The Express.
London, England, 1863-08-07 00:00:00

IiEsTEILY RAILWAY.--(THIS DAY.)

this .lay a F pecial general meeting of share-
:;J,,. was held at the Paddington Station, in pursuance
....lie ',Aid claw. of the Amalgamation Act of 180, to
•seveuteen proprietors, exclusive of Sir W. W. Wynn,
dty a dame in the original act is a permanent director,
r. preseut the board of the three companies (Great
steru, South Wales, and West Midland) the floo. F.
is the chair.

CHAIRMAN, in opening the business, and that Mr.
3',11.1e, who should have presided at the meet tug, Ira* suns-
to lrelaod to give evident-el on a trial iu that coma-
s, and he was thereby prevented from being present
d day. As this was the last meeting to be held
r a board representing exclusively Grant Weston.
ioter-
he felt it to be tisduty to explou to them that it Was
trla exclusively for the purpose stated in the notice. There
,ere 17 van:anew' to be tilled up. and 2:2 auslirdAtes. The
chKirmasi this explaitial how he would put the question to
111 meeting.
Mr. MaldNs asked bow the monies on each side stood.

The THliiim.7,7l4ilie believed there were 29,00 votes
representing 4,500,01XW. in favour of the reomstruction of
the board as proposed by tiro directors, and 10,000 votes
represeoting 1.500,00)/. in favour of Mr. Adams, who re-
presented tho committee of shareholders. (Cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN then runporLwl that Mr. Walpole be
rkc:eda member of the

BROWN, a turoll.ar of the committee of shareholders,
se,,,nded the nomination, on the ground that there was now
no difference in the policy pursued by the board and that
proposed by the committee.
The meeting was proceeding when we went to press, but,
niter the statement of the chairman, there could be no
doubt that the list proposed by the board would be owned.

MEDITERRANEAN EXTENSION TELEGRAPH
COMPANY .-( THIS DAY.)

The half•yearly meeting was held at 1 o'clock, at
the London Tavern ; Mr. H. MOOR in the chair.
. .

The report said " the improvement in the revenue has been
such ms torenderit anew:weary for thecompany to apply to her
Majesty's government for assistance under the guarantee.
This improvement would doubtless have been more fully
go-eloped, bad the inten aptinn not occurred on the Malta
sod Alexandrian line. As, however, it is believed that that
interruption will only be bmporary, the directors do not an-
ticipate any serious diminution in the receipts for the current
treat. The company's cables still continue in excellent
corking order. Since the last report the cable therein
Alided toss being about to be laid by the Italian govern-
ment has been Innuendo! ly submerged, and the trans-
mission of messages between Malta and Greet Britain
has been, ea was anticipan-d, very materially accelerated.
The directors recommend the payment of the usual dividend
on the preference shares and the game dividend on the
diereses was paid last half year. They also recom-
mend that a sum of 5441. 18s. 91., being at the rate of 10/.
per east on the receipts, be added to the reserved fund?'
The CHAMMA.N, in moving the adoption of the report,
mid the net receipts for manages during the put half-year
had been 3,4131. le. 3d., as compared witb 5,100/. 6e. Id. in
the previous bedtime-. Owing to the fracture of
the cable between Alexandria and Bengazi' the com-
munication between this country and Malta had
been interrupted, but there was very little doubt
that it would soon be restored. Since the hurt
meeting the cable had been laid between Marsala and Cape
Carbonate, in Sardinia, which had greatly facilitated the
transmission of messages.
The report was adopted, and the usual dividend declared.
The proceedings terminated with the usual vote of thanks.

SERIOUS FMK& —(rii is DAY.) —At an early
hour this morning • fire broke oat in the extensive
premises of Mr. John Garmison, linen-draper and silk
mercer, Noe. 133 and 134, Tottenham-court-road. The
fire. when first discovered, was raging in the side
windows, amongst the stock of linens sue silks there.
These were entirely destroyed, and the met of the stock and
She liztorei in the shop seriously damaged. The loss will
fall upon the Sun fire•office. The origin of the fire could
not be saoertained. The stock of Mr. Holmes, • tea
dealer, No. 132, is also damaged by smoke. A fire also
broke out in the premises of Mr. F. Priestly, pianoforte
maker' No. 15, Berners-street, Oxford-street, which wee
mused by au escape of gas. Considerable damage wax done
to the valuable contents in the show•ronm, and the upper
part of the building. The loss will fall upon the
Westminster-office.

ANOTHER DEATH FROM FIRE THROUGH CHINO-
LING—INQUEST.HTHIS DAT.)—This afternoon Mr. John
Humphreys, Middlesex coroner, held an inquiry at the
Linden Hospital respecting the death of Mrs. Mary Anne
Collies, aged 58 years, who expired this morning
from dreadful injuries sustained from fire last night.
Deceased resided at No. 29, Henry-street, Jubileostreet,
and was last night in the kitchen airing some clothes at the
fireplace. By some means, while her back was turned to-
wards the fire, her dress, which was distended by crinoline,
got between the ban of the grate and instantly
blazed up. Her cried brought in the neighbours
to her assistance, but before the flames could be
extinguished she had been frightfully injured over the whole
body. She was conveyed to the hospital, where she expired
between 12 and 1 o'clock this morning in great suffering.
The coroner having remarked upon the melancholy nature of
the case, the jury returned a verdict of "Death by acci-
dental burning."
SHOCKING ACCIDENT IN A CHURCH.—An inquiry
was held at the Grasehoprer Tavern, Charlezetniet,
end, by Mr. John Humphreys, Middlesex coroner, last
night, respecting the death of John Mahoney, aged 29 years,
who was killed under the following shocking circumstances :
—lt appeared from the evidence that oo last Saturday the
deceased and others were engaged in settling the plaster on
the walls in the interior of St. Ann's Roman catholic church.
Altertatreet, Spitalfields. The ladder on which be stood
was 40 ft. long, and should have been placed with the bottom
end only six feet from the wall, but he, notwithstanding
the remonstrances of his fellow.workineo, and the Rev.
Hr. Lefrorst, placed it sixteen feet from the wall. He
incanted to the top and cried out, " Safe enough ; " when
just at the moment the ladder broke suddenly, and be was
pitched headlong to the ground, nearly falling upon the
clergyman in his descent. He was frightfully mjnred, his
rib being driven into the lungs, and he expired almost im-
mediately. The coroner having summed up, the jury re-
tuned a verdict of "Accidented Death."

