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. . • ws. __. . ~ ...... . TIAE SUN , LOND 0 N, S • 11Way .6../Ik• -,-,....,... P----- -- --,...-...._ ARLIAM EN T.AR Y BU SINE SS. "also, Statement of - ,viral portion of the said money was invested Manchester and Lincoln Union Railway and Chesterfield and Gains. (Ff Ora th ' in Steck or Exch. qaer-bills, with the date of each investment :" borough Canal. a Totes and Proocedings of the Muse of Commons.) also , ~ the amount charird as Commiesion on the purchase and Harwich and Eastern Counties Railway. r FRIDAY, FEB. 6. sale of the said Securities, show-Mg by whom the said Commission Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manahaater Railway (Peak Forest r • S ts : l, ll l e htjut iZ , l mti l ° n 7 l i t n t a ce P o e u titions far R a il way pill s we re referred to the was received :" "similar Returns for Ireland and;Scotlanah' l and Macclesfield Canal Purehaaen Petitions for Private Bills :- . , Leith and Grantor Raiway (Extension and Branches). NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL-OFFICE. a.v and Breaaalbane Railway. RAILWAYS. y Chestertkl,,e(),n -Northern Direct Railway. . FizinAV, FEB. 6. Order for further Consideration of \Ueport (sth February) ": ste and Bognor Railway. Dundee and Perth Railway Antendment-Committee on Petition, from Select Committee read; Report further considered:- !• dale or •, s t na i - °nth Railway. Monday, Feb. 16. 1. Resolved-" That with respect to any Railway Bills g Irr4ernbead, Lancashire . , and Cheshire Junction Railway. li ki , ,, , ,F ti ou , t ;: h a i t r e e rf i o ta rti ii , w a ,a n 3 d s . Valenci a Railway. Dundee and Arbroath Ralway Extensions -Committee on Peti- . . tion, Monday, Feb. 16. which shall be brought from the House of Lords during g this session, this House will not insiA on their privilege 78 East Lancashire Railway (Deviation and Branches)-Committee Ater Midland Junction Railway. on Petition, Monday, Feb.• lti. with regard to the clauses fixing and regulating rates and al Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway Extension (No. 1) tolls in such Bills. Lo g y p and Deal Railway. -Committee on Petition, 31 outlay, Feb. 16. 2. Resolved-" That with a view of affording early and . N. e .,, o eiss and Carlow Junction Railway. la Great Grimsby and Sheffield Jutictiim Radii - ray Extension (No. 3) increased means of employment in Ireland, it is expedient to teatl;:la•Thergavenny, and Hereford Railway. -Committee on Petition, Mondaaa Feta 16. id a,ltii.„lat Inverness Railway. re Ble ew , r- b a l a a teall Railway (Ashford Stations Enlargement). London and Blackwdll Railway (Widening) -Committee on Peti tion, Monday, Feb. 16. gi. - e facilities for the early consideration of Irish Railway Bills; and that, for the attainment - of this object, all such • Lom a. ... "'T anti Birmingham Railway.: Bristol and Exeter Railway (Crovkarne Branch)-Committee on Railway Bills should, in the preseut session, commence in the Cr Leek a. Birminghatn Railway (Aylesbury Railway Purchase). Liotq, I'voariek,,, Railway, Midland Junction Railway. Petition, Monday, Feb. 16. House of Lordi. Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Extension Railway (No. 2) aa attlw ay. i mt aa t '. 4 Grand Junction Rilway. -Conan - ate on Petition, 3.londay, Feb. 16. 3. Resolved-" That all Bills which compete with or • ought to be considered in connexion with auy Bills, the pro- Midland and Eastern Counties (Cambridge) Railvvaya-Committee .. . . aZalrevand Culetionlon Junction Railway. on Petition, Monday - , Feb. 16. molars of which shall prove themselves entitled to the pri , 6ru rn liti.-1 Railway (Lincoln and Milford). and Thames Junction Railway Branches. Malden Witham, and Braintree Railway-Committee en Petition, vileges agreed . to be granted_ i in certain cases by the reeolu- Monday, Feb. 16. Dona of this House of the it 1 July last, shall commence in Ptnuttlies Railway (Tottenham ana Farringdon-strcet). I .4re and Nenaalt Junction Railway. Oldham District Railways-Committee on Petition, Monday, the House of Lords. •n- Tempo! and ,- neeas Direct PMlway ~ he C L ' l l Central Railway (Crill isranch). which, by the above resolutions are to commence in the Ilouse of Lonls, may (notwith " stamling any proceeding - .sta s h r• . ' 13Ntia- Central Railway (Denny French). Newcastle and Darlington Junction Railway and Trae Dock- Committee on Petition, Monday, Feb. 16. re, • lie !'astern e nleal Itailwa ' y (Perth Termini and Stations). Newcastle-upon-Tyne acrd Branch Railway-Committee on Petitian, Monday, respecting such Bills in the House of Lords) prove before the :aatera Counties,. Railway (Cambridac and Lincoln Line). Enfield and Edmonton Rallway-Committee on Petition, Monday, Committee on Petitions of the House of Commons that they s . h ttlet o , i r u Tit . les Railway (Stations ' Enlargement). Feb. 1G• have complied with the standing orders of this House, and the report of such Committee shall be ordered to lie on the • e i nei ,. ,,. euidway (Dumfries Branch). r e C t atlitn , ogaia:„_ Vh baia-unterLyne, and Manchester Company, &c., Amal leat "ten 1 1\ 1geand y, L F in el co . 111 6 Extension, &c.) Railway-Committee on table. If the Committee should report that the standing • Gest" "ten Railway . ordeaa have not been complied with, their report shall be ( agog alid R co L in a „ s i t it a t i ca d o l l i l re i s . t et l it n i d o i n a , Docks and eßbinill6ll.igham Junction Railways ,,, ete,,,_ irkenhead Railway. Mitcham and South-Western itadway-Committce all Petition, referred to the Committee on Standing Orders, whose report i t ai v ile s aa l i ti . lway, And-Lotai sin Branches. Mouclay, Feb. l and shall be ordered to lie on the table. ( „., , ie r a i . a . s a-,laley Railway (No. 2). ResOlved-" That when a Railway Bill shall have been )i re emax ‘a b , 1; astern Rahway. Newmarket Che:iterford Railway-Committee on Petition, ntoratay, Feb. 16• brought from the House of Lords, it shall be read a first time, o,.'llati it allwas (Carlisle Deviation). gsteke to Yeovil) I,al. g la it (Erewash Valley Extension). London,. Salisbury, and 1:e and referred to the Select Committee on Petitions for Private e o ' 4l X e l.. ti Mils, and 3lonklands Junction Railway. ltailway-Co•r mittee on Petitto ° n 7 , ll 3 j lo u n n t e l t a i y o , n F ( e l3 b. a l l a n ' Bills, who shall report whether the standing orders have. „Ina ton a, Midland Railway. Macclesfield and Lichfield Railway-Committee on Petition, Mon. day, Feb. 16. been complied with, or whether any report with reference to " sc atiiil l aac itr Crewe Railway. ' Manchester, Midland, and Great Grimsby Junction Railway- tulitantialiy the same Bill has been previously laid on the .;_aihk,...., Belfast Junctien and Navan Branch RAHWAY Extensions. Tril l 1; 4 ; 0 ' 14 kailWay (No. 2).Committee on Pethion, :Sunday, Feb. le. . table of the House " Dublin and Kingstown Railway Extensione -Committee on Pell- • n o tin nligl on 3 Railway (Harwich Branch).. Ron, Monday, Feb. 16. a.alta ao .,. and Wisbech Railway. Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenoak Railway (Harbour Branch)--Corn- RAILWAY RETURNS. , e ar ,11T a l, c o ~ be ek , nelield, and Leeds Railway. . mitten on Petition, Monday, Feb. 16. r at , tz t a way , RAILWAY Than - le.-The following are the Total Receipts of Rain Dartmouth, Torbay, Brixlatin, and Exeter Rallway-COmmittee B e ' r 't ;team and - • , . ways for the ' past week-that is to say, up to the date to which tin iilC ll . ~, kt 3 h„ ' n Kinsale Junetionßailway. on Petition, Monday, Feb. 16. respective retrns are made, together With the receipts of the same anll .Ifatsaaa,;-aae Railway and Eastern and Western Junction Railway. ‘Aieb 'land (~,. ~,,,h i , . Fleetwood, Preston, and Vaest Ilidiag Junction Rallivaa•--Corn mittee on Petition, altaiday, Init. I'3. . . week In the previous year :- k est, i . ... - 1 . aailvray. . t Or" wall C. 'khan' " ( Ron, and Bury Canal Navigation and Railway, and Calea o , l , - 'lar and Leeds Railway- Amalgamation. Glasgow, Barrhead, and Neilaton - Direct Railway (Branches to Thontliebank, Househill, and Harlot)-Committee on reu ion, Mon- •et ba , g s e r k riboti a t(-,Oal'arook Steam Coal and Swansea and Loughoa. day, Feb. 16. - C. Lai n ' l , a nd Workington Extention Railway. Glasgow, Barrliead, and Neilston Direct Railway (Branches to IF Last RI a ; aaita t o . star and Muuster Railway (No. I), ' ' Paisley)-Committee On Petition, Monday,l6. ending ' NAME OF RAILWAY. week. 8 ''. I. i n ,i'LliuT s te, r and Minster Railway (No. 2). '-. - Glasgow, Paisley, and Grezuock Railway (Polloc and Govan o 14 4. '"J' h , .i,„,:l B lige Railway, Branches)-Committee on Petitica, Monday, Feb. 16. ~ Ca 4 Rh ken 'ga. and Londonderry Junction Railway. Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock Railway (Bridge of Weir Branch) - ci eftio,,,;salieric Railway. - Committee eu Petition, :Monday, Feb. 16. f Jan. 31 Arbroath and Forfar ••••••••• • • •• • • 184 .£ il ' l.:t t at l i lt on, Leek, Potteries, and Crewe Railway.ll9 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardroasan Railway-Committee on . - Bnstol and Birmingham .•••••• •• •• • • - n o 'a n aiin and South Wales Railway. Petition. Monday, Feb. 16. - )t r. ‘laZa lae a . o ' rn and Western Railway. Glasgow Ilarbaur Grand Junction Railway Terminus Committee - Chester and Birkenhead. •••••• - • • • • - 377 lti, o fitioi al Railway. on Petition, Monday, Feb. 16. .' t 29 Dublin and Dyogheda• •••••••• • • • •• • • Feb. 3 Dublin and Kingstown ••••••• • • • • • • • 577 544 ta a ci l l, atia itariloatefraet, and Goole Railway and Port, &c., of Goole. Jan. 311 Durham a a n n d d ai s r u li n r ( o ic a r t i l a i Ld • .......... :: : : 961 914 Scottish Malan" -Junction (South Inch of Perth Branch)- Corn -255 214 berb4ead and ay (Purchase of Oakham Canal). mittee on Petition, Monday Feb. 16. St, IThlre. Rochester Railway and Canal (Sale and Purchase). 756 492 Scottish Midland Junction Railway (Branches)-Committee on Ca,"anan • . i.' l affordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway. Petition, MondaY, Feb. 16. 31 Edinburgh and Glasgow .••• • • • ... .. 2,341 1,877 Feb. _l . Eastern Counties and North Eastern.. 6,r6 3,872 lai i •°°ar i ,, "' l nuit, and ',unstable Railway. Glasgow, Stiai 0 :von, and Lesmahagow Direct Railway-Commit -I,,,aakm_tithern Terminal Railway. tee on Petition, Monday, Feb. 16. Jan. u t Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr .. •• • . 1,880 1,255 I 4abur g ,; 4 and Furness Junction Railway. Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal (Bradford 31 Glas;ow and Greenock •••••• • • • • • • 652 GBB - Grand Junction .. •• •• •.•••••• •• •• • • - • - Branch)-Committee on Petition, Monday, Feb. 16. 11!N,g4 'rail Glasgow and acottish Central Railways Junction. 31 Gravesend and Rochester. •••••• • • • • • 110 - r4,. a, b na t l li Glasgow and ' Wishaw aud Coltness Railways Junction. Huddersfield netaMancheater Railway and Canal (Oldham Branch) - Great North of England ............ Rtir,,,cl, w ak In, and Enniskerry Railway. -Committee on Petition, Monday, Feb. 16. - C- kra...- la ttl eld, and Midland Railway. Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal (Hodder afield Feb. 1 Great Western. • • .... n' a "taa a ' o lnerhampton and South StatTordahire Junction. . Diversion and Coo nor Bridge Branch)-- Committee on Petition, Mon- Jan. 31 ll o a n r d ti o e n p old ••..••• • • • . • • ..... •••• • • • 947 - lit lit, Y (lc, - , '2) o lrerhampton; and South Staffordshire Junction Rail day, Feb. 16. 1 Jan. Feb. 31 1 London London and d d I B l :la r is m c i le i l t w i o ig i al l :l a .. m . ' ... 8 ! . ... ••• • - • 32,404 25,697 a . lita lbf ead n n . ~688 1,223 Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manchester Railway (Ashton a,,•trora aaa a l i alainglt^ilway - . Canal and Porchaae)-Committee on Petition, Monday, Feb. 16.. 3,548 3,282 I ,:r_ey %."ZI Rattle i Railway : Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manchester Railway (Barnsley Feb. 3 London and Croydon .......... ..... 