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London, England, 1845-04-09 00:00:00

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1. Dundee and Perth (South Line).
2. Dundee and Perth (North Line).
3. Scottish Midland Junction.
4. Aberdeen Railway.
Your Committee further recommend that the following Bills
and projects be referred to one and the saline Committee
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1., Edinburgh and Northern Railway.
2. Edinburgh and Hawick Railway.
3. North British ( Edinburgh and Dalkeith) Railway.
Your Committee further recommend that the following Bills
and projects be referred to one and the same Committee
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1. Glasgow Junction Railway.
2. Glasgow, Barrhead, and N eilston Railway.
3. Greenock Branch Railway.
4. Ayrshire Branches (Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock,.
and Ayr).
5. Glasgow Harbour Union Railway.
6. Glasgow, Dumbarton, and Lochlomond Railway.
7. Glasgow, Garnkirk,-and Coatbridge Railway.
8. Monkland and Kirkiptilloch Railway.
Your Committee further recommend that the following Bills
and projects be referred to one and the same Committee :
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1. Blackburn and Preston Railway.
2. North Union and Ribble Navigation Branch Railway.
3. Preston and Wyre (Lytham Branch) Railway.
4. Preston and Wyre (Blackpool Branch) Railway.
Your Committee further recommend that the following Bills
and projects be referred to one and the same Committee

1. Lancaster and Carlisle (Carlisle Extension) Railway.
2. Lancaster and Carlisle (Lancaster Deviation) Railway.
3. Lancaster and Carlisle (Birklands Deviation) Railway.
4. Cockermouth and Workington Railway.
5. Whitehaven and Furness Railway.
Your Committee further recommend that the following Bills
and projects be referred to one and the same Committee :
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1. Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston Railway.
2. Liverpool and Bury Railway.
3. Liverpool mad Manchester Extension (North Tunnel)
Railway.
4. Liverpool and Manchester (Extensions) Railway.
5. Liverpool and Manchester (Parkside Branch) Railway.
6. Liverpool and Manchester (St. Helen's and Rufford)
Railway.
7. Liverpool and Manchester (Patricroft and Clifton
Branch) Railway.
8. Liverpool and Manchester (Rainford and Liverpool
Branches).

LORD ROSSE'S TELESCOPE.—Marvellous rumours
are afloat respecting the astronomical discoveries made by
Lord Rosse's monster telescope. It is said that Regulus, in-
stead of being a sphere, is ascertained to be a disc ; and,
stranger still, that the nebula in the belt of Orion is a uni-
versal system—a sun, with planets moving round it, as the
earth and her fellow-orbs move round our glorious luminary.
—Literary Gazette.
IMPROVEMENTS IN HYDE PARK.—During the last
fortnight, upwards of one hundred and fifty labourers have
been daily employed by the Commissioners of Woods and
Forests, levelling the various parts of the grass, new gravelling
the numerous foot-paths, and making very considerable im-
provements throughout the whole of Hyde Park.
INCREASE OF SPEED ON THE SOUTHAMPTON
RAILWAY.—It is the intention of the Directors of the
Southampton Railway that the speed of the mail trains on
their line shall be increased, and a plan has been projected
by which the distance between London and Southampton
will be accomplished in two hours, instead of two hours and
forty minutes, the time now occupied in the journey. It is
sailedo:
expected that the alteration will take place in about three
weeks.
OPENING OF THE COMMUNICATION,
BETWEEN
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from
Brighton AND DrnrrE.—The General Steam Navigation
Company's packet Menai, Captain Goodburn
Brighton on Saturday, and returned yesterday morning with
fifty-two passengers, among whom were the Marquis of
Clanricarde, Lieut.-Col. Tomline, Mr. Blackburn and family,
&c. &c.
BRITISH AND FOREIGN INsTrrurE.--The fourth
monthly dinner of the members of the Institute was given
at their rooms, on Thursday last. The Earl of Devon, the
President, filled the chair, and was supported by Lord
Brougham, Sir George Staunton, Bart., M-13.. Sir George
Larpent, Mr. Benjamin Bond Cabbell, Mr. Vizard, Mr: Teed,
Mr. Waymouth, Mr. Cochrane, and others of the Vice-
Presidents and Committee. There were about eighty
members and visitors at the table, which was admirably
served, and the dinner and wines fully sustained the reputa-
tion of Mr. Neal, the proprietor and conductor of the hotel
attached to the Institute. Several excellent speeches were
delivered by the President and others. and, the pleasure of
the evening was much increased by some delightful vocal
and instrumental music, including glees, duets, rounds, &c.,
in which Mr. T. Cooke, Mr. Francis, Mr. Machin, Mr. Gra-.
tan Cooke, Mr. Lloyd, Mr. Miihlenfelt, and Mr. Kreutzer took,
parts.
It was originally determined that the christening
of the infant daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Buc-
clench should have been performed on Thursday last, when,
in accordance with the express wish of the Queen, the bap-
tismal ceremony was to have been performed in the Royal
Chapel at Buckingham Palace, and her Majesty was to have
stood sponsor in person. There was to have been a grand
dinner at Montagu- House in the evening, at which the'
Queen and Prince Consort were to have been present. Owing,
however, to the lamented family afflictions sustained by the
Earl and Countess of Harewood, by the death of the Hon.
Algernon and the Hon. Alfred Lascelles, from typhus fever
the nephews of the Duchess of Bucclench, the interesting cere-
mony has been postponed.—Herald.
The death of the Dowager Viscountess Chetwynd
took place on Monday morning, at the family residence in
Upper Brook street. The deceased Viscountess, who was
youngest daughter of the late Mr. Thomas Cartwright, was
married on the 30th July, 1791, to Richard Viscount Chet-
wynd. Her Ladyship was in her 73d year.
DISCOVERY or ANCIENT RUINS.—Yesterday, while
some workmen where employed in excavating the street
near the corner of Drury-lane and Long-acre, for the pur-
pose of making a sewer, they discovered, at the deptk of
nearly fourteen feet, a portion of the foundation of an ancient
building, of great thickness, which required the use of powder
to break it up. It ran in the direction from north to south,
and is supposed to be some part of the foundation of the old
convent which formerly stood near the present Drury-lane
and Covent. garden Theatres. The foundation is composed
of red brick, concrete, and flint stones.
FOOT-RACE.—Yesterday morning, between six and
seven o'clock, this long-pending race for 51. a-side came off in
the Kensington-road, between George Brady, a baker, of
London, and James Lees, of Knightsbridge, a smith. The
distance was one mile. After two or three false starts, they
at last went to work in earnest, Lees getting the lead at the
commencement, which he kept for some time; but at length
Brady made a desperate effort to get ahead, and by the
greatest exertion succeeded in passing his antagonist, main-
taining his advantage, and ultimately coming in a winner.
At the commencement of the race 10 to 1 were offered upon
Lees. It is said another race will take place in a fortnight
between the parties.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—This morning, at an early
hour, the family of Mr. Wood, the extensive coal-merchant
of Hungerford Wharf, Strand, were deprived of one of their
family under the following circumstances :—lt appeared that
Mr. Wood, jun., who was a lighterman, was in the act of
removing a barge of coals in shore, while, when on the gun-
whale, his foot slipped and he fell overboard; who unfor-
tunately, before assistance could be rendered him, he was
drowned. Several persous were in search of the deceased,
who, by all who knew him, was much respected. At ten
o'clock the body was fain(' near where the accident happaned.