The Express.
London, England, 1853-03-08 00:00:00

RAILWAY BILLS ON STANDING ORDERS.

Yesterday the Select Committee declared that the
Standing Orders might be dispensed with in the following
Ca :

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EAST ANGLIAN RAILWATS—On depositing • new d.
elsration.

NEWPORT, ADEROAVENNY, AND HEREFORD RAILWAY
(Extension to Taff Vale)—On depositing an amended emi.
tion.
GRUA? WESTERN RAILWAY (Henley Line.
LONDON AND WATPOILD SPRING WATER DEPART.

LOCAL SHARE MARKETS.
Liviarooa, Maaca 7.—Ths share market has been fist
all day, sod closed steady.—Birkenbead, Lancuhire, and
Cheshire (Chester and Birkenhead), 211—Caledonian, 311
--Chester and Holyhead, 221—Lancashire and Yorkshire,
77I—Ditto (fifth shares), 4 9.16 d.—Liverpool, Crosby, and
Southport, 171—London and North-Western, 1181—Man-
chester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 291, I—Midland, 761
North British, 91.18—South Eastern and Dover, 231, 1—
York and North Midland, 29 Preston and Wyre (half
shares, No. 4, guaranteed by London and North-Western
and Lancashire and Yorkshire), 103 p.

UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGII.—Sir Edward Lytton
Bulwer, Bart., has agreed to allow himself to be put it
nomination for the °thee of Honorary President of the As-
sociated Societies of the University of Edinburgh. The
election takes place next week. Lord Campbell, Mr. Ma-
caulay, and Mr. Disraeli, had previously declined the
honour. The hon. baronet hu agreed, if elected, to deliver
the inaugural address early in the winter session.
CLOCKMAKERS' COMPANY.—Last evening an en-
tertainment was given at the London Tavern to Mr.
Alderman and Sheriff Carter, by the Worshipful Company
of Clockntakers, at which George Harker, Esq., the muter
of the company, presided. Amongst those present were the
Lord Mayor, the Recorder, Mr. Sheriff Croll, Aldermen
Sir J. Duke, Sir R. W. Carden, Hunter, and Pinola, J.
Muterman, Esq., M.P., Undersheriffs James and Cleobury,
G. Consul'. Esq., the late sheriff, Duncan Dunbar, Esq.
J. Hartley, Esq., &c., as also about 70 members of the court
of the company.
ENDOWMENT.—The Rev. H. Mackenzie, the vicar
of St. Martin'a-in-the-Fielde, has just made known that
Sir Walter James has offered to him to endow the chapel
belonging to the parish in Broad-court, Drury-lane, with
the sum of 5,0001., which is to be consecrated, the area of
the church to be entirely free, and collections made for its
support, the right of presentation to be in the bands of Sir
Walter and his heirs. The vicar, with whom the patronage
at present rests, has expressed his readiness to give up his
rights on such terms, and also to add an endowment of 301.
a year.
PAIRS ON CANADA CLERGY RESERVES BILL.—Sir
John M. Taggart for, with Mr. Pugh against ; Mr. Peto
for, with Mr. D. Waddinfton against; Sir De L. Evans for,
with Mr. Frewen against: Col. it. Tynte for, with Mr.
Coles against; Mr. K. Baillie paired for the night with
Mr. Brockman.

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ENGLISII AND IRISH MAGNETIC TELEGRAM/
COMPANY.—The public will be interested to learn seme
particulars of the general progress of the interesting and
important works of this company, but more particularly as
regards Ireland, the submarine connexion with England,
and their advances both to the north and south. The line
on the Midland Great Western Railway to Galway has
been working successfully for some time. The works on
the Great Southern and Western Railway proceed with
great activity, under contract to Messrs. Fox and Hender-
son, and it is expected all will be ready for operation in
about two months. The line from Portadown to Belfast is
nearly completed. Arrangements have been made with
the Belfast Junction for the sive of their lines, in con-
junction with the Dublin and Drogheda, and the tele-
graphic fittings will be commenced forthwith. The Kil-
larney Junction, with others of the less important lines,
be will all put au courant with the " winged messenger." A
central office is about to be erablished in the heart of the
city, and there is no doubt but that in a few months Cork,
Belfast, Galway, and other towns, intermediate with Dub-
lin, will be placed in connexion with the English lines by
means of the submarine wires from Donaghadee to Portpa-
trick, which Messrs. R. S. Newell and Co., of Gateshead,
contracted to have ready by the middle of April next. In
England the Caledonian, Emit Lancashire, and a portion of
the Lancashire and Yorkshire railways are completed, and
a line between Manchester and Liverpool has been working
to the utmost satisfaction of the public for ten months. The
line of ten wires, which is now being laid down under the
highroads, to join the Liverpool line at Manchester, is pro-
gressing rapidly ; and the underground line from the East
Lancashire system at Preston, from that town to Carlisle,
was commenced a fortnight since, and will be ready in three
months, when the London line will be finished. At Car-
lisle it joins on the Caledonian to Edinburgh and Glasgow,
and the main line proceeds along the high road from Car-
lisle to Portpatrick to meet the submarine wires. The
present company works under a special act of parliament,
entitled "The Magnetic Telegraph Company's Act," and
in addition, a royal charter, obtained last year, conferring,
among other advantages, that of limited liability, chiefly
granted through the known respectability of the proprietors.
—Dublin Paper.
TILE SEAMAN'S BILL OF FARE.—Now I have
something to say about the common seaman's victuals. Par-
liament regulates the quantity, but quality depends upon
the pocket of the shipowner, In some London ships I
know, and I dare say in a few ships from other ports, the
provisions supplied are excellent; but in most English
vessels, and especially in those from other porta than Lon-
don, they are either second-rate or bad. My teeth are
most used to such biscuit as would never be put on board
an American trader, nor on board many Scotch ships. Salt
beef is known justly in the merchant service as salt-horse or
mahogany. Every cask of mahogany is opened in the
presence of the steward, who picks out the good bits for
the cabin, and leaves the worst for us forecastle men. Our
tea—our greatest luxury—is of the cheapest and coarsest
kind. Masters, mates, men-of. war's men, emigrants,
and convicts, are all supplied with preserved meats,
soups, vegetables, &c. ; but anything of that kind
is as rare a sight upon the English merchant seaman's
chest as turtle soup upon a tradesman's dinner-table. In
spate of all improvements, and all new preparations, there
has been little change made in the kind of provisions sap-
plied to us during the last half century, except that we
have had our grog stopped, and got nothing in its place.
Of course we may get hardened by usage to this kind of
treatment, but we are not too stupid to make comparisons,
and as acme of us have seen a little of the Yankee vessels—.l
for one—we grumble; we grumble, even, dissatisfied
wretches, at the savage way in which we are obliged to eat
our food. We want to sit before it like Christians, hut
can't. Tables are impossible in our amen den, and we
know no more than the wolves do about table knives and
forks. The pork and pea soup, or beef and rice, are served
up in small tubs, which pass round from hand to hand.
Each pours his allowance of soup or rice into a tin pat, and
eats his bit of meat out of the lump with the clasp-knife
that hangs about his neck. Breakfast and supper are alike
with us. We get a quart of black mess mixed with small
twigs and "cabbage," and in that we soak our brown
and flinty (if not always chalky) biscuit, fishing u the 4
pieces with the points of our knires.—Diclants'
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