The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-14 00:00:00

rIHE SUN, -LONDON, WEDNESDAY' EVENING, MAY 14, 1862.

remind us of our Cafes Chantans, but for the intro-
duction of a sort of amusement which is not per-
mitted with us. Now, of all the sights, the most
followed, the most living in London are the
Tableaux. Ido not, of course, speak of what you
see in the picture galleries. I speak of the plastic
posturing, mythological and Anacreontic, known as
1 Tableaux Vivants. Wherever you may find your-
self, in Leicester-square or in the Strand, in the
west end or in the city, you may see palpable shades
—Diana and Endymion, Mars and Venus, Atalanta
in the garden of the Hesperides, the Judgment of
Paris, and the Three Graces, such as they appeared
to the eyes of the immortals in those primitive times
when crinoline was not known. The Londoners
seem to me to be very eager after such spectacles.
Those exhibitions commenced, I believe, five or six
years ago in Leicester-square, thencespread to other
quarters, and multiplied a little everywhere. If we
had such things among us I suppose our neighbours
would cry out a little, and even utter some for-
midable ' shockings !' I must, however, add that
you meet rarely in these night-houses a well-bred
man, one who would be called in England a gentle-
man. The spectators are in general somewhat de-
ficient as respects appearance; though it is difficult
enough for a stranger to define it in this country,
where the black coat is the universal garment, and
where the beggar wears a round hat like every-
body else. One would say, indeed that the people
do not exist in this immense city of London, and
that it is exclusively inhabited by nobles and the
middle class ; the same uniformity of costume,
habits, manners, visages. The artisan, the shop-
keeper, the idler, all enter the same publichouse,
observe the same silent attitude; and at first sight
are not marked by any difference. Strip off the
livery of a lord's servant, and there is no reason
why you should not take him for his master. He
has the same stiff, cold bearing of the master. All
. the English seem to have been cut out on the same
pattern, and I have often asked myself if there
really be two distinct types throughout the whole
of Great Britain. This, in my opinion, seems to
be the true reason why London looks so sad in
French eyes. When you walk through these
streets, in the midst of omnibuses and carriages,
among the population which encumbers the squares,
the bridges, the public walks, you cannot at first
explain why all that meets your eye—splendid
equipages, glittering shops, and buiEings—all
look dull. It is only when you seek to solve the
singular problem you find out what makes Lon-
don so monotonous, apart from its industrial and
commercial sphere, is the absence of the people
—of the people who are everywhere in Paris,
who animate and make gay the streets and
squares, the public gardens, and the boulevards, who
are seated at our theatres, who mingle in all our
ceremonies, and who hold a prominent place in all
our public fetes."

makes a sharp bend at the bottom of it, and close to
the sea you look down on a cis extending for a
mile or more along the coast aid rising upon the
vine-clad hills behind, while or little volcanic pro-

,überances are perched here aul there the remains

of feudal castles, or the pictureque pigeon towers.
Down the coast the view extents to Piostum, whose

temples are just visible, and b the Punta Licosa,
and the Gulf of Policastro, whit in the background
are the lofty, blank-looking Apeanin es. The facades
of the houses are hidden under tapestry, flags wave
from every window, triumpbalarcb es, congratula-
tory inscriptions, everything which the imagina-
tion could suggest, was there to velcome the King of
united Italy. "Long live the people's King, the
King of united Italy !" " Loig live Victor Em-
manuel, the King of united Ib,ly in the Capitol!"
"Long live the first hero of laly, the hero of St.
11 Martin !" Such are a few of tie inscriptions which

I marked; nor was Garibaldi fartten. Deep in the
hearts of the Salernitans he liespne of its most sacred

reasures. The tropLies, whicl, as I told you, lined
he road on either side from thl entrance to Vietri,

were continued throughout Sahrno, and far beyond
it, in even more magnificent proportions. On the
pedestal of each was inscribed the name of one of
the battles in the Sicilian and Southern campaigns,
Solferino, Magenta, San Martno, Calatafimi, Mar-
sala, Capua, and others, surDunded by wreaths,
while these were linked together by festoons. It
was into the second city of this Southern province,
won by the hand of Garibald, that Victor Emma-
nuel now entered at a walkiag pace. The whole
province was there—windows, housetops, and trees

were covered, in the streets there was a sea of
heads, and more hearty ohms I have not heard
during the whole of this extraordinary visit. As
the street narrowed bouquets and showers of flower
leaves fell fast in the royal carriage, and amidst the
maddest enthusiasm the King at last arrived at the

