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Ditto, Extension • • .. 2M . • • • • • • • • • • •
Cambridge and Oxford.. .. 1% .. • • % • • • • • • • • • •
Derby and Crewe .. 2% .. • • 616
Direct Manchester (Rastrick's) .. 5M .. • • 3?
Eastern Counties 141. 165..... 23M • • . 23m
Ditto New .. 8/. 165..... 7 p x d
Do. Perpet., 5 per Cent. No. I. 6/. 13s. 4d.
Ditto, ditto, .. :No. 2. 61. 135. 4d.
Ditto, York Extension .. 105..... ...• • • • • • •
Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester .. .... 11"4
Goole, Doncast., and :••heftleld, &c. 425. ..... • • • • • is.
Grand Union (Nottingh. & Lynn) 1
Great North of England . ..100 • • • • • • • • • • ..........
Ditto,. 1% • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 14%
Great Western .. • •
Ditto, Quarter Shares: .. • • 5 • • • • 16
Ditto, Fifths .. 20
Hull and Selby .. .. 50 • •
Lancaster and Carlisle .. .. 40
Leicester and Birmingham .. 225. • . • • • • • • • • % cll5
Leicester and Bedford .. 225. . • % p •
Leicester, Tamworth, &c." 425. dis di,
Liverp., Manch., & Newc. Janet. 2%
London an i Birmingham . —lOO ....2.27 228 . • ...... 228
Ditto Quarters .. 2 .... 28% .• 28%
Ditto Fifths .. 2 25% . • •
London and Blackwell .. 161. 13s. 4d. ........ • • 7%
London and Brighton .. . 50 .. . 65M
London and Croydon • • • .1311 125 9d... . • • 22
London and South• Western • . 411. 6s. 10d... ...• • • • • • • 7934
Ditto, New Consol. Eighths .. 34 . . 52
London and York .. 233
Manchester and Leeds .. 82 .... • .
Ditto, Fifths .. 3 ....
Ditto Extension 425. 234 p

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Ditto, New, Brandling .. 25 • • .. 44 ..... 44
Norfolk .. •• •• .. .. 20 . 25
Ditto, Half Shares .. .. 5 . ...... • • • • 8
North British .. 223¢ .. 29% .......... 29%
Ditto, Half Shares .. .. 836 . 11
Ditto, Carlisle Extension .. 134.... 1 . . . . • . • • . • 1 %
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Ditto, ditto .. .. 5 .... 6 .......... 6
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North Staffordshire .. 425. 374 p... ..... 334 p
Scottish Central .. . .. 10 .... .. • • • • • • 16
Scottish Midland .. .. 10 .... .. • • • . 7
Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 2% ..... . • • 2
Shropshire Union .. 425..... dis .• • 1% dis.
South Midland .. 425. dis
Warwickshire and London .. .. 425. .......... % dis
West Riding Union 425. 236 p p
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RAILWAY COMMITTEE.
(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.
GROUP I.
LONDON .11. ND TORE (TUE EASTERN
COUNTIES). .

The Committee met this day at eleven o'clock, the Earl of
Lovelace in the chair.
Mr. Robert Stephenson, civil engineer, was called and
cross-examined by Mr. Sergeant WRANGLIAM. The witness
said that upon a close calculation the line of the London and
York Railway could be constructed for about eight millions.
The estimate he had made as to the cost of construction, and
which he bad given in evidence at an earlier period of the
inquiry, was made upon a rough calculation. The cost, how-
ever, of making the Eastern Counties line would be about
one-half the amount of the London and York. The gradients
on the London and York were severe compared with the
Eastern Counties scheme.

RAILWAY COMMITTEES

(YESTERDAY.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.
GROUT' I.

LONDON AND YORIC. (THE EASTERN
COUNTIES).
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)
Mr. Stephenson was examined as to the distances. The London
and York, including the loop, was 283 miles. The Eastern Counties
Extension was 227 miles. The expense of constructing the London
and York line, would almost construct the London and Birmingham
and Grand Junction lines, which were heavy lines, and the York and
North Midland lines, which were comparatively light lines. The
cost of railway construction was higher now than it was last year.
As there was a portion of the line easy and cheap of construction,
eight millions would be a fair estimate for constructing the London
and York line, according to Mr. Cubitt's plan.
The original estimate did not include the miscellaneous expenses,
such as law, Parliamentary, and surveying ; these expenses would
exceed 2,0001. per mile. The cost of constructing the Eastern
Counties Extension would be, including all expenses, about
400,0001. The: gradients on the Eastern Counties line were
favourable. The gradients on the Cambridge line were almost a
level. They were as 1 in 1,700, 1 in 1,900, and lin 2,000; with
these exceptions it was a perfect level. The gradients on Mr.
Cubitt's line were as lin 200. Practically speaking, the difference
of distance in the two lines would be but little, considering
the superiority of the engines of the Eastern Counties
line ovr those which could be had by the London and York line. The
gradients on the • Eastern Counties were so favourable that the
engineers would be able to get over more ground, and the ultimate
result would be that the difference in distance would be almost anni-
hilated. The delays and stoppages which took place on many lines of
railway were owing generally to the character of the gradients, and
this would he the case with the London and York line. _

