The Express.
London, England, 1866-12-05 00:00:00

TRAFFIC RETURNS.

Miles Par Mee- Total, Total,
I.IIILWAYS. ova. aengera chandlaw 1800. 1861.
Week ending Nov. IL a 6 a
S. Anstrian LOnihardyd C. I.
(Mouth Austrian Line ..1316 25,755 42.3111 68,148 52,585
Lombardo & Cent. Italy 479 12,417 8,315 20,732 13,140
Lines of the Piedmont .. 049 10,886 12,452 23,338 18,120
Week ending Nov. •M
Detroit and Milwaukee.

189 - -

7,370 8,476

Week ending Nov. Z.
Great W.:Arm of Omuta

12,051 15,507

Week ending Dec. 1.
Glasgow fi South Western.
Week ending Dec. 2.
Great Luxembourg

249 - -

10,194 10,544

134 1,022 4,767

ouitVeLiue
Itetropolitaa
North Wodun

5,789 6,215
1,107 -
4,016 2060
4,952 4,164

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11l 3,140 1,813

There is good reason to hope that the movement
in favour of the abolition of baggage search during the
corning Paris Exhibition will he ultimately successful.
Mr. Watkin, M.l'., Mr. Eborall, Mr. Forbes, and Mr.
Bingley, accompanied by Lord Alfred Paget, have just
had a long interview on the subject Ith M. Fould,
Mi-
nister of Finance, who has given directions to the Cus-
toms department to arrange such a mitigation of the
present vexatious process as will confer a great boon upon
the multitude of travellers who will visit Paris next year.
' As regards the larger question of the abolition of the
search practice, M. Fould considers it a matter for diplo-
matic negotiation between the French and English go
vernments, and that the most efficacious way of dealing
a :th it is by reciprocal action. lie is understood to be in
favour of the most liberal reforms.
DESTRUCTION OF THE. THEATRE DES NOV VEAUTES.
On Monday evening, about half-past 7, when the Theatre
des Nouveautes, in l'aris, was about to open, and while
the artists were getting themselves ready, the drop scene
caught fire, and soon after the interior was in a mass of
flame. M. Hugo, the manager, was insured for 2,0001.,
which is wholly inadequate to cover the loss. Everything
was destroyed except the costumes of the actors.
DEATH OF M. HUGH FLESUNG.—At a late hour
last night we received an announcement of the death of
Mr. Hugh Fleming, the secretory to the Manchester
Chamber of Commerce. He died, we are informed, at
4.30 p.m. yesterday. —.lfailthestrr Guardian.
DEATH OF MR. JOHN SEWELL.—Mr. Sewell,
who has for a great number of years filled the office of
clerk of the chamber to the corporation of London, died
very suddenly on Sunday last. He transacted business as
usual on Saturday at Guildhall, and was taken suddenly
ill on Sunday, and died in a very few minutes, it is sup-
posed of disease of the heart. Mr. Sewell was a very
useful officer, and was very much respected by all the
members of the corporation, and his sudden death has
created a painful feeling among all those who were ac-
quainted with him.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, Dee. 3.—The Queen has been
pleased to approve of Mr. Robert Brown Mackay as consul
at Calcutta for his Majesty the King of Denmark. The
Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr. Alfred
Haacbe as consul at Penang for his Royal Highness the
Grand Duke of Oldenburg.—Galvtfe.
SINGULAR DEATH.—In consequence of a com-
munrattion by the police authorities of Clondalkin, Ire-
land, Dr. Harty, county coroner, proceeded on Monday
morning to bold an inquest on the body of Mr. Oliver
Irwin, a gentleman 72 years of age, holding the commis-
sion of the peace for the county of Roscommon, and re-
siding with bis sister, Mrs. A. S. Lyeter, of Moyle-park,
Clondallin. It had been:alleged that the deceased gentleman
came by his death in consequence of ill-treatment
and total insufficiency of food. The inquisition was
held in the drawing•room of Moyle-park House. The body
was laid out in an ante-room, and was viewed by the jury
previous to the inquiri. It presented a moat melancholy
appearance, being so attenuated that it was little more
than a mere skeleton. The evidence showed that he had
been treated with cmel neglect— obliged to sit with the
servants in the kitchen, and to drank stuff called tea which
they had left ; and that he was left in such a filthy state
that he was almost devoured by vermin. The servants
alleged that they repeatedly appealed to his sister, Mrs.
Lyater, an old woman tottering on the brink of the grave,
and that she always answered Oast he had got en h.oug
The old woman was examined, and denied these state-
ments ; but the jury found that the said Oliver Irwin
died from want of proper nourishment and medical attend-

The correspondent of a Plymouth journal com-
plains that in his previous letter, when published, " of
Beast, the Christian minister," was, by a. typographical
error, substituted for " Vou Beust, the Austrian minister."