The Sun.
London, England, 1865-08-28 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 28, 18G5.

GREAT ST. JAMES'S-HALL.—WORLD of
MAGIC, Secoud Sight, and " Begone. Dull Care,"
every evening at 8. A Day Performance, Saturday, at 3.
"The most varied entertainment in the metropolis."—Vide
the Press. Admission, is.

lIMIROFESSOR and the Misses ANDERSON.—
Farewell season. World of Magic. Second Sight, and
the original Indian Basket Trick, in conjunction with Fre-
deric (the great) Maccabe, the unrivalled ventriloquist, mimic,
and character actor.

-UREDERIC MACCABE, Ventriloquist, Mimic,
&e, in his original entertainment, "Begone, Dull Care,"
"Miss Mary May," " Early in the Morning." Balcony, 2s ;
reserved seats, 3s. ; stalls, ss. ; at Mr. Austin's office, St.
James's hall, 25, Piccadilly.
A. NIUMO. Acting Manager.

QTODARE.-143RD REPRESENTATIO N.-
THEA OF MYSTERY, EGYPTIAN HALL.
MARVELS in MAGIC and VENTRILOQUISM. by Col.
STODARE. The REAL INDIAN BASKET TRICK, and
s CANTANEOUS GRO TH of FLOWER TREES, as
introduced for the first time in this country on Easter Mon-
day, April 17, 1865. by Colonel Stodare, and only performed
by him and the Indian Magicians.
Every evening at 8 (Saturdays included), also on Wednes-
day and Saturday Afternoons at 3. Stalls at Mitchell's, 33,
Old Bond-street, and Box-office, Egyptian Hall. Admission,
Is., 25., and 3s.
"Almost miraculous."—Vide Times, April 18,1865.

WESTBOURNE HALL, Westbourne-grove,
Bayswater. W.

THE GREATEST WONDER OF THE DAY.
MORNING PERFORMANCE., (by Special RequEst) on
SATURDAY, the 26th, and WEDNESDAY, the 30th of
Aug-ust, and SATURDAY, the 2d of September.
The BABY ACTRESS, age, Two Years and Ten Days, will
Recite and Act a whole scene from Shakspere's Play of
KING JOHN, give some amusing COMIC SKETCHES,
and in the course of the evening a SEA SONG and DANCE
(in eharactcr). This Little Wonder is as pretty as talented.
and excels by far any juvenile prodigy that has yet appeared
in public.
From the Era. July 22, 1865.—" A genuine and remarkable
novelty is now beiaz exhibited. She is literally a baby, not
having reached the age of two years ; and is gifted with in-
telligence and powers of memory to a marvellous extent.
She recites whole scenes from King John,' 'A Midsummer
Night's Dream.' Ac., with appropriate action and astonisning
earnestness. A more wonderful instance of precocious in-
telligence cannot well be imagined. She may be truly classed
among the wonders of the present day."
Likenesses. Is. each. Programmes and words of the per-
formance may be had in the hall during the entertainment.
In addition to the above performances, Mr. ALFRED
HOWARD'S DRAMATIC RECITALS and COMIC
SKETCHES, interspersed with Music.
Doors open at 2.30. Commence at 3. Admission, is.; first
seats, 25.; reserved seats, 3s. Tickets may be had from Mr.
Whirley, Westbourne Hall, or of any book or music seller.

T"OXF O R D.
6, OXFORD STREET, W.
The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (limited).
SIXTY-SIX, by J. Offenbach, performed by
Misses Russell, Barrie, Walmesley, Tyrell ; Messrs. A. St.
Albyn, Husk, and Green, with full Band and Chorus.
Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans.
Ballet, Comedy, Burlesque. &c., by the celebrated D'Au-
ban s, Messrs. Duriah and Davis, and the Misses TESSY
and SARA. GUNNISS.
NO rICE —The Oxford has been entirely Redecorated,
Altered, Newly Lighted, and Ventilated, and now is one of
the most agreeable places of resort in the kingdom.—OPEN
EVERY EVENING at Eight o'clock.
The Classical Ballet, entitled TH L BRIDAL of BEAUTY,
in which Miss TESSY GUNNISS will make her re appear-
ance THIS EVENING.
Admission—Area, 6d.; stalls and balcony, ls. ; private
boxes, 10s. 6d.

