The Sun.
London, England, 1865-07-01 00:00:00

THIRD EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, 6 o'CLocK.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day

CITY BETTING—Tms DAY.
GOODWOOD STAKES.
9 to 1 agst Claremont (offered)
100 to 7 agst Suspicion (offered)
14 to 1 agst Alabama (taken)
15 to 1 agst_Joco (taken)
25 to 1 agst Moose
40 to 1 agst Guide (taken)

The Cholera at Alexandria.

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(REUTER'S EXPRESS.)

TRIESTE, June 26.
The Triester Zeitung of to-day says :—The Italian
steamer Principe Tonamaso, and the Austrian
steamer Marco Polo are now in the Theresa
lazaretto. Their passengers (152 in number) are
lodged in the lazarette quarters, as well as circum-
stances permit. All are perfectly healthy, and
notwithstanding the great overcrowding in both
vessels—the Italian steamer having brought 173
passengers to Ancona, while the Marco Polo was
crammed with 105—not a single case of serious
illness occurred during the voyage. All contrary
reports are stupid or malicious inventions. Several
travellers, however, concur in admitting that
cholera prevails at Alexandria to a great degree,
and that the majority of the cases have a fatal
issue, but the causes of this are purely local, and
mainly attributable to the wretched sanitary con-
dition of the town. Above 700 carcases of cattle
are said to be lying on the Nile canal alone, and
the water from this source supplies the inhabitants.
A letter from Alexandria on the 19th inst. says :
' The measures taken by the Government have
proved entirely useless to meet the extent of the
evil, the first case of which was observed here on
the 10th or 11th ult. The disease prevailed first
in the north-west suburbs near the railway station,
which are inhabited by some 20,000 Arabs, Greeks,
and Maltese, all belonging to the lowest class. It
is remarkable that the epidemic has hitherto only
attacked the port of Alexandria, while hot and
populous Cairo, together with the internal portion
of the country, has remained entirely free. During
the first few days 4.5 to 8 persons died daily, then
the deaths rose to 30.39, and on the 17th 61 fatal
cases were reported.'

" An official telegram from Alexandria, dated
to-day (26th), estimates the number of deaths
hitherto at 1,034, the great majority of which be-
long to the native population. On the 25th 183
persons died out of a total population of 160,000.
Large numbers of inhabitants were leaving the

town.

" Arrangements have been made here that per-
sons coming from Alexandria are to be subjected to
a week's quarantine, reckoned from the day of
arrival. Ships are to be ventilated and fumigated;
clothes, furniture, and bedding thoroughly cleaned;
and goods and letters exposed to the treatment cus-
tomary in Italian ports."
The same paper publishes a report from Alexan-
dria as to the cholera in Mecca, an imperfect account
of which has previously appeared. It says :—" The
Mussulman festivals of the Kurban-Bairan took
place during the first 20 days of May, when
600,000 to 700,000 pilgrims annually assemble in
Mecca and upon Mount Ararat, to celebrate their
pilgrimage with the usual religious ceremonies. The
mode of life, utterly opposed to all rules of dietetic
prudence, pursued by these crowded masses for 10
to 15 days at the holy places, yearly entails a number
of diseases to which many are sacrificed. This year
the cholera, or as the Government prefers to call it,
cholonna—.was added to the customary pests, and
is said to have carried off 20,000 people at Mecca
and upon Gebel Ararat within the short space of
two months. Private accounts place the loss of
pilgrim life at 100,000, an estimate obviously ex-
aggerated, as these do not even include the deaths
by cholera. We, in Alexandria, have no more
exact details of this terrible drama, which made no
extraordinary impression upon the pilgrims them-
selves, who, in their religious fanaticism, believe
every one certain of Paradise who dies during pil-
grimage. The country being at all times inaccessible
to European medical men, the meagre reports we
have are derived from a few Egyptian military
surgeons, ordered by the Government to accompany
the pilgrims from Egypt.
Lamentable and Fatal Accident.

