The Express.
London, England, 1866-01-23 00:00:00

DECLINE OF CHOLERA IN THE MEDITERRANEAN.

—The following report, &armed by the British Vice-
Coosul at Civita Vecchia to her Majesty's Consul at Rome,
has this day (January 22) been received at the Foreign-
office :—" Civita Vecchia, Jan. 17, 1866.—Sir,—I beg leave
to report that it has been to-day officially notified to me by
the local authorities here, that in consequence of the satis-
factory reports of the state of the public health generally
abroad, all the restrictive sanitary measures, which were
imposed on amount of the prevalence of Asiatic cholera,
will cease on and from the 20th insk—l have, he. (signed),
J. T. Lowe.—Joseph Severn, Req., her Britannic Majesty's
Consul, Rome."
RAILWAY AND OTHER RILLS IN PARLIAMMIT.—
The examiners into standieg order proofs upon railway and
other bills about to be considered in committee during the
ensuing session of parliament:resumed their duties yesterday,
when the following business was transacted. In the cases
befog Mr. Smith, he declared the standing orders to have
been complied with in the following unopposed cum :—The
London and North Western Railway (new lines) ; Wrex-
ham, Mold, and Connah's Quay Railway (additional powers)
Wrexham, Mold, and Coonah's Quay Railway (extensions) ;
Wrexham, Mold, and Connah's Quay Railway (new lines)
Wrexham, Mold, and Connah's Quay and kloylake Railways;
and the Ellesmere and Glyn Valley Railway. The standing
orders were not complied with in the Mae of the
adjourned unopposed petition of the Peterborough Water-
works. The opposed petition of the Great Western and
Breatford Railway was adjourned until this day.
In the oases of the following unopposed bills,
before Mr. Fare, that gentleman declared the stand-
ing orders to have been complied with:—London,
Backe, and Gloucestershire Junction Railway, and the
Croydon, Mitcham, and Kingston Railway ; the Mold
and Denbigh Junction (Llandudno Extension), and the
Melton, Loughborough, end Ashby-de-la-Zouch Railway
promoters did not put in any appearance. The unopposed
Mold and Denbigh Junction Railway (branches and devis-
tioos) Bill wee adjourned until the29th inst. The adjourned
petitions of the Barry Harbour and the Barry Railway
(Penarth and Cardiff Extension), both unopposed, passed
deeding orders. The examiner declared the standing
orders had not been complied with in the opposed London,
Chatham, and Dover, and South-Esetern (Kennington,
Clapham, and Brixtoe) Railways Bill. The London,
Brighton, and South Coast (new lines), the Sirhowy Exten-
sion Railway, the London. Chatham, and Dover Railway
(new lines, ka.,) and the Ely Valley and Vale of Neath
Junction Railways Bills were adjourned until this day
(Tesedny.)
The sbip Lincolnshire, belonging to Messrs.
Wigram and Co., which was to follow the London, and left
on Saturday for Melbourne, returned to the East India
Dock yesterday morning, having been in collision with a
brig off Greenbithe.
Fantasia COLD.—In a letter dated Montreal,
Jan. 6, we read :—" Our Arctic weather continues. At 6
11. M. it was 22 below zero, and continued about 16 all day.
It is the coldest we have had for six years."

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WIDNISDAY. 01 NORTHMAN THURSDAY.
Between B. W. and GOMM N.W. to S.W., fresh
fresh. to strong.
Northerly to westerly, wEeriza. As above.
fresh or strong, some
showers.
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fresh, squally, but fresh to strong.
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cencies. Southern = English Channel and Bay of Biscay.
Lastern=lestward gnßland and North flee.

