The Sun.
London, England, 1845-06-19 00:00:00

IMPORTANT DECISION.

The room was then, for the third time, cleared, and the Com-
mittee having again deliberated for some time, the parties were
readmitted, when

The CH►IRN•N read the following resolution :—" The Com-
mittee having had before them an agreement entered into between
the promoters of this Bill and the London and Birmingham
Railway Company, the effect of which would be, that
this projected line of railway would be made over to
the London and Birmingham Railway Company, and
having further had before them an agreement between the
London and Birmingham Railway Company and N. C. Newdegate,
Esq., ALP. for North Warwickshire, covenanting that a portion of
this line of railway should not be executed, and that application
should be made next year to Parliament for a Bill to authorise the
construction of a different line of railway, the Committee con-
sider that the line of railway proposed by the promoters of the
Bill could not be made, and, therefore, are unanimously of opinion
that the preamble of this Bill is not proved."
The Committee then adjourned.

GROUP X.
CAMBRIDGE AND LINCOLN LINE.

The Committee having assembled this day at the usual hour,
Mr. Tebut, of Stamford, was called as another witness to depose
to the traffic now carried on between Spalding, Market-Deeping,
and Stamford, and had answered a few general questions, when
the Learned Counsel who had put them was interrupted by
Mr. P. SCROPE, who said that he could not see the use of putting
those questions, first, because the Committee had heard the very
same answers from other witnesses repeatedly ; and, secondly,
because the questions had reference to a very small branch of
railway which was not before the Committee.
Mr. V. Leg hoped the Hon. Member would excuse him for a
moment. First, the Committee had before it the London and
York scheme, and then the Cambridge and Lincoln line as against
that; then he wanted to sh•w that the Cambridge and Lincoln
Company proposed a branch by which to connect towns at certain
points, east and west, better than any that had yet been heard of.
Mr. P. SCROPE said he conceived that all that was done yesterday
and the evidence merely went to prove the commerce of a small
district, common both to the London and York and Cambridge and
Lincoln schemes. It was, therefore, to be hoped that the Counsel
would confine his questions to the traffic going north and south
only.

The CHAIRMAN said the Committee did not wish to cut the
Learned Counsel short, but, considering the late period of the
session at which they had arrived, it would be most material that
the case should be made as short as possible.
Mr. SCROPE said it appeared to him that the London and York
line went more directly to Spalding than the Cambridge and Lin-
coln proposed to do.
The Learned COUNSEL said he would endeavour to comply with
the wishes of the Committee as much as possible ; and then, having
asked a few other questions of the witness, the Committee retired
for about twenty minutes, they returned, but made no announce-
ment, and the examination was proceeded with. _ .

Mr. George Abbot, carriers' agent at Stamford, deposed as to the
quantity of wool carried to and from Stamford to London at pre-
sent, the ex:,ense of transit, and the lessening of the expense, if the
proposed line should be made.

Mr. Robert Maultby, wool buyer at Bourne and at Spalding,
gave evidence similar to that of the last witness.
Several other witnesses were examined to the same effect, but no
new feature was elicited, and the Committee adjourned at the
usual hour.