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No, 16,917.

No.. 9, D'innark-street, Soho-square, Dec. 2, 1846.
31 ENZIES'S ANNUAL CALEDONIAN
COSTUME and FANCY DRF,SS BALL will take place on
'I litiltsnAy, the 21st of January. at the QUEEN'S CONCERT ROOMS,
Hanover-square.

CORNWALL RAILWAY.
Notica is he•eby given, that in pursuance of the provisions of
the Act of Incorporation, the FIRST GENERAL MEETING of
PROPRIETORS in this undertaking, will be held in the Assembly
Rooms at Truro, on WEDNESDAY, the 16th December next, at noon.
Those Proprietors only who have been previously registered can
attend, and vote at the meeting.
JOSEPII TIIO3IAS TREFFRY, Chairman.
'WILLIAM 11. BOND, Secretary.
Cornwall Railway Office, 80, Lemon-street, Truro,
21st November, 1846.
The Sealed Certificates will be issued immediately after the abort-
mentioned meeting has been held.

CO RNWA LL RAILWAY
Notice is hereby given that a SPECIAL GENERAL MEET-
ING of the Proprietors in this undertaking will be held, in the
Assembly Rooms, at Truro, on WEDNESDAY, the 16th day of Decem-
ber next, at One o'clock In the Afternoon, to consider the propriety o_
an application to Parliament for an Act for the alteration of the
Line of the Cornwall Railway between Plymouth and a point near
Saltash, and for powers to purchase, lease, or jointly construct and
use portions of the South Devon Railway and works, and to pur-
chase the Saltash Ferry,, and to sell or lease the New Works to the
Great Western Railway Company, or t• the Bristol and Exeter
Railway Company, or to the South Devon Railway Company.
JOS. THO. TREFFRY, Chairman.
W. H. BOND, Secretary.
Cornwall Railway Office, 80, Lemon-street, Truro,
21st November, 1846.

NEW CHRISTMAS BOOK BY MR. DICKENS,
I❑ December will be published, price 55., small Bvo.
THE BATTLE O,F LIFE.
A LOVE STORY.
By CHARLES DICKENS.
The Illustrations by Daniel Maclise, B.A. ; Clarkson Stanfleli,
R.A. ; John Leech, Esq. ; and Richard Doyle, Esq.
London : Bradbury and Evans, Whitcfriars.

QT. EDWARD "the Confessor's" CO-FIBRIL-
RESPIRATIVE-TOUCH. Saint Edward, &c., maintained
in their cure for SCROFULA, A. D. 1051, that the thread-like,
air-nerve fibrils, from the brain, seat of sensibility, to and (down the
sides of fingers & toes, to their end-points, In Death became joined.
That during health, these tubular fibrils—intuitively touch—in
antagonistic coe-respondence, as "touching together " in second-
time, for balanced animated locomotion. Hence, by thi. Physiological
Insight ' varicose [Scrofula by the OXY DE of BEES'- WAX, for fl ame-
vacuum dilation of these fibrils] veins'ehange colour within the hour.'
At the lacteal reflow, the agonised MOTHER regains the lost
breast-milk for babe,• in comet'-like cause. Contractions of "Limbs"
through chill, &c., are eased on renewing antagonistic muscular-elas-
ticity, as in the case of the Earl of Derby in 1845, and Dr. King's
(right hand for " writing") at Cambridge, when paralyzed.
References given, on taking ADVICE. from 6 to 8 A.m., and 11 to
12 daily, on fire-damp suffiation and all " incurable " cases.
If born purblind, the Eyes in 27 days, ' unshell ' a skin.
For Restoration after Railway nervous Shock,' by special request
address to C. Ackerley, Esq., 5, Swallow-street, Quadrant, London.
N.B. For Cure, none need repine, as tranquil SLEEP is a conse-,
quent, on a re-liquification of the blood. Tacit. His. iv. 81

THE IMPOLICY OF DISCONTINU-
ING THE GROWTH OF POTATOES.
The f 'flowing letter has been addressed to the editor
of Bell's Weekly Messenger :
Sir,—l promised, as early as convenient, to send you
:iltahatiede
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cutting
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and thataudialla is allcous Most as-
sured!y
another.
The Those who did it this season will not repeat hr
The potatoes on which I allowed the tops to remain weere.
sounder, larger, and better boilers than those from which
I removed them. It is now quite certain that the newest
varieties are the best. The old Rushford blue, that has
been so long grown in this part of the country, has de-
generated very much indeed, and cannot again be planted
with any degree of certainty. The red, a fashionable
potato in the west of England, failed altogether with
us, and many of the delicate varieties are gone. The
whire potatoes, of which there are several excellent
varieties, and Phillips's blues, stand better than any
other. The latter, in appearance, resemble the Wor-
cester silk, and partake very much of the nature of the
Rushford, only that they present a smoother surface,
and are of a deeper colour. I am convinced that the
more lime and the less manure that is applied to the land
for potatoes the better. The proprietors of allotment
ground will do wisely to present their tenants with a
little lime next season, for nothing is more suitable to the
potato. The idea of discontinuing the growth of this
valuable esculent, because it has failed the last two
years, is too preposterous to be entertained for a mo-
ment. We might just as well discontinue the growth of
turnips, swedes, and even cucumbers, for they have been
similarly affected, although not to the extent of the for
mer. None hut the hardier sorts of potatoes must bk.
planted, and that much earlier than is usually done, say
in March instead of the latter end of April or beginning
of May, as is too frequently Vie case. Those potatoes
rhat were planted early this yea!' are a fair crop and
but little injured. Even supposing the frosts should
check the early planted, which is seldom the case, de-
pend upon it, more are injured by late planting from
drought than by the frosts of April. It is saidhat
about eighty years ago the potatoes were affecte the
same way they have been the last two years, but that
after the third year they suffered no more. Let us hope
that it may be so again, for, whatever substitute you
mayintroduce on the working man's table, rest assured
that nothing
will please and satisfy him so well as a few
smoking hot mealy potatoes. It is all very well for
those that have abundance of other things to recommend
peas, swedes, and mangeld wurtzel, but it is not so easy
to change the taste of a nation long accustomed to one
kind of food. Let us trust to an over-ruling Providence,
and I have little fear that the scourge will pass over,
and that the poor man will again be comforted by a sight
and taste of that vegetable which
none of us can dis-
pense with, and whic to him this season is so great a
luxury.—Yours faithfully,
Wick, Nov. 23.

11. HUDSON, JuN.

M. EUGENE suE
AND MR.
MITCH ELL.
The following letter has been addressed to Mr. Mit-
chell, the director of the French Plays ;
"I learn, Sir, from my excellent friend the Count
d'Orsay, that many persons of the highest consideration
in England intend to offer you a public testimonial of the
esteem in which they hold you, and of the lively na-
tional interest they take in the establishment which you,
Sir, direct, with so much intelligence, and with so en-
lightened lightened a love for the fine arts. I should rejoice, Sir,
to add my name to those who so justly appreciate your
exertions, and to express to you, as a Frenchman, all
my gratitude fOr the generous and elevated zeal with
which you foster and popularise in England, French
dramatic art and literature, even as you so brilliantly
inaugurated in France the master pr,ductions of Eng.
lish dramatic art. Continue, my friend, to act thus—
to retain the approbation of persons of heart and of
taste ; for such intellectual exchanges between our two
nations must necessarily extend to their enlightenment,
their aggrandisement, by creating a reciprocity of feel-
ing for genius, of which both have so much reason to
be proud.—Receive, Sir, &c.
EUGENE SUE."

An engagement has been settled with Mr. Bunn
for the production of The Bohemian Girl, The Enchan-
tress &c., with the operatic company of Drury-lane, at
the Surrey Theatre. The performances will commence
en Easter Monday.
MADAME BISHOP.— At the close of Madame
Bishop's present engagement at Drury-lane, this distin-
guished vocalist will proceed upon her tour, which will
comprise Dublin, Edinburgh, and the principal cities of
England. The sum guaranteed to her by the Birming-
ham director alone amounts to 600/. So numerous are
her engagements, that every hour will be engrossed for
two months. She will return to London in time for the
concert season. The operas in which Madame Biahop
is to appear are La Sonnambula, Anna Bolena, Linda di
Chamouni, Lucia de Lammermoor, L' Elisir d Amore, and
The Maid of Artois. Her engagements for the month
of January will amount to nearly a thousand pounds !
a gratifying instance of the high popularity and splendid
talents of a native artiste.

ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—The telegraph has been
laid down and covered in as far as Oakley-street, east
side of Westminster-road. From Westminster-road the
right-hand footway along Oakley-street and Gibson-
street has been opened to the depth of two feet, for the
reception of the wires.

IRELAND.
DISTRESS IN WEST CARBERY.

