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London, England, 1847-02-02 00:00:00

Ng FEBRUARY 2, 1847.

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.

(From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.)

MONDAY, FE it. 1.
The following Railway Bills were presented, read a first
time, and ordered to be read a second time:—
Manchester and Leeds (Branches, Extensions, Deviations,
and Alterations of Levels, and other Works—" to enable the
Manchester and Leeds Railway Company to make certain
Branches, Extensions, Deviations, and other Works, and to
amend their Acts.'
Gloucester and Dean Forest (Construction of Docks)—
" to authorise the Gloucester and Dean Forest Railway Com-
pany to construct a Dock or Basin at Gloucester, in con-
nexion with the said Railway."

West Cornwall (Branches to St. Ives and Norwayrnan's
Wharf, and Construction and Enlargement of Quays at
Hayle)—" to enable the West Cornwall Railway Company
to make two Branch Railways from the West Cornwall Rail
way to St. lives and Norwayman's Wharf respectively, and
to construct, purchase, and enlarge certain wharfs and quays
at Hayle."
Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, and Glasgow, Paisley,
Kilmarnock and Ayr (No. 1)—" to enable the Glasgow,
Dumfries, and Carlisle Railway Company to make several
Branch Railways in the counties of Dumfries and Cumber-
land, and for other purposes." •
Manchester and Leeds (Branch from the Huddersfield and
Sheffield Junction to Barnslev, and Extension of Holmfirth
Branch)—" to enable the Manchester and Leeds Railway
Company to make a Branch from the Huddersfield and
Sheffield Junction Railway to Barnsley, and an Extension of
the Holmfirth Branch of the same Railway."
Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock (Amendment and Branches
to the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, the Glasgow,
Barrhead, and Neilston, and the Glasgow, Strathaven, and
Lesmahagow, and to Haugh Pits)—" to enable the Glasgow,
Paisley, and Greenock Railway Company to make certain
Branch Railways, and to amend the Acts relating to the said
Railway."
Huddersfield and Manchester (Branch from Oldham to
Ashton and Guide Bridge)—" for enabling the Huddersfield
and Manchester Railway and Canal Company to make a
Railway from Oldham to Ashton and Guide Bridge."
Ipswich and Bury St. Edmund's (No. 2—Extension from
Bury St. Edmund's to Newmarket and Ely)—" to amend
the Acts relating to the Ipswich and Bury St. Edmund's
Railway Company, and for making a Railway from the
Line
~th swich and Bury St. Edmund's Railway at
Ifitr9-'Nt- &WIG Weivitrarket-apd,Fiay....."
x Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchestet ztetandn— •
field, and Junction at Methley with the Wakefield, Ponte-
fract, and Goole, and the York and North Midland)—" for
altering, amending, and enlarging or repealing, some of the
powers and provisions of the Leeds, Dewsbury, and Man-
chester Railway Act, 1845, and the Leeds, Dewsbury, and
Manchester Deviations and Branches Railway Act, 1846, and
for authorising the making and maintaining of certain
Branches and Extensions from the said Leeds, Dewsbury,
and Manchester Railway."
Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr (No. s)—" to
enable the Glasgow,lPaisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr Railway
Company to make a Branch Railway to the west side of
Dunlop-street, in Glasgow, and to enlarge their station at
Tradeston."

Southampton and Dorchester (New Forest Deviation and
Branches)—" for making an alteration in the Line of the
Southampton and Dorchester Railway, and Branches there-
from to Lymington and Eling, and for other purposes."
Eastern Union (Branch from Manningtree to Harwich)—
" to empower the Eastern Union Railway Company to make
a Railway from the Eastern Union Railway at Manningtree
to Harwich, with Branches thereoutiand for other purposes."
Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth (No. 2)—" to enable
the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth Railway Company to
construct a Railway from Bleadon to Blandford, with a
Branch to Glastonbury, and a Railway from Compton to
Wilton, with a Branch to Gillingham."
The following Railway Bills were read a second time, com-
mitted, and referred to the Committee of Selection :
London-bridge Termini General Enlargement.
_ .

London, Brighton, and South Coast (Kent Railway to
Maidstone, Canterbury, and Tunbridge).
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire (Station Approach
_ _

in Manchester).
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire (Branch from Ash-
ton-under-Lyne to Oldham).
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire (Junction with the
Midland Railway, vid Barnsley, and Branches therefrom).
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire (Branch to Chapel-
town and Thurgolancl Coal Branch).
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire (Aston Canal Pur-

chase.)
➢lanchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire (Branch at Bugs-
worth to join the Peak Forest Canal, Tramway, and
Amendment of Acts).
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire (Sheffield Canal

Purchase).
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, and Manchester and
Lincoln Union Railway, and Chesterfield and Gainsborough
Canal Amalgamation).
London, Brighton, and South Coast (London-bridge Station
Enlargement and Arrangement).
London, Brighton, and South Coast (Extension to London-
bridge).
Bristol and Exeter (Branch from Bleadon to Wells, Glaston-
bury and Street).
Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, and Glasgow and
Belfast Union (tio. 1)
. . __. • _ _ .

Glasgow Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr (No. 4).
Leeds Central Station.
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 Holbea h)
Lynn and Ely (Extension to Bury St. Edmund's;
Bristol and South Wales Junction and Aust Ferry..
Preston and Wyre.
Wharfdale (Skipton 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-
myle, Central Junction, and Coplaw-hill Branches, and
Montrose-street Terminus).
Glasgow, Airdrie, and Monklands Junction (Co wlairs 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, &U..
marnock, and Ayr (No. 2).
Wear Valley, Bishop Auckland and Weardale, Weardale
Extension, and Wear and Derwent Railways, and Shildoit
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.

The following letter, introduced by a note to the editor,
appears in Saunders News Letter (Dublin paper). It con-
y4s 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, arid the most practicable means of saving the lives
of thousands, that word would be soup; nut 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 little oatmeal, with a
small portion of commissariat biscuit broken up into it. We
charge 11,! d. a quart, and with a staff under 2s. a day, we
find that this can be done at an 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. REDMOND BARRY.
"To the joint Secretaries of the Irish Relief Association."

DEATH OF MR. JAMES TOOLED THE CITY TOAST-
MASTER.—After a very short but severe illness, the above
t
celebrated attendant onallprincipal public dinners, both
e'
political and charitable, died at his residAnce, much
regretted by multitudes of those who have had occasion to
admire his excellent manner of presiding over the business of
benevolent meetings.
THE CONVICT HULKS AT WOOLWICH.—SiF 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
Duncomhe, 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 or MADAME LAFFARGE.—The French
correspondent of the Atlas announces that this criminal,
concerning whom so intense and factitious an interest has
been kept up, is about to be liberated. "and e f
an
Thact of he
enlargement, 'he says, " appears certain, the ticipa-
r
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 hi,
advertisements are lengthened by his efforts to bring it to
the public memory. Moreover, on Tuesday last, there ap.
seared 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!"

PRICE SD.

COMMISSARIAT RELIEF.
IRELAND.

The following circular has been issued by order of
the Commissary General--
. .

" Augmented ratio of donations on subscriptions for
affording gratuitons relief, and providing food for
sale, at first cost, &c.
"TO THE SECRETARY OF EACH RELIEF COMMITTEE IN