The Express.
London, England, 1857-09-23 00:00:00

DIRECT HAMBURGAND LUBECK

RAILWAY.

HAMBURG, SEPT% 20.
To the great surprise of the public, authentic in-
telligence has been received here that the Hanish
government has granted a concession for the con-
struction of a direct railroad from Hamburg to
Lubeck through the territory of Holstein. Such of
your mercantile readers as can look back for thirty
years may remember that at that period, and long
before any one of the 200 railroads that now form a
network over the surface of Germany was com-
pleted, or even projected, not only was this line sur-
veyed and the plans sod estimates made, but the
capital was all subscribed (wily in England), and
the company was in all respects formed. The Danish
government of that day, however, could not be per-
suaded of the advantage of facilitating mercantile
and personal intercourse, and refused to grant the
concession in such peremptory and decided terms
that the undertaking was considered as permanently
shelved, and the company dissolved itself in cause-

quence.
Times, however, havealtered, and Danish views
have undergone a material change, and it is no more
than fair to confess that of late, and especially since
the formation of the present cabinet at Copenhagen,
the Danes have become to a great degree converts
to the doctrine of free trade, as much from their
natural tendency to keep up with the spirit of the
age, as that they find it necessary for their material
welfare and pecuniary interests.
Since the fall of that great monument of feudal
policy the Sound Dues, every public set of the
Danish government has been in the direction of an
extension of commercial intercourse and though the
land transit dues are still retained, the amount
levied (one penny per five cwt.) is so ridiculously
small that it must be evident that it cannot near pay
the expense of collecting, and is only kept up for
statistical purposes and as a measure of control. But
now, if I am rightly informed, the Danish govern-
ment are prepared to go a step further, and to de-
clare their adhesion to the principle of the total
abolition of all transit dues, as a burthen upon
commerce.
It is to the exertions of our sister city of Lubeck
that the credit of obtaining the Danish concession
for the direct railroad to Hamburg is due, and their
Bargerschaft is convened for an extraordinary meet-
ing to-morrow to accept a confidential proposal on
the part of the Senate, but which has transpired to
be the ratification of the treaty with Denmark on
the subject of the new direct railroad to Hamburg.
When this railroad is completed a great deal of
the carrying trade between England and the Baltic
must necessarily return into the earlier channel in
which it flowed for many centuries, and which
helped so much to advance the ancient Hanseatic
cities of Hamburg and Lubeck to their high stand-
ing in the commercial world.
As all the original plans and tracings are in exis-
tence, it only remain, to adapt the estimated ex-
penses to the prices of labour and materials in the
present day ; and as there are no material engineer-
ing difficulties to overcome on the line, it is intended
to have the whole work completed and open to the
public in less than a year from the date of the con-
tracts. The distance between the two cities will
then be accomplished in less than an hour and a
half.

WATER-SPOUTS AND GREAT LOSS OP LIFE.

The Arad Gazelie mentions that a water-spout
burst over Maria-Radus, a place of resort for pilgrims near
Arad, on the 13th of September. tip to the 15th seventeen
bodies were dirrovered and buried, and several others ere
missing. There was a report that from 70 to 100 persons
were lust, but this required confirmation. Many horses and
booth, belonging to the mall traders were swept away. A
German t had two handsome horses., which he had
Pe only a few days before for 1,000 florins, swept
away, and then in despair at his lees threw htmself into the
ftod and wee drowned.
Another velar-spout beret over Arnsi, in the Val d' And,
on the 10th. The lass of human life has been thirty, as
ascertained by the authorities, up to the present time, but it
is feared that many more have been sacrificed. The damage
done is estimated at 500,000 francs. One whole family were
swept away, and nut a soul was I:ft to tell the tale.
On the 17th ult. a terrible hail-storm occurred at Marina
—the Lail-stonee weighing from four to sin pounds each.
They broke through the roofs, killed men and animals, and
did considerable damage.

Caroni. YAWCL 0,11 SniLuxo DAT.
T0N491.14 17 Pl. 22. Admissions on payment, 18,386
6118 by arm tkesia, 1,034 ; total, 19,419.

JUST INDIst HOUSE (THIS 114 Y.)

This day, at noon, the usual quarterly general
Court of Proprietors of the East ladle Company was held
et the India House, Leedeohell-street, Mr. It. C. MANULLE.

