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Public deposits (in-
cluding Exche-
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banks, Commis-
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dend accounts) 2,933,908
Other dep05it5......10,745,613
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X 32,639,704

Dated the 31st day of July,

IRAILWAY COMMITITE.

(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.
STANDING ORDERS COMMITTEE.
The Eastern Counties (Cambridge and Huntingdon) Railway
Bill passed through Committee.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
GROUP X.

sztzrrxram AND LINCOLNSHIRE LINE.
The Committee on this project, comprising Viscount Courtenay,
Mr. Wall, Mr. Scrope, and Mr. Darby, commenced business
this morning by the resumpton of Mr. Fowler's evidence re-pect-
ing the engineering character of the line.
Mr. Gooch, C.E., under examination by Mr. Webster, corro-
borated the accuracy of Mr. Fowler's estimates, and attested the
superiority of this line •ver that of the London and York by Bawtry.
Mr. Bendel, C.E., examined by Mr. HOPE—Has, in company
with Mr. Fowler, gone over the country between the termini of
this line, and considers it the best that could have been selected.
The junction with the Grimsby line is most favourably effected, anti
forms a most important ingredient in the accommodation afforded
the districts, more especially to Gsinsborough, and collaterally to
Hull, by forming au indirect communication with' Sunderland,
and thus enabling the coal to be brought down speedily and econo-
mically to the districts intersected by this line, while it offers
iataral accommodation wholly excluded by the Bawtry branch of
the London AIM York.

Mr. Fowler, a land valuer of thirty years' experience in Shef-
field, deposed to having surveyed the line of this railway, for the
purpose of computing the cost of the land, &c., on all the line ex.
cept between Lincoln and Gainsbornugh, and gave in the following
estimate :

Purchase of laud
Damage to propel ty
Land scheduled not requited 563 5 0
Buildings not required
Contingencies
Besides other items.

Mr. Jetfcock, a land valuer, who had been engaged to make an
estimate of the cost as between Lincoin and Gainsborough, stated
that the sum he named for that construction was 82,2881. 7s.
making, in all, a gross cost of 100,7781. 9s. Id.
This having closed the c..se of the promoters of the line,

Mr. Tausoz, Q.C., then addressed the Committee on behalf of
certain parties who considered themselves aggrieved by the course
of the projected Sheffield and Lincolnshire line. As representative
of Mr. Hutchinson, in the first place, he complained of the rail-
way passing within 240 yards of that gentleman's house, and so
encircling it, that from whatever window the family:looked out, the
embankment, and nothing but the embankment, of the line is
visible. Some witnesses had insinuated that Mr. Hutchinson's posi.
Lion was analogous to that of a retired tradesman, inasmuch as he
chose to domicile in a cottage. From the poets, and other equally
infallible evidence, it was known that in " cottages was subs:an-
tial happiness to be found." Whether Mr. Hutchinson had been
fortunate enough to find that substantial happiness, he did not
know ; but sure he was he enjoyed both comfort and luxury there.
And it was generally believed that the principles of the British Con-
stitution, so much vaunted for their indiscriminating justice, were
essentially those of equal protection to the man whose birth was cha-
racterised by the discovery of a silver spoon within his month, ..sad
the less fortunate, though not Jesshonoured man, who had earned
equal wealth by greater toil Such protection was now sought at the
hands of the Committee, and he felt assured that the suppliants
would not appeal in vain. With respect to Mr. Foijambe, even a
greater grievance was incurred. The line would intersect his pro.
perty for a distance of no less than four miles, and de-
stroy portions of different estates, whose
.beauty and va'ne
could not be exaggerated. But, forsooth, it was said that
Mr. Foijambe's opposition was on account of his pursuit' as a fox.
hunter being threatened with diminution by the construction of this
line ; and Mr. Vernon and Lord Lincoln had not thought it unbe-
coming their high position to impute such interested motives to
their neighbour. Were it not for the respect he felt for the pri-
vileges of those gentleman he should, and with much more justice,
suggest that Mr. Vernon's consideration for the shares he held in the
Sheffield line, and Lord Lincoln's interest in having his father's tim-
ber, conveyed to market upon the rail, induced them to give the evi-
dence they did. But the fact was that physical infirmity had long
since prevented Mr. Foljambe from enjoying his favourite sport,
and it was purely from the dread of residential injury that he peti-
tioned against the line. And as to the necessity for thus encroach-

ing :on —the rights of property, what were the districts the
promoters wished to accommodate ? The town of Work-
sop was the only one to be touched in intersection, a
town comprising but 6,000 inhabitants, and without traffic enough
or through communication to support its publicans. Such being
the unimportance and even inutility of the line, he called upon
the Committee to regard the just complaints of parties who felt
themselves aggrieved, and reject a scheme unprofitable alike to the
country and the promoters.
The Committee then, at half-past three, adjourned till twelve
tomorrow.