The Express.
London, England, 1866-01-30 00:00:00

WILLINGHAM CATTLE PLAGUE RELIEF

To TIM IDITOE OF TR' 37.2110.
Ern,—The Chancellor of the Exchequer says the
severity with which this calamity falls in particular oases is
grievous. Willingham is decidedly one of them particular
eases ; it is exceptional in its character ; a populous village
of mall farmers of twenty, thirty, ar forty awes each, very
few of them holding so much as one hundred acres. The
land being in such small occultations is very highly rented ;
the herds of cattle were chiefly dairy stocks, the produce
furnishing the weekly isoome for the amintenanos of the
heuesholds. The following instances will serve to illustrate
soma of the dire effects produced by the visitation of the
cattle plague to this village. The names are withhold for
obvious reasons. They will be given if required.
First. Mr. A. is a very industrious and careful man, who
by dint of hard labour and thriftiness had made himself
master of a profitable herd of cale, twenty-oaf in siuber. ,
Tweet, of them ere dead and tt
buried. This calamity lens ,
brought lairs to the very brink of rain. Becoad. Mr. B. is
a small dairyman who has base getting his living for the
most part from the pecdure of his cows. Those are dead. I
with the exception of one, and thus be has been reduced to I
absolute poverty ; his creditors Oliva the little which the I
pue bad left. Third. Mr. C. is a small tradesmaa who
had saved a little mosey ; to this he added more, by boa
rowing, and with it purehaoed cow stock. Ho was doing
comfottably until this terrible calamity came epee Mee
village and mezeticogy took the whole of his herd et
line bead of dock. He might have said with
troth, "Alas, master! for ft was borrowed." '
is a thoroughly hosed and iadmarions mesa. who heal
been straggling with adverse circumstances to maintain a
respectabie positioe for himself and a large young family.
We have no doubt but his industry, tWft, end beeesty
will ultimately earascrant theme diMealtbre but yet we
think his case a lard ow, and worthy of public sympathy
and help. Fourth. Mr. 1). This case is not unlike Ow
list, only worse perhaps, for be bas a larger faFaily—aise
children, all dependset epos him for daily Woad. Re had
twelve bead of stock, eight of them being beautiful cows.
The whole of them died of the plague, thus by owe stroke
sweeping away the wirings of twenty years, and plumes(
the owner into very straitened circumstances. Fit th. Mr. E.
had a herd of 18 useful milch cows, from the produce of
which be derived his livelihood. These sows were the re-
ward of great Wiesen and earetuhises. By wereof this
terrible pest he. has lost 17 of them. In this way he is re
daoed to the position of a day labourer. Sixth. Mr. FA
is a serious ease ; he is a hard.working, bidastrleas men,
the mainstay of as afflicted family. His wife has been
greatly afflicted for many years, and his father is Wad ; his
little capital wee invested in six cows ; these are all dead.
These easel we present u a wimple of the distress inflieted
by the ravages of the oda, plague upon this village, while
others have lost their 20, 30, and SO and but little better
able to bear it. For such individuals-4 class entirely dif-
ferret from the large, well-to-do Jarman of many placa—
tes make as appeal to our countrymen ; sod shall we appeal
in vain? The calamity came early upon this village, and
with suet usparalleled suddenness and yindsoce that
escape from lou, either by sale or insurance, was precluded.
No care was wanted ; neither pain* nor expense was spared
le save the stock. Night sod day they were attended te
with a care approaching that of a mother for her elUld
every possible remedy was tried, and first clan professional
skill employed, with the meet Sedulous nursing ; but the
result is only to prove the disease inferable. 300 stock
are dead and buried ; B,ooof. of capital lost ; the chief
mesas of livelihood goo. ; sod the o rescue from ruin to
the majority of the stock-owners la ni
this village is the re-
source of public subscription •; and we hope with Mr.
Gladstone that we "shall find classes that have received
benefit in other great visitations willing to return it."
Bubeeriptions is aid sent to the Messrs. Foster, bankers,
Cambridge ; Messrs. Prescott, Grote, sad Co, London ; or
to the treasurer, Will.ngbam, St. Ives, Hunts, will be
thankfully acknowledged and carefully distrEbuted.—We
are, ito., B. 8. Erma, 01.0. PIGLICII, B. Pres,
J. F. TRODAY. WALT= FIOHOCL,
Acting Committee ; THOMAS WOOL-
1011110L1111, Secretary ; JONAH
SuiTE, Treasurer.
Willingham, Jan. 77.

