The Sun.
London, England, 1846-04-02 00:00:00

GROUP XX.

The Committee met at twelve o'clock. Present—Mr. Sotheron,
Lotd H. liontinek, Sir It. Vigo% Mr. Tattered, and Mr. Koss.

LONDON AND BILXGHTON (WANDSWORTH
BRANCH).

Mr. Surrox, the solicitor hit the Cotripany, delivered in a list of
the assents and dissents of owners and occupiers of land on the line ;
and this concluded the case for the promoters.
Mr. SELWYN opposed the Bill on behalf of Mr. Hague and Mr.
Coulthurst. The latter gentleman, however, withdrew his opposi-
tion, the Company undertaking not to interfere a ith his property,
which could be compassed by a slight deviation.
Mr. SELWYN then addressed the Committee for Mr. Hague, whose
property Ibis in the neighbourhood of Tooting, and called witnesses
to show the superior character of Mr. Hague's residence ; that the
line passed It within 900 feet, and
passed through the grounds
within sight of the house, partly on embankments, partly in cuttings,
n
Mr. Fuller, surveyor, being examined, gave evidence of the value
and ornamental character of the ground through which the whole
an
tlythoenbtulilledlinevgalne of the property.
el; thereby materially injuring the prospect, and
reducing
line passed. Ile thought that 40,0001., instead of 29,0001., would be
the proper price for the land. He founded that estimate on the nature
of the land, and the agreements entered into by the Company with
other parties—with Messrs. Rawlinson and. Co.—who had received
9,0001., and with Crooke, Ellison, and Co., who had got 6,0001.
It came out in cross-examination that an agreement had been
made between the Company and Mr. Fuller about the ground of Mr.
Hague, giving Mr. Hague 4001. an acre, and 2,0001. Mr. Hague re-
pudiated the agreement, as not made with his authority.
Mr. SUTTON, the solicitor to the Company, stated that he had
negotiated with Mr. Fuller and Mr. Hague's son, both of whom re-
presented themselves as authorised by Mr. Hague, sen. The witness
put in a written assent to the Bill, signed by Mr. Hague, jun., and
given in last year, when the scheme was before Parliament. He
said the sum given to Messrs. Crooke, Ellison, and Co. was incor-
rectly stated, it was but 3,0001.
This closed the case.

Mr G'Dt~r LEt,V on the part of the South Western (Mitcham
Branch), here objected to the Committee considering the line, for
which he appeared, as competing with the Brighton line, and he
would not offer any opposition to that line passim: ; but if the Com-
mittee con,ldered it a competing line, he would be compelled to ad-
dress himself and his evidence a:ainst the preamble of the other Bill.
The Committee sledded that as Mr. O'Malley had already acted, by
Gros -examining the witnesses, as for a competing line, he had better
continue to occupy the same position.
SOUTH WESTERN (SSITCHAST, BRANCH).
RO,;lltosLp Et Yi thenn
evideproceededinfa v
otuor n the merits of the Mitcham
line•
i,
rral RowE opposed the line on behalf of owners and occupiers on a
mile and a half on the projected line. ,
The Committee adjourned till twelve o clock to-morrow.

GROUP XXI•
LONDON £N OZOILD.

The Committee re-assembled this morning at the usual hour. Pre-
sent--Mr. Finch, chairman; Mr. Wodeheuse, Capt. Layard, and Mr.
Lawson.
The promoters proceeded to call evidence in support of the line.
Mr. Joseph Gillett, farming about 750 acres at Little Hazley, Ox-
fordshire, on the estate of s!r. Walter Long, through which the line
.111 run for two or three miles, stated that some of his produce was
sent t) the Walling-road station' of the Great Western Railway, 13
miles distant. He generally sent heavy
cheep by the line, whilst he
sent the ligh'er kind by foot t, the London market. He should at-
tend the Uxbridge market and send the whole of his sheep and cattle
by the line If it was made. Re had made a calculaion of the amount
of traffic which the cuuntry for a distance of 16 miles, cod 6 miles
on each side of It, front Oxford to Loudon. would yield, which was to
the following effect :-192 square miles were comprised in
these 16 miles, there were 640 acres to the square mile.
and the whole of the acerage 122,889• lie deducted one-tenth for
waste and other lands, leaving 110,592 acres of producing land. He
averaged one fat sheep to each of these acres ; lambs, one-eighth of
the sheep, or one to every eighth acre,
making a total, with the sheep,
of 124,416, He had deducted one-third for home consumption and
the Oxford market,
leaving a gross total of 84,880 lambs and sheep.
The average distance which they travelled was forty miles. Their
transit by the railway would cost a halfpenny per head per mile, pro-
ducing a revenue of 6,9121. He averaged three beasts to every forty
acres, or 8,294, from which one-third had to be deducted for home
consumption and the Oxford market, leaving a total of 5,5.39, which
would cost 2d. per head per mile, or Os. Bd. each for the journey of
forty miles, producing 1,843/ '!'here would be 5,530 calves; after a
of transmitting which would be three-
farthings per head per mile, or 2s. Gd. the whole distance, producing a
similar deduction, the cost
revenue of G9l/. Hem, teu pigs to every forty acres, or, 27,649,
which after deducting 9,216 or One-third, left 18,432. The traesmission
'
of pigs cost the same as, calves, and would realise 2,3041. ; total,
11,750/. He gave five quarters of wheat per acre, so that the arable
land would produced 23,256 tons of corn, which traversed, on the
average, twenty miles of railway, which at 3d• per ton, per mile, or
65. per ton the whole length, realised 11,0641. All these items gave a
total of 19,8141. Ile had omitted from this calculation minor articles
of consumption, such as coals, butter, wool, timber, rags, which
could not fail to realise a considerable revenue.
The witness in his cross-examination, stated that the line from
Thamo to form a junction with the line at Aylesbury, would not be
of very great advaetage
net a very profitable speC as the sending of goods to the north was
tdeeion Of course if there was a better
market in the north for wool, it would be sent to them.
He believed the London and Birmingham Railway unloaded
sheep at Harrow, for the.. sNauthall market. The line from
Wycombe 0 Mgkiellllead 1V04114 *5 et' sown, t 9 thy',

