The Sun.
London, England, 1845-06-24 00:00:00

AI L WAY COMMITTEES
(YESTERDAY.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.

LEEDS AND WEST RIDING RAILWAY.

The Committee osi this Bill met again today at eleven o'clock
the Duke of Cleveland in the chair.

Mr. Sergeant BELLasis called Mr. Hawkeshaw, engineer, for the
promoters, who deposed to the general merits of the line.

The witness was cross.examined by Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD, on
behalf of the landowners opposing the preamble of the Bill.
Mr. HOPE was proceeding to cross-examine the witness on be-
half of a landholder whose property would be interfered with by
the line, but
The Noble CIIIIRUAN intimated that the Committee wished
counsel to confine their cross-examination to points bearing upon
the immediate interest of the parties whom they represented, and
net extend it with a view of showing that a better line might be
obtained

A lengthened discussion ensued on this decision, and eventually
the Chairman ordered the room to be cleared. The Committee
having deliberated for a considerable time, strangers were admitted,
when

The NOBLE CHAIRMAN announced that the Committee had come
to two resolutions, one relating to the larlode of cross.examination
of witnesses, and the other to :he latitude to be allowed to counsel
in addressing the Committee against the line. They were as
follows :—" That counsel be requested to confine their cross-exa-
mination to the particular interest they represent, and that counsel
in addressing the Committee as to the respective interest they
represented be requested to adopt the same rule."

The witness was cross-examined at some length by Mr. HOPE
with a view of showing that railways running in the neighbourhood
of Bradford ought to be in the hands of the Leeds and Bradford
Company.

Mr. Charles Wood, engineer to the Liverpool and Manchester
Railway, Mr. James Thompson, in partnership with Sir John
31' Neill,: and: Mr. Cubitt, corroborated the testimony of Mr. Hawk e-
straw.

Mr. Fairburn, a merchant of Manchester, proved that the
gradients on the proposed railway could be worked by the loco-
motive without difficulty.
The Committee then adjourned till to-morrow.

TEE ELY AND HUNTINGDON RAILWAY.
The Committeeon this Bill re-assembled to-day at eleven o'clock,
the Marquis of Normanby in the chair.
Mr. Shipp, a shipowner of Lynn, was called by Mr. Sergeant
WitANGEI A NI, on behalf of the promoters, to prove the great want of
a line of railway to the districts proposed to be accommodated, and
the great benefit which the traders would derive from the mode of
transit afforded by the present Bill.
Mr. TALBOT, on behalf of the Eastern Counties Railway, sub-
mitted that his clients should be heard as landowners against the
Bill, they being the owners of the land through which the line is
to run.

The room was cleared to consider the application, and, after an
hour's consultation, the parties were called in, and informed by
the Chairman that the opponents could be heard as landowners
only and not as a competing line.
Mr. Sergeant WRANGIIIM said the promoters had drawn up a
clause which would put an end to the opposition at once. They
would bind themselves not to touch the opponents' land at all, and
that, he hoped, would be satisfactory to them.
The clause having been submitted to the opponents they de-
clared themselves perfectly sati4lied, and the opposition was at
611CC_' withdrawn. The preamble was then declared to be proved, and
the clauses having been gone through, the Bill was ordered to be re-
ported.