The Express.
London, England, 1867-07-03 00:00:00

ROME.

ROME, JULY 2.

The Pope now enjoys excellent health, and will
proceed at the end of July to Castel Gandolfo.
Brigands have again made their appearance on
Monte Lepini. Desertions continue to occur from
the ranks of the Antibes Legion. Cholera is gra-
dually increasing here. The address presented
yesterday by 490 bishops to the Pope, in reply to
the allocution, attests their entire obedience to his
holiness, and declares that they believe and teach what
he believes and teaches. The bishops thank the
Pope for h is solicitude in endeavouring to preserve in-
tact public morality, to resist dangerous machina-
tions, and to confound error, and express the wish
that the voice of the Pontiff nay lead those who are
erring back to the good path. The address proceeds
to speak of the admirable harmony of the Christian
peoples, rallying round the Papal chair, and ex-
presses joy at the proclamation of the speedy
assembly of an (Ecumenical Council, from which
the bishops expect abundant fruits. It concludes
by declaring that neither princes nor peoples will
permit the rights or authority of the Pope to be
ignored. In reply to the address which has been
presented to the Pope by the deputation from the
Italian towns his holiness declared that he had
always aided Italy, but in such a manner only as
was in accordance with her true interests, and he
I hoped that those who dispose of her destinies will
save the common fatherland from moral and reli-
gious ruin. The Pope has ',gain received a number
of catholics of various nationalities, to whom he
made a speech in the French language. His words
were greeted with enthusiasm.

THE WEST AFRICAN MAILS.

The steamer Calabar, with the above mails,

Arrived at Liverpool last night, with dates froni
Old Calabar, May 28 ; Cameroon, 29 ; Fernando
Po, 30 ; Bonny, June 2 ; Braes, 2 ; Benin, 3 ;
Lagos, 5 ; Jellah Coffee, 6 ; Accra, 7 ; Cape Coast
Castle, 8 ; Cape Palmas, 10 ; Monrovia, 12 ;
Sierra Leone, 15 ; Bathurst, 18 ; Teneriffe, 23 ;
IMsdeira, 25. At Bonny and Cameroon business
was steady. At other rivers trade was dull. Busi-
ness was also dull at Sierra Leone and Bathurst.
Her Majesty's ship Galatea, with the Duke of
Edinburgh on board, reached Madeira on the 18th
of June. All well

THE HEALTH OF LONDON.—It appears from the
return issued by authority of the Registrar-General that
in the week that ended on Saturday, June 29, the births
I registered in London ad 12 other large towns of the
United Kingdom were 4,788 ; the deaths registered,
2,525. The annual rate of mortality was 21 per 1,000
persons living. In London the births of 1,084 boys
' and 1,076 girls, in all 2,160 children, were registered in
the week. In the corresponding weeks of ten years,
1857-66, the average number, corrected for increase of
population' is 2,011. The deaths registered in London
during the week were 1,118. It was the 26th week of
the year ; and the average number of deaths for that week
is, with • correction for increase of population,
1,294. The deaths in the present return are less
by 176 than the estimated number. The deaths from
symotic diseases in the week were 224, the corrected
average being 349. Fifteen deaths from small-pox were
registered-2 in Bethnal-green, 2in Limehouse, 2in
Poplar, 2in Bermondsey, and 7 in other districts. Nine-
teen deaths occurred from measles, 29 from scarlatina, 7
from diphtheria, 28 from whooping-cough, 33 from typhus,
and 48 from diarrhea. The deaths from diarrhea rose
from 16 in the previous week to 48 in the present return;
14 of which occurred in the east, and 16 in the south
districts. Three deaths from cholera or choleraic diarrhea
were recorded.

ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR DISEASES OF THE CHEST,
Ctrr-itoAD.—The council of this excellent institution bay-
ling during the past year succeeded in materially extending
its usefnese by opening, after a lapse of 14 years,
wards for the reception of in-patients, out of
a fund called " The Emergency Ward Special
Fund," availed themselves of the holding of the
annual meeting yesterday, by inviting the gover-
nors and subscribers to a dejeuner, at which they ex-
plained the introduction of the new agencies provided for
the relief of the patients. The Earl of Shaftesbury was
expected to preside, but as he did not arrive, the proceedings
wtre conducted under the chairmanship of the Rev. H. Ward.
The annual report, which was read by Mr. C. L Kemp,
the secretary, and which went fully into the details con-
nected with the opening of the wards, showed that the
number of patient. in attendance during the year was
30,996, all of whom were seen and prescribed for by the
physcians, and received attendance and medicines without
any cast to themselves. The number of new patient' was
2,583. An abstract of the year's receipts and expenditure
was given, from which it appeard that the income was
1,8211.5 e. 3d., and that at the close of the year the balance
at banker's and cash in hand amounted to 8781. 16s. 9d.
The report was unanimously adopted. At the dijeibler,
speeches advocating the increasing claims of the hospital
were made, and at its termination the secretary acknow-
ledged the receipt of nearly 2001. From a statement made
by Dr. Richardson, one of the medical staff, it appears
Ithat during the past ten )(lan 400,000 have been relieved
at the institution.