SILIIIBBREEN, TUESDAY MORNING.—NO description
or recital can convey any idea of the extreme miser)
which exists here. Hunger, nakedness, sickness, and
mortality almost equal to the ravages of epidemic dis
ease, are the prevailing features of the dwellings of the
poor here. Fever, of a type classed by the physician a,
famine-fever, afflicts hundreds of the poor, and dysen-
tery, produced by cold and want of nutritious food, is
equally if not more general. The workhouse at present
contains 900 paupers—considerably more than it was
originally built for—the stables are used as dormitories.
The Fever Hospital was built to accommodate forty
patients—it contains to-day 161; and there are twent)
more fever cases in the infirmary. The two nurses
attached to the hospital are in fever, so is the school-
master, whose death was hourly expected. The number
of deaths which took place in the house from the Ist
to the 30th of November, was 87. I copied them from
the books—and there were five more reported thi'
morning (Ist December). In fact, there are scarcely
as many able bodied paupers in the house as can bury
the dead, and they are taken cut for interment three
at a time. One of the most remarkable illustrations of
the nature of distress here, is a desire on the part of tht
poor to escape, if I may so call it, to anywhere, from
the privations they endure at home. A small fund had
been created, through the benevolence of the doctor and
the apothecary of the workhouse giving up the proceeds
of their vaccination contract, to enable some poor crea
tures to go out of the country. Last week 107 of them
were shipped from the town, at Baltimore, on board a
collier to Newport—the owner, Mr. Swanton, having
given them a free passage, while Dr. Donovan provided
them " fit out," by releasing some few of their most in-
dispensable articles of clothing out of pawn, and giving
them a small bag of biscuit for " sea store." I had an
opportunity of seeing another batch preparing to start on
the cars for Cork, to proceed by the screw steamer fot
London, on Wednesday. Some of them were tradesmen,
who expected work there, and whose miserable appear-
ance showed how reduced was their condition when the)
bad xeeourse to this alternative. There were also some
half clad labourers, and some women and children who
expected to find their husbands, fathers, or other
relatives, to aid them in the great metropolis. I pro-
ceeded in company with Dr. Donovan, to a suburb
called Bridgetown, where he bad a large number of
sick calls to answer. We entered at least thirty of tht
huts, and such an aggregation of disease, hunger, naked-
ness, and cold, it is estt of the question to describe. Jr..
nearly every house we entered, men lay sick and moan-
ing in the wretched beds they had, or more generally on
a small bundle of dirty straw on the earthen floor, far
worse than swine are usually supplied with in ordinal.)
farmyards. ' The only covering they had was the clothe,
worn by them at work; and the same total absence of
food, firing, clothing, prevailed in each of the wretchee
cabins. We left the locality after a visit of about tures
hours, during which we witnessed the most distressing
and painful illustrations of individual and general suffer
ing that probably have existed anywhere within the
knowledge of the present generation.
TUESDAY EVENING, FIVE O'CLOCK.—I have just re
turned from the meeting, and from viewing two dead
bodies in a house which I visited yesterday, and where
no one complained of sickness. They died as most others
have done, from inanition, rapid decay of the vital
powers, arising from want of food. In fact, death in its
most appalling form is hourly presented to our view—all
talk of exaggeration is at an end. The people aredying,
not by twos or threes, but by dozens—the ordinary
forms of decent burial are dispensed with—the people.
who not having the means of supporting life, look upon
death with a callous indifference hitherto wholly use
known in Ireland; and when the dead bodies are put
into a fragile shell, with the name of a coffin, those who
bear it to the grave are the only persons who accompany
it. I saw to-day and yesterday several such funerals:
not a living being but the four who had the coffin on their
shoulders.

PROJECTED RAILWAYS, ETC.

PARLIAMENTARY SESSION, 1847.

The following is a list of plans, sections, and books of
reference, deposited at the Private Bill office of the
Rouse of Commons, &c., on or before the 30th of No-
vember ult. :

RAILWAY S.
Aberdeen (Brechin Branch Deviation).
Airdrie and Bathgate, and Monkland and Benhar Junc-
tion Connecting.
Airdrie and Bathgate Junction (Amendment and Devi-
ation).
Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston and Eastern Junc-
tion (Alterations of Branches into or near the town of

ArbroathN ot tfng ha
la, d
m
)F. --
orfar Scottish Midland Junction Rail-
ways Connecting.
Axholme (from the Leeds and Selby Railway to Gains-
borough, with Branches).
Aylsham and North Walsham.
Ayrshire and Galloway (with Branches).
Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction (Devi-
ation of Main Line, &c.).
Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Stour Valley (No. 1,
Smeth wick Deviation),
Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Stour Valley (No. 2).
Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Dudley Railway
(Stourbridge and West Bromwich Line).
Birmingham and Oxford Junction Amendment.
Birmingham and Oxford Junction (Warwick and Strat-
ford Line).
Blackburn, l)arwen, and Bolton (Bolton-le-Moors Diver.
sions of Line in the parish of Blackburn).
Blandford and Bruton Junction.
Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham (from Wisbeach to
Sutton-bridge).
Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham (Branch to Wisbeach
and Wisbeach Harbour Improvement).
Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham (Peterborough and
Thorney Line).
Braintree and Halstead.
Brighton, Lewes, and Tunbridge Wells.
Bristol and South Wales Junction (and Aust Ferry).
Bristol and Exeter (Taunton and Castle Carey Branch).
Bristol and Exeter Extension (Crediton and Laun-
ceston).
Bristol and Exeter (Branch from Bleadon to Wells, Glas-
tonbury and Street).
Bristol and Poole Harbour Railway.
Buckingham and Brackley Junction, and Oxford and
Bletchley Junction.
Caledonian Branch across Clyde and Glasgow Station.
Caledonian (Edinburgh Station and Branches, &c.)
Caledonian (Branches from the Clydesdale Junction
Railway, &c.)
Caledonian (Extension of Motherwell Branch, &c.)
Caledonian, Glasgow, Garnkirk, and Coatbridge (Branch
to Glasgow and Station).
Caledonian (Branches to Canobie and Langholm, &c.)
Caledonian and Dumbartonshire Junction.
Cambridge, St. Neots, and Bedford Junction.:
Chard Canal and Railway Extension.
Chelmsford and Norwich.
Cheltenham and Oxford (from Great Western Railway
at Cheltenham to Oxford and Rugby Railway near
Oxford).
Cheater and Holyhead (Extensions at Chester and Holy-

