The Express.
London, England, 1853-08-31 00:00:00

YORK, NEWCAS fLE AND BERWICK RAILWAY.

FIRE INQUESTS.-THR ORATORY IN KIWI
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WILLIAY•STREET.

The half-yearly meeting of the proprietors of this
undertaking was held on Tuesday last, in the De Grey
R loms, York; Mr. J. PULLZINE. the chairman of the
cern:natty, presiding. The report, which has already been
published infour journal, wae adopted af:er a brief discussion,
as was also a resolution fora dividend of 3 per cent.,
payable on the 7th of September r.-xt.
The CHAIRMAN then moved a resolution empowering the
director to apply to parliament in the nest session for
leave fur the amalgamation of vas c impany wioh the York
and North Midland and Leeds Northern. This reach
lotion was also carried nem. con., and also a further one
' authorising the directors to raise the sum undertaken to he
subscribed by this company towards the construction of the
Thu and Mallon Railway.
In the next place, the CHAIRMAN prmoscd a motion
sanctioning the construction of the Jarrow Decks, as recom-
mended in the din non' report.
A long discussion ensued upon this subject, in the course
of wnien Mr. J ()UMW!' (a shareholder) moved an amend-
ment that it was expedient to delay the construction cf
these docks for one year, in order to see what would be the
effect of the extension &pout to be made in the Suuderland
Decks

At an adjourned petty sessions held yesterday at
the vestry-house of the parish of 8:. Martin's.in-the-
Fields, Ebenezer Fernie, Esq., being the presiding justices
an inv. natation took place in reference to a fire that cot-
curred on Friday, the llfth inst.' at No. 27, King
street, Strand, better known as St. Phillip'a Oratory. The
inquiry arose out of the demand made by the firemen for
the U,llll rewards under the Metropolitan Ac:; La i.e!
ultimate object, as it appeared !ruin a circular addressed to
the parishioner generally, by Mr. Bower, one of the over-
seer., and who lives next dour to the Oratory, was to ascer-
tain whether there was any foundation fur a rumour pre-
vailing M the neighbourhood that the fire had been wilt oily
occasioned, and to petition psrliument tor an act making et
imperative on the coroner to hold iuque.ts in all cases of tire.
The Vestry-clerk was iu attendance officially, md
examined the witnesses. . . .

Mr. DAngerfie:d attended as the legal adviser of :qr.
Bones, end cuuduc:ed the cross-examination.,.

let= tile ti atiniony of the enginemen and sturw•ock who
were calk d to estinguhh •he tire, it appearrd that it broke
,ut at about hall.r..t eleven at night, and that

On the question being put, the antenilment was urge-
tired, and the original motion earri, d; the meeting nun-
cluaing a vote of thank., VI the chairman.

it WAS C.,llfi !led to a narrow apace rlaut one inch
and a :.ail aide, between an unused front door
:ad the wainscoating milled behind to conceal
Cie doorway ou the itewle. The the was extinguished
in less than half an hour obl beyond charring the wood
worn did little or no damage. A surellquantity of paper,

CORK AND WATERFORD 11.11LIVAY.

