The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-30 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 30, 1862.

local banks. Then let a bankrupt bill be passed to
liberate those of our business men who have their
hands tied by old debts resulting from former
failures. This lone, and with the ordinary ohances
of war in our favour, the premium upon gold can be
reduced to at least 5 per cent. If Secretary Chase
were to retire from the sabinet, and give place to a
better financier, this result would be indubitably
hastened."

ARRIVAL OF THE SAXONIA.
SOUTHAMPTON, OCT. 29.
The Hamburgh and American Company's steam
ship Saxonia, Captain Elhers, from New York, has
arrived with 154 passengers for Hamburgh, Havre,
and this port. Also on freight-348,955 dols. for
England, 227,280 dole, for France, and 4,700 dole.
for Hamburgh.
The Saxonia left New York on the 18th instant
at 1 p.m., and called off Cape Race on the 223 at
9.30 a.m. Daring her passage she spoke the fol-
lowing ships :—On the 18th inst., off Sandy Hook,
passed the English ship Dragon, bound for New
York ; 20th inst. passed the Bremen barque Presi-
dent Schmidt, steering westward ; and on the 22d,
in lat. 47, long. 52, passed the English schooner
First Fruit, steering westward.
The steam ship Asia arrived at Boston on the
morning of Oct. 17.
The Saxonia's news is anticipated.

FEARFUL LOSS OF LIFE A 7 SEA.

PLYMOUTH, Wednesday Afternoon.—This morn-
ing M. Paul Augustin Fable, nephew of the mas-
ter, and chief officer of the ship St. Louis, of 400
tons, belonging to Marseilles, appeared in distress
before Mr. William Luscombe, of this port, Vice-
Consul for France. M. Fabre states that the St.
Louis was owned in shares by himself, his relations
at Marseilles, and the master, M. Augustin Fabre,
and that they possess altogether a fleet of 12 mer-
chant vessels. Their ship took in 380 tons of grain
at a small roadstead near Beyrout, where there are
only four or five houses, and left for England, char-
tered, probably, to call at Cork, Falmouth, or Ply-
mouth, for orders. On Saturday, the 18th of Octo-
ber, they received from a large cutter a Channel
pilot, who immediately took charge. Very heavy
weather was then experienced, and continued
throughout the following week, when she com-
menced leaning. On Saturday morning, the 25th
inst., during a terrific hurricane from the south-
west, all three of her masts went by the board.
The pilot was injured by the fall, the pumps were
disabled, and the ship became unmanageable. No
assistance came near during the day, but at night-
, fall a steamship approached, and the crew cried for
help. Their appeal was heard on board the
stranger, which stopped immediately and
exhibited lights on both sides. Unhappily, the
fearful weather which prevailed prevented
those on board the steamer from ascertaining the
exact position of the wreck. The difficulty of ob-
servation was much increased by the loss of the
masts of the St. Louis. The master of the steam-
ship, with much humanity, steered three times
round the wreck, and after expending several hours,
ultimately resumed his original course. This oc-
curred in long. 8 40 W., or midway between the
Land's End and Cape Clear. The wretched master
and crew, 28 in all, were now left in a hopeless
condition 150 miles from the shore. The leakage,
not being kept down by the pumps, had in the
meantime swollen the grain. The same night the
ship opened bodily fore and aft, and went down,
and most of those on board took to the spars and
rigging. The mate and son of the master, Louis
Fabre, only three years of age, clung to the fore-
mast. After this period the mate can give no exact
account of time. He had much difficulty in retain-
ing the child, who received one fearful cut on his
forehead and face, while his preserver was chafed
and bruised all over. In this condition they were
knocked about the remainder of Satur-
day night, all Sunday, and all Sunday night, up to
4 o'clock on Monday morning,when the spar struck
the Cornish shore and they escaped. The mate does
not speak English, but a kind-hearted fisherman,
seeing their distress, supplied them with clothing.
After walking one day over a high hill they came
to a railway station, where a gentleman paid the
mate's fare to Plymouth. The boy was left behind.
Among the crew were four Greek sailors, all the
rest were Frenchmen. The name of the 2d officer
is Renard Louis, Augustin Rossi was carpenter,
Louis cabin boy, and seven of the sailors were called
Morel, Auguste, Fore, Francois, Geo. Gas, Philippe
Robert, and Charoi. The pilot was celled Vickel-
son or Nicholson, a full-sized man, 40 years old,
with chestnut hair which covered his face. He was
taken out of a large cutter with a crew of four men.
The steamship William Corry, Captain Goldsmid,
from Cardiff for New York, put into Falmouth on
Saturday, and by the ;master's report she was the
vessel which failed to help the St. Louis. The
steamer first went to leeward of the voices, think-
ing they would pull down to her, and then to wind-
ward, supposing that they were on a raft.

