The Sun.
London, England, 1845-05-02 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

AND
*Jul)ltc eptition.

" Who runs may read."

rortExamr.

On Monday evening the King of the French received Lord
Cowley, the Duke d'Estisfic, the Count de Villegontier, M. Dupin,
Viscounts Sabastjani and de Richemont, Barons de Berthois and
Mechin, M. Conte, Director General of the Post-office, and the Pre.
fect of the Hautes Pyrenees.
The Duchtss of Orleans, accompanied by the Count de Paris,
went on Monday to visit the Musee des Thermes and the Hotel de
Cluny, An immense crowd gathered round the Hotel de Cluny,
and loudly cheered the young I'rince and.the Duchess on their
departure.
Marshal Soult on Tuesday attended the committee on the army
estimates. The committee wished him to consent to a reduction
of 10,000 a:ten in the effective force of the army, or rather to
transfer these 10,000 men to the special budget of Algeria. The,
Marshal, however, refused to listen to the proposition. The cloth:
ing of the army, and more particularly the new tunic, afforded
matter for various observations, chiefly on account of the expense
occasioned by the introduction of this new dress. " The Minister
(says the Conatitulionncl) endeavoured to justify this reform by
stating that the tunic was a better protection of the legs of the sol-
dier fro.n the cold, aad their pantaloons from the mud in marching."
Gondrand, the street singer, who was condemned to death in
February, for the tamer of the wetwen-who travelled with him as
his wife, was executed at Nevers on the 26th. This man affected
insanity, and he kept up the deception to the last, but he met his
fate with resignation. It is stated in a letter from Nevers that an
artist, by way of speculation, took a daugerreotype view of the ex-
ecution—the first instance, it is believed, •f such an application of
this new art.

As the passage•boat was on her way from Ouchy, on the Lake
of Geneva, a few days back, having on board eight horses and
thirty persons, a sudden gust of wind frightened one of the animals,
which jumped overboard. The other horses drawn by this act all
to one side of the boat caused it to capsize. Two boats immediately
put off from the shore, but only twenty persons were saved.
A letter from Madrid says :—" The Queen, desiring that the ex-
hibition of the products of national industry should take place as
speedily as possible, has ordered the opening of it for the Ist in.
stead of the 20th of May. She has allowed 40,000 reals (4001.) to.
wards the transport of the articles fer exhibition.
It appears by an article in a Madrid journal that there are
nearly 800 lawyers and advocates in Madrid, and that in all the
other towns in Spain they are quite as numerous in proportion to
the population. If one-fourth of these persons get their bread by
their profession, the Spanish people must be the most litigious in
the universe.

The exports from Austria into Switzerlond during the year 1843
amounted to 18,000,000 florins (48,000,000 f ), while the imports
from that country were only 2,000,000 florins, or 5,333,333 f.

&ALIN" AND -100XICIIi.

In the Court of Queen's Bench, the judgment on Mrs. Pelham,
who had been sentenced to six months' imprisonment for the
alleged neglect and ill.treatmenl of her illegitimate idiot son, was
arrested on the ground that several of the counts in the indictment
were bad.

A chemist and druggist was convicted and fined, in the Excise
Court, for selling spirits of wine without a license.
William Johnson, a young man, dressed in the garb of a
butcher, was brought up on remand, at Southwark, charged with
stealing a quantity of hosiery goods, consisting of silk and satin
scarfs, handkerchiefs, &c. The Court was thronged with shop-
keepers from all parts of the town, who had been plundered by him.
The prisoner, it appeared, had been in the habit of going to various
shops, dressed in the garb of a butcher, of stating that he was sent
by his master (mentioning the name of some respectable butcher in
the neighbourhood), to request that they would send certain goods
by him, from which a selection would be made, and that the re.
mainder would be returned. He had obtained large quantities
of goods by these means. He was fully committed for trial.
At the Thames Police.court John Jeffries, the chief mate of
the brig Chanticleer, was charged with feloniously assaulting and
wounding Charles Johnson, with intent to do him grievous bodily
harm at Port Morant, Jamaica, on the Bth of March last. The
prisoner, in consequence of some slight altercation, had seized ar
formidable weapon, called a " beetle" (a species of heavy mallet)
and, weilding it in both hands, struck the prosecutor
on the head four or five times, and severely wounded hirn. From
the testimony of various witnesses, it appeared that the assault was
of the most savage and ferocious description. He was committed
for trial on the felonious charge of wounding, with Intent to do
some grievous bodily harm, but was subsequently admitted to bail. ,

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X

MONEY and COMMERCIAL N.
CUT, QUARTER TO Tgl

January .
February
March ...,

Tot al

Ows.
rs.g. .

