The Express.
London, England, 1859-09-21 00:00:00

LORD PALMERSTON AT ROSSI:Y.

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THE ANDOVER AND REDBRIDGE ItiliWAY.
Yesterday the ceremony of turning the first sod of
• Use of railway to be constitute! between Andover end
Redbridge wee performed by Lord Palmerston. The elm
made] took place in a field neer Rooney, in the oconpatica
of Mr. Chandler, just outkie of the park at Broadleaf, the 11
seat of Lord Palmerton. Although the noble lord I. not
shareholder in the company, yet, se the Use of railway peens 1
through his land, and es it le calculated materially to benefit
the district and the nefghbotrbig port of Southampton wo-
olen', by bringing the locality into direct communication
with the South Wales collieries, his lordship has always
taken is great ea Interest la fle success ea those pawns who
are conoerned in tuterooesede conimunicatkie and ire c.

In • few brief words, the formation of the hae may be said
to to accomplished by the conversion of the old Andover
Canal into a railway ; for the canal having beat purchased,
sod the water droned off, It is along ite bed for the most pert
that the rails will be laid. Commencing war the head of the
Southampton water, at Ileibeidgie, whith Is about three
miles from Southampton, end romans up the valley of the
Treat, the line proceeds la a directica warty doe north,
through Rooney, King's Eloceboure, Stockbridge, sad the
Clatforda, to Andover, where for the present It terminates.
It will be 23 miles in tenth, and the estimated cost from
ihot to leer, is 130,00 W., Mr. liattereley, the contractor,
having undertaken to execute the whole as de-
signed for 100,03 W , Math is little more than at
the rate of 4,3001. pa mile. The line, however is
almost on &dead level all the way, and although the works
will be constructed for a double line upon the brad gauge
the permanent way will only be laid for a single Ina. It it
espected to be ready for opening by the sod of 1860. The
ultimate died is to form a main route on the breed pugs
between Southampton and Broth Wales, which It Is proposed
to accomplish hereafter by abort Meadow from' each of the
present termid—that from Andover, of about 14 miles fa
length, to Jain the Berke and Banta Railway near
Presey ; sad est from Redbridge, of about three miles, to
Southampton. It ia scarcely mammary to state that the bill
for this line we° most 'yeomanly opposed in all Its stages by
the South Western Company, with whom ft will enter Into
some compethfam.

The engineer to the lb* be Mr. John Smith Burke, who
was unfortaaately prevented by Maass from being prawn
yesterday, but he was ably represented on the occasion by his
brother, Mr. Juan B. Burke.

At two o'clock a large number of persons had sesembled et
the spot fixed for breaking the earth, among whom were
Lady Pal mentors, Lady Jeerlye, Ralph Etwall, Req., chair-
man of the compeny ; Mr. Alderman Cable, M.P. • Sir
011itle, Sir J. lervolar, Ran. H. Dutton, 11. P., Rigid Hos.
W. Cowper, M.P., Mr. Wilma, M.P., Mr. Rigby Seymour,
General Via:Ambers, J. C. Crosby, Req., the Mayors
of Southampton, Andover, and Ramsey, the Rev. C. Avery
Moore, Vicar of Rooney; Mr. Pierce, the engineer; Messrs,
Deacon, of Soci.honpton, and Mining, of London, solicitors
to the company, &o. The ground was gaily decorated with
flags, and the bend of the East Kent Militia, from Porta•
mouth, was Is ettaidanoe during the day.
Mr. Ennu. then conducted hie lordship to the spot
which was peepeeed for turning tic fleet sod. Mr. Pierce,
the engineer, presented him with a bondman spade and pick_
are of mahogany end polished oed, with which the noble
liwd dexterously deg up the required fragment of
earth, which he deposited in a wheelbarrow, also formed of
sad bearing an Ms side the arms of the company, as the
other those of the town of Andover, end In the centre those
of Lord Poltnerstan to polished steel. Rim lordship wheeled
the barrow alms a wooden platform, et the end of which he
deposited the lead and then trundled It book amidst some
laughter and lead cheering. A saint, was then fired from
a battery of Sell gam the property el Mr. Waterman, of
Shirley, end the crowded ammo* signal.' their empathy
with the doremissial act by land and continued chewing.
When this led subsided,
Lord PALMA/TON came forward and made a few happy
remarks relatls to the undertaking.

