The Sun. — London, England, 1853-09-23 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-L ANE. Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. LAST NINE NIGHTS of Mr. GUSTAVUS V. BROOKE. THIS EVENING, SkFT. 24 Will be performed THE STRANGER. Characters by Messrs. G. V. Brooke, Davenport, Leslie, Moorhouse, A. Younge, Belton, and Edgar; Mesdames Vickery, Featherstone, and Belton. To conclude with TEE FOUNTAIN OF BEAUTY, in which Miss Featherstone and Miss E. Ormond will appear. Reduced prices as usual. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHL Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster —Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, SEPT. 22, Will be performed A DESPERATE_GAME. Supported by Mr . Murray and Miss Woolgar. After which, will be presented SARDANAPALUS. To conclude with THE CA.P.LP AT CHOBHAM, ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. William Cooke. The unanimous voice of the public Press has pronounced the New Classical Burlesque to have reached the acme of perfection. No spectacle produced at the Maphitheatre has ever created so great a sensation. The Dresses and appointments have met with un qualified approbation, while the Classical Groupings and Grand Ballet are nightly received with demonstrations of delight from fashionab e and crowded audiences. Mr. Cooke will (by desire) Introduce his highly-trained Barb steed, whose matchless per formance is pronounced perfect. Miss Emily Cooke will continue her elegant Equestrian Act on a rapid steed, concluding with her wonderftll Feat of Leaping through 16 Balloons. Continuation of the Battle of Waterloo. THIS EVENING, Sz?v. 22, And during the week, will be presented (the 11th time) the New Classical Burlesque, entitled JUPITER'S DECREE, AND THE FALL OF PHATON; or, THE FIERY COURSERS OF THE SUN, with its magnificent Tableaux, military evolutions, and grand ballet. To be followed by Mr. W. Cooke's Scenes in the CIRCLE, in which that matchless wonder, Miss Emily Cooke, will appear on her rapid Courser and Marvellous Flight through 16 Balloons. Concluding with (84th time) THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO. Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W West. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. LIST WEEK OF THE SEASON. THIS EVENING, SEPT. 22, The Brilliant Routine of Entertainments on this occasion will include the Panorama of CHUSAN, splendid MENAGERIE. First Exhibition of the rare Baboon, "liamadryas," Promenading capa risoned Elephants. EXHIBITION of the MARINE AQUARIUM, a Collection of Sea and Fresh Water Fish in large Glass Tanks. Vocal and Instrumental CONCERT. Two favourite Songs by Miss Poole, the popular English Vocalist. The whole concluding with THE " FEAST OF LANTERNS , " brilliant FIREWORKS, and EXPLOSION of CHINESE WAR JUNKS. - Concert at Six. Fireworks at Nine. Admission, Is. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THUS DAY —Morning 7 Cain. after 5 I Evening 23 min.aft. 5 To•Mottaow —Morning 41Imin. after 5 1 Evening 58 min.aft. 5 THE WEATHER.—Sum Orrin, Sam 22. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 67 —highest since noon yesterday. 57—lowest this morning and during the night. 62—this day at noon. BAROMETER, 29.84. Wm, S.W.— Light breeze, and cloudy weather. Rain in the night. 0 0 74 LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1853. Lord BYRON'S prediction is being wonderfully fulfilled nowadays when Freedom's banner, torn, but flying— " Streams like a thunder-cloud against the wind"— that political tornado in which, here and there, something better than a Ministerial straw indi cates the point of the compass from which the hurricane has emanated. Every one feels more or less sensitively, like JOHN JARNDYCE, that just now the wind is decidedly in the Fast. Let us hope before long our rulers will prove that, if they cannot with HAMLET, when the wind is in the east, " Know a hawk from a hand-saw," they can recognise at least the difference between an honourable war and a disgraceful pacification. Occurrences are intimating more and more dearly every day the real tendency of these pro tracted negotiations. Occurrences not in one quarter alone, but in all directions indiscrimi nately. Everything assures the impartial spec tator of these events-of-the-hour, that confusion has alone resulted from the miserable attempt at compromise adventured upon by the Vienna Con ference. It is obvious that the warlike passions of Turkey have been only the more effectually aroused by the recent effort of the Four Powers to bring about her immediate degradation. Mean while it becomes apparent that doubts and differ ences are springing up in the bosom of the Con ference itself—so that we are simultaneously re ceiving rumours of the withdrawal of Austria from the thankless labours of mediation, and of the SULTAN being called upon by his subjects, either to declare war against Russia or to abdi cate his throne—the Feast of Bairam being allowed him as the limit of his choice in the alternative. Nearer home we have heard the Leader of the Commons animating the enthusiasm of the burghers of Greenock by the utterance of fervently patriotic sentiments, while we have seen the Prime Minis ter still holding long private interviews in Lon don with his Excellency the Russian Ambassador. The opinions entertained upon the important question at issue by the Emperor NAPOLEON 111., are well known by this time to the majority : besides which, it is remembered that the foreign administration in the councils of that able and energetic Prince is a statesman no less eminent, no less energetic, no less experienced than M. DROUYN DE L'Fluvs. With regard to the Sultan, ABD-lIL-MEDJID, it cannot be over looked that his Royal arduor is sympathised with by the manly policy of REDSCHID PACHA, the most enlightened statesman in Turkish dominions. While, in reference to her Britannic MAJESTY, it must continue matter for earnest gratulation among Englishmen that the Court at Balmoral is opportunely attended at this juncture by Vis count PALMERSTON. Grievous blunders there have been hitherto in the conduct of this great Eas tern Question, but those blunders may still, by adroitness and promptitude, in some measure be rectified. The ignominy resulting from them may never be altogether effaced. The pusillanimity of our conduct towards the Sublime Porte, cannot very speedily be forgotten. The baseness of our subserviency to the AUTOCRAT must long remain a blot upon the national escutcheon. But the odium accruing to us from all this may still, even now, at the eleventh hour, be diminished. For, happily, the p ost of Premier, unlike that of Earl Marshal, is not hereditary. And has not Turkey still vigour in her institutions, and enthusiasm in her population ? And is not France still ruled by a may not th e destinies ofy a NAPOLEON ? England b e s till influen ce d b y the genius, and the energy, and the patriotism of a PALMERSTON? Within a week of each other two ex-Ministers, a Chancellor of the E xche q uer, and a Solicitor_ General at this time la st y ear, have been adorn ing agricultural dinners with their eloquence. Both of them orators of high mark, and both co unty Members. One a Knight of the Shire for Fat Suf folk, and the other for Buckinghamshire, the meet ings of whose respective Agricultural Associations they honoured, and deemed themselves honoured, by attending. At this dull season, when all domestic news of interest seems to have fled to the grouse and the partridges, some " coming out " was almost hoped for from two such practised speakers, and two such Farmers' Friends. The occasion seemed opportune. Borough Members had just been rehearsing their public deeds to their con stituents and glorying in them ; and here were two prominent Agricultural Members comfortably ensconced, at the upper end of the chief table of an Agricultural dinner, yet not a whisper of allu sion to the past Parliamentary conflicts was heard from the lips of either chief. These were meetings not to rehearse the merits of Members of Parliament, but to reward the merits of farmers and of the rustic swains and damsels. Polities are by rule forbidden. And though the re have been times (there mus t, we o know, be exceptions establish political fervour wouldwould eff any rule) when i v e esce, yet when "least o r said, soonest mended," then the the rule be c o mes ver y convenient. So the uncharitable the more geni al ass ure us that discourse; if ten month.'" o political had been bored with some n ine or squa bbles and battles, we too should gladly obey a rule which debar red us from the wearisome and ey threadbare topics. In East Suffolk a Noble speaker, the Earl of STRADBROOKE, did not, according to the Ti mes, deserve a prize for historical exactness in his state- THE SUN, LONDON , FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 23, 1853, ments respecting Currency, Bullion, and Corn ; I according to himself ho did. We must decline the umpireship. The Earl, however, by his re mark that emigration was arrived at a pitch which needed to be checked, and by proposing as the means, " improving the habitations of the poor, and erecting them in the vicinity of those places where their labour was required," suggested to our minds whether another set of prizes might not be proposed by Agricultural Associations. Some of these institutions have already work men's prizes for the best-kept cottages and gardens. What will the Associations say to landlords' prizes for the best-built cottages and largest gardens ? It would be, in fact, a prize for promoting morality in the relations between the sexes amongst their workmen, and the cleanliness which would save much sickness, widowhood, and pauperism. Landlords' prizes for the best farm ing premises, the most improving leases, the great est freedom from game, and for political non interference with their tenants, might be included in the list ; and perhaps the landlords fortunate enough to win the subscription medal would to the dinners with a pride not inferior to that with which Mr. DISRAELI'S prizeman would walk come into church with his buttons. gree n coat and Association Sir FIT7MOY KELLY regards the causes of the present prosperity, which he holds to be emigra tion and gold, as but temporary (differing herein from Mr. DUPRE, Mr. DISRAELI'S colleague for Bucks), and therefore wisely exhorts farmers to rely upon their own energy and the mechanical skill of the RANSOMS and GARRETTS. Lucky would it h a ve been for Sir FITZROY h a d suc h ad vice been his only advice. S ome grey h ea d s and shining foreheads were d ou btl ess p resen t which felt rather hot under constrained silence as they remembered certain old Protec tionist harangues, not much more than a year ago, and who would have shaken hands after dinner much more heartily with the barrister, had he but been one of the immortal fifty-three. However, byegones must now be byegones, and Sir FITZROY KELLY, they will think, may still use fully watch the case for the East Suffolk farmers. The great majority present happily well under stood that the Legislature, in future, can neither injure them nor help them, except by emancipat ing, to the utmost, that commerce upon the ex tent of which the consuming power of the farmers' customers depends. Farmers will soon under stand that even an India Bill deeply concerns them. Abundance of raw cotton from India, and plentiful Indian demands on Manchester looms, mean good customers for flour and meat in Man chester cottages, and good prices for farmers. Agriculture and commerce now most certainly " row in the same boat," and even Suffolk far mers will soon fully understand this. At the Bucks meeting Mr. DISREALI tasked his genius to the effort, vain according to PALEY, of refuting a sneer. Some graceless journals have satirised, lampooned, and sneered at the 50s. and 30s. prizes for bringing up large families without parish relief. The subject is doubtless a most tempting one for banter, and though Mr. DISRAELI did his best in defence of the " humble rewards which gratify the humble," we can hardly say that he has quite reconciled us to the particular prize at which the profane of the press and the towns will laugh. Prizes for skill are old enough, and no doubt stimulating. We have witnessed ploughing matches, hedging and ditching matches even, prizes for the best corn stack, &c., and felt a deep interest in such reasonable rustic contests. They are obviously calculated to improve the quality of rural work, but there is plainly some thing different, jesting aside, in a prize to the labourer blessed with a fruitful vine, and nume rous olive branches, whose vineyard and oliveyard have cost the parish nothing. Suppose the man's merit is pure love of independence. To us, re warding a man for maintaining his independence to the uttermost, is very like rewarding a woman for maintaining the point of female honour. Hence, it is almost an avowal that so severe are the temptations of the agricultural labourer to sacrifice his independence, that it has become an artificial virtue of the highest order. Per haps it was so before the New Poor Law ; since then (and most of these Associations began subsequently to that law) the most strenu ous, and often severe measures have been taken to make receiving relief as unpleasant and annoying as possible. Hence the labourer is al most coerced into subsisting with his numerous little family, without aid, on the miserable wages hitherto paid him ; and if the coercion has done its work, a shilling or two a year by the time it mounts up to a sovereign or two, is no doubt grateful enough at the moment of reception ; al though fear of the workhouse may have had much more to do with his self-denial than love of inde pendence. He is rewarded, in fact, for having been as afraid as he ought of Poor-Law Terrors. Such pauper benefits as the rules of the Associa tion allow, i. e., poor-law medicine and attend ance at the cost of the parish surgeon, the 40s. prize man has not probably had sufficient inde pendence to eschew. It should, moreover, be inquired, how the man has trained his children ? Has he been compelled, in order to escape the dreaded workhouse, to deprive them of their day school, and to send them to farmers' work when the alphabet and play were the only things compatible with their bodily and mental health ? Have his girls, and perhaps his wife, had to do field work, which ought to be reserved for the stronger sex ? And are his family under-sized, of not very robust constitutions, and noted for rustic want of intelligence ? Many are the questions, which, in all soberness, should be answered before the looking-on public can quite relish these anti-pauperism prizes. The labourers themselves, too, must always have a feeling that the prize givers gained the prize many times over in diminished poor-rates. As to the green coats, and Association buttons, with which the Association clothes the " aged and industrious labourers" whom it delights to honour, and in which it expects them to present themselves "at Church," Mr. DISRAELI and his friends must forgive us if we smile. Turning the green to blue, the coat to a riband, and the Church to a Court, the Honourable Member's imagination fancies the aged rustic at Church, as pleasantly conscious of his distinction as a Knight of the Garter at Court ! We could have wished for a more secular place to discuss the workman's pride in than the Church ; but passing that by, we fancy there are hut few rural villages now where the man in green would not be conscious of ex citing a smile amongst his own class (the most im portant to him), and where the one-coloured coat would not be regarded, as a coat of many colours once was, a s a s i gn o f f avour i t i sm rather than of merit, an d where it would not be worn chiefly for fear of offending the g i vers , an d with feelings of awkwardness rather pri t z h es adanovfeprtred to pride. W no h t ile ve w ry e think the particular creditabl e to add that Air Agricultural labourers, w e s h ou ld near ISRAELI sees " looming in the future ". th p e time follow the hand -100 when the plough is to In, and the farm labourer to become a being of an order who would deem the rewards now offered beneath lu • s notice. take place be- eldest daugh ter, andtr. Dudley MATRIMONIAL ALLIANCE. --The —A matrimonial alliance is arranglelfd"nfacyesle:- ost tween the Lady Elizabeth Grey Egerton of the Earl of Wilton, and Captain t i ll' s De Ros, eldest son of Lord De Rog her Majesty the Queen. The mar r i age „ wa rn' to brated at Heaton-Hall, the seat of the Wilton family, near Manchester, on the 12th of October. The Marquis of Lothian, who has just attained hi s majority, is on the e ve of leaving England on an ex tended tour of two years in Asia, intending to visit all the provinces of British India. PROGRESS OF THE STEAM-SHIP GREAT BRITAIN.— Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Co.'s magnificent steamer, the Great Britain, arrived at St. Vincent on the 24th of August, and sailed thence again at two o'clock in the afternoon of the 27th. She has thus made the passage to St. Vincent in twelve days and about eighteen hours, her departure from this port being on the afternoon of the 11h of August. All the passengers were well, and spending the time most pleasantly under the genial auspices of Captain Mathews and his officers. St. Vin cent is as nearly as possible halfway to the Cape of Good Hope, and it is anticipated that the Great Britain will, with favourable or even moderate weather, complete the fifty passage to M e lb ourne in days. On her last voyage it may be remembered, the Cape to Melbourne twenty - four d ays.—Liverpool she made the distance from .tes. in ays.—Liverpool Y a MONEY MARKET AND CITY INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. The cotton market at Liverpool yesterday closed heavily. All descriptions, except solid Orleans, being lower. The sales amounted to 6,000 bales (of which, 1,500 were for export), comprising 220 Pernams and Maranhams, at 60. to 80. ; 100 Bahia, at Od. to 61d. ; 300 Egyptian, at 6d. to 11d. ;, and 300 Surat, at aid. to 4d. per lb. Rail way Shares receded fully 2 per cent. In the produce markets this week there have been moderate purchases. Sugar has been at about the former range, but coffee has gone lower, and for cocoa the demand has not improved. Tea has been in request , owing to the a b d y vi m ce e s an fr s o o m f b C a h r i t n e a r: f m p a ur nd ch a a t si a ng further rise, and rum ,oan t tallow o nats there a m furtheral a i s d b e e he e ie n dme pd a and nie e the has difficultybeenn doe lla has been wanted. For l i arge s v p e e m c ul e n a t t i v i n e i t n b q e u i g u n has been sold at a decline of 3/. per ton. Jute has be en firm. Cotton has been dull, at barely pre vious rates. There are no later ship arrivals this morning with news of any interest, and attention is wholly absorbed by the Continental political intelligence. Business is greatly interfered with, and every de partment begins now to feel the injurious eftects of the existing suspense. There has been a good deal of business trans acted in English Stocks, and the depression owing principally to speculative sales, has continued. Consols have been 94-14, and since 94i for Trans fer, 941 *, and subsequently 941 to for account. At present there is more buoyancy owing to the loans which will be made by the Bank, and even the telegraph, stating that the Conference is united urgingin upon Turkey the acceptance of the Vienna Rote gives a little, encouragement. The enormous amount of the sales for time should be estimated by those who seek to arrive at an expla nation of the actual present position of the market, for although the money sales are large, they are exceeded ten-fold probably by the operations for Account. Exchequer Bills have been ss. to 10s. discount, and India Bonds 3s. discount to par. East India Stock has been dealt in at 250. In the Foreign Market there have been a few sales at lower rates, but securities representing the debt of countries out of Europe ought not to be so much affected, as others. Sardinian Stock hasbeen marked 92. Austrian 5 per Cents. have been quoted 87, and Dutch 2i per Cents. have been down to 631 to for money, though done at 63 for Account. Spanish New Deferred Bonds have realised 221 to # and Portuguese 4 per Cents. 43 to Mexican Stock has been at 241 to 241, and Peruvian at 724 and 73k. Brazillian Old Five per Cents. have been done at 1001 and 101. The fall in English Railway Shares, previously so great, has made further progress, and the Bears for the time rule pre-eminent. Caledonian have dropped IL to 2/. ; Great Western, 15s. to 11. ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 10s. to 15s. ; Midland, ss. ; North British, ss. to 10s. ; York and Ber -1 wick, 1/. to 2/. ; and others in proportion. The French lines keep up more firmly, comparatively, than the rest, but Northern are cheaper. Stras bourg are in demand at high prices, owing to the new shares to be allotted to existing holders. At this moment all the English lines rule firmer on account of the measure announced at the Bank. The Gold Mine shares have been a little weaker, but can scarcely be called lower. The Australian Bank Shares are merely nominal, no transactions being reported, but in the Bank of Asia there is a decline. The Land Companies are about the same. LATEST FOREIGN NEWS. FRANCE. The Emperor and Empress quitted the Palace of St. Cloud yesterday morning at half-past eleven o'clock. The cortege consisted of six carriages. Their Majesties arrived at the St. Denis Station of the Northern Railway shortly after twelve o'clock, where they were received by the directors and by a number of high functionaries. Their Majesties were placed in the waggon of honour, and the train pro ceeded on its journey. The Emperor and Empress attened the first re presentation of the new ballet of 'Elia Mysis at the grand opera last evening. Queen Christina and the Duchess de Alba were also present ; they were in box opposite to that occupied by their Majesties. The Minister for Foreign Affairs, who had been absent for some days from Paris,--an absence for which some foreign journals assigned a political motive,—has returned. The Union states that M. Drouyn de Lhuys has had a long conference with the Emperor, and has since received the Turkish Ambassador. The Moniteur announces that the Queen of England has designated the Earl of Lucan the Marquis of Worcester, Lord Bingham, and Co lonel Dupis, to visit the camp of Helfaut to compliment the Emperor. The raising of the camp of Helfaut is to take place on the 27th. The Minister of Finance has extended the de creesO freeing from all nav i ga ti on d ues inf France vessels lade n a lt oge th er the of interior Sept. with corn or other articles of food, to such vessels as are only partially laden with such articles. The dues s will on the miscellaneous The Minister of the Interior has given a first warning to the Constitutionnel for " continuing, portion of b t e her evied cargoes. only for purposes of private speculation, to write up, in its Bourse articles, certain industrial enterprises, and to depreciate others, by discrediting them by means of erroneous and malevolent appreciations," notwithstanding the friendly warnings given it to the contrary. Letters from Germany announce that the Count de Chambord is to visit the Duchess of Berry at Brunsee, in Styria, on the 29th of this month, being his birthday. The friends who wish to cele brate the Count's birthday are to meet for that purpose. Letters from French Guiana of the 13th August state that the Governor had found it necessary to declare the colony in a state of siege, in conse quence of disturbances and acts of rebellion com mitted in the island of La Mere, one of the places of provisional confinement of the convicts. The Bourse was heavy yesterday, and sales diffi cult. The Three per Cents. opened at 76f. 85c., fell to 76f. 65c., rose subsequently to 76f. 90c. and closed at 76f. 85c. for the end of the month. The Four-and-a-Half per Cents. closed at 101 f. 80c. ; Orleans Railway shares, 1,232 f. 50c. ; Rouen, 1,057 f. 50c. ; Havre, 515 f. ; Great orthern, 855 f. ; Paris and Strasburg, 962 f. 50c. ; Paris and Lyons, 920 f. ; Lyons to the Mediterranean, 765 f.; Western of France, 730 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 607 f. 50c. ' • Great Central, 525 f. • ' Lyons to Ge neva, 525 f. ; Shares of the Bank of Credit 777 f. 50c. tions of a couple of cases of cholera, but no deaths. Here we have had the cholera now for eight weeks, but the epidemic appears sensibly to de crease. The last three weeks the proportion was 80, 72, 36 cases. The accounts from Stockholm continue to repre sent the cholera as making very fearful progress. On the 13th inst. there had been 165 attacks and 113 deaths. Upon the whole 2,538 cases and 1,401 deaths. Mr. Ranvyl Schutt, for some years