The Express.
London, England, 1863-05-01 00:00:00

RAILWAY AIM PUBLIC COMPANIES IN
PAELIAMENT.

Yesterday, in Lord Booierhill's committee, after
hewn; the endears, pro sad cox., the bill to authorize the
Great Eastern Railway to work and enter into arrangement*,
for running steam-vein& between Harwich and Ostend,
Flushing, Rotterdam and Antwerp, Lowestoft. Hamburg,
and Taming, King's Lynn, Hull and Newcastle, and to
raise • further sum of 250,0001. by new shame, with • 5
per cent. preferential dividend, and 83,00% by loan, was
Ilia bill was opposed by the Great Northern end
t'iarilester, Sheffield, and Liooolnakire. The propened
powers are to continue until 1875, and then, and robe►
quently, at intervals of seem years, to he liable to be de-
termined, if not renewed by parliament, after a report by
the Board of Ueda eideat the °Mama egerelse
of such power. A new committee, consistiog of
Lord Llaoover, chairman, Lords Nortbwich, Eau
tyre, &Bonn and Bristol, sat to ormaider the bills
of the Irish North Western Railway, Newry and Gemeste
Railway, Dundalk, Oarbngford, and Onetime, and Dublin
Metropolitan Railway. The committee's labours are light-
ened by the withdrawal of the first bill, that of the Irish
North Western. The committee then proceeded with the
case of the Newry end Gramme Railway, for the construc-
tion of a railway, pier, and wet dock. Ile case was opened
by Mr. Calvert, and evidence taken in its favour. Is
the Commons, the bills for the Bristol Docks, for new docks
sad • floating harbour at Cumberland Basin, end the Bris-
tol Port and Channel Docks, for docks and other works at
the Avon's mouth, and powers to Great Western and other
companies, after several days' consideration in Mr. Schots.
fields committee, were both of them thrown out. The bill
for the Great North of Boottaud's saburban belt line
round Aberdeen was paned in that committee, subject to
conditional clauses. Wears. Nelson and Frazer, engineers,
were examined relative to the proposed Hatton branch of
the Bradford, Wakefield, and Leeds. Further general
evidence as to the public competitive desirability of the
propmednew Brighton or Beckenham, Lewes, and Brighton
Railway, occupied the committee of which Mr. Mills Se
chairman all the sitting. The Right Hon. Mr. Gladstone,
M.P., who has property in the district, gave evidence in
favour of the proposed Oswestry, Ellesmere. and Whit.
church Railway. As regards the mineral riches of the dis-
trict around Harding, a discovery he said had been made
but autumn which Waded to show that in former times the
upper strata only had been worked, leaving until now media-
covered • valuable coal field 20 feet thick unsorted and
unexplored. The proposed outlet from Wrexham, in the
direction of Stafford, would be a great local advantage, and
the line was well adapted to develop the mineral resources
of the district.

THE Asyut POD IDIOTS, EARLBWOOD.—The
annual general meeting of the subscribers to this charity
was blast at the Loudon Tavern yesterday, to receive the
various reports, and to elect thirty eppliosets,. viz., five
for life, and twenty-tire for the ordioary period of five
years. The number of candidates wee 160 of whom 21
were is the life assn list. Mr. Alderman Abbis presided.
Mr. Nicholas, the secretory, read the report, which stated
that the Prime of Wales had extended his patronage to
the charity. The Mertes of the asylum numbered
5.17. The board were desirous of saopling at all times
beneflasisl sinendments, but they could not forget then
they were the inardiaas of the anthem atlas charity. The
grog income of the year, inoladioi the balance €11,4441.
10• it on hand at the last audit, had bees 21,676f.14.. &L
The pupils payments bad saseneted to 8,9934175. fkl. The
legacies had been 2,5401. 14s. 3d., among width bed been
I.ooof. left by the late Bev. Dr. Adtew Reed, and a
like amount left by lbs. Ann Cutts. After meeting the
cecessery t expendi • balance remained of 9151. 16a. 3d.
The repor wee adopteture,
d.
EAT WITH CAUTION. —Few persons are ignorant
of the sande' system of adulteration of nearly every article of
food. Inn We " staff of lifo" " oar daily bread " is adulterated
In many cases to as enormous extent. The only remedy which
families can adopt for securing pure bread. pastry, kc., is to use
BeCilag Powder. recommended by Dr. Hemall. the
analytical chemist of the " Lancet," who says It was the first,
and Is still the best ever caned to the public.—(Adrerniement)

A general meeting of the Jockey Club wan held
M Newmarket on Friday in the First Spring Meeting.
Prareat—Admiral Roam and Mr. Alexander (newards),
Lord Glanitergeld, Mr. G. W. FitzwiSiam, Sir J. Hawley,
Lord W. Powlett, Lord Stamford, Lord Wilton, and Lord
WinoMims.

