The Sun. — London, England, 1866-01-03 00:00:00

- The Cattle Plague. BRADFORD. The cattle disease appears to have lost much of its virulence in this district. From the reports pre sented by the veterin ar y inspectors for the past week to the magistrates of the East Morley division, sitting at Bradford, it appears that at present there are only six animals in the entire division suffering from rinderpest, and two of these are recovering. Mr. Collins reports that since the breaking out of the disease in his district 96 cows had been attacked, 66 of which have died, and seven have been killed. Of 64 cows which had been under his treatment, 26 have recovered. The only cases known within the borough were at Little Horton, Mr. Moses Booth having four cows suffering. Mr. Carter reports that since the commencement of the disease in his district 73 cows have been attacked, of which 51 have died, 19 recovered, and three are still affected. Mary Harrison, of Broad-lane, Pudsey, has been charged with violating the 9th section of the Order in Council of November 23, in refusing to allow Mr. Carter, one of the inspectors, to enter her pre mises in the discharge of his duty, and fined £5 and cos ts. There is no case known to exist in the ad joining district of Keighley. CAMBRIDGESHIRE AND ISLE OF ELY. The disease continues its ravages at Sutton, and about 70 deaths have now been recorded in the village. Mr. J. Warth has lost several out of a herd of 20 fine cows. Mr. T. Wilson, of the Fendike farm, Wimblington, has lost one beast, and has several others infected. Mr. S. Parkinson, of the Bedlam farm, has only 4 beasts alive out of 21 ; Mr. R. Shepperson, of Flood's-ferry, has 12 alive out of 40; Mr. J. Tibbett, on farms at March and Doddington, has only 19 alive out of 70, the re maining 50 having either died or been slaughtered. In the Chatteris district the disease is considered to have somewhat abated; 15 animals have died during the past week, and 8 are under treatment. In the Whittlesey district the malady prevails with great severity. At Oakington Mr. Linton Cole has buried several bullocks, and has slaughtered 12. At Wil lingham there have been 450 deaths, and there are only about 200. cattle now remaining in the parish ; the disease still prevails with unabated intensity. CORNWALL. The rinderpest continues to make sad havoc in Cornwall, and there are now but few districts in which this fearful disease has not made its appear ance. Since last week's report in The Sun the total loss in Truro and the immediate neighbourhood has reached 330. In the town of Truro Mr. Farley lost two, Mr. Brewer three, Mr. Benney one, and Mrs. Simmons one. At Perranzabuloe, Mr. Tyzer lost two, Mr. J. Richards two, Mr. Trewarren one, and Mr. Strogman one. At St. Erne, Mr. Vercoe killed two. At Trewogan, Mr. Hawke killed one. At St. Allen, Mr. Keast lost two. At Carlyon, in the parish of St. Minver, six more died belonging to Messrs. Willis, making their total loss 18, and leav ing five bad. At St. Columb, Mr. Trebilcock lost seven during the week, and his neighbour, Mr. Kneebone, two ; nine more are infected. At Pad stow two deaths occurred, and in the neighbour hood of Ilelston there was a similar loss. At a meeting of the West Penwith Cattle Plague Com mittee, Penzance, on Thursday last, it was reported that in Lelant the infection had not spread beyond three farms, on which about a dozen cattle were ill. In the parish of Ludgvan matters were worse, Mr. Mitchell, of Trewarrack, having lost eight, and Mr. Trewella, of Polgrean, six; 17 being left in a very bad condition. A resolution was passed by the committee urging the Court of Quarter Sessions for the county to exercise the powers given to them by the last Order in Council. At the St. Austell petty sessions on Thursday last a butcher named Lewis was fined £lO in two cases for removing cattle into a prohibited district, and three labourers employed by farmers of whom the bullocks were purchased, having assisted in driving the animals, were each fined 20s. and expenses. At Probus on Friday a largely-attended meeting of parishioners unani mously resolved that the owners of dogs be reguested keep them confined, and all persons finding dogs straying about their premises were strongly recom mended to kill them. The parish of Madron being threatened with the plague, a public meeting of the parishioners was held on the same day to con sider the best measures to be adopted. Among other things it was agreed to request the district surveyor of highways to supply two men to dig pits requisite for the proper burial of animals that might die of the disease, the cost to be defrayed out of a fund to be collected by a committee. SHROPSHIRE (NORTH) An important meeting of landowners and farmers, with the Lord-Lieutenant (Lord Hill) in the chair, was held at Whitchurch on Friday to take into con sideration a petition to Parliament for Government compensation in cases where animals are slaughtered by order of the inspector, and also for Govern ment assistance and security in cattle insurance so cieties. The notice convening the meeting also stated that in 1745-6, when the murrain visited this country before, compensation was made by the Government, and the Order in Council then issued was read (from the Gentleman's Magazine), showing that the amount of compensation was 405., being one-half the average value of the beast at that period. The meeting was very large and influential, in cluding, besides the Lord-Lieutenant, Lord Cora bermere, Admiral Cotton, Mr. J. R. Ormsby Gore, M.P., Sir John Tyrrell, the Hon. E. Kenyon, Col. F. Hill, Captain Clement Hill, Captain Cockyne Cust (representing Lord Brownlow), Capt. Barker, llr. ilignett (represe n ti ng L or d Ch o l mo ndeley), &c. Letters expressing regret at non-attendance were also read from Sir J. Ilanmer, M.P., and Major the Hon. C. H. Cust, M.P. The noble Chairman briefly opened the proceed ings, and urged th e i mportance of Government as sistance and compensation, and called upon Mr. ORMSBY GORE, M.P., who moved the first resolution, which was as follows :—" That peti tions be presented to the First Lord of the Treasury, the Chancellor of the Excheque r , and both Houses of Parliament, prayi ng th at the Go vernment take into their immediate consideration the urgent and pressing claims of stock owners whose herds have been destroyed by the plague for such alleviation of their difficulties as Parliament in its wisdom may think fit, and calling the attention of Parliament to the precedent of 1745-6." In sup porting this, Mr. Ormsby Gore urged that if the farmers were left to their own unaided exertions their fate would be very lamentable. He thought if Government gave half the value of the beast by way of compensation in 1745, they ought at least to do the same thing now. The farmers, by being compelled to bury the animal, lost not only the meat, but also the hide, the horns, and the offal. lie concluded by referring to the subject of insu rance, and promising to pay 25 per cent. on the calls of the Porkington tenantry. - Mr. R. THURSFIELD SMITH seconded the resolu tion, and gave a long and interesting account of the visits of the cattle plague to this country, beginning as far back as the third century,—stating, among other thing, that the murrain invariably stayed in the country from 12 to 15 years, and that it had b een conclusively proved always to have come from the steppes of Russia, and that even pigeons and rooks could convey the infection. The