The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-20 00:00:00

EGYPT.

Accounts from Cairo to the sth have been received.
The political situation continued to be very calm ;
the only thing, indeed, which had occurred was some
promotions in the upper administration—EDHEM
PACHA to be Minister of Foreign Affairs, KHAIR-
EDDIN-PACHA to be Minister of Commerce, and
ABDERRHAMAN BET, formerly Abderrhaman Effendi,
a Maltese by birth, to be Chief of the Police, under
the nominal direction of SELIM PACHA. Krum
EDDIN PACHA and ABDERRHAMAN BEY are noted
for their attachment to England.
The opening Me of the Kalidj, which always
takes place when the rise of the Nile causes its
waters to flow into the interior canal of the city, took
place on the Ist.

ABBA.S PACIIA went from Bennah with a small
squadron of steamers, and attended the ceremony
without landing. He then returned to his favourite
residence.

The Envoy of the Porte had not arrived; he was
expected with some impatience by the friends of the
Government.

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK.
(From the Registrar-General's Report )
The official report says the health of London exhi-
bits some improvement. The deaths, which were
1,124 in the first week, have fallen to 1,091 in the
s,-cond week of August. Diarrheas and summer
cholera are still fatal; of 15 deaths from cholera 11
occurred in children under the age of 15, and 4 in old
people of the age of 60 and upwards; 4 only of the
deaths occurred on the south, while 11 occurred on
the north side of the Thames. 201 persons were de-
stroyed by diarrheas, 174 were children, 15 were of
the age of 15-60, and 12 were of the age of 60 and
upwards. The total deaths from all causes under the
oge of 15 were 611; between the age of 15 and 60,
303; at the age of 60 and upwards, 171. The deaths
of females (555) exceeded the deaths of males (536)
by 19, a change in the proportions which was ob-
served in the corresponding week of 1849 when
cholera was epidemic, and 1,116 males, 1,114 females
died.

Sixteen persons died of smallpox, 14 of measles,
47 of scarlatina, 47 of typhus, 122 of consumption,
29 of apoplexy. The deaths referred to apoplexy
occurred at all ages, and in undue proportion under
the age of 15. Disease of the heart and arteries was
fatal in 36 instances, bronchitis in 29, and pneumonia
in 31. Child-bearing was fatal to 7 mothers, 3of
whom died from metric. Twenty deaths from vio-
lence are recorded, including 4 by poison.
One hundred and fifty persons died in the public
institutions of London, 106 in the workhouses, 31 in
the hospitals, 7 in lunatic asylums, 3 in military and
naval asylums, 3 in military and naval hospitals, none
in prisons.
certificates, g I
The following are the returns of the 15 cases of
cholera registered in the week. " Summer" has been
England, and
suhstituted
cholera Gallica,
throughout for " English" cholera, or
cholera Au rwhich is often used in the medical
At 5, Gray's-buildo'vner
although the disease is not confined to
mayt. with equal propriety be called
Europe.
Ilea, or Germanica; for it prevails
Rectory, Maryleboa:
in the same form
gs, in the sub-district of the
ye,aroa,,lsoth August, the widow of
At 21, Matthias-street
a builder, aged 65 summer cholera (5 days)."
Hackney,
isangsland, in the
7th August, the
sub-
district of West
tliclei n fBSoSinaillainl
labourer, aged
asguebii
daughter of a labourer, agel,2 months "cholera in-
fantum (7 days)."
nMla2ttthhiaAs-usgtruesett,,
10 weeks, "cholera infantum (5 days)."
sub-
district, on
At the Blue Pig public-house, St. Mary
Axe, in
the north-east sub-district of the City of London, on
23d July, formerly a lighterman, aged 73 years,
"natural summer cholera (5 days)." Inquest.
At 12, Edward-street, in the sub-district of 110 X-
- New Town, on 9th August, the daughter of a
milliner, aged 7 months, "cholera infantum (4 days)."
At 55, Union-street, in the sub-district of East
Ilaggerstone, Snoreditcb, on 9th August, the daugh-
ter of a weaver, aged 1 year and 7 months, " typhoid
fever (3 weeks), cholera infantum (2 weeks)."
At 8, Belgrave-street, in the sub-district of Rat.
cliff, on the Bth of Augugt, the daughter of a pilot,
aged 11 rnonthq, " infantile cholera (one month) ex-
natation ; convulsions: "

