The Sun.
London, England, 1853-09-24 00:00:00

read the following letters which had been received by
the mayor :

" Cavalry Barracks, Windsor, Sept. 22, 1853.
" Sir—l have the honour to enclose you a copy of a
letter I have received from the surgeon of the regiment
under my command. As several of the houses in the
immediate neighbourhood of Bone-lane are inhabited by
the men of the Ist Life Guards, I feel it. my duty to call
your immediate attention to this nuisance which I have
always looked upon and have reported as at all times
prejudicial to the health of those inhabiting the houses
in this vicinity, and which will be particularly danger-
ous should cholera prevail in this neighbourhood again.
—I have the honour to be sir, your most obedient ser-
vant, RICHARD PARSER,
" Major and Lieut.-Col. Ist Life Guards, Commanding.
" The Mayor o Windsor."
" Cavalry Barracks, Windsor, Sept. 18, 1853.
" Sir—l beg to call your attention to the very foul
state of the lane called Bone-lane, which leads from
Spital to the pas k. I consider it absolutely necessary
for the health of the regiment that some measures should
be immediately taken to get rid of the nuiasance there
existing, more particularly as we are threatened with
cholera. The immense quantity of decomposed animal
and vegetable matter contained in the ditches in Bone-
lane is enough to create cholera of itself.—l have the
honour to be, sir, your obedient servant,
" OWEN WILLIAM GEORGE,
"Assistant-Surgeon Ist Life Guards.

"The Officer Commanding Ist Life Guards."

Mr. Alderman BEDBOROU6II said the state of the Bone-
ditch had been repeatedly represented to the Ordnance
authorities, whose duty it was to abate the nuisance, the
whole of the sewage from the Cavalry Barracks passing
into it. The drainage of some parts of the borough had
been waiting for nearly three years, in the expectation
that the Board of Ordnance would construct the neces-
sary works, but nothing had yet been done. The clerk
was ordered to furnish Colonel Parker with the corres-
pondence. After a long sitting, the board made orders
for the immediate abatement of every reported nuisance
and the proceedings terminated.

COURT CIRCULAR.

BALMORAL, SEPT. 22.

Her Majesty, the Princess Royal, Princess Alice,
and Count Alexander Mensdorfl, rode yesterday to the
Loch of Lochan-yrgar. The Hon. Mary Bulteel was in
attendance on her Majesty.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert went out deer
stalking, and joined her Majesty in the evening.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Count
Alexander Mensdorff, and Lady Augusta Bruce, joined
the dinner party in the evening.

The Turkish Minister had an interview with the Earl
of Clarendon yesterday, at the Foreign-office.

DRURY-LANE THEATRE.

Kotzebue's grim and gloomy drama of The Stranger
was given last night—Afr. G. Brooke, of course, sustain-
ing the part of the misanthropic hero of the play. The
peculiarity of the construotion of The Stranger is, that
The Stranger -himself the main personage, and the dra-
matic pivot of the whole—has so little to do through five
long acts. He appears for a shott time, just by way of
introduction, in the first act ; disappears to all intents
and purposes in the second and third ' • and only emerges
into strong dramatic life in the fourth and fifth acts—in
the fifth act more especially, where the action comes to
the climax, but leaves the audience in uncertainty. The
representative of The Stranger is thus left little elbow
room ; but it must be confessed that in the space allowed
he is afforded full opportunities of appealing to the sym-
pathies of his audience—opportunities which Mr. Brooke
last night availed himself of with great energy and power.
His pathos was, perhaps, less striking than his passion.
ate anguish, but the latter WAS a masterly display of
strong emotion—only at intervals marred by the pecu-
liarities of Mr. Brooke's enunciation—the long chant-
ing tone in which he delivers passages which ought
to have been spoken with the fiery rapidityof strong indig-
nation. His manner of giving instructions to Francis.
in the fourth act, was an admirable "bit" of purely
natural acting, and the sudden start, and precipitate
movement intd which he instinctively rushes, speak-
ing all the time in a rapid exclamatory tone,
when he is asked by the Count to reveal the secret
of his sorrow, was a point worthy of a great actor.
Several emphatic assertions, consisting of a single sen-
tence, were pronounced with, if we may use the word, a
stag; Cato distinctness and vigour of enunciation in which
the long rolling style—each word sung, rather than
spoken—was totally lost sight of.
The last scene we have alluded to as that in which the
actor possesses the greatest scope, in which the feelings
depicted are the strongest, and the variety of emotion
most marked. The struggle between lingering affection
and pride was well developed. The tenderness of the
tones into which the injured husband was ever falling,
and as often rising from by h sudden appeal directed by
himself to his own pride, and always delivered with a
marked dignity and firmness of demeanour, was as true
as it was effective. The balance was kept wavering
with great care and skill throughout the entire scene,
the impression left being that the intention, in which he
succeeded, of the actor was the representation of a proud
and all but broken-hearted man, struggling against his
better nature and his will to preserve his misanthropy
and steel his heart against the woman he acknowledges
that he still so fondly loves.
The other characters were tolerably well supported,
but offer scope for no particular remark.