The witness was further examined in chief, at the conclusion of
which, it being 4 o'clock, the Committee adjourned to 11 o'clock to-
morrow, when the cross-examination will commence.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

GROUP 11.
The Committee met this morning at the usual hour; Viscount
Morpeth in tho chair.
CORNWALL RAILWAY.

The witnesses called this day on behalf of the Bill were—Mr.
Trelawney, M.P. ; Mr. Pendarves, M.P. ; Captain Sullivan, Mr. Rodd,
and Mr. Williamson, who gave evidence in favour of the line.
The Committee then adjourned till Monday next.

GROUP X.
GARTCASH BRANCH.
(Continued from onr Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)

Mr. GRAHAM, agent for the promoters, informed the Committee
that there was only one opponent to the measure, whose consent to
the Bill had, however, been obtained, and final arrangements were
proceeding to allow the Bill to pass unopposed.
After some conversation the Committee adjourned to three o'clock,
to give time for preparation of the clauses, according to the arrange-
ment stated.

The Committee resumed Its sitting at three o'clock, with the full
number of Members as usual, when the remaining portion of the Bill
—Caledonian (Glasgow, &c., Branches)—was declared to have been
proved.
The clauses relating to the Gartcash Branch were gone through
seriatim, and agreed to, with the amendments resulting from the
previous arragements.

The Bill as so amended was passed, and the Committee rose,
having gone through all the Bills in the group assigned to it.

GROUT XVII.

ROIIISZT AND XEDBRIDGE 3312,ENCH.
(Continued front our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)

Mr. C. Stovin, the traffic manager of the Great Western, was then
examined. He said when the traffic bills were printed he invariably
examined them. He had a copy of the passenger tables issued about
the Ist of January, 1841. He was not sure whether the line was
opened to Northern or Southampton at that period ; but the distance
between London and Southampton, as stated in the bills of that
period, was seventy-six miles and three-quarters, but the goods-
traffic distance seventy-six miles. Winchtleld was looked upon as
half-way between Southampton and London, and was considered
thirty-eight miles from Southampton. The time bills were published
about every month, and little variation was made in them, except
in May and in the fall of the year. He could undertake to
say that no change took place in the bills between May and
September 1844. By the May bill of that year the dis-
tance was set down as seventy-seven miles and a quarter,
and the distance from Southampton to Winchfleld was thirty-nine
miles, or from Southampton to London seventy-seven miles and a
quarter. By the bills of January and March, 1845, the distance
charged for passengers between Southampton was forty miles, and
for goods thirty-nine. The abatement for carrying twenty tons for
forty miles was thirty per cent., and for thirty-nine 20 per cent.,
making a difference of 10 per cent. They were entitled
to charge for forty miles, 'if the distance was a fraction
over thirty-nine. Nothing, however, was gained by this, as it had
nothing to do with the charges. The line was, however, re-surveyed
last year, and this seeming discrepancy was rectified, and the fares
for both passengers and goods were only charged for the net distance.
Mr. Davis —Then the passengersby the Parliamentary train should
pay Id. more than they do, and the Company gain 10 per cent. by
having charged 40 miles for passengers, and only 39 for goods?
" '• "

The witness said under the old time bill referred to
by Mr. Davis that was actually the case on the face of
it, but the company really derived no advantage from it.
between Winchfield and Southampton. Coals taken from the wharf
at Nine Elms to Southampton were conveyed at 2 4d. a ton, but 3d.
a ton was charged from Southampton.
Examined by Mr. HATHERTON—The distance in 1845 was found
to be 78. The heavy traffic of all kinds did not exceed five tons a
week between Winchfield and Southampton. The charges for con-
veying coals were regulated by the large quantity sent from London,
and the small quantity sent from Southampton. The arrangement
made with the dock proprietors at Southampton was made
for the purpose of improving the trade of Southampton
But an alteration had been made which equalised the expense to 10s.
a ton at both docks and pier ; but the carriage of goods to and from
the pier was 2s. 6d. more than the docks.
John Davis re-examined—The charge of carrying 10 tons from
Southampton to Winchfield was formery 2/. 16s. after deducting the
" rebate" of 30 per cent., but now 31. 14s. 2d. was charged, thus in-
creasing the expense to 18s. 2d.
After a few ebservations from Mr. Davis, the case of the opponents
of the Bill was closed. _ _

MANCHESTER AND SOUTHAMPTON.
The formal proofs in this Bill were then adduced, and the Com-
mittee adjourned till Thursday neat, at twelve o'clock, when dir.
Set Leant Wrangham will open the case of the promoters.

