The Express.
London, England, 1866-08-21 00:00:00

THE CHOLERA.

The diminution in deaths from both cholera and
diarrhea noted yerterday, still continues and infamies.
The raged returns show that there were on Sainnity only
51 deaths Area chola*, end If from dianhoia the do-
ses iu.tha more malignant disease being 9 from the pre-
vious day. The following are the classified returns for
lihdorday
Choli
Went districts
North &striate
Central disnists
East districts 3B
South districts 8

Diarrlam.
3
7
6

Total in Lcadon

Yesterday Mann. Warm Brothers, d FenehureD-
ebase, merchants, presented through Mame Roberts,
Lubbock, and Co., bankers, the munificent sum of 5004. to
the Cholera Belief Fund now being raised at the Mansion-
Loose. Laid evening the fund bad risen from 11,6004. on
Saturday to upwards of 13,0001. That uthe result of the
sabscaipties which has been flowing in there for barely a
fortnight, under the auspices of the Lord Mayor and the
committee. The sum received yestaday, and at the various
bankers, was upwards of 1,0001. A letter addressed to the
Lord Mayor by Mrs. Gladstone, under date of the 17th inst.,
Ins MAL Mrs. Gladstone stated, that having seen with
Feat pleasure and intend the leading part be bad taken
an the present emergency, and how heartily the public had
supported him, she ventured to plead in behalf of the free
Orphaairge to be permanently established. He must, she
add, be well aware of the permanent maw where children
bad been deprived of both parents, and who, as far as could
be ascertained, had no means of support from relatives or
friends. These children belonged to very poor districts,
and to throw them upon the parish would be to impose •
burden upon those who could ill sustain it. In other in-
stances of total neglect she need hardly dwell upon the fu-
ture. She perceived, she said, that the Lord Mayor
bad received certain funds for the formation
of • home or - Orphanage, and she ventured
to reiterate , her opinion, already expressed in
bar letter to the newmapers, that it would be wise to con-
centrate these funds with the view to the establishment of
" one free Orplasans." Upon them grounds she hoped
she might solicit hie advocacy and support. The commu-
nication of Mrs. Gladstone gave rise to • somewhat ani-
mated conversation in the committee, and eventually they
pared a resolution to the effect that having had under
consideration an application from Mrs. Gladstone to sub-
sesibe to an Orphanage to be raised under her =spied they
regretted that while they could not but sympathim with
bee benevolent motives, they did not feel justified at that
moment in making any contribution from funds plead
by the public at their dispose/ Dr. Andrew Clark, phy-
sician to the Loudon Hospital, subsequently stated ino-
dentall,y that 11 fresh oases of cholera had been received
into the institution that morning within the previous 14
boars and that five of them were as virulent as any that
had been previously treated there. Among the subscrip-
tions received yesnarday at the Mansion-housewere the
following Mesas. Reed and 1051. ; the Ea and
idia

West India Dock Company, 1051.; Find the Bev. E. Hol-
land, 60/.; collection at All Saint's Church, 601.
Only two death. took place at the London Hospital
during the 24 hours ending yesterday forenoon, but the
number at new cases admitted were greater than on Sun-
diy, and the persona discharged cured were fewer. The
admissions were 9, as against 5 on Sunday ; the recoveries
were only 2 ; on Sunday they were 6. The outdoor
palienta were 117. Of cholera patients 76, and of these sof-
/Ming from choleraic diarrhcea 32, remain inthe wards, the
total being 106. The returns to the Board of Health of
the Whitechapel district show that during the week end-
ing on Saturday, August 18, 90 cases of cholera and 1,659
of-diarrhoea were treated by the medical staff appointed by
the board. The deaths were 43. During the previous
week the deaths were 17/ ; the cases of cholera, 148 ; and
of diarrhoea 1,841. The reduction which has taken place
is, therefore, very considerable. The cases treated in the
district by private practitioners are, of course, not in-
cluded in these figures ; but from returns made by a
number of the medical men in local practice, it appears
that the number of the sick has diminished as well as the
per eentage of deaths.
The report for the past week of the medical officer of
health in Dublin, Dr. Mspother, states that cholera was
imported into that city en the 26th of July, in the person
of Jane Magee, who had come direct from LiveepooL
From that tame up to Saturday there had been in all
forty eases ; seven of the most decided were persons from
Liverpool, and three at least, without doubt, contracted
the disease from them. The outbreak has demonstrated,
in Dr. Mapother's opinion, that the malady is " com-
municable, or catching." The deaths have been 25 out of
the 40 cases, or 62 per cent. The localities where the
persons were attacked were various, but mostly in back-
ward porta of the city. The officer of health has recom-
mended the erection of a hot-air chamber for the fineige-
then of the bedding and clothes found with the cholera
patients ; also the providing of a refuge for the families of
those carried off by the disease. The municipal council
Me about to comply with these suggestions. Only one
fresh case is reported from the country districts south of
Dublin, and one from Belfast. A special report on the
Public Health Act has been circulated by the Irish govern-
ment for general information. It describes the powers
given under the enactment to local boards for the removal
of nuisances, and urges the immediate enforcement of the
provisions of the statute.
Ono fetal case of cholera occurred on Saturday in Dublin.
In Belfast, also, the disease has again made its appear-
sues ; while a third death occurred at Atby on Satur-
day.
A third case of cholera was reported at Exeter on
Saturday. There have been various rumours as to other
cams, but on inquire they have been found to be incorrect,
and area those deaths which have been reported as result-
ing from cholera were not, according to the opinion of
several of the surgeons in the city, the result of_ that
diheese.

