The Express.
London, England, 1866-07-07 00:00:00

(Signed) WILLIAM CLODE, Superintendent.
Otatistiml Office of the Cattle Plague Department,
Privy Council Office, July 6.

The return shows that 260 attacks were reported to hays
occurred during the week ended June 30, being a decrease
of 145 on the previous week. Correcting the total by
adding an estimated average of attacks commencing during
the week, but which may be subsequently included under
the heading " Back oases," the number for the week will
be 312.

NOTI-81r inspectors who reported eases last week have not
reported in time for this return ; viz.: for the county of Bucks,
1; Chester, 1 ; Lancaster, 1; York (West Biding), 1 ; York
Mast Biding), 1 ; and " the Metropolis," 1. These Inspectors

reported 37 ci.N tut week.

THE WHOLESALE POISONING CASES AT
BELFAST.

The following details of the series of cases of
poisoning which have occurred in the neighbourhood of
liewtownards, near Belfast, briefly reported in our yes-
terday's impression, are from the Nori, Whig :—" On
Saturday, the 23rd ult., a number of people residing in
Newtownards, or contiguous to that town, visited it, and
there purchased in the market-place, from • person be-
lieved to be a butcher, portions of • veal calf which were
exposed for sale. The people who made the purchases ap-
pear to have been mostly strangers to each other. Three
of the quarters of the calf have been traced to the families
who made the purchases. The destination of the fourth
quarter is as yet unknown. Every person who partook of
the veal is either dead or ailing, and the general opinion
from all the facts elicited at the preliminary in-
quest held on Monday, and from the information obtained
otherwise, is, that either the calf was not slaughtered, but
died from some distemper, or that some poisonous sub-
stance was put upon it to improve the colour and general
appearance of the flesh, which would otherwise have bees
unsaleable. A clue to the person who sold the flesh has
been obtained by the police, but for obvious reasons it is
not made public. He will likely be brought up at the
adjourned inquest on the body of the man on Tuesday,
submitted to a post-mortem examination. Several of the
asses were attended by Dr. Jamison, and others
are under the charge of Dr. Armstrong. All
present a precisely similar appearance violent
retching and purging, cold in the extremities, and •
blueish appearance of the skin. One of the families who
obtained a quarter of the veal is named Smyth, and lives in
the townland of Ballyskesgh, about three miles from New-
townards. In this house six persons partook of soup
made from the veal on the Sunday after it was purchased.
The whole six became rffected on Tuesday with symp-
toms of poisoning, and one, Hugh Smyth, aged sixty-three
years, and the head of the family, died on Saturday. On
Monday four of those who partook of the soup on Sun-
day, with two other people named Kerr and Gibson,
from • neighbouring house, used what had not been
disposed of on Sunday, and the two strangers
also took ill. One of them, Richard Kerr, aged
twenty-three, has died. A family of the name of
Andrews—husband, wife, and two children—are lying
in Newtownarda hospital with all the symptoms of poison-
ing. It appears that a person named Cork, a sister of
Mrs. Andrews, purchased a quarter of the calf, and on
her way home she called to her sister's house and left a
portion of the veal there. All in Mrs. Andrews' family
partook of it, with the moult stated above. The woman
took the remainder of the veal home, and her father and
another person in the house partook of it. Both are
ailing also. A third quarter of the veal was purchased
by a person in the townland of Ballyblack, who, it is
said, is also sick. Several of those who are ill show
very serious symptoms. A fine dog in Smith's house
which eat some of the refuse of the veal, also showed
symptoms of poisoning for two or three days, but he is
recovering.

SHOCKING MURDER IN STAFFORDSHIRE. -A
shocking murder has been committed near Cheadle, in
Staffordahire. A young man named Thomas Smith, son
of a farmer at Whitton Naves, was found murdered in •
wood on his father's farm, near Whiston, in the parish of
Kingsley. His skull was fractured in several places, and
there were large scalp wounds visible. One of them ap-
peared to have been produced by • gun shot, and the
others by heavy blows from some instrument, sup-
posed to be the stock of • gun. The trigger
of a gun was found underneath the body. A
short distance away was found a ramrod, and farther
up the wood the deceased's hat was found. It bad
been perforated with shot, and hair adhered to it. It was
the practice of deceased to go out early in the morning to
watch the preserves, and it was arranged that on Thurs-
day he and the man servant should keep a look out
for poachers about a mile distant from each other. The
deceased left his father's house for that purpose about 3
a.m., and his dead body was found at 10 a.m. A man
named William Collier has been arrested on the charge of
murder, and the police are confident that the crime will
be brought home to him.
PHI WESTERN CONSUMPTION HOSPITAL AT
TORQUAT.—The Marchioness of Downshire has kindly
given the use of her mansion in 13elgrave-squiun for a
concert, under distinguished patronage, next Wednesday,
the 11th inst., the Civil Service Musical Society having
consented to afford their aid on the oceaslon. This charity,
although located at Torquay for the benefit of the climate,
is su ported by subscribers of the five western counties.
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