The Sun.
London, England, 1854-08-15 00:00:00

TEI SUN, LONT.DOIIS TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 155 1854.

GIN ES LLB? .ED AT 'FIXED RENTALS.

PREVENTION OF CHOLERA.

COWES, ISLE OF WIG EIT.-Allg. 14.

Leasing
ijompans

Closf.tig Prices
yesterday.

RUSiTICSS
this day.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—It cannot be too generally known that nothing
is so important during the visit of cholera as at once
checking the premonitory diarrhoea which invariably
precedes it. This is often neglected, from being fre-
quently unattended with pain, or any alarming symptom,
till the attack has assumed a malignant form, when ex-
pgrience shows how little, frequently, medical aid can
avail. The premonitory diarrhoea, however, if properly
attended to, usually yields without any difficulty. The
treatment I have found to be, without an exception,
successful, is the dilute sulpimric acid in half drachm
doses, combined with fifteen drops of laudanum, and
eight of the tincture of capsicum, taken in a glass of
water ; one or two doses being usually sufficient.
The only troublesome symptom which remains is sick-
ness of stomach, which, however, is removed by hydro-
cyanic acid given in doses of one drop, at-the interval of
an hour.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON REGATTA.
TUESDAY, AUG. 15.—PRINCE ALBERT'S CUP.
The following yachts are entered :

Tons.
Aurora (cutter) 6O ... Le Merchant Thomas, Esq:
Arrow (cutter) ..
Julia (cutter)
Osprey (cutter) 59 ... Lieut.-Colonel R. Huey.
The same yachts contested for Prince Albert's Cup
last year, with the addition of the Mosquito, which
vessel carried off the cup ; but the wind was light and
baffling. We have a splendid breeze to-day ; should
it continue through to-morrow the Julia will stand a
good chance; but they are all fine, powerful yachts.
The evening finishes with fireworks.
On the 16th the Royal Yacht Squadron Dinner take.
place.

AUG. 17.—HER MAJESTT'S CUP.
The following have entered for this prize :
Tons.
Alarm (schooner) ... 243 ... Joseph W eld, Esq.
Shark (-chooner) ... 150 ... W. Curling, Esq.
Titania (schooner)... 181 ... R. Stephenson, Esq.
Ginevra(schoonel).. 142 ... Sir Percy F. Shelley, Bart.
The Town Re;_atta ako t,kes place on this day, con-
sisting of boat racing, duck hunting, &c. There are to
be altogether nine matches.
On the 18th, the Royal Yacht Squadron Ball.
AUG. 19.—THE ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON CUP,

The second evening after, I would recommend five
grains of calomel to be taken, followed in the morning
by the ordinary black draught, which serves to restore
the sytqem to its proper tone.
The avoidat.ce of fruit of all kinds cannot be too much
enjoiued, no less than temperate and regular habits.
I am, Sir, y, urs obediently,
R. AUSTEN ALLEN, M.D.,
Somerset-street, Portman-square.

Vaiue 100 guineas, open to all the yachts of the squadron.
The town proposes giving another day next week.
The town is filling very fast, and the roadstead is kll
full of yachts that it looks like a forest of masts.

GINGER USAFUL AS A PREVENTIVE

AGAINST CROLE.RA.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—As a visitation of Asiatic cholera is now
occasioning some alarm in this country, and with our
army in the East, I trust the following communication
will not be considered altogether uninteresting to your
readers :

In 1834, the Ist battalion of the Rifle Brigade (600
strong) was in barracks at Halifax, in Nova Scotia.
In the month of July the cholera broke out with great
virulence, and the mortality in the battalion was very
severe, upwards of 100 men, besides women and chil-
dren, having been swept off in about six weeks.
Under an order from Lieut.-General Sir John Camp-
bell the battalion was then removed into an encamp-
ment near a wood, a few miles distant from Halifax,
the cholera patients only, with the necessary attendants,
remaining in the hospital.
Many men were labouring under attacks of diarrhoea
and premonitory symptoms of cholera at the time of the
removal.

