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Brecon and Merthyr Junction, in connexion with the
Welch Midland.
Avon and Severn Valley.
Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton—Junction with at
o,mbetton (Kidderminster), to the new line at Wribben-
hall

Leeds and Bradford Extension Branches,
Welsh South Midland, or Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and
Gloucester Junction Extension.
Leeds and Carlisle.
Eastern Counties—To amend powers, with branches.
Lincoln and Oakbam.
Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester (Wakefield Extension).
Sheffield, West Riding, and Midlands' Junction.
Grand Junction, Great Western, and South Western
Junction.
Midland and Eastern Counties.
Gloucester—Junction with at Gloucester, to terminate by
a junction with the Abergavenny and Hereford Tramroad at
A be rgavenny.
Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction.
Eastern Counties—Junction with at Brentwood, to Tilbury
Fort ; Finsbury Extension.
Manchester and Leeds—Branches.
Kent and Essex Union.
Worcester and Merthyr Tydvil Junction.
Bristol and Exeter—Junction with the Yeovil Branch of, at
MartGck,, Somerset, to Oren e, Kerne, or Misterton.
Cheltenham, Oxford, and London Junction.
Boston, Newark, and Sheffield, and Nottingham and Gran-
tham Junction.
Halifax—Junction with 'West Riding Union to Leeds and
Bradford Extension Line at Keighley.
South Metropolitan.
Furness and Windermere.
Plymouth and North Cornwall.
Direct London and Dublin.
Croydon to Hastings.
Herne Bay, Margate, Ramsgate, and Deal and Dover
Junction.
London, Hastings, and St. Leonard's Direct.
Syston and Peterborough—Junction with at Melton Mow-
bray to Paddock Grove, Lincoln.
Chester and Holyhead—Junction with at Llandrille Rhos,
to Ormeshead Bay.
Mellorn to Blackrock, Cornwall, Plymouth and North
Cornwall.
Direct London and Liverpool.
Newcastle and Darlington—Junction with at Victoria-
bridge, Durham, to Hartlepool.
Kensington and Fulham—Junction roads at Knightsbridge
to Staines.
Oldbury (Worcester) to Shrewsbury.
Gloucester and Dean Forest.
Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding Junction, with a
branch to Burnley.
London to Southampton—Extensions.
North Staffordshire, Liverpool Extension, main line through
the Pottery district, Churnet Valley line.
Southampton, at or near Battlodoun-bridge, Southampton,
to Sutton Bingham, Somerset.
Poole, to a junction with the line of the Southampton and
Dorchester, with other branches.
Cornwall, with branches.
Blackburn, Chorley, and Liverpool.
Fisherton, Wilts, to Yeovil, Somerset.
London and Croydon—Junction with at Deptford or Lewis-
ham, to Ashford on the South-Eastern.
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate.
Staffordshire and North Midland Junction.
Shropshire Union Railway Canal (Chester and Wolver-
hampton).
Richmond (Kew branch).
Staines and Richmond.
Midland (Burton-upon-Trent to Nuneaton).
West London EXtension.
Richmond and Staines—Junction with at Staines to New-
bury.
Liverpool, Warrington, Manchester, and Stockport Direct.
Direct London, Portsmouth, and Chichester, and Direct
Portsmouth and Chatham. '
Great West of England, or South Western and Exeter
Extension.
Mold Junction.
Manchester and Birmingham, and Chester and Holyhead
respectively—To raise additional capital.
Harwich to Northern and Eastern Counties, at Cambridge.
Sheffield, Wortley, Silkstone, and Wakefield.
Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction—To make branches.
Newcastle and Darlington Junction (Thirsk and Inalton
branches).
Devizes to Salisbury, with branches.
Andover Canal—To sell the same to the Manchester and
Southampton Company.
Darlington and Hartlepool.
Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings—Branches.
Newcastle and Berwick—Branches.
Norfolk—Norwich branch.
London and Edinburgh Direct, and Darlington and Har-
wich Junction.
Sheffield and Rotherham—Branches.
Manchester and Rugby Direct, via Macclesfield.
Bristol and Gloucester—To enlarge powers.
Northern and Southern Connecting.
Guildford Junction—Branches to Petersfield, Itchenor, &c.
Dover and Bristol.
Northumberland Dock and Percy Branch.
Direct Western.
Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth—To enlarge powers.
Staffordshire and Shropshire Junction.
London and Birmingham Extension—Northampton, Da-
ventry, Leamington, and Warwick, with branches to Rugby
and Fenny Compton.
Birmingham and Oxford Junction.
Birmingham and Gloucester and Stour Valley Junction.
Great Western, Southern, and Eastern Counties, or Ips-
wich and Southampton.
Trent Valley Junction, with Colton or Rngeley, with other
branches.
Newcastle and Darlington Junction (purchase of Durham
and Sunderland).
London and Birmingham Extension, Northampton, Da-
ventry, Leamington, Warwick, Worcester, and Birmingham
Canal (with branches to Droitwich, Hampton-in-Arden,
Rugby, and Fenny Compton).
North Western.
Liverpool, Warrington, Manchester, and Stockport Direct,
The Thames Valley, Oxford, and South Wales Union
Railway, or Cheltenham, Oxford, and London Extension
Railway.
