The Express.
London, England, 1866-09-11 00:00:00

DOVER AND CINQUE PORTS RIOATTA.

Yesterday opened, for the third time, most in-
auspiciously for this annual event. Dark clouds lowered.
and a drone S.W. wind with a rough sea prevailed up to
ten o'clock, when the threatening weather culminated in
a copious fall of rain, which seemed almost to decide that
another postponement must take place. Towards noon,
however, the rain ceased, the sky cleared, the wind mode-
rated, and the sea calmed to an extent that justified the
committee making preparations for holding the regatta.
By a happy metamorphosis, the town in the course of an •
hour or two changed its dull and dreary aspect for one of
activity and livelinem. The regatta was under the patron-
age of Firl Granville, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports;
Lord Willoughby d'Ereaby ; Lord Sondes ; the Mayor of
Dover; Major Dickson, 51.1'. ; Mr. C. K. Prealifield,
M.P.;Sir B. W. Bridges, M.P. ; Sir E. Dering, M.P. ;
Sir Luke ihnithett ; Mr. J. Goodson, M.P. ; Cap-
tain Jenner, R.N. ; lir. J. J. Fllis ; Mr. J.
Penn ; Captain Bruce, K.N. ; Mr. J. C. (Seaway,
ko. Sir Luke Smithett ably officiated as judge.
Shortly before one o'clock the Dover Harbour Board%
steamer Palmerston wail moored in the bay abreast Cla-
rence-lane as a committee boat, but though as the tide
went down the water became smoother in the bay, there
were but few ventusows enough to put off in rowing
boats for pleasure. Without delay, however, the prepara-
tions were made for the first race, being a sailing match
between yachts, over 30 tons, for a purse of 1.03 soya, open
to all yacht clubs ; first prize, .74) soya ; second prize, 10
sous. ; a quarter of a minute allowed for difference of ton-
nsge. Only three yachts entered, via. :—Vindex, 45 to.
A. Duncan, London, owner ; Sphinx, 47 tons, A. C. Manda-
lay, London, owner ; Chriatabel, 51 tons, A. C. Kennard,
London, owner. At 1.48 precisely the yachts started as
the signal of a gun. The course was from the committee
vessel round South Sand Ilead twice—a total distance of
about Vi miles, and as by this time the wind bad veered
round men westerly the yachts had no difficulty in getting
off. All three yachtigot away smartly,theSphinx intim van ;
but when they rounded the committee vessel on the first
return, about 4 &elm*, Christabel was first. The yachts
came in at the conclusion of the race a few minutes before
six o'clock, Chriatabel I minute before the Sphinx, and
the Sphinx 7 minutes before the Vindex. The second
race—a sailing match for yachts under 30 tons, for a puns
of 30 sovs.—did not fill. The other races were of minor
importance. The sports concluded with a duck hunt. The
Dover lifeboat (the Royal Wiltshire) was launched and
exercised in the bay during the afternoon. There was
numerous concourse of visitors and other spectators lining
the promenades and beach, who were enlivened by the
performances of the band of the 44th Regiment. A grand
display of fireworks and a balloon ascent closed the out-
door amusements of the day.

