The Express.
London, England, 1855-10-30 00:00:00

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'the barracks will be shut out from Stephen street by the
removal of the houses on the north side ; and the walls sad
erections urn Roey's Court, Indies to the lower gate, us
DOW la proem of removal. In Little Ship street a strong
butien will be made, and Cannon of heavy said*, pissed
le the embrasure, commanding ‘l.l the approsehes; and the
asometty for such a work in a military point of view was
pointed oat 00000 al years ago by the Duke of Cambridge,
when is command of the garrison. It is now felt that •
resat mistake was made in disposing of the well known
Georges street barracks, but mesas will be adopted to enlarge
the defences on that side of the castle. It is scarcely
necessary to add that the projected arrangements are in no
way suggested by the present state of the coustry, which,
happily, butters: bun more peaceable or traitcjaiL
The Teem Herald, Dr. ld'llals's organ, says:
Considerable aasisty was Mt is tows during the but few
day., is sensequeses of a seine* made by the collector on
some ph ging to the archbishop for income tan.
we So strew was lies of indignation on this subit et, that
nadetstaad Mr. Moyle'', the auctioneers of this town,
refined to have anything to do with the transaction; sad
we are told that it was deemed advisable to pay the tax
this day, lest, in the iatensi'y of the popular 'leftmost
prevailing, consequences dangerous to Use public peace
migh
The orangemen of the county of Down held a
meeting and banquet, in the course of last week, at
Downpatrick. The society mustered strongly on the
occasion.

ROYAL SWEDISH RAILWAY COMPANY,
is, Casarsortrost, Pty.
no mune allegro mei Obtkeetesee ia Ode Ounparty are rupee,
tally modeled lbel tbe ELUATLARLY INTEREST. doe the Ilth
tastrost. may be PROW= ea at Mee tbat day, by applkatioa at
the Mn of the Oempote, homes Sr been of i I sad 3 o'clock.
OIL IS. 143. 10411 EAULEIR. Palmas.

