The Sun.
London, England, 1846-07-01 00:00:00

YORKSHIRE AND LINCOLNSHIRE COM.

MUNICATION.

The Committee on the Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction,
and the Manchester, Midlands, and Great Grimsby Commu-
nication, re-assembled this morning, at eleven o'clock, when
The evidence of Mr. Vignoles, the engineer of the line,
was taken, but it varied little from that of the other line, and
showed that it was only seven-eighths of a mile longer than
its opponent. He went through a long examination and cross-
examination, the end of which was to show that the gradients
on the line were unusually favourable for the country through
which it passed, and that the viaducts were not only less
numerous, but also hardly half the height of those
which were formed on the neighbouring lines.
He spoke also to the facility of the management
of the Company, and stated that there had been such
arrangements made as would entirely prevent anything like
impediment to the transit of merchandise from London and
the west through the whole of this line of communication,
while on the other side there were no less than six different
Companies to be combined for the accomplishment of one
object.
The long cross-examination which this gentleman went
through seemed in no way to affect his evidence.
Mr. Hawkshaw, who appeared in the place of Mr. Braith-
waite, who is engaged to construct the line, but who is con-
fined by illness, confirmed the principal points adduced by
Mr. Vignoles.
Mr. BADIFS, Q.C., then addressed their Lordships at con-
siderable length, recapitulating the chief facts which had
been adduced by the witnesses, dwelling particularly on the
assent of the noblemen and men of large property, who were
assentients to the line of the Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junc-
tion Company.
At the close of his address the room was cleared, and on
the re-admission of parties,
The CHAIRMAN stated that the Committee had decided in
favour of the Sheffield and Lincolnshire line, and against its
l downers.
but full justice was to be done to the opposing

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
GROUP XVII.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition.)

BIAZITCHESTED. AND SOI

!ON.

Mr. Sergeant WRANGIIAM applied to the Committee to sit
on Saturday, on which day both himself and Mr. Hill would
commence and finish their address.

The CIIAIRMAIq said the members of the Committee had
made arrangements which precluded their sitting on that
day.
Sir WALTER JAMES regretted that the promoters had not
called the attention of the Committee to the difficulty in
which they would be placed if the Committee did not come
to an earlier decision.

Mr. ALEXANDER said they fully expected that the Com-
mittee would have been enabled to give their decision on Sa-
turday.
It was then arranged that the promoters should call evi-
dence to-day in support of the case, and in opposition to the
case of their opponent& An objection was taken by Mr.
Hill against any evidence being adduced with respect to
Lacy's line ; but the Committee considered that the evidence
ought not to be limited.
Mr. Bidder was then called and examined by Mr. ALEX-
samER, with respect to the line called Lacy's line, which
was not proceeded with, and which was proposed to start
from Salisbury, and to traverse after Marlborough as nearly
as possible the route of the Manchester and Southampton.
He had estimated the
-'cost of Lacy's line from Salisbury to
Marlborough, a distance of 27 miles, including three miles
and a half to be used at Salisbury by the Salisbury and
Basingstoke line, if it received the sanction of Parliament,
and exclusive of land and stations, at 494,0001.,
as compared with 323,0001., at which Mr. Locke estimated
the coat of its construction. He (Mr. Bidder) had made his
estimate at the same rate as the Manchester and Southamp-
ton. His estimate for a similar distance traversed by the
Manchester and Southampton, and taking in the important
town of Andover, was only 494,000/. For the 494,0001.
the line might be made from Marlborough to Romsey, a
distance of thirty-seven miles and a half, besides saving four
miles in distance. The gradients on Lacy's line were lin
80, and those on the Manchester and Southampton 1 in 100,
and had better curves and less tunnelling. Went over the
line, and rejected it on account of the better route he selected
by Andover, and on account of the opposition of landowners.
Bathers line was equally open to objection, as it was longer
between these parts, and more expensive on account of the
extreme heaviness of the earthworks, and the great length of
tunnelling, there being as much as on the London and Bir-
mingham.
The Committee adjourned until Monday.