The Sun.
London, England, 1865-10-09 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 9, 1865.

GREAT ST. JAMES'S-HALL.—WORLD of
DIACIC, Second Sight, and " Itegone;Duil Care,"
every evening at 8. A Day Performance, Saturday, at 3.
" The most varied entertainment in the metropolis."—Vide
the Press. Admission, Is.

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

TREDERIC MACCABE, Ventriloquist, Mimic,
&c., in his orig, nal entertainment, " Begoae, Dull Care,"
"Miss Mary May," " Early in the Morning." Balcony, 2s. ;
reserved seats, es. ; stalls, Gs. ; at Ur. Austin's office, St.
James -hall, 23, Piccadilly.
A. NIMKO, Acting Manager.

STODARE.-191ST REPRESENTATION.-
THEA ruE OP MYSTERY, EGYPTIAN HALL.
MARVELS in MAGIC and VE NT RILOQUISM. by Col.
STODARE. The REAL INDIAN BASKET TRICK, and
INSTANTANEOUS GROWTH of FLOWER TREES, as
introduced for the first time in this country cn 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,
ls., 25., and 3s.
"Almost miraculous."—Vide Times, April 18,1885.

CHRISTY MINSTRELS, St. James's Hall,
Piccadilly.—The only original and veritable legitimate
CHRISTY MINSTRELS Every Night at 8, Saturdays at 3
and 8, retaining all the specialties and old favourites who
' originally created the reputation of the Company, Fauteuils,
55.; stalls, 8s ; unreserved seats, 2s. ; gallery. is. Tickets at
Austin's, 28, Piccadilly.—Manager, Mr. Frederick Burgess.

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, Ellen Reid, Ma-
dame Maria, and Miss Fitzlienry ; Messrs. A. St. Albyn,
Husk, Evans. W. Williams, and Senors Tivoli and Spagnoli,
with full Band and Chorus.
Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghma.ns.
Ballet, Comedy, Burlesque, (irc., by the celebrated D'Au-
bans. Messrs. Duriah and Davis, and the Misses TESSY
and SARA GUNNISS.
NOTICE.—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 THE BRIDAL of BEAUTY,
in which the Misses TESSY and SARA GUNNISS will
ap:ear THIS EVENING.
The HUNGARIANS The Brothers and Sister KIRALFI
will have the honour of introducing their National Dances
in costume every evening. _ .

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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. _ _

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Comedy, Burlesque, and Ballet by Mrs. and Mr. Randall
Messrs. Duriah and Davies, the D'Aubans, Mons. Alex
andre, mimics, and the Sisters Dashwood, their first appear.
awe. _ _ _ _ _

Director, ➢ir. F. JonF,rmans.
All visitors to London at this season should see the above
entertainment.

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.

ARGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street,
Piccadilly.—GßAND CASINO and MUSICAL PRO-
MENADE is NOW OPEN for the Season.
Musical Director, M. LUIGI CURTL
Manager, Mons. GRENET.
The Band plays nightly Selections from the most eminent
Composers.
Doors open at half-past 8 o'clock; close five minutes to 12
o'clock.
Admission to Promenade, One Shilling.

THE WELLINGTON, ST. JAMES'S-STREET.
Set DINNERS served, at five minutes' notice, from Four to
Dine p.m.. at 2s. 6d., 3s 6d., 4s. 6(1 and 7s. each.
ELEGANT SALOON DINING ROOMS,
for Ladies and Families.
Prices on the " Carte ".moderate.
Private Rooms tor Lasge or Small Parties.
Reading, Smokiw, and Billiard Rooms.
BREAKFASTS and LUNCHEONS.

D. CAMERON.
Entrances-IM, Piccadilly, and 49, St. James's-street.

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ALEX. ROSS'S HAIR DYE produces a perfect colour
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4s 6d. each. Per post, Is. packet for 12 stamps; and 2s. 61.
packet for 36 stamps.

