The Sun.
London, England, 1852-06-02 00:00:00

AMERICAN NEWS.

RA CENT DE ATIIS OF OFFICE 11S IN THE
METROPOLITAN SE WEBS COMMISSION.
The work of the Metropolitan Commission of Sewers
devolved mainly upon three gentleman—Mr. Edward
Lawes, the chairman, Mr. Allason, the architect, and
Mr. Frank Forster, the engineer. Others gave only
occasional or incidental attendance. The two principal
paid. officers, the chairman and the engineer, worked
anxiously de die in diem. Mr. Ailaeon was as anxious,
and Le watkoi with them incessantly, until a day or two
before his death. They had all three the promise of a
longa
short
rf?; lace.a%ertelrt,hetihreir entrancexinneteo
haseticeh,
eaennd now, after
d by
nervous fevers. Those few perz,)ns who may be aware
of what it is to have the resp,:nsibility of dealing with
large evil., with imperfect meant, and to contend against
vexatious obstructions, will fully appreciate tho fatal
influence of the mental anxieties which are the ante-
cedents of the diseases which terminated their lives.
An engineer, who knew Mr. Frank Forster intimately,
said, on hearing of his appointment to his office of en-
gineer to that commissicn—" That appointment is a fatal
mistake. J know well the susceptible ',attire of his
mind. Now mark me; the opposition which ho will
there encounter will kill him. You will soon hear of
his being in a nervous fever; and unless he is rescued he
will be killed." The nervous fever came as was pre-
dicted, and Mr. Forster resigned too late. Mr. Hoe, the
previous engineer, who had been a veteran, was also
attacked with a nervous fever, produced by the anxieties
and the worry of the office, and he was compelled to
resign, and-has been slowly recovering between two or
three years toe effect Of the service during one. The
health of Mr. Austin, the first engineer of the con-
solidated commission, was failing rapidly, though he is a
younger man, under service with imperfect support, but
his friends interfered and rescued him in time. To
meet the public demands with reduced means, Mr.
Lawes, the chairman, undertook recently the responsi•
bility of looking into every report and order for the
drainage of every single house—a step which betokened
a state of anxiety, and which well-informed friends
would have prevented him taking (4s it was a duty pre-
viously; well dispatched by subordinate officers), or in-
deed for taking the office at all. Prediction in this case
also was too speedily verified. When a gentleman, who
had, had experience in the commission (and had himself
withdrawn from it), heard of the proceeding of Mr.
'able ,awes he confidently predicted that lie could not be
to- stand it, and that hia health would give way
under it. The story has its moral for those who repine
at what they call the " luck" of others.—Budder.

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. f -VIVIARKET IN TEL LIGEN CE.
k-c rpm
prices is lesales'
SuGAn. the London New Price Current, June 1.)
On ReCOOtt of day the Colonial Sugar market was closed
still no general reduction in
with large ur:lithic holidays, but will re-open to-morrow
igreat competition.
anticipatedßEF/NED._,rc, there being a
barely ample for -italay the supply of Refined Sugar was
grocery lumps at 48s
with firmness, low stoma consumption, and rates closed
The export dernand4atrinc?
mer terms are well ker ,rushed gar is good, and for-
ki,s,UslTlus.,-Priees'l%.
neari_
_sc:xperituced, and at auction
good demand has beeu ',A slightly declined,. yet
10,000 bags Were
mid 31s 6d to 33s 60, 1
brown 27s to 31, inf good I
yellow went at 34s to 3-; 41; tli'Po`ed of, fine arid
a, 10%, to '
30i
to
353,
tii:e
35,., 0
t,,
~, crior 253 to 26s qd, grey 1
mid to fie()
"u, f,ti •
47,!„ and gc od to fine yellow ditto FainY white 42.3 to
EAST INDlA.—lirevioui tertn3 (11;78
Sugar, Still the demand has b(?en
parcels at auction, trsmtietions sir .
not exceeded 6,000 bugs. The
good to fine white arc 363 to 403, i
,fine and supt,tio- to ,11i per cwt.
iiajequired for B:ugal
ited, and
;co this (laweek including
prices thk nY have
-ow to'' 'for Ilensres,
, mid 34s to 35s
6d, graiLy • ' , 083 to 4,
36s to 378 6d, common and mid 32s to 33,61, , -is, good
to 32s 6d, white 42 i to 553, Mauritius
303 to 335, good to fine 333 6d to 355, low
kinds
iboroWn 31s
3_7 to mid
253 to 263 6d, bett:r kinds 27s to 30s, good towLyel_low
31s to 335, and soft brown 223 to 2436 d per evirtn'llad]tto
remains in good request, and previous rates are sustained.
Iti all 5,000 bg3 have been disposed of since this day Week,
tit prices ranging for soft brown at 24s 6d to 25, 6d
yellipr ditto 264 to 280, good to floe 286 to 32i.! f3QI to
, . •

