The Express.
London, England, 1857-07-24 00:00:00

MADRAS RAILWAY CIOMP-INT.

Yesterday the half-yearly meeting of the share-
holders of thin company was held at the London Tavern,
General Stn in the chair.
The repoet, • copy of which his already appeared in this
journal, having been taken as read,
The eitAllallAN moved its adoption, and mad the first sec-
tion of the line had been opened in July hint, from Madras
Amoor, at the Meet station, a distance of 65 tales. and al.
though it bad been worked over since through a long and
heavy =troop, it was still in perfect repair. Another por-
tion was opened on the 17th of May last, a distance of 16
miles, from Ameer to Vellore. Another portion of the line,
from Vellore to Goorrattuni,would be opened before the clone
of the year, malting in ell n distance of about 100 nines. lie
expected that before the end of 1859 the lino would be completed
from sea to lea. lle wished to mention that the report,
in stating that 100 mike is to be open before the end of the
year, gave a very imperfect idea of what had been dour, for
severe' portions of the line beyond Goorrattum were now
actually completed, and if the bridges were completed, might
be worked. The first three mouths the railway was worked
the return was 36,685 rupee • the next, 71,177; the third,
70,496 ; end they expected tha't the last quarter of their tient
year would give them 80,000 rupees. These returns would
no doubt be greatly increased when they got the lino opened
a greeter diatonic into the country, for at present the
shertness of the line, the difficulty of altering the habits
of the people, the inconvenient* of the hours at
which trains were started upon government regulations,
but with which the directors had nothing to do,
and the high rate of farm bad materially checked
the prosperity of the company. They had, however, by their
opporation reduced the oast of the Bandalore carriage forty
per cent., awl had submitted a new scale of fares for the ap-
proval o the Madras governor, and generally he did expect
that government interference would continue beyond the
time in which the railway was being completed. In conclu-
sion, he had only to ray that two different routes had been
surveyed for the North Western line. Both surveys bad
been submitted to government, and it was for them to deter-
mine which route they should adopt.
Mr. AIIfitTRNOT seconded the motion.

Mr. Lewin, Dr. Beatty, sad Mr. Norton severally com-
plained of the interference of the Madras government in the
working of the line, after which the report was adopted. A
resolution in favour of Sunday excursion trains was nega-
tived, and the proceedings terminated in the usual manner.

BRANKSEA CASTLE AND ISLIND.--11311 estate is
now for sale by private contract. Mier the close of the
public bidding, at the auction on Wednesday, 80,0001. were
offered, and subsequently other °Ems were made, which are
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LONDON, FRIDAY, JULY 24.

A DOUBLE NUMBER of the " EXPRESS'
will be publiabed TO-MORROW.

Tim inveterate obstinacy of the House of Lords is
producing its natural result. The advanced intelli-

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Renee of the country, the sober and deliberate
common sense of the country, feels itself deeply

aggrieved by the folly and insolence of this re/peatea
rejection of its deliberately expressed will. The
masculine understanding of all thinking Englishmen
meets this miserable perpetuation of mcdixval pre-

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judices and superstitious alarms, for the mean Par-
pose of depriving the British Jew of his rights to a
seat in the British Legislature. The thing has gone a
trifle too far. It is not only the Anglo-Hebrew who
is subjected to a finitude denial of right, but t►e
liberal constituencies and the liberal representatiresat

this tree country who are treated with indignity gad
contempt. Let this course of proceeding be ..Msl
cesly a little further, and the cry of Quassiee
leaden will peal forth on all sides loudly sal
irresistibly from the "abused patience" of the great
Liberal party. Have we fought and conquered only
for this Have we swept away, in succession, Test
Acts and Catholic Disabilities, and Rotten Boroughs
and the Bread Tax—to be insulted year after year
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by this miserable refusal of right—of clear
and incontestable right—in the cue of the Jew ?
ls that great fabric of civil and religious liberty—
the hereditary boast of English liberalism—to wait
session after session for its completion, till our Peens
have learnt to be wise, and our Prelates to be chari-
table? Are a handful of Tory lords and a batch of
mitred churchmen to constitute themselves a per-

pctual barrier against the admission of our Jewish
fellow-countrymen to their rights, with no other
protest against their injustice than the annual repe-
tition of a repeatedly rejected measure? Not so; the
petitionary period has had its day, the time has
ooroe for rougher speech and more decided action.
Baron ROTRWHILD, taking the rejection of the
Bill by the Lords for a rejection of himself as mem-
ber elect of London, is again a candidate for the
votes of the metropolitan constituency. Of course
he will be re-elected. Four times the great City has
chosen him as a representative, four times the House
of Lords has declared that he shall not be permitted
to take his seat. It is time that this mockery should
come to a close.

By resigning his seat, Baron ROTHSCIII
may be considered to have settled, at all events
for this session, the question of proceeding to
take his seat by virtue of a resolution of the House.
JOHN Lord Canenrit. must be patient for a while.
He is doomed yet for a little season to be peaceful
and inglorious. The crown of judicial martyrdom is
not yet within his reach. The morrow of All Souls
must find bins still tranquil in his pre-eminence on
that august bench which he has done so much to
adorn by his wit and elevate by his dignity, rejoicing
in all the honest splendour of that exalted position
which he has never compromised by buffoonery or
lowered by an exhibition of bad taste. That
affecting picture with which be recently drew tears
down the " iron cheeks" of Lord Casstwoarw, and
painfully electrified the nervous system of Lord
Baocoa.CM, will not yet be realised. The warrant
is not yet made out which is to commit JOHN Lord
CAMPBELL to the Tower by the order of the House,
and the " People" must postpone, till further notice,
their anticipated rising in hie defence. " Nobody
shall save me—l will be drowned," exclaimed an
ancient countrywoman of his Lordship's, while
desperately struggling with a rising tide, and
an imperfect knowledge of the science of gram-
matical inflection as understood on this side
the Tweed. The " ancient Scotch body " immor
iodised in this novel story did not precisely mean
what she said ; neither, perhaps, does this other
ancient Scotch body." At all events, Lord CAMP-
BELL may have the consolation of reflecting, in the
unavoidable postponement of his martyrdom, that
be Ins mixed up, in the happiest confusion ever yet
attained by any of his predecessors, the two incom-
patible characters of Legisl wor and Judge, and has
declared in the House what sentence he will feel
bound to pronounce from the judgment-seat-even as
he has intimated more than once from the judgment-
seat the opinions he should feel called upon to
express as a peer in Parliament.
Tice rescue of the CHIEF JUSTICE of England by
a mob of long-shore men, under the very beards of
Houndsditch and St. Mary-axe, is a spectacle which
the admirers of Roman virtue will be extreme:y
reluctant to forego. But it is possible to pay too
high a price even for such a luxury as this, and we
honestly confess that a collision between the House
aud the Law Courts would be dearly purchased by the
enrolment of the present Ouse JUSTICE of England
on the brief and modest calendar which records the
sufferings of the " Martyrs of the Law." Baron
ROTHSCHILD has on the whole done wisely by re-
signing his scat into the hands of his constituents.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL must now do his part, by
zealously posing forward the Billwhich the House
of Commons has just given him leave to introduce.
Lord P tI.VERSTON'S conduct in the matter will be
watched with the closest attention. His future hold
on the great body of the Liberal party will materi-
ally depend on the seal or lukevrannness which he
new displays in reference to this question.