speaker also called attention to the singular fact that the reme dies suggested in letters to the newspapers of the present day were only the same remedies as had been suggested by writers of previous days to the Gentleman's Magazine, and further that the orders issued by the Pope in the last century were similar to those now issued by the Privy Council, except that in the one.case the penalty was £ 2O, and in the other banging. Captain BARKER, moved, aid Captain OUST se conded, the seconded resolution, as follows : " That the said petitioners also pray that the several. cattle plague associations that have been established be sanctioned an d assisted by the Governmen t in discharging such claim s as may be made upon them by the insured, and which the funds of the said associations may not extend to, thereby giving them a national character." Lord COMBERMERE, in proposing the third resolu- Um- 4 ' That the county members be requested to present the petitions "—expressed a hope that the example set by North Shropshire would be followed all through the country, so that a strong pressure might be brought to bear upon Government. Mr. T. H. SANDFORD, J.P., seconded the resolution. The form of the petition was then read, and, on the motion of the noble chairman, adopted. The Hon. E. KENTON, in moving the next resolu tion, which solicited the co- operation of cattle plague associations and agricultural societies in promoting the objects of the meeting, referred to the great dis tress threatened to the poor through the ravages of the plague, and to the calls which would thereby be made on the charity of those who were more fortu nately circumstanced. Mr. W. HASSELL seconded this, which, together with the'others, was carried unanimously. STAFFORDSHIRE (NORTH). The rinderpest continues its ravages along the northern borders of the county. Mr. Heler, Crad docks Moss, Audley, has lost 16 head of cattle, and has 11 beasts down with the plague. During the last week seven more animals have died of the dis ease on the farm of Mr. Hammond, Madeley, in ad dition to 20 deaths in the previous week. In the stock of 33 head of cattle belonging to Mr. Tomkinson, farmer, near Audley, 28 have died. Mr. Glover, far mer, Batterley, has had 19 cows attacked, and lost 12 of them. Nearly the whole of the stock of cattle be longing to Mr. J. Blockley, Radwood, near Whit more, consisting of about 40 fine animals, has been destroyed by the pest. Of eight cows on the farm of Mr. Summerfield, at Wrine-hill, only one is alive. Several fresh deaths are reported among the cattle of Mr. Davenport, Maer-hall, and the plague has also made its appearance, with some fatal re sults, among the stocks of Mr. J. Booth, Batterley; Mr. Sindop, Bar-hill ; Mr. S. Harrison, Betley ; and Mr. T. Salmon, Madeley-park, and is spread ing on the farm of Mr. Buckley, Wrine-hill. A diseased beast was taken to the Stoke-on-Trent cattle-market on Wednesday last by a cattle-dealer living near Newcastle-under-Lyme, and placed in a shed after the market with 17 healthy cows. The state of the diseased animal was discovered by the district Government inspector, and it was at once destroyed and buried, and the 17 other beasts were slaughtered and sold for meat. Mr. A. Broade, of Bar-hill, has also lost two cows during the week, and the same number have fallen victims to the pest on the farm of Mr. Blackshaw, near Hanley. At Ashley, Mr. R. Bourne has lost 17 beasts, and the plague has now extended to Cheadle, where, during the past fortnight, it has on the farm of Mr. Godwin killed 17 cows and calves, while it has ap peared also at Weston and some of the adjoining places. The great strides of the plague are causing a good deal of uneasiness in this part of the county. WINDSOR. On Saturday afternoon, at three o'clock, a numerously attended meeting of agriculturists and landowners was held, under the presidency of Major-Gen. F. H. G. Seymour, at the Castle Hotel, Windsor, for purpose of considering of a mutual as sociation for the insurance of cattle, the recent out break of the murrain in the Royal borough giving an important tone to the meeting. Among those pre sent were Mr. Hall Say, the Rev. Seymour Neville, Messrs. Meeking, Nash, Cantrell, Trumper, Nixey, Evans, Pullen, Buckland (sen.), Buckland (jun.), Long, Meson, Chamberlain, Cannon, &c. Mr. C. MEEKING said that the practical sagacity of the Marquis of Chandos, who was connected with the society, the rules of which had been read, was a sufficient guarantee as to their soundness. The proposed society would give its members a right to receive compensation. None of them liked to accept it as a charity ; if they got compensation it would be as a right. The value of the horned cattle in the country amounted to about £200,000,000, and that was being diminished at the rate of £6,256 per week by their losses through the plague. Part of that loss had been sustained in their own imme diate neighbourhood. As a landowner, he was ready to give his £lOO to the funds of the society at once. He had never shrank from increasing his stock, and now he had rather more than before. It was their duty to keep up their stock. After some very pertinent remarks, he moved a resolution to the effect that, " Her Majesty's Government con sidering it unnecessary to form a national associa tion for insurance against losses through the cattle plague, it is desirable that a mutual association be formed in the district." The Rev. SEYMOUR NEVILLE, minor canon of St. George's Chapel, seconded the resolution, which was carried nem. con. Major-General SEYMOUR proposed that the association should extend over an area, the limits of which should be those of the South Bucks, East Berks, Wraysbury, Egham, and Windsor Forest Agricultural Societies, and all parishes within a ten miles radius of Windsor ; also, that the committee should make any alteration in the district that might seem advisable. This was seconded by Mr. CArrrnad., and carried unanimously. A committee, with Major-General the Hon. A. N. Hood as chairman, and consisting of Major- General Seymour, the Mayor of Windsor, the mem bers for the borough and county, Mr. Hall Say, &c., was then chosen. Mr. CANNON stated that in the Maidenhead division of the county of Berks, and since he was made inspector on the 16th of August, no less than 283 beasts had perished from the plague. The value of the cattle so lost he considered amounted to about £2,623 10s., the cases of disease principally occurring in the districts of Bray, Cookham, and Winkfield. Out of the 283 cattle only nine were insured in the Reading Association. It was next moved by Mr. EVANS, seconded Mr. " subscription list J. NASH, and carried, that a be forthwith opened in addition to the Insurers' Fund, which would be provided for the rules." The CHAIRMAN (after the appointment of a banker, &c., for the society, with Mr. Frank Buck land as hon. secretary, pro tem.), with reference to the selection of a veterinary surgeon, advocated the use of homoeopathy in the treatment of sick cattle. He stated that he had great faith in the systeni,and urged its trial by the members. Mr. IRONS corroborated the General's statement, and said that three out of five cattle which he had treated homoeopathically had recovered from the disease. _ _ . After some other business a vote of thanks to Major-General Seymour for his services as chairinan was moved by Mr. BUCKLAND; sen. , second ed b y Mr. TRUMPER, and carried unanimously. The meeting then adjourned. Mr. L. q —lmPsox, the inspector, reports another case of the plague in Windsor. A cow belconging to Mr. Tu rner Was attacked on Chr i stmas- d ay, an d died on Saturday morning. WORCESTERSHIRE. There is happily no extension of the plague in this county, which may be attributed, i n a great measure, to the strict precautions adopted by the authorities. As already stated, notices have been issued by the magistrates in the different petty ses sional divisions of the county promulgating regula tions for preventing the spread of the disease ; but at the County Quarter Sessions, to be held to-day, arrangements will be made for obtaining uniformity in these regulations throughout the county. Mr. Crafer, a farmer and cattle dealer, residing near Redditch, has been fined £2O and costs for neglect ing to give notice to the district inspector of the out break of the cattle plague among his pigs. YORKSHIRE. The closing week of the year has shown no indi cation that the (Meuse was spent ; on the contrary, and more particularly among milch cows, there have been numerous fresh outbreaks in both the Buck rose division (East Riding) and the New Malton division (North Riding) and the first case at Mal ton itself has occurred among a milkseller's stock. There is still the singular circumstance to be noted that while on the high wolds and moors, and in the low lying'extensive tracts of Ryedale and Picker ing, the disease continues its ravages, the middle elevations are yet clear, and the extensive estates of Lords Middleton and Carlisle know of the disease only by report. There is also a much-remarked exemption of fat stock from the :plague, and this is THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 3, 1866. exercising a favourable influence upon prices, which have of late years been very wild. Except in the elevations of the two Ridings named the panic caused by the plague continues, and in the two weeks £25,900 worth of cattle from places not yet infected have been insured at Malton. Here also very great attention has been paid to the alleged identity of the plague with the smallpox, and various methods of experiment with vaccine matter are about to be tried. The hardship imposed upon feeders of stock by the operation of the orders in Council is much felt in this district, more especially in the large wold division of Buckrose, which bor ders on Malton, Scarborough, and Driffield, but cannot send stock to any of these markets, and there is no market in the division. On Saturday Mr. Lovel, of Knapton, an extensive farmer and feeder, applied to the Malton Bench for leave to take four fat beasts to Scarborough, he having sold them some time ago to a butcher there to take when fat. The Bench regretted they had no power to order the removal of cattle from one division to another, and admitted the hardship of Mr. Lovel's case and others who live in a division with no mar ket. Mr. Ringrose, a Government Inspector on the wolds, appeared before the bench to lay two charges of infringement of the orders in Council against Mr. Grunden, a very extensive wold farmer. One charge was for not giving proper notice of the outbreak of the plague, and the other for removing cattle with out permission. After a long discussion it was ap parent that Mr. Grunden had acted from misread ing of the orders, which the bench admitted were very ambiguous. No prosecution will therefore be the result. Another and more serious charge was preferred by Mr. W. Lovel, of Helperthorpe, a wold farmer, against a butcher, for bringing cattle from an infected Malton district into the Buckrose district, whereby some alarm had been occasioned. The but cher, it appeared, had obtained the sanction of two magistrates to the removal, and the cattle were healthy, and were yet alive and well. Mr. Lovel did not wish to press a prosecution, but urged on the bench that the prohibitions issued preventing the cattle entering a division from any other should be strictly observed, and he produced a letter from Sir G. Grey on the matter, stating that healthy cattle could only be removed within the division. The bench came to an important decision—namely, not to sanc tion the removal of any cattle in future. The effect of this resolution will be to send the butchers to the stock, instead of vice versa. Returns of the quarter sessions have been made up to Saturday night in the Malton district, showing the date of outbreak, num ber of cases, and cause or method of infection since the first outbreak at Wigganthorpe on November 1, when the disease was first brought into the dis trict. For the North Riding Malton district the re turn shows that there have been in the two months 204 cases of rinderpest, of which 115 are dead, 14 were killed, 38 have recovered, and the rest remain under treatment. The poleaxe was early abandoned, or doubtless the 38 recoveries, few as they are, would not have been recorded. The inference drawn from the remarks appended to each case of attack, as made in the return, was that the plague was intro duced from York market (kept open against all re monstrance for weeks after the districts were closed), and taken to Wigganthorpe, Old Malton, News ham, and Barton, and thence spread throughout the district. The return for the Buckrose (East Riding) division is made by the chief constable, and, therefore, cannot be obtained until the Quarter Sessions at Beverley. The following is, however, an approximate return from the Government In spector's reports :—The number of cases in the wold district included in this division since the out break at Leppington, eight weeks ago, is about 360, of which about 130 are dead, about a dozen were destroyed just at first, and about 220 are recover ing, showing a much more successful issue on the wolds than on the Malton side of the water. Sir S. Northcote, M.P., on Art Education. -• In a speech at the annual meeting of the Exeter School of Art, on Friday night, Sir Stafford North cote said that every one who looked at the present state of art education, or, indeed, of the education question throughout England, must feel that mat ters were in a very hopeful position ; and that there never was a time when greater attention was being paid to it by the Government or by the people themselves. People's minds were beginning to be cleared, and they were becoming sensible of what may be done, and what ought to be done. In moving the adoption of the report, he was anxious to say a few words upon schools of art, and to par ticularise some of the changes recently made by Go vernment relative to them. Some of them, perhaps, would remember that at the meeting of the previous year he referred to the appointment of a committee of the House of Commons, on which committee he had the honour to serve, to investigate the new minutes of the department of science and art, who had made certain recommendations which would no doubt produce some changes in the manner that Government aid would be distributed to schools. The select committee made their report, which was laid upon the table of the House of Commons. Go vernment, however, did not act upon the sugges tions, but came to the conclusion that it was not desirable to have a complicated system of payment, the payments being according to results. The select committee had proposed the mode of payment by a simple capitation grant according to the number of students attending the school. Government had adopted one half of the proposal, but not that por tion referring to the capitation grant, against which it was said