1,4i52 872 Jan. 3 - 1 L Lo o i n i d d o on . :ti mi d s G o r u c t e h nw vi l r c e h sie • r • n •• • .... :: .. :: 47, 98 9 56 8 03 4 4 3 , :70 6 0 7 445 8 RO M ak' r ekba rn I' l J linction Railway Branch)--Corninittee on Petition, Monday, Feb. 16. -- 4 , "aa ii .,,n tl itheroe, and North Western Junction Rai;WaY. Sheffield, Ashton under-Lyrae, and Manchester Railway (Whaley- Feb 1 Manchester, Bolton; and Bury ...... Jan: 31 Manchester and Birmingham.... .... 3 la ta l o a l liall', ° a s *estry, and Chester Junction and North Wanes MI- bridge and Hayfield Branches) -Committee on Petition, Monday, a aea h n, Era, ,) akinalgamation. . Feb 16. • jorti :alliten ° a " and South Wales Direct Railway. 31 Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc.. 5,131 5,041 l'an i-ta ltto ' -4111 nlaY, and Cheltenham Railway. Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyrae, and Manchester Railway (Dukin field, Worsborough, and Glossop Branches, and Sheffield Station)- 31 Midland Counties .•••••••••• • • • • • • • • 1.4,115 12,129 n il cla ° and Banbu P ilway 31 Newcastle anti Darlington . • .... .. .. 2,490 1,011 1 4 kri * "Mica rY •R • . • Committee on Petition, Monday, Feb. 16. 31 Newcastle and Car1i51e....... ..... .. 1,477 1,449 ta, laea ~a , , , and Yarmouth Railway. Richmond Railway (sew Branch)- 7 committee on Petition, Mon- Iniil' s ats 11 4 7 1 rroon Railway. day, Feb. 16. Feb. 1 Newcastle and North Shlelds• ... 427 304 • • • • .0,,.,..' kid (3 a aY Extensions. • Petition, - Direct Loudon and Manchester ltailwaY-Committee on 1 Norfolk.. • • ............... ... 1,222 210 4 4 ,gamp te „Y.e and Monkland Navigation Junction. postponed from Monday, Feb. 9, till Tve:Alay, Feb. 10. - North Union and Bolton and Preston - 1,311 ta il Atsai i . a " and Bedford Ragway Eastern Union and liarwich Railway and Pier-Committee on 2 Paris, Corbel', and 0r1ean5.......... 4,668 4,201 a. ra ..: a m , _,.. .• • 2 Paris and Rouen .•• • . 7 1 4Itt i ,,,Canal Be lßailway. Petition, postponed front Monday, Feb. 9, till Thursday, Feb. 12. • • Jan. 31 Preston and Wyre ••••••••• • • • •• •• •• 420 349 "Nu . ' Great aa" 3 ' Dublin and Emiiskillen Railway- Centraittee on Petition, Tuesday, 31 Ol d ' Sh• -de a isstern Railway of Ireland (Mullingar to Galway). Feb. 17. Sheffield and Manchester •••• .. - .... 1,477 579 i s _ Ip, 141 h , Ild bn a . 31 South Eastern •• •• ••• • . za. ,,,. ,, ... aa,i,_ .iington Junction Railway (Pontop and South Londonderry and Enniskillen Ralhvay-Committee on Petition, T a'",d 1V,,,,"aY Purehaac). Tuesday, Feb. 17, 31 Tuff Yaie 9OO 637 44' tead"" of England Junction Railway Feb. 1 Ulster . ............................641 581 ° lf ' r naa p g ' and Basingstoke Railway (Tring to Saunderton). COMMITTEES ON PETITIONS FOR PRIVATE BILLS - Yarmouth and Norwich •• . - •- aa °a , tailw a Jan. 31 York and North Midland. •• •• • • .... 4,355 - -adaa 4it ao „ Y (Langholm Branch). FOR THE ENSUING WEEK. kotF'd li, v , •Y• Cheltenham, and Gloueester Railway. aa fly , , . MONDAY, FEB. 9. ;se m - CE ntr ... ~, kgwinton to Lincoln). ee ti ellai l lt ,', altallway (Alba Branch). North Staffordshire (Potteries Line) Railway. SOU TII-EA STERN BAILVV AY. NI °, 4 _ end T i' ; '.!.r.:3- (Glasauw Termini and Branches). London, Newbury, and Bath Direct Railway. OPENINGri OF TIIE CANTERBURY BRANCH. PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS. (From the rotes and Proocedings of the House of Commons.) The fallowingFßlDAY, FEB. 6. Petitions far Railway Bills were referred to the ao mmittee on Petitions for Private Bills . ''nall"b Leith, and Grantor Breadalbane Railway. ,ataaunian Northern Direct Railway. :.tiieliester and Bognor Railway. ale cf Neath Railway. lt..lronlicaa, •Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction Railway. ',eaford, 'Waterford, and Valencia Railway. paioatla..hire Railways. au_raielasture Midland Junction Railway. 'KI. nd Deal Railway. fl oss and C ar l ow Junction Railway. a:trrt, Ab ergavenny, and Hereford Railway. S ' lath Inverness Railway. 8411a1 isb a3 ur tern y and Iliraiingham Railway.: Railway (Ashford Stations Enlargement). 14,21 and Birmingham Railway 14,2•_lvOrk, and Midland Junction Railway. (Aylesbury Railway Purchase). ales Railway. "tclsh Grand Junction Railway. Este neanti Caletionlon J unction Railway. Cr leou titi 2 s Railway (Lincoln and Milford). Counties and Thames Junction Railway Branches. Te„, Counties Railway (Tottenham and Farringdon-street). Livelfriernore and Nenaah Junction railway. • 8, 444° 1 and Leeds Direct Railway. kaaa Central Railway (CrieLl iwanch). Ratatril Central Railway (Denny Branch). • ? la neni sll cl'aent,ral Railway (Perth T 91110,111 a d n L d i lt o a l t n io L ns ia ). o. „aka uaties Railway (Cambridge an alejoaiComities Railway (Stations Enlargement). su R a i lway (Dumfries Branch). f ,gan ' a t A n shboa-under-Ly ne , an d Manchester Company, Amal test West . era it • B irk aa enl w ie n i way y. r‘ vai taa,all Rilway, M i id i :Lotnisin . Branches. aud R Aiwa v (No. 2). i'alsdunGreat Western Rai.Way. Ada, 4 , 18 Railway (Carlisle Deviation). lr s L g• (Erewash Valley Extension). gaar.,.liale, and Monklands Junction Railway. enn aaa Ataland Railway. tibia %and Crewe Reilway. Saiih-ikait;, °Bas Junciian and Navan Branch Railway Extensions. rata t ll Railway (No. 2). il t intin.," °3 Railway (Harwich Branch). a ofa u ;-_on and Wisbeca Railway. wea r W akelield and Leeds Railway. Railway I .l 7. l:a a l, l : tr aa - o a i rt a lyZ' od a l l t l sale Junet Eaihva and astern r Canal Navigation and Railway, and I°llraainalwWneYs.tern Junction Railway; aalla a Waler and Leeds Railway- Amalgamation. ` f ikker, Coalbrook Steam Coal and Swansea and Loughor. Gent (II Workington Extention Railway. " 4 latt -4s lcr and Minster Railway (No. 1), E Lai a nha kia a ster and Munster Railway (No. 2). tar ry la and Sligo Railway. 'aeat and Londonderry Junction Railway. ;?hefeaaraealfiterie Rail y 'O 4 'eat Leek w P n oiteries, and Crewe Railway. at a . :_ rt ,h and South , Wales Railway. ajern and Western Railway. Z il kte,a,‘" ° a. Railwny cistidia,44l,Povatefraet;and Goole Railway and Port, &c., of Goal's. Y (Purchase 9f Oakham c C ai a l nal . ). gi` u asla re ",ia Rochester Railway and all4lbv. 4a,; Z‘affordshire, and W o rcestersh al ire ( J S u al n a cti a o n n d l:tu lu ' r ‘ cvnaa y nae). u toll, and ',unstable Railway. athern Terminal Railway. iTtila r ' t il . and Furness Junction Rallway• 14.,'Nrga ' 4l Glasgow and Scottish CentraltlasilawitanyuswJauynse jt a n and Glasgow and Wishaw and Col unction. fi M( ere and Enniskerry Railway' k r " , 4 : a ' ti eld, and Midland Railway. •artur/t., W olverhampton, and South Staffordshirej.Juunnecutioonnß. tt N Y (lea ' Wo lverhampton, and South Staffordshire ail lit "era a aa • 2) * a, 'lam aaa Spalding Railway. artcy a r ' t al Hattie t Railway. Qekbarnand J Unction Railway. • ea, t4n.v ,Clitaeroe, and North Western Junction Railway. C ' s *estry, and Chester Junction and North W a Mon, i,..wY Amalgamation. z 'c ' L ll latia D ifol, and South Wales Direct Railway. i:,-.aanlp-t-on, Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway. and ilarthury , Railway. ttin',lll;;PWith, and Yarmouth Railway. Je% .iand tenslaylan~ aad464'aa Eions. 4 atnpi a l c le and Monkland Navigation Junction. ' and Bedford Railway. a,n; and Lothians Railway. itiadjard old Railway Zeltsuareat Western Railway of Ireland ("Mullingar t to Galway). a,4.1,1c1 Darlington Junction Railway (Pon op Tu n and ILl'way purchase). Re of Enaland Junction Railway Itiej lo 414 4 and llasingstote Railway ("Ting ° lto Tli4l la d na ia way (Langholm Branch). to Saunderton). Sc :4 l , :al ; ia,;•l'Y. Cheltenham, and Gloueester Railway. st` ad .l h Co ii w ,,, 43 's (Swinton to Lincoln). Laaaeni aa a r al Railway (Alloa Branch). Way (Glasgow Termini and Branches). 'da q a u al l i l as af ‘ t a i n L i , i ningliairi t ind Birmingham Canal Arrangements. crai a , ann Direct Railway. I,,,Ll.ciaater-,arad Sheffield Junction Railway (Darfield Branch). la:ray p ie Leeds and Leeds and Bradford-R FA L anti r and Railay. ailways Amalgation. aba rgh arnsley Junetbin Railway. EA 4 d Slaasand G lasgow, Monkland and Kirkintilloch, Ballochney allberii4nan Railway J unc ti on . Lo 44 etio 1411 : 1 Glasgow Railway, and Forth and Clyde Navigation it wa' ailaajZ;tSalldamount Atmospheric Railway. ZiL.i',4llarantee Corporation. I.44hic en, RailwaY. It Banff and Eight Railway. • s7 44l est WnaY (rAllninghant Extension.) °Ron, and Bury Canal Navigation and Railway , l ilerga, 6n Amtld Sheffield and Manchester and Leeds Railway Com a land a aamation. %as4 r4 tr.r.eat Western Railway of Ireland. ) i n . l llaa aa m ,, °ll Railway (Ardleigh to Colchester). I,llla iia ill and Dorchester Railway. i7.'east er :lwaY (Newark and Gainsborougb)• eat B irmingha Railn - ay, with a Branch. i7tti,canailway (Aireas Branch). Eij l lki s and T . 4 ba Extension Railway. Repieleta.....•iarsk Railway (St. Helen's Branch_ Deviation). alemnr:Prteotnshire Extension Railway i i ?lli ry 11,2 exford, Wi c klow, and , Dwain •la ',eat G r i n ."lae and Calder Railway . ns r a m 'aa and Sheffield Junction Railway and Grimsby Docks c,reat risiation. k aria P b Y and Sheffiela Junction Railway (Humber Ferries). c aato a ass age R a il way. tli 'a, 44) , ( (ird, and Birmingham (Stamford to Wisbech Line). alara,,a'al Dundee Junction Railway. , tibii,,°;;,:e.-.N-ottingham, and Boston Railway. tiyla and 4elfast, and Coleraine Junction Railway. llaThirsk Railway North Eastern Extension (Wath to rtl ePool). N t 8 ana yhirskßailaaiy (Knaresbo gh "ranch Extension). 1„ a'rd Souniamaton, 4osport and Portsmouth] Railway. li,‘NS Central Railway Station. latnadililNi_acyl to(niaßedafilora(Tia Fl lYekanba ii r riut a i rN ng v d e o n ' i•!:er.pool and Bury and Manclie,ter and e t e e d n a s Extension). n) Amalgamation.• P ',rich and Bury St. Edllll/11tr aancb therefrom). s'Railway (Extension toEly,with a gb, Dungannon, Armaigh and Belfast Junction Railway. .:a_ana Bury Railway. al`.4alial Eate Railw ay (Erewash Valley "tile B h nsion Railway es). Oat • ' , ar o la ►rn:by, Louth, Ilorucastle, Lincoln, and Midland Junction. rk, iasentry, ends Burton-on -Trent Junction Railway. -, esto a and Kinsale Railway. ) z nag e ~ T" ' Yre Railway, Harbour and Dock Company (Long _ era, aallnenon). lila rn - 'Tales Railwayl'Jlineaa Railway. (No. 2). ‘aittlies• :Nlo w ' el ' , olto, and Bury Canal Navigation and Railway. Fennoy Railway. D evon Central Railway (Hayle, Lelant, St. Austell, talo a s'alln _liranches). ai'„aelia a 7 a . l Illraniagham (Weetio and Northampton Branch . ). a i ena ai " and Birmingham Continualion and Welsh Junction. l a istoi a aod Preston and Manchester and Southport Railways. Ark,' 4,1 Ai • " • • • ica r ulingliana RAlway (Bath Line). I,7ngt " n Wor2ester Railway. a i "trrd 44lgliire Railway (Oxford and Bletchley Junction). ppFM and ~, T avistock Railway. aki incisor Railway, Rildway Extension to Spalding. kia„000l a 41 Holy head Junction Railway. 41.1 1 4 "fury R a il way. T i aata aksk. and Ayr Direct Railway. 1/, Q4 l V a : 4 re and Lonaon Railway (Worcester 7trtd Weedon Line). tial'*:'Saliidlanals, and Grand Junction Radway. ai ici ', l ._,Thotir and Railway. zan, tiailkenny Railway. (1(4_4.. ild.ford, and Reigate Railway. La Nt lry: l Z Parrningham Railway (Leamington Extension and CO luiadalt4sbY Stations Enlargement).. -aalub Western Railway Acts Amendment. Lllknejlaa, '44° Dathgate Railway. Nrii a_ Anna:star, anal Stcckport Direct Railway. q kf avi N 44 Preston Brook Railway. ‘ , 11 11• 41 : 4, k a : r and South Wales Junction Railway. • aatil;aarneester, and Wolverhampton Rana ay Company. Extension) k,„ l ll l ,'rn a m a a n d Oxford Junction Railway (Birmingham aor n - as J an ",.outhern Comiecting Railway. iii•Z,tailanc,tion Railway (A). Y'llir a a " b evon Central Railway. It aea ' in ai"v aY. 1,2114" and Killarney Railway. llrinin g l iam G ra nd Junction, Manciaester and Birming ta",,4lllbec,4V Compa les Amalgamation. and Lancashire Grand Junction Railway. 1 4 , 4 41 -4 L l : go ! 44 I tt ea itaian ' p l . l a w‘l a:y 3 :( y e ( ly N ci o e . sd 2) a..le Junction Railway Deviation). rilileil°4lllearna(l Bury Atmospheric Railway. v r ait a ad it and Western Extension (Carlow to Kilkenny). Railway. ItOct hz na nitiam Railway (Birmingham Extension): alto Extension and Damen Junction olah. 1.09 and Leicester Railway. lit e tt an d at a a`a Oxford Junction Railway. 1n7 4.101 1 Railway. a la l aalah anl Y St. Edmund's and Newmarket Railway. 