head Stations).
Clyde and Lochfine (with a Branch).
Colchester, Stour Valley, Sudbury, and Halstead (Ex-
tension to Melford, Lavenham, and Clare).
Colchester, Stour Valley. Sudbury, and Halstead (Ex-
tension from Lavenham to Bury St. Edmund's).
Cork and Bandon (Amendment, Deviations, and Exten-

siuns).
Cork, Blackredr, and Passage (Amendment, Extension,

and Deviation).
Cornwall and Devon Ce►►tral and Plymouth Railway and
•

Branches.
Cornwall Deviations.
Coventry, Banbury, and Oxford Junction.
Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction.
Direct London and Portsmouth (Approach to Dorking,
Alterations in Levels of Line at Epsom, &c.).
Dover and Deal, Cinque Ports, Thanet and Coast Junc-

tion.
Drayton and Bognor.
Dublin, Dundrum, and Rathfarnham (Extension to Ste-

phen's-green).
Dublin and Drogheda (Branch from Navan to Sells).
Dublin and Drogheda (Extension from Navan to Cavan).
Dundee and Newtyle (Widening, Altering, and Ica-

proving).
Dundee and Perth (Alteration and Extension, and Inch-
turn, Polgavie, and Inchmichael Branches).
East Coast (Wisbeach to Spalding).
East Lancashire (Burnley Connecting Line).
East Lancashire (Deviations and Rawttustall Coal

Branches).
East Lancashire (Clitheroe, Milton, and Padiham

_
Branches).
East Lancashire (Southport Branch and Preston Ex-
.

_
tension).
East Lancashire Extension (Bury to Manchester).
East of Fife (Deviation of Main Line, &c.).
East Lincolnshire (Deviation at Boston and Branch
to Great Grimsby d Sheffield Junction Railway at
Grimsby). "NW
East Lincolnshire (Branch from Louth to Lincoln).
East Lothian Central.
Eastern Counties (Somersham to Ramsay).
Eastern Counties (Hertford to Hitchin, &c.).
Eastern Counties (Branch from Stratford to Victoria

Park, &c.).
Eastern Counties (Cambridge, Royston, and Ware Lines.
with Branches to the river Cam, and the Royston and
Hitchin Railway).
(
Eastern Counties (Cambridge to Bedford, with a Branch
to Royston,
Counties
Counties
s
Eastern Counties (Tottenham to Guildford-street).
Eastern
(Braintree(Spalding
tlon )New ark, with Branches
to Halstead).
.
Eastern Counties (Wisbeach to Spalding).
Eastern
Eastern Counties (Coal and Coasting Dock and Junction
Railway).
from Heckington to Lincoln).
Eastern Counties (Ilford to Tilbury Fort and Southend,
&c.).
Eastern Counties (Peterborough to Folkingham).
Eastern Counties (Enlargement of London and Stratford
Stations, &c.).
Eastern Counties (Purchase or Lease of the North
Woolwich Railway, of the East and West India
Docks, &c.).
Eastern Union and Hadleigh Junction (Alteration of
Levels and Extension of Railway to Lavenham).
Eastern Union (Ipswich to Woodbridge).
Eastern Union (Manningtree to Harwich).
Edinburgh and Bathgate (Extension of Barracks, Branch
from Whitburn, &c., and Deviation of Main Line).
Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton (Leith and Granton
Junction, and Leith and Trinity Extensions).
Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton (Union Canal and Cale-
donian Railway Junction).
Edinburgh and Northern (Branch from Burntisland to
Dunfermline Branch, &c.).
Edinburgh and Northern (Burntisland Pier and Burnt-
island and Granton Ferry Purchase, &c.).
Edinburgh and Northern (Improvement of the Ferry be-
tween Ferry Port-on Craig and the North Side of the
River 'ray).
Edinburgh and Northern (St. Andrew's and Newburgh
Harbour, Branches, and Road Crossings, Newport
Railway Extension).
Edinburgh and Perth (and Branches).
Enfield and Edmonton Extension.
Exeter, Yeovil and Dorchester.
Falmouth and Henstone (from the Cornwall Railway at
Penryn to Ilelstone).
Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding Junction (Burnley
and Colliery Branches).
General Terminus and Glasgow Harbour (Connecting
Branches with Caledonian and other adjoining Rail-
ways).
Glasgow, Airdrie, and Monkhinds Junction Railway
(Cowlair's Branch).
Glasgow, Airdrie, and Monklands Junction Railway
(Cowlair's Carmyle Central Junction and Coplaw Hill
Branches, and Montrose-street Terminus).
Glasgow, Barrhead, and Neilston Direct (Amendment,
Deviations, and Branches).
Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle (No. 1).
Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle (No. 2),
Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle (No. 3.)
Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan (Amendment and
Branches).
Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock (Branches at Port Glas-
gow, &c., and Diversion of Canal).
Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock (Amendment and
Branches).
Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr (No. 1).
Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr (No. 2).
Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr (No. 3).
Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr (No. 4).
Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr (No. 5).
Gloucester and Dean Forest.
t-iloucester and Hereford Railway and Canal Purchase.
Great Northern (Branch to King's Lynn).
Great Northern (Branch to Horneastle and at Brayford-
reGreat Northern (Deviations between Grantham and
York).
me No Lincoln).
rthern(Branches to Sleaford).
Great
Great Northern (Deviations between London and Gran-
tham).
Great Northern (Deviations between Peterborough,
Greatßo NorthernstoandD (Extensiononcaster) to Leeds and Wakefield ;
Deviation of Methley Branch of Wakefield, Ponte-
fract,Great Northern (Hertford, Hatfield, and St. Alban's
Branch).
Great Northern (Isle of Axholme Extension).
and Goole Railway).
Great Southern and Western Extension (Portarlington
Arrnkdsmeanntdanild
Hants
Amendment Great and
Great Western (Branches to join the West London,
Br
a n
h ireess)t.e r n
Hammersmith, &c.).
Great Western (Branches to Staines, &c.)
Guildford Extension and Portsmouth and Farnham
Railway (Extension and Deviations).
Hartlepool and Stockton Junction.
Harwich and Eastern Counties Junction Railway and
Pier.

