The Express.
London, England, 1851-05-03 00:00:00

AMERICA.

AIIItIN'AL OF THE WASHINGTON.
[Ey Electric Tot.
(rnost orn CORRESPONDENT.)
SOUTILIMPTON, VTURDAY MORNING.
The Washington has arrived from New York, with
three days' later dates, namely, to tho 19th. The
Pacific had arrived out in nine days twenty-one
hours. The Prometheus had arrived from Chagres,
with two millions of dollars in gold dust.
Another destrueture fire hud happened in the gold
regions, and the city of Nevada was burnt to the'
ground.
The Washington brings 44 passengers for South-
ampton, and fats for Bremen.

THE DISPUTE BETWEEN Mn. HUDSON AND THE
NEWCASTLE AND CAIIILIILE RAILWAY COMrANY has
been decided by Mr. Glyn, the arbitrator, who has, we
understand, awarded to the Carlisle Company the sum of
3,000/., in place of the 38,0001. claimed by that company.
The 3,0001. is the balance of the actual earnings of the line,
ageing which Mr. Hudson is to be allowed the sums paid
by him on accouut of construction, and which exceed the
amount awanled.—.Sunderland lkrald.
WINDING- EP OP JOINT STOCK COMPANIES.
BAILBADOEY RAlLWAY.—Yesterday a meeting was held in
this matter before his honour Muster Blunt, to take steps to
call on the directors, for whom Mr. Olasse appeared as
counsel, to account for the deposits received by them,
amounting to between 9,0001. and 10,000/. Mr. Roxburghe
appeared us compel fur Mr. Ainger, tho official manager,
and said the director, had received 11. per share deposit
when they were ally entitled to receive 2s. 6d. per share.
The proceedings, after some evidence, were adjourned lot
want of the necessary documents.
ItOYsTON AND HITCUIN.—AiaI meeting of
of this company was held on Wednesday, at the office, 28,
Poultry, to consider a bill now before parliament ; Mr. W.
Wilsherc in the chair. The solicitor read the heads of the
bill, from a hich it appeared that the bill was promoted by
the Great Northern Compan_y, and that it contained clauses
ailbcting the Royston and Ritchin Company so far as to
consolidate the shares into stock, and to reducetheir amount
from 8/. 64. Bd. each to 6!. 6s. each, on which 6 per cent.
per annum was guaranteed by the Great Northern Com-
pany, the company to have the power to issue new shares
to the amount of 66,6661. should the additional capital be
required. After a short discussion the bill was approved,
and the meeting separated.

INDIA.
TIIE OVERLAND MAIL.

