The Express.
London, England, 1862-12-29 00:00:00

THE METROPOLITAN RAILWAY.

A small party of gentlemen connected with this
great public entombs accompanied Colonel Yolked, the
government inspector, over the line on Saturday, and made
what it is thought will be the anal examination of the sig-
nals and a few matters of minor importance. The dears,
Indicators were not is place, but will be so, is all proba-
bility, before to-morrow morning. Colonel Yolland had
complained of some of the levers of the signals working
stiffly, but his objection wee reduced oa Saturday to two
cases only, which Mr. T. Mart Johnson, the resident
engineer, undertook to see rectified. The levees in question
have great advantages over the ordinary handle by which
signals are worked, being fitted with the lock action of
Mr. Saxby ; but unfortunately they were found to require
such extraordinary exercise of muscular power in moving,
that the government inspector prudently withheld his
sanction of their use until some change should be
made in their construction. The gentlemen who were
conveyed, in company with Colonel Yolland, by train
from Paddington to Farringdon-street, were Mr. lane,
Mr. Fenton, Mr. Spagnoletti, Mr. Johnson, and
Mr. Tanner. The engineer in chief, Mr. Fowler, was
not present, he being engaged sway from London.
We do oot state with certainty that the railway will open
for traffic on Monday next, the sth instant ; but that is
the day on which the directors and leading officials
intend, if all goes well, to commence actual operations.
Trial tripe will be of almost daily occurrence until then,
with a view to paling everything into practised working
order. The seek of fares for the whole distance, single
journey, will be : let clue, fid. ; 2nd clue, 4d. ; 3rd class,
3d. Return : lit class, 9d. ; Zed class, 6d. ; and 3rd clue,
sd. For the intermediate distances the single farce will
be : let class, 4d. ; 2nd clue, 3d. ; 3rd class, 9d. Return :
Ist class, 6d. ; 2nd class, 4d. ; and 3rd ciao', 3d. The
works for extending the line from Farringdoo• street to
Finsbury will be forthwith marled into execution by the
contractor, Mr. Jay.

FIRE AT THE Rvswg OF MR. COMPTON.—
A fire broke oat on Friday evening Let in the upper part
of the house occupied by Mr. Compton, the comedian,
No. 5, Stamford-road, Ketviington. The fire is supposed
to have been caused by a child going with • lighted candle
to • wardrobe, the contents of which became ignited, and
were destroyed, the furniture of the bedroom being like-
wise much damaged. The engines were quickly on the spot,
and the flames were soon extinguished, the fire being cm-
fined to the room in which it originated. The property
was insured.

BOXING-NIGHT AT THE DUBLIN THEargit. —There
is always extraordinary excitement in this theatre on
"boxing-night" to witnem the first performance of the pan-
! tomime. Last Friday night the throng was unprecedented.
The subject of the pantomime is Cinderella. No sooner
had the curtain risen on the first some than the whole
densely-pecked house, from pit togallery, broke into one wild
thorns of applause. Mr. Harris, the manager of the theatre,
Mr. Craven, the YAW, Mr. Granby, the stage manager,
Mr. Levey, the composer and conductor of the music—all
were successively called oat by the " gods " to receive their
rapturous applause, the tenants of the boxes and of the pit
warmly concurring in the well-merited ovation. The got-
genus scenery and the admirable acting continued to make
every moment a more sod more favourable imcsiou, till a
clever transformation revealed a trophy of —" union
jacks " surmounted by a small green flag. wi the harp
of Eno in the centre. Immediately a crowd of " tars"
were seen aloft, waving the British flag, but no green
into
the time was to be seen. This threw the nationalists
the most violent paroxysm on record. The Ration thus de-
scribes the scene : A perfect roar of anger buret from
the audience, and it was impossible to hear even the
orchestra with the hurricane of hissing that arose. Cries
for 'The green flag, the green flag ! " The green flag out,
the green flag out! were all the articulate sounds of any
kind- that could be distinguished amid the dia. This con-
tinued for some time, the 'clown' and'pantaloon' doing
their utmost to play down the disapprobation by persever-
ance. The ' house' was wroth, and would not be appeased
—save by 'the green lag,' which, with lungs that seemed
miraculously enduring, they kept untiringly demanding.
In this manner the performance was ' galloped' over
rapidly to the end, apparently abbreviated to the utmost,
hoping that the grand tableaux at the finale—it really mag-
nificent spectacle—would cause the ' little unpleasantness'
to vanish, and all to end, like the fairy tale itself, happily.
But even this calculation was doomed to disappointment,
and the curtain fell amid hiesiog as loud as ever, and cries
as vehement for the_ gram flag."
THE DAM AT DLRBIILAND.—We (TiMez) are in-
formed by a correspondent that the dam at Marshland
Sluice was not carried away by the high tide of last Sun-
day, which rose higher than any tide during the previous
ten years, and was accompanied by a violent gale of wind.
The dam and bank resisted the tide at its highest, but
when it had fallen two feet in the River Ouse, a portion of
the new bank which connected the darn with the old bank,
and in the making of which some silt bad been deposited,
fell in, and • breach was made nearly eight yard+ long and
between two and three yards deep ' • this might easily have
been repaired before the next high water, but some of the
commissioners of Marshland, who visited the works the
same day, declined to authorise any steps being taken for
the repay. Mr. Harding was the contractor for the darn,
and Mr. Page the engineer, who, however, had resigned his
appointment about a week before, in consequence of a dif-
femme in his views and those of the commissioners about

