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.Group X.
LONDON AND YORK RAILWAY.

(Continued from our Afternoon Edition.)
Dr. Hall, and Mr. Evelyn Denison, M.P., bore testimony
to the advantages that would accrue to other towns by the
formation of the proposed line.
Mr. White, who described himself as a farmer, surveyor,
collector, auctioneer, bone dealer, baker, and about six other
trades, lived at East Retford, and knew the district well. He
was sore the London and York line would .be beneficial to
the country through which it would pass. -
After some further evidence,
The Committee adjourned until to-morrow.

Group DD.'
THE CALEDONIAN, AND THE GLASGOW, DUM-
FRIES, AND CARLISLE RAILWAYS.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition.)
Mr. Munoz. called Mr. Williamson, mining engineer, who
was cross-examined by Mr. ANDREWS—Mr. Williamson
said he had been engaged for thirty-five years in his pro-
fessional capacity by Lord Wemyss, Lord Elgin, and others,
and could corroborate in every particular all that had
been stated by the previous witness as to the quality and
quantity of coals and minerals from various places through
which the Caledonian line would pass.
Mr. Thomas Nimmo, coalmaster, was next examined—He
deposed that the coals obtained from the Wilsontown works
was usually sold for 4s. per ton at the pit's mouth, and
the average price of it at Edinburgh, including expense
of carriage, &c., was from 17s. to 18s. per ton. He bad
a thorough knowledge of the limestone strata in the neigh-
bourhood of the railway. Lime was generally discovered
lying in beds on the surface of the coal, and was usually
raised with it. The selling price of the lime at
the different works averaged from 2s. 6d. to 3s. 6d.
per ten, and great quantities of it were disposed of
at those prices for agricultural purposes. In his
judgment, the ironstone from the locality of Wilsontown
would be used for the supply of the iron works to the west.
He. believed that the interests of the mineral, proprietors
in that district were considerably crippled owing to the defi-
cient means of communication at present existing, and he
had no difficulty in saying, that if the proposed line were
-constructed the result would be generally beneficial.
Mr. N. Wood coal-master, gave evidence as to the scanty
supply of coals to the districts lying south. The -calculation
fur the quantity of parrot, or gas-coal, consumed in Scotland
was based on the assumption that for every ten persons one
ton would be used ; and the gas-coal was at present obtained
from the neighbourhood of the Lothian hills. This witness
corroborated generally what had fallen from the previous
witnesses.
Mr. Taylor, coal-viewer and engineer, in the county of
Northumberland, merely deposed as to the correctness of the
statements made before the Committee.
The examination of the last witness concluded the evi-
dence for the promoters, as far as the item of minerals was
concerned.
Mr. SANDFORD then called Mr. Mitchell, farmer, Lanark-
shire, who spoke as to the traffic in cattle. lie said that
the principal thoroughfare for cattle from north to
south was in the line laid down by the Caledonian
Company, and that the railway would afford every
facility for their conveyance. The quantity of sheep
annually exposed for sale in the great market at Inverness
taken
to 100,000, which, when sold, were generally
seauntdh.OcTtohbeer.
fairsT nwere n heldmbe r during ri
theseng t haeh
esheep months
whicho f Sep-
tember
pro-
ceeded
toll along the Glasgow and Carlisle road, and for which'
was paid, averaged about 25 000 . The quantity on
which toll was paid from the Doun market was
27,000. The
present expense of travelling,
driver's wages, and making allowance for deterioration on
the road, was estimated at 181. 6s. for
11. 7s. 6d per score. The time occupied in the
200 sheep, or at
Falkirk to Glasgow was generally a
ten e journey from
and Doun markets chiefly, supplied Glasgowys. The Falkirk
with cattle, to
the extent of 54,000 annually ; and
the proposed railway
for
them, afford a good means of conveyance
them, as they were bulky animals, and werer
generally shoed for their journey along the road. The
assumed expense of driving cattle to Carlisle, including tolls,
men's 'wages, deterioration, &c., averaged at present about
148. 4d. per head. The estimated number of milch cattle

