The Sun.
London, England, 1855-05-23 00:00:00

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GENERAL CANROBERT AND .LORD

RAGLAN.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

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SIR, —General- Canrobert, as we are awe re, with a
noble self-sacrifice for hia country's good, hi is resigned
his command in the Crimea to General P elissier, an
officer under his command.
Taking into consideration the delicate courtesy and
good breeding for which our French neighbours are so
distir.guished, think you not that it may be a hint to
Lord Raglan to resign his command also, seeing that
his lordship has made so little progress in tile successful
prosecution of this great war, and fur whic 4 he appears
to be unequal to the occasion.
With two great countries like France and England,
desirous of prosecuting this just war with unparalleled
vigour, is there no master mind, no genius, no man of
sufficient energy, decision, and judgment, and up to the
mark to lead us on to victory? If not, then indeed may
we mourn for retrograde France ! degenerate England I
The times want not a mere narrator of events, as Lord
Raglan appears to be, but an energetic, fertile, judi-
cious, and unconquerable spirit, who meets with difficul-
ties, but with a determination to die or overcome them.
Such a man would soon put a very different aspect on
affairs.—l am, sir, your obedient servant,
12, Steward-street, Spitalfields, B. D. P.

May 21, 1855.

WEIGHING FOR THE FATOUI?ITB.

Ever prompt to utilise the leading incidents of the day,
Punch Las for his principal illustration this week a re-
presentation of Lord Palmerston in the attire of
a jockey being weighed for the political Derby.
His lordship weighs dreadfully light, and his smirk o
self-satisfaction, while failing to turn the scale of Libe-
ralism, Progress, and Solidity, is admirably contrasted
with the disappointed looks of Mr. Puna and John
Bull, the latter of .whom exclaims—" Poor old Pam
Too light I'm afraid Mr. Funds."

SUNDAY TRADING BILL.—A. meeting was held last
night in the British School-rooms, Cowper-street, City-
road, to consider the bill introduced into the Commons
by Lords Grosvenor and Ebrington, who were present.
The chair was taken by Mr. Broad, of Lambeth. A
resolution, declaring the bill " arbitrary, oppressive,
unjust, and tyrannical," was put and carried, as was a
second, that a petition against the bill be presented ; ttnd
after several speeches, the meeting separated.
ORPHAN WORKING SCHOOL. —Yesterday a public
examination of the children educated at this institution
took place Et its establishment on Haverstock-bill. The
chair was occupied by Mr. Apsley Pellatt, M.P. The
examination • was conducted by Mr. Fitch and Mr.
Baxter, of the British and Foreign School Society. Mr.
E. Ball, M.P., subsequently addressed the children,
and rewards were presented to the old scholars in testi-
mony of their continued good conduct in the situations