Palace of the Intendante and soon showed himse'

at the balcony, " Vivas !" were shouted again and
again, and tears of joy fell fast. Beside the King
were Rattazzi and other people of distinction. His
Majesty bowed cordially and repeatedly, and then
retired to take some refreshment and receive the
deputations from the neighbouring places which had
come to welcome him, from Pajani, Nocera, Cave,
Vietri, Amelfi, Marzano, and a host of other places
unknown to your readers. All were received with
the utmost affability, and the King spoke encourag-
ingly of their united hopes. Italy would be consti-
tuted, he said; and all replied that they placed their
property and their lives at his Majesty's feet, and
would sacrifice everything for him and their country.
The clergy were tolerably well represented, " for
they know," said one to me, "that their very exis-
tence depends on their show of loyalty."
All the priests of Santa Annunziata came en masse
to welcome the King, while the Chapter of Santo
Matteo, the cathedral church, dropped in one by
one, the yielding of some having decided the others.
But I don't believe in the priests even clothed in
the garb of Liberals ; they cannot support the Go-
vernment of Victor Emmanuel if honest, and if
dishonest their support is not worth having. The
very principles of Papacy and constitutional govern-
ment are as opposed to each other as is darkness to
light, and the most honest priest is he who acknow-
ledges it and places himself in the opposition.
Whot is the consequence ? That the Papacy has had
its day, and the sooner it falls the better for the
world. " Oh, what a day is this," said a National
Guard, from the mountains, " after a life of suffer-
ing ! But you don't know how we in this province
have been trampled under foot." "Yes, I do, a trifle;
I have watched all for 20 years." " Why, sir, we
could not call our lives our own, we were treated
worse than dogs. If a dog has its chain, it is
loosened at times and caressed ; but for us there
was no cessation of suffering. Why, I, a man with
a family, living three mile from here, and having
my business to attend to, could never leave my
village without the permission of a judge; but you
know nothing of this !" "Yes, I do, for I have long
figured in your police books." " Well, sir, this day
is a compensation for all ; we wept when we saw
Victor Emmanuel ; per Die, we love him better
than Christ° it Padre Eterno, for has he not re-
deemed us from slavery—crushing slavery ?" Ido
not justify the unintentional blasphemy, still I give
it as expressive of the strength of Italian sentiment.
":And the clergy," I said, " what are they doing P"
" Brigands, canaglia, all of them ; and that --
Pope the chief brigand. Do you believe, if he had
been a real Catholic at heart, that he would have
sanctioned and protected the shedding of the blood
of Christians ? You are an Englishman, sir, and
the English have been our best friends. We all
love them, and are grateful to them ;" whereupon
he embraced me and his friends about him, and
I thought it good time to retire. Now let us
hear what a respectable officer of the Salerno
Guard will say. "We have 1,700 men under
arms," he said, " and Ave have raised a
body of 100 Bersaglieri. There •has been a good
deal erf work in the mountains there, and only six
weeks since there were 300 brigands on these
mountain tops—but they are nearly all crushed or
dispersed. A few remain ; mere highway robbers."
He then invited rile into the guard-house, and,
with the other officers, we chatted over the past
and the present. "No one eats in Salerno to-day,"
said a captain with a paunch as big as Falstaff s,
" for our servants have all re fused to work—such a
day as this, they say, comes once in their lives, and
Heaven knows if we shall be permitted to eat this
evening. Why, sir, we are all mad, all the country
round, at having that man among us." In the
guard-house there were a number of ladies and of
Benedictine monks, always enlightened, always
friends of liberty ; but, leaving them again, I again
mix in the crowd and meet with Padre Pantaleo,
Garibeldi's chaplain. " Magnifico! magnifico!',
shouts the priest, " the whole province is here, the
clergy have come out here better than I expected,
and Victor Emmanuel is carrying all hearts with
him." The Padre is very courteous and kin 3, and
presents me to a knot of Franciscan friars around
him as one who had fought for them and sympa-
thised with them for many years, and the Padre
embraces me, as do the friars, and again I make
my escape and mingle with the crowd. There are
very many persons with printed papers in their
hats, bearing the inscription, " Viva Vittoria Em-
manuele, it Re d'ltalia in Campidoglio." They be-
long to several associations formed for the avowed
purpose of pushing on to Rome. There are very
many such associations in Naples, Salerno, and
throughout the provinces, and the resolution of the
nation on this point is gaining strength from day
to-day—it may be moderated in its action by the
residence of a Royal Prince in Naples, but it will
net be destroyed, and until Rome becomes the
capital there will be no cessation of struggling, as
theie will be no real unity. Bat the bugles are
sounding, and I run off to the guard-house. Victor
Emmanuel is in his carriage, the people crowd
around him, and will scarcely let him move; he
rises and stands white bowing to the enthusiastic
Salernitans, and then he moves on slowly, while
from every window the ladies shower down upon
him bouquets and handkerchiefs and shawls full
of the petals of flowers. It was a scene to have
witnessed, not to describe. I can only talk of
" vivas" and flowers, and enthusiasm, and so on ;
but there are a thousand traits which the imagina-
tion and the heart perceive and feel, which the pen
cannot give.

