The Sun.
London, England, 1845-06-10 00:00:00

GROUP RR.

CHESTER AND BIRKENHEAD RAILWAY
EXTENSION TO THE NEW DOCKS AT
BIRKENHEAD.

(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)
Mr. L. LOWNDES, Q.C., opened the case for the promoters. The
live was intended to run from the Manchester and Liverpool Rail.
way to the Sheffield and Manchester Railway. The line would be
made on arches, and no buildings of any consequence would be
affected. The line would connect the rivers Mersey and Irwell
and the Bridgewater navigation. The railway was pro.
moted by the Manchester and Birmingham and Sheffield and Man.
chester Railway Companies and Lord F. Egerton.

The Committee, after short evidence as to traffic had been sub_
mitted, decided that the preamble had been proved.
The clauses were then passed, with the exception of that relating
to the tol s, which was postponed.
The Committee adjourned at four o'clock.

GROUP SS.
THE EREWASH VALLEY LINE.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)

The Select Committee re-assembled at the usual hour this morn-
ing, and proceeded with the general evidence in favour of the case
for the promoters of the Erewash Valley line.
Mr. John Wilson, a timber merchant, of A lfreton, whose exami-
nation in chief was taken on Friday, was this morning re-called
and cross.examined by Mr. MACA uLAv, who appeared on behalf of
the Erewash Canal Company, with the view of showing that the
water communication of the district was amply sufficient to accom.
modate the existing traffic, while the canal rates of charges were
much lower than those of the proposed railway.
Mr. Thomas Riley, agent to the Combination Coalowners of
Derbyshire, and a resident of Ilkeston, had taken an account of the
goods and stone passing over the Nottingham, Crawford, and Ere-
wash Canals for six days, between the 18th and 23d November last,
and had at the same time calculated the general traffic of the various
districts through which the proposed rail way would pass. He
corroborated the testimony given last week, and put in a number of
papers showing the result of his calculations.

Mr. Pickering was recalled, and cross examined upon these cal-
culations, but nothing of importance was elicited, The evidence
of the last witness he said was founded upon correct data, strictly
accurate, and ought, he thought, to be relied on.

Mr.' William Haslup, a coalowner residing in the neighbour.
hood of Ilkeston, proved that he sold upwards of 10,775 tons of
coals, which he sent at present by canal, but he should prefer send-
ing them by railway if there was one.

Mr. Thomas Patter, a farmer of the same place, was in the
habit of forwarding to Nottingham, Derby, and other places, large
quantities of farm produce, and it was a great inconvenience to
him that Ilkeston was not accommodated with a railway. At pre-
sent he sent his produce by canal and other conveyances, and was
compelled to pay high rates for carriage.
Mr. Hobston, a miller at Ilkeston, was similarly circumstanced
to the last witness, and was considerably put about in competing
with his his neighbours, from the want of a railway communication
with the market towns of the district.

Mr. Abraham Booth, agent to the Butterley Company, proved
that great inconveniences continually resulted to the manufacturers,
traders, and ethers, of Ilkeston, from a scarcity of water in the
Nottingham, Crawford, and Erewash Canals. On this account he
thought it highly desirable that the district should be accommo-
dated with a railway.

Mr. George Cape, civil engineer, was well acquainted with the
route of the proposed railway, and considered its gradients were
good. It was well planned to form a junction with the
Midland Railway, and join that line on a level. The
line would afford ample accommodation to the mineral interest
of the district, which was frequently put to great inconvenience
from a scarcity of water in the canals; but, independently of
this circumstance, the water communications were insufficient to
supply the wants of the minerals. The railway would prove
a saving as well of time as expense in the transit of coal ; and if
Parliament refused to sanction it, the coalowners of the district
would be seriously injured. The Duke of Rutland had coal mines
on the route, and at his Grace's request he had surveyed them
with a view of ascertaining whether the line would any way injure
them. The survey had convinced him that the line would benefit,
instead of injure, his Grace's property.
The Committee then adjourned till twelve o'clock to-morrow,

GROUP V.
IMPORTANT DECISION.

MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND MID.
LAND JUNCTION, AND THE ALTERNA-
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WIVE LINE.
:Coatinned from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)

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After a deliberation of one hour, the parties were called, and
The CiteremaN said—lt is with feelings of deep regret
that I have to announce the following decision of
the Committee, They have come to the decision that the preamble
of the Bill from

NEW.A.RZ. TO SHEFFIELD
is not proved, and the preamble of the Bill from

CHESTERPIELD TO SHEFFIELD
is not proved.

This decision requires some little explanation ; the only Bill ou
of the group was passed some days ago, namely,

. .. .
THE] NOTTINGHAM TO LINCOLN,
THROUGH NEWARK.
The moment the decision was given, the room emptied as if by
magic, and a rush for cabs to the Share Market followed.
The Committee then dissolved.
The Committee on this group has been sitting for five weeks,
and during this protracted period their patience and attention has
been most unremitting, and their urbanity and courtesy deserving
of great praise.

GROUP W.
The Committee, to whom the railways comprised in this grou
were referred, met this morning at twelve o'clock.
The CHAIRMAN then announced that they would proceed, agree-
ably to the arrangement entered into on Friday last, with the Don-
caster and Goole line, and as they had not finished all the clauses
of the Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole line, they would proceed
with the remainder of them to-morrow.
The consideration of the