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

HOUSE OF i °NYLONS.

F.
BIRMINGHAM AN DU
GLOITCBSTER l‘
WAY (WORCESTER BRANCH AND
CIL--
TENHAM EXTENSION).
This Committee met to-day at twelve o'clock; present the Br
Hon. J. Shaw, Chairman, Mr. V. Stewart. Mr. Drumniond, 1'
Lockhart, and ]klr. Branston.
Mr. WHATELEY appeared for the Bill, and asked for Perwi°l7t
to proceed with the case in its behalf. An engager°
d ou.
had been entered into by the Birmingham AD , osi
caster Company to the Cheltenham and Worcester PenPc' beg.
as soon as they were called on they would construct these bran Coo.
They had now been requested to fulfil that pledge, and he, t. k.
fore, prayed that the consideration of the Bill be proceeded of
The application was opposed by Mr. CRIPPS on behalf. °l.'''.
Great Western Company, on the grounds that
not been given of the intention to proceed, and also that a den'
to
had been given in favour of the Great Western Branch:l: the
broad gauge, which would interfere with any decision that
Committee could at present come to. the Chi°.
After some desultory conversation, it was suggested by . e
_lt,
man that the further consideration of the Bill had better D ri_ os
poned till such time as an opinion on the main question (relfrod
to the debate on the Oxford and Rugby--broad gauge-332 )
I roper notireibiro
been given in another quarter. t took place,
This suggestion was acceded to, and an adjournrnen coo,
1411" d" 1
by mutual consent, of the Committee till this day
(
at one o'clock.
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GROUP GG. .ir Al.
GLASGOW JUNCTION RAIL w —ed „con'
dsiedcTeirshioetnhCseoomcflamyuiestsetteseerodnraeyas.ossemmubclkedotfhitsh renßorilnliang and Pr"eed allet tb.
Before entering ow their consideration, howletEller,"7:egstio ill
Mr, Sergeant WRANGIUM took an objection to n a nd
the preamble, preamble, namely, that the consent of the Fiiinburgh:.ne 008
gow Railway had been to the formation of brand'
A, ora
harbour.
A G paper was in to show t a meeting of
that the
and shareholders in that put
tha
Company had taken place. au received.
sanction of a majority of those present h deal'en plow /rota
This fact was eorroborated by a letter receiv II Sr'
the secretary of the said Company. nc . and Dail
The Committee passed the preamble in conseVe—e-
of the clauses were agreed to without of position.

A. ROILY K. ACS Vig%Cil
..e
EAST DERENrd AND NO
The Select
morning,Committ andee proceeded with the tern "sad vo
Wrvilfor: the
the case of the promoters of the East Delebln the h
e
rect Railway, and the affirmative evidence ' RowsY• brave
Wyndham branch of the Norwich and Brand° wyndhensh 0 od
Mr. Bidder, a civil engineer, proved that °ea pot Dere":ircoi
although it would increase the distance
trontWeef the °Li I)erebara
Norwich some few miles, yet, as a po*--- h 0 the A-- !. a ovint
made, it would cost less for construction t.O to gout.;
peraboa
and Norwich Direct line, and hence prove 'of the 1-:e're far te°
to the public. The estimates, tnntedveldr, Orivie
t'oggerared•
and Norwich Direct line, as put in bloceedinSir
low, while the traffic calculations 5rer,,,,,,)
(LEFT `l/ -
014'
41,4011.6' his IT'''ni g
PORTSMOUTECGART°IVIIJFO-1).--ed it :::1:e Itj 11
-.
The Committee for this group resign gr. oo'
Mr. E. B. Denison, in the chair. was called bid ilollheid
Mr. Stephenson, the eminent engineer, choter se
months
Se
BURN, and stated that he was engineer °f the„bout 15,1w0 ° 1,11
line. Had been called upon by the DirecWrofclaircYltintga:r'arc,e.lbci:ol..
to snake a report respecting the exPedicn"
atmospheric line and in consequence of that rospherlC opotin
tention had been' turned to the principle 01 1 is -hutthe pota•
nerirneu had
He had therefore gone over and made Or- .If lOOl.
ts 111 We ' d hide rt
line, and had not only made experimen
.40, Sao repo
missioned two other gentlemen to contintle 1'
to °lke ° 0 tbili
Dated anomalies which induced hint principle ,fia 'roe-
that the adoption of the atmospheric ~diciottr. 'opriti.
Chester and Holyhead line would be IN"
_..tions, tb..ili lo•
railways of five or six miles in length withoUt 174 De tc"" with
ciple might do very well ; but to trunk lines it W.; the et, 0
applicable. In his experiments on the Dalkey I' hour; vlb foes
trains of 30 tons each never exceeded 30 miles an 00 0,0 of
locomotive trains the speed was almost always houror With trieneies
an hour, and was often more than 40 miles an of they 7001
40 to 50 tons each. The first effect of the workl'ii, ge e .., I
was to reduce the density in the pipe, and conseenea: 'ai. cotirs-0,
for the admission of the denser atmosphere. It w h;„0101 si of
principle in pneumatics, that just in proportion 1;
tthe'red°"ireld
moved from the engine would be the slowness 0- fur
aro.
the density ; so that that part of the pipe which was the tole ' op
the engine would be the slowest exhausted, and es
she
o'6: at
greased, the rarified air in the tube would be grade-be del*, of
towards the further end, and that combining with th. releo,lllll
mospbere beyond the piston, would tend to reduce t"„,ttiel'.o.l
the train. This, however, would be Just in proportion " 00011,,14,
of the line, and, as on the Dalkey line, this opposition.
had
with the leakage, had created the anomaly of which be I's