The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-27 00:00:00

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tors of paper,mills, ef, which there were a (.:onsiclerable num-
Ily, the line-,
beivbought their own coals, and not from the oial-thercharits
in the town.- If the Coals they tied w( r, a chehpened,
manufactures would receive a gr,r.,:at inrpetus.
or lather an extension of it towar:., the; north, sad to A,yleS-
bury', a conimunication With the irpo):tant coal districts. athe
the north Would be opened iip.,. He 1... ad made i 'cukitlation
price of Cu.(al if they had the railwaY) and found
thatl hehtecoals which he was neiv selling at 35s= might be
wad for 275. or 28.4• per ton, Tbe reduction in price woul,l
greatly increase the cQukiwiptiorl, A cheap colpm*A,tioo
I with. the nolb of Vagillid ibr Ploiirst of Wilicil" Feat alum-
-- manufacuist4 in High Wypc•nibt,, and in the eur-
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rounding districts.
chairs manufactured there were sent.
to which they had no available water communication. if
they had the railway, they could send. chairs to Lon-
don at threepence less earl! than their transmission now
cost. They had to card chairs intended fur London to 'firing?
19 miles from High Wycombe. The proposed branch of the
Great Western to the -town would not be of great advantage.
[No point of any consequence was elicited in this witness's
cross-examination by Mr. Wells.]
Mr. W. Chareley, a farmer at Woburn, e4amined by Mr.
WAnntor—He grew, on the average, annually 120 quarters
of wheat, 200 quarters of barley, and WO quarter of °Rig,
which he generally sent by waggon, at ponsiderqble expense,
the Uxbridge market. By'the proposed railway he should
b enaltio....sd to send his corn to other markets, and to attend
them iti.roself-2-Caford and London, for instance—and to
compete more efl:ectually_ with the great gro,i ers of corn.
The branch of the Great Vip§Egrn? not I..tintAlirect, iyonlct not
be of much advani.op.
By the CtraiamAx—Had formed ;m estimate of the ex-
pense of conveying goods by the Oxford and Lon4pq or by
the brocti of the Great Western, and along its course to
London, He poul4 fend flour to London by the proposed
line, Breyer uses the Bath 64
Mr. R. Cuwiug, of the tirip of Claming., btonehat-q, and
Co., drapers. gruyere, ac., Wycombe, received 7QO tons of
goods annually, the carriage cf which post about 800/.
a year. They received grocery mostly from London, and a
great portion of the dr;:pery from Manchester, but they ge- •
Derally bought them hi the London market. If there was
direct communication with Ifaneheater they shOuld buy
the gigaier part of their goods there. Aro doubt, in that
case, he should go to ill,arcthester himself to purchase gqods,
!yet would save the exp4use of gprtey, tfke. The railway
wouici of great advantage to th-tm in their bttsiness, as
the carriage of their goods would be consequently reduced;
but he was of opinion :
hat the proposed branch of the Great
of the town instead of
Western would injure. the trz•;,.l.
benefiting it, because the five coaches whjoii 4,7 f ran through
the town would be reduced in number; not more than two
trains would run each day, and the fregneosy of communica-
tion with London and Oxford consequently deoreasedi
After the examination of several other witnesses, the Com-
mittee adjourned till to-morrow,