The Express.
London, England, 1867-10-12 00:00:00

TRAFFIC RETURNS.

lelks No, Teti; Toi
1•11.1111ATL apes. wawa cdtandlso. 1261. 1944.
Week ending J my II 4 L 4
Great Soull!ern of India .. 144 880 419 999 81

Week ending Sept. Ilk -
(hest Central ot Belglu 116 3,330 5,172 TAN VMS
Week ending Sept. U.
Ottsonup BOl 340 1,599 1.939 1,96!

Week ending Sept. 23.
3.AoetrlanLomietdy
(South Austrian Line) —lO9l 13,987 42,447 56,631 51,171
Upper Italy (incladbig
tie Venetian Linn) —l4Ol 15,991 21,601 37,599 41,515
Week ending Sept. 29.
Lontion,Tilbtupoktioathend 1,905 516 1121 1.515
Week ending Oct. 4.
SathkealettNewcastleJun. 10 18 26 44
Week ending Oct. 6.
Caledonian

THE FIRES IN 13corLAND. —Fires, like other
misfortunes, come singly, and the Canongate cants.
trophe has been followed by several others, two of them of
serious magnitude. Happily, however, in none of them
was there any loss of life. Early on Thursday morn-
ing, the fine old Castle of Dalhousie—the property
of Lord Dalhousie, and tenanted by Mr. }tether-
turd Clark, advocate—was discovered to be on fire.
The household were immediately aroused and the
alarm given, and ere long many willing hands were at
work striving energetically to subdue the flames. Tbesopply
of water seems at first to have been deficient, and it was
long before any good effect was apparent. After persist-
ing for some hours, however, the efforts of the volun-
teer firemen were crowned with success, although
not before a considerable part of the building had
been consumed, and much valuable property destroyed,
the total damage amounting to the value of about 3,500/.
Nothing is known regarding the origin of the fire. In the
evening • still more alarming conflagration occurred in
Edinburgh, in the densely populated locality of North
Gray's Close, Canongate. The scone was • large tanwork.
The yard is surrounded by homes, and these were in con-
siderable danger. The inhabitants were in • state of
panic, and hundreds of families fled for shelter, or tried to
remove their effects. The fire-brigade with the engines
were promptly at hand, and there being a
plentiful supply of water, the fire was got
under before midnight, after great loss of pro-
perty. In this case also the origin of the fire was
unknown. During its progress the flames shot up to a
great height, illuminating the Calton-hill and the east end
of the New-town with brilliancy, and causing such a glare
on the windows of the new Post-office as to lead many
persons at first eight to believe that that splendid building
was doomed to destruction. There were also several
alarms of fire in other quarter yesterday. While the
tanwork was blazing, • chimney caught fire in Chalmers.
close, and so terrified did the inhabitanta become that
they left their houses precipitately. On Thursday morn-
ing, at four o'clock, there was an alarm of fire in the
Lawnmarket, and at ten o'clock there came a telegram
from Phantassie for an engine, which was on its way when
ouuntermanded.—Ediabarrik Courant.
GROWING POTATOES TROIA THE SEED BALL.
On account of the prevalence of the disease in his potato
crops Mr. Thomas Russell, of the Berulley Gasworks,
thought he would try the experiment of growing a crop
from the potato ball. Three years ago he planted some
of the seed, which turned out about the size of large pees
the first season. These he planted in drills the next year,
and on gathering the produce he found it good sized po-
tatoes for planting. This year (the third) be has reaped a
goodly harvest of several varieties, chiefly of the kidney
kind, amounting to nearly lb bags, the whole of which are
perfectly free from disease, although planted under the
same old garden soil as the set which under the old system
of planting always produced diseased crops.—Birmingham
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