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The number of lines and branches which have thus
lapsed, after having been eagerly and expensively
advocated, is altogether 226. Most of the aban-
doned undertakings were short branches of little •
or no moment, but several of the now effete pro-
jects were of a more serious and imposing charac-
ter. Striking out of the list all lines of less extent
than 15 miles, there is still rather a lengthy cata-
logue of directorial abortions to be taken into ac-
count—viz., the Alford Valley, 16 miles, capital
£128,989 ; Belfast and County Down, 28 miles,
1666,666 ; Blackburn, 19 miles; Boston, Stam-
ford, and Birmingham—Stamford and Wisbech
line. =22 miles, £336,000 ; Bristol and Exeter—
Bleadon to Wells, 23 miles, £'733,000 ; Taunton
and Castle Cary branch, 22 miles, £473,090 ;
Caledonian—Wilsonstown, Fauldhouse, Biggar,
and BrOUghtoll branches, 22 miles, £333,300 ;
Dumfriesshire and Cumberland branches, 20 miles,
£400,000; Caledonian and Dumbartonshire Stine-
tion—portion or thain line from Glasgow to Bowling
and the branches' to Helensburgh, &c., 26 miles;
Cheltenham and Oxford, 37 miles, £1,333,000 ;
Cork and Waterford,• 97 miles, £1,693,500 ; Co-
my
Yeovil,
loevsi,
ventry, Nuneaton, Bitiningham, and Leicester, 15
miles, £360,000 ; Deeside, 29 miles, £293,333;
Delahole and Rock, 16 miles, £20,000 • London
and Portsmouth Direct, • tiO miles, £29,010,000 ;
milesß. Lz
Spalding,e d86t66;r5dE0,300;2e4;2t
elr,a b r i6d9g e
miles,an d
Dublin, Belfast, and ColerainsSunction, 88 miles ;
Glasgow
la Eastern
s miles,
g o w£46aCono,
douon
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la
Dorchester,n3d33,333 C
miles, £933,300 ; Glasgow and Belfast Union, 22
miles, £440,000; Glasgow and South-AV estern—
Creewick Branch, 16 miles; Glasgow, Stratihaven,
and iesmahagowDirect, 15 miles; Great Northern
—lsle of Axholme EittSnsion, 36 miles, 1'400,000 ;
Askerne and York, Gainsborough and Bawtpv,
branch to shipping quay at Boston, branch to river
Trent, branch to Hull and Selby Railway, and ,
branch to Bedford, 47 miles ; Great North of Scot-
land, 98 miles ; Great North of Scotland (eastern
extension), 47 miles, £526,228; Great Southern
and Western (Ireland)—Malloy and Fermoy, 16
miles, £203,530 ; Clonmel and Thurles, 26 miles,
£533,000 ; Great Western—Fenny-Compton to
Rugby, 15 miles ; Berks and Hants Extension, 26
miles, £533,000 ; Kilkenny and Great Southern and
Western, 26 miles, £300,000; Lancashire and York-
shire, branches under the West Riding Union Rail-
ways Act, 1846, 20 miles, £600,000 ; Limerick,
Ennis, and Killaloe Junction, 37 miles, £400,000 ;
Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle-on-Tyne
Junction, 51 miles, £1,913,333 ; London and North-
Weston, Huyton and Aston, Huyton, Prescott, and
St. Helen's, Warrington and Kenyon, and War-
rington and Parkside, 26 miles, £1,533,333 ; New-
port Pagn al, Olney and Wellingborough branch, 20
miles, £500,000; St. Albans, Luton, and Dunstable,
22 miles, £462,000 ; London and South-Western—
Andover and Southamptonbranch 10 miles£4oo,ooo;
Salisbury and Yeovil, with branches to Shaftesbury,
&c., 45 miles, £1,666,666; Londonderry and Ennis-
killen, 51 miles, £400,000 ; Midland—liurton to
Nuneaton, 16 miles; Clay Cross and Newark
branch, 23 miles ; Newmarket—Thetford *xten-
sion, 19 miles, £566,666 ; Newry and Enniskillen,
67 miles, £1,100,100; Norfolk —Fakenham to
Wells and Blakeney, 16 miles, £400,000; Reedhafl
to Diss and Halesworth branch, 37 miles, £573,333 ;
Northampton and Banbury, 21 miles, £666,600 ;
North-Western, 18 miles ; North Counties Union,
120 miles, £3,284,877 ; Scottish Midland Junction
—Blairgowrie branch, 16 miles, £400,000; South
Wales— Monmouth branch, 19 miles ; Swansea
Valley, 19 miles, £293,333 ; Wharfdale, 22 miles,
£590,000 ; York, Newcastle, and Berwick—Pelaw
and other branches, 17 miles, £298,633. Most of
the lines for which powers have expired received
sanction in the period following the mania of 1845.
Thus 55 Acts expired in 1849, 5
18 i
n, 18
53 in
1851, 14 in 1852, Bin 1853, 2in 54, 5 8
in 1855, 5
in 1856, 2 in 1857, 2 in 1858, and 4 in 1859. These
figures show far greater caution than formerly on
the part of the railway interest.
