The Express.
London, England, 1853-03-28 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING MARCH 28, 1863.

[ prelates death, Perriciard had remarked that it was tear,
aad that he had helped to convey him to the hmidtal.
Several other witnesses proved that they had heard the
rumours spread about the amused; but the only testimony
of any interest was that of a woman named itiniard, which
was to the effect that, just after the archbishop Wai
she bad seen Perriehard in a state of great agitation with
his hair in disorder, and that he said, "1 have just caught
the archbishop in my arms, end he is dead ! It served him
right! What right had he to meddle in our affairs?"
A greet number of witnesses were called for the defence.
They gave the accused a good character, and some of them
stated that they did nut believe he had left his louse on the
day of the murder of the archbishop. The insurgents, they
said, had endeavoured to fusee him to go with them, but he
had refused. One witness, a female, declared that the
woman Chenneviires was animated with feelings of toe
greatest h 'sulky against the accused, and her statement
respecting his having shut the archbishop was therefore to
be received with great mistrutt.
'ld. Nogent St. Laurens addressed the court for Perri-
chard, and when he had concluded a most able and bril-
liant defence, the president asked Perrichard if he had any-
thing to add. The groaner said, " No; 1 maintain all that
I have said: that is to say, that all the evidence Jig tins: me
is falselniad end calumny, and that the persons who have
gives it deserve to be punished as perjurers."
The court then retired to deliberate. After being absent
three quarters of an hour the members returned, and the
president read the ju lginent. It declared Pi rrichard to
have been guilty of attempting to excite civil war by
.in-
ducing citiaens to arm against each other, of having fur.
nished arms and munitions of war, nod of having
borne arms in the insurrection. The court acquitted him
unanimously of the charge of murder, but sentenced him
fur the other utt:nce to trauspoitatim for life.

SCOTLAND.

RAILWAY TRIALS,CONVIOTIONS FOR

NEGLECT OF DUTY.
The High Court of Justiciary met at Edinburgh
on Thursday last fpr the trial of the officials of the Nom,
Elitists Railway, implicated in the collision that took place
at Portobello, on the Bth of October last. The panels
were five in number, of whom tam were triad on Thurs-
day.
John IPDonald, engine-driver, Thomas Wilson, station-
master, Portobello, and Joha Howarth, porter, Portobello,
were placed at the bar, charged with culpable homicide, as
also culpable neglect of duty ; in so far as on the Bth Octe-
t). r last, a goods.train, consisting of eighteen trucks or
wegitens, drawn by a louromotive-engine, in chug* of
Ni.Doetahl, having arrived at Portobello from Edinburgh
station at or about fifty-five minutes past five o'clock,
or at all events within fifteen militates of the ex-
pected ;arrival of the 5.36 mail train from Edin-
burgh, Ilogar.h, in violation of his duty, neglected to
present the fixed station signal at the west of the station
to warn the mail train that the station was not clear, cud
Wilson neglected to see that the said signal was duly pre-
sented, and continued to be presented, while Wilson also
neglected to take proper measures, and to issue the neces-
sal y orders for the clearing of the line for the passage of the
mad-train ; and M'Donsld, aware of the starting of the said
train, neglected his duty to proceed with his own train to
Inc first offset or siding, at the station, which would hold it
clear of the main 'line ; in consequence of all which, or part
thereof, the mail train cams into violent e,llisioa with the
goods train, the porter of the goods train, named Stewart
Ogilvie, was killed• and several of the passenger of the
mail train were bruised and injured.
' At the close of the evidence for the prosecution, the
ebergc against liugerth was withdrawn, and the evidence
on the subject of tne signal, being contradictory, the court
directed the jury only to consider the other point.
Tile jury found Wilson guilty of culpable neglect of duty
la not clearing the station, and 3.l•Donald also guilty, in nut
removiug his engine and train from the line, with this ex-
lineation, that he was under the impression that he should
attend to the orders of the guard.
•
Sentence was delayed till next day.
On Friday William Lyall, superintendent of the goods
departmeet, Edinburgh. and Alex. Ramsay, foreman ppur-
tc and acting as clay pilot-guard, a ere charged with culpa-
ble homicide, or culpable neglect of duty, in so far as, ou
the Bth of Oettib?_,T they ordered or permitted the irregular
train to leave tho Edinburgh station at about 5.45 p.m., or, a
least, within 15 minutes of the time advertised for the start-
ing of the mait'trein, with the object of depositing 191210 of
the trucks at the Portobello station, and some at Leith
junction; in consequence of which, the mail train having
started from Edinburgh at or about its usual time, the COW-
IN/II occurred as above stated.