CANTERBURY HALL.
KO KO RI KO.
This wonderful entertainment, having proved the greatest
hit ever made, will be repeated EVERY EVENING, in ad-
dition to the Operatic Sele3tions, supported by the whole
talent of the establishment.
Comedy, Burlesque, and Ballet by Mrs. and Mr. Randall,
Messrs. Duriah and Davies, the D'Aubans, and Arthur
Lloyd.
Director, Mr. F. Jongmans.
All visitors to London at this season should pay a visit to
the above establishment.

MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION.-
Established 30 years, at the Bazaar, Baker-street.
NEW ADDITIONS.—In accordance with the season, the
Exhibition has been entirely re-embellished. The whole of
the ancient Court Dresses of the most costly description,
faithfully copied from the most minute pictures, have been
renewed. Modern Court Dresses of the most splendid de-
scription, selected from the first houses in Paris and London.
and probably never equalled or surpassed, are now on view.
Life-size Models of DOCTOR E. W. PRITCHARD and
CONSTANCE KENT are now added.
Open from 11 a.m. till 10 p.m.
Admittance, One Shilling; Extra Rooms, Sixpence.

TOHN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY
ty TOO rn. PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth
powder; gives the teeth a pearl hltenese, protects the
enamel from decay
I and imparts a pleasant fragrance to the
the breath. Price s. 6d.-12, Three King•-oourt, Lombard-
street. London.

DR. SCOTT'S LIVER AND BILIOUS
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)t the blood, they are truly excellent; mild in their opera-
tion and grateful to. the stomach, they create appe:it
mote digestion, and strengthen the whole nervous system.
Sold by W. Lambert, 8, King William-street, Charing-cross.
London, and by most druggists, in boxes. is. lid., and three
times the quantity in one, 2s. 9d. Be sure to ask for Dr.
Soott's Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine are a square
green paokage. with " William Lambert." engraved on the
stamp.

THE RESCUE SOCIETY wishes to add another
home to tho 12 now in operation. Last year no fewer
han 455 poor. friendless, young females were rejected from
want of FUNDS and room, making a total of 3,087, who have
been sent away in fire years. Here are brief details of a few
of the most recent cases: -
F. v., aged 16, fallen, mother dead, deserted by her father.
111. A. F., aged 13, homelee, both parents dead.
d. 8., aged 17, fallen, father dead, deserted by her mother.
3. D., aged 15, fallen, mother dead.
C. 8., aged 15, fallen. mother dead,
A. 8., aged 16, fallen, both parents dead.
H. S., aged 14, homeless, deserted by her parents.
M. IL. aged 17, fallen, both parents dead.
C. H., aged 17, fallen, both parents dead.
A. G., aged 18, falen, father dead.
E. K„ aged 18, fallen, both parents dead,
S. 11.. aged 17, fallen, both parents dead.
H. A. W. aged 17, fallen, both parents dead.
S. D., aged 15, fallen, both parents del.d.
The new home the Committee wish to form would be for
young girls, almost children, from the age of 8 to 15, who
have been led astray from the path of virtue.
Contributions will be received gratefully by the Secretary.
Mr. Daniel Cooper, 85, Queen •street Cheapside; or by Messrs
Barclay and Co Lombard-street

Shocking Parricide.

EVPSIIAM, Saturday.

A man named Charles Vale has been to-day committed
for trial on the warrant of Mr. Best, the coroner for Eves-
ham, on the charge of killing his father. The inquest was
held to-day before Mr. Best, when it transpired that the
prisoner lived with his father (the deceased) and his brother
and sister, at Bridgenorth ; that on Thursday night he
came limo late and was making a noise, when his father,
told him to desist, on which ono of the daughters pushed
her father out of the back door. Ho then got in at the
front, when the prisoner seized him by the shoulders and
with an oath pushed him into the street and knocked him
down, fracturing his skull and causing instant death. The
following witnesses were examined :
George Tombs, cooper, heard a quarrelling at the Vales
between ten and eleven o'clock on Thursday night, and
saw the deceased and the prisoner struggling together in
the passage. Told the prisoner not to strike his father,
and he said he would not, but that he would turn him
outside. When they got outside the passage the prisoner
struck his father, and the latter fell on the pavement on
the back of his head.

Two other witnesses, a printer named Gestingham and
a gardener named Baylis, who saw part of the affray, cor-
roborated Tombs's evidence. The prisoner, when thrust-
ing his father out of the house, had his hands at his throat,
and threatened to " kill the -." Deceased fell with
great force on the pavement, and no signs of life were
visible in Lim after. Baylis heard the prisoner say to his
father, as ho pulled him out of the passage, " - your
old eyes, come out and l'll give you something."

