The Express.
London, England, 1857-08-15 00:00:00

NORTH-EASTERN RAILWAY.

The report to be presented at the next half-yearly
general meeting, to be hold at York, on the 21st inst., states
that the balance available for dividend on the Berwick re-
new secount, after the payment of all referential
amounts to 172,3411.85. 10d., and the directors rem=
that a dividend be declared on the ordinary stock and shares
of Wt melon, at the rate of 6/. per cent. per annum, leaving
• ideate of 9,486!. lfe. 7d. to be carried to out
11~s amount. On the York meatus acodat,
the dioasabla Wince is 67,772/. 14s. Bd., and the
411•111111 111M11111111,1 that • dividend be declared
ea the solissay sleek of that section at the rate el
:taumat. mom, leaving 3,397/. 19s. 10d. to be
to nest s amount. The directors are ably
for the fret More, to seems the payment of a dividend to
the erdberyshartholders of the Leeds section. After pay
aO account shows a belance of
16,1rtra ,31d. an the the he directorsrecommend that a diet.
dead be Ilsoiered tha rate of V. per cent. per annum,
leaving a be of 1,2031. 14s. 91, to be earned to next
hall-year's account. The directors have given notice to the
holders of the preference tithe or 7 per cent. sham that they
will bs paid off at par on the Ist Oct. The expenditure for
the last half-year is 386,321/. l
• ' the receipts are 869,381;
eps= balsam of 483,0601. The balsam for the corer.
half-year of 1866 was 437,8011.

rAN BOARD OP WORKS.

Ye/gen/ay the ordinary weekly meeting of the
board was held in the Council Chamber, Otu the Per
eldest Mi Tll WA Ilriatthe chair.
The in favour of the board war vs-
ported to be E 76411.

Mr. direOr-ans-werled bum
received by the board to the communication which, by this
order, haabn addressed to the First Coomiesiost of Works,
thquiriage when it wee probableintaro that the bodard would receive
Ms do sra in the pha of utieg rainage submitted
to his oa the tiad el December. Be would, therdots,
move that Sir B. Bel he again written to on this matter.
The PIiIIIDINT rid that the motion. if waisted ie.
wadi Foam* Mad is an inconunieet discussion on the
min geode&
Alter Nue bedew observations the motion wee dropped.l

Deputy HARRISON moved, pursuant to notice, " That
ft be referred to the finance committee to consider and report
the mesons to be taken for the purpose of raistschiche sum
of 724,0741., the estimated gross colt of the folio worim
aped to by this board, and alao the time within w
amount should be repaid, via., Southwark improvement.
420,4241.. Coventry-street, 76,8201.; and Finsbury-perk.
216,83 W."
Mr. Howe seconded the motion, which wee put and
Weld to-
The discussion of the superintending architect's reports
occupied the remainder of the sitting.

DtinuCT Cum. The following gentlemen,
having eienked newinstkm as Direct Cadets for the Indian
mdittey aerdee, prod their vegeired examination on the
4th inNent : J. CH. W. H. Cint, T. W. How, H. W. Irma, H. APIs, A. O. How, C. H. Webb, T.
C. Whets,Drummond, J. S. Irvine,
Weber's; 11., Milas, F. J. Granville, W. F..
,Heideman, W.
N. L. Vie,W. Birch, W. T. Brereten L. B. Hyman,
0. Z. W. H. B. Fitzgerald, W. L. B. Harrison.
B. C. Kinciumr, A. P. Morton 0. B. ](arid, H. IL.
O'Gze Randall, H. U. Smith, G. C. Swiney.—.lllse's
Heinen Koff.

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a dam, by by Oxford coastialote. The baguet took
reitiairmions marquee erected in the readow adjoining
Wecermalic. tics at a throated persons
wee meat Janes Pike, ocagloi the char. Mr,
Chedwell, In returning thanks lb* teed of his lain,
width was drank with greet agateariat, lewd to the
=seesteass sot basin baa irelies is gmesticao of in-
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which Ira& would occupy sat saidoa Mr. Card-
well oil Yid maim geselita of lespertanee "lik wean
came man gsembently sunned them It had for the iset
year at two are eggialanaseti dam: Juba
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glirrle by Mr. Roundel] Pakar.
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LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 16.