there was a substantial objection. The course of action thus taken by his friends reminded him of what Charles Napier once said, that if a man chose to take the acid part of a seidlitz powder without the alkali, he could not be surprised if it did not agree with him. Government had placed the select committee in a similar position, by only taking half of their recommendations. A public meeting was shortly afterwards called, representing the different schools, and some of the members of the select committee, in compliance with a request, waited upon Earl Granville, and represented to his lordship that the new Government minute would not afford schools of art sufficient assistance. The depu tation was received most courteously, a memorial was drawn up'and presented, and ultimately large modi fications were made in the Government minute. It was true that the modifications were found fault with by some persons, who said they should have been better off if the first Government proposal had been adopted. Others complained that they felt an uncertainty relative to the course the Government would take, and they could not rely upon them. He was happy to say that in Exeter they could afford to feel comparatively indifferent upon the subject, though he was afraid that their excellent master would not find himself any the better off by the changes Government had made. It must be remem bered that Government in those matters were placed in considerable difficulty. They had a large system to deal with, and it was their duty to be economical in the distribution of the public money, and on the other hand it was difficult to act so that the system might not be fettered in its action through want of funds. Government in avoiding extravagance had to take care not to be thought niggardly. It had been determined to give assistance to artisans only and to pay no money except for direct results, and in accordance with the recommendations of the select committee local committees were called upon to work for themselves. This was done with no desire to exclude the middle class from these schools, but only to make them pay a reasonable sum for their instruction. Government said, "We desire to spread a more general feeling in favour of art ; we are ready to help you by establishing good schools that shall be open on moderate fees, where you can attend and receive first-class instruction, and we offer you as a stimulus to exertion medals, prizes, and the like." The report informed them that they were in a flourishing condition financially ; that was no doubt largely attributable to the amount raised by fees—£loo. The attendance of students was most satisfactory, and there was an especial increase in the new classes that had been established at a higher rate of fee at the master's suggestion, quite different from last year, when they had long faces, and thought about what excuses to make for the decline of numbers, attributing it to sickness or some other cause. He felt that the middle class would not object to pay their 4s. a month, or what ever reasonable sum was required, believing that in so doing they would obtain great advantagesby the instruction they would receive in the school. The feeling in favour of art education was gradually ex tending ; but, as he had previously said, it must be a work of years. Although some of the classes were smaller in number, it was gratifying to find that they were not so in efficiency. The ladies, who had usually taken off the largest number of medals, were this year beaten by the artisans. Middle-class education had of late years been neglected, that of the higher class had been always good ; and within the last 20 or 30 years there had been created an efficient training for the lower class. The middle class were very much worse off in this respect than either the upper or lower stra tum of society. This state-of things could not be allowed to continue with safety. Inquiries were, being made, and at the present time a Royal Com mission was sitting to examine into the question. One of the points to which attention had been drawn was the kind of education which a boy should receive, whose life is to be devoted to busi ness. He should have an education on general sub jects, sufficient to give him liberal views and some knowledge of foreign languages, in addition to a science and art training. It was now beginning to be felt that these subjectghad been greatlyneglected, and the question was how should lit be given, not how should it be paid for. The effect of such schools as theirs was shown in many ways. Other institutions frequently grew out of them. inasmuch as the percentage of cures would astonish many an old hospital surgeon accustomed to wards haunted with erysipelas and hospital gangrene, which is in some cases quite as destructive to life as the original casualty. Mr. Napper assures us that he has never lost a life that could have been saved— a thing that no hospital surgeon in any of our me tropolitan institutions could say with truth. .He attributes this happy result in no manner to his own skill, but to the pure air, liberal diet, and the seclu sion of the village hospital, which looks more like the peasant's own home than are the regular hospi tals, with their bare walls, in which everything is carried on so methodically that the patient speedily loses his own identity. It must not be supposed that the cases treated are of a light kind ; no sort of casualty is refused—in deed, many of them have been of the severest nature known to surgery, yet they have all done well—far better, indeed, than they would have done under the skill of the best London surgeons, so powerful is the curative power of nature when allowed fair play and seconded by the efforts of even ordinary skill. A little jealousy of these village hospitals was at first entertained by some members of the profession, but this has long since subsided. Etiquette has now established that in case a practitioner of the neigh bourhood has a case for admission, he should by courtesy be privileged to visit his patient and advise with the medical officers respecting the mode of treatment to be followed, and in case an operation has to be performed he has the option of doing it himself. By this arrangement the hospital is made subservient to the interests of the whole medical body of the district, a matter of no small moment when we consider the susceptibilities of country practitioners. When we say that the actual working expenses of the hospital for the last year did not exceed £lOO we may safely say that, consider ing the serious nature of the cases treated, or the length of time some of them have been under treatment, this is a unique institution, and affords an example worthy of being followed throughout the length and breadth of the land. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. EAST INDIAN. The report of Mr. W. Bourne, the chief engineer on the new Chord line of this company from Bur rak ar, 143 f miles from Calcutta, to Luckeeserai, 327 miles from Calcutta ; also on the main line, having a branch to the Kurhurbalee coal field, states that the thorough exploring and setting out of the Chord line through the Nurgoonjoo Pass was com pleted during the half year. The length of the Chord line is about 1231 miles, and of the branch to Khurhurbalee 231 miles. The centre line has been staked throughout, and the land plans are being prepared. The sections and plans showing alterna tive routes exhibit this result that, except through the pass and the country in its immediate neigh bourhood, no steeper gradient than 1 in 200 need be adopted, and that at the pass 1 in 100 cap be ob tained. No curve of shorter radius than half a mile occurs on the line. The country through which the line passes is in general a ridgy and difficult one. Owing to this and the thick jungle in places it re quired very close examination to select the best ground for the railway. Between the principal rivers the country is high and dips suddenly towards the rivers, involving heavy work in the approaches to the bridges. He states that the branch line passes through a broken and difficult country, but by adopting steeper gradients the work as at present set out can be very much lightened. The point on the Burrakur Ex tension line from which the Chord line starts is 221 miles, from the Kahnoo junction on the company's main line 721 miles from Calcutta. The 221 miles, added to the length of the new Chord line, 1231 miles, make together about 1451 miles from the main line at Kahnoo junction to Luckeeserai, on the main line ; but by the route of the main line the distance between those points is 2541 miles, showing a saving of distance for through traffic, via the Chord line, when completed, of 109 miles. It is intended to construct the Chord as a double line at once, and to leave the portion of the main line from Kahnoo Junction to Luckeeserai as at present—a single line, but to double the portion beyond Luckeeserai to Allahabad ; the main line from Calcutta to the Kahnoo Junction being already a double one. HEALTH OF THE METROPOLIS. (Fr•om the Registrar-General's Weekly Report.) In the week that ended on Saturday, the 30th of December, the births registered in London and ten other large towns of the United Kingdom were 3,624 ; the deaths registered 3413. The annual rate of mortality was 31 per 1,000 persons living. In London the births of 869 boys and 805 girls, in all 1,674 children, were registered in the week ; in the corresponding weeks of ten years, 1855-64, the average number corrected for increase of popu lation was 1,859. The deaths registered in London during the week were 1,603. It was the last week of the year ; and the average number of deaths for that week is, with a correction for increase of population, 1,541. The present return exhibits an excess of 62 deaths over the computed number. The mortality from phthisis (consumption) is very high, the deaths from this disease being 181 in the week. -Bronchitis was fatal in 195 cases, pneu monia in 123. Six deaths were referred directly to intemperance. There were 74 deaths from typhus, the corrected average being 53. There were 13 from smallpox, and almost half of these occurred in the Church and Town sub-districts of Bethnal-green. Two Sons of a tailor, aged six years and one year, died on 26th and 28th ult. respectively, of typhus, at 3, Ely-court, Holborn. The house is in a filthy condition from the want of proper sanitary arrange ments, and the smell is sometimes so offensive that the person from whom the Registrar received infor mation of the facts had been obliged occasionally to seek a stimulant in spirits. The following seven deaths were registered as re sulting from carriage accidents :—The daughter of a licensed victualler, aged 13 years, run over by a cart ; died on the 21st of December, at 62, Ashbur ton-grove, Islington ; a labourer, aged 42 years, run over by a waggon ; died on the 23d of Decem ber in University College Hospital. A storekeeper, aged 53 years, knocked down by a cart; laceration of liver ; died on the 23d of December, at 2, Arbu tus-place, Clapton. The son of a cooper, aged 12 years, run over; died on the 25th of November in Stepney district. In . the Blackfriars-road, the widow of a sword ornamenter, aged 74 years, knocked down by an omnibus ; died on the 22d of December in Guy's Hospital. A labourer, aged 17 years, run over by a cart ; died on the 20th of Dec., in the Greenwich-road. A grocer, aged 50 years, fell from a cart; died on the 2d of December, at 11, Cambridge-road, Bethnal-green. The total number of persons killed by carriage ac cidents in the streets of London in the year 1865 is 232. The annual rate of mortality last week was 28 per 1,000 in London, 47 in Liverpool, 37 in Man chester, 39 in Salford,' 32 in Birmingham, 35 in Leeds, 34 in Bristol, and 27 in Hull. _ In Liverpool the births in the week were 343, the deaths 425; in Manchester the births 232, the deaths 254 ; in Salford the births 72, the deaths 82 ; in Birmingham the births 243, the deaths 199 ; in Leeds 266, the deaths 150 ; in Bristol the births 107, the deaths 104 ; in Hull the births 83, the deaths 54. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29.912 in. The mean daily reading was above 30in. on the first four days. The readings rose to 30.29 in. on Sun day, and fell to 29.00 in. on Friday. The mean temperature of the air in the week was 41.2 deg., which is 3.8 deg. above the average of the same week in 50 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher.) On Tuesday and Friday the excess was from 8 deg. to 10 deg. The mean daily range of temperature was 9.5 deg. The range was less than 9.6 deg., or not above it, on five days. The difference between the mean dew-point temperature and air tempera ture was 2.6 deg. The mean degree of humidity of the air was 91, complete saturation being repre sented by 100, which point was nearly reached on three days. The general direction of the wind was S.W. The amount of rain was 0.37 in. VILLA. GE HOSPITALS. If a man in some remote country district happens to meet with a severe accident which for a time dis ables him, he speedily finds out that the country lacks many of those elements of civilisation which he looks upon as a matter of course in large towns. He must not expect a skilled surgeon on the moment to perform some critical operation, or would look in vain for a trained nurse, or indeed for any of those appliances and means of alleviating his sufferings which await the cabman or the dock labourer in a metropolitan hospital, which, in many instances, render these institutions preferable to his own home. Our great centres of civilisation are amply supplied with these medical houses of refuge, but their in fluence and advantages are but small when com pared with the area of the rural districts. One of the first inquiries a gentleman makes when taking up his residence in the country is with reference to the skill of the village practitioner, on whom, if he happens to be of infirm health, so much of his com fort depends. Now, the case of the gentleman who spends a portion of his time only " out:of town" is the perpetual state of the rural population. Of old the nature of their occupations did not entail upon them any chance of severe accidents, but the intro duction of steam machinery into agricultural labours has changed all this, and the labourer is now as liable as any artisan to those dreadful casualties to which machinery gives rise, and which require prompt treatment upon the spot. " Necessity," says the old adage, "is the mother of invention," and the increase of such accidents of late years led a village practitioner (Mr. Albert Napper, of Cran ley, in Surrey) in the year 1859 to establish a village hospital—not such an institution as we are accus tomed to in great cities (grand establishments, with a staff that eats up a large portion of the subscrip tions), but a simple cottage, fitted up with six beds, with one surgeon, who visits every