GROUP XVIII.

EXISTER. AND wxsTratrir

B. Denison, Esq., chairman.
J. Jones. Esq., vice-president of the Chamber of Commerce, Guern-
sey, was examined on behalf of the Great Western Company, but
~
his evidence was not of a nature even to benefit the South-Western
Company. The principal parts of his evidence went to show the
convenience of a railway from Weymouth to the northern, western,
and eastern parts of the country. In cross-examination, however, he
admitted that all the railways were at present constructed from
which he could derive any advantage.
Capt. White, commander of a steam-vessel between Southampton
and Jersey, proved the superiority of Weymouth over Portsmouth
as a harbour for the trade of the Channel Islands.
Mr. Devenish was next examined—ln the course of his examina-
tion, however,
The Cumasisst stated that his evidence, in his opinion, went as
much in favour of the Exeter and Yeovil Company as for the Great
Western. _

Mr. Cullen and Mr. Fox were also called on behalf of the South-
Western Company.
At the conclusion of the last witness's examination, the CHAIRMAN
ordered the room to be cleared.
On the parties being re-admitted, the CHAIRMAN aanounced that
the Committee had desired him to intimate to the parties that they
should endeavour to ascertain whether it would not be practicable to
construct the line between Exeter and Yeovil in such a manner that it
might snit both gauges. They wished it at the same time to be dis-
tinctly understood that the opinion of the Committee was not to be
considered as favourable to either one scheme or other.
The Committee then adjourned till Monday week.

The Select Committee oGnßthisOUPgro XXup
Lord Dal meny in the chair. Vmieitr.th is morning in Room 33 ;
LONDON .11. ND YORE (ST. ALB
CS DUN'STABLE, AND LUTON ISISULTICII).
Mr. WELLS, on the part of the promoters, proceeded with the exa-
mination of witnesses.
Mr. DENNIsoN, on the part a the London and Birmingham (St.
Alban's and Luton), before cross-examining the first witness (a
farmer at Harpenden), wished to suggest to the Committee that, in
truth, these were not competing lines. It was a great point raised
on the part of the London and York that this line did not give
any accommodation to tha northern part of Luton, or to
Karpenden. NOW he, Mr .LI OPE, did not ptend that this lino would
accommodate either of these places ; andre, indeed, he did not intend
to cross-examine any of the Luton witnesses in fliture. Ho sub-
mitted that these two Bills ought to proceed independently of each
other.
Mr. Wst-ts having replied, and Mr. Hors having rejoined,
The Committee ordered the room to be cleared. On our return,
The Custards's said the Committee are of opinion that the London
and Birmingham (St. Alban's and Litton), and the:London.and York,
1 (St. Alban's, Luton and Dunstable), are competing lines, and have
resolved that they be treated at such.
Mr. DENNLSON then proceeded with the cross-examination of Mr.
Sibley.
Mr. Howse, of NVheathamstead ; Mr. Lewin, of Harpenden ; Mr.
Rogers, of Dunstable ; and Mr. Richardson, Mr. Harris, and Mr.
Wiugrove, of Luton, the two first being farmers, and the others
straw-plait manufacturers, gave general evidence in favour of the
London and York (Luton Branch).
On Mr. DENNISON rising to cross-examine Mr. Lewin,
Mr. WELLa requested to beallowed to ask a question of his Learned
Friend. He wished to know how it was that his Learned Friend s
soon had forgotten the good resolution he had made in the early°
part of the morning, not to cross-examine any of the Luton -
nesses ? It was hardly fair for his fliend te take this course wit
part
implied promise contained in his assertion that he did after
to cross-examine any ',Eton witnesses. not mean
Mr. DENNISON wished to know whether much time would
be saved
proceeded
by his friend being allowed to cross-examine him ? lie
with the cross-examination of the witnesses.
Several other Witnesses fromSt.Albsufe and Luton were thell called,
and gave general evidence as to 010 straw-plait, coal, and other trades
of those places.