The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-26 00:00:00

BANKING D.

Proprietors' capital.. 14,553,000
Rest • ...... ....... 3,396,774
Public deposits (in-
elmding Exchequer,
Commissioners of
National Debt,Sav-
lngs-banks, and Di-
vidend accounts) .. 7,313,539
Other deposits •• • • • • 15,293,909
Beven day and Qiher
- bills

832,981

X 41,390,203

Dated the 25th day of June, 184'1

RAILWAY COMMITFEES.

(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.

Room A.
CAMBRIDGE AND oxrinta.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition.)

Mr. Bidder,' Mr. 14cnshawe, and Mr. Robert Stephenson gave en-
lincering evidence very strongly against the line, which they rcpre-
.sented to be a bad one in every respect. They particularly objected
-to it on account of its having but a single line of rails. If it should
Proposed to make a double line, it could not be done within the
estimates.
I'dr. R. Stephenson said that in the time of the railway mania he
was called upon to lay down a line between Oxford and Cambridge,
and he gave his opinion that such a line would be useless and absurd.
It was now proposed to call Mr. Brunel, but as that gentleman was
slot in the room, It was proposed that the Commiftee should adjourn.
it being only about half-past three o'clock, this was very strongly
‘obiected to. The Committee cleared the room ou the question
whether they should adjourn or not, and on our re-admission, in
about half an hour, they decided upon waiting for Mr. Brunel. After
waiting for some time, however, their Lordships grew impatient, and
Mr. Hiltlyard agreed to dispense with Mr. lorunel's evidence.
This concluded the case for the Duke of Buckingham.

;10 evidence was called on the part of the other petitioners.
Mr. iiILDTAILD oteaerved that ale. on the part of the Duke of
Buckingham, Mr. Calvert on the part of other twithatmers, Mr. Tal-
bot on the part of others, and Mr. Wells on tlni part of others, had-
each a right of addressing the Committee ; and Mr. Sergeant
Wranghain had a similar right on the part of the promoters. Now,
if Mr. Sergeant Wrangham would waive his right to his single
speech, he and his Learned Friends would agree to waive their four
speeches. By this means much of the time of the Committee would
he saved, and, for his part, he was perfectly willing to leave it to
their Lordships to jodge from the evidence, without hearing anything
from him.
Mr. Sergeant WRANGHAM, after much hesitation, and after con-
sulting with his clients, declined the offer of Mr. liihlyard. He
feared that if he accepted it, he might be charged with neglecting
his duty to his clients.
The Committee then called upon Mr. Hildyard to speak on the part
of the Duke of Buckingham.
The Learned CcuNsa, addressed the Committee at some length,
after which
Mr. CALVERT, waiving his right of addressing the Committee,
(LEFT SITTING.)

MIDLAND RAILWAYS 'Lzxcr.sTEß AND
SWANNINGTON ALTZ.R.A.TIO NN.
The Committee resumed this day (Friday) at eleven o'clock. The
Earl of Fortescue in the chair.
Mr. Hutton and Mr. Cubitt gave evidence in support of the alte-
native line, having been ealledi by Mr. VADDINGTON, who a ppeared
on behalf of Messrs. Harris, Stretton, and Smith, as opponents to
the Bill.
Mr. MACACLAT having addressed their Lordships and offered to
introduce a clause for compensating Messrs. Smith and Harris, by
avoiding their premises, which they could do within the limits of
deviation,
The Committee ordered the room to be cleared of strangers.
On our re-admission,
The Noble enaramaN announced that the Committee considered
the preamble proved, but required that the clauses respecting the
avoiding of Messrs. Harris and Smith's property should be put in.
The Committee then adjourned for halt an hour, to enable the re-
presentatives of those gentlemen and the promoters of the Bill to
make their arrangements on this point, which having been, in the
main, satisfactorily brought to an issue. the Committee broke up at
three o'clock,