We arc in possession of our natal despatches an-
ticipatory ut the Overland Mail. Thu dates are
Bombay, April 3, and Calcutta, March 24.
• Our correspondent writes as follows :
BOMBAY, Aram 3.
The vice-regal visit to Peshawar has terminated;
its results have to be seen. The Marquis of Dal-
housie reached the extreme frontier of our dominioas
on the Bth March, and was received with all due
ceremony by the troops, his lordship being appa-
rotly fond of pomp and parade, as in India seems to
be necessary, to impress on the natives a due regard
of the power and rank of the representative of the
Coompanic Bahadoor. During his sojourn, his lord-
ship visited the fort of Jumrood, 24 miles distant ;
from Peshawar, at the entrance of the Khyber
Pass. Pour Captain Grantham, 9sth Foot,;
who was so dreadfully wounded by a set
of Affreedic marauders in the end of Feb-
ruary, died at Peshawar on the lath March.l
The most stringent measures were ordered 'by the
Governor-General to be carried out against those of
the hill robbers who should Gill into our hands, and
Mr. John Lawrence had been invested with the lull
powers of the board to try them summarily ; and
scarcely a day is said to pass when one or more of
them was not to be WOO swinging between heaven
and earth for their sins towards us. We hare thus
commenced with the work of vengeance, but it is to
Ire hoped due inquiry will in every case precede
punishment. They certainly deserve no mercy at
our hands, for they never show any to our troops and
followers who happen unfortunately to fall in their
way. A strong Mree, provisioned for twa months,
was about to move from Peshawar on Kohut. und‘r
the command of Sir Colin Campbell. The Warts,-
ries had been tittered a choice by Lord Dal-
housie—l presume, either to give hostages fur
their geed conduct in future towards us, or
take their chance of being eradicated from
their mountain fastnesses ; the fact of a force being
ordered out would lead to the supposition that the
terms offered had been rejected. You may there-
fore expect to hear once more of strife and deadly
combat on the frontier. Captain Daly, commanding
at Kohut, had come in and had an interview with
the noble marquis ; and on his return, his resmldar
(native officer of cavalry) was shot dead in the paws. A
durbar of the chiefs of Peshawar and some from the
hills was held by Lord Dalhousie, when one, a known
hater of the British government, and a stanch
friend of Dost Miltomed, was turned out of the
room by Mr. Lawrence. A medical commitiee had
assembled to report on the effects of the cultivation
carried on close by cantonments on the
health of the troops, and to suggest measured
for the prevention of the causes which gave
rise to the late fearful sickness and mor-
tality amongst then—more especially the Euro-
peans. It is to be hoped his lordship will listen to
'their representations and act on their sm4,,cstiolus-- •
which, however, will be in opposition to rust expe-
rience in such matters. Heavy ruin had fallen all
over the country on the 19th and 2tlllt. The Go-
vernor-General quitted Peshawar on his return to
Lahore on the 11th ; he was expected to reach
Wuzecrabad about the 6th inst , flora whence he
would make all haste to the Simla mountains to
escape the heat of the plaints then beginning to set
in. His lordship certainly is a most indefatigable
man, and one who wishes to see things for himself
and act accordingly. Near Dunne° there has been
sonic skirmishing betwixt our troops and the
Witzeeries, of which the subjoined account appears
in the I.llhi Gazette, in a letter from that place,
dated lath March :

The Wuzzeeries, having been hovering about the frontier
of Ilunnuo for the last week, ready to tiounee down on any
unprotected part of the line, the l'unjaub Irregulars, and
the police, hue-c and foot, were wide awake, but no fighting
took place until yeaterday, when, about noon, news arrived
of great numbers of Wuzzeeries having been seen near the
tioomutten Pass. Capt. Walsh, Commandant at Humus),
took the field, with 3 guns of Ilaintuond's 2-pounder bat-
tery, a squadron of the 2nd l'unjaub Cavalry under Lieut.
Browne, and the 2nd Punjaub Infantry under Lieut.
Eckfurd (in all about 100 horse and nut quite 4slo infantry),
also 200 police, homeland foot, under the Assist.-Commis-
sioner, Lieut. Cox, and proceeded to the Goomuttee Pass.
Thu enemy showed no inclination to remain on the plain—
took to the hills on each side of the head of the pass,
and remained in groups ; the guns opened fire, and
made 40111,• excellent practice, which had the effect
of dispersing the rascals, and making them seek the
shelter of the rocks: after a few rounds, the force being too
~null to undertake the pursuit and force the pews by
crowning the heights, it was determined, to withdraw, which
was accordingly effected by the movement being masked by
three or four cumpanica of the 2nd Punjaub Infantry
thrown out as skirinish,ra, to keep the enemy from making
a rush on the gum., and making them keep their distance
17 the steady retirement of the Light Infantry of the 2nd
lt-mular Puiajaub Infantry. The Wuracerit S appear to
dislike canting to chwe quarters, and merely kept up a fire
on the skirmishers, which WAS by all accounts returned with
interest; fur the enemy in this affair met with a much
greater loss than they ever did on any former occasion. Of
the Dunne° troops five men and two horses were wounded,
one of the former—a native officer of the 2nd Regular
Punjaub Infantry-1 hear, very severely indeed. It is to
be hoped that this energetic movement on the part of
Captain Walsh will have the edict of making the Wuz-
:eyries a lite,: mare cautious us to how they conic near
Ritmo°.

General Ilattine is to remain in command of the
l'unjaub division, and Sir C Campbell is to be ap-
p ointerl temporarily to the command of the Seinde,
Sugur, and reshawur districts, with rank as bri-
gudier-general, the former officer commanding the
troops in the Dechna and Bare( doabs. It was at
one time thought he would have been removed to
the Sirhind division in succession to the lute Sir 1).
Hill, but this is nut to be the case.

