The Express.
London, England, 1859-05-04 00:00:00

(Stamped Id. Additimeal.) [TWOPENCE.

THI 80LIOIMILOANINAL ON INS WAR.

At the re-election of Sir H. Cairns, the English
Solicitor-Genml, in conjunction with Mr. Deviate, at Bel-
fast, on Monday, the learned and hon. gentleman, in the
course of hie address, made some interesting arra to
ke matters. A pertica of his speech was es Mews:
4drow, let as tarn to Auer. Centre fool say sympathy
with that pewee? It is also • t of the most
absolute kind; liberty, civil and tstigfoea, is Maly meknown
there. Anstra's domination exists ha her maw hersdiata
tardier, and airports h other phase the d-yeliem wilob
is to termer at home. To Beerzia, then, we an 'Ord
no sympathy—no aid ; and the sena/take to which I meat
arrive on the whole of the ease is this—we as • saran
should, in addition to the mad polity ef sot essidltatLarith
strifes which do not belong I. ne, also look to the
meson that there is sot one of thole power which ie not
subject to some blame, end at the present time there is not
is. of them which can command ens entire support.
(Hew, hear.) I believe Chet i this conclusion I am
ammuusing not merely the policy of the government, but
that which sem& with the feeling in the community
—(hear, hear)—and if I qualify that statement, it is that I
izutste my owe 'anion with respect to • matter
I have seen. I say, thee, that I here iesa--ead
have seen with tepee—in the organ whisk to regarded
as the organ of the compseltlea to the goveremeel i limed
—the Torsos—and repealed saw OM MIN sket V~
are bound in this quarrel te be assiesl. yet due h met be
understood that the lira Mar wYi Fame Is to lee la
I asers Is to be the inell.l6llo.4:aeliew Ns%
I remember the course talseskela
regard to that silence, and benswissr braeles i theAeues
of Commons a living statismare whist moister older
the government of Lord Modems— speekteg dart aim*
in a manner which would be hardly courteous i say cous-
=strati= or arrangement between one mss sad earber.
I recollect that notice via taken of the matter k the Cont-
ain!, and that the unanimous expression of the cautervative
gr:as at the time wee, the alliance between Easland
Hand
w the natural alliance through which the -
tion of Europe waa likely to flow. (Bear, bear.) That
was the come of the conservative party then. But while
we 1111•0=011 our policy of neutrality, we will not
be wig it it we say to France If you
take a pestboLr line, and fire cannon in a certain
place, dna our alliance is at an end.' Ordure, I re-
podia* mug such language, and I hope and believe it will
not be adopted by the government. (Hear, law.) It Is
eselloadee, though a melancholy one, that every memos
hee bees toads by our government to avert and prevent war.
I do sot here stop to answer statements I have seen in van-
one quarters. Ido not atop to comment on objections which
have been made, that if the government had done this and
not done that, peace would have been preserved. I believe
that what the government did was the beat that could be
done, and that was, not to show any favour to one side or
the other. When Sardinia asked teo much, England
called on her to reduce her &mends. When Austria asked
too much, England oohed her to reduce them. To rob and
every power England acted with impertiality. The other day
it was stated to a paper that our government had lent the
greater weight to the Austrian proposals, and had thereby
provoked France; but in the same paper, just turning over
• leaf, I found the counter-statement, from an Austrian
source, that England had lent the greatest weight to France
against Austria. (A laugh) Now, when I find theft both
saying that England lent the other the greater assistance or
encouragement—that England lent too hardly on Austria,
sad Frame saying that Ragland leant too hardly on her
I think that the fir coscluaion to am to is that then
was an impartial welled= between both. (Roar, hear.)
With regard to foreign affairs, at all times I bold it to
be the cardinal policy of the conaervative party not to
Warfare is towels& war unless there is an absolute
reausel bear.) I hold with the statesman who
declaredw wax emits to be a nearby it becomes a
crime: (Hear.) That is my opinion. (Hear hear.) I
believe that this country, guarded by tie loader position,
dependent on the arts of peace for its material advance-
ment, is bound to show that her national honour has been
insulted, or her national int/rata have been imperilled,
Wore afro should embark in war." (Chown)

