The Express.
London, England, 1853-11-15 00:00:00

SPORTING.

TATTERSALL'S.—MONDAY.
Many subscribers having left town for Shrewsbury, the
muster at .. The Corner" was very scanty, and only a small
amount of business was transacted.

SHREWSBURY HANDICAP.
7to 2 egst Mr. Howard's Little Harry (t)
12 to 1 Mr. W. Palmer's Goldtlnder (t)
14 to 1 Mr. Bazou's Cleveland (t)
COLUMN HANDICAP.
7to 1 apt Mr. Copeland's Kiteßyer (t)
Bto 1 Mr. Palmer's Catherine Parr (t)
9to 1 Mr. Moseley, jun.'s., Alone* (t)
9to 1 Mr. Howard's Nerve (t)
DERBY.
800 to 100 apt Mr. R. R. Cooper's Autocrat (t)
900 to 100 Bayou Rothschild's Kiog Tom (t)
400 to 10 Mr. Graville's Berms (t)
2000 to 50 Mr. Waterworth's Neville (t)
1000 to 16 Mr. St. George's Bro to Chanticleer (t)
20 to 1 Autocrat's winning the Derby and
Meteor. the Oaks (t)

THI SCAZW CA.I AT ETIION.—The committee of Tat-
tersall's are of opinion that the steward of Epsom Autumn
Steeplechases has no power to declare the bets void ; they
must therefore be paid..

ALTCAR COURSING MEETING (CONCLUDED).
SIIPTON Sumac. —Deciding Course: Mr. Georp's r d
Celt by his Exchequer out of Mr. Coupe's Handy beat Mr.
Ardern's bl d Man by his Marquis out of his boggy, and
won the stakes.
CROITITH StAxim.—Deeiding Coarse: Mr. RandeU's r
b Remembrance by Mr. Lo 's Lynn out of Mr. Randell's
sister to Ruby beat Mr. H. Jefferson's r and w b Jilt by his
Jolla Bull out of Mr. Fox's Fudge, and won the stakes.
Avrceu COP.—Third Ties: Weapon beat Thought,
Junta beat Papist. Deciding Course : Mr. B. H. Jones's
bk and w d Junta by Lord Sefton's Senate out of Mr.
Eddliston's Tiny Trip beat Mr. Wilson's bk d Weapon by
Mr. Fyson's Figaro out of Mr. Randell's Ruby, and won
the Cup.
AvrcAtt fixxx.sc.—Third Ties Magic beat Speedwell,
Brenhilda beat Staylace. Deciding Course: Mr. J. Blun-
dell's f b Brenhilda by Mr. Parry's Punch out of Mr. C.
Stanley's Selina beat Mr. Atdern's w and bk d Magic by
his My Lord out of Mr. Walker's °glass, and won the
stakes.

MOLTNEVX STMCia.—First Ties: Mr. Randell's f and
w b Rival beat Mr. Swan's r and w b St. Catharine -, Mr. J.
Blundell's bk b Blackbird but Mr. C. Langton's f b Lady
Franklin ; Mr. Temple's w b Triples beat Mr. Peacock's
r b Pamela; Mr. Randell's bk b Reliance beat Mr. G.
Cooke's r b Cheraisette. Second Ties: Blackbird beat Rival,
Triplex best Reliance. Deciding Course : Mr. J. Blundell's
bk b Blackbird by Mr. Moore's Leander out of Mr. Weld
Blundell'a Bitters, beat Mr. Temple's w b Triplex by Mr.
Bdieston's Kolauth out of Mr. Temple's Thalia, and woa
the stakes.

—Wear Darn BTAXEB.—Fint Ties: Mr. Ardern's bk d
Mango ran a bye ; Mr. R. Stanley's f d Shark beat Mr. 0.
Cooke's r b Crorteth ; Mr. R. G. Temple'. bk and w b
Turtledove beat Mr. Swan's f d Soda Ash ; Mr. T. D.
Hornby's bk d Haymaker beat Mr. G. Cooke's f d Hurkaru.
Second Tin: blimp beat Shark, Turtledove beat Hay-
maker. Deciding Course : Mr. Ardern's bk d Mango by
his My Lord out of Mr. Pearson's Princess, beat Mr. R. Ci.
Temple's bk and w b Turtledove by Mr. Jebb'a Lodore out
of Mr. Temple's Titan* and won the stakes.

MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLN.