for merly Mexican Vice-Consul in Hamburg, had fallen a victim to the disease. Now, from the account given from Carlscrona, in Sweden, it will appear that the dreadful havoc which the cholera has made, has been in a great measure attributed to the bad quality of the water, as out of a population of 12,000 inhabitants there have been 1,767 cases, and 932 deaths. THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON'S FIRST VISIT TO THE NORTHERN DEPARTMENTS OF FRANCE. It would be difficult to describe fully the enthu siasm of the inhabitants of the ancient town of Arras in their essay to give effect to the prepara tions for the due reception of the Emperor and Empress. For the last week the greatest efforts have been made to render the, visit of the august personages one not easily to be forgotten by the population, and agreeable to their Majesties. It is said in England that the French are fond of witnessing decorations, yet it may be observed, with equal truth, that Englishmen are by no means less enamoured with that which pleases the eye, or why so many of our countrymen in this remote provincial place at this moment ? Why is it that they have been arriving at Arras for the last two days, not on commercial speculations, but assuredly to have their part of the pleasure to be derived from this the first of a series of ovations to the French Emperor and Empress in their northern provinces ? _ The scene here may, without exaggeration, be said to be truly magnificent ; every street has its triumphal arches, and even the very pathways have their festoonings of laurels and flowers, while the windows and house-tops have their decorations of garlands. This display is not confined to the prin cipal thoroughfares through which Royalty is to pass, but extends to the byways of the town inha bited by the poorest of the population ; and in the latter localities the expenditure is defrayed out of their own slender resources, without the slightest aid on the occasion from their more affluent fellow townsmen—a fact of itself highly indicative of their esteem for the Sovereign. All the decorations were completed as early as three o'clock on Thursday morning —the flowers having been plucked but a few hours prior to their being fashioned into their respective positions, for the better preservation of their fragrance, a precau tion characteristic of the care bestowed by the French artist in the minutest detail, and which gives them that pre-eminence so widely acknow ledged in efforts for effect. At the railway station is a superb canopy, crowned with evergreens entwined with the choicest bouquets, and over all the golden eagle, with, on either side, the letters N. and E. (Napo leon and Eugenie), worked in burnished gold. The national flag floats majestically from various points of this tastefully -arranged erection, while the flooring, surfaced with green velvet, infringed with golden lace, augments the imposingness of the interior. Passing the last-mentioned point of attraction, we behold, from the Porte Ronville to the Prefec ture, the entire length of a long line of streets, bearing ample testimony to the ingenuity of those employed in catering for the occasion. Here are trees growing, as it were, for years, yet not many hours in the pathway they skirt, at both sides of the roadways. There is even unity in this tem porary plantation, ghily woven garlands and fes toonings gracefully linking them into brother hood, while the letters " N." and " E.," most artistically worked in flowers, catch the eye on all sides. So far as the proprietors of the prin cipal homes feel concerned, a restless spirit of emulation would seem to have taken possession of them, for even now, that which at an early hour of the morning was admitted to be faultless, is momentarily undergoing additional embellish ments ; and as a few commence such augmenta tions, they are rapidly followed by the surround ing neighbourhood. The grandest sight, however, is that of the Pre fecture. Here has been a lavish display of what efforts regardless of expenditure can achieve. Two superbly draperied canopies, over one platform, richly covered with velvet of green and gold, the bordering studded with golden bees, and the arms emblazoned in varied embroidery ; the eagle, surmounted with a crown, capped the canopies, and the two splendid throned chairs. Indeed, the whole may be said to be a masterpiece of artistic skill. As early as eight o'clock in the morning the various deputations from the town and communes began to assemble, and at ten o'clock the municipal body were hurrying to the rendezvous for the purpose of being marshalled according to the rules laid down by the municipal authorities for pre cedency. The military in the town having been reinforced by detachments from neighbouring towns, were, like the civilians, alive to the interest of the scene, and at an early period of the morning they were to be seen marching in sections, headed by drummers, from the lower to the upper town. As the time drew on towards three o'clock, the prefect, his officers, the municipal body, and the deputations of the trades, together with a depu tation on behalf of the peasantry of the district, took up their positions in the place allotted to them, adjacent to the canopy at the railway station, while the Otte of the town, to the number of some 3,000, had taken their seats in an immense amphitheatre, which had been constructed at their own cost. At four o'clock the Bishop of Arras, with other high dignitaries of the Church, approached the hall leading to the canopy, and there, surrounded by their clergy in full canonicals, they awaited the momentary expected arrival of their Majesties. The picture presented at this moment was most im posing—the dark crowds of people serving as a relief to the gay festooning of flowers, while silken flags wafting in the breeze, augmented the effect. It was stated that there could not have been fewer than 200,000 persons in the town ; and when it is considered that the population of Arms is under 26,000, it may easily be believed that the interest must have been extreme which could add so greatly to that number. At a few minutes to five o'clock their Majesties' arrival was signalled by the booming of heavy guns, whereupon the bell of the cathedral, quickly fol lowed by those of the various churches of the town, informed all that the visit for which they had been so eagerly looking forward had been at length placed beyond the possibility of doubt. Their Majesties were received by the Bishop of Arras, the prefect, the mayor, and the municipal body, and were amidst the most vociferous cheer ing of the multitude, and a salute of artillery, on their way to the Prefecture to receive the addresses of the townspeople, through their deputations, when this despatch was being sent off. The lower and upper town are to be brilliantly illuminated to-night, and a grand ball, to which their Majesties are invited, is to take place. OFFICIAL PROGRAMME OF THE PREPARA TIONS FOR RECEIVING THE EMPEROR AND EMPRESS IN THE CITY OF CALAIS. "CALAIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING. "Their Majesties will arrive on Monday, the 26th inst., between the hours of four and five o'clock in the afternoon. " Early in the morning an extra allowance of meat and bread will be distributed amongst the poor, under the care of the managers of the charitable fund "At noon, the sound of bells will announce to the in habitants the solemnity which is to take place. " The public buildings are to be decorated. The na tional flag will he hoisted. The inhabitants are invited to decorate the front of their houses. "At four p.m., the authorities, functionaries, and de putations, convoked by the mayor, are to meet at the railway station, where each of these bodies will take the place designated for it. "As the train which conveys their Majesties will ap proach, a salute of 101 guns will be fired by the artillery of the place. "Their Majesties will be received at the railway sta tion by the members of the municipal administration, and the several authorities of Calais and the neighbour ing towns and communes. "After the usual compliment, their Majesties will be conducted to the Hotel de Ville by a cortege composed of the persons above-mentioned. " The place in the cortege will be indicated in advance for each