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London, England, 1846-06-30 00:00:00

Name of Company.
Annum

s. d. s. d.
Australasia • • • • • • • • • • Cl. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 0 27
BritanNorth American 51. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 4514
Commercial of London 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0
Colonial.. ..... 51. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 16
Loudn ar.J Westrninstr Cl. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0
7
London Joint-Stock .• • 61. per cent. 5 0 0 10 0 0 1414
Metropolitan • • • • • • • • • 25 0 0 7 10 0
Provincial of Ireland• • Si. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 45
Ditto, New.• • • • • • • • 51. per cent. 10 0 0 10 b 0 iSY
Rational of Ireland 51. per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 0 20
Nat. Provncial of Eng. 51. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 36
Ditto, • • • • • • • • 51. 51. per cent: 20 0 0 10 0 0
Union of Australia 6/. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 I 25%
Union of London Si. per cent. 50 0 0 I 10 0 0 I 11

had this session applied for a new and direct line, in order to
avoid the danger and delay of that;unction.
Mr-. Payne, the. thanager of the traffic on the Bristol and
Bi mingham, considered the Woodside Junction very inad:-
visabie. _ _

Captain Lawer, manager of the Manchester and Leeds
Italway Company from its establishment, testified as to his
knowledge of the country through which the line of
the promoters was to pass, and to his opinion of the
excellence of the hue from the communication which
it opened up the Yorkshire coal-field, which is one of the
large,t in England for the eastern counties of England.
The Aubrey section strikes the Sheffield and Rotherham
line about two miles and a half from Rotherham, and in-
tersected the Silkestone coal-field for more than
three miles, and as the whole of the line was on a de-
scending gradient there would be an excellent facility
for the transference of this coal to every part supplied with
communication by the London and York line. He decidedly
oNected to the junction at Woodside, and would rather go
round by Sheffield to Rotherham than incur the risk
and trouble of it. With respect to the inclined plane which
bad been objected to in the Manchester, Midlands, and
Great. Grimsby Junction line, -be could say that
the 'Oldham incline, on the Manchester and Leeds
Raihyav, is 11., miles long, and on a gradient of 1 in
27, and yet, by the adoption of a system of balances, they
found no difficulty whatever in daily overcoming. it. There
could be no drubt, therefore, that the engine's could be
.worked up the proposed incline of the promoters at a speed
of twenty five miles an hour. The facilities for traffic at
Sheffield had been greatly increased by the enlargement of
the station. . . .

In cross-examination by Mr. DAMS, Captain Lawers stated
that in ascending the Oldham incline, all the contingencies of
breaking of ropes and braces had occurred, but they had al-
ways found the power of the engine in front sufficient to over-
come the difficulty. He denied that there had been any de-
cided hostility to the Manchester and Sheffield line, and al-
though interested in the Pontefract, Wakefield, and Goole,
as well as the branch to Hu*, though not an engineer or a
practical manager, he should, in the face of the opinions of
all the civil engineers in the kingdom, persevere in his im-
pression of the great injudiciousness of this gradient.
The Committee here adjourned till to-morrow.

no L' SE OF COMMONS*
GROUP XVII.
MANCHESTER AND SOUTHAMPTON,
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition.)

Mr. ATIIERTON then proceeded to address the Committee
against the line, on behalf of Mr. Roe, a landowner at
Southampton, near the site of the proposed terminus. He
is the owner of a wharf fronting the water, the access to
which he held would be destroyed by thb line; and, there-
fore, he prayed the Committee not to pass the preamble of
the Bill.

Mr. Hack, an architect at Southampton, considered that

the mode of crossing the Dorchester line would be dangerous,
and that the carrying of trains along the quays would offer
serious incor:venience to the busine,s of that locality, and in-
terfere with those who were in the habit of going there for

the purpose of recreation.
In his cross-examination by Mr. ALEXANDER, he stated
that four roads were crossed by trains in connection with the
South-Western at Southampton, one of which belonged to
Mr. Roe. On the whole, he considered the railway would be
of advantage to the to n. He should like to see direct rail-
way communication with the north from Southampton.

The Committee then adjourned until twelve to-Morrow.