that would be transmitted by the railway was 10,000
heads, which quantity included the cattle sent from
Dumbarton. A large portion of these beasts were supplied to
the Appleby market. They were usually driven by way of
Hamilton, Lismahago, and thence through Glasgow to Car-
lisle. Great quantities of fat cattle were transmitted from
the upper wards of Lanarkshire and Peebles-shire, the whole
of which would most certainly be conveyed by railway if that
i lit y were afforded. The average number of cattle which
passed down the Clyde-road from the Glasgow market was from
200 to 300 a week ; and a great quantity also went along the
Carlisle road. Travelling by road injured the animals mat e-
rially, and sometimes deteriorated from their price in the
market. The witness further stated, that from hi,s know-
ledge of the trade he considered there was 5. large and in-
creasing traffic between Lanark and Glasgow. He had
also furnished the information to Mr. Pare, from which
that gentleman had prepared the tables of cattle traffic, and
was satisfied that they were generally correct, and afforded
a fair estimate of the extent of the present trade.
Several other witnesses were examined, who all gave cor-
roborative testimony to the foregoing evidence, and with
their statements the proofs for the cattle traffic were con-
eluded.—The Committee then adjourned.

Group E.
THE NEWCASTLE AND BERWICK LINE.
The Committee this morning proceeded to hear the evi-
dence of Mr. Stephenson, engineer, in favour of the New-
castle and Berwick locomotive line of railway. He stated
that on a single line of locomotive railway there would be as
much likelihood of accidents as on an atmospheric line, if
the points and crossings were not attended to. Nothing could
be more dangerous than siding rails ; there were several acci -
dents from them on the Birmingham line, in conseqnence of
which they had to be done away with altogether. There was
no arrangement existing on a single line which he considered
exempt from danger. Mr. Cubitt's plan, he was of opinion,
would not obviate the danger which might occur. The
meeting points which he proposed to adopt en the Newcastle
and Berwick lines would not lead to any danger. In his
judgment, the Northumberland line of railway, as repre-
sented, could not be worked with any degree of convenience
according to the locomotive system. It was capable
of being traversed by a locomotive engine, but no
engineer would lay down such a line as Mr. Brunel's for that
purpose. As to the comparative expense of working the
lines, that of the atmospheric line would exceed-that of the
locomotive line of railway. The annual expense of the
Newcastle and Berwick line, including the interest of the
money to be expended in carriages, &c., would amount to
47,5001., that of the Northumberland line, including the in-
terest on the carriages and depreciation, the patent rights,
and the expense of tanks, would be 48,7501.
On cross-examination by Sergeant WRANGIIAM, he said
that there should be, according to the atmospheric system,
25,000 cubic feet of a tank, which might be formed fifty feet
square and ten feet deep.' In order to make it air-tight there
should be 1,200 tons of weight placed on the masonry. He
estimated that there would be 71 per cent. on the expenses of
carriages on the Newcastle and Berwick locomotive line.
There would be six passenger-trains each way. The sum
of the resistance for a train passing at the rate of 50 miles
an hour would be 1,920 pounds, 46 pounds per ton ; the re-
sistance for a train passing at 55 miles an hour would be 56
pounds per ton. On the atmospheric line the resistance for
a train passing at the rate of 28 miles an hour would be 13
pounds per ton, making 52 pounds per ton at the rate of 56
miles an hour, not including eight pounds per ton for
friction. Up to a certain limit the resistance
varied according to weight. Supposing a passenger-
train to be under forty tons weight, the atmospheric resist-
ance to that train varied directly as to the tonnage. Both
bulk and weight ought to be elements of consideration, but
they had not had experiments by which they were ascer-
tained or discriminated. What he-meant by tonnage was
bulk assuming an average specific gravity. The variation of
the resistance depended upon the angle in which a head-wind
struck the train, and according to the
-surface which the first
carriage presented. As a general law a carriage of lead and
a carriage of feathers would meet the same resistance. Tnc
variation depended on the velocity at a given weight, but at a
given velocity of 2S miles an hour, the atmospheric resistance
varied according to the tonnage. The witness then pro-
ceeded with the details of the experiments made on the
Kingstown and, Dalky Atmospheric Railway. After which
the Committee adjourned.

