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And a Committee of --
1. Mr. Hayter (Wells)—Ohairmgm,
2. Mr. Langston (Oxford), . _
• 3. Mr. Vernon Harcourt • (Oxfordshire),
4. Mr. Sturt (Dorsetehire), . , ..a
• 5. Mr. Plumptre (East Kent),
to whom they have referred the Bills and projet..t comprised
iu group viz.
1. Hull and Gainsborough
2. Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction l:ailway.
The Select Committee will meet on Tuesday, Aprll 1.,9, at
Twelve o'clock. .

The Committee of Selection have appointed to Setat
mittees on the following additional groups M. Q. and 00.
tomeet in .the week commencing Monday, May 5. '

The following is the List from which Members will Le se-
lected to serve on those Railway Committees which com-
mence their sittings in the week beginning'Monday, May :),
Mr. Brampton Mr. Labouchere
Mr. ilrotherton Mr. Lockhart
Mr. Collett (Athlone) Mr. Lindsay
Sir Thomas Colebrooke Mr. Macaulay
Mr. Evelyn Denison Mr. Mundy
Sir C. Douglas . The O'Conor Lon
Mr. Divot ; Mr. Stafrord O'Brien
Viscount Duncan 1 Mr. Ord
Sir Thomas Esmoude 1 Mr. Pusev
Mr. la. Escott Sir .1: R. held
Captain Gladstone . ' • Colonel Rolleston
Mr. Charles Goiing Captain Rous
Sir J. Ilanmer Mr. Sheridan
Lord Ilotham • Sir William Somerville
Mr.' I I ussev Sir George Staunton
Mr. G. W. ileneage Mr. Villiers Stuart •
Viscount lngestre Mr. Shaw
Earl Jerniyu . 1 Mr. James S. Wortley.
Mr. liope Johnstone i Captain Wemvss
lir. Kruit.lc Mr. Charles Wood.

IIEALTHof the WORKING CLASSES.
(From the Popular Record of Molern Science.)
PREVENTIVE TREATMENT OF THE DISEASES
OCCASIONED BY THE USE OF LEAD.
There are more than forty trades which atelejuri-
ous to the health of those who work at them, all hay.
ing poisonotet effects, which are not unfrequently fatal
to lite. The worst of all, are those in which a che-
mical preparation of lead forms the basis of the mane-
fucture, such as litharge, white lead, minium, &c., &e.
Melling and flatting houses, shot manufaetories, type
tbundries, the application of the various pre-
parations in potteries and glass bouSes, of. the
salts of lead in painting and building,
• the Pulverization of colours, the dyeing -horse hair
stuffs black, polishing, &c., &c., all employ a eonsi
derable number- of workmen, who are exposed to the
action of large quantities of volatilised poisonous
matter, in thi form of vapour, dust, or solution.
The absorbing surface of the body conies in
contact with these pernicious substances, which are
taken up with increased rapidity as the frame be-
comes excited by labour. Thus most of the unhappy
artizans whom necessity forces into these pestilential
workshops, come to the hospitals after a few months
or even weeks, with every symptom of the worst
cases of poison. They are generally . attacked by
violent cholic which, if it be not fatal, is followed by
extreme debility, and often incurable paralysis. The
less frequent symptoms are epileptics which, if not
immediately fatal, are succeeded by paralyses, mental
alienation, cachexy, and weakness, all beyond the
reach of medicine.
It is an obvious duty, both of superintendents and
medical men, to use every effort towards the cure and
prevention of these maladies, and it will he useful to
make known to the public the preventive treatment
which has been employed and approved of-by Doctors
Gendrin, Brisset, and Meunier, physicians to the
hospitahi in Paris; Priesso, and Solari, of the hospital
at Genoa ; Bertini, physician to the great hospital of
the equestrian ord:r of St. Maurice, and St. Lazarus,
at Turin ; P. F. Curie, head physician to the Homoeo-
pathic hospital in London, Henry Bt-nnet, sub-editor
of the Lancet, E. Cliepmell, &c. &c.
