nearest places
where stations ..roitti he matte were the villages of Corby and
Bythimt, which were the tidy ;faces ae,ess.thle by turnpike
ro4,!tt tucin Bohm. • Tne V. n ie of that district is popnf,os,
anti the farmers are gewtraily opulent and very considerbe
graziers, to that they had a large quantity of wool sent from
ablaut Bourn. The mail coach from Huh used to pass through
Bourn, rod the inhabitants of the place and neighbourhood
Mt a great negation of the advantages which they used to
enjoy.

To Mr. Lr-Nry,Eir,„ IVIIO appeared for Earl Sir
John TroHope Bald that Bourn wquld be about eir,ht or tine
mile= from Corby, and he belbved that if the Arnhergaie
line were .ut of the account th,re were several places
more than five miles from railway communication.
Several other witnesses-were examined, and after cross-
examination, on behalf of Earl Fitzwilliam, and the Great
Northern and Stamford and Boston lines, the case c.f. the
promoters was closed.
The Committee adjourned at four o'clock.

GROUP XXXIII. •
; the lion. Eliot
ozTrkialliseli3entieFek:ar. nsiieitltrort-day
sx."zzusxolv TO W.O.ZCZZEIXELD, 44C•;
*inc,s7RDoomiv:PAN,
On the, assembling of the Committee the case on behalf of
this line of railway was resumed.
General evidence as public a.ccommodation w to the merits the line in respect to
as again taken.
The whole of the sitting, up till the siting of the Committee

was occupied with traffic and genertVevidence in support of
the ►inc. It folliorned at four o'clock till Monday next, at
twelve.

GROUP XXXIV.

The Committee ~n this group met this morning in Room
31; Mr. F. Baring, chairman.
mANcI:Lre.STEI4 AND LEEDS (SALE Or
ROCHDALE CANAL).

General evidence against the promoters of the Bill was
given on the part of the proprietors of quarries ou the canal.
The Committee adjourned without giving their decision;
they reserved that until the evidence on the other lines
should be heard.