The Express.
London, England, 1866-10-22 00:00:00

THE BOMBAY MAIL.

By the arrival of the above mail we have advices
from Bombay to Sept. 28, and from Calcutta to
Sept. 22.
The Calcutta Englishman of the 22nd Sept. nays
it is happy to announce that the famine may be
oonaidered almost at an end. What distress re-
mains is being fully met, it affirms, by the means
of relief afforded, and a plentiful harvest bids fair
soon to restore the country to its usual prosperity.
The Times of India says that the measures of
relief organized with such zeal in Calcutta by the
Bengal Famine Relief Committee and the public,
and so effectively carried out by the officers of the
municipality, have produced a manifest im-
provement in the state of the city during
the past fortnight. An eye-witness to the present
state of Orissa, who has been acquainted with that
province for many years, is of opinion that half of
the population must have perished. The Times
of India adds :
Such being the case, the condition of the survivors must
be truly frightful. Balmore seems at present to be one
huge charnel house. In Balasore alone, no fewer than 396
died in two days, while the survivors were in such a state
that it took three days to remove the corpses ; and the last
statement we have seen issued by the secretary of the
Famine Fund at that place shows that in one week alone
more than 200,000 persons, of whom 170,000 were incapaci-
tated for work, obtained relief. Famine and sickness
even reached the Europeans resident there and it was
aerionsly considered by the government °nick& whether
they should not send away their families from Balasore as
well as the other Europeans who were not neoessai ay de-
tained by duty. Notwithstanding that matters were
in this deplorable state, attempts at concealment were
made by the authorities, who set themselves vigorously to
ascertain the sources from whence the Calcutta papers ob-
, Mined their information, impressing even the Post-oftke
into the service of their spies.
News has been received by telegram from Suer,
of the total loss of the steamer Bin= and nearly
all on board.
The Calcutta Englishman says :
The rebellion in Burmah, which would seem to have
been either very ill-conceived, or very prematurely exe-
cuted, has proved a complete failure ; and from the latest
accounts it appears probable that the rebel princes, who are
without a party, and almost without followers, must
shortly fall into*, hands of the king, unless they succeed
in escaping into British territory. The suppression of the
rebellion has been followed by the restoration of order, and
the extraordinary migration of fugitives into British Bur-
mah has ceased. Mandalay has been undisturbed since
the commencement of the rebellion, and Captain Sladen,
with the British residents, whose precipitate departure
appears to have been quite unnecessary, will probably
shortly return there.

THE REFORM LEAGrE. —A meeting of the
Stencil of this league was held on Friday evening last, at
their rooms, Adelphi-terrace, Mr. J. Baxter Langley in the
link. After the minutes, finance, and reports bad been
agreed of, Mr. Joseph Guedalla moved the following reso-
'Mom which laving been seconded by Lieutenant-Colonel
Dicksoo, was unanimously adopted :—" That this council
all s meeting in one of the metropolitan halls of the suf-
fice, through the Hyde-park demonstrations ; that the
!memento and carrying out of such plan be referred to
tie executive committee, accompanied by a recommends-
tics to take immediate action in the matter." The council
*ln wpwst.d.
THI SEWING MACHINE.--Sorne months since we
/worded the fact that in Paris the health of the habitual
Tann at the machine had been found to suffer to a
llrken degree. Within the last few days, Dr. Down
„„ name is so well known in connexion with his A DISAPPOINTMENT.—A gentleman in Sandhurst
Moms at the Retlhill Asylum for Idiots, read a paper
Wore a medical audience at Reigate, setting forth his i recently received a letter from a legal firm in London,
Personal experience of the effects of constant working at conveying to him the gratifying intelligence that a hand-
lee teuing machine upon his female patients at the London tome secy. had been left him. The gratification caused
k•Pita His attention having been attracted by the con- by the announcement was, however, speedily dispelled by
nut recurrence of cases characterised by pall boated., tote succeeding clause in the letter, Which expressed the
Pin in the back, and lencorrh ea ,he wailed roan,estigate the regret of the writer that the funds bequeathed had been
employments of these patients, and found that they almost deposited in one of the London banks which had just be-
invariably worked habitually at the wing machine, and come insolvent.—Beridigo (Australian) independent.
,_
."urei in lan, sufferingfrom what bas been euphemistically BOITLING A PROSECUTOII.—A novel mode of
teraWa" Pierical excitement," the result of the fric. ending • prosecution has been revealed at the Staffordshire
mu, el the thighs caused by their employment. Of this I quarter sessions, in an application for the discharge of a
I°ll7 :me pe ectly aware, and some had already abam 1 person named Robson from Stafford gaoL The applies-
deed trade which they felt to be undermining their tion was made by Mr. Brown. Robson was last year a
, Similar observations have been made by French farmer in Cheshire, and several head of cattle had been
"VW physicians. Dr. Down found that these cases cm- stolen from his farm by some cattle dealers, who were
!erred entirely amongst women employed in the heavy I apprehended and committed for trial to Knntsford :sessions,
Itt'udiettning work which is carried on at the east end of , where as the prosecutor did not appear, his recognisance'
London, and which is done by machines worked were entreated, and the prisoners ware discharged. Two
with treildles moved alternately by the feet. These I months ago, Robson was met in Staffordshire by an officer
machines are heavy, and require considerable exertion ,to whom he was known, and was lodged in Stafford gaol
4,449 put of the operator ; the alternate movements of under the order of entreat. It is now known that friends
en lowerlimbe must therefore be correspondinglyenergetie I of the cattle dealers immediately after the committal to
ted laborious. In the machines which are in daily use 1 Knutaford, not only tampered with the witnesses,
all classes for ordinary needlework, the labour 1 but even offered. a large bribe to . the attorneys
rtlfhter, the movement is given by the action of the , for the prosecution. Not content with this they,
feet alone rorkuigamultaneously on one treddle ; and with , under specious Prukuriri induced Robson t° go to
ff. machines no such unfortunate results as those to I Live 1, where they plied hint with drink, took him on
Imett. we have alluded have been noticed. There is, I a steamer, accompanied him to Qneenstown, and
rer•tore, fortunately, no reason to forbid the use of the i there left the vessel, the result being that Robson, when
nlei
Mne amongst private patients, though we doubt the he came to his senses, found himself irretrievably booked
r_tlability of allowing
g young ladies with ill-developed for • voyage to America, and without means to enable
.7711 and Vowing spines spend boars in an attitude him to return. Having secured sufficient for this purpose,
.
"tea may induce deformity and disease, as ranch as, if he came back to England, and was soon afterwar& lodged
ast more than, the old " tambour frame," which was in prison. These eireurostansee being stated to the court,
put down, whether rightly or wrongly we are not the chairman said that he did not see how be could inter-
=.lll Inn), as the cause of much spinal curvature.— fere, and advised that a memorial should be sent to the
, lords of the Trearnry.—Aferadicsier Brawarser.
Olt
"ill PALACE. HALP-A-CEOWM BAT. --• 1 GREAT NORTHERN HOSPITAL, CALIDONIAN-ROAD,
aueby T. Ocr. 20. Admissions on payment, 823 ; LELINGTON.—Number of patients for the week ending
season tickets, 4,473 ; total visitors, NAL Oat. 20, 215, of latish NW were new eases.