The Express.
London, England, 1866-08-09 00:00:00

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The winds have veered to the northwestward and moderated,
with rising barometers and rather lower temperatures.
On our northern coasts barometric pressure continues low, and
an area of still lower pressure appears to exist off the east coast
of Scotland. On the coasts of the Bay of Biscay the winds are
!Leah from the westward, with rain.

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An accident, which might have been serious,
occurred to Mr. D. S. Her, M.P., on Saturday last at
Blackman's hunting-ground. His horse, which had refused
some jumps, became irritable, and eventually rushed at
full speed out of the grounds. A van happening to pass at
the ease moment, a violent collision occurred. Mr. Her
was considerably bruised but not seriously injured. He is
now staying at the South Kensington Hotel, Queen's-esta-
te:ram.
BURGLARS CONYICTRD BY • PARROT.—At the
Liverpool assizes yesterday two burglars, named Edge and
Thornton, were charged with a burglary at a house in
Everton. The prisoners had entered the house and bad
stolen some money. An alarm was given by a parrot in
the house, and the prisoners were apprehended shout 100
yards from the premises. The brutal fellows had cut off
one of the legs of the parrot, but when apprehended had
in their possession a knife stained with blood, and with
one of the parrot's feathers in it. The prisoners, who bad
undergone penal servitude for several previous offences,
made a most elaborate defence. During the hearing of
the case Edge twitted the doctor upon not knoa:ng
whether the blood on the knife was that of a cow or a
parrot, after having examined it through a " telescope."
He also accused the policeman of perjury, and said that
when before the magistrates the policeman's cheeks
burned " like a furnace borne—down to the lowest depths
of hell." His lordship (Mr. Baron Martin) sentenced each
of the prisoner. to 20 years' penal servitude.
FRIGHTFUL AOCIDINT ON Till MIDLAND RAIL-
wAr.—On Tuesday evening a fatal accident occurred at
Hesston station, on the Midland Railway, near Notting-
ham. It appears that on the eveninvin question Mr.
Smedley, a superannuated *salesman, hying at Stapleford,
bad gone to Benton station, a distance of three miles, to
meet his wife. Instead of going direct to the station be
took a short cut and went down a footpath which leads on
to the line, a short distance above the platform. It is
supposed that he then walked between the rails, and the
express train from London coming up rapidly at that mo-
ment, he was knocked down with great violence and lite-
rally cut to pieces. The unfortunate man was rather
deaf, and, the wind being high at the time, he was nn-
able to hear the approach of the train.
GATZEI OF DRAYS. —The Registrar-General's re-
turns distinguish more than 100 several causes of death, but
except in great cholera epidemics more than half the deaths
of every year in England are from OD* or other of ten
causes. In the year 1864, for which the returns have re-
cently been completed, 53,046 persons died from phthisie,
38,969 from bronchitis, 94,470 from pneumonia,2l,3ll from
heart disease. There were 29,498 deaths from old age, and,
chiefly at the opposite extreme of life, 26,382 from con.
ruinous, and 29,634 from atrophy and debility. 29,700
persons died from scarlatina, 20,106 from typhus, and
16,432 from diarrhea". Year by year these prove the 10
enemies of life. Half a million of persons die in England
in a year, and this is the manner of the exit of hall the

;anger.
Tan Cnounta Misr. —A correspondent of the
Tisies, alluding to the alleged existence of what is termed
"The Cholera Mist" at Greenwich, says—That a similar
mist was observed at Varna at the time of the Crimean
war and in the West Indies before the outbreak of the
cholera in 1854 appears from the following remarkable
mrscpphe,Teprincipalrksoted from a paper upon Asiatic cholera by
, medl &Boer to the Great Western
Railway Company. The paper alluded to was printed fur
private circulation on the 22nd ult. Dr. Cooper remarks :
" The existence of this atmospheric ma has more
than once been obseryed. A thin bluish base was seen to
hang over Varna at the time of the Crimean war, by the
persons en board oar men-of-war, lying on that place, just
before the outbreak of the Asiatic cholera there. The same
thing, I satisfied myself upon the independent testimony
of persons at three different spots in St. Christopher, was
seen Just prior to the outbreak of the disease in that island
in November, 1854, and this fact was fully set forth by me
in my report to the government upon the outbreak of
cholera in that place. It was described by all as ' a thin
transparent bluish bass hawing over the spot, and not
affected by the wind.' All the =idea= agreed precisely
in every partisular as to the appessanes, time, ke..altheeigh
minimums= had had no cammannatien time,
with an-
other upon the subject. The first case of cholera eceirred
five days =Unguent to this appearance."