day, and oftener when necessary, a nurse, and a general servant. The cottage in this instance was provided, rent free, by the Rev. Mr. Sapte, the vicar of the parish, who has by his active co-operation greatly aided Mr. Napper in the working out of his idea. From the first moment the experiment was a success. The labourer found in his hour of need what ho could not find in his own confined cottage, nor in the workhouse—a trained nurse, acting under the eye of the surgeon, skilled in emergencies, and furnished with all the appliances necessary for his case. When any serious accident happens to a rural labourer, in the majority of cases, he is at once removed to the nearest county or town hospital, often at great physical agony to the patient, who has, perhaps, with a broken limb, to be jolted over long distances in a country cart on a rough road. From these preliminary agonies and dangers for which man is responsible the village hospital at once emancipates him, and the gain is not only to the poor patient. As a rule, except in mining and manufacturing districts, operating surgeons of ex perience are rarely to be found in rural districts ; the surgery general practitioners have learnt during their studies, the capital operations they have wit nessed in the operating theatre of St. Bartholomew's or St. Thomas's, are remembered only as exciting incidents in their student days. In the ordinary routine of practice they rarely meet with such cases, and when they do,-as we have said before, they send them to the great towns, where all the appliances of art are at hand, and the best skill of the surgeon is to be found. The want of such experience is, of course, a loss to the better classes of the country side. It is clear, therefore, that these village hospitals will act as a school in which the skill of the surgeon is kept up. The lessons he learns day by day in them, in time of need, is of value in the ancestral hall. Thus the poor peasant's misfortune maybe the cause of saving the life of the squire. One of the most valuable features of the village hospital system, as we find it working at Cranley, is the payment by the patient of a weekly contribu tion towards its funds. The amount of this pay ment is estimated according to his means by his employer and the manager of the hospital. It has been found that this rule has never been objected to, and there can be little doubt that it tends to maintain the self-respect of the patient. Those only who are acquainted with the working of the London hospitals are aware of the shameful abuse of these charities by a class of patients who are well able to contribute to its funds, but who prefer to seek their aid in the shabbiest clothes rather than be refused. Persons whose means are ample are mean enough to practise these arts from day to day ; it is therefore all the more gratifying to know that the poor agricultural labourer willingly pays for the services rendered to him, and that to an extent which amounts to a full third of the entire expenses of the hospital. In order to prevent the absorption of the limited number of beds by chronic cases, only those patients who cannot be effectually treated at their own homes are admitted, and subscribers are not allowed, as in other hospitals, the privilege of ordering the admis sion of any patient—a privilege which is but too often abused. The example of the Cranley village hospital, after its successful career of six years, has led to the establishment of similar hospitalsin many other rural districts—at Bourton-on-the-Water, at Fowey, at WTrington, at East Grinstead, and at St. Andrew's, Fifeshire. Indeed, the idea has now taken such hold that we may speedily anticipate their establishment in most well-ordered villages remote from the medical charities of the large towns. The Ladies Bountiful of our rural districts, who have hitherto exercised their leech-craft among the poor, will here render still more valuable aid— that of affording human sympathy and kindness to the poor inmates, provided they do not mar their usefulness by interfering too much with the doctor. As many of our readers may like to be acquainted with the details of these village hospitals, we cannot do better than describe their requirements accord ing to the experience of their founder. Mr. Nap per says, " to accommodate from 6to 8 patients a small farm-house or double-tenemented cottage, having on the ground-flour a kitchen, scullery, sit ting-room, and larder, and upstairs from four to six rooms, well ventilated," is all that is necessary in the way of house accommodation, while the furniture is planned on an equally moderate scale ; a kitchen range, dresser, bath, easy chair, clock, common chairs and tables, and iron bedsteads with horse hair mattresses, bed-linen, &c., fulfil all the re quirements of these economical little establishments. The total cost, indeed, of furnishing a hospital for six beds is only £7O. The sum is so small, and the value of these raisons de sante so great to a remote rural community, that we feel sure that the idea only requires to be made known to be widely acted upon. We may safely say that medicine was never more economically administered, SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—One hundred years ago the French had just lost India, and we had just won it. Count Lally, the unsuccessful Frenchman, was shamefully executed in Paris ; Lord Clive, the successful Eng lishman, was made Governor of Bengal. So we entered on the year 1766, and th en I n di a disappeared for a time from the public eye. A new scene opened in a new world. We began our famous war with the American colonists, and we took little heed of other matters till it was ended. That end only came sixteen years later, and then the curtain drew up on India once more. Viewed by the light of succeeding experience the scene may be regarded as characteristic of our national usages. In the interval which had elapsed the office of Governor- General had been instituted for the administration of India, and though philanthropy in those days was not organised in societies, the first Governor- General was indicted for ill treatment of the natives, and kept upon his trial for ten years together. How shall we contrast those days with these ? The intervening century has brought us complete and almost uninterrupted success—that is, such success as we should formerly have prayed for. India has become absolutely British. We have not only kept all foreign rivals at a distance, but we have gra dually absorbed the native Courts. There is no longer any independent Power in India. Every Indian province is either our own, or under our protection, or amenable to our control. We are lords paramount, and the authority of Queen Vic toria in India is far more absolute, as well as more extensive, than the authority of the Great Moguls. If this end could have been foreseen in 1766, it would have been regarded as the perfection of success ; but now, in 1866, we look around us more searchingly, and reason otherwise. We ask what we are expected to do for India, and what India does for us. We weigh our political obliga tions and measure our material returns. Even on these terms, however, of inquiry, the result is not unsatisfactory. We have settled—at any rate, for the present—all the most troublesome questions connected with India ; we have encountered and survived the most terrible of our risks, and we have certainly performed with some success our duty towards our Indian subjects. The