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GROUP IV.

No. 15. The Northampton and Lincoln.—The money
was never raised to make the deposits.
No. 16. The Hull, Lincoln, and Northampton.—The
deposits were not collected. This line was brought out
under the London and York auspices, intended as a
dernier ressort to take traffic off the Midlands, if their
own line was rejected.
No. 17. The Lincoln and Grantham.—Could not ob-
tain any deposits.
No. 18. The Lincoln and Oakham.—The same.
GROUP V.

No. 19. The Isle of Axholme, Gainsborough, and
Goole.—Preamble declared not proved in the House of
Commons, the levels being defective. Returned 21. 2s.
per share on each deposit (21. 12s. 6d.).
No. 20. The Wakefield, Pontefract, and Grimsby
Junction.—Never made their deposits.
No. 21. The Cambridge and Lincoln Extension, or
Lincoln, Leeds, and York line. Preamble declared not
proved in Committee of the Lords. 11. per share re-
turned, and 10s. 6d. more expected on the deposit
(21: 12s. 6d.).
No. 22. The Gainsborough, Epworth, and Leeds.—
Never collected the deposit.
The following are not grouped:—
No. 23. The St. Ives, Wisbech, and Spalding (passed).
—Arrangements made with the Eastern Counties, March,
and Lincoln Extension. The Eastern Counties have
bought the line, and the York Extension shares are ap-
propriated to it. At St. Ives it joins the Eastern Coun-
ties, Cambridge, and Huntingdon, runs through Somers-
ham, Chatteris, and March, to Wisbecb, thence to
Spalding, giving a through line by the Eastern Counties
from thence to London.

No. 24. The Direct Birmingham, Leicester, and Bol-
ton.—Dropped through ; never collected the deposits.
No. 25. The Peterborough and Boston.—The same.
No. 26. The Boston, Grantham, Leicester, Midland
Counties Junction.—The same.
No. 27. The Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston.—
Passed. From the Ambergate station of the Midlands,
through Nottingham, Grantham, and Folkingham to
Boston,with a branch from nearFolkingham to Spalding.
No. 28. The East Coast Railway (Boston to Lynn and
Wisbech).—Abandoned all the line before Committee
of the Commons, except from Sutton to Boston.
Preamble of that declared not proved. No deposits yet
returned.

No. 29. The Louth and Gainsborough.—Deposits not
collected.

No. 30. The Grand Union from Nottingham to Lynn.
—The shares to be amalgamated with the Ambergate,
Nottingham, and Boston. The line itself abandoned.
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No. 31. The Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham.—
Only went to Parliament for that portion of the Lynn
Branch between Stamford and Wisbech. Passed. At
Wisbech this line joins the Lynn and Ely Branch, and
gives a direct communication from the west to Wisbech,
Lynn, Norwich, and Yarmouth.
No. 32, The Boston and Lincoln.—Never collected
deposits.
No. 33. The Spalding and Linenln.—The same.

No. 34. The Spalding and Brandon Junction.—Aban-
doned.
No. 35. The Lincolnshire and Eastern Counties Junc-
tion from Hull to Cambridge.—The plans were defec-
tive, and very few deposits were paid; abandoned in
December last.

No. 36. The East Lincolnshire, from Grimsby to
Boston.—Passed.

No. 37. The Boston, Newark, and Sheffield.—Pre-
amble declared not proved in Committee of Commons;
IL per share deposit returned (21. 12s. 6d.).
No. 38. The Huntingdon, Wisbech, and Sutton Union.
—Standing orders not complied with; 11. per share re-
turned on 21. 12s. 6d.

No. 39. The Lynn and Ely Branch, from Wisbech to
Spalding.—Passed through the Commons, preamble de-
cla: ed not proved in the Lords.—Chronicle.

EXCURSION TRAINS ON THE GREAT WESTERN.—On
Monday afternoon the first excursion train from Bristol
and Gloucester arrived at the Paddington Terminus of
the Great Western. The train was an unusually heavy
one, the number who availed themselves of the trip
amounted to nearly 1,800 persons ; the train was im-
pelled by one engine (tbe Ajax), and performed the '
journey at an average speed approaching 35 miles an
hour. The return journey will take place this afternoon,
when it is expected a much larger number will go down,
as several missed the train on the up-journey, and were
passage by the next conveyance.
obliged to take their
EXPERIMENTAL TRIP ON THE ROUEN AND HAVBE.
—The first experimental trip on the Rouen ;and
llavre Railway took place on Sunday last, and pro red
to be a remarkably successful one. The extent of the
trip was from the station at Havre to the magnificent
viaduct at Mereville, a distance of about eighteen Eng-
lish miles. The train was under the special and personal
direction of Mr. Charles Laffitto himself, who was de-
sirous of practically exhibiting to the residents of Havre
and its neighbourhood the solidity and safety of the line
as far as it has been prepared. He was accompanied. by
the sous-preret of Havre, the mayors of Havre, Ingou-
ville, and Graville (through whose communes the Fine
ruus), the engineers of the Ponts et Chaussees resident
at Havre, the principal editors of the Havre and Rouen
journals, and many of the most eminent merchants of
Havre, who unanimously and unreservedly expressed
their approbation of the ease with which the train per-
formed its work, and the solidity of the bed of the road,
which was declared by competent judges to be equal to
that of any line in existence, either in England or France.
The train ran at the rate of twenty miles an hour, stopping
at Harfleur, and at Etainhus, the first station on the Une
from Havre. Arrived at Mereville the company alight,sd,
and, with M. Laffitte at their head, partook of a cold col-
lation, laid out on the crown of the viaduct, after wbdch
they made a cursory inspection of this truly magnificent
pile of brick and mortar. It has fifty-two arches, stretch-
ing over one of the loveliest valleys in Normandy,wlere
valleys are not " few and far between;" and its app ear•
ante impressed every one present with a thorough con-
viction of its great solidity. Whatever feeling of dais-
gust might have been entertained respecting this line
since the fall of the Batentin viaduct, the experiment
made on Sunday last is calculated entirely to remove it.
All present acknowledged that the company had well
profited by that unfortunate accident to place the works
on the line in such a condition of solidity and security as
to avoid any possible recurrence of the like misfortmles.
Even the local journals, whose hostility towards thecoan-
pany and the contractors had become almost proverbial,
are at length constrained to give their unqualified praise
to both. Everything bids fair to see the line per ma-
nently opened, according to the present intentions or the
company, in the course of the month of October. The