The Sun.
London, England, 1865-09-09 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sir,—Having read an account in your paper of
the 4th inst., in which you state that Miss Burdett
Coutts had sustained a loss of 19 cows out of 20
that were attacked by the prevalent destructive
disease, in describing how they were attacked you
mention that it was by a great discharge of mucus
from their mouths and nostrils, and a running from
their eyes.

This brought to my recollection a circumstance
that occurred on board a sloop of War, in the Me-
diterranean, on the coast of Syria, in 1827, viz. :
That we received on board some sheep for the
officers' mess, and that they were all attacked in
the same manner as described relative to the cows
aforesaid. It so happened that a marine on board
came to me, as senior lieutenant, and said, " If,
sir, you will please to order me some vinegar and
salt, I will cure the sheep."
The vinegar and salt were given to him, and after
he had mixed them together in a bowl, he rubbed
their faces with it with his hand, but more particu-
larly their noses and mouths, after which he allowed
them to drink a little of the vinegar and salt out
of the bowl, which they did very readily, and it
certainly cured them.—l am, Sir, yours truly,

JOHN MONDAY,
Vice-Admiral.

24, Torring-place, Plymouth,
7th Sept., 1865.

THE CHOLERA IN TURKEY.

CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 31.

For upwards of a week a regular diminution of
the prevailing epidemic has been clearly perceptible,
after a terrible increase had taken place during the
Greek fasts, but mainly among persons of that na-
tion. The cause of the increase will be perfectly
intelligible, if it is remembered that during the fasts
no other food than decomposed or decomposing sub-
stances, such as caviare, dishes prepared with oil,
olives, salt fish, &c., is allowed to be consumed. In
some Greek quarters the number of the dead rose to
so great a height that the gravediggers were notable
to perform their duties, and registration of the num-
ber of deaths was abandoned. It was singular that,
in consequence of putrid infection, the symptoms of
the disease assumed a clearly typhoid character, such
as rarely previously has been the case. The
Patriarch immediately gave permission that more
appropriate food might be consumed during the
fasts, but the fanaticism of the Greek population
was so extreme that his right of even temporarily
suspending so time-honoured an institution was
vehemently denied. Fanaticism in Smyrna was even
more rampant. In that city the archbishop was
nearly torn to pieces when he read the Patriarch's
order. Fortunately the fasts are now at an end,
and the epidemic has also greatly abated. It still,
however, makes numerous victims in the Jewish
quarters and in the Fanar, as well as in various vil-
lages along the Bosphorus.
Having now to some extent recovered from the
universal panic which has prevailed, the Turkish
public is beginning to look about it and count the
losses which have been sustained. The Maronite
bishop, who arrived here from the Lebanon with
Daoud Pasha, is among the dead. The Kasnadar
carried o
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palace, and several ladies of the harem, have been
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palace. The Court has
in consequence dispersed
in all directions, the Sultan having taken up his re-
sidence at the Ildis Kiosk, in the neighbourhood of
Ortakoi. The gross total of the dead is said in the
official reports to be 41,000, but the bulletins
published are all far too low. There have beendays
upon which the number ranged from 1,500 to 2,000.1
A report of the Sanitary Intendant Marchand
states that the cholera is now at Kustendje, Sulina,
where 96 deaths have occurred, Trebizond, Sam-
sun, Salonichi, alld Bagdad, whence it has spread
to Bushire, Shiraz, and Ispahan.