The Sun.
London, England, 1846-05-25 00:00:00

GROUP XLIV

The Committee (Lord Palmerston in the chair) met at 12 o'clock,
to go through the Bills of the

Y01:3 AND CA.R.LISLE, A.ND YonnsnrizE
AND GLASGOW UNION (AIVIALGADIA-

TION),

but the Committee were engaged for two hours with a question of coot
pensation to Mr. James Pullen, a landowner on the route. After the room
had been cleared, the Committee decided that the Company should take
the tol,s on Mr. Pullen's property at 641., and thirty years purchase,
and pay Mr. Pullen the taxed costs of his opposition.
Tqc clauses of the Bill for the Amalgamated Company were then
gone through and passed.
The Committee adjourned till twelve o'clock to-morrow,

GROUP LIII.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition.)
The Committee decided that the Bills should be taken according
to the order in which they were read a sewnd time, and accordingly
took, in the first instance, the

SHROPSHIran UNION irtArLwAY AND
CANAL (CHESTER and W0LV.E13.71 IVIPTON.)
Mr. AUSTIN (with whom were Mr. Hope and Mr. Lang) appeared
as counsel, and said that the length was 45 miles, the cost 730,0001.,
and as it was a canal proposed to be converted into a railway, the
Committee would, of course, suppose that the gradients were
not bad. The line had a great deal of local support, and
very little opposition. The principal opposition would be on
the part of the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal Com-
pany. Some opposition would also be offered on the part
of certain iron-masters in the neighbourhood of Wolverhampton;
but the great majority of the iron-masters were in favour of the line.
The traffic did not support the present canal. but he should be able
to show that it would nevertheless pay the proprietors when con-
verted into a railway.

Mr. George Skee, carrying agent to the Canal Company in ques-
tion, was then called and examined by Mr. LANG—This witness
proved that the present traffic on the canal was between 1,600 and
2,000 tons per week, the goods prin-ipally consisting of heavy iron
castings, which were taken northwards. The Grand Junction
Railway had deprived the Company of almost all their other traffic.
If a line were made direct to Birkenhead, the cost and trouble of
transhipnlent of goods passing along the canal to the neighbaurhood
of Liverpool would be obviated.
Cross-examined by Mr. Sergeant KiNotarcE—..l large sum of
money had lately been expended in the improvement of the river
Severn for the purpose of making S;ourport a convenient place for
bringing up merchandise, and that sum of money would be rendered
useless if this line were constructed.
Cross-examined by Mr. JAMES
(who appeared on behalf of the Ha-
berdashe: s' Company)—The tolls on the canal in question were re-
duced in February last a farthing, per mile on iron goods, and a hal:-
penny on others. The arrangement for the cnaversion of the
canal into a railway was made some time last year.
The next witness not being in attendance, the Committee ad-
journed until twelve o'clock to-morrow.

GROUP LIV.
MIDLAND, 337JIZTON-ON-TIVENT TO NUN-
EAToIsif AND BRANCH.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition.)
The examination of the engineer having been corroborated the
case for the promoters was concluded.
withdrawn, an arrangement having been come
to between the parties.
The opposition on behalf of the landowners on the line and the
Canal Company was i
have been proved, and various
artorangement of tens were cl.T.l;e preamble
spfroercobnilep
intro-
duced into the Bill.
The Committee then adjourned.
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