body. "At hall-past five their Majesties will hold a recep tion at the Hotel de Ville. From thence they will be conducted by the Prefect, Sous-Prefect, the Mayor of Calais, and his adjuncts, and the commanding officer of the place, to the imperial residence. " In the evening, the public edifices will be illumi nated. The inhabitants are requested to illuminate the fronts of their houses. " At nine o'clock their Majesties will attend the ball which is offered to them by the city of Calais, in the Concert Room. DAY OF THE 27TH. "At nine o'clock in the morning, his Majesty the Emperor will inspect the harbour, docks, and the cour gain. The function ar i es w i shing to join the members of the municipal board will be admitted to accompany his Majesty. They are to meet at the imperial resi dence by half-past eight in the morning. "At eleven o'clock their Majesties will leave Calais. At their departure they will be saluted by the firing of 101 guns. They will b e con d ucte d b ac k to t h e limits of Calais by all the authorities and deputations which made part •f the cortege of the day before. " This cortege will be in the same order as that of the preceding day. (Signed) "E. MAYER, Mayor of Calais. "Hotel de Ville, Calais, Sept. 21, 1853." There was a meeting of the English residents of the town yesterday afternoon, to consider the pro priety of presenting an address to the Emperor on his arrival ; but as the English consul, by his offi cial position, did not feel at liberty to be present and take part in the special obj ec t i n v i ew, t h e assemblage, notwithstanding that their chaplain had prepared the address, sepa ra t e d, upon the un derstanding that it would be superfluous for them to trouble his Majesty during his brief sojourn in the town, which they thought even to short to enable him to receive the compliments of his own subjects as fully as they would desire to ex press them. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. A telegraphic dispatch from Vienna, received in Paris yesterday evening, announces that, upon the demand of Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, new con ferences had taken place, at which was decided that the representatives of the Powers at Constan tinople shall declare that the Vienna note does not contain the dangers which the Porte sees in it. No other collective step will be taken. The lithographic news sheet of Berlin states that on the 17th the Prussian Government sent to M. de Wildenbruch, its Ambassador at Constantinople, dispatches enjoining him to induce the Ottoman Porte to accept without modification the note of Vienna. It adds that the Prussian Consul-Ge neral in the Danubian Principalities, M. de Meuse bach, has received a decoration from the Czar. Letters from Constantinople of the Bth ult., say —that independently of the placards, which con tinued to be posted up every night on the walls of the principal mosques, the inhabitants of Constan tinople have publicly signed addresses to the Sultan and to his Ministers, entreating them to march against the enemy without waiting any longer for the support of France and England. These ad dresses and placards produce great sensation among the people. M. Kossuth has caused the feelings of the Porte to be sounded as to his wish to return to Constantinople, but it had not shown the slightest eagerness to encourage his wishes. SPAIN: A telegraphic dispatch from Madrid of the 19th inst., received at Paris, announces the formation of the new Cabinet as follows : President of the Council and Prime Minister of State—Count de San Luis. Interior—Senor Estevan Collantes. War—General Blazer. Justice—Marquis de Girona. Marine—Marquis de Molins. Public Works—Senor Domenech. The Department of Finance is thought to have been reserved for Senor Llorente, now at Paris. Where is also the Marquis de Molins ? Of these gentlemen, the Marquis de Molins and the Count de San Luis were colleagues of Marshal Narvaez, and had withdrawn with him in 1851. The Marquis de Gerona was then President of the Cortes. M. Domenech was Minister of Finance in the Olozaga Ministry, and belongs to the Progres sista party. General Blazer is considered an intelligent offi cer, who has no political precedents. The cause of this new crisis, is not yet known, but, it was foreseen some days since at Madrid. It is said that the Queen was dissatisfied with the cabinet, the weakness of which was pointed out to her. General Lersundi and his colleagues could neither succeed in setting aside or solving several serious questions, and the Queen wished to put an end to such a state of things. The Voce del Pueblo had suspended its publi. cation. ______ The Three per Cents. were done at 431 ; the New Three per Cents., at 23i ; the Debt of the First Class, at 10 3-16 ; and that of the Second, at si. ITALY. The question of the railway which is to unite the Mediteranean with Germany, vid Switzerland, had been solved, to the great satisfaction of Genoa, by the Council-General of Ticino, now sitting at Bel linzona. The city of Genoa is to supply six mil lions of livres. The Sardinian Government is also to vest a large sum in the undertaking. Towards the close of the year two great sections will be com pleted, and Genoa, will communicate with Suza, at the foot of Mont Cenis. On the occasion of the opening of the Turin and Genoa Railway, which is to take place in Decem ber, there is to be at Genoa an exhibition of works of art and industry, and of productions of agricul ture and horticulture. The military manoeuvres, at the Camp of Ma rengo, were alternately impeded and favoured by rain and fine weather. Those performed on the 17th figured an attack against the fortress of Alexandria, which, in case of war, would become the pivot of operations. The Minister of War had ordered a levyy of 12,000 recruits of the class of 1852, 9,000 of whom are intended for the active service, and 3,000 for the reserve. Count d'Appony, the Austrian Ambassador, was preparing to leave his chateau of Rivoli for Vienna. The question of the sequestered estates, ne glected on account of the difficulties in the East, are becoming daily more envenomed. Mr. Thomas Brassey, the contractor for the ex ecution of the Novara Railway, had given the infant schools of charity of Turin a sum of 1,000 livres. _ _ __ ..._... M. Antonio Kramer, a distinguished chymist, died at Milan, on the 16th. The reigning Sovereign of Modena left, on the 16th, for Olmutz, on an invitation of the Emperor of Austria, to assist at the military manoeuvres. " The letters which we receive from Rome," says the Constitutionnel, "speak of the intermittent fever which prevails there. The warm weather of July and August has afflicted our soldiers dread fully. The number of persons ill is still consider able, but fortunately the number of deaths is not very great, and the malady yields to an intelligent treatment. The military authorities have besides adopted the wisest measures, and have been ably seconded by M. Alquier, inspector genaral of hos pitals, who had just arrived at Rome on a tour of inspection, and who, already in 1849, had been able to render great service to the army in analo gous circumstances. Thanks to the good organisa tion of the service, the epidemic will pass away without causing many vacancies in the ranks of our troops." GERMANY. - - The Chambers of Electoral Hesse are convoked for the 19th of October. The National Gaeette of Berlin declares posi tively that there is no truth in the report that the King of Prussia is going to Olmutz. DENMARK. The official journal of Copenhagen publishes a royal decree convoking the Diet for she 3d of October. Intelligence from Copenhagen of the 18th men- BANK OF ENGLAND. It has just been intimated that until the re opening of the Transfer books, loans upon Stock will be made at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum, or i per cent. under the minimum distinct rate. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY. (Prom the Official List.) Business done. 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 94 Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan.,1860 5 9-16 g India Stock 250 India Bonds, 1:1000 ...... ..... Ditto, under £lOOO par Consols for Account Exchequer Bills, ld. £1000 £5OO 3 d Ditto Small PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent 63, Grenada Bonds, Deferred Mexican 3 per Cent. Ditto for the Account Peruvian Bonds, 41 per Cent. Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent., Con. 1841 46 Ditto 4 per Cent. Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent. ... 92 Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent 46} 5i 6 Spanish New Deferred, 3 per Cent. Ditto Account , 2 I Dividends on the above payable in London. Nustrian Bonds 5 per Cent. 10 Gu. Dutch Exchange, 2A per Cent. 12 Gull 63 Ditto for the Account 633 Dutch 4 per Cent. Certificates . 97i THREE O'CLOCK. Consols 944 Ditto October Account 94a MANCHESTER RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SELLING PLATE.' Taley Rupture Five ran. COURT CIRCULAR. BALMORAL, SEPT. 21. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, the Princess Royal and Count Alexander Mensdorff, drove yesterday to the Linn of Quoich. The Duchess of Kent, Count Alexander Mensdorff, Lady Augusta Bruce, and the Hon. Mrs. Gordon, joined the dinner party yesterday evening. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY-(THIS DAY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn.) FAILURE OF A LIFE ASSURANCE ASSOCIATION.- IN RE STRICKLAND. This bankrupt was described of Crescent-street, Ken sington, and Symond's-inn, Chancery-lane, wine mer chant ; and to-day was app tinted for his last examination. From the accounts preyed by Messrs. Robinson and Knowles, extending from Jan. 7, 1852, to Aug., 1853, it appears that the bankrupt is liable, as one of the directors of the Counties Union Assurance Company, to the extent of 2,1511. 14s. 6d.; debtor to creditors, 1041. 6s. 4d.; ditto to judgment crediitors, 1551. lls.; capital, 1,3341. 2s. 11d.; profits, 1871. 15s. Bd.; income from property, 3411. 2s 9d ; creditors, good, bad, doubt ful debts, 3021. lls 4d. ; losses, 7461. 16s. 9d. ; trade ex penses, 1211. 12s. 4d. ; house expenses, 7781. 3s. 11d. The company proving a complete failure, proceedings were taken in this court against the bankrupt. The accounts being satisfactory, the bankrupt passed. IN RE DAVIS. This bankrupt had carried on business as an hotel keeper at Colney Hatch, and to-day was appointed for consideration of his certificate. The balance-sheet prepared by Messrs. Robinson and Knowles shows debtor to creditors, 1,8471. 6s. sd. ; do. holding security, 3,6851. 2s. 6d. ; profits, 1,7701. 17s. 7d.; creditor, good debts, 7931. 14s. ld. ; property realised, 1501. ; property in the hands of creditors estimated at 4,2331. 18s. ; general losses,l, 059/. ; hotel expenses, 5421. 9s. 7d. ; personal from Jan., 1852, to Feb. 1853, 2021. 10s. Mr. Bagley appeared to oppose on behalf of the cre ditors, on the ground of reckless trading, in having taken the Railway Tavern without capital, and also that he had purchased land on speculation, although he was so pressed that there were eleven executions out against him. Mr. Lawrence, for the bankrupt, contended that there had been no recklessness, for he had been put into the house, which was most advantageously situated near the railway station, by a gentleman named S mith, with a condition that e bankrupt should be allowed to pur chase the property at the expiration of the lease, and that it was of much larger value than the amount the bankrupt had to pay. As to the other purchase, the land had fetched much more than the amo unt paid, and that in the immediate vicinity for an acre and three quarters the enormous sum of 2,9281. had recently been paid. His Honour said that no one had a right to speculate when he had no capital to pay his creditors, in the event of the speculation proving a failure. Certificate suspended for six months from the last ex amination in June, and then to be of the second class. IMPROVEMENTS AT THE TOWER OF LONDON.—YE terday, by or d er of the Commissioners of h er Majesty's Works and Buildings, the materials of the house situate within the walls of the Tower of London, and which was called the Lion-house, were disposed of by auction, by Messrs. Pullen and Son, for the purpose of being re moved to improve the entrance. The house is cele brated as havi ng b een the residence of the lion and other wild beasts, which were there exhibited to the public. The improvements intended at the Tower are being T ed ow ou e t r: has its repairs nearly completed ; to be removed. The portion of the Tower known as the and many other buildings will have but in effecting its renovation care has been taken not e from the walls the handwritings of the cele bratedto remove who wore at various times incarcerated characters . .. incarcerated and which will still remain the last relics of their there, imprisonment. Beauchamprapidly car FETES AT BOULOGNE. The Boulogne New Times, in a description of the preparations made for the reception of their Majesties at Boulosie, says—" There is a curious fact connected with the life of Mr. Wiart, who is engaged to paper and furnish the Royal apartments, which deserve to be recorded. It is now 50 years since he established himself as an upholsterer at St. Omer. There he was soon distinguished for his taste, his simple although rich and effective style of decoration, so much so, that when the Em peror Napoleon I. came to Boulogne, Mr. Wiart was sent for to prepare a worthy habitation for his reception. He did so, gave satisfaction, and settled in Boulogne, where for nearly 40 years he was without a rival. During that time he saw many changes. He it was who was employed to prepare the apartments for the Duke of Clarence, when he came over to receive the Emperor of Russia and the King of Prussia, when they visited England ; he it was who was called upon to decorate the apartments prepared for those Sovereigns, during their residence in Boulogne—and now, 50 years after his first visit to Boulogne for one Emperor, he is called upon, at the age of 70, to prepare a fitting reception room for Napoleon 111., whose Empire is peace,' the nephew of that Napoleon, the god of war, who first called his abilities into notice at Boulogne. That he has not lost either taste, or simple richness of decoration, our readers will allow, after perusing a short description of the present state of the Sous-Prefecture." Judging from the accounts in this journal all the prepara tions are on a magnificent and extensive scale. COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. Yesterday, the first court after the holidays was held, and was very numerously attended. After some business of a formal character had been disposed of, Mr. H. L. Taylor rose and said—My Lord Mayor, I have waited a moment or two since the confirmation of the minutes of our last meeting, to see if any member would take notice of a circumstance patent to us all. I had looked round to see whether my friend Deputy Bennoch (the Lord Mayor's deputy) was in the court. Until the present moment I did not know that he was. , Since we last met we have heard of a very serious acci- I dent that has occurred, in which your lordship was very much concerned. (Hear.) It was with deep regret that the members of this court heard of such an acci dent, and I may say that I express the feeling of the members of this court generally when I say that they are most delighted to see your lordship again in your place, and that you have not met with such a serious accident as to prevent your lordship from attending to your official duties. (Applause.) If I were in order I would record my feelings by placing something on record, evincing the feelings of respect which I, in common with the other members of the court, en tertain towards your lordship, and our great delight at your having escaped more serious injury. (Hear, hear.) I have now the very great pleasure of moving, "That this court, having learnt with deep regret the perilous position in which the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor has recently been placed, when on a journey upon the Great Northern Railway, to pay a friendly visit to the municipal authorities at Sheffield, congratu late his lordship upon escaping with his life from the imminent danger to which he was exposed ; and the court earnestly hope he may be spared many years to his family, and to continue his important services to his fellow "citizens." (Cheers.) Deputy Bennoch—My Lord Mayor, I confess that I feel, after the pointed reference which has