The Press. — London, England, 1853-09-24 00:00:00

SEPTEMBER 24, 1853. and was now done by the Earl of Leicester. Something like One.tourth of that aplenilid estate, which was worth 410.01101. a year. was applied in improving the farm build ings anti in rendering the pniperty more pnwluetit e., and the tenantry more p n eapentent. ( A l'oice : Lord Alloy.) Yes; 1.1 .111 11. •1"1. many others did the name. t 'Mere.) 'those were bright tAtimples, and the more they were talked *Lout and followed the latter. When he saw mil• lions sent wary to construet fonigu railways and to tarry out fiereign enterprise, he ettitlel nut help thinking that it might find a mewl' metre. legitimate :mil natural %VIII 211 If the manufacturers had stitek to old customs its long as the. agriculturists hail to old waggon* instead of cm eloping the whole nothl in cellist, halt' the population would I. in sant lit' I ireeeltes. t, lieur,"aosti a laugh.) Win, in order to the. prodnetion of a yard o f c h e ap r ap ) , m a, hone hail 'Tent in perfeeting rho implements. The more they intre..llli'vel stain agriculture., the more they elevated the character of the Mivitlualm who nee, e 11.4.1..... el in it. They were inatly% nig, he boped that they would WI MI , for there was still plenty of rom; and he trusted that when next Ili. \Wilt Miffing tiliqr h. should are their village engineer busy making stennotaigitwa, mid at kind half* tlozett of them of three. eight, owl ten horse power working rust Smoking inkti, anti iio itug a ll the' busi ness of their farms. ( Long and ,•eutiiiio..! who e ring. )" THE EARTHQUAKE AT THEBES. Soul: interesting detail& of this catastrophe have been communicated in letters from Athens, received in London within the last few days. We select the following paoiculars - of August I". tso terrestrial Sill IA 4, Sib feeble that nouty of the inhabitants of Thebes were not sensible of them, announced the catastrophe which was shortly to follow. The weather was calm, the air pun., the temp endure weft awl somewhat humid. the people were gay. unit all esattributed to auguteot the s'clut of the tCati% al which was to be celebrated• when suddenly, at lialf.past 11, a terrible noise, followed • sliately by a violent trembling. tilled the inhabitants with alarm. 1. he people, nut knowing what to do, ran out of their houses or jumped out of their window.. The eontiemance of the trembling of the soil, the loam. of falling houses. and the thick clouds of dust which otpidly envelop'd the whole town. increased the prevailing terror. The most dismal wailings were heard from all points, mid, by a general instinct, the people ran out of the town. Whist the vio lence of the trembling had ...awed, and the Omni of dust was dissipated, the inhabitants took courage and returned to ascetiltin the evteut and results of the terrible 'theme menon which they bad witnessed. It was found that all the houses of the town of Theisw and a the carillon's.; of Teri hall 11141'11 remieis.il • habitable. Malty of them had been entirely destroyed. and coven.d the rcwains of their CWIIIVI* 601 • ClIptilltS. 54.3111' the elturches wee. prostrate ; or others, the walls presentosl i ttttt 11•11110 yawning gap'. The great aqueduct of the town was esitisiderably allowing the water to 1.14411pe at 1111tIly points. nod all the fountains were rendered muddy tiorfstr-tuubtwenty boors. 