This treatment is extremely simple, and only re-
quires the workmen to submit to the following pre-
cautions :—They are to take two baths of soap and
water every week, occasionally adding a • little
sulphur, and are carefully to wash the uncovered
parts of the body with soap and water at every in-
terval between their working hours. They are to
drink one or two glasses of lemonade, made with
sulphuric acid, every day, according to the greater or
lesser quantity of dust or poisonous vapour with which
the surrounding atmospheres may be charged. At
the same time they should be more careful than the
followers of any other trade, to abstain from the use
of spirituous liquors.
The efficacy of this preventive treatment is easily
explained by the fact, that the mineral poison ali-
sorbed is thus converted into, a soluble, and therefore
innoxious salt (sulphate of lead), and the saturniue
particles de,iosited on the surface c.f the body are
taken away. The sulphuric lemonade and cot moa
soap may he had for a few pence each week, and in
the large, and consequently most unwholesome esta-
bl:slunents, the condensed water from the steam-
engines, now thrown away, may he advantageously
employed for the baths. The propristorswould find'
an immense advantage in providing accommodatious
. and ingredients for these purposes ; as by these means
they would be able to retain expetienced workmen,
instead of suffering the annoyance of a constant suc-
cession of inexperienced hands.

RAILWAY BILLS. Are:THEIST RELIEF SOCIETY.-Yesterday afternoon,
Committees on Railway Bills appointed by the Committee of a sermon on behalf of this charitable institution was
preached at the chureli of St. Mary Somerset. in Upper
Selection, on Friday, 18th April. 1843.
'1 hames-street, by the Rev. Henry Cole, M.A. After a
1. Select Committee on group B.
Mr. Stanton_ (Stroud), selected sad added to the Commit- very eloquent appeal by the reverend gentleman, a very
tee; Mr. ore O'Perrall discharged.
satisfactory amount was collected. It would seem that
M
2. Select Committee on group C. the funds of the institution have been very severely
Lord Dalmenv (Stirling, &c.) selected and added to the pressed upon (luring the past winter.
Committee; Dr. Boyd discharged. VOL. M. or M. TDIERS' HISTORY OF THE CON-
3. Select Committee on group D. streaTr..--We are requested to state that Mr. Colburn,
Mr. Bernal ("Weymouth), selected and appointed Chair-
of Great Marlborough-street, has this day published the
man of the Committee; the Hon. ,R. Clive dis-
third volume, Bvo., price 55., of M. A. Thiers' " History
The Committee of Selection of the Consulate and Empire," a sequel to his 1‘ History
Select Committees on Ra ups, have nominated the following
of the Frenth Revolution,' which can now be had of all
ilway gro
A Committee of
booksellers. Mr. Colburn has also just published:-
1. Mr. John Parker (Sheffield)-Chairman, 2. Peninsular Sketches, by Actors on the Scene; edited
2. Viscount Ebrington (Plymouth), by W. 11. Mavecll, Esq., author of "Stories of Waterloo,"
3. Mr. Buller East (Winchester), &c., 2 Vohs., 21s. bound. 3. The Duke of Wellington's
4. Sir Philip Egerton (South Cheshire), maxims and Opinions, Bvo., 14s. bound. '4. Revelations
5. The Hon. G. S. Smythe (Canterbury), of Spain in 1845, by an English Resident, 2 vols., 21s,
to whom they have referred the Bills and projects com-
bound. 5. ins
Nelson Letters and Dispatches, vol. U.,
priced in group DD., viz.:-
Sen., 15s. bound. 6. Three Years in Constantinopes
1. Caledonian Railway,
2. Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle Railway, or, Domestic Manners of the Turks, by C. White, Esq.,
3. Clydesdale Junction Railway, 3 vols., with 34 illustrations, 31s. 6d. bound; and :.
4. Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, Letters of a German Countess, written during her
5. Scottish Central Railway, travels in Turkey, Egypt, the Holy Land, &e, in
The Select Committee will meet on Monday, 28th April, at 1843-4., 3 vols., small Bvo.