. _
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool Tester were 6,000
bales, 3,000 being, on speculation.--Priere firmly sup-
ported, but there was no further advance.---:Shares
were inactive, and but a small business was done
Barnsley Junction, 755. ; Birkenhead, Manchester, and
Cheshire Junction, 8% %; Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton,
5 ; Belfast and Ballymena, 914 8% ; Bolton, Wigan, .and
Liverpool, 11%; Caledonian Extensic n, 3% 314 ; Cambridge
and Lincoln, 9 8% ; Chester and Holyhead, 163 ; Churnet
Valley, 7% % ; Cork and Bandon, 834 %; Cork and Water-
ford, 565. 6d. 2%; Dublin and Belfast Junction, 11% 14;
Dundee and Perth, 3% 1/4 ; Dublin, Mullingar, and Athlone,
4%; Dundalk and Enniskillen,s%; Glasgow and Dumfriei,
295. 30s. ; Grand Junction, 228 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 114.;.
Ditto, New Quarter Shares, 44% %; Ditto, Eighth Shared,
19%; Great Grimsby and Sheffield, VA 14; Great Munster,
3 ; Jamaica Junction, 5 ; Limerick andVaterford, 9 871 ;
Liverpool and Manchester, Half Shares, 101 ; Liverpool,
Ormskirk, and Preston, 2% % ; London and Birmingham,
Quarter Shares, 3234 ' • London and Brighton, 63% • London-
derry and Coleraine, 334 ' • Londonderry and Enniskillen, 5,14 ;
London and York, 5% 68 3d. ; Ditto (Bawtry), 33/4 % •
Direct Northern, 3% 14 ; Leeds and Dewsbury, 1134 ; Leeds
and West Riding Junction, 7% 14 ; Lynn and Ely, r 4 ;
Manchester and Buxton, 914 ; Manchester, Bury, and s-
sendale, 17% ; Manchester and Leeds, Half Shares, 66 65%;
Midland Railway, 157 ; Ditto, 40/. Shares, 1934 1,4 ; New-
castle and Berwick, 15 ; Newry and Enniskillen, 14 ;
North Wales Mineral, 16% ; North Western, 91s. 3d. 4 ';
Oxford and Birmingham Junction, 91s. 3d. ; Oxford, Wor-
cester, and Wolverhampton 1% ; Preston and Wyre, New
(guaranteed 5 per cent. anddiv.), 57%; Sheffield and-Man-
chester, 120 ; Ditto, Quarter Shams, 15 34 ; Sheffield and
Lincoln, 2; Shrewsbur.v, Oswestry, and Cheshire, 5; South-
Eastern rn,l Dover, New Shares, No. 3,7% 34 ; Scottish
Central, 714; Trent Valley, 19%; Trent Valley Extension,
7%. ; Trent Valley Continuation, 2% ; Waterford and Kil-
kenny, 4 ; Welsh Midland, 21/ IA ; West Yorkshire, 614 76 ;
Worcester and Trinp, 434 ; Whitehaven and Furness, 50s.
565. 6d.; Constituted Central of France, 1514; Louvain and
Jemeppe, 5 14; Namur and Liege, 6%; Northern of France
(Laffitte's), 5% % ; Ditto (Rosamel's), 465. 6d. 2% ; Faris
an'l Lyons, English, (Laffitte's), 58s. 6d. 3/. ; Paris and Lyons
(Ganneron's), 234 ; Paris and Rouen, 42.
MANCHESTER STOCK r XCIIANGE' MAY I.—The safes
are :—Barnsley Junction, 4 • Birkenhead, Manchester, and
Cheshire Junction, 9; Blackburn, Burnley, and Accring
ton, 9 %; Bristol and Exeter, New Shares, 7%; Cambridge
and Lincoln, 9%; Churnet Valley, 7% ' • Direct Northern, 3;
Ely and Bedford, 3%; Glasgow and Dumfries, 1 9-16 %;
Grimsby and Sheffield Junction, 6M cum new; Huddersfield
and Manchester Railway and Canal, 834 ; Leeds and Thirelt,
4% 6; Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester, 11%; Leeds and
\Vest Riding Junction, 71,4 14 ' • Liverpool, Ormskirk, and
Preston, 3 2 15-16; London and South-Western, 80; Lon.;
don and York, 5% %; Manchester and Birmingham, 58;
Ditto. New Quarters, 73 ; Manchester and Buxton, 6%,
%; North Western, 41,4 54 ; North Union, 145; Notting-
ham and Mansfield, 3%; Preston and Wyre Extension, 2%
3; Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction, 2 A ; Shrewsbury,
Oswestry, and Cheshire Junction, 5 9-16 ; Shrewsbury,
Wolverhampton, Dudley, &c, 4% ; South Wales, 6; Trent
Valley, 19% 2014 ; Ditto Continuation and Holyhead Junc-
tion, t. 2% prem.: West Midland, 314 prem. ; West Yorkshire,
7; Whitehaven and Furness 3; Great Northern of France
(English), 5%; Paris and Lyons (Ganneron's), 2% 9-16 •
Union Bank of Manchester, 10%; Manchester and Salford
Waterworks, 59 ex new.
Accounts of a late date from New York, show the state of
trade in that part of the world. The revenue from Customs
is thus analyzed :

