The Sun.
London, England, 1845-06-27 00:00:00

GROUP K.

EuTtY ST. EDMITND'S AND cilurainxnan

RAXINITA.Y.

The Committee on this railway met this mornirg at half-past
eleven o'clock, and commenced business by the cross-examination
of Mr. Braithwaite, the engineer, whose direct evidence was token
yesterday.

This witness, in answer to Mr. GlanEN, stated that there were
twenty-three public roads to be crossed upon the line and several
occupation ways. The paddocks in the neighbourhood of New.
market had raised the value of the land to more than 1.000/. an
acre, but though a few of these had been put in the schedule as
within the limits of deviation, none would be touched by the line.
He did not conceive that the frequent level crossings required in
construction would be either expensive or unsafe.

The CHAIRMAN stated that a very erroneous opinion existed on
the danger of level crossing. On the London and Manchester Rail-
way, on a distance of 35 miles, there were no less than thirteen
crossings on a level; and yet, though one of the most frequented
lines in the kingdom, not a single accident had occurred since its
opening.

Mr. Braithwaite, under cross.examination by Mr. RAWLINSON,
stated that 40 per cent., as mentioned in their Bill, would be amply
sufficient for the working of the line, including the expense of
keeping watchmen on the occupation and level crossing. The pur-
chase of land had been taken at 580/. per cent., including 50 per
cent. for severance and 50 per cent, for contingencies, The land
on the Eastern Counties Railway cost upwards of one million ster-
ling, or as much as the entire purchase was on the London and
Birmingham line.

Mr. Page, lessee of the tolls at the Paper-mills.gate, near Cam-
bridge, deposed to the traffic passing the gates annually to Bury,
deducing thence the probable amount falling on the line.
Mr. John Decke, the post-master, bookseller, auctioneer, ap.
praiser, land-agent, proprietor of stagc.coaches, and an ex.mayor
of Bury (!), bore testimony, in turn, to the importance of the pro.
jected line to each and every branch of his varied business.
Mr. Muskat, the steward of the Duke of Norfolk's property in
the county from which his title is derived, expressed his opinion
of the importance of the line between Cambriege and Busy, as
affording a link in the communication with Ipswich and the exten.
sive manufacturing districts contiguous. A produce of 45,000
quarters of barley finds its way into Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire,
and Bedfordshire annually ; and a merchant had informed him that
he alone would send 20,000 quarters of this amount on the line
to Cambridge, if constructed.

Mr. Kitchener, a solicitor of Newmarket, stated the feeling of
that town to be decidedly in favour of the line. The parishes from
Milden Ha'l in the north, to Lidgate in the south, v hich the rail.
way would accommodate, are 67 in number, with a population of
39,520 exclusive, and 76,531 inclusive, of the termini—the
population of Cambridge being 24,453, and of Bury 12,558.
Mr. RAWLINSON affirmed that the line actually went through no
more than a population of 10,900, and in that statement the Board
of Trade concurred.

Mr. Pare, the traffic taker, stated the capital subscribed for was
named at 330,0001.: the gross revenue anticipated on the line was
29,60'2/. Is. 4d., deduct 11,8401. 16s. 4d., for working the line, and
a net annual return of 17,751/. ss.,givingadividend of 5 1.3 on the
subscribed captital. The amounts had been obtained by anticipating
4,4221. ss. 4d. passengers by stage coaches, 2,5241. from travellers
by post and private carriages, 4,640/. from grain coal, and general
merchandize, 1,375/. from live stock, and other smaller items,
leaving a total of passenger traffic returns of 11,153/. 10s. Bd., or
doubled, forincreasedaccommodation, 22,3071. Is. 4d., and the goods
traffic maLing up the total of 29,6021. as the gross receipts on the
line.

Under cross.examination by Mr. GIRDEN, Mr. Pare explained
the mode he had adopted for finding the details of traffic and
passenger transit on the line, the system being the same as that
repeatedly described by the witness of placing parties at different
portions of the line to observe the number of persons travelling
over the route, and then doubled or halved according to a scale
applied to the circumstances of the district.

The Committee adjourned at four o'clock till noon on Monday.

GROUP L.

