The Sun.
London, England, 1845-06-09 00:00:00

King's Docks. The cost would be 30,0001. There was no oppo.
sition but that of a private individual, a Mr. Lloyd. He now rams
to the North, or Victoria, which began at Edge.hill, and comedown
close to the North Docks. The tunnel would proceed until it
reached the Leeds and Liverpool canal, and from thence to the
station would be open ground. There would be a communication
between the Victoria tunnel and the Wapping station, and the
communication would embrace the whole line of quays, and run for
a length of two miles and a half, forming one of the most important
and largestschemes which the mind of man could suggest. The
cost of this tunnel and the station would be 286,0001., a large sum;
but it should be recollected that the capital of the Company which
proposed it was 250,000/., and that it had never yet failed
in any plan it had undertaken. A station would be
made at the end of the tunnel which would be on a com-
mensurate scale ; thence they proposed to take five acres of land,
and to this there would be no opposition. The improvements at
Liverpool had received the sanction of the Board of Trade, and
every other plan he advocated had received the sanction of that
Board, with the exception of the St. Helen's and Burford line.
The Liverpool and Ranisforth, with the other improvements at
Liverpool, would cost 10,0001., chiefly at the Edgehill station. The
Learned Counsel then went on to disprove that statement in the
report of the Board of Trade, which set forth that the St. Helen's
and Ruff'ord line only skirted a coal-field and that the branch was
not necessary, and concluded by saying that he would not doubt but
the Committee having heard the evidence he would tender would de.
cide upon adopting the lines of communication he proposed between
those great northern districts and Liverpool, which had now be-
come the emporium of the trading world.
Mr. Hatherton appeared as counsel on behalf of Sir G. Hesketh
and other landed proprietors.

Mr. E. Liddell, engineer and surveyor, confirmed in every
respect the statement made by Mr. Lowndes as to the expense of
forming the different branches, and added that the steepest gra-
dient on the St. Helen's and Rufford Railway was 1 in 114, and
the least radius of a curve 25 chains, and these only for
short distances. The steepest gradient on the Rainsforth and
Liverpool line was 1 in 165, and the smallest radius of a curve
19i chains. The total cost of constructing both lines would be
350,0001., or thereabouts.

This witness was cross-examined at considerable length by Mr.
WILKINS and by Mr. CALVERT, as to the expenses of constructing
the various branches And the works in Liverpool. There was no
coach on the line between Liverpool and Rainsforth.
In his cross-examination by Mr. HATEERTON, the witness ad-
mitted that the line would pass within a short distance of the man-
sion of Mr. Leland, three furlongs.
Mr. Thomas Lee examined the land along the St. Helen's and
Rufford line. Calculated the value of the land, buildings, and
severance at about 22,000/. The land, buildings, and severance
between Liverpool and Rainsforth was 57,2241.
Mr. Sinclair, treasurer to the St. Helen's and Rufford Railway,
thought the formation of that railway would be a great accommo-
dation.

Mr. Edward Woods, resident engineer of the Liverpool and
Manchester Railway, gave evidence as to the traffic, &c.
Some formal evidence was then put in, and the Committee ad-
journed at four o'clock to Monday next.