The Express.
London, England, 1867-02-09 00:00:00

DUBLIN UNIVERSITY PROFESSORSHIPS.

Mr. LAWSON obtained leave to bring in a bill to open
the professorships of anatomy and surgery. chemistry and
botany, in the univemity of Dublin, to all persons, irre.
spective of their religious creed.
THE LAW OF LIBEL

Sir C. O'LOGHLSN obtained leave to introduce a hill to
amend the law of libel, and thereby to secure more effec-
tually the liberty of the press.

THE REFORM BILL.

On the motian of Mr. Huta, it was molved, " That
the house will on Monday take into consideration so much
of her Majesty's speech as relates to the representation of
the people."
The house adjourned about twenty minutes before ten
o'clock.

RAILWAY LNTELLIGENCE.

LONDON AND SOUTH WESTERN.

The report of the directors of this company has
been issued. The half-yearly accounts to the 31st Decem-
ber last show the net revenue for the six months, after de-
ducting interest on loans and all other preferential charges,
to be 176,1671. 6s. 2d. ; add the surplus at June, 1866,
8184 4s. 3d, ; balance available for dividend, 176,98.51.
10s. 7d. From the above sum the directors recommend
that a dividend be declared at the rate of 41 per cent.
per annum, payable on the Ist March, amounting on
7,767,1811. 18s. of paid-up capital, to 174,7611. lls. lOd. ;
leaving to be carried over to the current half-year, 2,2231.
18s. In drawing the attention of the proprietors to
the traffic receipts, the directors say that due weight must
be given to the very exceptional character of the past
year, caused partly by the very severe monetary crisis
which the country has Just passed through, and the pea-
valence of cholera in several localities. The traffic daring
the past summer and autumn month' has not been satis-
factory, and that increase of revenue, which, judging from
past experience, would have been obtained under ordinary
circumstances, has not been realised.

LONDON AND 1./LACILWALL.—The directors report
that they have received the rent for the half-year ending
31st December, 1866, from the Great Eastern Railway
Company, and that the warrants have been prepared for
the:dividend, and made payable on and after the 13th inst.
The revenue account shows that the gross receipts, with
the balance of 2,496/. 19s. lid. from the previous account,
amounted to 74,6661. fie. 9c1., and the expenditure to
24,925/. Os. lOd., leaving a net profit of 49,741/. 4s. 11d. ;
and after deducting, as hitherto, the six months' interest
on debentures paid during the half-year, which amounted
to 10,798/. 10s. Bd., there remains • balance of 38,942/.
14e. 3d. This balance has been carried to a profit and loss
account, against which has been charged the balance of de-
benture interest accruing due to 31st December, 1865, the
dividend on the preference stock for the half-year, and the
interim dividend on the ordinary stock: the sum of
11,295/. 19e. ld. remaining at the credit of the account.
The appropriation of that sum must, however, await the
result of the adjustment of the outstanding claims. In
one case the matter in dispute has been referred to arhi-
tration ; the settlement of the other claims is dependent
upon the decision of the courts of law. The debenture
debt of the company being so fully secured by the revenue
of the line, the directors consider it desirable that they
should be in a position to issue a perpetual debenture
stock, am opportunity occurs, instead of borrowing money
to replace debentures from time to time falling due ; they
therefore propose to ask the sanction of the proprietors to
bring into operation the provisions of the " London and
Blackwell Railway Act, 1860," which authorises the
creation of debenture stock bearing interest at a rate not
exceeding M. 10e. per cent. per annum. Resolutions to
effect this object will be proposed at the meeting.
SoeTH ResrEits.—The carriages of the South
Eastern Railway, which form the up and down mail and
tidal trains between London and Dover, and London and
Folkestone, have been fitted with electrical apparatus
(Walker's patent) for intercommunication between passen-
gers and guard, and between guard and driver. The
trains of carriages so fitted will commence running on
Monday next. The guards and the French and English
conductors have been instructed as to the use of the appa-
ratus. The use of Walker's electromagnetic telegrapn
semaphores is being extended on the South Eastern
system.
THE PACIFIC RAILROAD.—The Pacific Railroad
in America is being constructed by two companies, the
Central Pacific and Union Pacific. The former is working
eastward, and the latter westward. They expect to meet
et sale Lake city in 1869. There are 1,332 miles yet to
be completed. Each company receives 16,000 dollars
worth of Six per Cent. Thirty-year Government Bonds
for every, mile of level track, 32,000 dollars for every mile
among the hills, and 48,000 dollars for every mile in the
Rocky Mountains. Also 12,600 saes of land per mile
along the line. The Central company has 13,000 Chinese
labourers on their staff. Along the whole line 25,000
men are employed.

REPRESENTATION Or NORTH NORTHAMPTON-
RH I RF.. —Mr. Fitzpatrick Vernon has issued an address to
the liberal electors of North Northamptonshire, in which
he states that after a careful examination of the register
with a competent person, and a consultation with most of
the influential electors who supported him in 1857 and
1859, he has come to the determination moat unwillingly,
and solely in deference to the wishes of those whom he has
consulted, not to solicit the suffrages of the constituency.
Mr. Vernon adds that if the registration is neglected, it is
vain to imagine that the liberal party will ever attain a
position in the county due to its intelligence and num-
bers; but he states that he shall be ready on sonic future
occasion (if no worthier munlidate can be found) to be the
advocate of those principles which he sincerely professes.
FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT EASTERN
RAI LWAT.-Mr. Humphreys held an inquiry at the London
Tavern yesterday, relative to the death of Henry Tomlin-
son, aged 29, engine-driver on the Great }lntern Railway.
It appeared that ou the 9th January last, the deceased
drove a down goods train from London to Witham. The
latter station was undergoing repair, and, for the protec.
tiod ,f the workmen, the semaphore signal and the
auxiliary signal, at 1,000 yards up the line, were placed at
.• stop ;" but deceased, from some unaccountable reason,
took no notice of either, but went into the station
at full speed. A truck standing on the down
line wax struck by the engine, overturned, and flung off
the line ; the deceased was standing at the side of his
engine, and as it went past the capsized truck he was
struck by part of the latter, and his legs were frightfully
injured. He was sent up to London and placed in the hos-
pital, where he died on Monday last. The Coroner having
summed up, the jury returned a verdict of " Accidental
death."

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