THE MIDDLEBIX MAGISIIIATES AND THE CAMS
Pimun.—Yesterdey a special meeting of the magistrates
was held at the Sessiossi house, Olerkenwell.grmn, in re.
feresee to the cattle plague ; Mr. Buns in the chair.
Previous to the meeting, a special committee had been
held for the purpose of reviewing the orders &beady issued
on the subject. The chairman, cm taking the Ask, Mil
It had been deemed advisable to amend the orders already
booed, and his should then call upon Mr. Nicholson, the
clerk of the peace, to read the report of the committee.
This having been done, the court formally sanctioned the
following orders :—lt shall not be lawful for my person to
bring any cow, heifer, bull, bullock, ox, or calf, or any
raw or untamed hides or skins, or the horns or hoofs, or the
offal or dung of any cow, heifer, ball, bullock, ox, calf, sheep,
lamb, goat, or swine, from my place in Great Britain,
beyond the aforesaid jorisdiction, into any place within
such jurisdiction. The following articles are ex-
°opted out of this order A. Animals and articles
of the description aforesaid sent or carried
by railway through the jurisdiction aforesaid. B. Articles
of the description aforesaid brought or sent with the Bosom
of any two justices acting is and for the aforesaid jtriadic-
tion by any person from any land sod premises in his own
occupation and beyond such jurisdiction, to say other load
or premises in his own occupation within such jurisdiction,
during a time to be specified in such lionise. C. Hides,
skins, horns, and hoofs directly imported into the United
Kingdem from Isdia, Australis, South Africa, or America.
order shill not, se regards fat cattle fit and intended
for immediate slaughter for human food, apply to any
place within • radius of four miles front Chtriorcroes, or
within the above-mentioned jurisdiction. This onielf
come into operation on the let day of February next, and
shall be in force until the Ist day of March next. Notice
is hereby given that any person offending against this order
will for each sad every offence forfeit and pay any sam not
exceeding M., which the justices before whom he or she
shall be convicted of such offence may think fit to impose."
THE Cerrui PLeorrit.—The Liverpool county
magistrates, several dais since, promulgated an order to
the effect that no cattle would be allowed in future to be
sold outside the borough of Liverpool for fear of sprevding
the " plague." The cattle dealers of Liverpool naturally
felt that this order, if carried out, would affect both them-
selves and the general public very materially. They at
ones took measures to place their grievames before the
gentlemen who passed the order prohibiting the sale of
cattle at the Old Swan market ; sad yesterday, at Kirk.
dale, the county jostles. held • meeting, when the oh-
, noxious order was modified so far as to permit the sale of
l cattle as usual at the Old Swan, but also insisting that each
Ibeset sold most hays a competeret ho
rrifyaut that the beast
wan sound and healthy, and free from ins dissem