birresB SUFFERING.—On Saturday evening a
labourer, whose name is at present unknown, was brought
to Guy's Hospital from the tunnel near Sevetioake, in
Kent, with his head frightfully crushed from the falling
of a heavy brick from the roof while he was engaged with
other labourers in some necessary repairs. On his admis-
sion to the hospital his struggles and cries were frightful
It required the united strength of six men to hold him
down, and even then he managed to break the bathman's
finger, to bite and wretch the doctor, and to grasp the
sister of the ward so tightly by the throat that the mark
still remains. After a few hours of intense suffering he
expired, the medical officers being unable to operate on
him. Although he has been for some time in the service of
the company, he is unknown to them, sod has only been
recognised amongst his fellow workmen as " Tom." There
was found upon him a letter from a young woman belong-
ing to one of the boarding-houses attached to Eton College,
who was evidently his sweetheart. It is couched in terms
of warm affection, and concluded with the expression of *
hope that th.ff should shortly meet never to part again.
A MAN KILLED BY THE ROYAL TRAIN.—The
train Com eying the Prince and Princess of Wales to the
North on Saturday morning was the cause of a fatality
to an unfortunate collier, just before it reached New-
castle. Their royal highnesses were due at this town
shortly after three in the morning, and while peeling
Haworth Station, the morning being very dark, the engine.
driver felt the engine receive a slight shock from some-
thing on the line. Nothing could be observed, and the
interruption caused no diminution of the speed of the
train, which proceeded on to Newcastle. As soon as the
engine was detached, it proceeded to the spot where the
shock to the train bad occurred, and there found the body
of a man lying on the rails, frightfully mutilated. Its con-
dition was such as to prove that death must have been in-
etinteneous. It was afterwards ascertained that the body
was that of a man named Green, who was employed at
ITsworth Colliery, and who had been in the act of either
gotng to or returning from work when he wee run over and
killed by the royal train. The train being a special he would
Eit apprehend any &mng at that time in the morning.
SALISBURY AND YEOVIL RAILWAY.—The report
of the directors to be presented at the half-yearly meeting
on the 24th inst.,aaya :—From the report of the engineer,
the proprietors will observe that the doubling of the line
is rapidly advancing towards completion ; the only portion
which now, inpoint of fact, remains to be finished, is
that from Gillinpogham to Templeoombe, a distance of 61
miles, which it is expected will be ready for opening before
the close of the year. The gross earnings for the half year
to 30th June, 1866, averaged &V. Bs. per mile per week,
or 34,8381. 3s. 111. ; the earnings for the corresponding
half-year of 1865 were 28/. per mile per week, or 29,1221.
15s. 7d., showing an increase of 20 per cent., or 5,715/.
7a. 64 ; the traffic for the year ending 30th June, 1868, is
equal to 34/. 19,. sd. per mile per week or 72,7511.185. M.;
the traffic for the year ending 30th June, 1865 was 311.
2s. 10d. per mile per week, or 64,7371. Os. ; the in-
erga.e is 31. 16s. 7d. per. mile per week, or 7,964/. 17s. 9d.
After deducting working expenses, passenger duty, inte-
rest, and all other charges, the accounts for the half-year
now presented show a balance of 13,709/. 12s. 2d. ; the
balance on revenue from last half year is 4,3001.
135. 4d. ; available for dividend, 18,010/. ss. &I.
The dividend on the 5 per Gent. preference shares (1860)
will absorb 3,7501.; that to be paid to the holders of the 5
per cent. preferece dares, issued under the provisions of
the act of 1854, will require 983/. 2a. 8d leaving
10071. 35.: out of which the directors recommend that a
dividend be declared on the ordinary shares, at the rate of
li per cent. per annum, which will amount to' 9,7981. '
10e. 2d.; leaving a balance to he carried forward to the
unlit of the current half-year's account of 3,508/.12e. 10d.
In the report submitted to the shareholders in August of
bat year, the directors announced that they had, in con-
sequence of the steady increase of traffic, declined an offer
ofthe London and South Western Railway Company to
pinhole the line at 5 per cent. They are confirmed in
the propriety of their decision, as they are enabled to de-
*Aire the present dividend of 8 per cent. per annum. The
dividend warrants will be paid on and after the 27th inst.
•FAILLIILE or A OAETLE INSUILLECE SOCIETY.—
TIM Staffordshire Mutual Cattle Insurance Association is
Out to break up. The apathy of the farmers was
auk that Earl Litchfield, at the Stafford Sessions, on
Saturday, withdrew his name from it. Nothing definite
to been announced as to the funds, but it presumd
tilepremiums, less expenses, will be returned to the in-