The Sun.
London, England, 1862-07-07 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDOI, MONDAY EVEN! G, JULY 7,-1862.

LITERATURE.

he Ladies of Lovel-Leigh. By the Author of
" Margaret and her Bridesmaids," &c. 3 Vols.

Hurst and Blackett,

It is impossible not to admit the cleverness of
this tale, however much we may be struck with
the improbability of some of the incidents. Indeed
the whole course of events is out of the ordinary pale
of experience, belonging rather to the region of
imagination than of reality, and allowance must be
made for this in the perusal. The narrator is the
youngest of three sisters, living, when the tale
commences, with their father at their ancestral seat
of Lovel-Leigh in all ease and content. "The
house casts a broad shadow on the lake, the battle-
ments round the roof being reflected back on its
bosom, as if cut by some hand in adamantine stone.
Three stories high, and roofed up with so sharp a
pitch that three tiers of windows lighted the dome,
it had a most imposing appearance, yet was
more beautiful than grand. Beautiful in its old
English quaintness, its grey stone, its cheerful
open casements, the clustering roses, myrtles, and
magnolias that climbed-in rich luxuriance even to
the upper windows. It was beautiful in its air of
home, its quiet grace, the exquisite verdure, with
the sunshine of gladness over everything." Here,
owing to a sort of constitutional shyness, they saw
scarcely any company, the only frequent visitor
being a certain Ferdinand Home, whom Mr.
Love], having saved from drowning, adopts, after
a fashion, and through whom happen all the mis-
fortunes it is the purport of the book to narrate.
This individual is, it seems, marvellously handsome
but extremely superficial and intensely selfish;
though Mr. Lovel, a quiet student, with but little
knowledge of the world, labours under the delusion
that he is little short of perfection. At the com-
mencement of their acquaintance he had met with
Mrs. Lovel before her marriage, and been smitten
with her, still her rejection of him made no differ-
ence to their intimacy, and through his means she
came by her death ; a shock received through fall-
ing into the lake in consequence of his clumsy
management of a boat having caused her confine-
ment to terminate fatally, and the child, the
youngest daughter, was in consequence born dumb.
The children growing up, the second daughter,
Pamela, falls in love with this individual, who is
about her father's age, and he, ascertaining that the
sisters will be co-heiresses, professes to return it,
and the marriage is decided on. But as Mr. Lovel's
health is breaking, he wishes to have his will drawn
up at the same time with the marriage contract,
and requests " Ferdy; ' as Mr. Home is termed, to
recommend him a lawyer; and accordingly a friend
of his, a Mr. Rivers, is summoned from town for the
purpose. But no sooner does the lawyer see the eldest
daughter, Mabel, than he determines to win her for
his wife, and notwithstanding her positive refusal and
that of her father, he persists in proferring his un-
welcome attentions. It now appears that "Ferdy"
is considerably in debt, though he is unable to state
the precise amount, but the lawyer, on being ap-
plied to, puts the sum at about £14,000, and Mr.
Lovel sends him a blank cheque, signed, desiring
him to pay " Ferdy's" debts, so that before his
marriage he muy be perfectly free from encum-
brance. But a further delay occurs, the debts are
not paid, the lawyer refuses to return the cheque,
and suddenly claims the whole estate of Lovel-Leigh,
though he offers to accept the hand of Mabel in-
stead. He is again refused, Mr. Lovel makes an-
other will leaving Mabel sole heiress, and, over-
come by anxiety at the state of his affairs, dies.
Rivers now takes legal proceedings to get the
estate into his hands, and the marriage between
Pamela and Ferdy is definitely broken
off, although she makes him a present
of her share of her mother's fortune, which had
been divided between the two younger sisters, and
which amounts to £7,000. Determined now to
husband their resources, and contest the matter to
the uttermost, the three sisters dismiss the servants,
sell off the sunerfbinn.
and talre situations—the eldest becoming governess
to an idiot boy, the second companion to an old
blind maiden lady named Woodville, F erdy's aunt,
and the youngest assistant to a milliner. Mean-
while the trial comes on, when it appears that
Ferdy and Mr. Rivers are half-brothers, that the
former is indebted to the latter in the sum of
£47,000, and, moreover, that he is already married,
his wife and daughter being alive. Under these
circumstances, the jury, without leaving the court,
unanimously give a verdict for the defendant. The
ladies of Lovel-Leigh are reinstated in their home.
The eldest marries a distinguished General, and the
second a rising literary man, whilst the third,
though disappointed in her affections, regains her
speech to a limited extent in consequence of a pecu-
liar nervous shock, and derives consolation from wit-
nessing the happiness of her sisters and from the
cultivation of her taste. The novel contains great
variety of incident, it is very ingeniously constructed,
and will doubtless enhance the reputation of the
writer.