'aii,,,,,i--;•;.lanivfeNrYholverliamptoA, and Stour Valley Railway (firming a„vitiqaara, a,llllpton, and Dudley Lines). . vailey Railway (Stour et n , olv erhampton, and Stour and \%!ilia 4 l. o t era L ll in i riningwa ra R a il w ay (Ishchurch, Tewkesbury, and 1 ar ty; d ' ( 4114 ). 'elts a aasin ra --eater, and Portsmouth Railway. rei n a aria end London Railway (HamptonLea and Banbury Line). aet n , Mar, Irlaingham Extension Northampton, Daventry, 14 1AI-rill' 441 W ' , arwick Railway. I. l4 Tola kl a l lia•r - ?‘ aY• )tataa.atiawn4dlgham and Midland Railways. aallarailara, (N orwich Branch). olverhain pto Garakl" ham and Gloucester Branches). and Dudley Railway. La lllic Lkillea rea ' (.'allati-„rk( Birmin' and Co g atbridge Railway Extension. nd Manchester and Leeds Railway. aa ii. Railway (Tring to Banbury). a'aezi i ;ad Ga iribl ll•hat v (Coventry to Nuneaton). r 'bh. " v an n wa- •Railways Amalgamation. Eaa b a and Clydesdalo Junction , tc h , ) 4 3 , Ik uto ttrt 4117 Q, iie refordshire Railway. A . 411 10 ,1, 4 4 P 1 '1 11,',7_ e cles Railway and Drainage. a?al ciar,alaT Railway. ala,. o a r lbh d Unction Railway. I,a n !? Saliaburfar Railway. 4 rY, and Yeovil Junction Railway (Salisbury to taar Gre at , estera R a i lway Ely I t ' ) • of Ireland (Liffy Branch and Long allway (Extension to March). (,`ltyadersfield, and Great Grimsby Direct Railway. tiaa ands j iliulleester and B' • h• and Gloucester Railways. inning aPa 'Or elleester Railway (Gloucester and Stonehouse Jana. N bil k 141 W a 4 aaiuo a„4lerford Railway, Railway, y Z„, l lar a ut all (Dimayvan Branch). ak do.. a and y (Leith Junction). aa a :paa, Junction Railway. vk atj a lliati oa " e ' and Govan and Clydesdalo Junction Railways wa ll .• vai ISL efh 4ilWaY (Glasgow, Garnkirk, and Coatbridge Purchase). .a • 044 ' nth _ a clip.. nl, Barnsley, Wakefield, Huddersfield, and Goole llna . ‘ a of fa n _for Making certain Lines of Railway in the West ata,iillarasies..,;:lusalycf York, to be called The Sheffield, Rother s ontefrect ai.T k ae. " aria r ca w d ttnrield, Huddersfield, and Goole Railway,'" a !net! a and Goole time, and ordered to be read a socona Goole Railway (Meta- - Bran I a ava' pre l ri a e f it , ki,„, a (l ow _ .": a nFs) to empower '• C u surd r r ad p t a , ny t o r alt an 4 eond rj, Railway—P etitition for Bill retsciittvi by ,Viscount Ntwr, Res& Lleai ns44 "o;'Cinereddutosisalerr" "ail I_l4.i.tzedlar:'4'oC2hord‘lrlejl an Llverpo7l4:l a t by Viscount Newry and Wear - a4retition for Bill re , Petition for Pt To- Aotuegrhatti by Mr. Waltaia Patten and 7143 ana ‘)l.4l 4' , t° b 4 e br ••‘.‘., 11 41M/bra R„ a bflevels In Ilingley) tei,.1.3401 a ilk, a and ellt3-Nnidlwr°arya. in7ll,ly 41 - a a i :t a ighe * "4 Porti: "B Company to alter vaertrittp, ti;4%alliaaryea,ciavesteictoloand ftoinar n .!at at tiere d county of Yo ' rk,a p a ; ,Patred'sh“noaf read the arl k pns or fur lan u tension of time to a•, t arp Y orrisred, ‘, of a l l rz . z • z ies, sad the the'haeuemosupf,..z7.il.es Company, rucred,aggre uy each ,Pairpiel a t 3n o ld the Court /141.to.ianart3,ats.,_-..akturn o sold the tine ot'each 4431017(na.iu.4112beetetaao_n_114tant-General in 'ateChaceryadnuri°lninigt amount of RAUWAY C 9 roPallhal t" COMMITTEES ON PETITIONS FOR PRIVATE BILLS FOR THE ENSUING WEEK. MONDAY, FEB. 9. North Staffordshire (Potteries Line) Railway. London, Newbury, and Bath Direct Railway. Direct London and Portsmouth Railway. South-Eastern (from the Watarico-road, near Hungerford-bridge, to the Greenwich Railway) Railway. South-Eastern (Greenwich to Chi Faun, near Cantarbary, with Branches) Railway. South-Eastern (from Greenwich Railway to Chart, ilaar Ashford, with Branches to Tunbridge and Riverhead) Railway. London and Brighton (Dorking I tranch) Railway. North British (Hawick Branches) Railway. North British (Carlisle Extension) it aihvay. North British (Gretna Branch) Railway. Edinburgh and Glasgow Branches Railway. Edinburgh and Peebles Railway. General Terminus and Glasgow Harbour Railway. Windsor, Slough, and Staines Atmospheric Railway. Cambridge and Oxford Railway. Brighton, Lewes, anti Hastings (DeviatiOns and Branches to East- Imitate, Newhaven, and Scalord) Railway. Brighton and Chichester (Bognor to Littlehampton) Railway. Brighton and Chichester (Steyning Branch) Railway. London and South Western (Parcham and Alton Branch) Railway. South Eastern (No. 8— Canterbury to Dover) Railway. South Eastern. (No. 6 —Maids tone to St rood, near atocnestea) Railway. London and Brighton (Wandsworth Branch) Railway. South Midland (Huntingdon Branch) Railway. Sheffield and Lincalitshire Junction Railway. South Midland (Northampton and Bedford Lines) Rallwa - a. Grand Junction (Eluyton and Aston, Huyton, Preston aid St. Helen's, Warrington and Kenyon, Warrington and Parkside, Showhill and Portobello, and Edgeliiii and Huyton Branches) Railway. Grand Junction (Huyton and Warrington Branches) Newcastle mid Berwick Railway. Aylesbury and Thane Junction itai:way. Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Junction Railway. Wisbech, St. Ives, and Cambildgo Junction Railway. .3aold Junction Railway. Bristol and South Wales Railway. London and York Railway. Ipswich and Bury St. Edmund's (Norwich Extension) Railway. Lancaster and Carlisle (Extension to Caledonian Railway, and Lan caster and Preston Junction Railways Amalgamation) Railway. Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester ( akefleld Extension) Railway. Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester (Deriat ion and Branches) Railway. Uiverstone, Furness, and Lancaster and Carlisle Railway. Newcastle. and Darlington Junction (Durham and Sunderland Rail way and Weannouth Dock Purchase and Branches) Railway. Barks and Hants (Hungerford Extension) Railway. Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr Railway and Branches (No. 5). Guildford, Chichester, Portsmouth and Fareham Railway. Guildford, Chicheater, and Porasmouth Railway. Taw Vale Railway Extensa'''. Waveney Valley Railway. Edinburgh and Leith Atmospheric Railway. North British Railway (No. I). Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle Railway. Edinburgh and Northern (Newport Railway and Saint Andrew's Branch) Railway. Edinburgh and Northern (Kinross, Woodinill, and Newburgh Branch) Railway. ladinburgh and northern (Lochgelly and Leslie Extensions) Railway, Edinburgh and Northern (Dunfermlina Branch) Railway. Edinburgh and Northern (Strathera Deviation) Railway. Edinburgh and Northern (Branches tram the Dundee and Arbroath Railway and Tay Ferry Improvement) Railway. Edinburgh and Northern (Pettycar and Perth Harbour Branches and Deviation) Railway. York and North alialand (Leeds Extension) Railway. York awl North Midland (East Riding Branches, No. I) Railway. York and North Midland (Widening and Enlargement) Railway. North Union Railway. Cheltenham and Oxnard Railway. London and Blrminghaun (Euston and Camden Stations Enlarge ment) Railway. London and Birmingham (-t. Alban's and Luton Branches) Railway. London and Birmingham (Newport P11 , 12e1l Branch) Railway. South-Eastern (.8. 11—Branch from Bye to Rye HarbOur) Railway. South-Eastern (No. 10— from the Godstane Station to East Grinstead) Railway. - South-Eastern (No. s—Branch from Reigate to Dorking) Railway. South-Eastern (Nu. 4- from Tunbridge Wells leading to Hastings and Rye) Railway. South-Eastern (No. 9—Hastings and Rye frem Chislet to Margate) Railway. Colchester, Stour Valley, Sudbury, and Ha'stead Railway. Exeter and Exmouth Railway. Exeter and Yeovil Railway. North and South Junction Railway. West Riding Union Railway. Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland Hallway. London, Hounslow, and Western Railway. Great Western and Uxbridge Railway. Norfolk Extension (Stowivarket, Wymondham, and Attleborough Branch) Railway. Norfolk Railway Extension (Dereliam, Wells, and Blakeaey Railway Branch). West of Scotland Junction Railway. Perth and Crieff Direct Railway. Edinburgh and Glasgow and Dumbartonshire Railway. Leicester and Bedford Railway. London and South Essex Railway. Wilsontown, Morningside, and Coltness (Knowton Branch) Railway. Wilaontown, Morning,side, and liolt uess ( Improvement and . Branches) Railway. Wiahaw and Coltnets (Greenhill Branch) Railway. Slamannan and Borrowstoneas Railway. Siamannan (Bathgate and jaweraig Brandies) Ra Uway. Rugby, Leainiugton, and Warwick Railway. Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and .Ayr Railway an(:. Branches (No. 6). ' Staines and Henley Railway. TUESDAY, FEB. 10. • Ballymena and Ballymoney Railway. Airdrie and liathgate Junction Railway. Leicester and Tamworth Junction Railway. Coventry, Nuneaton, Birmingham, and Leicester Railway. • Leeds and York Railway. East and West Yorkshire Junction Railway, Saint Helen's Canal and Railway, North Western Railway. Exeter, Topsham, and Er:nouth Railway. London and Oxford Railway. Lancashire and Yortshire North Eastern Railway. Rugby and Stamfaaa R a il wa y. Direct Lond'a - a and Manchester Railway. Eastern, 'onion and Harwich Railway and Pier, WEDNESDAY, FItS. 11, - - The Canterbury branch of the South-Eastern Railway was yesterday formally opened by the Directors. A special train, containing the Directors of the South- Eastern Railway, and their friends, started from the Bricklayers' Arms station at ten o'clock, and arrived in Canterbury shortly after two. The new line, which commences at Ashford, is 15 miles in length, and is a dcuble line of railway. At the Canterbury end a large concourse of people had assembled, to witness the arrival of the first train, and they vociferowly cheered it as it entered the town. The occasion was celebrated by a public dinner, given in the Corn Excha , ge. About 280 gentlemen sat down, amongst whom we noticed Lord Torrington, the Dean of Canterbury, Mr. M'Gregor, the chairman of the South East( rn . Railway ; Mr. Dodd, M.P.; and Mr. M P. Mr. Hooper, I the Mayor of Canterbury, presided at the dinner, the Dean of Canterbury sitting on his left hand, and Mr. M'Gregor on his right. The cloth having been removed, the usual loyal toasts were given and responded to heartily. The CHAIRMAN then gave "The Archbishop, the Very Ito' the Dean, and the Clerg) of the diocese. The Dean of CANTERBURY returned thanks, and con gratulated the inhabitants on the auspicious t vent which they had'that day met to celebrate. The CHAIRMAN then gave the health of the Directors of the South Eastern Railway, which was received with loud cheers. rf , 5 1b 1b 4 J 0 0 $t 2 11) ‘2lb Mr. M`GnEacin was loudly cheered upon rising to address the company. He said, —Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen, on behalf of the South-Eastern Company, I beg leave to tender to you our grateful thanks for the kindness and hospitality with which you have received us to-day, on open ing the extension of our line of railway to your cathedral city, and I am sure we all feel highly honoured in having been, in any degree, instrumental to the completion of this great work, which places Canterbury in connection, by railway, with London, and all those towns to which the advantages of the railway system have already been extended. —(Cheers.) The Mayor has made several very flattering remarks upon the manner in which the works of the Canter bury, Ramsgate, and Margate Railway have been carried out. The merit t,f the works does not belong to the direc tors, but to the abilities of the engineer, who has executed the plans entrusted to him to the entire satisfaction of the directors. I feel, whets speaking of Mr. Joseph Cubitt, that I should be doing an injustice to another gentleman who is now present, if 1 did not take this opportunity of referring to his labours upon the South-Eastern line of railti•ay. 1 refer to Mr. William Cubitt, the father of the gentleman of whom I have just spoken.—(Cheers.) The great works which Mr. William Cubitt carried out, in connexion with the original line of the South-Eastern Railway —I refer to those between Folkestone and Dover—will, as long as the South Eastern line exists, cause his name to be associated with its history.