The Sun.
London, England, 1853-11-12 00:00:00

BANKING DEPARTMENT.

Proprietors' capital .. 14,553,000
Rest .... 3,184,275
Public deposits tin-
eluding Exchequer,
Commissioners of
Nat!onal Debt, Say-
ing's Banks, and

Government securities

(includg.Dead Weight
Annuity) .... .. • . 11.498,152
Other securities...... 16,749,699
Notes .............. 6.419,885
Gold and silver coin .. 632,215

Dividend Accounts) 4,077,159
Other depostis ...... 12,171,032
Seven Day and other
Bills 1,314,4 P 5

£35,299,951

X 35,299,961
MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.

Dated the 10th day of Nov., 18C

PRICE OF SUGAR.

The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed
from the returns made in the week ending the Bth day ci
Nov., 1853, is 225. 10t1. per hundredweight, exclusive ol
the duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the im•
portation thereof into Great Britain.

THE CHOLERA.

(From the General Board of Health, Nov. 11.)

DUNDEE. —Deaths, Nov. 9.

Cholera.
GORLESTON, SUFFOLK.—Deaths, Nov. 7 to 10.
Cholera •

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DARTFORD.—Deaths, Nov. 9.

Cholera

HARWICH.—Deaths, Nov. 9.

Cholera..

METROPOLIS.

The returns from the D, E, H, K, and T divisions of
the Metropolitan Police, give 18 new cases and seven
deaths.

With reference to a death that took place at 16, Red-
cross-court, Borough, the returns state that this is the
ninth fatal case in this court, in which there are 13
houses, occupied by 80 to 90 persons, far the use of
whom there are only two filthy privies, the stench from
which is very bad, more particularly to persons living
opposite to them ; the drain is also very offensive. At
the rear of the houses in the same court are eight or
nine houses, inhabited by 70 or 80 individuals, who have
only two filthy privies • the boards are covered with
soil, the smell from which is insufferable. Tho drain
also smells very offensive, and in wet weather the inha-
bitants are ankle deep in water in their houses. For
the use of 20 houses in Redcross-square, there is an iron
tank 4 feet high, which is never more than half filled
with water, the tap is about 12 inches from the bottom
where there is a quantity of stagnant filth, the tank not
having been cleaned out for the last six months. There
are two filthy privies in the square for the use of not
less than 80 individuals. The drain and tank emit very
unwholesome smells.

In the house No. 10, Hargreaves-square, where a
death occurred on the Bth instant, the inhabitants com-
plain of very offensive smells arising from the grating
over the common sewer.

A woman was found lying ill of cholera in a common
lodging-house, in Holloway-court, Whitechapel ; she
was immediately removed to the workhouse, where she
died.

Two new cases and one death are reported as having
occurred in the Millbank Prison, from the sth to the
9th instant.

Mr. Spaull, the medical parochial officer of the dis-
trict of Hammersmith, in the Kensington Union, gives
the following account of six fatal cases of cholera which
have occurred in this district. He was called to the
first case at No. 2, Brook-green-place ; the patient, a
deformed woman, a vendor of fruit, was attacked with
the disease in its most virulent form, and died in 22
hours, having had neglected diarrhcea of some standing.
The second case was that of a girl, aged 20, who had
been dancing almost all night at a public-house, and
afterwards attended the wake on the body of the woman
who first died. She was attacked at six in the morning
and died at three in the afternoon. The mother of the
girl was attacked two days afterwards, and died in eight
hours, she having got drunk at her own daughter's
funeral. Two brothers in the same place were attacked
within a day of each other, and both perished. The
sixth case was that of a child who was attacked with
diarrhcea, which quickly passed into cholera, and proved
fatal in 13 hours.

Brook-green-place, where these deaths occurred, is a
densely-crowded locality, inhabited by Irish, and has
very imperfect drainage- -is ill-ventilated, and badly
supplied with water, which is sometimes almost black,
and of a bad smell—it is obtained from a pump common
to most of the houses ; at present it is clear and free
from odour. The surface of the place was muddy and
filthy, from ashes, soil, vegetable matter, &c., being
thrown from the houses. This nuisance was certified to
by the medical officer. Eventually the soil has been
carted away, and the houses lime-washed, so that at
present they present quite a different aspect.