12 o'c
Clock .
mittee of On Thursday last the Master of the Rolls gave
A om
1. Lord Courtenay (SOuth Devon)-Chairman, judgment in the case of the Attorney-General v. the
2. Mr. Darby (East Sussex), Lord Mayor and Corporation of the City of London.
3. Mr. Poulett Scrope (Stroud). overruling the demurrer pleaded by the defendants, and
4. Mr. McGeachy (lioniton), sustaining the information filed on her Majesty's
5. Mr. Baring Wall (Guildford),_ behalf. The effect of this judgment is, that the
to whom they have referred the Bills And projects corn. defendants must answer the information, and set
prised in group X., viz :- forth the title under which they claim to be owners
1. London and York Railway, of the bed and shores of the river Thames.
2. Lincoln, York, and Leeds Railway Direct. We some time since took occassion to direct the at-
3. Cambridge and Lincoln Railway, ten tion of our readers to the institution of these pro-
4. Direct Northern Railway,
5. Eastern Counties Railway (Cambridge and Hun- ceedings' and to the important public interests involved
tingdon), in their result. We may now, therefore, congratulate
6. Eastern Counties Railway (Ely and Whittlesea), them upon the accomplishment of this the first practical
7. Eastern Counties Rail way (Heitford and 13iggleswade), step on the part of the advisers of the Crown to vindi-
8. Eastern Counties Railway (Finsbury Extension), cate its rights, and ultimately to ensure for the inhabi.
9. Eastern Counties Railway (Ely and Lincoln Ex- tants of this vast city such a system of management,
tension), both as regards the navigation of the Thames and the
10. Midland Railways Extension (Swinton and Lin- appropriation of its shores, as the requireraelabs of its
coin), trade and the rational enjoyments of its ineresisiag pnpn.
11. Midland Railway Extension (Lincoln and Ely),
12. 'Rotherham, Bawtry, and 4.-;aiusborough Junction
THE WILL 01' TUE LATE Ray. SYDNEY SMITH.--
Railway,
have long called for.-Observer,
Railway,
Probate of the will and three codicils of the Rev. Sydney Smith,
13. Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction Railway,
late of Combe Flare., in the county of Somerset, and of 46 Green.
14. York and North Midland and Doncasterßailway Ex-
street, Grosvenor-square, clerk, canon residentiary of ht: Paul's
tension,
Cathedral, has just been granted to his relict, Catherine Amelia
13. Tottenham and Farringdon-street Junction Railway. . . .
Smith, the sole executrix. The personal estate is sworn under
The Select Committee will meet on Monday, April 28, at
50,0001. The will is of great length, and professionally drawn
Twelve o'clock.
A Committee of and fairly,...pied, except the conclusion, which is in the testator's
1. Lord John Russell (London),-Chairman, handwriting; it is dated June 0, 1543. He directs the trustees
2. Mr. Pendarves (West Cornwall),
her own absolute use, and bequeaths to her for her life the rents
3. Mr. end
(Longford County),
arising from the Guildhall Corfee-house, and the house in Chafes.
4. Mr. Ross (Belfast), •
street, Berkeley-square, and all interests and dividends payable from
5. Mr. Phillpots (Gloucester),
to whom they have referred the Bills and projects comprised securities in America and France; he also leaves to her the boles
in Oreeu-street, and the fuiniture and effects in and about the
in group Y., viz :- same, and expresses a wish that she should continue to resit.
1. Midland Branches Railway, therein, and after her decease he directs that a moiety of the rents
2. Sheffield and Rotherham 'Railway. should remain as settled by himself and wife under a deed ; the
The Select Committee will meet on Monday, April 28, at
y wife
following
ife solbeeqelxi eeset,saarni
xd.
iTiehae,etete:,
other moiety he bequeaths to his son,
a,
nWaynnnduhiat my 0
f513m91:
.11
thli his 'atys
servants;l. 'l':e' ela:hilrieid'sgi reversionary
yitreolYifelr(:)des, eoiodaol.tu.ohaira..oyn.f and an
legatee.lhiies hwoiu immediatelyf
seh I
lei:
aaeliftellauevreaealssitscosd,h.eliciielsebga sesa legacies
evi laf
ronetrtey. .
