The Express.
London, England, 1857-07-04 00:00:00

eAMI3RIDGE.

The committee resumed the scrutiny this morning.
ineamu•.h as the result of yesterday's proctxdinga left the
Fitting member in a majority of one, it WU incumbent on
Cul. Adair this morning still to mactoe the attacking post-
non, and to continuo until ho succeeds its striking two
sows off the pill of the sitting member, and thus plums Mr.
Steuart in a minority. Tho sitting members agents will
then resume the assault, and this cosine will t ontmue until
the panel of the witnesses is exhausted.

MAIDSTONE,

This committee met again this morning, Mr. J. A. Hamilton
in the chair. The evident* to aulbamatato the allegations of
bribery and treating against the two bitting members was
reamed.

OXFORD.

The Oxford City committee :11:q tnet again this forenoon,
Mr. E. C. Egerton in the choir. The oidenee of bribery
on the put of she sitting member, Mr. Neste, or hie agents,
was proceeded with.

LONDON, BRIGHTO.V, AN!) SOUTH COAS2'
BAILWAY.-ITHIS DAY)

A special general meeting woe held thim day, at
one e'clock, at the Bridge-house Hotel, London-bridge,
in compliance with the standing orders of the House of
Lords, for the purpose of obtaining the approval of the
proprietors with regard to the fellowing bills now pending
in parliament :—A Bill for making a railway from Lewes to
1.4.1&M, all in the county of Saws. A Bill fur making a
Railway from the London, Brighton, and South Coast Rail-
way at Hurehnm, through Billingshurst to Pulborongh,
mirk a branch from Pulborough to Coultc rebel', Mill, in
the parish of Petworth, all in the county of Sussex.
A bill fur authorising traffic arrangements between the
West-end of London and Crystal Palace and the London,
Brighton. and South Coast, the South-Eastern, and
the London and South-Western Railway Compenies,•
for sale or lea of the We-t London and Crystal
Palace Railway:, for extending the time fer
com-
pleting the crud railway, end for other purpome.
A bill for authorising the London and South-Western Rail-
way Company and others to make deviations from their au-
thorised linnet railway and other works; and for autho-
rising divert' other matters affecting that company and other
companies and undertaking., and fur other purposes.
The Cit.st r.m Art said he did not think the
bills now submitted for approval required say re-
mark on 116 part. They were essentially the same
as those which been previously entertained by •
general meeting. The Bret bill was one for making a rail-
way from lARCA to Uckfield—a large district, which was at
pr sent unproviled with railway revolter:elation; and the
landowners themselves bad come forward to make
it. The cowpony had agreed to work the line
leaving the proprietors four per cent. on the former outlay
of 60000/., The line ran through a very fertile country, in
which there were a gent many country !elite, and he hoped
it would prove as beneficial to the Brighton Company as the
other branches which had recently been made.
In reply to a question from Sir. lirnarten,
The eI(AIRVAN stated that the 4 per cunt. was to be
leaned to the capital of 50,0001.
The Somerton than read the heads of the bin, which was
a rove*.
pp
Ibe t.xestigtate said the next bill was for a line which
would commence from the company's station at Horsham,
continue down to a place called Pulborotiglx and run along
the river side to Petweeth. It was to be made by en indepen-
dent company, who, under a working ngreeinent with the
Brighton Compuiy,would obtain 4 per cent. one fixed outlay
of 144,000/., with 5,0001. additional, in the event of the land
mating more than a certain amount.

A motion of approval eras then agreed to.
The two other bills having also been approved,
The CHAIR,' 1N rougretulated the meeting on the n jec-
tion of all the oppoxition pmjeetis of the session, with the ex-
ception of the Wimbledon and Dorking nne, which he
hoped would be thrown nut is the Uo4l+lo of Lords.
The meeting terminated in the usual mariner.

EXIIIIIITION OF ARTS AND INDUSTRY Ile SUIT-
7ERLIINU.—The Bead
_gives en account of the opening of
the Swiss Exhibition at Berne on Sunday. It seems to have
, been most prosperously inaugurated. This is the third exhi-
bition of the kind, the last having taken place in 1848.
Sinus that limo a great advance lias been made in the social
and industrial condition of S.ritz.criand, as woe remarked by
M. Staemplli, the president, in his inauguial discourse. Net
only railways and the electric telegraph have been intro-
duced, to facilitate mutual eonnuunication and humours,
with the rrat of the world, but all the fiscal barriers between
canton and canton have been removed, and with a common
system of weighta and meaaures, a common coinage, • well-
organised post-otfice, and perfect liberty of residence, trade,
and occupation throughout all Switzerland, the obstacles
which formerly impeded the full development of the resources
of the country nu longer exist. This exhibition comprises
the contributions of more than 2,000 manufacturers. 138
artiste, and about one hundred authors or publishers who
have ant their literary works.
TIIF. BRITISII CONSt:LATE AT SEW YORK.—The
interest which the merchants of New York naturally feel
in the question, " Who is to succeed Mr. Barclay r in the
consulate for this city, induces as to notice a rumour that a
Mr. Limeade, holding some subordinate consular position in
Cuba, is to be advanced to the vacant post in this city.
Without knowing the history of the rumour, we shall ven-
ture to disbelieve it, apron the simple ground that the British
Consulate in New York is of far too great iniportanco to
English interests, and too intimately emnected with the
commercial intercourse of the two nations, to be intrusted to
ass who, whatever abilities he may hove elsewhere shown,
a stranger to our people, unversed in their habits, their
rustonce, their temper, and their laws. Time wan when the
weenier offices in the gift of the government, like the colonial
governorships in days of old, were lavished upon personal
favourites, or bestowed as rewards for party services, with
little regard to the fitness of the man two the work allotted
him; and if the statement of a 1.011(1011 letter-writer be correct,
of the host of applicants for Mr. Barclay's place, the opinion
would appear to be prevalent that the ancient practice is
not extinct. But even if this be true to some extent in
England and the world over, there is a marked ditferenco
between putty consulates in ess frequented States and the
Consulate at New York, that neither the British Government
nor the British people, intent on the protection of British in-
terests and the encouragement of international harmony and
eo-operation with the growing empire of the west, are at all
likely to overlook. In regard to the individual nominees fur
this post, the expression of personal preferences by any body
of American merchants—clropting perhnpa the British nema.
dente—might well be regarded by the Foreign-office ea an nn-
authoriaed interference, if not en impertinent dictation ; but
we do nut fur a moment suppose that the British govern-
ment are insensible to the hope and belief naturally enter-
tained on this side of the water that in their deliberate selec-
tion of a gentleman to act as their Consul in New Yak,
their choice will fall on memo one who is already known and
respected by our community,who is already familiar with the
fdroutinzlhmadstr:rrtZeibregardihtits of the
c'entiniTiden.indoewhofo will
command
in
whore midst those ditties and m-potwibilittes are to be borne.
—.yew York Trilme.

I)uTat EMIGRATTON.—According to tile Annaks
des Cbmnseree Er en: ow, the emigration during the year
1856 from Holism.' consisted of 623 heads of families, 283
mown, 997 children, and 21 servant., making a total of
1,924. The pito-Mem wbich have furnished the funded
number are the Gueldre, Southern Holland, and Zealand.
Among the 623 heads of families there are 81 who ere Messy
circumstance., 174 who are inscribed on the nets of tax-
payers, 401 rather poorer, and 138 in neeeraitoun tireum-
annum'. The greet majority of the emigrants were in the
prime of life. Am them were 176 day labourers, 136
10 , and 16 tellers. The reason gene-
=ill' by them emigrants Cr leaving their country was
td hops of bettering their condition, and a desire to rejoin
their relations who had before emigrated. The Netherlands
thus loses every year by emigration about two thousand