ACCIDENT ON THE SOUTH LONDON RAILWAY.—
' On Saturday night, between ten and eleven o'clock, an so-
' indent occurred at the London-bridge Terminus of the
South London Railway. Two trains were standing ready
to shunt into the station, when the engine drivers both
accepted the hand-signal white light to he intended for
them, the consequence was a terrible collision, and several
carriages were literally smashed up. Happily they were
empties. Both the engine driven have been suspended, and
a searching investigation ordered ; but it is understood that
the men admit their mutual mistake, which has caused
great destruction of properly.
THE SUSSEX NAVYY Ilfirrs. —Yesterday, at the
East Grinstead bench, before Mr. IL Hale and • bench of
magistrates, the two Frenchmen and two Luxecnburgians,
together with another man utuued thaize, were brought up
on remand, charged with wilfully and maliciously assaulting
George Holton and Edward Baasenden. The injured men
being unableto leave their beds the magistnitesailjoureed
to
the union, where the evidence, as follows. was deposed to in
the presence of the prisoners :—Edward Baaseuden deposed
that on the night of the riot he beard a row at one of the
'haute and went down to it. Oue of the Freuchmen knocked
him down with • stick and struck him several times after
he was down. He became insensible. Could not identify
either of the primmer% George Holton, a bricklayer, Sad
that on the evening of Saturday, Sept. 1, he heard • great
disturbance at the spent and went down and listened. He
heard the foreignersshouting, "thri, on bon ,l.on .'" and told
them there was no good in doing that. They then began
pulling a faggot stack to pieces. He saw the prisoner Blaine
with • stick in his hand, 31t. Gin. long. He thought he
meant hitting him,uid therefore jumped out of the wayoa
to the sham doorstep. He fell on to the step on one side of
his head, and Blaize's stick at " that moment caught him
on the other side." lie remembered getting up and going
home, but all the foreigners were gone before he came to
himself. He could swear that Blaine was the man who
struck him. Oaleb Sherlock, the beerhouse keeper, iden-
tified Blaize as the man who, just before the fight, com-
menced showing the English navvies what " boxing and
kicking was." Other evidence having been taken, the
magistrates otmaiderod there was no cue of assault against
any of the prisoners exeepting Maize ; but evidence as to
their having taken part in the riot was then taken, and
they were all committed for trial.
THE DISSOULA HITLER IN DOWN GAOL.—The
Nordwrs Witig says the investigation into the alleged
irregularities in Down Gaol concluded on Saturday even-
Georgeas F. Echlin, Esq., governor of the gaol
tendered his resignation, which w accepted by the board
of superintendence. The iuiult of the inquiry was that
James Stevenson, Efici., local inspector, WAS fined in 2.51. ;
Mr. Waterworth, deputy-governor, was fined in 20/. ; two
of the turnkeys were dismissed ; and a third turnkey wee
fined in 31.
AA/LWATS IN THE ISLE OF Wien.—Yester-
day the line from Hyde to Ventnor was opened through-
out, and melee very favourable auspices. For
two years eight miles of the line have been
via., from Hyde to Shanklin, and 250,000 passengers have
been carried each year, and with the extension at the
line to Fentoor, it le fully cape:fed that the slumber will
be largely increased.
On baturday night a gentleman, in descending
from the top eta Nekton' omnibus at Camberwell-gate,
missed his footing and fell. It was found he had face
tared his skull, and sustained other serious injuries.

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healthy quarters when the first person was attacked '1
they would have escaped the calamity which has I
fallen upon them. Here is a point, then, to which
attention should be directed without loos of time.
By a powerful concentrated effort in visitation,
by the establishment of places of refuge for those .
in danger, and the timely provision of ample
hospLal accommodation for the sick, a check may
-yet be given to the future progress of the disorder.
It is not surprising that just now the helpless con-
dition of the bereaved orphans and persons con-
valescent from cholera should almost monopolise
public attention. The need of help in these
quarters is very palpable, and the diffi-
culty of supplying it adequately by other
means than public subscription cannot be doubted.
It is, indeed, much to be desired that, by timely
assistance at the hands of private charity, large
numbers of convalescent and bereaved persona
should be tided over their present difficulty, and
thereby saved from the necessity of coming upon
the parish rates. To many pauperism would be a
sharper blow than cholera itself. But whilst pri-
vate benevolence may usefully occupy itself in this
path, the duty of prevention, not the less surely,
belongs to the local authorities. By the diligent
application of the powers given to them by enact-
ment cholera may be disarmed. The successive
attacks of members of a family, such as we have
described, show that the local authorities are not
doing their work. It should not be forgotten that
whilst the Sanitary Act of 1866 enlarges and con-
firms their powers of action, it also provides for
the contingency of official apathy and neglect of
precautions in which the public safety is vitally
concerned.

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LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11.