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The Cholera in the Mediterranean.

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(Front the Times' Correspondent)
VALETTA, Aug. 22.

The outbreak of cholera in Constantinople and its
appearance in other parts of thellediterrancan have
caused fresh alarm and anxiety to a considerable
portion of the inhabitants of this island, lest the epi-
demic now existing here, but which appears to be
declining, should receive additional strength and
vigour by new arrivals from infected countries. The
native papers are earnestly calling on the Govern-
ment to increase the quarantine. Two petitions to
the Governor—one in English, and the other in
Italian—having this object in view, are in circula-
tion, and have been. numerously signed. The Eng-
lish one is as follows :—.

"Respectfully showeth,—That your petitioners have
learnt with regret that the terrible scourge—the cholera—
which has unfortunately visited this island, and which has
made its appearance in various parts of the East, is assum-
ing a most virulent character in the Turkish capital, where
hundreds of persons are daily falling victims to the dis-
ease. That your petitioners are informed that several mer-
chant steamers may be daily expected in Malta from Con-
stantinople, and it is not unlikely that they will bring nu-
merous passengers who naturally wish to be spared from
the fearful ravages of the cholera in that capital, and take
refuge in Malta ; that, at a time when the epidemic is for-
tunately on the decline in this island, and when hopes are
entertained that the danger will soon pass away, it be-
comes necessary that all precautionary measures should be
aclopteA„ and that a-most rigid quarantine bo established
with the view of preventing the spreading of the disease.
That, according to reliable intelligence received in Malta
last week from Ancona, the cholera is also fearfully raging
in that city ; but, nevertheless, no quarantine has as yet
been imposed here on arrivals from Ancona and from other
infected towns along the shores of the Mediterranean.
Wherefore, your humble petitioners most respectfully pray
that your excellency will be graciously pleased to take the
above facts into kind consideration, and direct that the
quarantine of seven days already established by a Govern-
ment notice of the 18th July last for vessels arriving from
Constantinople should be extended to such term as the local
Board of Health may deem right and fit ; that quarantine
should likewise be imposed on all arrivals from Ancona and
other infected towns along the shores of the Mediterranean,
and that orders be given for the performance of quarantine
on board the steamers or vessels in which the passengers
arrive ; and your petitioner); as in duty bound, will ever
pray and be grateful."
The following is a translation of the'petition in Italian:—
"The humble petition of the undersigned inhabitants of
Malta, showeth,—That these islands being afflicted with
Asiatic cholera, imported from Alexandria of Egypt while
it was raging terribly there, proves that the very brief
period of quarantine lately established on arrivals from in-
fected countries is not sufficient to prevent its introduction.
That, moreover, the insufficiency -of the established qua-
rantine is not only of very grave peril to the lives of the
inhabitants, but exceedingly prejudicial to commerce, as
all the countries with which these islands carry on most
traffic, especially in articles of primary necessity, have
cut off communication with them, or imposed a long
quarantine on arrivals—as, for instance, Sicily, the ports
of Barbary, and even Alexandria itself ; in consequence
of which, owing to the exceptional circumstance of these
islands being incapable of providing for themselves, the in-
jury occasioned is very great; that unhappily the cholera
has spread to such an alarming extent in Constantinople
that an emigration from that capital to these islands has
already commenced—an emigration which threatens to be-
come very great, so that the inhabitants of these islands are
becoming alarmed, being sure that if for arrivals from Con-
stantinople the same measures shall be adopted as those
established for arrivals from Alexandria the disease will
certainly be developed to a most fatal extent, the country
being already infected with it, and the inhabitants therefore
more disposed to take it. The undersigned, therefore, in
submitting to the consideration of your Excellency that the
inhabitants of these islands are deeply convinced that the
disease cholera is contagious, beg your Excellency would
deign to order that arrivals from infected places, especially
from Constantinople, be subjected to a full quarantine of
40 days, with the application of the most rigorous sanitary
measures ; such quarantine to commence, for vessels not
having sickness during the voyage, from the day of
arrival ; and for those with sickness to commence 15 days
after the cure. Finally, the undersigned pray that your
Excellency would deign to reform the Board of Health,
and appoint to it more efficient and independent persons,
the majority now composing it being ignorant of medical
science."

