The Express.
London, England, 1853-11-14 00:00:00

IRELAND.

THE CHOLERA.

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(hem the Omen! Bowe of Beell/4 Nov. 12.)
METROPOLIS.
The returns from the metropolitan police and of
the Thames police show eleven new cases and six
deaths.

LIVERPOOL.
Dr. Duncan, the officer of health of Liverpool,
states that since the 24th October there have oc-

curred in Liverpool 21 cues of cholera and 14
deaths. In five cues the parties were German emi-
grants; in two, inmates of the workhouse—one being
a nurse in the cholera wards. The mortality of the
town is below the average, and diarrhea not preva-
lent. With reference to the ship Guiding Star, he
reports:—She sailed from the port of Liverpool on
the 27th October, with about 500 emigrants, and put
into Belfast Lough on sth Nov., with loss of spars
and sails ; arrived in the river last night, havicg lost
23 of her passengers from cholera between 30th
October and 9th November. The first case (that of
an Irish child) occurred after meeting with very
stormy weather when three days oat at tea; the
second case was that of an adult German. A num-
ber of sick, with the remainder of their families,
were landed at Belfast; about 400 have arrived

here. The whole wereelanded to-day, and two who
were found suffering from cholera (having been
attacked last night) were sent to the hospital. The
whole of the remainder, with mai exception, were
healthy, and seemed to have suffered little from the
privations to which they bad been exposed. Accom-
modation was offered to them in the workhouse, but

a small proportion only accepted the offer, the re-
mainder going to private lodging houses. There
were about 50 Germane on board, the rest being
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Irish, English, and Scotch.
NEWCASTLE.
It is understood that Dr. Waller Lewis is engaged
in an examination of the water supplied to theinha-
bitants of Newcastle, but no account has yet been
received of the results at which he has arrived; in

Dtramw, Nov. 12.
The deputation from the Tenant Le e, composed
of Mr. Lucas, M.P., Mr. C. G. Duffy, M.P., and Dr.
Gray, have started this evening for Clonmel, where
their reception will, I expect, be a very cool one.
The electors of the chief tuwn of Tipperary do not
understand why auy clique or body, whether speak-
ing in the name of the Tenant League or any other
political section, should presume to dictate to them
in the selection of their representative, or pretend to
teach them their duty on the occasion. They have
already held a meeting of their ow', at which they
named a committee of 31 liberal electors to consider
the pretensions of any candidates who may present
themselves, and report on the subject to a general
meeting. Mr. John O'Connell is already in Cloumel
prosecuting his canvass, and the chances of /MOMS are
so far altogether in his favour.

The extensive estates of the Earl of Glengall and
his trustees were put up for sale yesterday in the
Incumbent' Estates Court, and excited considerable
competition. The first portion of the property con-
sisted of the town of Cahir, in the county of Tippe-
rary, and was put up in 36 lots, the aggregate nett
rent of which was 1,305/., and the amount realised I
by the sale 23,3731., or at the rate of l 8 years'
purchatie. The lands composing the manor
of Cahir, comprising 9,976 acres, were next
offered in 37 lots, of which four were
withdrawn, and the remaining 33 were sold at rates
averaging 29 years' purchase on the nett rental.
Only three lots of the twenty in the next division of
the estate, the manor of Rehil, were sold, and these
went at an average of 25 years' purehse. The
manor of Castlegrace was the last division of the
property submitted to the hammer, and this was
subdivided into 31 lots, of which only 14 were sold
at rates averaging 17 years' purchase, the remaining
lots being withdrawn; so that the stun of 201,075/.
which was realised by the day's sales, being quite
sufficient to cover the encumbrances which brought
the property into this court, a large portion of the
estates is still left in the possession of the noble earl.
The principal purchasers were Mr. Sadleir, M.P.,
and Capt. Daniel, and the average rate realised by
the whole of the estate sold was 24 years' purchase.