CHOLERA IN SHEFFIELD.—We regret to have to
record that this malady has appeared in Sheffield.
George Thompson, aged 68 years, died on Thursday after-
noon from Asiatic cholera. Deceased was a bachelor, en-
gaged in the silver business at Cornish Works, and lived
at 3, Infirmary-road. About tea time on Wednesday, he
was slightly attacked with diarrhoea, and ho declined to
take any tea. In the course of the evening he drank a little
brandy and water, and for supper ate some cheese, think-
ing it might check the diarrhoea. After supper he became
worse, and was either vomiting or being purged inces-
santly. He, however, hoped he should soon be better, and
went to bed, and, as was his custom, fastened his bedroom
door. About three o'clock on the following morning his
landlady was awoke by a noise in his bedroom, and think-
ing he might be requiring something, she went to his room
door and knocked. There was no response, and as she
could then hear nothing she left. Between six and seven
o'clock the noise was repeated, and while an attempt was
being made to force the door the deceased was heard to fall
from the bed to the floor. He crawled to the door and
opened it. He appeared to be in a very exhausted state,
and he was at once assisted back to bed, and Mr. Taylor,
surgeon, was sent for, who arrived at the house about seven,
and found the unfortunate man in a state of extreme ex-
haustion from the excessive vomiting and purging which
had continued through the night. His skin was almost
black, and there was little or no pulse. He was suffering
from cramp in nearly every part of his body. The medicine
prescribed had a most beneficial effect, and when Mr. Tay-
lor called at 11 o'clock, deceased was much better. The
violent symptoms had ceased, but there was still no pulse,
and the prostration was very great. At three o'clock in
the afternoon, during the absence of the nurse from the
room,
deceased exerted himself, and loft his bed. Tho vio-
lent symptoms at once returned, and he sank and died in less
than a quarter of an hour. Mr. Taylor was present a few
minutes after death, and took precautions to prevent the
spreading if possible of so dreadful a malady. The atten-
tion of the chairman of the health committee was' also
called to the case. Mr. Taylor has had considerable expe-
rience in cases of cholera, and he pronounced this as viru-
lent a caw as no had non.

Launch at Messrs• Maudslay, Son, and

East Greeuwich.

The shipyard of Messrs. Maudslay and Co., at
East Greenwich, wore on Saturday afternoon an
appearance of gaiety in very striking contrast to the
grim ugliness for which the shipyards on either side
of the Thames are generally so conspicuous. The
visitor passing up and down the river may be quite
sensible of the importance and greatness, as indus-
trial undertakings, of these yards ; but he may also
be allowed to entertain a legitimate regret that it is
impossible to combine ever so little of the duke with
so.much of what is unquestionably the utile. He
may sigh for the days when a trip on the Thames
meant something more and something better than
a journey in a shabby steamboat down a muddy
river, crowded with barges and Colliers, and flowing
between two unbroken lines of wharves,warehouses,
ironworks, shipyards, or the like. But to this uni-
form mass of ugliness, the yard of Messrs. Maudslay
presented, as we have said, on Saturday afternoon a
very agreeable contrast, on thooccasion of the launch
of the first vessel which the firm has ever built. The
yard was decorated with flame, as was also the ves-
sel about to couggpk,* career on the watki
and the large number of well-dressed ladies and
gentlemen gathered together to witness the launch
imparted great animation to the scene. Messrs.
Maudslay have hitherto been distinguished as
engineers, and it is only lately that they have
turned their thoughts to shipbuilding. The vessel
launched on Saturday is being consecrated for the
Iron Screw Colliery Company. Her keel was laid
on the 18th of May, and the work has been well
pushed forward, so that a comparatively short space
of time will suffice to finish her. The vessel, which
is designed on Henwood's patent dynamical prin-
ciple, is, in length, 182 ft. 6 in. ; breadth moulded,
27 ft. 6 in. ; depth moulded, 18 ft. ; her register
tonnage is about 530. She is classed AB at
Lloyd's, but is said to be considerably stronger in
many respects than is required by their rules for
vessels of this size. She is the first vessel of any
size that has been launched from East Greenwich,
and considerable interest was consequently felt in
the affair. The list of invited guests was a large
one, and the general public contributed no small
number of sightseers. Shortly after two o'clock
the signals were given to make ready for the
launch, and the workmen began to knock away the
supports from beneath the keel. When all was
ready the crowded state of the river made it neces-
sary for some little time to keep the vessel still on
the stocks ; but at length the word of command
came, the last support was knocked away, and,
amidst general cheering, the vessel glided swiftly
and smoothly into what imaginative writers per-
sist in calling her " native element." The task of
christening her fell on Miss Maudslay, who per-
formed the duty to admiration, in the right way,
or, what was of still greater importance, at the
right moment. The "Lady Derby," as she was
named, was no sooner fairly in the water than
than a rope was passed over her bows, and she
was towed into the Victoria Docks to receive her
masts, engines, and boilers. These engines are of 90-
horse nominal power, but will work up to 500 or 600
horse power. The launch having thus passed off
with complete success, another little word—not dis-
similar to it in appearance or pronunciation—was
heard to pass from the mouths of the company —in
short, after the launch came the lunch. A very
handsome collation had been laid out in front of one
of the extensive workshops, and the guests were well
disposed to accept the hospitality of the firm, for the
wind was strong and keen, and admirably calculated
to give one an appetite. Before the company sepa-
rated success was drank to " The Screw Collier
Company," and with that very proper exception, no
attempt was made to drag out the proceedings by a
string of those complimentary toasts full of sound
and signifying nothing—with which many of us are
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occasion was the unexpected and lamented death
late on the previous day of Mr. M‘Patrick, one of
the members of the firm. It was impossible to post-
pone the launch ; but, out of respect to the memory
of the deceased gentleman, the affair was carried
out with less gaiety or festivity than otherwise
would have been.