The ordinary half-yearly meeting of thin compAty
was held yesterday at the 1.0ut.i..n Tavern ; P. 1). llapow,
Egi ,in the chair. The following report was r.ad
•• Since the last half-yearly meeting, your directors have
had moiler their anxious consideration the prevent position
of the company, and have felt some difficulty in deciding
upon the best course to be pursued is this important junc-
ture of affairs. The shareholders will r, e-41eet that the
compu:sory power.' far the purchase of laud• cased on the
26th instant, but the period for the completion ni t under-
taking will not expire until the 26th Auctust, It is
obvious that the time his arriv,:d when some de-
cisive step should be taken, and a resolution be
come to either to construct some portion of your
railway, or to abandon the undertaking altogether.
With the view of assisting them in arrivi. 4 at a sound cm,
elusion upon thew) points, your directors intend at this
meeting to move fur a committee of tl.e shareholders, to
confer 'aids them upon the present position and nature po-
hey of the company. As it is assumed that this suggestion
will be concurred in by the general body of the propris-
tors, your directors consider it more Fader' to abstain,
upon the present occasion, from eliticuspiog the tsp Tits of
the c is,, or from expressing their own views upon the sub-
ject. The usual half.ycarly accounts., as audited, are hereto
annexed. It will be obseived that the ineoting is to be
mado special after the ordinary business has t. rratouted, for
the purpose of nominating certain pert a to he trustee, of
the shares to be held by this company di the Waterford anu
Trainore Railway Company. Cy the 4".dh of the
act incorporating the latter company it was provided that
200 shares, of 101. each, in the Tramore line were to be al
lotted to trustees, to be nominated by, and to be held for
Vie benefit of, this company. In compliance with this net,
the meeting will be called upon to elect reach tru'tecs
cordiaFly."
The following is a summary of the balance sheet pre-
sented :

/arty burnt, was found between the door aud the parti-
tion, and there being a hole cut in the door for a letter.boz,
which hod torm.rly been fixed to it, it was suggested by
one of the dremen, and the op;nion seemed to be shared in
by the priests who reside in the house (ono of whom was
1. resent at the ii.qta.ry), that the tire was caused by some
person outside dropping the lighted paper into the hollow
tyace by means of this hole ; while Mr. Bowes thought the
paper, or the tire that ignited it, must have been
placed there tram the inside, widen, as the space was
open at the top un :er the tau-light, it was possible to do.
A gnat deal of evidence was gore i:.to, with t;:e view to
establish one or other of these hypotheses, the weight of
it being decidedly in favour of tue first; but the case
was stopped by the c resid:.ng magistrate, who ruled that
their only duty was to ascertain whether the tire had
taken place or not; this having heen proved beyond a
doubt, tee firemen worn eiditkil to the reward claimed.

lo reply to a que,tion from Mr. Bowes,
The Vestry Clerk acid A was the ekty of the coroner on
being called upon to do so to hold an inquest in any CAIC of

Mr. Bowes had been int.rmed that if he called upon the
coroner to bald the iuquest be would have to bear the ex-

pence.
The Prirst, who was in attendance, was anxious a one of
the ri.sltnth :Ado Oratory, against whom an imputation
had been indirectly thrown, to give his explanation ut the
circumptances io tar as he knew them, ant by pernixbion
of the ma•tiatrate did so, but hit account in no aespeet
differed Irons that of the firemen; and
The Chairman said that as far as the investigation had
gone no imputation rested upou any one, nor had that
court power to pursue :in inquiry fur the purpose of attach-
ing guilt in any quarter.
The parties then retired.

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK.

ExPENDITURIL—Amount expended by Cork and Yonghal
Company including preliminary city( nu s. which amount to
52,608/. 4. 7d., 64,b201. 2s. Bd. Expenited airier holt state-
ment, viz., office expenses, travelling eapewes, directors'
remuneration, auditors, engineering ezpen.es, 2051. 13s. Id.
To this is to be added interest on paid up capital paid to
proprietors, 7,895/. 81. 5d.; lees interest on Exchequer
Bills and Consols, 2,3941. Is. 2d.; makia,g the total,
70,349/. 3s. Ild. ; balance, 5,2221.125.
RECEIPTS.—Deposits, viz.:-11. 10s. per share, on 48,254
shares and IL ss. per share, on 2,551 shirts, 75,5691. 15s. ;
by cash, 2/. Os. 11d. Total, 75.5711. 15s. Ild.
' BALA:NM—lnvested in Exchequer Bide. 7,634/. Os. 6d. ;
balance at bankers, &c., 263/. 13s. 10d. ; eesete, 675/.
14s. 11d. ; less account due to June. 18.53, 1471. 155., and
leas interest due to proprietors, 3,2231. 2s. 3d. ; making the
nett balance, 5,2221. 12s.
The Cu.URMLN said he had nothing to add to the report.
It would be seen that the compulsory powers of the com-
pany having ceased had suggested the pcliey of appointing
a co:nmittee of shareholders to consult w.th the direeters
as to what course should be taken, and the joint recom-
mendation of that committee and the directors would here-
after be submitted to a public meeting r f the company.
The report was adopted, and a resolutims Agreed to ap-
pointing Dr. Bowring, Mr. J. Field, Mr. Henry Tudor
Davies, Mr. Charles Robert Coleman, and Mr. Henry
Overton Wills, a committee of shareholders.
The meeting was then made special, and resolutions
passed appointing three gentlemen to be trustees of 200
sh ,res of 101. each, of the Waterft rd and Tramore Company,
to be held by this company for their bi.neflt, and auth, rising
the trustees to dispose of the shares, when empowi red to
do so by the directors.
The meeting then separated.

