The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-13 00:00:00

/PS T.WICH ANZ BURY.

At the conclusion of this evidence Mr. TALBOT addressed the
Committee on behalf of the Ipswich and Bury Company,
dwelling particularly on the -advantages which are likely to
accrue to Bury from the access given to. Oxford and the south-
west,.to Birmingham and the north-west of England, and the bene-
fits also which were likely to arias from the extension of the
foreign • tride. These he thought were advantages which
ought to be considered as far more important than any that could
he derived from the opening to Syston and Peterborough.' • He had
beenmuch impressed w, tit the o' servathins oil! r. Sergeant Wranghauk
with respect to the cheap distribution of M. I, but yet he 'Could not
attach much cotr;i'era:eei to that point, for he little expected to see
the 'Leicester-coal-o,ld opened; and even if it were; that was no
peculiar reason iu favour of the oppostmt. line, for the Nue; as now
planned, would evjey equal opportunities of reaching other coal-
fields. The differi•nee of 20,0001., 0r30,0001., wasool, worth-notteing,
as the money would be saved in the soundness of. the foundation, and
the loss would therefore be ultlinhtelY Prevented:. Then-Wll yegaid;
to gradients, that also was no consideration; lot shOuld the trains he
as long as was 'rehresented, difbetilty would readily be met by
an increase in the - poweriot the engines, and if the gradisnt of 132
were to be consid erbfi as-too severe, eerie iI- it were to be objected
to, titer e would be a contravention of all the decisions of Parliament
'du it„ the pri.efent scs.ifin. And as far as the station was concerned
he should observi, that the station selected by the company which he
represented was the sere one tvbion had been approved of last year
without any oppositiM4 and which must hereafter be the
station for the through traffic ; anti if the station at Bloom-
lien's Close were to be made -it would be just as com-
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potent 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 wen!' through the objections of the pe,
thioning landowners. Another point wit; the difficulty of the junc.
tion with the Thetford branch at Newmarket. The curve proposed
at that junctior, was of ten chains rains, and in the even, of the
hoard of Trade requiring a larger ra tius the company were prepared;
by the possession of property, to make It So that in fact there was

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no remarkable groutid for opposition to the preamble of this Bill.
Mr. Sergeant WRANGHAM addressed the Committee on the advan-
tages offered by the Ely and Bury Company. In.dning so, he stated
that the line had only two places of any itnportance on it—these were
Sohau and Mildenhall ; the former a placid of considerable agricultu-
ral importance, and through this ',lace the llne.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 tls 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. I hnt it•bhonld 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.tb e -benefit of railway transit by the other line. 'After speaking
of the injury which would be wrought to the mills and the k.ther
establishments on the river Sark, the Leanted Sergeant alluded to
the rumoured plan of amalgamation between the Thetford and Ely
and Bury Companies, and stated that unless the Ipswich and Bum

line were the best the country could afford, it ought not
to' be allowed to pass. Ho then compared the gracilents
On the two lines, and discussed the difficulty- of the
junction at Newmarket. After a long address the room was cleared,
and on. the re-admission of the parties the chairman declared that
none of the preambles had been proved. The Bills for the Ely and
Ilury , the Ipswich and Bury, and Thetfbrd and Newmarket lines are
consequently for the present session all thrown out.