The Sun.
London, England, 1846-04-03 00:00:00

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would confer on the districts through which it would pass, as well as
the general benefits which the public traffic of the country would
receive by the accommodation it would give, witnesses were called
this morning in proof of the allegations.
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The first witness called was
Mr. Ves.3y, a banker, Huntingdon, who stated that he was well
acquainted with the wants of the district through which the line
would pass. He was a general merchant as well as a baiker. The
price of coal was 21s. Bd. at Huntingdon. Ile supplie 1 coal for
twelve miles round the neighbourhood. The price of the carriage
of coals to a village twelve miles from Huntingdon was 9s. This
would make the price 305. and upwards at these places.
There were 10,000 tons of coals landed annually at the
wharf at Huntingdon. If the proposed line were made,
cheapness in this article would be a necessary result. There
was a large cattle market at St. Ives. He believed that a direct
communication between Rugby and Huntingdon would be of very
great importance. Of the three lines—the proposed one, the Ruglfy
and Stamford project, and the South Midland (Huntingdon) scheme
—he considered that the projected one was the best, because it was
direct and unbroken. It would also relieve the great amount of
traffic which was concentrated at Rugby. The people of Huntingdon
were almost universally in its favour, in preference to any of the
others. He had carefully considered the South Midland scheme, with
reference to the wants of Huntingdon and neighbourhood.
Did not think it would answer the. wants of the district
so fully as the Rugby and Huntingdon line. In addition to local
advantages, it would have general advantages besides in opening out
better facilities than the others for connecting the east and west.
The superiority of this line, as compared with the other three com-
peting lines, was the direct communication it would afford between
the eastern and western districts, between the eorthern and western
manufacturing districts, and the northern and eastern agricultural
districts. He would prefer, however, not to go into the general public
traffic which it would accommodate, but to confine his evidence to
its local advantages and superiority to the other competing lines.

GROUP XXXIV.
This Committee assembled to-day at twelve o'clock, in Room 14.
There were present, the Hon. W. Cowper (chairman),
Viscount
Duncan, Hon. Montague Gore, Mr. Walpole, and Mr. S. Davies.
GREAT GRIMSBY AND SHEPPIET.a)
(HUMMER AND rE3SLYIXES).
Mr. DEABSLEY said that he had great pleasure on behalf of the
corporation and inhabitants of Hull, in stating that they had
devoted their time during the adjournment of the Corn-
mittee, to the best of their ability, in endeavouring to enter
into arrangements with reference to the Point upon which
alone they and the promoters of the Bill were at issue, namely, the
Humber ferries. Upon general grounds they were agreed, but there
were soma difficulties yet in the way with respect to the details.
Under these circumstances he would suggest that the Committee
should be adjourned till some day after Easter, it being necessary
that the solicitors obtain farther information, which could not be
procured in London.
Mr. Bon said he would spare his friend the trouble of making fur-
ther observations, for since the Committee had adjourned, they had
been in treaty with the Commissioners of Woods and Forests with
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reference to their rights on the Humber, but unfortunately had not
been able to come to any arrangement, the Crown being inflexible
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with respect to those rights.
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HULL AND LZNCOLW.
This Bill not being ready,
The CHAIRWAte Said, we have determined to adjourn till the 23d
o April for the hearing of the Humber Ferries Railway. They would:
then take the other Bills in their Proper order.
The Committee then adjourned
at a quarter after twelve o'clock.

a The Committee met to-day at onnittee'No.
o'clock, in
ISub-C 2.
' (Cloisters) • present, Sir J. Yarde twelveßuller, chairman ; Mr. Bell, Mr.
Bramston, Mr. Kemble, and Mr. Yorke.
HULL ILTZD nakasTSWAlr• Room No. 6
The Committee resumed the consideration of this Bill, and after
the examination of some further allegations, declared the standing
orders not complied with.

Sub-Committee, No, 3.
The Committee met to-day at twelve
(cloisters). Present, Mr. E. Buller, Mr. iitansfield, and Mr. Stuart.
EASTERN COUNTIES nri-XXAVAIr (TOT -.
TENUATVI TO giimEVIZT.)
This line is n branch from the Eastern Counties Line, and the ob-
ject is explained in the title. o'clock, in room No. I.
After the usual formal evidence had been addnee4l,
Mr. M'Dot:c,tr. a-ipeir,L,d u,l lh,ba,l* ,i• A ?..iiiioner, naroA Lorre,
against the B i h ill. .11
'-.l—e .....eaation was that the plans and sections
had not been deposited-with the parish clerk of 'Tottenham; on or
before thellst of December. as required by the standing
On behalf of the promotere orders.

Mr. `'ENABLES, of the firm of Burke, ?AU, and Venables, called
evidence to, prove that the said plans and sections had been depo-
sited on the 31st of December with the vestry-clerk of the parish
Of Tottennam, in consequence of the absence of the parish clerk.
After a few words from Mr. M'Dmgal,
The CHAIRMAN consulted a few minutes with the Hon. Members,
and then stated that it was the opinion of the Committee that the
standing orders had not been complied with in this particular, but
they would report the mitigating circumstances established.

Sub-Committee Ne. 4.

This Committee, as usual, met at Twelve o'cloek, Sir W. Beath
eote in the chair.

The first case called on was that of the
LAUNCESTON AND SMITS-DEVON (NO. IL)
which is a Bill for a line from Launceston, in Cornwall, to Ta-
vistock, in Devonshire, the length of which will be nearly 17 miles,
and the cost 300,0001. Mr. Brunel is the engineer, and Messrs. Burke,
Pritt, and Venables, the Parliamentary agents.
This Bill takes powers to lease the line, when completed, to the
South Devon, or North Devon Railway Company.
In the course of the formal proofs it appeared that the standing,
orders were not complied with in several particulars, and part of the
formal evidence was postponed.
The Committee having heard all the formal evidence the promoters
were prepared to give, adjourned at about half-past one o'clock to
twelve on Monday.