M.P., Chairman of the Court of Directors, presiding.
Tib, usual formal business having boon gone through,
Mr. Deer asked whether the Court of Directors, in their
°Skid capacity, intended to contribute to the relief fund

Mr. M. LEWIN did not think they had a right to aak
We directors to subscribe to the fund in their official cap.-

city. There was another more important question, which
was whether the company were not bound to make
up the loss to the sufferers? He thought it was
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the duty of every government to protect ita temente ;
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by the dictates of common sense., if not of the ordinary law,
gommumet wee bound to make up the baste sustained by
individuals under such circumstances as these. (Heer.)
The CHAIRMAN, in answer to Mr. Dent, said the court

had not come to ;ny definite resolution the enbject. The

question of Mr. Loerin was • vary large one, and of the
greatest importance. It had arisen from a state of circum-
stances to which the history of the world probably afforded
no precise parallel. It must be deteriained generally, he
took it, by the law of nation" and by the uni-
versal rule applied in cases as nearly parallel u
could be discovered. There was • cue some-
what similar in English history, that of the rebel-
lion in 1746. What the court had done in this
matter wan this, it had written to the government in India
to take care that nobody was allowed to perish, and that no
cue of destitution within reach should pass unprovided for.
The care end attention of the government in such matters
was not to be confined to the servants of the company,
but was to be extended to all clause. (Cheer.)
With regard to the military servants of the company, the
court of directors considered that the widows and orphans o
ofilcers who bad fallen victims to this frightful military
mutiny would be entitled to the Kama pensions as
if they were placed on what was called the
compaulonate allowance fund, pensions which were
granted to widows and orphans of the officers who had fallen
in adios. (Bear, hem.)
Mr. Dean regretted that there should be any delay in a
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natter of this kind. As soon se it was intimated
to her Majesty that such a fund wu being
raised en answer was received by telegraph from
Balmoral, that her Majesty and the Prince Consort would
subscribe. The precedents were numerous. There were
the French inundations, the Irish limier, and various other
occasions on which subscriptions bad been been made, and
surely the Indian mutinies was a subject which required
little or no deliberation. It was one upon which he should
have conceived there would scaredy have been • differenoe
of opinions. If it was necessary to refer to "Mr. Smith, of
Cannon-row," there was • telegraph, and they should have
received at once an answer by it. Would there be any ob-
jection to lay before the court an extract from the dispatch
to which the chairman had alluded?
The Cum lima?, said he could give the hon. proprietor no
answer but that he had already given as to the subscription.
Thera could be no objection to giving an extract from the
despatch.
Mr. JONFA suggested that the directors should forego
their annual feast, which usually coat from 3,4001 to 4,0001.,
and that they should apply that amount in aid of the sufferers.
If they determined upon abstaining from feasting for live
years, they might add to the subscription 20,000!. (Hear.)
This was not • time for feasting. (Hear, hear.)
The CHAIRMAN said the hon. proprietor need not he
alarmed upon that point as the court of directors would live
no annual dinner this year. (Hear, hem.)
Dr. Hearne thought the view taken by Mr. Lewin was
the proper one. It would be quite out of the question for
the court to contribute as • court; but they might do an
individually.
The CHAIRMAN observed that the greatest MO should be
taken to prevent private liberality being damped. There
were many who would refuse to subscribe if they could say
that government would make good all looms. It wan im-
possible that government could mach all cams, and be could
not conceive a nobler opportunity than this for individual
charity. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. JONES then rose on a motion of which he had given
notice, whereupon
if,. BROWN said he had hoped the motion would not be
persevered with; if it were he should inure that the court
do adjourn.
Mr. JUNTA said he knew the hon, proprietor could pre-
vent his bringing the motion forward ; but it stood first, and
until it war disposed of he would take cars that no other
motion was diacumed. His motion war.—" That it is due
to the advancing intelligence of the people of India that
• deputy from each presidency be maintained at the
public expense in this country, with • view to inform
the proprietors as to the complaints and wishes of the
people of India." lie was glad that India had at hat
forced itself into public notice. Proprietors who had attended
these meetings, had foretold that a day would come when
there would be rebellion in that country. Annexation after
annexation had been the cause of these mutinies. Annexa-
tion was not the mere dethroning of a king, and the substitu-
tion of another government; it was the dislocation of society.
Annexation had been the cause, and a sufficient cause, *of the
outrages that had been committed. (Cries of " Oh.") Thera
was nothing on earth, or in tall, that could justify the
atrocities that Nana Sahib had committed; but it should be
remembered that the government had deprived him of the
Peishwarri to which he had • right. (No, no.)
Mr. BROWN said he mud now exercise his right. He
moved that the court do now adjourn.
The CHAIRMAN then put the question, and there being
only seventeen proprietors present (the number required to
constitute • court bring twenty) declared the court ad-
journed.