Marietta. A Novel. By T. Adolphus Trollope,
2 Vols. Chapman and Hall.
He who would truly depict the life of a foreign
people, must not only sympathise with their habits
and traditions, but also be perfectly familiar with
their idioms and literature. He must, in fact, for-
get for the time his own nationality, and become asit
were a denizen of the State in which his scene is laid.
His work will otherwise present only an external
aspect, and be little better than a caricature. With
this defect, however, Mr. Trollope's novel is by no
means chargeable. A more admirable delineation
of Italian life, as found in Tuscany, it would be
impossible to desire. Indeed, so excellent is it that
perhaps none can fully appreciate the truth of the
details unless they have lived in Florence, where
the action takes place. The time. chosen is the
beginning of the present century, and Marietta, the
heroine, is a descendant of one of those old Floren-
tine familes which, through indolence and extrava-
gance, have allowed their patrimonial estates to
slip through their. fingers. Her father, the Count
Lunardi, had been forced to alienate the last and
most precious relic of the family property, the
Lunardi Palace, and it is her effort to regain this
and to put the family in some degree upon a footing
of its former prosperity that the plot is based.
Dominated by one idea, that of restoring the for-
tunes of her house, she rejects the love of young
Guido Guidi, to whom she was attached, becomes
housekeeper to her uncle, an ecclesiastic, and
manages all his affairs. After'twenty years' strict
economy and judicious investment of the savings
she succeeds in accumulating the, for Tuscany, by no
means contemptible sum of 35,000 scudi (about
£7,000), with which she purposes buying back the
palace and reinstating therein her nephew, the
young Count Sebastian. But to this scheme various
obstacles arise. Thus, on the one hand, the palace
has been mortgaged by its purchaser, the Marquis
Perini, to a rich money-lender named Palli, who
intends that it shall form part of the dowry of his
only daughter Laura ; and on the other, Guido
Guidi (who, disappointed in his love for Marietta
had entered the Church, but still continues on good
terms with her), determines to get the money she
has saved into his own hands and use it to advance
his ecclesiastical preferment, and as he is equally
subtle and unscrupulous there seems every proba-
bility of his plot succeeding. But it so happens
that Sebastian has lost his heart, much to the dis-
approval of his aunt, who desires that he should
wed one like himself, of noble blood, to Palli's daugh-
ter Laura ; and she, to the disgust of her papa,who
has no wish to bestow her hand and fortune on one
!horn he thinks a penniless noble,returns his affec-
tion. Things are in this state when Marietta sud-
denly discovers that Guidi is playing her false, and
that the only chance of the Lunardi Palace return-
ing to the
family is by the marriage of Sebastian
and Laura; she
accordingly oyercomesher scruples

to the match, enlightens the money-lender as to the
state of the Lunardi finances, and the novel ends
with the marriage of the lovers anci the discom-
fiture of the priest. The underplot, in which the
brothers Palli, one of whom is the Marquis Perini's
steward, and who have managed to -absorb the
Perini property between them, try, without success,
to bring about a match between their only son and
daughter, is extremely amusing, and not less able
is the description of the intrigues of the unprin•
cipled Guidi. In fact, Adolphus Trollope has pro-
duced a very excellent novel. It combines the
fidelity of a photograph with the artistic skill of a
picture.

The .Rffie in Cashmere. By Arthur Brinckman.
Smith, Elder, and Co.