— (Cheers.) Gentlemen, it is true that to arrive here we have r, lb nlb 6 it ." / pi r 10 lb 6 5 t j 6st 41b Giv iit 3 Yrs' b t,gew travelled round three ;ides of a parallelogram, which has in creased the length of the journey to at least twenty miles more than the. direct line would make it, the present distance being somewhat more than eighty' miles; Whilst the eltetOon of our Greenwich line to Uhilham would lessen the distance to about sixty miles. Public opinion has decided that the system of railways throughout the kingdom shall be so com pleted that every important city and town shall be brought into railway communication with every other one, and it is unnecessary, since the ptiblit hest thadt up their Minds on the subject, IA) dwell upon the advantages which the comple tion of the system will afford both in the transit of pas sengers and in the carriage of goods. Having spoken of the proposed extension of our South-Eastern Railway to Chil ham and Canterbury, it would not be right to pass over the fact that another and a rival company, likewise, proposes to effect the same work, and it will Us Rif Parlltitheitt to decide whether thatworlt Cannot be intrusted to the South-Eastern Est 0117 65 t 1$ 11) 0 n ib , t iv 6it 6 9 ' t 6 ) 1* 69 ' t 9lb r 3 10 °l4, 711) Company with more advantage to the public than if it were placed in the handl; of a Separate at of opi nion that the system of Kentish railways will work more to the advantage of the public in the hands of one company than if divided among several, sjnee unity, of kysteiti in the conduct of railway traqie Is of the greatest consequence both to the cedhCilliy of the working of the line and to the con venience and comfort of those who , travel over it.— would (Cheere.) I venture tti tall t °lir attention Of tile feet that h oiir the rates of fat e s dieted on the railway are not those which the which a li l n lo e w .p4 u s s ses to o th s a n rg se e ti fe iti r ee c q ir i c i t i i s i ; to r n d s r distances iiistauce over , to this anekent City ; hilt the fares a re charged for the short or diiveohal distances, the same, in fact, as they must be presumed to be if the whole of - our projects for which we arc applying to Parliaititiit Were aireadjr granteth and the lines executed. I do hot mean to sly that no further reduction of our fares can, at any time, take place; because a great in crease of traffic, and great economy of conducting it. will undoubtedly lead to such a result, and we htiVe alrady had the greatest amount of evidence that could be . desired, that from n moot ateii6iirp rekldtibp of area tl)h.e not ne dessarily iiMioW a reduction of receipts. On the contr'l4, although we reduced the rate of farts on the Ist of Set teilatiet las t lietti4 40 per telifa 1.4 tth Ottig Adtteqen in charge, and ny establisning a uniform system of aay - tick the number of persons who have travelled over the line has been increased td sitat aii, ektrabtdlnaiy extent that the atheibit. Of Abney rater;e'd has .teen.!' Weie t and we are looking forward to the completion of this line of rail wav to Ramsgate and Margate, to the opening of the French railways, and to the general eompletion of the railway systelit_in Gieat Pritaib; for d ftirthei gfkiikt ikeOsicn or ttame. The extension of the Greenwich Railway to this place will pail% a. 4 you kdow; thrOugli a diStfitt con taining a greater population in the Mild adjoining Igintldn, than that Which exists in any other part of the known world; and the completion of the railways in the south eastern district will, I am persuaded, give of itself an hn- Mense inerease td the itutnbbr .trairellera in,its own imme diate anti I.ll6rebY piobably efifibld the eiiiilPOnk to still further reduce their fares. You are all aware that meetings ha'e taken plate in various towns in Kent, called by the pronieters of a partiettlar CoMpaily; and thdse meet ings having been generally attended fly the partisans of the one Company, have frequently, though not invariably, de‘ tided in its favour, as being - the line best adapted to supply their wants. Now I can only compare this mode of ob taining a verdict to the remark made by King James, when he Visited ids (Ain i.Ot.trt of Pi, g'S Veiiche Having heard Vat Pleadings on the plaintiff's tide d the case, he was anxious at once to give judgment for him, but being told by the .chief Justice that the formality of hearing the de ' Cii,dant'l arguments *as yet to be gone through, the King Obtei+ r e. that it ikaa ai itiost embarrassing position to be placed in, for when lie heard what had to be said on one side only he had no difficulty in arriving at a judgin'ent; but that when both sides had spoken he found tin:lett tillable to come to any conclusion at all. And this, I think, would be the case in many of those localities where meetings have been held, if the plans of the rival Swansea Vale Railway. Malton and Dritßeld Junction Railway. Clitheroe Junction Railway. Blackburn and Preston and East Lancasid:* ltallways Amalgamation. Manchester and Southampton hail Wily. 'THURSDAY. FEB. 12. Eastern Union and nadielgh Junction Railway. Yorkshire and Glasgow Union Railway. Great Western and Wyaombe Railway. Rugby and litintl'ogdon Railway. B °lnersetsb.'.....e Midland Railway. I'm y, Saundersfoot, and SOilib. Wales Railway. . Grand Union Railway. • Midland Railways (Systen to Peter!)Omit AttilWay Deviation and Dranohet). Nottingham, Mansfield, and Midland Junction RAIiVrIV: Roston, Newark, and Railway, Great North of Rigland and Borcitijihrklat nralich Railway. Great North of England ItallWi* Pitt b chasb. York and North Midland Edit itidtug Brageheis ItailwaY (No. Leads and Bradford (Olitseley Branch) itadivay, Great North of England and Bod a t e Branch ltediway. Leeds and Bradford (Junttiin InVe at Bradford) Railway. London and South Woteni (Salisbury Junction) Railway. London and With Western (Basingstoke and Salisbury Extension) RailwAy. FRIDAY, FEB. 13. Cork. Passage ltaiiwiti. Atfrrd "Va, , :.. l: ::; ~ vay. Magid° Re , •••+ •;, • (treat "Sori.J Handutott Extension) Railwari c.. - llQ.'acester a i ,(1 and Pier'. I,o:llsliire.lo.l l Waj r . Britittewalef :neli ea , rfer London Ana Branch Chehusford,gral Glaspillarbe ,, • .;:clw•ty. ...orthern East Lothian Cellit. , i and York awl Hun and Selby Ilailw.ty • i*ynt, Valle?' Junction Railway. Cornwall Railway. Shrewsbury and Bor.!. forcl Shrorsidre Union Railways r.ad (Newton to CreTVO with Brances). Shropshire Union Railways nr..l Car (Shrewsbury and Stafford Railway). Shropshire Union Railwos au.l (Chester and Wolver'aamp, t n Lne). • London, Warwick, L•fpnip::,-I.ln, KlAdormlmter. A.a.holme, Gainsboroli, Ceole York, and North l%ficiland June thy, Railway. Lincoln, Walutteet veil. and y. South Staffordshire, Juitet.ua ant) Liant;Les (No. 1). South Staffordshire Juuctitat (BiLston and Priestfleld Branch,-No. 2) Railway. South Staffordshire Junction (Showhill and Portobello Brauch— No 3) Railway. South btaff9rclalliretruncttoß(Willenhall&BloliTick — NO 4 )Bairs7 _ Askern, and 1VA.,11,1,1, Mite oake three tetetai Manch ie lint Noo n tu)d ordered to be tw- to be submitteti ~ein e, tretetirg tne f 4, ft ? en. , ltielli. file question is a largt ~ ! well worthy the Eertoua attentien of Parliament, wfiere have no doubt it will be fully ccuitidereat , and wh7e sure a just verdict Will Le pass'ed 19r the advantage of any one single place that tho decision cat be made; but I ate sure that Parliament will look to the question as a whole—that it will take a comprehensive view of what is best for the south- cistern district—and s, position of the South -La tern Company at present, the gq 4 . - tal they had already embarked, the works thisy arc nc fo r f,V, ll : strutting, and the effect the compl e ti on of their edl'9ks Liu% t; for the ad van t age of the count y—ilrwill if it qii'aic that advantage can b e b es t promoted hylhed.ieutli-1 gtivck# Company, commit the construction of the p,i.0.; m. ,ts 1 1 4-- T:lt to the hands of that b o dy; W her e ver such it sziae projected North Kent Ritilway'has been eonantlt,fpti ,S,l l 3gi cvD3pany, the effect hal inyariably bop tbß k t e AMS ,t yob 00 rfo t i llb io lD 1°11) i oiv 1 l o to to to .ao , r6 t 1017 . , 1 7 00 ' 01 0 2 3 cAr au Tr .' og4 4 , 5 roo4 ftgl,ooq tell ° cotl o f Th o ie tO4 1 10.3 .60 1 1 1° e 1 W: lice° 01" ,eoo>° jpll :f )i 4io Wile,,'- log ,vs'e l ` of epgi° TME SUN, LO N DON, SATUR DAY EVENING, FEBRUAR \ 7 company and the new one have amalgamated, and I believe that there is not a single line of railway fof which an Act was passed last session as an independent scheme, that has already been amalgamated with the eld Company. In the hands of Parliament, however, we may cheerfully leave the decision of the question. The scheme will be tried on its merit. No opposition has been made by ore company to another on questions of form. The result will depend on the measure of advantage which one company can offer over the other, and I may mention that in the South-Eastern schenie for the constructing a line of railway from Waterloo-bridge to Canterbury and Dover, twit fewer than seventeen miles are already constructed, or are applicable in its projects to a double purpose, so as to amount to an economy to that ex tent of railway constructed, or so applicable over the rival company. Permit me to mention that, in adopting the Gravesend and Rochester line as part of ourscheme, that that railway will of course be remodelled and improved, so as to be made equal in comfort and safety to any existing railway in the kingdom. And here it may be interesting for you to know that the line from Canterbury to Whitstable is being now changed into a locomotive one, so that the traffic will be carried over it in one-third of the time which the transit had hitherto occupied, and with greater comfort to the pas sengers. A few weeks only will elapse before the Ramsgate and Margate Extension will be c om pl e t e d, an d s o soon as the Act has passed we shall bring down the branch line to Chilham, in anticipation of the completion of the Rochester-bridge, which will, of course, be a work of very great magnitude, and occupy a long time in construc tion. From Hastings round to London, if the South-Eastern Bills pass, as pass 1 belies e they will, every port will have a terminus, and I cannot conceive that any district of country can be better supplied with railway accommodation than Kent will be. The reduction in the cost to sea borne merchandise must be very great when such facilities are afforded, and the convenience in the transmission of garden and agricultural produce to the grdat markets, and in the carriage of fish, which has already,been felt, will be largely increased ; and if the prospect of free trade is alarming to any existing interests, we offer protective and' conservative clauses in increased facilities for carriage, so as to bring our own produce to our own markets with the greatest readi ness, and in the most economical manner. This will be much more apparent when communication is established be tween existing lines of railway, so that the produce put on the railway truck in Kent can be transmitted to the manufactur ing and other populous districts of the north, to whose • cli mate that of Kent is a month or six weeks in advance, without being shifted from the carriage, on which it is first placed, till it arrives at its final destination. Whilst we are carrying goods from Dover to London for 10s. per ton, we are paying for the delivery in London, or for the transmis sion to the railways proceeding narthwards, ss. per ton, almost all of which would be economised if the railways were in con nexion with each other, as no doubt they soon will be. The shrine at which our homage is paid to-day, if not that of St. Thomas a Becket, is yet one of the greatest value to all—the facility of intercourse and friendly communication; facility for commercial transactions; and last, not least, economy ( - )f time. In every place to which railway communication - has extended the value of land and houses has increased no less than 30 per cent., which is a substantial proof of the value that the public places in facility of intercourse; and I have it from the agents most extensively engaged in the sale of estates that the question now invariably asked is, how far distant the property they have to dispose of is from a railway station ? The questioa of railway extension is now engaging the special attention of Parliament, and I am sure great good may be