MELANCHOLY DEATH OF a SWEDISH TRAVELLER.
—An inquest was held yesterday morning at the Welling-
ton Arms, Waterloo-road, on the body of Dr. Magnus
Wilkstrom, an eminent Swedish Dhilogophor and t..yenei,
who diod auddonly at Poole's coffeehouse, Waterloo-road,
on Sunday. The unfortunate viall arrived from Australia
on Sunday, and stopped at the coffee-houso in order to wait
for the two o'clock train to conVeY him to East Sheen. He
went up stairs to wash his hands, and was taken ill, and
died before medical assistance could be obtained. A gentle-
man from the dike of the Swedish consulate proved that
the deceased had travelled over nearly all the habitable
globe, and from papers found upon him it appeared that he
had suffered greatly during his recent voyage from Australia.
Mr. Blackman, surgeon, who had made a post-mortem exa-
mination, said that he found elc tensivo inflammation of the
lungs, and the body was very snuck emaciated consequent
on the inflammation and the utter prostration of the system
by the bnmorrhage, the deceased not having had any medi-
cal attendance during the time. A witness havir g identified
the deceased, spoke of his high literary and scientific attain-
ments. A vprd'ct was returned in accordance with the me-
dical testimony.

CITY COMMISSION OF SEWERS.

At the weekly meeting of the Commissioners of
Sewers, held yesterday at Guildhall—Mr. De

Jersey in the chair,
Mr. DAW, the principal clerk, read a letter from
the United Kingdom Gas Carburetting Company,
stating that they had received the copies of the
letters of the Great Central Gas Company which
had been laid before the Court at the last meeting,
and in answer to it referred the commission
to a communication which had been made to the
committee a short time since, and praying that the
commission would appoint some competent person
to examine and report upon the burning pressure
of gas supplied at the various lamps in their contract,
as, from f xamination, they found that the quantify
of gas supplied has been less than the 3 feet per hour
contracted to be given by the company at a large
number of the lamps which were supplied with
their process.
The letter was referred to the General Purposes
Committee. _ _ .

Dr. LETIIEBY, the medical officer of health, re-
ported on the state of 204 houses that had been in-
spected during the week, and he submitted a list of
93 places for sanatory improvement. He likewise
reported that the markets and slaughter-houses
had been duly inspected, and that the officers had
seized 2,7611b5. of meat as unfit for human food.
It consisted of 14 sheep, 6 pigs, 20 quarters of beef,
and 14 joints. Nearly all of it was in a diseased
condition. 78 births and 65 deaths were registered
during the week. The latter are above the average
(503 for the corresponding period of the last six
years, and 27 of the deaths were among children of
less than 5 years of age, and 15 among old persons
of 60 and upwards. :The chief:causes of death were
as follows :—Phthisis 12, pneumonia 3, bronchitis
3, convulsions and hydrocephalus 5, continued fever
10, whooping cough 4, croup and diphtheria 3, and
measles 4—making together 13 deaths from tuber-
cular diseases of the lungs, and 21 from diseases of
the zymoti3 class—half of these were from continued
fever, which continues to increase in severity both
in the number of attacks and in the fatal termination.
In the course of the last few weeks there have been
65 cases of fever out of an aggregate of 863 cases of
illness among the poor, and there have been 28
deaths among all classes. In the corresponding
week of last year there were only 6 cases of fever
among 1,109 cases of illness among the poor, and
there were only 6 deaths among all classes. The pre-
valence of the disease has therefore advanced from
less than 1 in 100 in all cases of sickness to nearly
B:per cent. ; and in some of the eastern and western
divisions of the City it has advanced 12 per cent.
It is remarkable, however, that while the preva-
lence of the disease has been most marked in the
poorer districts, the largest proportion of the fatal
cases have been in the City proper. At present the
disease is very prevalent in the Eastern Union and
in the eastern portion of the Western; and as the
fever hospital is full of patients, and cannot give
admission to the cases occurring in the City Union,
in his opinion it would be advantageous to the poor
and the public, if a temporary hospital were opened
in the City for the reception of such cases. This
would not only tend to assist in the treatment of the
helpless sick, but also in preventing the spread of
he disease,