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The Committee then adjourned till eleven to-morrow.

ROOM C.
The Chairman (the Earl of Radnor) and the other mem-
bers of the Committee assembled in this room to-day.
MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND MID-
LANDS JUNCTION.
The evidence in support of this Bill was resumed.
Mr. Henry Rangeley was examined, and stated that he
was an extensive coaLowner, and observed that coal could
be sent to Sheffield at a very low rate.
Mr. JA3IES, who appeared for the landowners' opposition,
here took an objection to the Bill in Coto, on the ground that
when considered in the Committee of the House of Comm6ns,
it had a Bakee,Tll branch, and that it was on the express un-
derstanding of the convenience to be afforded by that branch
that the Commons' Committee had passed the project.
At this point the room was cleared, after a reply from Mr.
Talbot, and on the re-admission of parties,
The CHAIRMAN declared that the objection ceuld not be
entertained.
Mr. Butcher, blaster of the Cutlers' Company at Sheffield,
and his brother, the present Mayor, testified to the general
advantages of the railway.
Mr. all, a dealer in cattle at Chesterfield, stated that his
purchases and sales of sheep amounted to between 300 and
400 sheep a week, bat his dealings in beasts were small. The
cost of conveyance to Manchester was 15s. a ton, the distance
being 42 miles.
Mr. Burkitt, a brown pottery manufacturer and a maltser
at Chesterfield, stated that the quantity of goods sent to
Manchester from his neighbourhood was 2,420 tons of
earthenware, besides malt. His own produce was about 720
tons. If this railway were made, the cost would not be more
than ss.
Mr. Hervey, a magistrate of Holmtirth, near Leeds, stated
that the populationi of the township was about 16,412, and of
the district 26,344; The witness stated the quantity of
wool brought to the township, and that as many as 80,000
pieces of cloth were manufactured within the precincts. The
district around Holnifirth is chiefly peat, and would be much
benefited by the introduction of lime.
To Mr. C/ILVEZT'S cross-examination, the witness replied
that the limestone chiefly used was the Crick and the Bake-
' well lime, which would come by the proposed line. The
manufactured pieces were in the first place sent in the rough
state to Huddersfield, where they were dressed and made
ready for " daylight." At present they obtained their soap
and oil from Liverpool and London, and one of the great
objects of the people of Holinfirth was to get as short a com-
munication with London as possible.

To Mr. HOPE the witness replied that the inhabitants in
his district were anxious to obtain the mountain limestone,
in preference to all other kinds.
Mr. TALBOT on re-examination, ascertained that the chief
object was to get the nearest route to London, and that the
line front Chesterfield to Sheffield was much desired by them.
Mr. Tomlinson, wood steward to the Duke of Rutland on
his Derbyshire estates, stated that he had heard of the aban-
donment of the Bakewell branch some time since. The pro-
perty lies chiefly in and near Bakers ell, within the neigh-
bourhood of the line. The quantity of timber annually sent
to Sheffield was about 12,00 feet, exclusive of underwood,
for which this railway would afford great facilities.
On cross-examination, the witness stated that the quantity
he bad named was wood from the Barlow property, and did
not at all include the Bakewell estate.
ghtitottfuSauntdton, and also Mr. Mills, agent of Mr. Arkwri
emery well.
Devonshire,
occa-
sionally engaged by the Dukes of
stated that he knew Brierly Wood 3'
is the pro-
perty of the last-named nobleman, and that there
annual fall of copse wood and timber to the extent Owfa; au
fifteen to twenty acres. The formation of the Sheffield from
Chesterfield line would materially improve the value of his
Grace's property, and would give great facilities
to the trade of Sheffield. The road at present
is hilly and heavy, and he believed that although there
was a probability of advantage by the Sheffield and Lincoln-
shire line, and there were already advantages existing by
the Rotherham and Sheffield Railway, yet that, in his mind,
in no way obviated the necessity for the formation of this

To Mr. CALVERT'S Close-examination the witness replied
that he did not conceive a tramway to be of any use what-
ever, and he thought that the formation of needless railways,
or, at least, of those not imperatively required, would be a
waste of public property.
To Mr. L'Acs:r, We witness' replied that the Bierly woods
are directly south of Hunstone, and was aware that there was
a group of railways already in existence, but they would not
serve the purpose of transporting this timber.
To Mr. Tar-mYr's re-examination—The witness replied that
be considered the formation of this line of the utmost import-
ance in every point of view.
The Committee hetivAicturned till taliwzrow.