At 5, Jubilee-place, in the sub-district of Mile-
' end Old Town Upper, on the 11th of August, the
widow of a flock-maker, aged 76 years, " debility
ending in cholera (14 days)."
At 117, Lucas-street, in the same sub-district, on
the 12th of August, the daughter of a turner, aged
11 weeks, "cholera infantum (24 hours):'
At 10, St. Paul's-place, in the sub-district of St,
Peter, Walworth, on the 10th of August, a gentle-
man, aged 66 years, " cholera (3i days)."
At Union-road, Wandsworth-road, in the sub.
district of Clapham, on the 11th of August, the son of
a master carpenter, aged 6 months, " diarrhcea (36
hours), cholera infantum (24 hours)."
At Sun-alley, in the sub-district of Woolwich
Dockyard, on the Bth of August, the son of a la-
bourer.aged 10 weeks, "cholera infantum (4 days) ''
At p
arron-hill, in the sub-district of Woolwich
Arsenal, on the 7th August, the daughter of a smith
and farrier, aged 5 months, " summer cholera
(2 days)."
At 4, the Orchard, in the sub-district of Ratcliff,
on 911 August, the son of a mariner, aged 3 months,
" diarrhce t (4 days), cholera infantum (20 hours)."
At 1 Church-court, in the sub-district of Shad-
well, on 9:h August, the son of a mariner, aged 7
months, "cholera infantum (4 days)."
In Guy's Hospital, on the 9th August, a female,
aged 27 years, died by "poison from lead works" in
which she was employed.
On the 13t August, at 1, Sparm's-buildings,
Camden-town, the son of a clicker, aged 22 mouths,
" tabes mesenterica (5 weeks)." Mr. Holl, the re-
gistrar, adds, " the street is very badly drained, and
unpaved ; much ill-health arises in consequence. The
houses being below the level of the muddy and un-
paved road and footpath, the slush flows into the pas-
sages and front rooms."

STATE OF THE WEATHER DURING THE PAST WEEK.
SUNDAY.—The amount of cloud was very variable
throughout the day; cumulostrati and cirrostrati. Showers
of rain fell. Electricity—Positive, and tension moderate
during the evening.
MONDAY.—Three-fourths of the sky were covered generally
with cumuli, camulostrati, and cirrostrati. Showers of rain
were frequent; at 3h. 45m. lightning was seen, followed by
thunder. Electricity—Negative, and very active during the
morning and afternoon; sparks were shown.
TUESDAY.—The sky was for the most part covered with
cloud until evening, after which it remained clear; cirro-
cumuli and cirrostrati. Electricity—Positive, and at times
negative, with very strong tension during the afternoon;
sparks and galvanic currents were shown.
WEDNESDAY.—The sky was generally covered with cloud
throughout the day; frequent squalls of wind and rain.
Electricity—Nothing was shown throughout the day.
THURSDAY.—The sky was overcast throughout the day.
Rain fell generally. Electricity—Nothing was shown
throughout the day.
FRIDAY..--Three-fourths of the sky were covered with
cumuli, camulostrati, and light clouds. Electricity—Nothing
was shown throughout the day.
SATURDAY.—The amount of cloud was small till after
noon, and the sky was generally covered during the re-
mainder of the day; cumuli, cirrocumali, and cirrostrati.
Thunder was heard during the afternoon, accompanied with
a few drops of rain. Electricity—Positive, and very active
during the afternoon; sparks and galvanic currents were
shown.

