The Express.
London, England, 1862-02-17 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 17, 1862.

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The half-yearly meeting was held to-day at the
Loodoe Timers; Mr. J. C. MARISHULX in the their, whoa
the following report of the directors was adopted :—" Is
February last, her Majesty's government deemed It mow
sary to defer the payment of the guareatessi Uttered until
after the peeing of an act to remove She doable raised
by the law oaken of the crown as to the uneesditionel
nature of the contract between the Treasury and the emir
piny. The declaratory act confirming the original
agreement wits pared on the 22114 of March, when the
interest was immediately paid. This question having been
settled, the directors brought the state of the line and the
company's position under the notice of the government,
The government were, however, indisrosed to take upon '
themselves the responsibility of proceeding with the under.
taking, and matters remained in state quo till • proposal was
made to the Treasury by Sir Macdonald Stephenson, who
undertook to form • company for the purpose of taking
measures to restorethe communication, on condition of re-
ceiving from the government the lines and property of the
Red Sea and India Telegraph Company tree of charge.
The government adopted the suggestion, and undertook-1.
To divest the existing company of all further responsibility
in respect to the affairs of the Red Sea and India Telegraph,
with • view to transferriog the entire concerti to the hands
of a new company, on suitable terms and condition, should
any such company be formed with an amount of capital
sufficient to justify a reasonable bops of the success of
its object —2. To convert the present guarantee into •
government annuity of like amount, payable at the Beak
of England, as in the case of other government sensitise.
It would follow from this conversion that all exposer of
dubursemeots would be defrayed by the government —a To
reserve power to the government to redeem this annuity at
any time hereafter, on payment of a capital sum in
tion to the unexpired period which the annuity may
have to rue. Thu proposal was submitted to the share-
holders at • special general meeting, and approved of.
The new company have fulfilled the terms of their same-
meet with the government, by the subecription of two-
thirds of their capital, and the despatch of a steamer to the
Red Sea with 21.10 miles of new cable on board, and made
application to the Treasury for the stipulated transfer of
the line and property of the Red Sea and India Telegraph
Company, which has been carried out."

THE EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE AT BROWLIT.
This morning information was forwarded to Mr. Serjeant j
Payne, the coroner for the district of Southwark, that the
man whine determined efforts to commit suicide by shooting
himself in the forehead sod mouth with a pistol has bees
already described in the newspapers, expired last night at I
BR Thomses Hospital in • delirious state. The attempts I
on his life were so determined in their character, and the
injuries received were so serious, that it was a matter of
surprise to the medical gentlemen that death did sot take
place instantly, and nothing but the greatest skill on the
part of Mr. Bell, the surgeon in charge of the case, enabled
the wretched man to linger so long.
THE EFFECTS Or RAILWAY TRAVELLING.—Mr.
S Sony, 1.R.5., writes to the Lwert :—" My persona/
experience with regard to the effects of railway towelling
may be given briefly. When perfectly well, I find no is-
convenient's from it ; but, if I am below par, or suffering
from any congestion of the brain, the result of overwork
or dyspepsia, and then take • long railway journey, it is
cirtain to give me a headache, which I do not get rid of
for a day or two. I always nit with my loos to the
engine, next to the window, which, as a rule, I prefer
open. unless the weather is excessively cold. I do not
think I ever got either catarrh or rheumatism from this
exposure, me some would call it. I always read if the dir
lance to be travelled is short, but I am sure that it le
hurtful to read for any length of time on the rail. I know
• public character who usol to read incessantly, even if his
journey exteaded from Lirerpod to London ; but the
result was that he was obliged to give up all
brain work sad amuse himself (to use own words),
with the saw and the billhook. I do not wen
to say the brain rest was required solely for the in-
jury done on the rail, for he worked rather too hard at all
times ; but I am sure that it increased the mischief foetal
For nearly • twelvemonth he could not read at all with-
out immediately bringing on pain in his head. By rest,
change, and very little medicine, he hes now nearly reco-
vered, and win, I have every reason to believe, be again
able to serve his country in the senate, if not in the cabi-
net. if lam quite well, IMU sleep the whole night
through almost as well is • railway carnage as in my bed.
All thine observations apply to first-class carriages. I
soon found, wee in early life, that I could not endure the
rattle and vibration of a second-clam carriage. In all
cases of congestic.in of the brain, or • tendency to it, rail-
way travelling is •
injurious. Oily this morning I was
visited by a patient, aged 62, who bad been suffering
from congestion .4 the limn, which had been com-
pletely relieved by medicine and 24 teethes to the
temples. I had permitted him to go down to Reigate to
ass about • home previous to his residing there par.
nwnestly, as be had retired from bushier, and hatoicled
to lead a vary quiet life in that beautifel tonality. He
told me that be bad felt perfectly well sines his last visit
to me, until he travelled op this morning by rail. The
motion had reproduced the giddiness from which be luta
been free for more than • week. This case, perfect in itself,
is only noe among many that I could adduce in proof of my
as that a brain disturbed by insisting= is injuriously
affected by motion on the rail."
PERSECUTION Or PROT/MARTS IN SPAIN.—The
Detats publishes the following :—" We have called attestio•
to the persecutions suffered by the few Spaniards who prelim
the protestant religion. One of them. M. Manuel Matanxiimi,
convicted of having sold Spanish bibles, has been condemned
to the galleys for seven years. He is not the only victim of
the intolerant principles inscribed in the Spanish coda.
Prom information which he himself has addressed to the
Clamor Pu4lieo, eight persons are still in prison at Malaga
on account of their religion, seven at Seville, three at
Granada. and many others have also been weeded at Bar-
token Gordove, and Jaen. Some of these are women, and
ow 6a girl °sly 17 years of age. From Malsga, Granada,
sad Seville above fifty fathers of families have lama compelled
to emigrate to Name the rigours of the law, and have lAtheir
wives and children in • state of destitution. The Spanish
enieseritiso feel all the odium of these peopeciitiosa, and
endeseeer to deceive patine *pulite by representing the
persons arrested or condemned as guilty of ernspincy
splint the date, and by giving • political colour to these
absurd acts of violeooe which are an outrage on reams and
humanity. But they adduce no fact to support thaw elle-
gations. The truth is, that the police bare seized all the
papers of Matamoros and his fellow-sufferers, and yet not •
single document has been published to prove anything
against him. M. Matamorce is nothing but • sincere be-
liever ; the only faction be serves, at the peril of the gal-
leys, is the Gospel ; the only party chief he consents to
I follow, at the rah of liberty sod life, is Jesus Christ. He
hes lately expressed his real sentiments in a letter addressed
to the committee of the Paris Evangelical Alliance."