1843. 1844. 1845.
Dollars. Dollars. Dollars.
548,046 1.876,615 1,677,969
492,216 2,169,100 1,347,456
636,596 1,691,524 1,575,680

1,676,853 5,737,243 4,601,105

This table shows that the greatest falling off in the re-
ceipts from Customs was in February ; the decrease that
month, compared with the corresponding month last year,
being 821,644 dollars. The total decrease for the quarter
was 1,136,138 dollars. The importations this season have
been nearly as large as for the same time last year, while the
duties have fallen off about 20 per cent. The importations
have only diminished about 7 per cent. To have brought
about this state of things, the average rate of duty upon the
imports must have been very much reduced. The impor-
tations of free goods the first quarter this year were much
larger than for the same quarter last year, but the
increase was not sufficient to have made so wide
a difference in the duties. The average rate of duty is annually
decreasing, and in time a reduction to a revenue standard
must be made. The folly of attempting to get an increased
customs revenue, by the imposition of duties beyond what it
is the interest of the importer to pay, is illustrated here as
well as in every other instance, and if the writer of the New
York Herald thinks to mend the matter by a further increase,
he will not be long in receiving faller confirmation than ever
of the truth of Swift's axiom, that two and two do not always
make four.
The position of the English Stock Market is more vacil-
lating than was the case a month since, when the same value
was supported fix a week together; but the speculators are
aided in their operations by various political matters of some
moment that have recently been passing in foreign coun-
tries. Consols have been down to 981,4 upon rather a large
sale made, but are now at 98N. Time bargains have been
effected at 983 g %. The premium upon Exchequer-bills
has been 575. to 605., which is a slight advance. Bank
Stock is 21014 to 209, and India Stock 276% to 278. The
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been 100% 3/4 ;
and the Three per Cents. 97 /q 1,4.
The Foreign Bonds have not been so dull. Mexican have
been a shade lower, 37.1 to 38, as the accounts from America
still allude to the probability of a war. Buenos Ayres have
realised 431 , and Brazilian 88. Danish Stock is at 8834 ;
Portuguese Converted are 671% to 3/4 ; Dutch Two-and-a-
Half per Cents. have been 631 %.
Railway shares in general are rather firm to-day. Chun-
net Valley, North Kent, and several others have advanced a
little. South-Eastern are again lower. \Vest-End and
Southern Counties Junction are about 14 % premium. The
Paris and Lyons Scrips are better, as the adjudication of this
most important line is expected to take place within a very
short period.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCIL

(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock 21014 209
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 97%3410
3 per Cent. Consols Anns 9”4%/s
New 314 per Cent. Annuties 10034 %,,i
Long Annuities ,Expire sth Jan. 1860 ll 7-16 5-16
Do. 30 Years, Expire Oct. 10,1859 ll 3-16%
Ditto 30 Years, Expire Jan. 5,1860
India Stock 276% 578
India Bonds 1,0001 —
Ditto under 1,0001 72
3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 9814
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills. 1:!.icl. 11,4 d.
1,000/. -
500/. ... — . ..... 57 60 57 59 pm.
Ditto Small —
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.

Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent —
Ditto for the Account
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent 4314
Dan.h Bonds 1825, 3 per Cent 88:14
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent 37A 38
Ditto for the Account 38%1,4
Ditto Deferred Stock....
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent 3l
Portuguese Bends, 5 per Cent —
Ditto Converted
Ditto for the Account.
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent.. 1840 —
Ditto for the Account.
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent
Dutch 21/2 per Cents
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates
PRICE OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. - .
RAILWAYS. PAID. PEE SHAM
Aberdeen
Armagh, Coleraine, P ..•rtrush 1% 2% to
Birmingham and Gloucester 100 136% to 13514
Ditto, ita;f Shares .........3
B istol and Exeter - to -
Ditto New 2 ...... 8 ...... to
Caledonian 5 12% 11% to 12W
Cambridge and Lincoln
Chester and Holyhead
Churnet Valley 2 ...... 73/414... to .
I'irect Northern ... 2%...... 314 1,4% to --.
Dublin and Belfast Junction 1 ...... 11314 to
Dublin, Belfast,and Coleraine 21 ...... 24 to
Dublin and Galway .. .... ..... 2%. ..... 4101,414 to
Dublin and Mullingar 2% ...... 4
Eastern Counties
Eastern Union
Ditto Extension
2%4... to _-
Edinburgh and Glasgow
114 3%14... to
18% to 19
2% l4 ...... to 13%
Great Western
GreatElyD i
ttSoo and
Extensionu th and Bedford
W.(lri s h ) . . . 5
Ditto Fifths
Harwich 1
1% 11,06... to
50 lO6 ...... to
Selby
ysborough
2 ...... 24 ...... to
Hull and
to"tno diai 1
iGaSdi eafli,
Birmingham lOO 234% to
Ditto Thirds
Shares
2
45
London and Blackwell 16% 91414— to
London and 8right0n.......... 50
London and Croydon... 131. 15s. 9d.... 1714 to
London and South Western.. 41%...... 791 to 80
Ditto New 2% l4 414... to
Do. New
London and Y0rk....... ....... 2% ..... . 51,8% to 5
Lynn and Ely
Midland......
...... lOO l5B 156... to 157
Ditto New
Midland, Birm. and Derby ...100 117%,..... to
Newcastle & Darlington;sunc. 25
Ditto New Brandling
Newcastle and Berwick
Newry and Enniskillen
Newark and Sheffield
North British ... 10
Ditto New 1 .. ... 45A3/4... to
Noith Kent
Isslciocoilitittmhisoh:NldsTiotarnedeNsNt'eers,tanEldldTJruintigc. 21
.71
Perth and Inverness
3% to
Rugby,PA..— to
Scottish Central
iedrnianadnd Dover ... 331142 430%2.. 31,...... to
too --
2 .. ... 8% ...... to Ditto New, N 0.2
Ditto New, N 0.3 2l/2 6% to 71,4%
Trent Valley , 2 ..... 1914 to 1834
Trent Valley and Holyhead
Junction... ..
Yarmouth and Norwich 2O
Ditto New
York and North Midland ... 50 lO 2
Ditto Half Shares

Ditto Selby
Ditto, Extension
FRENCH RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens
2Bordeaux and T0u10u5e2%%... to
Rordeaux,Toulouse,andCette 2
Great Northern of France
(Laflitte's)
Great Paris and Lyons
Louvain and Jemeppe
Namur and Liege
Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 2 ...... 10
Pais and Lyons(Laffitte) ... 2
Parisand Lyons(Ganneron's) 2 ... .. 9!'
Paris and Lyons (Calon's)... 2 .... 2
Paris and Orleans ... 20
Pans awl Rouen .. ... 20 ...... 414 ...... to 42
Paris and St. Quentin ... 2 ...... 2
Rouen and Havre l4 ...... 29 ...... to --
4
Sambre and Meuse .........
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
to —.
British North Americtui ...... 50 ...... 45
reoYincia.l of Ireland .... 25 ,•••is 47%...

RAILWAY COMMITTEES.
(YESTERDAY.)