The writer states in his preface that he makes
" no pretence whatever to literary style," but that
he has written the work in the belief that his prac-
tical experience may be of use to his fellow-coun-
trymen seeking sport in Cashmere. The style of
the work certainly admits of improvement ; and
we doubt if to any but sportsmen it will possess
much interest. For instance, it cannot concern the
general public much to know that " a man who
works hard, and spares females, would certainly kill
thirty ouriar in a month, though perhaps he might
not kill more than 10 full-grown rams." Nor will
they derive any great pleasure from being told by
the writer that he and his men amused themselves
by " pelting a doe ibex with bits of earth ; she had
two young ones with her, so let us pelt for
10 minutes before moving off." The practical di-
rections, however, as to colour of dress, mode of
stalking game, and management of firearms are
likely to be serviceable to those whom they concern ;
and military men may find the concluding portion of
the work, which discusses the questions of army re-
form and of English rule in India, worth their at-

by the heavy cost of, the inland transportation.
Should the harvest in Europe be good, not one
bushel of grain will he required from America,
while her imports of foreign articles are now
20,000,000 dots. pet month, from which she must
part with her gold, or become bankrupt, as it is
not likely that Mr. Chase's demand-notes will
circulate in Europe."

BANQUET TO HIS HIGHNESS THE
VICEROY OP EGYPT.

On Saturday evening his Highness the Viceroy
of Egypt was present as the guest of the Lord Mayor
at a grand banquet in the Egyptian Hall at the
Mansion-house, which was elaborately and taste-
fully decorated for the occasion, baskets of flowers
being suspended from the ceiling in the open spaces
between the columns. The company invited to meet
the Pacha was numerous and brilliant, including
members both of the present and of the preceding
government, a large number of distinguished fo-
reigners, many of the leading merchants and bankers
of the City, and almost as many ladies as gentlemen.
A guard of honour from the London Rifle Brigade,
under the command of Major Rose, was on duty at
the entrance and in the vestibule, and when his
Highness arrived received him with arms presented,
while at the same time the Lord Mayor and the
Lady Mayoress advanced to bid him
.welcome. •
The company present included his Highness the
Viceroy of Egypt, his Serene Highness Prince Fre-
derick of Schleswig-Holstein, his Highness Mus-
tapha Pacha, Earl and Countess of Leven and Mel-
ville, Lord and Lady John Manners, Viscount and
Viscountess Doneraile, Lord and Lady Colville of
Culross, Lord Colchester, Lord Ernest Bruce, M.P.,
Viscount Pevensey, M.P., Sir G. C. and Lady Lewis;
M. Rouher, French Minister of Interior ; Mr. Mil-
ner and Mrs. Gibson, Mr. and Mrs. Disraeli, Sir
John Pakington, M.P., Right Hon. W. and Mrs.
Cowper, &c.
After the names of the guests had been an-
nounced with heraldic solemnity by Mr. Harker,
the toastmaster, the " loving cup" commenced its
circuit, and his Highness the Viceroy took part
in this ancient ceremony, with a cordiality
which drew forth cheers from all parts of the room.
The usual loyal and patriotic toasts having been
disposed of,
The LORD MAYOR said—l have now to offer a
toast which cannot fail to meet with a hearty recep-
tion. I am about to propose " The Health of his
Highness the Viceroy of Egypt." (Loud cheers.)
Our illustrious guest is well entitled to an emphatic
expression of our unqualified admiration of the
unceasing efforts so successfully made by him for
the development of the resources, and for the general
advancement, of that ancient and most interesting
country over which his royal highness bears sway.
(Cheers.) Those efforts have not only resulted in
benefits to his own country and to his own people,
but have contributed largely to international com-
munication and to commercial intercourse between
the different countries of Europe and the eastern
hemisphere. I greatly rejoice in the good fortune
which enables me, surrounded as I am by many of
my distinguished countrymen in this Mansion-house
of the old corporation of London, in the centre of the
great metropolis of the widely expended British
empire, to demonstrate to his royal highness the
estimation in which his name and character are
generally held by the British people ; and the great
sense they entertain of the generous aid he rendered
to us in the critical hour of our need. (Cheers.) Let
us hope that the Great Disposer of Events may long
continue to preserve a life so valuable, that the
energies he has hitherto employed for the good of
mankind may for a long period suffer no deteriora-
tion, and that the general cause of civilisation and
commercial intercourse may still enjoy the advan-

