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 rating the company's wharfs, &amp;c. and by which their rates are exempted from parochial rates, and to the amending various clauses in the former acts, which it would not be interesting to our readers to notice. The company, in the year 1818, published an abstract of the bye-laws and penalties, &amp;c. for damaging the works on the line, which particulars are intended for the government of the company's servants and the persons using this navigation.

After the long account we have given of this work, it would be almost superfluous to add that it is of first rate importance. The chief articles of transit are corn, timber, woollen cloth, coals and raw materials for the manufacturing districts and populous neighbourhoods through which it passes; it connects these districts with Hull, Liverpool, London and Bristol, thus opening a communication, if we may so term it, with all parts of the kingdom.

RODON RIVER.
10 George II. Cap. 33, Royal Assent 21st June, 1737.

THE act for making navigable the above river was obtained so long ago as 1737, under the title of 'An Act for making navigable the River Rodon,from a little below a Mill, called Barking Mill, in the county of Essex, to Ilford Bridge, in the said county.' It is unnecessary to say more on the subject of this article, than that the act was intended to improve the navigation of this tide river, and to enable vessels to pass the bad part of the river and the mill for the length of about two miles. Its use is to convey coals, &amp;c. to Ilford Bridge for the supply of Romford and the neighbourhood.

ROTHER RIVER.
31 George III. Cap. 66, Royal Assent 11th April, 1791.

THIS navigation, which belongs to the Earl of Egremont, commences at the Lower Platt, near the town of Midhurst, Sussex, occupying the course of the River Rother in a great measure the whole length of the navigation. From Midhurst its course is by