The cholera has somewhat decreased during the
last few days. Yesterday there were only four
attacks, and no deaths, in Valetta. It is most pre-
valent at present in the cities of Cospicua and Vit-
toriosa, on the other side of the Grand Harbour,
which are very thickly populated by the lower
classes, and badly
drained and ventilated. It
having broken out among the 2d battalion 22d Re-
giment, quartered in that neighbourhood, the bat-
talion is about to be placed under canvas. Quar-
termaster Walter Jones, of this regiment, died on
the 18th inst. A. few cases continue to occur in
other regiments. The epidemic has been particu-
larly fatal to the women and children.
The following are the cholera returns for the
civil population in Malta since the date of my last
letter :

Ang. 18

Attacks.
44
37
46

Deaths.
25
28
24

brought to the knowledge of the respective Euro-
pean Governments.

In this memoir Colucei Bey stated the opinion,
already shared by all physicians and enlightened
men in Egypt, that the cholera, which first made its
appearance at the commencement of this century,
and has since several times completed the circuit of
the world, sacrificing many million victims in
thickly-peopled Europe, had its rise in Hedschaz,
the Holy Land of Islamism, and notably in the
cities of Mecca and Medina, and upon Mount Ara-
rat. The Kurban-Bairam, or Feast of Sacrifice,
which falls in the first half of the month Zil-hegge,
and forms the object of pilgrimage, annually as-
sembles in the holy city 700,000 or 800,000 pil-
grims, who congregate from all points of the Is-
lamitic compass, in order then to return home with
the title of Hadji. The unreasonable manner of
life, the nameless filth in which these pilgrims exist
during the whole period of pilgrimage, is sufficient,
combined with the murderous character of the
climate, to kill a large number. The dead
are not regularly interred in the hurry of
this wandering life, but hastily shuffled under
the desert sand, subject to be uncovered by
moderate wind, so that they after a short
period infect the air. Added to these miasmata come
the exhalations from the garbage of perhaps two
million sheep offered as sacrifices to the Deity, for
even the poorest pilgrim must offer at least one.
The_fiesh-is consumed by the devotees, but the offal,
blood, bones, entrails, and even the skin soon de-
compose in that glowing atmosphere, so that ulti-
mately a deadly epidemic could not fail to issue from
that abundance of stench. This was also the case
in the present year, when the festival of the Kurban
Bairam fell in the first week of May. It was im-
possible but t hat cholera should proceed from such
a centre of decomposing animal matter, and it broke
out with such violence that in the space of a fort-
night 100,000 pilgrims died. The scanty reports
that have been this year received from those regions
are positively appalling, and an agent of the Egyp-
tian Government writes from Mecca itself that the
corpses of the dead waiting for burial were piled up
in all the mosques of the town.
It is a Mussulman prejudice not to change the
clothes during the entire period of pilgrimage, but to
wear them constantly until return home, when they
are cut into pieces and distributed as memorials
among relatives and friends. The clothes of the
dead, however dirty and filthy, are carefully packed
up as sacred relics for the same purpose. Can it
therefore be wondered at that these Mecca pilgrims
form the epidemic telegraphic wire along which this
murderous disease is diffused over the entire world ?
Can Europe ever be regarded as secure from the
cholera or any other disease which may follow, just
as cholera has followed plague, so • long as this
barbarous practice of pilgrimage to Mecca is not
abolished, or, at least, kept within reasonable
bounds ? _ _

This is the gist of the memoir submitted by
Colucci Bey to the Egyptian Ministry. He fully
admits that the subject upon which he invites dis-
cussioa is far beyond the competence of the Egyptian-
Government, or even of the Porte, and that it can
only become an object of serious negotiation by the
intervention of the European Powers. But it is
nevertheless an undoubted fact that the wretched
custom of pilgrimage is the true cause of the great
epidemics which periodically return to devastate the
European continent, and regarded from this point
of view the present memoir seems to deserve con-
sideration.

