The Express.
London, England, 1865-11-18 00:00:00

LONDON AND NORTH WESTBRN RAILWAY.
(TIS DAY.)

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A special general meeting of proprietors was
held at noon, at the Ruston Terminus, for the purpose of
warmth's° agreement made between the North Western
Company, the South Eastern Company, and the North
Western and Charing-cross Railway Company ; Mr. Moos
in the chair.
The Smicrros read the heads of the grommet line
, which
provided that the North-Western and Charing
-cross
should be made within the capital ; that the interest on
the debenture debt and 5 per cent. for the capital, should
be guaranteed ; that the working of the line should be in
the hands of the North-Western extende South• Eastern ;
that the guarantee should not beyond 45,0001. ;
20,0001. to be the guarantee of the South-Eastern, and
25,009/. the guarantee of the North-Western. The surplus
profile to be divided between these two companies.
The CHAIRMAN, in moving tbat the agreement con-
be
firmed, said that the attention of the shareholders bad been
called to a bill which passed in the last session for making •
line at Charing-crow to join their line at Raespetead-roed.
Subsequent oonsideration led them to take an interest in
that project, and the consequence was that an arrangement
had bees come to between them, the South Easit tern C
oro-
, penyousd the Cheringcross Company, by which was ,
posed to guarantee • certain sum per annum for having the
management, control, and working of • line which would
enable them to peas their through traffic from one system '
the other. The meant of their guarantee was 23,0004
That was • large sum, but he believed they would be largely
remunerated by the extensive traffics which would be
interchanged from the South Eastern to the North Western,
end vim versa.
fdr.WearteaAD seconded the motion which was
In reply question it wee said th; guarantee ofad°lfottah
Western did not extend beyond the 25,0001.
The proceedings then termiasted.

