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THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 9, 1847.

force of public opinion has recently sufficed to miti-
gate, in some degree, the injustice of such a system.
The comforts both of the soldier and sailor arc now
better consulted, and their moral as well as their
physical wants are not,, now-a• days, so grossly neg-
lected as they were. In the army, in particular,
both English and Indian, the non-commissioned
officer who has proved himself worthy of the distinc-
tion, tam Marti quam Minerva, no longer hope-
essly aspires after the envied epaulette. Much,
however, remains to be done, for gross par-
tiality, combined with a spirit of heartless indiffer-
ence to meritorious services, continues to characterise
the administration of our naval and military affairs.

conduct of M. GUIZOT is breaking the English
alliance ; but while the Presse is for an al-
liance with the despotic Powers of Europe,
the National is for a republic and a war of propagand-
ism. All the papers, except the Courier Francais, treat
the views of M. BILLAIILT (who suggested an alliance
with Prussia) as visionary. The speech of M. Tanis
is considered by the Republican and the Legitimatist
papers as a bid for office, which, however, he would not
accept save on constitutional conditions.
A letter from Toulon, of the 30th ult., says--

IMPERIAL PARLIA3IENT.
HOUSE OF LORDS, Feb. 8.
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat upon the Wool-
sack at Five o'clock.
On the motion of the Earl of CLARENDON, the
Buck Wheat Importation Bill went through Cemme tee.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE laid on the table the
report of the Factories' Inspectors.
LOANS TO IRELAND.
Earl FITZWILLIAJI moved for an account of all
the sums of money which had been advanced on loan by
the Imperial Treasury for public and other works in Ire-
land since the union, and how far the condition upon
which they were advanced had been complied with.
An erroneous impression existed that money lent to
Ireland was never repaid, and he was desirous st showing
their Lordship that none were more punctually repaid.
IRISH DISTRESS.
Lord BROUGHAM presented another petition from
Liverpool, complaining of the influx of Irish paupers
into that town. The Noble and Learned Lord, at the
same time, complained that a respectable morning print
had held him up to the world as a person to whom it was
quite immaterial whether the people were brought up
in the Protestant religion or not. Now, so far
from this being the case, the other evening he expressed
the greatest distrust against the Rotnish church,
though he entertained the highest respect for those
who conformed to it, and declared his entire confidence in
the Protestant faith. Indeed, none wee more deeply
anxious that it should be extended than he was.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE quite agreed with
that portion of the Noble and Learned Lord's statement
which had reference to Liverpool. He trusted, however,
that the remedies which the Government had pro-
posed for the relief of Ireland would give an
additional stimulus to labour in Ireland ; and it
was by creating that employment, and providing funds
for its remuneration, that the poor of Ireland would cee se
to be burdens upon the people of this country, in the
way complained of in the petition from Liverpool.
Lord BROUGHAM sincerely hoped that the measures
referred to by the Noble Marquis would have the effect
he had stated, but he was not so sanguine as to believe
that they would mitigate the distress in Ireland and pre-
vent the poor from immigrating to such places as Liver.
pool. A very large proportion of those unfortunate per-
sons thought that if they could only get over to Liverpool
and be supported without work that it would be preferable
to a scanty subsistence purchased by their labour in
Ireland. He believed that a poor law which would, in
periods of temporary distress, prevent myriads from
coming over here to feed upon the people of this country,
was one of the best panaceas that could be devised.
Lord MONTEAGLE quite agreed with his Noble
and Learned Friend, that it was their duty to devise
wise and just remedies for the present condition of the
people of Ireland ; but wherever there was a dispropor•
tion between the wages and condition of the people of
two countries, there would be a tendency to emigrate to
that country where they might get better wages. It was
a recognised principle all over the world—people, for
instance, left Spain to obtain better employment in
Lisbon; and people descended from the mountainous
parts of Italy to those parts where the wages
were higher and the condition of the people better.
God forbid that he should make use of these remarks
for the purpose of merely discouraging emigration, if
such a course could be deemed beneficial to the people.
But the question to be considered was how to prevent
emigration by improving the condition of the people of
Ireland. He thought that that measure was best
adapted fur the wants of the people which would find the
labouring classes imployment at home, and prevent them
from propagating pauperism in other parts of the United
Kingdom. At the same time, he held that one of the
greatest blessings of this country was the immigration
into it of the industrious Irish, where that immigration
was only intended to be temporary and not permanent.
