The Sun.
London, England, 1846-02-07 00:00:00

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PARLIAMENTARY BU-NESS
sT
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(From the Votes and Proceedings of
the
FRIDAY, FEB. 6. s
were
referred to
The following. Petitions for Pailway ill
the House of Commons.)
).
Select Committee on Petitions for Private BBillsufs
Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton Raiway (Eats
Strathtay and treadalbane Railway.
Caledonian Northern Direct Railway.
Chichester and Bognor Railway. Ton and Branches
Vale of Neath Railway. Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction Railway-
exford, Waterford, and Valencia Railway.
kournouthshire Railways.
Stlrlingshlre Ilidland Junction Railway.
'lover and Deal Railway.
New
Ross and Carlow Junction Railway.
__.
"'Pert, Abergavenny, and Hereford Railway
Perth and Inverness Railway.
Perth •P•astern 'Railway (Ashford Stations Enlargement).
Shrews'airy and ninningham ltailwaY.:
Loudon
L,,, and Binninghara Railway (Aylesbury Railway Purchase).
--"'.aSt York
south Walt; Rail way Midland Junction Railway.
~.
eco. ttish Grand Junction Railway.
4Yriadre
ta,teand Caledonion Junction Railway.
rn Countl:s Railway (Lincoln and Milford).
._aalerrt Counties and Thames Junction Railwayßranches.
jr?l"t'ril Counties Railway (Tottenham and Farriti
emore and tienagh Junction Railway.
"„rcol and Leeds Direct Railway.
Hall Central Railway (Crieff Branch). gAon-street).
FiZtt, n Central Railway (Denny Branch)
?.._,Len central Railway (Perth Termini andStaoLnsin).43).
,atom
Counties Railway (Cambridge and Lincoln
'''':';'lera Counties Railway (Stations Enlargement).
siZtdonian Railway (Dumfries Branch).
_ g-garneladtioanmlllon-under-Lyne, and Manchester Company,
Iliceast Western RallwaY.
‘c-anoewirand Birkenhead Railway.
Exeter 'L.III
gi,Zes lan Railway, Mid-Lothian Branches. &C., Amal
Henley Railway (No. 2).
ceisd.,
altat Western Railway.
I: hod Railway
We
(Cariisle Deviation).
h, od Railway (Ercwask Valley Extension).
Nylo!iri's,sg2r, Airdrie, and Monklands Junction Railway.
) Ithiland Railway.
b„,t,ton ~d Crewe Railway.
s
~a.o_ui an. elfast Junction and Navan Branch Railway Extension .
'".'n.n 1?e) oft Railway (No. 1).
Zrtli Union Railway (Rorwich Br
anch)•
iin'annftdon and Wisbeck Railway.
esneas,ter, akefield, and Leeds Railway.
Cork, zuelitallyraY.
lean
anadolon, arid Kinsale Junction Railway.
ah., Dove Railway and Eastern and Western Junction Railway.
,_an orth and Norwich Railway.
l'sfaellester,
n
Can....!enh!'star and LeedsirilwaCyalAami
Great L
Trerelo's en oalbrook Steam Coal and Swansea and Loughor.
.ustherand Workington Extention Railway.
Navigation and Railway, and
ladinu4stieeritßailway. (No. 1),
Ziaslatift:iill'avt'er 'La;
waY (No. 2).
~,, en and Sligo Railway.
'ry Armagh, and Londonderry Junction Railway.
'kerntinospheric Railway.
or_d, Buxton, Leek, Potteries, and Crewe Railway.
~,,.nt.. to and South' P
Railway.
'4Zitem and Western Railway.
Goole.
IlVilanenididLt Raintefirlc-aYt,' and Goole Railway and Port, &c., of
BgerarbvysegebnirraY (Purchase of Oakham Canal).
Purchase).
and Rochester Railway and Canal (Sale and
..ay.
Fit,
.411,2,e5, tafferdshire, and Worcestershire Junction Balm
Gi.„.___._ , uton, and Dunstable Railway.
izw"Z_'",wallotithern Terminal Railway.
eTsln
.n and Farness Junction Railway.
to .
tdinbarg,_° and Glasgow and Scottish Central Railways Junction.
himsh rta and Cliasgow and Wishaw and Coltnesaßailways Junction.
e, tdruln, and Enniskerry Railway.
shwr4ws;y,,
wWoollyvererh.„nh_arn
shrew, akefield, and Midland Railway.
..tioonniaii.
e, al' (No 2) pPtntonn, and South Staffordshire Junction.
tato . •
a ord and Spalding Railway
, and South Staffordshire Junction
;7711; rd and Hatfield Railway.
IlLe._3! Grand Junction Railway. •
Shrew, Clitheroe, and North Western Junction Railway.
Wales mi..
iirn4eral RaT' Os'westry, and Chester Junction and North
_.O liwaY Ainalganiation
, knstol, and South Wales Direct Railway.
icortLi:arsAton, Banbury and Ch lt nhand Railway.
harnrd" and bury R ilewey
earn lierwleh, and Yarn- loauthalla•ilway.
Purn,,v,.-"°,,
.. and Troortßail Porni.-„,, _ay Extensionws,y.
tiorih:"" clYde and Monkland Navigation Junction.
liewaridtreat
Canan and Bedford Rail
I"fladrkshi,,
-c and 1 othi way.
Vliaarld Canal Rallw'ay I"
Railway'
west
e•rn Railway of Ireland (Mullingar to Galway).
Oneida Z 1,41 Darlington Junction Railway (Pontop and
tit aad w iwitY purchase).
Trin,
Re itt of England Junction Railway
Ca]
„..ng, arid Basingstoke Railway (Tying to Saunderton).
~"gford, idyi.'"`°_ waY (Langholna Branch).
al. idland
alleY. , Cheltenham, and Gloueester Railway.
4(7olttish eeztar.f!3's (Swinton to Lincoln)•
,Zttellian Ra'switsayll(way (Alloa Branch).
iand Branes.
Bu„ r a" IlirmingilliasgewliTernnu
Liuddersneln.,l.l..acoln Directat Ranaidlway. gham Canal Arrangements.
Branch).
~ anch,,,,,v4. and ShefileldJunetion Railway (Darfteld
rortbu,..ll. and Leeds and Leeds and liradford Railways
Ras .aer and Rau
Iskli and Rarnsle I•9kY•
sburgi, and
Z Junction Railway. . __mil, Ballochney
P,dlud Slarna„,""g9w, Monkland and Kirkintnt
%argil an Railway Junction.
on
Amalgation.
JINN "d Glasgow Railway, and Forth and Clyde Navigation
k o°ll'
ltalwa.,-;":
tuymount Atmospheric Railway.
Atzh4:n` niniaaaiktierzienotzocriatiti
tildland 1-4,11.aeff... • and Elgin Railsywaayy.•
allehesie-r'"aY (l'irraingilam Extension.)
tion
and
pßzt,,,o4 Bolton and Bury Canal liaviga
"lersfleiti
Railway Com-
yme. i and Sheffield and Manchester and Leeds Railway
stidland,realZarriatien
(,reat Wester •
e"Lerld lin', r,
.. n Railway of Ireland.
ZZI-tligell)ton .....,waY (Ardleigh to Colchester).
ti;lland Raiirr4and Dnrchester Railway.
ugh).
Treeester 554 n?' (la await and Gainshosr. Branch.
ar,:ttisylalley iimnawlangliand Railway, with •
Enoch k Midland le.jte(ni9reW" Branch).
Vlay. • Deviation).
~...fileflieir .rinrsß Railwea'yen(4alliel,
waterforlncincolnshire Extension . Railway
Railway.
korh,ry 11..,,e5.f0rd, Wicklow, and Dublin
(heat hit,,"Zge and Calder Railway. . and GriffisbY
0 onsoliciaihr and Sheldield Junction Railway
ereat al) n'
• (Humber Terries).
ot. - —a ahefliela Junction Railway
ork aa,, .., Y ....
liosto,, .._auaga Railway.
lsbech Line).
Docks
Gla,,,,,,arnford, and Birmingham (Stamford to W
AndbercaZend Pundee Junction Railway.
i)shiin
teirlaottin 1,
as g-aln, and Boston Railway,
Leeds 'and Tt'
aud coltralne Junction Railway.
yeah to
LeedsHaette I,h.lrat ItailvraY North Eastern Extension (~
aria Think Rath. - c--- -
Oxford, sonthampton aY (anareeborough Branch Ex.ens
4 100.
Leeds Central Railw , Gosport, and Poem
Railway.
Blactbu ay Station.
rn, Dar Well, and Holton R •
Ely and Huntingdon Rail a adway.
Liverpool and Bu e' Y (Bedord Extension).
Ipswi_,_ .
.., ry and Manchester and heeds Amalgamation.