The charge againsti;;EWas withdrawn, and he was ac-
cordingly acquitted. The jury found the case against
Ramsay not proven.
Wilson and dl•Donald were then placed at the bar for
sentence, and were awarded —Wilson eighteen months, and
M'Douald four mouths' imprisonment.
Thrtr.ighout the triais the counsel on both sides, and es-
pecially the court, aniniadver ed strongly at the laxity on
the part of the servants of the company that Was counte-
nanced by their superior officers, and which led to such
danger to the public. The Lord Justice Clerk remarked
that the disclosures that bad been made, male it pretty evi-
dent that on a similar case occurring it would be the
manager or the directors, and not the inferior is of
the company, that would be held responsible, should this
laxity be allowed to continue.

SHREWSBURY AND BIRMLNOIIAM
RAILWAY.
The half-yearly meeting of the shareholders in
this company was held at the Sava Ho el, at Wolverhsinp-
ton, on Saturday afternoon, the Hue. H. H. CLIVE, M.P.,
in the chair. There was a very large attendance of the

Tin report, in reference to the capital account said :
" The payments during the past half-year amount to
13,6901. Ile. Sd., making a total expenditure of
1,194,1491. 17e. Ild., exclusive of the sum contributed to the
Stour Valley, which is now represented by the London and
North Western Guaranteed Stock. The further expenditure
during the present half-sear will be chiefly for the land and
works on the Sladeley /Stanch, the contract for which has
been let. The total receipts for the half-year are at the
rate of only 261. Bs. per mile per week, and show very
forcibly the active eompetit.on on the part of the London ,
and North Western Company, with which you have to coo-
tend: although it continues to be carried ou at a very great
sacrifice to the income of that company. Your direet,rs
regret that as adverse decision of the Muter of the nulls
enables the London and North Western Company to can-
tinue the cotnpetition for your local traffic, contrary to the
terms of the agreement of October, 1847. They
are advised that this decision will probably be
reversed upon appeal In the meantime, your director+
entertain • very confident expectation of arrangements
being made fur charging those higher fares sad rat, a,
i which the traffic and commercial prosperity of the district
fully justify. The net receipts fur 1842, including those
from the Stour Valley, show a dividend of Bs. per share, or
o per cent. oa the preference shares. The sum of 41. 64.
per share has been paid on account, and dividend war-
rants are being made out for the balance of 34.6 d. per share.
There are now three rears' dividend owing to the holder+
of London and North Western Guaranteed Stock in respect
of the receipts from the BtuurValley Company. Your Direc-
tors recommend that a dividend of 21 per cent., free from
income tax (which has been paid by the Stew Valley Com-
pany), be now paid upon this stock, and that the same rate
of dividend be paid next half year."
The statement of account under the head of " capital"
showed that the gross expenditure up to the 3lst of De-
cember has been 1,385,2471.75. Ild., and the receipts on all
the shares, loans, premiums, rents, and transfer fees,
1,394,0161. 95.4 d. ; leaving a balance on the debtor ride,
"carried to the ralonee-sheet " (says the report) amounting
to 9,2681. le. Sd. The half-year's revenue account shows
that the gruss receipts have been 20.3141. Os. 6d., and the
expenditure under the usual heads 18,6931. Its. Ild., leav-
ing a balance carried to dividend account amounting to
1,6201. le. 6d. The two remaining heeds in the statement
under the heads " dividend account" and "general state-
ment of balances" are pretty much explained in the re-
port, at least so far as regards the general result. In the
" general expenditure," Sine. Jane 30, last year, there is
an item for "law Otages, parliamentary expenses, en-
gineering, and surveying, 1851.62," amounting to
4021. 16s. 7d., which is added to capital account, in addi-
tion to alum of 1,7591. 2s. 6d. for "extraordinary expenses
arising out of the
.proceedings of the committee of in-
quiry," &a., Mo.
After • a discussion of a somewhat angry and personal
nature, the report was adopted, as was also one de-
claring a dividend of two-sad-a-half per cent. on Stour
Valley stock ; Mr. Collis protesting, on the ground that the
preference shareholders had a prior claim for the lull
amount of their interest over the Stour Valley stock.
Mr. ROBINSON next moved, " That it is indispensable to
the well-being of this company that the secretary shall
henceforth be an independent office, receiving a known
salary, sad accountable for the fill and complete discharge
of his duties."

