The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-23 00:00:00

fRE BEITI.II MUSETJDa,

This special jury case, which has excited so much interest
in the literary world, was to have come on this morning,
but, on the application of the Attorney-General, it was post-
poned till Thursday next.
The Court subsequently was occupied with common jury
cases of no public interest.

RAILWAY COMMITTEES.
(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OP LORDS.
Room A.
CAMBRIDGE AND oxronn.

Their i ordships met this morning at eleven, Lord Mornington in
the chair, and Lords Middleton, Henley, Maliord, and Crofton.
The case for the promoters of the Bill was continued.
. .

Mr. Fordham, a banker at Royston, and a Provisional Committee-
man in this Company, gave general evidence as to the necessity for
the line, and the advantages derivable from its construction, and
gave statements as to the probable amount of traffic on the line.
Mr. Beale, a tradesman, at Cambridge, and a member of the Town
Council there, was then examined, and gave traffic evidence chiefly
relating to the coal traffic. He was examined by the attorney to the
promoters, the counsel being all absent at the time.

Room B.

GLASGOW, BAERNEAD, AND NEILSTON

(PAI6LEY BRANCH).

This Committee met originally as a Select Committee on the Glas-
gow, Kilmarnock and Ardrossan, the Glasgow, Barrhead and Neil-
ston having been added to the list yesterday. The Kilmarnock and
Ardrossan was then disposed of, and the Barrhead and Neiiston is
now the only Bill on the list.
Their Lordships met this morning at eleven, Earl Roden in the
*hair. Al] the members were present.
The traffic evidence on the part of the promoters was proceeded
with. It occupied the Committee up to the time we went to press.

Room D.
YORICSIETRE AND LINCOLNSHIRE
C 0 SIMLA. ICATION.

The Committee re-assembled this morning. Lord Somers in the
chair, when, on the admisdon of parties, his Lordship declared that
neh her of tile preambles of the Swinton and Doncaster, ner that of
the Doncaster, Wakefield, and Leeds line had been proved. Both
these lines are consequently lost for the present session.

SHEFFIELD AND £INCO.I.NSHIED
3UNCTXON.

The Committee next took this line.

fir. VAINES appeared for the promoters. lie stated the course
which the 'Me is intended to take, and described it as being a means
of uniting the district round Sheffield by way of Retford with the Great
Grimsby Railway at Gainsborough, with branches to the port in the
centre of that town and to the city of Lincoln, and thus open up the
whole of the agricultural produce of that county and its neighbour hood
for the manufacturing districts of the West Riding of Yorkshire and
Lancashire. The competing scheme is that of the Manchester, Mid-
lands, and Great Grimsby Union Railway, which is intended to go by
Bawtry. This line, the Learned Counsel contended, was in every
way preferable, the works bedig easier, the gradients better, the
population greater, and the expense to the public less. By the Shef•
field and Lincolnshire Junction there would be an average of 24
yards of tunnelling per mile, while the ther would have
250 yards. The earthworks on one lino would be
78,000 yards, while, on the other, there would be 214,000;
while the maximum of tolls stands, for first class passengers, 2d.
against 3% d. ; tor second class, I%d. against 24d. ; and, for third
class, hl. against 2d. per mile- For horses, 3d. against 4d.; for manure,
Id against 2d.; and for manufactured goods, 3d. against d. per tonper
mile.

The first witness called wall Lord Worsley, who stated the way in
which the proposed line was connected with, and was likely to be
affected by, the lines which have already passed the Legislature. His
Lordship stated, that it was agreed to amalgamate the Great Grimsby
Docks Company with toe Great Grimsby Railway Company, he
being at the present time chairman of both Companies. From
his possession of property in North Lincolnshire, and his being
the representative of that district, as well as from the reports
of parties with whom he was intimate, he could say that
the feeling in his neighbourhood was decidedly in favour of this line,
and a greater number of country gentlemen were placed on the pro-
visional management of this line than appeared on any other pro-
posed line in the country. He felt that it was eminently important,
became the first eight miles of its course traversed a coal district.
In obtaining the Bill for the formation of the, docks, the Admiralty,
having ascertained, on the report of the Tidal Harbours'Commmis-
stoners, that Grimsby was the only harbour of refuge that could be
formed between the Firth of Forth and Harwich, thought it neces-
sary to put clauses into that Bill which obliged the Company to con-
struct a dock capable of receiving the largest war-steamers, and they
are accordingly forming one three hundred feet long and
sixty-eight feet wide, which will put the company to au extra ex-
pense of 50,0001. The whole estimates for the docks are 394,6221.
One of the chief advantages arising from the granting of this line is
derived from the fact that this particular dock is to be supplied with
fresh water, so that the steamers would only have to supply their re-
servoirs from the dock itself, while the coal necessary for their use
could be brought at little expense along the proposed rail-
way. There is now a Bill in progress through Parliament for the
amalga.ration of the lines of the Sheffield and Manchester Railway
Company, which is now completed, and that of the Great Grimsby-and
Gainsborough Company, which is in course of construction, with the
Grimsby Dock Company and this company. to which there is no
opposition. Should these Bills be passed, the whole of the manage-
ment of the transit across the country at this point will be wider one
management, and the coals, which are particularly fitted for steam
purposes, would come one way and the agricultural produce would
go the other way with greater facility, and with less delay and ex-
pense, than they could possibly be by any ether route, as if the op-
posing line were to be granted they would have to pass through the
bands of four different and unconnected companies.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
GROUP 11.

The Select Committee appointed to consider the merits of the Bills
comprised in this group, re-assembled at the usual hour this morning.
Lord Alorpeth in the chair.
SOUTH DEVON (No. IX.)

Mr. Sergeant KINGLAKE opened the case for the promoters of this
Bill, the object of which is to make three branches from the South
Devon line, which was recently opened to Teignmouth ; one to
Taristock, another to Dartmouth, and the third to Devonport. The
Bill also embraced some trifling alterations in the main line, which
had become necessary from the Admiralty's objection to the former
mode of crossing the liamoaze.
Mr. Brunel, the eminent engineer, proved that the Tavistock
scheme was a slight modification of the Tavistock branch of last
year. It would have the effect of giving a convenient communica-
tion between Tavistock and the nsarkets of Plymouth. The Devon-
port branch was to connect the South Devon and Cornwall lines with
that town, while the Dartmouth branch was also to place that town
on the main line of the South Devon Rails, ay. The engineering
features of the two latter branches were extremely favourable, but on
the Tavistock branch], front the nature of the country through which
it passed, the gradients were uecessari'y of a difficult character. The
severest of :„bent, he believed, was 111130, bat although the inclinations
were generally severe, he did nut think the country could afford
better. '!'he Tavistock branch was 13 miles in length, and he
milesestnt ma endg, tahiei d ctohset
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cost 12'5110e,010)0a1r.tmoTuitieh
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Davenport branch, was about a rude and a halflong, cud this estimate
was 50,0001.