The Sun.
London, England, 1846-05-27 00:00:00

LONDON AND XIIRSIISTONAMS STATION

IIYLPROVEDZMNTS 1 and

CROYDON (TRILBIES TUNCTION ,CANAL;

EXTENSION.

The clauses in these Bills were agreed to, and the Bills theinselyes
formally p•used.
LONDON AND BLACZWALL.

The next case gone into was that of the London and Blackwall
Railway Company, who, according to Mr. Hill, their counsel, wished
to widea their line from Stepney to the station near Fenchurch-
street, a distance of about a mile. The main line, it would seem,
had cost 1,100,000/. ; but the returns had disappointed the promoters,
although the public had reaped considerable advantage from it. It
was calculated originally that two millions and a half of passengers
would pass over the line at much higher fares than were at present
charged ; but the results had gone beyond that point, so far as the
number of passengers was concerned, but not with respect to
fares. The number of passengers which passed over the line
last year was 30,182,000, and it was clear from this fact,
although the undertaking had not proved so profitable to the pro-
moters as it was at first anticipated, it had been of incalculable be-
nefit and advantage to the public. Last year Parliament granted an
extension from Stepney to Bow, where it formed a junction on the
one hand with the Northern and Eastern Railway, and on the other
with the Eastern Counties, the first line running to Norwich and
Yarmouth, and the second to Colchester and Ipswieh ; and the pre-
sent Bill was for giving powers to widen the Blackwall Railway
from Stepney to Fenchurch•street, with the view of accommodating,
and bringing the traffic of those two giest railways up into the very
heart of the City of London.
The Bill was opposed by the Corporation of London, the East and
West India Docks Company, and the proprietors of different build-
ings on the route.
Mr. Tite, the architect, was the first witness called, who gave very
positive evidence in favour of the Bill. He said the traffic on the
and lie had no doubt most of them would make
use of the proposed extension in the event of its being conceded by
the Legislature. The traffic would also be considerably increased by
million
nern of
passengers,a and Eastern, and Eastern Counties lines, amounted to a
a proposed extension to Epping, which the Eastern Counties Company
were promoting in the present session. The value of the land and
buildings to be taken by the proposed extension he estimated at
179,000/.
The witness was cross-examined by the various counsel
who appeared against the Bill, with the view of showing that the
necessity for the line was not sufficient to justify the destruction of
Property it would occasion.
Mr. Joseph Locl• the engineer of the Blackwall Company. stated,
that it was intended to unite the Bow Extension and the Extension
now before the Committee with locomotive engines. The proposed
extension was to enable the .Blackwall traffic, which was worked by
stationary power, to remain uninterrupted, as it was at present. The
length of it would be about a mile and a half, and he estimated its
cost at 229,396/. The gradients and engineering features of the line
were exceedingly favourable.
The Committeettdjoumed at four till twelve o'clock on Thursday.

STANDING ORDERS' COMMITTEES.
HOUSE OF LORDS.
This Committee met to-day at two o'cloct, when the standing
orders in the cases of the following railway projects were declared to
have been complied with :
EAST LINCOLNSHIRE RAILWAY.
Agents, Messrs. Dyson and Co.
MALTON AND DRIFFIELD JUNCTION RAILWAY.
Agents, Messrs. Wilifams,m and Co.
NORTH BRITISH RAILWAY.
Agents, Messrs. Burke, Plitt, and Co.
NORTH BRITISH RAILWAY (HAWICK BRANCHES).
Agents, Messrs. Burke, Pritt and Co.
EXETER AND EX %:OUTII RAILWAY.
Agents, Messrs. Herrington and Co.
The Committee then adjourned.

THE NEW PALACE OF WESTMINSTER.
The second report has just been issued by the Lords' Select
Committee to inquire into the progress of the building of the
Houses of Parliament, and to report to the House, and to
whom leave was given to report from time to time to the
House. This report is to the following effect
"That the Committee have again met, and having exa-
mined Mr. Goldsworthy Gurney as to the best system of
ventilation for the new Houses of Parliament, are of opinion,
that further inquiries and experiments should be made,
under the direction of her Majesty's Commissioners of
Woods and Forests, before the final adoption of any plan
hitherto proposed for that purpose.
" And the Committee have directed the evidence of the
said Mr. Goldsworthy Gurney, taken before them, to be laid
before your Lordships." ( This evidence is decidedly against
the practicability of Dr. Reid's plans.)

THE SOLICITOR-GENERAL GE JERSEY.—We have
much pleasure in being able to announce, on indisputable
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authority, that Mr. Dupre, the Solicitor-General
whonofu enrdswoeyans:
has quite recovered his hearing. Mr. Dupre has of late been
under the treatment of Dr. Cronin, of Leicester-place,
Leicester-square, so eminent for his cures in cases of deaf-
ness, by the use of Arnica Montana, of which we ourselves
can bear ample testimony. United Service GazetL
BRIGHTON. MAY 25.—M. de Grimm, with dispatches
for Baron Brunnow ; Mr. Welch, with dispatches for the Portuguese
Ambassador ; Count de la Rochefoucauld, the Countess St. Isidro,
Count Barrack, Captain Tyrwhitt, and Count de Giulia°, arrived
this morning by the steamer !tons Dieppe.
A NOVEL AGRICULTURAL BARGAIN.—A curious sale
of agricultural stock was effected last week in this county, not by
the customary mode of the auction :er's hamgier, but by pounds
weight. Mr. William Byford, cattle-dealer, of Shalford, contracted
with Mr. T. Wade, of Orange Hall, Gosfleld, to buy his entire live
and dead stock—not only his beast, and sheep, and pigs, and other
eatable animals, but waggons, carts, rollers, in fact everything from
his line cart horses to his grindstone, at 3d. per lb. The stock In-
cludes IS or 20 horses, cows, waggons, ploughs, harrows, harness,
indeed everything for carrying on the business of two farms, and It
is calculated that the purchase-money wnoilwlasemtount to 3,0001. or
4,oool.—Euex Standard.
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consented to break his long silence. The celebrated Maestro has
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weatherm, which beams from the sky at this
THE NELSON CoLuruN. The public will be gratified
• y be entertained of the speedy disappear-
ance
the base of the Nelson barricade
and
deformed Trafalgar-square.
of the unsightly timber which has so long surrounded
employed in dressing the and making preparations for the
During the last week a considerablee°lumg number of workmen have been
bricks
foundations of the pedestals of the recumbent lions which are to orna-
ment the angles of the basement, and for the reception of the flig,hts
otgrai4te.WPS Which ITLII coraplott the 911061 Plan!
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