The Sun.
London, England, 1853-11-04 00:00:00

THE CHOLERA.

(From the General Board of Health.)
Arbroath, Nov. 1 : Deaths.

Cholera
Of these three fatal cases two had previously been re-
ported as being under treatment. The third was a new
case, which had occurred since the last accounts. The
local authorities have procured eligible premises for the
accommodation of the families of those attacked with
the disease.
Tenterden, Kent, Oct. 31 and Nov. 1: Deaths.
Cholera
The above were husband and wife.
Appledore, Nov. 2 :

Cholera
Luton, Nov. 2 :

Cholera
This makes the tenth death from cholera in the Lute)]
district between the 17th of October and the 2d inst.
Rickmansworth (Walford Union), Oct. 31 : Deaths.
Cholera
Diarrhoeal
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Oct. 30 :
Cholera

METROPOLIS.
From returns made by the Superintendents of Police
of the D, E. G, K, L, M, and P divisions to the Me-
tropolitan Police Commissioners, it appears that between
the 28th October and the Ist inst. there had occurred in
those several districts 18 cases of cholera, eight of which
terminated fatally.
Numerous complaints of private and local nuisances
are being daily addressed to the General Board of
Health. In all such cases the first step that should be
taken is to bring the case without delay to the know-
ledge of the parochial medical officer of the district, so
that he may examine and report upon it to the board of
guardians, with whom rests the responsibility of taking
prompt steps for the abatement or removal of the evil
complained of. Should there be any unnecessary default
or delay, the case, with a detailed statement of particu-
lars, might then be brought under the notice of the Ge-
Board.

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DEATH OF Ma. SAVILLE TUB COMEDIAN.—Mr. Payne
held an inquest at the Fox and Grapes, Primrose-street,
Bishopsgate, on Wednesday night, on the body of
Mr. John Faucit Saville, aged 70, who was found
dead in his bed on Monday morning last, at his resi-
dence, No. 31 in that street. Upon his servant going
to his room to call him up to breakfast, he discovered
that Mr. Saville was quite dead and cold. Mr. Porter,
a surgeon, of Bishopsgate-street, gave it as his opinion
that he had died of apoplexy. Mr. Edmund Henry
Faucit Saville, son cf the deceased, said he had been with
his father for three months at Margate, at which place
he had formerly been lessee of the theatre for 27 years.
He left him (Mr. E. F. Saville) on Tuesday week to re-
turn to his home. He got very corpulent during his
vist to Margate, where he met with a great many old
friends, and he thought he became rather excited. He
had no doubt he died without a pang. He was very
well on Sunday night, and always was in good health.
He was an author as well as comedian. The jury re-
turned a verdict of "Natural death."

