The Sun.
London, England, 1852-09-06 00:00:00

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.

Under the Patronage of her Majesty and his Royal Highness
Prince Albert.
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty.
.96, Div* ➢'►ea7og, with the Largest Equestrian Establikliment

ha the World.
Merit Gratifying Success !
If poseittles eaeh night of representation adds to the popularity of
this Fashionable place of Amusement.
The Proprietor, therefore, hopes that, as neither expense nor the
exercise of ability, talent, or energy have been spared on the present
occasion, the performance altogether will be found to surpass any
exhibition which has graced the interior of any arena in the British
Empire.
The doors open at Seven o'clock; the Performances commence at
Half-past Seven.
Admission—Stalls, 3s. ; Dress Boxes, 4s. ; Upper Boxes, Zs.; Pit,

2s. • Gallery, Is.; Upper Gallery, 6d.
Tickets to be had at the Box-office from Eleven till Four daily.
Stage Manager, Mr. Leclercq.

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
Open for the Season,
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.
Fifth Week of the Vocal Entertainments.
Last Week but Two.
The Proprietor has the gratification to announce that the Madri-
gal and Glee Party were received with immense applause, and will
continue their performance till further notice.
GRAND VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL CONCERT.
PRINCIPAL VOCALISTS—MISS Messent, Miss Clara Henderson, Mr.
Young, Mr. Manvers, and Mr. Leffler. Conducted by Mr. J. L.
Hatton, who will preside at the Pianoforte.
PurNcrps.r. INSTRUMENTAL SOLOISTS—Messrs. J. Richardson
(Flute), Wuille (Clarionet), Lazarus (Clarionet), Viotti Collins
(Violin), Cioffi (Trombone), Collinet (Flageolet), Sidney Pratten
(F lute), and Conductor of the Orchestra, Mr. C. Godfrey.
fr,hibition of Danson's Colossal Daylight View of MOUNT
ETNA and the CAVES of VULCAN and the CYCLOPS—Splendid
and interesting Menagerie—Promenade Concert by Godfrey's un_
rivalled Military Band—Various Amusing Novelties--Concluding at
Dusk with a Grand Pyrotechnic Exhibition by Messrs. Southby,
representing the Interior of the Mountain (the Pandemonium of the
Ancient-3), with the Caverns and Forges of Vulcan and his Cyclops,
the whole terminating with the Eruption of Mount Etna and a
Grand Tableau on the Lake of Thetis, and the Nerelads receiving the
Armour of Achilles.
The menagerie now consists of several hundred specimens, some
the finest of their species in England, inluding three fine elephants,
two giraffes, four ostriches, two camels, lions, leopards, &c., and
the colossal tortoise (the largest ever exhibited), upwards of 200
years old.
N.B.—On Wednesday next, the Last Grand Flower Show of the
Season. Great Exposition of Dahlias and other Flowers, Fruit, &c.
Doors open irons Nine A.X. Feeding the Anhnals at ewe. Con-
cert at a Quarter-past Six. Fireworks at Half-past Nine.
ADMISSION, ONE SHILLING.

lIIGII WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tate Dar —Morning 11 min. after 6 Evening 31 min. after 6
To..ilonaow—Morllag; 53 min. after 6 1 Evening 19 min. after 7

TEE WEATHE OFFICE, SE.I.T. 6.
THEO,I3IOMETat, LET THE SHADS.
67—Inghast since noon yeaterdziy.
58-4owszt this morning and during the night.
6ti —this day, at noon. _ _ _

B.:114011Itils,11, 30.05.
WIND N.E.—light breeze and fine weather.

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following
State of tha Wir W
d and eather at each
Places at Nuns o'clock on Saturday morning.—The atationa
ors arrangad in order of latitude.
Muunim ind S., strong breeze—partially cloudy.
PLYWOUTH-- v I N• E,, gentle breeze—cloudless.
w.nd
(3,, —W ...
ind F. gentle breze
air"' cm— Wind W., strong breeze—cloudless.
N.E., gentle breeze—cloudless.
GKEE2,IWIGH—CaIin partially cloudy.
STOOD—Wind N.E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
symaDoeg—Wind S, light airs—partially cloudy.
Cxxs_ti ind S.W., calm—overcast.
CAmßrapenc—Calm--cloudy.
yA„motr-rx—Nki ind SE, gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
llor lAD ina S., gentle breeze—fine.
Sltia. Wind E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
BBATTOCIK —Wind S.E., strong breeze—partially cloudy.
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the wind and weather on Friday morning at nine
o'c!c,ek :
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LANCASTM—WiIId S., calm—cloudless.
WHITBY--Wind S., gentle breeze—principally clear.
Bzerrocx—Wind S., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.

