The Express.
London, England, 1861-05-11 00:00:00

RAILWAY commlrrass.

Yesterday, after several days' sitting, Mr. Mow-
bray's committee pawed that portion only of the Mid-
Eastern sod Crest Northern Junction Railway which
contemplates a line of 9 miles from a junction with the
Norwich and Spalding at Long Sutton to a junction with
the Lynn and Ely line of the East .tnglian at Lynn ; the
proposed extension of 14 miles from the Lynn and Dere-
ham at Bwaffham to a junction with the Norfolk Raftway
at Thetford, and sundry small branches, being omitted, and
subject to arranxements with other companies. The cases
of the competing lines of the Cork and Macron= Direct
Line, fur a line of Zt miles from the Cork and Bandon at
Cork to Macroom, at a cost of 160,0001., and of the Cork,
Blarney. and Macroom Railway from Cork, to join the
Great Southern sad Western, a distance of 25 miles, at a
mot of 190,000/., were opened in Mr. Ingbasn's committee.
Witnesses were examined by Mr. Phial,Q.C., Mr. Paget,
and other omosel, in the Mid.lieyon and Cornwall Railway
relative to the general advantages of that liae ; and Lord
ltailuor's opposition to the Folkestone Harbour Bill of the
Sou'A Eaatern was opened by Mr. Merewether, Q.C., and
occupied the attention of that committee until its rising.

RAILWAYS AND INHARITID Houses DISPLACE-
wouId appear from the returns just made to the
House of Lords that the extension of railway termini fur-
ther Into the centres of large provincial towns displaces
almost as large a proportion of the poor and of inhabited
houses as the same process effects; in the metropolis. The
extension of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway iota
Rochdale dislodges 147 houses and MO persoos ; the ex-
tension of the Garston and Liverpool Railway to Toxteth
Park, 191 houses, and 1,200 persons ; of the Mulford,
Wakefield, and Leeds Railway, Si houses and 2:35 inhabi-
tants; and of the Great North of Scotland Railway, Al
houses and 450 persons; but as onopensatioo is customarily
given in such cases by the railway companies, the 7 report
to their lordships' house, that "no inconvenience is appre-
heeded."
RlllTliiii ANTI-TOBACCO Fek-lETY. A public
meeting of this usociation was hold yesterday at Exeter-
hall ; Mr. Gurney in the choir. The meeting was addressed
by Messrs. Pease, Morley, Copland, Hodgkin, and others.
deprecating the use of tobacco, the medical speakers pointing
out its injurious effects on the constitution, especially to
ram people. The report gave some clarions statistical de-
tail on the subject. Resolutions condeansatory of the 1336
of tobacco were adopted.
THE Bu YEA'S DIMMER ATti3l.—" The buyer's
desideratum is to find en establishment where will besmanted
to him anr le choice of artistic designs, without be forced
Sion a host of mere Ingenious ones, and tate
21nlybointl:rkrnerlt, with a tariff of prices adapted to the means
of the economic or those to whom price ism object. Such as
establishment Is that of Kr. I. W. Senses, situate at 33 and 36,
Ludgate.hill, and 46 and 47, Conabill,whose recent enlargement of
his premises has made his show-MOMS more conspicuous than any
other In the neighbourhood of gt. Past's. fib four windows con-
tain such a variety of gold end Weer watches as to leave
nothing to be desired bet the money to buy them with. The
high standing of Mr. Benson as a London manufacturer must
secure him • large amount of public patronage."—"Standard.'
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