Herne Thy and Canterbury Junction.
Huddersfield and Manchester (Deviations and Altera-
tions in Oldham Branch, Extension to Manchester,
&c.)
Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal
(Branch from Oldham to Ashton and Guidebridge).
Ipswich and Bury St. Edmund's (No. 1), Yarmouth Ex-

tension.
Ipswich and Bury St. Edmnnd's (No. 2), Newmarket

and Ely. _
Ipswich and Bury St. Edmund's (No. 3), Bury to Thet-

- ford.
Ipswich and Bury St. Edmund's (No. 4), Stowmarket to
Sudbury.
Ipswich and Bury St. Edmund's (No. 5), Extension to
East Dareham and Aylsham, in Norfolk.
Ipswich and Bury St. Edmund's (Ipswich to Wood-

- bridge).
Ipswich and Bury St. Edmund's (Road Deviations).
Kilmarnock and Ayr Direct (from Kilmarnock to Ayr,
with Branch to Harbour of Ayr).
Leeds Central Railway Station.
Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester Railway (Extension
to Wakefield and Junction, at Methley, with the
Wakefield, Pontefract and Goole and York and North

Midland Railway).
Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester (Ossett Branch and
Dewsbury and Morley Stations).
Leeds and Thirsk Deviations.
Leeds and Thirsk (Eaglescliff and Stillington Junction).
Leeds and Thirsk (Harrogate and Pateley Branch).
Leeds and Thirsk (Knaresborough and Borougbridge

Branch).
Leeds and Thirsk (Leeds and Bramhope Waterworks).
Leeds and Thirsk (Leeds, Durham, and Newcastle Junc-
tion).
Leeds and Thirsk (Melmerby and Northallerton June-

tion).
Leeds, Wakefield, and Midland Junction.
Liskeard and Launoeston Branch.
Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport Railway and Branches.
Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Juno-
tiontAlteration of Main Line and Hawes Branch).
Livarikiot,'Manchester, and Newcastle-Upon-Tyne Junc-
tion (Amendment).
Llynvi Valley Extension.
London, Brentford, and Great Western Junction.
London-bridge Termini General Enlargement.
London, Brighton, and South Coast (Extension to Lou-

don-bridge).
London General Coasting Dock, near Gallion's Reach,
and Connecting Railway with Eastern Counties.
London, Oxford, and Cheltenham (with Branches).
London and Blackwall (Improvement and Branches).
London and Brighton and South Coast (London bridge
Station Enlargement and Arrangement).
London and Brighton and South Coast (the Kent Rail-
way to Maidstone, Canterbury, and Tunbridge).
London and North-Western (Atherstone and Whitacre

Lime).
London and North-Western (Bescoft and Wolverhamp-

ton Branch, &c.)
London and North-Western (Birmingham and Lichfield
Line, with Branches).
London and North-Western (Coventry and Nuneaton
Line and Victoria Collieiy).
London and North-Western (Kenilworth and Berks-
well Railway, and the Coventry and Leamington
Amendment).
London and North-Western (Lime-street, Liverpool,
Station, Extension and Branch Tunnel, Crews Sta-
tion Extension, &c.)
London and North-Western (Newport Pagnell, Olney,
and Wellingborough Branches).
London and North-Western (Ormakirk and Rainsford