The deaths of 1,021 persons were registered
during the last Welk (August 21-7) in Londoa. The num-
ber is below the avcrage of the corresponding week in
previous years, even if we strike out of the calculation the
week of 1h49, in which 2,796 persons died from epidemic
cholera and other causes.

Of the 514 males and 507 females, 517 were children
under 15 years of age, 316 were adults of 15 and under 60
years of age, 187 were old people ; 2 of the men and 19 of
the women had attaired the ai4es of 85, 90, and upwards.
The causes of death present one feature of much interest;
137 of the deaths were referred to diarrhoea, 18 to cholera.
Five of the persons who died of cholera were adults, and
the shortness of life after attack, 7 hours, 9 hours, and 13
hours in 3 cases, with the ether symptoms, appears to have
left no doubt on the minds of the medical men in attend-
ance that they had before them cases of epidemic cholera.
In the corresponding weeks of 1831 and 1852 the deaths
from cholera were 23 and 15, and the deaths from iliarrhma
were 174 and 125. But it was shown at that time, from
the analogy of the previous epidemics and the general char-
acter of the cases, that the disease was not likely then to
assume the Asiatic form. Now our hopes that England

may escape are less sanguine; but it is right to mention
that in the last weeks of August and the first wet ks of
September the cholera of the common form is virulent, and
sometimes simulates the Asiatic cholera, which has besides
never prevailed here to any eaten t until it has been some
months in the country.

NORTH YORKSHIRE AND CLEVELAND MINERAL
Rat LWAT.—On Monday last a meeting of 1 Indoweers and
others was held at Stokesley, for the purpose of promoting
the shove contemplated railway, the Right lion. Lord de
Lisle and Dudley in the chair. The chairmen made a few
' observations to the effect that almost all the landowners in
the district were favourable to the 1 ne, and that they were
willing to ser. their lend at a fair agricultural price. Mr.
Browne, the engineer, stated the route of the proposed line,
which is to commence at the l'ickton station, on the Leeds
Northern Railway, and proceed for 2G miles to Guam-tat
station,
station, on the Whit' y and Picturing Railway. Mr. E.
W. Jackson, of Norton, stated that he hod no d int!, that
this line, which is intended to develop the immersa mass of
ironstone in the adjoining Cleveland Hills, would ultimately
pay Irons Bto 10 per cent on the outlay. A resolution was
unanimously passed approving of the undertaking, and it
was stated that a considerable number of Ciares had been
subscribed for at St( kesley.
NEWRY, WARRENPOINT, AND ROSTREVOR RAIL.
WAY.—The ordinary hulf•yearly meeting of the shareholders
was held yesterday, at the Clarendon R coma, South John-
street, Liverpool, Francis Shand, Esq., chairman or the di-
rer ors, presiding. The attendance WAS small, the chief
busiansa being the reading of the report, which, after a few
observations from some of the shareholders present, was
agreed to. Mr. J. Thompson Fitzadam. of Wigan, was
appointed a director is the room of Mr. W. D. Smith. A
vote of thanks being passed to the chairman the meeting
separated.

