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London, England, 1845-07-18 00:00:00

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GROUP X.
000'
DIRECT NORTHERN
STREET EXTENSION'. v. 60114
This Committee resumed to.day at the usual hour, •
Courtenay in the chair.
Mr. Paine, C.E., who was examined yesterday by - m
the owner of property in Shepperton.street, corrected an ina'-
which he had made in stating that the error in theeotre
re
tions of the Farringdon-street Extension was outside the
ore'
line. The witness attributed his mistake to the erroneous :iroSt
sentation of Mr. Webster's plan, and now positively declareotect
the deviation of eight feet two, as mentioned yesterdays
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within the limits.
°°lMr. Wakeling, the vestry clerk of Clerkenwell stated that- he o.
wished to call witnesses to prove the injury which the construeere'
of the line would entail on the rates and trade of the district "00
presented. The promoters of the Company had scheduled 468 Igog.
to be taken down, the average annual rent of which isss wotso
year each, and the total amount of rates 1,4161. The pariah f the
suffer from the destruction of this property, and the trade
~°,4rig,
district being almost, exclusively that of watch manufact'oota
would be considerably injured, both by the vibration arisingloot
the passage of trains on the contiguous line, and from the dig' bid;
removal of the workmen, by the destruction of the houses Ia
they reside.
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Mr. Hux, examined by Mr. WAKELpro—Is a watch Ina tbird
toter of Percival-street, Clerkenwell, employing more than_iciniti
hands, all of whom reside in the immediate hich
of the projected line. If, however, the houses in o
they now dwell are taken down for the constructionfro
the railway, the trade would suffer g b
reat inconvenience y oe
the removal of the workmen. The vibration caused ftsc.
transit of carriages on the line would seriously affect the nl4-icor'
tore of watches ; in fact, he thought no chronometer would g"
redly within 50 feet of a railway. r
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Mr. W. rConnell, examined by Mr. WAKELING, a r aideafr
chronometer maker of Gloucester-street, corroborated the ev pt
of the preceding witness. The fluid body in the wer.
to
pendulums would be seriously injured by the vibration en of
railway, as it would oscillate and destroy the accuracy
observation so necessary for the regulation of chronometers' esse
Mr. Lockwood, an escapement maker and wheel cutter,
similar evi
of dence.
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Mr. William Mason, a printer and publisher, guardian the
poor, and auditor of the parish of Clerkenwell, deposed tG„,infi
rate of the 468 houses scheduled for the use of the railway 7.tora
upwards of 1,5001. He considered the railway would be far ale
beneficial to the district, and in that opinion he was joir,ed
universal resident population.
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This having closed the case of the parish of Clerkenwell
the line,

Mr. WEBSTER called rebutting evidence. wopfd
Mr. Terry, overseer of the parish, deposed that the line d the
travel through the very poorest parts of Cletkenwell, ap but
compensation for any deterioration. in the rates would be DIP
trifling. He considered that the railway would cold
preve the condition of the parish, as it Woo
afford a readier means and a greater inducement to the P°°r'iill,
were receiving relief; to remove to other districts. TheligieS,
paupers would more especially avail themselves of these lac:
and the number of casual poor would be materially diminish.'o 13/
Mr. Smith, a watch and clock maker, under exarainatrot
Mr. WEBSTER, assured the Committee that, when he vi'ke re-
friend at Poplar, he never found the slightest variatiow t"nd be,
gularity of his watch by the vibration of passing omnibuses, a doll
therefore, interred ithat the transit of trains would be eg

harmless.
address
Mr. HILDYARD, at a quarter before two, rose to e fS. t
oeh,
Committee on the case of the Farringdon-street Extensiend nog
then closed. He assured the Committee that, though he had 00,
intended to speak at any length on the subject, it was his fillaoser
viction that it was the most important element in the whole t°
and the only feature which his opponents had never atterePoo4
contravert. On a former occasion, when he edd: he
the Committee on behalf of the Direct Yorthern Lia7oert
had anticipated a saving of 800,000/. in that, over the other 'wove
so far as the antagonist schemes between London and lari'veed
concerned. But since the evidence had been of late 3",,1. told
in course of the Farringdon-street case, that saving of 800,090 Yong
been swelled to 1,300,000/. ; and although the London and yeti
could put forward their 934 miles, which they Pl.° over
would be the amount of saving effected by their guao,'
its rivals, yet, on the whop, the Farringdon-street E,rteneof
would, as he pledged himself to show, have the Elven` 'their
shortness of time, in consequence of the superiority et 00,
gradients to those of the London and York. And, 3 °I
the distance between certain densely populated Pa: ;don'
the metropolis and the terminus or the Fall' to
street Extension was considerably shorter than thafroto
the station of the competing scheme. The distance ed a
London-bridge to the terminus in Farringdon street, On vote-
saving of no less than 1,738 yards in favour of that point ; iyoro
Blackfriars bridge, 1 mile 51 yards in favour of the same;yorss
Waterloo-bridge, 1,351 ; and from Westminster-bridge, 97
favour of the Farringdon.strcet terminus.
(LEFT SITTING.)

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advices inform us that the English and Freaert Orr', of $

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mediation had been accepted by the Montevideo]) al!:,tioritie'•oll
MORE CANDIDATES THAN ELECTOR", -NO leSSorsta
fifty-seven candidates have made aPPlieatir:n for the Audltiotofi
of the Oxford and Worcester slistriete
is but thirty-eight, W'...ile the number of e-