'Ph. principal sleek was anceeeded by ..venal others during the Mille cruel the billowing day. Citizens worthy lot credit 4' 'rate more than I wenty whit+ wen• felt ion the night of the IlOtly:Oti, of August. tht the /loth also the 6, vernment conunissioners vomited six ellewks which wen• pereeptilde between half-past three in the atlermsm I ten in the evening. On the '2lst another shock proved the elitititsued activity of the disturbing love. It waa observed that the loudness of due subterranean noise was Moto in 'lima ratio with the strength of the shuck which fol lowed it. _ To believe the statements of persons who allege liu►t they vetitied tbs. fact by watching the falling of stones from the reeling houses, the impulses of the sl u s•k was always penssislicular. In point of fact, all the lionsem fell diseetly on their foundations, without inclining to any particular point of the 01111111111Sti. It is worthy of note that no dis engagement of gas was remarked, neither any sinking or rupture of the soil: no new springs wens exposed. nor were those already existing diminished. Such it the ne count given by In.. Orphatislis, a physician of lieotia, in his report to the tiovernment. The Prefect of the same province says that he can, without hesitation, determine the locality of by the shock to be the extent of country terminated fin the• north by M t Atlatite, fill the east lo) the titill of Etilstat, fin the south by tie river Awls's, and on the west by Lake Opals. The central point of the impulse, or that at which it was felt. with greatest fssree, wits Mount l'too under which is a gulf of Lake Opals. lu these, rocks of considerable magnitude have been detached and thivwn down. It appears that so lately as on the :Nth ult_ the earth gave such signs of uneasiness that the inhabitant* had no heart t w attempting to retinar the town. The The of to-day is a modern t►wn. It was no ruined in the war of independence that scarcely one %tune was left upon another. Its reeoustn►ctie►n dates frog► Itcl3. At the pr.•- sent moment there• is not a house left uninjured, hundreds have fallen, and the ruin is not at an end. The teovenu• ' inent has sent aid in money. tents, medicine, and doctors. Eleven eorpses have been taken out of the ruins. The bodies bore no trims. of wounds or other marks of violence, and the physicians suppose that the deceased died of asphyxia. Nineteen persons Wl.lr dug nut alive, mid are doing well. Intermitunt liter has be•eu very prevalent since the catastrophe. The extent of the mischief done to the buildings of Thebes cannot yet be stated with stat►stical exactitude, but. considering the aup•rior density of its population. aoine Idea of the terrible character of tl u • disaster may bewailed from the return* of damage dame• to the neighlwurktig COllllllUllet4. In the commune of 11an.... two church.es, a church fewer. sud sixteen houses have fallen. In the min mime of Aulydo two churches and tweutythrre houses Lou falku r and givao whivlt retusiu btu% iu thu sir. 131 THE PRESS. tlie yout q • of Akre( ta. he houses have tall.ll aml two chturlii htl . ll la ta ottt u. A rock .I.•nityht,l fnan a mountain near kokitio, in this the tilhy,e, %lieu' fortunately it stoppyll. In the continuity of Thespiens the (anilyt of Nloulauilio has liti•u cane pletyly failitcruted. At I:rims:Astro the %la tolling% of sixty timidly,. lime been laia in ruins. lu the ttttt mile 11 'raffle -Tit 1Wur11)•hil. 11104• IkVit 1104111)141. .1 . 110. e figures are irtespillite ttf ititinberless houses rent in taunt, man) of thvin Chun roof to door. It is nreillyss t 4. that 11111 , 1 vißphi . Ik•ftWt` 1110 Ilitiftst • math. in thy district eau by repairvtl. lihlee.l, it is 41..itlithil who thi•i• an) ry soluve hut emigration LO 61111.111. willa terrain 11 . 1114LISUI to 11H Tia: ctioixitA. t:wetari.r. still appears to he, in England, the head quarters of cholera. During the six day from the Ilith and to the Ilst inst., the total number of deaths from that 4111 , (1. 