The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-04 00:00:00

RAILWAY COMMITTEES.

(YESTERDAY.)

Sub-Committee No. 2.

ZDIN73I77LGS, GLASGOW, AND DUMDAIR,-

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(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)
The room was then cleared, and on our re-admission,
The CHAIRMAN announced that the Committee were of opinion
ittat.in this case the standing orders had not been complied with.
Thar* was *nether petition from Mr. James Derry, a burgess
of Dumbarton, complaining generally of non-compliance with the
standing orders.
Two allegations were heard which were not sustained.
The Committee then found that the standing orders had not been
complied with by the promoters of the bill.
This was the fourth day occupied by this case.
• The next case on the list was then called, but the witnesses not
being in attendance, the Committee adjourned shortly after three
o'clock till twelve o'clock to-morrow, when none but unopposed
cases are to be taken.

Sub-Committee, No. 3.
TSB VITNI.SII MIDLAND.

(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)
The next petition was sustained, inasmuch as the extreme depth of
cutting was not marked upon the plans, as was also another alleg-
ing that the extreme height of an embankment was not shown.
The nicety of the standing orders about trifles was exemplified in
the Committee declaring a non-compliance with them, because a
distance had been put in chains, whereas the standing orders
require that it should have been put in furlongs and ehains—a split-
ting-of-hair kind of instruction, which the Honourable Chairman
said they were bound to respect. A number of petitions upon the
ground of non-compliance with the standing orders were declared
proved, and the case was closed so far as the standing orders were
concerned.
The CHAIRMAN said that upon the whole case the November depo-
sits were totally inaccurate, as were also a number of the 31st Decem
ber deposits ; but for ascertaining how many of the standing orders
had been complied with, the agents on both sides should
ifit nthe shorthand writer, and arrange the matter before the Com-
mittee submitted their report to the House. . •

At the close of the proceedings,
Mr. Vnivermns said that it had been alleged that many of the in-
accuracies in the deposits had occurred through the illness of Mr.
Hall, the engineer, but he had been instructed to say, tha
hand, t although
the Company were in difficulties about what they
had in they
had emloyed their forces in surveying a new line thirty miles in
length i pntended to run from Quaker's-yard to Pontypool.
Mr. Hall and Mr. Gibbs were asked a number of questions, but
nothing was elicited to show that anything but Mr. Hall's illness had
occasioned the inaccuracies.
Mr. Hall declared that his illness was the sole cause, and that he
had never before failed to succeed in complying with the stand-
ing orders, although he had been a surveyor of public works for
some years. He and his men had worked until they couldjparcely
stand, and it was hardly fair to charge him with negligerM, or a
desire to conceal anything, or state what was not strictly true.
The CHAIRMAN said that there was not the slightest imputation
either en the character of Mr. Hall or any other engineer employed
upon the line.
L. It was intimated that a special case upon the standing orders
would be gone into in the morning.
LYNN AND ELY (EXTENSION TO
SPALDING).
This is a line of railway proposed to be constructed between Nis-
beach and Spalding, with a branch to Holbeach, the cost of which
was estimated at 155,0001. Parliamentary agents, Dyson and Hall ;
engineer, Mr. J. S. Valentine.

There Is a petition against the Bill, but the usual formal proofs
were accepted, and the consideration of the petition against the pro-
ject was pestponed.
The Committee then adjourned until the usual time to-morrow
morning.