... .
c. auci Bury St. Ednnutcp, R.,,
to Ely, with Branch therefrOni). ""way (Extension
°Nagh, Du
n,y a ngannon, rmagh, and Belfast Junction Railway.
,1 an Burl Railway.
klaiand Itailwa (Er
Carlow tension Railway.
ction.
ihkrci,
comp Louth II
' _-°rncastle, Lincoln, and Midland Jun
Cork, p_._
seeltray. and utirtoll-on-'Prent Junction Railway.
I,restonasand
lirynred lerale Railway.
ny (Long-
xorldge Junction). 4 IWaYt ilarbOar and Dock Company kkrtrl, Wales Railway
"as Junction Railw Way Co.lg
ailester, Bolt - -t).
and RailwaY•
allow on, and Bury Canal Navigation
_ and Permo...--
-wow,'
,„,....,
~.. JAt C.IINV Ay .
t. St. Austell,
tolanad itmiZniTireavneenheentral Railway (Hayle, Lelan
tlit':l)4esie 13,,i,,aiilaril'areedon and Northampton Branch).
Liver ester
anci-i; 'nuinghatri Continuation and WelSlllLEwaya.
wino' tad Ili resntort and Manchester and South Pon
)4e,r,dek and w._ Rhani Railway (Bath Line).
iti aingharn , ercester Railwa
ction).
'l%m "re away (Oxford and BietChleY Jun
440 am Tavistock if •
14.... n ,i.„, win.,___ . Railway,
Ran and Ely Rail Railway,
lama.
Liv"elleaa aa`cia.:!waY Extension to SPa--_-_-..
kilerPooi aha ~ ..017head Junction Railway.
Trent jtearnoek
51°,,erY Railway.
n Line).
Tr,Ztri,ek.slur,te" AYr Direct Railway.
Worcester and Weedo
IN.._ v aiiey, itn,al. London Railway (WorFan
Railway,
Gah;°eThe 1/2,. 'ands, and Grand Janata
ktscihaY and iGil_lenfr and Riwy.
Lourg, 00,0,...Le0ne Railway.
and Co
!um rcln, and Reigate (Leamington Extension
Lah(ro7 and it';iogli
)3,giairi Railwayeut).
kd, luba "'I South ta tati°"
Enlargement).
Amendment.
Co-
Li nth ma „ astern Railway -
)1„a'sool, )4, IZathgate Railway.
el'rl'
l(sater d Stockport Direct Railway.
tb._
aud Presto 'an
. p
OrZ'," Valle, Brook. Railway..
114„,,, Woret" nd boah Wales Junctioo. Railway.
dmpany.
Ion)
late,+,o4,z
and, and Wolverhampton. Rail)) .Y
Birmingham Extens
/lihr'lern ndOXford Junction ltaiPtwaY (B LI
Cos est Jnet outidern Connecting Railway.
v, lavas
ih,,,',1.M. Railway (A).
ItOuratlir, I?evati Central Railway.
I'' kaer,":„Liw4Y-
ii7un inki 1,7, ayl liillarney Railway.
ell ter and Binning
R0r,441, liailwinin ngharn Grand Junction, Man- es
Cki,,,"nlniperb,7,,,,onlitnies Ansalgamation.
N-cnlian i".. and Lancashire Grand Junction Railway.
lit ellshlian 6a'lwaY.
liti." Walt,--I"vY (Clydesdale Junction Railway Deviation).
It4lloaehester hltai,lwaY (tio. 2).
utktoh: '"arY Atmospheric Railway.
to Kilkenny).
sl'r;%ll and irtittraed Western Extension (Carlow
Extension).
Lis kna Iningharn Railway (Birtntegharn
Railway.
Junction
iiii.Zl raitn" Yre Extension and Darwen June
iiliCSlthao, gharn and Leicester RailwaY.
r an. and 0
-htit.rs- -a sh,,„ zfera Junction RailwaY•
ill, ra ths-..Uori Railway.
Newmarket Railway. (Eirming-
Qur:g4tel, Wol
-,Y *St. Edrnu '
nd s, and
Railway
1,1111„, • Wohrerh verhampten, and Stour Valley
(Stour
Val, Clam ~,,plon, and 'audio,- Liasel Valley Railway
erisio'el' Lino' 9werhampton, and Stour
I
Tewkesbury, and
~, lira, and Itirn,h,
h, Tew
-4114 end Li, --aghtua Railway (Aahchure
Iva. fqrd It).
tk ,lt, klisil4.Uaehester, and Portsmouth Railway.
n Banbury Unit-
th nd
jni„..`'e and ii.41,,,,nd London RailwaY (HaerP--- aton, DaventrY,
4 -1-, and -",„lngnain Extension, Northam')
liri,;l_ -Non - . "arwick Railway.
1,,,i01-401 spa illtaaway.
4.lnilk. 441% rn't(ghand and Midland Railways.
liii,,,-41144, v,,,AY (tiorwich Branch).
it,l4iii'd Rail "'di' h and Dudley
~,w. e° hick
Railway.
•••,ct.' ti,„..Y (Birmingham and Glotleestc2r.Ber.._...
..okkite Q„,"ark, and Coatbridge Railway E..rw__l7
44,,, butgliara,',a) an..l Manchester and Leeds Rau "
(.all
' at 4 -4-7're uailway (Tying to BaelYarY); eaton). a
‘..rec,it7 aria c'lltiii2b y (Coventry
Amegaraatio
Rhr, ar,,i'''an and Clydesdale Junction, Railways
Le v'idir ttr R •
11,‘restort anti tllwaY•
~arki,„ arid erefordshire Railway.
age.
,orih '' ati h„'.!!ecies Railway and DraiXt
:trbra.g.l,l4 (13,4's'llY Railway.
d,ek ,Q
~, . unction Railway.
to
1.2 n, titii,• I:orfar Railway.
,saliabnrY
lii hid), --ultra', and Yeovil JunctiOtt Railway %
dlh,,,
Branch and Lo
ng-
., f 0,,, ~s' Great ,„.
I. ' uof. "'eaten). Railway of Ireland (LiffY
4 11 arid Ztioa).
risehesi„, S,' Railway (Extension to Id:arch).
Direct Railway.
s.
it tel and •
and Great Grimsby
Ran.„,dwa.dynne-
ristol .„' oluu
loucester
Mater and Birmingham and G
toneha—
,, non\ and
Gloucester Railway (Gloucim ter and d
...on, ••
Cal and Wai
(2eisdoulka x erford Railway.
C„';edonion ita!,enslon Railway.
14:4, "lan itaaliwaY (Dundyvan Branch°.
(..,,edriioeirs „Id 7;tiYn ((Leith Junilown)a.y.
Railways
Junction
'krnall 44'
P°ll °e, and G:vnan and Clydesdale
(Iltituoitataation.
Purchase).
aa Itailway (Glasgow, i k. and Coatbridge
Garnk r .
li,n,
~....._.
Goole
11151] d, Thitharharn, Barnsley, 7, wi el d, andlludderstieldine West
-idliwlgaYo 11111—`• for making certaftin 111 tea of Railway in
Rother-;
hdlg,
It: the county of York, to be calAed ' The
d gioole Radway'nd
l'Nente nisleY, Wakefield, Iluddersia eld,
an
to be read a soco
ol u and read the first time, and ordered
hulk
i.:
Astern, and
94,1'41,1,1.i_ Pontefract, and Goole Rail way (Ain etWreiLaeld, P°nnt:i-,
kt, aa,l7lo.llritienl?cs) Bill---." to emtp,Dia3 ,iraeret .
k lee several
_Brtna
be
readWaYs," prenta..ellavraalilCretmadPtalT; Ilorat time„ and ordered
ilelf„, a second time.
and
„_lliiil..4°,l County Down Railway—Petit tition for Bill reported,__.oss.
Zitwr,.7,pred to be brought in by Viscou at Newry andMr n
fo'r Bill re-
Ts,ri',,,) arreimoint, and Rosstrever Railway—Petition
Newry and
ar.`it' and -Hill ordered to be brought 5n by Viscount
/Altiekh ()".
for Bill re-
Ilbrteear,n' Cl,-"°l'eY. and Liverpool Raley ray—
Petition
Patten and
kir. _ and ordered to be brought in ;by Mr. Wilson
ttitn• tid'iraby.
Bill,—
.f,:r :id Bradford Railway (Alteration (if levels in Bingley)
ny
a to alter
tide i„tileling the Leeds and Bradford Itailway Com? (
j_
._
t ningley,
lu the ~,, for
ayortion of their Railway, :in the par
read the
liras rin" est Riding of the county of Yorle," presented and
Cork „,,, le; and ordered to be read a second time.
of time to
Ares, " le'
inert llailway,—Pethflon for extension
4.. ut Petition for Bill
',way o,„„ „ ttoll on the table.
id to the Court
of v`"Sliti,—Return ordered, "of all monies pa
:r‘4l,e,erY in England, Hut Court oft „Iliancery in Ireland, and_t9ha
~.- 'aellequer in Scotland tidal'. Standing Orders 33 and 4 :
clinmint of ltailwa Bills ' under
the House of Commans ,
lingo
the C Y • new
'e re
such monies have been paid,
and stabil . the onms by wine a
and date of each
ha„.__ e sums paid by each Cc =paddy, the •
Itailor'''''eut
teamount
oakft,,,• Deposits—lteturn ordered, "of the aggregate
„,_,..,,,z
14 11.° the account of the ordered,
in Chancery ""-"5...7,
aat Se.asion of Parliament, on idel;:o tof Railway Companies •
um

