The Express.
London, England, 1866-02-02 00:00:00

158 115 273 413

Week ending Jan. 27.
North Eastern 12071 14,620 46,770 61,290 67,712
Week ending Jan. 28.
Belfast and County DOWIt . 441 411 190 601 473
Bristol and Exeter lBl} 3,068 2,693 5.667 6,413
Manchester, South Juno-
lion. & 389 629 1.5.8 1.278
Worth British
Ulster lO6B 1,207 /.263 2.555 2.302

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL. The thirty-eighth
simnel general meeting of the governors of this hospital
was held yesterday afterooon, Mr. James Bowyer in the
chair. The report stated that the receipts for the you had
been 11,3231. 3a. Bd. which was composed of the following
items:—Annual subscriptions, 1,5071. 7s. 6(1.; donations,
3,0111. 2s. Legacies, 6,8041. The expenditure had been
6,8311. 4s. 10d. The committee had been enabled to clear
off all the loins and debts of 1863 and 1864. The number
of patients treated during the year had been 76,921, of
wham 1,415 had been inpatieets. The chairman congratu-
lated the governors on the general prosperity of the hos-
pital, and they would be further enabled to carry out the
object which had been contemplated by the founders of the
charity. A vote of thanks was passed to the treasurer and
secretary of the hospital for their seal in the interests of the
hospital.
Cogrott-Notren CLERICS.—A committee is now
sitting at the Treasury for the purpose of considering the
repeated applications from the clerks of the several depart.
ments of the Customs for a revisioe, and in soma cases an
addition, to the present scale of salaries. The Chancellor of
the Exchequer has, it is said, obtained the services of Mr.
Geschen, M.P., to assist in drawing up a plan which it .9
behoved will be satisfactory to all parties concerned.
THE ALLEGED MUTINY ON BOARD THE SCOTLAND.
—The six seamen, James Liffin, egad 23, Francis Carr, 23,
Thomas Dickson, 32. Philip Pillage, 31, Charles Topper,
23, and Joseph Matthews alias tulles, 24, charged with
piracy on the high seas, were again brought before Sir
Thomas Henry at the Bow-street policecourt yesterday.
Evidence was given by the chief mats of the Scotland, and
by others of the crew, from which it appeared that the
ship left Calcutta for England on the 21st of last July. A.
altercation took place between the captain sod the pilot,
and during the struggle a chain gave way striking the leg
of the former and breaking it. Shortly afterwards some of
the crew complained of the water, wbioh they said was
bad, and of the conduct of the captain, who it was alleged
threatened to shoot them. They afterwards refused to
obey orders, took the management of the ship into their
own hands, sod altered her course. They ultimately 01)11.•
seated to return to their duties if certain papa of the offi-
cial log referring to their conduct were destroyed. This
was done. The officers then took charge of the ship, and
she proceeded homeward. At the coocluaion of the eri-
deem the case was adjourned for a week, and bail refused.
THE IRISH LANDED &TAM COURT.—A meeting
was held on Wednesday, in Dublin, for the purpose of
adopting a petition to parliament and • series of resolu- ,
Hoes with respect to the alleged expense sad inconvenience
sustained in obtaining debentores or dealaratioss of title
from the Landed Estates Court. His Grace the Doke of
Leineter occupied the chair. A nomberof resolution were
passed expressive of the unsatisfactory nature of the pre-
sent machinery of the Landed Estates Court, and of the
desirability of a more simple method being adopted in the
transfer of land. The meeting was addressed by Mr. Pim,
M.P., Colonel Torrance, Colonel Eno: Gore, Kr. Naper,&c.
The convict Brown was executed at Montrose on
Wednesday, at two o'clock. The unhappy man met his
fate with apparent calmness. The crowd was compara-
tively small, and very orderly.
GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY.- -At a general board
meeting of the directors, held yesterday, Mr. Charles
Henry Turner, the late chairman of the committee of in-
yestigatioo, was unanimously sleeted chairman of the board
of directors.

METROPOLITAN RAILWAY.—The report of the
1 directors to the halbyearly meeting on the 7th inst. states
that the receipts during the past half-year (after deducting
all expenses and interest chargeable spinet revenue) leave
• net availisbis beisnos of 73,8571. 9s. Id. The directors
recommend that • dividend be paid upon the preference
atnck at the rate of 5 per came per annum, and upon the
ordinary stock and new ordinary shares respectively, at
the rate of 7 per cent. per annum, sod that the balance
of 1,708/. fe. be carried forward to the credit of the next
account. The narrow-gauge lines of the extension to
yioebnry with stations at Aldeisgate and Neonate were
opened for traffic on the Med of December last. The
works for the mixed gauge lines of this extension are in
• very forward state, and will le opened for traffic during
the spring. Until this event occur' the public cannot
have the accommodatioe which will be afforded when all
the trains are run to Fumbler?. The directors coosider the
traffic receipts of the working from the Darrow gauge treks
to Finsbury highly satisfactory, sod they anticipate a coed-
&table augessotatioa in the revenues of the company when
the mixed gasp lists are oomgdeted, and the trains of the
Great Weston mid other companies ow run to Moorgate-
street. The connexion with the Loodoo, Chatham., mod Dover
Railway is opened for traffic, and some of the trains of that
company and of the Great Northern Railway Company are
now running over your rsilwsy. The works upon the Not-
ting•bill and Brocapton Extension have made considerable
progress during the half-year ; the property required for this
and the Tower-hill Extension is being rapidly acquired.
Where the property is required for the joint lines or joint
stations of this company and the Metropolitan District
Railway Company the purchases are made through • joint
committee of the two companies. The only application to
parliament by this company is for additional powers, so as
better to utilise the property required for the eoestructiou
of the extensions, to enable the company to Increase the
limited aocommodetion now afforded at the intermediate
stations, to provide at Fasriagdon-street and Finsbury for
the traffic of the long railway compasies, and to Mee
moneys for snob purposes. The directors propose to take
authority to exercise the borrowing powers of the company
under the Noe W 4 bill and Bromptoe and the Tower-hill
Extension Acts. The directors have sleeted Mr. Nsemytb
to fill the vacancy at the board, created by the death of
Mr. Wilkinson. The direeeers retiring by rotation ere
Mr. Alderman Dakin, Mr. Lee, K.P., aid Mr. Nasinytb,
who, being eligibi., offer themselves for ~election.
THE InTLET ABBEY RAILWAY.Tbe Motley
Abbey Railway was to have been opened yesterday, bet
owing to the telegreph on the line not beisg finished, •
slight delay will take place. The railway is a single line,
lendows of the shortest in the kingdom, being only four
miles long. Its termiaf are neer two celebrated ecelesiese
Itics! ruins, vin., those of St. Denys' Priory and of Netley
Abbey. There is ♦ tredltioe that at one time there was •
subterranean eonernoniestioe between the Priory and the
j Abbey. There are three elation, on the line, ow at St.
Deem another at Motley Abbey. and an interniediete one
at the village of Woolstoee. About nine bales will ma
daily. It will be opened is • few days. Th• Willey Abbey
terminus is about a quarter al a mile from the Royal Vic-
toria Fkopltel.