The Express.
London, England, 1855-06-12 00:00:00

whole surrounded with • very deep sad wide dig',
with walls and Linking dirge's. By this system Mr.
'grosses proposes—Ant, to avoid the effeet of tailed*
by doiag away with all U... praising, Igo Use ornistry,
mid placiag alt the gins is his forts faeisg the gamy, so
that the latter can always be attacked by a direst Are ;
ss-
loudly, in placing these guns ms an !..sees smug of
earth, so that two or three tiers of gams eau be brought to
the front, sad a greater number brought to bear on say
gives spot than ma be placed there by the attacking party,
se that the superiority of Are shall always be ou the side of
the fortress. The imeteuen quuttity of earth required for
this mooed gables Mr. Ferguasoa to employ ditches
deeper sad breeder than ever were employed before, so as to
make them more difficult to peas, and which elm esubles
him to place his walls and flanking defences In positiso
where they are quite free from the 'What Ai, of the essay.
We eltoshl like to we this whew" treated is • picturesque
maser, which should reader it intelligible to the publis
eye. We have ea ether egad mg described the Sulk of
the gigging aid well-ezegted scenes of this dierama.
Moot who have seen them And them too attractive to be
dealt with la use visit.

THE CRYSTAL PALACE RAILWArs.—ExTEN.
SION OF THE WESTMINSTER TERMINUS
FROM CLAPHAM TO NORWOOD.

The committee on the shove bill re•sseembled yes- ;7
terday, Mr. Cobbett in the chair. tr
Mr. Gregory, engineer, wee examined on the engineering :

points of the proposed lice.
Mr. Kerslake having addressed the committee on behalf
of Mows. Cresingham and Roupell, owners of land through is
which the fine is proposed to pass, against the bill, called to
Mr. Hayton, lane under Mr. Cresingham, and Mr. Foster, 26..
auctioneer, of Pall•mall, who gave evidence against it. Mr. 6-
Foster, although admitting that Mr. Heupell's land was so
intended for building purposes, said that if a railway was nt
to pan through his property it would permanently rodeos U
it `who Iktool.
Ms. Berke replied on behalf of the promoters of the bill,
Bed ifillceled the opposition set up against it, and somewhat il/k
amused the committee, by reading from that day's papers gg4.
some advertisements inserted by Mr. Foster for the sale of It
certain properties, which in sash cue strongly urges ae an s-
emis recommendation the ekes proximity of the respective ILL
estates to a railway station. Taking his own view, he con- L•
tended that these properties would be beaefited rather it.
than injured by the proposed railway. tt
The room was ordered to be cleared, and after the lapse to
of an hoar, on the parties being recalled, lr
The Chairman said the committee were of opinion that
the preamble of the bill was proved, which announcement
was received with applause.
The clauses were then gone through, and the bill will be
reported to the house.

Ma. ROEBUCK'S COMILITTSE ON THE ARMY BEFORE ss
SZDASTOPOL.—The members of the C4lllllSittell 011 the te
Army before Sebastopol again assembled yesterday to IA
further consider their report. The whole of the members ..11‘
of the committee were present. After a stormy sitting of
four hours, they had not concluded upon their report, and
they will rant again this day. It is, however, fully ex-
pectid that the report will be laid before the house in the I SI
wane of the present weak.

SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE RAlLWAT.—Yeataiday a
meeting of this company was held under the Whvaelifi fo
Order at the Queen's Hotel, Birmingham • Mr. B. C. so
Chawner the chair ; the pumas being to obia the assent r
of the shareholden to a bill now before parliament,

