The Express.
London, England, 1862-11-10 00:00:00

THE BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAILS.

)N, Nov. 10.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
ship IlLassilis, Captain Rogers, with the heavy portion of
the above mails, has arrived here. She brings 47 pitmen-
gen, 601. in specie, and 2,622 packages cargo, including
raw silk to the value of 100, sterling.
Advice. from Morocco state that the Sultan had rescinded
the decree prohibiting theerportation of grain and wool, and
had extended the period for exportation for two years longer,
upon payment of the usual duties. A rebel chief, AIM
Ben Wits, had made his appearance near Fes with some
followers.

.IxC6aop on Loratoo at Gibraltar to the sth Let.— 90
days, 50a ; Paris, 5.29; Marseilles andGam. 5.30;
Madrid, 8 days, pa: to I prem.

THE METROPOLITAN RAILWAT.—The disappoint-1
mute and delays with which the Metropolitan Railway had
to contend at its earlier stage, appear destined to follow it to
its completion. Mr. Fowler, the engineer of the line, dated in
his last report that everything would be ready for the opening
on the Ist of October. Since that time there have bees '
numerous excuses pat forward as the reason for not
opening the line to the public. last week it was stated
that the tine would be open for traffic on Monday—
the day on which the new Lord Mayor would be in-
animated into office, and on which the Priam of Wales would
attain his majority. There is to be now a further park.
ponerneet of the opening, it is said, till Monday, the 17th.
There is reason, however, to believe that the line will
not be open much before Christmas. It is reported that
there is some " hitch" between the Metropolitan and the
Great Western Railway as to the working of the lips. The
latter company had entered into a provisional agreement to
work the railway for 45 per cent. of the gross receipts.
This was coneidered a most advantageous barpin for the
Metropolitan Railway, and proportionately disadvantageous
for the Great Western Railway. It is now rumoured that
the Great Western Company have repented of their bar-
gain. and seek to restrict the agreement of working to the
through traffic only. and that they are willing to work that
portion of the traffic with which the Great Western fa
connected for 45 per cent., but not the local and interme-
diate traffic of the line.—Observer.

(TWOPENCE

GRNERAL GARIBALDI.

The following report baa been banded by Pro.
feeeor Partridge to the Garibaldi Italian Unity
Committee for publication :

