The Sun.
London, England, 1846-05-08 00:00:00

GROUP XIX.

niuDGEwATEn AND TAUNTON CANAL
RAILWAY AND HARBOUR.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition.)
Mr. WELLS then addressed the Committee in reply, and held that
Loth the harbour and railway were required by the Increased wants
of the district, that the evidence o f Mr. Hall, the engineer, and the
corroborating evidence of Mr. Cu,..itt, that both could be easily cor-
roborated and within the estimates, had not been attempted to be
disproved, and that the oppposition of the Bristol and Extter Rail.
way, after the great injury they had done to their canal, was both
unfair and uncalled for. Besides, the owners of the canal simply
sought to convert their property into a railway, and considered
they were entitled to some consideration at their hands, inasmuch
as the competition which would take place in the event of their
acceding to the Bill, would not be of an unwholesome, but a partial
competition from Bildgwater to Taunton, for the benefit of the publie,
and
the Bill concluded by calling on the Committee to puss the preamble of
The room was then cleared, and on the admission of the parties,
The CHAIRMAN intimated that the Committee were of opinion that
the preambles of the Crenkerne branch, and the Bridgwater and
Taunton Railway, had not been proved, but they were of opinion that
the preambles of the Chard Canal Railway had been proved.
The Committee then proceeded with the clauses of the successful
Bill, which were agreed to, and they adjourned,

GROUP 2a.
WINDSOR, SLOUGH, AND STAINES,

ATMOSPECEILIC.
This Committee re-assembled to-day at the usual bout ; Dlr.
Utheron to the chair.

The engineering evidence was resumed this morning.
Yr. George Treacher, surveyor to the commissioners of the Thames
Navigation Company, was the first witness examined. In his opi-
nion the viaduct proposed to be thrown across the Thames, at
Romney Island, would not cause any annoyance ,o Eton College.
It might be made an ornament, and would make the view more
picturesque.

3lr. It. Gleudinning, a landscape gardener, was next examined.
He considered that if the view from the colleges were obstructed,
all objection on that score might be removed by judicious planting.
The privaey of the colleges would not be invaded by the proposed line.
Evidence to the same effect was given by other witnesses, and the
Committee adjourned till twelve o'clock on ➢fonday.

GROUP XXVII.
This Committee met this morning at the usual hour, Sir C. Lemon
in the chair.

SOUTH MIDLAND.

The traffic evidence was resumed this morning.
Mr. T. Wilkins, a magistrate and chairman of the Thrapstone
Board of Guardians, corroborated the testimony already given as to
the geneskl and bed advantages of the project.
Mr. Hudson, M.P., chairman of the Midland and Eastern Counties
Railway, was next examined—He was, to a certain extent, the
promoter of the proposed line. The one-third of the capital was
subscribed by the Eastern Counties Company. The original project
of the Northampton Railway afterwards expanded into the present
scheme, with the view of affording a transit for the traffic of the
eastern part of the kingdom, independent of the London and Bir-
mingham• Railway. Believed it necessary for the midland railways
to have an independent route, and a distinct outlet for their traffic in
the metropolis, on the eastern side.
Cross-examined by Mr. FLooD, on behalf of a landowner—Was op •
posed to the London and York Railway, which he considered, from
the traffic between London and York, would never pay. The traffic
between Leicester and Northampton would not pay an independent
company.
This witnes was also cross-examined by Mr. PAGETT, for the
Leicester and Bedford opposing line.
Mr. R. Stephenson, the engineer of the line, was then examined on
the engineering points. Ha was of opinion that the proposed scheme
would be the most eligible one of all those projected for the accommo-
dation of the traffic of the district, and the general advantage.
Adjourned till twelve o'clock on Monday.