The Sun. — London, England, 1853-09-21 00:00:00

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All% Thomas Young IVlThristie, the barrister rip riuted to revise the lists of voters for the city of Lon "II, held his court for that purpose yesterday morning la the Court of Common Pleas, Guildhall. Mr. Carlyle and Mr. Eaglesfield supported the Con servative interest, and Mr. Sidney Smith and Mr. Ledger appeared for the Radical Association. The lists contained rather more than the usual num ber of objections, and were thus divided : By Conservatives (Livery) 42 By Radicals (Ditto) —2BB By Conservatives (Householders) 732 8y Radicals (Ditto) -1,248 Total objections 1,536 Out of the above number, however, must be deducted 214 objections by both parties. There were 2,041 omis -11:°115 from the lists last year, and this year there are new names ; but, with the objections taken to the livery's and householders' lists, it is fully expected that the entire number of voters on the new register Will be reluced by about 200 from last year. The enti re li s t s o f the livery were gone through yes -4...1.(1aY, but no point whatever arose worthy of special 'otice, the objections on each side being taken for granted and allowed. The result of the revision of this class of voters was as follows : Expunged by Conservatives 2l Expunged by Radicals 230 Failed by Conservatives l7 Failed by Radicals 2O Double objections sustained 7 The Revising Barrister then proceeded to take the householders' lists. CITY COMMISSIONERS OF SEWERS. Yesterday the Commissioners met at Guildhall for the d is Patch of business. THE SANATORY AFFARIS OF THE CITY. Mr. HADl,ovir,the medical officer of one of the City ions, comprising a large extent of the Eastern dis tzilot, appeared before the commission, for the purpose o complaining of the neglect of a very essential point (/ tinected with the sanitary condition of certain courts .nd. alleys in the vicinity of Rosemary-lane, and other populous and poor and filthy neighbourhoods. This gentleman, who has been long actively engaged in the dilßcult task of convincing the inhabitants of places in Which disease is generated, of the necessity of cleanli ness, stated that in one locality to which it was his dut y 4.1 attend, no fewer cases than 90 had recently occurred, 111 which fever land been produced by the non-removal of dust from the public dust-bins, notwithstanding the P i ,, s teraptory orders of the Commissioners, that the dust "ins in which were accumulated vegetable-decomposed matter and other injurious and abominable compounds, should b e frequently emptied. Mr. Hadlow ob served, that in some instances, five or six weeks c ,hiPsed before the process of emptying had been under taken, and in other instances the delay had been t m uch greater. He had written to the inspector of the strict, complaining of the continuance of the danger ous emission, but he regretted to be obliged to state , t hat .i cr the remedy, palpable as it was, had been withheld. had upon inquiry amongst those inhabitants who Were respectable, and delicate enough to feel the incon lenience and considerate enough to be alarmed at the ar spreading effects of the nuisance, that the dustmen employed by the contractors, very seldom indeed attended even to diminish the horrible accumulation. He had et only himself been engaged in the office of inspecting the public dustbins, but he had been assisted by his son 111 Performing the duty, although it was a duty with which he had officially nothing whatever to do.--(Hear, hear.) He was prepared, for in cases of such emergency de lays were not to be endured, to shew that the charge of neglect was indisputable. Mr. limiLow, Jun„ stated that he had witnessed a great variety of instances of the grossest neglect upon t he part of the contractors, and specified several cases, upon reference to the notes he had taken in the course of his visits. Th e MEDICAL OFFICER of HEALTH of the city of tondon said that for one case t hat was re p orted, one hundred cases of dangerous neglect occurred. It 'night appear to some of the commissioners to be too great severity to inflict a penalty in every case of °Mission upon the part of the contractors ; but the fact Was, that no penalty could be too great for neglect, from which such frightful consequences might issue. (Hear, hear.) It was, he regretted to be obliged to say, syste matic with the dustmen to neglect the public dust-bins, and the private dust bins were also overflowing, not- Withstanding the general apprehension of the approach of cholera, and his repeated suggestions as to the neces sity of enforcing the observance of cleanliness in the crowded localities of the poor. To the active agency of Mr. Hadlow, the commissioners were greatly indebted. (Hear, hear.) There was a difficulty in getting persons, whose premises, were neglected by the dustmen, to come forward with complaints, and he apprehended that many cases terminated in compromises.. Several of th e the interposition commissioners uad ssioners ex p res sed their sense of c low, and called upon the court to summon the inspec to rs a t the instant before themper for to aeti . , unt for th e apparent laxity in the ance of those duties which that gentleman and his son had so promptly undertaken to add to their own. Mr HADLOW ',id, that having received from the Huai d ans of the union an intimation that fears were entmained of the approach of cholera, and having ob served the preva!et.ce of fever, he determined to let no opportunity pass of warding off so dire a calamity. In all the cases which Mr. Hadlow brought forward, the contractors accused were fined in the full penalty. Mr. H. L. TAYLOR said he was sure the contractors Would take a hint from such a determination upon the Part of the Court. Some gentlemen might suppose that the infliction was severe, but those who fancied so must Consider not only the dangerous nature of the (Hance, but the fact that the contractors had a great advantage in the employment of their men and horses in other way s , Alderman LAWRENCE called the attention of the City Medical Officer of Health to the important report which had recently been made upon the subject of the violent attacks of fever at Croydon, and the profitable applica tion of the suggestions contained in that document to the parts of the City in which such a disorder might be prevalent. He particularly adverted to water-closet negligence. The MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH said he had, as a matter of course, made himself acquainted with the de tails of the valuable document alluded to, and he would take occasion to give such directions as he considered it Would be necessary to issue in conformity with all the additional information he had collected. Mr. J. H. H A LL said he did not feel satisfied at what had been stated that morning. The Medical Officer of l ealth had declared, that notwithstanding all that he had from time to time represented, in almost all cases the dust remained in the public and private bins from Week to week, when they all knew that it ought to be r emoved every day. (Hear, hear.) He regretted that t he Commissioners that day were to hear, that at a mo ment when the spread of disease was reasonably appre 'tended, the directions they had given had not been o beyed. The appearance of Mr. Hadlow to make so 'etinus a complaint, proved that most culpable neglect e xisted somewhere ; and, in his opinion, it would be N ecessary to give the inspectors such positive instruc tions as would ensure their most rigid attention 4 1 I ' o the daily operations of the contractors, to state to t hem, that in fact suspension should immediately follo w r elaxation in the performance of their duties, and dis t?issal, if the Court should see occasion, follow suspen sion. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Deputy PEWTRESS said the necessity of complete b een was evident, from the statements which had Zen made. In his ward the inhabitants uniformly re .,_`"ed to listen to the demands of the dustmen, who ob tained in other wards fees for removing the dust, and actually refused to do their duty without the cost of e xtortionate recompense. If those inhabitants had cause f)1 complaint it was only necessary to send to the in- Vector of that particular district, and the cause would be at once removed. After some further conversation upon the subject, the 'caPectors were called in, and the Chairman issued di rections to them in conformity with the facts and °pi llions stated at the meeting. The MEDICAL OFFICER of HEALTH said it gave him s atisfaction to state that the present rate of mortality *a s lower than that which he had last reported to the court. 