One of the vessels lost in the wholesale ship-
wrecks at Torbay was the Cheshire Witch, which traded
between Swansea and Southampton. For ten years she
was commanded by her owner, but at the last voyage be
stopped at Swansea, and employed a competent and careful
man in his stead. The trip to Southampton was made
in safety, but in returning to Swansea the
Cheshire Witch rin into Torbay through stress of
weather. The captain attempted to get away the night
before the wreck, bat having failed, owing to the contrary
wind, he lay to secured with a couple of anchors. At mid-
night a drifting vessel ran into her, cutting away both her
anchor cables, and while she was drifting another helpless
vessel ran into her and cat her down to the water's edge.
Three of the crew were drowned. one of them a poor boy
who had just been spending his Christmas with his mother
at Yeovil ; a dog also perished in the ship which need to
voluntarily bathe every day by jumping overboard and
getting on board again by putting his forepaws in a rope
noose, let down by the side of the ship and suffering
himself to be drawn up by it. This sagacious creature
would also jump overboard, when in port, and land, and
after a couple of days would swim round the ship and bark
for the noose to be let down.
A large number of respectable young men from
all parts of England are emigrating to New York in the
numerous steamers which are wiw plying between various
English ports and the United States. This exodua appears
to have arisen in consequence partly of the ease with
which New York can be reached from England, and from
the accounts constantly received of the wealth of the
United States, and the scope there for enterprise.
A building has just been erected in the South-
ampton Docks for working steam machinery for unloading
colliers and coaling mail packets in the docks.
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The importations of copper ore into this country
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from the Cape of Good Hope by the mail steamers are
almost double what they were a twelvemonth since. The
mail packet Saxon, which has joat arrived from the Cape,
brought nearly 130 tons of copper ore.
THE LATE Mss.. C. NEWTON.—This lady, who
died prematurely at 33 of brain fever following on measles,
just after the dawn of the new year, came of a family of
artists. Her father, Mr. Severn, oar present consul at
Rome, is known both by his pictures in oil and fresco and
as the friend of Keats, whose deathbed he soothed by his
devoted care. Her brothers are both artists. Five years
ago she married Mr. Charles Newton, the superintendent
of Greek and Roman antiquities at the British Museum,
and after her marriage became even a more devoted and
conscientious labourer in her art than before.
A SPORTING " CHARACTER.”-4' Argus" of the
Post writes :—"The death of General Chanel*, in his 83rd
year, has furnished plenty of table-talk in St. James's.
street and Pall-mall, and it would require a Rsikes to do
justice to the many anecdotes in circulation about him.
Reared in • loose school—that of 39 tears ago, when the
late 'Colonel Berkeley was Viceroy' of Cheltenham, and
held a species of ' court' at the Castle, he wu one of the
principal officers of his staff, and shared in all the
sports and pastimes of the queen of watering-places. In
all manly pursuits he excelled, being a dead shot, a bold
rider, and still bolder bettor, a clever poet, and a skilful
musician. Among other natural advantages he was gifted
with an extraordinary memory, and • few years back, for a
large bet, he related the whole contents of the Morning
Post, from the date to the publisher's name, without
making a single error. He was a great lover of Shake-
per., and far beyond the average stamp of amateur actors
who interpreted him. On the Turf, or at billiards, or in •
pigeon sweepstakes, he loved 'tobe on a good thing.' He
showed no mercy to a Derby favourite which be did not
like ; and he had in his time some miraculous escapes.
Gorhambnry was. the only racehorse he ever owned, and
with him, who started at 1,000 to 15, he ran second t•
Ootherstone, beating Gaper, British Yeoman, and a number
of good horses ; and had he won, he remarked ' there
would have been oorn in Egypt.' Altogether, he was on.
of the most remarkable men I ever name across, and we
mast attribute his failings to the age in which he WY
' reared and flourished."
Yotrwo Distriregrawm—Thomas Miller, aged 10,
and Mary Hiller, aged 8, were charged at the Petty Sur
sioes, Ilford, on the 19th inst. by ids. C. Matthews, of
Fast Ham, with pulling down a piece of his fence, value
ld. The prosecutor said the children belonged to a man of
most drunken habits, and as they appeared entirely desti-
tute sad neglected he bad brought them to the court in the
hope that they would be sent to an industrial sohooL
They were committed for one week, and then ordered to
be seat to an industrial selablishment.—Esser Herald.