The Armagh Guardian gives the following par-
ticular, of a brutal outrage committed by the police :
On Thendsy night we witnessed the most diabolical and
unwarrantable outrage on the part of five or six nemberecif
the constabulary that aver was perpetrated by men invested
with authority. The unfortunate men who was the victim of
cruel, unmanly, and beastly violence, was BILMInet Morrow,
of this city. It appears that his bother, who lives in the
*Gantry, bad called on him in the evesitig. and remained
with his for some time enlivening respecting the rates ;
that oa leaviog to go home, Samuel accompanied him
as far as Timmarstreet, when they went into a public.
house and partook of some whiskey. What took place
further we have not been able to ascertain ; but on
coming out of the holm he was arrested by the pilot.
He offered resistance, and requested that they should not
take him. His sister sad other friends remonstrated wish
the police, assuring them that they would take him home;
bat remonstrance was melees, for the police, with one or
two exceptions, were almost as drank as Morrow,thd, though
it wanted a quarter of tea o'clock, they insisted on taking
him to the bridewell. The polies were armed with their
carbines, and the watchmen, who were also on the spot,
with their pike" They dragged Morrow along the newly
gravelled street, while the poor man cried out not is kill
hint. They deliberately laid him down, and one policeman
threw aside his musket, and jumped with his knees on his
breast, while another administered six rir seven blows oa his
head and face with the heavy end of his musket, until the
blood streamed from him profusely. The other police and
watchmen kept back the crowd with their carbines and
pikes while this diabolical act was being perpetrated. A
storm of exeeratioas sod curse, burst from the infuriated
mob; the women shouted "murder,' and Morrow wee
taken to the " cells." Such is a plain statement of the
circumstance, which is certainly not overdrawn. Will
the authorities allow it to pa's unnoticed ? Will they
really allow ignorant policemen, incited with whiskey,
to heat any man, no matter who or what his
character may be, with such an instrument es the butt
of a musket t We were eye witnesses of the atrocity,
As journalists we cannot allow it to pass without notice.
At the moment we write our indignation is b riling over at
this gross violation of all law, justice, sod humanity. It is
the duty of every one who witnessed it to sodeavour to
put down this growing intolerance at once and for ever.
We willingly acknowledge the exertions the police maks to
detect robbers and to bring offenders to jusice,hut the ratne
laws which punish the burglar and the pickpocket protect
one man from the violence of another. Since the above was
written, we were surprised by the report that Morrow died
from the effect of the wounds inflicted on him. On masking
inquiry, however, we learred that, the circumstance having
been reported at the policesoffiee, the head constable ordered
the man to be taken out of the cells, and conducted to his
own house. This was according:, dole, end Morrow is
now lying at lii_ene in a dangeruns state, having a contusion
and two deep cuts in his head. We have bea told that
the p 'Hessian who inflicted the wounds does nut belong to
the Armagh district.
The following, from the commercial article of the
Freeman's Journal, is interesting to the spirit trade:
A meeting of distillers took place on Wednesday, is the
Coencil•room of the Chember of Centimetre e, and was at-
tended by Messrs. John Jameson, H. Roe, Jun., Busby H.
Jameson, Drogheda, inn several other,. The proceedings
were of course private, bet it is elated that the new law as
to malt was the principal topie. It has been productive of
eoutiderable annoyance to the Dublin firms, who have at a
very short notice to provide ostensive concerns, and meet
various difficult excise restrictions and delays. The rapidly
increasing consumption of ciuntry make is a subject of
much dissatisfaction to the Dublin houses, who never:Wen
maintain the great difference in prier, notwithstanding the
pressure of the retail trade for a cheap article. On the
other heed, the country folk et sly exert themselves
not only to produce an article equal to the best Dublin, and
give those facilities which the loiter unwisely deny, but they
will booed/fled with a more moderate rat* of profit. The din
ferenee in price between country and Dahlia may vanossly
be explained. Labour and rent are cheaper, ears is on the
spot and is cheaper, and moat of the large f ogees are their
own maltsters. A leading haters sow, however, is the
greatly irereseed consumption, while the Dahlia houses only
work a few months in the year, and during Outs only, as
last year, at about half the quantity they would produce.
The first rate ocruntry-houses, such as the leading distillers
of Belfast and Cork, work at least eleven months in the
year, and at the very top of their capability, and it stands
to Teases can produce cheerier whiekey, while many of the
customers of the Dublin books, if not a majority, are
supposed either of those who require long credit, or of
those few first-rate wholesale dealers who stick to the article
they have been acesstomed to supply, and which is un-
doubtedly good. We mi.st, however, in justice to the dis-
tillers, add that slthoegh they will not change their system,
a much greater eellellet of isourtesy and facility is shown
than lied previously been the case, and has is some degree
decided to take the edge off the restrictions imposed. The
extent of the sales of ecoutry is Dublin may be inferred
trim the fact that 1,000 puseheons of Cork have been sold
within three months.

