The Express.
London, England, 1862-11-04 00:00:00

we may do ; but what we may do to-day may save
lives which will be lost if we wait till to-morrow.
What does the waiting meant Here are hun-
dreds of thousands of poisons imallielently fed,
while there is plenty of food in the• country, and
while nobody has the least dodo* that thetieas
plenty of money ready to buy it with, for the
benefit of Lancashire. We need but look at Lan-
cashire to see that there are plenty of devoted men
and women ready to administer the supply. What
is the hindrance ? Have we not had enough of
being too late t of being awkward and clumsy in
our ways, so as to waste as much as we administer
Is not the loss of our first army in the Crimea a
lemon which should serve for all time against the
evil of mismanagement of the commissariat funo-
lion, whether at home or abroad, in peace or in
war I Let ua at once look upon the Lancashire
case as that of a vast army which it is the national
Waimea to sustain in health and energy, and our
Crimean associations may perhaps stimulate us—
not only to generosity, for there is probably no
lack of that, but to good sense and good method
while method may yet be available.
The first need is of money. We seem to be
generally agreed that it is unnecessay, and that
it would be a grave mistake, to look to the Con-
solidated Fund for supplies. Our own belief ii
that the money may be had to any needful amount,
and more quickly, and that it will be spent to
much better purpose, by voluntary contribution
than by an) ;ling that Parliament can do. But
then we must not go on in the ragged style which
is our usual fault and discredit on occasions of
emergency. We must organize our levy of money
first, and our administration of it next.

LATEST INTELLIQENOF.

ITALY.

GB.XICE.

"We learn," says the indipeadance, "that the
court of Munich intends invoking in its favour the
provisions of the Loadon protocol of the 26th No-
vember, 1832, which guaranteed the Barar•an
dynasty the succession to the throne of Greece.
But to that succession are attached conditions
which the relations of King Otho capable of suc-
ceeding him have always refused to fulfil ; and
were it not so, it is hardly probable that the great
powers of Europe, who alveady decFne to interfere
in Greece so long as the revolution which has just
broken out does not compromise peace in the East,
will be disposed to declare war against that country
to maintain the my doubtful rights of a foreibe
family."

THE CONSULTATION ON GARIBALDI.
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The Gazette de Trieste publishes the follow 'vg
proclamation of the ex-King Otho to his late
subjects :

Greeks I—Coeviacod that attar the late events in many
parts of the country, and especially :n the capital,
the prolongation of my stay Greeos world prscipillate the
inhabitants in troubles of a singe nary natrns and lificult
to allay, I have resolved to quit for the moment this country,
which I have always loved and sti,l love, and for the pros-
perity of wblch I have labour c I during nearly thirty years
without shrinking from any trouble or any effort. Far from
all ostentation, I had before my eyes orgy the
true interests of Greece, for I consecrated all my
cares to promote its moral and material development,
and I endeavoured nip( daffy that justice might be
administered impartially. When, moreover, political
off epees were committed against my person, I always prac-
tised the greatest clemency, and forgot what was past. In
returning now to the county where I vas born, I am sad-
dened at the thought of the calamities with which Greece,
which is dear to me, is menaced in consequence of the late
events. I implore the God of mercy to deign always to be
favourable to the destinies of Greece. Gran.
Port of Salamis, Oct. 24.

We may all have observed the demand there is
for a specific statement of what is requisite. People
do not know how to set about giving till this is
done. Let us have at the earliest possible moment
a trustworthy account of the condition and capa-
city of the local rates, a statement of the numbers
at present needing food and warmth, and an esti-
mate, open to the general judgment, of the amount
required to supply their wants in a sufficient
manner. While this statement is preparing
let the funds in hand be more freely
used than hitherto, in the administration of greater
comfort, in full confidence that the supply will be
continued. At the same time, let a plan of col-
lection from the whole society of each town and
village be formed all over the kingdom, and the
collection be at once began, that there may be no
delay when the details of the destination are
settled. There should be also, if the thing is to
be done thoroughly, a registration of the needy
people in each division (whether parish or other)
of the distressed district, that nobody may be
passed over on the one hand, or permitted, on the
other, to encroach.
With the funds in hand, and an organization
such as ought to present no difficulties in a society
like ours, there might be an end at once to the
m;serable way in which the Lancashire allowance
is consumed, with digests and discomfort, by
people who have been accustomed to good dinners
and suppers, but who cannot cook, and have no
fuel or utensils to cook with.

(surna's nuiolume.)
FRANCE.

PARIS, Nov. 4.
The Mositeur of this morning =Pounces the
nom nation of M. Chain d'Est Ange as senator.

SPAIN.

MADRID, Nov. 3.
The Brazilian government has paid the 8,000,000
which it owed to Spain.

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 4, 1862.

The oonsultation held on the 29th Mgt:, on Gene-
ral Garibaldi, was a stormy congress of about twenty
doctors—ltalian, Swiss, and German ; the emi-
nent French surgeon, Professor Ndlaton, had
been called away to Paris the night before the
consultation, and Professor Partridge arrived the
day after it.