What would England do during the period of harvest
were it not for the Irish labourers? But then came the
question of revenue, and he would venture to call
their attention to the fact, that that remedy would be
very limited in its results which did not enhance the
price of wages in Ireland ; for they might rest assured
that when a higher social condition could be attained in
other places, the labouring classes would not stop at
home. He thought that the employment of a large
proportion of the Irish labourers might he given
in great and useful public works. lie did not
mean such works as had been sanctioned last session,
but railways and the other works recommended to their
notice in a previous year. These would, in a great mea-
sure, remedy the evils at present existing, provided they
took care that they were not constructed for purposes of
private speculation. At the same time, he wished them
carefully to observe that they provided food for the
500,000 labourers at present employed during that
period which must intervene when transferring them
to other and more useful works. The real
question which the House and Parliament had
to consider was, not to forward the interests of any
speculative companies, but to forward the execution of
great and important works. He believed that some pro •
positicn of this kind, carefully considered, should
be agreed to, and applied to meet the transition
state which they had to pass through. It would be a
most serious matter to disband 500,000 men, an army
in everything but name, without some provision, such
as the ono under consideration, for their employ-
ment.—(Hear, hear.) He threw these observations
out for the consideration of their Lordships, and
rejoiced to say that the question had been
introduced into the other House of Parliament. Of the
latter proposition he would observe, that while the
principle of employing the people in this way was
most important, the application of it deserved
the greatest possible attention and consideration. He
had noticed with pleasure that the Government had
advanced a loan of 20,0001. to a railway company the
other day. In that they had shown a wise and just dis-
cretion, while they should take due care to distinguish
efficient from useless works of this kind. He believed
the transition state could not be passed through in any
other way with satisfaction.
Lord BROUGHAM explained that he had been mis-
understood in what he had stated about Irish emigrants.
He complained that a large portion of the people of
Ireland, who were beggars by profession, had poured
into Liverpool. With regard to the regular labourers
who came over to this country, he must bear his testi-
mony to their quiet, honest, and industrious character.
Lord MONTEAGLE gave testimony to the same
effect, and said that the emigration from the county
with which he was connected was more with the United
States Van England. He had great pleasure in stating
that from information he had received from New York
old Irish emigrants in that country had, during the last
year, remitted to Ireland to their friends, for the purposes
of emigration and charity no less a sum than 160.0001.
Earl FITZ WILLIAM could testify to the truth of
what had fallen from the Noble and Learned Lord
(Brougham). He begged the House to consider that
what had taken place at Liverpool should be looked upon
as notaffecting that town alone, but as a national calamity.
Ile had seen a great deal in the daily organs, which
represented the opinion that the proposition of his Noble
Friend, in the other House of Parliament (Lord G.
Bentincle), was a measure to fill the bellies of the Irish
people. If that were so, no remedy could be more in-
applicable ; but it was not proposed for that pur-
pose, but had more extensive objects in view, and
was proposed, in conjunction with other reme-
dies, to meet the existing evils of Ireland.
A great crisis was also a great opportunity, and he
entreated Government not to let the opportunity slip by
them. He was glad to hear that 20,000/. were to be
advanced in aid of the Waterford and Limerick
Railway; but it would not do for merely an in-
dividual to be generous in the present crisis
—the English community must be generous, and
step forward to assist Ireland. Unless it did so their
Lordships [eight depend upon it Ireland would dete-
riorate England. Unless England could relieve Ireland.
that country would sink England. They were now in a
great crisis, and he warned their Lordships to take
care, lest by neglecting the opportunity it gave them,
they did not do a mischief which could never be re-
medied.
The Marquis of WESTMEATH reminded the Noble
and Learned Lord who complained of the influx of Irish
paupers into Liverpool, that it was the duty of the pa-
rish authorities to send them back. Government ought,
however, with the view of mitigating the present
crisis, to encourage emigration to the colonies.
He thought they would have occasion for regret before
long if they did not take the subject up. Besides, it
was possible that food might not be found for the people
during the next eight months; therefore it was incum-
bent upon the Government to meet the wishes of the
people, and to afford them the means of emigrating.
The motion of Earl Fitzwilliam was then agreed to,
with this addition—" distinguishing all the advances
and repayments since the establishment of the board of
works."

