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London, England, 1845-06-05 00:00:00

GROUP FF.

TI-e Committee on this group re-assembled at the usual hour
his morning, and proceeded with the negative evidence against the

IMINIBUILG.';3; ANN) NC.L.f.TEERN LLG-L.

The Ray. Mr. Muir, one of the officiating ministers of Dysart
Kirk, was tailed to prove that the line would pass so near that es-
tablishment as to interrupt the performance of Divine service, as
well as pass through the burial kreunri attached to the kirk. The
witires, added that the railway v;r:uld prose an eyesore and a nui-
sance to the inhabitants of Dysart House, at present in the pos-
session of the Earl of Rwslyn.
On cross examination the witness atimitted that the mansion of
Lord Rosslyn was at all points surrounded by steam-engines, docks,
quarries, and other objectionable works ; but, nevertheless, he
thought it was a romantic and retired retreat.

Mr. Baine, who had been factor to Lord Rosslyn for upwards of
twenty years, and who had been in the service of the Rosslyn fa-
mily forty-eight years, corroborated the testimony of the last wit.
ness, so far as it related to Dysart House.
On cross-examination the witness would not allow that the
steam-engine, waterworks, quarries, or docks alluded to by the
last witness could be seen by the inmates, or were half so objec-
tionable as the railway would be.
The affirmative evidence in favour of the line was then resumed,
the two last witnesses having been examined at this point of the
proceedings for their own accommodation and at their own request.

- The Earl of LET.N considered the line would prove of great
public utility, and confer extraordinary advantages on the north of
Scotland.

Other evidence of a birnilar nature was adduced, and the Corn.
mittee atterwark4 determined upon adjourning till Fridy next,

GROUP VG.
GLA.SGOVI DISTRICT.

The Committee, consisting of the Chairman (Mr. Evans), Lord
Grimston, Mr. Monts, Mr. Miles, and Mr. Newdegate, sat at
twelve o'clock in the Sessions House of Westminster, when the
consideration of the

GLASGOW JUNCTION RAILWAY
was pro ceded with.
Mr. Phillips, merchant, Leith, Who had been before the Com-
mittee at the hour of adjournment yesleiday, was recalled, and
cross-examine i by Mr. HOPE—The witness was asked if the trade
between Leith and the ports on the west coast of Scotland would
be likely to be increased or diminished by the proposed line ? He
gave it as his opinion that it weuld be greatly increased, as the
railways gave such increased facilities to traffic by diminishing the
time required in transit, and lowering the rate of freight.
Mr. Stoddart, member of the Tow❑ Council of Edinburgh, gave
similar evidence. He thought that the travelling under the streets
of Glasgow would do no injury, for they had an example of the
same kind in the proposed extension of the Edinburgh Railway to
Leith, where the line went under thehouses for a distance of nearly
a mile.

Robert Marshall, Dundee, spoke to the trade carried on between
Dundee and Liverpool and 1, eland, via Glasgow, and the price
charged for cartage from the place of debarkation at Port Dundas
in Glasgow, to tt a Broomielaw (the port of Glasgow), which
amounted to one tenth of the wh,,le cost of carriage to Liverpool.
This would be lessened by the proposed junction line, and another
advantage would be gained to the trader by the better condition in
which his goods would arrive at the market. He did not think
that there would be any inconvenience sustained at the Broomielaw
by the projected railway, and, at all events, it would be greatly less
than that now sustained by the cartage of goods.
Mr. Andrew Symon, engineer, Dundee, was called to speak to
the trade of that town, and that proportion of it which would go
on the proposed line in order to avoid transhipment, and the facility
which its construction would give to the speedy transit of goods to
England and Ireland.

