The Sun.
London, England, 1854-09-16 00:00:00

THE HOSPITALS.

ST. BARTHOLOMEWS.—Yesterday forenoon the num-
ber of cases in this hospital were rather on the increase,
and many of the persons afflicted were in a dangerous
condition from malignant attacks of the epidemic. The
medical staff at this excellent institution has been in-
creased, owing to the great number of cases brought to
the cholera ward.

THE LoNnoN:—There are several dangerous cases of
the disease in the cholera ward of the London Hospital,
and yesterday more deaths were reported to the registrar
of the district. The afflicted persons are brought from
all parts of the east-end of London.
ST. THOMAS'S.—Yesterday the cholera ward was open
at St. Thomas's Hospital for the reception of cholera
cases, and medicine is given away to the poor at all hours
of the day and night. The house surgeon and his as-
sistants are in constant attendance to meet allns.ises_Z_
an urgent character during the visitation of the ss"
among the poor of the district where the epidemic was
raging.

LYNN.—Diarrhoea still continues to prevail extensively
is this town, but there is no appearance of cholera. A.
man was brought into town frozn Walpole at the latter

The directors of this company state in their report
that the receipts for the half-year ending the 31st of
July last amounted to 114,9461., bring an increase of
15,574/, over those of the corresponding period of 1853,
and the expenses to 65,0581., being an increase of
13,4791.0ver the corresponding period, showing that the
increase of net receipts amounted to only 5,0951. The
extraordinary
stated to be ,
and still further reduce the net
expenses,
ii,in addition to the above, are
receipts by that amo.unt. The increase in the working
expenses of the line has arisen almost entirely in the
repairs which have been found necessary to rolling stock
and in maintenance of way. 1,968/. have been expended
in new rails for the line between- Portobello and Edin-
burgh. The balance of revenue from the last half-year,
balance of thtoe present 2 half-year
n-dleBsaBvle's 3,9431. acvanit.
able for dividends. The divide;
9,
6705/1 eansd pleeravee a
preference stocks amount to
balance of 4,268/. The arrears of dividend on the 6 per
cent. stock, amounting to 2,7421., being deducted from
the balance, leaves only 1,526/. An arbitration is at
present pending respecting the mail service already p -
formed, which, if settled and paid for, might,
with the
above balance, have yielded a small dividend. The debts
to bankers, amounting to 280,0001., with all interest there-
on, have been paid off. The bill authorising the construc-
tion of the Selkirk end Galashiels Railway received the
Royal assent on the 31st of July. It is proposed that the
North British Company should work the line for ten
years. The directors regret that their negotiations with
the Peebles Railway Company for the working of that
railway have been abortive. They offered to work the
Peebles line at the actual cost, whatever that might be.
The directors have appointed the Hon. E. G. Petre loco-
motive superintendent, and they fully anticipate greatly
increased efficiency in that department. Out of the 450
goods waggons ordered, 295 have been supplied, and
there remain 155 to be supplied. These additions to the
stock will be a means of the further improvement of the
revenue. The directors deeply regret that in spite of the
very large increase of revenue, they are not in a position
to recommend a dividend ; but they do not hesitate to
express their belief that in future the ordinary share-
holders will participate in the progressive profits of the
railway, and they trust that the data contained in their
report will enable the proprietors at large to form a cor-
rect judgment of the value of their stock. The capital
account to the 31st of July shows that 4,518,6361. had
been received, and 4, 411, 4671. expended, leaving a balance
of 97,0151. arrears of calls, and 10,1531. balance of bond
on Halbeath Railway, to meet 35,6381. due to bonders
and others. The revenue account for the half year shows
that 114,9461. had been received, and 65,055/. expended,
leaving a balance, of which 25,0391. is absorbed by inte-
rest on loans and to bankers, and 3,5611. for extraordinary
expenses, leaving a balance of 23,9431., including 2,6561.
brought from the former account, and disposed of as
above. The loan account shows that 1,091,4381. has
been borrowed, of which 295,6011. has been borrowed at
5 per cent., 242,5701. at 41 per cent., and 259,0031. at 4
per cent.

WATERFORD AND KILKE.NNIT.
The line from Dunkitt to Waterford, forming the
junction of the Waterford and Kilkenny and Waterford
and Limerick Railways is now completed, and the formal
openit', of this portion on Monday last was attended
with the most favourable results. The excellence of the
new line, and the difficulties that have been surmounted
in carrying out operations through the Great Marsh
between Dunkitt and the Suir, as well as the formation
of a wooden viaduct over the most difficult part of the
marsh, and another over the Blackwater river, are alike
matters of congratulation. The Waterford terminus
exhibits the light and excellent design of the Dublin
Exhibition building as being peculiarly applicable to rail-
way purposes. The day's proceedings were brought to a
conclusion by the officials of both companies dining
together at Waterford.