On the night of the 2nd March the prisoners in
the gaol at Dhera-Ghaxee-Khan escaped over the
wall : they were quickly pursued, and many recap-
tured, but 28 managed to get clean away from the
guard. Patrols of cavalry were, however, sent out,
and it was believed most of them would full into
their hands. Mr. Edgworth, commissioner at Moot-
tan, was out on a tour in the districts. The health
of the troops generally throughout the Punjaub was
good, but the hot weather wan setting in, and there
[tad been a great deal of rain—which caused some
fears to be entertained that sickness would soon re-
appear.
From Scinde we learn that General Manson and
staff had returned to Kurrachec un the 9th, and that
the commissioner. Mr. Frere, was expected them on
the 27th (he was at 11v-drab:id on the 20th) ult.
The troops were healthy, but sonic sickness had
broken out in the gaol amongst the prisoners. On
the frontier all was quiet—" Jacob of the eagle eye"
was watching, and the robbers knew it.
The following letter, dated Oude, March 13, ap-
pears in the Calcutta Eugluliman :
Here are some more particulars relating to that affair of
which I have already sent you an account. Capt. William
Heaney was informed that the relatives of the Bettiah
Rajah would perform their nahan at Minie. He timed
his arrival well, and in the darkness of night attacked them.
I have already told you the result. Hearsey only lost two
men. It was a hand-to-hand fight, and in the ntel,e se-
veral women and children were shot. The heads of the
killed were sent into Lucknow, but no cold-blooded murder
was perpetrated, as one of your correspondents insinuated.
Government having offered a reward of E. 1,000
to any party who should give information to lead to
the discovery of the Europeans concerned in the
forcible abduction of M. Arratoon, an Armenian,
front Chandernagore, a Mr. Sloaly, of the firm of
Shearwood and Co., of Calcutta, and Mr. Thornton,
the bailiff, have been accused as being the parties
before the magistrates, and depositions were taken
in the matter. Should it be proved against them,
they will be made to pay for their act. Mr. J. 011.
Tandy, officiating secretary N. W. Bank, has, it is
alleged, filed a suit for Libel against Mr. Charles Gab-
bins, C.S. Major Fano, A.D.C. to the Governor-
general, is about to proceed home on leave. Mr. W.
Grey, civil service, has been elected secretary to the
Bank of Bengal. The office has not been held by a
civil servant for the past eleven years. Major %V.
E. Baker, Engineers, has succeeded Major Kennedy
as consulting railway engineer to the Bengal govern-
ment. He was some six years since superintending
engineer in Scinde under Sir C. Napier. NlrDldham,
government geologist, has arrived at Calcutta. The
Lord Bishop has returned to the City of Palaces
from his tour to Moulmein and the Straits.
Major-General W. Staveley, C. 8., has arrived at
Bombay from China, and been appointed to the
command of the northern division of the army--
Brigadier-General Robertson, whom ho relieves,

being posted temporarily to the southern division.
The former officer left the presidency on the 30th in
progress to Ahmedabad, the head-quarters of his
division. Colonel Derinxy, 80th Foot, ;,mss home by
this evening's steamer, as also Colonel Jervis, chief
engineer, who has been succeeded by Colonel Wad-
dington, C.B. The foul assassination of Captain G.
J. D. Milne, co:nmi-,:ary at Aden, 17 an Arab, at a
'village called Waal, in the Sultan of Lahedge's
I colpi,l-y. has caused quite a sensation; and were the
thing allo„-oble, there would in a very snot time be
;a clean sweep made of the treacherous wretched
!throughout the territories where the Pad
Iticed was perpetrated. Lord and Lady Falk-
rand and suite left us for tile on the 18th
ultimo, where they now arc. Mr. K Penn, solici-
tor, died of cholera on the 19th of Ml,sh at Bombay.
During last month the deaths on the Wand from this
scourge amounted to 1,002; front other diseases, 951;
in all 1,953. Major Swanson and Mr. T. S. Cowie
have been elected directors of the Bank of Bombay,
lin room of Messrs. R. F. Remington and A Hudden,
gone home. The commission to inquire into the
wheel-tax frauds commenced their inquiries on Mon-
day last. The commissioners are Messrs Frere and
Rose, C.S., end Major 6. L. 0. Jacob. After sitting
a couple of hours they adjourned "pending a
reference " on some point to government,—
in other words. slue die. An earthquake
(has lately occurred in Kattiuwar. During
a thunderstorm in the same province, a house in
which a large quantity of powder was stored ua the
city of loolia was struck by lightning: the powder
exploded, and halt' the houses in the town woe
levelled with the ground, burying a large number of
perrsms in the ruins. Captain Shortrede, 2nd Bom-
bay European Light Infantry, formerly in the great
'trigonometrical survey of India, has been appointed
surveyor Ci..Sutlej states by the Governor-General,
who seems most anxious to reward merit in whatever
service or presidency it may be found. The ex-Go-
vernor of Goa and staff return to Europe by this
evening's steamer.
The ship Curia. Captain Markham, belonging to
Mr. Buchanan, of Sutherland, was wrecktsl at the
Lacer-dives on the tad of March. Captain and crew
have reached Calico by waive craft. The ships
Rosalind and St. Clare, both laden with coals, the
former hound for Aden, the latter for Bombay, have
both been destroyed by fire at sea from the sponta
neous combustion of the coals.