" also, Statement of what portion of the said money was invested
in Stock or Exchequer-bills, with the date of each investment:'
also, "the amount charged as Commission on tits purchase and
sale of the said Securities, showing by whom tl:e said Commission
was received :" "similar Returns for Ireland and;Sootland."

Manchester and Lincoln Union Railway and Chesterfield and Gains-
borough Canal.
Harwich and Eastern Counties Railway.
Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway (Peak Forest
and Alacclesfield Canal Purchase).

NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL-OFFICE.

RAILWAYS.
Order for further Consideration of Report (sth February)
from Select Committee read ; Report further considered :-
1. Resolved—" That with respect to any, Railway, Bills
which shall be brought from the House of Lords during
this session, this House will not insist on their privilege
with regard to the clauses fixing and regulating rates and
tolls in such Bills.
2. Resolved—" That with a view of affording early and
increased means of employment in Ireland, it is expedient to
give facilities for the early consideration of Irish Railway
Bills; and that, for the attainment of this object, all such
Railway Bills should, in the present session, commence in the
House of Lords.
3. Resolved—" That all Bills which compete with or
ought to be considered in connexion with any Bills, the pro-
moters of which shall prove themselves entitled to the pri-
vileges agreed to be granted in certain cases by the resolu-
tions of this House of the 7th July last, shall commence in
the House of Lords.
4. Resolved—" That the parties promoting Railway Bills
which, by the above resolutions, are to commence in the
House of Lords, may (notwithstanding any proceeding
respecting such Bills in the House of Lords) prove before the
Committee on Petitions of the House of Commons that they
have complied with the standing orders of this House, and
the report of such Committee shall be ordered to lie on the
table. If the Committee should report that the standing
orders have not been complied with, their report shall be
referred to the Committee on Standing Orders, whose report
shall be,erdered to lie on the table.
5. Resolved—" That when a Railway Bill shall have been
brought from the House of Lords, it shall be read a first time,
and referred to the Select Committee on Petitions fer• Private
Bills, who shall report whether the standing orders have
been complied with, or whether any report with reference to
substantialiy the same Bill has been previously laid on the
table of the House."

