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GROUP VI.

wz/Ts, SOMERSET, AND WEYMOUTH
AMENDMENT (NO. U.)
The Committee met th:. morning at twelve o'clock; Mr.
Deedes chairman.

Mr. W. Giles was the' first witness called, residing at
Frome, in Somersetshia. He had lately earned on the busi-
ness of a carrier in that town. The population of Frome
was about 12,000; there was also a large population, amount-
lag to upwards of 20,000, exclusive of an immense popula-
tion composed of colliers and labourers, in the towns of Brad-
ford and Troubridge. The population of all the towns on
the South-Western line between Salisbury and Exeter clll
not amount to that t,f the four towns he had mentio,:ed.
There was a coach running on alternate days from Bath,
through Frome, to Poole. There was also a coach running
between Frome and Weymouth daily, through the town of
Sherborne, and so to Weymouth. Large quantities of cloth
were manufactured in the districts near Bradford and Trou-
bridge, a great quantity of which found it way to the towns
of Sherborne, Yeovil, and the southern parts of the country.
He had given up t le business of a carrier from the time that
the Great Western Railway was opened in that county.
Mr. Oxherry, carrier of Frome, gave evidence as to the
importance of an unbroken gauge between Frome and the
towns in the south of England.
Mr. E. Cocking, iron master of Frome, gave evidence to
tb e same effect.
Mr. J. White, cheese factor, of Axminster, Mr. Lintire, (,f
the firm of Lintirs and Son, cheese factors, of Hasharn, in
StlMex, Mr. J. Sym, grocer and general dealer, at Brighto:l,
M r. Kerry, poulterer, at Portsmouth, and Mr. Butt, pig dealer,
of Portsmouth, gave evidence as to the importance of Salis-
bury having an unbroken connexion with the county of So-
mersetshire.

The Committee then adjourned till twelve to-morrow.

GROUP IX.
WEST conikruraLL 737eANCZE2 AND
DZVIATION.S.
The Committee met at twelva o'clock in Room No. 37.
Mr. Ross having been heard on the part of the promoters
of this line,

The room was cleared for the decision. On our re-ad-

The Cinarrtmix said that he was desired by the Committee
to state• that the preamble of this Bill was not proved.
The Committee then separated.

GROUP XV.

The Committea met this morning at twelve; Mr. .13tinAl
in the (lair.
aC.TSTON AND lIITCHIN (EXTENSION

TO CAMEILIDGE)•
Evidence in favour of the line was proceeded with after
the ra eeting of the Committee.
Yir. B. Denison, chairman of the co:npany, was examined,
ands stated that the company's line was leased to the London
amt York at 6 per cent., the payment to commenced imme-
diately atter the construction of the line.
Evidence for the Bill was being continued, when the Com-
mi. 4.ee stdjouracd.

GROUP XVIL
The Committee on this group re-assembled to. day at the
usual hour, in Room 11 ; Sir James Buller East in the chair.
GREAT NORTHERN (Dmvx.a.Txonirs PRO7t4
3.ONEON TO GRANTHAM).

Mr. DKquo-Ny on the part of the promoters of the Bill, re-
plied, and closed the case with respect to the deviation from
Canby to Grantham, and called upon the Committee to sanc-
tion this part of the line.

The room was then cleared; and on our re-admisssion,
The CRAMIAX announced that the preamble of the devia-
tion from Careby to Grantham was proved, but. Mr. Ostler's
land must not be entered upon without his consent._
The Committee then adjourned till Tharsday,nexL

GROUP X` 111.
Thm Committee met this morning, the Earl of Lincoln h
the chair; and it being stated that the opponents were un-
able to wine, to any arrangement,

Mr. Stephenson was called to show the engineering quali-
ties of the line, and stated that the line was intended to
procee I by the present broad gauge line, but to avoid any
junctic n at the stations, as is the case at the present time.
on tilts hue of joint gauges between Gloucester and Chelten-
ham. ii. intended to have the station at Bristol some feet
abo we the Great Western station at Bristol, where the com-
pam had atready Yana in possession fcr the station.
bt r. Santini, inspector of the Birmingham and Gloucester,
said that between 80,000 and 90,000 passengers bad passed over
the line to Bristol last year, and that there had been 47,798
toim of goods carried, of which only about 4,000 would have
been. transhipped, if the Midland Company had possessed a
station of their own. The trains had been running over the
mix td gauges for the last two years, bat no actual collision
had occurred, although there had been several alarms, in eon-
sequen ce of which complaints had been made to the Great
Nester n Company, and some of their servants had been re-
moved,.