The first of the new iron steamers for the Indus
is to be launched to-morrow; she is to be ;smiled tho
Falkland, The second will be launched about tho
15th; her name is to be the Indus. Altogether,
there will be six: four are here, and two more aro
constructing ut home, all by Mr. Laird. of Birken-
head; engines by Maudsluy and Sons. It is
thought they will he found too long for the river
Indus; they arc only to draw two feet water wh..a
laden.

The Calcutta papers of the 23th ult., received this
morning, ray that Dr. Chalmers is to succeed the lido
Dr. Pearson us medical member of the Conservancy
Board of that city. It was believed that Mr. 0. }.
Cockburn, C.S., would be appointed private secretary
to the deputy governor. Captain V% oolhy is spoken
of as the successor of Captain Johnstone, R.N., as
government comptroller of steam vessels.

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THE FATAL COLLISION OX THE CHESHIRE

JUNCTION UAILWAT.

The details of the shocking accident in the tunnel
between Sutton and Frodelnua, on the Lancashire and
Cheshire Junction Railway, resulting from three race trains
from Chester to Manchester coming into cola non, on Wed-
nestLty evening, had not been fully ascertained up to yea-
terday. The 114111e4 of the whole of the killed had not been
obtained, but to gst them RIM Mrs. With:tall, widow of
the late Major Withuull, of Bolton (nut Mrs. Ridgway, as
stated yesterday); Mr. Davidson, malesinan at Messrs.
Bannerman's warehouse, Manchester ; Henry Anderson,
'paper-hanger, Mauchsster ; and a young nun named
Newell, of Whitley, Cheshire. The other bodies have not
11(.011 identified. Ik:sides Messrs. Leete, Wilson, Hurry,
Nuppier, Martin, Hughes, Henderson, 1 others named
in yesterday', Kyress as having sustained fractures and
injuries, the following parties have since been aseertt ' alto
have been wounded : Mr. Rooker, surveyor, Manchtwter,who
lies in a prec minus state from a screw of fractures both of ribs
and limits; :dr. Johnson, Albion lintel, Manchester, arm
rut; Capt. Leathern (unattached), one leg fractured, arm
fractured, right collar bone fractured, and head lacerated ;
Lieut. Elgee, Adjutant to 50th Regiment, severely bruised
about the leas; Mr. and Mrs. Hancock, Feathers Inn, Mea-
t:taster, much bruised and shaken ; Mr. Drabble, of Shef-
field, bruised ; Mr. James Thompson, Turf Tavern, Kersal
Moor, leg much bruised ; and alurley,electric.telegmph,
Manehester, a good deal shaken
The accounts given of the accident be the !vast:Engem
generally attach Name to the company in allowing morn
than one train to enter the tunnel at a time. It appears,
according to the statement made at Chester, that the first
race train left at seven the second at half-past
seven, and the third at eight o'clock ; but the pas.
stingers gay that all three left within about thirty
or thirty-tare minutes of each other. The first train
was heavy, and was impeded by the slipperiness of
the rails, which c.:used the engine to waste much steam
and fill the tunnel with the vapour, so that the few lights
they had mad not he seen. After the second train had
come in collision with the first, a passenger says he looked
from the windows and could not see a Wit in any three-
tioa. The tunnel was intensely dark. The passengers in
many of the carriages were locked in, and they hammered
and hutterta at the doors fearfully, whilst others jumped
nut as well us they could from the windows. When tho
third train was heard advancing the alarm of the passen-
gers was very great, and a moment after came the collision,
descrilxd by same as a series of shocks like the rapid firing
of artillery, when the carriu‘es w,re driven against each
other, then a prolonged crash of wood, and pater that a
confused and frightful commingling of voices in shouts,
groans, and exclamations of the wildest distress. In the
utter darkness which enshrouded everything, and with
1,400 people in such a state of alarm and suffering as fol-
lowed the collision, it is wonderful that the results were
not more awful than they appear to have beam.

