The Express.
London, England, 1864-03-07 00:00:00

ENITIED LYWAIDS.

1861. 1862. 1663.
Toss. !Tons. Toes.
British vessels
Foreign vessels

Total
CLEARED Ot I WARDS.
1861. 1862. 1863.
Tons. Toss. Tons.
British vessels
Foreign vessels

Total

The King of Sweden is to leave Stockholm on the
9th init. for Norway, when his Majesty will open the ses-
sion of the htorthiog in person.

The Berlin journals state that M. de Sydow, the
late Prussian minister at the Frankfort Diet, is to go to
Madrid to replace Count de Galen, who has tendered his
resignation.

CAFTTRE OF THE TOWN OF OP/TOW Br THE
POLES.—The Ost Deutsche Zeettn!, publishes the following
report of the Polish General Bowl on this subject :—" I
have the honour to annonaoe, pending the arrival of more
detailed reports, that the town of Opatow has been taken
by our men under Colonel Topor, commandant of the
Cracow division. The Russians were driven back at all
points. After our men had remained six hours io the town,
they evacuated it in perfect order, taking with them all
their wounded and upwards of 100 rifles, with two waggons
full of ammunition and linen.—The Chief of the 2nd Corps
d'Armi4, General Bosak. Awgrria, Adjutant.—February
23., 1864.

DOVER, MARCH 6.—The United States frigate
Kearsap, Captain Winslow, arrived off Dover at 2.30 p.m.
yesterday, and left early this morning for the Downs.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF SCRGEONS.—At a special
meeting of the Court of Examiners on the 3rd inst., Mr.
.14tue, Alexander Grant, of 011ama, Canada Week having
undergone the necessary examination, was admitted a mem-
ber of the college. This gentleman had previously been
&Omitted a doctor in medicine of M.Gill College, Montreal,
his diploma bearing date May 4, IS.A.
Ma. J. M. OPPM:HEINes WILL.-10 the notice
of the will of the late John Moritz Oppeuheim, Esq., which
we republished from a weekly contemporary in our tramr
non of Saturday, it was stated that " the residue, real and
personal, he leaves to the family of his partner, Frederick
Auguste Sal/aster." We understand that the property is
bequeathed to Mr. Schrager for his own personal use and
benefit.

31A;I:FAtTURE OF PETROLErM IY SOCTHWARE.
--On Saturday a deputation, consistiog of Mr. Locke, M.P.,
Dr. J. Godfrey, the Rev. W. M. Mungeam, B.A. inctim-
bent of St. Peter's, Sumner-street, Mr. T. H. Bennett, of
Winchester-house, and Mr. George Weller, bad an inter-
view with Sir George Grey, at the Home-office. on the sub.
ject of the manufacture of petroleum in Suffolk-grove, neer
the Southwark-bridge-road. It was stated by the members of
the deputation that the nuisance arising from the manufacture
was complained of so eerly as September, 1862, when a case
wee taken to the Southwark police court, and a decisios was
obtained against the proprietor. The subject had been
brought before the St. Saviour's Board of Works by
nine deputations, and • memorial signed by 310 persons
' before the St. George's vestry by six depot,.
lions, ; and :14...4 persons had successfully memoralued
the Metropolitan Board of Works against the licensing of the
manufacture ; and • memorial, signed by in all 613 persons,
had been soot to the right boo. secretary himself. Aaseoood
application to Mr. Combo had proved fruitless, as coder the
Nuisances Removal and the Petroleum Acts be declared be
bad no authority to deal with the case as presented.
' Petroleum was, indeed, no longer stored in illegal quo-
' titles io the works, but the manufacture was conducted
within 7 feet 6 inches of a dwelling-house, to the detriment
of the health and comfort of the residents in the locality ;
' water was impregnated, and a well 'lOO yards distant was
covered with the oil, which could be tasted in the water,
and the noxious vapour could be smelt at times at the dis-
tance of half • mile. Sir George Grey, who said the com-
plaint lay not against the law. but against the local rears
for neglect of duty, promised that inquiries should be made,
and the result communicated to the deputation.
1 THE. LIBERATION SocIETY IN YORERHIRE.—Last
week liberation meetings were held at Hull, Wakefield. and
Sheffield, and were addressed by Mr. Carvell Williams,
Rev. C. W. Conder, Rev. H. W. Parkinson, and Rev. F.
Rugby. They were well attended, and, except at Sheffield,
• were unanimous. In that town several supporters of the
church establishment were present, and both put questions
and made speeches. Mr. Willianues references to the fettered
cooditioo of the established clergy called forth much contra-
diction, and a gentleman present undertook to prove from the
Prayer-boos that he had indulged in a" tissue of falsehoods,"
The Rev. J. Battersby, one of the Sheffield claw, on the
other hand, said that he concurred with half that the
speaker had said, though he deprecated such criticism oo the
part of outsiders, and said that the church was capable of
managing its own affairs. Mr. Williams, in his reply ex-
pressed great satisfaction at the interest which the subject
bad excited, and answered his critics. The meeting did
not close till nearly 11 o'clock, and the discussion was after-
wards continued by knots of persons in the streets.
A MORMON Ex ELUTlON.—Prisoners condemned
to death in the Mormon territory, are privately shot» A
letter from Great Salt Lake City, dated Jan. 13, says :
Jason R. Luce, the murderer, paid the extreme penalty of
the law yesterday. He was shot at the court-house in this
city, before an invited few, canvas screens preventing the
poblie from taking a view, to avoid gratification of a morbid
curiosity, according to Mormon custom. The executions's,
too, remained in the oourt-house and shot through a window
or doorway, to prevent, as far as possible, nnplesaant allu-
sions in the future.