Mr. Birrel, from Dunfermline, gave similar evidence with
regard to the trade of that town. The witness saki that the
manufacturers on the Forth were greatly in favour of the project.
Mr. Graham Menzies, partner in the firm of James Stewart and
Co., distillers of Paisley, proved that they imported grain in consi-
derable quantities from the east country, and that they exported
spirits. The proposed line would be of great advantage, as it would
reduce the charges of transit.
Mr. Aikman, shipowner, Glasgow, said that the proposed junc.
tion had met with the approbation of the shipping interest in that
city, because as vessels were loaded at the south side of the Clyue,
and as the goods and minerals came from the north, a railway across
the river would prevent the necessity of transhipment, and Itssen
the expenses of transit.
Mr. Wilson, iron-master, Dundyvan, exported from 70,000 to
80,000 tons of pig iron annually from the Btoomielaw ; and at
least halt' a trillion tons of coal entered Glasgow from the district
he belonged to, and 123,000 tons out of that number were shipped
at the Broomielaw. The present project would lessen the expense
of transit to an eitormo-as amount, and he was, therefore, heartily
in favour of it.

Mr. Wilson was under rumination when the Committee ad.
()timed.

GROUP K.
Dsrtzryr NOISWICH EL 11. LWAY.

The Committee on thiiline met this morning, and resumed its
business by the examination of
Mr. Isaacson, who, in answer to Mr. Lae, deposed to being a
land valuator, and having surveyed had estimated the cost of land
necessary for the construction of the line ; it would require 150
acres, being at the rate of 12 acres per mile, and including seven
acres for stations. Some of the land he computed at the lowest
rate of 101., and some at 121. the highest price per aere.
Cross.exarnibed by Mr. RonweLl.•—The land at 121. per acre is
that immediately contigucus to the town. The estimate does not in.
chide any allowance for spoiled land.

Mr. Charles Stooks, ex./mined by Mr. Laz—ls assistant to Sir
John Rennie. Fleard the evidence of that gentleman yesterday and
can vouch for its accuracy. Instead of II acres, the usual rate per
mile, 12 acres bad been set down in the estimates for the pre-
sent line. _

This having closed the case for the promoters of the Direct Nor-
wich line,
Mr. ANDREws, Q.C.. proceeded to open the ease of the Norwich
and Brandon lne, and made a preliminary objection to the oppo-
sition of the Eastern counties Ex .ension Railway, the East Dere-
ham and Lynn branch, landowsters on either line, and the inhabi-
tants of the town of King's Lynn. The Committee, however,
having admitted the right of the various parties to oppose, at the
same time recommending that the conflicting interests should
merge their claims into one specific case', the Learned Counsel
briefly detailed the main features of the Bill. Its first project was
to embrace the town of Thetford, the branch in that direction
requiring no addiiional expense above the sum originally estimated
for the independent line. The second scheme was the construction
of the line from Wyndham to East Deri2ham, going direct across to
London, and aff4ding considerable undenial,le facilities to the vast
traffic in those districts. '1 he next part of the project, who:ly un-
connected with the preceding propositions, was the line fiom At-
tteborough to Diss, comprising a distance of ten milts. at an expense
of 100,0001., and as Di•s was one of the largest corn growing dig
tricts in the country, whose produce could now obtain no other outlet
wellasth ev.t locality
consuming
d
but by Norwich, the advantages of a line connecting such
an important
thiest rmi citdslaolfi( tilie manufacturing
soi: tb, wee as districts, as
as they were considerable. On all these ccmbined grounds, there-
fore, he demanded of the Committee apreere f nce to the Bill of the
Norwich and Bandon line, rather than
to undellned and un-
intell'gitile schemes.

W. J. Gidney, examined by Mr. GIRDEN IS an ironrn
rtijvt I'
and general merchant of Derehatn, at which town there is :con-
siderable traffic, but materially Cr,pided by the ‘,.nt of communi.
cation. The present communication from Birmingham to Dere.
ham is by Hull, Lynn, and Yarmouth, Including a great deal of
water navigation and eighteen miles of land carriage, at
a cost of 555. per ton. A • railway would effect a
saving of The expense of bringing iron from Yar.
mouth to Norwich is is. 6d. to 2s, 6.!. per ton cartage from
thee ter inns to Norwich, 2s. 64, per ton, and 10s. per ton
lid
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ditiol al from Norwich to Denham Remembers meetings it the