Twelve o'elock.
A Committee of
1. Lord Worsley (Lincolnshire)-Chairman.
2. Mr. T. D. Acland (West Somerset),
3. Hon. W. Cowper (Hertford),
,toon cwhhriirsit,opeihmarii bed
dgesnoiL-en
tAat"oirl Anne Kaye,
his will by
his own hand :-1 appoliittl:iei directions, In
4. Dr. Stock (Cashel), Sarah Westwood, and to Massey,
, , to commernora
1 will also that ot
5. Mr. Thomas Baring (Huntingdon),
e°onnlyfidt ehnee de ial anpdi dgst(tils nature
oof C omorbelnaFnleyr eyye.arb'ut . tt ho osbeuya las ~i eoaft altseill the
1. Ea
ri' e d ciaorll'd leeaset hi
ek;
to whom they have referred the Bills and projects co p
in group E., viz :-
1. Northumberland Railway.
ecclesiastical prefermenitlsot
out of the property bequeathed t'•;,
trustee,utrrffin
2. Newcastle and Berwickltailway,
and ~ shall be paid for out of my estate
his soother, and" that he receive the an.
Brandling June-
3. Newcastle and Darlington Railway
lion), bymsmelyf a and i will alsohi that Wyndham Smith do settle
4. 'Newcastle.upon-Tyne and North Shields Railway ms wife:
(Tynemouth Extension).
•The Select Committee will meet on Tuesday, April 29, at nutty which she is directed to pay him only upon the ex-
Twelve o'clock. press condition of establishing a domicile •
for himself apart
A Committee Of from his mother, and the annuity to be paid by the trustees on the
1. The Hon. H. Liddell (North Durham)-Chairman. ,same condition.-eviesev 5 The - •
slim codicils are entirely in the
2. Mr. Christopher (Lincolnshire), testator's handwriting. By the first, dated January 3, 1844, he
3. Sir Edmund Mayes (Donegal County). bequeaths to his son, Wyndham Smith, an annuity of 500/.,,0n the
4. Mr. Entwisle (Lancashire), conditions named in the will. By the second codicil, dated Oct.-
5. Mr. H. R. Yorke (York), ber 18, 1544, he appoints Nathaniel Wilbert and Dr. Holland to 'be
to whom they have referred the Bills and projects comprised Isis trustees, in the room of those
in group G. and G 2, viz. :-appointed
app • by the will, and leaves
101. to Mary Chitty. The third codicil is in these words :-4 1
1. Bristol and Exeter Branches Railway, revoke that part of my will which relates to 11hi 2. London and South Western Railwa (Yeovil F to be ' le
property
w eh
is
yEaten_ conveyed to ‘ll. yndliam Smith by
sion),my trustees after my death,
and that of his mother, and I direct that there shall be conveyed to
3. London and South West Railway
ern (Hook Pit him atter that period the sum of 30,000/. of Three per Cent. Re-
Branch),
duced Government Stock, as also the fortune lie is to receive tram
- 4. London and South
5
BELFAST PROTESTANT PETITION IN FAVOUR OF . Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth
Railway, street, the Guildhall, Coffee-house, my New York and Ftetteh
6. .Southam ton
MAyNocau GRANT. - Yesterday (Wednesday) after- p and Dorchester Railway. Stock, in addition to whatever I may have left her in the pre.
THE The Select Commit
noon this petition, a copy of which we published, was „,
_tee will meet on Timidity, April 29, at ceding mill."
placed in the Commercial News-room, and received, i I
„ welve O'elNk.