The proPowed amendments of Rule 42 were aimed to, end
the rub sow Meade as follows :

"42. Tie et:mierise;enThority to order the jockeys to draw
up in • line as far behind the starting-post as ha may think
neeemary ; and any jockey disobeying the orders of the
'tarter, or taking any tufa* advantage, shill be punished
by fine or suspensive, according to the nature sad dopes of
his offence, at the discretion of the stewards.
"No jockey tan be suspended beyond the meeting at
white the offence is eanniitted, unless the awe has beau
beard by the three stewards of the Jockey Club`- and in the
abseoee of any of the stewards a member or members of the
Jockey Club shall be deputed to act for the steward or
stewards &besot.

The pueishmgpt indicted shall sot be declared till eller
tti I ACC GI the toy as which It v awar.ae.
" Asset/ace duly passed upon &jockey moot be remitted
by She stewards without the authority of a general meeting
tho Jockey Club.
"The starter is prohibited from makiog a running start,
the borer must walk up, and be started from a walk, and
if the starter, from negligence or inattention, allow. a start
to take place on the wrong side of the starting poet he shall
be fined a gam of mosey not exceeding 501., and the start
shall ha declared sell sad void."

It IriiimortikyA7lll;lllous, and unanimously re-
solved :

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flint Rule ♦, del:loin a maiden hone or mare, should
be outmoded by the addition of the word. ' in any country."'
It now reads thus :

"4. A maiden horse or mare is one that has never won
plate or sweepstakes in soy country."
Two notices of motions were given for the next meeting
of the Jockey Club.
The stewards were empowered to enter into stn arrange-
ment with the oueupiers of the balking-ground called the
Liniekilne to keep their sheep off till after the Houghton
Nesting.
By Bar J. Hawley,—" That horses trained at Newmarket
shall in future pay a larger heath-tax than thane which only
go there to run."
By Lord Winchnem.—" That the privilege accorded to
the members of White's. Brookes's, and Boodle's Clubs, of
becoming members of the room, without ball* be re.
seinded."—Raring Ceknefer.

SOHO WORKING Mil's COM —ain example cf
what working sees me do when aided and enoooreged by
the allosot le Worded by the of • Working limed
Utah Ned UAW* Crewa.atseet, . A house
bevies bees guaninteed tree of root and lAMB for • year
by • member of °omen of the Working Men's Club rod
leedtede Union, sods subscription having been raised for
the purchase of limber, ka, • dose° working mos Lays
Gleamed, repaired, and furnished the club, sod at the sod of
a week upwards of '6O parlous have become members. The
open* el the club was ealebrated ors Tuesday evade, by •
tea party and • public meeting, over which Mt. W. H.
Kaye prodded, held at the United Methodist Free Church,
Yintetreet, Loss-sere. The chairman having made a few
practical remarks, Mr. Wm. Armee, the secretary, reed
as eseellent essay on working men's chile, and then pre-
sented the report of the committee. in which the origin of
the club and the measures mime to establish it were de-
scribed. Addresses ware given by • &outstares from the
onion, consisting of the Rev. J. H. Hylance, Mr. Alarm
Alfred Watts. Mr. Edward G. Clarke, and the Rae. Hoary
Holly feecnstery), and by the Hey. O. W. lliTkes, Mr.
Murray, Mr. John Allay, arid others; and tb• *auks of
the madam were carried by acclamation to the council of
the union sad to the chairman. Hopes were expressed
that toads would be forthcoming for the purchase 01 skittles
soda second bagatelle table, the club being in racist other
mysets complete, the commencement of • librery having
been laid by • donation of misty volumes, and several
talented lecturers having offered their pernitoorseniers.

Dr. Hamill, as well u the Lowest newspaper,
both report highly et the seeks of Waken' gab:Bine Wise.
m.tiNctured by Robert Waters, 2. llintisedbuss, Cannon-
street, London, E.C. Sold by geopera, Italian warehousemen,
and others, st 20s, a down. Wholesido Agents, L Levels and
Co, Worcester.—iAdvertissesest.j

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LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 1.