Branches, &c.)
London and North-Western (Portobello and Wolver-
hampton Branch, &c.)
London and North-Western (St. Albans, Luton, and

Dunstable Branch).
London and Soutbend.
London and South Essex (from London and Blackwall,
Extension to River Crouch, with Branches to Tilbury
and Southend).
London and South-Western (Andover aid Southampton

Junction).
London and South-Western (Battersea Widening).
London and South-Western (York-road Station En-

largement).
Lowestoft Railway and Harbour (Alteration at Reed-

ham).
Lynn and Ely (Deviation, and Lynn Docks).
Lynn and Ely (Extension to Bury St. Edmund's).
Lynn and Ely (Extension to Spalding and Holbeach).
Lynn and Ely (Lynn and Wormegay Navigation).
Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midlands Junction

Deviation.
Manchester, London, and Birmingham.
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire (Branch from
Ashton.under-Lyne to Oldham).
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire (Branch to
Chapeltown, and Kingsland Coal Branch).
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire (Branch to
Bugsworth).
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire (Junction with
the Midland Junction Railway, &c.)
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire (Louth and
Horncastle and East Lincolnshire Junction Branches).
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire (Station at Shef-

field and Branch to Sheffield Canal).
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire (Station Ap-
proach in Manchester).
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire (Supply of sur-
plus Water to Manchester, Salford, and Stockport).
Manchester and Birmingham and North Staffordshire.
Manchester and Leeds (Alterations of Levels of Brig-
house, Branch of the West Riding Union Railways
and new Line to Leeds).
Manchester and Leeds (Branch from the Huddersfield
and Sheffield Junction Railway Branch to Barnsley,
Extension to Holmfirth Branch).
Manchester and Leedißranches (Extensions, Deviations,
and Alterations in Levels, &c.)
Manchester and Lincoln Union Deviation.
Manchester and Southampton.
Manchester and South Junction and Altrincham

(Branches in Salford from the London and North
Western Railway, to join the Manchester, Bolton, and
Bury Railway).
Manchester and South Junction and Altrineham
(Branch in Salford to join the Manchester, Bolton,
and Bury Railway).
Manchester and Southport Railway and Branches.
Meath and Cavan Junction.
Midland (Branch to Mangotsfield and Bath).
Midland (Cheltenham, Warwick, and Leamington Line).
Midland (Extension of the Nottingham and Lincoln
Branch Railway at Lincoln).
Midland (from the Erewash Valley Railway to the Not-
tingham and Mansfield Railway, &c.).
Midland (Gloucester and Stonehouse Junction).
Midland (Leicester and Swannington Railway, Widen-
ing, Diversions, and Branches, Sco.).
Midland (Masbrough and Normanton Stations' Enlarge-
ment).
Midland (Sheffield, Barnsley, Doncaster, and Goole
Line, &c.),
Midland (Syston and Peterborough Railway Deviations
and Approach to Manton Station).
Midland (Worcester, Hereford, Malvern, and Chelten-
hame Line).
Midland Railway Extension (from near Leicester, vie;
Bedford, to Hitchin, &c., Enlargement of Leicester
Station).
Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland (Extension
from Athlone to Galway).
Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland (Newcastle,
Anniskinnan and Baltrasna Deviations).
Mold Railway and Branches.
Newcastle and Berwick (Cramlington and Percy, Main
and Killingworth, and other Branches).
Newcastle and Berwick (East Coast Line, Blyth, Seaton,
Sluice, and other Branches).
Newmarket and Chesterford (Extension to Bury St. Ed-
mund's, with a Branch to Ely).
Newmarket and Chasterford (Extension to Thetford).
Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford Deviations.
Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford (Extension to
Taff Vale Railway).
Norfolk (Branch to Aylsham and North Walsham).
Norfolk (Bury St. Edmund's Branch).
Norfolk (Diss Branch).
Norfolk (Reedham and Thetford Extension, and Hales-
worth Branch).
Norfolk (Yarmouth Extension).
Northampton and Banbury (from the London and North
Western Railway, near the Blisworth station, to Ban-
bury).
North British (No. 1).
North British (No. 2).
Northern Counties Union Deviation.
North Staffordshire (Alteration and Branches).
North Staffordshire (Churnet Valley and Trent Valley
Junction).
North-Western (Skipton, Casterton, and Sedburgh
Diversions).
Oldham Alliance.
Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton (No. 1).
Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton (No. 2).
Paisley, Barrhead, and Renfrew (Sale or Lease),
Paisley, Barrhead, and Hurlet (from Paisley to Barr-
head, with Broaches, &c.)
Parkgate, Chester, and Birkenhead.
Plymouth and Dartmoor Branch.
Porthdynllaen and Portmadoc.
Portadown and Dungannon.
Preston and Wyre Additional Railway, and Kirkscar
Bay.
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Railway (Deviations,
&c.).
Regent's Canal (Paddington and Limehouse Railway and
Branch).
Royston and Hitchin (Extension from Royston to Cam-
bridge).
Salisbury and Yeovil (with Branches).
St. Helen's Canal and Railway Amendment (Warring-
ton and Blackbrook Branches, and Lease of Rainford
Branch of London and North- Western Railway).
Scottish Midland Junction (Branch to Brechin).
Scottish Midland Junction (Branch to Laureneekirk).
Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley, Wakefield, Hudders-
field, and Goole Railway (Partial Alteration of
Levels).
Sheffield, Rotherham, and Doncaster Junction (Mas-
burgh to Doncaster).
Shrewsbury and Birmingham (Branches to Madeley,&c.)
Shrewsbury and Chester Branches.
Shropshire Union (Shrewsbury to Worcester).

