The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-12 00:00:00

COCOA —Trinklad has been sold at 37s to 40s Gd per cwt.
RICE.-- 3 723 hngs Bengal were taken in at 12s 6d for good mid,
and geod white being above the value.

SPICES. ensein I.ignea has been in fair request, but at Is to 2s
decline ; 7,809 chests sold at 4.5.1 6d to 64s tbr sound. Malazar
Pepper has re,lised 2%d to 23,d per lb for sound.
TEA. —The market is steady. Public sales are announced fcr nest
week.
TALLOW.—P. Y. C. is 42s 3d to 42s 6d per cwt on the spot.

RAILWAY COMM IT :TES

( I'FIIS DAY )

1-1013 SE 01, LORDS.
NORTH Evraproansmitz.

The Committee appointed to consider the merits of the three Bills
included in the above title, met for the first time in Room B (New
Houses of Parliament) at about half-past eleven. The members are
—the Duke of Cleveland (chairman), the Earl of Scarborough, and
Lords Colchester, Somerville, and De Lisle.
The three Bills are—the Churnet Valley line, the Harecastle and
Sandbach line, and the Pottery line, being all branches of the North
Staffordshire Railway.
kir. Austin, Mr. Talbot, Mr. Sergeant Wrangham, and Mr. Ser-
geant Murphy appeared for the promoters of the Bill, and numerous
counsel appeared for landowners petitioning against the Bill.
Br. AUSTIN said that as the three Bills were in fact but one
scheme, it was proposed to take them together, ty which much time
would be saved by the promoters, and the opponents would be put
to no inconvenience.

The Committee aiF,ented to this course, end
Mr. Tatao'r proceeded to open the case Mr the promoters of the
Bills, at great length. He said that he thought the total absence of
railway accommodation in the Potteries and other popu •
lous manufacturing mineral and agricu:tural dirricts in North
Staffordshire was a sufficient argument as to the necessity for these
lines. The distances between various important places would be
very much shortened by this line; as, for instance, the distance
between Manchester would be reduced by 7 miles 3 furlongs ; be-
tween Macclesfield and Loudon, by 28 miles 3 furlongs ; between
Stockport. and London, by 8 miles; between Sandbach and London,
by 3% miles; between Manchester and Birmingham, by 4 miles;
between Macclesfield and Birmingham, by 24 miles ; between Stock-
port and Birmingham, by 3% miles; between Manchester and Derby,
by 18 miles 3 furlongs ; between Macclesfield and Derby, by 51
miles 3 furlongs ; and between Stockport and Derby by N miles.
This was not one of the Bills projected during the late railway mania
of 1845, having been formed by the union of the Churnet Valley
Railway Company and the Staffordshire Potteries Railway Com-
pany ; the former of which was favourably reported on by the Board
of Trade in 1844. Three-fourths of the estimate (which amounted
to 200,0004) had been subscribed, and 10 per cent. had been de-
posited according to the standing orders of the House of Commons.
The total length, of line would be 122 miles. The railway would
give to the Staffordshire Potteries, Newcastle, and Stone, an expedi-
tious access to the ports of Liverpool and Birkenhead, whencei their
principal exsorts ar.: shipped, and would place theft large population
and important manufactures on the main line between London and
Manchester, and would afford them direct communication not only
with those places, but also with Birmingham, Derby, and, in fact,
with all parts of the kip gdom, by means of the various railways al-
ready established. It wtalla open a direct communication between
the town of Congleton (now wholly unaceommodated by railways)
and London, Manchester, „Macclesfield, Coventry, and Derby, with
which places its extensive silk manuiactures tcectssarily occasion
an extensive intercourse. It would afford a direct railway com-
munication from Liverpool, Chester, and the north-western districts
of the kingdom, to Derby, Nottingham, Leicester, and the eastern
counties; and it would open the valuable coal fields in North Staf-
fordshire for the supp:y of the manufacturing districts, of the Pot-
teries, Newcastle, Macclesfield, Stockport, Manchester, and Bir-
mingham. It would also afford great facilities tor the
supply of iron, the other staple commodity of North , Staf-
tordhire. These great phblie objects, which, as separate schemes,
would require the construction of 162 miles of new railway,
would be effected, through the happy combination of the North
Staffordshire Railway, by the construction of only 122% miles of
new railway. The popula. lon on. and within two miles of the line,
was unusually large, being altogether 344,391, or upwards of 500
per square mile' while the average population 01 England is calculated
to be about 303 per square nine. The population, not on the new
fine, but which weuld be immediately accommodated by it, was else
unusually large. The Learned ' Counsel dwelt at 'consi-
derable length on what he considered the " insignificant "'
nature of the opposition which, he said, consisted ehtirely
of cases for compensation, and not of cases of residential in-
jury, such as could not be compensated for. Having concluded his
address, he called

31r. liicard,,, M.P. for the Potteries, and chairman of the North
Staffordshire Railway Company, gave general ev;dence in fa
your of the line. He was cross-examined by Mr. Furtin, mOho ap-
peared for Mr. Cartwright and Mrs. Carey (Mr. Cartwright's daugh-
ter), petitioners against the Mil ; and by Mr. Sergeant ADAMS, who
appeared for Sir Henry Everett, also petitioning against it.

