The Express.
London, England, 1866-08-03 00:00:00

TRAFFIC RETURII6.

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Mir Par Mee- Total, Tote,
zariwin. open. stages. 'Unitise MOB 1386.
Wash ending May 26. t t t t
Great Southern of India .. 79 493 279 682 la
Week ending Juno 2.
Madras-South West Line 49! 6,930 6,252
North West Line. 119 1,015 679
Weak onclim Jana 16.
Bahia and d!n Fryncieco ..76. 231 241 472 68

Week ending July 20.
Dublin and Meath 36 238 123 386 324
Week ending July 27.
Belfast and N. Counties
Limerick and Ennis
Limerick and Fuynes
Londonderry & Coleraine BB3 84 437 431
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 294 180 414 331
Waterford and Limerick
Week ending July U.
Worth Eastern 12071 24,709 48,049 72,818 71,792

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Week ending July 29. - -
Belfast and County Down 441 596 261 856 766
Bristol and Exeter
lianchester,southJanction,
and Altrincbam
North British

THE NATIONAL ARTILLERY ASSOCIATION.—Yes-
terday at Bboeburyness a cup, presented by the Prince of
Wales, was shot for with smooth-bore guns of different
calibre, according to choice, by upwards of 50 detachments.
The competition was carried on steadily, and was produc-
tive of some of the best firing of the meeting. The officers
were called upon by order to meet the commandant of the
station, Colonel Wilmot, who was to inspect the camp in
the evening. The scores for the day's firing came in late,
but ft was believed that the 2nd Middlesex had won the
prise with the excellent score of 30.
METROPOLITAN RIFLE CONTEXT FOE THE SILVER
SAXON SHlELD.—Yesterday, at the metropolitan rid.
ranges, Wormwood Scrubs, the most important contest of
the year among the crack shooting regiments of the metro-
polis took place for the beautiful Saxon shield, valued at
100 guineas, which was subscribed and contested for four
years ago, among 20 representatives of the Queen's (West-
minster), the St. George's, West Middlesex, and Victoria
Rifles. The Queen's having won it in the last two years,
and the conditions of ownership being that it must
be won on three consecutive years by the same
corps, the other regiments sent their best men to
turn the tide of victory, if possible, spinet the Queen's.
The Queen's, after a sharp contest, won the match with
a score to spare. The totals were, Queen's, 751 ; Victories,
731 ; West Middlesex, 674 ; and St. George's, 670. At the
conclusion of the shooting Colonel Kennedy presented the
shield to Captain Oldeaw, the senior °Meer of the
Queen's present, .and that officer having thanked him on
behalf of the segment, three cheers were given for Colonel
Kennedy, and three for the West Middlesex, Victoria's,
and St. George's, and the proceedings were brought to •
close.

SUPPOPED DEBTIOICTION OP • COTTON SHIP BY
FlRE.—Captain Brooks, of the ship Wabeno, just arrived
at Liverpool from Kurrechee, reports that on the
19th July, when in lat. 47 N., long. 21 W., his vessel
passed through an immense quantity of cotton, a portion
of which was partly injured by fire. It bad been evidently
some time in the water. The captain of the Wabeno states
that the quantity of cotton he saw floating about would
nearly fill an average size ship, and that judging from the
nature of the packing of the cotton, it had all the appwzr-
ance of being Surat. Yesterday the secretary of the
Underwriters' Association at Liverpool issue. notice to
the effect that he would feel obliged to all ship captains
who have passed over the same course as the Wabeno to
report if they saw any Boating wreck, cotton, he., in order
that some conclusion may be arrived atasto the name of the
vessel destroyed. Some people in Liverpool are under the
impression that the cotton through which the Wabeno
formed a portion of the ca rgo of the Cyclops, which
passedf mlay for Liverpool on the 11th January last, and
has not since been heard of.

MANCHESTER, BCITON, MATLOCK, AND Min-
turns June/Ton RAILWAT.—The ordinary half-yearly
meeting of the shareholders of this oompanywu held at the
Midland Hotel, on Wednesday ; Mr. Henry Tootal in the
chair. The secretary read the following report :—" The
business for the present meeting is of a formal character,
being confined to affixing the seal of the company
to the register of proprietors and the declaration of
a dividend out of the rent received from the Midland
and London and North Western Companies. A reso-
lution will be proposed declaring the usual dividend
for the half-year ended the nth June last of lc 4d. per.
share, to be payable on the Ilth inst. The directors have
nothing special to report to the shareholders at this
meeting. The lease of the company's undertaking has
five years to run from Midsummer last, and the directors
retain the opinion they have before expressed, that the
extensions which the line is receiving will improve its
position and add to its ultimate importance and value." The
chairman then said the report just tend contained all that
might be said in a long speech. The second resolution was
the substantive one before the meeting. He begged to pro-
pose that the report be adopted. This was seconded and
carried unanimously The declaration of the dividend
was also moved, seconded, and carried unanimously.
LANCASHIRE UNION IttrimAYs.—The first sod
of this scheme, which is intended to oappeenn up more fully
the mineral districts of South • , was out on
Tußieehlarg, in the township of Haigh, sear Wigan, by Mr.
Moon, the chairman of the directors of the
London and North-Western Railway Company. The new
system will comprise a number of ohm* lines which will
place the extensive collieries of South Lancashire in direct
communication with Blackburn and East Lencashire on
the one side, and the ports of Widnes and Huston on the
Upper Mersey on the other, and its promoters have been
principally, if not altogether, the coal owners of the dis-
trict, whom object is to obtain access on reasonable terms
to new markets for their produce.
CHAHAR OE POISONING WITH CROTON OlL.—The
Li carpool mairietcates yesterday sent for trial at the emirate
on a charge of poisoning, a man named James MTaggart,
the mate of the ship Manchester. The Manchester traded
between Liverpool and Lagos, and the witnesses swore
that while at sea the prisoner administered doses of onion
oil to • sailor named Smith, who died from its effects. A
medical gentleman who heard the eau said the symptoui
described resembled those of dysentery, from which the
demised had been suffering, but the nanglortrates said they
thought a jucy ought to deride finally on the cam.
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