Group V.
GRIMSBY AND SHEFFIELD PROJECT.
THURSDAY, FOURTH DAY.
Cross-examination of Mr. Fowler (in continuation from our After-
noon Edition of yesterday)—Surveyed this line first in September
last. The reasons he preferred this line to any other were, economy of
construction, better gradients, and shorter distances. There would
be a cutting of 33 fret at one side before the tunnel was entered,
and 60 feet at the other ; the latter was through limestone rock.
The ground between New Holland and Great Qrimsby was not
as favourable for a line as other routes, as the material was
different, and could not be made so cheaply. Is of
opinion that 100,0001. in addition, would make a double line
throughout; the chains and rails would amount to about three-
quarters of that sum. Iron in February last was Si. per ton. It
was now 12/. The offer of the contract has b2en made, but not
yet concluded.
Mr. Rendle male surveys of the Grimsby Docks, with a view
to the enlargement of them, so as to accommodate the largest class
of steamers and merchant shipping ; if those plans were carried
out, that accommodation would be afforded; the present extent of
the decks is seventeen acres; the present lock would ac-
cammodate seven or eight hundred tons vessels ; it was
principally to accommodate steam-packets that witness made his
survey; the cost he had estimated the works at wa, 300,000/.
This witness corroborated the testimony of Mr. Fowler as to the
advantage of the proposed line, &c.
Cross-examined—The present docks at Grimsby would accom.
modate vessels drawing sixteen feet water, at about two hours
befoi e high water of low spring tides; =rev saw vessels of that
draught there, but did see vessels of fourteen feet draught there.
lie proposed alterations would afford more accommodation than the
present dock at hull for steam packets, which was now very bad,
and so was that at Liverpool.
Mr. Adam Smith. engineer, corroborated Mr. Fowler's state
neat, and said his estimates were fair and not tco low.
Mr. HINDS, solicitor to the company, stated that the proposed
capital was 000,0001., and the Bill also gave the power of raising
200,000/. after the whole sum had been subscribed and the half had
been paid up. The whole capital was subscribed and 33,000/. was
paid up. There were only 40 shareholders who had a local in.
terest out of the whole number, 348, and the amount for which
they had subscribed was 17,550/.
This closed the case on the part of the promoters. _ . .

Mr M. D. HILL then proceeded at great length to show that the
preamble of the Bill should not pass, and that this line would be
of very little importance to the town of Hull, the importance of
which no person could deny.
The CHAIRMAN said, in reference to the Trent Valley Bill, that
they would not go into its clauses until they had decided upon the
preamble of the Bill then under consideration. If it was possible
to finish on Saturday, he would have no objection to sit on that
day; but, as that did not appear likely, he thought he might as
well lot it be understood that they were not to sit on that day.
Counsel then applied to request that an order of the House should
be moved fir the sytendance of two witnesses from Marc' ...ter,
on the Trent Valley Bill, on Monday next.
The Committee then adjourned until twelve tomorrow (this
day).

Group B.

LEEDS AND WEST RIDING JUNCTION RAILWAY.

(12,ntinued from our Afternoon Edition.)
Mr. William Fairburn, an engineer and machinist at Manchester,
had had extensive experience in the construction of locomotive
engines, and was generally familiar with the application of steam
to stationary and locomotive power. Fourteen inches was the
maximum size of a cylinder attached to a locomotive engine.
For t e proper working of a railway it was neces-
sary that the engine should have power beyond its working
settent. Gradients were not thought so insurmountable now as
they were some years ago. The North Union, the Birmingham and
Gloucester, and the Edinburgh and Glasgow had surmounted ex-
traordinary gradients by the increase in the power of their locomo.
tive engines. It was his opinion that the power of the locomotive
would be still further increased. He had examined the
gradients on the West Riding Junction lines, and saw no
gradients of an objectionable character. He had had some ex-
perience on the construction of a " heist " for transferring the
carriages of one railway to another below its level. The Birming-
ham and Derby had one, and, in his spinion, " hoists " could be
constructed and worked with ease and simplicity, and at a mode-
rate expenditure.

