The Express.
London, England, 1866-07-23 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY

assert, se Blr Richard 'Mayne has done, that the meeting
will be riotous and disorderly. The quiet, orderly,
and well-conducted meetings recently held in Trafalgar-
/10We are the best proof that no violation of the law will
take place unless the police commit it, and those who
should be pease- n booms pease-breakers. I
should have thong t that it was your duty to prevent dis-
turbance, not provoke it ; and I therefore make an Gamest
appeal to you to reconsider your decision at the last mo-
ment, and prevent this U.llllo4lMly and unwise interference
with the inalienable rights of the English people.—l am,
sir, your obedient servant, T. Maws Josv.e.
6, Pembridge-gardens, Bayswater, July 21.

*parting intelligence.

WINCHESTEOITrHAMPTON, AND
HII2aINGDON.

TO THE =ROB 07 THE =man.
SlR,—Has the mighty one fallen, and the crack
of his day followed in the path of oat modern turf
wonders, in defeating the cleverest efforts made to keep
him on his lagsfor two years in 'accession Tlais has been
the vital question of the last few hours since the news
was spread that Gladiateur had stumped up at bat, and
could not possibly start for the Goodwood Cup. Standing
at odds on him for many days, his going was a sore blow
to the public ; and if the alarm is really not a Wee one the
sooner he is struck out the better, as there was quite enough
—and more than enough—said about his not starting for
this same cup last year, when he was well. Ilia absence
would leave the race very open, for there is not another
great "Cup " home engaged, unless Cambuscan or Archi-
medes can be deemed one, or Regalia is " right ;" and the
prize would have to be contested by such sa Windham,
Monkey, Dslby, the Duke, Janitor, Corsair, and Tourma.
lin, or as many of them as are " well on the 'day." Janitor
ran like staying in the Derby, and it must not be forgotten
how the Duke compassed the Diteh-in at Newmarket last
April there being no doubt that he was "off " when
BlLnd ran away from him at Ascot. The latter met more
than his match at Stamford in Tormentor, who is nut, un-
fortunately, in the Goodwood Cup, or her great staying
powers would entitle her to the position of first favourite,
if she did not take the Frenchman's place in the market,
Her double victory was the feature of the past week's
rating, which was marked by some very
strange doings, as we must expect these times,
when the sport is left almost entirely to
the gambling classes and owners of horses who rem for
profit. We shall have to wait for Goodwood, no doubt,
before seeing the correct form of certain stables down
south ; and hence I shall touch but lightly on the meet-
ings of the current week, chief of which are the two in
Hants on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, and the
rising affair at Huntingdon on Thursday and Friday,
although there are more than half a-dozen others among
the " fixtures," and Radcliffe and Chesterfield will assume
some imperiouce in their district. The followers of the
Special, Midis. colt, Potomac', and Black Prince stables are
sure to muster in force at the southern reunions, and
perhaps the discovery may be made what are really
" alive" for the Goodwood Stakes before they are over,
by the operations effected. Both the Special and the
Prince are in 'the Hampshire Handicap at Winchester,
but neither is likely to show, and the latest performances
of Pearl Diver and Ackworth were so bad that she talent
must look to the brothers Goater to produce the winner,
there being no occasion to travel far beyond Brahma if he
is the Simon Pure. The Citizens' Plate is quite • ques-
tion what certain local stables mean to go or save for
Goodwood ; and the same may be observed of the Second
Biennial and Grange Park Stakes, both two-year-old races,
over the five furlong T.Y.C. for it is only a matter of
Julius starting (very doubtful), in either instance, so
moderate are his
opponents, of whom Haidee in one case
and Jeannie Deans in the other are about the best.
Pirate Chief is the pick of those opposed to Danebury for
the Foal Stakes, and be they need not fear, with such as
Lady Hester and Vauban to represent their in-
terests. The Biennial for three-year-olds, one mile,
reads a near thing between Staghound and Robin
Hood, if both are well, the latter having to receive 3lb for
his Ascot defeat, and he will like the shorter course better
than Stegliound. The last-named, nevertheless, may just
win, and his colours should make their mark in the South
Hampshire Handicap, at Southampton, by the aid of
Dulcimer. It will be interesting to observe what Lady
Hester can do with Aaron (a Derby outsider of repute) and
Plunder in the Cranbury Park Stakes, and it is on the
cards she will beat the colt looking at what her ladyship
did at Newmarket with his stable-companion, Golden
Bloom—backed as though he were the best youngster they
then had at Woodford. Anyhow Lady Hester can scarcely
mks the Stoneham Park Stakes, the only event of the
slightest importance in Thursday's list, though there are
three handicaps completed, in two of which King Christian
is bound to hold his own, if he does battle.
The Huntingdon events will certainly be influenced by
the prior racing of the week, as before Thursday and Friday
several that are therein engaged must perform, especially
some of those in the handicaps, upon which recent doings
have thrown very little light, albeit I notice Soapstone
and Acolyte to have some further good employment before
them. The Hincbingbrook Stakes, about half a mile, will
be the beat race for backers to bet upon, if Knight of the
Garter makes his promised reappearance, for he can
scarcely lose, the mast troublesome he has to meet on
even terms being Clarice, so far as can be judged from
public running. The calibre of the Cup horses is not
great, the selected of the lot, at the two miles, being
Monkey, Buckfoot, Longdown, Ostreger, and Lucifer ; and
the latter stays decidedly the best. He looked, however,
scarcely up to the mark at Stamford, and there is thus a
chance for Moulsey to beat his stable, he being at least •
better stayer than Ostreger.—l am, Sic. METEOR.

