The Express.
London, England, 1851-04-17 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 17, 1851.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.

IRELAND.

A special meeting of this company took place on
Tuesday at the Paddington station, to take into considera-
tion an agreement entered into between the Great Western
and the South Wales companies, and, if approved, of con- ,
finning the same ; Mr. C. Russell in the chair The Se-
eretary having read the advertisement, the Chairman said
they had been again called together, and he hoped for the /
' last time, for the purpose of obtaining their sanction to a 1
modified agreement, which the directors had thought it ex-
pedient to enter into with the South Wales Company. '
Vihe leading principle of the new arrangement was
substantially the same as that of the agreement
to which they gave their assent in November last;
that was, instead of guaranteeing the entire profits
of the South Wales Company, and becoming the
owners of the line, as was the case in the agreement
of November, 1646, they were to purchase only a portion of
those profits; and instead of being the sole owners, were to
become joint proprietors with the South Wales Company to
,• the extent of that purchase. The chairman then entered
fully into the various modifications in the agreement, and
said the leading facts were, that by the agreement in No-
vember last they were to make an annual payment, begin-
ning at 31,340/. and progressively advance during ten years
to 51,34111. fur halt' of the net profits as far as Swansea only ;
and by the new agreement they were to pay 30,500/. tor
une-third of the net profits atter the payment of working
expenses; but this payment was to increase to 33,5001„
when the line was completed to Carmarthen, and a further
increase of 46,000/. when the line should be completed to
Milford Raven. Ile concluded by calling on the solicitorto
read the agreement, which having been done, after a short
conversation a resolution was passed approving of the agree-
ment.—Some conversation ensued respecting the auditors,
and the meeting terminated with a cordial vote of thanks to
the chairman.

DUBLIN, Arum 16.
Thursday and Saturday have been fixed fur the
polling (at the Longford election), and the declara-
tion will be made on Monday next. It is stated that
Mr. Sleator reckons upon the result of a legal objec-
tion, should Mr. More OTernill be returned, as it
is understood that his resignation had not been ac-
cepted up to the time at which ho was put forward
as a candidate. There was also a rumour in Longford
that the government influence would be exerted '
against Mr. tYFerrall; but it is likely that this was
' invented by his friends to serve him with the popular
Party.
Touching the approaching change in the repre-
sentation of Cork, the Freeman's Journal says :
We cannot congratulate the people of Cork ou ihe change
which they are about to make. Mr. Fagan had his faults,
like most other men, hut they were the faults of judgment,
and, generally speaking, they were both few and unimpor.
taut. Should Mr. Fagan be succeeded by Mr. Serjeant
Murphy, Cork will have mode a miserably bad exchange
indeed. How the popular party in Cork can reconcile it to
themselves, or palliate to the country, such n selection at
such a time, we are at a loss to conceive. A whig, a whole
whig, and nothing but a whig, is not the man for Cork at
the present crisis.
It is only right, however, to add that Mr.
Murphy has the support of the local liberal press in
Cork.

SPORTING.
MALTON RACES.—Thesnmr.

AXATEUV. STAKIC

1
Tally
C by Sir Hercules
Five ran. Won by three lengths.
WEtIiAX CCP.

View Halloo
Arabian
Tcn ran.

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.....
2
Won by a length.

WSDNIUDAT.
CLAIM Snug.

Uftity
2
C Churks
3
Cuder
Four ran. Won by a length.
CONVIVIAL STALIN.

I
I

C by Prince On do's out ofJ Mix Bennett
VbuiguAnt.
Three ran. Won by a seek.
FAILEWELL STALIN.
tron•'iku

Heiman Mita ally
Five ran. Won by a head.
TALLYHO Ileautcne of 10 ROM each, 5 ft, and 3 only if
declared, and 20 added. Gentlemen riders. One mile and
a half.
Mr. 0. Barker's Toriitsillati, I yr., %at 0:b
Captain 11.orot ttea Itar.in..o, a m, lIM 916
Fire ran. on by a brad.
INNEEEPEIL!' PLATE wax won by 'Timothy, beating
Anti-ltepealer, and the Spet Plate by Presto.