been made to me by my friend Mr. Taylor, somewhat excited and partly unnerved. I only arrived in town at an early hour this morning, in consequence chiefly of the holding of this court. It is a fortunate circumstance that I was not present previously to my friend's rising, for the pur pose of congratulating your lordship and the court for this marvellous and almost miraculous escape—(Cheers). I believe it is much more complimentary to your lord ship—l believe it is much more honourable to the feel ings of this court—that you should receive from them the spontaneous thanks of the universal bodz at the in able bands, devolving on me_ I with great pleaeuro second the resolution, and add my sympathy to that, I am sure, of every member of this court—(Cheers). The RECORDER having put the resolution, it was car ried with 'acclamation. The LORD MAYOR (who was deeply moved) said—l feel very greatly indebted to my excellent friend Mr. Taylor, and to the deputy, for the kind manner in which they have introduced this most unexpected rosolution—(Hear, hear). Next to the gratitude I owe to a kind Providence in preserving my life under such truly lamentable circum stances, I owe it certainly to a large number of friends, whose kind sympathy and whose warm expression of feeling would stimulate any man towards a career enti tling him to such esteem and respect. (Cheers.) But amongst them all I could receive a testimony of this kind from no body of persons which recommends itself to my feelings and affections so much as this in the Court of Common Council. (Cheers.) Deeply sensible of the obligations I owe to them, if I needed any other stimulus to devote my humble energies to the prospe rity of the City of London, I should find it in the very kind and flattering manner in which this resolu tion has been proposed,seconded and received. (Cheers.) Eight members were chosen to be returned to the Court of Aldermen to supply vacancies in the office of commissioners, under the act of parliament " for grant ing to her Majesty duties on profits arising from pro perty, professions, trades, and offices." A bill to repeal certain acts regulating the return of jurors to serve on the Mayor's Court and Sheriffs' Courts of the City of London, and to make other regu lations in lieu thereof was read a third time and passed. TILE CHOLERA. (From the General Board of Health, Whitehall.) NEWCASTLE. Deaths on the 21st of September : Cholera Diarrhcea, Total number of deaths at Newcastle, up to present date, 935. During a like number of days in 1831-2, the number of deaths was 156. GATESHEAD. The total deaths from cholera, in Gateshead, for the first fifteen days of the attack of 1831-2, was 125. For the same period of the attack of 1852, 227. Many persons have left the foul and crowded parts of the town. A portion are encamped on the moor. The local authorities are employing all the medical assistance they can procure, having given carte blanche to the medical inspectors f or that purpose. Four medica l practioners have been sent from London, at the request of the local authorities, to act under the superintending inspectors, and two more will start this evening. LONDON BRIDGE. Mr. H. L. TAYLOR moved :—" That it be referred to the Bridge-house estates committee to ascertain the con dition of London Bridge, as regards the stability of its structure, and to consider the expediency and practicability of constructing a way for foot passengers on the eastern and western sides, and appropriating the entire centre thereof for a carriage road. And in the event of the committee recommending the same being carried out, that they do procure drawings of the proposed altera tions, with an appropriate estimate for the erection of the work, and that the committee do consider what funds are most applicable to defray the cost, and how the money could best be raised ; and to report thereon to this court, with the fullest information on the sub ject."—Agreed to. CITY OF LONDON FREEMEN'S ORPHAN SCHOOL. Mr. Deputy HALE brought up the report of the com mittee, with the draft of general rules, and for the ap pointment of master, matron, mistress, and servants of the establishment. The design of the institution is to provide for the maintenance and the religious and vir tuous education of orphans of freemen of the City of London. The objects of the charity are—children of freemen who are orphans by the death of their father, and are without adequate means of being maintained and educated ; but children whose parents were reduced in circumstances through casualties they could not avert, are especially eligible for admission. The number to be educated and maintained in the school, until otherwise determined by the Court of Common Council is one hundred, viz. -70 boys and 30 girls. No children to be eligible under the age of seven or above the age of ten years, or who are maintained at the parish charge, or deformed, &c. Before the admission of a child an engagement to be entered into to receive such child upon removal from the school. The children to be main tained, clothed, and educated until they shall attain the age of 14 years. The power of expelling from the school to be in the committee. The control and man agement to be in the Court of Common Council. The management and superintendence of the affairs of the institution to be vested in a committee appointed by the Court of Common Council, which committee is to be empowered to exercise all the powers and authorities and discretion given by act of Parliament to the Court of Common Council, and to make rules and bye-laws for the regulation and management of the school, and to appoint the several officers of the institution. Then fol lows various matters connected with the election of the children, and an account of the subjects of instruction. The report was ordered to be printed and circulated amongst the members of the court. CORN, COAL, AND FINANCE COMMITTEE. Mr. RICHARD CAPEL LAMBE brought up a report re commending the grant of 1051. to the parochial and national schools of Christ Church, Spitalfields : also a report recommending the grant of 2101. to the Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck. Mr. JAMES Low moved as an amendment, "T hat the sum of 100 guin ea s b e substituted for 2101." The amendment, having been seconded by Mr. Carr, was negatived, there being but three hands held up in its favour. A sum of 521. 10s. was voted to the Royal South London Dispensary. PROPOSED NEW STREET FROM CANNON-STREET WEST TO EARL-STREET, SLACKFRIARS. Mr. T. H. HALL moved—" That it be referred to the improvement committee to consider and report the pro bable cost of making a new street from Cannon-street West to Earl-street, Blackfriars, in the line laid down by Mr. Bunning in the year 1846." The motion having been seconded, Mr. HAwiciNs moved, by way of amendment, to add the following w ords :—" And that it be referred to the improvement committee to consid e r and report to this cou rt what line of street would, in their opinion, best tend to r elieve th coste prethsent pressure of traffic on Lud gate-hill, ereof." Mr. BARKLY seconded the amendment, which was put and negatived. The original motion was then carried. HEXHADI. The medical officer reports that not 1 ess than 500 cases of diarrhoea have been treated, of which several have passed into cholera. During the last five days 7 deaths from cholera have occurred, making 11 deaths since the first appearance of the epidemic. There are at present 160 cases of of diarrhoea and 11 of cholera under treat ment. One of the surgeons who signed the last repor . t has been att ac k e d . Th e ti me o f t h e me di ca l practi tioners has been so much occupied that they have been unable to transmit a daily report. THE CHOLERA IN THE CITY. Yesterday morning a very bad case of Asiatic cholera occurred in White-street, Moor-lane, a very close and densely populated part of the City. It seemed that the deceased, a young married woman, 28 years of age, was seized on Tuesday with a violent attack of cholera. Mr. Davis, surgeon, of the City-road, the medical man of the family, was called in, and used every means in his power, but without success, as she died yesterday morn ing at four o'clock. The husband of the deceased had just recovered from a slight attack. The house in which they lived is very