A correspondent of the Morning Chronicle, who has sent his
card to that journal, and states himself to be a Durham coal-owner, denies the truth of Lord WHMINCLIFEE'S assertion that railways for the carriage of coals in Durham had not been made, under the sanction of acts of Parliament, through the lands of dissenting proprietors. He says- " There have been twelve or thirteen acts of Parliament granted during the last fourteen or fifteen years for making railways, some of which were for the exclusive conveyance of coal under the conditions named in the speech sari- buted to his Lordship. Of one of these, the Durham Junction, his Lordship, I believe, acted as chairman. It is exclusively a coal.railway, beginning at no great seat of population nor terminating at such a place. Of the others, some have been in operation ten or twelve years, others for shorter periods, and some are yet being constructed. The whole of these railways are forced through' the lands of proprietors having no interest in the collieries sending coals down then], and nut uric of them pays the heavy charge of way-leave rent."
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