The Express.
London, England, 1857-09-09 00:00:00

GLASGOW .AND SOUTH-WBSTAIN RAILWAY.

of this company was
' Hall, Glasgow, the Lead

The half-yearly meeting
held on Monday in the Merchants'
Provost in the chair.
The report having been taken as reed,
The CIE/ORMAN, on rising to mole its approval, stated
that the general busbies' of the company was going on
satisfactorily, the traffic being steadily on the Increses,
and showing nearly 17,0001. in excess of the correspond-
ing period of 1838. The directors felt disappointed at
the large increase in the working expense, and they
had' resolved to make • strict investigation into them.
The board would have preferred having • large balance
to carry forward, afar paying the proposed dividend
of d per cent., but as the past half-year was always
lower than the summer one, they anticipated, in the
absence of any disturbing camas, greater tam at the
end of the ensuing half-year. In relation to the proposed
branch from Hawick to a point on the Caledonian, at or near
the Gretna Junction, the directors hoped that some arrange-
ment might be come to by the two companies who are eon-
tending for this project, whereby parliamentary conflicts
milt be avoided, and the interests of the neighbouring
lines protected.
Wr. JAMIESON seconded the adoption of the report, which
after • short discussion, was unanimously approved of.
The CHAIRMAN then moved that a dividend at the rate of
3 per cent. be declared, and Hee that the ordinary capital
stock held on behalf of the company, and capital stock
which has not been issued, amounting to 121,628/. 6e. Bd.,
be disposed of in teema of the recommendation of the report,
which was carried unanimously, and the meeting separated.

SINGULAR SUICIDE OF A ACTCHER.-lAst even-
ing, Mr. O. S. Brent, the deputy-coroner, held an inquest at
the Archway Tavern, Highgate, revolting the death of
not hew Orem, sged fifty-five, a butcher, residing In Arch-
way.plov, who committed suicide on the morning of Satyr-
dsy last by lunging. It appeared that the deceased was
very mu. b addicted to intemperate habits, and had been in-
toxicated frequently during the lard fortnight. On the even-
ing before hie death he came home very much the wore for
liquor, aid went to bed. His wife eaw him next morning,
about eight o'clock. At half cast ten she had oecasion to
enter another room, when, to her dismay, she mew
her husband suspended from one of the bed rails by a win-
dow-sash cord. With great presence of mind she eat him
down, and sent for medical aid, but upon the arrival of a
surgeon life was found to be extinct. The singular put of
the caw is, that at the merlon@ inquest held in that locality
'Taw a men who had heard himself, the &messed was •
juror, end be himself committed suicide in exactly the same
way as the subject of the bequest 'Waded to. Several of the
jury who knew him wall as an old inhabitant, reworked that
of late he bed " ger all wrong," and returned • verdict of
seen& daring tempmery &amity.
',CLEAVE Ilicrre.—Tbe Northern Whig, received
elm afternoon, says .—" Why is it that the rioters arrested
on Sunday, and tried at the police-court yeaterdy,
were exclusively elected from the Ramon carbolic
mob ? The Roman catholic mob behaved in it Mimi
does in the north—meekly, it prepared Itself to be beam.
The Orange scoundrels had their slicks, seat and Mo-
tive. The Orangemen were the aggreesors; the Inter-
ruption to Mr. Hanna arms from a few drunken
youths, who, we may well conceive, were not enthu-
siastically opposed to any Christian vim Mr. Hanna
may have moomernended. They insulted Protestant feel-
ing, and the Protestant mob gave them • good
drebbrog. And all the persons arrested were Roman
ca. holies. That IN • grievance oeiy in so far that,
without •excepting Roman esthetics, it was highly
desirable to punish some Protestants, too. The par-
ticular attention paid by the police to the Roman
catholic ruMana serves to suggest the cuspid= that
a partisan police, sprung from • partisan magi-trate, cannot
be safely entrusted with the order of a town which is tinier •
Curate enough to have to solve the Irish problem—whether
Roman Catholics and Protestants can live together as chris-
tians and sensible men."

•
Tun ARCTIC EXPEDITION.—Letter have been
received from Captain liCalittech, in the Fon, at Bees
River, in Greenleaf, where he had pat in for the panicles el
siding home M. Lewis, yea of his crew, who wee mind
with spitting of blood, which nedered it advisable for hint
to have the arctic regions as aeon as pandble Thum fer the
=rmade has exceeded eattolpation. sad In point at
ho expedition is fifteen days is advance of Captain
Ingleneld, in his memorable voyage of 1832. Tim
verh bend to answer admirably web, AM by
mace of loam forced her way through the pact into Fre-
detioloshaal, whore they replenished their mai and then pro.
eroded to Bears River, off the entrance to which they met
the Danish rood bound to Copenhagen. Captain Webn-
ewt, after touching at Disco, intends passing through the
Wargat &mita and calling at Proms and tipernavie for
dep. The Danes repot. that the winter bas been a vary
sicemy which will have the effect et breaking ins is
up and the heed of Baffin's Bey clear.
CRYSTAL PALMA. —• Ofa STIILLING DAT. ••-•
TIMSDAT. eery B.—Adothrione on payment, 4,148; ditto
by seam Mealy 191; total, 4,429.