THE CANADIAN DILNOATION AT WASHINGTON..—.
The members of the delegation from British North
Americas provinces arrived this mornieg (Jan. 15.) They
are :—Hoe. Mr. Galt, Finance Minister, and Hon. Mr-
Howland, Poetics'-ter-General from Cased& ; Hon. Mr.
Smith, Attorney-General of New Brauswiek. and Hoe.
Mr. Henry, Attorney-General of Nova Scotia. Mr.
Harvey, of Caned% is their secretary. Hoe. Joseph
Howe, of Halifax, will arrive to-morrow. These gentle-
men are prepared to discuss the *moms:dal part of the
relations between the provinces and the United States
with the Secretary of the Treasury, in whose annual
report it was stated that concurrent legislation was the
preferable way of settling it. They have already had in-
terviews with the British Ambeasador, and with Mr.
Secretary WCnlloob. Probably they, will be introdaced er
referred by him to the Congressional Committee on
Commerce, where the report of the United States Revenue
Commission, now sittiag in the New York Custom-house,
is reedy.—Nere lock Times.
bizzicsre " Milian is
only • Illibuster in the eyes of this country. Bane en arch-
duke of Austria, sod being placed where be hi sod kept
there by French bayonets, does not chimp his character or
alter the fast. William Walker, Colonel Kin-
ney, or Lopes, was not more • ilihnster then
l this royal adventurer and toirtirper. If oar go-
worriment were so disposed it could mod a force
to aid President Juarez to drive oat the !nil:osier,
aid Froths or any other power would have no
right to question us for doing so. If France chooses to lend
i Maximilian aid spinet the native sod legitimate severa-
-1 meat, we certainly have as good or a better right to assist
that goresimeet in sustain in itself. In fact, the fil-
natured reply of the French Minister, Rio-Iva de Lhays,
Ito Mr. Bow seems to admit that, when be
wid he bigelad nothing to do with Mexico, and
that our redress for anything wrong there ley
with James or Mazimilies. It may sot be that ear
covererneut will exercise this right of direct isterpoeition
is favour of the republiase authorities of Mexico ; but the
time may come when our raises' will be allowed to 'oleo-
' tees, for that papaw. Utilise the imperial Woe be
mow eomiluded, and the actor" in it return to
Eurollow. 'nth • contingency is quite rubella*.
Is that ore fifty thousand or a hundred thou-
shortvns would dock to the Rio Grande is • very
time. Julies is not without means her even now,
and should caw government raise its (lager merely to per-
mit aid being given to him he mold obtain all the reemerers
he needs. It will be wise for the Emperor Nspoleon and
his protige Maximilian to weigh well the consequences
• that may follow • prolonged usurpation in Mexioo.—Sew
York Herold, Jan. 16.

THE LOSS OF THE LONDON STEAMER•

OFFICIAL INQUIRY.
Au inniry, directed by the Board of Trade, into
the cause of the loss of the London stammer was commenced
at the Greenwich police-court, yesterday, before Yr. Train.
the stipendiary magistrate, assisted by Captain Baker rad

Captain Harris, seethed siesessors.
Mr. O'Dowd (barrister) appeared for the Board of Trade ;
Mr. Talfourd Salter (hemeter) for the friends of Mr. and
Mrs. Thomas and childrem, lord in the vend.
Mr. O'Dowd gave a sketch of the evidence intended
to be produced. The value of the cargo, he said, was
estimated at 124,0001. The number of officers and crew
we. &I, induding 15 foreigners. The number of pa-
ssage's embarked at London and Gravesend was 125,
and at Plymouth 55. Messrs. Wipe= and Co. owned 56
shares in the vessel ; Mourn. Alpert and Morgan, ship•
brokers, two each ; and Captain Martin, her ounineader,
four shares. The deed-weight cargo omesieted of 247 teas
of iron plates, bus, and sheet iron, At., fitted in closely.