livinf in the district, and desirous of at'amling the Maiden.
head and S markets. He , trecte,l that the •
sheep the who 'teoinse of the Erie weuld be Is. ',J.
not aware tit t the (;reolt Western i,liztrgod 7d. p,
from Maidenniad. lie hut himself pald loc that thie.
shelp would go *e Sonthall, b,estise London was the I L market.
By Mr. CALVERT—The Great Western van about 9fteelt miles
from rarslnr,ton, and was approached with difficulty from that
I,iut of It, oil account of its running for a coneiderable
distance on the west or opposite side of the Thames.
liy Mr. WouEnous.:•:--- as A better market than Read-
Wyc,mte was a good barley market.
Mr. Henry Dickson, land valuer; of Oxford, considered that the
propoad station of this line in that town wee admirably suited for a
junction with the stations of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolver-

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llampt.m, all,l tii' Oxford and Rugby Railway*, whieti reeelveu inn
sanction of l'arlis merit durh.g the, iast session, The ground whic,h thel
would all occupy was extremely level. Generally =reed with the evi.

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Luger, wool, grocery, drapery, &c., tit 38,0001.
Mr. Scalei, salcsinan, Aldgtte, said he was in the habit of
cattle ant sheep from Thane. princ.ei Riz,boreugh, and
of ;;;1,":4t a,ll:...nu.tze for their transinis

l'Armingbain was the best station. as it was; nearer the

ENGINEERING EVIDINCE.
Mr. John Addison, the enineer of the line,
examined by tic. CRIAERT----Ile said the Company' w
lien, as he exaieireal it ten years :Igo ?.F
way. die also examines a p,riion of it last year for the London any
11.rminghain e'ompaiiy. The line commenced by Mnetion with the
London and thrill:1101am Railway at Harrow. Jrid -even frohi
its eta ion at Euston square, and in its route to 4ix,:o,d passed
through Northall, Uxbridge Fulmer, leaving Wooburn to the
left, Loudwater, high Wycombe, i',ra,leiiham. Bledlow,
Saunderton, liorsendem. Eamington, bianch to Tharne,
the neighbourhood of Tetswurth, 4;reat Litt,:
at, ,n, Carringtoe, Cowly, terminating in the parish
Ch'ments, at the 53d mile stone on the London-road. ab to half
a mile from Maldon Bridge, where a junction was proposed to be
made at the Oxford and Rugby and the Rugby and Worcester.
The ground at this art was very level. The ex-
treme length of the line was 47 miles, 5 furlongs, and 5 chains ;
the branch to Thame 3 miles, 2 furlongs, and 2% chains; total
length to Euston-square 54 utiles, 7 furlongs, and 2 chains On the
main line there were four level planes, and the worst gradient was
1 in a 100. There were three inclined planes in the Theme
branch-1 in 220, lin 167, and lin 2,640. At Bledlow there
was a plane of 1 in 136. The gradients were as favourable
as the nature of the, country would allow, end were per-
fectly consistent with moderate works, and were laid out
so as to compensate the mere level portions of the line : this was
also the ca. e with the embankment and cuttings. There were ten sta-
tions—commencing at Northalt, Uxbridge, Edgley, or Stoke Common,
Wooburn, High and West Wycombe, Princes Risborough, Tetsworth,
Carsingtou, and the terminus at Oxford, which was well situated for the
purposes of the town. There were engineering obstacles to putting
Thame on the main line. The London and Birmingham station at
Euston-square, possessed advantages over the s'ation of the Gteat
Western, because it was two miles nearer the centre of the metropolis,
an advantage which he considered; and Mr. Robert StepheLson, of
the same opinion, said it was equal to ten miles of railway travelling.
There were two tunnels on the line, one at Horsinglen Wood, and
the other under the Cricket-;„round at Uxbridge; the first was 457
yards, and the second 325 yards in length. The soil NrkS favourable
at Uxbridge, but not so at Ilorsingdon, for which allowance
had been made hi the estimate. The worst curves were
in the neighbourhood of Woebunt. There were two curves there of
a radius of half a utile and eight chains each. At the junction with
the London and Birmingham there was a curve a quarter of a mile
in length, with a radius of three furlongs each.

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