expected from the inquiries that are being made. We bare not anything to fear from the fever of railway specu lation, which has now subsided. It is not clear that any lines of railway will be constructed except those that will be of permanent benefit to the eountry; and I may add, too, that it is not clear that any lines of railway will be sanctioned which would damage existing interests, without con ferring superior advantages on the public. Some forget, when speaking on this question, that while other competing undertakings may co-exist for a time, and then one give way to another, a line of railway once constructed must re main permanently in existence; and consequently that an outlay of capital in the construction of railways not perma nently required for the public advantage is a waste of the national resources, and should therefore not be permitted by the Legislature. The beauty of the situation of your city, and its magnificent cathedral, the unrivalled walks which it possesses, not to speak of the hospitality and kin4ness of its inhabitants, must have great attractions to visitors; and I am sure the opening of the railway will be the commence ment of a new era in the prosperity of Canterbury. The next toast was that of " The Mayor of Canterbury," which was proposed by Mr. M'Gregor. This was followed by that of " Sir R. Peel and her Ma j esty's Ministers." The MAYOR, in a neat speech, proposed " Lord Torrington and the House of Peers." _ _ _ Lord TORRINGTON returned thanks in an able speech. " Mr. Fielden and the House of Commons" was the next oast. Mr. FIELDEN returned thanks. The' Healths of Mr. W. Cubitt and Mr. Joseph Cubitt " were proposed, and warmly responded to. Those gentlemen returned thanks. Mr. 31 4 GREGoR, in proposing the next toast, said be had just received, by the electric telegraph, information which he .lad no doubt would be pleasing to Mr. Randall, the banker, and other gentlemen connected with monetary matters. H e was enabled to state the closing price of Three per Ce nt. Consols that day was 97A—(Cheers) — while the price of Exchequer-bills was 39 to 40 premium.—(Cheers.) He had also to inform them that up to three o'clock that day, at which time the office of the Accountant-General of the Court of Chancery closed, upwards of 11,000,000/. had been received as deposits.—(Cheers.) After a few further ob servations he proposed his toast. Several oth®r toasts were drunk, and the company broke up a few minutes before nine o'clock. The directors and their friends returned to London by special train. MONEY MARKET and CITY NE WS. CITY, FRIDAY EVENING. rAIES.—The Public Securities have again advanced, and Consols, for the Account, were done in the earlier hours of husii.ess at It is understood the jobbers " prepared the market" (to use a technical phrase) for the appearance the Chancery broker, who way expected as a purchaser. He, however, did not come forward, and hence several of the speculators effected sales to realise the profit of the late rise. Considering the advance in the value of Consols during the last few days to have been nearly two-and-a-half per cent., It is not surprising that we should find parties desirous of closing their transactions to secure the profit they have so readily obtained. The market, however, was very steady at the close of business, and if purchases like those of Wednes day and Thursday were again made, prices must go higher. There was a demand for bills upon Hamburgh to-day, which rather depressed the rate of exchange upon that place. Paris, Vienna, and Trieste IN ere, on the contrary, rather, higher than last post; and for Holland and Belgium the prices remained about the same. • The following letter was sent to-day to the Treasury by the East India and China Association : " My Lords,--=The non-arrival d the Bombay mail up to this time, and the little probability of its now reaching Lon don until after-the outward mail to India is dispatched to morrow, force upon us the necessity of drawing your parti cular attention to our letter of the sth ult. _ " But for the accidental circumstances of an Austrian steamer being . at Alexandria, Government would have been at this moment in ignorance of the military operations going on in India; and the disappointment to the mercantile com munity by the want of promptitude in bringing on their letters is widely and deeply expressed. We therefore again beg to impress upon your Lordship? attention the necessity of some arrangement by which such delay may in future be eel:tee:boa fmo looked rue sfto hr the avoided, and nothing occurs to us more advisable than having a steamer to run direct between Alexandria and Marseilles.—We have the honour to be, &c., " GEORGE LARPENT, Chairman. " S. GREGSON, Deputy Chairman. "To the Right Hon. the Lords of her Majesty's Treasury." Some speculators of the higher class are reaping an ex cellent harvest from the unfortunate clients of the Accountant- General, the depositors for railways. Having bad the sa gacity to foresee that the sums committed to his custody must shortly Come out again for investment, they took their measures accordingly, and while the money-market was under continued strain and pressure through the efforts of the railway companies to obtain bank notes for their depo sits, these parties regularly bought Corsols for time, and find themselves now in possession of a large amount of stock, which they can dispose of at a great profit to the broker of the Mist of Chancery, acting for the depositors. These unfortunate persons are therefore a butt for all to aim at, and as regularly victimised as it is possible to be. Whether they have to buy or to sell, all their trans actions are known balm, they take place ; and their business bein; eontided to a public officer, who has no discretion in making ebritrattS, they are sure uniformly to pay the highest and to receive the lowest price of the day. We have heard it stated that when these railway deposits first began , to accumulate in this department, and the atten tion or the rablie was drawn to the mode of doing business, some increase of activity was manifested, and orders to re invest were actually obtained In three days after the certifi cate was tectifeci i but this could not long be kept up, and of late—that is, for the hist three weeks, when the pressure upon the money market waS Mod severe—this most essential process for the relief of that pressure could seldom be got threagh in less than eight or ten days. Such sluggishness is manifostli' gin Incurable disease, and nothing remains but to deprive tie ofildd of this part of its functions, arid commit them to hands accustomed to the practice of banking and acquainted with the wants of the monied interest. Those who have most eaffered by the crisis are, poi:harp the trierelitants and traders of the middle class, who in point of general deal!, ate trustworthy, and their bills usually in as ready acceptan:o fOf discount as the class above them t btit its they commonly carry on their business by draughts it fti.iii months or longer, to enable them to make their returns, they have been often left altogether without le,iraccommodation.oiparing for T htehbeank callsers t o a and the m a great p on discount them brokers k t e h r e s thesetto their parties o w n bankers, were in tohre to habitthe railway compitNe fet the deposits, and a bill having so long a period to run, though ita soundness was unquestionable, superior per abovei ovsi n m tg e h r rpet c a h ßoy a fam n tn k t he s ne , ticsi and mofomi rt Committee t r i ttl a weh t ee e ai s oyi : discount lioness, and kept no accounts with the Ber of Eng owfo trustingu note lead Which should give them access to its facilities, but they foiiild there most unexpected and liberal aid, without which a ha v te l lp yielded to the pressure. Bills of t ti d of long dates were as freely taken as the lorTnhtirsanbesiancgtiothleee)ingeott w d in a h y a i t c f e h o r s i h a e as : ac ij r e ed ; E l a . lee a numbers or INI ! ' though of course some %. a been in active demand, smalllOn g e raemnoguangenale;ts Cf .the amount required the more so in consequence of the Rep '°, , deposits, money for that purpose ;.' pr, sb, , bly been made fromi Househe lo to ofs per i fo Lords, t . ; erWion. New public in time to produce any material at. but it has net :able in the arrangements to any great extent were not pract. ' ~ course of the few hours that r emained. Th e who': amount poised to the credit of the Acc ountant-Gener al , for ets.' h de : posits is now understood to b e ver y near 11,000,000/4....a :lit, ticiently large sum to deal with in the management of te, circulation ; and unless some greater dispatch than for this last fortnight is ad-pted at the Accountant. General's office, deposits j o i v as e, re w ac e li h ed av l e l, l 4 l 7 2 i2 oo th h a , t e th tl e th e i c c t b u o al f the pressure on the Money-market, which many persons were may come on again wthiitshmgcr)rLitnegr severityinclii i ed t t h o a t n h think ever.a at an end, companies, who may wits the amSoi o 'ill b rel l et i g wo a f t r i it e tll n ne s gd o e f tPl°' t e t e chartered bend under their common seal for the amount, which is pro - - , - . anion more, and exclusive of Scotl an d a nd Ire -1.,..% have at present heal given "id Exchequer- bably *l4O ...._. hind, Cot thl; gross sun), ut.„„---,- , for the insostinent of `;,o4)o,uutn- in f'tuvi• kills, of which about enc-half has been already invest.... 4110)-ifCLE.—The deposit crisis tnay now be looked upon :15 fairly* at tin end• The depression in the public se c:4ll:o;n' ) (3 1 c n c i a t 6 e icr s e t d o the part of rail 01e,neral, has been follovred by a re-action for the rise quite the Accountant as great and much more rapid than the previous decline. \ bpyrotcliiedesaltehse of o S n te e c y k i.( 7 The amount actually paid to the Court of Chance— ry has been "about 11,00,000/. Our oonteroporary, who would not Jake ,it for some time at a farthing less; than 30,000,000/., *tow adrnits :that nine millions is about the mark, and that -as 'recent descent to 5.000,0001. was quite as Wide of the truth as his former estimate of $0,09000/. :Ely) 60114111 g ordera kayo be43l o f 1816. plied with, and all this money placed in custody of the Accountant-General not, it is true, without a pressure of some severity on the igoney•market—but cer tainly without any disastrous consequences. It has been found in money too, without any alteration or relaxation of the law or rules of Parliament. The transaction has been brought to a successful termination, in spite of attempts to create uncalled-for alarm, and to raise up unnecessary ob stacles. Those who said it could not be done, now admit that it has been accomplished, and have the candour to OWII that it has been skilfully managed. Complaints now ema nate from the came quarter a ga i ns t the l o s 3 which r ailway companies suffer in re-investing. They were compelled to sell stock for notes, say et 94;$ to 95, and have now to buy stack again at 97i. There is some truth in this ; but it is .to be kept in view that the re investment on the part of railway companies of their deposit money is purely volun tary. There is no legal requisition to compel them to convert their notes into Stock or Exchequer-bills. They may allow their money to remain in the hands of the Accountant-General, if tney feel dispo3ed to do so, until it be absolutely required for Loral fide objects. No doubt it might, in that case, be unproductive; but it would at least be safe, and free from the changes and fluctuations which fre quently affect the funds. Supposing a fresh re-action to take place, and that Consols should again give way—that their price some months hence should be 95, in place of 97-- those railway companies who have re - invested at the latter figure, should they find it requisite to reali se th e i r C onso l s, would suffer a further loss. NS e do not say that th e f un d s are more likely to fall than to rise. It is a moot point which way the movement will be developed ; but the present price is not looked upon, cannot be considered as a natural one. It is the effect of a special cause—the demand created by the ini•estrnents of railway deposits. These have their limits, it aad when that demand ceases to act, remains to be seen whether the funds will continue steady or experience flue- tustion. Discounts are still scare in the commercial world. ,The!mini mum rate at the Bank of England still rules at 3% per c:nt ' , Os-F.