Mr. KNOX, amidst =With laughter, seacitided this motion,
which was of warn direct:4 against himself ; and it was
carried.

A large number of shares were declared forfeited ; and
then a vote of thanks was paned to the eheirman, the
meeting not terminating natil after six o'clock in the
•reming.

SOUIH-EASTERN RAILWAY.

It appears that Mr. Alderman Salmons, late chair-
man of list) Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Railway Com-
pany, has addreatied a letter to tho proprietors of this com-
pany with a view to show that the proposal for leasing the
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Railway Company, at a
rent equivalent to 5i per cent. on 800,000!., did not originate
with him—that he was no party to it, and had no connexion
with it until it was arrange.!. He states that although the
South-Eastern proprietors are liable te the Reading, Guild-
ford, and Reigate proprietors fur a capital of 800,0001., this
sum had not been spent on the line at the time it was trans-
ferred to the South-Eutern Company. The day the line
was transferred, a draught, amounting to 118,8681., was
paid over wltl. it, and also property belonging to the com-
pany was surrendered, including • quantity of most value•
ble land, of which 30 acres adjoin the town of Reigate, and
about 5 acres are between the station of the Reading and
Reigate and the Great Western station at Reading. Ile con-
tends that interest on at least 50,0001. of the money handed
over by the Reading and Reigate Company to the South-
Eastern Company should be chargeable on the capital account
of the latter company, which, at 4 per cent., would amount
to 2,0001. a year. lie complains of the fares charged on the
Reading and Reigate line, ' and says however unpopular
that line may now he with the South Eastern proprietors,
he feels confident that it will prove both remunerative and
advantageous to that company. With regard to his con-
nexion with the East Kent &iilway, he states that, in Join-
ing the gentlemen of his county in the East Kent scheme,
he was only endeavouring to complete a line of railway to
which the South Eastern Company had been long and
solemnly pledged. He considers the comp'etion of the line
by a friendly company to be indispensable, not only to the
prosperity of the South Eastern Company, but to the pro-
tection of their present property. He concludes by stating
that he feels assured that the permanent interests of the
South Eastern Company are tar more bound up in the con-
tinuation of the North Kent line into East Kent, by Strood
to Canterbury, than in undertaking at the present moment
the construction, with South Eastern capital, of the branch
line from Strood to Maidstone.

THE REPRESENTATION OP HUDDERSFIELD.—Mr.
Winans has not yet issued his address; we believe his delay
urines from an honourable desire to obtain perfect satisfac-
tion as to the propriety et' offering himself, after the circum-
stances which he explained at the meeting of Wednesday
evening. In the meantime Joseph Starkey, Esq., the ex-
tensive manufacturer of Huddersfield, and chairman of Mr.
Stanfield's election committee, has been called on by the
friends • all whom lie then acted to become a candidate ;
and be has complied with the call, and issued an address,
avowing very liberal political principles. We have heard
that if Mr. Willans should ultimately determine to with-
draw, it is not unlikely that a noble lord connected with
Yorkshire, and of decidedly liberal views, may be put be
fore the electors for their acceptance.— Leeds Mercury.
WESTERN RAILWAY OF FRANCE. Traffic fur
week ending March 20, 18-33, 3,5641. ; corresponding week,
18.52, 3,161[. ; 90 miles open. lucresse Cf traffic, 1953 over
1832, to present time, 5,0411.

IRELAND.

DIMON, FILIDAT ETINUte.