The mean reading of a thermometer placed on the main-
mast, and read each day at 9h. A.m. was 60.2 Q ; and the mean
reading at 9h. P.M. was 58.2° ; the mean readings at the
Royal Observatory for the same times were 61.2° and 56.9 Q
respectively.
The reading of the barometer increased from 2922 in.
at the beginning of the week to 29'52 in. by 9h. P.M. on the
10th; decreased rapidly during the night to 29.17 in. by
9h. A.M. on the 11th, and to 29.01 in. by 9h. r.M. on the
same dy ; increased to 29.67 in. by 9h. A.M. on the 14th;
and decreased to 29'46 in. by the end of the week.

DEATH OF THE DUKE OF HAMILTON.
The premier Peer of Scotland, the venerable Duke
of Hamilton and B tendon, expired onWednesday morn-
ing at his mansion in Portman-square. His Grace was
one of the oldest, if not the very oldest member of
the Peerage, having been born in the year 1767, and
consequently be had attained the patriarchal age of
85. He succeeded his father, who was the ninth
Duke, in 1819, taking his seat in the House of Lords
by two titles---the Duke of Brandon and Baron Dut-
ton. His Grace never took any prominent part in
politics. In the year 1810, when 43 years of age, he
married the second daughter of Mr. William Beck-
ford, of Fonthill Abbey, whose celebrity in art and
literature will long be remembered. The issue of
this marriage was one son and one daughter. His
Grace is succeeded in his title and estates by his
son, William Alexander Anthony Archibald, Mar-
quis of Douglas and Clydesdale, who was born
in 1811, and who married in 1843 the Princess
Mary Amelia Elizabeth Caroline, daughter of the
late reigning Grand Duke of Baden, and first cousin
to the President of the French Republic. The late
Duke was a Privy Councillor, a Knight of the
Garter, a Fellow of the Royal Society and of the
Antiquarian Society, and President of the Royal
Society of Scotland. By his demise, a blue riband
is.placed at the disposal of the Earl of Derby. The
family is one of great eminence and antiquity in the
peerage of Scotland. The keepership of Holyrood
House is hereditary in it. The second Earl of Arran,
of this line, which title was created in 1503, was
chosen Regent of Scotland in 1542, and was the next
year declared heir presumptive to the Crown. He
was created Duke of Chatelherault, by Henry 11. of
France, a dignity which he subsequently surrendered
to the French Monarch. The first Duke was be-
headed, having been taken at the battle of Preston
fighting under Charles I. The second Duke was
slain at the battle of Worcester, in the service of
Charles 11. The present Duke, who is the eleventh,
lias one son, born in 1845, who has hitherto borne the
courtesy title of Earl of Angus and Arran, but who
will now take that of Marquis of Douglas and Clydes-
dale. The Earldom of Angus was created in 1389.
Many noble families are placed in mourning by the
decease of the venerable Duke.