This being the day the decision was to be given upon the
several lines comprised in the Portsmouth group, a large number
of the promoters of the several lines was present at one o'clock,
the hour appointed for the sitting of the Committee, when shortly
after the room was cleared, and, after a deliberation of about two
hours,

The CHAIRMAN announced that the Committee had desired
him to state that they had decided that so much of the Bill for the
GUILDFORD, CZIICHESTER, AND PORTS—
MOUTH LINE,

as referred to the line between Guildford and Godalming, be
passed ; that so much as related to the line between Farcham and
Portsea be passed, with a junction at Cosham.

PORTSMOUTH ATMOSPHERIC LINE.

The Committee decided that the preamble of the Bill for the
Direct Portsmouth line, as laid between Epsom and Ports-
mouth, be passed without a branch to Chichester. In stating this
decision, he particularly wished to say that the Committee ex-
pressed no opinion whatever on the atmospheric principle—either
for or against—but they thought that it was a line which ought to
be made, with due protection for Lord Grantley and the gentlemen
in his neighbourhood. The promoters of the atmospheric line
might lay down an atmospheric tube or not, as they pleased.

BRIGHTON, CHICHESTER, AND PORTS.

IYI OUT'S LINE.

The Committee decided that so much of the Bill as referred
to the line between Chichester and Portsmouth was passed, sub..
ject to an arrangement as to the terminus at Portsea.

- The CHAIRMAN stated that it was a direct understanding that
the tube, if laid down, was not to interfere with the locomotive
line, and they thought that the tube had better not be carried into
Portsmouth town, but that that portion should be a locomotive line.
The Committee said that they did not bind the companies to the
terminus at Portsmouth, but suggested that all the companies
should use one terminus.

Mr. AUSTIN and Mr. WHATELEY stated that it was the desire of
the counsel and promoters that the Committee should adjourn to
Monday, to make arrangements about the termini—it being under-
stood that there should be a terminus for the accommodation of the
public on both lines at Godalming.
The Committee then adjourned till Monday.

GROUP X.
CAMBRIDGE AND LINCOLN LINE.
CLOSE OF THE CASE.

At the sitting of the Committee this day
Mr. TRIP? rose, on the part of ➢lr. Pemberton, a landowner, to
state his case, butj,
Mr. Sergeant KINGLARE objected, unless the case could be dis.
posed of in a short time.

The Committee retired, and on their return'
The CHAIRMAN asked Mr. Sergeant Kinglake whether he ob.
ected to Mr. Tripp's proceeding?

Mr. Sergeant KINGLAKE having replied in the negative,
Mr. TRIPP proceeded to say that he would now state to the Com-
mittee an outline of the injuries that his client's property would
sustain by the manner in which the line would run through his
property at Chesterton, and which would be fully detailed
by witnesses which he would produce. The Learned
Counsel then handed in a plan of the property,
at Chesterton, for which Mr. Pemberton was trustee, and pointed
out the route which the line would take, by which he contended
the property would be greatly injured ; that the dam proposed to
be made would cause certain valuable meadows to be flooded,
which might be avoided by a viaduct, and he could show another
route by which all this injury would be avoided, and by which the
Cambridge and Lincoln Company would save about 15,0001.
Mr. Harwood deposed as to the value of Mr. Pemberton's pro-
perty.

Mr. W. Newman deposed as to the traffic between Chesterton
and Cambridge, which principally consisted of articles for domestic
consumption in the former place. Was of opinion that great
inconvenience would be caused by the proposed llrie to the inha.
bitants.

Mr. S. Hughes, civil engineer, Duke-street, Westminster, stated
that his opinion was, that if the proposed line were taken in a
direction by which to avoid this property, it would afford equal
facilities to the public and cost the Company much less, though it
would be a mile longer. Great injury would be done to Mr.
Pemberton's meadows by the overflowing of the river Cam, across
which it was proposed to throw a bridge by the Cambridge and
Lincoln Company, but his opinion was that it ought to be a
viaduct.

Mr. Rendall's assistant said that the embankment proposed to
be made by the Cambridge and Lincoln Company, as well as the
bridge over the Cam, would have the effect of carrying away all
the flood water; there were arches and drains proposed to be made
across the meadows. . . _

TRIPP said that no such evidence had been given by Mr.
Rcndall.