4 4 , were 5;4, and those from diarrhoea Tho total mortality froni loth diseases up to Wednesday night is 935. louring the like number of AIRY% in IS:II-1 the number was only 151 t. A aiiiiiils.r of tents have been sent down to Newest:4lo 4 the Onlnanre, and ally-one have already been 014+491 outside the town to afford aiss a i n ios talioa f or i n h a . taunts removed 11-tim smut of the crowded lo c aliti e s in the town. _ GATEIMEAI) SUM'S 111. AI OAS suffering under the epidemic. hi the fillet% ilay4 (luring whieli the 'intense has prevailed in that town .21; deaths h ave orruffoil. For the %ono period of the attack of In:11 the number wits 1';:.. _ _ _ _ Many 11011i1111/4 have left the bad and erowiled parts of the town. A portion are encamped on the moor. The local authonties are employing all the method assistance they can procure. At 11'Aux)! not less than 501) eases of diartima have been treated, of which several have paStittl into 4.114161111. &AlMVt l oceurred, making eleven deaths since the first appearance of the epidemie. In Morrie Sue six deaths from cholera biol. place in the first three clays of the week. Several eases, some of them fatal, have OrellM.ll at LIVERrOOI., but chiefly among tierman emigrants lately arrived. In Duniefit, also, symptoms of infection have ap. peared, and some deaths locciarreil. Two cases aril reported in the Dreese/seoulht hos pitalahip at Woolwich. 144 isll4/5 1.111111.1111111 4 111't1 11'41111 this 111144'114/11 to any serious extent, tl gle many deaths from imalogoity diseases an` tttttt need in the Registrar's return. livid some of them are stated to have W 1.41111101 11144 Asiatic type. An (initial notification from the Board of I Wahl', published in Tuesday's blazette, contains many in teresting details of the recent progress of this disorder, and combines some important injunctions respecting the means by which it must be alleviated or averted, with melancholy confessions of the utter neglect in numerous localities of all the lessons taught at the two former periods of visitation. Traring the course of the cholera from the east and west, the board relate : "'Phis disease again, first breaking out in Persia, has extended within the present Pear over a is. portion of Esissist, stretching as far tiortliwanla as Arehattgel, sin the shows of the Arctic tleean. It has nivalf,ell !Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, and then developing itself in the north of 4 balmily, it has attiwkeil Stettin, Berlin, Rotter dam, and Ham burg: and Dinlosegnently it lists appennil in England, again breaking out on its north-iea co a st in the near neighixnuhisid of the town in wide!' it made its first uppesmtnee in this C. 'wary in !MI. Its this wide spread course it has everywhere overleaped the harriers which quarantine has erected to stay its progrvase. and where t his memos of protection has been most en forced it has not only disappointed the expectation of those who have lilied upon it as a isafe,.rnarsl, often to the neglect foal exelsisilm of the most important precautions, but has aggravated the evils of the pwtilence, tuts) added disastrous consequence,' of its own." Itemarking that the type of disease is not less virulent than before—that in Newcastle and flaws head, where it has again made its rind appearance on English ground, the severity of its visitation even exceeds that tOrmerly experienced; and that it has now attacked in those place*, as also abroad. • larger proportion of the luidille and higher classes—the writer' ',tweed to deplore the remissness whirl' has left us hardly teem prepared than heretofore to eopc with the advance of the dreaded epidemic : " It is deeply to be lamented that tie' interval between the last visitation of this pestilence and tie present lots not been genenilly employed in effecting a larger tun t of iniproventent in our cities