The Dublin Exhibition has closed after six months of
uninterrupted success. Undertakings have so seldom
prospered, and the ends of designs have so rarely been
reached in Ireland, that the success of the Exhibition in-
duces the hope that Ireland, having now shown that she
can persevere and can carry her projects into effect, will
not stop short in the road to prosperity ; but, stimu-
lated by the example which has in this instance been
given her, will untiringly labour to emulate her neigh-
bours in their endeavours to promote the advancement of
industrial and artistic enterprise. It is highly credit-
able to all connected with the undertaking that no diffi-
cultes should have prevented them from opening the
building upon the day fixed for that purpose. They in so
doing gave an earnest of their determination to fulfil
their engagements, and to spare no trouble in their efforts
to insure the success of the enterprise. In this they
appeared in favourable contrast to the New York
Exhibition, the opening of which was so frequently post-
poned that the public lost confidence in the ability of
the manager to complete their task, and thus doubt
and indifference were produced, which are believed to
have seriously affected both the numbers of the visitors
and the quantity and quality of the articles exhibited.
Perhaps the most interesting and most instructive por-
tion of the Dublin Exhibition is the building itself. In
spite of the various drawbacks occasioned by the violent
storms of last winter, the workmen laboured unceasingly
at their arduous task until the vast wooden fabric began
slowly to rise into shape, and, when the first arch of a
span hitherto unknown in the country, was raised over
the transept, the incredulous were led to believe that
time would be kept, and that Irishmen could perform
what they had projected. The work was completed by
the prescribed day, and presented a noble spectacle of
Irish industry and art. In this work there was no in-
decision, no want of efficient labour, no strikes among
the workmen ; had there been anything of the kind, the
building could not have been finished in due time. This
is the more satisfactory because, as Mr, Dargan justly
observed, the workmen well knew that such was his
anxiety to fulfil his promise to the public, that they could
have almost dictated their own terms to him by holding
out for higher wages, and thus compelling him to the
alternative of complying with their demands, or of fail-
ing to perform his engagement, which could not but have
had a most prejudicial effect upon the undertaking.
" But," said he, " I gave them good wages, I paid
them regularly, and they acted as Irishmen always
do when fairly treated—they stood by me, and I
will stand by them." The building, then, designed
by Irish intelligence, and erected by Irish skill
and labour, is undoubtedly the best specimen of
industrial enterprise which the Exhibition can show,
and is further of extreme importance as a proof
of what a resolute purpose, carried out with liberal
views, can effect, and of the fallacy of the supposition
that Irish labour is not as efficient upon its own soil as
elsewhere. Indeed, a close inspection of the contents
of the building causes considerable regret that more at-
tention should not have been paid to the exposition of
industrial products. The great attraction of the Exhi-
bition has consisted in the picture-gallery. Rarely, if
ever, has so large and so valuable a collection of ancient
and modern pictures been open to the public. The Dutch,
the Italian, the French, and the English schools of
painting are all represented by excellent specimens of
their respective styles, and admiring crowds have each
day testified their appreciation of the masterpieces of art
thus afforded to their view. Besides, too, the pleasure
which this beautiful sight has given, much goods has also
undoubtedly resulted from it. The aspiring artist has
had his taste corrected and his imagination enlightened
by the contemplation of so many first-rate pictures ; he
has perceived the defects of his own productions, and
has returned to his easel perhaps disgusted with his
previous attempts, but, fired with emulation and in-
structed by example, has forthwith commenced a new
work in which he may avoid former errors and intro-
duce new ideas. The picture-fancier also, the admirer
of art, the encourager of genius, has had a stimulus ap-
plied to his love of artistic excellence, and, by the pur-
chase of the best pictures, has given an additional induce-
ment to the struggling artist to produce works which may
command a similar price. But, while fully acknowledg-