" The Hercule and the Jemappes, 100• gun ships, destined
to form part of a squadron which the Prince de Joinville is to
take the command of, are now about to receive their crews
on board. The Government appears decided to make a cer-
tain display of force, and the Panama steam-frigate has also
received orders to fit out

Just complaints are being constantly wafted by
our naval officers from the shores of Africa against
the conduct of the Admiralty. Engaged in a service
of the utmost philanthropy, the suppression of the
slave-trade ; subjected for a protracted period of three
or four years to the influence of a pestilential climate,
such that they are frequently decimated, and, as it
were with a scythe, mowed down by death ; kept for
months at a time in a blockading position, without the
privilege of going on shore, the survivors find,
upon their return home, not only that the trying
ordeal through which they have fortunately
passed is but slightly esteemed by the autho-
rities, but that other services, which ought not
to be considered superior to their own, are, if not
adequately, certainly very differently, rewarded. We
do not blame the Admiralty for giving double pay,
and ensuring promotion to those officers who embark
in expeditions to the Polar seas. This remunera-
tion may be, and, perhaps, is, quite right. But these
voyages, it should be recollected, are purely scientific,
and may, or may not be, productive of beneficial
results. The African service, on the other hand,
is fraught with the greatest endangerment to
human life, and is, moreover, prosecuted

The Journal du Havre has the following:—
" We learn from Paris that the Government has definitively,
refused to the Havre Railway Company the authority which
it had solicited to accomplish the further tests of the security
of the line by means of running goods trains over it. The
trials are to be carried on as at first decided on, before any
working of the line can take place. This measure, which
shows the conscientious solicitude felt by the Government
for the first time in the accomplishment of the duties of sur-
veillance imposed on it, is not of a nature to cause much
delay in the opening of the line, the period for which, as
well for goods as for passengers, remains fixed for about
April."
The corn riots still continue in the departments of the
west and centre.

On the sixth, the debate on the Address was con-

tinued. M. BERRYER addressed to the Chamber a most
eloquent speech, in which he traced all the present
difficulties to the abrogation of the Salic law in Spain
by the Treaty of Quadruple Alliance, and declared that
in the event of the death of the QUEEN of Spain without
issue, France should be prepared to re-establish the male
branch of the reigning family of Spain. He concluded
by proposing the following amendment:—
" France desires peace, under the safeguard of her dignity
and her legitimate interests."
This, however, was subsequently withdrawn, and the
original paragraph adopted by a large majority.
The effect produced in Paris by the speech of M.
GUIZoT may be conceived from the fall of the Three per
Cents., in the passage de l'Opera on Friday night to 78f.
15e., and the further decline of that stock on Saturday
to 78f., being a fall of .55c. as compared with Friday's
prices :

in pursuance of a treaty between two of the most
civilised nations of the earth, and for a cosmopolitan
object of the sublimest nature. We think, therefore,
that the officers engaging in the latter should, at the

least, be equally rewarded with those who devote

themselves to the former service. Again, some in-
creased facility should be given to officers serving off

The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on
Saturday at 78f. ; the Five per Cents., 1181. 20c. ; the
Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,227 f. 50c.; Rouen, 877 f. 50c. ;
Havre, 685 f. ; Great Northern, 607 f. 50c; Avignon, 820 f.;
Vierzon, 575 f. ; Bourdeanx, 537 f. 50c. ; Dieppe, 340 f. • Paris
and Strasburg, 468 f. 75c.; Tours and Nantes, 467 f. 50c.;
Paris and Lyons, 490 f.; Lyons and Avignon, 485 f.
MAssatt..Lss, FEB. I.—Marseilles and Avignon, 815 f. ;
Northern, 605 f.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TILE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, FEBRUARY 6.
Boulogne and Amiens,
14,4—East Indian, 16—Great Southern of
Madras, N(—Louvain 3 la Sambre, 114-Luxembourg, 2 tn; —Namur
and Liege, 2%—Northern of Franco, 123 —Rouen and Barre, 26
West Flanders, 27i.

the African coast for receiving their letters from
England, where all their feelings and dearest
associations are naturally most intimately
centred. Their correspondence is frequently
interrupted for months together. This is a grievance
that might be easily obviated, and ought to be
promptly remedied. Our national defenders should
be induced to love their country. Impartial justice
and liberal benevolence should be so interwoven with
our institutions as to second and fortify, in every way,
the inappreciable instincts of patriotism. By acting
in this spirit we should best secure an unquenchable
zeal in the breasts of our naval and military patriots

