The Sun.
London, England, 1845-07-02 00:00:00

(LEFT SITTING.)

G RO P.
SOUTH WALES RAILWAY.
On the re-assembling of the Committee this morning at the
usual hour,
Mr. E. BULLER, the Chairman, announced that yesterday the
Standing Orders' Committee were unable to form a quorum, and,
in consequence, no business was transacted. According to the
rules of the House, Mr. Escott was obliged to give notice for leave
to sit for a quorum of three. He had given that notice, and the
subject would be brought before the House to night ; the Standing
Orders' Committee could not, therefore, sit until to-morrow, and
this Committee would adjourn till Friday, in order to have the re-
port of the Standing Orders' Committee.
Mr. Daniel, on behalf of various landowners on the line, and
the corporation of Gloucester, requested the Committee to adjourn
until beyond Friday, otherwise he would be perfectly unable to
Meet any new case that might in the interim be set up. He begged
an adjournment till Tuesday next.
Sir T. PHILLIPS objected to any adjournment beyond Friday as
unnecessary. To-morrow afternoon, at three o'clock, the decision
on the standing orders would be known.
General Johnson, M.P., refused to entertain the application.
He had at great inconvenience to himself come a distance of a
hundred miles to attend the Committee yesterday, and next week
he wanted to be four hundred miles away. There was no instance
of a Bill in Committee at so advanced a period as July being
passed during the session, and he certainly should not agree to ad.
bourn the Committee till Tuesday next.
The CHAIRMAN observed, if any case should arise requiring
further delay,
there would be sufficient time to consider the ap-
plication, but under the present circumstances the Committee had
distinctly decided that they must adjourn till Friday.
The Committee then adjourned.

GROUP X.
MareaD GE P_ND LINCOLN LINE.
The Committee sat this day at the usual hour, when
Mr. Hitoraan proceeded to apply himself to the traffic evidence,
and to comment upon it.
Mr. Sergeant VVRANGHAM proposed to hand in certain clauses
to be inserted in the London and York Bill, binding that
Company stringently to certain conditions in regard to the
navigation of the Witham, such as undertaking not
to afford any obstruction to that navigation, and to be subject to
a fine of 20/, per diem so long as any obstruction which may be
put up should exist; also, providing that the Witham Navigation
Company shall have a power to reenter in the event of the Lon.
don and York Company not paying up the rent they undertake, or
keeping the towing-paths and embankments, &c., in proper repair.
Mr. HILDYARD said he would comment upon those clauses
when he should arrive at that part of his case.
He then proceeded to call the attention of the Com-
mittee to the evidence given in reference to the position of
Boston. He said, a witness stated that Boston would become a
great port for the Baltio trade, in case a railway communication
should be given it to the interior ; and if that was to be relied on,
he would caution the Committee against granting any line, such as
that of the London and York, which would preclude the possibility
of that railway communication being made with Boston as stated
by the Witness, and which, he contended, would be prevented if
the London and York scheme should be approved of, because that
scheme proposed another mode of communication with Boston,
namely, by water, and a most circuitous route. With those ob-
servations upon that point, he would now roceed with his state.
ment. He had already told the Committee that a Bill for making
a line from Nottingham to Lincoln had become the law of
the land. The Committee would see the importance of that
line in connexion with the Cambridge and Lincoln line. The
Learned Counsel then adverted to the evidence on the coal
traffic, which he recapitulated at some length, and said he could
not conclude that branch of his argument without once more call-
ing the attention of the Committee to the population of the town of
Cambridge, and the importance of that fact, as well as the addi-
tional one of the University being there. He had re-
ceived his education in that University ; but until he
had studied the merits of this line, he could not have
formed any idea of the vast importance of the district of
county about the town of Cambridge in reference to its position
tor traffic by railway communication. And now, having shown
the Committee, as he conceived satisfactorily, that the London and
York Company had taken credit for an income of 293,9001. a year,
as the result of their coal traffic alone, which, in his opinion, was
an amount they never could realise ; and having also shown that
the Cambridge and Lincoln Company had taken credit for only
14,0001 per annum, as the result of their coal traffic on one-fourth
of the distance taken by the London and York Company having, as
he said, adverted to these facts, and disposed of them, he would
leave that branch of the subject, and proceed to comment upon
another,