The proprietors of this company held their twelfth
haltroarly general meeting yesterday, at their ofcesis.
New Broad-street W. J. HAMILTON, Km., in the chair.
The report (which was puhlished at leagtb in our lm•
moniss of yesterday) having been read by the Secretary,
The Czatemax, after an impression of t at the Ices
the sommuly bad sustained in the death of their ire chair-
I man, Lord Wharnelifie to whose character, ability, and
seal he paid a warm tribute, proceeded to make the ferreted
motion that the report and atonement of accounts be received
sad adopted. Be congratulated the shareholders on the '1
prospect of a more rapid sad ostensive progress of the
flan towards those portions of India to which the under
taking wee especially dimmed, than they had had
to report at the last meeting. In addition to
the 61 miles already opened, 91 additional milee
were under *introit, and the plans wore deposited
and all the amusements amide for the extension of the 166
miles between Numb and Bhowpoor. With regard to the
*Mission of the lies in that direction it might be noceseasy
to say a few words. It might appear that this @stead= to
Ithampoor in the south-east direction was sot that contem-
plate* in the original presrposeas. Wires the peeked wee
first started the provider* idea was uadoubtedly that the
line was to be 'Mended in &north-easterly direction, so as to
' reach as sore se possible the productive cotton fields in that
part of India; but it was considered,@spatially in Bombay,
that it would he desirable at the same time that the lane
*meld be carried out to Sbawpoor, as Wog a line likely to
be productive of profit to the mummy, and also
one that would be highly useful to the localities of
Foolish and Bombay. At that time, however, it was thought
by the proprietors in Rails, d that to carry oat the two
Uses at sea would be impossible, and under them circum-
'Mame they gave the mammon to the north 'Warn hue.
Bat them having been some difficulty experienced a elite's-
ins the consent of the Zest 'lndia Company to the proems
.ion of the line to the north out towards the Gooses, ustil
some surveys and arrangements were made in regard to
ether lime with which it would toms into comae:ion,
it was satisfactory to find that they could proceed
with a line in another direction, which would prove
if not wholly at least almost at profitable, and which imme-
diately secured to them the traffic between Limbs) and
Pconah—the Tonbrides Wells of Bombay. At present, as
was stated in the report, the trails was moaned to rampa-
gers; but that traffic, taken abstractedly, was most satisfac-
tory. Ia the original calculation of the probable revenue
that would arise from the working of the railway, the pas-
senger trials was lost sight of ; it was thought that the
rem live traffic would always be goods, bat as yet
they had not reached that point at which It was possible to
develop the goods trefile. Some very mugging individuals
might think that a considerable portion of the goods traffic
night be obtained as soon as the line was opened to the foul
of the °haute, bet he did not believe that any large amount
of that traffic would coma to them until they had overcome
the difficulty of ascending the bills themselves. At
present the goods were conveyed by native driven,
who undertook to convey them from the interior
emu the °batten to Parnell. Of coons the most difficult
part of the journey was the hill., and having undertaken
and surmounted that, the native drivers would not like then
to give up the easy portion 01 the work—that of completing
the journey to Pooash and B imbay—to any other bands.
When, however, the line should be so tar eatended as to
relieve the native drivers from the difficulties of descent of
the (haute, then they would avail themselves of the supe-
rior facilities which the railway afforded. In other respects
it would appear that the restos* returns were not gait' so
favourable. From the ue accounts it appesnd that while
they hod received 7,90 W. Mom traffic, the working eapeases
had amounted to 6.4001., which to those gentlemen who were
accustomed to judge by wha. they knew of railways in this
commix, where the working expenses generally ed
from 40 to 50 per cent., might appear eatesordinery. The
report alluded to some of the causes which had probably
occasioned this excessive rate of expenditure—amongst