26 13 20 20 BOOKS TO THE GOLD COAST. —GENERAL POST -OFFICE, 1, 0 13 t. 1853.—0 n and from the Ist October next, p rinted " °°l(B % magazines, rev i ew s, and pamphlets (whether •vaitish, colonial, or foreigi) may be transmitted by the float bet ween th e U n it e d Kingdom and the colo n y of the `1•01d Coast by packet, vie/ Plymouth, at the following r educed rates of postage, viz.:—For each packet not exceeding ulb. in weight, 6d. ; do. exceeding !, lb. and tot exceeding 1 lb., is. ; do. exceeding 1 lb. and not :+1 ex ceeding 2 lb s ., 2s. ; do. exceeding 2 lbs. and not ex ceed 11 g 3 lbs., 3s. ; and so on, increasing is. for every ad d . 1.- r 11 9.1 lb. or f rac ti on o f a lb. Provided, however, that te following conditions be carefully observed :-Ist. • ery such packet must be sent without a cover, or a cover open at the ends or sides. 2d. It must con /4.41 a single volume only (whether printed book, maga boreview, or pamphlet), the several sheets, or parts reof; when there are more than one, being sewed or 1 d together. 3d. It must not exceed two feet in tirigth, breadth, width, or depth. 4th. It must have no ZZiting or marks upon the cover or its contents, except ae e "me and address of the person to whom it may be Lt. sth. The postage must be prepaid in full, by B ing er outside the packet or its cover the proper num -4,,(1 stamps. If any of the above conditions be vio , "u, the packet mus t be charged a s a l e tt e r, and treated ' 4l 3110 h in all respects. To prevent any obstacles to the regular transmission of letters, any officer of the Post ofE t . „ may delay the transmission of any such packet for T'me not exceeding 24 hours from the time at which hßamie would otherwise have been forwarded by him. the transmission instructions are not to extend to or interfere with of printed votes and proceedings of rliatnent or of printed papers allowed to pass by the Poet, under the newspaper privilege, all of which will °l,ll . inue subje c t t o th e existing regulations. Eitid; AS TERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. —Yesterday the sale of u e umpany's surplus property adjoining the railway eo„ ti 'n at Edmo n t on , i nc l u d ing lands and premises, and I : B Bl sting of 14 l o t s , rea lised 2,480/. The property die aideed of at th e A uc ti on M ar t, and the prices were con. r ed good. al l COLON Y OF SNAKES.—A few days since a baker lgoulerne, in demolishing an old oven, found nearly th e e l " snakes. He also found nearly 400 eggs about TZo L z e of pi' eggs, enclosing serpents almost ready br eak the shell, THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 21, 1858. Basin ess done this day. 21:1 4f id 55i 5 17 4 121 & 66 7 2435 74i 5 105 814 i ad andxn pm x d 6661 ad 9 ad x d 13g 1021 2 1 2 0 1 1 59i 9 ; 81 35 28 7i xd xd xd xd 401 39i 40, 90 62i 2 47h 7 103 2 Sbr.l Pak 25 100 100 20 50 50 100 100 100 20 10 50 Buckghamea . Clydescl,4% T E.Lincoln. 6 p. cent. . . Glatr.&Dn.Fr 1 Dk. & Railway all all all all all 100 Hull & Selby. Do. Shares. Do. / Shares. Lon.&Greenw Do. Preference, Lowestoft gr.' 4 per cent Do. 6 per ct Manch.Bxton and Matlock Middlesbro' & Redcar Midid.Brad;d. Northern and Easternsp.c. Do. 6 per Do.Fisedsp.c Prest. & Wyre 11:' '1 100 . 1 1001 Do. Shares. Roystn. & Hit. Do.Shepth.St. Sae Botn. & Gooleg.s.p.e S'.a2ordsh WearValleygr 6 pez cent Do Wilts &Sonirst L. &N.IV ICaMon.. Gt. Northnl elt.Westn Yk. New. & Berw Y.&N.Md Do Do S. Eastern, ,Do Norfolk IDo Ln.dEN.W. & Midld. Stektou & Darlingt. Midland... Count ' I Do Do. L. &I; . W &Ludt Yk Do Gt. Northn Do Lancash.& Yorksh MrMClean Stockt. & Darling Do IGt.Westn. MINES. Agua Fria Anglo Californian Australasian Australian Australian Cordillera Australian Freehold Ave Maria Baden (Gd. Duchy of) British Austrin. Gold British Iron Brazilianlmp.(issued at £5 pm Do. Cocaes Cuiada Do. St. Jol—A Del Rey Carsons's Cre '- Cobre Cop)er Colonial Co -1 14 all all all Copiapo . Copper Min. of Eng. 'Do. Pref. 7i p. cent. English and Austin. dOpper Smeltg. Co, General.. 4 Greai. Nugget Vein C-reat Po l 3ooth Take Bathurst Liberty iaond.&Californ. Gold Quartz Crush. Co Mariquita Mexican&S.Americn New Granada Nouveau Monde Port Philip Quartz Rock Rhymney Iron Do. New Santiago de Cuba__ ISouth !Tin Croft ....... ...... . United Mexican. IWaller West Granada.. West Mariposa Yuba JOINT-STO Australasia British Colonial rank and Loan Company British N. American Chrtd. Bnk.of Austral., and China Chrtd. Bnk. of Asia Colonial CommercV. of Loud Znglish Scottish and Austral' au CI , rt d London Chrtd. Bnk of Australia ,100 - 102 - 53 146 - 149 30 - 32 107 - 1(X';! 53 - 55 27 - 28 144 - 26 - 27 2 3Axd 101 ::: 103 60 - 62 ad 144 - 148 144 - 143 ••• lid 30 - 32 98 - 102 I P it d 2 -- 3 d ci d dis — par a d 7 9 31 2 3 32 a i _ 43 a 4 8 4 I P 10i 11 55 65 6 7 4 p 3 d 14 —l6 d — p 2i 2 d d d - $1 _ ' 6i— 7 d, dl - 44 d- r 3i - 4 dl BANKS. 74 - 76 id par t li idis li 4. d par - 1 p 20 liaondou and Coun4 10 London Joint Stock 20 iLond.andWescminst 35 I :National Provincial a England 10 73. New 22 1"\ - :Lional o: Ireland... all Orlental Bank Cor. , . --. ... poration ........ IPro - .'neial of Ireland a'l 'Do. New 1 I,lloplAustraln. Bkg ' I and Gold Imp. Co 25 South Australia 46 - 48 3 / 4 d , par 38 40 65 67 6 7 all'Union of Australia, 2: 'Do. New 10 . 'Union of London all Union of Madrid MISCE: :ouS . Aubin Coal and Iror Australian Agricult. Australeu.Pcifie.Mai? Australn. Royal Mail Erit. American Lard Brit. & Coln. Smel:;LT. aad Red le: 311 Co Ca-mda :1111pan Cryszal ce Crystal 2al. of }:ante Eastern ..• ••• :,'2 - 34 Ei 1 - 62 ii -- fil) Electric Te 7. of Ire'. Gen. Steam Navigat. General Screw Steam Irish Beetroot Suga , Magdalena St. N2vig - "Tat. Pt. Seam Fue Ne: erlar Lars',, B. Austra'ali- Nr t').0.2:7.ur op ?eel Rr. Ld. 6c i.iinrl. Peninsular & Oriental Do. do. Portland Iroa Co '.oval Mail Steam Soo - nves:; !Do. New Scrip 1 7outh Austral. Lam: Submarine Telegraph ,IVan Diemen's Land; 1 0 id par Wheat. 1,250 ... ... id ip English .. Irish •. • • Foreign .. 14 1 - lip 33 - 36 i - ii ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Barley. I Malt. 60 1 1,610 8,250 I 3,3A0 BOROUGH HOP. WHITECHAPEL. Business this day. 101 2 65 6 18 MARKET NEWS-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The quantity of English wheat on offer in to-day's mar ket was very limited, and in middling condition. For all kinds the demand ruled active, and in some instances prices were is per quarter higher than on Monday. There was rather an active sale for foreign wheat, and holders almost generally refused to sell except at is per quarter more money. Floating cargoes were again rather higher, with an im proved demand on continental account. Barley was in moderate supply and firm request, at fully Monday's advance. The malt trade was firm, and prices had an improved tendency. There was a good consumptive inquiry for oats, at ex treme currencies. Beans, peas, and Indian corn were very firm. Flour was active, and the top p;ice of English was 65s per 280 lbs. The stock of foreign is unusually small Oats. Flour, 370 1.380 770 9,360 XOO Near': :0 pockets of hops have arrived and been partly dispose:' o: at from 81 to 101 per cwt. The duty is e•alled 160,00/ Lo 165,0001. The general demand ruled inactive, as fol'ows:—Beef from 2s 8d to 3s 10d ' • mutton, 3s Id to 4s 10d ; veal, 3s I3d to 4s 6d ; pork, 3810 d to 5s per 81bs by the carcase. LLOYD'S SHIPPING,-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, Sept. 21.—Wind this day at Noon, W., light breeze and fine. DEAL, Sept. 21.—Wind, W.N.W., light and cl.t,udy. Sailed—Duke of Northumberland, Chance, Enne.idale, Charles Watson, Trafalgar, and Mathilda Luckie. OFF DOVER, Sept. 20.—Wind, W. to W.N.W. Richibucto, for Hull ; Effort, Philadelphia._ P ORT SMOUTH, Sept. 20.—Wind, W. Arrived—. Feli ciana, Hull, for Bahia, leaky. Sailed—Wynem, Mel bourne. PLYMOUTH, Sen,%. 20.—Wind, S.W. Off Port—J3,mes, Quebec, for Hull. SCILLY.—Sailea —Silvia, St. John's, Newfoundland. ILFRACOMBE, Sept. 20.—Arrived—Hope, Newport, for Dartmouth, leaky. Sailed—Henry Pottinger, New - York ; Circassian, do. BRISTOL, Sept. 20.—Arrived—Indus, Quebec, for Glou cester. SWANSEA, Sept. 20.