Taz present lull in the severity of Cholera at the
East-end of London will not be an unalloyed
source of congratulation if it should terd, as it
very likely may, to indolence on the part of local
authorities. There are already signs of such a

dispdsition. 'We read that `; in Mile•end the
" severity of the attack has been so mitigated that
" some of the medical staff have been dispensed
" with." If this be true, we venture to say that

the stop is ill-advised, and certainly premature.
Although the deaths front cholera have lately de-
clined with considerable steadiness, the number of
attacks is still very considerable. It is a well-
known fact in the history of epidemics, that the
later oases, although presenting the sual signs

of severity, are much less fatal than those
which occur at the outset. We may there-
fore have, as we have reason to believe is
now the case, a widespread cholera influence
with a comparatively slight mortality. But these
less severe cases are equally powerful with the
more fatal examples in spreading a form of the
disease which under favouring circumstances may
be attended with all the usual mortality. To jump
to the conclusion, therefore, that because the
death-rate is comparatively small the disease is
rapidly dying out, is an imprudence which may
easily lead to very baneful results. We are as yet
ignorant as to the precise circumstances which
favour the development of the cholera poison. It
seems probable, however, from the I istory of the
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disease in this country, and especially from its
course in India, that hot, dry weather has a
powerful influence in fostering the poison.
Although the season is somewhat advanced, it
is not too late for this country to be
visited with weather which would ripen into a
fatal harvest the seed now plentifully scattered.
Such weather as we had during the first two or
three weeks of September last year could hardly
visit us now with the impunity which then accom-
panied it.

The opportunity is now offered of striking a
powerful blow against the spread of the disease.
When cholera is raging in a district there is so
much to be done, and so little time in which to do
it, that the prevailing feeling is one of regret for
missed opportunities as the hopelessness of dealing
with the gigantic difficulty becomes hourly more
apparent. The present is the time for energetic
house-to-house visitation, for seeking out sources of
disease, and for relieving the distress which prevails
in the infected districts, the extent of which we
have good reason to believe is far beyond
anything of which the public have an idea. Brt
it is especially just now that the nests of cholera
should be explored. It has been observed repeat-
edly during the present as in past epidemics, that
cases of the disease are continually being fur-
nished from the same houses. A member of a

family is attacked with cholera and taken to a
hospital ; in a few days a wife, son, or daughter
follows ; then another member perhaps, after a
short interval, is attacked in turn, and so on,
until probably the family circle is demolished. A
brief reference to what has lately been noticed in
the Commercial-street Temporary Hospital will
illustrate this. There was a certain family living
in Peter-street, Bethnal-green. One of the chil-
dren was attacked with cholera or a Saturday
and died. The mother, at that time unaffected,
was taken with the disease on the following Wed-
nesday, and brought to the hospital, where she died.
At the same time also another child was brought in.
About a week afterwards an infant belonging to
the pane family was received into the hospital.
In a very small room of a miserable house in
Mile-end a man was taken with cholera on a Wed-
nesday, and died on Friday. His daughter, a
young woman, was attacked on the Thursday even-
ing. She was found by one of the hospital sisters,
in her visiting round, lying prostrate with the
disease not far from her father's body, and was re-
moved to the hospital, where she still remains.
Here is the history of a family of six persons. In
the first week of August two children were
attacked and died. The day afterwards another
child met with a similar fate. A few days passed
and the mother was taken with cholera, but re-
covered. About a week after her attack another
child was taken and died. About the same time
the father was attacked, and was removed
into the hospital, where he now lies. In
one ward of this hospital there are two
fathers with their two sons. In another
two mothers are patients, along with their two
daughters. It cannot be too prominently noted
that in these painful histories of family affliction
there is almost always an interval between the
attacks of the different members. If this were
not so—if cholera struck down simultaneously a
whole family circle—we might indeed survey the
scene with horror, but feel ourselves unable to
cope with so dire an enemy. But this interval
speaks so significantly of an opportunity for assist-
ance which in such cases as these has been utterly
thrown away that we cannot disregard it. The
inmances we have described are but samples of
hundreds which have already occurred, and are
still happening. The health arrangements
of a district which allow of these oc-
currences are terribly imperfect. There
can be no reasonable doubt that had the unaffected
members of these families been removed to

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 11, 1866.