ing the great excellence of the Fine Arts Department,
and while gratified at the effect which it must have
upon Irish taste and feeling, we cannot refrain from
expressing our opinion that in an industrial Exhi-
bition, designed chiefly for the exposition of Irish
products, too much [space has been allotted, and too
much attention has been paid, to the fine arts. It does
seem rather extraordinary that the chief attraction of a
great national exhibition should consist in a display of
pictures chiefly by foreign painters—that a building de-
signed
to contain products of existing industry and art
should be especially remarkable for its samples of ancient
masters. This apparent anomaly, however, would not
be so reprehensible were it not the case that the Dublin
Exhibition has not been sufficiently supplied with speci-
mens of the industrial products of Ireland, either in the
shape of machinery or manufactures, andthat even those
which have been sent have not been put forward so pro-
minently as their merit deserved. The poplins, the
linens, the laces—for all of which Ireland is so famous
—have been stowed away in side galleries and obscure
corners, while the best positions have been entirely mo-
nopolised by objects more calculated to delight the eye
and to produce a brilliant effect than to develope the
material resources of the country, and to exhibit the true
cause of renewed confidence and prosperity—in fact, the
useful has been in some degree sacrificed for the orna-
mental. Considering, however, the natural character of
the Irish, we cannot be surprised that this failing should
have attached to their Exhibition. They are well known
to be a very imaginative people, to be ardent admirers
of the beautiful, both in art and nature, and to be more
fertile in design than successful in practice. In fact,
they have not hitherto shown a due appreciation of the
necessity of that stern practical industry which alone
can insure success, and which appeals more to the
understanding than to the senses. Although, however,
exception may thus be taken to some particulars, in that
the Exhibition has been rather mo-...e adapted to gratify the
eye than to instruct the mind, ye, it must be allowed that
the whole scheme, in its conception, adoption, and com-
pletion, has tended more to elevate Ireland in the
eyes of the world than could a short time since ,have
been believed possible. The noble liberality of one man
commenced the good work ; the cordial co-operation of
intelligent and enterprising assistants enabled him to
carry out his design, and the good feeling and exem-
plary behaviour of all classes of visitors crowned it with
complete success. In short, Irish enterprise and Irish
industry produced a building which showed the world
what Irishmen, really united, could accomplish, and
afforded an opportunity to Englishmen to evince their
solicitude for the Irish interests by liberally contributing
some of their valuable gems of art, After this practical
refutation, it can never again be asserted that Irishmen
can design, but not carry into effect ; but they must be
careful not to forfeit the reputation which they have so
lately gained, and they must remember that, having
once shown what they can do, no excuse for the future
can be accepted. We have seen that they can work out
a plan without the destructive admixture of party or re-
ligious feeling ; let us hope that this is a good omen, and
that these suicidal influences may loose their power. It
is to be hoped, moreover, that advantage will be taken
of the enthusiasm and activity produced by the Exhibi-
tion, and that steps will forthwith be taken to perpetu-
ate the improvement which it has produced in the aspect
of their metropolis. Dublin is sadly deficient in institu-
tions which may afford rational and instructive enjoy-
; went to the public. She has no bazaars, no polytechnic
, galleries, no exhibitions of pictures—at least noneworthy
of the name. The great objection to any such under-
takings has been the fear that they would be losing
speculations, and that people would not visit them ; but
surely any apprehension on this score must have been
dissipated by the alacrity, the eagerness, with which all
classes rushed to visit the Exhibition, and which suffi-
ciently indicated the interest which the Irish took in
such spectacles. If, then, Dublin will bestir herself, and
will organise some institution calculated to amuse arid
instruct the people, and to show to them the beneficial
results of combining ingenuity with practical working,
she will hardly fail to cause the Great Industrial Exhibi-
tion of 1853 to be only the forerunner of a better era and
of progressive prosperity.