—The stock markets, as was rather confidently an ticipated yesterday evening, rom the manner in which the day's business concluded, have again advanced, and once more closed considerably better. A number of brokers held orders to 3.11 stock at a certain limit, and on coming into the house to fulfil the instructions of their principals, they met with ready buyers ; so _much se that prices, which opened higher, advanced, instead of receding. Several leading ope rators, Wm are usually to be found on the side of the bulls, hive of late, presuming, no doubt, upon good information , been heavy bears; but, the time haying arrived when a cpunter policy had become desirable, the influence of a re turn to their ordinary traneactions for the rise has been brought to act upon prices. Consols were done as high. as 9714 for Account, but, as towards the close of business, sonic of the speculators were once more induced to realise profit?, a slight reaction occurred. Upon the whole, the improvement was full three-quarters per cent. on yesterday's highest quotation. To-morrow the first effect of the termination, to-day, of the payment of deposits to the credit of the Acc,aintut-General will be seen. The total amount paid has been ascertained to be 11,492,0001. Of this sum ono eminent banking firm alone supplied as much as 3,000,0001. Tae payments of deposits conatitutieg this aggregate amount were made by chequee and Ni ithout the intervention of a single bank note, the former being accepted as a valid and satisfactory medium of payment to the Accountant-General. The advance in the Consol market produced a better feeling among the share speculators. South-Eastern Railway, as well as the Buckinghamshire, and the Sambre and Meuse, advanced. London and York e on the contrary, declined, but this was is consequence of the proceedings in Parliament. One passage in the report of the Committee of the House of Commons has a very important bearing on the proposed lines between London and York. We allude to the follow ing :—" That it is expedient that all Bills which ought to be considered to compete in connexion with any Bills, the pro moters of which shall prove themselves entitled to the privi leges agreed to be granted in certain cases, by a resolution of the House on the 7th of July last, shall commence in the House of Lords." The practical effect of this resolution is to place the Direct Northern Company on an equality with the London and York. Both will now commence in the House of Lords, and there can be little doubt, if the inte rests of the shareholders and of the public are duly consi dered in that assembly . , that an amalgamation at some stage or other of their progress must take place. The friends of the two Companies must be of opinion that the sooner the event occurs the better it will be for all parties. The public re quirement will be answered, and much needless waste of time and money avoided. HERALD.—The last day far the lodgment of the railway deposits has at length closed, and the final result has to the fullest extent verified the view we have all along maintained —namely, that there was no real ground for assuming that the modes operandi would produce any practical difficulty of importance. Now, when the matter is concluded, it is very clear that it would have been just as well that an arrange ment had been made to trausfer Public Securities from the bankers to the account of the Accountant-General, instead of requiring the amount of the deposits in money ; but still, had no apprehension been excited, the business would have been quietly effected by the parties, without producing any pressure worth notice on the discount market. To the unjustifiable alarm that was raised upon this snbject, all the inconvenience which has been expe rienced by the commercial interest is exclusively attri butable. The result lies, however, shown that the apprehen sion was utterly fallacious, and the only alternative left to the Times and its abettors is to acknowledge a degree of ignor ance of the question not very creditable to the British pres=, in the middle of the 19th century, or want of honesty to an extent that we are reluctant to aver, even in the case of the misleading journal. In order to show that the difficulties that have been created have been of great magnitude, and have produced immense sacrifices of mercantile property, the Times of to-day quotes the authority of Truman and Cook, by an extract from their monthly circular, which is got up for the special in struction of the people in India and China. At no time do we consider these letters correct exponents of the London Money. market, when they profess' to soar above mere common place, and in the present case the state ments made are at direct variance with the testimony of the best informed persons in the Colonial market, in Mincing-lane. That considerable difficulty has been expe rienced in the commercial discount market is an undoubted fact, as we have repeatedly stated ; but at the same time the opinion was universal that the pressure would be but tem porary, and great forbearance was consequently exercised, and it is altogether a mistake that great losses had been sus tained by forced sales of mercantile property. We are quite aware that by showing this to be the actual state of the matter it may be presumed that we are making out a case in mitigation of the mischief done by the Times, for in prd portion to the extent of such sacrifices, so in proportion is the turpitude of that director of public opinion. Such a de duction would not, however, square exactly with the truth. The averment that inimelse sacrifices of property have bean made is only following up the same principle previously acted upon, namely, to propagate distrust and suspicion even beyond the advent of the railway deposits, fur the ob vious inference is, that the persons that have been com pelled to make the said sacrifices must now be in doubtful credit. PUBLIC MEETING IN SUPPORT OF SIR R. PEEL'S MEASURES. FRIDAY.—Last evening a public meeting, convened by the Mayor (Thomas Herbert, Esq.), was held in the Exchange-rooms, which were crowded to excess by all classes. The business of the meeting commenced soon after seven o'clock by the Mayor taking the chair. The MAYOR said, that in compliance with a requisition, he had felt it his duty to convene the present meeting, wbieh might be viewed as one of congratulation.—(Hear, hear ) But two months ago there had been a meeting in the same hall, to memorialise her Majestfs Government to open the ports, and to petition for an object which they might now regard as consummated.—(Applause.) It was interesting to note the progress of public opinion; one convert after an other had been added to their ranks—change had succeeded change—and a general conviction of the impolicy of the re strictive system was now prevalent. Mr. W. Cuirrs, merchant, on rising to move the first re solution, said, he had long leaked upon the corn-laws as en tailing evils e rn the merchants, manufacturers, artisans, and labourers, and he verily believed while they inflicted se rious injury upon these parties, they had never done the slightest good to any one class, not even to the landholders themselves. —(Applause.) He expected, if they lived twenty years longer that the trade of this country would be doubled ; at least he saw no reason why it. should not. He had tra velled many hundred miles through the farming districts in the Illinois, Indians, and the Missouri, where he found an immense quantity of agricultural produce and food, such as Indian corn, uheat, and maize; but as a class of farmers, he had no hesitation in saying, there are no people in the whole of the ilielted States of America who have so few com forts as these fan mars have. They have everything they want in the shape of food, and they have nothing of those things which we sell.—( Hear, hear.) He went into many farm- houses there, ant? he saw abundance of food, but at the same time he saw the fa.rrner, his wife, and children, desti tute and in rags, and wit.'2out knife, fork, glass, crockery, and other comforts, the pro,lnce of the towns in this country. --(Hear, hear.) Why is this the ? Because our laws have stepped in and forbidden an interchange. But now there will be free interchange, and tilt •re will be a wide field open for trade and commercial enterpi ise.—(Applause.) He would not trouble the meeting further, but at once read his resolution, which he bogged to move,.namely : " That the thanks of the meeting are due to Sir Robert Peel and her Majesty's Government. for the important and statesmanlike, commercial, and social measures proposed by them for adoption by Parliament." Mr.V. BAILEY (an influential Conservative) very cordially sec oded the motion. The resolution was then put, and unanimously adopted. Th e l u :tie. W. LINWOOD rose and was received with loud app l ause . There was one good result, he said, which had already f,,11 0 .„ - ed the announcement of the measure proposed by Sir R. Peel ; a result almost as grand in itself as the results that they :selieved would follow the accomplishment of free trade; narneli:• that it had alTeaty destroyed party. — (Hear.) They heard . not . hing not e of those 'actions that used to disturb the pu h,;:cal wor",d with their everlasting wrangling. Instead of that, the saw Whig joining Tory, and Tory joining Whig; &J witiok •: to unite in drawing be funeral car of monopoly.—( PP ..) bad to move that t of the a petition be sent to the House of CO min . ons in support measure proposed by her Majes • ey's Ministers. It paid full . honour to the man w ho brought the . measure forward fh b " The petition of the u ndersi g ned in!" statants o t e orough of Nottingham , sh o weth—Tbat your petitioners • learned with the highest satisfaction the introduction into your Honourable House by her Majesty's Ministers, of .most important mea sures as to the free importation of food, as to the tariff, and as to other matters of legislative regulations. Your petitioners consider these measures to be based on true and sound principles, and to be calculated to improve the agricultural and commercial interests, advance the social condition, and strengthen the political relations of Great Britain. e That your petitioners deem it wiser and more for the -tea of all classes to repeal the existing corn-laws at once, In- that if the advocates of protection to agriculture, though, bIA • ' , elieve, with, mistaken views, prefer the proposed re e9 •ies, and the postponement of total repeal for three dated du, . petitiwier would confine her Majesty's Govern years' P im ' • out zheir proposed measures in the moat prac 7 meat to Wry livable mode. " Your petitionos, without referring specially to the other eased accompany,. ng matters, desire most earnestly the pro l . cordieY flupport of you r Honourable House to these measures of GoveCkaleut And y ' o sir petitioners will ever pray, &c." , r rest pleasure in moving that the peti ia conclusion, he bad House of Commons.