The Express.
London, England, 1865-11-17 00:00:00

MADRAS RAILWAY.-(THIS DAY.)

The half-yearly meeting of the directors was '
held at one o'clock at the London Tavern ; Mr. JOHN
ARBUTHNOT presiding, in the unavoidable absence of General
Duman Sim, owing to iediqiceitioe.
The report haring been taken as reed,
The CHLIRMAP congratulated the meeting that, notwith•
standing some drawbacks. the report still exhibited an
IDCTISSID in the receipts. The net receipts on the south-
western branch of the undertaking for the lea half-
year amounted to 79,670 against 88,990 in the correspond-
tag half of last half year. Advice. recently received showed
that in the first three months of the current half year, the
increase bad gone on in a still ter ratio, being 87,9241.
splint 71,1254 in the correalwndingperiod of 1864. This wee
equivaleet to a net increase off upwards of 30,0001. per
annum, and if the increase oath last year continued, as
there wee every reason believe it would. there
would be a net profit of 4 per oent. The increase
in the traffic of the North Western line was
equally great. About 46 additional mile' of that lime
would be opened in July next, and including those forty-six
miles and a branch, the mileage remaining to be opened in
order to complete the junction with the Bombay line wee
219 miles.
After a short disenssioe the report was adopted, and
the proceedings terminated in the usual manner.

To-morrow evening Mr. Ruskin will deliver an
address to the students of the Working Men's College on
art.
A report of some important diving operations,
effected by means of Heinke's apparatus, was received at
Brampton Barracks yesterday. The divers were sent down
the Cturne-pit,Pembroktehire, to a depth of 105 fathoms,for
the purpose of removing some of the pumping gear which
had become detached, and caused the flooding of the pit.
The undertaking, from its novelty, was attended with
unusualdifficulticw, but was seccesafully completed by
Messrs. Wilton and Bolton, the divers employed, the
occesioe being, it is understood, the first in which divers
have been engaged in such a work.
Kerreamo.—A party of religions enthusiasts,
styling themselves the " Hallelujah Band," made their
appearance in the Market place early on Sunday morning
last, their arrival having been heralded by placards. After
singing, praying and preaching went on for upwards of an
hour in the presence of about 1,000 persons, most of whom
had assembled out of curiosity. Two hours afterwards
they disturbed the town by singing and shouting inco-
herent expressions or addresses through the streets, at
length entering the Tempeeaooe•ball, where they held
forth to a very crowded sesemblage. In the course of the
addresses one of the speakers pulled off his coat, saying
he had often pulled it off for the devil, and now he would
poll it off for Christ! After each service the plates were
taken round and collections made—they also sold a great
many of their hymn-books, which answered their purpose
in a pecuniary sense.—Stamford Mercury.
BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMILNT
OF SCIITICF.— On Wednesday afternoon an influential
meeting of the inhabitants of the town and county of Not-
tingham was held in the Shire-hall to take into considera-
tion the necessary means for receiving the British Associa-
tion in 1866, to appoint an executive committee, and also
the local secretaries of sections. The high sheriff (Mr.
Webb, of Newsteed-abbey), was in the shalt. Lord
Belrer proposed, that the executive committee should be
formed to receive additional subscriptions. This being
carried an executive committee was at ono. appointed. The
local secretaries of sections having been appointed a motion
was carried to the effect that the eounties of Lincoln,
Leicester and Derby be invited to form local committees,
solicit subscriptions, and work generally with the executive

eeimmittirei.
MONUMENT TO Tom SATERS.—It is proposed
among the numerona friends and acquaintances of the late
Tom Sayers to erect • monument to his memory on the
spot where his body was interred last Wedareday, in the
cemetery at Highgate. The notion has originated in
Camden-towo, a neighbourhood in which Sayers bad for
some time resided, and where he was known to mat,
if not all, the inhabitants, by s;ght at bast. There is, I
of course, no purpose of trenching on the sum which he
haa left, and which will be increased by the sale of him
effects, inalodieg his trophies, his masoificent dog, mule,
poor, and other property, the value of whirls. if speedily
realised, may possibly be enhauced by oonaideratioas of
their interest as personal relics. On the other hand, it is
felt that the provision he has been enabled to leave his two
children is sufficient for that end without calling as the
public for additional mbecriptions. But it is also felt that ;
a memorial may properly he made the subject of a @emirate
fund, to be raised by cioutributione; and, with this aim in .
view, a meeting was held yesterday at the house of Mr.
Mena*, in High-street. where Sayers died. The business
was of a preliminary character, it being intended to form a
committee. by whom details may be carried oat.—Telerapk.
TES Franks Paoencortorm.—Every arrange-
ment hoe now hoes made for the opening of the special com-
mission of Oyer and Terinioer for the coasty and city of
Dublin, on the 27th inst. The necessarysummoner hay*
been issued by the sheriffs for the attendances of Food
jurors and petty jurors as that day. We nadentand it is
the intention of the crown to seed up bills for trews.
felway egainet ell the prisoners, iacluding James Stopbsem
—Duirtin Smog Ma.