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DILIGHTON AND CNXCNESTNN. (STETNING

BRANCH).

Mr. ALEXANDER, counsel for Colonel Wyndham, stated he was in-
structed to withdraw the colonel's opposition.
Mr. LAING called evidence to prove the preamble of the 1111.
The CHAIRMAN announced that the preamble of the Bill was

proved.
The clauses of the Bill were then zone through, and agreed to.
The Committee will enter upon the consideration of the London
and Brighton (East Grinstead Branch) and iouth-Eastern (Godstone
Station and East Grinstead) to-morrow at twelve o'clock.

Sub-Committee No. 1.
SCOTTISH MIDLAND lIXTAINSION.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)

Bill passed the Itanding orders.
MOZTON, STAMFORD, AND DIRMINGRAM
(STAMFORD TO WISREACR).

The lime is intended to go from the Winetone station on the Syston
and Peterborough Railway down to Wisbeach, there to connect with
the Lynn and Ely, thus filing up the ground left vacant by the Lon-
don and Birmingham and the Midlands Railways, and uniting the
chain of the eastern and western communication. The total length
of line is twenty-two miles, and the estimated cost 252,0001. C. Viz-
Doles, Esq., engineer.

After s;nne formal evidence had been received the room was
cleared.
On our re-admission,
The CHAIRMAN said that the standing orders had not been com-
plied with, inasmuch as in the notice inserted in the London Gaeete
and the country newspapers, no intimation was given of the power
'aken by the Bill to sell or lease the line to the Lynn and Ely Com-
pany, and also because the -fixed point of the datum line was so far
.ncorrect that the point fixed was on a level with the junction with
the Syston and Peterborongh line., whereas the terminus of the
company was at thedistance of three or four miles, in the parish of
Helpstone.
The Committee theta adjourned.

ieub-Committee No. 2.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)

BIRMINGHAIYZ, LICHFIELD, AND MAN-

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would be in one of the stations of the whole line, but he could not
pretend that it was a. point in this line.
The Chateaux observed that this was a very serious objection.
The agent for the line was sorry the chairman thought so. n•
himself thought he could sufficiently account for the error before the
Standing Orders' Committee. The fact was, that the objection only
applied to this Bill when considered as a separate line ; but in the
consolidated project, including the other Bill, the objection vanished.
He must, however, admit that there was what, technically con-
sidered, was a non-compliance with the standing orders.
The next paint raised was a question of the sufficiency of the
subscription contract. It was urged that there was but one sub-
scription contract for the two Bills, and that, as there was no suffi-
cient distinction made between the estimated cost of the two lines,
the shareholders would not be bound if only one of the Bills were to
pass.
Mr. Bungs argued that there was a sufficient distinction, and cited
the case of the North British line, in which it was decided that one
contract was sufficient for tbur lines.
The CHAIRMAN asked whether Mr. Burke considered that, If only
a part of the Bill were to pass, the promoters could enforce payment
of the whole sum contracted for, or only of a part proportioned to
the part of the line for which the Bill had been obtained!
Mr. Bunks—Certainly, for the whole.
The CHAIRMAN proposed to consult Mr. Aglionby, who was Chair-
man of the Sub-Committee in which the case cited took place, and
who was now in the Committee sitting in the next room.

This being assented to.
The CHAIRMAN left the room, and, on his return, stated that Mr.
Aglionby had no distinct recollection of the case, but, on his stating
the ca
e,
mr. Aglionby gave it as his opinion that the contract was
sufficient.
The Committee were of the same opinion, and decided that there
was no non-compliance.
There was in one of the petitions against the Bill an allegation
that certain property " near No. 23 in the plans" was not marked
In the plans ; and there were several other allegations, stating that
several horses were not marked in the plan.
Mr. Hunan said that he could not tell what property was alluded
to. The statement that property " near No. 23" was not marked
was so indefinite, that the allegation could not be sustained. It
would have been quite as easy for the petitioners to have stated that
it was 23, and some other number. Again, It was not stated in the
allegation that these buildings were in their present places before the
30th of November, when the plans were deposited.

The CHAIAMAN said that the allegation must fall to the ground, as
the houses alluded to in it were not near No. 23 ; if they had been
near it, tee description " near No. 23" would byre beet suet:Went.

Several other allegations fell to the ground, and saaseTreiewith-
drawn.

The last allegation of the petition under consideration was reserved
for farther consideration.

Shortly after four o'clock, the Committee, haying cleared the room
to consult as to their ftirther proceedings, adjourned to Thurs4ay
next, without announcing what conclusion they had come to.

STANDING ORDERS' COMMITTEE
110 USE OF LORDS.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)
GUILDFORD, CHICHESTER, PORTSMOUTH, AND FAREHAM
RAILWAY.
The Committee, after a lengthened investigation, decided that the
promoters of this line had complied with the standing orders.
TAW VALE RAILWAY.
The hearing of this case was adjourned to Thursday next.
THE DIRECT NORTHERN RAILWAY.
This most important competing scheme for a line of railway from
London to York was resumed at three o'clock. The greatest in-
terest was manifested by the crowds of persons that surrounded the
passages to the Committee-rooms.
Messrs. Webster's, Farquhar, and Leeoh, appeared for the pro-
moters.
Messrs. Dyson, Hall, and Coates, attended for the Lenden and
'fork Company, who opposed the scheme.
♦ large lumber of allegations were submitted against the engi-
neering points of the plans and sections, none of which were sustained.
The first allegation of any importance brought forward, stated
that the line at certain points, commencing at the 49th mile and on
towards York, was five feet out of the level. The Committee an-
nounced that they had come to a determination to require that
the promoters and the opponents should each send dews a
surveyor, accompanied by a third disinterested party, to resurvey
Ave miles of the line, with an understanding that the surveying
should continue further if that were considered necessary.
The case was then postponed till Monday next.
The Committee adjourned at five o'clock, to Thursday next, at
twelve o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The members of this Committee assembled as usual this day at
One o'clock, in No. 9 Room, and decided in the cases of the Corn-
wall Railway, the 'Preston and Lancaster Railway, and the Berks
and Hants Railway—that the standing orders should be dispensed
with, and that the promoters should be allowed to proceed with
their Rills.

In the cases of the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway, the Edin-
burgh, Glasgow, and Dumbarton Railway, and the London and Man-
chester Direct Railway, it was decided that the standing orders
should not be dispensed with, that the Bills should not be allowed to
be proceeded with.

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