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planned, would enjoy equal opportunities of reaching other coal-
fields. The difference of 20,0001., or 30,0001., wasnot worth noticing,
as the money would be saved in the soundness of the foundation, and
the loss would therefore be ultimately prev,4ited. Then with regard
to gradients, that also was no consideration't for should the trains to
as long as was represented, the difficulty would readily be met by
an increase in the power of the engines, and if the gradient of 132
were to be considered as too severe, certainly, if it ware to be objected
to, there would be a contravention of all the decisions of Parliament
daring the present session. And as far as the station was concerned
ho should observe that tte station selected bythe company lrhich he
represented was the ve-v., one which had, been approved ef last yeti
without any oppositiCn, and. which Inns: hereafter ti) t*to
station fbr fee through traffic ; and if the station. at Bloom.
field's Close were to be made it would be just as com-
petent for the Ipswich and Bury to make it as any other com-
pany, and self-interest would naturally prompt its adoption. The
Learned Gentleman then went through the objections of the pe-
titioning landowners. Another point was the difficulty of the junc-
tion with the Thetford branch at Newmarket. The curve proposed
at that junction was of ten chains radius, and in the event, of the
Board of Trade requiring a larger radiusthe company were prepared,
by the possession of property, to make it. So that in facttheirn.e was
no remarkable ground for opposition to the preamble of this Bill.
Mr. Mr. Sergeant Wasercissst addressed tite Committee on the van-
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Sohan and Mildenhall ; the former a place of considerable agricultu-
ral importance, and through this place the line actually ran, instead
of going at some distance from it. Then with regard to Milden-
hall, it was absolutely the fact, that the great portion
of the population which was resident in the two hamlets attached to
it were even north of the Ely and Bury line, and therefore
placed in a worse position for the line than if they were all con-
centred round the focus of the town. Then it should be observed
that the population, exclusive of the.terMini which It was proposed
to accommodate, was only one • third of the number of those who would
get the benefit of railway transit by the other line. After speaking
of the injury which would be wrought to the mills and the ether
establishments on the river Sark, the Learned Sergeant alluded to
the rumoured plan of amalgamation between the Thetford and Ely
end Bury Companies, and stated that unless the Ipswich and Bury
l:ene
bewereadowtheed bestt the country could afford, it might not
pass. He then compared the" gradients
on the two lines, and discussed the difficulty of • the
Junction at Newmarket. After a long address the room was cleared,
noneand on the
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Bury, the Ipswich and Bury, and Thetford and Newmarket lines are
consequently fir the present session all thrOwn out.

GROUP XXXI.
2ZXSTOL AND ISIRATINGILILIK (GLOUCES.

TER AND STONEBOUSE JUNCTION).

The Committee re-assembled at twelve this morning, when ➢fr.
Tate and other witnesses were examined in support of the Bill
Their evidence merely went to prove the amount of traffic which
might be expected along the proposed line, and also the necessity
that existed in the district for railway accommodation.

Mr. Connell, superintendent at Gloucester, and other witnesses,
were examined at considerable length witk lespect to the engineer-
ing capabilities of the line, the expense of construction, and. other
matters connected with the accommodation proposed to be, afforded
to passengers and traffic along the line. The witnesses als6lied
into detailed accounts, by which it would seem the inconvenience of
the break of gauge at Gloucester, where the broad and narrow lines
meet, was very considerable, but it would be superseded if the pro-
posed line was made.
The Committee then adjourned.