The Express.
London, England, 1867-05-01 00:00:00

RISE IN RAILWAY FARES.-{THIS DAY.)

This morning a new eoelo of fares for daily pas-
sengers came into operation on the Metropolitan Extension
line of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway. The
rise is most felt by the passengers who used the stations
between the Loughborough-road and Ludgate-hill. The
third-clan return tickets from Camberwell to the City,
which used to be 4d. were to-day raised to 6d. There are
no longer any third.class 2d. tickets issued between
the Walworth-road and Farringdon.rtreet. They have
been increased to 3d. Numbers of the passengers were
quite surprised at the sudden and unexpected rise. There
has been no rise in the charge for season tickets, and if
passengers wish to save the extra charge they can do so
by becoming season ticket holders.
To-day a new station was opened on the line at Batter-
seispark. It is called the Batteries-park and York-road
Station.

MAY DAY AND THE SWEEPS.—According to an-
nual custom the London sweeps took their holiday to.day,
and here and there in the metropolis might be seen a Jack-
in-the-green of a type which was familiar many years ago,
but which Ramoneur societies and the sweeping of
chimneys by machinery have done very much to
destroy. The old race of sweeps has almost gone, and
some of those who exhibited themselves to-day were not
im
postors,
who of the new rue of London sweeps, but
who relied for what they could get upon what the public
remembered of days gone by. There were few demonstra-
tions, and these that were so be seen were of the feeblest
possible kind.
WINDSOR CASTLE, APRIL 30.—The announce-
ment in the Gazette of the 3rd of March, 1866, of the ap-
pointment of Lieutenant-General the Hon. Charles Grey,
and of Major-General Sir Thomas Myddleton Bidduiph,
K.C.8., to be Joint Keepers of her Majesty's Privy Purse,
is corrected as follows :—The Queen has been pleased to
appoint Lieutenant-General the Hon. Charles Grey, one
of her Majesty's Equemes in Ordinary, to be PPrivateSe-
cretary to her Majesty ; and Major-General Sir Thomas
Myddleton Biddulph, K.C.8., to be Keeper of her Ma-
jesty's Privy Purse.—Oarette.
A MAHOMEDAN CALLED TO THE BAR. —Last
evening there was a call to the bar at the Inns of Court.
At the Middle Temple one of the students called is a Ma-
homedan—Budroodeen Tyabjee. He is the first person of
that persuasion who has been called to the English bar.
The oaths of allegiance, lee., were administered to him in
the usual terms, hnt he was sworn on the Koran. We
understand he intends to practice at the bar in Bombay.
In that province there are easels who are mussulmans, but
Budroodeen Tyabjee will be the first member of the bar in
India who is a disciple of the prophet.
SINGULAR RAILWAY AMIDES T. —A goods train
on the Scottish Central Railway met on Monday night with
a remarkable accident. While the train was crossing the
bridge over the river Carron en axle of one of the tracks
broke. The consequence was that the train separated into
two parts—the engine and the foremost part passing on
in safety, while the binderpart, leaving the rails, knocked
down the parapet of the bridge, and was hurled into the
river that ran fifty to sixty feet below. The guard of the
train, the conductor, and a cattle dealer, were carried
over, but by good fortune, that seems almost incredible,
they were little the worse for the fall. A number of
cattle filled the precipitated trucks, and the slaughter of
these is said to have been vary great.
RAILWAY AND OTH KR BILLS BEFORE PARLIAMENT.
—Yesterday in the House of Lords (Room B). Mr. Pal.
grave, one of the examiners upon standing orders
proofs, proceeded with the consideration of. and declared
the standing orders to have been complied with in the cases
of the North Metropolitan Railway Bill and the Wells
(Somerset) Gas Bill. In the House of Commons Mr. Palgrave
took into consideration the standing order proofs of the
following unopposed bills. The standing orders were de-
clared to have been complied with in the cases of the Kil-
kenny Junction Railway (Abandonment of Kilpurcell
Branch) Bill, and the Great Grimsby Gas Bill. No fur-
ther standing orders were applicable in the case of the
Wandsworth Bridge Bill. The Abertillary Gas and Water
Bill, was postponed until the 21st May • and the Rises
and Pontymister` Gas Bill and the postponed Richmond
Gas Bill were adjourned until the 7th of May.
Lake Superior is the largest body of fresh water
in the world. It has an area of 32,000 square miles, and
• mean depth of 1,000 feet. It is apparently fed by a few
insignificant streams, the largest of which are the St.
Louis and the Ontonagon. Lake Michigan has an area of
24,000 miles and a mean depth of 900 feet. This lake only
receives a few small streams, and yet Lake Michigan
furnishes • large proportion of the current that flows over
the Niagara and thence down the St. Lawrence into the
ocean. These great lakes must get supplied from sub-
terranean *Duryea. It is well known that large rivers on
the western plains suddenly disappear through fissures and
chasms never again to reappear on the surface.—Cana.
dia. paper. .

CN.IIw —The Bulletin says that according
to latest advice., a greater breadth of land will be put
under cultivation in the state this year than ever before.
Some interesting experiments will be tried with new crops
and new varieties of seeds, the results of which will be of
great importance. A large amount of real estate has
changed hands in the city since the commencement of the
new year. The transactions at the land-office have also
been very large. There is a strong movement of popul►-
tion towards the grating region■ of the coast counties, and
some large tracts of land have been taken up.