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remaining 54 miles, viz. between Whitebaven

caster, so that, when divided upon the who!e distance,
they are generally less per mile than on the inland lines.
From a full and careful consideration of all the bear-
ings of the case, we therefore feel it our duty to reject
the coast line, so far as regards its being made a link in
the chain of connexion between England and Scotland.
The next question is, the preference which ought to
be given to one of the two projected inland lines.
Referring again to our Table, (abore given,) it ap-
pears that the mechanical superiority, although incon-
siderable, is with the Kendal line, its equivalent dis-
tance being 75 miles 9 chains, while that of the Lune
line is 78 miles I -lain.

The statistical properties are nearly the same on
both lineF, with the exception that the Lune line would
not take in its route the important and thriving tows'
of Kendal. The advantages which this town would
derive from the near approach of a railway from the
north would be considerable, particularly from the fa-
cility it would afford of obtaining coal, of ivbich the
consumption is there represented to be large ; and re-
ciprocally the railway would derive an increase of its
revenue by its connexion with this town.

It was evident to us in the course of our inspection
of the country, that the engineering difficulties of that
part of Mr. Bintlet's line which extends from Kendal
to Mardale Green, would entitle the Lune line to a
preference, and we therefore inquired whether it might
not be practicable to connect the two lines together by
adopting Mr. Bintley's route from Lancaster to Ken-
dal, and Mr. Larmer's from Penrith down to Borrow-
Lridge, and by finding a practicable line from the last-
named place to Kendal ; . !Jut Mr. Larmer stated that
such a-line Would be-of too expensive a character to
. admit of this proposit:on being entertained. However,
since our return to London, and indeed since this
Report, has been drawn up, the Provisional Committee
of the Kendal line have requested us to receive and
report upon a survey, recently made by Mr. Lamer, to
connect the lines of the Lune and Kent, nearly in the
manner above described. Our instructions preclude us
from acceding to this request, but we have no hesita-
tion in saying that if a line has been found which
would afford the adtantage of direct railway commu-
,iication to Kndal, without either materially inereas-
•;e the cost of construction, or the length of the line
wean Lancaster and Carlisle, and which would be
rcefrom other great defects, it might be more bene-
ficial to the public theta the Lune line. '['his, however,
is a subject for future con h!eration, and in the mean-
while, keeping in view the general tenor of oar instruc-
tions, the main feature of which, in the present part
of our inquiry, is that we should determine what, under
all circumstances, would he the best means of establish-
ing a railway communication between London and the
city of Glasgow, having reference also to the interests
of the maot&tot tit lag tiLtricts of Lancashire, the western
parts of Scotland, and the north of Ireland, we feel
hou,d after a careful and deliberate review of the ad-
vantages and disadvantages of the three competing
lines, to state tit it we give the preference, to the line
of the v"lit-y of the Lune and. Penrith over the Kendal
line, on account of the greater engineering difficulties
61-the latter ; and that we also give the Lune line a pre-
ference over the coast line, in consequence of its short-
ening the time and diminishing the cost ol travelling to
the greater proportion of passengers who would require
to avail themselves of railway communication north of
Lancaster.

We have to remark that the line to which we have
thus given a preference, :pill require a smaller capital
than either of the other lines ; for the cost of its con-
struction will he less than that of either the Kendal or the
coast : and it must be borne in mind that as respects
the last, although its promoters calculate upon a great
return fOr their outlay, by the land to be reclaimed in
Morecambe Bay, still the capital for the embankments
must be raisen in the first instance.

It may not be irrelevant to observe, that if the esti.
mate- of Mr. Hague, as revised by us in a former part
of this Report, should be nearly accurate, viz., that the
cost of forming water-tight embankments across More-
cambe Bay and the lludden Sands, with the works de-
pendent thereon, would only amount to .543,373/. 2s.
I Id , and if there should appear -a probability of the
land to be reclaimed realizing so large a aura as
1,196,000/., this project in;ght stand on its own merits,
apart from any connexion with a railway.
In conclusion, we have only to state that in our in-
spection of the coast line, we were accompanied through-
out the whole distance by Mr. Briscoe. an assistant to
Mr. Rastrick, and in our examination of Morcarnbe Bay
by Mr. Hague, the engineer, and by Mr. Parker the
solicitor, besides other gentlemen interested in this pro-
ice`. Mr. Larmcr pointed out the Lune line, and Mr.
Bintley the Kendal line, and we were also accompanied
by the Secretary and several members of the Kendal
Conurittee, all of whom evinced every desire to facili-
tate our inquiry ; but it is to be regretted that more time
and means had not been at the disposal of the surveyors
of the inland lines, to have enabled them to prepare
their plans and other drawings in an equally perfect and
satisfactory manner nith those of the coast line.

We have, &c.

FREDERICK SMITH, Lieut.-Col. Royal Eagiaeers.
PETER BARLOW, F.R.S.
HENRY AMRINCK, Lieut. R.N., Secretary.
To Robert Gordon, Esq., M.P.

