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Miles Opened. Receipts.
Railways. ~,„.
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1861. 1860. 1861. 1860.
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Ballymena and Port Rush.. - - - -
Belfast and N. Counties.... 100 100 1,600 1,461
Belfast and County Down.. 39 39 - -
Birkd., Lane., & Ches. June. - - - -
Blyth and Tyne 22 22 1,630 1,516
Bristol and Exeter 125 125 6,305 6,517
Caledonian
Cockermouth& Workington 81 81 168 830
Cork and Bandon 2O 20 296 305
Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 6l 61 211 166
Cork and Yeughal 26 - 235 - .
Cornwall 531 53/ 1,311 1,022
Deeside l7 17 - -
Dublin & Belfast Junction 63 63 1,339 1,205
Dublin and Drogheda 63 63 1,585 1,488
Dub. & Wicklow (in.Kingst ) 401 401 1,706 1,437
Dundalk and Enniskillen
Dundee and Arbroath l7l 171 - 636 564
Dundee, Perth, & Aber. Jun 3l 31 1,118 1,071
East Anglian 67/ 671 924 870
E.Counties,Nrtk.,&E.Union 499 499 26,343 23,816
Edinburgh and Glasgow
Edinburgh, Perth,& Dundee 78 78 3,507 3,403
Forth & Clyde Junction
Furness
Glaszow & South-Western 1831 1831 7,7,7 7,551
Great, Northern 283 283 25.177 24,327
Great North of Scotland ~
3t.Southn. & Westn.(lrind ) 329 2494 7,332 7,260
Great Western sB3j 578/ 39,248 , 35,714
Inverness & Aberdeen June. 55 55 801 i 656
Irish South-Eastern 251 251 565 539
Lancashire & 'Yorkshire 3951 394 36,650 33,475
Leominster and Kington
Limerick and Ennis... 2461 214 159 173
Limerick and Foynes 2 2661 135 132
Llanelly 46 46. 413 411
London & North-Western . 9661 96 79,290 78,619
London and Blackwall 5l 51 1,509 1 1,418
London & South-Western . 389 339 18,941 15,291
Loud. Brighton, &S. Coast. 2241 2231 19,05 12,889
London, Chatham, & Dover 56 194 1,327 252
Lond., Tilbury, & Southend 42 40 950 941
Nlan.,Sheffield, & Lincolnsh 1731 1731 12,229 10,878
Manch. S.Jun.& Altrincham 91 9j 1,361 919
Maryport and Carlisle
Midland (incl. N.-Western) 6141 6144 39.173 l 39,040
Midland Gt. Westn. of 'rind 177 177 3, 66 4,123
Monkland 56 56 1,61 t 1,393
Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 44 1,919 2,579
Newcastle and Carlisle 7B 78 3,988 3,622
North British (incl. Selkirk
and Gal ashiels)
North Devon
N.:Eastern(Bedale ALL eybrn) 764 764 37,639 3.5,610
North London 9 9 , 2,555 2,276
North Staffordshire 246 233 ' 7,280 7,674
Oswestry and Newton 2O - 341 -
Rhymney l9l 191 643 589
St. Helen's Canal & Railway 30 30 1,820 1,967
Scottish Central
Scottish North-Eastern ll5 115 3,902 3,815
Shrewsbury & Birmingham - - - -
Shrewsbury and Chester
Shrewsbury & Hereford
Shropshire Union 29j 29j 981 964
South Devon
South-Eastern 306 308 20,961 16,955
South Wales l7ll 1711 6,697 6,651
S. Yorkshire and River Dun 118 118 3,222 3,357
Stockton and Darlington
Taff Vale 5l 4 4,262 4,403
Ulster '
Inverstone and Lancaster
Vale of Clwyd. lO 10 179 140
Vale of Neath 35 35 1,617 1,228
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 31 348 358
Waterford and Limerick
West Cornwall 271 271 630 668
W.HartlepoolHarbr.&RaiL 39 39 4,133 4,057
West Midland
W'haven,Cleator,&Egrmnt 7 7 389 378
Whitehaven Junction l2 12 709 630
Whitehaven & Furness Jun 35 35 613 590
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL
Antwerp and Rotterdam 52 52 908 791
Austrian B2B 673 35,115 30,722
Belgian Eastern Junction 261 261 262 261
Buffalo and Lake Huron
Demerara (fortnight) ..... - - -
Detroit and Milwaukie lB5 185 1,863 2,107
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Dutch Rhenish lOBl 1081 3,699 3,015
Eastern of France 1032' 1006 51,413 41,360
Grand Trunk of Canada 970 970 14,958 14,572
Great Indian Peninsula 2971 2731 4,726 4,051
Great Luxembourg l2B 128 2,815 2,325
Great Western of Canada 345 345 10,364 9,233
Lyons and Geneva 142 142 4,989 4,362
Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant 301 284 15,014 11,684
Northern of Canada
Northern of France 620 620 42,929 43,154
Norwegian Trunk 44 44 - -
Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn 879 840 85,374 65,059
Paris and Orleans 922 922 53,796 46,963
Paris and Strasburg - --- - -
Royal Danish 69 69 643 589
Sambre and Meuse 6B 68 1,373 1,295
South Austrian
Southern of France .. 777 773 21,330 18,439
Welland .4 25 -"-
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West Flanders .. 75 75 878 817
W. and N.W. of France- . 742 730 , 35,407 34,408