The Her. B. Avrrr bloom, the vicar of Ramsey, then
offend up en appeopristo prayer.
Mr. RYWALL itllll stated that the earentolly Will CODCludid,
and invited Lord ad Lady Palmerston and the Win and
gentlemen repot to a dijesowr, which was laid out is •
specious nmennee is the perk at Headlands, widths view of
the hones, and under the shed. of *blue magnificent trees.
Mr. ETWALL presided and having proposedthe used
loyal and pentode toasts,
asts,gave the health o Lord Palmer-
ston in very eulogistic terms. It was received with grea
applause sad continuous cheering.
Load Pat.neurox (who on rising wee received with re-
newed cheers), beg to return my cordial and sinews
thanks to you, Mr. &wall, for the kind meaner in which you
have proposed, and to you, ladies end gentlemen, for the
win in which you have received, my name. It has
been aid with regard to Hogliele proceeding, that no
business of • publio nature can be transuded without
• dinner. (" Hear, hear," end laughter.) I most
my that our friends the dire..tore of this intended
railway have cosfornied very laudably to this rule. (Hear,
hear.) Let it not, however, be supposed that the custom
Implies that the lieglids nation Is composed of • alt of glut.
tone—(laughter)—or are unable to turn their minds to any
matter unitise their stomachs have been previously filled.
(Laughter.) The reason why feasts like these are the usual
oonconiitents of public Weiner is that in the first piece they
bring together neighbours who bow and value each other,
and in the nest plea they bring together those who are
not neighbours, and enable them to communions
their feelings mid Idass on esbjects of interest,
and therefore them material here ars in tent
tarsed into as latellected interchange of oonvereation which
Y the memos of advancing the intitutiam of the ebuntn,
sad rendering enemesful meetings intended Sepronson the ea-
nasal proverity of the country. (Hear, hem.) Of all the
improvement@ of modern times railways have tended most
to the preepergy of this, and, indeed, of all other countries
into which-they have been introduced. (Hear, beer.) Uwe
look to the wonderful augmentation of our Rational moons*
la the last 20 years, we are jimiifi.d in attributimg it in •
peat measure to the multiplication ralway one-
munication. In all matters of betimes time is
mosey, and if it be tree that • penny wed is • penny gee,
gaiety the days and the time which ate saved ha matters of
Mamie by means of railway a,mmosimtion mat be worth
to the country vest sums of money. (Hear, beer.) It then-
fore affords se Omer* whether In my local sad individual
character, or in that of • member of the
saidet at any menhir the object of whisk le to ley the
tonedation of • reilwey which le Westland to be of helmet
sot only to the district threugh which It is carried, bet
ultimately to the commercial and tneamffeotaring laments of
the neeth of Zeeland. As I stated lust now is the field,
then in he doubt that to goetheniptoe this railway will be of
vest sad busediste inteortance. It is one of thews
rernerkslike later, of the polity of Bagiend that it I.
owing to private enterprise that we sea the seeemplialunent
el works which in other COlLTlttlei mob the minutes of
the government. (Hear, bawl We all revise the min-
sesta of the peat works ecoompilhed by be ROOM
people, but I will ninon to ay Wit sow el the so mite
the week' et tbet Whoa am he eampteed with Ole welts
which lefeeee esierpekte fee ementsl r ithispeat pate of Me
easatry. (Hay beer.) Le way Chet start t et Gatemen
°miler set emir a seestfret the math of this omen-
try. hie Ite 67 the lottodettea of !stare week* sad