which were the heavy charge for mait;tenanoe of way and
the necessity of keeping up a larger staff in ladia than bad
been origiially anticipated. With regard to the mainte-
nance of way, he might observe that the charge imputed to
the directors so disproportioutely large that they had
written to the directors at Bombay for an explanation, and
when that explanation arrived it would be laid before the
proprietor. In the meanwhile he might observe that it
was just probable that the large sum put down for this item
might be consequent upon tee action of the MORMIORI—
which were prevalent in that part of ladia—upon etalsaak•
mints which were ant sufficiently consolidated. Upon
this point of the lupus* i d under the
hood of maintenance of wee he wished at the
request of the unomittee of direet-rs at Bemhay to
offer an explanation in reference to a refitment made by
him at the last halfyearly meeting. Ore that occasion a
question gross as to the large amount upended upon the
maintenance of way, is reply to which he believed he stated
that a great portion of that expenditure had been incurred
in consequence of the company having t ken the maiutee
niece of the bee upon itself before the expiration of the
Tear, during which, according to the terms of the contract,
the es tweeter was to have kept it in ree air, and that a certein
amount had been charged to revenue is coast queue which
ought to have ben charged to capital. The commetti• at
Bombay had informed him that that opinion was err menus,
Red that no charge whatever had been made against re
venue which ought to hove been made egoism capital.
A SHARIHOLDIR—But did the eomp.oy undertake the
responsibility of keeping the lisle in repair befit!" they
ought to hew done—that is, before the eapersios of the
year, during which the contractor was bound to keep it in
repair ?
TIM CHAIRMAN had explained at the last meeting that in
eonaiqusnos of the contractor being oblige i to return to
Begload, the company were obliged t r take the line into their
own hands before the year had stirred; but the eoet of
maintaining the line up to the erect of the year had been
charged to •he es n•reetnr. There was one otner point of tide
report which he weaned to allude to, yes., that the distil's
tioti between " experimental" and " extension " capital
wculd from this time cesused that the second half-million,
upon which at present only 11. per share bed been paid,
would be called up in full, anci thu nest balance 'beet
wculd present the expenditure of the several lines in coils
bination, and all the shares be the same footing.
leAfter some conversation the report was adopted semi-
mouldy.
• resolution was thee proposed and pawed, authorising
the conversion of the 'listing shares of the company, which
are 61. shares, into shares of the aomistal value of 201. each ;
every fear of the present shares to be coosolidsted into one
201. share. The object of this essavenion, it was explained,
wee unnaienos to tboshareholden, the saving of brokerage
fees and commission in neuters, and in some degree
economy is management.
Thanks were then voted to the board of director, sad a
similar compliment having been paid to the chairman of the
day, the meeting separated.

affairs of Messrs. Adamson, Watts, M'Keehnie, and Co.,
which have afforded food for much conversation in mercan-
tile circles lately, we lay before oar readers the report of
Mr. Kilgour, the accountant, to which reference has been
so frequently made. The report is a straightforward docu-
ment, and as lucid as a statement can be expected to be of •
series of complications involving three several estates, which
appear to have always been below the sero of the oonamer-
cial thermometer—solvency. It certainly discloses • reek-
!tumor of incurring liabilities worthy of the maddest period
of our commercial history since the discovery of the gold
fields, and • system of trading with one set of creditors for
the ►enefit of another which has an ugly appearance. The
conclusions drawn by Mr. Kilgour in f f the pre-
ferential interest of the creditors of Adamson, Watts,
M'Kechnie, and Co., over all others, will be read with
great interest, as on the legal settlement of the question as
to whether that firm existed at the time of the stoppage
the fate of the colonial creditors entirely depends. We have
Sydney papers to the 16th inst. They contain, however,
little new. of commercial interest. Breadstuff. continue to
strive freely at that port. The Rowena, from Coaospclow,
arrived on the 15th with 8,000 bags of wrest and 300 bags
of Saar. The arrival of the Mere. des, from Son Francisco,
is also reported, with 8,820 bags flour, 2,890 bags wheat, 836
bags oats, sad 3,900 bags ►arley."
The total number of immigrants to Victoria colony by
ass during the mont► of July was 4,928; consisting of
3,239 adult males, 1,082 adult females, and 607 children. The
number of emigrants was 1,966; of whom 1,374 were adult
males, 350 adult females, and 242 children. The net ad-
dition to our population wss, therefore, 2,962 souls. Of the
immigrants 505 males, 114 females, and 68 children were
from New SJutti Wile'; 272 males, 79 female', and 30
children from South Australia ; 287 male*, 67 females, ►nd
69 children, from Van Eiernen's Land ; 29 mar. s, 0 females,
and 11 children, from New Zealand sod the South Stu;
848 males, 804 females, aad 432 children, from the United
Kiordom ; and 1,298 males, 12 females, and 17 children,
from foreign porta. The emigrants consisted of 457 males,
122 females, and 66 children, for New South Wales; 127
males, 16 females, and 4 children, for South Australia ; 282
males, 12G females, and 93 children, for Van Diemen',
Land ; 76 males, 19 females, and 16 children, for New Zea-
land and the South Seas; 317 males, 67 females, and 62
children, for the United Kingdom; and 116 males, 10
female, and 3 children, for foreign ports.

