The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-20 00:00:00

GROUP XI.

The Select Committee appointed to consider the merits of
the Bills comprised in this group met for the first time this
morning in Room 32; Mr. Forbes Mackenzie in the chair.
The Rills referred to this Committee stood on the list as
follow :—.
Braintree and Halstead.
Colchester, Stour Valley, Sudbury, and Halstead (Stour
Navigation Purchase).
Colchester, Stour Valley, Sudbury, and Halstead (Extension
to Melford, Levenhum, and Clare).
Colchester, Stour Valley, Sudbury, and Halstead (Extension
from La'ventiam to Bury St. Edmund's).
Colchester, Stour Valley, Sudbury, awl Halstead (Lease of
the Ipswich and Bury St. Ectruand's).
Eastern Union anti ilataleigh Junctku (Sale to the Eastern

Union Railway Compani).
Eastern Counties (3laidol), Witham, and Braintree Railway
Pnrchasf:).
Eastern Union and Ipswich and Bury St. Edmund's Rail-
way Amalgamation.
COLCIIMST3I3I, STOUP •ALLEY, SUDBURY,
AND ILAISIVIMAILD (EZTENSZON TO Danz-
-1110311), 14.6:17111111iUkrii, 4.7e11) CiaLIZ3I).

Mr. Sergeant Wx.tactium opened the case for the promo-
ters of the scheme. It was a Bill for extending the existing
Stour Valley line from Sudbury through Meltord to Laven-
ham and Clare, a distance of fourteen miles and four chains.
At present the traffic of the district is carried by the Stour
Navigation, a most expensive mode of transit, and there
could be no doubt that the proposed line would prove to be a
great public accommodation. It could be easily extended
on the one side to the.port of Harwich, while on the other,
if the line were continued on from Lavenbam to Bury St.
Zdmand's, the distance between the metropolis and Norwich
would be shortened by nine miles. The cost of the proposed
line luta estimated at 200,0004 but it was proposed to raise
an additional sum of 70,0001., for the purpose of making the
existing line from Markotay to Sudbury, with double rails,
instead of single. There could be no doubt that the in-
habitantsi of the district line were anxious that the proposed
id:et:m(7ld 11,1,89, while, to convince the Committee that the
gas likely to prove remunerative, he need only men-
tion the tact that the united companies, the Eastern Union
and Norfolk, were ,
Valley line, with all to lease the Colchester and Scour
extensions, upon a
Der cent. and half the surplusensi°n* guarantee of 51.
evidence in favour of the scheme,
for
re
the, Committee would hthat after hearing the
vdae profits. He fully relied, there-
The reptainder of the duo difficulty in granting it.
deuce in favour of the line. as occupied with general evi-
The Committee adjourned, at the usual hour, till twelve

G13,01.3P XVI.
011121ACC NORTHERN ERANCIOLS
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition.)
Among the witnesses were Mr. Rumley, the Mayor of St.
Alban' wko stated that the feeling of the inhabitants of the
town was generally in favour of it and Mr. Borden, of Lu-
ton, bonnet-manufacturer, employinmg 300 hands, who said
&boat 7,000 persons were engaged in that locality in the
Wide, and that the line in oonnexion with the Luton, Dan.
stable, and St. Alban's would be of the utmost advantage.
Captain Lawes, a director of the Great Northern, spoke to
NA great demand far the line in the district.
AdOurzed till to-morrow.