Southampton and Dorchester (Blandford Branch).
Southamptou and Dorchester (Weymouth Branch).
Southampton and Dorchester (New Forest Deviation,
and Lymington and Eling Branches).
South Devon Extensions.
South-Eastern (Croydon and Bromley Branches).
South-Eastern (Maidston to Chart).
South• Eastern (Mid-Kent and Dirct Tunbrielg.,).
South-Eastern (London-bridge Station, Arrangement
and Enlargement).
South-Eastern (North Kent and Bricklayers' Arms
Junction).
South-Eastern (North Kent Line).
South-Eastern (Strood to Maidstone).
South-Eastern (Widening of Greenwich Railway and
Arrangement and Enlargement of London-bridge

Station).
South Staffordshire (Cannock, Wyrley, and Norton
Branches).
South Wales.
South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole Railway (Pur-
chase of Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley, Wakefield,
Huddersfield, and Goole Railway, and of Dun Naviga-
tion, and Dean and Dove Canal).
Strathtay and Breadalbane Extensions.
Swansea Valley.
Swansea and Amman Junction.
Taw Vale Railway and Dock Deviations and Bideford

and South MoltOn Brai.ch.
Trongate Terminus and Glasgow Railways Junction.
Tunbridge Wells, East Grinstead, and Brighton Junc-
tion.
Vale of Neath Amendment and Branches.
Waterford and Limerick.
Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow, and Dublin.
West Cornwall (Branches to St. Ives, &c., and Construc-
tion and Enlargement of Quays at Hayle).
Wexford and Valentin (Killarney to Valentia).
Wharfd ale Deviations.
Wilsontown, Morningside, and Coltness Railway
(Branches to Benhar Coal Works).
Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth Amendment (No. 1).
Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth Amendment (No. 2).
Windsor, Staines, and South Western Railway (Rich-
mond to Windsor, with loop-line through Brentford
and Hounslow).
Windsor (to join the Great Western Railway, near
Slough, and power to sell or lease to Great Western
Railway Company).
Wishaw and Coltness (Branches to Auchinheath, &c.)
Yeovil and Bridport to Exeter with Branches.)
York and Newcastle (Main Line Improvement, Tean
Valley Extension, Bishop Auckland, and other

Branches, &c.)
York and Newcastle (Pelaw Tyne Dock and Branches,
and Extension).
York and Newcastle (Wgarmouth Dock Enlargement).
York and North Midland (Harrogate Branch, Borough-

bridge, and Knaresborough
York and North Midland (Harrogate Branch, Extension,

and Terminus.)
York and North Midland (Hull Station and Branches).
York and North Midland (Knottingly Branch).

HARBOURS, DOCKS, WATERWORKS, GAS
WORKS, SEWERAGE, IMPROVEMENTS, &c.
Aberdeen Harbour.
Ayr Harbour Improvement.
Ayrshire Roads.
Belfast Port and Harbour.
Belfast Improvement.
Birkenhead Improvement, Waterworks, and Purchase of
Birkenhead and Claughton Waterworks.
Birkenhead Commissioners Dock Act, Amendment,
Construction of New Docks and Alteration of Culvert.
Bognor Docks.
Brightelmstone Suspension Pier Company (Construction
of Breakwater).
Colchester Navigation and Improvement.
Crowland and Cowbit Washes, and other Lands
Drainage.
Darwen Waterworks and Reservoirs.
Dunfermline Waterworks.
East Swansea Dock.
Ennis Dock.
Edinburgh Waterworks (Additional Reservoirs and
Works).
Etherow Reservoirs.
Falmouth Waterworks.
Forth and Clyde Navigation (Branch to Carnbrae Lands
and Acts Amendment).
Grand Canal Company (Ireland) and Railway Amalga-

