The Express.
London, England, 1850-01-26 00:00:00

Foistom.

Milk= and Boulogne
Dieppe .
Dutch Rhenish
Montereau and Trove*
Northern of FrICOP
Orleans to Bourses (Ce..t.)
Orleans to Lrdeaux
Paris and Orleans
Paris and Rouen
lacuna and Havre

714
211
1074

• lath/des the Walk on the Bristol ■nd Exeter.

RAILWAY BILLS ON STANDING ORDERS.
Yesterday, in pursuance of the Speaker's Greer, cue exa-
miners on standing orders consomra,d arse r main,' to Com-
mittee room 19 of the House of Cul:12111014. There was a
large a tendaoce of parliamentary arenta and others.
The principal ease, an opposed .11e, was that of Lei-
cester and Ritchie Railway, the object et the bIl being to
transfer the powers of the Midlaud R ril oy leer making a
line from near Leicester, via !lectern to Hitchin ; t r au ex-
tension of time for the purchme of aus completiva of
w• the, and for powers for running over and entering iatO
reciprocal arrangements, and for the use of it and of the
Midland North Staffordshire, and Gr. at N,riliern Rail.
ways. Tee bill was opposed by the agents and sulicit.rs of
the London and North Western It silway, who contei.ded
tba•, as by the standing orders it was a second and out a first
class bill, in which category it had bases pl cord by the pro-
motors, fresh plans and sections, sod subscription contracts
ought to have been lodged. Alter dawn aiguineut, Sir.
May, the learned examiner, observtd that although it
was quite a new case of its kind, he issust de-
cide that as the promoters, in their bill, sought
fur no now works or deviations, but only fur the
trimpiter of the property from nog party to another,
the bill came ander the denorninaiion cf a fir-t-class Pill,
shd the standing orders would be reported to toe Imo* as
complied with. The question of the comoeteocy of the
parties, Thomas Earls and John Lewis Ricerdo, to execute
the proposed work, in the absence of a tr. so subscription
contract, was one for the committee on the m.
The standing orders were declared to be complied with in
the case of the Shrewsbury and herring Itaileay, who
seek to merge 140 shares for which actin was issued, but
which have never been claimed, sod 4,943 -oriel ed shares in
the general capital of the no Serial/lug; also to reduce the
capital from 800,0001. to 460,0001., 21. per share to b. the
grestest amount of any call, with power to bur ow 1f,0,0001.
The South Devon Railway, fur p war to issue sew spares
not exceeding 816,0001., with resteatioos for priority of
dividends. The West Cornwall Railway, for deviation of
line see branch at Hoyle. The &nub Wales Railway, for
stakiug a new railway in the Fore.. en De.. Lae Water-
. f rd sad Linierick Railway, for amendment awls, end ex-
tension of tame for purchase of lands. The London& rry end
Coleraine, for completion of railway brooch and extension
of time Londonderry and Ennidoller. Railway, for exten-
sion from Strabano to Ooiagb Mencheeter, Snelbeld, and
L ncollishire Railway, for raising money by loan and shares,
in lieu of loan, and alteration of tells.

FIRE IN BIS.:OPBOATE-BTREET.—Luit nista (Fri-
day) abgat 8 o'clock a fire inv..lei.o • prat dew ue iun of
property, broke oot to the prem..' in toe tenure ut Mr.
Buena, • lefty 111,stiober, &c., Varying nu bUirin• o•t No.
173, Bitbotagate:atreet ith4,u S enei.les were

yr m. tly in• attendance, out though .he nrestaam eieffht
themselves to the utm-st they did nut succeed in getting the
Banes under until every room is the pr. miss et Mr. B.nn
ere. burned out, the whole of the stock to trade, tuna+ td,
and wearwa ayperel of the numerous resident. Wets reduced
to SAh•ll. Fortunately the adjuicong precni.es received no
dernage of env importance.

SUICIDE IN ST, JAMES'S-PARK —Yesterday after-
no a, ehertly balers four o'cl.ea, as Perk-conotatsle Dean,
N... 9, will p sling along the haltm win walk. trusting
Carltenr-ti trace, in the enelteuro, St. Jamm's path, he hid
his attention drawn to a dark entwines in the plantation,
and, accompanied by Sheri. ca, N 3, be entered, when they
di covered a aentlesnan auspiri.de.i by a rope to a laburnum
tree. Sherlock immedis'ely cut tte rope, and efforts were
us-d to restore animation, bu• with ut ed. ct. The b..dy is
that of a gentleman about 70, d in a Mock coo, pun
e at, sad grey trousers, nearly new. A a, Id watch, m.k, r
Der. rrihouse London, No. 10,260, 8. 3J. m money, t-o
raid keys, and a meal engrave,' et h a thistle were found ,is
his puma. together with the Co., Of a letter signed "T.
Rowington, August 10. 1949." The bdy was
pieced is a shell and removed to Bt. Martin's gitek..ouse,
ob. re it awaits as facture.

TWFNTY-FIVE LivEs LOST ON THE ICE IN HOL-
LAN D.—The Dutch journal. r. Ist. toe Idiom inor secideot;-
8
m• days since wine of the it.habitauts ut Haman, in the
raiment pan o• Hmoverian Frwwlattd, autountiag •o twenty-
flea, went on the river rasa with a view to divert tit. in-
v.s by .kating. The river at this pin is r.th• r broad.
They bad scarcely cemineueed their diversi.h yet.en a I.Sre
of the Ws pare way, and flea of them disappeared ; the
others hest. mad to their militancy, wt•rt tl.e‘ unfor, up .1. ly
met wi‘o the same fate. Tne wn..le of the bod.ea were
a-o rwards re‘overed, quits dead. N.Arly ell the serer rs
were rs arriid men, and grew distitss has been mum(' by
the calamity.

RECIPROCITY ASsOClaTtox.—On Thursday e.t.a-
-g a lecture, uuder the auspic.• of the R•eiprncity and In-
diptrial Aicooiation• was delivered in th. M.rhels B *rowel
Hall, 01 'goer, by Mr. Troup, of the Dad, Mail, on the
present condition of the industrial else- a, rod the oeceasi.y
for b,•iniast • NU sod @qui able recopeocity with fora Lan
scuairi.o, to ci,da rto carry out real free trade. This hall was
eornrdetely ; and we were pranged to *Nem an
n.ethe prep attempts of woth.ng wen in the audience, who
paid the aerostat attention so U.S statithea s sod reason-
less adduced. end Weis oetoa.ly much ink, rested
by them. The feature. which was • pr. I.minary
one to a series Intended to b deliv.r.d in that and
other quarters of the city, wes rot aced to a lona"'
Hun at tb• loading principle of the assoclatiqn, ei d a 'iodi-
sation of it, sad its seism" at the pretest jusetu,r, trpt
sons, of the otdea feat which are currently wiped. At the
close • "Meet thanks was awarded both to the Wham and*,
aisairesan, who eaplaiasd, both bakers and after the lecture,
several of the purposes which the association eadeavonse to
Nome.