The substance of the report, like a royal speech,
leaves much to be desired ; the upshot is this :
The ball is somewhere—perhaps in the tibia, the
chief bone of the leg; perhaps in the astragalus, the
bone of the arch of the foot ; perhaps somewhere
else. At all events, it is presumed to be still in
the wound ; although no one, except M. Nffiaton,
pretends to have felt or touched it. Supposing it
to be there, itia agreed to leave itso; note verydiffi-
cult conclusiontoarrive at for men who acknowledge
that they only guess as to its whereabouts; and
consequently, as there is no urgency in the case,
either from the ordinary detail of symptoms or oc-
casioned by the presence of a foreign body, no
question of an amputation is to be entertained at
aIL The wound, in fact, is making, and has made
from the first, the usual progress of such injuries
when that progress is favourable. That anything
in the case called for this consultation—that any
emergency had arisen in which more advice was
needed—l cannot find anyone to assert.
Mr. Partridge, detained by the accident of travel
in atrocious weather, only arrived yesterday morn-
ing. He saw the General at once, and, after a long
and patient inquiry, declared that he saw nothing
to change in his first opinion. He did not presume
to say the presence of the ball was impossible, but
he averred that there was not anything to indicate
its presence, either by the testimony of those who,
like M. NoSlaton, examined with a probe, or as M.
Ports did, explored with a finger, thrust rudely in
up to the knuckle, and occasioning such an in-
tenaity of agony as to make the patient, long-
suffering Garibaldi cry out, "You are a butcher!'
As little is there, Mr. Partridge declares, in the
symptoms, to argue the existence of the ball. In
a word, the question is just where it stood before,
and it is for General Garibaldi's interest it should
still, for the present at least, remain so, since any
needless exploration, any painful investigation
through parts highly inflamed as they are, might
producethe very worst consequences, and necessitate
at last, from the impatience of his doctors, that
very amputation they are now so eagerly discussing
how to avoid.

M. Ndlaton gave a very cautious and reserved
opinion—valuable, of course, from his eminence as
a surgeon. He declared that he thought the ball was
in the wound, but he did not say, what some would
consider as important, whether he deemed the arti-
culation had been opened. He assumed, indeed,
that he touched the ball, but the way in which
he adds, "It may be that at some future
period its removal may be practicable," rather
disposes one to be less confident in the
opinion. The most inveterate advocates for the
presence of the ball, and for the imperative ne-
cessity to search for and remove it, are Dr. Bertani
and some other very "advanced politicians," who
loudly proclaim the case to be far more serious than
others represent it, and amputation to be a mere
question of date ; if not to be done now, to be had
recourse to some time henoe.
The declaration of the seventeen doctors in con-
sultation is texecially the following :

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.

(Sitting in Banco.)—Before Chief Justine Cockburn, Justices
Wightsnan, Blaokbarn, and Mellor.

DUNN V. THOMPSON.
Mr. Kaniirt7, Q.C., rid this was an action kiril before
Mr. Justice Mellor, at Guildhall, at the after-term sittings
Lit term, to recover the sum of 2481. odd, commission on
the salsa a dredging machine, when the jury returned&
verdict for the plaintiff. He now moved to set aside the
verdict on the ground of misdirection, and thatthe verdict
was against the weight of evidence.
Rule refused.

SIM O. &NU/WON-BLANDER.

This was an action for slander, triad at York, before Mr.
Baron Wilde, when the jury returned • verdict for the
plaintiff, damages le. The pleintiff, who is a surgeon, and
the defendant are members of an Odd Fe'lows Society at
Middlesborough. It appeared that the members of
the society were in the habit of graptiz
certificates of merit to those who had
through certain offices. Both parties bed filled
the office of treasurer (the plaintiff in 1848). The
defendant had had a osirtifioate of merit oonfetred on him,
and in December last it was proposed at a meeting of the
members to grant one to the plaintiff. The defendant, who
was present, opposed it, and on being pressed said " The
plaintiff is the only man who has attempta to rob the
society, and if it bad sot been for my interposi-
tion by standing over the doctor for seven
hours with a brace of loaded pistols, and extorting the
money from him, he undoubtedly would have done so."
He now moved fora rale calling upon the plaintiff to show
cause why he should not be nonsoited, or w the verdict
should not be set aside, and entered for the de-
fendant on leave reserved by the learned judge.
At the trial the learned judge ruled that the
communication was pris :laced, the words being
spoken as • confidential communication at a meeting of
the members, bat to show that IIIP1.0) was intended to the
jut', the plaintiff called evidence to show that the
defendant made a similar statement on another occasion.

The Lord Chief Justice said the question was the bona
fides of the defendant's statement.

Mr. nice said the plaintiff admitted on the trial be had,
on one occasion when the defendmit called on him, 201. of
the society's money in his bands, but that he told bim be
had not 20a., and could not Owe it up to him. He further
admitted about the loaded pistols—of the defendant's re-
maining with him several hours, sod that after he had re-
peatedly denied having the money in the house, he pulled
it out and gave it to him. (Laughter.)
The Lard Chief Justice said that altered the owe.
The court granted& tale for a nousuit.