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TAKING THE VEIL.---The Journal du Lolrel re-
lates the following
:—Mademoiselle Blanch de Beauval,, a
wealthy heiress of Orl
ems, was about eight months ago UP
have been married to the Viscount de Chamoy, but as the
bridegroom elect was in delicate health he was recommended
to go for a short time to Italy, and the ceremony was post-
polled to October last. The viscount, however, never
reached his destination, having died on his way *DIA'',
and the
lady, overwhelmed with grief, determined to two
the veil. Her resolution was carried into affect three dives
ago, at the Carmelite convent in the Faubourg due Romer
at Orleans. At the hour Axed for the ceremony the client,
was filled with persons who had been invited to bef Pre'
ti, eon-
and soon after a door leading from the interior
_o rime of
vent opened, and Mademoiselle de Beauval, in th ham,f uncle_
youth and beauty, entered, leaning on the area 0 ~el,, a
She was dressed in a bridal costume of whit elann u.'
circled her
with rich lace ; a wreath of orange blossom She took the
hair, and a large white veil was over her h a '
seat prepared for her, - IP;hich is divided
short address. She then quitted the cehearec
ea y a curtain. In
into two parts by an iron railing, 0 n
and she was seen on
and the officiating eaiest delivered ra
a moment after the curtain was drarwkr;ens.
The priest ap-
proached other side of the grating b
which replied in a firm voice,
and asked whether
tion to quit the world, to
nuns who were standing by
"Yea." On this, one of the _
s7h; ssti persisted in her resolu-
tion
veil from her head, let her
removed the bridal wreath
beautiful hair fall on shoulders, and then with a seis-
e:1108o to the head. A murmur of
Ali the persons present when this
d Mademoiselle de Beauval then
sacrifice was coroT u
Er: grrs este vwearsedhetahrde tresses
..
but reappeared in a few minutes after r
rb of a Carmelite nun. She lay down on
of the chapel,
dressedlefttheinchtapgt
the steps . a funeral cloth was thrown over her,
t recited the prayers for the dead, and the " D
the ries
Protpuudis'was sung while the persons in the chapel were
ratirinf,
A CLERGYMAN IN THE BANKRUPTCY COURT._
The Rev. Thomas Ragg, of Dawley, Salop, late a printer
at Birmingham, and formerly of Nottingham, appeared at
the Birmingham Bankruptcy Court for his last examina-
tion on the 15th instant. He passed without opposition.
The balance-sheet shows—Creditors and liabilities, £1,561
19s. 10d. ; assets, £538 158. Bd. ; and deficiency, £2,023
4s. 2d.

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OUI arm FEST-n-7T' '''', : --''''2:4--:- zP-a 41k,
(From the Derby Reporter.) \.:_(,-_:', '''"2--- --z--'is
On Tuesday last the customary dinner was Alen Li
to the Mayor of Derby, in acknowledgmeekt of the
services he had rendered to his native town: Most
disinterested indeed have those services been,. for,
unlike his predecessors, he has had to meet all
claims upon his purse for charitable and other peer-
poses, without dipping into the Borough Fund fox
200 guineas in aid thereof. We are not believers iri.
this so-called economy of our Town Council. We do
not see that gentlemen should be called upon to give
up their time for the public service, and open their
puttles to all corners simply for the honour of being
chief .magistrate. Indeed the rule cannot hold good,
for nutily an able man may be qualified to serve the
office of ;mayor who, from prudential motives, would.
hold afoot; because of the incessant strain upon his
Purse. Others there are who roll in wealth, but
who may not, have the requisite qualifications for
so important azul so responsible a post. We hardly
know by what Mod of freak the corporation were
induced to gambol .into this false position, but the
probability is that, they may have to retrace a false
1 aoyo r l
ought. step, and look none the wiser for it.
ovation, and
assemblage
th
eA n esdayt last was quite an
he does feel—proud of it. lve o,crc 1
y feel—asno doubt
any civic banquet where so much egood remember
speaking
was heard. The chairman was peculiarlyp ha in
his earlier speeches, and his reference totherepcyep-
tion and demeanour of the Piince. of Wales in the
United States, was in his happiest 'rein. A friend.
of ours from New York, and who witnessed with
pleasurable feelings the reception of the Prince,
was a delighted listener to the remarks made by
Mr.. Barber. Oar New York friend (Mr.. Fielden),
who has crossed the Atlantic forty-six times, cor-
roborated every sentiment uttered by the speaker,
and says that he never saw any public demonstra-
tion in the metropolis of England to equal what he
was happy to see in New York when the heir appa-
rent to the British throne arrived there. This is
very gratifying testimony.
