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TFIF, SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, MARCY! 17, 1845.

.br•:nehes with Carrickfergus acid Rendalstown. Its
length is 32 mil« s 78 chains; the branch to Cat rickfergus
is three miles ; and the branch to Itandalstown is 1. mile
75 chains in length. Upon the whole the works are
heavy, and will be costly. A single line of railway
only, however, is intended to be laid down.
The company undertaking this project have every
appearance of stability ; a large proportion of the shares
are held in Antrim and Carrickfergus ; the statement of
traffic which has been submitted to the Board of Trade
appears, as far as we can judge, to be trustworthy, and
the district gives a reasonable prospect of success to the
scheme from its character as a thriving and well-peopled
country.
Ballymena is a large increasing town, where a consi-
derable quantity of linen is manufactured ; and its
neighbourhood supplies the provision market of Belfast
with corn, pork, butter, &c.
The Commissioners' map before referred to shows that
there was a good deal of traffic then (in 1837) between
Belfast and Antrim.
We are of opinion, therefore, that there are no public
reasons why the proposed scheme should not be
sanctioned.
LONDONDERRY AND ENNISKILLEN.
The object of this line is to afford railway communica-
tion b-tween the town of Enniskillen and the city of
Londonderry, through the towns of Omagh and Stra-
bane, a distance of about fifty-eight miles ; and to give a
Branch to Lough Swilly of nearly eight miles more.
The line is intended to be single. The advantages
to be obtained in a national point of view present them-
selves very forcibly. The city of Londonderry is a place
of trade, wealth, and importance ; connecting it with
Dublin, with Belfast, Newry, and Dundalk, must be con-
sidered as being very desirable. In case of war, the
rapid means of conveying intelligence which railways
aff a.d. between the great estuaries of Loch Swilly and
Loch Foyle. and the metropolis, must be advantageous ;
and, in a military pint of view, it would be convenient
to place the garrison towns of Omagh and London-
derry on a line of railway.
The local advantages are manifest. Omagh and Stra-
bane would obtain not only a ready access to their
nearest seaport, but also to Dublin, and the trade from
Londonderry would be fed from the country intermediate
between the termini. If the railway be made, the re-
sources of the country will be developed ; the industry
of the people called more into action than it is at pre-
sent. and their social condition will be ameliorated.
On the other hand, the works on the proposed line
will be heavy, and when the several projected lines, both
in Ireland and in Great Britain, l;kely to receive the
sanction of Parliament in this session, are in course of
construction, labour and materials will rise in price far
higher than what was probably expected by the promo-
ters when they projected their scheme. It may, there-
fore, be doutsted whether it be possible to construct the
works for so small a sum as that estimated by the pro-
jectors.
With regard also to the traffic which is said to be
likely to come on this line if it be made, it is question-
able whether it will amount to so teltch as the projectors
anticipate.
On these two points we have not the means if corning
to so decided a conclusion as we should desire ; but 01)ori
the relative amounts of cost and traffic will the whole
question turn.
In these circumstances, therefore, the only course
which •ve can pursue is to direct the attention of the
Committee on the Bill to these points; and if, on inves-
tigation, they appear to be satisfactory, we believe that.
no public reasons will exist which ought to be decisive
against this scheme.
LONDONDERRY AND COLERAINE.
The Londonderry and Coleraine scheme appears under
an aspect totally different from any other railw•as:pro-
ject which has yet come before the Board of Trade
The objects of the promoters are twos-
1. To bank out the sea from the southern and eastern
border of Loch Foyle by an embankment which is in-
tended to run for the most part at a distance of three
miles from the shore, in order to reclaim about 20,000
acres of waste laud, which at high tide is covered with
water. _ _

Southport and FyiKton Junction Railway. •
North Union aid Ribble Navigation Branch Railway.
Glasgow, Garnkirk, and Cnatbridge Railway.
Taw Vale Railway and Dock.
Midland Railway Branches.
Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway.
Dunstable and London and Birmingham Railway.
Rye and Tenterden Railway.
Sheffield and Rotherham Railway.
Liverpool and Bury Railway.
TUESDAY, MARCH 18.
Hull and Gainsborough Railway.
Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Junction Railway.
Eastern Union and Bury St. Edmund's Railway.
Eastern Union and Norwich Railway.
Grand Junction Railway.
Aberdeen Railway.
Direct Northern hallway.
Monmouth and Hereford Railway.

so much augmenting that class ? There is, however, really
no remedy; the taxation is indirect taxation, and therefore
mischief and injustice adhere to it to the very last.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, MARCH 13. --- The is no news worth
noticing in the Dublin or provincial papers of this
Morning.
The following are the clos:ng prices on the Stock
Exchange this cveningt—Three per Cent. Consols, 99i;
Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Stock, 1021 ; Lank
Stock, 211 ; Peninsular and Oriental Steam Company.
70 ; Mining Company of Ireland, 14 ; Kingstown and
Bray Railway-, 10 ; Dublin amd Drogheda, 84 ; Grest
S.uthern and Western Extension, 7H- ; Dublin and
Belfast Junction, 51 ; Dublin to Mullingar and Athlone,
2R* ; Belfast and Ballym nn, 3 ; Dundalk and Ennis-
killen, 2i ; Waterford and Limerick,
Sir Thomas Fremantle is expected in l Lublin on limn-
day next, when the Bight lion. gentleman will coin-
usence the duties of his offi,.e.
DUALINt MARCH 11—T. ROYAL VISIT—We believe
it nv,y be now safely stated that the annual report
re,pecting the intention of the Qt!een to visa
her Irish snbjects is no lo,,ger a matter of
spec&ation, but that this xl.ceted avert will
stet:lady take p!aeLt in the autumn he present s'P4f,
or perhaps at tin earlier period, if circumstances
permit. Indeed. from the rigns of preparati-n
already making, there can be but little doubt that the
authorities here have received an intimation of her
Majest% 's gra:-ious intentions, in confiretati-n of
which it may he mentioned that a few data sincethe lion. and Very Wv, Dees Pali.2nhont (hrother•
in -law of " the Duke") applied to the Board
Commissioner, for a grant of runn=y for
the i.urpoe cif dr coratituy: the Ca hedral o' St. Patrick,
and putting tle grand rooption-iaiom in a mate of
th,,r,ugh repair, so wileipstion of her Majesty's
honouring that ancient cathe,ral by her pre,ente it
diiiue service. The application was immediately
acc, ded to, end workmen are now busily enpgea in
making the alterations suitable t the anvil-lons ticca,itn.

PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES.
BRIGHTON AND CHICHESN.TER.—(PORTSMOUTH
EXTENSIO)
The Committee sat from twelve o'clock on Saturday until
half-past four o'clock, and were occupied again with the con-
sideration of cases of erroneous descriptions in the book of
reference, precisely similar to those adduced the previous
days.

DARTMOUTH ELECTION COM-

MITTEE.