FRIDAY, FEB. 6.
Dundee and Perth Railway Amendment-Committee on Petition,
Monday, Feb. 16.
Dundee and Arbroath Railway Extensions-Committee on Peti-
tion, Monday, Feb. 16.
East Lancashire Railway (Deviation and Branches)-Committee
on Petition, Monday, Feb. 16.
Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway Extension (No. 1)
-Committee on Petition, Monday, Feb. 16.
Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway Extension (No. 3)
-Committee on Petition, Monday, Feb. 16.
London and Blackwell Railway (Widening)-Committee on Peti-
tion, Monday, Feb. 16.
Bristol and Exeter Railway (Crewkerne Branch)-Committee on
Petition, Monday, Feb. 16.
Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Extension Railway (No. 2)
-Committe on Petition, Monday, Feb. 16.
Midland and Eastern Counties (Cambridge) Railway-Committee
on Petition, Monday, Feb. 16.
Maldon, Witham, and Braintree Railway-Committee on Petition,
Monday, Feb. 16.
Oldham District Railways -Committee on Petition, Monday,
Feb. 16.
Newcastle and Darlington Junction Railway and Tyne Dock-
Committee on Petition, Monday, Feb. 16.
Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Carlisle Branch Railway-Committee
on Petition, Monday, Feb. 16.
Enfield and Edmonton Railway-Committee on Petition, Monday,
Feb. 16.
Cambridge and Lincoln (Extension, &c.) Railway--Committee on
Petition, Monday, Feb. 16.
East and West India Docks and Birmingham Junction Railways-
Committee on Petition, Monday, Feb. 16.
Mitcham and South-Western Railway-Committee ea Petition,
Monday, Feb. 16.
Newmarket and Chesterford Railway-Committee on Petition,
Monday, Feb. 16.
London, Salisbury, and Yeovil Junction (Basingstoke to Yeovil)
Railway-Committee on Petition, Monday, Feb. 16.
Macclesfield and Lichfield Railway--Committee on Petitioa, Mon-
day, Feb. 16.
Manchester, Midland, and Great Grimsby Junction Railway-
Committee on Petition, Monday, Feb. 16.
Dublin and Kingstown Railway Extensions-Committee on Peti-
tion, Monday, Feb. 16.
Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock Railway (Harbour Branch)-Com-
mittee on Petition, Monday, Feb. 16.
Dartmouth, Torbay, Brixham, and Exeter Railway-Committee
on Petition, Monday, Feb. 16.
Fleetwood, Preston, and West Ridiag Junction Railway-Com-
mittee on Petition, Monday, Feb. 16.
Glasgow, Barrhead, and Neilston Direct Railway
Thornliebank, to
Thornliebank, Househill, and Hurlet)-Committee on Petition, Mon-
day, Feb. 16.
Glasgow, Barrhead, and Neilston Direct Railway (Branches to
Paisley)-Committee on Petition, Monday, Feb. 16.
Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock Railway (Polio° and Govan
Branches)-Committee on Petition, Monday, Feb. 16.
Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock Railway (Bridge of Weir Branch)
-Committee en Petition, Monday, Feb. 16.
Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan Railway-Committee on
Petition. Monday, Feb. 16.
Glasgow Harbour Grand Junction Railway Terminus-Committee
on Petition, Monday, Fob. 16.
Scottish Midland Junction (South Inch of Perth Branch)-Com-
mittee on Petition, Monday, Feb. 16.
Scottish Midland Junction Railway (Branches)-Committee on
Petition, Monday, Feb. 16.
Glasgow, Strathaven, and Lesmahagow Direct Rallway-Cemmit-
tee on Petition, Monday, Feb. 16.
Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal (Bradford
Branch)-Committee on Petition, Monday, Feb. 16.
Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal (Oldham Branch)
-Committee on Petition, Monday, Feb. 16.
Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal (Huddersfield
Diversion and Cooper Bridge Branch)-Committee on Petition, Mon-
day, Feb. 16.
Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manchester Railway (Ashton
Canal and Purchase)-Committee on Petition, Monday, Feb. 16.
Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manchester Railway (Barnsley
Branch)-Committee on Petition, Monday, Feb. 16.
Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manchester Railway (Whaley-
bridge and Hayfield Branches)-Committee on Petition, Monday,
Feb. 16.
Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manchester Railway (Dukia-
field, Worsborough, and Glossop Branches, and Sheffield Station)-
Committee on Petition, Monday, Feb. 16.
Richmond Railway (Kew Branch)-Committee on Petition, Mon-
day, Feb. 16.
Direct London and Manchester Railway-Committee on Petition,
postponed from Monday, Feb. 9, till Tuesday, Feb. 10.
Eastern Union and Harwich Railway and Pier--Committee on
Petition, postponed from Monday, Feb. 9, till Thursday, Feb. 12.
Dublin and Enniskillen Railway-Committee on Petition, Tuesday,
Feb. 17.
Londonderry and Enniskillen Rallway-Committee on Petition,
Tuesday, Feb. 17.

RAILWAY RETURNS.
RAILWAY TEAFFIO.—The following are the Total Receipts of Rail-
ways for the past week—that is to say, up to the date to which the
respective returns are made, together with the receipts of the same
week in the previous year :

Week
ending

Last
week.

