The Express.
London, England, 1866-11-03 00:00:00

CHOLERA AND DIARRZRA RETURN&

DAMS 114111110111 D OS 711018 DAY, NOVZIOIII 1.
Population estimated
to middle
al 1866. Cholera. Diarrhoea.
West districts
North distrists ...... 880,021
Celt al districts ... 359,218
Past districts 007,945
Booth dist/Acts 873,548

'lbtal in London ... 3,037,991 12
GIDSIII Itegister-oiles, Somenst-houss, Not. 2.

TEE Nair ATTORNEY-GENERAL'S ADDRESS.—The
addrem of Mr. Reit, Q.C., the new Attorney.Gemara, to
the electors of the Western Division of Gloucestershire was
issued yesterday morning. It is nearly certain that there
will be no opposition. Mr. Bolt says :—" Having accepted
office as her Majesty's Attorney-Genersl, my seat in parka.
meat ts vacated, and I have for the fourth time to polka
your confidence' and to ask you again to place me in
the honourable position of your representative in the
House of Commons. Questions of the gravest im
will demand the attention of the government an of par-
liament during the ensuing year. Our home administra-
tion—the *thin of India and oar colonies—questions
miring out of foreign polities (for they cannot be excluded)
—the maintenance of our army and navy. in a state of
efficiency—will be enough to tax the energies of the sided
statesmen. In addition, there will be the greet gals-
Mon of pelliffiffinffiray Wenn. Under the sintametimess
in which limo present government accepted office, their
measures will be entitled to the most cendld most.
duration • and if this is sceoreled, I doubt not emir
entirejoiiey will satisfy the just and reasouable expedi-
tions the country. It will be my duty to support that
policy, and I shall give that support to the utmost of my
ability, believing, as I do, that it will be in unison with
those principles of civil, religious, and oommerebl freedom,
under which we have so largely prospered, and that the
representation of the people will be secured by the govern-
went on the breaded bans, consistent with the stability
of our ancient constitutional government by Queen, Leeds.
and Commons. Should I gam be honoured by your
choice, my beet attention wM Dentine. to be paid to the
local interests of all my constituents in every part of the
western division, and my attention to those iatmests wal
not be interfered with by nay official duties.—l have the
honour to he, gentlemen, your obedient faithful eieveat,
JOHN ROLY.-01.1eworth, Oct. 30."
Tax REPRIEZWYATION OF PEMIROICESEIRIL—A
meeting of conservatives is to be held to-do at Bamford-
west, for the purpose of choosing a candidate to fill the
vacancy caused in the representation of the county by the
demise of Mr. G. Lori Phillips. It is understood that in
the event of Mr. J. H. Soourfleld. the present member for
Haverfordwest, declining to come forward. Mr. MeyrWc
who formerly contested the Pembroke Burghs with Si;
Hugh Owen, is a probable candidate. The raked' have
already resolved on putting forward Mr. Edwards*, son of
Lord Kensington. Mr. Bdwardes unsuccessfully eontested
Haverfonlwest at the lest election with Mr. Scourfield.
Tax BISHOP or NATAL v. GLADSTONE.—We
understand that the Master of the Rolls will give lodg-
ment in the case of the Bishop of Natal v. Gladstone, en
Tuesday next, the oth instant, at 10 o'clock. This 'sit
relates, as will be recollected', to the recovery by the
bishop from the trustees of the Colonial Bishoprics Fund of
the arrears of his stipend, which has been suspended since
the decision of the Judicial Committee of the Privy ()noe-
-1 eil, denying the metropolitioal jurisdiction of the Bishop
of Capetown over the Bishop of Natal.—Solicitors' Jonrisai.
WHOLESALE PERSONATION OF VOTERS ATNOTTINO-
HAIL—At the Nottingham Police Court, yesterday, Samuel
Bradley, Frederick Barber, William Green, William
Thornton, Alfred Rickendom, Thomas Rainbow, Samuel
Brown, John Stone, 'Williams Freeman, and four others,
were brought up, charged with personating voters at the
municipal election on the previous day. The men were
given in charge by Aldermen Vickers and Fowler. The
Town-clerk proimecuted in behalf of the aldermen and
easemors. 'The evidence was not gone into, and the whole
of the men were held to bell, being bound over to appear
again on Wednesday next. The greatest amount of per-
Donation was in Sherwood Ward, where the candidates
were two liberals and one conservative. There was great
opposition in the Exchange Ward, and, as is usual at
these elections, a good deal of treating and bribery was
practised. As the prisoners came in to vote the presiding
aldermen gave them into custody. There was a good deal
, of excitement in court.
METROPOLITAN BOARD Or WORRIA—The weekly
meeting of the hoard took place yesterday ; Sir John
Thwaites in the chair. A deputation from the vestry of
St. Luke's, Middlesex, and also one appointed at a public
meeting held at Myddelton Hall, attended the board to
present a memorial on the subject of the proposed new