—Wind, N.W. Arrived—Warwick, Quebec. Sailed—Grenfell, Cuba. .....HOLYHEAD, Sept. 20.—Wind, W.S.W. Arri ved— Lilias, Quebe . c. FLEETWOOD, Sept. 20.—Wind, N.W. Arrived—Ade laide Cooper, ,BsA;trachi ; Glasgow, Quebec. LONDONDERRY.—Arrived—Mohongo, Quebec ; Adimitt ance, Liverpool, for Quebec and Montreal, having en ..coun tered a heavy gale in long. 12 W., when the vessel 13,!came leaky, and the crew refused to proceed ; Susan and E iarah, Belfast, for Dalhousie, with mizenmast cut away, bclllast shifted, and one man killed, having encountered a g pie in lat. 55 N., 15 W. whi c h th rew th e vesse l on h er b e am ends, and id considerable damage. Sailed—Envoy,. Phi ladelphia. WiIITEHAVEN, Sept. 20.—Wind, W. Arrived— +Cam. brian, Quebec ; Jane, do. , BELFAST, Sept. 19. —Wind, W.N.W. Arrived—. For tuna, Quebec ; Alert, do. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY, 10.30 A. M. Wind W.N.W., moderate, and foggy. Arrived—Tr iton, from New York ; Shenandoah, Philadelphi a ; Devonc, Dort, Apalachicola ; Carolina, Keikiavik ; British Empire, .1 3om bay ; Polio, Porto Rico ; Ystroon, Amsterdam. Off Port -Nicholas Riddle, with loss of topmast and topgallant mast. Y R , A 9 P .I H O ) A M,(BY EUROPEAN AND DE A A M L E , R W ICA ED N N T E E S L D E A G Passed—Constitution from London, for Havre. Anchored—Aparizone, from Shields, for Constantinaiple. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING AT MANCHESTER-TUESDAY. The early part of the day was chiefly occupied with settling the outstanding accounts on Doncaster, and we did not hear a murmur ; everything passed off in the most satisfactory manner. There was a little specula tion on the events decided to-day at Pontefract, Cesare wit l•, and Cambridgeshire Stak e s—the following being the closing prices : CESAREWITCH STAKES. 9 to 1 agst King Pepin (taken). 16 to 1 agst Joe Miller (taken). 20 to 1 agst Nancy (taken). 20 to 1 agst Weathergage (taken). 25 to 1 agst Torment (taken). 25 to 1 agst Cariboo (taken). 25 to 1 agst Nervous (taken). 30 to 1 agst Rosalba (taken). 33 to 1 agst Nutshell (taken). 33 to 1 agst Goorkah (taken). 33 to 1 agst Buckthorn (taken). 40 to 1 agst King of Trumps (taken). 66 to 1 agst Leopold (taken). 66 to 1 agst Richard Primmer (taken). CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES. 12 to 1 agst Orestes (offered). 20 to 1 agst The Hatchet (taken). 25 to 1 agst Seahorse (taken). 40 to 1 agst Umbriel (taken). 50 to 1 agst Glenluce (taken). DERBY. 500 to 20 agst King Tom (taken). 500 to 20 agst Marley Hill (taken.) BEDFORD RACES—TUESDAT. PREPARATION STAKES Of 5 sovs. eac h, added for horses of all d enom i na ti on s ; mares and geldings allowed 31b ; th e w i nner t o be sold for 5 01 . if demanded, &c. Gentl emen r id ers . Once round and a distance. 3 ft, with 20 Mr. Edwy's Captain Flash, 4 yrs, list 41b (Count Batthyany) 1 Mr. Gray's Warbler, 3 yrs, I.ost 51b ....(Mr. Beville) 2 Mr. French's Honesty, 6 yrs list 111 b (Capt. Little) 3 Betting-6 to 4on Captain Flash, who won easily by three-quarters of a length. TWO-YEARS'-OLD PRODUCE STAKES of 25 sovs. each, 10 ft ; Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 41b. Certain allowances. Three-quarters of a mile. Count Batthyany's Star of Surrey, by Harkaway, Bst 41b (W. Abdale) 1 Duke of Bedford's br f by lon, out of Taurina, Bst 41b. (Pettit) 2 Betting-2 to lon the Star of Surrey, which won in. a canter by five lengths. TWO-YEARS'-OLD STAKES Of 10 sovs . each, with 50 added by the Duke of Bedford. Winners extra. Lsst half mile. Hon. G. Ongley's b fby Ascot out of Seaweed, Bst 41b Mr. Mare's f by Rattan, out of Eulogy, .Bst 41b, (S. Rogers) 2 Mr. Knowles's King Alfred, Bst 71b (Hiett) 3 , . The following also ran --Shakspeare, Lady Audr.sy, Camp Stool, Balmoral, Vixen, Tormentor. BEDFORDSHIRE STAKES of 20 sous. each, 10 ft, with 70 added. Two miles. Mr. Mare's Perfidious by Lanercost, 3 yrs, Est 61b (S. Steggles) 1 Mr. Lumley's Tickton, 3 yrs, 7st 21b (Rickards) 2 Mr. Williams's Haco, 3 yrs, 6st 61b (Bunby) 3 The following also ran :—Retail, Ethelwolf, Pug Or rock, Madame Landeau. TOWN STAKES were won by Eccentricity, beating Alabama (second), Grasshopper (third), and three othq!rs. ENTRIES FOR THE QUEEN'S PLATE.—THIS DAY.— Lamartine, Warbler, The Reiver, Truth, Stamford, Tickton, Retail, Herbert, Ethelwolf, Jouvence, Ariosto, Odiham, Hungerford. THE CHOLERA. GENERAL BOARD OF HEALTH—NOTIFICATION. General Board of Health, Whitehall, September 20, 1853. It is the painful duty of the General Board of Health to notify a third visitation of epidemic cholera. This disease, again breaking out in Persia, has extended within the present year over a large portion of Russia, stretching as far northwards as Archangel, on the shores of the Arctic Ocean. It has ravaged Denmark, Nor way, and Sweden, and then developing itself in the north of Germany, it has attacked Stettin, Berlin, Rot terdam, and Hamburg; and subsequently it has ap peared in England, again breaking out on its north-east coast, in the near neighbourhood of the town in which it made its first appearance in this country in 1831. In this wide-spread course it has everywhere over leaped the barriers which quarantine has erected to stay its progress ; and where this means of protection has been most rigidly enforced, it has not only disappointed the expectation of those who have relied upon it as a safeguard, often to the neglect and exclusion of the most important precautions, but has aggravated the evils of the pestilence, and added disastrous consequences of its Own. The experience already obtained of this pestilence at Newcastle, Gateshead, and Hexham is decisive, that where the conditions are favourable to its localisation and development, as is the case in these towns, the disease has lost nothing of its former virulence. In the two former, indeed, the severity of the disease, as far as it has yet extended, has greatly exceeded that of any former visitation, and it has attacked in all those places, as it has abroad, a much larger proportion of the mid dle and higher classes. It is deeply to be lamented that the interval between the last visitation of this pestilence and the present has not been generally employed in effecting a larger amount as improvements in our cities and towns. From such inspections as the General Board have recently been enabled to make of the populous districts, the former seats of the disease, in approhension of its re-appearance, they are compelled to state that there are extensive dis tricts, and even entire towns, in which no perceptible improvement of any kind has been effected. On the other hand, there are instances in which, even where no general permanent works of improvement have been effected, better supplies of.water, extensive flagging and paving, more frequent scavenging, and a more active removal of nuisances in epidemic localities, have been accomplished. Combined and permanent works, involv ing elaborate engineering measures, capable of remedy ing the neglect of years, cannot be effected in a few weeks. But the consciousness of past neglect should stimulate to immediate and resolute exertion, that all which the time requires and which can be done may be done. The results in some instances, even of limited and partial improvements, are highly encouraging. During the present epidemic in Hamburg, which has now been prevailing upwards of six weeks, only six cases of cholera have occurred in the improved parts of the town ; and during the whole of the epidemic in the metropolis in 1849, not a single case of cholera occurred in any one of the model dwellings for the poor, occupied by similar classes of the population, though the pesti lence raged in the districts in which these buildings are situated, and there were instances of two and even four deaths in single houses close to their walls. Even in towns in which the greatest amount of im provement has been effected, and in which works under the Public Health Act are most advanced, much remains to be done, and may be done. Local boards of health are invested under the Public Health Act with ample powers for cleansing, for the removal of nuisances, for preventing the carrying on of unwholesome or noxious trades in such a manner as to injure health, for prevent ing the occupation of cellars as dwelling-houses unless under certain conditions, for preventing the occupation of any dwelling-house which, on the certificate of an officer of health, shall appear to be in such