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LETTER: Hugh Manley, at the Woods Hotel, to Lord Newborough. Manley writes that he has just seen Col. Pennant and is ready to go before the Commission (concerning the Britannia Bridge). Manley gives the news that the sub-Committee on the standing orders of the House of Commons has voted against the Porthdinllaen Railway. He thinks that the Bill concerning the project will not now be passed. Manley gives details of the large sum, some £15,000, that Preece, a railway speculator has amassed and he remarks that the prevailing fever of railway speculation is beyond belief.