The diet and clothing of the men were carefully at-
tended to; they were required to wear a flannel belt
round the loins, and a decoction of ginger, which was
called ginger tea, was directed to be taken daily.
The course pursued in preparing and administering it
was this :—The battalion was divided into messes of 12
men. A quarter of a pound of root ginger was supplied
daily to each mess. It was boiled fur about three
quarters of an hour in water sufficient to supply each
mats with a pint twice a day, and the tea was taken
warm ever morning and evening.
No malt or spirituous liquors were allowed to be con-
sumed, with this exception only that under proper regula-
tions small quantities of brrndy were permitted to be
supplied medicinally to some of the men by the sergeant
of the officers mess.
The effect upon the health of the men was most strik-
ing. Toe sick gradually recovered. Only a few new
cases of diarrhoea occurred, and those were of a slight
nature, and during the time of the encampment (a period
of 6 or 7 weeks) the battalion lust but one man, Corporal
Bi by.

Now the' Corporal had been left in the hospital in
attendance on the sick, and did not join the battalion
till a month after it had been encamped. Ile was soon
afterwards attacked with cholera and died. Altogether
his services at the hospital had occupied eight weeks.
In his case, therefore, the change of residence and treat-
ment cannot be considered to have had a fair trial.

The regiment was under the command at Captain, now
Colonel, Kelly, who, I believe, is, or was lately, the
Commander of the Chatham district.

Captain, afterwards M jor, Warren, if this should
catch his eye, will recollect the circuu.stance of the death
Of the poor Corporal, for he read the funeral service on
his burial in the wood.

COLOURS-SERGEANT IN 1834 OF
COMPANY No. 4.

LECTURES TO THE INDUSTRIAL CLASSES.
POLYTEGHSIC INSTITUTION.

-
Last night the first of a series of weekly lectures, spe-
cially intended for the industrial classes, was delivered
in the large theatre of this popular institution, by the
Rev. Bath Power, to a very crowded and attentive
audience, which, in addition to the class for whom the
lecture was principally intended, a large number of the
most eminent scientific men resident iu the metropolis.
The Polytechnic has recently come under an entirely
new management, represented by Professor Pepper, apd
with a view of rendering it of greater practical and na-
tional value than heretofore, it has been resolved, in
addition to other improvements, to throw it open on
Monday evenings to the industrial classes of all
workshops and factories and their families on a pay-
ment of sixpence, provided they produce a ticket
signed by the foreman or superintendent of the works
to which they belong. Books of these tickets have
already been furnished to many factories, and will, it is
erisuing,three
stated, shortly be available at most of the workshops in
the mAropoiig. Tire programme forthe
months includes lectures on the chemistry of the non-
metallic elements, on frictional electricity, on the manu-
facture of sugAr, on mechanics, geology, and physiology
as connected with health, by eminent professors, and
cannot fail to be equally useful arid instructive.
Dr. SAYER, who was called to the chair, said it was
just a month since the member for Nottingham (Mr.
Walter) presided at a meeting at which the idea was
thrown out of these lectures, and they were now as-
sembled to listen to the inaugural lecture by the Rev.
Bath Power, on the advantages of a knowledge of science,
ilinstrated by experiments.
Mr. POWER, in the course of a very eloquent and
pertinent lecture, forcibly showed the importance of
scientific knowledge to the industrial classes asindi-
viduals, and for the sake of scientific progress gene-
rally. Numerous were the lamentations of employers
over the ignorance which at present unfortunately
prevailed among that class. We had, in fact
in our factories and workshops, a race of intellectual
Sampsons with sealed eyes— who, could they be enabled
to look intelligently at the processes in which they were
engaged, and to reason inductively from what they ob-
served, would give to practical science an inventive power
of which we had at present scarcely any conception. In
the course of the lecture, a series of chemical experiments
of great interest, value, and beauty, were introduced,
under the superintendence of Professor
the "modern Greek fire," which as the lecturer humour-
, Pepper, with the
most complete success. One of the most brilliant was
ously remarked, made the setting of the Thames on
fire no longer a joke, but a reality. By dashing a
small bottle of sulphuric ether with a few particles
c
of metal potas-iurn into a flat cistern, a bright
flame was produced, which illuminated the whole
theatre. The two experiments however, which ex-
ited the greatest attention, curiosity,
and applause,,
were,
first, one in which Professor Pepper, after wetting
his fingers in aminonia, dipped them into a crucible of
molten lead, and let the metal run off in the shi-ipe of
bullets into the shallow cistern of water.The second
was the laying of four pieces of redhot iron on four
bricks, and the passage over these by one of the attend-
ants barefooted, without the lightest ii,jury. This is a
discovery by the
professor, the secret of which was not
disclosed last night, as it will be
given in a paper to be
read before the Royal Society shortl. At the close of'
the lecture a cordial vote of thanks was
given to the
lecturer, and also to the Chairman,
spowled. In t. he gallery there was afterwards exhibited,
for the first time,. M.. Dubose-
4's illuminated fountain.
A stream of voltaic light is first projected from one end
who suitably re-
of the gallery to another, a
is then turned on from a
of
cylinder containing water and which absorbing the wh. le
g li, falls n
enthusiastic
a vase placed below like a
stream of molten gold or fire, as the operator chooses to
ms
akin
of coloured glass. This is
invention, and last night
plaudits. Upon the
the
inaugurated their reign in a very srwe htaelo rl
elicitedlye whole,
tot
frequenth e beautifuln eo wo r
lan:
Inyaddr!
age.men t
of
pirited mariner, and
will, we trust, secure the success they deserve.
Polytechnic have