Room D.
SNEFFIELD AND mrscolaxszaitz.
The Committee resumed this day (Friday) at eleven o'clock, Lard
Somers chairman.
Mr. Goech, civil engineer, gave evidence in favour of the line, and
stated that 150,01,01. would he sufficient to effect a junction with the
London and York Railway. On his cross-examination lie said that a
larger sum would he requisite to circa a junctiou with Lincoln itself,
by means of the Sheffield and Lincoln Extension.
Mr. Rendall, C.E., offered evidence respecting certain docks, which
was nut important. when
Mr. Gooch WAS recalled to supply evidence which
of et
wlas
.exhpected
to have been deiced from Mr. Stephenson, in approva e pro-
posed junctions with other lines. On erosg.examination he stated that
these junctions were objectionable certainly as a principle, but at the
same time such as must necessarily he encountered in a great sys-
tem of railways. An oblique crossing was not more objectionable
than a direct inc. The tables of traffic having been put in, the case
of the promoters here closed.
CounseEnen appeared for certain landowners, and contended that
I.:atom-1 rust he removed ti eon the list, and the promoters would have
to prow that Worksop was of sufficient importance to merit a line
of railway to Sheffield. Not a sin,;le landowner fronbßetford to Shef-
field lad been called to prove the necessity of such a line, whereas,
on the contrary, they were almost all of them opposed, and that
as much might sometimes be learned of what was not brought
to evidence as by what was adduced. The Learned Gentleman
then read part of a report of the Board of Trade, published in 1844,
kclore the London and York Railway was commenced, even giving
4'ntott-faMt., W the Swinton line. He also thought the Committee
who had admitted -tint.`-..tbo evidence of Mr. Fowler, C.E.,
40,e001. for forming a tunnell would have stoppca ime-f,..3171J101y. or
The learned gentleman contended further, that it was not a sufficient
ground for the formation of a railway simply because this or that
town might possibly benefit by the abstraction of some branch of
manufacture from another place, for that would give every town and
village in the kingdom an excuse for applying fur railway
cation, hut that the general advantage of the common,' alone ought
to be the guiding principle in the grantin4 of new lines.
Mr. OvEitosks followed, also on behalf of the landowners, and, in
a lengthened address, dwelt upon the poultice disadvantage to the
people of Lincolnsltire,owf
thooitao•eje mostly farmers, being compelled to
go to Sheffield Instead
the ri r"""' especially as the Midland was
already continuous to p
till mineral district.
The Committee adjourne , eleven o'clock on Monday, at a
quarter past four.

•
rurpose.
yhe Bill, with the amendminta having been agreed to, the Com.
mittee separated.

iIIOUP
TAW VALE EXTENSION.
(Continued from our Ant:moon Edition.)
The opposition occupied the whole of the day, and the CoMMittee
adjourned till to-morrow at twelve o'clock.

GROUP TAX.
THE CALEDONIAN EXTENSION.
(Continued from our Afternoon Editieu.)

GROUP XVII.
MANCHESTER AND SOUTHAMPTON.

110 USE OF ColtmoNs.
LONDON AND BIRIAING-HADT, AND itz.
mricsizzate, cANA x.
BILL.
The Committee. to whom this Bill was referred, and which Was
raVied by the steleeembled this morning in Committee-room No.
Mr. Baring in chair), for the purpose of adding certain amend-
megita, it having been re-committed to them by the Moe for that

At the close of the opposition the room was cleared, and the Com-
mittee having remained a short while in consultation, the parties
were te-adluitted, when
The CHAIRMAN announced that it was the opinion of the Corn•
mittee that the preamble to the Caledoidiut Extension Railway Bill
was not proved.
This closed the labours of the Committee.

(The evidcnce of Mr. I.ock.i continued from our afternoon edition.)
--In an engineering :ease, he found no fault with the Manchester
and Southampton. The steepest gradient on the line, I in 75, which
is at Cheltenham, offered no difficulty, and could be united with the
ordinary locomotives. There were many steeper gradients, 1 in 36;
on the Lickey incline, for instance, which was worked by ordinary
locomotives. lie was of opinion that, in the improved state of
si.,kence, that gradients were of less consequence than distance.
in his re-examination of Mr. 11111, he stated that the railways made,
or authorised to be made, would afford as good communication between
Southampton and the north, as the Manchester and Southampton—
ho referred to the route by way of Basingstoke and Oxford, the Oxford
aid Rugby, and the Trent Valley, but tie limited this opinion to the
conveyance of merchandize. The Manchester and Southampton was
a little shorter, but its gradients were not so good as by the other
route. In giving this opinion, he excluded the inconvenience arising
from thillifealturotlgauge.
By the Conifinittee-llgth4Wed before the Gauge Commissioners
th4t It -Would be tulvigible far,htoad gauge lines to adopt the narrow
ofte, and that any break-of-gauge was partioularly Inconvenient to
tlansmitting goods. -
Mr. Charles Saunders, the secretary to the Great Western Railway
said the Board of Trade reported to Parliament in favour of the line
frog). Basingstoke to Reading,.
_which WAS projected by the Great
Western Company, because it would open up direct northern and
southern communication. The Great Western Company were
to *PI all the 54‘0.-itiost3 of the Board of Trade, and 1,9,0 con.