The Sun.
London, England, 1847-02-02 00:00:00

Norfolk (Branch from Wymondham to the Norwich Ex-
tension of the Ipswich and Bury St. Edmund's, and th
proposed Thetford and Reedham Railway near Diss).
Norfolk (Branch from Thetford to join the Ipswich and
Bury St. Edmund's Railway, near Bury St. Edmund's).

NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL-OFFICE.
The following Railway Bills are appointed to be read a
second time on Frday, Feb. 5 :
Lynn and Ely (Extension to Spalding and Holbeach).
Lynn and Ely (Extension to Bury St. Edmund's).
Bristol and South Miles Junction- and Aust. Ferry.
Preston and Wyre.
Wharfdale (Slcipton and Cayley Hall Deviations).
Norfolk (from Thetford to the Lowestoft Railway near
Reedham, with a Branch to Halesworth).
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate.
Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Junction.
London and North-Western (Purchase of the Earl of Elles-
mere's interest in the Manchester South Junction and
Altrincham Railway).
Glasgow, Airdrie, and Monklands Junction (Cowlairs, Car-
rule, Central Junction, and Coplaw-hill Branches, and
Montrose-street Terminus).
Glasgow, Airdrie; and Monklands Junction (Cowlairs Branch ).
North .Western (Diversions at Skipton, Casterton, and
Sedbergh).
Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, and Ayrshire and
Bridge of Weir (No. 3).
Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, and Glasgow, Paisley, Kil-
marnock, and Ayr (No. 2).
Wear Valley, Bishop Auckland and Weardale, Weardale
Extension, and Wear and Derwent Railways, and Shildon
Tunnel Amalgamation.
Manchester and Lincoln Union (Deviation).
Direct London and. Portsmouth, and London, Brighton,
and South Coast Amalgamation.
Liskeard and Launceston Branch.
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire (Louth and Horn-
castle and East Lincolnshire Junction Branches).

IRISH RELIEF ASSOCIATION.
SOUP.

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The following letter, introduced by a note to the editor,
appears in Saunders News Letter (Dublin paper). It con-
veys a most favourable view of the working of the system of
soup kitchens in Ireland :

" Office of Public Works, January 22, 1847.
" Gentlemen,—l should be most ungrateful indeed, if I
allowed longer time to pass without expressing to you and
to my kind friend Sir James Dombrain, both on my part and
that of the unhappy population surrounding Glandore, in
the county of Cork, my cordial thanks for your ready re-
sponse to our application on behalf of the electoral division
of Kilfanaghembeg, in the Union of Skibbereen.
" When I left that place last week our soup establishment
was in full work; and if I was to name one word which
should convey my opinion of the most prompt, the most
efficient, a.lcl the most practicable means of saving the lives
of thousands, that word would be soup; not food, food, food,
but soup, soup, soup.
"In our village they now distribute 7,000 quarts of soup
daily, excellent substantial stuff; poor beef, slink calves,
beans, meal, bruised peas, rice, and a littla oatmeal, with a
small portion of commissariat biscuit broken up into it. We
charge I a quart, and with a staff under 2s. a day, we
find that this cau be done at au expense of less than 10s. a
day loss.

"The labourers going to the roads take a pint in the
morning, and a pint on their return; they are no longer
staggering from weakness, their aspect is already improved.
and their physical powers amazingly so; the women and
children in the village and its neighbourhood also participate
in the advantage, and any benevolent persons who wish to
give gratuitous relief, purchase tickets, which have, instead
of coppers, now become the only relief circulating medium.
" I should not omit to mention that the digester is of in-
finite value in working up the meat and bones, and in boiling
the peas. Wherever Igo I endeavour to promote soup esta-
blishments, and I am happy to say that the Government
have now instructed the Commissariat to give their cordial
aid in setting them a-going.—l have, &c.,

- "J. REiMIO.ND BARRY.
"'To the joint Secretaries of the Irish Relief Association."

DEATH OF MR. JAMES TOOLE THE CI
ItY TOAST-
MASTER.—After a very short but severe illness, the above
celebrated attendant on all the principal publicdinners,yesterday, athis
e
regretted by multitudes of those who have had occasiomuchn to
admire his excellent manner of presiding over the business
of
benevolent meetings.
THE CONVICT HULKS AT WOOLWICH.—Sir George
Grey, the Secretary of State for the Home Department, has
ordered the strictest investigation to be made relative to the
statements made in the House of Commons by Mr. Thomas
Duncombe, M.P., on the evening of Thursday last, respecting
the convicts at Woolwich ; the investigation is now in pro-
gress, and will be made public in the most unreserved
manner, the parties charged being most anxious that a true
statement of the treatment of the convicts should be elicited
by a searching investigation.
Letters from Odessa speak of the continuance of
purchases in the grain markets on account of Belgium,
France, and England, and the result has been increased firm-
ness of prices. For delivery in June a great deal of business
had been transacted. The last advices from England are
stated to have exerted much influence on the general condi-
tion of the market.
LIBERATION OF MADAME LAFFARG E.—The French
correspondent of the Atlas announces that this criminal,
concerning whom so intense and factitious an interest bas
been ket up, is about to be liberated. " The fact of her
enlargement," he says, " appears certain, and the anticipa-
tion has given rise to almost as much excitement as the his-
tory of her crime did upon the occasion of her trial." •It
seems that the matrimony-agent through whom she was
introduced to her unfortunate husband, instead of shrinking
abashed from the notoriety which the ill-assorted union
brought upon him, boasts of it to this very hour; and his
advertisements are lengthened by his efforts to bring it to
the public memory. Moreover, on Tuesday last, there ap-
peared in all the Paris papers an announcement from a rival
establishment (that of Madame St. Marc), setting forth that
she has to dispose of" a young English orphan, heiress to a
splendid fortune l"