a filthy and unwholesome state as to endanger the health of any person, until such house shall have been properly and effectually whitewashed, cleansed and purified, and for administering the Common Lodging Houses Act, the provisions of which are most important. All those powers should be exercised at the present juncture with extraordinary activity, vigilance, and stringency. But though it may be needful to prosecute the work of cleansing more vigorously than in ordinary periods, yet it should be done under supervision and with extra ordinary care. In removing accumulations of filth pre cautions should be taken for disinfection and for prevent ing the increase of noxious evaporation. The contents of foul drains, sewers, and ditches should in no case be 'spread upon the surface, and no large accumulation of filth should be remo ve d, excepting under the direction of a medical officer. The escape of noxious effluvia is far more dangerous in an epidemic than in an ordinary season. The evil of overcrowding, so general not only in common lodging-houses but in tenements of all descrip tions occupied by the poorer classes, especially by the Irish, an evil preventible and to a considerable extent removable, should be at once and by all practicable means reduced. Wherever local boards of health exist, they should in all cases co-operate with the boards of guardians, and it is believed that the boards of guardians, will, on their part, co-operate with local boards. The existing means for the extraordinary service now required are divided amongst independent local jurisdictions ; medical offi cers in England and Wales being under boards of rot ard un ia d n e s r hweorlilusbl?cf sewage and ar ct, clg e a i n n s g ing un t r to t w o ns, wn commissioners acting under local acts ; and the enforce ment of orders required for the public service being with the magistrates or municipal authorities. It is confi dently expected that a common feeling will give prece dence to the branch of service specially needed on this occasion, and ensure that unity of action which it is the main object of the rules and regulations issued herewith to authorise and promote for the common object. Experience has shown that in the case of the actual outbreak of the epidemic, the chief measures to be relied on for checking its spread are those which prevent over crowding, remove persons from affected houses, and bring the affected population under prompt and proper treatment during the premonitory stage of the disease. During the epidemic of 1849 an organisation for affect ing these objects was brought into operation, the main parts of which were the establishment of a system of house-to-house visitation, the opening of dispensaries and houses of refuge in affected districts for the gra tuitous supply of medicines, the establishment of houses of refuge for the reception of such indigent persons as appeared to be in imminent danger, resident in the most filthy and overcrowded houses, the provision of tempo rary hospitals for the reception of those who could not be properly treated at their own homes, and in some instances the supply of tents for the removal of the most susceptible and destitute classes to a distance from infected localities. The result of this system was, that out of 130,000 premonitory cases brought under its operation, no fewer than 6,000 of which were on the point of passing into the developed stage, only 250 went into the collapsed stage of cholera, or one in 520. But of the 43,737 cases under visitation in the metropolis, including 978 cases on the point of passing into the collapsed stage of cholera, only 52 actually did so—not 1 in 800 ; so that taking together the general result of this extended experience, it appears that the proportion of cases under early treatment which passed from the premonitory into the developed stage varied from 1 in 500 to 1 in SOO. No doubt is now entertained of the efficacy of this system, or of the duty of local authorities to carry it into effect on the very first appearance of this disease in an epidemic form ; and, as none can tell where or how sud denly the pestilence may alight, it is the duty of local authorities to be prepared for the emergency before its arrival. Preparation will be attended with little cost ; the power to act with promptitude and efficiency when the necessity for action arises will be attended with a great economy of money as well as of life. With reference to those precautions against the disease which each individual may take for himself, or the heads of families or establishments for those under their charge, the first in importance are personal and household cleanliness, and the freest ventilation of living and sleep ing room s w ith pure a i r; the purity of the air we breathe being even more essential than the wholesomeness of food and drink. When the disease has actually broken out and become epidemic in any district or locality, then the one essen tial precaution is not to neglect for a single hour any degree of looseness of bowels. This symptom being commonly without pain, and so slight that it is difficult to conceive that it can be of the smallest consequence, naturally leads to neglect, and this neglect has cost the lives of thousands. Were any additional proof of this required it would be found in the events that are now occurring at Newcastle and Gateshead ; all the medical men there bear testimony that premonitory diarrhoea is all but universal, and that life depends on instant atten tion to this symptom. Thus, one physician says, "He lms never yet seen a case without premonitory symptoms ;" another states, " He has found in a great number of instances where the men said they had been first seized with collapse, there had been neglected diarrhoea for 24 or even 48 hours, or longer !" another declares, " In all cases of collapse in vestigated, it is found there bad been neglected diarr hoea." Even in the cases in which death takes place with the greatest rapidity, the suddenness is apparent only, not real ; for the fatal collapse is the final but gra dual result of diarrhoea neglected for several hours, and sometimes entire days. It must, then, be repeated, that in any district in which cholera is epidemic, life may de pend on obtaining prompt and proper relief for painless and apparently trifling looseness of the bowels. The measure of precaution next in importance relates to the proper regulation of the diet. Great moderation, both of food and drink, is absolutely essential to safety during the whole duration of the epidemic period ; an act of indiscretion has been often followed by a severe attack ; intemperance at such a time is fraught with the most extreme danger. During the epidemic of 1849, sudden and fatal attacks of the disease followed imme diately on the indulgence of habits of drinking after the receipt of weekly wages. The intervals between the meals should not be long ; cholera being uniformly found to prevail with extraordinary int e n sity among the classes that observe the protracted fasts common in Eastern and some European countries. The utmost practicable care should be taken against fati g ue, which is a very powerful predisposi ng cause o f the disease. Employers and persons engaged in laborious occupations should endeavour as far as possible so to ar range the amount and time of work as to avoid physical exhaustion. Warm clothing is of great importance. During the present epidemic in Hamburgh, it has been found that incautious exposure to cold and damp has brought on an attack as rapidly as improper food or excess. This pre caution against damp is rendered doubly important by the peculiarity of the present season. Long-continued and excessive rains have in many places surcharged the ground with moisture, especially undrained and low- t SHARE MARKETS.-;THIS DAY.) BRITISH RAILWAYS. RAILWAYS. Aberdeen..... ........ i 1 Nottng. Bost & Eastn. Junc Birnmg. Wolverh. & Stour Valley Birkenhd. Lanesh. dz Cheshire Junet Do. Chesh. & Birk., £5O & £25 Cons Do., Bristol & Exeter Caledonian. Chester & Holyhead Cork and Bandon.... Cork, Black. & Pass. Dublin&Belfast June. Dundee Perth &Aber deen Junction ..... Do. New East Angliar (£25 L. &E.&L.&D.)