SHIRE RAILWAY.
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At a meeting of the directors of this company
on Friday, the committee of investigation appointed on
the Bth Inas, presented their report. It states that they
have visited the stations and docks, and examined the ex-
isting and proposed traffic arrangements. The financial
position of the company is, that there remain available as-
sets amounting to 708,5171., against which the liabilities for
new works, itc., are 682,9371. The total expenditure will
then be 8,243,2361 leaving a balance of 25,6801. for con-
tingencies. The arrears on preference shares are 661. 3d.
on 18,000 No. 1 quarters; 60e. on 87,200 101. shares; and
Is. thtl. on 172,6(10 61. shares ; making 284,1501. The Lin-
celestite lines and the Grimsby Docks yielded a very inad-
equate return. Thi'new manager, Mr. Watkins, of the
London and North. Western, who had been appointed with
the concurrence of the committee, should remodel the es•
tablishment, and remaining in his office, or on the line,
should give his whole time to developing the traffic
and economising the management. The Waldo of the
prieeipal officers should be pertly dependent on the net
profits of the undertakieg. As to alliances, there
should be a good understandiag, and full and free
interchange of traffic with all the companies round.
Arrangements had been made with the Sheffield Coal Coin-
=secure a large supply of coal, for which the Birley
was needed. The branches near Barnsley were
also essential, but must be so managed as to avoid disputes
with the South Yorkshire. The expectations formerly en-
tertained of reducing the working expenses bed not been
realised. They had not been moth below 60 per cent.
Rewards should be offered to any of the servants devising
economical methods of working. Arbitration should be
offered in all cases of litigation. The Humber Ferries suit
was involving great ex"ense, which should be stopped,
and an arrangement mails with the defendants to bring it
to a close. As to the preferential arrears, arrangements
should be made when the money market would permit, and
a hint is thrown out that power should be obtained to
capitalise them. The report lays down six rules of policy
for the directors :—No further expenditure without abso-
lute necessaity. No aew lines but theseauthorised for
coal. Ne parliamentary :expenses without manifest neces-
sity. Arbitration to be offered in all eases of difference.
The manager to apply his whole time to develop the traffic
and reduce the expenditure. A committee of directors to
communicate with other boards on the same subjects. The
report concludes with the belief that there is vitality
enough in the concern to give it a fair chance, if they had
vigorous and united counsels, but there must be harmony
between the directors and the shareholders.

Pitmen RAILWAY Tansnc.—The following are the last
returns oldie gross reestpla of the principal French railways :
NOITIMUI.—Free Oct. II to Nev. 4: Passengers, 307,2784;
gads. 439,9754; total, 743,643?.
goo.—Frent Oct 30 to Nov. 5: Passage s, 89,003 f.; Rooth,
119,9880.• total, 108,991 f.
itacia—Freei Oat. 30 to Nov. 5: Paceeegen, 31,6034; goods,
62,1134; total, 91,6110.
0113.11.4.1 MID Bathos Lewas.—Pros Oct. 30 to Nev. 6: Pram.
gees, 329.8691.; goods, 472,9174; total, 881,775 f.
Bramisoceo.—Pross 0at.29 to Nov. 4: Psisespra, 214,9914;
goods, $12,249f. • tots!, 49',240f.
Sam—Prom 'Oat. 24 to Oat. 31 : Panniers, 311,5371.; gads,
31,3794; teta1,64.91111.
Moirreamo.—Prom Oet. 29 to Oct 31: Passangere. 4.8837.;
I goods, 6,514 f. ; total. 11,3771.
LTolll4—Prom Oct. 30 to Nov. 6: Passengers, 217,839 f.; goxia,
213,1061.; total, 411,0357.
Wrsrum.—From Oat 31 to Nov. 6: Paaerngere, 91,3374; goods,
300111 f.• total, 121,398 f.
Irons To Ilsormaasessth.—From 051.22 to Oct. 98 : Presagers,
67,3690; goods, 118,6634: total. 205,6337.
NON-LIABILITY OF RAILWAY COMPANIEB.—Two
cases establishing the non.fiability of railway companies in
certain eases where the carriage of goods is concerned, have
just been decided by the county court judges. The plain-
tiffs in the first case, Mews. Benson, of Huddersfield,
brought sit action for 61 18s. 6d., against the London and
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North Western, the alleged value of a quantity of cheeses
consigned by a house in Manchester, and which were deli-
vered crushed and damaged ; bat as it was not clearly
shown that the damage occurred upon the railway, or from
wilful neglect, the plaintiffs were declared nonsuited. la 1
the second case, the action was against the Bdinburgh,
Perth, and Dundee Railway Company, for W., owing to
detention in the delivery of goods in London, and booked by
Woe ompany, the court deciding that the COMpany were not
liable, unless it could be shows that the detention took
place oa their own Use.

STATISTICS.