DUCHY OF CORNothll.-Orrleg, BUCKINGHAM-0 ATE,
Nov. 13.—The named of theme who have been nominated
by his Royal Highness the Prince of Waled to serve the
office of sheriff of the county of Cornwall :—John Thomas
Henry Peter, of Chivutoe, Esq. • William Horton Devon
of Bochym-houes, Esq. ; Edwina Beauchamp Tacker, of
Trevisies, Esq.—Gerdee.
DOWNING-STRIST, Nov. 17.—The Queen has been
pleased to appoint Sir Carlo Arthur Henry Rumbold, Bart.,
to be president and senior member of the executive council
of the Virgin Islands.—Ga:ette.
SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS FOR THE SHRUM° WEEK.
—Monday : Asiatic, at 3 ; Mathematical, as 7, "Duffr.
eatial Resolvents," Rev. R. Harley ; Architects, at 8.
Tuesday : Horticultural. at 3, adentific, and election of
fellows ; Statistical, at 8, " Ls there • Science of Statistics?
its relation to Political Economy and Social &Una," Dr.
Guy ; Ethnological, at 8, ""I'rize Assignation of Breeze
Weapons, Sa.," Mr. Wright ; Engineers, at 8, " Telegraph
to lodia, Australia, and China," Sir C. Bright. Wisdom-
' day : Society of Arta, at 8, " Water Supply in Rural
Parishes," Mr. Denton ; Geological, at 8, " Selenite in
Woolwich Beds and Loudon Clay," Mr. Duncan ; " Florio.
menus Crag and Chilledord Clay." Rev. 0. Fisher ; Lite-
rature, Coptic Papyrus," Mr. Goodwin ; Archeso-
logical Aromatic's, at 81, •' Boman Coins. Hampshire,"
Bev. E. Kell ; " Charms in Cattle Diseases," Mr. Canning ;
" Croxden Abbey and Chronicle," Mr. 11111 s. Thursday :
Royal, at 8) ; Antiquaries, at 81, " Portus Lemanis," Mr.
Lewin. Saturday : Horticultural, at 2.—Atheneruss.
HIGH CHURCH AT BROUGHAM HALL.—WO read
in the Guardian :—" On Sunday last the Rev. W. W
the
.
Mallet, chaplain to Lord Brougham, administered is
Divine service of St. Wilfrid's parochial and private chapel
at Brougham Hall, Penrith. His lordship attended
h the
e
service, and appeared, we rejoice to say, in excellent ea
°widening his great age, eighty-seven years in September
lent. This is a most interesting and instructive sanctuary,
having been protected from the destruction of the Puritans
during the rebellion ; and it has still on ita altar the mas-
sive candlesticks of Qum Elizabeth's time, and also the
antsient Eucharistic vessels, thurible for incense, do. Here,
too, the fall choral servioe is kept up. the choir being in
surplices. The organ, given by Mr. W. Brougham, is in-
flated by water- power. We are glad to bear that Lord
Brougham has become a patron of ' the Homes for Desti-
tute Women and Children' in St. Joseph's Society, of which
Mr. Helot is the rector."
MR. AND Max. C. KZAN.—We regret to bear
from Chicago that on the 31st ult. Kra. Kean had been very
ill for a week, suffering from chills and fever, a common
couldait at Chicago. It was hoped and expected she
wo appear as Queen Katherine for their benefit, oe Nov.
3. These talented and successful artists were to play one
more night there (Saturday. Nov. 4), and then commence
at Detroit on the Bth, after which they proceed to Cleve-
land, Columbus. St. Louie, Louisville, Memphis, New Or-
leans, Mobile, Richmond, Washiegton Baltimore, Ph
delphie. Brook lyn Albany and Boston. They then pro.
coed to New York, and take a farewell benefit at the Aca-
demy of Music on the 16th of April, mailing for England
OD the 18th of April, 1866. —Era.
VALUABLE GIFT TO THE ROMAN CATHOLIC&
The Lae of +slush!' propertied, late in the possession of
Mr. Charles Goddard Dowell, which he has handed over
to the Romish church, of which he is a firm supporter, took
place at the George-hotel, Malmesbury, on Thursday, the
2nd. The whole of them, with the exception of a trifling
portioo, being freehold (there being but little in te town
b
.stde it free), causedreat competition, sod the prospeot
of • railway making some portion of it more valuable, the
prices realised were very greet. The amount realised was
1 t,ti Wt. It may be asked why the valuable premises and real-
deuce, Cross Hays-house, with its spacious gardens and
beautiful walk., were not included in the sale. We are in-
formed that it is reserved by the Romish church, so
favoured by Mr. Dewell, for their own special use some day.
Mr. Dewell is the same gentleman who provided the money
(soomethiog like 3,000/.) for the establishment of the Romish
op soon le Devizes. Re was sou of the late Captain Dowell
(of Corshem), • highly respected magistrate of this county.
and became a convert to Itomanism while serving with a
regiment in India, in which be held a commission, under a
Romish major.—Devices Gazette.
Tux CorroN MoV Eisler IN AMERlCA.—Bitsiness
in cotton at all the shipping porta continues quite vigorous.
At this port the receipts thus far in the currant week have
avenged 4,129 bales a day. snaking 119,046 bales sloes
Oct. 1 arrainst exports of 52.954 bales in the same, leaving an
estimated stock on hand, and on shipbOard not cleared, of
155.100 bales. Thus far in the current cotton year,
beginning with Sept. 1, the receipts at all the shipping port:
reach 300.000 bales (incleding 110,000 bales at this port)
against exports of 13i,000 bales, including 128,000 bales to
Great Britrie 7.000 bales so Frame. and 2,000 bales to
ether foreign 'ports. The estimated stock on hand and on
shipboard not cleared, at the shipping ports, at latest detes,
was 334i,000 balm—Nero York Tidies, Nov. 2.
THE CHOLERA IN THE EAST.—We
re to have
to have to report that cholera has reappeared at Alex-
, asidria. In coosequenee of this sews, the inhabitants of
the Dardanelles have petitioned the iorte to incrusts the
' striegeocy of the quarantine regulations affecting arrives
' from Esypt. The government has therefore ordered the
Galata Health Offiss te impure ten days' cinematic* on all
vessels entering from places where cholera exists. instead
of five days as heretofore. The epidemic, after hariog
totally ceased, has alto again broken out atTrebizood, where
several cases occurred sluing the pest week. It has lu-
ta,. at Egos, and carried off some tweasty victims,
Catte latestacconots from that tows report it. rapid de-
aline, no case having occurred on either the Id on led
lambast, the date of the last letters. The dime's has else.
we muirted itself at Triode, though a• yet i• • mild
forui.— Leeuttt Herald, Nov. 2.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis is residing at the house of
a Mr. Schuyler, near Augusta, Georgia. She enjoys her
usual robust health, brooder no eurveillasee, tad ie permitted
to correspond at will with her husband and friends. Yin.
Howell, Mrs. Davis' mother, is is Canada is moral
charge of the children of the latter.—Nee Tort paper.
Petroleum oil wells have been discovered in the
parish of St. Joseph, Barbados, sad arrangements are in
pacer far working thou.—Mat Midis paper.