clean, but in the immediate neigh' bourhood there are several cesspools overflowing, and indeed there is a great want of sanitary measures in the entire district. WINDSOR, THURSDAY. The local board of health met last night, in the Coun cil-chamber of the Guildhall, the Mayor (Mr. W. B. Holderness) in the chair. Mr. Voules, the clerk, read the circular of the General Board of Health, dated the 15th instant, with reference to the cholera. A letter was also read from Mr. G. H. Long, the clerk to the Windsor board of guardians, asking the co-operation of the local board of health in carrying out the Diseases Prevention Act within the borough. It is now nearly two years since the main drainage of the town was completed, and the general impression, up to last night, was that almost every owner of property had availed himself of the facility thus afforded to drain his pre mises ; but such, unfortunately, is by no means the case, there being many parts of the town in a disgraefill state. After a long and desultory discussion the meeting was adjourned until to-morrow evening, to receive a report from the surveyor and inspector of all the nui sances now existing throughout the district. In the meantime the inhabitants will look to the prompt action and summary powers of the board of guardians, under the Diseases Prevention Act, rather than the tardy move ments of the Board of Health, for a thorough cleansing and purification of the royal borough. DURHAM. Three more cases have occurred here on Wednesday, terminating fatally. The measures for the prevention of cholera which were adopted by the Board of Health have been actively and efficiently carried out. Previous to his return to London from Newcastle, Mr. Grainger, of the General Board of Health, visited the town, and advised with the authorities. In other respects the town is remarkably healthy. HULL. There is, at present, less disease or sickness in Hull than there has been generally at this season of the year; though there have been lately two or three fatal cases Of cholera—one at least of them being Asiatic. The first case occurred in a foreign vessel in one of the docks about three weeks ago. Subsequently, a youth, who had partaken " not wisely but too well" of unripe fruit, and who lived in a badly ventilated dwelling, in Trip pett, was seized with diarrhoea, and died soon after. Another fatal case, occurred in the town some few days ago ; and yesterday, a female, residing in Trippet, was attacked. SHERBORNE. Although this town has been mercifully spared from the severe epidemics which in former years devastated our country, diarrhoea has been uncommonly prevalent.; twenty-four cases occured between Saturday morning last and Tuesday night, some of them of a very severe character. There have been also two cases of English cholera, but the parties attacked have recovered. Mr. White, the medical officer of the union for Sherborne district, has issued a notice, earnestly requesting poor people suffering from diarrhoea to make instant applica tion to him for .r.erl;^-- MANCHESTER. No new cases of cholera had occurred here and doubts are beginning to be cast upon the case which was considered so undoubted on Wednesday. A re lieving officer of the Manchester Union investigated the case soon after it was reported to the clerk of the union, and by his directions, and he learned from she mother of the deceased woman that about eight or nine months after giving birth to each of her children she has suf fered severely from cramp in the stomach, and the old woman declares that the attack which proved fatal was one of those cramps and not the cholera, as to that she is quite at issue with the medical men. The strong dislike which elderly persons in the lower classes have to hearing it said that any persons belonging to them have died of an epidemic is however a sufficient reason for believing that her account is not to be relied u pon. The conduct of the medical men of Salford and Manchester is to be regarded with admiration. The notice calling them together was but short, a few hours, and they attended most promptly, not to check disease, but to prevent its appearance, of course to their own pecuniary disadvantage. The following statement of opinions, assuming the form of directions were agreed to : " We, the undersigned, members of the medical pro fession in practice in Manchester, Salford, and the neighbourhood, are of opinion, that in consequence of the appearance of Asiatic cholera in some parts of the kingdom, it is urgently necessary that the following precautionary and preventive measures be immediately adopted by the proper authorities in this district : " 1. There should be a house to house visitation, under the direction of the authorities, as in the last outbreak of the epicreMic; because all experience proves that how ever formidable cholera may be in its developed diar rhoea, or some other premonitory symptoms, which gene. rally yield to proper medical treatment ; and as such symptoms are often of a p a i n l ess nature, not a tt r acting the attention of th e su ff erer , t h ey are on l y to be dis covered by a systematic i nqu i ry f rom h ouse to h ou se. •" 2. There should b e an i ncrease d or of medical officers and assist an t s w i t hi n convenien t subdi visions of the district ; and th e me di ca l o ffi cers o f unions should be authorised to atte n d cases o f s i c k ness without waiting for an order. 3. Arrangements should be made to keep dispensa ries open, and medical officers in attendance both day and night. "4. Printed instructions should be issued imnl e " diately, and, by the agency of the police, should be left should, premonitory, ,s.The a hse m u systeme h a s symptoms at every house throughout the whole of the district, poosfs i o b f l e, cholera beav 0: whitewashingi directing the course to be pursed on the occurrence of needful should be carried on, as formerly, but with in creased vigour. andde avoided. publiccottages placardswith part of the district. " 7. The sewers should be flushed with water every day. " 8. The watering of streets by means of water carts, than at present ; so that waste water may be should be conducted more carefully, and less profusely, w here prevented from lying in the streets. "9. The authorities should take immediate steps to t . furnish a constant supply of good water to every . P art f„ the district—as th e prac ti ce o f k ee pi n g water in ° P vessels is highly injurious. "10. The removal of nuisances, and of all objection able refuse, should be stringently enforced ; according to the ample powers now conferred upon authorities by the order in council of the 15th September inst., revivil the operation of the "Diseases Prevention Act." All the precautionary measures recommended by the Gene ral Board of Health, should be immediately carried into effect. " 11. A printed circular should be left at all the houses of the district, stating the address of tho se persons in authority to whom complaints as to the defective or in jurious state of sewers and soughs are to be addresse d ... " 12. The attention of the authorities should be (1, 1 r ected to the overcrowding which prevails in many PallB_ of the city, with a view to extending to s uch p laces the provisions of the Local Lodging House Act." This statement has been signed by upwards of siirtY practitioners, medical and surgical. A deputation from the Board of Guardians was ap pointed yesterday, and waited upon the mayor to assure him of their anxiety to co-operate with the corporatiohn e in all works necessary to promote the health of t community. The sanitary committee of the guardians met yesterday morning, and received the reports frcda their medical officers, and also reports from their re lieving officers, all of whom concurred in stating tha t e their districts were never before in so satisfactory a st at e as to diarrhoea, and as to health generally. OLYMPIC THEATRE.--Last night Mr. Farren , in a fare : well benefit, bade adieu t o th e Olympic, on which °cost sion he appeared in one o f hi s o ld and favourite partg' that of Lord Ogleby in the Clandestine Marriage kili; Farren was received on his entrance with applause whife we thought would never end, and was greeted on the fall of the curtain by a shower of bouquets. 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