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WI still believe that the ultimate result of the
mutiny in the Bengal Army will be the establish-
ment of British power in India cm • broader and
inner basis. But in order that this may bean we
must beware of underrating the danger, or being in
tee great &harry to believe that it is over. We cannot,
pentads ourselves, with the Bombay Ana, that
" we have probably pared 'the flood' of the inner
reetios, and may now hope that our fatale advice,
will be chiefly occupied with a recital of the sable-
deuce of this great rebellion." indeed, the very
reams assigned by the Bombay noes for entertain-
ing this expectation proves its hollowness. "The
truth is, there are no more regiments to mutiny, en.
Ws they are three of Bombay and Mazes, concerning
the fidelity of which tbare is not the slightest
ground of sespicion." It is a singular reason for
maiming that the danger has paned, that the whole
native army of Bosgal is either disbanded or in open
mutiny.
The truth is that we are utterly in the dark ea to
what we have to expect from the Bengal army. We
as jet see that enormous body of mutineers from the
outside only. Our fellow-countrymen in India send
vs ward that regiment after regiment—even those
which at first made warm protestations of fidelity—
bare joined the revolt ; bat reepteting the aims et
the mutineer, their internal cegaaisation (if any),
and their leader, they can only form the most vague
coejefe- turas. We desiderata intonnatioa teem qua.,
Mod almerven. who have hew maw the madames
modem tell what they have been doing.
This mash, however, seers certain, that the in-
surrection hen not been a sodden unpreeoscarted
setketek—a mutiny in ans regiment spreading by
• kind at costegiou to others. It is remarked that
the risiag of the troops at Banally, iihahlehenpore,
leeknove, tad Iteradabad, woe the remelt et a pm-
sloes anongement to begin the inserrestios en the
same day. Le sonaaxion witlithis, we meet take the
intelligesee inspecting the mutiny at Fysabed,whish
also belongs to the fends district. There the Eng-
limb others more toll by the mutineers that they
might take away their private property, bat no
pails property, as that all belonged to the King et
Ones." The English dicers were also satimut
that the Seeps wise now under the mime
of &air native others, that the Saltadsz
Ms* of the Ma Regiment dead bees ap.
voted to the .around fetthe statist, and thetas&
corps had appointed gee ottlseir others to be chieL"
In this incident me catch ,glimpse of provident

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own, ailmisig at the orgasisation of an army and*
pyrvernmant, and at the establishment 4 something a
. order amid the atrocities mid inseams of to I
armed insurrection. In Delhi it is but natural to
estljecture that something 4 the same hind has
taken place.
We an seed to believe that the movement in
Bowl is " a mere military ismirrastion." there
are eirmunstantes which forbid is to believe that the
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memesiet is ermined exc:unvely to the military
pertionnf the population. It is mentioned in the se-
rvant albs Neaps ofsome dims from Bareilly that,
Me eerstry hemline risers is all directions, it was with
ea num diflealty, and only by a ride of 70 miles,
that the little bend bead safety at Nynee Tel, in
the bills, where they hod previously sent their fami-
lies." It would appear from this that the fugitives
lied to cress 70 mile of errantry swarming with an
insrrgeat peasantry. Something of the same kind
wee resserked et the time el the outbreak at Meerut.
It *ILI be seen, from the brat Wise Blue-book, that
the Liertemant-f3evanier el the North-West Pro-
visoes Wormed the Goveracr-Cleseral that for 26