ACTIONS FOR BREACH OF PROMISE AT THE
LIVERPOOL ASSIZES.—In the Sheriffs' Court, yesterday,
before Mr. J. T. Aston, assessor, a young female, named
Shaw, recovered £125 from a listing manufacturer, named
Beaumont, residing near Macclesfield, for breach of pro-
mise of marriage. In another case, " Cruikshank v. Evans,"
a young female, a servant to defendant's father, recovered
£3OO from an engineer, holding a responsible situation at
Derby, for breach of promise. Defendant had proposed tp-
plaintiff to "settle the matter" for £loo, but this she had
declined.

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4.t.. STAMPED, SL)

ments as engineers aro not needed. An officer of judgment
and energy, with a capacity for rapidly estimating the pro-
bable cost of the very simple works required, will be almost
as useful as an accomplished engineer. In the event of any
expenditure being required, which is beyond the power of
the local Government to sanction, application should be
made to the Government of India for a special grant.
" ' It would be very desirable that the officers employed
to examine and report should be accompanied each by a
.member of whatever commercial community may be most
interested in the produce of the district, who might observe
and report on any obstacles other than physical which may
appear to impede the cotton trade. The combined report
of two suCh.gentlemen, if well selected, would furnish in-
formation of considerable practical value regarding any pro-
vince in which they might be employed.
" The Government of India will be prepared to bear
the charge of the travelling expenses of any gentlemen who
might be deputed by commercial communities to accompany
its officers.

" It is not intended to discourage, on the part of those
who may be engaged as above described, suggestions of any
extensive or costly work which may promise to subserve, in
a larger and more permanent manner, the great object in
view, even though it may not admit of speedy execution,
or be within the means of Government to sanction imme
diately.
" Ordered, that a copy of this resolution be communicated
to the Governments of Madras and Bombay; to the Lieu-
tenant-Governors of Befigal, the North-west Provinces,
and the Punjaub ; to the Commissioners of Pegu, Nagpore,
and Mysore, and to the Resident at Hyderabad.
" Ordered further, that the local Governments and Ad-
ministrations be requested to communicate a copy of the
resolution to the commercial communities at their chief
towns, through the Chambers of Commerce or otherwise,
with an invitation of any suggestions which may occur to
those practically interested, and which may aid more effec-
tually to attain the great national object in view,.

" W. GREY, Secretary to the Government of India."'

sIi'VRI?ITT OF THE FAMINE IN INDIA.

By the arrival of the overland mail we receive
letters and papers from Bombay to March 12, Cal
cutta, via Bombay, to March 3. The accounts of
the famine are as bad as ever. The Bombay
Gazette says:—

An eye-witness declares that the statements
which have been published of the extent and seve-
rity of the •suffering are in no wise exaggerated.
Extensive districts throughout the North-West,
which in times of prosperity are like the " garden
of the Lord," are now uncultivated and desert.
The cereals have not been sown, in most cases, for
want of rain •, in other cases, for want of seed, the
seed having been consumed for food, and the Bun-
neas refusing to advance, as there is no prospect of
a remunerative return. The prospects for the
future are as dark and gloomy, therefore, as the
present distress is grievous. The people through-
out the country have contributed liberally for the
relief of the sufferers. Bombay has given one lac
and thirty thousand rupees. Calcutta has given
an equal sum. Aid from Madras is yet to b re-
alised. 'What would such an amount of money do,
even under the most favourable circumstances, to
save three millions of people from perishing for
lack of bread ? A more gigantic effort must yet
be made throughout India. It is most vexing
to find, that owing to the want of facilities for
inter-communication throughout the country gen-
erally, the money contributed is consumed in
carriage more than in grain. The Oudh Gazette
writes :—" For three months this province has been
supplying the North-West with corn of every
description ; but instead of the Zameendars tran-
sporting it themselves, traders and dealers from
across the Ganges_have to bring their own convey-
ances to carry it away. This at best must be a most
awkward and unsatisfactory process, since the cost
of transit (for conveyances coming and returning)
must ba as much if not more than that of the grain
itself; so that when food is even brought to the
doors of the starving, dear at the original purchase,
it must sell at famine prices. This want of free
and easy modes of transit—that is, simply, of made
roads—is general throughout the country, and is the
greatest obstacle in the way of relieving the suf-
ferers. England's bounty is expected to flow in
ere long, in answer to the appeals that have been
made."