and tuwua. From such in• spectiona as the hoard have reeetitly been enabled to make of the state of populous dintrio ta, the former seats of the disease, in apprehension of its reappearance, they Sr. ri pelted to state that there are extensive districts , and ev e n en ti r e towns, in which no perceptible improvement of litly kind has boll effected. On the taller hand, there are ite• stances in whirl', even where no general permanent works of improvement have been effected, better toippli..s water, extensive gagging and paving, mute frequent sca venging, and a more active removal of noisaitres in cpako locals hate been accomplished. The rtasulta, t.‘ cis of I . • d and partial itintrownirtita. Inv highly VW- Haring tin twesunt rt.i•luitue in Hamburg. %hid)l luta now been try.% ailing no\ anis, of six %ram, tally a\ eases .1( eb o l e n t ba t e oeettrusl iu Onr imtirortsl pasta ..r the town : aml timing the wl•••1•• of the t 1.i•1•• •in the metropolis in Issll not a single ewe' of ellohria ovens n d in any on, of tin inaabd dwellings for the pen, 1.4.% 141'11C.1 111i.0601 of the population, though tin iwstslrutc•• raged in tin dish s which thew. I.tt .1 11 , sit WWI thirls. Vivre installers ulf two ilia etas 1 . 4.111. iissithis in lit tii,n' A..... to their a to iu to* ita iu II bit h lhr giviityst *swam! ••if 111111Itst tills lit has been otrectimt, and in a hid, ork% timer li.• 11‘.,11111 Art /WV 1111.51. H11%1011'041, 111111.11 HMI Wit) 41.411.0. ...cid I.l.ank of health (meals With 0111 1 40 i i.swen, for (I, , ,m.isig, 1.4 the issliss.?44l of ninsane r s, pry- Wilting Ills. 4.4111,1111; I'll of 1111alltsletwitiss Is l . n n it4in is fur prrvilliing the •94.11Intlion of ittl siling.hs sits a hid& skill Anwar to 1% , in such w 1111)1) foal mitt hole.oliio Matt* HS to 1.11t1s114114•1* the' liestllll of 1.111 %M A I 6, 11 , 11 '4lllll litn't. 14.111 1111 Tilly Mini 111111 y Ilifra11•11111. pillitied. %hi 01.0' V 4041111 .1 1.1 \• t td 1111 pit'SViii V. It It lAt Itill ) Wait 4:dance. mill siringliw)." The notitieation 11 14 . 11 a ll u d e .. 1., t h e %Al i o' , per. olititioilv that 41'111141 he taken forthwith. end rajtatia arm all lova' latarila sut.l roamtitith'il wittlistritte% thN .4trivi performative of mina% which the In+• gialattiro ham pltuvil in their hawk for atutitar,. raw 11411.44.4 " Ths` et it of .W4411'4.11 .1111.4 so o genet 01, not only hi cont• neon biking lostisea, but in irl 'slot Ills of all thrsteriplitina v.44.14444111,' mow 11... '*. 4.1tu.5..44, 1 .1)....i4.11) I. ) 1111• I 1.1 ollr lOU evil lin.% entible, awl, to a vonsitlerahle tottetit entovahlt- - slosiil.l be sit 1111 1...n16.141.1v units., rs .lured. herever bold Warta,* 111 health vise, iti eases .0.1.4 Termite witlt t Is 11111114 nl O,OIIIIIIIIIIIIS, Will II IN 144.1i1'v...1 that Lln. ..1 gllurdiauh will on their Inn t 11155'1 - Ida . with N.'141 IN Itti 16. The exist nig means for Il s e ...‘traor4ll tiny set See now ovpiir...l sts slit id.'.) amongst indepoolen I II oval juriailiet isms ; but it Is e onry t leni ly peeled dint n es. A i li ng will g i ve . preertlelll.l. 'II the Or %.'l•\ il . l . sl.rrill fly 1i1 . 1 . 411.11 ills tills I.ll.l.klPlliii, 4.1151111* that unity of su'tinu which it in the main object of the rules null regtilat is aim issued herewith to nut hoods.. mill isrutllo /to' ft Or 1111' POIIIIIIOII nbjert . " EXpeririler 11101 Olio% II that, in the ens' of the lief um/ outbreak sit the epitleniie, the chief ulPnsnres to be rel on fl.r cheek big ita otitrI•1111 Stn• n prelrnl stve.r. en 'wiling, iv. .5. pentium from Hiles-n.4 houses, and bring the intivotetl population under prompt and slur mitt inent during the proms snits try stage of the 41 inenvie. 