the meantime the following communication on the
subject has been received from Mr. Grainger.
In the report of the General Board of Health on
the cholera of 1849, several unmistakable instances
of virulent attacks of the disease, directly originating
from the use of water polluted by sewage matter, 1
arc recorded; and, during the present epidemic'
some examples of the same character have oc-
curred during the prevalence of cholera at
Newcastle-on-Tyne. The public attention was
earnestly directed to the impure quality
of the water which had for some time prior to the
outbreak been supplied to the inhabitant., and, accord•
ing to the medical officials, with the most pernicious
results. According to published documents and
other authorities, the Whittle Dean Water Company,
in the beginning of July of the present year, finding
their supply of pure water in their reservoirs at
Whittle Dean insufficient to meet the demands upon
it, had recourse to the river 'Tyne, into which the
sewers of the town empty themselves ; they pumped
up from this source so large a quantity, that it
amounted to one-third of the whole supply for do-
mestic purposes to the people of Newcastle.
A specimen of the Tyre water, taken from the
same place as that of the above company, has been
carefully analysed by Dr. Hobert Dundee Thomson,
F.R.S.h., lecturer on chemistry at St. Thomas's Hos-
pital, a gentleman who had previously paid great
attention to the subject of impure water. The fol-
lowing is Dr. Thomson's report:
REPORT ON WATER TAKEN PROM THE TYNE, AT 11.1 b.
WICK, OCT. 17, 1853, TWO OR THREE coves Aetna
LOW WATER.
The water, whea drawn from the jar in which it was
conveyed from Newcastle to London, was turbid from the
presence of a considerable quantity of matter, mechanically
diffused in the form of flocks throughout the mass of fluid.
When the foreign matter was allowed to subside, the
water presented a brownish aspect, similar to tie colour
possessed by water which, alter a fell of rain, has passed
over a soil impregnated with peaty or vegetable substances.
On separating the mechanically diffused flocks, which on
agitation have imparted a muddiness to the water, they were
found to consist of organised forms, similar to the appear-
ances presented by infusorial animals or diatomaceous
beings, which have been claimed as belonging, according to
some, to the animal, and according to others to the vegetable
world. These animal or vegetable beings were infested
with large numbers of very distinct animalcules, or vibrions,
which were sporting about with immense activity, anti
' courting the shade of the living flocky manes. I found
the weight of this foreign matter to amount in the gallon
to 4.502 grains. Of this, only .516 grains was matter de-
structible by heat. The remainder emsisted prin-
cipally of ,slice, and still retained an organised
form, corresoonding apparently with the shields of
the diatomactse yerevious:y mentioned. These possessed
a reddish hue from the pressure of a minute quan-
tity of oxide of iron, which either catered into the composi-
tion of the organised forms, or was derived from a minute
portion of sand,which may have been diffused through the
water. The presence of these living forms in water
used by the inhabitants of a city, it appears to me cannot
be viewed as otherwise than highly objectionable In a sani-
tary point of view, acquainted, as we now are, with the
influence which the lower forms of animal and vegetable
life exercise in nature. In addition to these decided forms
presented by the organic matter described, I found no'
less than 2.68 grains per gallon of vegetable matter
dissolved, or finely diffused throughout the water,
and which was in a condition approximate to that
of organisation, since it contained a considera-
ble amount of siliceous inorganic matter. The total
quantity of matter therefore observed from organised sources
which I found to exist in the water amounted to no less
than 7.172 grains per gallon. This must be viewed as a
large amount, when we take into consideration the fact
that the total solid constituents in the gallon were
15.662 grains. The organic matter obtained in the
analysis thus approximated to one-half of the foreign
ingredients. I have also been able to obtain indi-d
cations of the presence of nitric acid in the water, from
which it is randered probable that human excretions are
mingled with the river, a circumstance which I have en- I
deavoured to prove is reference to the well waters of Ohs-
, gow, and which renders river water, and still more strongly
the well waters sunk in towns In the highest degree obj_ec-
*Ueda fordomestic use in a sanitary point of view. The
limo is fast approaching when the inhabitants of cities,
waned by an increasing knowledge of the science of health,
will no longer consent to be supplied with river water, teem-
fag with organised life, or with well water drawn from pits
sommunicatiog with the common sewers of cities, from
which they are thoroughly impregnated with human *acre-
dim in solution. The river water of Newcastle I consider,
bilk from my acquaintance with the locality, and from the
proem% analysis, to be a moot inproper source of supply to
the inhabitants of that city. The constituents of the water
in the imperial gallon are as follows :—Siliceous shields (of
diatomacee), 3.957 grs. ; organic matter accompanying the
Preceding, .545 grs. ; organic matter:irom the filtered water,
2.680 gee. ; carbonate of lime, 1.180 grs. ; siliceous mat-
ter, trace ; sulphate of lime, 3.330 grs. ; sulphate of mag-
nesia, .190 grs. ; chloride of magnesium and chloride of
sodium, 3 780 grs.,_* total, 15.662 gra.
ARBROATH.—Nov. 10. Death—Cholera, 1.
SOlfAM.—Nor. 11. Death—Cholera-1.

