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London, England, 1844-11-11 00:00:00

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Arb:•oath and For;ar •••• • • •
Birmingham and Glouccster.• • • • • • • • •
I;randliiig Junction . •• • • • • •• • • •• • • ••
Bristol and Gloucester •• • •
Classier and Birkenhead, • •
Dablin and Drogheda,• •• • • • • • •

Dublin and liingstown •• • • •• •• ••
Dundee and Arbroath .

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Durham and Sunderland . • • • • • ..... • •
Edinburgh and Giasgow .
Eastern Counties and North Eastern • •
Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr • . • • • •
Glasgow and Greenock. • • • • • •• • • • • •
Grand Junction • • • • • • • • • • • • • • ..
Great North of Englaad • • • • • • • • • • . •
Great Western . • • • • • • •• • ; • • • • • • • • • •
Liverpool and Manchester • •
London and Birmingham . . • • • .• • • • •
London and Blackwall.• • • • • .• • • • • • •
London and Brighton . • • • • • ...... • • •
London and Croydon . • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
London and Greenwich . . • • • • • • • • • • •
London and South Western. • • • • • • • •
Manchester, Bolton, and Bury • • • • • •
Manchester and Birmingham • • . .....
Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc. •
Midland Counties . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
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-Newcastle and Darlington • • • • • • •• • •
Newcastle and Carlisle .. • • • • • • •
Newcastle and North Shields.• •• • • ••
North Union and Bolton and Preston
Paris, Corbeil, and Orleans'. ..... • • • •
Paris and Rouen • •
Preston and Wyre, •
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Sheffield • and Manchester.. •••• •• •• •
South Eastern .............
Taff Vale .• .• • .

Ulster .--,,

Yarmouth and Norwich •• •• •• •• •• ••
York and North Midland ..• •• • • •• ••

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We understand that the Lords of the Treasury
have, in accordance with the recommend Ilion of the
Postmaster-General, sanctioned an increase of salary, to
the amount of ss. a week, to sixty of the letter carriers in
the Twopenny Port-office department. This gratuity
is already given to eighty letter carriers of the longest
standing, so that under the new arrangement it will be
extended to 140.—Observer.
The Bishop of Lincoln consecrated ' the new
church of St. John, Leen Side, Nottinghamshire, on
Tuesday last.
TivEnTort.—BLUNDELL'S ScnooL.—The examina-
tion of witnesses, under the commission issued out of
the Court of Chancery for that purpose, terminated on
Saturday, the 12th ult. The commissioners were occu-
pied twenty-six days in their task, and took the evidence
of eighty-six witnesses on the part of the relators, and
forty-six on the part of the trustees and ministers. The
expense of this proceeding, which will amount to 1,0001.
and upwards, will be borne by the property bequeathed
I by Peter Blundell for the benefit of the inhabitants.—
Sherborne Journal.
PRICE Or GAS AT PRESTON.—The article of gas
not less than that of water, ought to be had upon econo-
mic terms. At present the cost of this useful article in
Preston is higher than in any other manufacturing
town in Lancashire, although there are few towns
where gas can be produced at a cheaper rate. At
Blackburn prices have been reduced from Bs. to
68. per 1,000 feet, and in the following towns the
prices stand thus :—Sheffield, 4s. 2d. ; Bolton, 78. ;
Leeds,'6s. Bd. ; Liverpool, 6s. ; Glasgow and Brad-
ford, 78. ; Paisley and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 7s. 6d.
and at Manchester, where the- gas-works are managed
by a public body, the highest price is 65., and in certain
quantities it is sold as low as ss. per thousand cubic feet
—while in this town, with equal fiicilities. for produc-
tion, the general price.,is Bs. 4d. ! There is not the
slightest reason for supposing that similar advantages
might not be secured to the consumers of gas in Preston
by a change like that which has occurred at Manchester.
—Preston Guardian.
2-,:arPyßinO4 in weight
POTATOES.—Mr. Worthington, farmer,
has dug up several remarkably large potatoes,
weight from 4ilbs. to 51bs. each.—Preston
Guardian.