The Express.
London, England, 1853-07-01 00:00:00

MIDLAND RAILWAY.

A special meeting of the shareholders in this com-
pany was held yesterday, at the station at Derby, Mr. J.
ELMS in the chair. The purpose was to obtain the assent
of the shareholders, under the Whamcliffe order, to the
bill now before parliament, known as the Worcester and
Hereford line, and for sanctioning certain arrangements
with that company, all of which contemplated arrange-
ments are referred to in the 70th clause of the Worcester
and Hereford bill.

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In id, or fell down drunk, right across the down line, and
wt sere he remained until the mail train, whit ndon
on .Monday
night, passed by and killed h. . (?heergliae-
driv on passing the spot, felt as if the lifheelslierei Waite
neee‘ 'r'
teine gravel. The gatekeeper at qte staton:beird 11'
grindicg noise just as the engine wu within It Tads of *ilk
1,691 station, .end on proceeding there, after thetraln had pass
2,140 he discm'ered the body of the unfortinate Ulla, marl
1,287 the engine stopped, the whe els were eirmistni4, mitt '.
1.714 was found ,it them, and a Portion of the Ana,
1,554 deceased, 412 k

The motion submitted by the chairman was then put and
unanimously adopted.

ACCIDENT ON TILE SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY.
—The name of the sailor who was killed, the beginning of
this week, near the Beovis-street Station on the South
Western Railway, has been found to be Charles Burbish.
His two feet were cut off, and his head was cut in two. He

