The Sun.
London, England, 1846-07-24 00:00:00

BIRMINGHAM AND oarosal JUNCTION
AND BIRMINGHAM EXTENSION.

Their Lordships met again at the usual hour this morning, Lord
Ripon in the chair ; present, Lords Eldon, Montford, Wynford, and
Sondes.

Mr. WAKELitro stated, on the meeting of the Committee, that none
of the witnesses whom he was about to call had been sworn, and that
they could not be sworn in the House at present, 83 a legal discussion
was now going on, and would probably last for some time. lie there-
fore requested their Lordships to hear the witnesses at once, and to
leave them to be sworn afterwards. .

Their Lordships, after some hesitation, gave their consent to the
course
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Mr. Haddon, a brewer, at Leamington, and Mr. Gladstone and
Mr. Nelson, merchants and manufacturers at Birmingham and Ban-
bury, gave evidence in favour of the line, chiefly in corroboration of
that of the wftness called yesterday.
Mr. I. K. Brunel, the engineer to the line, gave the engineering
evidence, which was the same as his evidence before the Committee
on Group 33, in the Commons, at an earlier part of the session. It
was reported at sufficient length in The Sun at the time, and it is,
therefore, unnecessary to repeat it here. He referred to the offer
made to the petitioner, Mr. Wyse, to refer to any nobleman
or gentleman in the country near his estate, to decide whether or
n• the company should buy the whole or any part, or, if so, what
part of that gentleman's property, and also to put a price on it. The
company were ready to fulfil that offer, and to allow Mr. Wyse to
choose the referee. He also made reference to the offers made by
the company to the several other petitioners, which he said they
were still ready to stick to.
Mr. Brunel's evidence was not concluded at five o'clock, at which
hour the Committee adjourned till eleven o'clock to-morrow.

Room 11.

RUGBY AND LEAMINGTON (BLACKBURN,
PRESTON, AND SOUTH LANCASHIRE
JUNCTION).
The Committee met at eleven o'clock, the Earl of Strafford In the
chair. . _

Mr. WALLINGTON, a solicitor of Warwick, was heard In opposition
to the Leamington portion of the line, on account of its interfering
with the Crown Hotel. He maintained that a better line could be
made, which would interfere with less valuable property, and save
50,0001., without in any way detracting from the advantage of the
line, and Galled upon the Committee to adopt this deviation.
Mr. Nichol, a surveyor ofLeamington, corroborated this statement.
The witness was cross-examined by Mr. LAING with respect to
several inaccuracies in the sections of the deviated line, which, he
held, were fatal to it, and that it could not be made. It appeared
there was a mistake of 10 feet in the levels, a gradient of 26 chains
being marked 1 In 104, instead of 1 in 114.
Mr. Duffy, an engineer and surveyor, admitted the mistake, and
also that such a mistake would, in many instances, prove fatal to
the undertaking.
Mr. Olding, an engineer, said, assuming the section correct, that the
line was practicable.
Mr. Stanley said his rent was 4501. a year, and that the line would
not touch the hotel, but would run warm his farm within 20 yards
of it.

Mr. lirLbYaan contended that the case was simply one of com-
Palmation ; and after seine discussion, a clause was agreed to, that
the property of Mr. Stanley should not be interfered with with-
out his consent, and that compensation should be awarded, If injury
was done.

The preamble of the Bill for the amalgamation was then agrced to.
37/LISTOL AND 311172,NLINGH.ANE (GLOU ICS—
TEN. AND STONEHOIII32I).
This was a Bill to enable the Bristol and Birmingham RaLlWay to
lay down the narrow gauge by the side of the broad gauge from
Gloucester to Stonehouse, a distance of seven miles.

Mr. AUSTIN opposed the Bill, for the Great Western Company, on
the ground that an agreement had been entered into by the two com-
panies which this Bill would interfere with. Ha had no objection to
the laying down of the narrow gangs even as far as Bristol, but he
held that the narrow gauge ought not to be laid at the side of the
bread, but within it.

Mr. Sanders, the secretary to the Bristol and Birmingham, gave
evidence to show the necessity of the narrow gauge to Stonehouso,
and the Committee adjourned until to-morrow.

Room 5.

ILD. ROTHERHAM BARNSLEY,
rtIEI.D, HUDDERSFIELD, AND

WA.ZE3
000ZZ.

The Committee on this line met at the usual hour, at No. 5
Abingdon-street, the Earl of Radnor in the chair.

The cue of the promoters having closed yesterday, the evidence
on behalf of the opposition was proceeded with this morning.
Mr. Graham, master of the Milton Iron Works, near Sheffield, was
examined at great length. The effect of his evidence was to show
that a line east and west would give greater accommodation than
one north and south.

Mr. Rigley, a coal surveyor at Manchester, corroborated the evi-
dence of the last witness. He did not think that the proposed line
would accommodate the coal-fields so well as a line east and west.
Messrs. Swanwick and Gee, civil engineers, were each subjected to
a long examination on the part of the opponents of the line, to prove
the difficulties connected with its construction. The latter gentle-
man stated that it would cost a great sum of money, and that there
were more tunnels on the line in proportion than on any other line
With which he was acquainted.
The Committee adjourned till to-morrow.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
GROUP LXYII.

the Committee on this group of Bills met again to-day in Boom
24 (Grand Corridor), Lord Lincoln in the chair, when the case of the
LONDON AND SOUTH—WESTERN (LONDON
BRIDGE EXTENSION)
Was resumed, the /preamble declared to be proved, and the clauses
speed to.
The Committee than adjourned.