The first locomotive engine was landed last
month at Ceylon from the ship Palmerston. It was landed
on a bamboo raft, and was to be drawn to the railway sta-
tion by a team of three aleplasais.—Ceyion Exanuarr.

RAILWAYS.

MR. ICILNIR GLBSONIS MOTION.
_ _

Mr. Milner Gibson proposes to call the attention
of the House ri Onsnrose, to-night, to the report of the
Joint Occamittee on Metropolitan Communications, with a
AIM to more that certain balls shall, not be: proceeded with
during this session, and that the less incurred in respect of
such Mils shall be remitted.

The bills which the joint committee reported Amid not
be proceeded with were :
1. The Victoria Station and Maras Embankment.
2. The Oxford.street and City Railway.
3. The Loudon man Trunk Undssvound.
4. The Metropolitan Grand Union (portion south d
Themeaatreet).
5. The Charing.crom Northern Exteosion.
6. The Charing-awe Western Extemics.
7. The London Union Railway.
8. The Metropolitan (District) Outer Orris.
9. The Tottenham and Ferringdot-street.

The two first a/ these hills were- reported against am lines
proposed to be worked on the pweiunatie principle —" a
principle hitherto untried se applied to Railway passenger
carriages." Three eau be no doubt that theme projeria are
well got rid oC The Orford-aireet and City ham already
bees formally withdrawn, so that no question as arise on
Mr. Gibson's motion ma to that Its.

The Main Trunk Underground stands in a different posi-
tion ; and the promoters, we understand, think they have
been hardly used. The principal object of this line was to
establish a onamimicatioe, underground, from the station
of the Metropolitan Railway at Finsbury, with the North
London in Liverpool-street, the Great Eastern, the Black-
well, the Cennon-street, and the Blackfriars-bridge termini.
The joint committee report " that this railway proposes
te provide a more central station for the Great Eastern," and
they reject the bill because" this is an object which is sought
to be accomplithed by the Great Emden: itself." But the
promoters of the London Main Trunk aver that it was not
their object to provide a more central dation for the Great
Eastern in the sense in which the committee report, and
that their project was is no way designed to
supersede or to compete with the Great Eastern
Metropolitan Stations Bill. As the committee
have reported upon this bill on an erroneous assumption,
and have allowed other bills to go forward which follow the
same route with their line, without securing to the public
the advantages the Main Trunk proposed to afford, the pro.
rooters, we understand, are about to ask parliament re-
view this portion of the Joint Committee's decision, end to
allow their bill to be proceeded with.
The Metropolitan Grand Union, which stands next on
the list of rejected bills, is in a very extraordinary position
This line MA proposed to commence at Kensington, to pun
up Victoria-street and along the Thames Embankment and
New Cannon-street to Tower-hill, where it threw a bridge
over the Thames to join the Brighton Railway. The Corn-
mittee have reported against " the portion south of Thames-
, street ;" i. e., the bridge aims the Thames ; bat they have
approved the rest of the project, and desired that it should
go forward. Pending their decision, however, a carious
, incident occurred. The whole bill, as we understand, was
withdrawn ; a difficulty having, it is said,:occurred with the
capitalists who advanced the money for the parliamentary
deposit (a sum amounting to between 300,0001. and
400,0000. The Joint Committee incommoded re-
specting this line that " its promoters should be allowed
to amend their estimate, and be permitted to withdraw a
portion of their deposit." The question Mass whether,
under the terms of this recommendation, the promoters of
the bill, after they have withdrawn the whole of their
measure, and the whole of their deposit, can be allowed
again to become parties to the parliamentary proceedings of
the elusion ! There is certainly no precedent for such a
proceeding, which will be entirely opposed to standing
olden ; but it is stated that the promoters of the Grand
Union are about to petition parliament to be permitted to
reinstate themselves under the Lords' report.
The Charing-cress Northern Extension is not directly
reported against by the Joint Committee, but they observe,
in speaking of another railway, that " this line would
tend to create a great central station " at Charing.crose.
The same objection, however, applies to the rival line, the
Hampeteed and Charing-cross Junction, which the am-
' mittee have preferred. We have not heard of any attempt
to contest the decision of the committee with respect to
this line, though there are certainly considerations on which
it might fairly be permitted to go before a committee is
competition with the Hampden! end Charing-cross scheme.
The three next lines upon the list—the Charing-cross
(Western Extension), the Logsdon Union, and the Metro-
politan Outer Circle projects, are proposed to be postponed
upon the ground that, "in addition to other objections,
they require the construction of bridges across the Thames,
one of them being a high level bridge below London-
bridge." This is a coasideratioa very calculated to weigh
with parliament ; and it is, therefore, not at all ihaly that
the decision with respect to either of these schemes will be
disputed. We have already five authorised railway bridges
serews the Thames, at Kensington, Battersea, Hungarian!,
Blacktriars, and Southwark ; and if the T flames Tunnel scheme
is adopted there will be a sixth communication between the
north and south shores of the river within the metropolitan
boundary. It is, therefore, difficult to dispute the con-
clusioa of the Joint Committee that " further connexions
are not urgent."
In rejecting the Tottenham and Farriegdonstreet rail-
way, it is probable that the Joint Committee have made a
mistake. The ground for postponing it is, " that it is de-
sirable to ascertain by experience whether any inconve.
unlit amount of traffic will be concentrated at Farringdon-
street, by the lines already allowed to meet there." Upon
this, however, it ia to be observed that there is space in
Farringdoo-street sad its neighbourhood for enlarged
station accommodation should it be required and that the
opening of the stations at Smithfield and Finsbury, when
they are constructed, will relieve Farringdoostnist of much
of the local traffic smartening to the Metropolitan Railway.
If the line from Farringdon-street to the Great Eastern at
Tottenham in thereto's, otherwise a useful line, it scarcely
appears a sufficient reason for throwing out the bill, that it
is expedient to wait to ass whether any incooveniest amount
of traffic will be concentrated at Farringdometreet.
The lines reported against by the joint committee involved
the following lengths and amounts of capital :

