The Express.
London, England, 1866-12-21 00:00:00

TRAFFIC RETIJRNB.

Miles nu- War. Tetal. Total,
1.1117,11A111. open. mon. assidisii. 1886. 1866.
Week ending Oct. 13. 6 a a
Great Southern of India 79 352 536 888
Week ending Oct. 20.
Madras—.N outh West Line. 492
orth West Line. 153
Week ending Dec. 7.
Dublin sad Meath ....
Week ending Dec. 9.
Great Central of Belgium
Week ending Dec. 14.
Belfast and N. Counties 1,021 1,139
Londonderry & Coleraine .36 190 126
Week ending Dec. 15.
North Engem 12201 16,569 52,221 68,789 69,176
Week ending Dec 101.
Belfast and County Down 44} 367 214 581 581
Bristol and Exeter l34i 3,494 3,398 6,592 6,419
Great Eastern
Great Western 1311 31.714 30.665 71,379 70.429
North British '32 7,941 16,452 24.393 23,274
North Staffordshire R.&C.) 258 8.134 8.510
South Devon

6,553 8,224
917 1,879

15 157 103 200 300

1,19°

4,398

5,590 6,763

3,161 Val
316 306

SERRA'S CHARGE.—A serious matter was under
investigation at Shernbourne, near Docking, Norfolk, on
Wednesday and yesterday, a girl named Grief being
charged with causing the death of two illegitimate chil-
dren. The bodies of the children have been disinterred,
and a chemical investigation has detected the presence of
arsenic in them, so that there is little or no doubt that
they died from that poison. The evidence as to the ad-
ininixtral ion of the poison is not so conclusive, and as the
inquiry had not concluded when our parcel was despatched,
we reserve further detail..
THE CATTLE PLAGUE.—The weekly return of the
reported cases shows a further decline in the prevalence
of cattle plague in Great Britain. During the week end-
ing 1:;th December attacks are reported to have occurred,
being a decrease of 8 on the previous week. One fresh
outbreak of the disease took place, the number in the week
preceding being 2. Eleven healthy cattle were slaugh-
tered during the week from having been in contact with
infected animals. The attacks reported are for the follow-
ing petty sessional division—viz., (Yorkshire, East Riding)
South Holderness, 3 cows and :i calves. The number of
animals attacked since the commencement is 253,701, and
52,494 i healthy cattle have been slaughtered to prevent the
spread of the disease.
Tux " UNEMPLOYED" IN AIELBOURNE. —Nothing
could more clearly show the prosperous condition of the
colony than the utter failure of an attempt which has been
made in Melbourne to get up a demonstration of the un-
employed. The attempt was made at the instance of the
party opposed to the government, in the hope that, by
twinging a sufficient pressure to bear, the ministry would
be induced to call parliament together at an early date.
Several meetings were hld t none of which were more
than 200 persons present, B
andaat some not more than 20,
the great majority of them being mere loafers. A depu-
tation was appointed to wait upon the Chief Secretary ;
but at the interview which took plan no cause of
complaint was made out, and one of the men, a
working blacksmith, confessed' that he threw up his last
situation because his employer refused to give him
more than 4f. 10e. per week. At one meeting it was
resolved that the " unemployed " should go in a body to
the Immigrants' Home, and demand work or food ; but
none went. On Thursday: morning a meeting was to have
been held at the corner of Bourke and Swatistonntreeu,
from whence those assembled were to proceed tothe Town-
hall, and lay their case before the Mayor ; but long after
the time appointed only some half-dozen individuals were
present, who evidently had no claim to the title of work-
ing men ; and these the Mayor very properly refused to
see. The whole affair has been one of the most ridiculous
attempts at a demonstration ever made, and those who are
believed to have initiated it are loud in protesting that
they had nothing to do with the matter.—Melbourne Age,
Oct. 27.
CRYSTAL PALACE.—UntiStlany extensive pre-
parations are being made for the due celebration of Christ-
mas at the Crystal Palace. As Monday is likely to be
regarded very generally as a holiday, the amusements will
begin on that day. The Palace will also be open until
dusk on Christmas-day. On Boxing-day extra trains will
run from all stations, and as the various railways leading
to the Palace now communicate with almost every por-
tion of the metropolis, • large concourse of visitors may
be anticipated. The High Level line being now (by the
opening of the new bridge) freed from the delays formerly
occurring, will, it is expected, convey large number.
From the same cause the trains of the Brighton Company
will also be enabled to run with increased facility and
despatch, returning visitors to their homes with greater
rapidity.
(Advertisement. }-HOLLOWAY'S PILLS. —Winterly
Drawbacks.—Whence fogs come, or whither they retire, it is
not our present purpose to explain ; we desire to point out how
their ill effects on the human frame can be neutralised. The
blood must be treed from superfluous carbon and mephitic taints
by some purifying medicine like Holloway.* which not only
thoroughly cleanse the circulation, but re-adjust in every organ
the defects imposed upon it by that fluid when it has become
foul or sluggish. These pills prevent stagnation, committee, and
are the hest regulators and preservatives against internal in-
gaecmationa, irritations, sad tikerstiona. While expelling
morbid matters from the ast they cool It by their gently
aperltive action, sad etrsmgthan it by Chair teak virtues.