pened on the 19th of
HALL .---I snow arranged
hGalElosßhGaElis
be o
thaOtPESNt.INGGeOorFgeS'Ta-.
September, but the belief is that the Queen will not be
present. The wish of her Majesty, however, is to be
and, i
sounden
thed throuevgent oh thf
the Queen of the Earl of Sefton,
expressing a desire to
inaugurate the building, any day about the specified
time, which may suit her Majesty better, will be fixed.
The chances, nevertheless, are at present against
the Royal Family being in attenda,ce, and it
is possible that the stir which was made in
the House of Lords a fortnight back, b—
y Lord Camp-
bell, at the instigation of the members the Northern
Bar, may have decided the point TT
Majesty's
punctuality is notorious, and, if she had felt a wish to
be present, her desire would have been I ulown ere
this. The arrangements, therefore, will proceed on the
supposition that we shall not be honoured by the
face of Royalty, notwithstanding Prince Albert's ex-
clamation to the Sovereign three years ago, as he was
leaving the hall for the railway opposite, " Let us take
another view of this beautiful building:' Tt has been de-
ci.ied, so far, that there shall be two perfermauces—one
in the morning, and another in the evening—the first to
consist of the Hallelujah Chorus, the Coronation Anthem,
and other musical pieces ; and the second °fan Oratorio
Miss Clara Novelle., whose success in the first•natned
piece at the opening of the Sydenham Palace astonished
and delighted every one hill be the prima donna, on the
occasion, while Sir Henry Bishop will wield the beton,
and Dr. Wesley will guide the organ_ instrument
so vast that it requires the aid of steam to bring out its
volume in perfection. A chorus of 200 performers will
swell the enormous mass of sound. We see it stated
that all the admissions are to be paid for, the price half-
a-guinea per head, and that the members of the cor-
poration are to have no advantage over -the public,
beyond the selection of the seats which they and
their families may desire to occupy, before the general
ballot for seats takes place. As the proceeds, after the
payment of expenses, are to be handed over to the
charities, this is the regular course to pursue ; but
rumours abound that the proposed arrangement is not
satisfactory to certain members of the Council, and
with that body rests the ultimate control of the affair.—
Liverpool Chronicle.