EVENING, JULY 23, 1866.

THE CHOLERA.

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There were two fresh admissions to the cholera
ward at the Liverpool workhouse on Saturday morning—
Henry Hawthorne, 58 years of age, from Gay-street, in the
district from which most of the cases as yet have come ;
and a young German, Ferdinand Rickards, 25 years doge,
from Mitchell's coffee-house, in Copperas-hill. At the
time when the German emigrant' from the Helvetia were
brought to the workhouse, Rickards was employed as in-
terpreter in the temporary hospital, at Bank-hall. Both
the new patients are said to be in a precarious condition.
Four persons died of cholera in the workhouse on Saturday.
These were—James Kelly, 14 years old, who was admitted
on the 19th inst., from Baton-street ; Thomas Smith, aged
14, adinittedon the 29th, from Laos-street; Sarah Garotty,
aged 6, admitted on the 16th, from the foundling
ward ; and Alice Pickard, aged 3, admitted
from the foundling ward, on the 18th. The total
number of admissions; to the cholera ward sines the
10th inst. has been 43, and the total deaths 28. Of 21.,
15 remaining, 3 are bad cases, and 9 have been removed t.
the convalescent ward. Of the 20essea which originated in
the workhouse, 14 have proved fatal ; and 14 have proved
fatal amongst the 23 admitted from the town. One case
occurred in West Derby ward (Gregson-street), on
Saturday, and was admitted to the workhouse of the
district. This is a locality which had boon quite free from
the disease up to that time. The Bank-hall warehouses are
now ready to receive the members of families in which the
disease has appeared, who are themselves at present free
from it ; and it is expected that this provision will
effectively aid in stemming the progress of cholera in the
town. It is gratifying to find that no cases have originated
in the workhouses during the last four days.
During the past week the cholera has made great ad-
vances in Winsford, in Cheshire (whence the telegram
dated " Shrewsbury" in our Saturday's impression was
despatched), carrying off more persons than the awe-
gate number of deaths for the previous three weeks. On
Saturday week Richard Barnett, a child, aged one year
and seven months, whose parents live in Meadow-Dank, a
place notorious as the birthplace of cholera in Winsford,
died after a short illness. On the same day, W. Daniels,
aged 37, living two miles sway from Meadow.bank, in a
neighbourhood hitherto uninfected, died after an attack of
24 hours' duration. On the next day three deaths oo-
curled, one that of William Tolley, aged 23, after one
day's illness ; the second, Phrebe Fowles, aged 7 years,
after 7 hours' illness; and the third, Harriet Gertard, a
married woman, aged 35. These two latter oases oc-
curred in Meadow-bank. On Monday, Charles Tom-
linson, aged 18, a neighbour of Tolley's, and Anne
Gibson, aged 51, living in Over, died after an illness
extending over one day. On Tuesday the father of Phoebe
Fowles, who fell sick on the day of his child's sudden
death, died, and John Daniels, aged 5, son of William
Daniels who died on the previous Saturday, was carried
off after 12 hours' sickness. On Wednesday three deaths
occurred in one family—Martha Higginson, the mother,
aged 67, dying at Over, Charles Higginson, her son, aged
45, and Mary, her daughter-in-law, aged 27, dying at
Wharton, two miles distant on the other side of the river.
On Thursday Ada Williams, aged 70, died after 22 hours'
sickness, and Mary Gibson, aged 34, was taken ill and
died on the same day. One very alarming feature in the
course of the disease during the past week is that it
appears to be spreading all over the township, and while
it is present in undiminished force at Meadow-bank, it is
breaking out in Over and Wharton. On Friday an old
woman living in Swallow-lane, out in the open country, a
mile beyond Over, was taken ill. On the arrival
of the dotter he found the patient sitting alone in a chair
before the kitchen fire rapidly approaching the last stage
of Asiatic) cholera, with her hands already cold and her
face changing colour. She was at once put to bed, but
was dead by Saturday morning. How she could have be-
come infected was not explained by any direct connexion
with the town ; but her inevitable predisposition to
cholera or any similar disorder was evidenced by the close
atmosphere of the thatched cottage in which she lived,
the stagnant pool of filthy water within the gate, and the
few boards loosely fastened together which the kitchen
door immediately opened on to at the back, and which
served as a privy. In that quarter of the town where
Martha Higginson died on Thursday, and which is appro-
priately known as the " Sandhole " the cholera
is spreading very rapidly, having at hand the aids of
an utter absence of drainage, a scanty supply of bad
water, and the custom of keeping pigs. Six cottages
have been built in the " fdandliole," having yards
at back about ten feet long, at the end of each
of which is a privy, and in three the intervening space
between the privy and the house is occupied by pigs.
These are not isolated cases, nor taken from the worst
district, but convey a not exaggerated idea of the dan-
gerously insanitary state of the township, and will
account for the facts reported by the medical men, that after
28 deaths there are at present in Winsford between thirty
and forty cases of Asiatic cholera, and that there is
scarcely a house that has not one or more inmates suffer-
ing from diarrhoea.

TIM COLLISION BETWEEI H.Y.S. AMAZON

AND THE OSPREY.