The Express.
London, England, 1864-08-05 00:00:00

RAILWAY STATISTICS OP THE PAST YEAR

A parliamentary paper, issued yesterday, gives sta-
tistics of interest to the railway world : —During the year
1863 there were in England and Wales 12 passeugers killed
and 371 injured from mime beyond their own control; and
13 killed lied 1 injured from their own misconduct or want of
caution. There were 7 servants of companies or icon-
tractors killed and 29 Injured from mules beyond their own
control ; 66 killed sad 12 injured from their own misconduct.
Five were killed at level crossings ; 25 trainmen were
killed and 4 injured. There were one person killed and 2
injured from miscellanea' 0111111114 In Scotland the figures
wens—passeogers killed from causes beyond their own on-
' trot, 2 ; iejured, 11 ; from their own misconduct, 014
6 ; servant, killed from causes beyond their own control, 4;
injured, 12: from their owe misconduct, killed, 11 ; in-
Jared, 2 ; killd at level :twangs, 1 ; injured 1 ; creeps.-
pusem killed, 8 ; injured, 1 ; miscelkneom, injured, 1.
Ireland—Panniers killed from causes beyond their owe
control, 0; injured, 18 ; killed from their own miseeedoet,
2; servants iajered from ceases beyond their owe control,
3 ; killed from their owe misconduct, 10 ; killed at level
ormaings. 3 ; tompereme killed, 7; injured. 2;
misoel-
laaeew, killed, 1. The number of miles open in England
ad Wain on the 31st of December last, was doable,
5,876; single, 2,692-9;nl 8,566. The number of tomes-
gore, exclusive of mega ticket holders, was, OM class,
21,992.216 ; second, 51,794,959 ; third, 90,818,310 ;
total, 173.6054651. The seine ticket-holden WIMP 42,991.
The number of peasenger train wee 2,396,334, which me
50,515,081 miles; goods Wake, 1,415,524, which ran
46,909,099 ; total, 3.811,878 tniaa, which ran 97,424,179
miles. The receipts from first-ekes pimentos ware
2,868,2211. (a slight diminution) ; second, 3.773,681/.;
third, 3.948,7741.; season tickets, 267,9561. ; total,
10,878,6311. Receipts for excess of luggage, hones,
dogs, kr., 992,5701.; mails, 301,2111. Teed from
Flimsier traffic, 12,262,4161. ; live Meek, 465.1541. ;
reiaerals, 4,504,4341.; pascal merchandise, 8,960,8181.
Total goods traffic, 13,950,4061. ; total receipts
for traffic, 26,212,8221. The total receipts in liketked wen
3,424,9211.; and in Ireland, 1,818,6541. The proportion of
expenditure to receipts lest year was 48 per cent., the pro-
portion in 1862 having been 49. The total amount of capital
paid rip on the 31st of December was 4011,215,5251.; sod
the net receipts were 16,048,9311., whisk would yield an
average retain of something less than 4 pre MIL

THE FIRE INSURANCE parliamentary
paper lamed this morning states that the gross marmot of
duty collected lad year was, in England and Wass,
1,802,2144 sa. 11d.; Scotland, 129,0434 91. 10d. ; Ireland,
83,8644 lia. 9d. no total mamma of farming dock ia.
cared was, in England, 67,03006 k; Sootlaud, 6,694.9004;
Ireland, 1.055,9444

Tae 'NOON/ TAX.—A parliamentary paper
hoped this morning shows that the number of person.
amused under Schedule D (teades and professioer) is Great
Britain had increased in the year sadist April 5, 1863, from
285,459 to 293,468 ; the amount paid from 3,222,033/. to
3,370.4064 ; the incomes ea which the tax was charged
from 89,013,4834 to 93,322,8644 The number of persons
with lens than 1004 a year had increased from 18,761 to
18,790 ; between 1004 and 1501., from 135,282 to 139,297 ;
aid soon till the highest clam, %how with incomes of
50,0001. • year and upwards, who were 67 is 1962 and 80 in
1863. Le Ireland the number of persons charged had
fallen off from 17,602 to 17,438 ; the amount pea from
168,1321. to 167,8 4L ; and the manes amend from
4,677,5684 to 4.673,743/. The number paying on becomes
of leas tit= 1004 • year had diminished from 1,264 to 1,224,
but the number with 50,0001. a year and upwards had rises
from two to three.

NEw CATHOLIC COLLDDE AND CHtrica AT ON.
?ORD.—The site of the old Oxford workhouse, seer Wor-
cester Coll, emporium( lies acre., barring 24 mass
(freehold lead tax redeemed), was oa Wedoeeday, the
2ud last., purchased of the guardians of the " Oxford
locorporatiou" by Mr. Ambrose Smith, hop merchant of
that city, ',gentlemen of the catholic penussioo, for the 'um
of r 3,0001 and for the purpose, it Se geaseally stated, of
erecting l/rge buildings. including a college. church, priest.'
house, dos. The land is most eligibly situated, being in the
midst of a large population in the Soorishiag parish of St.
Odes.