mil es teTth e north of Meerut and mm many to the
south, and Byrn the Ganges in the east to the Juana
is the west, deo whole village population might be
considered in a a tate of insurrection.
It is au mace sultitily mutiny, it is an attempt at
revolution that we have to deal with in Bengal.
The paucity of European troops, and the protracted
resistasee of Delhi, are enabling the insurrection to
rams consistency and spread southwards. The
whode valley of the Nerbadda—trout Mhow to
Bandelcand—is in the smog eiondition m the districts
round Barsilly and Mosost. Further smith still, it
hie bus deemed marimbas to disarm • native regi-
ment at Nagpore, by way of premation. We are
told to repose mintkleum in the Ildelity of the Ban-
lay sad Madras armies t but theme see not the only
armies in the Doman. In IBA Lori! BARDINOE
estimated the troops maintained by lbw Num( at
60,000 men. To them soraboetible materials we
stoat add the disbanded Araks, end ether turbulent
characters who swarm throughout the tendierf•
The principal promoters of the inearreotion in Oede
ars eiviceasly the old soldiers of the analog's arsq,
who other had been disbanded or had taken smoke
with the Company. The army of the King of
OIIDI wee estimated by Lord Heiman at 60,000
trsiu If the army of the NEW( catch the contagion,
we may have, between it and the Owls soldiery,
ems hundred thousand old soldiers to deal with. In
addition to this the soldiery of balker sad Stadia
—la all elm Io,ooo—are tieing in arms against mu
It main be too often repeated; that we are
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parties with whom we have to deal in this
Indian insarreetion, as to their real sigma, and se to
the antemat of natural or acquired talent for again-
ties that exists among them. Before we obtain
more, and more ',liable, information on these heads,
it world be rash to sesame that the inn/erection has
' reached its "height of Geed,' or that we can predi
cate with entire certainty what amount and kind of
\
elect it will coat us to pat it down. There me many
things in oar favour. There is the Jealousywhich
It existsbetweenMuesulmass and Hincloos,andbetween
dos-
i
the wasterou castes and tribes which people n
tan. There is the extinction or weakening of all the
old historical families. Above all, there is the fact
that the mere destructive and plundering elemeut of
the insurrection appears to preponderate me greatly
over that which aspires to establish some native
form of government, that there can be little doubt of
all the week, all the honestly industrious, all the
peaceably disposed, being driven, as they have often
been before, to seek protection under the .Bets of
British rule.

