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IRELAND.
DISTRESS IN WEST CARBERY.

TIIMISDAY MORNING.—No description
or recital can convey any idea of the extreme misery
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 as
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 twenty
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 this
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 the
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 anotner batch preparing to start on
the cars for Cork, to proceed by the screw steamer for
London, on Wednesday. Some of them were tradesmen,
who expected work there, and whose miserable appear.
ance showed how reduced was their eowlition,wben,thep
had recourse to this alternative. f 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 suhurb
called Bridgetown, where he had a large number of
sick calls to answer. We entere.l at least thirty of the
huts, and such an aggregation of disease, hunger, naked-
ness, and cold, it is eat of the question to describe. In
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 ordinary
farmyards. The only covering they had was the clothes
worn by them at work; and the same total absence of
food, firing, clothing, prevailed in each of the wretched
cabins. We left the locality after a visit of about three
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 ust 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 are dying,
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 un.
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 arid yesterday several such funerals:
not a living being but the four who had the coffin on their
shoulders.

OUTRAGES IN TIPPERARY-SHOCKING
MURDER.

The Tipperary Vindicator contains the following ap-
palling narrative:—
___

" NiNAGH, DEC. s.—We are deeply grieved to say
that an unprovoked and most inhuman murder was per-
petrated on Wednesday night, at Loughorna, between
Nenagh and Borrisokane, on the person of a poor man
of the name of Hanley, who sold a pig that day in
Borris, for the price of which his diabolical assailants
attacked him. His house was entered soon after night-
fall. He had lodged the price of his pig in Borris, and
the monsters being defeated in their object, fell upon
the defenceless victim of their hellish malice, and lite-
rally beat his head to a jelly. The poor man resisted
the robbers with all his might ; he broke a spade handle
on the head of one of the villains, who was carried off,
it is supposed, dead, in the arms of his comrades. An
inquest was yesterday held, and a verdict of wilful
murder returned.

" Since the above was put in type we have been in-
formed that two men, of the names of Gaynor and
Heffernan, have been arrested and lodged iu the county
gaol on the above charge.
" The house of a man of the name of Brien was at-
tacked at Barbaha on Thursday night. One or the
assailants was entering through a window, when Brien,
wh. was waitin, inside, took up a scythe, and making a
desperate stroke with it across the head of the person
entering, almost severed, it is thought, his head from his
body. Blood was traced yesterday near the river.
" Wednesday night the house of John Hogan, near
Annaghbeg, was attacked by some armed men, who
fired two shots into the house, and served Hogan with a
threatening notice, that if a line of road in that district
was not changed, he would suffer! The steward of the
line resides in the house.

" On the same evening as John Grace, of the same
parish, Monsea, was proceeding near the cross of Rich-
mond, three fellows jumped from behind a ditch, seised
him, and desired him to deliver his arms. Having
searched Hogan, they found no arms, but robbed him of
what money he had, his temperance medal, &c.
" James Grace's haggard, near Annaghbeg, was en-
tered on Tuesday night, an 1 seventy stone of wheat was
threshed out deliberately, and taken away."
ROSCREA.—A sale of articles seized for rent due to
Mr. O'Grady, of Dublin, was advertised for Friday, the
27th of November last, at Graffin, between Roscrea and
Ternplemore, where a very large mob assembled.
Several of them were armed and fired shots; the sale
was subsequently relinquished, as the country people are
determined to resist the payment of rent in any shape,
and these small farmers, who are well able to pay, are
the principals in those proceedings. Arms and ammuni-
tion are now so easily procured, that all the lawless
ruffians in this part of the country are well supplied.—
Leinster Express.
PURCHASE OF FIRE-ARMS.—The Tipperary Free
Press of this day says:—" The purchase of fire-arms in
this town by the country people, who manifest the
greatest avidity to possess themselves of these weapons,
continues unabated. The mania, it appears, has extended
to the north, and in Cavan and Fermanagh the sale of
guns and pistols was never so great as at the present
time."