The revival of iha =favourable reports respecting the
state of Gemmel Gatihakh's health and wound, even im-
plying the aecemrity of an amputation and an invitation from
Dr. Riper( and his colleagues to attend a consultation of doe-
toes for the purpose of determining what measures should
be adopted for the general's relief, induced the committee
of gentlemen at whose instigation I first went to Vert-
piano to request MO to make another journey i and altbongh
the visit was undertaken at much personal inconvenience,
I felt it my duty to yield to their solicitation, and se-
cordingly, having received on the 25th of October an inti-
mation by telegraph that the consultation was fixed for
the 29th, I left London on the morning of the 26th.
Owing, however, to tempestuous weather, which prevented
the steamer from leaving harbour, I was unable (though I
travelled without intermission) to reach Spezzia until after
the consultation. I cannot, however, regret my absence, as
the large number of medical men assembled rendered it lees
matidactory than it might otherwise have been. I saw the
general on the 3Dth October, the day of my arrival at Specs*
when he occupied a suite of apartments on the first floor
of the Marine Hotel. I was present at the afternoon dress-
ing on thattday, =don the following one, I made in coujitne-
tion with Dr. Pirogotf, the chief of the Medical Depart-
ment of the Raman Army at Sebastopol, and perhaps
the first authority on gun-shot wounds in Europe, •
careful, quiet, sod satisfactory examination into the state
el the general's wound and health. It should be stated that
en the day preceding the cumeoltation M. Nidaton, the emi-
nent French surgeon, examined the wound with a probe. and
believed that he detested • hard anbetanee,'whicdt he declared
to be the tall, about an inch within its orifice. His reenn-
mediation was that the wound should be enlarged gradually,
by means of tents of increasing size, by which he antici-
pated that in the course of five or six days the ball
could be readily removed by a pair of forceps. On
' the 29th of October, at the consultation, the question
of amputation was proposed, discussed, and happily
rejected, as unnecessary and twalled-for. At the same time,
M. Porta, the expeneoced and distinguished surgeon of
Pavia, made • searching examination with his little finger
thrust forcibly and deeply into the wound ; but, though he
i turned the finger round in every direction, no bullet could
be detected, showing that M. Nekton was mistaken in gap-
posing that be felt the bell within an inch of the orifice
of the wound: in fact the bullet has never yet been felt
by anyone, nor has its presence and whereabouts been de-
termined by actual demonstration. M. Pirogoff
thought that the ball might be lodged deeply in the lower
joint of the greater and lesser bones of the leg (the in-
ferior tibio fibular articulation), and he based this
opinion on the greater width (threequarters of an inch,
measured by a pair of callipers) between the ankles of the
sound and of the unsound foot ; but the puffy condition
(mdema) of the parte about the joint, canoed probably by
the severe examination of the 29th, accounted to my mind
for this difference, and the most careful examination and
pressure with the fingers in various situations about the
articulation failed to detect any hard substance, or to indi-
cate the presence of matter, nor could any matter be ex-
truded from the wound by pressure at the supposed site of
the projectile. Up to the pretreat time, therefore (though
it would be presumptuous of me to declare the impossibility
of the bullet being in the leg), I see no reason to change my
first opinion, agreeing as it did with the result of IL Ports 's
examination on the 4th of September, only six days
after the injury, and confirmed as it was by
M. Zanotti, of Flosence, at our consultation on
September 19th, viz', that there is no present
evidence of the ball having lodged in the wound. It must
be borne in mind that the shot was a large, obtusely-coal-
cal rifle-bullet, weighing more than an ounce, fired obliquely
from below, and in front, at • distance of only 1.50 or 200
wee, which penetrated frowners, boot, sad stocking, and
broke off by an obliquely transverse, linear fracture, the
internal ankle bone, but without smashing or comminuting
it, though the fracture laid open, of necessity, the ankle
joint. The bone discharged from the wound from time to
time has been in the form of fine sand-like particles, sod
only once has a fragment equal in size to that of half • pm
come away. At present the joint is more swollen than when
I saw it at Varignano (probably the result of the examination
on the 29th, of which the general vividly complained).
The foot, though otherwise in good position, is turned a
little more inwards, owing, I believe, to the want of sup-
port from the broken off internal ankle. The joint is free
from pain, inflexion, and extension. The General's health
is excellent and his face and expression are quite un-
changed • his appetite, sleep, he., are also good; in feet, he
has little of the outward appearance of an invalid. The leg
is =speeded in a Salter's swing fracture-cradle, gent to him
by his English friends, and he reposes on au invalid bed
which I was commissioned to select and send oat to him
from England, upon which he was removed from Varignano
to Spezzia, and which affords him the greatest com-
fort and ease. We found him at first in • confined
room, with the windows fastened up ; bat on the
day I left Spezzia his removal was effected into a large and
airy adjoining saloon. The General has been over-
whelmed with visitors, whom intrusion, of necessity,
greatly fatigued him, and I am sorry to say that our own
countrymen and countrywomen have been the most perti-
nacious intruders. I ventured, while at Spero* to suggest
a plan for the exclusion of these self-indulgent and incon-
siderate pilgrims. lam happy to hear by a letter received
from Sperms yesterday, that mine such measures have been
adopted ; that visitors have been rigidly excluded, and
that the General already begins to feel the benefit
of the greater quiet, and of the more airy
room, in the improved appearance of the wounded
ankle, and in more unbroken and tranquil sleep.
The General, however, suffers so much from rheumatic
pains, and Spezzia at this season of the year is so damp and
muggy, that his removal for the winter to a warm and dry
climate is imperative. Dr. Pirogoff and I concurred in the
opinion that amputation is uncalled for, that the wound
should be simply and lightly dressed, and allowed, if it be
so disposed, to heal. That if the ballet be really lodged in
the wound it must be deeply seated, and that time will
indicate its presence, and facilitate without injury, its
removal. Nothing can exceed the tender care and skilful
dressing of his surgeons, who, with the General himself,
received my visit with hearty pleasure and welcome, and
who permitted the examinations of Dr. Pirogoff and
myself with the utmost courtesy and kindness.
In conclusion, I have only to rake :ate my former
opioion, that though the cure must needs be tedious, yet
that with rest, quiet, good air, he., the Cllll will do well,
without loss of limb, and perhaps even without much im-
pairment of the utility of the injured joint. Some =dee-
clothing peculiarly adapted to relieve the rheumatic tandem.
ties of the General, has been, at my suggestion, emit out to
him by an English lady, and I trust has by this time arrived
at Spezia.
P.S. I have received information, by a letter from Spews
this evening (Oct. 8), that the General feels himself desirous
of open-air exercise, and for that purpose Colonel Vecohi
asks me to obtain fee him au invalid couch on wheels, which
I trust his friends will enable me to send him. The tele-
gram of to-night also intimates the General's removal to
Pisa, the most favourable climate for him in Italy.
Nov. 8, 1862.