_ _
Borrowing
Name of Railway. Length. Capital. Powen.
Victoria Station and Thames IL C.

itobankmen t
Ozkird-areet and City
London Main Trunk
Grand Union

2 16 306:000 90,000
0 12 666,060 200,000
6 57 1.500.666 100,000
16 76 4.600,0:3 1,2E0,000

Cbaring.crois Northern
Ditto Western
London Union
Metropolitan District
Tottenham and Farrtottdow-
street

S 2S 2,54)0,000 650,000
6 ♦ 2.60,.,000 660.000
13 21 2.000.000 660.000
30 73 6,000,000 4.000,000

6 43 1,0°4,000

313,000

From the 10,000,000/. required for the Metropolitan
District Railway has, however, to be deducted the amount
(at least one•balf) which will be needed for the formation
of the Inner Circle, which the joint committee have per
to proceed, and which was a part of the Metropo-
litan Distract scheme.

Of that scheme it may be observed that should the House
of Commons refuse to accede to the petition of the pro-
-1 =ours of the London Main Trunk to be permitted to pee-
-1 aped with their bill, and should they refuse to reinstate the
Metropolitan Grand Union scheme, of which the deposit is
withdrawn, the Inner Circle project will go through parlia-
ment virtually as an unopposed measure. There are no
other lines to compete with it; and consequently the recom-
mendation of the Joint Committee, that the engineers of the
opposing schemes "should communicate together, and de-
vise the most perfect line of which their several pleas will
admit," falls wholly to the ground. This is a result which
the Joint Committee clearly did not contemplate, and which
may scarcely be thought desirable.
Mr. Milner Gibson further proposes to move that the
parliamentary fees incurred in respect of any bills not
allowed to be proceeded with shall be remitted. This is
but an ordinary act of justice. Those fees must necemarily
form a very small proportion of the total expense entailed
on the promoters of these lines in preparing them for pre-
sentation to parliament in accordance with the forms of the
house. But it may be said, upon the other hand, that they
took their chance ot failure.

When the Irish volunteers of 'B2 marched to
their famous meeting at the Rotunda, the muzzles of the
guns accompanying the peooerioo were decorated with the
motto, "O Lord, open Thou our lips, and our mouths shall
show forth Thy .sise ~ " But this inscription was only an
afloribought. The original device of the Dublin Arta.
levy as borne over their cannons' mouths bad more sub-
stance and less profanity in it. It ran as follows :—"A free
trade, or a speedy revolution."
Advices from St. Petersburg state that in the
southern provinces of Runk a large extent of country has
been " tapped," yielding very fine petroleum. Should the
supply prove to be in any degree permanent sad of the
quality supposed, the diecovery is likely to have an im-
portant bearing on the trade of Odessa or of Sebastopol,
and to hasten the contemplated construction of a railway to
the latter *me, which is to be declared a free port.