A return of intestate estates placed under the thugs of
the registrar of the Supremo* Court of the Colony of Victoria,
from the 142.17, 1854, t 13th June, 18.55, opposes in the
Cove; ?Meta Gazette. The number of estates is 129; amount
of moneys received upon them, 12,4651. 18.. 9J. ; psyments
made, 2,6441. 9s. ; amount paid under order of court or
letters of administration, 2,4221. Bs. ; deposited in banks
to the ere..it of toe estates, 7,5061. 141. Id."

The distress in lielbourne had led to the appoiotment of
a commiuion, who are to deal with the question of ua•
employed labour. The following ie a eopy of a petition,
or memorial, addressed to the goventor of the colony :

"To his Ezedletiel Sir Charles Holborn, Coptain-General
of the Colony of Victoria, &c.,
" The petition of the unemployed resident in Melbourne
end its suburbe, that are at portent in a state of semi-
starvation,

tt Huml•ly showeth,—That your mratorialists, seeing that
some urgent mea•urrs are necessary to meet t,:e present
stagnation in the IMP lett\ occupations of y,..ur memerislista,
and to p t the imp►nding distress of "%indeed' of the
harn:n family—men, women, end helpless children—

TAMAR SILVER LEAD MINING COMPANY.
The annual general meeting of the shareholders
in this amapany was held, by adjournment from the Ist
iastaat, yeeterlay, at their sects, No. 17, Gresham-street,
?dr. P. D. Mama in the emir.
The amounts for the three months following the end of
May showed, ea tee rue side, tint the cost of working was
in Jest, 1.0071. fie. bd.; in July, 1,1161. 17s. 7d.; sad la
Loewe, 8941. bs. 74.; the total cost for the three months
being 3,0181.95. 7d. Oa the other bawl, the sale of ores
for Jane prodeced a sum of 1,8691. 12s. 74.; for July,
1,1611. 7s. 6d. ; and for August, 1,4861. lbs.; the total re•
alumni by the sales of the three months being 4,0061. lbs. Id.
?here was a balance of 2,2991 13.. bd., besides this, stood leg
to the soupsoy's credit at the banker's; and the interest end
the sale of notarial' made up the receipt account ii
6,4961. 51. 3d.
Tres CNAIRMAN observed that the 'misplay was not yet
in raeb a condition as to be able to declare a dividend,
though It might be done et the seat =titbit!. Pubsint if
all Moan! still go on well, end the que,tion of a reserved
fend would then have to be considered. His own view wee,
that the sum of 3,0001. at least ought always to be kept
available, in addition to those meets which were represented
by the bills receivable for the sole of ores.
The report and amounts were nasaintously adopted.