The advises from New York this week contain little
of interest. The business in the atock•markdt was
large, and the abundance of money having still further
increased, the resumption of specie exportations to
England was looked upon by the bankers with satisfac-
tion rather than otherwise. The total receipts of
gold from California by the fortnightly steamers
had been 350,000/, while the amount now shipped
to England was only 115,0004 The, internal
business of the country was very active, and the
receipts on the various lines of railway were larger than
those of the corresponding season of any previous year.
Much party feeling had been excited by a decision of
the High Court of Appeals against the legality of an
issue of 1,500,000 dollars stock, which took place in
August last, for the purpose of widening the Erie
Canal: The surplus tolls of the canal were to be
pledged for its redemption, but it was contended at
the time that by the constitution of the State of Now
Ydrk no such pledge could be given, the power, of the
Commissioners being limited to the appropriation of
funds actually in hand. The stock was to bear 6 per
cent. interest, and to be redeemable in 1861, and it was
taken at an average premium of 1 per cent. Its doubtful
nature, however, was long ago pointed out,. and it is
believed that none was purchased on this side. The
money will be refunded to the subscribers, who will
lose nothing but interest and premium, and the de.:
cision of the Celia is regarded by sound business
people with considerable satisfaction. The whole
amount intended to have been raised was note less
than 11,000,00 dolls., and the chagrin therefore of
those who had promoted the affair with. the hope of get-
ting contracts is very severe. The newspapers contain
a list of nine new consular appointments by the Go-
vernment at Washington, among which' are Mr. F. B.
Ogden, for Manchester, and Mr. J. A. Henriques,
for Melbourne, Australie. The mining intelligence
from California comprises the disco►ery of seve-
ral new beds, but nothing of an unusual character.
The disappointment with regard to the quartz ape-
rations appears to have arisen more from the
workers having wasted their money in cheap machinery
than from any other cause. The superintendent of the
Nouveau Monde Company had commenced a negotia-
tion for purchasing the works and mining property of
the Merced Company in the Bear Valley, Mariposa
County, where he considered the veins to be of a favour-
able character.— 7 Imes.

A CHARACTER.
There was one individual of whom for a time I could
pin no satisfactory account. He was called the Cap-
tain; and if a tight-fitting, blue frook-coat, light
trowsers rather the worse for wear, and a well-brushed
hat entitled him to the appellation, he ertainly deserved
it. Although about fifty years of age, he assumed
the Various eccentricities of youth, • talkecL "of tine
girls," " dashing equipages," and " the et ceterae," the
lastexpression always fully emphasized, with remarke
able freedom, which made the greater impression upon
me, knowing the delicate state of his finances, and his
astonishing celerity in manufacturing I 0 U's. "Done,
for a ducat!" ho would exclaim; " but es I have not a
ducat, borrow one. Come, Dorrington, lend me the
amount; full security—my Bank of England note. Here
give me paper—:-the suiallef.t piece in the world; if• an
individual can write the Lord's Prayer in the size of a
sixpence; it won't require much space to put down my
obligation for a paltry half crown. Giving full credence
to his personal aeceunt, he is one of those exuberant
spirits who consider men in the prime of life at sixty,
end ttsink of taking, if it should ever prove their chance,
a third spouse at fourscore, to givo ease and comfort to
the remainder of their days. He was continually spin-
ning' yarns of his exploits, wonderful, if true, and
mostly entertaining ar.d romantic. Few, according to
bii own version (and no one was inclined to4contradict
him), had travelled so far in fonign couutries, or were
so well acquainted with the manners• of the wide world's
inhabitants as himself, The history of the Pyramids
was to him a mere nursery rhyme; he spoke of the
height and breadth of the Andes with the philosophic
coolness of a Humbolt; toe plains of Siberia, if
you could rely upon his inuendoes, he had specially
traversed, to trace the fate of the devoted but unfor-
tunate exile Elizabeth; and his Japanese experience
was not to be slighted, if it solely related to their bar-
barous Customs, and the delights of cook-fighting. In'
truth, to employ his own distinctive phraseology, "the
oPinihn.of.an individual who could claim the distin-
guished privilege of having lighted his cigar at the crater
of Mount Vesuvius, and darned his steckings with Cleo-
patra a Needle, was not to be combated or his advice
disregarded."—Bren Tango, or Mercantile Mysteries.