This day has been observed with much more
strictness as a holiday than I recAleet any Good
Friday to have been in Dublin for a number of years.
It is not what is termed a holiday of obligation in the
Roman catholic church, but all parties, protestants
and Roman catholic*, seem to join on the present oc-
casion in observing it as such, at least so fur as the
closing of shops, and refraining to a great extent trom
manual labour, would indicate. The various places
of worship were crowdt d during the moroing, and
numbers of people fill the streets this afternoon
quietly enjoying the rest. The sun has shone bril-
liantly all day ; but the harshness of the wind too
plainly shows that we are not done with the wintery
weather. This morning the ground was covered
more thickly with snow than at any time for the last ,
two or three days.
The following on the subject of the Irish Tenant
Compensation Bills appears in the Northern Whit,:
A highly valued correspondent, whose position enables
him to have a correct knowledge of the mutter on which '
tie writes, and whose disposition, we know, inclines him
to take the deepest interest in the equitable adjustment of
the present existing relations between landlord and tenant
in Ireland, sends us a copy of the propositions agreed to by
the Select Committee on Tenants' Compensation, &e.
(Ireland) Bills. The following is the communication of our
correspondent :—The following propositions were agreed to
by the committee, with a view to indicate the principle on
which amended clauses of the bill should bra prepared fur
future consideration : —Leasing Powers (Ireland) Bill.—
That the improvements Mr which compen•ation should be
provided by mean* of agreements should be divided into
:no classes; first, those which are removable and separable
from the soil; secondly, those which are not removable or
separable from the soil. That improvements made by the
tenant in the first class shall be compensated fur by making
those improvements the properly of the tenant; that im-
provements in the second class shall be compensated fur by
compensating periods of years.

Several persons have been convicted at the Cork
Assizts of riots during the last election, and in a few
cases the juries were unable to agree to a verdict.
None of the cases presented any features more re-
markable than those of an ordinary !jot. _

SATURDAY.
Mr. Lucas, MY., devotes an article of four,
columns in length in the Tablet of this week, to the
subject of " Independence and Opposition," for the
purpose of enlightening his readers on the policy and
conduct of himself and his Irish colleagues in the
House of Commons. Ile professes still to adhere to
the old impracticable doctrine of "Opposition ;"
rejects the principle of "Independence" as an ambi-
guous and deceptive one, and as incompatible with
co-operation; and labours to undermine the confi-
dence in the present government which, in spite of
Mr. Lucas and of those who entertain the same views
with him, is rapidly gaining ground in the minds of
the people of this country. " I hear it whispered
about," says Mr. Lucas, " that the government after
all is not such a bad government ; that it is favour-
able to us as catholies ; and that on the Land Commit-
tee it is doing, and it will do, us a very fair
measure of justice. I entreat my readers, in what.
ever part of Ireland, not to believe a single word of
all this miserable trash." He proceeds to tell his
readers that on religious questions the principles
which he heard from Lord Palmerston and Lord John
Russell, not two months ago, in the House of Com-
mons, were " of the worst and blackest description ;"
while upon the land question he asserts that "any
man who pretends that anything has passed in the
land committee which gives the ministers the smallest
title to our support, which pledges the ministers in
any way to give us the substance of Sharman Craw-
ford's bill, or an equivalent for that substance, or
which gives us a reason to believe that the present
ministry will set at rest or provide a remedy for this
mighty and fundamental grievance, pretends that
which has no foundation in fact."
Mr. Lucas was strongly suspected of coquetting
with the Derby party, but to-day ho fairly throws
them overboard:
Never Nona (be says) can Lord Derby's party comet to
power to play the mad pranks of last year, to issue pro-
clamations against harmless religious ceremonies, to create
sacrilegious outrage at Stockport, and to organize social
strife and bitter animo:ity throughout every parish and
county of Ireland. Never again, if an honest Irish
party holds well together, shall we see a repetition of
these delirious follies, even from Orange politicians. Last
year it was everywhere believed, in spite of the talk to
the contrary, that the Irish party would make an offensive
and defensive alliance with the liberals, and would ez•
hibit nothing but a factious opposition to their opponents,
The result was that the tones encountered us as enemies,
from whom they had nothing to hope, with unmitigated
rancour, and poured out upon all the vials of their wrath.
Now they know that we do not make these irreversible
alliances ; that we stand aloof ; that we watch our maraet
from day to day ; that we count every bargain that we
make ; and that we are resolved so to act that both sides
must reckon with us.