,t 1 z
1
it
i.. -
Q a

Jan. 31

Feb. 3

Jan. 31

Feb. 1
Jan. 31

Feb. 1

Jan. 31
Feb. 1
Jan. 31
Feb. 3

Jan. 31
Feb. 1
Jan. 31

Feb. 1

Jan. 31

579
3,799
837
581

Feb. 1

4,355

COMMITTEES ON PETITIONS FOR PRIVATE BILLS
FOR THE ENSUING WEEK.
MONDAY, van. 9.
North Staffordshire (Potteries Line) Railway.
London, Newbury, and Bath Direct Railway.
Direct London and Portsmouth Railway.
South-Eastern (from the Waterloo-road, near Hungerfbrd-bridge, to
the Greenwich Railway) Railway.
South-Eastern (Greenwieh to Chilham, near Canterbury, with
Branches) Railway.
South-Eastern (from Greenwich Railway to Chart, near Ashford,
with Branches to Tunbridge and Riverhead) Railway.
London and Brighton (Dorking Branch) Railway.
North British (Hawick Branches) Railway.
North British (Carlisle Extension) Railway.
North British (Gretna Branch) Railway.
Edinburgh and Glasgow Branches Railway.
Edinburgh and Peebles Railway.
General Terminus and Glasgow Harbour Railway.
Windsor, Slough, and Staines Atmospheric Railway.
Cambridge and Oxford Railway.
Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings (Deviations and Branches to East-
bourne, Newhaven, and Seaford) Railway.
Brighton and Chichester (Bognor to Littlehampton) Railway.
Brighton and Chichester (Steyning Branch) Railway.
London and South Western (Foreham and Alton Branch) Railway.
South Eastern (No. B—Canterbury to Dover) Railway.
South Eastern (No. 6—Maidstone to Strood, near Rochester) Railway.
London and Brighton (Wandsworth Branch) Railway,
South Midland (Huntingdon Branch) Railway.
Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction Railway.
South Midland (Northampton and Bedford Lines) Railway.
Grand Junction (Huyton and Aston, 'Layton, Preston and St. Helen's,
Warrington and Kenyon, Warrington and Parkside, Showhill and
Portobello, and Edgehill and Huyton Rranches) Railway.
Grand Junction (Huyton and Warrington Branches) Railway.
Newcastle and Berwick Railway.
Aylesbury and Thame Junction Railway.
Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Junction Railway.
Wisbech, St. Ives, and Cambridge Junction Railway.
Mold Junction Railway.
Bristol and South Wales Railway.
London and York Railway.
Ipswich and Bury St. Edmund's (Norwich Extension) Railway.
Lancaster and Carlisle (Extension to Caledonian Railway, and Lan—
caster and Preston Junction Railways Amalgamation) Railway.
Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester ( Wakefield Extension) Railway.
Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester (Deviation and Branches) Railway.- •
Ulverstone, Furness, and Lancaster and Carlisle Railway.
Newcastle and Darlington Junction (Durham and Sunderland Rail— -
way and Wearmouth Dock Purchase and Branches) Railway.
Berks and Hants (Hungerford Extension) Railway.
Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr Railway and Branches.
(No. 5),
Guildford, Chichester, Pertsmoath and Fareham Railway.
Guildford, Chiehester, and Portsmouth Railway.
Taw Vale Railway Extension.
Waveney Valley Railway.
Edinburgh and Leith Atmospheric Railway.
North British Railway (No. 1).
Glasgow, Dunitries, alnd Carlisle Railway.
Edinburgh and Northern (Newport Railway and Saint 4,ndrew'o
Branch) Railway.
Edinburgh and Northern (Kinross, Woodmill, and Newburgh.:
Branch) Railway.
Edinburgh and Northern (Loehgelly aid Leslie Extensions) Railway„,
Edinburgh and Northern (Dunfermline Branch) Railway.
Edinburgh and Northern (Strathern Deviation) Railway.
Edinburgh and Northern (Branches from the Dundee and Arbroatl a
Railway and Tay Ferry Improvement) Railway.
Edinburgh and Northern (Pettycar and Perth Harbour Branches Ana
Deviation) Railway.
York and North Midland (Leeds Extension) Railway.
York aid North Midland (East Riding Branches, No. 1) Railway.
York and North Midland (Widening and Enlargement) Railway.
North Union Railway.
Cheltenhain and Oxford Railway.
London and Birmingham (Euston and Camden Stations Enlarg 13-
ment) Railway.
London and Birmingham (St. Alban's and Luton Branches) Railwa
London and Birmingham (Newport Pagnell Branch) Railway.
South-Eastern ( No. 11—Branch from Rye to Rye Harbour) Reim ay.
South-Eastern (No.;lo—from the Godstone Station to East Grinstea d)
Railway.
South-Eastern (No. s—Branch from Reigate to Dorking) Railway.
South-Eastern (No. 4—from Tunbridge Wells leading to Hastings ai
Id
Rye) Railway.
South-Eastern (No. 9—Hastings and Rye from Chislet to Margat
Railway.
Colchester, Stour Valley, Sudbury, and Halstead Railway.
Exeter and Exmouth Railway.
Exeter and Yeovil Railway.
North and South Junction Railway.
West Riding Union Railway.
Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland Railway.
London, Hounslow, and Westera Railway.
Great Western and Uxbridge Railway.
Norfolk Extension (Stowmarket, WyMOUdhaln, and Attleberol Igh
Branch) Railway.
Norfolk Railway Extension (Denham, Wells, and Blakeney Rana fa) •
Branch).
West of Scotland Junction Railway.
Perth and Crieff Direct Railway.
Edinburgh and Glasgow and Dumbartonshire Railway.
Leicester and Bedford Railway.
London and South Essex Railway.
Wilsontown, Morningside, and Coltness (Knowton Branch) Bailor AY .
Wilsontown, Morningside, and Connell. (Improvement t Via I
Branches) Railway.
Wisha,w and Colinas (Greenhill Branch) Railway.
Slamannan and Borrowstoness Railway.
Slamannan (Bathgata and Jawcraig Brandies) Railway.
Rugby, Leamington, and Warwick Railway.
Kilmarnock, and Ayr Railway and Brent he
s
TUESDAY, FEB. 10.
GstiairNtigeo.sw6i dPHalielnleyey, Railway.
Ballymena and Ballymoney Railway.
Airdrie and Bathgate Junction Railway.
Leicester and Tamworth Junctiea Railway. •
Coventry, Nuneaton, Birmingham, and Leleeeter Railway.
Leeds and York Railway.
East and West Yorkshire Junction Railway.
Saint Helen's Canal and Railway.
•
North Western Railway.
Exeter, Topsham, and Exmouth Railway.
London and Oxford Railway.
Lancashire and Yorkshire North Eastern Railway.
Rugby and Stamford Railway.
Direct London and Manchester Railway.
Eastern Union and Harwich Railway and Pier,
WEDNESDAY, PER. 11.

Jan. 31

Swansea Vale Railway. it
Halton and Drifileld Junction Railway.
Clitherea Junction Railway.
Blackburn mad Preston and East Lancashire Railways Amalgams ltid n.
Manchester and Southampton Railway.
THURSDAY. FEB. 12.
Eastern Union and Hadleigh Junction Railway.
Yorkshire and Glasgow Union Railway.
Great Western and Wycombe Railway.
Rugby and Huntingdon Railway.
Sontersetshire Midland Railway.
Tenby, Saundersfoot, and South Wales Railway.
Grand Union Railway.
Midland Railways (Syston to Peterborough Railway Deviation( and
Branches).
Nottingham, Mansfield, and Midland Junction Railway.
Boston, Newark, and Sheffield Railway.
Great North of England and Boroughbridge Branch Railway...
Great North of England Railway Purchase.
York and North Midland East Riding Branches Railway (N 1.
Leeds and Bradford (Guiseley Branch) Railway.
Great North of Eastland and Bedale Branch Railway.
Leeds and Bradford (Junction line at Bradford) Railway.
London and South Western (Salisbury Junction) Railway.
London and South Western (Basingstoke and Salisbury Ex tett slon
Railway.