On Cross-examination, he said he was not aware whether the Bir-
mingnam and Derby were seeking-in the present session for powers
to do away with their "hoist," and to adopt some more improved
plan for transferring their traffic to a line rbove their own level.
The size of the cylinder began at eight inches, they were now ad-
vancing to fourteen and sixteen. The weight of the engine which
was then only 71 or 8 tons, was now from 15 to 16 tons. For
steep gradients the six wheeled engine was the mast preferable.
Mr. George Leather, a civil engineer, had had considerable
experience in the construction of railways, and was
well acqnainted with the district through which the
Leeds and West Riding Junction lines ran. It was
quite impossible to construct a railway through the district without
severe gradients and quick or sudden corners. On the whole the
gradients on the West Riding and the West Yorkshire were about
equal. The engines lie had heard described would be applicable to
either line, and wouid carry any extent of traffic likely to come on
both. The curves of the two lines were pretty nearly the same.
He had gone through the estimate of Mr. klawkshaw, and applird
them to both litres lie had come to the same conclusion as Mr.
Idawksbaw, namely, that in constructing the West Riding there
would be a saving of 320,4::(5/. The Leeds and West Riding line,
independently of this saving, was the one best calculated to serve
and accotmneclate the public.
" •

Mr. Gibbs, a civil engineer, who had constructed railways both
in this cuuntr} and on the Continent, gave concurrent testimony to
the last witness. He preferred the line which had the highest
summit, and that one was the West Riding Junction. He pre-
ferred the one with the hik,hest summit, because its approaches
would lie more convenient than those of the other.

On cross-examination, he said there were no great differences
between the gradients and curves of the two lions. The one which
had the greatest ntimber of curves Rith a small radius would be the
most dangerous ; but in his opinion there was little or no difference
between the two lines in this respect. There would be no neces-
sity to slacken the pace of the engine when it approached a curve
crn the West Milling Junction line, because it was not a
through line, aid would have repeated stoppages. So far
as safety, dispatch, and punctuanty went, the two lines
would possess ahnut the same advantages. He was originally the
engineer, and estimated the cost of the Crov.don and Brighton
lines. Ile proposed that the tunnelling on the hitter shcu!d
tour miles. He thought the gradient on the Brighton lire would
have been better had it been lin SO instead of lin 100. Danger
increased not in the length but in the acuteness of the curve.
Itastrick, engineer to the Brighton Company, had insi-ccted
the clans and sections of the two rival lines, and certainly pref,rrtui
the Leeds and West Riding Junction. In a country iihe E,g7and
you lengthen the tintiels, viaducts, anti cuttings, by flattening the
gradients. He thou ;.ht a gradient of lin 1110 was in no way ob-
jectionable. Trains on the C.oydon and Brighton Line ran ;hilly
over a similar gradient—namely, 1 in 102. There was no
diflietOty in working lines wish such revere gradients as
these. He was staking a line, for instance, from Brighton to
Lewes, and fur fitly three miles it had a gridient of 1 in SS. He
are no objcetion to the curves in either tine. If they were
r-Drked its connexion wills an existing line, the expense
Iv role be considerati y reduced. He concurred gene-
rally with the evidence given by the former witnesses.

On cross.examitlatioo, he said the s eepest gradient cn the
Brighton line was 00 feet a mile. Had the gradient been 1 in 100,
the consttuction would have cost considerably less than what it
did, and the lint., in his opinion, would have answered just as well
as it docs new. It was by no mesas a surface 11112
Mr. Toat LINE Wished to know how they could get at the memo.
rials deposited with the Board of Trade ?

The CHAIRMAN Leplicd that any party wishing to take emr;:cts or
inspect documents deposited with the Eoard of Trade, coul,l prvcure
them at the Pri, ate Bill Office on their producing an order so to
do from the Committee.

Mr. BAINES moved that they should have leave to inspect
the memorials deposited with the Board of Trade by the Rest
Riding and Leeds and Manchester Companies.—Leave was given.

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Mr. TALBOT movcd that his clients should have access to the
documents deposited. by the Leeds and Huddersfield and West
Yorkshire Companies.—Leave was given.
Mr. Cubitt had compared the plan and sections of the two lines,

and certainly he preferred the West.ltiding line. The cost of the
other line would be greater, and the accommodation for the public.
I:e cotraborated the testimony of the last witness. The line
ciulti be worked with much more facility, with greater economy,
and with greater advantage to the public by being connected with
an existing, line, such as the Leeds and Manchester, than by being
worked by an independent company.
On cross.examUtation, he said he had never been over the
ground. lie :.ssumcd Mr. Hawkshaw's details to be correct.
The examination of this witness closed the day's proceedings.
The Committee adjourned shortly after five o'clock till to-
morrow.

Committee C.
Thin Committee met at tw•o o'clock to-day, Mr. Barneby in the
Chair, to consider the ra!es of charges in the
HUDDERSFIELD AND SHEFFIELD JUNCTION RAIL-