The council of the Tenant League have called a
meeting of their friends to be held in Dublin on
Wednesday next " to hear a statement from the par-
liamentary representatives as to the workings of the
select committee on the Land Bah, and to take
counsel together for the further advancement of the
cause generally." The following are some of the ac-
counts received this day of effects of the weather upon
agricultural prospects :
The Northern Whig says:

Our accounts from the country this morning are tolerably
, satisfactory ; for, although they report that (or the week the
' weather was such that no sowing could be done, still In
plotighing much progress was made in many districts, and
under very favourable circumstances. The seed time must
be now unprecedentedly late ; but that the ground has been
fertilised and improved by the late snows and frosts every
farmer knows; se that if the seed were but sown, and with
favourable weather afterwards, the harvest might still be
rich and ample ; but the utmost energy and exertion will be
required to effect a sowing within a reasonable time, and of
the requisite extent ; and an outlay unknown during ordi-
nary years will also be required ; for all this let the farmer
be fully prepared.

The Limerick Reporter says :—" Though the sea-
son ha. been very severe and unpropitious, we are
happy to learn by our accounts from Thurles, Nenagh,
and other parts of Tipperary, that considerable pro-
grew; bas been made to spring work."

A fine steamer, called the Sylph, was launched
from the yard of Mews. Rome and Murphy, at
Waterford, the day before yesterday. She sailed to
Glasgow to got her engines.
The following particulars of the Great Ezhibitiou
are from the Freeman :

The chief event of yesterday was the raising of one of the
half-ribs of the domed roof of the great nave, near the
Dublin Society House. It is intended to place at this (the
western) end of the hall the magnificent organ manufac-
tured by Mr. Telford, of Stephen's-green, for the College
of St. Peter, Hadley, Oxford; and a great matter of in-
terest with all parties concerned in the construction of the
building was to have this part of it finished at an early
period, so as to admit of the erection of the organ with
the !east possible delay. With this view the raising of
the ribs has been commenced at the western end of the
building, and the first of the half-ribs having been
' raised yesterday without difficulty, the probability is
that the remaining three will be fixed permanently in
their places by Monday next. The organ, which the au-
thorities of St. Peter's College at Oxford have kindly per-
witted to be exhibited here, is one of the finest and most
perfect toned instruments in England, and will doubtless
form a very prominent feature of attraction. The organ is
enclosed in a splendid oak case, with tin pipes, and contains
three complete manuals, from CC to 0 in alt, the pedal
organ, trom CCC to o—two-aotta-half octaves, six compo
sition pedals, five copulas, fifty stoic The total number of
pipes is 2,833—viz., the great organ, containing 1,146
pipes; the swell organ, 947 ; the choir organ, 366; and the
pedal organ, 384. This splendid instrument coat upwards
of 2,0004., a sum which is a very inadequate representation
of its real value. The organ was taken down in December,
and is at present in Dublin, and ready for immediate erec-
tion. We understand that Mr. Telford has in preparation
• smaller organ, in the Gothic stye, intended for the me-
dieval court, which the younger Pugin and other eminent
architects intend to fit up in the Dublin Exhibition, in imi-
tation of that which excited such interest and admiration at
the Crystal Palace. The splendid stained glass window,
mane for the beautiful Catholic church in Dundalk, will be
exhibited in the medieval court, and will greatly enhance
the. attractions of this department, which we have no
hesitation in predicting will be one of the gems of the
Exhibition.

GOLD IN MAYO.—The fact of the existence of gold
in the soil of Mayo was perfectly established here last week
in the yard of Mr. Brennan, where his workmen were sink-
ing a hole for the erection of his gasometer. The ore found
has been tested by br. Atkinson, who pronounced it to be
pure gold.—Castlebar Telegraph.

bALMON FISHERY.—A reaction has set in in the
salmon fis►ery of the Suir, Nore, and Barrow. The fish
are large and in the finest possible condition, and have not
for a great number of years been co abundant at such an
early period of the season. The take in the upper portions
of our tideway,' and the fresh waters has teen particularly
good. We have heard of a reverend gentleman having
killed with rod and line 21 salmon on the Suir, above
Clunntel, tan the Ist instant, and 14 on the 2iid. Other
anglers have been very suceec,4l, and all are highly de-
lighted at the iinpro%. merit which has been effected in the
'almon fisheries of our rivers by the protection afforded the
breeding fish during the past two or three winters.—lVater-
ford Mail.