The Sun.
London, England, 1846-04-01 00:00:00

LONDON AND BRIGHTON (WANDSWORTH

BRANCH).

Mr. SUTTON, the solicitor for the Company, delivered in a list of
the assents and dissents of owners and occupiers of laud on the line;
and this concluded the case for the promoters.
Mr. SELWYN opposed the Bill on behalf of Mr. Hague and Mr.
Coulthurst. The latter gentleman, however, withdrew his opposi-
tion, the Company undertaking not to interfere with his property,
which could be compassed by a alight deviation.

Mr. SELWYN then addressed the Committee for Mr. Hague, whose
property Iles in the neighbourhood of Tooting, and called witnesses
to show the superior character of Mr. Hague's residence ; that the
line passed it within 500 .feet, and passed through the grounds
within sight of the house, partly on embankments, partly In cuttings,
and partly on the level, thereby materially injuring tin prospect, snd
reducing au building Tutu. of the property.

GROUP XXI.
LONDON AND oxrcran.

The Committee re-assembled this morning at the usual hour. Pre-
sent—Mr. Finch, chairman; Mr. Wodehsusc, Capt. Layard, and Mr.
Lawson.

The promoters proceeded to call evict:nee in support of the line.
Mr. Joseph Gillett, farming about 750 acres at Little Hozley, Ox-
fordshire, on the estate of Mr Walter Long, through which the line
will run for two or three miles, stated that come of his produce was
sent t') the B'a'ling-road station of the Great Western Railway, 13
miles distant. He generally sent heavy cheep by the line, whilst he
sent the ligh'er kind by foot t, the London market. He should at-
tend the Uxbridge market and send the whole of his sheep and cattle
by the line if it was made. He had made a calcula ion of the amount
of traffic which the country for a distance of 16 miles, and 6 miles
on each side of it, from Oxford to London, would yie',d, which was to
the following effect :-Itl2 square mi'es were comprised in
these 16 miles, there were 640 acres to the square mile,
and the whole of the acerage 122,880. lie deducted one-tenth for
waste and other lands, leaving 110,592 acres of producing land.
averaged one fat sheep to each of these acres ; lambs, one-eighth of
the sheep, or one to every eighth acre, making a total, with the sheep,
of 124,416. He had deducted one-third for home consumption and
the Oxford market, leaving a gross total of 84,1150 lambs and sheep.
The average distance which they travelled was forty miles. Their
transit by the railway would cost a halfpenny per head per mile, pro-
ducing a revenue of 6,9121. He averaged three beasts to every forty
acres, or 8,294, from which one-third had to be deducted for home
consumption and the Oxford market, leaving a total of 5,580, which
would cost 2d. per head par mile, or 6s. Bd. each for the journey of
forty miles, producing 1,8431. There would be 5,530 calves; after a
similar deduction, the cost of transmitting which would be three-
farthings per head per mile, or 2s. 6d. the whole distance, producing a
revenue 0f6911. He gave ten pigs to every forty acres, or, 27,648,
which after deducting 9,216, or one-third, left 18,432. The transmission
of pigs cost the same as calves, and would realise 2,3041. ; total,
11,7501. He gave five quarters of wheat per acre, so that the arable
laud would produced 23,256 tons of corn, which traversed, on the
average, twenty wiles of railway, which at 3d. per ton, per mile, or
bs. per ton the whole length, realised 8,0641. All these items gave a
total of 19,8141. He had omitted from this calculation minor articles
of consumption, such as coals, butter, wool, timber, rags, which
could not fail to realise a considerable revenue.

The witness in his cross-examination, stated that the line from
Theme to form a Junction with the line at Aylesbury, would not be
of very great advantage, as the sending of goods to the north was
not a very profitable speculation. Of course if there was a better
market In tile north for wool, it would be sent to them.
He believed the London and Birmingham Railway unloaded
sheep at Harrow, for the Southall market. The line from
Wycombe to Maidenhead would be of advantage to those
living in the district, and desirous of attending the Maiden-
head and Southall markets. He expected that the cost of conveying
sheep the whole course of the line would be Is. Gd. or 2s. He was
not aware that the Great Western charged 7d. per head for sheep
from Maidenhead. He had himself paid 2s. for that line. A few
sheep would go to Southall, because London was the lest market.
By Mr. CitvziT—The Great Western was about fifteen miles
from Carslugton, and was approached with difficulty from that
point of the country, on account of its running for a considerable
distance en the west or opposite side of the Thames.
By Mr. WODMOUSE—Uxbridge was a better market than Read-
ing. Wycombe was a good barley market.