TEE QUEEN'S VISIT TO BELGIUM.
(From the Times.)
If we were only to keep as sharp a look out for enemies
es we do tor our friends, the shores of England would,
indeed, be
secure from invasion. We trust the public
will have been greatly edified by
the account of all the
busing at our gracious Sovereign, as she
saluting and
steamed to and from Belgium It is difficult to imagine
how the sense of dignity can be
gratified by these ab-
surd displays. Had Queen Victoria been a pigeon let
loose from a trap in Battersea-fields she could not have
been more sedulously popped at than during her recent
cruise up and down the channel. A rumour that the
little squadron was in sight was sufficient signal for com-
mencing the display of this sulphurous loyalty. We are
at a loss to conceive what gratification could have re-
sulted to her Majesty from so silly a demonstration. Of
positive results, indeed, we know but two—the waste of
an enormous quantity of gunpowder and the mutilation
of a wretched seaman in the Scheldt.
argument neees.sary beyond the p
Were any atent ab-
surdity
of the existing custom to recommend so whole-
rorne a change, it might be found in the fact that, while
our war ships and batteries aro giving her Majesty a
series of headaches by the discharge of blank cartridges,
the
supply of powder allowed for practising gunnery is
notoriously insufficient. We teach our sailors to fire at
their Queen, bat We deny them the instruction which
would enable them to fire with effect upon the Queen's
enemies.
We cannot forget
.that not many years since a French
ship of war steamed into Sheerness without being sa-
luted :at all, and that when at last the attention of the
authorities in that martial port was aroused to the
of their unexpected guests, they had some
presence difficulty, in carrying out the noisy cere-
monialconsiderviabitlhe
any decency. Surely it would be better to
our
in
powder in the instruction of our sailors than
expeno
so scandalous and useless a manner.
t o w
Besides,as te it
the custom must be as great a nuisance to
personages to whom honour is intended
h
Lose illustrious
as it is to the inhabitants of those ports which are se.,
leered as their usual points of embarkation or return.

RACING FIXT
AUG
Radcliffe ................ . 23
23
Taunton ..................
Barnsley • .............. 23
. 23
Barnet ....................
Westbury ............... 24
Egham ................... 24
Derby ................... 25
SE
Paisley .................. 26
PTE

Morpeth .................. 1
Stirling ........... ..• 2
Newport,Monmouthsb. 2
Marlborough ............ 3
Bridgnorth ............... 3
Cheadle .................. 6
Warwick ......... . ........
Whitehavou ......
Southport .....•.. 8
Weymouth ............... 8
Rochester and Chatham 8
Airdrie ................. 9
Weston ZDyland and
Bridgewater ......... 10

URES FOR 1852.
IIIST.

Tiverton .................. 26
Canterbury ............... 26
Boston.:.. ........ .. ...... 26
Stonrbridge ..... , ......... 30
Eccles .................... 30
Lincoln .................. 31
Westbury ............... 31

Doncaster ...... 14
Redditch .................. 20
Tenby ..................... 21
Eglinton Club ......... 21
Bedford . ......... . ....... 21
Leicester ............... 22
Liverpool E. aloylake) 22
Manchester Autiutio ... 23
Newmarket P. O.
...... 28
Chesterfield ............ 29
weaverthorpe: ........... 29
Western Meeting ...... 30

BEn.
perth .................... 14
Rolywoll Hunt..,,, 19
Richmond ............... 20
Lanark .................. 22
Newmarket Houghton.. 25

5
Chester
Royal Caledonian Hunt
and Edinburgh Club. 6
York. Union Bunt 6
Wrexham
Newmarket S. 0......, 11
NOVEMBER.
Worcester Autumn lO
Epiom.. 2 I Liverpool Autumn ......
4 I Cowbridge
Haut......... 10

IRISH RAGS TO COME.

AUGUST.
Tuam
SEPTEMBER.
Limerick
Omagh 7 I Kilkenny .................. 28
Johnstown 2l

ocv
Curragh
Doren Royal Corp 2O

onElt.
Carlow

A WHACKER.—There is a man in New York who
was Bo large when a babe that it !vas impossible to name
him all at once. He was laid on his left side, when they
called him Sam, and as soon as they could turn him over hoy
was named Snobble. A Middle name was intended for him,
but his body was 80 round it wonicb2l Stay On.

