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clauses,

For the purpose of allowing time for the completion of these
arrangements, the Committee adjourned until to-morrow.
We believe it is the intention of the promoters not to carry the
line beyond Old Ford, where it will form a junction with the Eastern
Counties line.

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IMPORTANT DECISION.
TOME LINES.
The Committee met at halt past twelve, and retires! to consider
the point which was raised yesterday respecting the evidence to
be adduced by Mr. Cockburn
After a considerable time, Lord COURTENAY said that the Com-
mittee had instructed hint to state that they had come to a resolu-
tion that the Dii ect Northern Company were at liberty to offer such
rebutting evidence as would show any errors in the Landon
and York sections, which might, under the standing orders,
prevent it from being constructed. Secondly, that all
those parties who desired to invalidate the sections must
give notice to-morrow morning of the points which they intended
to contest, and that no evidence would be received of which notice
' was not given to-morrow morning; and thirdly, that the Com-
mittee would proceed to take evidence against the sections imme-
diately after the conclusion of the case of the Farringdou•street
station.
Mr. AUSTIN said that he had only one object with Mr. Cock-
burn, and that though the parties were not otherwise conjoined,
yet they had a common object to defeat the London and York line,
and he should, therefore, only offer evidence supplementary to that

produced by Mr. Cocliburn.
The Committee then proceeded to the evidenee of land value;
but, from the position of the witnesses and the peculiarity of the
room, it was utterly impossible to hear the early portion of the
statements.
The first witnesses spoke to the value of the land on the line. The
result was that Messrs. Padley and Moore who had valued the
land from the one hundred and twenty.second mile-store to the
River Trent, stated that the total worth of the twelve miles seven
furlongs, which they had surveyed, was 17,9491.
Mr. ATKINSON valued the land from the River Trent to the
Don, a distance of 18 miles 1 furlong and 1 chain, and he found
the whole of the work to be 28,3421.
Mr. John Oliver took it from the River Don, to and including
Brayton, and his estimate was 24,2451. Distance, 11 miles 7 fur-
long. 8 chains.
Mr. George Alderson valued it from Brayton to York, and his
total was 24,1361. for 12 miles 4 furlongs 3 chains. The aggregate
amount was 94,6721. Total distance, 55 miles 4 furlongs and 2

chains.
Mr. Padley produced a model showing the level of the River
Witham, and the fall of the Delft drain into it, the object being to
show how the line would pass over the country when the water
was out, the criterion being the flood which °centred in 1828.
Mr. Sergeant WRANGIIAM objeLted to the model on the ground
that part of it was constructed on the horizontal principle and
other parts on the vertical principle.
On Mr. WEBSTER'S re-examination, Mr. Padley stated that this
was conceived to be the best plan to construct a model, as it showed
both the surface and the slope of the banks of the river and the
drain.
Mr. Mance' was recalled to speak to the traffic.tables, and
stated that he had taken one quarter of the traffic between Lincoln
and Torquay as due to the railway between Lincoln and Gains-
borough. He had taken one.third of the traffic between Gains-
borough and Thorne, and one-third between Thorne and Snaith.
The Goole traffic by canal he had omitted altogether. He had
taken one-sixth of the Crowle traffic for the railway. In the
Selby district he had divided the traffic, and the total
amount was 67,204/. He had tested these calculations by those
of the London and York line, and taking all the calculations to-
gether he found the whole of the expense of the line from Lincoln
to York to be 078,312/., and the net returns would be 67,2041.,
including coal with the other goods.
The cross-examination of Mr. Sergeant Wrangham occupied a
considerable time, and he succeeded in very much shaking the
evidence of Mr. Mancell.
Mr. Webster's re.examination, however, tended to restore the
confidence which should be placed on this evidence, although no
new facts were elicited.
The Committee then adjourned till to-morrow.

A HINT TO SIR ROBERT INGLIS.—Lord Brougham,
last evening, at Laeter-11011, wilds addressing the assembly
after Mr. t.,inipson's speech, Winded to the notorious phrase,
" go,ilegs system of tducation" applied to the Irish Colleges
BEI, and remarked that it ought to be called, not a " godless,"
but a " pricstless system of education."
IMPROVEMENT OF TUE WORKING CLASSES.—
Last evening Mr. J. Simpson, of Edinburgh, delivered the first of
two addresses to the working-classes, on the means of improving
their character and condition. Lord Brougham occupied the chair,
surrounded by several other Noblemen and gentlemen. Exeter•
hall was not quite tilled, but there were about 2,000 persons pre-
sent. On Mr. Simpson's coming forward he was received with
on
loud cheers. In the ,curse of his address he dwelt very
largely
the report of the Health of Towns Commission, anti on the ne-
cessity there was for the immediate Improvement of the dwellings
of the labouring classes. Me alluded to the improvements taking
place in those dwellings in Edinburgh, and exhorted the labouring
classes of London to pursue an equally sensible and advantageous
plan, as the chief means of elevating their position in society ; and,
by so doing, also to improve the health of themselves and their
familiec,and increase their comforts and enjoyments, as the pros-
perity of all must in a great measure depend on the character and
good conduct of the great masses of society.—(Cheers.) It was
then moved and seconded that Mr. Simpson be cordially thanked
for his kindness. A vote of thanks was then awarded to the
chairman (Lord Brougham), who returned thanks, spd the meeting
them dispfued,