Tea voluminous "Correspondence respecting
" the Insurrection in Poland," just published,
shows how largely the question has occupied the
attention of the European Cabinets, how wide and
serious its bearings have become, while the latest
telegraphic news sufficiently indicates how little
prospect there yet appears of any satisfactory
solution being arrived at. The early part
of the correspondence, containing the communica-
tions received from the agents and representatives
of the British Government in Russia and Poland
at the time of the outbreak, is of peculiar value
and importance. These communications detail the
true causes of the revolt, and supply, in the shape
of the documents issued on either side—the
apologists of the Russian Government far its
conduct published in the official Gazette,
and the proclamations of the Polish patriots—
ample materials, had any been wanting, for •
decisive judgment on this head. The official state-
ments and documents constitute the completest
justification of the revolution, and fix the responsi-
bility of it entirely on the Russian Government.
The British Consul-General at Warsaw, Colonel
STANTON, was, it is true, at first so far misled as
partially to accept the favourite Russian " view"
that the outbreak was merely a local and very
limited revolutionary movement, inspired and
organized from without. This utterly fallacious
theory has been sufficiently refuted by events ;
but it is to the credit of Lord Narrna's sagacity
that he was not imposed upon by it for a moment.
Writing from St. Petersburg in January, a few
days after the first outbreak, while recognising the
existence of chronic disaffection, he attributes the
sudden and desperate uprising of the Poles to the
cruel and barbarous system of conscription which
the Russian Government, in open defiance of its
own promises and edicts, had 'tempted to enforce.
After indicating the terrible effects which this
atrocious measure, if carried out, would have pro-
duced, he states in plain terms the purpose for which
it was avowedly adopted. "In fact; it was a de-
" sign to makes clean sweep of the revolutionary
" youth of Poland, to shut up the moat energetic and
" dangerous spirits in the restraints of the Russian
" army. It was simply a plan to kidnap the oppo •
" sition, and carry it off to Siberia or the Caucasus."
This was written by our Ambassador at St. Pe-
tersburg towards the end of January, but in •
later despatch, dated Feb. 7, he repeats the same
statement in a more emphatic form :—" The
" Russian Government avow that their authority
" cannot be maintained by strict legality. Le-
"' gality,' they say, ' is our death ;' and they
"confess that the recruitment was to be employed
" as the means of dispersing, gagging, and shutting
"up their political adversaries." In • subsequent
interview with Prince Gosvcruxorr, the Russian
Minister, it is true, attempted to excuse the arbi-
trary and cruel policy of his Government, as
well as to shift the responsibility of its
origination, if not its adoption, from the Russian
Cabinet to the Military Governor of Warsaw. But
the ettemPtl4 eXaulpatiOn amounts in reality to a
direct confession on the part of the Russian Minister
of the heavy crime against justice and humanity
charged against his Government. Lord Name,
in order to be perfectly frank with the Minister,
had stated that " he could not but regret and
"condemn the conscription in the interest of the
" Russian Government itself." The Prince "Ye-
"plied with promptitude, regret it too f and
" then his Excellency went on to explain and
" extenuate the course pursued, which he said
" had no other view than to clear off a number of
" ill-disposed persons, and open • fairer path to
" the peaceful realization of the administrative
" reforms projected by the Emperor. His Excellency
" added that the measure of the military recruit-
" went had originated with Marquis WIZLOPOLSKI."
It must be remembered that these ill-disposed
persona who were thus summarily to be "cleared
" off' were, in fact, the patriotic party in
Poland. But whether few or many, nothing
could avail to palliate in the smallest degree this
savage, ruthless, and vindictive attack on the
liberties and lives of citizens charged with no
offence, and suspected of none beyond that of
loving their country. In his brief reply to Lord
I',7•PIER, Lord Rosan a. expresses the moral judg-
ment of the civilized world on this barbarous and
malignant act of mingled tyranny and provocation
in language worthy of the Minister of a free people :
—" No argument Olin make it right to turn conacrip-
" Lion into proscription, and to condemn men to
" military service because they are suspected of
" revolutionary designs. The security of law-
" canoe is thus at one blow destroyed."
It is satisfactory to find from the correspondence
that the tone of the English Government towards
Russia has throughout been equally firm and digni-
fied. In a despatch, dated the 2nd of March, the
English FOREIGN SZCZZTART, after pointedly ad-
verting, not only to the immediate cause of the
insurrection, but to the deeply-rooted and perma-
nent grounds of discontent prevailing throughout
a large proportion of the Polish population, "the
" landed proprietors and the middle classes in the
"towns," suggests to the Russian Government the