THE WEATHER AND CROPS. - The high windi
the course of the evening, shout one hundred and A Committee of
and excessive cold which prevailed ten days ago have been
fifty signatures, including the names of four or Ave 1. Mr. Hawes (Lambeth)-Chairtuan. succeeded by genial breezes front the west and south-west,
magistrates, several bankers, and a number of the other 2. Viscount Einlvn (Pembrokeshire), and refreshing showers of rain. The earth is again putting
leading inhabitants of the town. The number of signatures, 3. Mr: Smollett (Dumbartonshire), on her mantle of green, anti bears token that summer is ap-
from such a class of people, is maul than we recollect 4. Hon. F. Charteris (East Gloucester), proaching. The sowing of oats is completed. !parley nearly
being attached, in the same place, and in so short a time, to 5. Mr. F. French
(Roscommon), so, and 50100 progress made in the planting to' potatoes. The
hat
any petition ; and, n is _ very gratifying, they are those of to whom they have referred the Bills and projects comprised weather is favourable for the spring operations of the hus-
wv,ss, Tortes, and Radicals, and of all shades of Proters in Mop 0„ viz.:- bandman : and the lateness of the season rendering eveuci
,
. p
tantigm. The good feeling and proper spirtt displayed; in 1.. Trent Valley Railway, minute precious, agricultural operations are pushed forwar
this instance, are honourable to the town.-Norther 1,-k'
.',4 ,q!.. 2. Churnet Valley Rai:fiver, with the utmost vigoin. 4-
' •• An unusual broadth of land
for potatoes ; and, front the
Two labourers were. at the trut Ess (4: t
1 . ~.. t. ,: eX .uar er 3. Grand Junction Railway (Potteries Branch ). is this season being prepared .
••ng the seed, it :%.5 hoped that the clis•-
sefsi9n, sentenced to a years •imprisonment for placing the root of 4. Tamworth and Rugby itailway, care taken in preseri i .
• MIMI has been 80 injUPOILS to this valuable root, will
n'lt'e 'on the'' aiteia counties Railway, for the ES, Manchester and Birmingham Railway (Macclesfield ease.
f tltat the great atteetion which, for
purpose of throw.
not re-appeal, or, t so,
int( Off a train. The punishment is a es 1 Branch Fxtensi 't One has been bestowed on the subject will lie the'
...4.4. prom ime,--; . on,.
#ailinia Recoil, The Select Committee will meet on Tuesday. April 29, at some
ef'
~
,ering a remcdr.-E(/Mbergh Wititess.t -
t- • • Twelve o'clock. means uove% .

This undertaking will, in connection with existing and projected
lines of railway, bring into immediate communication with Birming-
ham, and the whole midland and Northern Districts of England, the
great mineral fields of 31onmout hshire, as well as those adjoining Car-
diff and Merthyr Tydvil ; at the same time it will flunish to the im-
portant agricultural counties of Hereford, Worcester, Brecon, and
M onrnouth, a ready channel for the transmission of their produce to
the dense population inhabiting the mineral districts of South Wales.
The object of this company will be very materially aided, first, by
the existing line from Cardiff to Merthyr: and, secondly, by the
lines intended to be formed by the Welsh Midland Railway Company.
The line will commence at Newport, and will thence proceed
northward by Poutypool and Abergavenny to Hereford, where (in
that direction) it will terminate. From Ibergaveany a branch will
extend eastward to Monmouth, and another westward to Brecon.
From Brecon an extension will be made to Merthyr, to join the
Taut!' Vale Railway, ending at Cardiff. Thus will be established, in
addition to a free intercourse with more distant localities, a complete
chain of railway communication amongst the important towns and
districts just enumerated, and which are now wholly unprovlded in
that respect. The portion of the line extending westward from
lifonmouth will also promote the most direct passenger route that
can be adopted from ilioninotith to Carmarthen, and the South of
Ireland.
In addition to the main line and extensiouo above ledleated, the
Directors propose to place themselves in immediate eommtmication
with the proprietors of the most important works in the several dis-
tricts traversed, in order to fix the situation and the course of the
minor branches, which will be necessary to complete the comprehen-
sive scheme of communication intended ; and to this object regard
has been had In fixing the capital of the Company.