RAILWAY MEETINGS.
GLASGOW AND SotTII-AVE.srEttN.—()n Wednesday
• a special meeting of this company was held in Glasgow, Mr.
Andrew Ore in the chair. 'the Chairman statial that the
bill for extending their borrowing powers was rejected in
the present session by the standing orders committee, and,
with a view to adjust and place the accounts of the com-
pany on a proper muting, they timid that, although about
l'llt,lsru/. had been expended ter the Muirkirk line and Ayr
Harbour branch, no capital had been raised under the act
authorising their construction • that the Paisley and !ten-
, frew Itailway had been purchased under parliamentary
authority, and had cost about 31,0001., while no part of the
autherisell capital hail been raised ; and, lastly,. that them
were large liabilities on account of the Dumfries; and Car-
. lisle line, which must be punctually met. The directors had
been advised that it was quite legal and competent, by the
resolutions of a special general meeting of the company, to
declare that the sum of 373,3001., or the greater portion of
the capital raised on the 241. shares, second issue, on Jan.
14,184, ,should, in place of lkiug appropriated for the purpose
of paying oft mortgages, be now held as having been ex-
pended for the Nluirkirk and .lyr Ilarbour brunches, the
Paisley and Renfrew Railway purchase, and to provcapital
for
the Dumfries and Carlisle liabilities. Their share
would amount to 3,300,0001., and themortgages to 700,0001.,
and, this beiug the result, they ought to borrow ut the lowest
market rate of interest. No new share capital was to bo
issued to the shareholders, but there was simply a change in
the acts under which II small portion of the capital had been
raised, and their former borrowing powers were revived to
the extent of 373,0001., which would legalise the continuing
on loan of all the existing debentures issued under the Ayr-
shire Acts, amounting to about 30.1,000/., and would also au-
thorise the borrowing on mortgage of about
70,0001. in addition. They were extremely anxious
to discharge all existing claims, and close their
capital account, and above everything to avoid the
issue of more preferential stock. One beneficial
effect of the resolutions he had to submit would be that they
would completely remove the groundwork upon which Mr.
Wilson had based a number of the actions with which ho
had attempted to harrass the company. The Secretary then
read three formal resolutions in accordance with the re-
marks of the chairman, and they were unanimously agreed
to. The meeting then separated.
ABERDEEN.—The half-yearly meeting of this com-
pany was held at Aberdeen on Wednesday. The special
business before the meeting was the consideration of certain
arrangements entered into with the creditors of the com-
pany for the liquidation of their claims, a proposal to con-
solidate into stock the 8/. Cs. Bd. preference shires, and a
motion by Mr. Thomson, of Banvhory, " that no syste-
matic traffic be carried on upon the Aberdeen Railway on
the Lord's Day." The attendance of proprietors was very small. The secretary read the report, an abstract of which
appeared in the Express of Tuesday. Sonic conversation
took place on a proposal to issue deferred dividend warrants
for the half year's dividend on the 6 per cent. shares, due on
the Ist of May, Mr. Gibb, of Cults, especially objecting to
it ; but the resolution was agreed to, as also several other
resolutions, approving of the acts and policy of the directors.
Mr. Thomson withdr,sr. his motion regarding the Sunday
traffic, but gave notice that he would bring it on again at
the next half-yearly meeting, which is to be held in London.

POPULATION OF ULM—Amon:hog to a NUM-
ataxy of the census of 1861, for the borough of Leeds, the
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population is now 171,805, being an increase since 1841 of
,761.