Government of India, after being appropriated bit by bit, has at last been assumed entirely by the Crown. The na tive armies, which always in late times constituted our greatest danger, did mutiny at last, and were utterly beaten. India has entered upon a new era of history. The country is intersected by railroads, which are wonderfully popular and useful. A new , , industry, capable of infinite development, is clothing the sides of the Himalayas with productive planta tions. Precious metals have been poured into the country at a rate unprecedented even in India ; wages have risen, labour is scarce, and population is no longer superabundant. This is saying some thing for British Government, and we may say, on the other hand, that the cost is not much to the British people. Perhaps it will be thought there should be no question of cost at all, but only of profit ; and that, no doubt, is in some sense true. But nobody, now-a-days, looks to a colony for tribute. India pays its expenses, and that is enough. For the rest, our service to India is repaid by the professional field which that service creates, and which opens an honourable and lucrative career to thousands of Englishmen. Yet there is a question still remaining, and it is connected in some degree with this very point. India makes no demand upon us, except for value received, but in one particular the exchange is becoming burdensome. India finds money, but asks for men. Were it not for India an army of 140,000 men would answer all our purposes; as it is, we have to raise half as many again for Indian service alone. The old Empire of the Moguls is garrisoned by 70,000 British soldiers, and that garrison represents, practically speaking, the cost of India to England. It is not that the troops themselves are any charge to us. They are,all borne upon the Indian establishment, . and paid out of the In dian revenues, but still the men are to be found and the establishments maintained by reliefs and reinforcements from this country. If we now add that this obligation is growing somewhat heavy, it is but so much evidence of our national prosperity, and of the improved prospects of all classes of society. We need not say that an army of 200,000 men, measured by our population, is a mere no thing. France, with scarcely a greater population, maintains twice the number ; America, the other day, with a smaller population, maintained five such armies. The mere drain of men can be nothing to a country which sends out nearly a thousand emi grants a day. Nor do we think, upon the whole, that any unpopularity of the service can affect the practical question. It is hardly to be imagined that an ordinary recruit thinks anything about the general distribution of her Majesty's forces. It is quite true, as a matter of fact, that Indian service has become rather a certainty than a chance ; btA even if the fact were understood, it is not likely to be regarded. The truth of the case is, that the competition in the labour market makes service of all kinds more valuable, and servants of all kinds more scarce. Recruits, like other hands, are hard to get, and it is harder to recruit for 200,000 men than for 140,000. That is about the history of the matter. We have so far opened our eyes to the fact that we are doing our best to assimilate Indian service to service elsewhere, and to deprive it, at any rate, of any specially hard conditions. We now regard the mortality hitherto prevailing on Indian stations as excessive and preventible, and we have taken measures to prevent it. There is some talk of reducing the strength of the Indian esta blishments, and of economising our military power in the East by better organisation ; and in one respect these improvements will certainly help us. Much of our difficulty arises from mea sures which were adopted to give us ease. It was thought that enlistments would be more numerous if they were allowed to be for a limited term, and the presumption, no doubt, was 'correct. But this early termination of the military career, though it may multiply recruits, multiplies vacancies also, and therefore undoes at one end what it does at the other. This drawback would be greatly lessened if we could secure re-enlistments in greater numbers, and that is precisely the result which improvements in the sol dier's condition would be likely to promote. As an illustration of the argument we will just observe that last summer, when the 9th Regiment was suf fering so terribly and needlessly from sickness at Hongkong, a communication was received from the authorities at home, requesting to know how many men would volunteer for re -engagement at the ex piration of their term of service. The answer, not unnaturally, took the form of a blank return ; whereas, if the troops had been satisfied with their lot and their position, a good half of them perhaps might have been retained in the army. We have been gradually coming to the conclusion that Eng land cannot find soldiers for herself and all her colonies together. True, we did this when we were less able to do so than now, bit this is not a mere question of ability or resources ; it is a question of comparative prospects and popular disposition. If men are less willing to enter the army than formerly, that is because they have a greater choice of callings, and are better qualified to make selections. We have met the difficulty by improving the soldier's condition, and bettering his bargain in every way. Indeed, the very goodness of the bargain, tells, in one sense, against us, for ten years' service in the army converts a rude ploughboy into so accom plished a character that employers are ready to compete for so promising a servant. But that con sideration, if it takes men from us, ought also to bring them to us, and we hope it does. Fair dealing is our true resource. There must needs be a diffi culty ; in fact, the army feels it only in commonwith other professions, but it originates in circumstances which can be no object of regret, and it must be met by an adaptation of conditions to occasions. POST.—We have been so long accustomed to a quiet political atmosphere that it is almost exciting to think that within a month we are to witness the assembling of a new Parliament, under a new Minis ter, and with a reconstructed Cabinet. The keen insight into the English mind which Lord Palmerston so largely possessed, and the tact with which he shaped his policy in accordance with the prevailing desires of the country, had secured him so large a share of public confidence as to make it impossible for any party to get up a factious movement with the least chance of success, or to disturb that even flow of quiet policy which in his judgment was best adapted to the circumstances of the time. But with his departure the quietude of politics departs, at least for the present; and the new House of Commons will find enough to do within the next six months in determining the balance of parties and settling to whose hands, after all, the task of governing the country can with the greatest advantage be con fided. That a large number will be anxious to give Lord Russell a fair trial is certain. It is his due, and the house will cheerfully accord it to him. But it needs but a single glance at the many questions ahead to show that the efficiency of his Cabinet will be tried to the uttermost in almost every department. It would be perfectly idle to speculate on the pro bable course of events, dependent as they are upon a multitude of influences which