' The Kendal line passes the Laniefter station to a junction
with the Preston and Lancaster, 2 miles 54 chains nearer to
Preston than Lancaster, making the distance from Carlisle to
Lancaster only 64 miles 34 (hairs.

t Each of these numbers incluie the whole present mail and
stage traffic between Carlisle and Lancaster; via Pecrith.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

QuEnN's COLLEGE.—The annual prize of ten guiueas
for the best composition in Divinity, by a Bachelor of
Arts, has been this year awarded to Mr. Joseph Ketley.
Mr. Balston, Fellow of King's College in this univer-
sity, has just been elected by the Provost and Fellows of
Eton to the Assist .nt Mastership at the college, which bad
been rendered Vacant by the Rev. Mr. Wilder having been
appointed to the Fellowship formeily held by the late Mr.
Briggs.
Tbe Rev. John Aspinall Addison, of St. John's Col-
lege, in this University, has been presented to the perpe-
tual curacy of Barbon, Westmorland._

Tile Rev. Samuel Ashby, 111. A., Fellow of Pembroke
College. in this University, has been presented to the vica-
rage of Saxthorpe, Norfolk, _ _

The Lord Bishop of Lichfield, on the recommendation
of the Lichfield Diocesan Board of Education, has ap.
pointed the Rev. Thomas Borthby, , M.A., of Clare-ball
(Master of the Free Grammar School at Rugeley), to the
office of Inspector of the Schools in the Union in the
Archdeaconry of Stativrd.
At a meeting of the Philosophical Society on Monday
last, Dr. Paget in the Chair, Mr. Hopkins made a com-
munication respecting certain geological phenomena of ele-
vation, and their connexion with the existence of volcanos,
The Archdeacon of Ely has appointed the Rev. George
Spence, LL. 8., Vicar of St. Clement's, in this towr:, a
Surrogate to administer the requisite oaths on the granting
of marriage licences, faculties, and probates of wilts and
administrations, within the Archdeaconry of Eiy.
At an ordination held by the Lord Bishop of Ely, is
the parish Church of St. George, Hanover-square, Lon-
don, on Sunday last, the following gentlemen were or-.
dained

Deacons.—William Maunday Harvey Elwyn, M.A.
Pembroke College, Cambridge; Edward Ansley Peck,, Trinity College, Cambridge; Robert Alfred Backman,
B. A., Jesus College. Cambridge; Joseph Townson, B. ts,..
Queen's College, Cambridge; Francis Arthur Ba;nes,
88.. A.,A.: ki3abgridsatisenCoclolelgieeg,e,Ccamambrbidrigdeg;e
;WFhirtaenly::4 hkilinson,
Forster,
M.A., Catherine Hall, Cambridge; William Marsh,
8.A.. Trinity Hall, Cambridge; Gee, e Henry Orchard
Pedlar, B. A., of Magdalen Hall, and late of BiEeter
College, Oxford.—Letter Dim. Bishop of Exeter.
Walter Alnult, B. A•, Catherine Hall, Cambridge ,
Christ's
Alfred Edward Rogers, 8.A., Queen's College, Carte
bridge.—Letter Dim. Bishop of Bath and Wells.
Henry Bridges Harvey, B. A.. Clare Hall C b• •
9 dub r, dge.
Daniel Paul Meek Hulbert, B. A., St. John's College; *1-
, A. A.t Cratile,aerine Hall,
Cambridge; Charles Heathcote Campiciia, ttjk
College, Orford.—Letter Dim. Bishap of 1,-
Priests— William Cadman
ou_Ld-intie'yba Lane, Ai. A.,
St.
A.A., Quota 's
Cambrige; Gecrge Fwolel4l..
College, Cambridge i dohs I-%
brldgc.,.,ollege, Cambridge ; Joseph Clark,
JNoi.hAn'.s,
sCtoll
Jeugieln,,, Cr..lffibr,uge-;" Joan William
coienso,
ge Cambridge; Edward Henry Saw..
8.A., Chrio!.., Cone
, A., Awl College, Oxford • Frederick Wit.
.111113, Jenard, M. A, ~ Caius College, Cambridge.
Ham T• 1 . ,1,
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Ai O'Co N NOR —lt is right we
should mention
—as there still appears to be, in certain quarters, a disposltio
to charge upon the Whig Government whatever bardsVps that
individual hakbeen subjected to—not only that they :save had
nothing to du with the matter, but that even the let of Par.
hauteur, under which his treatment was at first prescribed by
the Visiting Mag,istratc,s, was not aWh mr:,asure. It is the
General Gaol Act qf the 4th Geo. IV. (l 's94), and was con-•
sequently in the good old Tory tianes; and the Visiting
Maisiserares of Yolk, by whom it is executed, it is positively
stated, are, with one exception, themselves Tories also.---
Manchester Gua Jinx.