tages of that enlightened career which has been the
glory of his royal highness to pursue. (Loud cheers.)
The toast having been enthusiastically drunk,
His Highness tharrimyncir
-t'
effect—l beg to thank your lordships and this dis-
tinguished company for the manner in which my
health has been given and received. lam sure that
these expressions are more than I really deserve, but
they are an encouragement to me to deserve them
hereafter. (Cheers.) Since I came to this country
I have had cause to be grateful for the hospitality
and kindness which I have received from all classes
of the English people, and especially from the great
personage who is its chief. Before I sit down allow
me to propose " The health of the Lord Mayor."
The health of his lordship, as proposed by his
highness, was drunk with great cordiality.
The LORD MAYOR said it was a proud thing for
the City of London to have the honour, through its
Lord Mayor, of entertaining the Viceroy of Egypt
under the roof of the Mansion-house, and it was
particularly fortunate for him (the Lord Mayor)
that it had fallen to his lot to entertain his high-
ness and the distinguished company by which he
was surrounded. (Cheers.)
The LORD MAYOR next gave the toast of " The
House of Lords," which was acknowledged by Vis-
count Doneraile.
His LORDSHIP next gave " The House of Com-
mons," associating with it the name of Mr.
Disraeli.

Mr. DISRAELI (who on rising was loudly and
universally cheered) said :—My Lord Mayor,—On
the part of the House of Commons I beg to acknow-
ledge the honour you have done them by proposing
their health upon this occasion. This is not by any
means the first time that I have performed this
gratifying duty ; and I am well aware, from
the kindness with which this toast is always
proposed from the municipal chair, and from the
cordiality with which it is always received by this
company, that this is not, and that it never will be,
an idle ceremony. (Cheers.) Nor is this in any way
wonderful, when we remember the value and the
duration of the relations which subsist between the
municipality of this city and the House of Com-
mons. Those relations are of no modern date ; they
have been consecrated by age and by sharp expe-
rience ; they form an important element in the his-
tory of this country ; and they will long, I trust,
continue to be cherished and respected by every
class in the community. It is with peculiar plea-
sure and with peculiar pride that, on the part of
the House of Commons, I this day acknowledge
the compliment which you have paid us ; and I
am happy to inform your illustrious guest that
nowhere is his government viewed with more inte-
rest than in the House of Commons—(cheers)—and
that it is with admiring satisfaction that they have
seen that under his rule the energies of his country
have been developed, the elements of its prosperity
have been increased, and on many occasions thered
have been exhibited the happy results of a wise and
_
temperate administration. (Cheers.) Aboveav
may say it is with peculiar pleasure
best and
of labour which forms, I believe,af n
wit-
nessed under his sway that admission
towhfeethe rights
I hope, before
securest foundation of the wealth of
Lord Mayor, I may congrataltate,
which has attended
nations. My
I sit down, on the great felitcoi
viynYgour hospitable board
him in a hall which
you this day in welcomienege_
the ruler of Egypt, and roe i
country over which he
derives its name
(Hear.) firo.linook upon this circumstance as
presides.
Impromptus which are the cha-
rs as one of those graceful
are the finest ornaments of our social
apropos which
In former .
roanceteorfistitliocsseof happy
manne ,
happiness. days, when Egyptian halls
were visited aiv_l investigated with the energy of a
Belzoni or the genius of a Bunsen, treasures were dis •
covered which have astonished and perplexed Europe
—but I think I may say, my Lord Mayor, that when
your illustrious guest quits th is room to-night he will
bear from this Egyptian hall treasures, which even
ise—treasures Lot less valuable Egypt will not desp
than those discovered by a Belzoni or a Bunsen,
for he will carry away from this hall the sympa-

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thies of an enlightened community and the respect
of a free people. (Loud cheers.)
His Serene Highness PRINCE FRF.DERICK of
Schleswig Holstein proposed " The health of the
Lady Mayoress."