cannot now be even guessed at w ith accuracy. But the h ouse is new, . many of its memb ers h ave n o sort of political training, most will want to distinguish themselves, and all t o s t an d we ll w ith their con stituents, by means of their Parliamentary conduct. The tendency of new brooms to sweep clean is proverbial, and nothing could afford more scope to that meritorious propensity than the ever coveted, little accessible floor of the House of Com mons. In th a t hi s t or i ca l aren a the new gladiators are burning to show themselves, and it is a condition of their existence that they should aim at a sensation. The Conservatives profess to be up and doing. They look for a chance of power in the inevitable scrimmage. New House, new Minister, new mem bers of the Cabinet, new measures, new conflicts of party—surely out of all this there is hope for those much-enduring benefactors Of their country who have so long kept warm by their presence the seats of the Opposition. Have they no little game ? Is there no chance for them in the coming revival of Parliamentary dry bones ? Their oracles are silent, but it drops out now and then that they are more than cheerful, but are biding their time. We shall see ; though, while we are waiting in the position of lookers-on, we cannot help observing that, if the Conservatives knew how to use it, they have a fine opportunity. But it is in their nature never to know their occasion even when it is close under their eyes, so that they are hardly likely to shape their course in accordance with popular liberality, and try to take up the dropped mantle of Palmerston. It has not as yet been taken up by any. The pure Whiggism of the Premier is not the English libe rality of his predecessor. The Cabinet under Lord Russell, even if unchanged as to its personnel, would not be the same as under Palmerston. Under Lord Russell each man's own self is more demonstrative, because more independent. Lord Palmerston lef t the fullest scope to all the members of his Cabinet, but he exercised an involuntary and almost uncon scious influence over them, and moulded their sepa rate proceedings into a policy that was consistent because homogeneous, and powerful because united. Lord Russell is not in possession of the secret of this gentle sway. His strength must be drawn from other sources and exercised in other ways. If his Cabinet is to stand, he must take his cue from the House of Commons. He cannot give it to the House as Palmerston did in his later days. The great respect which all felt for that chief prac tically put in abeyance the spirit of combativeness which is one of the characteristics of our Lower Chamber. The late Parliament was advanced, and wished naturally for an easy life and a quiet death, and as long as no vital question was at issue it spared to rouse itself to unnecessary activity. But the new Parliament is young, and the circumstances under which it is to meet will be fresh and peculiar. Necessarily,.therefore, it will be more active, and probably in its policy more decided. It is well that it should be so. It is in, active and stirring times that great men are reared ; and if the House of Commons be a great school of statesmanship as well as a legislative chamber, it is not desirable that members should be idle-handed, or its juniors be trained in a spirit of quiet acquiescence in the leader ship of one or two master minds. A reform bill is of course the great rock ahead. Most are agreed that the country itself does not really want one, but certain politicians do, and therefore it becomes a necessity of the Minister's position to declare him self about it one way or the other. It is a peculi arity of the case that nobody knows what to do. Anybody can draw up a Reform Bill of excellent character if only abstract requirements be con sidered, but it is quite another thing to win the con sent of parties. So completely do the Radicals feel this that they almost ostentatiously proclaim their readiness to be thankful for small mercies, and to accept any sort of bill so long as it is a step in ad vance, however small. So far, then, the task is easier to the Government than it was five years ago, at least as far as Mr. Bright's party is concerned. But no sooner are things looking smoothly on that side than new dangers spring up on the other, and the very Opposition which once taunted the Liberals with doing too much will be found crying out that now they are not doing enough. On the whole, there is a pretty business to be done, but whether Lord Russell is the man to do it is a question which must be left to himself and time to answer. But the interest warms as the time creeps on, and it seems certain that political lethargy will'not be the besetting sin of the first session of the new Par liament. COUNTRY MARKETS BEI S T OL-T UESDAY. At our market to-day there was a small attendance. Foreign wheat is per qr lower to sell. Barley 6d lower. Oats quite as dear. Beans and peas firm. LEEDS-TUESDAY. We havo a fair show of grain this week. The business passing in wheat to-day is quite of a retail character, and prices are rather in favour of the buyer. Good barley maintains its value, but inferior sorts are slow of sale. Oats and beans rather lower. The average prices for the week ending Jan. 1 were : Wheat, 51s ld per qr. ; barley, 87s Lid ; and oats, 26s 6d. SHEFFIELD-TUESDAY. Our corn market was fairly supplied with wheat. For fine dry lots former prices were maintained, inferior kinds rather cheaper. Barley met a tolerable sale, at late rates. Oats in limited show, with a firm inquiry. Beans wore scarce, and met a ready sale. . _ Red . wheat, per load Of 3 Imp. bushels....l7a 6d to 19s Od White do do ....I9s 6d 21s Od New red do do ....16s id 17s 6-1 New white do do 'Bs 6d 19s 6d Beans do do ....17s Od 198 Od Peas, per qr 4os Od 42s Od Grinding ba , ley, per qr 30s Od 32s Od Malting barley, , o 32s Od 3&s Od Oats, do 26s Od 296 Od F10ur....1s 9d to 2,2 d per 141 b. LIVERPOOL-TUESDAY. At this day's market there was only a slender attend ance of the town and country trade, and but a small busi ness was done. Wheat and flour, with a slow retail sale, may be quoted ld to 2d per 100 lb, and 6d per sack lower than on Friday, where sales were made. In oats and oat meal there was little done, and no change in value to note. The same remark applies to barley, beans, and peas. Indian corn was in limited request., and 29s 6d per 4801 b was the extreme value of prime mixed American. MELTON MOWBRAY.-TUESDAY. Rather more wheat on offer ; the trade, however, wast not active, and last week's prices not generally realised. Barley without material alteration. The demand for oats continues firm. Beans at late rates. White wheat, 508 to 57s ; red, 47s to Ws per 36 stone• Barley for malting, 33s to 37s per qr ; feed, 288 to 30s per 30 stone. Oats, 22s to 395. Beans, old, 48s to 52s ; nem' 40s to 44s per qr. Foreign Mail Packet List. - - •• -- MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton Jan. 18. Ditto, via Marseilles Jan. 12. Brazil and Cape Verde, by British packet Jan. 4. Ditto, by French packet ....... Jan. 22. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. llelena....Jan. 21. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Sou t hampton.. Jan. 2. Ditto, via Marseilles Jan. 27. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton.... Jan. 2 Ditto, via Marseilles ....... . Jan. 27. India (Bombay), via Southampton. Jan. 11. 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