and occupying a specs of 50ft. Then were also about
14 tow of hardware end agricultural implements. The
quantity of coal for the eosin's on leaving Plymouth was
580 tons ; then were 15 tons more for the galley. Thu
gives tonnage was 1,752 tons, and the registered lessele
1,428 tons The leagth of the ship was 2676, the breadth
75ft., sad the depth 24tt. The engines were of !Wham
power. The alleged disproportion of beam to keg* was
greater in many other steamships. On losiriss Gravesend
the London drew 19ft. gin. forward, end 20ft. 9m. aft. Tile
ship went down Chassed against strong heed wise end
took shelter at Spitheed. She put in at Plymouth to em-
bark passengers, and on her departure the weather was do.
scribed as then moderate, the wind blowing lightly from
the northward, and little or no sea running. Mr. O'Dowd
mimed into details of the sailing of the ship until the •
eatent:ophe occurred ; sod witnesses were them called.
—Mr. Gladstone, 'arroyo: to the Beard of Trade
sad sector surveyor to the port of Loudon, said
that the materials of which the tondos was oonstsuded
wan of the best quality. It appeared to him that the skyliplth
of the engine hatchway—plate-gbas, with an iron ratans
—was sufficiently secure. There was accommodation foe
400 passengers. The last mu vey of the vessel he
mode was in December lest, and he was of opinion
that the was as fine a ship as ever lett the pork
of Loedos Sus had seven boats—Robert Taplie,
engineer surveyor to the Board of Trade. deposed that
he had surveyed the engines and machi of the
London three times between October. 1884, sod mber,
1866. He grated the owners a declaration of the ship's
efficiency. I'M working of the engines would not have bees
impeded bed there beau • fiat revering under the skylight.
Such a covering would bare impeded the draught, but this
might have been provided against by artificial means.—
George Barber, shipwright surveyor to the Board of Trade,
gave some evidence as to the most efficieot means of pro-
viding against high was getting dows tbe engine hatchway
of screw steamers. He spoke principally from his experience
is yards os the Clyde where laTmogoommt, Which ha
described to the MO4 uu Wog carried out by the ship-
builders. The investigation was then adjourned till today.

A letter printed la the City article of to-day's
Times, states that the uproar at the mooting held at
Brighten yesterday to discuss the mesh, of the new line
proposed by the' South Balton and the Voodoo and Chat-
ham Railways, is due to the fact that by 8.30 la the morn-
fog notice was given to the mochaelas sad sensate of the
Brighton Balmy Oompsay at their Brighton shops, in
number about 500, that they were to base a holiday to
'sable them to attend the meeting. with orders to shame
their clothes, and that those who did so would moire the
day's pay. Arrangements were also made by mine pawns
for the importation into Brighton by railway from Loudon
and the vicinity of a large number of moo, many of whom
were in the employment of the company, to attend the