..... Do., ( O CIB E. & H.).. EaS Counties..... Eastern Union, Class A. late E. U. 5h.... Do., do.. Do., B. & C. East Lancashire East & West Ind. Dk & Birming. June Edinburgh& Glasgow Edinb. and Peebles Edinb. Prth. &Dunde Glasgow & S. Western Great Northern Stk Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stock Gt. Sth. &West. (Ire. ) Great Western Irish South-Easters Lancaster & Carlisle. Do., Thirds Lancasa & Y orkshir_ Do., Fifths Do., Wst. Riding Un. Leeds Northern...... Liv. Crsby. & So uth pt London & Blackwall Lond. Tilb. & Sthend. Lona. Bright. & S. Cst. London & N. Western Do. Fifths Do. ,16/. Sh ,M&8...0 London & S. Western Do., £50........ Do., £4O Lnudrry. &Coleraine Lndudrry. & Ennisk. Manch Shef. &Lincln. Do., Man. &Lin. Un. Michaud Do. Birming. & Derby Midland G. West. (Ir. ) Do. Shares Newcastle &Carlisle Newmark et ...... Do. 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St Eastern Union, Scrip Guar. 6 per cent EastLancash. 6 p.cts. Ediub.Prth.&Dundee 5 per cent Glasgow & S.Western guar. 5 per cent Great Northr 5 p.c. Do. 5 p. c.,Redeem., at 10 D. c. prom Gt. Southn. &Westn. (Ireland) Eighths... Gt. Westn. (Berks Hants Ex. 5 p. c.).: G. West. fixed 4l p Lan. & York. F. £2O, Do., 6 p. c., Stock... London and Brighton Guaranteed 5 p. e... Do. Pref., 5 p. c. St. Do. Convertible, sp. c. , 1852. .. • Do. New Guar. 6 p.c.. Loudon & S. Western ; Con. Thirds Lon(lon(len•y& Coler. Shares Loridy. & Eunis. 6 Sh Manch. ,Shef. , do Liu., .1 Shares ; No. 1 Do. New, 1.110. £6 Mary pt. &Carl. 4p. C Do. 4 , per cent 1 _ Do . mid.Cousol. 6 P. c. St. Do. Cousol. Bristol & Birm. 6 per cent.... Do. Pref. 4z percent. Norfolk Extension... Do. Pref. 56 per ct... Do. Way. Val. 5 p c North British ......... North Staffordshire.. Oxford Worcester & Wolyerh. £15,6 p. c. Do Shrews& Birm. N. G Sbrewsby. F, Chester (Nor. W.Min),B p. C. Do. 5 per cent South Devon Do. New S. Eastern (Reading Ann.,) of Li Os.6d. S. Yorksh.4p.c.Guar. Waterfd.&Kilk.6p.c. York Newcastle and Berwick,4 p.e.Prof Do York & N. Midland H & S. Purch 1031 18 - 6g - 3 5 - sil 1 - lip 1 - Up 131 20 - 21 21 -:- 1 2 3 ,09 - 111 81 81 ei 71 98 102 id P 145 147 •r• •' .. -- 3 - 10 - 11 - 7 - 10 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. RAILWAYS. Leasing Compans. 1 Closing Prices ) Yesterday. PONTEFRACT RACES.-TUESDAY. The PONTEFRACT HANDICAP of 5 sovs. each, with 100 added by the members of the borough, for all ages. One mile and three-quarters. Mr. W. E. Milner na b c Grapeshot, 3 yrs, Est 31b (Ashmall) 1 Mr. Robinson's Billy Richardson, 4 yrs, 6st 71b (Lye) 2 Mr. I'Anson's Braxey, 4 yrs, Est 71b (Hayhoe) 3 Mr. R. Harrison's b c by Melbourne, out of Sally Warfoot, 4 yrs, Est 121 b 4 The following also ran :—Maidstone, Lough Ba.-wn, Master Norton. _ _ _ _ . Betting-5 to 4 agst Sally Warfoot colt, 2to 1 agst Bracy. Won by a length, same between second and third. The CASTLE STAKES of 5 sovs. each, with 25 added. Three-quarters of a mile. Mr. H. Lister's Hotchpot, 2 yrs (501.) (Bendel)) 1 Mr. Baker's Pansy, 3 yrs (301.) (Harrison) 2 Mr. Wilson's Polly Burns, 2 yrs (301.) (Waddington) 3 Hotchpot made all the running, and won easy by three lengths. The GRAND STAND STAKES of 5 sovs. each, with 25 added, for three-yr-olds Bst, four 9st, five 9st 71b, six and aged 9st 101 b. One mile heats. Capt. Reynard's Vinegarette, 3 yrs (201.) 2 1 1 Mr. Ashworth's Killarney, 4 yrs (301.) The SCURRY STAKES of 3 sovs. each, with 20 added, for all ages. Three-quarters of a mile. Mr. T. Elsworth's Solyman, 4 yrs, 7st 31b (Kendell) 1 Mr. J. Marson's The Twin, 5 yrs, 7st 91b (Harrison) 2 Mr. Burke's Nancy Martinson, 4 yrs, 6st 611 b (Waddington) 3 Betting-5 to 4 agst Solyman, 3to 1 agst The Twin. Won by two lengths, easy. ENGLISH WATERING PLACES. Within 20 miles of the ancient city of Norwich, and on the most easterly part of the coast stands Lowestoft, till within the last few years only a remote fishing vil lage, but now a flourishing seaport town carrying on an extensive trade with the northern part of Europe. It has been raised to its present eminence through the spirit and enterprise of S. M. Peto, Esq., M.P. This gentleman has spent a considerable fortune here, and his liberality in all matters connected with the pro sperity and welfare of the place, is without parallel. The Old Town forms the north point of Lowestoft, and is divided from the New T own , or S ou th Lowestoft, by an extensive harbour. Th e ra pid : improvement in the trade of Lowestoft h as g iven the trades men of the Oid Town an oppor t un ity of rebuild ing their shops, and th e p r i nc ip a l street now pre sents a really modern and h an d some a ppearance. The new town, which has spru ng up as if by magic, is situate contiguous to the railway-st a ti on , an d is approached by a swing-bridge across the h ar b our . Vi s itors are struck by the beauty of the scen e w hi c h h er e p:resents itself, and perhaps on no part of th e E ng li s h c oast can the eye rest upon a finer prospect. The houses are well arranged, elegant in design, and admirably adapted for internal comfort. The Marine-parade has a beautiful sea view in front, and a fine extent of country is visible in ate rear. The Marine•villas, with their drives and garden plots, are tastefully laid out, but the great attraction of the place is the magnificent Esplanade, allowed to be the finest promenade on the eastern coast. From here you have an extensive view of the German Ocean, and, perhaps, in no part of England is there to be seen so many ships passing and repassing at one time than at this point. The piers are handsomely constructed,- and run a great distance into the sea. The Royal Hotel is a fine building, capable of making up 80 beds. It is conducted by Mr. S. Howett, upon the most recherche principles, and is generally full of visitors dur ing the summer months. During the last year vast improvements have been made for the further accommo dation of visitors who flock to this delightful place, and we hear many other improvements are projected, one of which is a new terrace facing the sea, to be called the Wellington Parade. Strangers visiting Lowestoft should apply to Mr. W. Toogood, the principal house agent, in order to meet with no disap pointment in comfortable accommodation. We were recommended to apply to this gentleman for a house, and feel happy to testify to his lively atten tion and kindness to visitors with whom he is con nected. With such accommodation, with such civility and attention as we had the pleasure of meeting with from all classes, our prediction is that Lowestoft will become one of the most popular and fashionable water ing places on the English coast. The rides and drives in the neighbourhood are beautiful in the extreme, and the air and salubrity of the place have been only lately discovered to be very beneficial to the majority of con stitutions. We advise our fellow pleasure seekers to take a trip to this fashionable spot, and we believe that our remarks will be fully confirmed. A VISITOR, AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS. -- It appears that the ex periment sanctioned by the present Government with a view to the ultimate introduction of a complete annual system of agricultural statistics has made some progress, and has furnished evidence of the general willingness of landowners and farmers to lend their assistance towards the objects aimed at. The secretary of the Highland Agricultural Society of Scotland has transmitted to thd- Board of Trade returns of the specific condition of agri; cultural operations in three counties of Scotland, namely, Roxburgh, Haddington, and Sutherland, on the 20th of May, 1853. Each county is divided into certain dis tricts, comprising 'several parishes, and the number of acres under different kinds of crop is precisely specified. Thus, there are columns for wheat, barley, oats, rye, beans, vetches, turnips, potatoes, mangold, carrots, cab bage, flax, turnip - seed , alternate g rasse s , improved per manent grass enclosures, and irrigated meadows. The number of acres not in crop is also stated, whether con sisting of bare fallow, sheep walks, houses , gardens, roads, fences, &c., woods and waste ; and, finally, the a mount of stock is described and classified under the designation of horses, milk caws, other cattle, ewes, tups, wethers, and swine. The whole of th e t a bl es are concise and simple, and the totals for each county are discernible at a glance. All the information con tained in them was voluntarily given by the occupiers of the land, except in three instances, where the sche dules were filled in by the enumerator. After the har vest, it is proposed to proceed in a similar manner with an estimate of the crops. STEAM-BOILER EXPLOSION. —On Monday morning a fearful explosion occurred at the Low Fold-mill,' Bank, Leeds, belonging to Messrs. G. Hammond and Son, flax and tow spinners, doing considerable damagi to the premises, severely scalding ten or a dozen of t oe bands employed, and slightly injuring more. THE CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE CLYDE.