CONSTITUTION FOR PRUSSIA,
(From the Herald).
_

BRESLAU, JAN. 31.—0 n the 23d of January a con-
stitution for Prussia was signed and sealed by his
Majesty Friedrich Wilhelm the Fourth, and by the
Princes of the blood royal of Prussia.
In the absence of his father, Prince Carl, the deed,
after much consideration (in consequence of his age, 19),
was signed by his son.
The Houses of Parliament are to represent the nation.
The first, or upper House, is to consist of princes of the
blood royal, and of other Princes of non-reigning houses,
whose seats are to be heritable; together with such per-
sons as his Majesty may please to nominate, whether
noble or otherwise.
The second, or lower house, is is consist of elected
members of the nobility, ritterstande (inferior nobility),
and of members elected by cities, &c.
(From the Morning Post).
We have this moment received by express from Berlin
the important news that the new Prussian Constitution
was granted on the 3d inst., and published in the Berlin
papers of the 4th.

for the defence and maintenance of the interests and
honour of the British empire.

We have received intelligence from Lisbon to the Ist
February.
The fate of the Conde DE 13011IFIN, the Conde DE
VILLAREAL, and General CELESTINO is decided. These
officers, together with 39 of the chief officers taken at
Torres Vedras, are to be transported to the penal set-
tlement of Bissao, in the Bight of Biafra, the most sickly
part of the coast of Africa. They have been brought to
no trial, they have never been heard in their defence,
and although it is said in excuse that an attempt had
been made to bribe the officer, in command of the brig
on board which they were imprisoned, to connive at
their escape, no proof whatever has been given of such
an attempt, and by an act of despotic tyranny, which far
transcends the worst doings of even Don MIGUEL,
the QUEEN has condemned to this slow and lingering
death the mea to whose bravery she is herself
indebted for her throne. The British Minister,
Mr. SOUTHERN, and the Belgian Minister, M. DETRIER,
have in vain interceded for a commutation of their sen-
tence, and they are to sail the first fair wind. These
accounts were brought by the Iberia, which was off
Oporto on the 2d, on which day intelligence reached the
city that the Miguelites in Tras-os-Montes had been
completely dispersed by Vim:tams and LAPA. at Sabo-
rose, above Villa Poua d'Agmar, and that General
MACDONNELL had been kille3. SALDANHA'S head.

quarters were at Agueda, thirty miles from Coimbra.
Every possible preparation had been made at
Oporto to give him a warm reception. Po-
voas, the ci-derant Miguelite general, who has re-
cently taken service under the Junta of Oporto, has

crossed the Tagus into Alemtejo, at the head of 1,500
men, and was advancing against SCHWALRACK, who de-
clares, that unless he has a reinforcement of GOO men, he
must fail back upon Lisbon. GUEDES, A7ENHA, and
SANTA MARTHA, all Miguelite chiefs, have joined the
Oporto Junta, and MACDONNELL, whose defeat and
death wo have recorded above, was the only Miguelite
of importance who had not joined the Septembristas.
Viana, abandoned by the insurgents, has been taken
possession of by CABAL. An insurgent steamer has
captured a Government schooner conveying stores to
Figneras for the use Of SALDANHA'S army. Evora
still holds out ; the garrison is 3,000 strong, and has
eleven pieces of cannon, with plenty of provisions and
ammunition.

It is said that the QUEEN will issue a decree in a day
or two, taking off the double decima from the interest
on the foreign debt.

Madrid papers of the 30th and 31st ult. have arrived.
The Gaceta of the 30th contains the official announce-
ment of the appointment of the new Ministry. Several
high functionaries, including the political chief of
Madrid, have resigned their appointments.
The Cortes did not sit on the 30th, as there was a
grand Court reception on that day, in honour of the
birthday of the Duchess of MONTPENSIER.
The Espanol says that Senor MoN will be appointed
Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. Don ENniquE
is to have the command of a squadron now organising at
Cadiz.

MADRID BOMA, JAN. 30.—Three per Cents., 32
cash; Five per Cents., 20i cash; Exchange on Eng.
land, 37.