' Dudley, Wolverhampton, Walsall, and Tamworth Junction.
Direct Birmingham, Oxford, Reading, and Brighton.
Preston and Wyre—To sell.
Swaffham, Narborough, and Watlington.
Cambridge and Colchester Junction.
Worcester, Warwick, and Rugby.
North and East Riding Junction.
London and Birmingham (City Extension).
London and Birmingham station (enlargement).
Liverpool and Bury and others, to lease to the Manchester
and Leeds.
Epsom to Dorking.
Wilts, Somerset, and Southampton Junction.
Fleetwood. on-Wyre to Burnley.
York and North Midland ( East Riding branches).
Boston, Grantham, Leicester, and Midland Counties
Junction.
Bi istol and Dover Direct Junction.
Rugby, Warwick, and Worcester.
East Lancashire.
Great Western, Brentford, and Central Terminus
Junction.
London and Nottingham.
Chester and Holyhead—Branches.,
Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton (Junction with
at Worcester to Hereford, with branches).
Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manchester (Junction
with at Sheffield to Stoke-upon-Trent).
Direct London and Manchester.
Salisbury and Swindon Extension.
Hull, Sheffield, and Midland Direct.
North Gravesend.
Midland Railway—Leicester and Swannington Railway
purchase and branches.
Rochdale, Heywood, and Manchester.
Hull and Selby—Branches.
Liverpool, Preston, and North Union Junction, with
extension to Blackburn, and branches 10 Southport and
Wigan.
Direct Northern.
Exeter (Great Western).
Clitheroe Junction.
Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manchester (Barnsley
Branch).
York and Lancaster.
Durham Lines (Branches).
Leeds and Thirsk (North Eastern Extentilion).
Hayle—To make alterations.
Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction (Extensions, No. 1).
Worcester, Tenbury, and Ludlow.
London and Holyhead.
Bristol and South Wales Junction—Jmnction with at
Cotnpton Greenfield, Gloucestershire, to Eleaury, with other
branches.
Eastern Counties Extension—Junction with at Bedford
to the present junction of the North Midland and 'York and
North Midland, at or near Normanton, in the county of
York, or by a junction with the York and North Midland,
at or near to Water Fryston, York, together with branches
from the said intended railway, from a certain point or place
thereon, near to Crosswell Bishop, in the cows ty of Notting-
ham, to or near to the town and county of tb e town of Not-
tingham, and from a point or place on the said intended rail-
way near to ~Blidworth, in the said county e,f Nottingham,
to or near to the town of Chesterfield.
Staffordshire Potteries and Liverpool and Manchester
Direct.
Lancashire and North Yorkshire.
Manchester, Southampton, and Poole.
Keighley, Halifax and Huddersfield Junctialn, via Elland.
London, Bristol, and South Wales Direct.
Dunstable Junction Bill—To join the London and Birming-
ham near Leighton, to terminate at Dialdon, :Essex.
Ashbourne and Derby Junction.
Rye, to mouth of harbour.
Blackburn and Preston.
Lancashire, Weardale, and Hartlepool Union.
Newcastle, Durham, and Hartlepool Union.
Direct Epsom and South London Junction.
Wolverhampton, Birmingham, and Nottingham.
Lynn, Wisbeach, and Peterborough, Midland Counties and
Birmingham Junction.
Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midlands' Junction.

ROMANCE OF REAL LIFE.—A young American
planter named Da Costa, of immense fortune, recently came
over to this country in search of a wife, and after visiting
some of the most fashionable cities and' spending his money
like a prince," without meeting the object of his search, he
paid a visit to Birmingham, and was standing one day at the
door of the Hen and Chickens, when, as old wives would say
(and circumstances in this case proved the tru th of the say-
ing), the very person he came to England to look for walked
across New-street, nearly opposite where he stood. Struck
with her appearance, he followed the lady, and with much
politeness expressed a wish for a better acqualmtance, and a
desire to see her home. The young lady, a AI isa Rimmer, of
Alcester, was at that time on a visit to Mr. Heely, Bristol-
road, to whose house the stranger accompanied her; but his
partner in the walk not quite liking such a romantic visitor,
referred him to her parents. The traveller was not to be
diverted from an object in search of which lye had travelled
so far, and the little town of Alcester was shortly after well
nigh frightened from its propriety by a carriage and four
driving up at full speed to the house of Mr. Rimmer. After
many wonderings among the inhabitants who it could be, it
turned out that it was Mr. Da Costa come to request of- the
parents permission to pay his addresses to their daughter.
Advice was asked of those with whom they usually advised,
and consent was given ; and the stranger gave such evidence
of the strength of his attachment, that he was not long in
finding his way to the heart of Miss Rimmer; and though
many tales were afloat of what the modem " Blue Beard"
would do, he married her at Alcester Church on Saturday
week, three carriages and four conveying the parties who
graced the nuptial ceremony with their presence. The per-
sons whose daughter. has thus become a wife are worthy
people in moderate circumstances; the lady possessing good
sense as well as personal attractions; and the stranger has
shown himself, by his munificent presents, to be really what
he passes for, a man of vast wealth, and a gentleman. We
understand that the eldest brother of Miss Rimmer is to ac-
company her to her new residence across the Atlantic, when
his fortune, as well as here, will be made.—Birmingham Ad-
vertiser. •