We deeply regret to record a very melancholy and fatal
accident which has occurred in this island, and has caused
great distress in one of our most respectable family circles,
and very deep and general sympathy. The Rev. D. M.
Lempriere, chaplain of the General Hospital and Prison,
with his wife, children, and a lady friend, set out in the
morning on a picnic excursion to Bonne Nuit, and while
Mrs. Lempriere was walling along the ridge of one of the
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dangerous precipices there, one of the children having, it
is supposed, ran too near the edge, in the attempt to save
the little girl from the imminent danger in which she was
placed, Mrs. Lempriere herself slipped and fell over the
precipice. The unfortunate lady was dashed to pieces, and
her husband, who was a short distance behind, alarmed by
the cries of his little daughter, ran to the spot, when he
had the agony of mind to find his wife lying at the foot of
the precipice a lifeless and mutilated corpse. The following

is the evidence adduced at the inquest held on the body :
Sergeant Francis West, 8.A., deposed that in the morning,
about 10 o'clock, while he was at work at the Bonne Nuit
Battery, St. John's, his attention was drawn to a person
falling down the slope to the beach. He looked through a
glass and saw a gentleman raising a lady, who appeared
insensible. He hastened immediately to the spot for the pur-
pose of rendering assistance. When he arrived he saw the
body of a lady in the arms of Mr. Lempriere. Witness
directed Gunner Davis, who had accompanied him, to run
and fetch water and a towel from the barracks. At the re-
quest of Mr. Lampriere, who was getting exhausted, he
supported the lady until such time as a hand barrow and
rug had arrived. With the assistance of the gunner he
had the deceased conveyed to the nearest house in the
neighbourhood. He had examined the place where
Mrs. Lempriere had fallen. It was about 60 feet in
height from the beach, with a slope of 40 feet, and
a perpendicular drop of from 15 to 20 feet. The
deceased did not breathe. She must have been killed in-
staneously. Mr. Lempriere showed his wife's hat to wit-
ness, and it contained about half a pint of congealed blood.
She had fallen on her head on some stones imbedded in
the beach. He telieved the skull must have been severely
fractured. The pathway near the spot was very dangerous.
Gunner B. Davis corroborated the statement of the former
witness, and added that he saw the deceased fall from the
slope upon the beach. Mr. Lempriere was next examined.
He said—We left town in the morning about 9 o'clock for
the purpose of spending the day at Bonne Nuit, and arrived
there in due course of time. After alighting from the car-
riage we went down the hill, when we came abreast of some
soldiers' wives who were on the slope, and asked them for
the pathway leading to the beach. We intended to bathe
the children. The servant went ahead, carrying pro-
visions, and I followed, carrying my youngest child.
My wife and a lady, our friend and companion, with two
children, followed in the rear. I looked round several
times to see how my wife and her companions were getting
on. Mrs. Lempriere told me to go on, and as soon as I had
deposited the child on tho beach to come back and fetch
her. I proceeded a short way, when to my surprise my
eldest daughter, aged seven years, ran up to me and said,
"Poor mamma has fallen down the hill !" I ran to the
spot whore she should have stood, but I saw nothing but
her parasol. I ran down the path to the beach, and only
found a corpse there. I raised my poor wife's head; but
alas ! all was over. Death must have been instantaneous.

I was soon joined by two soldiers, who rendered every
assistance in their power. I inquired for a surgeon, but I
was told that none lived in the neighbourhood. The path
was narrow, but' the descent was gradual, and no danger
apprehended. The pathway was not difficult, for the chil-
dren trotted along it with ease. I surmise that Mrs.
Lempriere must have got out of the path for the purpose
of protecting one of the children, who may have gone too
close to the precipice, and thus sacrificed her life to save
that of her child. The accident took place in an instant.
The mother fell with a shriek. Her maiden name was
Maria Jane Collas, and she was a native of St. Saviour's.
Her age was 37 years. Dr. Charles Lo Vesconte Godfray,
surgeon of the General Hospital, said ho had examined the
body of the deceased lady. The whole of the cranium was
completely fractured, and there was no doubt but that
death was instantaneous. Marie PilleeMoll, a servant-maid
in the family of Mr. Lempriere, was at the place with her
mistress, but said sho did not seo her fall ; she heard a
shriek., and that was all. The deceased has left six children.
The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental Death."—
Jeray Paper.

The traffic receipts of the Atlantic:a nd Great
Western Railway (New York, Pennsylvania, and
Ohio) for the month of May amounted to $460,442,
against $214,679 in the corresponding period of
1864.