—A skiff match for 401., and the championship of the Cly e , is appointed to take place over the Glagow Regatta . Course, on Thurshay next, between Mr. J. B. M'Neill, secretary of the Regatta Club, and Mr. W. Brown, of St. Rollox. lying districts, placing in many instances the land con tiguous to towns, and beyond the usual range of town drainage, almost in the condition of marshes. The exha lations arising from a surface thus saturated often with water, holding decomposing matter in solution, spread to the towns and affect the inhabitants, however well drained the immediate sites of the towns may be. The General Board were so apprehensive that disease mould be extensively produced by this unusual and dan• gerous state of a large portion of the country (an appre hension which wag subsequently realised by the breaking out of disease, allied in character to cholera, in sixty towns), that in their notification, issued in December, 1852, they represented to local authorities that this calamity afforded a special occasion for administering extraordinary assistance to the poor, to enable them to keep large fires in their rooms, to protect themselves from cold and damp by warm clothing, to sustain their strength by a solid and nutritive diet, and to counteract the predisposition to disease induced under these pecu liar circumstances, by suitable tonics and other remedies, under medical direction. This representation was made when there was a threatening of the return of cholera ; . . it is now amongst us, and the General Board would re mind the affluent, that the opportune supply to their poorer neighbours and dependants of wholesome food, warm clothing, and bedding, and even such remedies (to be always in readiness) as their medical attendant may recommend for loosenese of bowels, is charity in the truest sense, and may be the means of saving many lives. It is also much to be desired, and the General Board would strongly recommend, that the higher classes should co-operate with the clergy, who have done so much to promote the object of the legislature, under the Public Health Act, in making frequent visits among the poor, and impressing upon them the im portance of following the instructions here laid down, with reference to which there is a perfect accordance between the College of Physicians and the General Board of Health. In conclusion, after the large experience of this dis ease which has b een obtained since the General Board of Health issued their first notification (1848), they can now repeat with greater confidence what they then urged, that, formidable as this malady is in its intense form and developed stage, there is no disease against which it is in our power to take such effectual precau tion, both as collective comm un iti es and private indi viduals, by attention to it in its first or premonitory stage, and by the removal of those agencies which are known to propagate the spread of all epidemic diseases, or where that may be impracticable by removal from them. Though, therefore, the issues of events are not in our hands, there is ground for hope, and even confi dence, in the sustained and resolute employment of the of the means of protection which experience and sci ence have now placed within our reach. By order of the General Board of Health, ;Signed) CHARLES MACAULAY, Secretary. NEWCASTLE. DEATHS IN NEWCASTLE, SEPT. 19. Cholera .... Diarrhoea.. DEATHS IN GATESHEAD. Cholera .... Diarrhoea.. Two of the most overcrowded churchyards were closed on Saturday, on the official requisition of Mr. Grainger, and three others will be closed under the Pro vincial Interments Act of last session by Dr. Sutherland, the officer charged by the Home-office, under the act, to inspect and report on burial-grounds. One of the most overcrowded of the many overcrowded lodging houses having been certified by Alr. Grainger and Dr. Hector Gavin (who has been sent to Newcastle by the General Board to assist Mr. Grainger) to be unfit for human habitation. has been closed, and its inmates re• moved to the House of Refuge. It is to be ear nestly hoped that the same course will be taken with other houses of the same character, when the tents which were yesterday despatched, have been made avail able. An aunt of the mayor of the town has fallen a victim to the epidemic, which among other indications of its unprecedented virulence, attacks the upper and middle as well as the lower classes. Mr. Grainger arrived yesterday in London for consultation with the General Board of Health, leaving Mr. Hector Gavin in charge of the arrangements at Newcastle, with Dr. Waller Lewis, both of whom had very great experience under the General Board in the outbreak of 1843 and 1849. DURHAM. Although we have been entirely free from cholera, our close proximity to Newcastle and other places where the disease has appeared, and the appearance in the at mosphere of myriads of most troublesome and peculiar looking flies, which have in other places preceded an outbreak of cholera, have aroused the local board of health, and the board of guardians, each of whom have taken precautionary measures against the epidemic. District commissioners have been appointed, who have completed a thorough inspection of every lane and yard in the town, with a view to the discovery and removal of nuisances of 'whatever description. During Sunday and yesterday, the streets were flushed, houses whitewashed inside and out, yards and lanes sluiced with water by the city fire-engine, and to-morrow lime will be thrown on the surface of the streets, and chloride of lime gratuitously distributed to the poor, to be used for the disinfection of privies, cesspools, &c., Hand bills and placards have been issued, informing the pub lic where, in the event of cholera breaking out, or pre monitory symptoms appearing, gratuitous medical aid may be obtained, and recommending the following pre cautions and instructions :—" 1. All persons attacked with looseness of the bowels, however slight, either with or without pain, are most strongly urged to apply without delay for medical relief. Looseness of the bowels is generally the forerunner of the cholera, and at this stage it may in most cases be readily and at once prevented. 2. Keep your houses dry, and your windows and doors open as much as possible ; remove stagnant water and all offensive matter from around your dwellings. 3. Carefully observe personal cleanliness ; avoid wet cloth ing and sudden chill ; keep the surface of the body warm, and wear a flannel belt round the stomach and loins, as this is found the best preventive of the loose ness of the bowels which generally precedes cholera. Expose bedding and clothing to the sun and air during the heat of the day. 4. Use plain and wholesome food, avoiding articles of diet known to produce bowel com plaints, such as fruits and uncooked vegetables, espe cially abstain from acid drinks, fermented and spirituous liquors. A careful observance of these precautions and instructions will materially tend to ensure general good health, which is the best safeguard against an attack of cholera." One of the committee reports one case of cholera as having occurred yesterday in a densely-popu lated part of the city, the victim being a man who had fled from Newcastle to avoid the disease. The borough magistrates are sitting en permanence, to receive com plaints respecting nuisances and order their removal. LIVERPOOL. Another case of cholera has occurred here ; but it is satisfactory to know that in this as in all the other cases we have had occasion to notice, the person attacked had just arrived from the continent, where the disease is at present raging. A. man reached Liverpool on Saturday last from Hamburg, and took up his residence at the Emigrants' Home. On Sunday he was attacked with diarrhoea, and yesterday morning it was found that he was labouring under cholera. He was immediately re moved to the hospital. The general mortality of the borough continues below the average. MANCHESTER. The General Purposes Committee of the Salford Town Council met yesterday