powering them to co-operate with the Osibud, Winnow,
and Wolverhampton Company, in providing entice woos-
modation at Dudley. After a f hort disunion, an afirentiro
reeulation was passed unanimously. TM Chairman thou
entered into explanations sunning • Pent circular, in-
tilting the shareholders to contribute venatarily a sum of
21. 101. on each share; thus obviaing the neounity of •
formal eall. Money was required in order to construct the
Cannock and Norton breach, and the plan by which the to
hunt proposed so raise the same had received the sanction le
of the Louden and North Western Company, who 1.01 Le
16,000 shares, and had actually paid up 40.00 a. The pro- r.
pool had also already been responded to by • large number ji"c
of the general shareholders. Interest at 6 per tent. would st,
be paid oa the ea is by the lean. In reply to a shareholder, et.
the Chairman said that calls paid up in advent* would only lo
receive 6 per cent. oa the mount until a compulsory call 04-
se
was made ;_ but such • call would not, he thought, be re-
eP
quialte. Under present eireunutances, it would not be s
U
proper to state how many shareholders had agreed to pay in ss
ulnae, ; bat he might say that the proposal of the Ward la
had boon very satisfactorily answered up to this time. The 10
Midland Company,
. however, had declined to pay Madman 10
.
With this the bosuns terminated.
le
THE LATE Loss OF TIMIS LIVES IN BETHNAL. tie
ousx.—Yesterday Mr. Baker held au input at the Ethan la
inn, Bethnal-greets, on the bodies of Mary Ann Greitem, 1,61
aged Ave years, and her heathen Albert James Onbam,
aged four years, and Edward Graben. eighteen swaths old,
who lost their lives under dreaminess aka* elpseled is et.
the Daily News. It appeared from the endless in Stopitu
Graham, the father of the three deelliell. that he left them it
in bed with their mother when he west to his work at fire IS
o'clock on Saturday morning. About two hours afterwards
she got up to prepare their breektme, and it was supposed i;
that in her Meuse they baps to play with some Inciter AA,
matches, and se est lee le themselen. He was in the habit of
lighting his pipe oneynaudegerboa be went out, and taking gi
the matches with hint, but Met morning be did not light q
his pipe, and left the mashie an • chest of drawers 10
near the bed. The lodger wise discovered the Ere was :
somewhat deaf, and had-Mimi an exclamations of distress A
until the smoke began to issue from the room. A smell. as te.
of something burning, whin had for tome time been per- at
ceptible to his (witness's) wife, white she was down stairs, &-
had been thought by her to arise from some loather being st.
burned by the lodger, who was • shoemaker. She had
also thought at one time ehe beard a faint cry of " oh, so
mother," from one of the children; but beyond that no et.
esoismstion was heard from them by anyone. Mr. Ellis, amt.
OWNS of the jury, said that in his house ail he boa,, 11;-
floesblith oat of the way of his children, so that they 1;
mil am semi them The coroner having summed up, is
Ike Sty MlONsefla Moist of " Amadora Death--cause of let.
am ass wirikady Imam"
Minna OF A LHlffffil YBot SaLONICA, MAY 24. r,,4
!Mader Mr Mojentre tenni, Mr. Blunt, intimated to is
Ns Excellency Osman Pasha, Governor General of the
Trevino of Saloons, that to-day, the 24th, be the anal- et.
,envy of the birth of her most gracious Majesty the
Queen, he desired that the Turkish ships of war in port 60
shoudire a salute of 21 pus at mid-day. His Excellency itt
replied that not only would he order the men-of-war to fire to
the salute, but that the batteries of the town should also fire
21 pm in homer of the faithful ally of his imperial master. 114
He eareleVer espesased his desire to pay an official visit to Kt-
the we an the cession, and tasted to be informed at gi
+bat boar it would be eon esfent to receive it. The 10
British corneal, however, made known he could not receive
the visit so eouresonly offered by the Governer-General— ec
a formal refusal, which has created no little nuation in fit
et
the society of the plan. To say the least=r to ungracious 11
return of the Governor's ~May is little pre- 1.
note that harmasisas feeling whisk it is se behests should lie
exist between British and Turkish materials, gad which as
is so strongly inculeetad on the latter by our prerautent.
While 1 em writing the double salute is belag thundered
forth from the ships if war and bass the • .iMm of the
rms.
" AmINDING " Acs or PAILIAMENT.—On Mon- em
day • bill before the Common was printed to alter the mode
of anteadiag seta et refitment. It declares that the con- 10
solidatlem nadir was hand of all sets of parliament relating "ss
to an. sad ifs mess sidgeonsttor will greatly advance the 5
adaslaimeallaa et JuMise and it is therefore desirable that
sash &sagas la the aids ef introducing amendments shall
be mode as will tasilliste the ansolidatiou ler the future and M
sultan it where ellseted. It is proposed to make the 'Bore-
dom sad sineadments in a small set, and afterwards it shall IL
act be assiessey terint the act or reprint the original sot.
The Berm sr the Carmaindonen for Inquiring into
the state of Clathadral sad Oditgists Chastise ressunorls f
the etude. eta aew bisherie Ceram& te ham Us es
at St. Oulanb-Mider. This eammfarismses Shia that a
better ammipment of the armed sossiss. elfoltolll Bow
Is Coruttell, would be found to supply a hip portion of
tie osionns asesessrb sod the Bev. B. 13. Wane, roots. of
Bt. Odrab4loaer, *Moe teem to fsailitats the maths ot
the proposed set by rssigeled essiesisstiesl pretenses* to
the sums% now per emonft_ led to give bolissihtee
beasts to th bishop. The Ebbw of Brake esedisily
mouse in the division of hit dieing, sad close Os give up
all plumage In Classwell.
ASYLUM FOB FEMALE Oinung. Wasesumnsa-
10AD.—Yessesisy (Monday) •
vsgtskluarleM mattimg et
the friends and supporton of this was ledi
bddgeseafl
in the board Mane setaael theeeded Asylam, Wea
im timlasta
hes a
for the of nago Nei
forty singlets. Kr. Timm llowidoiL The
report elan' Net the essrosides one of allied Bo
sondes albs
di
moilingnd milks pulite to their resehilisa
r
pond el a gee oawl lltomombso lost, by_whin
preeestalisem wen at the me at Insidest.
the Dohs et Oassli feet spenehene siiniss Into
the Wells** of thot number of WOW scrim& Est
widths, tiatilmseadam sitesid illerhre with the It
oMresiTsbuturh as
=7l =deal a.
dna to age wpm nary sulseiber to ado-
' rest with his Moab la wee w noloilein en
isogon to meet the imesend essalf/iss. The dollen
haying boss pirosseded wit, a sees et Noah ins Mood to
MO, WhOPINI6Idi elan the dosses et lb their
Wes Ma at 11111 ft IWO'