Mr. ANDERTON was proceeding to say that the evi-
dence to which he had alluded had already appeared in
the public journals, when the court was cleared of stran-
gers, who were re-admitted in the course of a quarter of
an hour. Mr. Anderton, who was still on his legs, then
proceeded as follows :—My Lord Mayor, I am not going
to make any speech, nor am I going to answer all the
calumnies which have been uttered before the royal
commissioners, but there is one calumny and one
gross falsehood which I think it right this court
should lose no time in repelling. It is this. Mr. Ac-
land in his evidence 4.304_ "That in 1849 the con-
solidated committee refibrted to the Court of Common
Council that, in consequence of the newspapers at
that period having said a great deal against the
corporation, and from the peculiar position of the cor-
poration with her Majesty's Government, it was de-
sirable that a sum of money should be voted for the pur-
pose of putting themselves right with the press. The
court received the report, and voted the sum of 1,0001.
per annum for this purpose to the consolidated commit-
tee. 4,0001. has thus been spent in ordering hundreds
of newspapers in cases where these newspapers have re-
ported, as the committee thought, satisfactorily. Of
this money the Times never received a single farthing.
The object of this expenditure was to induce the papers
to give as favourable a report as possible of the corpo-
ration's proceedings. No detailed account of money so
expended has ever been published." Why, no, because
it never has been expended. "The Chairman—Who
decides what paper shall be taken? Mr. Acland—
The committee have confidence in some of the offices,
either high or low ; they take the orders, and execute
them for the committee. There are fourteen alder-
men, exclusive of the Lord Mayor, upon the consoli-
dated committee." Now, my lord, as a member of
that committee, if there were a single word of truth in
this statement, I should consider that I myself stood in
a most degraded position, not only with respect to my
constituents, but with respect to the public at large.
(Hear, hear.) If there is any truth in the statement, I
am an utter stranger to it. I declare that I do not
know it. I have examined the accounts of the corpo-
ration for the past year, and if any such payments have
been made, they have been smuggled in some way or
other, for they do not appear. I think that I myself
and the other members of the court ought to be de-
graded in the eyes of our respective constituents and the
public, if we allowed this foul calumny to remain for
one moment uncontradicted. I now ask the chairman
of the consolidated committee if there is any foundation
for the statements of Mr. Acland ?
Mr. J. WOOD—I have asked the clerk, Mr. Wood-
thorpe, to get for me some documents to which I should
have very much preferred making reference before
answering the question, of which I have only just had
notice. I always prefer to speak from documents
themselves ; and, since Mr. Anderton rose, I asked Mr.
Woodthorpe to find the report, and the order of the
court consequent upon it, and then the court will be in
possession of the circumstances of the case from the
documents themselves. It would certainly puzzle me
very much—as much as it would my friend Mr. Ander-
ton--to find that a thousand pounds a year, or anything
like that sum, had been expended for the purpose in
question. (Hear, hear.) No such thing. I would just
take leave to say this to my friend—that it is exceedingly
inconvenient, according to my mind, to be discussing
the subject of this statement, because, although it is one
to which, possibly an answer ought to be given, yet
there are so many other statements of which notice
must be taken at the proper time, that I feel the court
may be placing itself in a wrong position by noticing
this, and leaving all the others untouched, by reason of
which an inference must be drawn that, whilst repelling
the incorrectness of the particular assertion under dis-
cussion, we admitted the accuracy of the others. (Hear,
hear.) The inquiry hardly assumes the shape which I
think it must before it is at an end. But, my lord, I
for one have the most entire confidence in the judgment,
the integrity, and the honour of the commissioners to
whom this matter is referred ; and I think that the be-
coming course for this court is to let those commissioners
chalk out for themselves their own course of action.
(Cheers.) They are commanded by the Queen to inquire
into certain circumstances. Surely, therefore, they must
be the best judges of how that inquiry is to be conducted,
and how the truth is to be arrived at. (Hear, hear.) We
have been informed by them that printed copies of the evi-
dence shall be sent us from time to time ; we have been
informed, too, by them that reporters for the public press
are to be present at their proceedings. We have also
been informed that we, or any other party interested,
may have a reporter present. We have had a reporter
there, and we have got a copy of his shorthand notes
under this roof at the present moment. At the proper
time this court will have the fullest opportunity of stating
their own case, and of referring to documentary evidence
in existence. The evidence given upon former occasions
will be looked at now, and it will be open to this court
and to the commissioners, who, I am sure, will most
readily receive any suggestions which may be made to
them. (Hear, hear.) It would not become us, at this
stage of the business, to be discussing what should or
should not be done, and I do ask the court to wait with
patience. I myself should feel delighted if I had the
opportunity afforded me to-morrow of going before the
commissioners with our officers, or that our officers
should go without me, or any of the other members of
the court, for the purpose of correcting what has been
mis-stated. That time has not come, but it will, and
the sooner the better. (Hear, hear.) Meanwhile, I
await with perfect contentment the course of conduct
that the commissioners may deem it right to pursue,
and I am sure that our fellow citizens will be patient,
and will know and feel that we are—l will not say upon
our trial—but waiting our own time, and that hereafter
we shall have an opportunity afforded us of answering
any statements that may hai e been made with reference
to the conduct of this corporation. (Cheers.)
Mr. WOODTHORPE then read a report of the CORSO•
lidated committee, dated Bth March, 1849, to whom the
court had referred the subject of making arrangements
to insure reports of its proceedings. The report recom-
mended that a .considerable number of copies should be
taken of any daily journal giving at the greatest length
an account of the proceedings after each sitting of the
court.
[As great importance was attached to the contents of
this document, our repdrter requested the Town-clerk to
furnish him with a copy of it for the purpose of publica-
tion, when that learned gentleman in a very courteous
manner replied that he felt it his duty to decline com-
plying with the request, considering that the inquiry
before the commissioners was still pending.]
Mr. ANDERTON said he was very glad that the report
had been read, and hoped it would be communicated to
the public, who would, be was confident, suspend their
judgment for the present.
Deputy Hour—l regret very much that the zeal of
my very excellent friend Mr. Anderton should have
urged him to put such a question, because the answer
that has been given is rather favourable to the gentle-
man who has been charged with mis-statement. It ap-
pears that he made a mis-statement hwith regard to
amount, but the fact deposed to is there admitted clear
as the sun at noonday. (Hear, hear.)
Alderman WIRE—The result of this discussion shows,
in my opinion, the mistake of bringing it forward. If
the court will remember the position in which we are
placed, upon full reflection, they will see that the digni-
fied and proper course is to abstain from all comments
upon the evidence taken by the commissioners until the
opportunity comes—and it is certain to come—when,
with documents, facts, and figures, all the statements
which appear against the corporation may be explained,
and satisfactorily explained, to the public. (Hear.) I
am not one who desires secresy. All my life I have
courted publicity. I asked that strangers might with-
draw, not for the purpose of suppressing anything, but
I wanted to state that which my friend Mr. Wood has
placed before you in a few words—namely, that
the time is not come for us to answer the allegations
made against us. When that time does arrive have
no doubt that the corr vation will come out of the
inquiry just as every I.lend to municipal institutions
might desire. The proper and dignified course is to
wait until we have an opportunity, and upon oath, of
disproving the charges thus made. If we take up these
charges piecemeal, the inference on the part of the pub-
lic will be that we cannot deny the others. If we fix