The Express.
London, England, 1867-01-10 00:00:00

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Mlles Paw Mee. Total, To6sl,
DAMMAM open. augers. audio.. 1811 128/1.
Week eliding I let. 29. It
Great Indian Penn:mule 7B4j 8,031 10,244 18,271 31,601
Week ending Nov. 10.
Bornlay,lB,4XentralL 306 3,813 1,821 6,715 10,330
Week ending Nor. 24.
Bahlaand San Francisco 761 187
Week ending Dec. 30.
Belgian Eastern Junction. 26e 126
Week ending Jan. 4.
Belfast and N. Counties 991 979
Limerick and Biala
Limerick and Foynes
Londonderry & Coleraine
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 165
Waterford and Limerick
Week ending Jan. 5.
Pembroke and Tenby
Week ending Jan. Li.
Cornwall
Great Kastern
Great Northern
Great Western 1311 25,46,1 213,6,3 67.103 62.:40
La _gin and yorkehlre 403 17,6( 8 24.362 44,030 44,709
London, Chatham, et Dover
& Met. Ex. & Branches . 130 6.765 1,101 6,866 2,7311
Metro. En. of 1.. C. & D l3l 1,691 181 1,772 2,300
•ICent Cud Branch
Laudon .1 North Western 1314 46,420 60,801 107,221 106,226
London and South Western - 13,851 6,829 10,780 -
Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincolnshire 246 0,185 111,407 17,596 17,832
blanchester,Soutlattnetiou,
anti Altrinehma - 1,030 305 1.425 1,020
Midland 869 14,876 73,189 38.064 41,165
North Staffordshire; BAC ) 268 - - 6.250 7.666
South Devon

793 799

320 348
18u7. nob,.
1,923 1,826
131 167
101 84
273 228
284 380
1,448 1,232

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• Of the receipts for both weeks the London, Chatham, and
Dover Hallway Company are entitled to retain 60 per cent for
working the Dupe: . . .

there are only four working (lays tins year, as
against live in last year.

COLONIAL LEGAL APPOINTMENTS PROM THE
Scorn' BAIL —lt has been a frequent subjecrof complaint
for some years that the Scotch bar has suffered injustice
in the matter of colonial appointments. An advocate is
entitled, equally with an English barrister, to practise at a
colonial bar, and a kind of preference has been claimed,
and to some extent conceded, in favour of Scotch lawyers,
in regard to colonies such as the Cape of Good Hope, where
the prevailing law is based on the civil law—otersitem of
jurisprudence of which English barristers coat know
nothing, but which is the subject of the earliest studies of
the Scotch advocate. Formerly, Scotch lawyers held ap-
pointments in the Bahamas, St. Lucia, the Cape, Ceylon,
the lonian Islands; and Sir John Peter Grant was
a judge at Bombay, and afterwards at Calcutta.
But of late years these and similar appointments,
with the exception of the chief justieehip and proeureur-
generalship of the Mauritius, have all been filled up from
the ranks of the English bar. Lord Advocate Patton
deserves credit for the effort which, during his abort
tenure of office, he has made to protect the interests of
Scotland in this matter. We understand that, in conse-
quence of his representations to the Coloniabofilos, four
such appointments have been given to members of the
Scottish bar. Some time ago Mr. W. A. Parker was
garetted to the office of chief magistrate of the Gold Coast ;
and a similar appointment at Gambia is about to be made
in favour of Mr. D. P. Chalmers. We are also informed
that Mr. Francis William Clark, younger, of Ulva, and
Mr. Patrick Blair have been offered district judgeships in
Jamaica. The salaries of the latter sppointinents are
7001. a year, with a prospective rise to 9001., and the
chance of promotion to the high office of chief justice of
the island.—Scotantan.