which they now occupy.,
ROYAL NAVAL SCHOOL, NEW-CROSS. —The annual
general meeting of this corporation took place yesterday
at Willis's Rooms, Admiral Bowles, C. 8., presiding, sup-
ported by. Earl Manvers, Admirals Earl Waldegrave,
Lord Byron, Sir Charles Ogle, Sir Geo. Lambert, Sir
H. 0. Pell, J. W. D. Dundas, Meynell, and a number
of other gentlemen. The chairman having briefly ad-
verted to the satisfactory condition of-the school, as well
with regard to its finances as to its educational athran-
tagee, the report of the council was read by Mr. Barnes,
the secretary, which stated that, since the last annual
creased prosperity and success.
meeting, the school has continued its career with in-
The Hon. Lady Phillips's second concert took place
on Monday evening. Among the company were the
Neapolitan Minister and Princess Carini, the Danish
Minister and Countess d'Oxholme, the Belgian Minister,
the Bavarian Minister, Count Trautmansdorff, Count
and Countess Reventlow Criminil, the Duchess of Wel-
lington and Lady Emily Hay, the Duke of Cleveland
and Lady Augusta Paulett, Marchioness of Ailes-
bury, &c.
COUNTESS OF ENNISKILLEN.—The remains of this
lady were removed last evening from the town residence
of the Bari of Enniskillen, in Eaton-place, Pimlico, to
be conveyed to Fleetwood, after which by steamer to
Belfast, and from thence to Armagh, to be interred in
the family vault tbere.
DUBLIN, May 22. —The Lord-Lieutenant left Dublin
yesterday by special train, on the Great Southern and
Western Railway, for Cork, for the purpose of presiding
at the opening of the Now Cork Athenaeum this day.
The directors of the Crystal Palace have caused to be
prepared two volumes, bound in imperial morocco, con-
taining a series of photographic views of the progress of
the Crystal Palace, from the raising of the first column
on the 9th of August, 1852, to its opening on the 10th
of June, 1850. Tee views were taken by Mr. P. Dela-
Locate, head drawing master to King's College. This
splendid work is intended to be presented to the Em-
peror of the French, as a memorial of his visit to he
Palace.
Mrs. Richards, wife of a merchant in Winter-terrace,
Union-road, Borough, was delivered on Thursday of
three female children. The mother and little ones are
progressing favourably.
Twenty persons were more or less injured by an acci-
dent on the Stour Valley Branch Railway, near Dudley,
on Monday evening. There was some mismanagement
at the points.
Lady Feversham gave a ball last evening, at the
family residence, in Belgrave-square. The reunion, was
honoured with the presence of a distinguished circle of
guests, mongst whom were Prince Gholam Mahomed,
son of Tippoo Satan and Prince Feroze Shah, grandson
of Tippoo Sultan, both of whom were attired in magni-
ficent Eastern costumes.
The sixth ordinary meeting of the Institute of
paper was read, "On the Valuation of
-spare—Charles Jellicoe, Esq., V.P in
&An-
aries was held on Monday evening, at the institute in
Sthte.
Government Securities, by Edwin James Farrell, Esq
V.P.
cJhaaiinre.s's A
•I
Mr. J. Carmichael, the eminent marine artist, departs
for the Baltic on Saturday next, to take sketches for the
Illustrated News.
The Manchester Town-ball had a narrow escape on
Monday morning. The lofty ceiling over the Town-
clerk's office, the floor, and the ceilings of several rooms
below, were injured by fire, but the damage will proba-
bly not exceed 100/.
His Excellency Sir Ralph Abercromby, the British
Minister at the Hague, who is now en conge in this
country, leaves town early in the ensuing month to re-
sume his diplomatic duties.
THE GOVERNOR OF BALAKLAVA.—Amongst the Rus-
sian prisoners brought home in the Simla last week was
the Governor of Balaklava, who was taken prisoner when
Balaklava was first seized by the English army. In the
confusion of the capture the governor lost his wife and
daughter, and has never heard of them since.
The Agnes Blaikie, from Malta to Balaklava, was run
down by her Majesty's ship Medina, about the sth of
Mny off the latter port.
The preamble of the Carlisle and S. Moth Pay Dock
and Railway Bill was declared proYedas t •
evening.