TO TIM =ITO& OP THII 32P14.811.
SlR,—The only difficulty respecting this subject
(which is act a sew one) has always been a political one : a
daMeulty of tamper on the eon/creative side, and of fear on
that of the Whigs.. Year conservatives have been too irri-
table sad absorbed is the question of protection to seriously
trouble amnesty°e about such a matter ; and your whigs
have hared for their free trade legislation. They had nut
thoroughly studied the subject, and had not such confidence
in the results we now witness as justified to their fears
these statistics; and so they lingered over them until time
and our quarterly trade returns thoroughly sanctioned the
free trade measure. Ws must not severely censure them
now. They have had a vulgar retribution in the silly as-
rnuralnacesnds haoidth goneatfwl
outishofPcluilttic iviaa ynti Sir Fitzro Kelly, that
ouron. They have had to
listen to such stuff as this without the instant means of ex-
posing the absurdity by a statistical demonstration.
' Certaia recent writers have come to the conclu-
sion that it would be well to employ district sur-
veyors to collect our agricultural statistics. Speaking
generally, the surveyors and land agents may be said to
have in their hands the management of all the land in the
kingdom ; and, giving them credit for the commonest
business capability, they must have felt the importance of
agricultural statistics, especially since the time of their
destruction; for to say nothing of their utility for the pur-
poses so ably explained in the Bankers' Circular, we are
now only capable of loosely conjecturing for rent between
landlord and tenant. As to any equitable demonstration
of it in figures, that is utterly impuesible, and never will
be possible until we have in sound operation a national
plan for our statistics, soundly regulating our importations.
Thew things being so, I assert, and defy contradiction,
that our surveyors have not, in any way or manner, pro-
claimed this great fact to our government. We may
reasonably conclude that had they, holding as they do all
the lands of the kingdom in their management, come for-
ward with a well prepared explanation of this national
necessity, sustained in it too—as it is quite clear they
would have been by the bankers and the merchants of the
nation, and the public behind them, with my Lord Ash-
burton, and many other men of mark among them—no
government would have dared resistance to their sober ap-
peal.
We have all been astounded, from time to time, during
the last few years with the contradictory statements put
forward in parliament and elsewhere as to the average
growth of corn in this nation. It has been a common thing
for noble lords sad honourable gentlemen to differ in their
statements to the extent of many millions of quarters. And
now, at is truly stated in the Banker's Circivar, we have
again to listen to monstrous statements as to the amount of
grain we must import to feed our population. National
men donot credit them; but, on the other hand, we have
had no resistless facts put forward in contradiction of
them. Now, if there is in this country a class of men
better qualified than any other class, or all other classes
put together, to give information on this important
subject, it is our surveyors and land agents. They are now,
emphatically, district surveyors ; and they could, with but
little trouble and outlay of time, have given valuable infor-
mation in this matter—information near enough to the
truth to have hurled away all fable from the real facts, and
thus have enabled our bankers to safely advance their
money in the starvation or no starvation investment. These
oracles have been dumb—they have done nothing.
The surveyors, as a class, have never served the cause of
our statistics, and now it would be a poor compliment to our
bankers and merchants, and the public, to compel us to pay
them for their services.

It has been expounded to statesmen that it is not neces-
sary to put any questions to farmers at all for the purpose
of those returns, and such is the positive fact. In the end,
the innate Food sense and god temper of our farmers
would override all sensitiveness in respect of our statistical
inquiries in the simple condition, that the returns be col-
lected by men who can make no subsequent and sly use of
them. But why employ a professional man in such a busi-
ness as this ? It involves no acquirement rightfully belong-
ing to a profession. An accoutant, master of the simplest
English education, is amply qualified to such engagement.
By employing such a man as this, a guarantee would be
given to the farmers that, with the passing statistical use of
the information, thus acquired, in a government office, all
memory of the local transaction would cease A non-pro-
fessional collector of it could have no use for it, and in all
human probability the transaction would be blotted from
his memory instantly after the completion of his periodical
duty. But this could not be said were district surveyors to
be let into the business. From habit a surveyor everlast-
ingly
memory is almost a profession to him. Give such a man as
this a map and a particular of parish lands, in neither of
which, however, shall the al farms comprising it be
particularised, and let him walk over the lands once or twice,
and he will know the lands belonging to each occupier, and
have stamped into his memory, even against his inclination,
the leading circumstances of each man's cultivation.
Isolation, however, fur a surveyor in such an affair as this,
is an ideal absurdity. Intercourse with the farmers, and
others of the parish, would give him every individual in-
formation. Now, this is a knowledge which no gentleman
not a government district surveyor, at all likely to be
called on to value a given form at a given time, would
condescend to sneak about and acquire year after year.
There would be 'something so infamously inquisitorial in
each a habit; so thoroughly low-minded in the man pro-
spectively employing such a surveyor, and in the surveyor
himself that, were the inquisition done, the execration of
every man in the district should be the least retribution for
the pair of them.
I very well know that every landlord reserves for himself
and his agents the right, at all convenient seasons, to come
upon the occupier's estate for the time being ; but then they
come but on occasions of imperious necessity, and for
the mutual benefit of both parties. For the sake of his
professional reputation, no respectable agent would take
advantage of such an opportunity to prowl about the place.
He never moves but in the presence of its real owner for
the time being, and he would be fearfully degrat'ed should
he be found surreptitiously lurking at any time by other
per ons.
What is a sound and manly surveyor ? A man who, in
the might of his practical and scientific acquirements, can
go upon a farm, and without torturing the occupier with
intrusive inquiries—w ithout acquiring an information which
a gentleman would scorn to know—can yet value that farm.
report on its latent capabilities, and demonstrate, In
figures, the rent which would be equitable between man
and man. _