The investigations which have been made en the subject of the
traffic fully justify the conclusion that the undertaking is eminently
ealculated for the advantage and convenience of the public, and that
it will prove a most profitable investment of capital.
In conclusion, it may suffice to observe that it is well known that
the scheme of a comprehensive system of inland communication in
the districts in question has already engaged the serious attention of
the tribunal appointed by the Legislature for the initiatory e.xamina-
lion of railway projects ; and the Board of Trade has, In its report
on the Tring and Oxford schemes, tblly recognised the great Im-
portance and necessity of the chain of communication of which the
present undertaking will form a material link in the following man-
ft er The accommodation of Herefordshire, Worcestershire, South
Wales, and the Important districts lying to the west of the present
tines of railway will evidently, at no distant period, require not only
a wide gauge railway along the southern coast, to place them in com-
munisation with London, but also a narrow guage railway, to place
them in direct and unbroken communication, through Birmingham.
with the manufacturing districts and the great railway system of the
rest of the kingdom."
The engineering capabilities of the course of the line and exten-
sions have been ascertained to be excellent, and the capital proposed
will he ample for the construction of the 125 miles of railway intended
to he formed. .

Application to be made for Shares addressed to the Directors, at
the Company's Offices, 65, Moorgate-street, London, or to the
undermentioned Brokers :—Messrs. Carden and Whitehead, Thread-
needle-street, London ; Mr. Anthony Laurie, Liverpool ; Mr. Isaac
Miller, Liverpool; Mr. May, Liverpool; Mr. Parsons, Liverpool ;
Messrs. Brady and Stainforth, 11, Manor-street, Hull ; Mr. S. Grin-
drod, Manchester ; Messrs. Cardwell and Co., Manchester ; Messrs.
Watson and Co., Leeds; Me.ssrs. E. King and Co., Leeds; Messrs.
Samuel Hntchiuson and Co., Bradford ; Luke Arneld, Bristol ; George
Edwards, Bristol ; Thomas Sanford, Exeter ; G. R. Gliddon, Exeter ;
Robert Allan, Edinburgh ; ACEwen and Auld, Glasgow ; William
Gordon, Aberdeen; Boyle, Lew, Phu, and Co., Dublin; Bruce and
Symes, Dublin; Beaumont and Langworthy, Exeter; Andrew Brand,
Glasgow ; of whom plans and prospectuses may be had.

COMMERCIAL and GENERAL LIFE AS-
SURANCE ANNUITY, FAMILY ENDOWMENT, AND
LOAN ASSOCIATION,
112 and 113, CHEAPSIDE, LONDON.
Under Act of Parliament 7th and Bth 'Victoria, cap. 110.
HENRY GEORGE WARD, Esq., M.P., Chairman.
Every description of life risks undertaken.
Premiums receivable yearly, half-yearly, or quarterly.
Credit given for half the premiums during lite—at five per cent.
interest.
Loans granted on personal and other securities—repayable by in-
stalments.
Endowments for Children.—The whole sum paid in returned li the
child died.
Annuities immediate and deferred. Prospectuses may be had on
application to— FREDERIC LAWRANCE,
Resident Secretary, 112 and 113, Cheapside.

THE MTNARET PARASOL.
CAUTION.
Ladles are particularly requested to observe that the Silver Runnel
of the Parasol is statoped with the word " MINARET." This
caution is necessary, as other parasols have been sold fir the
Minaret which are not so. This elegant novelty can be had at all
the respectable drapers in the kingdom.

TO be DISPOSED OF, a valuable PATENT
for the manufacture of an article of daily and increasing de-
mand, as well in the United Kingdom as in the colonies and abroad,
offering a secure investment for capital, free from all risk, and
yielding handsome profits. A gentleman with about 3,0001. will find
this a very desirable opportunity to employ his time and capital,
Apply to Mr. De Bernardy, 21, Cork-street, Burlington-gardens.