The Express.
London, England, 1848-01-28 00:00:00

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Expended In four months

Balance In hand La e a
The principal items are for officers, agents, &c., 3261.; re•
gutty expenses, 1301. ; stationery, &c., includig payment
on account of old debt, 891 ; election expenses, 551.; news-
papers, 661. ; and cost of missions and committees, 431. Since
the Ist inst. the income has enabled the committee to pay
250/. of their heavy outstanding liabilities.
SALE or • NEWSP•PiI.—The Cork Examiner of yes-
terday announces the completion of the sale of the Southern
Reporter. The Young Ireland party have secured it. Mr.
Meagher is one of the new proprietors. The consideration
of the transfer is the miserable sum of 5001.

TR! Roy. Ma. MAXWELL, the author of " Wild Sports
of the West" turned up yesterday in the Queen's Bench.
A conditional order was obtained against the Bishop of
Turn, not the " archbishop," at the instance of a Mr.
Hamilton, that the bishop be directed to account for the pro-
ceeds of a certain living, named &dint% in his diocese, held
by the Rev. Mr. Maxwell. Some seven years ago a writ of se-
queetration issued at the suit of Hamilton. to raise the
amount of &judgment debt, which was neutralised by ano.
ther writ issued by the bishop, on the ground that Mr. Max.
well was nonresident. Oe moving to make the order abeo-
lute the bishop will probably rely that the second sequestra-
tion, involving a matter of ecclesiastical discipline, dissolves
the first. In reply to a question by the court as to the
" whereabouts" of the incumbent, it was stated in. Scotland.

SCOTLAND.
EDINBURG'S, ILK. 26.
An important railway ease appears in the Dumfries
papers, as haring been tried at the Sheriff Court
there:

The Railway Clauses Act (8 and 9 Victoria, cap. 33)
empowers any railway company to take temporary porses-
lion of lands adjoining their railway, for the purpose of
taking earth er other materials thereform, for the con-
struction or repair of their works; but under the proviso
that the owner of such lands may object to their doing so,
either on the ground that the lands proposed to be taken,
er the materials contained therein, are essential to be re.
tamed by such owner, in order to the beneficial enjoyment
of other neighbouring lands belonging to him, or oa the
ground that other lands lying contignous or near to those
proposed to be taken would be more fitting to be used for
such purposes by the company ; in which case the sheriff is
empowered, on application being made to him, to determine
summarily which of the lands shall be taken. The Glasgow,
Dumfries, and Carlisle Railway Company having given
notice tc Sir Alexander Grierson, of Rockhall, that they
intended to take posses ion of about four acres of his lands
adjoining their railway, for the purpose of taking earth and
materials therefrom, for the connruction of their works
under the powers conferred on them by the above statute,
Sir Alexander objected, on both the grounds stated above.
It was stated, on the part of Sir Alexander, that the
lands proposed to be taken by the company, which con-
sisted of a hill of sand and gravel, would require to be re-
tained, with a view ti providing sand and gravel to spread
upon unreclaimed moss, which Sir Alexander possesses to a
large extent, in the valley of the Locher, through which
the company's railway passes, and which be intends to re-
claim and improve ; also, that there were other lands in the
ighbonrhood, belonging to Mr. Paterson, of Brocklehirst,
from which the company could procure the earth and soil
they required, which was to make an embankment for the
railway through Mr. Paterson's property. The company's
evidence went mainly to show that Sir Alexander could pro-
cure large quantities of sand by digging into his fields on
other parts of his property, and that Mr. Paterson's lands
could not be made use of for the company's purposes
but at great additional expense and inconvenience, and
delay.
The sheriff found for Sir Alexander Grierson.