- _
" Most earnestly beseech your Excellency to order imme-
diately sib pudic wed', useful end necessary for the "Pel-
la! of the ctiony, to be commenced as may be found nettes-
airy topivs empMysnent to as many cf those men who, with
their wives and families, are now in a state of semi-starve-
don, the experts of the said works to be defrayed out of
the emigratuta fund, or territorial tie, or revenue of
the colony.
" And we consider that the emigration fond could not be
put to any better purpose than to relieve the present tem-
porary distress.
" And your memorialists cot fidently appeal to your
Excellency, as the representative of her Majesty for the
colony of Victoria, thus to provide employment for such of
it, population as may now so quire it must imperatively.
" Your memorialists, believing it is the paramount duty of
every government of every country, more particularly the
government of Victoria, early and effectively to succour
and relieve that section of the people who are in want of
work, and are willing to be employed at reasonable rates ;
and that your Excellency, as the head of this government,
has power euflicient to c•Il your Executive Council together,
sod devise some remedy for this crying evil, wherever
urgent eases of necessity may arise, or have arisen ; and to
order such and so many public works u may be deemed
aloes eery to meet the present distressed state of the well-
affect eel labourieg population, sad at such a modified rate of
wages as will oughts the grerest ass ant of good to he
effected, both for the colony at large and the labourers at
present out of employ—
" It is with feelings of profound reopect that your memo-
Satiate present this petition, believing that your Excellency
has been misled on this subject, and that the true sate of
the lab suing classes of this beautiful and highly-productive
colony has only to be made known to your Excellency for
you to take such steps as may most immediately and effec-
tually suggest themselves to your Bscellency to alleviate the
present amount of suffering, and to place your memorialists
in such a position as will give them the Eat and grist pri-
mary right of all others—the right to live by their labour.
mad support their wiv-s and families in moderate comfort
and ducat respectability.
"Asst your memorialists, as in duty bound, will ever
' PM.
The number of signatures appended to the memorial was
1,996, being these of 884 single men and of 1,112 married
men, with 2,266 women and children depending on them
for support. This gives a total of 4,251.
The following was the governor's reply :
" 14th August, 18.55.
" am instructed by the governor to acknowledge a
memorial signed by yen, as secretary to the committee of
the unemployed, and buries; date the 13th instant, and to
inform you in reply that • government committee, of which
Dr. if`Crea, the chief medical officer, will act as chairman,
has bees appointed to inquire into the subject at Collins-
wood.
" I am farther to request that you will at once put your-
self is communteation with the committsli who will be pre-
pared to swims and give attention to any suggestion you
may allay.-1 have, tte., "J. Kooks, A.C.B.
" To Mr. James Winter."

MMANCHOLT ACCIDigT AT SIIRIWIDIIIIT.—On
Saturday afternoo• en amitient of a nature meet immutable
in Its malts occurred at Shrembary, whereby a married
man with a family and • little boy loot their lives. About
1 °Nike& a little Irish boy was wields( hie feet in the
Seven, near the railway bridge which masses the stream,
and, by some iniechance, fell is. The river had twerflowed
it. Meads, and seer the bridge is • ford, with a strew *ar-
rest. Tim little fellow was carried rapidly deweiwarda,
when be was seem by Mr. Patchett, mei= rater, who at
este premadad to obtain essistaice. He obtained a rope
and dreg, and followed the boy as be &Mei °sward.
About 100 yards below where the boy fell imp moose seas,
.sued Bless, a painter, sad having a wits end Oldid. veins-
teasoil to get the boy vine provided Ids. TGWU we'd
Mem thii mod Us mad held the other end, to which
WellMlMmd a threppeseged dreg. This ass demo, and
Brom Nets eat Willy. He sees taught the boy sad
N this sham La they ware plug dews the river a
tall bash goomahill Iho des 'roe,. of the rope, and Brims
sailed out to M. !Wheel to let go his held of it. Be did
se, sad threw the drag Ism the water. This seems to have
lima a fatal error, for **dreg would saes to have mash%
is he purge, sad, together with its weight, was evidestly
Si= the maa sad beg is the water. Aid Wm apsedily
9 alit the asimiallate aspic sash.

The commission above referred to met on the 17th a;
two o'clock, in the Independent Chapel, Collfsgesood.
Present : Dr. M'Crea, in the chair ; the Rev. W. B. Lan.
dells and Dr. Teal. Mr. Winter, the secretary, sad se-
veral of the munben of the committee of the mar
ployed, had a conference with the cousmirsion. The go-
verment proposal was stated to them—gamely, that a en
should be employed on the Mount Aleunder road, about 18
miles from Melbourne, at a rate lees 20 per cent. than he
currant rate of wages. In the course of the eonverratt on
that caned it wu stated by one or other of the mem-
ber of the ussaittee of the unemployed that married s en
mild not maintain their families oa the wages offered by
government, which would, in the eau of sten not au as
to 'toss breaking, be under sin shillinp a day ; and
farther, that if the unemployed accepted such a low rate of
wages, it vault& have the effect of bringing wages is ge-
neral down to the same level. ITader these cirear
dame, the committee thought that very few married
persona would accept the government offer, and
that el the samba of applisaaw who had on