—(Applause.) tion forware td tog 0 ;11.7a's seconded by Mr. BEAN, and carried The propoe...ce - unanimously. . inoved, • " That although this meet - Mr. Alderman lIVA s diate repeal of all restrictions on the ing considers the Iran,t .. . as the course most for the advantag e f ree i m portation of fo od they deem the measures pro of all classes of the came of to be accepted and cordially sup posed far too important et ported." ._1 and after the transaction of some The motion was cartick.,• tg broke up at twenty minutes to I further business, the tarc-P— -isle rt'ClOass MAGA ZINES-(CONTINUE D.) TUE NEW 1110ATHLY. The present number of the Kew Monthly is graced by a paper from the pen of Mr. Harrison Ainsworth, intitled, " Laman Blanch e ard and his Writings," white does equal credit to the head and the heart of the writer. The character of poor Blanchard, one of the most gifted, and at the same dine one of the mast kind hearted of created being, is admirably drawn. The man as he was is there depicted, and depicted too after his own kind heart. It is such a sketch as Blanchard himself would have written of his friend, had he chanc, d to be the survivor. Mrs. Butlersontributes some verses, intitled the " Berkshire (American) Jubilee," and Charles Ilooten gives us one of his new world, spirit• stirring nautical ballads, entitled, "Pierre Picard, or the Sea Famine." This number is rich in American sketchei, for Captain Lev:nge continues his "Echoes from the Back Woods," and furnishes us with informa tion regarding men and things in America, which is not only interesting, but worthy of serious attention. We extract the following description of the garrison of Eastport, the first United States town beyond the Nova Scotian frontier, as an example : " This fort was garrisoned by a company of horse artil lery. It was compesed entirely of deserters from our regi ments quartered from time to time in New Brunswick. These being inantry regiments, the men had of course never learned to ride, and rarely to exercise -great guns. Nevertheless, they did their duty as flying artillery in the United States. They wore fancy-coloured waistcoats under sky-bluejackets, trousers of the same colour, with broad yellow stripes down them; their boots turned up at. the toes, like skates, the trousers only reaching half way down their legs.. The whole was crowned by a frightful leather cap, with a huge brass letter to denote their company : but it is but fair to remark that their bar. acks were as clean as an unlimited allowance of whitewash could make them. We recognised a rascal who had deserted from St. John's not long before. Ile was walking about, dragging a Eine-pound shot fastened to his leg (by which we c..aicluded that he had already got into a smoking a cigar, and looking as if he did nut care a (I—n for General .Jackson or any one else. We heard, soon after we left Eastport, that this company having been or dered to Florida, to quell an insurrection of the Seminole Indians, the most of them deserted on their march to Bos ton. They were, however retaken, and sent o u t. O n m y return to New Brunswick, I saw a letter from the last of the survivors to his brother, recommending him and his com rades on no account to desert their colours for the American service, he being the only one who had escaped the toma hawk of the Indians, or the deadly pestilence of the swamps. " The difficulty, however, of preventing desertions was, in spit of all warnings, great in New Brunswick. Yankey agents followed the men, enticed them into crimping•houscs, and plied them with drink, ar.d when sufficiently intoxicated, they were put on board fast sailing schooners, which got un der weigh whilst they lay in a state of unconsciousness. On coming to themselves, many might have returned, had they not been given more rum, and been afraid of the conse quences of their first transgression. There was but one in stance of a man's returning in the two years we remained iu New Brunswick. The rcmainin; articles of this number are for the greater part continuations. AINSIVORTIL Only yesterday we stigmatised the revival of materials already familiar to magazine readers as the most incor rigible fault in that order of periodicals ; to a certain extent the monthly press is ephemeral in its very na ture : it lives only upon the appetite for present novelty and present amusements ; and hence any repetitions, or so to speak, any oldnesses, are both presumptuous and intolerable. Ainsworth, this month, actually comes out with a reprint of its editor's romance, " Old St. Paul's," a work not very long since published in a weekly news paper of extensive circulation, and subsequently in an ordinary three volume edition for circulating libraries. What interest can, therefore, be expected from its pre ient re-appearance we are at a loss to conjecture, es pecially as it is the meat mediocre production of its author. We are particularly anxious to avoid anything that may be construed as in viduous, but wo must decidedly protest against an instance of such palpable disregard to the intert sts and entertainment of the subscribers to this hitherto (and deservedly) popular magazine. Mr. Ainsworth has ere) shown by his many admirable fictions that his imagination needs no stimulus, that it is naturally gifted with extraordinary fecundity and vigour. his novels have followed each other with rapidity and merit; and if any one quality of his intellect was more conspi cuous than another, it was that of being prolific in in vention, plot, character, acid incident. Recet!tly, how ever, he appears to have been encompassed with indeci sions, and trepidations, and misarrangements of a very unliterary class. In his "Revelations of London" — again discontinued—be was evidently plunged into such a cobweb of dilemmas that he found it difficult to extri cate himself with adroitness. But in republishing his present story of the plague and fire of London, he has, in our concerion, acted more mistakenly than ever. Enough, however, upon this point : e earnestly recommend him to withdraw his unfortunate revival from his magazine, and no longer arouse a recollection of " Old St. Paul's;" but this, of course, in every sense, ex cathedra! Here, as a recom pense for our moroseness, we will extract from the pages of flinswocti a delicate little fantasie; it is daintily headed DO YOU REMEMBER THE TALE? Oh! do you remember how bright was the day, When far in the wild woods we wander'd away; The sweet birds were singing en every tall tree, And thro' the dark olives fair glitter'd the sea? Ah, do you remember, as on fled the hours, You cull'd me a garland of freshest wild flOW'rs; Ala as 'neath the soft shade we sat down to rest, Each dreaming of what each was loving the best, Each gazing on what each loved most to:behold— Ali I do you remember the tale that you told? Altogether indeed, for February, there is a rich assort , of poetical fragments; no unwelcome recommendation for the lovers of day-dreaming in this drizzling and uncon scionable season. Edward liencaly proves still further his accomplishments as a lingual student, by treating us with a basket of unknown but beautiful flowers, in a paper entitled "Swedish Anthology :" the strains of music which he echoes in translation have a character about them that clings with tenacity to one's memory, haunting and re-haunting the inner ear. They are tinctured too with the gleamings of the far north; they breath like the sound of madrigals among the ice-mountaitri : in them Frederika Bremer seems to speak to us in rhythm: they glow, but their glow is frost. Andrew Winter ad monishes us that we" Be Trustful"—and his admonition is couched in such pensive metre that—we listen and obey. Nor is the finest scholar of German Vries in England silent—he unhusks from the original of 1 riedeich Racked five charming miniature jewels, in very fantastic rhymes. Are they not jewels ? Here is one I sat upon the shore; and every hue— The green that on the fields, woods, mountains shone, The varied tints that sheaves, fruits, blossoms threw, Had disappear'd before me, one by one. Merg'd in the billow's green, and heaven's deep blue, Each separate colour from my sight had gone; Thus of old woes my heart oblivious grew, Op'ning for thoughts of endless lore alone. For these we thank John Oxenford. " Some Passages in the Private History of my Poodle," by Dudley Cos tello, would, if divested of its plentiful larding of phrases that are somewhat over-idiomatic, smack much of Elia. We have a faint suspicion that the subject (by the way, a very facetious one) has been previously touched upon : however, it will gain its end, by tickling the mouth-corners of its readers, and is besides:well sprin kled with sarcasms. Scott's " Demonology and Witch • craft" has evidently suggested to Thomas Wright his " Chapters from the History of Sorcery and Magic." The introduction displays some knowledge of that abstruse and enticing lore ; we shall anticipate several striking disclosures in its continuation. There is an agreeable bonhommie, though rather an over-plenty of minuteness, in the " Life and Writings of Nimrod," and as Mr. Apperley, with all his cleverness, was merely the favourite of a class, we consider such profuse corn. mentaries as misjudged. " Female Delinquency," in reference to its alleviation by the late excellent Mrs. Fry—that soul-sister of Howard—affords material for a sensible and benevolent may, which is worthy a second perusal ; and, what with the foregoing contributions and a laughable, chatty, little episode of every-day life, by Shirley Brooks, telling us "How Mrs. Malmsey Ma naged her Uncle," Ainsworth's Magazine forms, on the whole, a very fair intellectual sugar-plum. THE PLOUGH. A better selection of articles could scarcely have been made ; and, as a second number, the present is emi nently successful : it speaks admirably for the discrimi nation of its editor. Professor Donaldson gives us a sketch remarkable for its perspicacity on—that marvel of nature, that consequence of cultivation—" Rotaria Cyma ; or the Rotation of Crops." The disquisition "On the Philosophy of Agriculture" is evidently the effusion of a thoughtful intellect ; it is divested of all prejudices in favour of the old-established systems, and is very learned upon all the latest expositions of the re nowned Baron Liebig. Among the most immediately interesting and valuable of the papers, however, is a synopsis of Dr. Lyon Playfair's Lectures upon the Po tato Disease, the importance and veracity of which may be almost said to have the sanction of Government. Prince Albert's Short• horned Ox figures in all the pain ful glory of obesity upon the frontispiece, though he looks as gentlemanly a " blade" as you would well find upon the " turf." After reading this number we feel like " Ono who has Whistled at the Plough," and that with considerable satisfaction to ourselves. THE LAW REVIEW. As a quarterly disquisition of British and foreign jurisprudence, this periodical already fills a prominent position among its contemporaries. Its earnest but dis passionate views, its enlightened and erudite character, its perfect freedom from bigotry or intolerance of tone, tog :ther with its many evtdences of experience and re search, render it a worthy exponent cf the profession. "Lord Edon compared with the Judges of his Time" is, more even than the writer himself imagines, a tooth breaking nut for Horace Twiss ; and " The Opening of Lincoln's Inn Hall" gives an opportunity for a spirited survey of the present state of the legal profession, which, apart from the importance of the subject itself, should be read by every one who admires candour and boldness. As a whole the present number is sterling. CH AMBERS'S EDINBURGH' JOURNAL: This really admirable periodical sustains its reputation without any appearance of effort ; its pleasantry is un forced, andits philanthropy unaffected. In the ;Omer particular, we have "The Innocent Railway," and the "Freaks of Fortune ;" in the latter, a very fine - t oned exposition of "Savings' Banks," and their beneficial consequences. A pleasant morsel of book-gossip, too, is that about "Ben Jonson," that horn-handed singer of sweet masques and dainty ballads. Our glorious old dramatist is not appreciated as much as one buckle the of his doublet deserves ; we would i ndeed wager that majority are acquainted with his name rather through that quaint inscription on his tombstone, in the Abbey, " 0 rare Ben Jonson !" than through the medium of his Christmas moralitie s or clo y ing love-ditties, spiced and comfitted with imageries of beauty more than almost any other 04ailar 0 4111 . 