Whitehall, December 30, 1844.

The Queen has been pleased to grant unto the Reverend Frederick Anson the younger, Master of Arts, the place and dignity of a Canon of Her Majesty's Free Chapel of Saint George, in Her Majesty's Castle of Windsor, void by the death of the Honourable and Reverend Richard Bruce Stopford.

Prince of Wales' Council-Chamber,
Somerset-House, December 28, 1844.

Her Majesty has been pleased to direct, that letters patent shall be prepared for the appointment of Edward Smirke, Esq. to be Solicitor General to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.

Railway Department, Board of Trade,
Whitehall, 31st December 1844.

Notice is hereby given, that the Board constituted by the Minute of the Lords of the Committee of the Privy Council for Trade, of the 24th August 1844, for the transaction of railway business, having had under consideration the following schemes for extending railway communication in the district comprising the counties of of Cornwall and Devon, viz.

The Cornwall and Devon Central Railway,

The Cornwall Railway (Plymouth to Falmouth),

The Great Western and Cornwall Junction Railway,

The West Cornwall Railway,

The Saint Ives Junction Railway,

The North Devon (Crediton and Barnstaple) Railway,

The Exeter and Crediton Railway,

The Torquay and Newton Abbott Railway,

have decided on reporting to Parliament in

favour of

The Cornwall Railway (Plymouth to Falmouth), The West Cornwall Railway (up to the junction with the Cornwall Railway),

The Saint Ives Junction Railway;

against

The Cornwall and Devon Central Railway,
The Great Western and Cornwall Junction
Railway;

and recommending the postponement until a future period of

The North Devon (Crediton and Barnstaple) Railway,

The Exeter and Crediton Railway,

The Torquay and Newton Abbott Railway.

And the Board having further had under consideration the following schemes for extending railway communication in the districts of Berkshire, Hampshire, Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, Somer

setshire, and Devon, lying intermediate between the Great Western, Bristol and Exeter, and London and South Western Railways, viz.

The Reading, Basingstoke, and Hungerford Railway (Great Western),

The Wilts and Somerset Railway,

The Bristol and Exeter-Durston and Yeovil Branch,

The Southampton and Dorchester Railway,

The Basingstoke and Didcot Junction Railway (London and South Western),

The London and South Western-Salisbury to Yeovil,

The London and South Western-Hook Pit Deviation,

The Salisbury, Dorchester, and Weymouth Railway,

have decided on reporting to Parliament in favour of

The Reading, Basingstoke, and Hungerford
Railway (Great Western),

The Wilts and Somerset Railway-subject to
the condition of applying to Parliament in a
future session for an improved line of com-
munication towards Bath and Bristol,

The Bristol and Exeter-Durston and Yeovil
Branch,

The Southampton and Dorchester Railway;

and against

The Basingstoke and Didcot Junction Railway (London and South Western),

The London and South Western-Salisbury to Yeovil,

The London and South Western-Hook Pit Deviation,

The Salisbury, Dorchester, and Weymouth Railway.

S. LAING.

DALHOUSIE.

D. O'BRIEN.

G. R. PORTER.
J. CODDINGTON.

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