NARROW ESCAPE ON THE GREAT WESTERN
RAILWAY.—The train on the Great Western line from
Loudon. doe at Warwick on Wednesday evening at 6.18
p.m., did not arrive until a minute or two before 7. There
was an unusually large number of persona on the platform
at this station,in consequence of the mime, and much
anxiety was felt. On the arrival of the train loyalties
mede of the guard elicited the answer that the
delay had occurred at Diticet, but the real muse
was made more apparent when a few minutes afterwards the
train left Warwick ; it bad not proceeded more than three-
quarters of a mile when the ashpan of the engine dropped
out and lay across the line—the train, of course, MON to a
stand, and most of the passengers alighted ; it was then
seen that the iron composing the upper part of the pan
was literally worn through, sad was an almost as bad •
state as it could be. Had the train got on two or three
miles further, and acquired • greater velocity, the conse-
quences of this casualty must have been very serious, and
the company could have urged no excuse for permitting
an engine to travel with an silvan in such a tad
condition.

SCIENCE LSD ART DEPARTMENT.—The report of
the Science and Art Department for the past year states
tact 2,543 persons have bent under instruction in science
duals taught by certified musters, and, besides, about 870
students at Glasgow and Manchester, taught by uncertifi-
eated masters, have bun examined by the department. At
the examination, held at 56 local centres, 1,239 vinous
were examined, 1,943 papers were worked, and 1,480 passed.
The students of seven Irish schools, numbering only 374,
were successful in obtaining 149 prizes and 12 medals out of
total of 689 prizes and 35 medals. There are now 127 car-
tented science teachers, all educated without any expen-
diture of public money by the department, except five or
six who were trained before the minute was passed. A
minute has been issued assimilating the *id granted to navi-
gation cleans to that afforded to general science classes,
with doe regard to the peculiar nature of navigation schools,
and aseouregieg a sounder system of instruction. As
respects art, the department consider that the time has se-
rved when the load schools have become sufficiently ad-
vanced in t',eir studies to enable them to train andiron for
elastsealdps go to a certaio grade of competence, sad a minute
hie, therefore, been passed by which no further payments in
Leaden will be made to Assist students to take the first
entificate for a mastership. On the other hand, it is pro-
posed to revert to the system of scholarships in the neutral
Khoo!, which had been somewhat prematurely established
in the schools of design- These scholarships will be open to
competition to the advanced studeou of all schools, and
the holden of them will have the opportunity of making
practical use of the collections of the Art Museum. In 1862
P.,v96 children of the poor schools in London wen taught
throuth the agency of the central school. The total number of
schools of art now open in the United Kingdom is 90. In the
notral schools 15,908 persons received instruction in the
year, in the public schools 71,423; 4,672 payments were
mad; to schools of art is respect of result. of examinations.
Pa) meats on results have for the rut ten years formed part
of the system by which art masters have been remunerated,
and the working of the system has been such as to justify
its complete adoption ; minute* have accordingly been pre-
pared extending the application of this principle to all the
instruction given in or through the means of art schools.
These minutes will also tend to restrict the aid of the state
to those claws that are unable to provide such education for
themselves. In the last year 87,389 persons were taught
drawing through the agency of the department, the fees paid
In them amounting to 18,0171. Of this sum 5A381. was paid
by evening students, who are almost wholly artisan, paying
sot wore than 6d. a week for three luaus. Several foreign
governments, from a sense of the great infirmness of the
science and art department on the industrial progress of this
Country, have made application foe detailed information of
the working of the department—a proof that the en-
lightened views of the Pnoce Consort in founding the South
kingdom,
Museum have been appreciated, not oily in this
gloßdom, but by other nations.
The consumption of wool in the United States
last yaw was 124000,000 Ra. The quantity abed for the
trier was 50,000,0001 ha. for the neer, 1, 00fete. ; for
wear, 65,C30:000fhe. ; Lad to mtes,
10,000.0001b,_&00, ( U.S.) Weeper.

Reheat. Barley. Us Oat& Floor.
qes. qrs. o li. mks.
Keel& qrs.
and Scotch' 410 20 780 co ta
80 .. 320
Irish
Foreign taao sato .. 67770 ..
Total

LIVERPOOL COTTON & CORN MARKETS.
iTHI3 DAY.)
(By =scrim AND ENTERNATIONAL TELEGRAPH.)
(PROD OCR OWN CORILESPONDENT.)
Carroty.—the market keeps quiet, and ealce are probably
4,000 bales.
Coati.—Attendance fair ; wheat in moderate consumptive
demand at Tuesday's rates, and in some cases rather easier ;
flour more freely offered, and the turn easier. Indian
earn, good demand for mixed, at 265. to 265. 3d. Egyptian
beans steady. Oata and oatmeal unaltered. Egyptian
wheat quiet.