The Sun.
London, England, 1845-07-19 00:00:00

17,71110ErIELD, PONTEPRA.CT, GOOLE

11.11.ILWAY.
(Continued from our Afternoon EJition of yesterday.)

Lord Wharncliffe spoke to the residential injury done to Mr.
Srrith by the propo,cd railway.

Mr Edmund Wand, merchant, I...eds, Mr. Atkinson, flax-
dresser, and Mr. Tarbolton, foreign agent, all gave evidence that
the trades of Leeds and Bradiord were infinitely superior to Wake-
field and Pontefract, and therefore they preferred the rival branch
by Brayton, promoted by the York and North Midland Company,
to the Direct Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole Railway.
Several other witnesses were examined on the same point, and
gave exactly similar evidence.
Their Lordships then adjourned till to.morrow.

ozronn, WORCESTER, AND WOLVES-.
HAMPTON kt .11.ILWAY.
(Continued Irons our Afternoon Editio❑ of yesterday.)
The remainder of the witnesses examined gave evidence to the
same afect, being principally on the inconvenience, expense, and
delay that would arise from the transhipment of goods on the Great
Western scheme. The witnesses examined on the subject were
Mr. Hardy, formerly manager of the Birmingham and Gloucester
Railway, who gave a table of the amount of miles already made, and
those proposed to be constructed, on the broad and narrow gauges,
somewhat different from that he gave befote the Commons'
Committee; Mr. Macconnell, superintendent of the locomotive de.
partment, on the same line of railway ; Mr. Allport, manager of
the Darlington and Newcastle line; and Mr. Houson, the agent
of the Messas. Bickford, at Birmingham.
The following is Mr. Houson's table:—
RAILWAYS CONSTRUCTED AND PROJECTED ON THE BROAD AND
NARROW GAUGLIJ.
Broad. Narrow.
Made
In progresa 52
Projected

Total 1,641
This table includes all projects up till now, taking only one in a
district where there are competing lines.
The Committee then adjourned till to-morrow, at eleven o'clock

STANDING ORDERS COMMITTEE.
The Committee on Standing Orders met to-day, and the follow-
ng Bibs were passed, and oruered to be reported :
MONMOUTH AND HEREFORD (SOUTH

WALES),

SOUTH-WESTZISLAT ( TUN Dian GE AND
TUNBRIDGE WELLS),

EXEBTINGHAM 11.1 VD GLOUCESTER (STOKE

R,AIV ,ti?

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
GROUP X.

MIZECT ZI olt THERN LINE-FEIRRINGDON.-

STREET EXT 7 SION.

Mr. MtnVann (in continuation of his address from our
Afternoon Edition of yesterday) said —The distance from
Linton-bridge to the terminus in Farringdon street, showed a
saving of no less than 1,738 yards in favour of that point ; Irom
Bloch friars bridge, 1 ;idle 51 yards in favour of the same; from
Waterloo-briege, 1,351 ; and from Westminster-bridge, 970 yards
—all in favour of the Farringdon-street terminus. He contended
that the attempt of Mr. Gibbs, whom he designated a sharp-
shooter, had wholly failed to disprove the estimates, as given by
Mr. Stephenson, than whom a more disingenuous witness
could not be produced, whose evidence was never that
of a partisan, but strictly in accordance with his high
character as an unimpeached and unimpeachable engineer.
The computation of 800,0004 would therefore ba amply suffi.
cient, and connected as it would be with a most efficient and use-
ful line, if the Direct Northern were conceded, he called on the
Committee to grant the preamble of their Bill.

Mr. H min ARD having closed his address, evidence was called to
prove the alleged errors in the levels of the London and York.

Mr. Grantham, examined by Mr. WEBSTER— Is a civil engineer,
and has surveyed toe line laid down by the London and York.
Divided the route into ten divisions, and, on comparing his survey
with that of the deposited sections, found in one part an error of
nine feet neat Greenwood.place-road, another of 12.81 on the road
to Welwyn, and a third or 11.92 feet at another juncture. The
consequence was a continued error of 10 feet from the first points
of error to York, and the effect would be that the rail at Newark
Dike and the Chesterfield Canal must be lowered to a line with
the water.

Cross examined by Sergeant WesNotimu—Does not think the
error could be legally rectified by raising the road at the points
where the errors were alleged : no engineering difficulty would
exist whatever to such a course, but he thought the alterations
could not be effected so as to come within the limit prescribed by
the Act of Parliament.
Tt.e cro,s-examination of this witness will be resumed to-
morrow, the Committee having adjourned at half-past five, when
his evidence was not concluded.

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.
FnmAY, JULY 18.
The South Eastern Railway (Widening and Extension of
the London and Greenwich Railway) Bill, was read a third
time and passed.

NOTICES GIVEN AT THE I'Rl VATE BILL OFFICE.
Wear Valley Itailwav,—Lords' amendments to be consi•
dered, Monday, July 21.-
South Eastern Railway (Branch to Deal, and Extension
of Canterbury, Rams,rate and Margate Railway),—Report
to be considered, Tue*Tday. July 22.
London and Croydon Railway Enlargement,—Third read-
ing, Monday, July 21.
Epping Railway,—Third reading, Monday, July 21. •
Manches7er and Leeds Railway (No. 2) Bill,—Report,
Monday, July 21.
Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings Railway (Hastings, Rye,
and Ashford Extension ),—Third reading, Monday, July 21.

BANK OF ENGLAND.
(From last Night's Gazdte.)
An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Victoria,
cap. 32, for the Week elading on Saturday, the 12th day of
July, 1845.