THE BOAT ACCIDENT AT LYTHAJC-INQUBST.

It is now quite certain that five persona have lost
their lives by the accident on the Sands flank, situated between
Lytham and Southport, on Sunday night. Their names ars
Thomas Green, John Morrow, Richard Forshaw, John
Holden, and Alexander Whittle. I. to last night
only one body, that of Holden, had been found;
but yesterday afternoon a jacket worn by Morrow
time of the casualty was washed ashore on the beach at
Lytham. The bad has net been raieed, but at present m-
eanies embedded in sand. An attempt will be made to get
her off to-morrow. Last night (Tuesday) the inquest we
held on the body of Holden, at the Talbot Inn, Lytham, by
Mr. Myres, coroner. Four witnesees wore examined.
Alice Holden mid the deceased, John Holden. wee her
husband, and left Preston fur Blackpool on Saturday after-
-110013, to return the following day. Ile was a weaver, and
was twenty-three years of age.
Mr. John Pearson, landlord of the Coffee-house lan,
Marton, near Blackpool, said the deceased, John Holds,
accompanied by three other men, went to Wilsons. on Seim,
day night, and stayed there until eight o'clock the tollosieg
morning, when they left to take the boat, which they rid
wee lying in charge of a companion, near the Lytham Light-
house. They did not take any drink with them. Witness
had not seen them since.
John Bonny, fisherman, proved finding the boat containing
the body of Holden, on a sand-bank. about nine o'clock on
Monday morning. lie did not hod any other body. The
boat's mast was broken in the centre, and consequently she
could not have been upset by a Morn'. He believed the Kid-
dent hod been caused by the boat corning in contact with
ono of the flukes of hoe. anchor, by which mane her bottom
had been stove in, and she tilled and sunk. This was only
a snppoeition, made from the fact of the boat bring et plant
lying on her anchor.
Alice °abate, wife of a weaver at Blackbunt,_d=4
going down by the boat with the deceased to L oo
Saturday, and to there being five men on board at the ties
This being tho whole of the evidence, the tessiri oar
then adjourned till Friday, Oct. 2; the jury, hoverer, ere
to be called together before that time, in cue any of the
mwtitf
obut to odies' ars found:. It is believed that they es
;ea. Green has left a widow and live childresi
Morrow • widow and two children; Whittle a widow ad
one child; Holden a widow and one child ; Forabaw was s
single man.

We (Bury Post) rejoice to lie able to state that
the inhabitants of Bury will sot be without • memorial of
their late dietinguished townsman, Bishop Stanfield, it lov-
ing teen determined that a portrait of bin lordship shall te
placedp ha the Town Hall. Subscriptions for this object bow
hanom centmemoed by the Marquis of Bristol,
Earl Jermys, and Lord Arthur Hervey.
THE SILENT BTSTEM.—MdIIe. Rachel (says the
Pays) has iastalled herself in the hones wbich has been Pe'
pared for her neer 0.11/10P, and in which she is to yass tits
winter. A celebrated physiiisn whom she consulted at PO
Wore her departure has prescribed a regimen for her, f
oebio4
ha declares will infallibly restore her to health. One the
rules laid down by him is that she is not to speak during the
whole time of her treatment, and the patient is stated to Oa"
accepted this condition, writing her questions andtten
inners oa
a elate. In a letter which Mdlle. Rachel has wri to ons
of her friends she declares her intention of conforming W WI
May next.
TILE CHOLERA.—In CorsOer,
rescription, and of not uttering a word until the month of
a seaport ton
Denmark, with 2,000 inhabitants, no lees than 228 ass
cholera hare occurred. of which 142 were WaL is
is
96:41;
holm them were 162 came, of which 69 proved
T.:Feal 430 persons, being almost a tenth of the
died of the plane.