Property. I rennet say whatis the amour of eaplballavested
in *airy oreepries te this country, but we all Mow what
b the amour of capital represented by the Dread debt,
although it has lean lightly spoken of—(learghtse)—by one
whir red he Man been able to kedge of the reeourose of the
=nal I* *seem et =prairie. (Hoar, hear.) That
WOW ratartes ago bar bra deemed fabulous,
ari bernalled ally by sees story in the Arabian Nights.
(Bea, Mr) Hut I breve lam not wrong in oiling that
the read larstal in railways dear not fall tar short of half
the sailaa dedt—(hear, hear)—• remarkable proof of
the prinushre rearras of the country, of the 'drain of
priers eatterprise, corseting at coos to private interest and
rational advantage. (rear, hear.) Speaking of the direc-
tors of this company, I may sey that they ought to be prod of
having faced the dielloulre which they have had to encounter,
and that they hare begun a work in earnest which carries
with it future prosperity, not only to the district, but which
will also extend to important pate in the manufacturing
and ootemercial districts. There b another observers
which must strike everyone, which is of a deeper
nature, but which is not less true. We are told
by those who Instruct us in oar moral and reli-
gious dation that the calamities which befall nations
as well as men are Intended for their advaatage, and
that II duly reflected on and duly red, ought to afford evi-
dence of the moral government of Providence which rapists,
the affairs of mankind. It le also a Adler truth with
regard to laws which regulate the mural world. A
careful attention to those laws, and a soleatilis application of
those law., will tend as much to the permanent Improvement
of mankind as moral ordinances of a different kind. So it I.
with the civilisation of the age in which we live. That
expensive explosive furoe which, nuregulated, lays waste
Marina of the earth by the overflow of the volcano, or
spreads desolatiou over cities by the earthquake, when n ga-
bled In Its merlin° milked= by man is converted into
peat obedient slave, hexapods you from place to place on
lead all over the continent of Europe, end when applied to
Bedsore', terries you safely nom or sad of
the globe to the other. (Hear, hear.) fito also
of an thaaffirolf, which in its marts' swag
Is ea eiseard of terror to the igncereat, sad when
=neletabylhed creel
iapplication oelfethe.lzwe of na
guided te:
PSlllll6lld by the ernes of modernc that
le year latent,
and Who Mar far pod * pat,awahlithes a rapid
between all par deb, globe, and 'resew hops
then a few months errinication by that dense will be
en rapidly carded on between London sad Calcutta as it has
Mare been between cm and of the smallest village aid
the ether. (Cheers.) We ought to be proud of the age
in which we live, in whir human *rhea Ms arrived at
such a point of a:tontine attainment that we are enabled to
indenter the laws which regulate the material world, and
j by the proper application of those laws the elements of de-
er*** have been converted to the wee of mankind, and
the Powers which Providers did not intend to serve only the
purples of destruction have, by the mind of man, been
adapted terrors of rare and the advantage of the
human race. (" Hew, hear " and cheery.) I can only con-
clude by apreeprettaing nay thanksrd the satief.tion ithes
given me to be allowed the honour of being parr on this
000rion. (Loud cheers.)
Several other toasts connected immediately with the object
of the meeting of the day followed, the last being " Lady
Palmerston end the Ladies," which was reimed to by
Lord Palmerston in his usual felicitous vein.
The company then broke up.
It should be stated that the perk, grounds, end mutton of
Harland. were thrown open to she public, who availed
themselves of the privilege in great numbers.
The proceedings were rendered wholly successfel by the
prevalence of exesediagly Si. weather, the day beating the
aspect of a return of summer.