THE FUNDS.—The decline of more than a half per
cent. in the English funds continues without interrup-
tion, and the fluctuations yesterday morning were more
violent than on any previous occasion during the past
year or two. Owing to the absence of any positively un-
favourable intelligence at the commencement of busi-
ness, notwithstanding a multitude of vague reports that
were in circulation on Thursday, the market opened at
an improvement of an eighth per cent. ; but a succes-
sion of sales for both money and account immediately
took place, which caused arapid and almost uninterrupted
fall. During the day the Bank of England an-
nounced their intention to lend money on Govern-
ment securities at 4 per cent. during the shutting, till
the 15th of October, and this was the only circumstance
that produced even a temporary rally. Its effect, how-
ever, was very transient, although it was interpreted as
an indication that no further rise in the rate of discount
is immediately contemplated, and before the Complete
termination of business the market gave way in a manner
rarely witnessed, except upon the sudden receipt of some
very unfavourable intelligence. Nothing, however,
transpired in the present instance to account for the
operations that were carried on, although for some
time after regular hours transactions took place at a
decline. Consols,
were first quoted P4a toThey immediately re-
ceded until they reached 941, but, after having been
)ffered at that price, the announcement regarding the
Bank rate for' advances on stock caused a reaction
to 94k. Renewed weakness, however, was soon mani-
fested, and the final official quotations were 91-1 for
money, and 94-' to for the account.. Subsequently an
active business was entered into at lower prices, until
the quotation?, dropped to 934 to 94 for money, and 94
for the 13th of October. Bank Stock left off at 225 to
227 with dividend ; Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents., 95i
to 1 ex div. ; India Stock, 249 to 252 ; India Bonds, ss.
discount to par ; and Exchequer Bills, 12s. to ss. dis-
count. The last period at which Consols were quoted
1934 was in November, 1849.—Times City Article.
FUNERAL OF COLONEL COLQUHOUN, R.A.—Woormicu,
SEPT. 23 —The remains of the late gallant officer were
interred to-day in 'Woolwich Churchyard, with the mili-
tary honours due to his rank. At. 10 o'clock a.m., the
whole of the troops in the garrison assembled in full
uniform in front of the Royal Artillery Barracks, and
were drawn up in double line and in open order,
with 600 of the workmen of the carriage depart-
ment, of which he was head inspector, all respecta-
bly dressed in black. The procession moved from the
quarters, No. 4, field officers' residences, East-square
(occupied by the colonel when alive), at a quarter-past
11, in the following order : -The serjeant-major, two
gunners, and one sergeant of the riding house troop,
mounted, with drawn sabres, to clear the way ; a firing
party, consisting of six captains, six lieutenants, 12 ser-
geants, and 300 rank and file of Royal Artillery, under
the command of Lieut.-Col. Flude ; the whole of the band
and drums and flutes of the Royal Artillery, the drums
and instruments covered with black crape, playing the
Dead March in Saul ; the Rev. Mr. Scott and the Rev.
Mr. Wright, chaplains of the garrison, in their canonical
vestments ; Mr. Hudson and his son the undertakers ;
two gunners of the riding-house troop mounted with
drawn swords ; the coffin, containing the remains
of the deceased, mounted on a platform placed
on the gun carriage of a 9-pounder, covered with the
Union Jack. Above the pall which covered the coffin
were the deceased's cap, sword, and sash reversed, the
whole drawn by six fine black horses in charge of a ser-
geant. The pall bearers were Lieutenant-Colonel Ot-
way, Lieutenant-Colonel Furneaux, Lieutenant-Colonel
Anderson, Lieutenant-Colonel Hardinge Colo-
nel;
Bury, Royal Marines ; Colonel Blanchard, C. 8.,
Royal Engineers ; Colonel Sandharn, Royal Engineers ;
and Colonel Cator, Royal Artillery ; with eight
from
the four on each side, for carrying the coffin
the gun carriage into the church. Twelve friends fol-
lowed as chief mourners.
GLASS WALLS.—When Sir R. Peel removed the duty
from glass he could have hadly foreseen the many pur-
poses that useful material would be applied to. One of
the most beautiful appliances of glass and its applica-
tion to practical purposes was made some 12 months
since by Mr. Ewing, of Bodorgan, in the county of
Anglesea, by the invention of glass walls, for the grow-
ing and securing crops of the first-class fruits against the
variableness of the British climate, and, from their adap-
tation to any style or order of architecture, their adop-
tion, as a matter of course, must follow throughout the
country. From the report of the London Horticultural
Society's Garden for the present month the following
favourable report is given of the wall by the so-
ciety :--" Both the flowering plants and fruit trees
against Mr. Ewing's glass wall are succeeding admirably.
Figs grow well, and even promise to ripen fruit on them
this year. The peaches, too, on a tree of considerable size,
which was moved and put in, are now swelling fruit very
well for a tree so recently transplanted. Tomatoes
also produce finely in them, and their fruit is free from
disease, which is not the case with the crops outside.
The long violet-fruited aubergine is ripening beauti-
fully, although it has always been thought that this
variety required more moisture than these wale could be
expected to furnish. Capsicums, too, both the large
tomato sort, and the common kind of fruit, come to
great perfection in glass walls, and whose trial, in the
garden has as yet been mostsatisfactory."—Aorth Wales
Chronicle.