A. meeting of the directors of the two companies was
held at Waterford last Friday week, and arrangements
of the most harmonious character was perfected for the
mutual working of both lines.

TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR TUE PAST WEEK.

Miles i
Receipts.
opened, NAME 0 F RAILWAY. ;
1854. 1853. 1854.
---....
BRITISH. X £
72 Aberdeen . .... , ......„ _ ..„ _ 2,001 2,100
37% Belfast and Ballymena .............. 737 790
17 Belfast and County Down.. .. - - .... 269 292
33 Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire 2,368 2,492
2636 Bolton, Blackburn, and West York .... 963 998
10434 Bristol and Exeter .................. 6,760 7,641
139% Ca1ed0nian............. ............ 11,018 12,357
142 Edinburgh and Glasgow .••••• • - •• • • 5,582 5,072
94% Chester and H01yhead....... „, ~.... 6,405 6,149
634 Cork, Blackrock, and Passage ••- .. 238 290
20 Cork and Bandon ................. 231 200
56 Dublin and Belfast Junction •• .. -.. 1,420 1,048
6236 Dublin and Drogheda. .. ...
6 Dublin and Kingstown .............. 1,742 1,636
16% Dundee and Arbroath ............. 658 542
31 Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junction 783 796
19 Dundalk ana Enniskillen.... - ...... 198 251
68 East Ang1ian.......... •••• • • • ....... 783 717
8136 East Lancashire •........... •••• • • • • 8,913 6,610
417 Eastern Counties and Norfolk.. • • "4 21 083 21,791
• 3 '
78 Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee...-. 3,181 3,215
6 Exeter and Credit0n................ 122 157
22 Furness Railway .. • ............. 997 1,185
171% Glasgow, and South-Western........ 5,862 6,313
283 Great Northern and E. L........... 17,530 20,016
188 Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 8,379 5,992
31934 Great Western ...........• • ......„ 26,068 25,012
2514 Irish South Eastern ................ 218 253
90 Lancaster and Carlisle .............. 6,839 6,164
260 Lancashire and Y0rk5hire............ 20,705 22,092
- Leeds Northern .................... -
188 Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport.... 560 608
65336 London and North Western ..... .... 58,525 58,593
5116 Loudon and 81ackwa11.............. 1,632 1,792
174 , London, Brighton, and South Coast.. 14,474 16,919
2531 i London and South We5tern......... 14,720 1,4931
46 Londonderry and Enniskillen •...• • •• 507 645
- Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, &c. - -
167% Manchester, SheMeld,and Lincolnshire 8,718 8,850
28Manchester and South Junction .. -.. 756 921
Maryport and Carlisle • • •• .. •• •• •• •• -
23%37531909 1,1(15i
498 li Midland .. .. •-••••••-- • • " - - -
126 Midland Great Western (Irish) ......
37 Monklands • ... • • •• • • • • •• •• •• - •• .•
718494 North New 111rIletiashnd Carlisle
...
-47
NoNorth-Westernrth
Staffordshire
Oera
...: ...: •:: .... •••
...
•.: •:. 1:. .:
3!:,3'711627°2;536 3531,:84°971457511 82
Scottish Midland ...............,
4291%
Shrewsbury and
aaundd
c8uira5mtienrgh..a.m...............
2,7%62441 q 4,111
29 Shropshire Union ...............„.
258 South Devon •.• • • ... ...„ .. ~.„ ...:
21,717 21.678 2,832 2,728
8834 South Eastern •• • _ ...,,...
162 South Wales ...................... 4,304 5,798
85% South York., Doncaster, and Goole .. 1,578 1,546
3,111 3,363
1,690 1,313
713 749
589 t 90
288 338
682172255 ywWWohesaritieranChtbaodr:r neNnwaena 1 lwd JunctionLimerickcaß. t.
1.ea...:d...8.:
..e....r.:11:
.c.....k......8,....:
York and North Midland & Leeds 30,132 34,178
FOREIGN.
5734 Dutch Rhenish • . .......... 1,750 1,720
185 Lyons and Mediterranean .......... 7,238 7,082
63 Montereau and Troyes .......... -.. 1,264 1,125
63 Namur and Liege .................. 1,708 2,185
444 Northern of France .. .. -• • ........ 32,783 36,385
697 Orleans and Central* ............... 36,155 41,000
240 Paris and Lyons .................. 19,489 23,604
84 Paris and Rouen. ••.. • ..... 11,627 11,031
392 Paris and Strasbnrgh ........ ••., • . 26,G78 27,856
59 Rouen and Havre..... •.. 4,957 4,680
132 Western of France • .. .. 6,113 7,904

• The receipts include the traffic ou the Orleans and Central, Or-
leans and Bordeaux, and Tours and Nantes.

