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contained in existing Acts of Parliament have been
f,und to be practically insufficient to enable the
Manchester and Sheffield and Great Northern
Railway Companies to open up this route to the
public. The committee have inserted a clause in
the bill for the purpose of insuring to the public
this right.

PORTSMOUTH.
Sir E. PERRY reported from the Committee on
Group 2 of Railway Bills that the new works,
power to construct which is sought by the bill, are
o be executed by an existing company out of the
funds which they are at present authorised to raise.
The lengths of the proposed lines of railway are as
follows :—No. 1, 4 Miles- 31i chains, and No.-2;
5 furlongs. The steepest gradient is lin 132. It
is intended that the railway should cross on a
level one turnpike road. The estimated cost of
the railway is 70,0001., and the quantity of land
required 54/ acres. Mr. Locke was the engineer
examined iu support of the bill, and the committee
were satisfied of the fitness, in an engineering
point of view, of the proposed railway. The com-
mittee have required a clause to be inserted for the
laying down of a double line of rails on the Ports-
mouth line between Godalming and Havant, if the
traffic at a future period should amount to a certain
sum specified in the bill.
lILVERSTONE AND LANCASTER.
Mr. PHILIPPS reported from the Committee on
Group 6 of Railway Bill 3 that the principal objects
of the bill are to enable the company, having a sin-
gle line of railway open for public traffic, to raise
further capital, and to sell or lease their under-
taking to the Furness Railway Company. Such
additional capital is sought to be raised for enabling
the company to lay down a second line of rails ou
land already in their possession, and for providing
for the payment of existing debts and liabilities,
and for the general purposes of the undertaking.
WEST-END OF LONDON AND CRYSTAL PALA.CR.
Mr. PHILIPPS reported from the Committee that
the objects of the bill are to give power to the Bat-
tersea-park Commissioners to sell and the West-
end of London and Crystal Palace Railway Com-
pany to purchase certain lands at Battersea and to
confirm agreements thereto : 40 ornad. tha Ann,-
pany to raise furtber capital for the purpose ; to
extend the time for completing the extension rail-
way to Farnborough ; to lease the undertaking of
the company to the London, Brighton, and South.
Coast Railway, and to enable the latter company
to raise money for the purpose ; also to enable the
West-end and Crystal Palace Company to make
traffic arrangements with the South-Eastern, Mid
Kent (Bromley to St. Mary Cray), and East Kent
Railway Companies, or either of them. Clauses
were inserted in the bill saving the rights of the
conservators of the river Thames, and requiring
the company to submit a plan to the said conser,
vators of any works proposed to be made by them
in any part of the said river. The Committee, in
execution of the powers given to them by the reso-
lution of the house of the 11th May inst., have
retained in the bill the power of leasing the under-
taking of the company to the London, Brighton,
and South Coast Railway Company. The Committee
had amended the preamble of the bill by altering
the dates of the agreements therein mentioned and
reciting an additional agreement entered into be-
tween the company and the Battersea-park Com-
missioners, and found the same as amended to be
rue.