The Express.
London, England, 1847-09-09 00:00:00

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The eantined daring up of roadways and ZootP•tha
in this viinity of towns has suggested the idea that
something Amid be done for defining and pe."Pc-
tutting public rights. Use and wont seem to est.i-
blish a prescriptive right to the use of certain tho-
rotighfares, but if not regularly used this kind of
right may fall into desuetude, and so be forfeited
altogether. To remedy this, it has been proposed to
register the rights indisputably possessed by the pub-
lic at the present time, whether they refer to roads,
commons, beaches, fishing', &c., and then, at after
periods, this record could be referred to as authori-
tative evidence, in case of any after challem—
Fiaa.--0a Monday

_ _ afternoon the fine and well-stacked
stack-yard at West Mains, midway between Dundee and
Perth, was discovered to be on firs. Every effort wax
adopted to suppress the conflagration, but without effect, till
nine stacks were consumed. Some " bad for the
time " settled" amongst loose straw, and commenced smok-
ing, by which means fire was communicated to the straw.
The loss in estimated at about 7001., and the property is
insured.

CHIME IN GLABOOW.-04 this subject the last prison re-
port says : " The facilities for the commission of crime
appear to be much greater in Glasgow than in London,
Dublin, or Liverpool. In the latter cities nearly the whole
of the houses and warehouses are self-contained ; there are
no common entries, no common stairs, and few, if soy, sunk
areas; while in Glasgow, the houses, with very few exceptions,
are divided into floors or smaller compartments, occupied by
different tenants. There is to almost every tenement a com-
mon close or entrance, and a common stair : to many of the
tenements there are sunk areas, and to nearly all there are
back unprotected premises, tenanted, or with right of access,
by different individuals."
A HINT TO UNIVIRSITIES.—The Anderson University
of Glasgow have appointed chain for English, German, and
French.

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New PERIODICALS.—Tbe pent-up arehroology of Scot-
land has found a safety valve In the projection of a three-
halfpenny periodical devoted to topography, antiquities, and
tradition. An antipodal print, the Smniali Press, com-
mences on the 22nd inst., but, heedless of the signs of the
times, it adheres to the old tariff of 41d.
DINNER TO COMICODORE Da KAY AND THE OFFICERS OF
THE MACEDONIAN.—On Monday the Central Board of the
Highland Relief Fund gave a dinner to those gentlemen at
the Tontine Inn. The Lord Provost in the chair. After
dinner, the Chairman proposed, in sucxesion, the health* of
her Majesty, the President of the United States, and the
Prince Consort, which wore duly honoured. The Chairman
having proposed the health of Commodore de Kay, the Com-
modore said be thankei them for that dcmocstration of
kindness towards him, for the exhibition of that proof, as he
might call it, of the sympathy which ought to exist always
between the two countries, and which certainly existed at
the present moment, for they were all labourers in the same
vineyard, and that vineyard was one into which no man need
be ashamed to come. They all met together in this
dreadful calamity to do their best to relieve suffering fellow
creatures. They had beard the cry of distress from every
quarter, and their attention was more awakened to it
than the attention of the people of this country could be ; it
was not a solitary voice, it was not the voice of a thousand,
bat it was the voice of millions which came to them. There
were many in America who had struggled sad striven to
do more than he had done in this way in that good, that
glorious cause. It was not only Scotehmen and the de-
scendants of flootchmen, nor Irishmen and the descendants
of Irishmen, but the descendants of people of all countries
who vied with each other in their endeavours to send
forward help to this country. There were several men,
well-established merchants in New York, who did more
than could be well imagined or conceived by persons so fat
distant. It would be, perhaps, improper in him to name them,
as they had requested not to be named, although he could
hardly go home without doing so ; suffice it to gay, that the
exertions made by those gentlemen, and the enthusiasm kin-
dled up by them, resulted as they had seen in sending the
ships of war. Those ships of war, he trusted, would do
more good than the simple cargoes with which they were
loaded could be expected to do; he bad no doubt they would
do much to cement the union between the people of the two
countries. He must swain return thanks to them for the
kindness they had shown him, and be would not do so by
inflicting a long speech on them, far that would be returning
evil for good—and he would therefore ask leave to conclude
by giving, as a sentiment, what he hoped would be drunk
with all due honour, " The Central Board for the Relief of
the Highlands."—Sir James Campbell proposed the health
of the benevolent citizens who had contributed so largely to
the relief fund.—Mr. Babcock briefly responded to the toast;
and after some further toasts, the company separated at about
11 o'clock.