providing a permanent drainage for the district.
SERIOUS MINE ACCIDENT.-011 Thursday an acci-
dent of a serious character took plum. at No. 1 Inglestone
Ironstone Mine, situated in the parish of Danipace, and be-
longing to Messrs. Baird, Gartsherrie. It appmrs that a
couple of trucks, containing four men 'soh, were being
drawn up the incline from the mine, and cm arriving at the
level embankment, instead of stopping at the regular place,
they went on. Suspecting that something was wrong, five
of the men jumped out of the trucks, and one of the three
that remained cried to the enginaman to stop the
engine; but in place of shutting off the steam he
put it an, and the consequence was that the trucks
along with the men were dragged over the rigger or drum '
toned which the rope coils. They were then forcibly drawn
through one of the partitions of the engine shed, and coming
into collision with a scaffold they drove it away, and were
subsequently precipitated into a hold fifteen feet deep. On
being got out, one of the men, named Lees, was found to
have several of his ribs broken and to be otherwise injured.
The other two massed with a few alight bruises. The
engiueman states that he foiled it impeasible to stop the
engine when the MAO cried to him, in consequence of the
quadrant link having been supplied with new brasses that
day, which rendered it stiff. The case is undergoing strict
investigation by the authorities. The eogineman has been
Idischarged from the employment of the Messrs.
!THZ LATZ COLLISION AT WINCHBUEOII.—In ad-
dition to the oaken of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway
I already held to bail on the charge of culpable neglect of
duty in connexion with the disastrous collision at Which-
: burgh on the 13th of October, Mr. Latham, the general
manager, has been examined before the Sheriff of Linlith-
• gowshire on the seine charge, and also admitted to bail.
Mr. Latham is the chief °Moat of the company, sod has
filled his present situation for a considerable number of
years. The trial, which will be at Edinburgh, is not ex-
pected to take place till spring. All the sufferers from the
accident have now been discharged from the Royal Infir-
mary at Edinburgh, with the exception of Harvey, of the
Scots Greys, who has not yet recovered from the severe
fractures he sustained. _

• ARRIMT FOR THE MURDER OF THE LAM ALDER-
MAN SIiZZEIT.—We have just been informed that two men
of t►e name of Mianogue, one of whom bee been recently
in America. from which he baa been brought back by the
primmest, have been arrested, charged with the murder
of the late Alderman Sheehy, and lodged ie the county
gaol, Ennis. The second of the Minnogues was arrested at
his residence, in the pariah of Feeekle, county of Clara,
within the last few days. Theme men were before arrested
on the same charge, and were in End', gaol, but were dl'-
charged, so evidence being adduced against them. The
murder of Alderman Sheehy took place two ye..n ago
biat October, in the pariah of Feeckle, county of Clare.
limerick Reporter.
EXCELLENT RIFLE SHOOTING BY MR. HORATIO
' Rage.—We learn that at Netheley, on the lflth instant,
the champion marksman. Mr. Horatio Ross, made the fol-
lowing excellent score (hits and points added) with an old
Henry rifle—one of the first produced by the maker—and
with which between RE and seven thousand shots have basil
Arad :

TOO yards -3N
900 dn.
1000 do.
—93
Xr. Roes, who fired no trial shots after 800 yards. loaded
with a Auk, and without having weighed the hullets ; sad
he attributed the miss at the eighth shot et t►e 900 yards
to this sad to the flask being then nearly empty. The
wind was blowing very strong at the time. —Deader Adver-
tiser.