The estate of Newtownbarry, the property of the
Hon. Somerset it. Maxwell, was yesterday sold in
Mr. Commissioner Longtield's chamber, by private
. .

ntract, to Samuel Ashton, E-q., of liirttinbvery,
Leicestershire, for 75,0001., being 24 years' purchase
on the nett rental. The estate contains nearly
10,060 statute acres. The timber in the demesne is
valued at 11,5001. The sale of a very small portion
of the county Cavan estates, which are very exten-
sive, will, it is understood, suffice to pay otf all the
incumbrancea, and that there will be a large ovirplus
remaining.

The weather has within the last few d•tys under-
gone a most auspicious and timely change, and the
outstanding grate, of which, unfortunately, there
was a large quantity, is being rapidly secured. The
fields may be considered as being by this day corn.
pletely cleared. Should the present favourable'
weather continue, a considerable quantity of wheat,
here, and winter oats will be sown—preparations
for doing so being ou an extensive scale, the
severity and lateness of the last spring having shown
all active farmers the evil of procrastination, in bus.
bandry especially.
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With reference to the cholera patients in Belfast,
the Northern Whig says :—" We regret to have to
state that two deaths have occurred, within the last
24 hours, amoag the patients in the Union Hospital
who have been admitted from the ship Guiding
Star, making in all five fatal cases.
A man named Patrick Sweeny has been arrested
in Donegal for a murder committed twenty years ago.
Sweeny at that time succeeded in making his escape
to America, and supposing all danger past, he ven-
tured to return a few days ago.

DRAMA.

