The Sun.
London, England, 1852-09-07 00:00:00

GERMAN Y.

In Warsaw, on the 29th, there were 79 new cases
of cholera, of which 36 were fatal ; 513 still remained
under treatment. Two of the most distinguished
names in Polish literature had fallen victims to the
disease, Adrian Krzyzanowski'and Felix Beatkowski,
both Professors in the University of Warsaw. Since
the appearance of the epidemic it
was supposed that
more than 5,000 persons had died in the hospitals.
To convey the dead to the burial-grounds every
kind of vehicle was put in requisition—carts, wag-
gons, and britzskas. Parties of sappers were ordered
to the Powonzker churchyard and the Jewish burial-
ground to dig the graves. The pest has raged with
peculiar severity among the Jews. In their burial-
place, says one account, it was frightful to see the
number of new made graves ; in the night between
the 21st and 22d ult. alone 162 corpses were buried ;
in those two days altogether 350 died. As on the
Sabbath no Jewish burial can take place all were
deferred till the night; but on the Sunday morning
60 bodies still remained unburied, and more
were constantly being brought to the ground.
The help of the military was therefore called
in, and the interments were compelled to be
made without ceremony. The Jewish population
exclaimed against this profanation of their
religion, and to prevent it men of all ranks volun-
teered for the labour. Th-y said that, since the
earliest ages, each corpse had been washed and buried
in a separate grave, and they would not allow the
ceremony to be omitted, or that all the corp,es should
be thrown into a common trench. By the voluntary
aid thus afforded by people of all conditions, without
distinction of rack or wealth, the required forms were
observed, and the Jews state that ail of their faith
have had a separate grave. In 15 days 1,662 Jews
were swept away by the disease. Private accounts
state that the deaths have exceeded the number stated
in the official reports.

BURSTING OF A RAIL WAY ENGINE.
A serious accident, but happily unattended with
fatal consequences, occurred at the Lenton Junction,
near Nottingham, on the Midland Railway, early on
Saturday morning. The seven o'clock train from
Cadnor-park, heavily laden with passengers, was
Passing at the rate of about thirty miles an hour from
the Erewash to the Nottingham and Derby line, when
a slight explosion was heard, and suddenly the train
came to a stand-still, but the air for a considerable
space suddenly becoming filled with vapour and
smoke, some time elapsed before it could be ascer-
tained what had happened. In the interim the
terrified passengers rushed from the carriages in all
directions, and several of them ran to a considerable
distance from the line, fearing the possibility of a se-
cond and more disastrous explosion. This, however,
was impossible, as was discovered on after examina-
tion, when the steam had entirely evaporated. It
then appeared that one of the
.tubes leadinig from
the fire—which, owing to having
, Previously been
damaged, had had a joint soldered thereto, and
d —had burst, forcing the
then been Plugge
hot water d . „. plug
into the fire, the hot.t.w.leterlyandasalLepamingrrotoah:hfie boile-r
following it,
idoor was shut at the time, or
Happily the fire-hole ultimately
driver, and Charles Mitchell,
William Gibson, lith°:
the stoker, who were standingst close to it, would
have been killed on the po. As it was, Gib.
son was so dreadfully scalded and burnt about the
face as to prevent him attending to his occupation for
some time to come. i'lttclaell, who escaped the
effects
of the first rush of hot vapour and flame, se-
cured himself from after consequences by rapidly,
and at great risk, climbing to
the far side of the
tender. The engine, numbered 334, ms de by E. B.
Wilson, of Leeds, in 1850, appears otherwise in very
good condition. The train was subsequently t
con-
veyed to Nottingham by a Derby luggage engine. i
is much to be desired that the patching and plugging
of tubes in locomotives—always a source
of great
danger should be peremptorily forbidden, both by
railway directors and the Government inspectors.