TilE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRITARI 7, 1846.

company and the new one have amalgamated, and I believe
that there is not a single line of railway for which an Act
wad' passed last session as an independent scheme, that has
already been amalgamated with the eld Company. In the
hands of Parliament however, we may cheerfully leave the
decision of the question. The scheme will be tried on its
merit. No opposition has been made by
one company to
another on questions of form. The result will depend on the
measure of advantage which one company can offer over the
other, and I may mention that in the South-Eastern scheme
for the constructing a line of railway from Waterloo-bridge
to Canterbury and Dever, not fewer than seventeen miles
are already constructed, or are applicable in its projects to a
double purpose, so as •to amount to an economy to that ex-
tent of railway constructed, or so applicable over the rival
company. Permit me to mention that, in adopting the
Gravesend and Rochester line as part of our scheme, that that
railway will of course be remodelled and improved, so as to
be made equal in comfort and safety to any exiAing railway
in the kingdom. And here it may be interesting for you to
know that the line from Canterbury to Whitstable is being
now changed into a locomotive one, so that the traffic will
be carried over it in one-third of the time which the transit
had hitherto occupied, and with greater comfort to the pas-
sengers. A few weeks only will elapse before the Ramsgate
and Margate Extension will be completed, and so soon as
the Act has passed we shall bring down the branch
line to Chilham, in anticipation of the completion of
the Rochester-bridge, which will, of course, be a work of
very great magnitude, and occupy a long time in construc-
tion. From Hastings round to London, if the South-Eastern
Bills pass, as pass 1 believe they will, every port will have
a terminus, and I cannot conceive that any district of
country can be better supplied with railway accommodation
than Kant will be. The reduction in the cost to sea borne
merchandise must be very great when such facilities are
afforded, and the convenience in the transmission of garden
and agricultural produce to the great markets, and in the
carriage of fish, which has already been felt, will be largely
increased ; and if the prospect of free trade is alarming to any
existing interests, we offer protective and conservative
clauses in increased facilities for carriage, so as to bring our
own produce to our own markets with the greatest readi-
ness, and in the most economical manner. This will be
much more apparent when communication is established be-
tween existing lines of railway, so that the produce put on the
railway truck in Kent can be transmitted to the manufactur-
ing and other populous districts of the north, to whose cli-
mate that of Kent is a month or six weeks in advance, without
being shifted from the carriage, on which it is first
placed, till it arrives at its final destination. Whilst we are
carrying goods from Dover to London for 10s. per ton, we
are paying for the delivery in London, or for the transmis-
sion to the railways proceeding northwards, ss. per ton, almost
all of which would be economised if the railways were in con-
nexion with each other, as no doubt they soon will be. The
shrine at which our homage is paid to-day, if not that of St.
Thomas 6. Becket, is yet one of the greatest value to all—the
facility of intercourse and friendly communication; facility
for commercial transactions ; and last, not least, economy of
time. In every place to which railway communication has
extended the value of land and houses has increased no less
than 30 per cent., which is a substantial proof of the value
that the public places in facility of intercourse; and I have it
from the agents most extensively engaged in the sale of
estates that the question now invariably asked is, how far
distant the property they have to dispose of is from a railway
station ? The question of railway extension is now engaging
the special attention of Parliament, and I am sure great good
may be expected frogs the inquiries that are being made.
We have not anything to fear from the fever of railway specu-
lation, which has now subsided. It is not clear that any lines
of railway will be constructed except those that will be of
permanent benefit to the country; and I may add, too, that
it is not clear that any lines of railway will be sanctioned
which would darnage existing interests, without con-.
ferring superior advantages on the public. Some forget,
when speaking on this question, that while other competing
undertakings may co-exist for a time, and then one give
way to another, a line of railway once constructed must re-
main permanently in existence; and consequently that an
outlay of capital in the construction of railways not perma-
nently required for the public advantage is a waste of the
national resources, and should therefore not be permitted by
the Legislature. The beauty of the situation of your city,
and its magnificent cathedral, the unrivalled walks which it
possesses, not to speak of the hospitality and kindness of its
inhabitants, must have great attractions to visitors; and I
am sure the opening of the railway will be the commence-
ment of a new era in the prosperity of Canterbury.
The next toast was that of " The Mayor of Canterbury,"
which was proposed by Mr. M'Gregor.
This was followed by that of " Sir R. Peel and her Ma-
j esty's Ministers."
The Mayon, in a neat speech, proposed " Lord Torrington
and the House of Peers."
Lord TORRINGTON returned thanks in an able speech.
" Mr. Fielden and the House of Commons" was the next
toast.
Mr. FIELDER returned thanks.
The " Healths of Mr. W. Cubitt and Mr. Joseph Cubitt "
were proposed, and warmly responded to. Those gentlemen
returned thanks.
Mr. M'GaEGOR, in proposing the next toast, said he had
just received, by the electric telegraph, information which he
had no doubt would be pleasing to Mr. Randall, the beaker,
and other gentlemen connected with monetary matters. He
was enabled to state the closing price of Three per Cent.
Consols that day was 971—(Cheers)--while the price of
Exchequer-bills was 39 to 40 premium.—(Cheers.) He had
also to inform them that up to three o'clock that day, at
which time the office of the Accountant-General of the
Court of Chancery closed, upwards of 11,000,000/. had been
received as deposits.—(Cheers.) After a few further ob-
servations he proposed his toast.
Several other toasts were drunk, and the company broke
up a few minutes before nine o'clock.
The directors and their friends returned to London by
special train.