A writer in a contemporary says :—I beg to place
at your disposal the following extracts from letters
I have received from Constantinople relative to the
state of affairs produced by the visitation of cholera
in that densely populated city. They have been
written by a resident whose avocations prevented
his leaving the spot at which he had been stationed.
This was in the midst of the pestilence, and in close
proximity to the hospitals recently established by
the Government. He professes himself to have been
an observer uninfluenced by the panic almost uni-
versally prevalent, and the statements he makes are,
therefore, untinged with the excitement which fear
produces. To those who are familiar with the his-
torical narratives of Thucydides, the more recent
graphic description of Boccacio, and those incidental
to the great plague of London, the similarity of
events produced by like causes cannot but be in-
teresting. * * *

" Aug. 2.—Signs of sickness, death, and panic are mul-
tiplying fast. The spirit of fear has conquered the
spirit of mammon. The Bourse is closed. The bazaars are
shut up. Business is nearly at a stand still, and the mer-
chants have shut themselves up in their country seats. You
see women unable to resist the fascination of fear looking
eagerly out of their windows, and pedestrians shrinking
back and putting their handkerchiefs to their noses as the
coffins go past. Bodies of those scarcely dead are thrust into
coffins and hastily hurried off for burial. You call at a
shop ; the master or one of his friends is groaning in bed.
You go to visit a friend; he has just been buried. Pro-
cessions of overworked priests fill the streets and pray for
the cessation of the pestilence. Five hundred at least died
at Stamboul yesterday. In the papers the total number of
deaths is stated to have been 320. This is wholly untrue.
The most respectable of the missionaries out here, a man
of undoubted honesty, told me that 26 bodies passed his
door alone. Another man, upon whose veracity I have full
confidence, residing in another street in the same quarter,
stated that 25 went past his door. Both live in retired
streets in a healthy part of the town. What must the
cholera be in the unhealthy localities ?
"Aug. 3.—Another act of the tragedy is being performed. '
The Sultan has given orders that all classes are to make
merry, so bad brandy, raki, and Turkish music are the orders
of the day. So with the unceasing tramp of the hamals, carry-
ing the dead, the streets resound with monotonous twanging,
drunken routs, and howling. For the last few days the wea-
ther has been almost unbearable. The sun rises red hot.
The wind neither brings freshness nor the night coolness.
In the sun the glass is at 133 deg., and in the coolest room
in the house 85 deg. At Galata it ranges from 90 to 92 deg.
After a sleepless night I rise with hardly strength to dress.
Hundreds of silly stories are going the round of the place.
Here is a sample :—A pious Turk at Stamboul had a dream.
He was addressed by a venerable man when he was lying
half awake, who said to him, ' Why do you pray so much,
my friend; do you not see that God has sent this scourge
to punish the wicked, and do you think he will alter his
decision for you ?' Then the visitor vanished. More lying
bulletins ; 270 stated to have died before yesterday. I be-
lieve I understate the number when I say 1,000 die daily.
I cannot shut my eyes to the truth. Here are two facts :
The young gentleman to whom I alluded as having
adopted a strongly astringent diet as a precautionary mea-
sure of safety went to make a call. Two persons had
just died in the house. He rushed away to another. There
were three dead there. Coming back he met the dead cart
with at least 100 bodies inside. The same day an English-
man saw a number of corpses buried in an adjoining ceme-
tery. He counted 120. I learn that six medical men have
succumbed to the disease.
"Aug. 4.--There is the greatest difficulty in finding
medical men. I had occasion to go for one yesterday, but
there was none to be found in Galata for love or money.
By the merest luck I met with one at Pera. The doctors
are overworked and they shut themselves in, and say they
are not at home.' As to myself lam as well as usual. I
don't fear. I eat fruit in moderation, and bathe, in defiance
of the doctors. This is a good time for making some curious
studies in human nature. Some of those who have studied
Ronan's book, and are convinced of the truth of his argu-
ments, now crowd into Christian churches in abject terror,
and make not very successful attempts at praying. Others
who have led lives of gaiety have now assumed the garb of
Puritans, and denounce their fellow-sinners as the cause
of the pestilence. One poor creature who had been thus
assailed I saw go past with quite a hunted look in her
countenance. Every one is complaining of domestic mise-
ries of a minor character. Servants leave and no fresh onei
are to be obtained. Tamale are departing in hundreds.
Yeast to make bread cannot be had. Meat has risen to an
enormous price.

"Aug. s.—The cholera has assumed most frightful pro-
portions. Two thousand at the very least perished yester-
day. The papers, of course, still conceal the truth., The
chief of the municipality unblushingly avowed his right to
do so. I seem to be living in the plague of London, so
much do the general features of the times begin to re-
semble those narrated by Pepys. The little cemetery
behiul us is full of corpses, buried only 15 inches under
the soil, and the municipality has forbidden any more
burials there. Yesterday two large barges as high as a
first floor window from the ground were taken up the
Golden Horn for burial. Vu in@ awn ° day SOverallituzdred