DIRECT LONDON AND PORTSMOUTH.
Their Lordships niet at eleven o'clock, in Room A.; Lord Beau-
mont In the chair. All the memters were present.
The Committee were occupied with general evidence nearly the
whole of the morning.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
.GROUP XIII.
This Conmitteel met to-day at twelve o'clock ; Sir Williarh Clay
in the chair.

AYRSHIRE AND GALLOWAY.
Mr. Macdonnell, engineer of the Gloucester and Birmingham line,
was examined, corroborration of the evide,ce of Mr. M•Callum,
given yesterday. lie also explained the mode of working the Lackey
inchne, to show that there would not be any great difficulty hi work-
ing th, gradient of 1 in 55, on the proposed IMe.
%11. Robinson, civil engineer. gave evidence to a similar effect. He
thcu.it the estimates for the proposed line quite ample enough.
Mr. William Gordon deposed that he had resided for some time at
Balcary Bay, and considered it a good position for a harbou#. The
line and the harbour in questien, w. uld be of great benefit to the
county of Kirkcudbright. ne bay was easy of access to shiiiping.
This closed the case on behalf of the promoters.

Gno L. I' XVII.
MANCHESTER AND S(UTHAMPTON, AND
SOUTH-WESTEnN (RONISEY ARID RED..
BRIDGE BA:4IAV CH).

The Committee met Una morning at the usual hour , the Hon. E
Yorke in the chair.

MANCHESTER AND SOUTHAMPTON.
Etwall, I.P. for Andover, was the first witness called. Its
said he possessed property in the neighbourhood of Andover, and con-
sidered that the whole of the district would be benefited by direct
communication with the manufacturing districts. lie knew ho line
which could ace 4 baldish this object better than the Manchester and
Southampton. It would be most valuabk for the carriage of manure
and salt, which, if it could he obtained with facility, would be Jar_ ely
used in the improvement of the land, as it puriflid it, and clAitroyed
noxious insects. The feeling was unanimous in favour of the line in
the towns throughout the line, and at Southarnipton.
lty air. lIATIIERTON—There wire not more than twe coaches
passing to and fro between Cheltenham and Alarlhoeough, Litt they
were always loaded. The district was a rich agricultural ones
By the CHAIRMAN—The expense of constructing etlicient roads in
an agricultural district, not desirous of paying a large rate, no doubt
reduced the number of coaches, and pre ented petoe from biovitc;
about more iliac they did; hut if a Company, with ample means,
were to construct a through communication, there could be no yueS-
Bun about these districts availing themselves of it to a large extent.

GROUP XX.
The Committee on this Group met to-day at twelve o'clock in room
No .31. Present, Mr. &them (Chairman), Sir R. Pigot, liord H.
livialpek, Mr. Tapered, aid Mr.Atoss.
They resumed the consideration of the
LONDON, HOUNSLOW, AND WEST N.

The evidence in support of the Duke of Northumberland', oppost.
Hon having been concluded on Wednesday, wheii the Co►rmittee ad•
journed to this day,

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Mr. Rowe, as-agreed upon, now addressed the Committee in
review of that evidence, contending that his Noble client had emu-
rletely established that his n elision and r ark at: Sion
would be intertifred with by the railway in a most deirimentril man-
ner—that the iarms of several of his tenants, would also ' mate,
rial'y injurec, and in some cases absolute y destroyed. It had urther
been I,roved to the Committee that the line would approach within
a most dangerous proximity of the powder-mills at llounsliw —so
muc:i that, according to the evidence of the Governaamt engineers
who had been examined, that alone ought to be taken as a stitiele,.t
reason for the rijection of the Bill. '.. he Learned Counsel atm) re
ferret to the engineering evident.% which he argued was conOusive
of the demerits of the line in that respect. On the whole, he trusted
that a case had been mane out to satisfy tha Committee tht\t tnere
was no demand for the lire sufficient to justify tit . expe.sivenes • 01
the work Itself; or the destruction of ptop,sty and the damage to the
public which it would involve
The Learned Gen.leman having concluded, the Committeei called
on the competing line, that. is ti.e