May our poueesion of agricultural statistics soon give
many a talented man the opportunity to display such quali-
fications in honourable practice.

las,dtc,
London, Nov. 1.

EXAMINER.

HAIRDRESSERS' PHILANTHROPIC SOCIETY.— The
hairdressers "of all nations" met yesterday evening at
the Freemasons' Tavern, for the purpose of celebrating
their eighth anniversary. Upwards of 100 members of this
cosmopolitan trade sat down to a very substantial enter-
tainment. The chairman (Mr. Unwin), in giving the toast
art " Prosperity to the Society," congratulated the members
on the pr..grets they had made during the short period of
the society's existence. The funds were flourishing,
but they had the prospect of • severe and dear
winter, and there was no doubt but that there
would be many demands on their charity from
their poorer fellow tradesmen. But he was full of
h^pe ; they bad an excellent committee, and no doubt the
wealthier of the trade only needed an application to come
forward with handsome donations. The society had al-
ready, besides its charitable efforts, produced good results
in the increase of friendly intercourse among the members
of the trade, and would, he trusted, long continue in that
course of philanthropy and good fellowship. At the con-
clusion of the chairman's speech, the statement of accounts
was read, which showed a balance from lest year of 901.
Is. 54., and the donations in the present brought the
total of receipts up to 1621. 13s. 7d. The expenditure in
gifts, and other expenses, had been 571. se. 3d., leaving a
Wanes in hand of 1051. 81. 44. The evening's proceedings
terminated with a collection, which resulted in a liberal
addition to the funds of the charity.

DARING ROBBERY.—On Sunday night a daring
outrage was committed at the house of Mr. Young, 2-,
South Peckham. Boon after the family had gone to church,
leaving the house in charge of a female domestic, a gen-
tlemanly dressed man knocked at the door, and asked if
Mr. Young was at home. The servant answered in the
negative, upon which the fellow pushed by her into the
passage, saying that he would write a note; and before the
girl could remonstrate, he seized her by the throat, and
threatened to kill her. He then let in two accomplices,
who, having bound her hand and foot and thrust her into
a cupboard, proceeded to ransack the house, from which
they took away plate and other property, valued at some
hundreds of pounds sterling. When the family returned
home from church they were obliged to enter the house by
means of a ladder through an upper window, and they
then found the servant in the plight described. The thieves
have not yet been apprehended.
NEW KIND OP MAIL MATTEL—A few days since
a poetmsater at one of the offices on the New London route
was very much astonished on emptying one of the mail
hags upon his table to see a nice litre kitten spring out
from the heap of lettere, and frisk about very much, as
little kittens are apt to do.—Newhaven Panadium.
THE BOMBAY AND ADEN MAIL.—The terms for
the performance of a fortnightly mail service between Bom-
bay and Aden have been agreed upon between the govern-
ment and the Peninsular and Oriental Company, the pay-
meat fixed upon being at the same rate as that received by
I the company for the other branches of their mail contract
with the Bast—namely, 68.2 d. per mile.
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SOME SURPRISE has been expressed at the low figure,
20,0001, under which the personal property of the late Gen.
Sir Charles James Napier was sworn when his wi I was
proved, as it was understood that the gallant g I had
received 70,0001. price money from the conquest of Scinde.
It appears by the will that 50.0001. had been given away by
the gallant general before his death ; so that the proving of
the will under 20,0001. will account, with the 50,0001. given
away, for the Scinde prise money. The other property
being real property is not of course taken into account in
proving the will.
GOOD CouNsu.—The most superficial glance "at
the present condition of European states shows that those
nations which linger in the race cannot hope to esegile the
partial diminution and perhaps final annibilatioditir theft
resources. It is with nations as with nature, wide lupus
no pause in ever increasing movement, dews oil
production—a curie ever cleaving to etsmilni
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