The Sun.
London, England, 1846-07-14 00:00:00

RAILWAYS.

The Committee of Selection have nominated the foil ming
Select Committees on Railways:—
A Committee consisting of—the Earl of Lincoln (Chair-
man), Mr. Cripps, Mr. Cardwell, Viscount Jocelyn, and
Admiral Bowles' to whom they have referred the Bills com-
prised in Group No. 67 of Railway Bills, viz.:—
London and South-Western (London-bridge Extension),
Eastern Counties (Tottenham to Farringdon-street),

North Kent (City Extension).
The Select Committee to meet on Monday, July 20, at one
A Committee consisting of—the Right Hon. W. B.
Baring (Chairman), Mr. Neville, Hon. H. Fitzroy, Lord E.
Bruce, and Mr. Power, to whom they have referred the Bill
comprised in Group No. 69 of Railwa:‘ Bills, viz.:—
Eastern Counties (Wisbech to Spalding).
The Select Committee to meet on Monday, July 20, at one.

A Committee consisting of—the Right Hon. Sir George
Clerk (Chairman), Colonel Peel, Captain the Hon. S. Car •
negie, Mr. Tower, and the Hon. G. S. Smythe, to whom they
have referred the Bills comprised in Group No. 70 of Rail-
way Bilk, viz.:—
Sligo and Shannon,
Dublin. Belfast, and Coleraine Junction,

Galway and Kilkenny,
Dublin and Enniskillen,

Londonderry and Enniskillen Extension.
The Select Committee to meet on Monday, July 20, at one

Dispatches were 'received yesterday at:the Colonia'
office from the Governors of Van Diemen's Land, the
Mauritius, and the Cape of Good How,.
COMPLETIONT OF TtIE WALPOLE MEMOIRS.—Horace
Walpole's " Memoirs of the Reign of George the Second,"
edited by the late Lord Holland, are announced by Mr. Col-
burn for immediate publication, for the first time in the
octavo form, in three volumes, with portraits, uniform with
the " Memoirs of the Reign of George III.," edited by Sir
Denis Le Merchant. The manu,cript of these " Memoirs of
the Reign of George II." was found at Strawberry Hill, on
the death of ll,race Walpole, along with that of the " Me-
moirs of the lt,ig.l of George III.," lately published by Sir
Denis Le Merchant, in two chests, relative to whieh the
author left written directions that they were not to be opened
till a c-aisideraltle period after his decease. That time hav-
ing arrived, the seals were removed, and the nobleman to
whom the memoirs had been bequeathed (the Earl of Val •
tlegr:ve) decided on giving them to the public; and that
they might possess every possible advantage, it was arranged
that they should appear under the editorial auspices of the
late Lord Holland, whase intimate acquaintance with the
period illustrated, family connexion with the most celebrated
individuals of the time, exalted character, and distinguished
scholarship. appeared to point him out as above all men pe-
culiarly fitted fur the task of preparing them for the press.
POST-OFFICE N.JTIC DEPARTURE OF THE FO-
REIGN M./mm.B.-On Saturday the following notice was
issued, affixed to the General Post-office, St. Martin's-le-
Grand:—Gibraltar, Malta, the Mediterranean, Greece, the
lonian Isles, Egypt, Ceylon, India, end China, via South-
ampton, on the 20th instant The Overland (closed) Mail,
via Marseilles, for the : editerranean, India, and China,
will be dispatched hence on the evening of the 24th instant.
The Peninsular Mail, for Madeira, Lisbon, Vigo, Oporto.
Portugal, Cadiz, Corunne, Madrid, Spain, and Gibraltar, on
the morning of the 17th instant; next mail due by the
Queen on the 16th instant. The West Indies—The Royal
Mail steamer 'litanies, with the mails of the 17th instant,
for the British and foreign colonies in the West Indies
(except Honduras and Havannah), Madeira, Venezuela,
Bermuda, New Grenada, San Juan de Nicaragua ; next
mail due from West Indies on the 22e1 instant, from
Venezuela, &c., on the 7th of August. North America—
The Hibernia, with the mail cf the morning of the 18th
instant for British North America, Bermuda, and the
United States; the next mail due by the Caledonia on
the 15th inaant. Sydney and New South Wales, South
Australia, and New Zealand—The next mail on the evening
of the 31st instant. Madeira, Brazil, and Buenos Ayres—
The next mail dispatched 4th of August ; the next mail due
by the Express, August 28 (from August to January, in-
clusive, the packet touches at Bahia and Pernambuco, on her
outward passage to Rio Janeiro, the remaining six months
nn her homeward). Holland—Next mail on the 15th inst.
Hamburgh—Next mail on the 14th instant. Rotterdam—A
ship letter bag made up and dispatched by the Batavier on
the 18th instant.
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