A Plcmie Ix Waswismrosr.—The Washington
correepoodoot of the New York Daily her:, the organ of
the Fernando Wood Pesos Democracy, writes :—" Wedges-
ton. July 7, 1864.—Perhaps the most diegraceful eight to
Yentas eyeo divine took place in this city, and by the mac-
Noe of President Lincoln, within the grounds of the presi-
des:tad mansion. en the late aneivenary of ma national
=Thonce. It was no laws a matter than a graad picnic
e negro children of this city, to the exclurion of all
whites, except they allowed themselves to be mulcted in
the mina of one dollar per capita. It was a privilege
that has time efts, thin been denied to the white
Mien' of our local wheals, and even by President I
Liewll4 but '"k" it wee proposed to the Preside" I DESPATCH OP TIN INDIA AND CHINA War/A—
-t, allow black children the privilege, he not only responded
affirmatively with alacrity, but promised his presence arid flourxsyrrox, Ammer 4.—The Psalmist sad Oriental
mtooage to live the affair fetal, and he did so. Shades of Company's steamship Poona, Captain Field, mild lime
Weadtingloo sod Jae•toll. • *We picnic eti the lawn of the to-day with the .mils for Gibraltar, the Mediterranean,
residential mamma ! What is the maim enlist to who ' gaps, Ade*, CAyloo, India (except Bombay), sod Chios,
the high officials of the nation are pa7isg more Monti= to •
$ harbarie set of secondary humanity, and these raised together with 58 ,Paa."P". "D"rt whom ass ffiz
ahead to the position of demigods, and inferentially if Dot ; lamtoa Lool ucouogtoo. Captain Be:miaow. and Major
petsally ironifappzfl ? It is ► veriticatioo that this war is Dunbar. The Poooah took oat on freight 262 boxes specie,
for rowing the negro W the equality Ed rtialroltioo of , value 68,9871. Kt. ; and for the following ports, viz., Gallo,
the whites, and eves to the prejudice of the w,,:40 people gold ooin, 3,000/. ; jewellery, 1131. Madras, gold cola,
el the land. A (oval's:most so infatuated, so is; 44yei, ; bar saver, 20,0001. ; gold thread, 2.3171. C,aknist,
imbecile, eau have so hops of imam, sod be a one- • voji. pa. Paean, dollars. 8,930/. Hoag Hoeg,
indiction of all law and history, sacred sad Crisis did ialrinari•
sort. aasduct go unpunished or unrequited." I wasaoi sad jewellery, 2731. Yokohama, donate, 9,2501. ;
THE STRIKE IN THE BUILDING TRADE AT BRAD- Fop Warn. 4021 Y? BooChew,d°llB",,,. 65°1•
restri.—Thestrike of the carpeatsre sod joiner at Bradford ) •witches, 1301. ; 4,;&:•• °'`". '‘l'ff*Pere.
: gold and silver c'4s,
hallrnaaters"yleklidr"aLs;L:TAl don.d?totwth:lo74.2. 141., met by
yivedtke I 1914". Aleziparia' was"' 29.-• slim 101.
so advance of Is. par week a month ago, and the redoctioti 160- Malta, PawalleMlil.tandforOttn—
Of 31 fir= ork per week is equal to soother addition of The Poeash also took oat full cargo, principally Ms. 7.
Is. id ek. I ebedet goods

Gatignani says : "We are well pleased to learn
that the paragraph which has appeared in some of
the journals, announcing that K Gounod, the
musical composer, had become affected in his mind,
is entirely without foundation."

To the

b;en forwarded

H. R. H. the Greed Doke of Oldenberg lornionnkstad to
the Germanic Diet, at itasittnig at the 23rd June, that the
Emperor of Russia had ceded to him the right of enoosssion
certaming to hie Ma jerly is virtue of We asinnhasat of
ly of Load,* dated lad, sari exprwsly guaranteed
by she Warsaw protocol, dated 1831. His royal highness
pasefally accepted this cession of the slaw Gettarp branch
Ito the succession be the duchies of Habitats and ISkswig.

A diedamtion was annexed to thin sotifieatios, Aida(
that the grand ducal government would endeavour by every
mesas io its Power to establish the right of succession
to the hereditary and inalienable sovereignty of Hobtein
mid alseing oeded to his royal highness.
Lastly, opposition has bees made to the clams abed to
the smoseeion to the duchies b another branch of the
I house of Sletwig•Holeteis st y after the death of
King Frederick VIII. of Denmerk.
The point of view expressed is the &Mambos at the
greed does/ government relative to the osamodos quotas.
sad Ow alai= put forward by that declaration, compromise
the oraotual rights of stemeopon of myself amid my bones to
the duchies, for they constitute denial of the rieMts of my
houes—rights which cannot be removed or chimed.
_ _

As leis; as the London trestle* of 1852 were io faros, I
considered it wee not for me to edemas those rights. Even
now that the treaties have been sot *aide it is not my inten-
tion to claim for myself end my house, the incontestable
right of succession to the duchies.
I have, on the coetrery, always entertained the eouviction,
and find myself supported therein by the almost ananinowns
opinion of (=kerma- historians and lawyers, that the right
of primogeniture commodes the preference in the branch to
which my house Delores. Nevertheless, as chief ratinmen-
tative of the younger branch, I Goosed's it my duty to eater
my solemn mere at the Federal Dist against sties soon-
promising the rights of my house, and to reserve those
rights for all futurity as taking precedence of the eventual
rights of succession of the House of Gottorp.
(Sigurd) C1A11123,
Duke of Sleawig-Holatein-Sonderburrtiluchaburg.

E' r I -41IGITST 5,
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e folbiwing p Duke Charles of SI
late Glticksburg agains
1:"..-if m of the G e of Oldenburg to the Brie-
Aug- reignty of the united duchies has been forwarded
Scowl to the Federal Diet :