morning, and determined to take the most vigorous steps to put into immediate operation all the clauses of the Nuisances Removal and Diseases Prevention Act, together with all the powers of the local acts for the same purposes, in order to secure a proper sani tary condition of the borough. A special committee was appointed for the purpose, with full powers to engage addi tional servants and officers, and to take the entire control within the limit over which the council has jurisdiction. At present the two boroughs are considered healthy, and there is less predisposition to disease of any kind than there was at the last visitation, the people being tolerably well fed and clothed in general. It is said that the medical men of Manchester and Salford are to meet to-day to consider what course they, as a body, shall adopt. WOOLWICH. Two cases have occurred on board the Dreadnought hospital-ship, moored off Greenwich, and luinpers were sent up yesterday to lay moorings for the Hebe re ceiving-ship, which has been lent by the Admiralty for the purpose of being used as an auxiliary hospital-ship for cases of cholera. A severe case also occurred to one of the men of the Woolwich division doing duty at Deptford, but he has fortunately recovered. AN EXCELLENT SUGGESTION.—Mr. George Nasmyth, C.E., makes the following suggestion with reference to one means of rendering the air pure in our streets, lanes, &c. " I would propose," he says, " that along with the water used for watering the streets there should be a few pounds of chloride of lime put into each cartfull of water, and, in addition to this, a small quantity Of sul phuric acid, so as to combine with the lime, and thereby set the chlorine gas free. The purifying properties of this gas are well known, where fevers of the worst kind rage. The object attained by this means will be the great surface of ground covered with the disinfecting liquid, and, therefore, the great quantity of air rendered much more wholesome. The same mixture I would have used in one or more of the fire-engines, and by leading the hose into the confined courts and passages, would in a great measure purify them at a small cost." IMPROVEMENT IN THE ROYAL NAVY.—A late Par liamentary return affords evidence of a progressive im provement in the conduct of the seamen in the navy. In 1848 the punishments were 1,363, and the lashes 40,545 ; in 1852 the punishments had fallen to 578, and the lashes to 17,571 ! R. Osborne, Esq., one of the Secretaries of the Admiralty, in a recent communi cation to the National Temperance Society, remarks, that the Lords of the Admiralty " have great pleasure in stating that intemperance and punishment are both greatly diminishing in consequence of the " Amended Regulations ;", which, as our readers may be aware, involved not only the permission to use tea instead of intoxicating liquors, but likewise the reduction of the former allowance of, spirits or wine one-half, with a pecuniary compensation fur this reduction ; and a fur ther compensation where the reduced allowance was also given up. These and other judicious arrangements, tending to abate the facilities for indulgence in drink, have been followed by results in which every friend of the sailor must rejoice.—United Service Gazette, (Sept. 10th, 1853.) 1.00 all 100 5 100 all 100 6 100 100 6 9 par .•. 145 147 . I id Psr --- ... a~ 108 - 110 24 25 lA] 10 16i —17 i 13f-- 141 par— ip 25 - 254 1 19 - 20 98 - 102 5 -5; id Fl FOREIGN. 10 5 ;Antwrp & Rotterdam 2 5 3 Belgian East. Juuct. 14 20 all 'Charleroi & Erquelin 131 141 20 10 Dijon and Besnon 1 - 2 20 8 Dutch Rhenish 20 all ,East Indian 3 44 20 1 I Do. Extension - A p 5 all Gt. Indian Peninsula 11 p 20 1.0 Gd. junct. of France 2 204 202 Gt. Westn. of Canada Shares 1 id 5 3 Lucca and Pistoja, 5 per cent. pref. — id 20 il5 .Luexembourg ..... 61 10 10 ;Do. (Railway) 3i 41 5 2 ,D 0 5 3 ,'Do. (Canal) — 11 10 4 D 0 .6 p. cent prof. 1 d 20 9 ; Lyons & Mediterran. 20 71. Madras — 1 p • 33A 29 M ar ia Antonia 10 10 IDo. New — 20 all Namur & Liege (with interest 6l 71 20 all ,Do. (ex interest) — •• • 16 all 'Northern of France 351 35/ 341 20 all 201. 3p. c. Bds [fmy B.&Ams.Shs.] 10 all ,NorwegianTrnk Prof 7 8 20 10 !Paris and Lyons l7/ 17' p 26. 20 all :Paris and Orleans 4B —5O 20 all ; Paris and Rouen 4l 43 20 all Paris and Strasbourg 371 37/ 57i 6i 20 4 !ParisCaen&Cherbrg. 34 4r , ' 104 104'Quebec & Richmond a 20 all !Rouen and Havre 20 all Sambre and Meuse B4 9 10 4 Do. 5i per cent. pref 20 6 'Southern of France 3l 4p 9i 20 2s. jUpper India Scrip 8i all West Flanders 3l 4 10 10 ;Do. 5 per c. Pref ...d 20 10 iWestern of France 9 -- 10 p 10 2 Nest. of Switzerlad id 26 9 jNew Zealand...._ 3 2a all all 10 109 100 100 1(10 100 100 all 100 10 all 1 ; ', all 48 . - ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE IN DUBLIN. Sunday evening a dreadful occurrence took place in a house of ill fame in French-street. A gentleman at tempted the life of a girl living in No. 24 in the above street, and immediately after committed suicide by shooting himself. It appears that shortly before 4 o'clock, some boys, playing near the house, which is kept by a person calling herself Fanny Stuart, were startled by the sharp report of a pistol-shot, immediately succeeded by the screams of a woman, and in a few minutes after by a second shot. They gave the alarm to the constable on the beat, who immediately pro ceeded to the house, and, having been admitted , was told that both shots had been fired by a gentleman who was then in the two pair back bedroom. The constable went upstairs, and, on entering the room, was horrified at seeing the body of a man stretched at full length on the floor, and bleeding slightly from a bullet wound in the left breast. Although five minutes had scarcely elapsed from the time the second shot was heard until the arrival of the policeman life was quite extinct. A portion of the shirt around the wound, and the left collar of the waistcoat, which was unbuttoned, were on fire, so it would appear the muzzle of the pistol must have been close to the breast when the fatal shot was fired. The girl, Emma Fawcit, a native of England, whom the unfortunate deceased had attempted to destroy be fore terminating his own existence, was found lying on a sofa, in the drawing-room, bleeding from several wounds inflicted by small shot, scattered over the right side of her person from the temple to the knee; the light morning dress which she wore was all stained with blood. When assistance was procured she was placed on a car and conveyed to Mercer's Hospital, where she was re ceived by the resident surgeon, by whom she was treated in the kindest and mos t s kilf u l manner. Having made a careful examination of the wounds, which are nume rous, he declared that none of them were likely to prove dangerous. As soon as she had recovered conscious ness she made a statement which, if correct, shows her escape from death to have been almost mi raculous. She states that she left deceased sitting in the bedroom to go down to the drawing-room, and had been absent but a short time when she heard him calling her on the stairs. She went out and saw him on the landing beside the lobby window looking towards the drawing-room door. She was going up to him, and had ascended some three or four steps, when he stepped forward with a pistol in his right hand and instantly fired at her ; the charge, which appears to have been of small shot, striking her in a slanting direction downwards. She immediately turned and rushed back into the drawing-room exclaiming, " Oh, lam shot !" and then became unconscious. In the course of 15 or 20 minutes after the tragical occurrence the street in front of the house in which it took place was literally blocked up with crowds of persons anxiously inquiring into the circumstances, or listening attentively to the various and conflicting rumours that were being circu lated on the subject. The proprietress of the establishment, Fanny Stuart, gave the inspector the following account of the deceased : —He came to her house late on the night of the 30th of August, the day after the arrival of the Queen. He was shabbily dressed, and seemed to have been some time in the rain which fell during the • ht. He asked for something t o eat, and went down to the kitchen, where he saw a gent l eman sitting at the fire, to whom ' have 100 he said, " I supp ose you are on the spree to-night. If you want money I can giv e