THE LONDON GAZETTE

(THIS EVENING.)

DOWNING-STREET, MAY 10, 1845.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint William Arrindell.
Esq., to be her Majesty's Attorney-General for the colony 'pi
British Guiana.

Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint E. F. Wylde,
Esq., to be Clerk of the Peace at Worcester, in the settlement
of the Cape of Good Hope.
WAR-OFFICE, MAY 16.
Ist Dragoon Guards—Captain J. Crofts, from the 7th
Dragoon Guards, to be Captain', vice Jackson, who ex-
changes, May 16.
7th Dragoon Guards—Captain G. W. C. Jackson, from
the Ist Dragoon Guards, to be Captain, vice Crofts, who ex-
changes, May 16.
2d Dragoons—Cornet H. S. Scobell to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Bainett, who retires; D. C. R. C. Buchanan,
Gent., to be Cornet, vice Scobell, May 16.
3d Light Dragoons—Major R. B. Edwards, from half pay
Unattached, to be Major, vice Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel
G. A. Malcolm, who exchanges ; Captain C. W.
M. Balders to be Major 9 by purchase, vice Edwards, who
retires ; Lieutenant W: E. F. Barnes to be Captain, by pur-
chase, vice Balders; Cornet J. G. A. Burton to be Lieute-
nant, by purchase, vice Barnes; C. R. Colt, Gent., to be
Cornet, by purchase, vice Burton, May 16.
7th Light Dragoons—Lieutenent C. H. Wyndham to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Lord- Alfred Paget, promoted ;
Cornet J. M. Hagart to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Wyndham; E. H. Cooper, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase,
vice Hagart, Mity 16.
14th Light Dragoons—Brevet Lieut.-Colonel E. Harvey to
be Lieut.-Colonel, without purchase, vice Townsend, de-
ceased, April 23 ; Brevet Lieut.-Colonel T. Jones, from
half-pay of the 21st Light Dragoons, to be Major, vice
Harvey ; Captain W. H. Archer, to be Major, by
pufehase, vice Jones, who retires; Lieutenant J. 11. God-
dard to be Captain, by purchase, vice Archer ; Cornet H. J.
Brown to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Goddard ; W.
English, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Brown,
May 16.
Ist or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards—Lieut. and
Capt. J. 1-1. Hudson to be Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel,
by purchase, vice the Hon. C. J. F. Stanley, who retires ;
Ensign and Lieut. the Hon. M. West to be Lieutenant and
Captain, by purchase, vice Hudson ; A. H. L. Fox, Gent.,
to be Ensign and Lieutenant, by purchase, vice West,
May 16. - - - - - _ _ - -

12th Foot—Ensign F. Brydon, from 3d West India Regi-
ment, to be Ensign, vice Maitland,.who retires, May 16.
15th Foot—Lieutenant A. R. Sewell to be Adjutant, vice
Hay, promoted, May 16.
46th Foot—Brevet Colonel F. Le Blanc, from half-pay
Unattached, to be Lieut.-Colonel, vice A. Clarke, who ex-
changes; Brevet Lieut.-Colonel R. Garrett, to be Lieut-
Colonel, by purchase, vice Le Blanc, who retires; Captain H.
Campbell, to be Major, by purchase, vice Garrett ; Lieut.-
D. Fyffe to be Captain, by purchase, vice Campbell ; Ensign
B. Menzies, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Fyffe; F.
E Dallas, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchse, vice Menzies,
May 16.

49th Foot—W. W. Maitland, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice M'Dermott, who retires, May 16.
67th Foot—Ensign F. R. Taylor to be Lieutenant, without
purchase, vice Jones, who retires ; F. W. Breedon, Gent.; to
be Ensign, by purchase, vice Taylor, May 16.
77th Foot—Lieut. B. W. A. Sleigh, from the 2d West
India Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice Dumaresq, who ex-
changes, May 16.
Ist West India Regiment—F. Miller, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Hills, promoted in the 3d West India
Regiment, May 16.
2d West India Regiment—Lieut. C. T. Dumaresq, from
the 77th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Sleigh, who exchanges,
May 16.
3d West India Regiment—C. F. Amiel, Gent., to be En-
sign, by purchase, vice Brydon, appointed to the 12th Foot,
May 16.
UNATrACTIED.—Captain Lord A. Paget, from the 7th Light
Dragoons, to be Major, by purchase, May 16.
blEmoßAsnum.—Brevet Lieut.-Colonel T. C. Kirby has
been permitted to retire from the Army, with the sale of an
Unattached Majority, he being about to become a settler in
Nova Scotia, from May 16, 1845.
The Christian names of Captain) Trevelyan, of the 60th
Foot, are " James Harington," not " Harrington," as pre-
viously stated.
Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire.
J. G. Marshall, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenarit, April 11 ;
H. Hoghton, Esq., to be ditto, April 12 ; C. H. L. W. Stan-
dish, Esq., to be ditto, April 13.
Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Durham.
Sir W. Eden, Bart., to be Deputy Lieutenant; F. Mil-
bank, Esq., to be ditto, May 3.
Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Essex.
The Hon. C. C. Neville to be Deputy .Lieutenant; J. C.
Whiteman, Esq., to be ditto; R. W. H. Dare, Esq., to be
ditto, May 6.
WHITEHALL, MARCH 26.

The Lord Chancellor has appOinted Frederick Potts, of the
city of Chester, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the
High Court of Chancery.
_ WHITEHALL, MAY 3.
_

The Lord Chancellor has appointed Edward Corser, of
Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, Gent., to 'be a
Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery.
BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED. •
Frederic Lindsay Cole, wine merchant, Fenchurch-street,
City.
Absolom Francis, ironfounder, Ilalkin,Flintshire. •
BANKRUPTS.

James Richards, plumber, Deptforcb bridge, to surrender
May 30, at half-past twelve, and June 27, at twelve, at
the Court of Bankruptcy. Alsager, official assignee, Birchiu-
lane ; Burn, Great Carter-lane, Doctors'-cemmons.
Frederic Lindsay Cole, wine merchant, Fenchurch- street,
June 5, at twelve, and June 27, at one, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-street ;
Goddard, Wood-street, Cheapside.
John Lamprey, money scrivener, Warwick, May 30 and
June 24, at half-past tcn, at the Birmingham District Court.
Valpy, official assignee, Birmingham ; Morris and Walling-
ton, Warwick ; Harrison and Smith, Birmingham.
James Livingston and Thomas Brittain, plumbers, Man-
chester, May 30, at eleven, and June 20, at twelve, at the
Manchester District Court Hobson, official assignee, Man-
chester ; Kelsall, Chester ; Goulden, Manchester ; Milne,
Parry, Milne, and Morris, Temple, London.
William Summers aad Nicholas Rae, rope-makers, Strange-
ways, June 4, and July 1, at twelve, at the Manchester Dis-
trict Court. Stanway, official assignee, Manchester; Makin-
son, Manchester; Gregory, Faulkner, Gregory, and Bour-
dillon, Bedford-row, Lop:lop.

Edward Lawton and I Thomas Kay, iron foutders, Roch-
dale, Lancashire, June 2, 'and June 30, at twelve, at the
Manchester District Court. Fraser, official assignee ; May-
hew and Son, Carey-street, Lincoln's-inn ; Halsall, Mid-
dleton, Lancashire.
William Russell, James Knowles, and Henry Simister,
perchers, Salford, May 24, and Jnne 19, at eleven, at the
Manchester District Court. Pott, official assignee; Vincent
and Sherwood, Temple ; Todd, Manchester.