BETTING AT lIANCIIESTEIt—TtESD.%T.
TWO 11101 Si9U UCI(EAS STAKe.S.
sto 2 apt Mountain rylph I 100 to airet Kent's and S.r .1.
colt (t) 1 11 ark y's lots it)
Any odds agst either Grecian or Ne•Mil/Akter
DERBY.
3.10 to 50 apt Prime Minister (i.) 20 to 1 slot Newminster (t)
S to 1 Tedilinstan (I) 40 to 1 Confo.sor (t)
12 to 1 Bock (t) 50 to 1 Gknhatsklt)
18 to 1 Cuustrilittion (I)
CHESTER (Tl'.
11 tot eget Black Doctor Ot to t Knishtofirrnel(t)
(t 10 to 1) 25 to 1 nest %%melt' (t)
It to 1 51intaitue(t) 100 to 0 Russts insist (t)
12 to 1 1110..0. (t) 2i to I NAII^F (t)
10 to 1 no (II 130 to 1 Backbiter (t)
to 0 1 Ilotoe (t)
Black Doctor sad Risesb)enu3h In Biwa force.

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL.
PMEUERMENTai._

Rev. W. Gabhet, t;Cutlcmartyr------- and Vicarage,
Cork; patron, Bishop of Cloyne.
Rev. 11. Kelton, to St. 'Hmus Curacy, Preston, Lan-
cashire. . . . . .

ltev. Oswin Rubinson, to lx• assistant to and substitute
for the lter. W. tiegg, Incumbent and garrison chaplain,
St. Matry, lhdire, 11111111UT.14 ; diocese of Jamaica.
Rev. 11. T. Salmon, to Hinton Waltlrist Curacy, Berks.
Rev. E. Saul, to Deane Curacy, Lancashire.
Rev. J. 11. Singer, D.D., Rector and Vicar of Raymochy,
to the Arehdtaueoury of Raphoe.

VAC% NOLA.

Ballyhnvcy Rectory and Vicarrkc, Ireland; diocese of
Uloyne; patron, Itislum of Cloyne ; Itcv. W. liabbett, pro-
moted. _ _ .

I.laavunitfread Rectory, Montnouthohire, diocese of Liao-
datf ; value 7:0.; patron, Mrs. JIMA% ; Rev. J. T. Junes,
dire:asst. _ _ .

Itutheormack Rectory, Ireland, diocese of Cloyne ; patron,
Rev. I'. Smith ; Rer. W. Brown, lecciseo.
Saiothury Rectory, county and oiocut,e of Gloureder ;
value 415/. nod resiaence ; patron, J. R. West, Esq.; Rev.
J. T. Jones, decetwed.