plied with, and all this money placed in custody
of the Accountant-General not, it is true, without
a pressure of some severity on the Money-market—but cer-
tainly without any disastrous consequences. It has been
found in money too, without any alteration or relaxation of
the law or rules of Parliament. The transaction has been
brought to a successful termination, in spite of attempts to
create uncalled-for alarm, and to raise up unnecessary ob-
stacles. Those who said it could not be done, now admit
that it has been accomplished, and have the candour to own
that it has been skilfully managed. Complaints now ema-
nate from the same quarter against the loss which railway
companies suffer in re-investing. They were compelled to
sell stock for notes, say at 944 to 95, and have now to buy
stock again at 974. There is some truth in this ; but it is
to be kept in view that the re investment en the part of
railway companies of their deposit money is purely volun-
tary. There is no legal requisition to compel them to
convert their notes into Stock or Exchequer-bills. They
may allow their money to remain in the hands of the.
Accountant-General, if they feel disposed to do so, until it
be absolutely required for bond fide objects. No doubt it
might, in that case, be unproductive; but it would at least
be safe, and free from the changes and fluctuations which fre-
quently affect the funds. Supposing a fresh re- action to
take place, and that Consols should again give way—that
their price some months hence should be 95, in place of 97
those railway companies who have re-invested at the latter
figure, should they find it requisite to realise their Consols,
would suffer a further loss. NVe do not say that the funds
are more likely to fall than to rise. It is a moot point which
way the movement will be developed ; but the present price
is not looked upon, cannot be considered as a natural one.
It is the effect of a special cause—the demand created by the
investments of railway deposits. These have their limits,
and when that demand ceases to act, it remains to be seen
whether the funds will continue steady or experience fluc-
tuation.
Discounts are still scare in the commercial world. Thejmini-
mum rate at the Bank of England still rules at 31,4 per cent
POST.—The stock markets, as was rather confidently an-
ticipated yesterday evening, from the manner in which the
day's business concluded; have again advanced, and once
more closed considerably better. A. number of brokers held
orders to sell stock at a certain limit, and on coming into the
house to fulfil the instructions of their principals, they met
with ready buyers ; so much so that prices, which opened
higher, advanced, instead of receding. Several leading open
rators, who are usually to be found on the side of the bulls,
have of late, presuming, no doubt, upon good information,
been heavy bears ; but, the time having arrived when a
counter policy had become desirable, the influence of a re-
turn to their ordinary transactions for the rise has been
brought to act upon prices. Consols were done as high as
971 for Account, but, as towards the close of business,
some of the speculators were once more induced to
realise profits, a slight reaction occurred. Upon the
whole, the improvement was full three-quarters per
cent. on yesterday's highest quotation. To-morrow the
first effect of the termination' to-day, of the payment of
deposits to the credit of the Accountat-General will be seen.
The total amount paid has been ascertained to be
11,492,000/. Of this sum one eminent banking firm alone
supplied as much as 3.000,0001. The payments of deposits
constituting this aggregate amount were made by cheques,
and without the intervention of a single bank note, the
former being accepted as a valid and satisfactory medium of
payment to the Accountant-General.
The advance in the Consol market produced a better
feeling among the share speculators. South-Eastern
Railway, as well as the Buckinghamshire, and
the Sambre and Meuse, advanced. London and
York, on the contrary, declined, but this was is
consequence of the proceedings in Parliament. One
passage in the report of the Committee of the House of
Commons has a very important bearing on the proposed
lines between London and York. We allude to the follow-
ing :—" That it is expedient that all Bills which ought to be
considered to compete in connexion witk any Bills, the pro-
moters of which shall prove themselves entitled to the privi-
leges agreed to be granted in certain cases, by a resolution of
the House on the 7th of July last, shall commence in the
House of Lords." The practical effect of this resolution is
to place the Direct Northern Company on an equality with
the London and Yerk. Both will now commence in the
House of Lords, and there can be little doubt, if the inte-
rests of the shareholders and of the public are daly consi-
dered in that assembly, that an amalgamation at some stage
or other of their progress must take place. The friends of the
two Companies must be of opinion that the sooner the event
occurs the better it will be for all parties. The public re-
quirement will be answered, and much needless waste of time
and money avoided,
HERALD.—The last day for the lodgment of the railway
deposits has at length closed, and the final result has to the
fullest extent verified the view we have all along maintained
—namely, that there was no real ground for assuming that
the modus operandi would produce any practical difficulty of
importance. Now, when the matter is concluded, it is very
clear that it would have been just as well that an arrange-
ment had been made to trausfer Public Securities from the
bankers to the account of the Accountant-General, instead of
requiring the amount ofthe deposits in money ; but still, had
no apprehension been excited, the business would have
been quietly effected by the parties, without producing
any pressure worth notice on the discount market.
To the unjustifiable alarm that was raised upon this
snbject, all the inconvenience which has been expe-
rienced by the commercial interest is exclusively attri-
butable. The result has, however, shown that the apprehen-
sion was utterly fallacious, and the only alternative left to the
Times and its abettors isao acknowledge a degree of ignor-
ance of the question not very creditable to the British press,
in the middle of the 19th century, or want of honesty to an
extent that we are reluctant to aver, even in the case of the
misleading journal.
In order to show that the difficulties that have been created
have been of great magnitude, and have produced immense
sacrifices of mercantile property, the Times of to-day quotes
the authority of Truman and Cook, by an extract from their
monthly circular, which is got up for the special in-
struction of the people in India and China. At no time
do we consider these letters correct exponents of the

MAGAZINES-(CONTINUED.)
THE NEW MOATHL Y.
The present number of the P, ew Monthly is graced
by a paper from the pen of Mr. Harrison Ain,worth,
intitled, " Leman Blanchard and his Writings," which
does equal credit to the head and the heart of the
writer. The character of poor Blanchard, one of the
most gifted, and at the same time one of the most kind-
hearted of created beings, is admirably drawn. The
man as he was is there depicted, and depicted too after
his own kind heart. It is such a sketch as Blanchard
himself would have written of his friend, had he chanced
to be the survivor. Mrs. Butler contributes some verses,

intitled the " Berkshire (American) Jubilee," and
Charles Hooten gives us one of his new world, spirit•
stirring nautical ballads, entitled, " Pierre Picard, or the
Sea Famine." This number is rich in American
sketches, for Captain Levinge continues his " Echoes
from the Back Woods," and furnishes as with informa-
tion regarding men and things in America, which is not
only interesting, but worthy of serious attention. We
extract the following description of the garrison of
Eastport, the first United States town beyond the Nova
Scotian frontier, as an example :
" This fort was garrisoned -by a company of horse artil-
lery. It was composed entirely of deserters from our regi-
ments quartered from time to time in New Brunswick. These
being infantry regiments, the men had of course never learned
to ride, and rarely to exercise great guns. Nevertheless,
they did their duty as flying artillery in the United States.
They wore fancy-coloured waistcoats under sky-bluejackets,
trousers of the same colour, with broad yellow stripes down
them; their boots turned up at the toes, like skates, the
trousers only reaching half way down their legs. The whole
was crowned by a frightful leather cap, with a huge brass
letter to denote their company : but it is but fair to remark
th at their barracks were as clean as an unlimited allowance
of
whitewash could make them. We recognised a rascal
who had deserted from St. John'. not long bfore. He was
walking about, dragging a nine-pound shot fastened to his
leg (by which we concluded that he had already got into a
scrape), smoking a cigar, and looking as if he did not care a
d—n for General Jackson or auy one else. We heard, soon
after we left Eastport, that this company having been or-
dered to Florida, to quell an insurrection of the Seminole
Indians, the most of them deserted on their march to Bos-
ton. They Were, however, retaken, and sent out. On my
return to New Brunswick, I saw a letter from the last of the
survivors to his brother, recommending him and his com-
rades on no account to desert their colours for the American
service, he being the only one who had escaped the toma-
hawk of the Indians, or the deadly pestilence of the swamps.
" The difficulty, however, of preventing desertions was, in
spit of all warnings, great in New Brunswick. Yankey agents
followed the men, enticed them into crimping-houses, and
plied them with drink, and when sufficiently intoxicated,
they were put on board fast sailing schooners, which got un-
der weigh whilst they lay in a state of unconsciousness. On
coining to themselves, many might have returned, had they
not been given more rum, and been afraid of the conse-
quences of their first transgression. There was but one in-
stance of a man's returning in the two years we remained in
New Brunswick.

The remaining articles of this number are for the
greater part continuations.

AINSWORTH.