CITY COMMISSION OF SEWERB.—Yeatartilly the
Commissioners assembled in Guildhsll for the despatch of
business; Deputy Christie in the chair. In refers:toe to the
sanitary condition of the City, Dr. Letheby, the medical
calory of health, repot ted on the state of 360 houses that bad
been inspected ainosthe last meeting of the court on the 19th
ult., sad be submitted a list of 117 places requng improve-
ment in various pertioulare. The mortality returns daring
the het fortnight are a little above the avenge for the rim-
vespondleg pried of the lest three years, bat below the
avenge for the season generally. The doodle were 125,
whereas the averageter the time is 116. Taber the whole
smelt, however, the number of deaths have fallen from 237,
the general average, to 222. In the omens of the fortnight
there were 14 deaths Rom phthisitt, 11 from bronchitis, and
7 tem pneumonia. There were also 5 deaths from 'cadet
fever, 6 from croup and diphtheria, 6 from whooping-cough,
6 from roolinued fever, aO. 2 from diorama and dyeurry ;
In all, 24 &tithe from symotio disease; and then were like-
wbe 4 deaths from mesentine diwase, and 15 from hydroce-
phalus and the convulaione cf infancy. The number of
Wrthe regish red in the City daring the fortnight is 139-64
malts and 76 females.
HEALTH OF LONDON.—The weekly return of
births and deaths in London, betted by authority of the re-
gistrar-gewerid, for the week ending Saturday, April 30,
stales that the deaths registered in London, which bad been
1,084 and 1,196 veepectively in the two previous weeks, rose
to 1,207 in the week that ended last Sattud.y. In the ten
years 1849-68 the avenge numb of deaths in the weeks
correspeading with last week was 1,061; bat se the deaths
lambda in the present re manned in a population that
has increased they can only be compared with the average
raised in proportion to that increase, namely with 1,167.
The death. of last week, thereforr, exceeded by 40 the num-
d
ber which w
theoul leave ocoterred wader saa rate of
mortality for last week of Am the
mgeil. The births registered
lest Ina exceeded the deaths In the same period by 486.
The deaths from meseles, which fell to 15 in the fleet week of
April when the temperatrue was high, have ageslncreased,
sad lest week were 38. The deaths from scarlatina and diph-
theria together were 73, having bra 79 In the previous week.
Theasseerthorded as "diphtheria" were 16, and occurred est 4-
lows :—Cts In Berkeley-mews West, Paddington; one is
Queen-street, Brampton; one in Chethr-tetrice, Belgravia;
ass North-etreet, Merylebons cos in Sherborne•street,
Marylehons ; one in the German Hoopitel, Daleton ; one In
Mileeplece, Finsbury; one in Ireland-yard, City (South-
west sub-district); one in the London HospitalNewin ; ono in
King-street, Aidgate; one in Comity-terms, gtin
two In one family in Carter-arrest, Welerorth; one in
Aldred-read , Walworth ; one in Rkbard-sneer, Lambeth; and
ow fa Wickham•street, Lambeth. There were 16 doodle from
smallpox, 11 of which occurred to children. The resident
sown at the Smallpox Hospital states, that " owing to the
lessees of emellpor in London during the lest three months,
, the hospital has become nearly fall of patients; 313 have
, been admitted this year, of whom 11l were admitted is
April." Five deaths occurred in that institution hat week.
i Fourteen deaths were cowed lest week by rheurnstiom end
rheumatic fever, 9 by ley philis, 2 by intemperance, betides 5
, when the cause of death is stated the " delirium tremens;'
184 perform died front phthisis or consumption. Only two
nmermariens are roe sided, both widow., erred
827 93 and 96
yens. Lest week the births of 865 boys and girls, ia
all 1,692 children, sere registered in London. In the ten
corresponding week. of the years 1849-58 the average num-
ber was 1.833.
SACRILEGE AT A ROMAN CATHOLIC CHAPEL.—
Tire magistrates at Hoehemer ware occupied a considerable
time on Monday afternoon hut in the thanstuation of three
soldiers belonging to the 19th and 62nd Regiment*, at Chat-
. bare, timed William Campbell, William Reynolds, and
I John Macarthy, one cheer of having broken into the Ro-
man catholic chapel at Bromptoe, and Mot n a large
iron chest from off the altar, containing the *fiver articles
used is the celebration of high rows. The sserilegiste ob-
tained an entrance by forcing a window, through which they
passed. They then troce,ded to the sitar, end attempted to
force open the iron cheer, which was of 'rest strength, and
richly gilt. The chest, however, defied all attempts to open
it, on which they removed it from the altar and untried it to
Chatham lines, s &rearm of about a mile, where they blots
It open near the Sallyport, by &Alert it against a large
,tone. After abstracting the contests the chest was left on
the liner, where it was submgeently found. The same day
the prionen of erel some of the mutilated articles for sale in
Chaim°, which, led to their being apprehended. Other pm.
Hoes of the silver petioles were disenv.red thrown away in •
field near the Chatham railway station. The magistrates
committed the prisoners foe "1"
SUDDEN WHITENING OF Tun HAIL—A SOTTO-
'pendent of the Medical Times lawns asked for authentic
iustance• of hair becatureg grey within amerce of night,
Mr. I). P. Parry, Staff Surgeon at Aldershott. writes the
following vary remarkable account of a cam of which be
soya be mule memoranda shortl after the occurrence:—
y
" On February 19, 1858, the whims under °metal Franks,
in the south of Oude, warrengaged with a rebel force at the
?Mega Chamda, end reverel prisoners were tote's one
of them, a Rem of the Bengal Arm, was brought before the
authorities for exeseination, end Iy Wog present had
an
opportunity of watching from the commencement the fact I
am about to record. Divested of his uniform, sad strip—
ped cowplelely naked, he wee surrounded by th
soldiers, and then live apparently became alive to the
dangers of his position ; be trembled visiontly, internee herror
and despair were dopictot in his coon'enance, end although
le answered the qui aloes addreseed telt* he amused almost
Mapieet with fee; while actually owlet alienation, within
the spec* of half-an-how, his hair ta came grey en every
poetics of his head, it having been when first sees by Rh the
glossy jet black of the Bengeles, aged about 24. The atten-
tion of the bystanders was Bret attracted by the sergeant,
whose prisoner he was, exclaiming, " He is tossing grey,"
end I with revere] ether persons watched its
Gradually, but decidedly the cheap went as, and 1=
ogreyitth colour was completed within the period above
Bawd.