The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-25 00:00:00

GROUP V.

RUCRINGRAIVISRIRE RAILWAYS (TRZNG
TO 8A.11733URY).
The Committee met this day at eleven ; Lord Stanley in the
chair.
The CHAIRMAN at their meeting this morning intimated to the
promoters of the case that he had communicated with Lord "iaftes-
bury, and the Committee were of opinion ti.at the present Bill
was much at tit- mercy of the Great West rn and the
Oxford and Rugby lines. Originally the Bill was for
a railway from Tring to Banbury, and contemplated
no junction with the Oxford and Rugby late; taking, therefore, no
power to form such a junction as was now proposed, a proposal,
therefore, which the Committee could 11,4 by possibility sanction,
he said, if the railway had been described in the Bid as front the
Oxtord and Rugby line to the town of Banbury, it might have been
allowed them to construct the ji.nct ion by inclined sidings, under the
sanction o the section of the general Act referring to accommodati
works ; but it was not ao, it was simply a railway from Tring to
Banbury.
Mr. ACSTIN said he did not put the case forward as an accommo-
dation work, for these words of the general Act referred to the ac-
commodation to be afforded to landowners, and landowners only. Ile
submitted, therefore, first, that in point of fact the proposed line
came into the neighbourhood of the Rugby Railway, so that c .als
could be lifted off that and upon their line, and carried through
Buckinghamsh re; and, secondly, under the words of the general
Act, " shall have power to execute the railway and allworks neces-
sary thereto," that they had power to form the proposed junction,
though no section of the same had been deposited, which he sub-
mitted was not made ne,essary by the Standing Orders of their
Lordships' House.
The CHAIRMAN replied, that if the railway had been from the Ox-
ford and Rugby line to Banbury, the promoters might have had a
case, notwithstanding tile deviation from the Parliamentary levels.
But they deviated from the levels to effect a junction, for which they
did not take power in their Bill.
Mr. Robert Stephenson having been recalled this morning, in re-
ference to a question put to him yesterday, put ill the following
statement of the capital of the lines in connexion with the Louden
and Birmingham Railway, and intended to supply the Warwickshire
district:—
Tring and Banbury
Bletehley and Oxford
Weedon and Worcester -
Rugby and Leamington -
Hampton and Banbury
Hampton and Abchurch
Birmingham Extensions -

- £900,000

- 550.000
- 1,366,000
- 390,000

- 1,400,009
- 300,000

Total
Mr. TALBOT then addressed the Committee against the line, and
was pro,e.ling, when
The CHAIRMAN intimated that It wontl be unnecessary to proceed
filmier, as the Committee were of opinion that the preamble of the
8111 was net proved, and that the line ought not to pass.

HOUSE OF CONIMONS.
GROUP 11.
The Select Committee appointed to consider the merits of the Bills
comprised in this group, re-assembled at the usual hour this morn-
ing; Lord Morpcth in thg,chair.
TAW VALE EXTE nrssoN.
The whole of the morning was occupied with general traffic evi-
dence in favour of the line.

GROUP XVIII.
The Committee met at the usual hour; B. Denison, chairman.
LONDON, BEN LEY, AND DA.TII DIRECT.
Several witnesssa were examined, whose i vhience went to show
the want of railway accommodation in the district through which the
Me proposes to pltss.

GROUP XXXIII.
The Committee on this group met to-day, at half past twelve
o'clock, in Room No. 24 (Grand Corridor). Present, Air Robert
Ferguson, the Marquis of Worcester, Viscount Newry, Mr. Sinoliett,
and Mr. Fellowes
They resumed the hearing of evidence on the Warwickshire and
London lines—

WORCESTER AND WEEDON.
HAMPTON AND BA. BURY.
HA*IP TWAT AND ASHCHURCH.
Mr. CocxßuttN, Q. C., for the Great Western, called witnesses in
favour of the cornpltting line, the
BIRMINGHAM AND OXFORD JUNCTION.
Lord Hatherton, being examined by Mr. COCK/IVAN, stated that
it would be of the greatest advantage to the mineral district, through
which the prGpesed railways would pa-s, to have two competing
lines, and not to be dependent on the London and Birmingham Rail-
way. The town of Birmingham had a population of two hundred
thousand, and was entitle: to have a competing line.
Cross-examined by Mr. LANE Although one of the competing
lines would be seven miles shorter than the other and somewhat
cheaper, that was not a reason for rejecting the competing line. All
the inconveniences to the public were enhanced upon those lints
which had conic Into the hands t f Mr. Hudson.

,;Rout XXXVIII.
The Committee assembled at the usual time this morning; Mr.
Acland, chairman.
HUDDERSFIELD AND MANCHESTER
(BRADFORD BRANCH).
The Committee, after some discussion among the ♦arious counsel,
agreed to take the Iludclersfleld and Bradford Railway next in order.
Ur. Sergeant WRANGILAM accordingly opened, at considerable
length, the case of the promoters of this railway.