The Express.
London, England, 1863-01-19 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 19, 1863.

COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE.
JAL 17.
(Beton the Judge Ordinary.)
DOWW AND WRIGHT V. 11117110 fr AID DUTHOIT.
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Mr. M. &nab, Q.C. and Mr. Marshy Hill for the plain-
tiffs ; Dr. Spin's, for the defendants.
This was a cause of proving in solemn form the bat will
of Mr. George Beddow, late of Brumley, near Ludlow. The
document was dated the 3rd of J TIDO, 1861, and the de-
ceased died on the 28th of July Lab ft had been drawn by
Mr. Thomas Wapitis, of L inflow the deemed's attorney,
and it bad been
trite/pawl attested. In faet, the only con-
ceivable reason for doubting its validity vise the
circumstance that . Seddon had, a &ten yearn previous,
been confined in an asylum. aims, then, however, he had
managed his own affairs, and conducted them with shrewd-
ness and propriety.
The court at once pronounced for the will ; bat, inns-
much as the defendanta had given notify that they did not
intend to call witnesses, it refrained from mindememe them
in the oats.

CAUTION 90 LITIOA/1194
Sir C. Cromwell said that some one intereeted in the case
of Critc.bell v. Critchell, heard a few days ago, had taken
the extraordinary step of writing to him rape/Meg the
decision which he had still to pronounce. The letter would
of course be returned, and be begged to warn persons
against repeating each an eat ; otherwise he wee net sure
that he might not beat it es a emstempt of coast.

TM: METROPOLITAN RAILWAY.

The experience of the first week's working of the
new railway has been highly metiefactory. The number of
Misl=who have travelled to sad fro upon the Ilne has
t 226,000. On the ousting day (Saturday, the
1011 number carried was 38,000, on Sunday these were
33, Monday 26,000, Tuesday 21,000, Wednesday 26,000,
Thursday 28,000, Friday MOM, and yesterday (Saturday)
the pmengers wen not lees than 30,000. On Saturday the
trains ran every ten minutes, and were remarkably well
Ailed, especially the down trains from the Farringdonotrest
station. The underground ructions of the line are to a great
extent free from the annoyances usually experienced in
railway tunnels. The engine-driven, for their own comfeet's
sake, not lees than for that of the pueengers pay great
attention to the working of the engines. No peewee
suffer more is tunnels from the sulphurous fumes and pro-
duets et combustion from the furnaces than the drivers
and stekere, and when so large s portion of their time is
peened underground they are natually very careful in the
ant of their Gres, and as far se possible avoid feed.
iTlar AZ with fresh fuel while in the tunnel. In spite,
however, of all their precautions, a certain amount of
sulphurous vapour will be given off from the femme, and
the drivers complak of pine in the heed from working the
trains. The tanks below the engines, which are teed is
condensers, have been found much too small, and they will
require to be replaced by larger cam The steam fret!' the
cylinders Muse don* its work, pries into these
tanks,
whirl, in theory, ought to have a constant supply of
I cold water, hat the only time when the water is
really cold is at the commencement lot each journey.
By the time the trains have passed throegh the lamer
or central fennel el the line, the water in the ceedenser is
brought to boiling heat, er nearly the same tareperatare
that in the boiler. As soon as this dupes of Mat hes been
attained, it is neeeseary to open the valves sad let of the
steam, for if there were no escape provided, the condensers
world be em liable to explode em a boar without safety
valves. The steam f• thus often discharged hie the tuna;
it rapidly condenses, however, and canner no serious annoy-
ance. The sulphurous fumes teem the Ire boxes and
chimneys are net, however, so easily got rid of. The ex-
tent of this oopirweetnee• has been, /answer, vary web
exaggerated. Among other repute was eon to the effect
that several of the porters and involute hid been carried
away insensible from the effect of the nexiene vapours. It
would be ecemedy cornet to say that there was ne founda-
tion for the statement, Mums two of the porters were
really in a very weak and sinking Ante when they were
taken away from the station. The muse, however, was
perhaps as much due to exhaustion from long hours of
work, sad to the fact that, owing to the presure of traffic,
the men had really not been able to leave for their meals,
as to what had been very absurdly called the "choke
damp" in the tunnel. The Gower-street station, at which
the men were stationed, is provided with &awed openings
from the gardeus in front of the houses. The ample
I remedy of opening these windows has since been adopted,
and no inconvenience is now felt et this station. At the
Baez-street station the glees has also been removed
from the aide apertures which admit light into the
Mahar, and the tower at Portland-road he been made
to do duty as a ventilating shaft. Prom Ring's-cross to
Farringdon-street the engrain an worked on the usual
high-pressure system, as, with the exception of the Coppice-
row tunnel of 800 yards in length, this portion of the line
is an open cutting. This short arctic, of tunnel hal one
air shaft, and the smoke and steam from the engine produce
no very disagreeable effect in that short run. The same
system of working at high pressnre is adopted at the Pad-
dington end of the line between the Blehop'e.roed and the
Edgware-road stations. It is only, therefore, between the
Edgware-read and Hines-cram in the unbroken length of
tunnel that the plan of condensing is adopted, and in run-
ningopted, this distance, as we have said, the waste steam raises
the water to boiling point. Two things are absolutely
necessary : to increase considerably the speed of the trains,
and enlarge the capacity of the condensers. Both of these'
improvement. will be carried out On Saturday the trains
ran every ten minutes, and arrangement, will be made
next week forthgnif the whole journey in eighteen
minutes, while trains will also be started.
Larger condensers are elite:sae being provided for the
engines. The arrugemente for warble( the
thresh
treble to and from the Great Western and Midlan -
Ball-
ways at King's-mesa are not yet completed.—Obeereer.