Mr. ;Helps was examined, on the part of landowners, re-
spectin g the relative conver ience or inconvenience to passen-
gers setho go either from Wales or from Cheltenham, and
stetc it that passengers going to the north after their arrival.
from Wales would have to tranship themselves and their
bagv Age some distance from the station of one gauge to that
of thse other. The traffic, however, on the line is chiefly a
Bristol and Birmingham traffic and no inconveniece practi-
cally 'would be experienced from that circumstance.
Mr- Payne, the traffic-manager of the line, confirmed this
evidence, and stated further that a quantity of the goods
which now went by water would go by railway, and be
carried in a much bitter condition than that in which it
now reached the hands of the owners. The quantity of
goods wow taken up or put down between Gloucester and
Bristol 'was very large, and at the present time great incon-
veniences is experienced, in consequence of the great traffic
which is brought from two thousand miles of narrow-gauge
railway into the joint station at Bristol.
Mr. Payne further gave evidence upon the dangerous cha-
racter of the line, which he represented as being perilous
from its as,cents and descents.

Mr. .AUSTIN, Q.O , replied on behalf of the Midland Com-
pany, ri dying chiefly upon the terms of the agreement which
had beet ► entered into for working the line between Gloucester
and 'lris) of on the broad gauge, and contenling that so long
as that al Teenient subsisted, the Committee, according to the
common hew of the land, had no right to violate its provi •
sions. _

The Committee then adjourned till Thursday next.

GROUP XIX.

This Committee met to-day at twelve o'clock; Mr. Den-
nistoun in the chair.
ozroun, BANBURY, AND COVENTRY
JUNCTION (BRANCH PROM SOUTHAM
TO COVENTRY).
On the assembling of the Committee the clauses of this
Bill were considered and agreed to, and the Bill ordered to
be reported to the House.

GROUP XX.
This Committee re-assembled at the usual hour this morn-
ing; Mr. Goulburn in the chair.
OX3rOltD, 17.7012.CTISTER, AND 1:1701.17'ER.-
HAMPTON (CHEZT3I3IIIIOX AND EVE-
SHAM LINE).

Mr. Vignoles. gave evidence at considerable length as to
the practicability and facility of working railways on the
mixed gauge.
Mr. Miller, Mr. Cubitt, and several other witnesses, gave
corroborative testimony.

The rest of th© clay cvas occupied with the landholders' op-
position.
The Committee then adjourned.

GROUP XXIV.
MOLD.
The Committee met at three o'clock, but did not proceed
with the evidence upon this Bill.
The Committee adjourned at half-past three.
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This Committee GROUP
this GROUPCardwell in the chaimr morning at twelve o'clock ; Mr.
wrarle awn avr
NVOILACEILimr (LYNN .BND
Rec the case on behalf of the
Mr. Sergeant WitAx‘nam ope—n d"—G4t.rx°N)*
promoters of. the Lynn and Ely
waY (Lynn and Worme-
Jength that the
gay Navigation), and contencteu at gr
constru.tion of the proposed line wouldeat
At the
gree, to improve the Wormegay navigattro'nd, in !t great de-
sent
,stCind in need of considerable i at pre-
conchison of the address of the Learned Coni4rs'
Mr. Rendall, C. E., was called, and gave evidence Ice upon the
injnrions nature of the proposed line.
OthEr• evidence of a general nature was adduced on behalf
of the pn)rnoters.
The Comuli:tee then atljourned till Thursday at twelve
o'clock.

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ZONMON arm Yonr. (naITIATIOn S nE-
39:7ZIEITT 3:IIOATCASTL'M a:LTD ZDZYIntraGEI).
The Committee met this morning at twelve o'clock, Mr.
Shaw in the chair; and the remaining clauses baying been
gone through, the Committee adjourned till the 7th of June.

GI; OUP xxxv.
The Committee re-assembled at the usual hour this morn-
ing, in Room 22 ; Mr. Fitzroy in the chair.
BLACIERATABT, CLITIZEIZOE, ELND NORTH-
WESTERN.
The early !part of the sitting was occupied with general
evidence in fi.vour of this scheme. _

The case kor this scheme and the competing line of the
East Lancal hire Compauy Was closed, but the Committee
adjourned w ithout giving any opinion, owing to the Railway