We have received the Paris papers of Friday and
Saturday. The comments of these papers on the debate
in the Chamber of Deputies on the Montpensier mar-
riage, more especially on the speeches of MM. GurizoT
and Tin Ens, would, if collected together, form a pon-
derous volume. As we have given the speeches elsewhere
in extenso, we shall be sparing in our extracts from the
comments of the papers. The Journal des Debuts, of
Course, finds that M. G111307.'6 speech is a masterpiece
of eloquence and argument, and that his conduct has
been a model of good faith and honour. The Degas
is, moreover, exceedingly angry with the English press,
because " it bas not feared to throw its insults
and its calumnies even at the RING of the FRENCII,"
and appeals to the good sense of the people of England
to let " this speech of M. GuizoT close this deplorable
discussion," which it might well do had M. GtrxzoT ab-
stained
from personalities, seeing that he has rather
damaged than supported his cause by his most incon-
sequential speech, which is accurately described by the
Constitutionnel as " a faithless mirage, a subtle piece of
special pleading, where gratuitous assertions mask the
total absence of proofs, and where the apparent con-
tinuity of reasoning is maintained only by altering or
suppressing a part of the facts." In the same paper we
find the following account of the effect produced on the
supporters of the Ministry by this speech :
" The Minister of Foreign Affairs has declared that the
situation is grave, so grave that he believed it his duty to
warn the Chamber and the country to be on their guard.
If ever there was a case in which explanations should be
given it was this, but they were withheld. The danger even
appeared to vanish under the word of M .Gaizot. He has,
in fact, a great remedy, a universal panacea, and that is
time. Time will bring back Franc* to the arms of the Spa-
nish nation; time will calm down the irritation of England;
and as to the three Powers, by persevering in the policy of
order and conservatism, it is certain that good relations are
to be re-established. A fine remedy truly, and a firm
foundation for proclaiming that the peace of the world is
assured! And, in consequence, according as M. Guizot
went on speaking, agitation gained the Chamber, until then
calm and almost indifferent. In proclaiming the existence of
a danger, he flung the majority into
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kill Lord Palmerston; but if he should survive? • • • •
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IRISH ESTATES.
The Earl of MOLTNTCASIIEL moved for the pro-
duction of a return of the total amount of the sums
appearing to be due for debt, damages, and costs upon
all decrees, orders, and judgments in Ireland, re-
docketed pursuant to the Act of 9 Geo. IV.,
c. 35, or registered pursuant to the 7th and Bth Vict.,
c. 90, and now appearing to be re-docketed or regis-
tered in the office for registering judgments in Ireland,
distinguishing those which are in debt from those which
are in case. He said the object of the return was to
ascertain the amount to which the land in Ireland was
liable, and which it was not too deeply involved to offer
sufScient security for the repayment of the loans to be
made by the Government. He wanted not lo pry
into any individuars affairs ; all ho desired was to
know what amount of charges was upon the
land. He had himself made a calculation
himself, and he found that the total rental of Ireland was
13,000,0001., the charges upon that rental amounted to
10,450,000/. ; and the landlords had therefore only
some 3,000,0001. to spend. If Government, therefore,
imposed some ten or eleven millions upon the land-
lords they would only 'crush them, and, in so doing,
crush the countrv. He made these remarks in order to
prove that the landlords of Ireland were a much
maligned people, and that no one considered the inter-
ests of the people of Ireland more than they did.
The LORI) CHANCELLOR said that the Noble Lord
was undoubtedly anxious to obtain information
as to the amount of encumbrances on the estates
of Ireland. That was a desirable object no
doubt; but like many other desirable objects,
it laboured under this disadvantage that it was
unattainable.--(Laughter.) The fact was that the officer
in Dublin, where a register was kept of the judgments,
had no means of ascertaining whether any or all the
amount of a mortgage were paid off. True they had
got the amount of the judgment entered to a certain date,
but that would give no idea of the amount of charges
on the land. A Noble and Learned Lord (Lord
Brougham) had with himself informed the Noble Earl
on a former occasion that this was the ease, but he ap-
peared to have treated their information with some dis- •
respect. He (the Lord Chancellor) had therefore written
to the office in Dublin, and be Would read to the Noblt

