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London, England, 1846-04-07 00:00:00

WYCOMBE AND MAIDENHEAD (GREAT

WESTERN BRANCH).

Mr. Robert Wheeler, the deputy chairman, and who had carried on
business in Wycem he for 40 years, gave evidence in favour of the line,
and testified to the advantages which the trade of the districts
through which it was designed to pass would derive from it.
Mr. Neale, agent of Lord Carriugton, Mr. Venables, and Mr. Rose
gave similar evidence.
Mr. Gibbs, C.E., surveyed the branch In 1844, and again surveyed
it last year. There were no engineering difficulties. The estimated
cost was 134,6.531., with a surplus of 15,0001., making the capital
150,0001. It would be 9 miles and 54 chains in length.

'UXBRIDGE BRANCH (GREAT WESTERN)

This branch was then proceeded with.
Mr. Brunel, who was examined by Mr. TALBOT, said its length
would be 2 miles and 47 chains, and the estimate 50,0001. The
works were very light, nearly the whole of the line being on the sur-
face of the ground. There was a short curve at the junction with
the Great Western.

DECISIONS.
The Committee then declared the preamble of both the Bills to
have been proved.
The Committee then adjourned until to-morrow, when they will
take the clauses into consideration.

GROUT XXIX.
This Committee re-assembled this morning in room No. 19.
Present, the Right lion. H. Labonchere (chairman), Sir J. Duck-
worth, Sir W. Molesworth, Mr. J. A. Smith, aad Colonel Rawdon.

RUGBY AND 2117NTINGDON.
The evidence as to the traffic expected by this line from Kettering
in the event of its being constructed, was resumed by Mr. Warren,
counsel for the promoters, calling on
Mr. George Gill, au ironmonger and seedsman, living In Ketter-
ing, who confirmed the evidence as to traffic (which we reported at
length on Friday last). Witness confined himself chiefly to the great
accommodation it would afford to the inhabitants of Kettering.
Mr. Bryan smith, a timber merchant, brickmaker, &c., confirmed
the testimony of the last witness.
Mr. Douglas, the solicitor to the promoters, In the course of his ex-
amination, proved the existence of an agreement entered into between
the promoters and the Duke of Buccleuch to make certain deviations
of the proposed line, for the purpose of making a roarer approach to
the town of Kettering, provided the landowners through whose pro-
perty the proposed deviation would pass would consent, or, if not,
that the next Parliament would consent.
Mr. AUSTIN here made an application to the Committee for the
purpose of moving that the Bill do not proceed further, and pro-
ceeded to call their attention to a Case where an agreement
had been entered into two sessions ago, between the promoters of
the Coventry and Nuneaton line. and Mr. Newdegate, Member for
South Warwickshire, covenanting that a portion of that line should
not be constructed, and which agreement was held by the Committee,
by whom the merits of that line were considered, to be fatal to the
further progress of that Bill. The present case was an analogous one,
and the same objection would apply
Mr. MACAULAY and Mr. RAWLINSON followed on the same side,
and the former gentleman read a decision given by Lord Denman in
the ease of Howden v. Simpson, in confirmation of the views of the
case as laid dawn by Mr. Austin.
Sergeant WasNonAm, with Mr. IVAttamg, en the part of the pro-
moters, contended that there was no identity whatever between the
two cases ; and the former gentleman adduced the ease of the com-
petition between the South Western and Great Western Railways
the session before last, when an agreement tor a similar deviation,
dependent on the assent of the Duke of Wellington, was not con-
sidered to be fatal to the project of the former Company by the Com-
mittee of the Lords, to whom the rival fines were submitted.
Mr. AUSTIN replied, and contended that no answer had been given
to his objection, and that the Committee could not grant powers
which might never be exercised, and which required the subsequent
assent of landowners on the line, and tailing that a subsequent appli-
cation to Parliament.
The room was then cleared for the deliberation of the Committee.
On our re admission,
The Cpwasms announced the decision on the point :—" The
Committee have determined that the promoters of the Bill do pro-
ceed with their case."
Other witnesses were then examined to show the amount of traffic
which the line would give along the towns on the western extremity.
Formal evidence was then given as to the stoppages of trains, po-
pulation returns, &c., when the further consideration of the case was
postponed till to-morrow.
The postponed clauses as to tolls, Stc., of the