His LORDSHIP then proposed the health of trert-
tlemen who had been brought together to the
metropolis, not only from different parts of this
country, but from distant places on the continent to
do good service as jurors and commissioners in the
Great International Exhibition. They were much
indebted to the foreign commissioners, to whom,
with the jurors, much of the success of that vast
undertaking was to be attributed, and he rejoiced
to see several of them among his :guests. (Cheers.)
He should not enumerate them, but brief as he was
in proposing their health he desired to be emphatic
in recognising the valuable services they had ren-
dered, and he had great pleasure in associating
with the toast's name of world-wide celebrity, that
of M. Chevalier, who did honour, not only to the
great empire to which he belonged, but to the
whole of Europe. (Cheers.)
M. CHEVALIER, on rising to return thanks, was
loudly cheered. Speaking at first in English, he
said that although taken by surprise in being
called upon to return thanks, he had no hesitation
in expressing his gratitude for the welcome which
he and his brother commissioners and jurors had
received, and which he felt was natural, true, and
sincere. (Cheers.) He then begged to be
allowed to speak in his native tongue, end pro-
ceeded at some length to point out the advan-
tages which industry and commerce would
derive from the holding of international exhibitions.
He also alluded to the treaty of commerce which
had recently been entered into been England and
France, and augured from it the best results for
the interests of the two countries. The present
Exhibition, he said, afforded most gratifying evi-
dence of the progress which had been made in
France and in England, and in several ether coun-
tries since 1851, Speaking for the French and
other foreign jurors, as well as himself, he begged
to return his most sincere thanks for the kindness
which had been shown towards them in this coun-
try, and in conclusion, again expressed his belief
that the cause of progress and civilisation would be
greatly promoted by the friendly competition to
which the International Exhibition gave rise.
After one or two other toasts the meeting sepa-
rated.

The dinner wns provided by Messrs. Ring and
Brymer.

A military band in the gallery played a selection
of popular music during the evening. •

OUR. _RELATIONS WITH PARAGUAY, AND
THE COTTON SUPPLY.

'C~

The reply given by Mr. Layard to the questions
addressed to him on Friday by Mr. Maguire, rela-
tive to the present state of our relations with the
republic of Paraguay, was not so satisfactory as
those commercially interested in that country could
have desired, and we are well aware that the cir-
cumstances of the case Dilly warrant. To say that
negotiations have been opened, but have not yet
reached the point which warrant the publication
of the correspondence, is to create doubts and ap-
prehensions for which, as the honourable official
must be perfectly cognisant, there are no grounds
whatever. When Mr. Thornton went up to As -
sumption for the purpose of making a thorough
inquiry, which he did, in the best spirit, and with
the best results, he received accounts from
British residents which satisfied him that the
Paraguayan Government had much right on its
side in the case of the alleged British subject, Can-
statt ; and there was then no real obstacle to the
restoration of our relations with that Government
to their former friendly basis ; and, happily, such
restoration is virtually fait accompli. With regard
to the question put to Mr. Layard by Mr. Liddell,
relative to compensation claimed by British subjects
finsitT6Y" c .ml ensati invttne foss 01 a small vessel,
the steamer Little Polly, run down, through the
merest casualty, by the Paraguyan war steamer
Tacuari, and that it has been recognised by the
Government of President Lopez as a matter for
mercantile arbitrament on the ordinary basis, and
is in course of amicable and satisfactory settle-
ment in the usual way, without the least refer-
ence to political considerations. There is really
nothing to prevent the negotiations from being
brought at once to a conclusion, and the commercial
world, interested in that part of South America,
reassured. This is the more desirable on account
of the cotton growing capabilities of the whole
region of the Rio Plata, and on which Mr. Consul
Hutchinson has made no official report as yet, but
his opinion on which is believed to be very encou-
raging, particularly as regards the islands of the
Parana, and other affluents of the Plate, thousands
of leagues of most suitable soil being available for
the purpose, in a climate than which there is none
healthier in the world. Some cotton samples of
excellent quality from the Upper Parana were for-
warded to Manchester eight or nine years ago, and
it was the opinion of Mr. W. Drabble, who visited
most of the countries watered by the Rio Plata
and its tributaries for the purpose of obtaining
information on the subject, that these latitudes
opened a promising field for the production
of this essential staple ; an opinion to which
double strength has been given by the inspection
of some of the ordinary wild cotton shown in the
Monte Videan Court of the International Exhibi-
tion. In the present state of the cotton supply,
and in view of the little probability that exists of a
speedy adjustment of the internecine quarrel in
America, it is most important that amicable relations
should be maintained with all countries capable of
contributing in any degree to the large supplies of
cotton which are required for the employment of
the labour and capital of South Lancashire and
Cheshire ; and Mr. Maguire deserves credit for
calling attention to the subject in the judicious way
he has done, more especially when
't is remembered
that the views he expressed
on a foruam er a
agynccasion, autho-
in reference to the conduct of Par
rities, have been confirmed by the facts as admitted
by the British authorities.--Liverpool Albion.