CI7 Y COMMISSION OF SEWERS.

OF WHAT SAUSAGES ARE MADE.

On Tuesday, at a meeting of the commissioners
of sewers, held at Guildhall, Mr. De Jersey pre-
siding, Dr. Letheby, the medical officer of health,
called their special attention to an abominable and
disgusting use to which diseased meat seized in a
public market had been put, and which he had rea-

son to apprehend was not an uncommon case. He
reported that the market inspectors had informed
him that much of the diseased meat of Newgate-
market finds its way to the sausage-makers of Cow-
cross. Last week an inspector seized the carcasses
of a diseased sheep and pig which were being car-
ried to a sausage-maker in that locolity. The sheep
had died from the rot, and the pig was covered with
small abscesses like boils, many of which had
burst through the skin, and the rest were still full
of matter. Both of the animals were in a shock-
ingly diseased state, and but for the interference of
the inspector would have been converted into sau-
sages. He had also to state that the slaughter-
houses of Cow-cross, which are just outside the City,
are a source of great anxiety to the inspectors, from
the circumstance that diseased animals are con-
stantly slaughtered there and brought into she City
markets. Last week there were two such instances.
Two diseased bullocks had been killed in the slaugh-
ter-house of a Mr. Cross, and then carried to New-
gate-market, where they were seized. In like man-
ner at Whitechapel it is a common practice with
some of the butchers who are outside the City
boundary to traffic in diseased meat ; and City
butchers and salesmen complain that they have not
the same chances for the disposal of inferior meat
which their neighbours have. Only last week the
carcasses of about a dozen bullocks that had died on
ship-board were sold in Whitechapel. Meat of this
description w's disposed of to the poor at night,
when it passed for wholesome meat, and it realised
from a penny to five farthings a pound. He sub-
mitted this matter to the commissioners, in order
that the local authorities of Whitechapel and Hol-
born might be informed of it, so that there might
be uniformity of action among the officers of the
several districts in question. He added that the
markets and slaughter-houses had been duly in-
spected, and the officers had seized 4,5251b5. of meat
and 73 head of game and poultry as unfit for human
food. It consisted of 16 sheep, 10 pigs, 32 quarters
of beef, and about 50 joints of meat. Three-fourths
of it were from diseased animals, and he recom-
mended that in two cases the matter be submitted
to the solicitor for further investigation.
Dr. ABRAHAM said the subject to which the medi-
cal officer had called their attention deserved some-
thing more than a passing notice from them, because
it concerned the public health, not only as regarded
the City, but the whole metropolis. He submitted
that copies of the report ought to be sent to the
local authorities in the neighbourhoods of the City,
so that they might understand the condition of
things which it described, and that the medical
officers in those neighbourhoods might co-operate
with the officers of their commission in putting an
end to such abominable practices.

Deputy LOTT proposed that the City solicitor
for the time should be instructed to take the neces-
sary legal proceedings against the persons referred
to in the medical officer's report.

Mr. ISRAEL said that he understood that much
of the deceased meat found its way into the market
after the inspectors had seized it. He thought that
highly reprehensible, and asked whether the con-
demned meat could not be sprinkled with creosote
directly it was sold in the shop of a salesman.
One of the inspectors replied that the diseased
meat was so sprinkled after being seized, on being
put into the cart to be sent to the boilers.

Eventually the commissioners resolved to print
the report, and send it to every one of the vestries
in the metropolis, with a request that they would
co-operate with the officers of the commission in
preventing the sale of diseased meat in the metro-
polis generally, as it was impossible for the officers
of the City to extend their supervision beyond its
boundaries. They also resolved to instruct the
solicitor to institute legal proceedings against five
persons named in the medical officer's returns,
Touching the sanitary condition of the City, Dr.
Letheby
reported that the mortality returns for
the week were a little *hove the average. There
were 58 deaths, compared with 46, the number for
the corresponding period of the last 7 years; 26 of
the deaths were among children of less than five
years of age, and 13 were among persons of 60 and
upwards; only 9 of the deaths were from zymotic
disease. He also reported that 184 houses had
been inspected during the week, and he submitted
a list of 64 places for sanitary improvement, and

one of 37 places calling for further 'proceedings on
account of orders already issued but not complied
with.
The court then adjourned.