The Anglo Cek, published. in the northern county of
heard that a tradesman wasw 1:----"
purpose
abouto to open a shop in the
This very day we
Cavan, contains the folio
selling Birmingham
town of Cavan for the
fortune by the trade,
muskets, with the hope of rearlisine of
although he expects to find his clfimeeafncui:to.mers amongst
, can only
it remembered,l
purchase
the applicants for relief tickets—
who, having nothing to defend
these instruments of death for aggressive purposes."
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN THE KING'S COUNTY.IoeThe Dublin Mercantile Advertiser of yesterday s y 7
" Accounts reached town this morning of the totala s
de-
struction by fire of Clonearl, the splendid residence of
William Henry Magan, Esq., in the King's County. It
is stated that the fire was accidental. Mr. Megan, on
receiving this intelligence, left town this day for
Clonearl. The mansion was erected by the father of
that gentleman, at a cost of 80.0001. It was insured at
the Royal Exchange, but we have not heard for what
amount."
A second edition of the Warder of this day contains
the following:—
" A very destructive fire has taken place at my neigh-
bour's, Mr. Mangan, of Clonearl; all his beautiful and
furniture,
arebuildings,now in
together
fire broke out in one
i
of the sleeping-rooms, and t Is not as yet known from
ashes.te The
withhe , a -vast deal of costly
what cause. Some attriF
Ate the disaster to the burst-
ing of a chimney, 5,-,id others to the negligence of a
servant. It is thought that 40,000/. would not repair
the damage."
THE ARMY.—GENERAL ORDERS.

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joo.rik!G.d jeuinitefarrnatim-Gpaeteniselitrpya.l'hßsaaOsinffibbcereei,gnDgepu,lbelaicsne.,BdD.iteoca.naldp,polr;sBl4vai..oor-f
General Thomas Erskine Napier, C. 8., being placed on
the staff of the army serving in Ireland, vice Lieutenant-
General Sir George 11. F. Berkeley, K.C.8., and Lieut.-
General H. F, Wyndham. The appointments to bear
date the Ist 'January, 1847.
No. 2. Major-General his Royal Highness Prince
George of Cambridge, K.G. and G.C.M.G., will, from
the above mentioned date, assume the command of the
Dublin district, vice Lieutenant-General Wyndham.
No. 3. Major General Bainbrigge will succeed Lieut.-
General Sir George H. F. Berkeley in command of the
Belfast district.
No. 4. Major-General Napier will succeed Major-
General his Royal Highness Prince George of Cam-
bridge in command of the Limerick district.
N. 5. Her Majesty has been pleased to approve of
Colonel George Turner, C. 8., being placed upon tho staff
of the army serving in Ireland from the 9th ultimo, with
a view of commanding the Royal Artillery in this coun-
try, vice Major-General Alexander Munro, K.H.
By command of the Lieutenant-General commanding.
(Signed) THOS. E. NAPIER,
Deputy- Adjutant-General.

On Saturday night, a thief went into the shop of a
watchmaker, in Mark-lane, just as the proprietor, who
has been in the habit of packing up his goods in a bag
and taking them home every evening, was preparing to
depart. The bag lay upon the counter—the thief seized
it—threw a handful of pepper into the face of the shop-
keeper, and ran down Mark lane. The plundered man
roared out lustily, and, notwithstanding the blinding
effect of the pepper, ran out after the thief, who threw
down the bag and vanished. None of the property ‘,4,8
lost, The thipf escaped,

Herne B iy 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. Edmund'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 Dereham 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 Mtthley, 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 Junc-
tion).
Leeds, Wakefield, and Midland Junction.
Liskeard and Launoeston Branch.
Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport Railwayand Branches.
Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Junc-
tion (Alteration of Main Line and Hawes Branch).
Liverpool, 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 Lon-
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
Line).
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 Colliery).
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, Crewe 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 (SL Albans, Luton, and
Dunstable Branch).
London and Southend.
London and South Essex (from London and Blackwell,
Extension to River Crouch, with Branches to Tilbury
and Southend).
London and South-Western (Andover and 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 Lincolnshir.? (Supply of sur-
plus Water to Manchester, Salford, a of 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 Leeds Branches (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, &c.).
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, via
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, Blytb, Seaton,
Sluice, and other Branches).
Newmarket and Chesterford (Extension to Bury St. Ed-
mund's, with a Branch to Ely).
Newmarket and Chesterford (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 (Churuet 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 Branches, &c.)
Parkgate, Chester, and Birkenhead.
Plymouth and Dartmoor Branch.
Porthdynllaen and Portmadoc.
Portadown and Dungannon.
Preston and 'Pyre Additional Railway, and Kirkacar
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 Laurencekirk).
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 Made'', &c.)
Shrewsbury and Chester Branches.
Shropshire Union (Shrewsbury to Worcester). -

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PRICE SD.

