The Sun.
London, England, 1854-09-26 00:00:00

THE CHOLERA.

OXFORD.—We regret to find that the cholera still
rages at Oxford with undiminished virulence. Up to
Friday evening the deaths from the commencement of
the disease were as follows :—Diarrhoea, 19; choleraic
diarrhoea, 3 ; cholera, 54 : total, 76.
EDINBURGH.—About 50 cases have been reported to
the parochial authorities, of which the greater propor-
tion have been taken to the hospital. In St. Cuthbert's
parish 21 cases have been reported ; the number of deaths
is sot specified. In the Canongate the number of cases
reported is only four, of which two have proved fatal.
In Leith several cases are said to have occurred, as well
as in Newhaven. From Fisherrow two fatal cases have
been reported this week. We do not hear of any cases,
however, from any other part of the country. In Glas-
gow the epidemic is happily still on the decrease, and the
same result is generally experienced in the west of Scot-
land.

CHOLERA AT THE ESSEX LIINATIC.ASTIATM.—Within
the last fortnight cases of cholera have occurred in the
County Lunatic Asylum at Brentwood, and, as was to
be expected, very exaggerated rumours on the subject
have got abroad, but upon inquiry we learn that the
total number of deaths from disease is only fire.

THE CIVIL SERVICE.—GENERAL POST-OFFICE.—Tho
following appointments, under the new classification,
have been made by Lord Canning in the Secretary's
Department of the General Post-office, viz., Mr. Roche
Parkhurst, to be chief clerk ; Messrs. William James
Page, Montagu South, Henry Benson Cord, Charles
Lennox Moore Teesdale, Edward Hugh Rea, George
Hardy, John S. Baker, and A. Benthall, to be first-class
clerks ; Messrs. Maitland Wilson Boyd, Edward Ellis,
Henry Pennington, Freeling Jones Lawrence, Francis
Host Burckhardt, Edward Bernard Hale Lewin, James
Caddy, and John M. Spelding, to be senior clerks, but
not to be recruited as vacancies occur ; Messrs. Alfred

Spratt, George^Robert Saltweil, Thomas Milner Wat-
son John Ledingham, Alan Edward Chambre, James
Nicholas Kenny, Edmund Hodgson Yates, Augustus
M. Cunnynghame, Charles Francis Scott, Alfred B.
Hawkes, Pearson Hill, Henry Robert Page, Herbert
Harrington, Oldham T. Barlow, and John Lowther Du
Platt Taylor, to be second•class clerks. Messrs. Wm.
Thomas Barth, George Frederick Harrison, Richard
Eyre Lambert, Hugh M. Lawrence, Leonard Bidwell,
John R. Mason, George Stow, Adolphus Burckhardt,
and William White, to be third-class clerks. Messrs.
Dobinson, James Masterton Pennington, Archibald
Wm. Morgan, Chas. G. Craven, Jno. Lawrence, Morton
Mandeville, Julius W. Deedes, M. J. Lake, J. Joyes, J.
Norman Hodgson to be junior clerk, but not to be re-
cruited as vacancies occur. There are several vacancies
in the first, second, and third class, to which Lord Can-
ning has not yet made any appointment. The selection
for the first class will be made from the second, and
for the second from the third. It appears by the report
of the commissioners that the vacancies in the latter
will be filled up by deserving officers already in the ser-
vice. Ordnance Department—Mr. Joseph Elliott,
temporary clerk, has been appointed clerk in the
storekeeper's department of the Royal Arsenal,
Woolwich, vice Henry Wright, deceased ; and Mr.
Steel has been appointed temporary clerk, vice Elliott,
promoted. Treasury, Whitehall—The appointment of
private secretary to the patronage secretary of the
Treasury is vacant, caused by the decease of Mr. E. T.
Crater. This also causes a vacancy in the class of junior
clerks. Customs ; Mr. W. Hayward has been ap-
pointed clerk at Portsmouth. Mr. J. Reid has been
appointed clerk for general business at Liverpool.
C. H. Whelden has been appointed extra clerk at Blyth,
Shields. Mr. E. F. Reid has been appointed principal
coast officer at Burghead, Inverness. Mr. S. B. Wil-
liams, tide-surveyor at Swansea, has been promoted to
be tide-surveyor of the fourth class at Liverpool. Mr.
F. Fraser, inspector of patrol at Liverpool, has been
appointed to be tide-surveyor at that port.—Civil Ser-
vice Gazette.

A MAN WORE= BY A DOG IT LEIDS.—A young
man in the prime of life has just come to his death in
Leeds from the effects of being worried by a wage dog.