THE LATE ABORTION CASE.—Our readers cannot have
forgotten the very extraordinary arid serious case of
abortion which took place at Clapham in the month of
June last year, for which three persons named Cunning-
Bailey,re and Thomas had been tried t the Old
and with which the name of the Rev.a George C.
Gordon, then one of the Curates of St. Andrew's, Hol-
born, was so unpleasantly associated. The young lady
who was the prosecutrix, and who had been subjected to
the most abominable treatment, was Miss Eliza Mordon,
the daughter of a retired tradesman residing in Ely-
place, Holborn ; and the person who was the cause
eheon
her shame and sufferings was the Rev. Mr. Gordon,_
a popular preacher, and at the time a lodger in housetheve.
of her father. The evidence implicating
hteher
wasof
gen-
tleman as an accessory before and after the fact
the superin-
tendent conclusive a character that Mr.
hand, had made every effort to p
managed to give him the slip, andl Preached Boulogne in
tendent of the P division of police,
rweLhhueoehdadhitmh,e
but
te
hein
:land brought to this country
prisoners, but it was found
to be tried with the oth_er_ap
safety.bt
heattabk by
nthi Inquiries
t international
tceu rsntao:d:as to whether be could not
hiscaption under the cir-
cumstancesb justifiable, and thus he escaped
would.
transpired it appears that the rev.
what has recently
eyotrneaeim there
ja made
has communicated jwithust lyt
the l Ifamily for.
of From
d has offered to marry and make her his
Mordon, an
any answer on the sub-
cwife ; but tdhthecyoe
delicate affair in the hands of a solicitor
tgheentpleumniasnliment hisnooffenceso
ject placod
pgaivritnign the prosecution. This
wopened a correspondence with the Rev. Mr.
Gentleman
sented on the part of the friends of the
Gordon, an
lady to a union, provided he made a marriage set-
! young
t entas his means would permit, but this he declined
doing,lem and thus the matter at present rests.
who had taken anwaitehtoivuot
SALE OF A RUSSIAN PRIZE.--Yesterday, at Lloyd's,
l the Russian prize Aland, a barque about 506 tons bur-
then, captured by her Majesty's steamer James Watt,
was put up for public sale. She was built at Aland in
1847, and appeared eligible for passengers and general
purposes. Her cargo, 700 tons of St. übes salt, had
been sold for 784/. 15s. After much competition, 840
• was knocked down for 2,7001.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1854.

It was indeed fortunate that SCHAMM, in place
of accepting the proffered aid of the Allies, relied
on his own prowess to effect the liberation of his
country. The Circassian Hero had witnessed the
untoward results of the "assistance" (!) rendered
to the Porte by the Western Powers—an assist-
ance not unlike that frequently afforded by
an affectionate spouse to her husband when
assailed by some truculent scoundrel. The
good woman seems to think that by closely
embracing her loving partner, and effectu-
ally pinioning his arms while he received
the blows of his assailant she is bestowing valuable
service. So it has hitherto been in Turkey. The
SULTAN was kept in leading strings by French
and English diplomatists, who, while suffering
themselves to be bamboozled by the %representa-
tives of the Germanic confederacy, prevented him
from benefiting by the valour of his own
troops, and compelled him, by their cruel
kindness, to hand over the rescued pro-
vinces from which he has just expelled the
unscrupulous invader to the tender mercies of
an Ausrtian Protectorate.

SCHAAM, however, profited by the valuable
lesson. He was determined to preserve his free-
dom against all parties, from injudicious friends as
well as from avowed enemies. He might
not defend his country according to the
strict rules of modern warfare, but he
did so effectually like the children of the
Mist, it might be with the primitive weapons
and rude tactics of his forefathers. The risibility
of the DAL GETTY; who deemed the garroting
stocks, the crippling cross-belts, the pipe clay, and
the razors the indispensable elements of a sol-
dier's equipment, might have been excited at the
system. But we rejoice to be enabled to
say that, under that system, he has obtained
a signal triumph over his powerful opponent—
that he has defeated tho Russian army in the
neigbourhood of Tiflis, with the loss of "many of
their men, seven guns, three thousand tents, and
all their baggage, many of their horses and
waggena, and all their provisions and ammu-
nition."