reception of English volunteers this month at
Brussels ; the other enumerating, without com-
ment, the additions to the Prussic* population to
be made in oonsequence of recent or projected annexation.
The corollary of all this we maypresume to be that "'Prussia
has acquired some four and a half millions by °request, it
is incumbent upon France to reduce the balance by pro-
ceedings of a like character in another direction. The
Iskrnatiosal anathematises the liberty of the press as
practised in Belgium, and states, not only that France
sympothise* with Prussia on this subject, but that
France, Prussia, Auer* end Russia am agreed in
their resolve to put an immediate atop, " by efficacious
measures, to an outbreak of revolutionary passions which
the Belgian government is powerless to repress or control."
The absurdity of this language, says the Herald, is only
equalled by its arrogance.

PARIS.

(ram OUR owe oolararoarmrr.)
PARIS, MONDAY Emma.
The news telegraphed from Madrid, and pub-
lished without question by all the Paris journals,
that the Queen of Spain, accompanied by
Narvaez, had paid a visit to the Empress
Eugenie at Biarritz, was false news. Every
preparation for the exoursion had been made
at Zarauz on Wednesday last, and M. Mon,
the Spanish ambassador, now at Biarritz, lately
sounded the Empress on the subject, and said that
his Sovereign would have the utmost satisfaction
in passing a few hours with her as she had done
in 1865. Whether there was in her Majesty's
answer any reflection of the coolness manifested
the other day by the Pays, when it is said that
although a visit of "neighbourly courtesy" had
been talked of, nothing was decided on the sub-
ject, is not likely to be known. But what is said at
Zarauz is that the InfantsEulalia's whoopingeough,
which she had had for some time, had suddenly got
so much worse that it was thought necessary to
send the Prince of Asturias and the Princesses
Isabella and Pilar to Vittoria for fear of contagion,
and that the Queen did not like to quit her
daughter Eulalia. These are the reasons given
why the proposed visit to Biarritz is " given up,
or at least postponed."
The Emperor, it is reported, went to shoot at
Rambouillet to-day, accompanied by a very large
Party.
The Prince de Furstenberg, one of the most im-
portant personages at the court of Vienna, is in
Paris, and breakfasted with the Emperor the other
day at St. Cloud.
Baron Talleyrand, French ambassador to St. Pe-

tersburg, is expected in Paris to-morrow.
It is untrue that the Marquis de Lavalette has
hitherto sent a diplomatic circular explaining the
reasons for the retirement of M. Drouyn de Lhuys,
but it is very generally thought that he will send
one without waiting for the return to France of the
Marquis do Mousaer.
The Prince de Crouy-Chanel has gained his law-
suit in Italy against the Duke de Modena, but still
remains a defendant to an indictment shortly to be
tried in Paris, charging him and other directors of
the Sous Comptoir des Chemins de Fer with
escroverie. The prince has written a long letter
to the Procureur-Imperial, protesting against the
accusation as far as he is concerned. He simply
(he says) gave his bills to the cashier of the com-
pany to get discounted, and did not know where
the latter got the money from. This epistle con-
cludes with the following paragraph :
I submit my cruel case to the judgment of my friends
and of all impartial persons. Let those who from politi-
cal motives persecute me, malign me to their heart" con-
tent. I shall not stand in their way. My last hours will
be devoted exclusively to God and niy family.
Some readers might fancy that this refers to a
speedy exit from this life, but I do not take that
to be the true construction. I believe it only
means that the prince will not appear in France to
take his trial.
The masonic lodge at Saintes, of which M.
Eugi3ne Pelletan is master, has been closed by
authority on account of some " free thinking
statutes " proposed for adoption.
The following is a literal translation of a para-
graph in this evening's Liberti :
The death is announced of Lord Northbrook', for-
merly Chancellor of England, at the age of 70. The real
name of this personage was Sir Francis Bruins ; he was a
grandson of the founder of that opulent banking dynasty.
Why should a man able to call himself Marius not have
been contented with the name be derived from his father I
The Bourse was not quite so good to-day. Rente
closed at yesterday's price, 70fr. 40c. for cash, but
fell 121 c. for account, closing at 70fr. 32ic. Italian
fell 30c., and Mobilier 12fr► 30c.