THE ELECTRIC CLOCK AT THE SOUTH-
EASTERN RAILWAY T.gliarlNUS, LO.N-
BON-B,RID(7'Z

On the Ist of November, 1852, the system of sending
time signals hour, by hour from the Royal Observatory
at Greenwich to various telegraph stations came into
successful operation. Certain .hour signals were re-
quired by the South-Eastern Railway Company, and
the remainder were passed on to the Electric Telegraph
Company for distribution along their system. The
interchanges of connexions far these purposes were ac-
complished by a commutator carried by the great clock
at the London terminus. The next step in the system
was to show time to shipping in the Downs by the drop
of a ball at Deal, caused by a telegraph signal sent
from the Greenwich clock at 1 p.m. For the success-
ful
carrying out of this it was deemed prudent to
erect a clock in London for the especial purpose of
carrying the commutator. Mr. C. V. Walker, the
telegraph engineer to the South-Eastern Company,
bad found by experiment that the pendulum at Green-
wich would keep one of Shepherd's electric clocks
going on the lecture-table of the London Institution,
and he proposed to the Astronomer Royal that the
commutator should be carried at London by one of
these clocks. On the 3d of March last one clock was
erected over the North Kent platform, facing pas-
sengers as they arrive in London ; and since that date
it has faithfully shown Greenwich time, which is sent to
' second by second, from the Royal Observatory. The
clock is the property of the Government, and is under
the charge of Mr. Airey on the part of the-Admiralty,
and of Mr. Walker on the part of the South• Eastern
Company, under whose joint care the clock, with the
adjuncts essential for the purposes in question, was con-
structed. In the common state of things the vommutator
commutator is out of gear, and the hour signal wire
is continuous from Greenwich to the Electric Tele-
graph Company's system ; but on the approach of any
of the hours when the signal is required on the South-
Eastern lines, the ball-drop signal, fir instance, the
commutator will have arrived at such a position that
at about one minute before the hour the Green-
wich and the Deal wires will have been lifted from
their normal positions, arid held together until nearly
a minute after the signal shall have passed ; when the
ball at Deal is nearly down the raast—viz., in about 15
seconds, it returns a signal to Greenwich in proof that
it has dropped. The drop is produced with the utmost
regularity, a failure being extremely rare. Commutators
are carrieei by local electric clocks at Ashford and Deal,
and the adjustments there and elsewhere are such,
that the connections are made without extraneous aid,
and it is out of the power of the instrument clerks,
through inadvertence, themselves to send a signal and
cause a false drop. Within the London clock are galva-
nomwers which show the hourly signalA that come from
Greenwich on distinct wires, and afford a means of observ-
ing that the clock is showing true time; by another pro-
cess the time shown by the clock is read off at 8 a.m.
daily at Tunbridge, and its accuracy tested. this clock
promises to be the basis of operations as the system
becomes developed of distributing time to the great pub-
lic buildings of the metropolis. The South-Eastern Com-
pany have cordially co-operated with the Astronomer
Royal in this great work, and have made very liberal
concessions to him both ill respect to the Admiralty
wires anti those of which he requires the temporary use.

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE TEES.

(From the Report of the Registrar• General. )

In the week that ended last Saturday the deaths of
1,143 persons, namely 620 males and 523 females, were
regi-tered in London. Though the figures show a small
reduction on those of the two previous weeks, they still
imply rather a high rate of mortality. In the 10 corre-
sponding weeks of the years 1845.54 the average number
of deaths was 989, which, if raised in proportion to in-
crease of population, becomes 1,088. The deaths re-
turned last week are 55 in excess of the number obtained
by calculation.

The mortality from zymotie or epidemic diseases in
the aggregate is about the usual amount. Of 220 cases
referred to this class, 161 occurred under 10 years of
age. Small-pox exhibits a sudden increase ; the deaths
from it, which were 15 and 28 in the two previous weeks,
rose last week to 45. Of these, 18 were registered in
the north districts, and 14 in the east districts. The
Small-pox Hospital is situated in the former divisions and
in that institution 11 deaths occurred in six days. 'The
disease appears to prevail in Shoreditch more than 'in
any other part of London. On the south side of the
river it was fatal in 3 cases in sub-district of St. John,
Horselydown. 41 deaths were caused by scarlatina, and
four of these occurred in Woolwich. Diseases of the
organs of respiration have become less fatal ; having
numbered 219 and 225 in the two previous weeks, they
felt last week to 185. There died from consumption 159
persons, of whom 27 were less than 20 years old, 77
were between the ages of 20 and 40 years, 44 were 40-60,
and 11 were above that age and under 80. Three lives
were destroyed by intemperance.
Last week the birth of 820 boys and 836 girls—in all
1,656 children—were registered in London. In the 10
corresponding weeks of the years 1845-54 the average
number was 1,453.
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At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29.659 in. The
mean temperature was 46.0 deg., which is 6.5 deg. be-
low the average of the same week in 38 years. The
mean daily temperature was below the average on every
day except Saturday, and on Sunday and Tuesday it was
10 deg. lelow the average. The amount of rain in the
week was 0.44 in., most of which fell on Sunday. The
wind was generally in the north.