1 lining the epilleusie of IN 111 all onntii Pint ion for tilleet big these objects was lit...tight into operation , the lo t ittit parts of which *pro the y 41114141 .iit of a system of house to house visitation, the 'opening i 4.44 and hinnies of refuge in affected olioillititt for the gratuitous misplay llf medicines, the 1 . 1411411. VIM' ..f 411011.1 44 refuge f. sr the iveept ion of sin+ Inds gent lag*. ais RN 1ti1101.1411 tit lott 111 .llll 1141401 , rettitlelli 111 list' Multi filthy tool overerowsleil 11.11041.14. Ilse pro% isi tttt of ta.inp4 wary hospital* for bliss etv.t.ption nt limy.... who could not lar pit sperly t rusit4.4l at their saw is lo souls, and in wails. instances the stipply of I Cills 4.r the el n 0.% al •a* the most 'unwept 11.14. soul 41....4 inite elasses to it .1 banns., froni U 11111.41 ies. The result of I his ".% stem was, that out of 11:01,1W NI prem. tory eases brought siti.l.•r its o p e rati o n, no fewer thou 11,14111 o( wit i,'h wore on the 'mint of poetising into the 111'11.1t 14t1We, only .25ii went int o 11 1 .4 evollninted stage. VII. atilt, or I in But sit the 13,737 eativ.s tinder lisitswoi in the met tops 'lts, titillation,/ 117* eases on the point of rooting into. the 1 . 1.11111.11141 stag.. of cholera, nigh :01 actually 41i.) MI - - ant li n isiNl , s.. that , tail, lag ogo.1111•r illy general n salt •.1 this extettil..4l nowt., it appears flint the pri opt al 101 l 4)l' ruses ellrl) 111.11t1111411 which passed f • he pr. • tort itsl4. the iie• ipetl stage acted to sin I in :0 to In I in PO M. Nao atilt lit is now entert vl of the ellicury ~r this m y it tens, 4.r of Ills' fluty of 1..1 . 1411 Aid 111 Wit 11•14 In ears y it into e11i.4.1 on the very filar tippearant... iii lists. ti twos, its all epi• Ileum. folio ; tool, us none tt h. n' •or Ito ow stoblenly the !sodden''e may alight, it is the dolt of 1....al nut horn iv)) to Is' report-4 for Ilso. eniergeney I pet..i... its mints!. I 're• remits in will be atts.tolell wit lo lilt le cost : the p. .r Ivo net with prompt intik and 4.lllv.i.lvvy, , tole Ihe neeessity tor 'tomtit' 'wises, will Is• at tended with ;t great eel moony o f tttttt its well as of life. 11 ith rlden•n►w to ali110.• lorrsitilifootus ismujiiht the eligwalso Which PHI ii tio lor tl o • hrwh of vslitith.111114•1111. 111111 , 1* their Chine, the 11E41 111 11111$4,111111er un 1,1,1.111(1 and rl►Witlinr.., and the fn•eMt rentllul ' of hiring and 1.m1111 , 4 with pare air; !Iloilo is of the air wit hn al lip 1.4 .1 lig elrell more dam Ow wli.111•*,.1111.11c1ol of ffi4 ink. " When the dila•nwl • ling limn:illy broken • •In an d 10.441n10 • • in any district or locality, then the .11111.cssyntisl pin vitittiim is not to neglect for a single. hoar 11111 Jerre.. firIIN •••••lien.i I.f Isiwels TIIIN symptom being commonly without Vain, 011141 00. %livid that it iN difficult to roileelye that it eau of the mtiiallext. ntitiondly Ira& to iii•glsvt, and this neglect ling cost the 'it'll 11f ihiniMitnllll. . . . . " Even in the cases in whirl, death taken Oaf•e with the ;mildest rapidity, the suddenness is aplanent on 1 ), n o t real; for the fatal collapse is thr litial kit ttoulinl result of iliarrhtra negleeted fair several honors, and sometimes entire days. It lutist then is. myelitis!, that, In any district in which chafers is epidemie, life way depend on "honeying prompt and proper relief for painless tool npistrently trifling looseness of the bowels. " The measure of pr. rotation nest in inits,rinnee relates to the ripe r re tmleit at lan dim I fits nt nesl.-rat . both of fooil and drink is slisolotely essential to safety daring the whole duration of the of iiielimeretiote has been oftenwea l it otya.n. shuck ; inkiniscralux at bitch a limy is fraught with thy mud vi•