Taz sport of Snow:bull/oring is no doubt a
very agreeable recreation for her MAJESTY'S Opposi-
tion at the fag-end of an exceedingly fatiguing and
somewhat uneventful Session. The love of manly
pastimes is irrepressible in British gentlemen, and
honourable members debarred from grouse avenge
themselves by blazing away at the Arrow+ Es-
, GENERAL. The =moment is legitimate enough in
its way; the temptation is strong, the provocation
may have been considerable, but the thing has gone
quite far enough. Satis eat lusisse. The public
patience is getting somewhat exhausted by this
wearisome repetition of minute objections and hair-
splitting refinements, of verbal subtleties that
even in the days of special demurrers would
have made a sensation in the Court of Exchequer,
and in the age of THOMhe AS AQUt
INhon. representa-
AS would have
electrified the Schools. T righ
tive of Oxford and Aetstorte is, of course, pecu-
liarly at home in this very statesmanlike occupation.
The contagion of his captiousness spccads wide and
deep : the Trinevfor and Catalans of debate follow
with heavy tread the nimble steps of the metaphysi-
eel Ariel and an assembly of Senators seems aud-
io* metamorphosed into a synod of Sophists, or a
neslave of Casuists.
What is to be mid of this opposition? Lord PAL-
=Mom declines to call it " factious ;" but plain
people, unrestrained by the comity of Parliament,
End it very difficult to characterise it hy a
milder term. Let us just see how the matter
etude. Thole who are now so sedulously mger to
cornet and rase to the last degree of legislative
polish the language of the Divorce Bill, are precisely
the very gentlemen who ea principle were most
vehesneetly opposed to its peering at all. Let the
carriage bead, except by Act of Parliament, be
kept absolutely iediseoluble, was their cry then : let
the marriage bend, without Act of Parliament, be
dissolved on as easy terms as possible, is their cry
now. Now of two things, one; either the first or
the last of these cries must necessarily be fa-
sincere. Bat an insincere cry got up to oppose
the passage of a law, brought forward by
political opponents, is to all intents and pur-
pose a factions cry. What is it these gen-
GOMM really want? la it, once for all, to effect a
mind improvement in the Government Bill, by
piecing the two sexes on a footing of equality, and
making adultery without qualification a ground of 11
diessiation far the wife as well as for the husband?
Netbiag of the sort. In the first place, very few
men themselves are prepared to go this length tl
la the Next place, they know perfectly well that I
faith= Lards act Cammes will at present consent
to ,
pas the mem" te this shape. Mr. Days-1
MOND raised the point fairly before the Leen
Hesse the other night, and the remelt em
a decided majority spinet him. In ere
Upper Hems their Lordships have repeater
shows themeless peal spinet all that meld he I
urged ea this nom by the masculine elapses& mei
menewerable 1010 S CitIJOIIIiaNDIIURST.
The Legislator, then, has definitively declared
spinet the equality el the sexes in the matter of
diverse. The Opposition are well aware of this,
sad the soleoldset of their four days' wordy wrangle
has bele to delay the passage of the Bill
through the Cemassaa, and, if possible, to introduce
some meehmet which they knew would be
*Med by the Lards. Mr. GLADSTONE and
his abetters are evidently of opinion that a
great object would be gained if the measure could
be thrown over for the scasion. Their hopes
rest on that latent element of superstitious
alarm which it is always ea easy to rouse into acti-
vity by those who have the clergy on their aide.
The petitioning 9,000 would be formidable allies
during the ream The "drum ecclesiastic," if
oily time aweigh be given ,to work it thoroughly,
Mil always meter a =meg body of recreate against
meaty measure of social reform which can, by any
filmy of mimerpreeentatioa, be held forth as opposed
to the text of Scripture, or dangerous to the inte-
rests Of morality. If this mann be net passed
during the present session the .eountry will be
them bask he se indefinite period as the
medal said Wellies of the minim law. The
domestic life of England wlit have for another
ge, entice to groan under the hordes of that is-
tohn able eppeemion from a portion of which this
ti reedier to set it free. The triple process at
dram. pin. sties, ecclesiastical suits for divorce, and
speeded Acts of parliament, will still be necessary to ,
di solve a bond which has become a bondage ; and
the want ;spree& of our jurisprudent* will be per-
petuated sold the denim of the whole civilised
maw Again ct each a remit as this the enlightened
geed mum of the English pablio rises in energetic
realm. New ass never is the time to strike. With
ad its admitted huperfectione and shortcomings, the
country earn nay desires the measure of relief
larded by .the present Bill. It is a vast
hameeesamit is the system it would displace—it is
a long step in na'nese towards that more perfect
measure of justice sad relief which cannot long hs
delayed after the hi. ,natits of a partial commies
have been once experie,Mul and appreciated.
Under them eireemetan,m the firm and resolute
attitude of Lord PAtemere $ a matter of very
legitimate congratulation. It i• a great point te
have a Minister who can do, as' well as talk about
doing—who, strong in Parham 'story •uPPort, is
correspondingly Meng in his own de termini' tion—
Power, without the will to wiel,4 it, is but
• mare empiceona and discrede.ll2lB kind
of weakness. Pram this weakness L. '1,4 Pao
ezerros I. fortunately exempt. 13veryane
reception the medic of a strong will; *very
one renweaben the virtue that lay in the
stamp cl Camme's peaty foot. Mr. GLADSTOMH
may well my that in 26 years of political experience
b; has never encountered so smooth sad merer-i
maajoes an expression of Weida detenaleation as
the pgysneet has sere Gm armilliiffil in the
memo me these diverse dimenkee. Mr. Man-
ama in emZe right. Ems? eai almedealisa
have not hielt the jedinary ibefiethefelles timed
ministers, bat Men tielletml sfikt My or
Meng the most imports:* attributes' Ad' ow
sinister coo poem Oss gaest wont of Lei