BILLINGSGATE MARKET.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) I
When any great public building, public market, or 1,
public thoroughfare, &.7., is to be razed to the foun-
dation for reconstruction, it is invariably the custom 1
that most of the material for the new building is
either already prepared, or easily accessible, before
commencing to pull asunder the old structure. These
previous preparations are made with the view that no
time might be lost in the reconstruction of the build-
ing, that public business might not be hindered by
the necessity of transacting it in temporary places ; and
that that part of the town where the construction is
being renewed may not be allowed for years to look
like a wilderness of ruins with scaffoldings, &c.
Billingsgate, as a public market, it appears, must
be an exception to the general rule. It is just now
about three years and nine months since the demo-
lition of old Billingsgate market and the recon-
struction of the new one on its site commenced;
and at the present day, on viewing the market from
Lower Thames street, it may yet he seen that a great
deal of work has to be performed before its final com-
pletion.
It becomes rather an awkward affair at times to
lay aside an old machine, and wait until the materials
for the re-construction of a new one are manufac-
tured. An Irishman, who depended pretty much
upon the ready use of a good musket, seems to have
been aware of that fact. When Pat wanted his
musket renewed, he went to a gun•smith and said, in
accents as broad as his countrymen are famed for—
" Arrah, my honey, this musket of mine requires a
new stock, a new look, and a new barrel ; but I must
have them almost immediately," The gunsmith
having plenty of the material on hand already manu-
factured, of course was very soon able to supply
Paddy with an entire new musket. There was a
Scotchman, too, who could not get on without a
sharp-edged instrument; he went to a cutler and said,
nnPdi lf
eeaa sfler , air,
ewsihl h
l blade; this knife
kkn
eebipuf e ot
this
asf mine
ecabny,requirestme wella
until
ndtoi new
i wyoituhh
oaun
tdle
havea
completed one exactly similar to it, or you may im-
prove upon it if you can." Billingsgate-market may
be assimilated to an old boot, that bad been given to
a cobbler with directions to put on it a new top, new
front, new heel, and new sole; but the artist has not
yet been enabled to finish more than the top, heel,
and sole—the front building next to Thames-street
I has yet to be erected.
The reasons for the market not being in a more
forward state after such a lapse of time, it is difficult
to conjecture; but there are other public grievances
and eyesores in and about the market that ought to be
exposed.
That part of the building facing the river has been
finished now upwards of nine months, but the rudely
constructed, unsightly gangway at the middle of the
quay is still there, thus preventing the vessels from
being properly berthed and arranged along the quay,
and thereby prevent confusion.
The old grievance that the oyster smacks lay in one'
tier alongside of each other, stretching right out into
the middle of the river, obstructing a passage for
barges, &c., is this day as prominent as it was three
years ago.
Another grievance that sheuld be exposed is the
unwarrantable filthy state the market has been kept
in of late. The reason assigned for this neglect is
stated to be the 16-horse power engine, situate below
in the shellfish-market, is not yet in fair working
order. When it is so it will heave up a stream of
water through the fountain that will fill the large
basin which stands in the middle of the market in
about ten minutes, besides driving a large fanner
which is to ventilate the shellfish-market. The ex-
pense of keeping up this engine it is supposed will be
about 1,0001. per annum. As regards the reason as-
signed about the engine not yet being in working
order, it is correct enough, it having been Inquired
into; but that is no sufficient reason why the market
is allowed to remain unacrubbed and unwashed for
several days together during summer weather; water
might be carried from the river in buckets, if no other
method is conveniently at hand.
Another eyesore that seems to puzzle a good many
visitors to Billingsgate is the row of houses that stand
betwixt Darkhouse-lane and the market, and which
it was supposed would be pulled down, and thus leave
an open space for carts and waggons to stand, and
prevent the overcrowding of Thames-street. It
would seem that instead of those houses coming
down, they are making erections and building about
them, which has all the appearance of an intention
that those houses are to remain as they are for a
number of years at least. After all the expense that
will have been incurred in reconstructing Billings-
gate-market, unless the whole of those houses which
stand betwixt Darkhouse-lane and it are swept away,
and an open apace left for carts, waggons, &c., the
market itself will be but a very poor looking affair to
the eye, nor will the inhabitants along Lower
Thames-street be relieved in the smallest degree
from their present grievance, an overcrowded state of
the street in the morning and great confusion.