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 Tunbridge).
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 Branch.
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 Valentia (Killarney to Valentia).
Wharfdale Deviations.
Wilsontown, Morningside, and Coltness Railway
(Branches to Benhar Coal Works).
Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth Amendment (No. I).
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 Auchinheatb, &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 (Wearmouth Dock Enlargement).
York and North Midland (Harrogate Branch, Borough-
bridge, and Knaresborough Extension).
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, GAB
WORKS, SEWERAGE, IMPROVEMEN rs, &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-
mation.
Grove Ferry Bridge.
Harwich Docks.
Hartlepool West Harbour and Dock (Dock Extension).
Holborn-hill, Snow-hill, and Farringdon-street Viaduct.
Holyhead Harbour.
Inverness Harbour and Navigation Improvement.
Inverness Gas and Water.
Lancashire Waterworks.
Leeds, Burnley, and Headingly 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
COCHR ANE.

If the ports are not opened, it is not for want of agita-
tion. If Mr. Cochrane cannot ear❑ 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 cad 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-
♦ate 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 I"
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 upon
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 he be very ambitious of that distinc
tion we may help him to secure it.—Atlas.

OLrstric THEATRE.— 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 grotesques, 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 Ro3lll.—Mr. Cox, of Exeter Col-
lege, Oxford, was received last week into the Roman
Catholic Church at St. Mary's College, Oscott.
We understand that the Rev. R. W. Sibthorp has
lately been on a visit to his Romaa Catholic friends
near Birmingham.

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COURT CIRCULAR.
The Queen and Prince Albert, took their usual early
walk yesterday in the plantations of Osborne House.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince
Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice
walked and rode on ponies yesterday forenoon in the
drives and pleasure grounds of Osborne House. her
Royal Highness the Princess Helena was also taken an
airing yesterday.
His Royal Highness Prince George has arrived at his
residence in St. James's Palace, from Ireland.

Mr. C Marryatt and Mr. J. Marryatt had an inter-
view with Earl Grey yesterday at the Colonial-office.
Lord Marcus Hill had also an interview with the Noble
Earl yesterday.
HAYMARKET THEATRE.

Miss Reynolds, a young lady from the American thea-
tres, but who is, we believe (and we rejoice in the belief,
for she is a girl of genius, and will be a credit to her
country), an English woman born and bred, made her
debut here last evening in the character of Kate O'Brien,
the Lady of Munster, in poor Haynes Bayley's!admirable
petite Comedyoj Perfection. Miss Reynolds possesses every
requisite for the stage ; her features are expressive and
agreeable; her form is faultless; her voice is clear and sil-
very, and she sings delightfully, rich, clearly, expressively,
and always in tune. The character of Kate O'Brien was
written expressly for Vestris, and most wickedly and
witchingly did she act it, but with all our prepossessions
in favour of Vestris and her version of the character, we
are bound to confess that Miss Reynolds was more truly
the lady of Munster, though, perhaps, less espiegle, she
was more lady-like, more graceful, more the daughter
of General O'Brien, more high-bred, in a word, than
Vestris. Her songs were beautifully given. She
was encored in all of them, and there was
a bewitching archness about her in giving the
delicious ballad " Not I," that was perfectly fascinating.
From that moment the audience was with her, and,
scene by scene, as the drama progressed, she increased
the favourable impression she had made. In fact, to-
wards the conclusion it appeared as though an old
favourite, who had secured a high position, and might
even venture to take liberties with the audience, were
acting the part, instead of a debutante. Her success was
complete; she was called for at the fall of the curtain and
received most enthusi4stically. Her versatility alone
would secure her a high degree of success. When we
add, that whatever she does, she does excellently well,
there can be no doubt but that Miss Reynolds will attain
the highest degree in her profession. We congratulate
Mr. Webster in having secured such an acquisition to
the Haymarket corps.

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