Th;e
impresirolneaosiintelligent: was contained in our
yesterday with the additional news
that "the P u
in force under Prince BEETJTOFF, were
retreating forced marches from Kutois and Kars
to Tiflis." It will be recollected that this was the
corps which had recently
been menacing the
Turkish army on the
&on. •
„iers of Georgia, and
obtained a decided advantage in
consequence of
the inefficiency and jealousy of certain Turkish
officers. The diversion created by the gallant
SCIIAMYL had, however, the effect of producing a
sudden and hurried withdrawal of these
troops,
who had departed in such hot haste that they
left no less than ten spiked guns, besides 'a
quantity of ammunition, and a large number of
waggons and mules, in the deserted camp.
Various reasons have been assigned for this
movement. It has been surmised that it may be
ascribed to the expedition which at that time was
about embarking from Varna for the Crimea and
Sebastopol, but which the Russians might have
supposed to be directed for the Cacausian
district. We believe, however, that the veritable

reason was the triumphant victory of the
Caucasian " TELL," and the march on Tiflis,
affords strong corroboration of the accuracy of this
opinion. We thus find that the star of NICHOLAS
is on the wane in Asia as well as in Europe—that
retributive justice is at length about to be in-
flicted on the arrogant and unconscientious dis-
turber of the public peace---the man whose
greedy passion for the increase of his already
overgrown dominions has involved Europe in
war. All avenging 1-2,31E51S is attending his

wht can
footsteps, and hardening his
ofheart
a against
the inevitable consequences
now only be regarded as an insane and perverse
continuance in demands, as unwise and impolitic
f rr were a
as they are known to be unequitabetle an
eat d unjustif-
-
fiable. Many opportunities c
forded.
Our diplomatists built sundry bridges
h he might have
for the enemy, _of, which
availed himself for retreat without in-
jury to his cc onour propre" or his power,
gth. But he may now
to his pride or stAren
thank his injudicious, friends, one of them
"of forty years' standing," for his downfal.
The diplomatists and German supporters, while
encouraging his unfounded pretensions, ha 70 really
occasioned all the mischief. Had " the sayings' and
doings" of France and England, in the first instance,
been as decisive and unequivocal as they were at
a later stage of the proceedings, and had the Ger-
manic Powers acted without dissimulation and
fraud, he would have been spared the humiliation
and injury he has since sustained, and which he
must also look forward to. But he vainly
reckoned on the " gratitude " of Austria, the
"nepotism" of Prussia, and, above all, the "Aber-
deenism" of the English Cabinet. We now behold
"the beginning of the end." Patience, although lou
suffering, has been exhausted. He has shown hiln
self to be unworthy of any commiseration. Be will
allow nothing to break the well-merited fail ; and,
expelled from the Caucasian provinces and the
districts in Southern Asia deprival of the
Crimea, with his fleets and arsenals therein
totally destroyed, or transferred to his opponents
—he will have to mourn "in sackcloth and
ashes" the fatuity that induced him to prefer,
and the hollow friendship which persuaded him
to persevere in, his untenable demands ; and
which will render his fall as remarkable as his
ambition was unbounded.

That singularly discontented and greenhorn
personage "pater familias" is again iu the field,
and there is, unfortunately, but too much r:asou
for his complaints. He sees that the country is
blessed with an abundant harvest, and that there
is every reason to look forward to a plenteous
provision for the reasonable wants of the com-
munity. He also perceives that there has been a
great reduction in the prices of all that he is ac-
customed to regard /as necessary. The price of
every description of corn has fallen at least 50
per cent., while the charges for cattle have
sympathised, although in a less degree,
with those of cereals. But still he finds to
his cost that he has profited but little by
the auspicious change, that his weekly bills are
still unduly swollen, his butcher maintaining
the charge for the leg or shoulder of mutton or
piece of roasting beef, without abatement=—while
the baker grudgingly consents to a trifling reduc-
tion, but scarcely quarter of that which he ought
freely and willingly to offer. These matters
affecting him, too, in the tenderest point—his
pocket—excite his wrath to no ordinary eaten t, an d
induce him to avail himself of an Englishman's
undoubted privilege, of heartilygrumbling against
those by whom he considers himself to have been
very unfairly treated.

It is to be regretted that in every instance the
complainants, " whose name is legion"—have not
restricted themselves to merely verbal complaints,
but have given some striking proofs of their dis-
pleasure. There has been a repetition on a small
scale of the " bread riots" by which the nation
was so frequently disgraced in the palmy days of
protection, and many bakers' shops were attacked,
as if " cheapness," the great desideratum, could
possibly be promoted by the destruction of pro-
perty. Controversies have since arisen. Th,
bakers have shown themselves quite ready to
wield the grey goose quill, or magnum bouum, in
their own defence, and many " doughty" or
" doughey" heroes have rushed into print with
extraordinary alacrity, while their assailants are
no lesi energetic in rushing to the onslaught.

