The Express.
London, England, 1867-12-10 00:00:00

TEE FOREIGN MAILS.

SouTHAmrrox, Dsc. 9.—The Royal Mail Com-
pany's steamship Oneida, Captain Reeks, sailed this after-
noon with mails for Lisbon, St. Vincent, Pernambuco,
Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, Monte Video, Buenos Ayres, Sc.
She took out 1.18 passengers and a general cargo on freight,
including gold coin, 61,3181. 10s.: bar silver, 8,0001. ;
jewellery, 2851. ; and French jewellery, 6,766/.
CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS.—MALTA, DEC. 9.
The Pere left at 8 a.m. to-day, and the Delta leaves at
midnight (experienced bad weather). The fqrstier may be
expected at Marseilles about the evening of the 11th, and
the latter at Southampton about the 18th inst.
OUTWARD CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS.—GIBRAL-
TAR, Dsc. 9.—The Nyanza, from Southampton 4th inst.,
arrived to-day, at 7 a.m., and left at 11 a.m. for Alexan-
dria. All well

AN ILL-PAID Paoesaston. —lt is stated in the
usbreloe Times that two medical gentlemen have recently
been appointed to the Uxbridge Union—one, Mr. Vipen,
to the flillington district, at • salary of 30/. • year, or
Is. 70. • day ; the other, Mr. King, to the Uxbndge and
Ickenham district at • salary of 35/. a year, or le. 111. a
day, both gentlemen having to find their own medicines.
The pay of the Millington and Ickenham postman is 2s.
• day, and he has nothing to find.
PATH:TT-OFFICE MUSEUM, SOUTH KENSINOTON.—
Number of viaitors for the week ending Dec. 6, 2340.
Total somber since the opening of the Mums tree daily
(12th May, 1868), 1,206,337.

ITALY.

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'ONDIMT.)
ROME, DEC. 3.

Among the wounded prisoners in Rome there
has been great mortality, partly owing to the
nature of the injuries received, and partly, I sus-
pect, to the want of well-arranged, well-ventilated
hospitals in which to lodge them. It sounded very
shocking last year in Prussia to hear of so many
thousand beds prepared for the wounded in the same
report which might tell of how such and such a corps
was on its march to the front. But the Prussians
were right when they looked disagreeable truths in
the face, and got ready to meet the conseauenooe
of glOrintie ',utiles. Now with the newly-developed
organisation of the Papal army it was natural that
all thought of beds, of ambulances, and of hospitals
should come far behind the paramount anxiety to
keep Garibaldi at a sufficient distance ; and when
Mentana had produced its harvest of human suf-
ferers, there was not such preparation as would
have given the poor fellows their best chance.
Perhaps no amount of comfort in hospital would
have saved our gallant young countryman, Mr.
Sholby, whose sad end is one of the most touching
incidents of the late struggle. He was severely
wounded, and his condition made several of the
ladies who visited him uneasy as to the result.
But with wonderful calmness and fortitude he bore
up against his sufferings, saying that he should
get better after awhile, and be able to use the arm
which remained to him. Mr. Sholby was an uncom-
promising Garibaldian, firm to the last in his belief
that he had fallen for a just cause. And he con-
tinued to sink in bodily strength day by day, with
his dogged British pluck unabated. Not a regret
for what some would call his rashness, not a sign
of anxiety about himself. If there were moments
of depression, it was when he spoke of his mother,
II and all this time she was travelling towards him—
! travelling towards her wounded son, whom she was
destined never to see alive. The sorrow-stricken
lady arrived only a few hour after the hero had
passed away—fora hero he was in his courage and
firmness. That picture of young Sholby dying in
the Roman hospital whilst his mother is at the
very gates of the city, deserves to be retained upon
canvass, and hung in the proudest gallery of
Italian liberators.

I must not conclude my letter without speaking
of another wounded Englishman who is among the
prisoners. Mr. A. W. Benny, though much injured
in the right hand, so much as to endanger its loss,
is considered to be progressing favourably. He has
been removed to • better ventilated lodging, and
even succeeds in writing for amusement very
cleverly with the left hand. Thanks to the kind
offices of Mr. Wayne, the English assistant chap-
lain in Rome, and to some ladies, English and
American, who have taken the case under their
especial care, Mr. Benny wants for no comfort which
can be afforded him in his present state. I under-
stand that when sufficiently recovered he will go
free, as a matter of comae, the other non-Roman
prisoners having been freed.
Up to the time of the post going out Rome re-
mains perfectly quiet. How should it do anything
else with such a watcher close round the corner at
Civita Vecchia l