THE LANCASHIRE DISTRESS.

Carrrnat FUND.-The following are amongst the
latest donations received by the boo. secretary (Mr. J. W.
Madura) :-The Birmingham Cotton District BMW Fund
(ssoond remittance). 2,0001. ; Henry Heald, Beircut. 101.
subscriptions from Bangalore. per Captain Taylor (second
remittance), 1001. ; W. I'. Res, 251. ; London and North
Western employ& at Wolverton (Nov. 1),171. hi. 10d. ;
ditto at Crewe, 15/. 17s. 6d. ; ditto at Loopight, 6/. 7s. 10d. ;
church collections is diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, per
the lord bishop (further donation), 1.0006 • Burton Gess-
ral Relief Committee 2501. ; Thai. Fred. Rae, per Rey. R.
Birch, 501. ; Mrs. K. Davies, 23/. ; ditto for sewing classes,
104 ; Sir Fred. Grey, apt. • Captain H. Corytai„
101. ; John Harwood (monthly for four months), 1L ;
the Vios-Chanosilor of Lanaishire (monthly), 51. • ' Ohs-
over Church, 71. 2s. 6d. ; Woodland Church, Devon,
71. se. lid. • Lord for sewing chime. 501. ;
Min Greenbenk's pupils, 81. 15a. 6d. ' • Rev. D. Barclay,
101. ; Wm. Hawkins, If. ; Sauspaton Church, Forhdlics,
151. 16s. 9d. ; the Mimes Strait, Derby, 501. ; areploym M
Jobs Hell and Son, Faversham, ; Wm. Leach, par
Geo. Robinson, 506 ; employes of John and Charles White,
London, 31. ; church collections in diocese of Down, Connor
and Dromore, per the Lord Bishop, 8111. 10a. sd. ; Hones.
Dorset, 21. Is. 6d. ; Geo. Robinson, 501. ; Rev. W. J. Mar-
shall, 11. ; Mrs. Robertson, Yorkshire, 11. ; collection at
Trinity Church, Ripon, 51. 14s. &I. ; collection at Ald6ehl
and Studley Church, Ripon, 28L 7e. sd. ; Henderson and
Co., Durham, 46 16s ; employes st ditto 41. 16a. bolt ;
eollsetiona per_ Rev. J. P. Webb, 71. 17s. ; harvest offer.
tap, Wed Kirby, 126 ss.

Row. ABEZNAL ARTIZANS AND LANCASHIBM
Durrana.—On Saturday about 400 additional workmen
were discharged from various departments of the Royal
Arsenal. and in commoners of the distress now existing in
the district, sad which it w feared will increase, the follow-
ing notice has been rued :—" The committee et the Royal
Arsenal lonosehire Relief Fund, having taken into consider
Ur the peat reduction in the several departments of the
Royal Animal, have dettrmined for the present to rearm
all moneys collected for the above fund, feeling that 'ear-
thing may have to be dor far Woolwich Were nway
weeks have pained over. AU amps colleted will there-
fore be put into the hands of the treasurer, and a gems!
meet* will be called during the present month, to decide
how the same shall be appropriated."

CRYSTAL PALACR—SATORDAY, Nov. B.—H4io.
A-Clowit DAT.—Rdmisice as payment, 689 ; ditto by
woos ticks* 2,6213 ; total, 3,217.