Report upon the Cholera•

PARIS, Oct. 7.

The following report to the Emperor, drawn up
by MM. Drouyn de Lhuys and Armand Behic, has
just appeared :
Sire,—At the commencement of the last invasion
of the East by cholera, your Majesty's government
was preoccupied with the dangers which the appear-
ance of that scourage threatened to the general
health of France. Under the inspiration of this pre-.

cautionary idea, the immediate dispatch to Egypt of
a [medical mission was decided upon, not only for
the purpose of bringing enlighted assistance to the
victims of the epidemic, but also to study the causes,
the march, and the character of the malady, in order
to arrest its progress as much as possible, and pre-
vent its introduction upon the territory of the
Empire.

Diplomatic and consular agents have afforded the
members of the medical mission an amount of as-
sistance which has facilitated their task, and, upon
its side, your Majesty's Government has not ceased
to apply its most serious attention to the examina-
tion of the important question to be resolved. We
have the honour to submit to the Emperor the re-
flections this examination has suggested to us.

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to organise at the point of departure a system of
preventive measures connected with the territorial
authority by means of international arrangements.
The information gathered by the consular agents
and confirmed by the unanimous reports of the phy-
sicians manifestly proves that the epidemic has been
imported into Egypt by pilgrims returning from
Mecca and Djeddah. Thus it is alleged that the
cholera exists every year among the caravans of
Mussulmans arriving in these holy cities, after fa-
tigues and privations of every kind which render
them more liable to the malady. This predisposi-
tion is singularly favoured by the state in which
these multitudes live—camping in the open air, ex-
posed to a torrid heat, and to the influence of the
pestilential miasma given forth by heaps of impu-
rity and the putrid remains of animals offered in
propitiatory sacrifice. These permanent causes of
infection have been still more active this year, by
reason of certain facts which may again occur, and
which we consider we ought to point out to your
Majesty's attention.
Upon the one hand, the number of pilgrims col-
lected at Mecca for the Kourban-Beiram (feast of
owing to a particular circumstance
soafetrlilfieciNels) wussuallan rite, far more considerable than
in preceding years. The number of individuals of
all ages and both sexes arrived from the various
Mahometan countries to go through the consecrated
ceremonies was estimated at not less than 200,000,
and the quantity of sheep and camels slaughtered,
the offal of which was abandoned upon the ground,
exceeds a million. It is not astonishing that this
agglomeration of human beings and this enormous
quantity of animal suhstances in decomposition
should have developed in exceptional proportions
the conditions of insalubrity which the pilgrims
habitually encounter.
Upon the other hand, it is to be remarked that in
former times the principal movement of pilgrimage

was carried on by land, and that the passage of the
desert contributed to improve the hygienic condi-
tion of the caravans by isolating and dissipating the
morbid elements they carried with them. Now-a 7
days, on the contrary, thanks to the facility and re-
sources of steam navigation, it is by sea, and in a
very short space of time, that these voyages are in
great part accomplished by the aid of packets upon
which are crowded thousands of Musulmans of every
nationality. This accumulation, added to the short-
ness of the passage, is certainly one of the causes
which most contribute to the development of epi-
demic centres.