Mr. Mundy, Mr. Bass, and Mr. Beale made*
some sensible remarks, and we were happy to hear
so much good sense uttered, and so few merely
personal compliments. We are mending our ways
nt. - dermas ". - ''''''‘a`44444..
in these matters, iitrjessELlM,i,p,A,„,,,,,o kg9r4P-4... -,,, , . ,
extent with our 'facetious- Mind,
Gisborne, is shocked at the great waste of the public
time by mere talkers in the House of Commons,
some of whom are anxious to struggle into noto-
Eiety ; yet nevertheless Mr. Bass is anxioos to pre-
serve in this free country liberty of speech,. and is
naturally careful of the rights and privileges el the
Commons of England. His speech will be read
with interest, and iu all probability we may next
week supplement some figures to those which he
had prepared, but did not occupy the time of the
meeting try reciting. Though Mr. Evans was not'
present, he was fulfilling a prior engagement at
Chesterfield,- performing a labour of love.
Lord George Cavendish and Mr. Thornhill were
reluctiantly prevented by other engagements from
being at the gatinering.
One topic was adverted to in the course of the
evening to which we must refer, however reluctantly'
—namely, something approaching an open defence'
of what has recently taken place with regard to
poachers. For several weeks past we have received
numerous letters on the subject, all of which would
have appeared in our columns had the writers
complied with the customary xule by sending their
names. It is, we think, high time that the public
journalist, whose duty it is to respect the law,
should put in a word against any infringement of
it, especially by the constituted authorities.
A false step on the part of the administration of
public justice always places every body in a false
position. Our borough police, under the sanction
of somebody, are said to have been posted o the
,outskirts of Derby to catch men suspected tn o be
poachers on their coming into the town, And to take
from them their nets, hares, birds, rabbits, or what-
ever of the force naturm kind they may ha\ve about
their person. If we object to the system, we .shall
be said to be the poachers' friend and the landlords'
enemy, an..`l all that sort of thing ; and perhaps mule
opponent plint may suggest that our natural taste'
for larceny a,-id homicide leads us to take arm
against the policeman. Quite the contrary. It is'
our respect for lavi. and our love of order. We don't
exactly rank poacher and felon in the same degree
of criminal offenders, but we do not wish to encou-
rage either. What we reolly object to is Lynch
law. Either the magistrates and policemen have
the power which they usurp. o. they have not. if
they have, then we are wrong in our conclusions ;
if they have not, then is the practiCe_truly and ex-
actly an exercise of Lynch law. The Lynch lawyers
may in their lottery of justice execute very criminal
men; the Lynch policemen may capture .the effects
of very real poachers. But that is not the ,i.uestion.
The issue is—" Were the men hung, or the eilattels
seized, by authority of constituted law ?"
If we have read the game statutes aright, no o.'lc
is authorised to seize guns, dogs, or game frew2
poachers except the lords of manors, or the gamt.l-
- of manors, authorised by deputations for'
that purpose from their lords ; and then the things
seized must be actually seized and appropriated on
the manor itself, and cannot be followed and cap-
tured beyond the precincts where the act of poach-
ing has been committed. We have had occasion,
ill the course of our County Court reports, to pub-
lish so many cases where keepers, duly deputed,
have seized beyond the bounds of their manor, or
under keepers, holding no deputation at all, have
seized either within or beyond their manors, and
where, consequently, they have bad to pay the
penalty of their zealous indiscretion ; that, we
should have thought, the point was tolerably fami-
liar to the magisterial as well as to the constabulary
mind.
If we are correct in this, what right has the
policeman which the gamekeeper has riot ? And
in what position would the police be placed if the
poachers resisted the seizure ? or if they sued for
the effects of which they had been deprived? In
the former case the policeman could not say, like
the young gent in Punch, in the days of special:
constables, "Now, mind, if I kill you it's nothing ;
but if you kill me, it's murder." And in the latter
case we are scarcely anticipating justice in saying-
that the poacher would be entitled to recover
damages.
We repeat it, Lynch law throws civilised society
into a state of extreme confusion. Who is the
offender, when both do wrong ? Does not autho-
rity cease to be respectable when it becomes illegal ?
Why our borough police should be called upon to
act as assistant gamekeepers to the country gentle-
men beyond the limits of their property —whT, they
should be tenters, like bishops, " in partaust is 5, ?
novel a proposition to us that we cannot a. t,2f:
appreciate it, or even understand it. When -f" 11,,°_
1 seizes a net, he is loath to be caught Bin 4";
meshes of the instrument he captures. Whir
tact
takes the dog, it is only the absence of inteciL tune
keeps him out of the provisions of the
for the protection of thecause.
larcenies. race °from petty
e frota Blackstone
The game laws, as every
downwards will tell us, 1 the days in which
dense, but these are not ex?o
case beyond their
to stretch them by are n
toql models of prism_
a police u
capricious provisions:
here
.let the same course be
oints out in other cases.
tialenntashe
thmeatcoternostfirutrohnep
If it be desirable (and we :do not doubt it) that
power should be given to the police to act as they
I have done, let Parliament enact
a law to justify
Bet a had exampleto ail
roc. p eedings ; but in the meanwhile don't let
on,ch
the onstituted authorities
their o:Kvn hands. Many
peelaseersonssiOwhta:
deothneotlasympathise Wit poachers or
their doings, are very much averse to Pis Prm"
of Lynch law.