nieding.
DIERADFIIL BORNE II • LUNATIC ASYLUM —A
UMW' um occurred the day before yesterday in the
lunatie asylum of Se. Pietro, at Kerosine& Three patieati
Is a state of furious madam determined to murder their
attendants. To effect their purpose they wreathed away
some tar hare placed round a stove, and with them fell on
the first watchman they law and best hint about the heed
till he expired. Another keeper, hearing his companion's
cries, came to see what was the matter, and wax
im-
mediately attacked and likewise killed. Tin three mad-
ame then took the keys from the pockets of their victims
and entered the adjoining wards to murder the tithe' at-
tendants, but taking no notice of the patients. The wads-
men, however, escaped, and stopped the pregress of the
madmen by fastenieg the door on the outride. Meanwhile
the whole establishineot was alarmed, and the officials,
after • desperate resistance, succeeded to overpowering the
three murderers, without receiving any seriou injury.
Tag REPRESENTATION OF BAHDWICH.—A rumour
has been lately industriously circulated by an East Kent
tory print, to the effect that upon the assembling of
perlianuot Lord Clarinets Paget, one of the liberal
members for Sandwich, Deal, and Wainer, inked, to
sever his connection with his constituents and parliament,
ins order to tete the commend of the Mediterranean fleet.
Now, for the information of them of our readers who may
have happened to have heard of Ibis rumour, we beg to
state, on the best poesible authority, that Lord Clarence has
not, pad never had, any intention of giving up the rep.-
..statical a me Famine Colestithents, or eases oommairk
of the Seat. in proof of this we may readiest that Mt
vacancy exists op either of our stations, nor is likely to
for many mouths ; and else that Lord Maim Paget has
been selected to move the estimates in the coming session of
parliament.—South Eastern Gazette.
DREADFUL OONSEQUENCES FROM THE BITE OF •
Ree.—About a week ago a little boy, named Parsons, 11
or 12 years of age, wan at work for Mr. Howell, at
Sookell'a Farm, ihraombe, and having procured some
bricks, coaanteted a trap for the purpose of War
tug larks. Before going bane he visited the imp,
the lid of which bed fallee, sad putting him hand
to grasp what he supposed to be a lark, an enormous rat,
that bad bees captured, caught him by the little Seger sad
bit it severely. The boy outrived to stanch the bleeding,
sod little notice appears to bays been taken of the circum-
stance until a few days ago, whir be was takes seriously
with every symptom of hydrophobia, or of petals afflicted
with delirium tremens. At times the paroxysms have been
so violent that the combined efferent of four mee have been
almost unable to keep him ie bed, while he @erupted hard
to seise their hands or arms with his teeth, and at theme
times hi cries have been dreadful to hear. Mr. Gravely,
surgeon, of Newiek, was seat for, sod be edministered some
remedies, bot littio hope is estertained of en recovery.
Whether the rat was mad, or had eaten something poisonous,
or what, it is impossible to determine.—Seseez Advertiser.
FAT STOCK SUPPLIES TO THE fetEritoesureff
Cerise Maser.—During the present mouth, concluding
with yesterday's (Marley) market, the statistics show a de-
crease In the supply of English beasts, se compared to the
last and previous menthe, but home-bred sheep have been
of fair average. This month (January)
Imo comprised
nine markets, sod at which there has been, in
the aggregate, 26,426 beasts, consiatiog of 18,555 English
bred end 7,871 foreign bear s, and in the pre-
vious month, which comprised eight markets, the
supply produced 1,918 honnebred,lend 8,527 foreign beasts.
The average supply of English besets is 2,062 to each
market of the present mouth against 2,391 ditto of last
month's avenge markets The present month's markets
have contained 79,382 bonne-bud *beep, and 36,230 of
fereige ditto, and of cane 1,697 were forrgn importa-
tioo, and but 120 of English breed. The pig peas contained
in the aggregate 1258, and out of which 745 were from the
Contineet. There were 412 dairying cows esbibited foe
vale_„. and Beech milch cows formed es important item.
MUSTER TO THE BRITISH SHIP URATITUDE.—
Reams or 306 Sou& —Secrets, JAN. 14, 1866.—The
barque Fredonia, Captain Burke, arrived here to-day from
Fatal. She reports Jan. 1, lat. 41.30, long. 63, fell in with
British ship Gratitude, Captain ilaStother, from Liver-
pool, Nov. 19, for New York, in a leaky condition, and
it being heavy weather, and the ship labouring hard in
high sea, Captain Burke was requested to lay by and
take off crew and passenger,, to which he con-
sented. The crew of the ship comprsed 33 persons, and
abe bad 273 emigrant ;macaws, making a total
of 306. Owing to rough weather the pieces' of transferring
so large • number of people from one vessel to another was
not completed until the 3rd, three days from the time of
fella( is with the wreak ; but they were all finally ter
cued and brought to sh n port. Captain Berke displayed
great magnanimity oe the comatoo, sod he °Deduct
throughout was marked by hinders. Having got
all heads off widely, it was found impoesible to
stow away so many people on board his venal, which
was a email-sised barque, but he courageously took
the responsibility of throwing over sufficient cargo to
Puke room for them, sad nearly all the goods between
dues went overboard. All bands were then pus es short
allowance, as his owe stores were gettmg low, mod me pro-
Vie140:11 were saved from the ship to feed tine crowd of
Misery emtgreets. Each person was allotted half a pint of
water sad ere biscuit per day, which is the only sustereace
they have remised for the pest 11 days. As soon as the
above facts became known after the bisque wee t
below this port, a steamer was despatched to tow bet
up,
and eateer snivel the survivor) ware placed in Bidden
large esrriape hall, sad had all their wants geeerouslp
attended to by the city authorities.—New York Trthent.