These new circumstances call for a surveillance
and control over the operations of embarkation and
transport of the pilgrims, which seem to have been
hitherto altogether insufficient. It is intelligible of
what high importance it is that the sanitary condi-
tion on board these packets should not be disguised
either by the commanders of those vessels or by the
authorities which pronounce their admission to free
pratique. It is permitted to hope that if a system
of observation and surveillance had existed at the
point of a departure, and if exact reports upon cases
of illness arising during the passages had attracted
the Y:wilauee of the local sanitary authorities in
•
Tine, they would have been able to extinguish or
isolate the centres of inspection, the influence of
which has successively extended to Syria, to the
coasts of Asia Minor, and to a portion of southern
Europe. _

From all the facts we have just mentioned, sire,
we are led to deduce the conclusion that the present
time is truly opportune to bring about the meeting,
at an early date, of a diplomatic conference, in
which should be represented the powers interested,
like ourselves, in the reforms demanded by the pre-
sent organisation of the sanitary service in the East,
and which, after having studied the questions to
which we have the honour to solicit your Majesty's
attention, should propose practical remedies. The
members of this conference would have especially
to examine whether it would not be necessary to
establish, at the points of departure and arrival of
pilgrims returning from Mecca—that is to say, at
Djeddah and Suez—sanitary administrations having
an international character which should secure their
independence, and give to their management all
possible guarantees of loyal impartiality. We may
reckon upon active co-operation upon the part of
the Eastern Governments, whose States in the pro-
gress of these epidemics are the first to suffer from
the ravages of the scourge and from the interrup-
tion of commercial relations.

If, as we venture to hope, your Majesty deigns
to accord assent to the considerations we have the
honour to present, the Emperor's Government
should hasten to place itself in communication with
foreign cabinets, in order to combine, by common
agreement in a conference, a generality of measures
whose necessity is demonstrated by recent and sor-
rowful events.—We have the honour, &c.,
DROUYN DE LHUYS, Minister for Foreign Affairs.
ARMAND BEHIC, Minister of Agriculture, Com-
merce, and Public Works.

The Frightful Accident to a Volunteer
Instructor.

On Saturday Mr. John Humphreys (Middlesex Coroner)
opened an inquiry at the Queen's Hotel, Gascoigne-road,
Victoria-park, into the circumstances of an explosion of
gunpowder at the Tower Hamlets volunteer drill ground,

by which Sergeant William Dransfield, of the Royal En-
gineers, was killed and dreadfully mutilated.
The court was crowded and numerous officers and pri-
vates of the Ist Tower Hamlets Engineers, of which corps
the unfortunate deceased was the drill instructor, were
present to witness the proceedings.
The jury having been impanelled, proceeded to view the

body of the deceased, which presented a deplorable appear-
ance, the unfortunate man's head baying been severed from
the trunk and become charred and blackened by the explo-

siou of the powder. The scone of the occurrence was then
inspected by the coroner and jury. The practice ground
of the Tower Hamlets Engineer Volunteers is a slip of
land railed off Victoria-park on the north side, and close to
the road. At ono end of the drill ground is the shed fur

containing tools, &c. At tho othor is a two-gun batter

Near the battery a pool of blood by a rough stockade marked
the spot where the deceased was killed. A small hold about

the size of a hat had been made, and in it the deceased
placed a bag of powder to blow down tho stockade ; the fuse
evidently explodwd prematurely, and hence the accident.
The deceased was a man of good educatian ; he had
been educated at Harrow. He was subsequently employed
on the South Western Railway, but becoming tired of the
calling he enlisted in the Engineers at Chatham.