The Illofitssilite, of Feb. 26, gives the following
account of the relief asylums that have been
established at Delhi :

Sir Robert Montgomery visited the relief asylums
at Delhi on Friday at mid-day, accompanied by the
members of his staff, all the civil officers, and nearly
all the members of the General Relief Committee.
The Lieutenant-Governor proceeded to visit the
asylums, and learn with his own eyes the confirma-
tion of the reports he had received of the deep dis-
tress abroad. There are three great asylums at
Delhi outside the city—one at the Khoodsea Bagh,
the original relief house, which admits only the
most aged, infirm, and feeblest objects of corn'.
passion, as well as the latest arrivals, who are
committed to the civil surgeon for treatment. In
this there were some eight hundred. The second
place is the great enclosure of the Eedgah, in
which from six to eight thousand receive a meal a
day. The third refuge is outside the Delhi Gate,
where from three to four thousand assemble daily.
This was visited first. Almost, it not entirely,
middle-aged women with sickly young children
formed the assemblage, of whom half were widows.
The last pinches of want were not discernible here,
as timely relief hang been afforded, and had begun
to tell. Brigadier Brown had formed the groups
into regimental dispositions with great precision.
No hurry, or noise, or confusion. All received their
tickets, presented them at the door, obtained their
meal, flour and salt, and went on their way, poor
things, into their lonely unfriended -homes to eke
out their scanty day's meal, the next morning again
to congregate at the same poor-house. If these
people were not fed, in three days they would
infallibly fall into the condition of the second class
of sufferers, which we will hereafter describe.
After minutely inquiring into all details connected
with the first section, so excellently organised and
superintended by the Brigadier, the Lieutenant-
Governor proceeded to the Eedgah. As he came
to the gates a crowd of miserable objects yelled
outside for admittance within the precincts. These
had been excluded as being fit for work. The yell
outside subsided as the gates were closed, and a
melancholy scene presented itself. One-half the
enormous area was completely covered by wasted
files of human beings. In every direction and in
every posture of apathy, disease, despair and pros-
tration, were lying about the hollow-eyed wretched
victims of the dreadful visitation, almost too far
gone even to care to creep among the long rows of
rags, squalor, and half nakedness.
Sir Robert paced slowly down the lines amid
almost unbroken and painful silence, pausing now
and then before some gauut and wan figure to ask
whence he came, to be answered only by mute ges-
ture or exhausted effort at articulation. Out of
more than six thousand not one could be pointed
out as fit for a quarter of an hour's ordinary work.
It was painful enough to reflect, after viewing the
remnants of human beings whom charity had
reached, upon the thousands who must have been
and must be perishing in the highways and bye-
ways daily. The distribution of chuppattees and
dall to this gathering takes four hours a day. Lalla
Mahesh Das aids largely out of his own purse in
the support of these people, and Mr. O. Wood,
Assistant Commissioner, aids zealously in the
charitable, but painful business of superintending
the alleviation of so much human suffering. Each
of the homeless beings, as they receive into their
tattered shreds of garments their food, pass out
through the wicket to lie about and nestle among
the rocks and stones until the next morning—not
a few perhaps to die in the interim. Each has a
wooden ticket bound round his right wrist, which
he is not to remove. The men's tickets are oblong,
the woman's square, and the children hexagon.
Thus, no one can present a stolen ticket and get
double food. Nor can he possess more than one, as
it is tied to his wrist, and by no other way of pre-
sentation, and at no other time than at the appointed
time will the bearer be entitled to food that day.
They enter until 12 a.m., doors are then shut ; they
are mustered and inspected at 1 p.m., and
food is distributed until all have received. Those
fit for work are daily eliminated, and sent off to
work with passes. His Honour expressed himself
completely satisfied with the arrangements, and
after desiring that the rule should be relaxed, this
once, on the occasion of his visit in favour of the
vociferous crowd outside, passed on to the third "za
last central asylum. This is enlarved F.,--.ai the ori-
ginal poor house which hop .2vv ays been in existence
at Delhi. 'rt.,: peculiarity of the last-mentioned
..I, lungat the Eedgah is that hope is afforded that
many will recover after a week or a fortnight, and
pass out again fit to earn sustenance by daily labour.
But at the Koodseagh Bah it is almost past hope.
that e spectacle
canle of
be
Here death steps in and relieves daily from eight to
nine of their sufferings. Thecosmseidn
gallsp
human woe here exhibited surpassed
Written about it, and adequately justified the earnest
the munificent responses
1 appeals for aid, as well as .

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