HAYMARKET.
On Saturday evening a new petite comedy in oi
act, called _1 Pretty Piece of Busine4, formed au
intermezzo between the first and last pieces, A
Cure for Lows and Midas, and met with complete
success. Notwithstanding its small dimensions, its
ingenuity of construction and variety of character
give it a better title to be called a comedy than
belongs to many pieces of much greater magnitude;
and it has the further merit of not being a mere
rifaccimento from the Freuch, but an original work
of an English dramatist, Mr. Thomas Morton.
The plot is complicated, but the following is its
generaloutline:
Miss Charlotte Shee is engaged to a Captain
Felix Merryweather, who, at the opening of the
piece, is absent on a voyage to Jamaica, and has
written to tell hisfiancee that be will return in three
months. Miss Mee is living alone in a house pro-
vided for her by the Captain, and is anxiously ex-
pecting the arrival of her brother, Dr. Laancelot
Shea, on a visit. A lady is announced who turns
out to be Mrs. Grantley, a rich young widow for-
merly a bosom-friend of Miss Shee. The latter
informs her friend of the expected arrival of bee
brother ; tells her that foe some time
he has been plunged in a deep t
melan-
choly, the reason of which no one knows;
and persuades her, after some.oppoeition, to enter
into a little flirtation with him by way of raising his
spirits. Mrs. Grnntley, while she assents, informs
her friend that she nourished a romantic attachment
to a young gentleman who saved her once from
drowningjit Dover, and can never love any one
else, thouih, to oblige her friend, she has no objec-
tion to a little harmless flirtation with Dr. Shea.
She stipulates that she is to appear as the mistress of
the house, the more effectually to carry on her plan
of attack. While they are talking, Mrs. Shee's
maid runs in and tells them that a gentleman
is coming up the garden. They suppose he
is the Doctor, and retire to consult further
about the little plot. It is not the Doctor,
however, but Captain Merryweather, who has re-
turned sooner than he was expected, and had not
given notice of his arrival that he might afford his
Charlotte an agreeable surprise. He ie accosted by
Mrs. Grantley, as the mistress of the hoarse. He
thinks he has mistaken the house, but gradually gets
fascinated by the charming widow ; and remembering
that Charlotte does not expect him for three months,
thinks that he may in the meantime pass his time
very pleasantly where he is. Mrs. Grantley offers
him breakfast, while she herself is going (she tells
him) to feed her doves in the aviary; he
to breakfast, and she to communicate
E: triumph to Charlotte. Dr. Launcelot Shea
now arrives, and is received by his sister, who rallies
him on his gallant behaviour, and asks him why be
does not go to the aviary to see the turtledoves. The
doctor is mystified by this reception, but goes to the
aviary, and presently returns considerably astonished,
having seen the gallant captain, whom he describes
as a pigeon of the • tumbler" species, making ardent
love to Mrs. Grantley, whom he calls a " pouter.'
In the meantime Mies Shee, discovering that it is not
her brother the doctor, but her lover the captain,
who has been flirting so violently with her friend,
in despair implores her brother to try to
make matters right by marrying Mrs. Grantley
himself. Mrs. Grantley, on seeing Dr. Shea, recoguises
him as the young man who has saved her life; but,
thinking that he is Captain Merryweather, ebe re-
solves to sacrifice herself for her friend by marrying
the supposed Dr. Shea, who is the real Captain
Merryweather. After some most amusing scenes
between Buckatone and Howe matters get explained,
the imbroglio is cleared away, and the piece comes to
a satisfactory termination by the union of the two
pairs of lovers.
SRIPWRECIL OF TTIE CALIFORNIA EMIGRANT SHIP. This plot, though complex in narration, is, through
—A corespondent in Achill sends us the following particu- constructive skill, sufficiently clear in the represen-
lan of this melancholy event :—" Achill, Tuesday night.— Wien. The piece was admirably acted. Huck-
There has been a very sad scene at the colony to-day. The
California emigrant ship, which left Sligo on the 18th of
trarer, was wrecked about 150 miles from land on doctor,stone, aswastheexcipuhilseigtemlyaticcombiuct, soanmdewlkiaetpttimthide
morning last. The mongers, consisting of men, Tne NEW STATION IN FENCIIUIteII•STREET.—The audience in roars of laughter ; and Howe,
111111111111, and children, and crew, left the vessel in three extensive new station which has been built on the site of
as the dashing, free-and-easy Captain, was lively
boats, two of which arrived here (one at Dumb last night, the old terminus of the Blackwell line, in Feneburch-street, and amusing. Miss Reynolds, who appeared for the
and the other at Dugert this morning), with sixty persons, is to be opened this day. fur the accommodation of Me .ne since her severe illness, received an enthu-
about fifteen of whom have died, some at sea, and some North London arid Blackwall trains. Th.: Eastern Coen first time
since landing. The survivors are in the hotel, hospital, and ties and Gravesend (Tilbury) traffic will not be brought up he part of Mrs. atley
private houses in the colony, in a most pitiable condition. uutil the works now progress cor wideninz the line h^- acted PP charmingly as ever. alts. ue Granu, as
We have heard nothing of the third boat, but it is likely tween Icnehurch-street ant the ftly,lon4quArc juncti At, 3.lisa Charlotte, was all that could be desired; and
she is safe, as her crew were well supplied with previsions„ arc completed, which is expected will be the early par: siastic welcome; and in It h
a compass, &c. Those poor creoturca in the colony had not jof the ;ensuinfi year. The new building underwent sn i„ Mrs. Par williads vein. The curtain fell amid
• drop et fresh water on board, and suffered dreadfully ! official inspection on Friday by Capta:o Simmons, R.E., I —ln,*
from thirst. The vessel sprarg s leak, and went down' the inspector of railwsys frr the 13,1•11, f Trye, who tx and there was a call for
I the little art f Dobson, the chambermaid, N‘l:44 quite
. thhtelanatnhderg?ti
whichera lipupweve;
I immediately." ' pressed his approval of the character of the work. was not reepoutieti W.