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GROUP XI.

The Select Committee appointed to consider the merits of
the Bills comprised in this group re-assembled at the usual
hour this morniiig ; Mr. Forbes Mackenzie in the chair.

COLCHESTER, STOUR VALLEY, SUD-
BURY, AND HALSTEAD (STOUR NAVI-
GATION PURCHASE.)
In this case the Committee decided that the preamble had
not been proved. The Committee then adjourned.

GROUP XVI.
EASTERN COUNTIES AND GREAT
0 WrISEUZZ EXTENSIONS ( ECEILTP ORD
AND lIXTCRIN).
A number of witnesses, residing in the neighbourhood of
the Hertford and Hitchin Railway, gave evidence in favour
of the communication proposed to be effected between the
towns of Hertford and Hitchin by means of the Eastern
Counties Railway Company .
The Committee then adjourned till to-morrow (this day)
at twelve o'clock.

GROUP XVIII.
CHELTENHAM AND oxpoßD.

The Committee assembled this morning at twelve o'clock;
:he: Earl of Lincoln i❑ the chair. The whole of tbe morn-
ing was consumed in the cross-examination of Mr. Brunel,
chiefly on the minor points of the deviations that would
affect certain parts of the town of Cheltenham, the detaila of
which would, without a very lengthy elaboration, be totally
unintelligible; and if that were given it would be utterly
uninteresting.

GROUP XX
The Committee assembled to-day ; Sir James Graham,
chairman.

BTODZ VALLEY (80. U).
The witnesses called this morning in favour of the line
proposed by the Stour Valley Railway were Mr. Scott, M.P.
.for Walsall, and Mr. Thompson, manager of the British Iron
Works at Walsall, and several others, all of whom gave evi-
dence favourable to the line as proposed by the StLur Valley
Company, in preference to the accommodation proposed
to be given by the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton
Railway.
Several other persons interested in the coal and iron trade,
and earrying on business in the neighbourhood of Walsall
and Bromwich, also gave evidence in favour of the proposed
line.

The Committee then adjourncd till twelve o'clock to-
morrow (this day).

GROUP XXIII.

This Committee met to-day at half-past twelve, pro jorma,
referred the unopposed Bills to the Chairman of Committees,
and then adjourned till twelve to-morrow (this da3).

GROUP XXVII.

SOUTH-EASTERN (IVISB.Lcit AND slump.
INC. EXTENSION).

The Committee met to-day in Room No. 33; Mr. Card-
well, chairman.
Evidence was taken for the promoters of the Wizbech
Branch.
The Committee adjourned at four o'clock.

GROUP XXVIII.
SLEAPORD 13RANCILMS.
The Committee on the London and York and Eastern
Counties group assembled this morning at twelve o'clock,
?lr. T. D. Aeland in the chair, when the whole of the morn •
was spent in taking evidence on behalf of the latter Cam-
Panyrtsp4,cung the traffic that is likely to pass on the re-
spective lines.

symi.sßcoopn:rat GROUP XXXIII:
!e:assembled to-day in Room 27; Mr.
chair.
were present. All the members of the Committee
LEEDS CEO
The case on behalf rEAL USILWA.II STATION.
of this schemeas resumed.
Mr. Henry Marshall the extensive manufacturer of Leeds,
WBB generally examined as to the adv
station would confer on the town and naeltgbourtejr°P°Bl
a station was much wanted to centralise the tr4fße In Leeds
and its public a
'w
dvantages were Inch as fully to
arrant ethe
proposed outlay.
Mr. Gott, manufacturer, of Leeds, Was examined to the
same effect.
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Mr. Martin, a surveyor, entered into a statement of the
ta explaining its peculiar advantages, and the lines
that were
re to be accommodated. It was to furnish accommo-
dation for the following Hues ;—Leeds and Thierk; Leeds