St. ALBANS ELECTION.—On Tuesday evening the
witness Edwards was conveyed in a cab by Captain Gossett,
Deputy Serjeant.atsArms, and Mr. Poiandestre, between 6
and 7 o'clock, from what is termed the " prison" of the
House of Commons, consisting of two comfortable and
neatly furnished pintas, to Newqate. He was said to be
sadly " cut up" at the occurrence. The " prison" has not
been occupied shut, Smith O'Brien was there.
liosros ELEctios.—Mr. 1). Wire addressed the
electors of Boston on Tuesday evening, and was received
with great enthusiasm. Ile declared himself in favour of
an extension of the suffrage and the ballot, in order to pro-
tect the poor against the corruptions of the rich. lie was
for financial reform and free trade ; an enemy to intolerance,
and a friend to civil and religious liberty all over the world.
Mr. Wire said, it he would avow himself in favour of pro-
tection, his election was sure; but he could not consent to
tax the people's :mead. He recommended the agriculturists
to improve their implements, to cultivate their land letter,
and to demand a reduction and equalisation of taxation. He
concluded by saying that he had formerly been rejected by
two cliques m the town ; he would go into parliament with
clean hands. Ac he did not mean to buy the people, he
would not sell them. The town is placarded with bills
calling on the electors to reserve their votes, as a protec-
tionist is immediately coming forward. The election will
take place on Monday or Tnewlay. Mr. Wire is the only
declared candidate in the field at present (Wednesday even-
ing), although Mr. Fru:Mit:ld has just /invest in the town.
THE REPREsENTATION OF BOCIIDALE.—Mr.Bright,
M.l'. for Manchester, has addressed a letter to Mr. W.
Chadwick, the chairman of the meeting of electors at
which a requisition to Mr. Bright was agreed upon. In this
letter Mr. Bright declines to tweept the invitation to become
a candidate for Rochdale at the next dissolution of parlia-
ment, on the ground that he does not conceive it consistent
with his public duty voluntarily to abandon the post which
he now occupies.
TILE BENGAL COMMAN IL—Major-General Godwin,
C. 8., is to succeed the late Major-General Sir Dudley Hill,
as one of the two general officers in command of the Queen's
troops in the Bengal Presidency. The other general officer
in command there is Major-General Sir Joseph Thackwell,
THE SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING THE ENLARGE-
MENT, BUILDING. AND 14:PAIRING OF Cticncitrs met
on Monday last—the Bishop of Bangor in the chair. The
new applications before the committee were numerous,
being 22 in number; but, front various causes, chiefly the
incompleteness of plans and specifications, only 11 places
could be aided with grants, and the remainder of the cuses
stand over until the next meeting. The giants voted were
fur the following objects : —Rebuilding the churches at
Lamborne Woodlands, Betio, and Boroughbridge, York;
enlarging the churches at Kirksmeaton, near Pontefract;
Aston, near Stevenage, liens; Little Dealings, near Wood-
bridge, Suffolk; and Limpsfield, near Godstone, Surrey;
re-arranging the scuts in the churches at East Bourn,
Sussex ; Bakewell, Derbyshire ; Fernham Dean, near
Andover. Hants ; Stoke-next-Guildford, Surrey ; and Sher.
borne, Dorset. In most of these cases very extensive re-
pairs are to he undertaken, and such of them as would
have been entitled to briefs in former times, the committee
granted aid accordingly. Additional grants were made
towards building a chapel at Tatworth, in the parish of
Chard, Somerset ; and fur rebuilding the church at Michael-
stonuauper-Avon, Glamorganshire, under the special cir-
cumstances of those CoseP. _

k NEW SAFETY ALVE.—On Tuesday a neat
diagram was exhibited in the Liverpool Exchange, of an
" absolute safety valve," which has been registered by Mr.
James Nasmyth, of the Bridgewater Foundry. Its con-
struction, although simple, is very ingenious, and the ob-
ections to the valves now in use arc effectually removed.
It is free from all external or internal spindles and con-
trivances intended to act as guide rods, which often
corrode, and render the valve uo indicator of the varia-
tions of pressure. It has no external lever or weight,
therefore cannot be tampered with by being overloaded ;
but, as the inventor states on the diagram, "the chief
feature of novelty iu this safety valve consists in the man-
ner in which the swaying backwards and forwards motion
of the water in the boiler is employed to keep the valve
free, and so remove all tendency to become fast in its seat,
whether front mud or any other cause. The valve and seat
being portions of a sphere, they tit in all positions." To
understand this more distinctly, we may state the upper
part of the valve consists of a brass sphere, say seven
inches diameter, resting upon a concave rim, about five
inches diameter, open below, and in which circular rim it
can move freely in all directions, something like a glass
globe placed on the rim of a tumbler glass (without bot-
tom). 'through the centre of the sphere is screwed a ver-
tical roil, which descends into the boiler. Half-way down
it, and in the steam, it is surrounded by cylindrical weight,
adjusted to the pressure required, and calculated according
to the area of the valve. At the bottom of the rod, and
partly in the water, is what we take to he a hollow sphere,
which the movement of the boiling water will constantly
keep in motion. The whole represents something like a
pendulum, and the slight oscillation communicated to the
bottom of the rod will 'flake the sphere at the upper end
of it move in the rim, and thus prevent the valve
from becoming inoperative by adhesion. The diagram
I was inspected by a large number of gentlemen, an addi-
tional interest being attached to it in consequence of the
recent serious loss of life by boiler explosions.—Liverpool
Times.