The witnesses having given evidence as to the amount of the
population, the Counsel for the London and York line called
witnesses to rebut it, after hearing which the Committee adjourned
at half-past five.

LIE LONDON GAZETTE.
(THIS EVENING.)

CAMBRIDGE HOUSE, JUNE 26, 1845.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge has been
pleased to appoint Frederick Foster Quin, Esq., I'LD., to be
Physician to her Royal Highness.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, JUNE 25.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Alexander
Paterson as Consul at Leith for his Majesty the King of the

etherlands.
The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Senor Jose
Maria Saens Monto3a, as Consul in London for the Republic of
New Granada.

CROWN-OFFICE, JUNE 27, 1845.
MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT
PARLIAMENT.

County of Edinburgh—Sir John Hope, of Craighall, Bart.,
,n the room of William Ramsay Ramsay, Esq., who has accepted
the office of Steward of her Majesty's Chiltern Hundreds.
WAR• OFFICE, JUNE 27, 1845.

7tll Dragoon Guards—Lieut. W. Hogg to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Codrington, who retires; Cornet C. Ark-
wright to be Lieut., by purchase, vice Hogg; A. N. Adams,
Gent. to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Arkwright, June 27.
13th Light Dragoons—Major J. Lawrenson, from the 17th
Light Dragoons, to be Lieut.-Colonel, by purchase, vice
Brunton, who retires, June 27.
17th Light Dragoons—Captain F. Burdett to be Major, by
purchase, vice Lawrenson, promoted in the 13th Light Dra-
goons ; Lieutenant H. R. Benson to be Captain, by purchae,
vice Burdett ; Cornet R. D. H. Lane to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Benson; P. J. W. Miles, Gent., to be Cornet,
by purchase, vice Lane, June 27.
9th Regiment of Foot—Lieut. H. C. Tyler, from the 40th
Foot, to be Captain, by purchase, vu.ce Stanford, June 27.
11th Foot—Brevet Colonel J. Hogge, from half- pay Unat-
tached, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Sir M. Creagh, who
exchanges ; Major H. K. Bloomfield to be Lieutenant-Colonel,
by purchase, vice 'lnge, who retires ; Captain John
Singleton to be Major, by purchase, vice Bloomfield; Lieu-
tenant J. T. Stanley to be Captain, by purchase, vice
Singleton ; Ensign J. A. Hunter to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Stanley ; C. M. G. Quantrille, Gent., to be 1:n-
-sign, by purchase, vice Hunter; Assistant-Surgeon H. Hadley,
M.D., from the Rifle Brigade, to be Surgeon, vice D.
Leonard, who retires upon half-pay, June 27.
19th Foot—Lieutenant G. B. Jennings, from the 60th Foot,
to be Lieutenant, vice Maguire, who exchanges, June 27.
24th Foot—W. Selby, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Hackett, who retires, June 27.
40th Foot—Ensign W. H. Queade to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Tyler, promoted in the 9th Foot ; R. J. L.
Coore, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Queade,
June 27.
44th Foot—G. Cooper, Gent., to be Ensign by purchase,
vice Chamberlain, who retires, June 27.
49th Foot—Lieut. G. F. Bartley to be Captain, without
purchase, vice Wright deceased, June 20 ; Ensign R. L. Ross,
from the 934 Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Bartley, June 27.
60th Foot—Lieut. John Maguire, from the 19th Foot, to be
Lieutenant, vice Jennings, who exchanges, June 27.
62d Foot—Ensign M. J. Gregorson to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Macleod, who retires; Centleman Cadet F. R.
E. Burnside, from the Royal Military Cotlege, to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Gregorson, June 27.
69th Foot—T. G. Robertson, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Maitland, who retires, June 27.
93d Foot—Gentleman Cadet W. W. Carden, from the Royal
Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Ross,
promoted in the 49th Foot, June 27.
Rifle Brigade—F. D. Howell, Gent., to be Assistant Sur-
geon, vice Hadley, promoted in the 11th Foot, June 27.4-
UNATTACHED.—Captain J. O'Grady, from the 2d Foot, to
be Major, without purchase, June 27.
NIEMORANDUM.—The date of the commission of Ensign
J. S. Davidson, in the 78th Foot, is to be the 18th of January,
1845, instead of the 30th of May, 1843.