The Sun.
London, England, 1845-03-07 00:00:00

RAILWAY COMMITTEES.

Sub-Committee, No. 2, assembled yesterday in
Committee-room, No. 6, in the cloisters of the'llousa of
Commons. The Committee consisted of Sir J. Y. Buller,
chairman, Mr. F. Mackenzie, The O'Conor Don, Mr.
Walker, and Mr. Eliot Yorke.
EDINBURGH AND HAWICK RAILWAY.
Mr. VENABLE3 appeared as agent for this Bill. The
necessary formal proof of notices, &c., having been gone
through, the Committee decided that the standing
orders had been complied with. The petition was uu-
opposed.

NORTH BRITISH RAILWAY.
Mr. VENABLES appeared in this case, also, as agent for
the promoters of this line ; engineer Mr. Miller. This
petition was also unopposed ; and the necessary proofs
of the service of the notices, accuracy of the plans, de-
posits, &c., having been adduced, the Committee decided
that the standing orders had been complied with. The
object of the Bill is to alter and amend the North British
Railway and the Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway Bills,
and to effect a junction of the two lines.
GREAT SOUTHERN AND WESTERN RAIL-
WAY (IRELAND.)
_ . .

This petition was unopposed. Mr. Venables-appeared
as agent. The length of the line is 97 miles, and the
capital 1,200,0004 Engineer, Sir J. 11I'Nei1. Standing
or& rs complied with.
SOU I'll-EASTERN RAILWAY.

The next petition called on was that of the South-
E.istern liJilway Company.
Mr. 13unkE appeared as the agent in support of the
pro noters' petition.
Mr. Hai-warty appeared in support of a petition com-
plaining of nos compliance with the staading orders, by
Sir Isaac Lyon Goldstnid, Chairman of the North Kent
Rail way Company.
Mr. DirsoN appeared to support a petition, presented
on the part of Lord Bexley, a landowner on the line.
The Bill is to enable the South-Eastern Railway
Company to make railways in connexion with the South-
Eastern Railway. or the branches thereof from London
to Chilham, and Tunbridge and Paddock-wood, with a
branch to Faversham-creek and to Stone, near Dartford;
and atio to make railways, or branch railways, from the
South-Eastern Railway and Tunbridge to Tunbridge
Wells, and from Maidstone to Rochester, and from
Ashford to llastings ; and also to alter and extend the
Canterbury, Ramsgate, and Margate branch of the said
South-Eastern Railway, and to make a branch therefrom
to Deal, and to widen certain parts of the London and
Greenwich Railway, and extend the same railway, and
for other purposes connected with the said South-Eastern
Railway.
Mr. BURKE put a witness forward to produce the pub-
lic notices with respect to the Tunbridge and Tunbridge
Wells branch. The only newspaper in which the notices
had appeared was a Kent newspaper.
Mr. HAYWARD objected to this, on the ground that,
as a portion of the Bill applied to works to be done in
the counties of Kent, Sussex, and Surrey, the notices
should have been inserted in newspapers in the three
counties.

Mr. BURXE said the newspaper applied to a branch
which was confined to the county of Kent.
Strangers were ordered to withdraw, and
The Committee decided that the standing orders had
not been complied with, as notices should have been in-
serted in the newspapers of Surrey and Sussex.
Mr. BuaKE then prayed for an adjournment, in order
that the promoters might consider what steps they
should take.

This was granted, and the Committee adjourned for a
week.