The Sun.
London, England, 1845-06-11 00:00:00

GROUP IVIV.

MANCHESTER AND LEEDS RAILWAY.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)

This is a Bill to enable the Manchester and Leeds Railway to
borrow a sum of 350,0001, to liquidate debts owing to contractors
and owners of land, and also to erect workshops and stations, and
to build locomotive engines, waggons, and a superior kind of third-
class carriages called for by the increase of traffic.

Mr. Hawkshaw, the engineer, proved the necessity for those
alterations and additions, when the Committee decided the pre-
amble to be proved, and the clauses having been read and agreed
to, the Bill was ordered to be reported to the House.

EASTERN UNION RAILWAY AMEND-

DT ENT ACT.

This is a Bill similar in purport to the one previously passed, be-
ing to enable the Eastern Railway Company to raise new shares to
the amount of 50,0001., in order to meet the wants of the Company,
from the iracrease of traffic.

The Committee decided the preamble to be proved, and having
gone through the clauses which were agreed to with several verbal
amendments, the Chairman was instructed to report the Bill to the

House.

MITRY, 1114.. TD IZOSSELTD.EILE.
The object of this Bill is to change the name of the Manchester,
Bury, and Rossendate Railway to the East Lancashire Railway,
and to amend its clauses so as to assimilate then to the Railway
Clauses Consolidation Act.

Mr. John Grundy, agent for the Company, said there was
an Act passed last session to extend a railway from the Manchester
and Bolton Railway, through Bury, to the Forest of Rossenden.
There was also a Bill now in the House of Lords, having passed
the House of Commons, for the purpose of extending
the previous-named line to the towns of Blackburn,
Accrington, Colne, and Clitheroe. The object of the Bill before
the Committee was to amend the Bill of last session, so as to make
it more in conformity with the Railway Clauses Consolidation Act,
and to change the name, so as to render it more expressive of its
character as a district railway.

1 he Committee di cided the preamble to be proved, and pro-
ceeded to the consideration of the clauses.

The clauses were read and agreed to, and the Bill ordered to be
reported.

The Greenwich Colliery Bill was withdrawn, the agent an-
nouncing that he bad no evidence to offer on behalf of the preamble.
THE ST. HELEN'S CANAL AND HAILViTAY.
Mr. FORSYTH opened the case for this scheme, which is pro-
posed to corm ct the Sankey Brook Navigation with the Runcorn
Gap Railway. The Learned Gentleman having briefly described
the line, stated that the only opponent to the Bill was Mr. Scoresby,
an extensive coal and landowner in the district.

Mr. Kn..wles appeared for Mr. Scoresby.
Mr. Foasvrtt took an objection to Mr. Scoresby's being heard
against the Bill, to which Mr. Knowles briefly replied. when the
Chairman intimated that the Committee would give their decision
on the point in the morning.
The Committee then adjourned till twelve to-morrow.

GROUP X.
CAMBRIDGE AND LINCOLN RAILWAY.
IMPORTANT DECISION.

The Committee assembled this day at one o'clock, and having
remained in deliberation about half an hour, announced that the
parties might be admitted, when the crowds who were wedged and
crammed together outside the door made a tremendous rush in,
and in less than a minute the room was almost suffocating. When
order was restored,

The CHAIRMAN said—l have been instructed by the Committee
to inform the parties that it is the intention of the Committee, when
the proper time shall arrive, to report to the House that in the case
of the Cambridge and Lincoln line the Committee bad found that
the preamble of the Bill had not been proved, inasmuch as it has
appeared in evidence that the line contemplated under the provi-
sions of the Bill referred by the House to the Committee cannot,
under the provisions of that Bill, or of those of the Bth Victoria,
cap. 20, be carried into enct according to the plans and specifica-
tions deposited in the Private 1101-office. But at the same time that
Ay make this intimation, they think it tight to add, that it will
be open to the promoters of this Bill, after the Committee shall
have reported to the House, to submit the scheme to the Commit-
tee in the shape of a project.
Mr. HILDYARD wished to know did not the Committee consider
that it was now before them in that shape?

The CHAIRMAN—Not until the Committee should have reported
to the House against it as a Bill. At the same time if the pro-
moters of the Bill wished to go on they could do so only by the
consent of parties.

Mr. Sergeant WRANGIIAM said that if his Learned Friend was
prepared to proceed with the Bill as a project he was quite ready
to give his answer.
Mr. lIILDYARD—What is the answer ?
Mr. Sergeant WRANGIIAM—Let me know first whether you in.
tend to proceed as a project ?
Mr. HlLDVARD—Decidedly I do.
Mr. Sergeant WRANUIIAht said lie would have no objection to
that course.

Mr. HILDYARD—But suppose he did so proceed, let the Com-
mittee then simply report to the House that the preamble had not
been proved. The Learned Counsel. then asked for a copy
of the decision of the Committee, and having read it, he
then requested that the Committee would allow him a few minutes
to consult with his clients, as this decision was one of such very
great importance.

The Committee agreed to do so, the Chairman at the same time
intimating to the Learned Counsel that he might, if he chose,
go on with it now as a Bill, but not until the Committee had de-
cided against the preamble of the Bill.

The Learned Counsel then retired, and having returned after
about twenty minutes absencr,

Mr. HILDICARD said, that after the announcement of the Com.
mittee, he begged to request that the Committee would adjourn till
to.morrow morning.

Mr. Sergeant WRANGIUM opposed the application. He con.
rented that too much time had already been lost, and thertfcre,