&MTN= Barnsit VESSEL FIRED INTO BY TEI
SPANIARDS: HALL, Sim 19.—Tbe etheoner Jenny Lind,
Captain Toogeod, from Marseilles be Lynn, put late Lagos
Bay, Portugal, on the la of September, through dries of
weather, and reports that, in coming through the Out of
Gibraltar, fourteen days ago, and while paring Tarifa, she
war fired into by the Bpanierds ; the shot struck the star-
board gangway rail, went through both beets, and carried
away the port mil. Fortunately no lives were lest.
A Vweaaa ON THE Gamma BANDS.—A telegram
from Deal announces that the ship 0. F. Yates, Copan
Horner, from Cardiff for London, with • cargo of coals, had
gone ashore on the off pert of the Goodwin II ands, but had
taken assistance, sad, in the event of the weather onstinning
fins, would probably be got off next tide. A later despatch
adds that she was afloat and being towed to the Downs, after
discharging her cargo.
DRAPERATE AFFRAY ON BOARD New
York letter of the nth inst. says A little before noon
yesterday a difficulty occurred on board the ship Mayflower,
Illag at Thonals Dock, Brooklyn, hearer the officers sad
tee crew. It appears that the ship wee ready to sail for Bor-
deaux. The crow which had been engaged came on board
drank, sad when ordered to do duty refused to do so. A die-
puts between them and the etecoeta mate, Mr. Barker,
ensued, and he wee knocked down. The captain came to the
mate's aid, and all the officen followed. The fight then
became general. The martiogepikes, bottles slang in band-
kerchiefs, sad other weapons, were used by the eabstante.
At length the third mate, James Kirwan, stabbed one of the
sanest, named Charles Niebuhr, with a marlinespike,
Injuring him in such a manner that his life I. despaired
of. A terrible wound was inflicted in hi. back, and his
hands and nick were dreadfully cut. Three others of
the crew were also injured. The some on braid la repre-
sented by the officers to have been terrific; end it re •
wonder that mom way net seriously injured. The Injured
sailor was taken to a drug store In Fulton-street, near
Market, elan his injuries were attended to. The third
mate war taken Into monody and locked up, to await Inquiry
into the cease. The Ma)lower will be detained in conse-
quence of this frame for rape time. The injured mike, who
M • native of Lsibig, in Germany, was conveyed to the City
Hospital by the second Maria pules, about 3 o'clock, it
being impossible to move hies before that time in ooseeleena
of the serious nature at his woad... Surgeon Ball and Dr.
Peck made an examination, and found one wound on the
right wrist six inches long, easeding from between the fore
and second Seger to the wrist ken, eating the tendon of
one of the extensor museies of the lore Amor. The mound
was on the left shoulder, about three inches below the shoul-
der join*, to the extent of two inches, penetrating nearly to
the boce. The third wound wee in the back, about two and
• half inches from the spine. The eleventh rib was cut off„
and the puncture extended into the cavity of the abdomen.
The unfortunate man waste • parcarions madam last sees-
lag. and his recovery is hardly expected."
LIFEBOAT SERTION•.—BRIDLINOTON, SEAS HULL,
Barr. 19.—0 n Saturday last it hies a heavy gals of wind
from the N.B. off this poet. When the gale wee at its height
the whoopee Eagle, from Sonderland to Boulogne with coals,
was observed to run in a distressed state on the north beach
of Bridlington. The lifeboat of the Royal National Lifeboat
Institution wee immediately manned and launched, and pro-
ceeded off to the amiatartoe of the veer al's orew. She safely
suesteded In reaching them, and in rescuing the whole of
them, coaletiog of six peewee, from • watery grave. The
masts of the ship shortly akerwards vat oar the side, the
decks blew up, and she parted. The poor crew lea every-
thing except whet they abed in. On these ocaudoem, When
a moment's delay may seal the fate of the unhappy crew,
the coxswain of the lifebtht is strictly charged not to take
any good. on board, as they may endanger the safety of his
lifeboat end the lives of those entrusted to his custody.
The Bridlington lifeboat im one of the oldest boats which be-
longs to the National Lifeboat Insanities, having been Irailt
more than 30 years ago. She hes saved during that period a
large number of heed from wrecked steals We akonW,
however, be glad to see this boat missed by see of the
modern lifebosta of the society. The institution has now
lifeboats on the Yorkshire coast at the following plate :
Middleborough, Haar, Saliburn, Filey, Bridlington, and
Horne's. Ihe numerous lifeboat establishments have origi-
nally cat upwards of 2,0001. They sow involve an outlay
of about 301. a year each to maintain them la a Mate of
thorough efficiency. The lifeboats of the institution eta-
Speed at Dover and at Boehm' co the Northumberland
coast, have also been meetly eat In replies to signals from
welds in distress, but their services were fortunately not re-
nuked. The Dover lifeboat le repaid by the officer of the
onset-guard " to have behaved splendidly in • trenisiidots

CRYSTAL PALACL—VICTORIA•BRIDOg.—A model
of this greet work of engineering skill, a description of which
has Italy sneered in the loading journals, and which is to
be opened In November next, has been placed in the maitre
of Ih• nave at the Crystel Palace. The mole], which la fibs
=tarty of the Canadian government, being constructed to
visitors may fora) some conception of the gigantic cha-
racter of the enterprise which has seconded in bridging the
Si. Lawrence, by a structure only 17d feet lies than Iwo
miles In length, as well ea some slight notion of the went
of through communication between Canada sad America
which would commercially jthitify go costly en undertaking.
A largo oollectiiin of photographs, Akre' at various times
daring the oonstrucHon of the bridge, kindly Sat fur
exhibition by Sir Cusack P. Itoney, affords much
Information respecting the progress of the structure.
To those preemie who may be desirous of compering the pro-
port loom of this great bridge with those of similar work. in
this country, the model gallery of the Crystal Pokes affords,
maple opportunity, as is It will be found models of the Bri-
tennis Bridgges over the Mena) Straits, the bridge over the
Dnieper at Yleff (the longest suspension-bridge la the world),
the Sabath bridge en the South Devon railw at Plymouth
klillubo.1) the latest and most gigantic works tithe late Mr.
, the Quail& viaduct, and other groat segiameing
works. As riding to the interest of the pitied Is coq be
isultesed that the pwesgen by the Gnat Rasura wdl
geskohly M i America at the time fixed for the formal opt
leg sf the Viclosia bridge ; and It will bee coincides*, bog
S. remembared, that the amorseful corspledon of two epcb
great verbs as the Greet Ship and the Vetted' bridge alsould
have molest st the same period, end through the Wants of
Zegter.a. PALACE. --- Orti Sun.s.nto
Iteww.2o.—Adndesioss on palmist, 4,016; ditto
Iby is *bob, 467; t isi Amhara, 4,471.