Earl the answer he had received:—" I beg to sate f 4 ,r
your If)rdship's information that those several sums for
which judgment have been obtained, appear in the books
of the office as originally marked, but 1 have no materials
to enable me to ascertain whether or not, or what p r
tion of such stuns have been paid; nor have I materials
to enable me to distinguish what mortgage is paid, or
what is not. I beg leave to add, that this trifling return,
if commanded, will impede the business of the cffice.—l
have the honour to be," &c.—Now, information was
good, but erroneous information was worse than no in-
formation at all. He thought, theref,re, that the Noble
Lord would see reason to withdraw his motion.
Lord MOUNTCASHEL was desirous of the infor-
mation being received, as it was most important to the
interests of those who had property in Ireland.
Lord MONTEAGLE hoped that the Noble Lord
would withdraw the motion, as it was impossible to get
the returns correctly made.
Lord MOUNTCASHEL, in deference to the feeling
of the House, withdrew the motion.
THE CHELSEA PENSIONERS' BILL.
This Bill was read a third time and passed.
POOR REMOVAL BILL.

The LORD CHANCELLOR, in the absene of Lord
Portman, gave notice for that N4le Lord that he'would
on Thursday next present a petition from Blandford
against the provisions of the Poor Removal Bill.
The House then adjourned, at half-past six.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, Feb. 8.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock.
SECOND READINGS.

The following Bills were read a second time, and
ordered to be committed:—

Aberdeen Railway (Brechin Branch Daviation).
Aberdeen and Great North of Scotland Railways (Amal-
gamation or Leasirg).
Arbroath and Forfar and Scottish Midland Junction
Railways Connecting Railway.
Buckingham and Brackley junction Railway, and Ox-
ford and Bletchley Junction Railway Companies
Amalgamation and Extension of Lines.
Caledonian and Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock Rail-
ways Amalgamation.
Caledonian Railway (Lease or Purchase of the Glasgow,
Barrhead, and Neilston Direct, and the Glasgow
Southern Terminal Railways).
Clarence Railway and Leeds and Thirsk Railway Amal-

gamation.
Eastern Union Railway (Branch from Manningtreo to
Harwich).

Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester Railway and Branches.
Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding Junction Railway
(Burnley and Colliery Branches).
Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle Railway, and Glasgow,

Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr Railway (No. 1).
Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr Railway (No. 5).
Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock Railway (Amendment
and Branches to the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock,
and Ayr, the Glasgow, Barrhead and Neilston, and
Glasgow, Strathaven, and Lesmaltagow Railways, and
to Haugh Pits).
Gloucester and Dean Forest Railway (Construction of
Docks).
Huddersfield and Manchester Railway (Deviation and
Alterations in Oldham Branch, Sze.)
Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal
(Branch from Oldham to Aston and Guide Bridge).
Ipswich and Bury St. Edmund's Railway (No. 2) (Ex-
tension from Bury St. Edmund's to Newmarket and
Ely).
Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester Railway (Extension
to Wakefield, and Junction at lethley with the Wake-
field, Pontefract, and Goole, and the York and North
Midland Railway).
Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport Railway and Branch.
London and North-Western Railway (Lease and Pur-
chwe of the Huddersfield and Manchester Railway
and Canal, and the Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manches-
-11 ter Railway).
Manchester and Leeds Railway (Alteration of Levels of
Brighouse Branch of the West. Riding Union Rail-
way and New Line into Leeds).
Manchester and Leeds Railway (Branches, Extensions,
Deviations, Alterations of Levels, and other Works).
Manchester and Leeds Railway (Branch from the Hud-
dersfield and Sheffield Junction Railway to Barnsley,
and Extension of Holmfirth Branch).
Midland Railway (Syston and Peterborough Railway,
Deviations, and Approach to Manton Station).
Midland Railway (Extension Irons near Leicester, cid
Bedford, to Hitchin, and to Northampton and Hunt-
ingdon, and Enlargement of the .Leicester Station).
Midland Railway (Leicester and S wannington Railway,
Widening, Deviations, and Bran dies, Eulargeinent of
Leicester Station, and extending powers as to Ibstcek

Branch).
South-Eastern Railway (Widening of the Greenwich
Railway, and Arrangement and. Enlargement of the
London-bridge Station).
South-Eastern Railway (London-iiridge Station Arrange-

ment and Enlargem-osit).
Southampton and Dorchester Railway (New Forest De

viationa and Branches).
West Cornwall Railway (Branchos to St. Ives and Nor.
way man's Wharf, and Construe don and Enlargenien.
of Quays at Haylc).
Wilts, Sotners,t, and Weymouth Railway (No. 2).