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 but shall wait another session of Parliament, with all its details, &c. &c.

With the view of accomplishing this desirable object, the direct line of country has been surveyed, and found so favourable, that but little extra cutting would be required, about 150 miles of the distance (which is within 190 miles) being nearly tide level.

It is proposed to commence the projected railroad at Kingsland, near Shoreditch, and to run thence by Tottenham and Waltham to Bishop's Stortford (with short branches to Hertford and Ware), to proceed from Bishop's Stortford by Saffron Walden and Linton to Cambridge, Peterborough, Stamford, Grantham, Newark, Lincoln, Gainsborough, and Snaith, meeting the Leeds railroad at Selby, and thence to York, with a branch from Cambridge by Newmarket, Bury, and Thetford to Norwich, distant about sixty miles.

This work, when accomplished, will immediately give to the great northern agricultural and manufacturing counties all the advantages of proximity to the metropolis, by the speedy transit of a railroad.

The advantages of railroads were proved in the last session of Parliament by a great number of landowners, cultivators, manufacturers, and merchants. They were found to have conferred the highest benefit on the public, more particularly to those on the line, land having increased in value from 30 to 50 per cent, wherever railroads have been established; in addition to which, it appeared to be a fact, that the proprietors of the Liverpool and the Darlington