narrowly YORK. --Last week a
A FAMILY roIsoNE
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publishing
death from poison,
whole family in York
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p.hinthe particulars in our
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statements might not inter-
,thration which had been commenced into
fere with the inve7this mysterious affair. On Tuesday
astronomicallehts instrument maker, Szc.,
thweeekcircblunir.BCtanoZ,oh.
hill with is three sons—Frederick,
Ti3lll".a, d Alfred—his daughter, and Mrs. Barbe, a
visitor, down to dinner as usual, and shortly after they
all taken seriously ill, being attacked with severe
were
sickness and vomiting. During dinner some parsley sauce
bad been used, and it was conjectured that "fool's pars-
ley," a deadly poison, might have got into the sauce by
mistake for the proper kind. This supposition, however,
proved groundless, and the cause of the illness of the family
remained shrouded in mystery. Mr. Reed. and Mr. Proc-
tor, surgeons, were called in, and from the symptoms which
their patients manifested, it was clear they had been
poisoned. By the prompt administration of the usual
remedies, the effects of the poison were counteracted, and
on the following day the family were nearly restored to
health. After dinner on Thursday the scene of Tuesday
was repeated, the family being again attacked as before, es
well as the cook. The greatest alarm was felt, and the
medical men were again sent for. It being suspected that
the salt kept in the house was mixed with some deleterious
substance, Mr. Procter subjected it to analysis, and he
found that about 30 per cent. was arsenic. Similar poison
was discovered in some flour, but how the admixture took
place is a complete mystery. The circumstances were re-
ported to the police, and a searching inquiry has been and
is still being made by them, in order, if possible, to ascer-
tain by what means the arsenic was mixed with the salt
and flour, and where the poison had been obtained. So far
as the inquiry has proceeded, we believe there is no reason
ui
for believing that the arsenic had been accidentally n3ilod
with the flour and salt, but as Mr. Cooke is not away ai,
any ill-feeling existing against hum
on the part of anyone
in his establishment, no suspicion is attached to a""t"--
York Zlerald.

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On Saturday Messrs. Emmens, Bate7tlialil:SPS-11::1
Muller, cicil engineers, with M. W.1.1104r,L.',.
engineer- of the City Conamisior, of Sc l-ilii.-.,. .-Ni,_
4‘..
Mr. Isaacs, the surveyor of the Board of N rtf.,,
the 'Holborn district, met by appointment it -r.
Cooper, the engineer of the eastern district of the
Metropolitan Board, Mr. Dethick, the contractor,
and Messrs. Fry, Girdler, Farnley, Eade, and other
officers connected with the board, for the purpose of
minutely inspecting the interior of the fractured
sewer lying along Victoria-street, from the point of :
breakage near to the mouth of the• Metropolitan
Railway tunnel, in Coppice-rosy, to the opening la
the roadway for the insertion Of the new water-
courpe constructed by Mr. Dethiek. The enor-
mous barrel sewer was well , lighted through-
out the whole length subjected to inspec-
tion, and at its close it was stated that
the opinion of the inspecting engineers was to
the effect that, generally speaking, the brickwork
was in a sound condition, and that is their opinion
no fracture would have taken place in it from ordi-
nary traffic, nor would it have given way at all
except through some cause not calculated upon
when it was constructed.
Meantime both the railway workmen under Mr.
Cordell, and those of the Metropolitan Board of
Works under Mr. Girdler, are pushing forward
their several works as fast as possible. The heavy
rain-fall of Saturday and the previous days has
caused an increased quantity of storm water to fall
into the open cutting of the line, but not to any
considerable extent. In order to furnish an oppor-
tunity of deepening the northern end of the grip on
the works of the Metropolitan Board, another
channel of wooden troughs of great strength and
capacity has been constructed to receive the water
now flowing from the cut sewer above the fractured
portion along the grip. The new water-course
constructed by Mr. Dethick under Mr. Fernley's
superintendence is found to answer perfectly, and
the dam near the railway cutting has proved fully
equal to the emergency of shutting out the sewage
water from the line, and has thus prevented further
interruption to the work of clearing the bottom of
mud and debris.