9115 1 u OUT tongue, With the occasional few, indeed, who are more intimate with him as a playright, the majority again are merely acquainted with him in "Every Man in his Humour," a comedy which, notwithstanding its superiority for representa tion, and notwithstanding the illustrious Captain Boba dil himself, ihat beau ideal of a braggart—with big " twenty more kill 'em, twenty more kill 'em, twenty morn kill 'em "—is, in our estimation, not to be com pared with his immortal "Alchemist." This latter satirical comedy stands indeed alone for its shrewd cut tings and slashings with a two-edged Nit at all the weaknesses and rogueries discoverable in human nature. Its variety of character, to , , is amazing ; "Face," that arrant vsrlet of a charlatan ; "Abel Drugger," with scarcely a syllable to utter, and yet about the principal personage in the drama; " Sir Epicure :Mammon," wonderful Sir Epure, with an imagination like an in tellectual El Dorado, and a voluptuousness of heart beyond thit of Aledici; and the "Angry Boy," that right inimitable speciimn ,of irritabili y ; with these creations, and the strange elaboration, yet strange sim plicity of its plot, we know no production of professedly the same aim which can be for a single moment men tioned with tho " Alchemist." And Ben Jonson's rivalry with Shakspero having been gainsaid and ried as a • fallacy by Barry Cornwall, we can discover nothing, excepting pcssibly his mannerisms, to debar the public from cherishing the old bluff poet as one of their favourite household spirits, and as about the truest and most English of their stage-bards. Having been se duced into this protracted plea for our " rare Ben," we can but observe that Chambers for February equals, if it does not surpass, all its former February offerings, THE OVERLAND ROUTES VIA TRIESTE. TO THE EDITOR OF THY. TIMES. Sin,—At your request I send yon the following brief ac count of my route from Tiirste, from which I think it will appear that the journey was performed under almost every possible disadvantage : The Directors of the Austrian Lloyd's had no expectation that the steamer expected from Alexandria would bring public dispatches, and therefore neither in Trieste nor along the whole route were any preparations taken beforehand for a speedy journey to England. But on receiving very im portant Indian dispatches along with a packet for the Times paper, the Directors immediately determined to forward the latter, and I was commissioned to undertake the journey. On the 29th of January, at eight o'clock P.M., I left Trieste for Dwino and Monf.dcone, and then rearmed my journey by way o f P a l manova t o C ene d a . where was forced t o c h ange my carr i age. F rom e cnet i a 1 through many small villages, in which it was often el:await to obtain horses, so that I lost much time, until I came to the Brenner Pass, on which the snow lay very deep.. My first point, after passing the Brenner, was Inns pruck ; from that city I pursued my course to Kempten, and, dining fifteen German miles, I found in many places the snow three or four feet deep, which, as the post was not expected that day, had not been properly shovelled away. From Kempten I made for Ulm, through continued pouring rain, which made the roads very heavy. From Ulm I went to Stuttgardt, the rain stilt continuing, and the roads being as heavy as before. From Stuttgardt I went to Carlsruhe, with the view of meeting another officer of the Austrian Lloyd's, who was to have received my dispatches and brought them to England. Had ' this not been enjoined I should have gone by a shorter way from Stuttgardt, by Bruchsal, to Mannheim. On reaching Carlsruhe, the officer I sought was not in the way, and I therefore proceeded myself to Mannheim. where LI expected to find a steamer ; but, no boat being to be had, I was forced to post thence to Mayence, where I again attempted to procure a steamer, with no better success. I therefore posted to Cologne, and found the road so flooded by the Rhine, that the water was up to the horses' girths, and often came into my carriage, rendering it difficult to keep my dis patches dry. Under these circumstances it was impossible to drive at mote than a foot's pace. From Cologne I went by the railroad to Ostend, which I reached at 9 o'clock in the evening of the 3d of February, and at 3 o'clock on :;he morn ing of the 4th embarked fur London, where I arrived at half past 5.-1 am, Sir, your most obedient servant, JOSEPH FRIGELMULLER. THE SUSPECTED MURDER AT GREENWICIL Yesterday the inquiry into this mysterious case was re sumed before Mr. Carter, the Coroner. As the investigation proceeds, the case assumes a greater degree of interest in the public mind. The inquest-room was crowded, and amongst those present were a number of medical men. The jury having answered to their names— Mr. Wood, the surgeon, was recalled. He produced his book, containing the entry of the birth of the child on the 17th of September, which ran—" Mrs. Richards, delivered of a male child, 3 A.M." Also, the entry on the 25th (the day after the child was taken with the violent screaming). it ran thus :—" Mrs. Reynolds's nurse-child, six powders (mercury and chalk—oxyde of zinc)." This latter part of the entry showed that there were excoriations on the mouth. There was not any entry of the borax and honey for the mouth, or lotion for the eyes. They might have been sent, but witness did not recollect. Charles Robins, the undertaker, re-examined—Had as certained by reference to Ins books that the day on which he sold the " still-born coffin" was en Saturday, the 27th of September. He yesterday recognized the person to whom he had sold it as one of the prisoners at the bar (the prisoner 'William Richardson). ,Joshua Edmund Kersey, apprentice to Mr. Riches, che mist, in addition to his evidence given at the Police-court on the previous day, stated that on the occasion of the prisoner William Richardson being served with the arsenic, he him self took the bottle containing the arsenic out of the cupboard, and handed it to Mr. Riches, who served it. Witness saw it weighed, but he could not state the quantity. Witness could state the time, as he loft Greenwich to visit his friends in Suffolk on Saturday, the 23d of Augtr t, and returned on Friday, the 12th of Y September, and this occurred about a fortnight after his return. It might have been a few days Ices. When Mr. Riches asked bins for the bottle he used the scientific term, oxidant arsenici. Mr. Riches, apothecary, of London-street, Greenwich, de posed, that he had attended Mr. Richardson's family for years. When Richardson asked for the arsenic, thought he said it was for killing rats or mice. The quantity served was perhaps three-quarters of an ounce, or 360 grains, for which be might have charged 3d. Witness would not serve a stranger with "eve' tho smallest quantity. After the evidence of some other witnesses, it at length arranged that an adjournment should take places day next, at rive o'clock., It is rumoured that Mr. Gladstone will come into Parliament for Cardiff, in place of Dr. Nichol'. SIR ROBERT PEEL.—Thursday last was the anni versary of the natal day of Sir Robert Peel, wno has now completed tho sSth year of hie age. BUCKINGHAM PALACE.--Cards of invitation hare been issued from the Lord Chamberlain's office for an evening party at the Palace on Tuesday next. Viscount Morpeth, M.l'., has arrived in town, from Yorkshire. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland are visiting the Earl and Countess of Carlisle at Castle Howard, but are expected to leave there early in the ensuing week for Trentham, Staffordshire. Sir Robert reel's grandfather, at the latter period of his life, resided at Stratford, in this county. The house is still Et anding in the Broadway, and we believe is now occu pied by a fishmonger.—Essex Standard. The Marquis of Westminster has returned to Eaton Hall. his Lordship came to town to accompany his son, Lord Gilbert Grosvenor, to Portsmouth, where he has en tered on board the Grampus, 50 gun frigate. Lady William Macmghten has given up her intention of going to reside at Malta, having taken Surrey House, near Cumberland-gate, Hyde Park, for a term of years. Lady Macnaghten, accompanied by her sister, the Hon. Mrs. Er skine, it may be remembered, returned from India about this time last year. ller Ladyship will enter on her new residence this day. Mr. S. L. Fox is again forming a stud of horses, and intends to patronise the turf during the present year. Mr. Gill, Bellisle, Richmond will be the trainer. Mr. Lane Fox was formerly the owner of several celebrated horses, but during the lust few years had declined the turf.—Doncaster Gazette. DRURY-LANE THEATRE.—The second performance of Mr. Macfarren's opera Don Quixote took place last night, and with great improvement as regarded execution. The well i g at h t t end a e n d d , songs by Miss Rainforth and Allen were one and all encored, with such enthusiasm as to indicate that they will become universally popular. Mr. Weiss managed to get up a little sixty thou sand with he advantageanimation than to th. e h a e c t ion. exhibited l , he o h i o i utsleteti wasrst and the composer was called for when the curtain fell. aw t the s e e b r t a ea t te e em o cc f eae n rdr e ii a ne nearly y DAILY BREAD AND LEGISLATION. —Time is telling weight per againstq quarters a o r u t r e r s i eo p a o uc p f rh i cl e a o s ad r n n j o o , f au o tl vr r ' ne o ri d nagg a e t twelve thousand tons hun dred tons weight of bread; the minutes passed i o e n ff i f li , oa r t3 t e y '.s 'q nE u la s ak r c t he ers of wheat ; and seconds drop through glass in atoms that are sacks of flour, or batches of a hun dred quartern loaves. gthfiettl:l.' tons,eien hour glass outheorr THE LIVERPOOL, MANCHESTER, AND NEWCASTLE.. uroN-Trsa JUNCTION Rateway.—lt has been incorrectly stated, in some of. the morning papers, that the above undertaking has been thrown out on the standing orders. We are, therefore, requested to state that only three or four of the allegations, and those of the most trifling character, were sustained, and that in the opinion of persons well in formed on railway business, the standing orders in this case will be dispensed with. WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET, FEB. 6.—The arrivals of all grain are moderate. We have a good attendance of buyers at our market to-day, and a fair extent of business is transacted in fine new and old Wheats, at a slight advance; but for inferior sorts there is no inquiry. Good heavy Bar ley fully as dear and in request, other qaalities slow sale. Beans Is. per qr. higher. Oats and Sheling as before. Malt sells freely at former rates. GRAVESEND AND ROCHESTER RAILWAY.—The fol lowing are the traffic returns for the week ending Jan. 31, 1846 :—Passengers, 4,470 ; amount received, 110/. 18s. 3d. RASH ATTEMPT.—During yesterday afternoon a man of a gentlemanly appearance applied at the Police office, Chester, for protection, saying he had money in his possession and that two men were following him, &c. The police took him to the railway station at hi- request and saw him receive his ticket on the Chester ee e line. He got into a first-class carriage, in which was another gen tleman ; but a few miles on the road he would get outside, though remonstrated with by the gentleman with him. However he did get outside near a place called Tattenhall, and made a spring off the steps, the train going at thereto i e f 35 miles per hour; he fell with his head against tht oppo ste rail, and received so severe a contusion that his lifei s de spaired of ; in all probability the man was insane, at l east his conduct appears to justify that inference. morning, between the hours of one and t 6 ALARMING FIRE AT BETHNAL GREEN. orkbutcher, No. , belonging to Mr. George Sheppard, p.re Engines having Patush-row, were discovered to be on • • good suPP Y f water procured theO n premises FriF ri ay arrived, and there being e greemt destroyedet i n le s ti e r l e to eaxn l - i o n r tgu l t : ei ni sh o ed st es premises w ere u of the 30th, from Loughrea, f b r e o r m ore tl ,, ie .r l . ,as_tepllioanr,don works, n. trade and the furniture were consumed. v ekA_i they a _ w- ere company. con tents of is al insured. Fortunately tire :occupierle e t " from the e Dragoons,export of arrived p h as marched to Galway , to au g m ent the garrison, in the ap prehensionsene. capot Captain apoupeutleasredni,estturroboapncles lath ro L n iel on Monday, from Cahir, in this garrison, and with Captain Doherty's troop, remain until further orders. The troop of the 13th Light Dragoons has not been replaced at Gort, where a detachment of the 75th is stationed. A QUEER CUSTOMER.—On Thursday morning, a racoon, of an unusually large size, was discovered in the hen -roost of Mr. Clark, farmer at 'Watnall, near Notting ham. On examination it was found that the intruder had made a meal of two game cocks, five fowls, and one duck Where the animal had come from, or how it go ;there igfindy kW% 3