It is satisfactory to reflect that active measures have been
adopted by the Secretary of State to close the London
churchyards, and thut the water supply, although still bad,
is likely to be greatly improved ere long. While thi., great
disease is evincing so much activity, our sanitary arrange-
ments, particularly that great measure for the pur.fintion
of the Thames and the drainage of London, will not be
allowed to linger unachieved.
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The public should at this moment bear in mind that
nearly every quickly fatal case of Asiatic cholera is pre-
ceded for a few hours by a painless diarrheea, and that in
its first stages the diarrheas can generally be cared by
medical men, and the threateeing attacks of cholera bo
averted. They should therefore in all cases of diarrheas,
whether occurring in children or in adults, immediately ap-
ply for medical advice. The importance of this rule was
adverted to last week by Dr. klscloughlin, and was pain-
fully confirmed by the ballast heaver, aged 46 yesre, who
had early in the moraing " diorrhasa, which he did not
heed," and died in seven hours after the first evident symp-
toms of cholera appeared.
Last week the births of 803 boys and 683 girls, in all
1,486 children, were registered in London. In the eight
corresponding weeks of the years 1845-52 the average num-
ber was 1,352.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height
of the barometer in the week was 29.543 in. The mean
temperature of the week was 58.6 degs., which is slightly
below the average of the same week in 33 years. The
highest temperature of the week was 74.5 degs. on Sunday;
the lowest was 47.2 degs., and occurred on Friday. The
greatest difference between the dew point temperature and
air temperature was 15 degs. on Sunday ; the least 0.0 degs.
on Tuesday ; the mean difference of the week was 5.6 degs.;
nearly one inch of rain fell on Tuesday. The wind was
chiefly from the south and south-west.

THE HERRING FISHING. FRENCH AND
ENGLISH FISHERMEN.

TYNEMOVT}t, Ara. 30.

The herring fishing, more especially during the
past two days, has been remarkably successful upon the
Northumberland coast, and a very great number of boats
are engaged in the employment. Our men generally fish
in robins, but between here and Newbiggin Point there
is at least 200 sail of French luggere busy taking fish. They
have crews of fifteen hands each on board ; and notwith-
standing the fishery laws prescribe that they shall not cast
their nets within three leagues of the shore, they come so
close in as a mile and a mile and a half
,from the beach, and the consequence has been
that a great amount of unpleasantness has arisen, and
serious injury has been done to the nets and gearing of our
men. The Frenchmen's gear is much heavier than those
used by the fishermen on our coast, and they have also a
strong warp and innumerable tubs attached to their nets.
The men also on board of their loggers being in the propor-
tion of three to one to the men in our boats, they shoot
their nets over those of the English fishermen, and if they
get ravelled, tear our poor fellows' away and destroy them.
Several English boats' companies have suffered consider-
ably in this way. The English fishermen also accuse
the Frenchmen of cutting their nets and stealing
their fish, and altogether for went of some proper
police regulations, a most unhappy feeling has sprung up
between the fishermen of the two nations. We have an