you some, sovereigns." Mis s St uart did not think as I this state ment was correct, as sh e only saw eight or n i ne Bove • reigns in his purse when he drew it out. He attached himself to Emma Fawcitt, and remained until 5 o'clock in the morning, when he went out, but returned in about five or ten minutes, and said he wou ld not go, as he thought he was late for the train ; he lived with the • :Arne girl ever since, seldom going out at first, and lat terly not at all, and whenever he did it was in a covered car. On the 31st of August he went to the King's bridge terminus for some portmanteaus he had left there, and in two or three days alter he brought in more luggage, including a large trunk, which he n e ver o p e n e d in the house, and whic is still corded, and so great is its weight that two men can scarcely carry it ; he ap peared to have a considerable sum of money—all in gold --which be spent in the most lavish manlier, purchasing for the women in the house, and particularly fur Emma Fawcitt, various and costly,articies of dress ; notwith standing his great extravagance, he has left after him a bag filled with sovereigns, which was found in a closet off his bed-room by the police ; he was frequently ques tioned as to where he came from, and who he was, but his replies were often evasive, always unsatisf ac t or y an d contradictory. The n i g ht o f his arrival, he said he was a veterinary surgeon, attached to the Queen's establish ment, and subsequently he stated that he had been some time in Australia ; the name he gave was Webster, which, if not his real name, was one he appears to have travelled under, for on the railway labels pasted on his luggage is " Daniel H. Webster, passenger to Dublin." Miss Stuart stated, in reply to the inspector, that she never saw the deceased drunk, nor did she ever knew him to have any quarrel with Emma Faw citt ; that, on the contrary, he seemed very much attached to her. He bought her several dresses, and, among other articles, an accordion, upon which he was teaching her to play. About an hour before he perpetrated the dreadful act which so suddenly hurried him into eternity, he was giving her instruction in the air of "There's nae luck about the house." Emma Fawcitt's statement at the hospital differs from Miss Stuart's in one respect. The latter says she never saw the deceased drunk, while the former alleges that he was seldom sober, and that during the last two days he was constantly intoxicated, and was becoming quite insane in his conduct and manner. In the account given by Miss Stuart, she stated that when the first shot was fired, all the women were in the drawing-room excepting Miss Fawcitt, who instantly rushed in exclaiming, " Oh, lam shot ! lam shot !" and then fainted. She (Miss Stuart) thought he had gone mad, and fearing he would murder them all she locked and barricaded the door, and called for help. This had been scarcely done when the second shot was heard, and she thought it had been fired at some of the servants. The police found on the dressing-table several pistols, and beside them a bag of bullets, together with a quantity of powder. The pistols are quite new, and of a very su perior description ; the maker's name is " Richardson, Lord-street, Liverpool." A considerable quantity of wearing apparel, of the best style and quality, was lying about. The deceased is of the middle size, slightly made, and of a sallow complexion ; his face is much worn, and would indicate a life of hardship or dissipation ; he might be about 35 years of age, but looked somewhat older, from having lost some of his teeth, and wearing a wig ; for it is worthy of remark that his hair, which is dark brown, is slightly grown, having been recently shaved, which he accounted for to Miss Fawcitt by stating that it had been done in hospital, where he was treated for an attack of glanders, which he took from contact with a diseased horse. A miniature of himself, enclosed in a handsome morocco leather case, which he presented to the girl Fawcitt, is a faithful likeness. An inquest was to be held on Monday on the body by Mr J. E. Hyndman." THE INQUEST. The inquest on the body of the wretched man was held on Monday. The body was found laying on its back, at the foot of the bed, which was in disorder. A table beside the bed was covered with broken glasses and lemonade bottles. In an inner dressing-room was strewn a quantity of new wearing apparel. Five pistols were found on the table. Some cards of a commercial house were found in a pocket-book of the deceased. After hearing evidence, the jury found "that the de ceased, while labouring under a temporary derangem en t of mind, on the day previous, discharged a pistol at a female named Emma Fawcitt, in the house, 24, French street, and that in a few minutes afterwards he fired a pistol into his left lung, which caused his death." The only important witnesses were the two females, Stuart and Fawcitt, but they did no t t h row any ad ditional light on the melancholy catastrophe. NARROW ESCAPE.-- -One of the most remarkable in stances on record of escape from fatal injury occurred on Saturday last at Sh e ffi e ld, at the building works in pro gress near the canal wharf. A series of large and lofty arches is being constructed' there as foundation of the of the intend e d new gdod ' s warehouses in connection with the Victoria Railway station. Seven arches had been completed, and the eigtbth and last arch on the side next to the railway was about to be turned. The whole fabric was of stone, and Was of a most substan tial character. On Saturday afternoon, shortly after dinner, three maoons and four labourers were at work on the seventh arch, which they had just keyed in and completed, when they were obliged to retreat and seek shelter from a thunder -storm, accompanied by heavy rain. No sooner had they descended from the arch and reached the ground adjacent, than the entire arch on which they had been working fell in with a tremendous crash. This circumstance is regarded by 'the workmen a: one of the • most extraordinary instances of "hair breadth 'scape." they ever knew. Sometimes there have been as many as 15 men working on the arch at the same time. The only way of accounting for the falling of the arch is the supposition that the perpendi cular timbers were forced out of their place by the light ning. • [ADVERTISEMENT.]—THE CHOLERA IN ENGLAND. — (To the Editor of the Sun.)—Sir,---It would appear that doctors and boards of health are as much at sixes and sevens as ever, upon tie treatment to be pursued, either as a preventative or cure, by parties attacked with cholera. Now, the public should understand that diar rhoea, the precursor of cholera, should, like any other disease, be treated by an efficient vegetable purgative, such as Morison's Vegetable 'Universal Medicine. Here lies the great secret of cure, at least, if the testimony of Mr. Thomas Hudson, now residing at No. 46, Union street, Portsea, and, also that of Mr. Thomas Gardner, of 18, Lawrence-street, Thshopwearmouth, is to be received. It is un questionable that in the year 1832 both these parties cured and saved thousands from cholera solely by Morison's Pills, of the B r iti s h College of Health, New-road, London. The report from these two parties „ can be seen i n t h e second volume of " Morisonia, page 636 and 397. What the public require is some cheap remedy to which the may have immediate recourse without the payment of never-ending fees to doctors. We now think it highly important to state that in a letter just received from our agent at Madras, Mr. R. L. Pereira, dated the 6th of August last, he states that Mr. J. Thompson, of the indigo works at Cuddapah,, mentions the cure from the bite of a cobra de capello solely by Morison's Vege table Universal Medicine. We ourselves had no doubt that such a cure might be affected, and we feel delighted that the fact is now proved. It is a subject w or t h y of a commission of i nqu i r y by the Government. —Signed, The Members of the British College of Health, New-road, London, for and on behalf of the Society of Hygeists.— Dated this 19th Sept., 1853. There ace' n sible otion tha t ad be were I him there Iton title ncii. and a. of nly the ut, 25 25 St. 50 St. 10 St. St. Paid' 100 18i 100 100 all all all al 1 11 1100 114 all all all 1001 100 12 1 100 42?-, 34- 17 6 4 6 76 all 100 all 3 100 100 100 100 100 21s. 1 100 20 11 100 Iti 6 11 , 1 121 • 1 ~ji ~is d I