The Express.
London, England, 1851-12-31 00:00:00

DAILY WEATHER TABLE.

'EDNESDAY„ DEC. 31, 1851.

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W. Cals. Vine.

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elite in time for publication yebterday they therefore
indicate the state of Vie weather on Mon lay morning as
sine o'cleck.

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i•artally Cloudy

iilairally Clear

FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Thursday even-
ing a fatal railway accident occurred to Richard Green-
wood, railway guard, who had charge of the 6.24 train front
Halifax to North Dean. The train was a heavy one, and
it is bummed that the guard must have fallen from his Tint
while attempting to step upon the next carriage for the pur-
pose of applying an additional break as the train emerged
from Salterhebble tunnel. He was not mired until the
train arrived at North Dean, and the driver returned,
hoping to find him at Halifax. The body was found a
little below the tunnel, quite dead, and from its position it
would seem no though the train had gone over it a second
time upon returning to Halifax. An inquest was held on
Friday evening, at the Elephant and Castle Inn, Salter-
hebble, when the jury returned a verdict of "Accidental
death."7/fatifax guardian.

Tun Cos ters Ar WooLwien.—The mutineers of
this class cn board the Warrior, are still far trout being in
a subordinate state •, and on the guard of Royal Marines,
who remained on board and in a building near the vessel
wader arm during the whole of Monday night, being re.
tiered on Tuesday morning, a new guard of the Royal
Artillery arrived to do duty as a COILVII. t guard, and guards
from that regiment will take their turns alternately with
the Royal Marines while the insubordination continues. It
has hitherto been held out by the judges of the criminal
courts, and believed by many, that transportation was a
great punishment, and much sympathy has consequently
been shown for that class; but it now uppears that many
of the convicts, not less than from 130 to 170 of those on
board the Warrior, consider being sent to Australia at the
expense of the country would be a benefit to them.
BRITISH AND AMERICAN CLIPPER SIIIPS.—The
relative merits and demerits of British and American
marine architecture have lately commanded much attention.
Not a few were they who, cowed by the lengthy and ela-
borate descriptions given by American scribes of the
" clippers " of their country, pitifully bemoaned the dens-
dence of John Bull, sorrowfuliy hiuted that Britannia was
no longer " Mistress of the Seas," and confidently asserted
that the " Wooden walls of Old England " stood in the
same relation to the ships of our Transatlantic brethren as a
butcher's nag to a high-mettled racer. Mow far these
suppositions were correct has been made apparent by the
various passages from China this year. The British
clipper ship Stornaway, built at Aberdeen for the China
trade, was the first arrival of the season, having made
the passage from Whampoo to her dock in 104 days, a
performance which as yet ranks as A 1, notwithstanding
she had to beat down the China seas against the monsoon.
The American ship Surprise came next, a clipper which,
when at home, it was said, would eclipse all her predeces-
sors, and astonish the world by her performances. No dobbt
she did her eulogists—by taking two days longer than the
Stornaway, and coming at a more favourable period. After
her came the Chrysolite, belonging to Messrs. Taylor, Pole
ter, and Co., of Liverpool, which made the passage also
from Whampoa to the Mersey in out day under the time
occupied by the crack Yankee on her run, and but one day
more than the Stornaway. The last arrival from China
was reported in Liverpool on Monday morning by electric
telegraph, namely, that of the White Squall, another Ame-
rican, which also required two days longer than the Stoma
way, and one more than the Chrysolite, to reach the end of
her voyage. Surely from the facts adduced there need be
no fears as to the "bag that's braved a thousand years "
continuing in the van of commercial enterprise.—Liverpool

•
RAtillioll7olP. AND SALISBURY RAILWAY. —A
meeting of the landowner and others interested in this
railway took place at Andover on Saturday last, for the
purpose of making final arrangements for going to parlia-
ment in the ensuing session for powers to construct this line
by an independent company. It is proposed to leave the
gauge an open question for the present, giving the company
power to join either the Great Western at South-Weesonetst
Basingstoke, both companies having distinct lines thence to
London, the former only 31 miles longer than the latter,
The South-Western Company have had the act authorising
the construction of this line almost six years, and having
bought nearly all the land and executed most of the heavy
works, they have allowed their powers to expire. The land-
owners have at length entered on the task themselves. To
them it will now be a very easy and cheap work, the South-
Western Company baring, 4 is stated, spent on their a
dosed works newly 300,0001. • 7: