The Express.
London, England, 1861-05-01 00:00:00

lOARD OF ADMIRALTY.

The committee reimae inl;lyesienlay. The
following members were lament:—Lord Clarence Paget,
Sir Fitment Brim, ets N. Willoughby; Sir John Pakingtoa,
sir Jamas RignaMsese, Sir J. Graham, Sir M. Seymour,
Mr. Beemieb. is. Reattach, Admiral Bruce, Mr. Clay, Mr.
=, Added Desesambe, Mr. Stansfeld, end Mr. White-
n:filings Graham was the only witness examined.

RAILWAY 00mirrrnin.—Yeaterday the bill of
the Wycombe Railway Company's proposed extension lines,
after hethr opened by Mr. east Wrangbeim, and closed
by Mr. Xerithethise,was in Mr. Adair's committee ;
to which also Se bib of e London, Backs, and Wart Mid-
land Jthetion Railway was referred, but wßhdrewn by the
promoters dyeing the day. The Cheshire line of the Landon
and North Witham from Chelford to Kontsford, and the
clause of the Illimekpost end Cheadle Extension, end of the
7thperley Railway, were settled in Mr.
aftenaiiei and the OW of the Birkenhead Rail-
way, enured the )(Rochester, Sheffield, and Lincoln-
shire, wee oilseed. Further evidence occupied the coin.
mitts, on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, the Forest
of Dean Railway, and Londonderry and Coleraine ; and the
following bills were disposed of in the committee of the
Chairman of Ways arid Means :—Sslisbury, Poole, and
Dorset, Ramsey Midway, Great Southern sod Western
Extension, Southampton and laitlz and Manchester and
Milford Railway (Aberystwith
COURT or ALDIMMIN. —At a Court of Aldermen,
held yesterday at Guildhall, the City Lands Committee
made • report, in which they stated that, upon certain facts
that bad some to their knowledge, they had dieched two '
persons hem the ethos of City broken. The Lord Mayor
mid he thought it aa well to inform the court that the
persons referred to in the report, and whom the committee
in the discharge of their duty to the public had t t Sties '
remove from the °Moe of brokers of the City of
were Memrs. Nickell and North, tallow Woken, who
been declared bankrupts, and one of whom, Mr. North, had
been charged with the criminal effete'. of obtaining a large
quantity of tallow from Messrs. Hubbard and CO. by false
pretences. St re were then ordered to withdrew while
the court proceeded to the dissuasion of some private
matters. A resolution of the Police Committee 1 the
Common Council, Motive to the assemblage of betting-men
and others in Hridelane, was also taken into consideration,
and • determinatiee was expressed by every member of the
court to adopt all the legal steps in their power to pat • '
stop to the Nuisance. With that view the matter was re-
ferred to • committee, and the court shortly afterwards
adjourned.
CLAIM MANILAS RAGGED BeNOnLEI AND Riffraff.
—A public =strap of the friends and saberribeni to these
institutions was held yesterday, at the Vestry-room, St.
Clement Dams, She Earl of Shaftesbury in the chair. The '
report detailed the operations of the schools since their
establishment is isa. About GO boys were now attending
the Belau* raryiag in are from 8 to 13 years, and
• Sunday salmi bed also been opened, attended by 50
children in Mae saandag, and 100 in the afternoon. A refuge
had reesetilphese appeal in connexion with the school,
which bed aim proved very successful. As • roof of the
provident habits of the boys they had, within a short time, I
breasted CAL is the Penny Savings Bank. The expenses of
the year hod been 2001., the receipt, 1701. 'envois a de-
Going id 301. Mr. itheey. M.P., moved the adoption of
the report, whisk wee seemided by Mr. T. C. Colquhinn, I
and carried. The meeting was subsequently addressed by
Sir R. Carden. the Rev. E. Aerie!, the Rev. T. Nolan, end
Mr. Joesph Payee, who, in his usual humorous vein, de-
acribid tasted school movement to be rational, estiOnal,
and fastikmal; seosible, defensible, and comprehensible ,• I
glorious, victorious, and no longer uproorieus. A vele of
thanks to the teachers in the school was oasailasualy I
adopted.