street from Ldington to the City. After some discussion
the subject was referred to the works committee for con-
sideration and report. The board then proceeded to elect
district surveyors for St. Margaret and St. John the Evan-
gelist, Westminster, and north St. hlarylebone. For
these appointments there were 22 candidates, but the
election fell upon Mr. Tolley for St. Margaret's, and Mr.
Peebles for St. Marylebone. Both these gentlemen re-
turned thanks for their appointment and said they would
endeavour to deserve the confidence reposed in them. Mr.
Turner moved " That it be referred to the Finance Com-
mittee to consider and report to the board upon the
expediency of taking measures, by application to parlia-
ment or otherwise, for the appointment of a valuation
committee or board, to be composed of representatives of
the several metropolitan counties, the City of London,
and thin board, with a view to procuring a uniform valua-
tion of the whole property comprised within the metro-
politan area, in order to the equal distribution of the
burden of the rates from time to time levied under the
authority of this board. iii. litoinilMj. s". aided thf
'notion. Mr. Roche moved as an amendment the
omission of the words " for the appointment of a valua-
tion committee or board to be composed of represents.
tives of the several metropolitan counties, the City of
London, and this board." The motion as amended was
put and agreed to. A report was brought up from the
works end general purposes committee submitting a draft
form of advertisement isviting tenders for a concession
of the sewage of the southern side of the Thames, and
, recommending that the same be inserted in the news-
papers. The recommendation was put and agreed to. The
chief-engineer presented has ritual monthly report on the
' progress and east of the Thames embankment will:n.:I
, which was of a satisfactory character, and the i
afterwards adjourned.
FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT ELY. —On Thurs-
day last a fatal railway accident happened at the Ely sta-
tion to Miss Elizabeth Whitcome Lane, maid to the wife
of the Bishop of Ely, under the following circumstances:
—On the evening in question the Bishop of Ely, Mrs.
Browne, the bishop's butler, and the deceived, arrived at
the Ely station about 6 o'clock by the up Peterborough
train. It being Ely fair and market-day the platform was
greatly crowded, and the superintendent of the company,
Mr. Macdonald, seeing the bishop and Mm. Browne, offered
his services to escort them on the opposite platform, to
'eve the necessity of mounting the atairease. His lord-
ship availed himself of the offer, and the super-
intendent preceded him and Mrs. Browne with a
lantern, for the night was very dark. Just se
the bishop and his lady arrived on the down train
platform a scream was heard, and Macdonald and his lord-
ship returned to see the cemaion. and it was found that
the deceased, in endeavouring to follow her mistress, was
knocked over by some trucks propelled by a horse, the
wheels of which passed over her legs, crushing them in a
most frightful manner. The unfortunate woman was can-
veyed to the palace in the b'ishop's carriage, and gurgled
assistance at once obtained, when it was deemed requisite
to amputate both legs, the operation being performed
while the patient was under the influence of chloroform ;
but in an homer two &Hersh° rapidly sank. From the time
of the accident the poor woman retained consciousness, but
never adverted to the cause of it. She had been in the
bishop's family for upwards of 21 years, and was 50 years
of age. His lordship attended the inquest held yesterday,
and volunteered evidence. He stated that be had no idea
that the deceased was following him and his wife, but
expected that she was remaining in charge of the luggage.
The jury returned a verdict of accidental death.
St icIDE OF A SOLICITOR AT BRIGHTON.—MT.
Thomas King, one of the most esteemed and respected
solicitors of the town oflirighton,cominittcd suicide yester-
day morning by hanging himself in his bedroom. There
seems to have been no motive apparently for the commis-
sion of the act ; but for some time past a press of business
had somewhat impaired his health. The jury returned a
verdict that deceased hail committed suicide while in a
state of temporary insanity.
Risk Allah, who has been acquitted at Brussels
on a charge of murder and forgery, is (says the Lancet) a
qualified medical man. lie commenced the study of the
profession at the military hospital in Smyrna, where be
remained for nearly two years, and subsequently arriving
in this metropolis lie entered the medical department of
King's College, where he completed his education, and be-
came a merler of the Royal College of Surgeons, April
12, 1850. He was known as Hebb Aga Risk Allah Effendi.
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