The Express.
London, England, 1866-10-09 00:00:00

THE CHOLERA.

The following is the official return of deaths from
choler. and diacrhaea registered on Saturday, Oct. 8 :
Cholera. Distrito*.
West districts
liceth districts 7
Central districts
Bast districts lO
South districts 5

Total in London

The returns for the sub-districts of St Leonard Shore-
ditch was not received in time for publication. This is
the last daily return that will be issued.

THE MANSION-HOUSE RELIEF combirrrEs.
Yesterday a meeting of the working committee
was held at the Mansion-house, the Lord Mayor presiding.
Sir Mordaunt Wells took occasion to regret that the go-
vernment had notified their intention to cease publishing
the returns of deaths by cholera and diarrheas after Satur-
day last. Those returns had all along, he said, been of the
greatest service to this committee as a guide in enabling
them, with other circumstances, to apportion the funds at
their disposal for distribution by the local relief com-
mittees. He happened to be in Bethnal-green on Satur-
day, and he was informed that there had been a fresh out-
break of cholera in a wretched part of that immense
district called Hope-town, and he made it his busi-
ness to re into the circumstances on the spot.
He found that seven persons had been attacked
family, that three had died, and that the father and
mother, stricken with cholera, had been removed to the
temporary hospital in Commercial-street, l'iliitechapeL
He went himself to the hospital, and saw the patients,
who were receiving the kindest attention from the lady
nurses. The father, he understood, had since died, and
the mother and another child were dying. He hoped the
government would reconsider their intention of ceasing to
publish the daily returns of deaths, for it was of the last
importance that the public should know from time to time
whether the disease continued to decrease or other-
wise. Mr. Gilliat, a member of the committee,
said the disease was threatening to return to
Radcliff in as bad a form as ever. People who
had gone thence into Kent to work at hop-picking, were
coming back, and appeared to be bringing the disease with
them. The Rev. F. G. Blomfield said there was another
objection to the government ceasing to publish the returns,
namely, that the public might infer from the cessation
that the cholera way altogether subsiding, and would very
soon disc pear. Recent accounts, he was afraid, tended
to show that the disease was rather on the increase, and
what, he would ask, was to prevent its increasing but con-
tinued vigilance on the part of the local authorities? He
greatly apprehended that if the government ceased to
publish the returns the vigilance of the local committees
would relax. If the disease was on the increase, it would
be well for the Mansion-house Committee to call the atten-
tion of those committees to the subject in some definite
form. Eventually it was resolved that it would be de-
sirable for the Lord Mayor to communicate with the
government on the subject.

MA. GLADSTONE AND REFORM. —The Western
Daily Mrreury publishes the following correspondence :
"J, Flora-place, Plymouth, Sept. 20, 1866.—Sir,—Will
you excuse the liberty I take in writing to offer a sugges-
tion in reference to a clause in the next Reform Bill? By
the present law, if I remove from my present residence to
another house in the same town my vote is continued on
the register, the qualification being ' houses in succession.'
If, however, I remove to Stonehouse or Devonport,
neither being in the same parliamentary borough, my
name would not be inserted on the register till I bad re-
sided at the new place and paid taxes from July to
July. This practice is a disfranchisement for all prac•
tical purposes of a large body of the existing voters.
Young men frequently change their places of abode till
they have established themselves in business ; also young
professional men—the clergy, medical men, .ke. ; also
Wesleyan Methodist ministers, and all the sections of
Methodism, remove to other stations, circuits, or missions
as they are called, at intervals of one, two, and three years,
and in one or two of the smaller bodies, in exceptional
cases, four years. The fact is that though nearly all these
ministers get qualified to vote they remove to other towns,
and an election occurs before they are again qualified.
The question I want you to be good enough to consider
1 is whether votes cannot be continued for houses in MICCes-
I &ion in different towns as well as in the same town ; the
voter himself, if anxious to have his vote thus continued, to
procure at his own cost, a certified copy of the list of voters
which shall be held sufficient if produced before the revis-
ing barrister or town clerk, or the mayor or returning
officer. Kindly considor the matter, and if you think it
can be done. and you will attempt it, you willoblige a large
, number of dissenting ministers, and also yours respectfully,
; J BOURNE.—The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone,
I
fil.P.' 4 4
11, Carlton-house-terrace, S.W., Sept. 21, 1866.
Sir,—l have received your letter of yesterday, and lam
fearful that difficulties might be found in the way of your
proposal, but it is, I think, in principle sound and well
deserving of consideration when any proper opportunity
shall arrive.—l remain, sir, your very faithful servant, W.
E. GLADSTONE.—Mr. J. P. Bourne."

REPRESENTATION OF FALMOUTH.—Mr. Jervola
Smith and Mr. R. N. Fowler, the candidates for the
representation of Falmouth, who both went to London for
a few days last week, have returned to the borough, which
they have promised tocoutest. They are actively engaged
in working up the stray votes, for, notwithstanding that
the present Lord Northbrook so resolutely set his face
against bribery, and succeeded in stamping it out during
the time he represented Falmouth, many voters are still
holding out, in the hope that the system adopted in former
times may again be introduced. Some additions to the
list of borough magistrates have been made during
the past week which have attracted some attention.
Mr. Lavin. • draper, of Penryn, who has always been •
liberal, and had promised to vote for Mr. Smith, has just
been appointed a justice of the peace for Penryn, although
when his name was gent up to the Lord Chancellor about •
month ago his lordship declined to make the appointment.
And on Saturday morning an intimation was received from
Lord Chelmsford's secretary, stating that Mr. Sampson
Waters, and Mr. Robert Tweedy, conservatives, who had
been recommended by some gentlemen outside the corpo-
ration, were appointed to the Falmouth bench ; while Mr.
N. Fox, liberal, mayor of the town, and whose name has
been forwarded by the Town-council, was rejected. Every
Lord Chancellor does the best be can for his party, but it
is • matter for regret that, whether liberal or conservative,
the occupant of the woolsack should use the bench of Pis-
; tics as an engine for the accomplishment of political pnr-
poses.—Wesfern Morning Neva
UNrvaasirY CoLitag, Losnog. Yesterday
afternoon, the deportment of the faculty of arts and laws
in University College was formally opened for the winter
mission, in the presence of the various professors and •
large number of past and present students. Mr. Warbur-
ton presided, and Professor H. J. Roby, M.A., of St.
John's College, Cambridge. delivered the inaugural gla-
drags, him subject being " The importance and position of
law as a subject of general eduestion."