The Express.
London, England, 1860-12-24 00:00:00

THE UNEATISPAOTOEY _ POSITION OP THE

BID 814 YSLIQRAPM.

(From the Mosey Market Review.)
The position of the Real Sea Telegraph Company
in regarded ea extremely umatidectory, both by the ro•
Wars .W by the public—by the shareholders because,
after astWirso fa so undertaking enjoying • liberal and
enqueetiosable guarantee from the British government,
they and their shares at • heavy discount, mid the prospect
of further profit thrown entirely in abeyauce—and by the
public, because they are deprived of they Lat advantages
which would be afforded by • re telegraphic
emoniunication with the YAM, whilst the State still re-
mains under the obligation of paying the stipulated sum
every six months to the company. The line does
sot work at all. So eomplete is its failure, that
the clerks who had been sent out to the various stations
have come borne awn. Surely it is time that sweeres
should be takes for infusing vitality into the company's
operatMes. It is odd that, pending the litigation between
the company and Messrs. Newell and Co., the contractors,
nothing will be dune with the aside. Its repair is a work
which most either be carried out by the government them-
selves, or must at least be souially smactonted Li them.
Meanwhile the cable is as dormant as Pharaoh's chariot
wheels, unoopt which it reposes. Now, it is intolerable
that the public interests should be prejudiced by the effects
of the false position in which the company stands, as be-
tween MOWS. Newell on the one side, and goverament on
the other. The petal) waist to see a line of telegraph to
India established without delay. If the cable is to be re-
paired, why is the task nut taken io hand ? If • government
commission is to Writhe into the whole matter, why is it
not appointed? On, thing is clear—goverucuent must either
authorise the erimpany to persevere in their undertaking, or
must take it into their own hands, and refund the company
the money expended. By the agreement between g.een.
meat and the company, the former have the power to do.
terrain/ it Upon this condition.. it is • condition which
would doubtless be accepted with gladness by the share.
holders, seeing that their property stands now at 12 to 15
per cent. discount in the market. The present anosselees
position of the enterprise is • national disgrace. The Mete
receives nothing whatever is return for • subsidy of men-
derable amount. Moreover, am lung as government ramie
in their present undecided frame of mud, they are Indis-
posed to afford soy 'militias to the enterprising men who
propose, if properly encouraged, to establish an alternative
tatinsPliko liar to bat.

CHRIST'S HORPITAL.--ChTist's Hospital is MOD-
tially a school for the children of the poor ; founded by the
rmed benevolence of a youthful beg, it wee intended to
be
wholly as a charitable institution, yet we
seldomor ever connect a blue-coat buy with the idea of
poverty ; and while a parish school, with its pewter badge.
necessarily associated with hinges of destitution and
want, we are not at all surprised to dud yellow•stockiuged
and threheaded tyros from Newgate.strcet walking un•
abashed with gaily dressed lobes, or riding in the carriages
of the rich. No doubt the children of the very poor obtain
presentations occasionally, but a far larger number are
disposed of in well-to-do families, where the cost of
education would not be burdensome. tiometinies such
a provision makes glad the heart of $ scantily provided
widow, who rejoices in such a prospect for her well been
mu; and sometimes the gift is conferred on the orphan,
whose permits thought of nothing leas than that their noble
boy should be indebted for instruction to King Edward's
bounty. Too often, however, the " children's bread. is
mistokingly tarried to homes where titers is uo lack, and
lads assume the blue east, whose well-to-do or wealthy pa-
rent should blush at thus diverting from its right clamed
the munificent provision set apart for the really needy. I
could speak of such casm coming within my own know-
ledge ; some check to the abuse is madly wanted ; why
should the rich elbow the poor out of their own homitall—
City Press.
CLAIM AGAINST • RAILWAY COMPANY FOR .601•4
or Lira.— At the Liverpool Assizes on Sisturday (before
Mr. Justice Blackburn) non= Holt, a millowner end
manufacturer at Blackburn and Church, brought
an action spinet the Istereahlre and Yorkshire Rail-
way Company for compensation for the lees of
his son, who was killed by folliog into a cutting
during some alterations which the company were making
at the Daisylield station, near Blackburn. The deceased
wasmanager of both mills, and was a very useful servant to
his father. Oa the 15th April he was returning house when
he fell over a parapet wall (ui consequence of the neglect
of defendants to provide suitable protection), and was •
cipitated a depth of 11 feet into the rutting. He
by this accident sock injuriesw as to causebis death • few
clays afterwards. The defendants admitted the eigligthee,
and the jury returued a verdict for the plaintiff—da-
mages ZOI.
MURAL PALAOI—HALF-A-CROWN DAT.—I3A-
TOItDAYI D. 22.—Admiasioes on payment, 500 ; ditto by
seams tankata, 2,365 ; total visitors. 2,935._

[Adirertisement.l---liuLtow A y's OINTIMIT Ago
nua—BrosehlUa. Asthma. Bi.,rtseas of Breath, paiptualon.
Now is unfortunately the season for the prmaleues of these
complaints, and Olt ir eerlous nature is borne out by the weekly
bills of nwirtality. Early and proper treatment should he adopted
without hesitation or delay *either oval arias If Holloway.
nriontiss be at hand. 111. Ointment may be safely and ashen.
'famously rubbed on the back arid chest every night and morning
salt is rul died upon meat to iwv verve It. It penetrates
Crelhlame a.
HY, and appeases pulmonary excitement. Holloway's Pills
ithould he taken at the same time. as they act with energy on
the circulation. glands, and alisorbents. and nenterially mat In
rendaring the AIM senora and penisimest.