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131PEItIAL PARLIAMENT.
HOUSE OF LOROS.—TituitinAT, JUNE 30.
The Witt. ii s tekkoa rook his seat at S o'clock.
PURCHASE OF N Et; Itolis ON Till; AIItICAN
cuAs.r.
Lied BROUGHAM wish il to ask the noble duko oppo-
site If he was aware of • proclamation issued by Governor
Roberts, the governor of Liberia, an American colony, in
whiehaie featured to • contract between her Britannic
Majesty's government and Messrs. Hyde, ll,Alges, and
Company. contractors f.r the furnishing of free negroes;
and ,tried that thy bad if red an advance of ten dollars
upon the price of those unhappy beings?
The Duke of NEWCASILE had not sten the proclama-
tion to which the noble and leaned lord bad alluded ; but
that was not very important, because he was aware that an
arrangement had been made, he was not sure whether by
the Comma! Office, but by its sanction, by which Messrs.
Hyde and Hodge, for some stipula'ed amount, had agreed
to introdi.ee free negro*. from the coast of Africa to the
West India Colonii s. This could not be allowed to take
place without the most careful watchfulness on the part of
the home government against any abuse arising from it
which would justify any statement such as that to which
the noble sur.d I d lord alluded, but which would give
rise to the nulled surnifion that such abuse existed.
Earl GREY thought it right to:state how the matter
arose in the year lilt, There was at that time great dia-
tree,' is the West India Colonies, and it was arranged
that liberated Africans ri &cued from slavery, who
Were :willing to go to the West India Colonies, should
be sent there at the expense of this country.
Messrs. Hyde and Hodge were most respectable
ship- ownets who had entered into • contract to perform this
service; and they had executed it in a most satisfactory
'wanner.
COLONIAL BISHOPS ACTS EXTENSION BILL.
The bill was read a second time.
PA'IItONAGE EXCHANGE BILL.
The bill was read a second time.
EXCISE DITTIES ON SPIRITS BILL.
This hill passed through committee, and was reported to
the house.
JUVENILE MENDICANCY (No. 2) BILL.
The bill then passed through committee pro forma.
THR STATE OF JAMAICA.
The Duke of NEWCASTLE then made a statement
respecting the Island of Jamaica, where, as the house was
aware, the dissension between the Assembly on the owe
hand, the Governor and the Council on the other, had risen
to such • height as to produce • total cessation of internal
overnment. It had been toned that the constitution of
Jamaica, which had existed since the time of Charles 11.
abouaded in such anomalies as to render any combintel
action tit tavern the Governor and the Assembly impossible;
and the recent conduct of that body, io refusing to pass
any money bills, had resulted in • loss of about 1,000/ achy
to the colonial revenue. As the term of office of the pre-
sent Governor had expired, the government proposed to
supply his place by Mr. Barlty. late Governor of Guiana,'
who would accept the office at • reduced salary, the greater
portion of which would be paid at home. Several other
offices, of which there were far too manyin the island,
would he shortly abolished, Vie present holders receiving a
a moderate compensation. The debt of the island
amounted to 700,0031, on which interest ems paid at
6 per cent. It was proposed that 500,000/ should
bo raised, at • lower rate of interest, on the credit
of this country, and that that amount of the island
debt should be paid off, thus effecting a saving in interest
of about 15,000; a yesr, • portion of which saving was to be
appropriated as • sinking fend, so as to pay off the debt in a
period of 30 years. The noble Duke then alluded to re-
forms in the conatitetioe which be hoped might be introduced
by the exertions of the new governor, and after holding
out a hope of further financial assistance under certain
conditions, concluded by expressing his conviction that
what was now proposed would tend not only to the imasediat •
advantage ofJamaica, but evememlly to the esibbileismont
of better goverment in the island.
The Earl of DERBY—Nat may Om the imam jest
suggest d by the noble duke, het aim hasten the measure
awl( was not yet before the howee, would refrain from
entering fully into the .u*et before the house. lie
thought it would be remanent le ester into any discussion
of the details of Mims to be pursued, and still more
into the causes of the eireamelm we which had lead to the
present dead loath the affairs of Jamaica. At the same
time he thought it right to say that, as far as he had fol-
lowed the statement of the noble duke, so far from finding
fault with the course proposed to be pursued by her
Majesty's government, it was nearly the same as that which
the late government had intended to follow.
Earl GREY believed that the best assistance that *old
be given to Jamaica would be such an administration
on the spot as would carry out the necessary reforms.
If that was dose, he had no doubt that Jamalsa
would get out of her difficulties. She had every element
of success; a large population, a soil of great fen
tility, and a titillate which rendered that soil productive;
nature had denied her nothing to smite her great, rich, and
prosperous, and all she wanted was that her natural advisor
tages should be called out byjadiodenelepisistion, aid 'edit-
once in the advancing of deseares for that penises
from this country. He believed that at this time Ja-
maica would more nattily set en such advice than
at any other time, and if the present crisis was taken advan-
tage of great future danger would be avoided ; but if the
present etas of things went on, and a large and unin-
structed population become possessed of unrestricted power,
it would be impassible to talus too sloes, a view of the
prospects of Jamaica.
Viscount ST. VINCENT was understood to express his
regret, as a proprietor of 'Masa estate% that some more
decided course had not bees taken by the ent at
the present crisis ; he adverted te the dm affording
a supply of labour, and expressed as coddle the colony
was utterly ruined, sad had me pumped etmelesatien.
Lord WHARNCLIFFE did net Kew with the noble
viscount who had just spoken in the view he had taken of
the present social condition and the future of
Jamaica. The noble lord this be date
his satisfaction at the coarse takes die odds duke
(Newcastle) in order to put the ammo mod the adminis-
tration of the colony on a better footing. He thought a
reform in the mode of collecting in the revenue was most
desirable.
After • few words from Earl Sr. VINCINT, the papers
were ordered to lie upon the table.
SECONDARY PUNISHMENTS.
The LORD CHANCELLOR laid upon the table a bill
for substituting in certain eases other punishmenU than
that of transportation. The bill provided that the criminal
should be subjected to imprisonment for • certain number
of years, and after that imprisonment be should be em-
ployed upon public works at the discretion of the Secretary
of State for the Home Department.
The bill was read a first time.
Their lordships then adjourned at a quarter past eight
o'fiock.

HOUSE OF UOMMONS.—TiIUESDAT, AIN! 30.
Tha &maim took tho chair at a gustier before four
o'clock.

NEW *EMBER.

Mr. E. HouttaihTiolt theaietie and his seat for the
borough of Stroud, in the roots of Lord Moreton, who has
succeeded to the peerage by the title of Earl Ducie. The
hon. member was introduced by Mr. Bouverie and Sir J.
Ititessden.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The Bayswater, Paddington, and Holborn Bridge Rail-
way, the Birkenhead Deck Compaq, the Birkenhead
Dock Trustees, the Llyavi Valley Railway, the London and
North Westera and Buckinghamshire Railways, the Leri-
da' and North Western Railway (Tring end Oztord), the
Neweeetle-npon-Ties Improvement, the Pendleton, Swin-
ton, de., Read, tle Swamies Valley Railway, and the
Pieelleo Improvement, Bills, wen read a third time and
peene Thd.
e Boston and Conatim Railway and Docks,
the South etawbbize Railway, the Battersea Perk, and
the Harwich Desks and Pier, Bills, were considered and
ordered to be read a third time.
PUBLIC BUSINESS.