On one side we axe reminded' of the unques-
tioned and unquestionable doctrines of Free Trade,
and invited to leave all these matters to unre-
stricted competition, which must sooner or inter
bring everything to the proper standard ; while,
on the other, we are' told that the " staff of life "
constitutes an entirely exceptional case, and that
having got rid of the leviathan monopoly that so
long restricted the food of the people, we must
also struggle totis griribus against the minor com-
binations that prevent the people from obtaining
the full benefit of the blessed alteration
in our corn laws. Bread is an articlo
of primary necessity, the price whereof
materially affects the' welfare and comfort of the 1
working population of the country. We are
shown that in many matters of far leas conse-
quence we are compelled to interfere, and that
we might as well leave the charges of a Dover
Boatman or a London Cabbie to " unrestricted
competition," as those of the millers and bakers
who are confederated together to keep up the
loaf at almost a famine price, during a season of
great abundance and almost unbounded plenty.

There is unquestionably much to be said on
both sides of this vexatalikestion. It is truly
stated that you have no iigreater right to define
the rates of profit of the different bakers,
or to specify the charges to be paid
for labour at that trade, than for tailoring or
bootmaking. Besides one baker may conduct his
business in a very different manner from another,
giving long credit to his customers, while the latter
deals only for ready money. A variety of other
distinctions may be taken, which show the great
difficulty, if not absolute impossibility, of framing
any fixed or general rule to suit every case. We
confess that we ourselves are strongly opposed to
any kind of interference with a man's affairs which
he is usually much better capable of managing
himself than any one can do for him. But
there has been such a thing as " a general
assize of bread," in which price, weight, and qua-
lity have been fixed by the Municipal authorities;
and if it should be clearly and distinctly estab-
lished that there is a general combination in the
trade to exact inordinate gains, and that ant
person contented with moderate profits is ini.-/-
riably exposed to a ruinous competition, the lossez,
of his opponents being provided for out of a gene
ral bakers' fund, a question may arise as to the
propriety of fresh legislation to meet so dangei•-
ous, and, we may add, so illegal a pr.actlee. Wc
trust, however, that there will be no necessity for
so serious a proceeding, but that. le and
butchers may, while there is yet time, be
awakened to their true interests, and voluntarily
remove, the causes that have given ground to
many urgent complaints and curses, both lisnd and
deep, f6aa the hard-driven and inuch-to-'oc-com-
miserated "patres familiarwm."

DEATH OF THE EARL OF ELDON.—Tni, nobleman
died on the 13th instant, at Shirley Park, Surrey. after
a long illness. The noble lord, it may he remembered,
was declared to be of unsound mind some time back,
and he has since been in a dangerous state. The de-
ceased was born in 1805, being the only issue of the
Hon. John Scott, who was eldest son of the Lord
Chancellor, by Henrietta Elizabeth, only daughter of
Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bart. He succeeded his
grandfather in 1838, as second earl. The noble earl
married in 1831, Louisa Caroline, daughter of Charles,
first Lord Faversham, by whom he leaves issue, John
countess
Encombe, now Earl of Eldon, born 1845. The
died in 1852. The King of Hanover stood
Lord Eldon
saplsoonsiosraut:
atite young nobleman. The deceased had
years president of
waaother children. Like his predecessor,
and oPitt
is situate in Surrey athConservative, and was for many
APOTHECARIES' EtAi, Dorsetshire.
Club. The family property
passed their examination
Thurs-
day, medicine,
September and re
ic received v: dehacertificates Names of gentlemen who
7-the science and practice of
:—Charles Buckworth Herne Soame.
sEtl.stpowan,
cnraesar; Bjeadmfoerad ;EGlieoLragwrencaez,el
to practise, on
Crawley-street,
'East India-road,
Poplar ; and Edward Thomas Hall.
DEATH OF A LITERARY CARDINAL. A Rom an
correspondent transmits intelligence of the death of
position which he had created for himself in the
w
Cardinal Angelo Mai, a prelate who owed his rank to
the
rld of literature by his curious discovery of palimp.
sestes. lie was born March 7, 1782, in the diocese of
Bergamo, created a cardinal in May, 1837, but reserved
in pette and proclaimed in the following year. The car-
dinal continued his learned labours after his elevation,
and only lately succeeded to
the the post of librarian of the
death of Cardinal Lam.
Vatican, rendered vacant by
bruschini,