The Express.
London, England, 1867-11-15 00:00:00

INDIA.

BOMBAY, Nov. 9.

7lbs. shirtings, sr. ; Bllbs. ditto, Gr. 10a. ;
40'e mule twist, 11. Cotton dull. Dhollerah,
158. Shipments of the week, 3,730. Exchange
on London, ls. The latest London date
is the Gth November.

CALCUTTA, Nov. 8.

71138. shirting', sr. Ba.; B,ilbs. ditto, 7r. ;
40's mule twist, 6i,. Exchange on London, Is.
Freights to England, 85e. to 87.. Gd.

SOUTHAMPTON; Nov. 14.—The Hamburg Ameri-
can Company's steamship Allemannia, Captain Meter, has
arrived. She brings 78 passengers for this port, Havre,
and Hamburg, 44 sacks of mails for London, 13 sacks of
mails for Hamburg, and 1,200 tons cargo, 30,404 dols, for
France, and 1,200 dots. for Hamburg. The Allemannia
left New York on the 2nd. On the Bth, in lat. 49 deg.
33 min. N., long. 24 deg. W., spoke the ship East Latium ;
9th, lit. 49 deg. 27 min. N., long. 14 deg. 52 min. W.,
spoke the Hamburg barque Titania ; and on the 10th, lat.
49 deg. 17 min., long. 7 deg. 58 min., spoke the English
ship Queen, all bound east.

COMMUNICATION BETWEEN PASSINOZRB AND
GUARDS.—It is said that government is about to impose an
order upon the railway companies for the adoption of an
uniform system of intercommunication between passengers
and guards, and between guards and drivers of trams in
motion. The Duke of Richmond, President of the Board
of Trade, is to meet the engineers (telegraphic and gene-
ral), and the managers of the principal railway companies,
for conference on the subject, on the 22nd instant.
Colonel Yolland has been inspecting some of the systems
of communication now in operation, and on Monday last
spent several hours at the Charing-cross station, in an
examination of the apparatus and its working, as applied
by Mr. Walker to the South Eastern trains ; and arranged
further to take an early opportunity of testing the system
as a traveller. A fear has been expressed that a disadvan-
tage attaching to • means of communication would be that
ignorant and mischievous persons would tamper with the
apparatus, and endanger the safety of trains, and also
retard their progress. It would seem from actual expe-
rience that the adoption of the communication serves ins.
portant uses, and that there is little likelihood that it will
be abused. On a line where the communication has been
in use in certain trains for shout 18 months, the apparatus
has only been put in operation on four occasions. In one
instance a gentleman subject to fits was travelling
alone in a first class compartment, and resorted
to the communication on feeling the premonitory
symptoms of • coming fit. The train was stopped and
he was removed without serious detention. In another
case the Poet-offioe employai in the mail van discovered
that • mistake had been made about the begs. They sig-
nalled the driver, and the train was stopped. The bags
oontaining the letters they should have been sorting were
found in the guard's van, and were at once transferred.
In another instance • carriage ran off the rails. It was
felt instantly by all the passengers that there was some-
thing wrong, as was known also, of course, to the driver
and guard. The communication was resorted to in every
compartment, and the alarm discs sprang out simul-
taneously along the whole train. These were perfectly
legitimate uses of the apparatus, and only the fourth was
culpable, that of a traveller who wished to satisfy himself
" whether it would act." With a degree of leniency,
that will prove mischievous probably if repeated, this
offender was allowed to escape with a letter of caution.