CITY Or LONDON REGISTRATION.—Mr. T. Y.
M'Christie, revising barrister far the city of London, is to
commence his revision of the lists of voters for members to
serve in parliament for the City, on Monday, the 19th of
September.
NEW MAGISTRATES FOR LANCASUIRE.—Tsvo new
magistrates for the Salford Hundred of Lancashire quali-
fied on Monday and yesteiday at the Salford Sessions,
namely, Mr. Robert Ashton, of Rushulme-hall, and Mr.
James Heywood Whitehead, of Sautheide, Manchester.
WHITBY pie-nie party on a large
scale, visited Mulmes Woods, the noble and romantic do-
mains of the Marquis of Normanby, on Wednesday last, the
24th inst. The day being most beautiful for the pur-
pose, induced a great many of the inhabitants to move off
to the scene of hilarity. At an early hour in the morning,
one party after another was formed, and until noon con-
tinued to leave the town, either on the wheels or the more
quiet mode of walking; and some going with the Hilda,
the new steamer, which took them by sea for 3d. each.
Before late in the day not less than 1,500 had congregated
together, and were engaged in all kinds of sports and games,
sad many were the waltzes and polkas, &c., which were
greeetelly performed by the lovers of the dance. The Earl
end Countess of Mulgrave, with their children, and the
Hon. L. Phipps, the rejected canditate for Whitby, joined
the party.—Yorkshire Gazette.
THE CASTLE OF EDlNBURGH.—Pictnresque as the
mass of buildings that crowns the Castle rock undeniably
is, all artists and men of taste allow that there is still room
for vast improvements. It is therefore most gratifying
to know that, in regard to certain new buildings in the
Castle which have been determined on, the pictorial
effect of the whole has been made a primary considers-
tMn ; and that the proposed erections will not, like
the hideous range of barracks on the west side,
engraft deformity upon the ancient structure, but will,
on the contrary, give new dignity and beauty to
what will always be one of the most prominent features
in every view of our city. The principal purpose of
the new buildings is to provide a commodious garrison
chapel, the accommodation in the present building having
long been altogether inadequate. The proposed structure
is to occupy the site usurped and disfigured by the present
bald and ugly chapel (the removal of which is already com-
menced), but is to cover considerably more ground, and
embrace accommodation for a library, chaplain's roust, &c.,
within its walls. Inc alinratcd with it will be the ancient
structure recently recovered and restored by the aid of the
Society of Antiquorics, known as Saint Margaret's Chapel,
which has been adopted as the germ, so to speak, of'
the extended edifice. In accordance with this idea, the
Norman style et are.itecture has ben chosen for the new
chap, I, and the principal feature of the building exter-
nally will be a noble rectangular tower 65 feet in height—
thus rising several feet above the present highest tower in
the castle. From the fl t summit of this tower a prospect
of unequalled extent and beauty will be obtained, no posi-
tion from which the city and its environs can at present be
sa n commanding so full and uninterrupted a sweep of the
GIASGOW,—TIIE WFATllER.—Yesterday, about landscape. Connected with and clustering rouud this
mid day, the atmosphere become very dark, and vivid light town the lines of the chapel anel its adjuncts fall gradually
niog flashed in close proximity to the city, followed by anal without any harsh abruptuesa into the lines of the hat-
eful loud peals of thunder and torrents of rain. The teries and other buildings beneath, and the whole effect of
clouds passed rapidly away, however, in a south-westerly the proposed erection is such as to add dignity and pic-
Idirection, and the after part of the day brightened up, with turesqueness to the view of the castle as a whole, without
occasional showers.—North Bri!tifi Moil. unduly dwerfinz any portion of it.—seotsman.

English sloop of war, the Archer, on the coast, but she is
northward of this place; but if she were up here, unless
she had her boats out all night, she could not be of any
great service, as her heavy draught of water would prevent
her coming near enough to the shore. Two or three cut-
ters, like those used in the Preventive Service, would
answer the purpose, by cruising in amongst the boats and
keep;ng all right. The French government hate a sloop of
war down cruising off the Tyne. She is employed to see that
the fishermen of that country are reallyengaged in the fishing,
as that government give a bounty to their fishermen upon
the quantity of fish they eatch ; and in former years they
have found out that their men instead of heaving their nets
and filling their vessels with the produce of their own in.
dastry, purchased thi it cargoes of E.iglish fishermen, and
on arriving in port claimed Dv, bounty.
A very great quantity of herrings is sent daily by railway
to the various manufacturing towns of Lancashire and
Yorkshire, and to the towns in the interior of Durham and
Northumberland. The Yarmouta boats are also purchas-
ing a good deal of fish. Prices have ranged within the past
eight days from 10s. to 20s. per thousand. Yesterday they
I would be about toe. per thousand.
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During the past spring the Northumberland life-boats
were placed upon this station, and are equipped so that they
can he launched and is the water in a minute. Some in-
terelting experiments were made with the CuUacoat life-
boat en Saturday in the presence of a large number of
fishermen, and she gave the greatest satisfaction to them.
At this time of year, when the coast is thronged with small
I craft, these beats are of the utmost vale•, and are much
prized by the fishermen.