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LONDON, MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 6, 1852.

An announcement of a somewhat startling nature
in reference to the Asiatic cholera must have arrested
public attention the other day—an announcement in
regard to an opinion recently expressed by the Board
of Health in a communication to the Government.
This opinion, it will be remembered, was to the effect
that two medical officers should be specially appointed
to take such steps as may seem best calculated to meet
and mitigate any attack of cholera upon this country
—the suggestion being submitted to the consideration
of her MAJESTY'S Ministers in consequence of the
disastrous intelligence received during the last few
weeks from the city of Warsaw. Little more than a
fortnight has elapsed since we recounted the nature
and extent of the raveges made in that ancient capital
of what was once the kingdom of Poland, by the
moss fatal of modern visitation. Within that
period the conviction appears to have forced
itself upon the judgments of the Sanitary Commis-
sioners that some precautionary measures should at
length be taken in England, so that we may not be
surprised, as we have been twice—firstly in 1832,3,
and secondly in 1848-9, when the dreadful scourge
carried destruction far and wide among the inha-
bitants of the United Kingdom. Fortunately the
authorities appear to be at last awakened to a sense of
their heavy and even , under the circumstances, awful
responsibilities. It must not, of course, be imagined
that we are disposed to underrate the humane efforts
made on the last descent of the cholera upon the shores
of Great Britain by order of the RUSSELL Adminis-
tration. On the contrary, it must be admitted cor-
dially upon all hands that everything that in-
genuity could devise at the time was done
according to the beneficent dictates of the
existing Government,thenßut everything
also, it:must likewise be confessed, or almost every-
thing was left until it was too late to be productive
of Any considerable amelioration. Remedies were
attempted to be employed for the oat part when re-
medies were certain to prove inefficacious. As to
preceutione, scarcely any worthy of
being so desig-
nated were taken. The people were surprised into
the knowledge that the disease had arrived amongst
them by the fact of thousands being " cut off"with
appalling. Until then apathy
a rapidity absolutely
was betrayed in high places ; but thereupon an ex-
traordinary degree of activity was manifested—alas!
only when activity W.2S little less than a mockery.
Dreadfal evidence of this has lately been collected to-
gether in the blue book, presented to both Houses
of Parliament by command of her MAJESTY, and
entitled " Report of the General Board of Health
on the Epidemic Cholera of 1848 and 1849"—a report
evidently prepared with remarkable attention both to
detail and comprehensiveness.
Curiously enough, from three to four years were
consumed upon both occasions, before, in 1832.3,
and afterwards, in 1848-9, the cholera had arrived
in ngland, after traversing the various countries of
the continent in its north-westerly progress from
Rindostan. A glance at the course taken by the dis-
ease at the last-mentioned period, will be sufficient to
remind us of the average rate of its movements. It is
tolerably well known that the calamitous epidemic
referred to has
appeared
annually, since 1817, in
different provinces of
the East Indian peninsula.
Already it hag c
twie extended beyond the
frontiers of nindostal2-;
a southerly and
and by advancing in
westerly direction, reached
s
the British Islands ucceesively in 1832 and
in 1848. It is feared lest • •
, Haying again passed be-
yond the customary limits. of the land which was its
birthplace, it may have actually
entered once more
upon that inexorable course which has twice con-
ducted it through the most Populous
cities of the
Europeans. With this terrible prospect held before
us by the hand of experience, it becomes peculiarly
matter of interest just now to call to remembrance
the facts peculiar to the two previous visitations;
and this can be the most readily and the
most
effectually done by tracking the course taken by the
disease across the continents of Asia and Europe_,
following the trail of its disastrous footprints from its
appearance during the hot season of 1845 1
at Cabool to its arrival on the first
day of October, 1848, at the city of
Edinburgh.
'laving !manifested itsdf, as here stated,
. in 1845 at Cabool, the cholera bad extended during
the course of the same year, in July to T.lnehalla, and
in November to Ceylon,
e •
Scarcely had the spring of
.t. ;,- , ...1846 commenced wh n the disease had leaped north-
- ' ? warden as, far as Bombay ;in June i
A. . --Tae-leeea in July at Teheran,• • of
''' - -- aututaa'at T and b
abrez. Still hovering
- tiCi'VOCf„September fr 1
C, nnin
y the heal g
t was at Kur-
about Persia, it
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