oration.
Grove Ferry Bridge.
Harwich Docks.
Hartlepool West Harbour and Dock (Dock Extension).
Holborn-hill, Snow-hill, and Farringdon-street Viaduct.
ilolyhead Harbour.
Inverness Harbour and Navigation Improvement.
Inverness Gas and Water.
Lancashire Waterworks.
Leeds, Burnley, and Ileadingly Turnpike-road.
Leeds Waterworks (Construction of further Works).
Leicester Waterworks.
Liverpool Corporation Waterworks.
Limerick Docks and Harbour Improvement.
Lytham Improvement.
London Sewage Company.
London Sewage Chemical Manure Company.
Lough Neagh Drainage.
Manchester Corporation Waterworks.
Manchester and Salford Waterworks.
Mac Duff Harbour and Improvement.
Metropolitan Sewage Manure Act Amendment.
Pagham Harbour Improvement.
Pile Pier Extensions.
Plymouth and Tavistock Turnpike-road.
Portmadock Port and Harbour.
Portland Breakwater and Harbour of Refuge.
Reading Improvement, Market, Waterworks, and Sewer-
age (No. 1).
Reading Improvement, Market, Waterworks, and
Sewerage (No. 2)
Rochdale Waterworks Act Amendment and Enlarge-
ment of Works.
Rutherglen and Strathbringo Turnpike-road.
Ryde Esplanade and Pier-street Improvement.
Sandwich Haven and River Improvement.
South Metropolitan Waterworks.
South London Sewage Company.
Sowerley-bridge Improvement and Waterworks.
Staffordshire Potteries Waterworks.
Stockport Manorial Tolls and Bridges.
Sutton Harbour Improvement.
Swansea Docks.
Temple Bridge and South London Market.
Torbay and Brixham Deep Sea Harbour of Refuge and
Docks.
Tranmere Docks.
Tyne Docks.
Westminster New Bridge and Approaches.
Westminster and Lambeth Bridge.
Wexford Free Bridge.
Windsor Castle and Town Approaches, Improvement, and
Removal of Datchet Bridge.
York Improvement, Lendal Bridge and Approaches.

EXTRAORDINARY-NECESSITY
COCHRANE.

If the ports are not opened, it is not for want of agita-
tion. If Mr. Cochrane cannot earn for himself a good
name and a testimonial, he may, if he persevere man-
fully, earn for himself a nick-name, and a tolerable share
of ridicule. We should not be surprised if he went
down to posterity with Single-speech Hamilton, Prospe-
rity Robinson, and other gentlemen of the same fortu
nate class, as " Extraordinary-Necessity Cochrane."
He is resolute to make out a case of extraordinary neces-
sity against Lord John Russell—but the First Lord of
the Treasury is not to be convinced ; the Home Secretary
is not to be convinced ; the public is not to be convinced.
The only extraordinary necessity discernible, is the ne-
cessity of thanking God and being contented. No one
but Mr. Cochrane and his disciples can recognise in the
fact of a ..steady fall in the price of every description
of food any extraordinary necessity for opening
the ports by an Order in Council. The question, be it
remembered, it not whether the last rag of protection is
to be torn in pieces by a vote of the representatives cf
the people ; but whether the Ministry should take upon
themselves the responsibility of an unconstitutional act
—an act only justifiable under the pressure of some ex-
traordinary necessity. Mr. Cochrane, it is true, has
discovered this necessity, in an increasing abundance of
food, which may, perhaps, end in a glut—in a deprecia-
tion of prices which may eventually be ruinous to pri-
vate speculators— but the discoveries of men, who are to
go down to posterity, are not always appreciable by
the understandings of ordinary individuals, whose
fame will die with them ; and we confess that we
are sufficiently obtuse not to perceive that it be.
comes more and more incumbent on Government to open
the ports, as the once-prevailing scarcity becomes a tradi-
tion and the prospects of the country steadily improve.
Mr. Cochrane has fallen upon evil times. He was born,
as an agitator, a few months too late. In vain he ex-
claims to the prices of food, in the words of Milton's
Satan—

"Awake! arise! or be for ever fallen !"
The exhortation is not heeded. They prefer their fallen
state. It is impossible to say what, under happier
auspices, he might not have achieved ; but now, whether
he exhaust the patience of the Premier, or operate up,.)n
the unfailing urbanity of the Home Secretary, who will
not pay the agitators the compliment of being ruffled, he
bids fair in these hard times, encountered as he is by the
stern refusal of esculents in general, and. bread in par-
ticular, to rise at his bidding, to achieve for himself no-
thing more than the name of "Extraordinary-Necessity
Cochrane ;" and if be be very ambitious of that distinc
Lion we may help him to secure it.—Atlas.

OLrbtric THEATEE. A tribe of individuals,
calling themselves the " Tennessee Minstrels," appeared
at this theatre last night, going through a performance
similar to that of the Ethiopian Serenaders, though with
the inferiority that usually characterises imitations.
They are, however, a clever set of grotef,ques, and their
quick steps, songs, and glees, are amusing. The worthy
who flourishes the bones is comic after his own peculiar
fashion; and the congo-tambo gentleman has also a, small
impulse of humour.
CONVERSION TO ROMB.—Mr. Cox, of Exeter Col-
lege, Oxford, was received last week into the Roman
Catholic Church at St. Mary's College, Oscott.
We understaz4 that the Rev. R. W. Sibthorp has
lately been on a visit to his li,eman Catholic frieuds
near Birmingham.