Only yesterday we stigmatised the revival of materials
already familiar to magazine readers as the most incor-
rigible fault in that order of periodicals ; to a certain
extent the monthly press is ephemeral in its very na-
ture : it lives only upon the appetite for present novelty
and present amusements ; and hence any repetitions, or
so to speak, any oldnesses, are both presumptuous and
intolerable. Ainsworth, this month, actually comes out
with a reprint of its editor's romance, " Old St. Paul's,"
a work not very long since published in a weekly news-
paper of extensive circulation, and subsequently in an
ordinary three volume edition for circulating libraries.
What interest can, therefore, be expected from its pre-
sent re-appearance we are at a loss to conjecture, es-
pecially as it is the most mediocre production of
its author. 'We are particularly anxious to
avoid anything that may • be construed as in-
viduous, but we must decidedly protest against
an instance of such palpable disregard to the interests
and entertainment of the subscribers to this hitherto
(and deservedly) popular magazine. Mr. Ainsworth
has already shown by his many admirable fictions that
his imagination needs no stimulus, that it is naturally
gifted with extraordinary fecundity and vigour. His
novels have followed each other with rapidity and merit;
and if any one quality of his intellect was more conspi-
cuous than another, it was that of being prolific in in-
vention, plot, character, and incident. Recently, how-
ever, he appears to have been encompassed with indeci-
sions, and trepidations, and misarrangements of a very
unliterary class. In his "Revelations of London"—
again discontinued—he was evidently plunged into such
a cobweb of dilemmas that he found it difficult to extri-
cate himself with adroitness. But in republishing his
present story of the plague and fire of London,
he has, in our conception, acted more mistakenly
than ever. Enough, however, upon this point:
we earnestly recommend him to withdraw his
unfortunate revival from his magazine, and no longer
arouse a recollection of " Old St. Paul's;" but this, of
course, in every sense, ex cathedral Here, as a recom-
pense for our moroseness, we will extract from the pages
of Ainsworth a delicate little fantasie: it is daintily
headed

DO YOU REMEMBER THE TALE?
Oh! do you remember how bright was the day,
When far in the wild woods we wander'd away;
The sweet birds were singing on every tall tree,
And thro' the dark olives fair glitter'd the sea?
Ali, do you remember, as on fled the hours,
You cull'd me a garland of freshest wild flow'rs ;
And as 'neath the soft shade we sat down to rest,
Each dreaming of what each was loving the best,
Each gazing on what each loved most to behold—
Ah I do you remember the tale that you told?
Altogether indeed, for February, there is a rich assort
of poetical fragments; no unwelcome recommendation for
the lovers of day-dreaming in this drizzling and uncon-
scionable season. Edward Kenealy proves still further
his accomplishments RS a lingual student, by treating us
with a basket of nnknovvn but beautiful flowers, in a
paper entitled "Swedish Anthology:" the strains of music
which he echoes in translation have aeharseter about them
that clings with tenacity to one's memory, haunting and
re-haunting the inner ear. They are tinctured too with
the gleamings of the far north; they breath like the
sound of madrigals among the ice- mountains: in them
Frederika Bremer seems to speak to us in rhythm: they
glow, but their glow is frost. Andrew Winter ad-
monishes us that we" Be Trustful"—and his admonition
is couched in such pensive metre that—we listen and
obey. Nor is the finest scholar of German lyrics in
England silent—he unhusks from the original of Friedeich
Ruckert five charming miniature jewels, in very fantastic
rhymes. Are they not jewels ? Here is one :
I sat upon the shore; and every hue—
The green that on the fields, woods, mountains shone,
The varied tints that sheaves, fruits, blossoms threw,
Had disappear'd before me, one by one.
Merg'd in the billow's green, and heaven's deep blue,
Each separate colour from my sight had gone;
Thus of old woes my heart oblivious grew,
Op'ning for thoughts of endless lore alone
For these we thank John Oxenford. " Some Passages
in the Private History of my Poodle," by Dudley Cos-
tello, would, if divested of its plentiful larding of
phrases that are somewhat over-idiomatic, smack much
of Elia. We have a faint suspicion that the subject
(by the way, a very facetious one) has been previously
touched upon : however, it will gain its end, by tickling
the mouth-corners of its readers, and is besides:well sprin-
kled with sarcasms. Scott's " Demonology and Witch-
craft" has evidently suggested to Thomas Wright
his " Chapters from the History of Sorcery and
Magic." The introduction displays some knowledge of
that abstruse and enticing lore ; we shall anticipate
several striking disclosures in its continuation. There
is an agreeable bonhommie, though rather an over-plenty
of minuteness, in the " Life and Writings of Nimrod,"
and as Mr. Apperley, with all his cleverness, was merely
the favourite of a class, we consider such profuse com-
mentaries as misjudged. " Female Delinquency," in
reference to its alleviation by the late excellent Mrs.
Fry—that soul-sister of Howard—affords material for a
sensible and benevolent essay, which is worthy a second
perusal ; and, what with the foregoing contributions and
a laughable, chatty, little episode of every-day life, by
Shirley Brooks, telling us "How Mrs. Malmsey Ma-
naged her Uncle," Ainsworth 's Itraganne forms, on the
whole, a very fair intellectual sugar-plum.

THE PLO UGH.
A better selection of articles could scarcely bare been
made ; and, as a second number, the present !m! ,
nently successful : it speaks admirably for the discrimi-
nation of its editor. Professor Donaldson gives us a
sketch remarkable for its perspicacity on—that marvel of
nature, that consequence of cultivation—" Rotaria
Cyma ; or the Rotation of Crops." The disquisition
"On the Philosophy of Agriculture" is evidently the
effusion of a thoughtful intellect ; it is divested of all
prejudices in favour of the old-established systems, and
is very learned upon all the latest expositions of the re-
nowned Baron Liebig. Among the most immediately
interesting and valuable of the papers, however, is a
synopsis of Dr. Lyon Playfair's Lectures upon the Po-
tato
Disease, the importance and veracity of which may
pberianlcmeoAstlbsearictl.,atsohheratv.eherntheed sanctionOx figures
of Government.
all
t
pain-
ful glory of obesity upon the frontispiece, though he
I looks as gentlemanly a " blade" as you
would well find
upcn the "turf." After reading this number we feel
like " One who has Whistled at the Plough," and that
with considerable satisfa • ction to ourselves.

THE LAW REVIEW.
As a quarterly disquisition of British and foreign
jurisprudence, this periodical already fills a prominent
position among its contemporaries. Its earnest but dis-
passionate views, its enlightened and erudite character,
its perfect freedom from bigotry or intolerance of tone,
togdther with its many evidences of experience and re-
search, render it a worthy exponent of the profession.
" Lord Eldon compared with the Judges of his Time" is,
more even than the writer himself imagines, a tooth-
breaking nut for Horace Twiss ; and " The Opening of
Lincoln's Inn Hall" gives an opportunity for a spirited
survey of the present state of the legal profession,
which, apart from the importance of the subject itself,
should be read by every one who admires candour and
boldness. As a whole the present number is sterling.