The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-31 00:00:00

LITERATURE.

Books for the Country. Bees ; their _Habits,
Management, and Treatment. By the Rev. J.
G. Wood, Author of the " Illustrated Natural
History." Routledge.
There is a considerable amount of information
on the management of an apiary, given in this little
publication, which cannot fail to be of service to
all who may desire to possess any knowledge on the
subject. Some illustrations are met with, and the
whole manner of describing the plans proposed is
clear and evident to every capacity.

Florian, and Crescent. A Village Tale, from the
Black Forest. By Berthold Auerbach ; tran-
slated by Meta Taylor. Chapman and Hall.
This is a pleasing little story ; some of the inci-
dents appear rather improbable to an English
reader, but no one can help being interested in
Florian's manoeuvres, and in Cresceny's endeavours
to make things go on smoothly, surrounded as she
was by difficulties and doubts. The unfortunate
Florian is thrown into prison, but escapes, only,
howeve", to be caught again. At last, after all
their confusions and counter-plots, all goes favour-
ably with the energetic, if not very prudent, hero
and heroine.

Clan Albyn. By Mrs. Johnstone. Routledge.
A very romantic tale is here presented. to our
notice. It is rather a complicated narrative, and
requires attentive observation to comprehend it,
but it is exceedingly interesting. All the scenes
are sketched with vivacity and energy ; we are
taken into many countries with the hero, who is the
heir to the Clan Albyn estates, although he does
not know it till the conclusion of the tale. Moonie,
the old Highland nurse, is very ably described, and
contributes greatly to the interest of the part of
the story, winch is laid in Scotland. Mrs. John-
stone has been very successful in her attempt to
depict the peculiarities of her own country.

Aldennan, Ralph. By A. Hornbook. Routledge.
This is a very entertaining little sketch of the
troubles and trials that befel the inhabitants of the
borough of Willowacre. The great cause of con-
troversy arose from a bridge-deed having been lost
many years before, in consequence of which the
unfortunate townspeople had to pay a toll to the
proprietor of the bridge, while in reality they
should have been exempt from it. The principal
members of the corporation used to meet a t the
Wheatsheaf Parlour every evening , and universal
harmony used to reign among them, unt:l one un-
lucky day, when Gregory Markpence made his sud-
den appearance among them, and "peace, perfect
peace, was never restored there." After a series of
events, some ludicrous and others melancholy, the
deed was discovered, but in the course of the trans-
actions so much ill feeling had been created, that it
was impossible for all the parties to meet as formerly
in their little conclave. May Silveston is a very
pleasing character, and excites great interest; but the
same praise cannot be awarded to Alice Pevensey,
who acted in a most absurd manner, and did not
appear to know her own mind. A great deal of
skill is exhibited in the description of Threap the
lawyer, Dingyleaf the great scholar, and Jack
Jiggs the fiddler. On the whole, there is much to
be pleased with in these two volumes, and they
will very probably become popular.

The History of liungary. By E. L. Godkin.
Mark Sutherland. By Emma Southworth.
Cassell's Natural _History.

The Alps : Switzerland and Savoy. John Cassell.
The history of Hungary from the earliest times
to the conclusion of the insurrection of 1848, with
which for the time it unfortunately closes must be
a work of interest to the historical student. The life
and reign of Maria Theresa (" the mother of her
people," as the enthusiastic Hungarians called her
on her according to them some civil rights) is fully
given. There are numerous illustrations, with the
portraits of the chief ileaders and their enemies.
" Mark Sutherland" is a story of American life ; it
is a tale of "power and principle." The hero, a
planter's son, releases his slaves, and the young
lady to whom he is attached, breaks off her engage-
ment when he is no longer rich. He fortunately
finds a worthier companion in the heroine of the
tale, who very inopportunely dies at the moment
he attains his highest ambition and enters the
senate.

",The Alps," &c., is a description of the country
surrounding them, which has reached the seventh
number. It is to be completed in twelve monthly
parts. " Cassell's Natural History" in the present
part describes the feathered tribes. Numerous
illustrations are given, and every variety of bird
described, with interesting and appropriate quota-
tions. Many birds, little known, such as the
tailor bird and the umbrella bird, find a place in
these pages.

DEATH FROM LIGHTNING.—On Saturday night an
inquest was held by Mr. Baker, at St Katherine's
Docks Hotel, on Jasper Allen, aged 38, a book-keeper
in the employ of Messrs. Pickford and Co. The de-
ceased hnd just left the London Decks during the storm
on Thursday evening, after booking some goods to go
by the railway, and was front of the waggons outside
the gates, when a vivid flash of lightning was observed,
and he suddenly fell. When picked up he was lifeless.
Medical aid was resorted to, but without effect, and it
was the opinion of the medical man that he had been
struck by the lightning. Verdict—Natural death.
REPAVING OF GRACECHURCH-STREET.—This important
thoroughfare is closed for the purpose of being repaved.
Notwithstanding the substitution of granite blocks for
wood paving in many thoroughfares of the metropolis,
of equal importance, as better suited to their great and
constant traffic, this street is being repaved with new
blocks of wood, as before.
MR. ABRAHAM, ARCHITECT.—We are requested to
state that the following gentlemen were in attendance at
the Central Criminal Court on Saturday, when the case
against Mr. Abrahams, the architect, came on, and
were ready to testify in the strongest terms to the care,
professional experience, and ability of that gentleman :
Sir Richard Bettiell, Q.C., M.P., Sir Charles Barry,
R.A.; INI
Dr. A
Shaw, (official referee)' Thomas ;
; Mr. J. B. Bunning ; Mr. James
Mr.
V l
Professor Hopper
Pinnethorne, of her Majesty's Woods and Forests ; Mr.
Ambrose Poynter, (official referee) ; Mr. George God-
win, F.R.S. (district surveyor) ; Mr. Henry A. Hunt ;
Mr. George Pownall ; Mr. H. Maltby ; Mr. Benjamin
Ferrey ; Mr. Thomas Little ; Mr. H. Holland ; Mr.
John Addison, C.E. ; Mr. J. H. Hakewill, Mr. A. B.
Frend ; Mr. E. Horne, Mr. W. Nixon, as well as several
district surveyors.
DREADFUL EXPLOSION AT A LICENSED VICTTJALLER'S.
--Last evening (Sunday), between six and seven o'clock,
the inhabitants of Hatton-garden and Hatton-wall, were
greatly terrified in consequence of a tremendous ex-
plosion taking place in the Rose and Crown tavern,
the property of Mr. J. Kemps, situate at the angle of
the two before•named thoroughfares, which was at-
tended with a great destruction of property, and very
serious injuries to the landlady. It appears that Mrs.
Kemps, who was behind the bar, was in the act of draw-
ing some spirits from one of the taps, when a tremendous
explosion of gas took place, resembling in sound the dis-
charge of a large cannon. At the same moment bottles
filled with spirits, various liquor casks, tumblers, &c.,
were scattered about and broken as if discharged' from
some projectile used in war. The pieces of glass from the
broken vessels were hurled about, and the unfortunate
female had her face, and other portions of her body
fearfully cut. Three men who were standing in front of
the bar were much shaken by the force of the explosion,
and two of them were triflingly injured by the shower
of broken glass. The whole house was quickly placed
in darkness, and those who were able made a precipitate
retreat into the street, expecting that the building was
about to fall. In the course of a second or so afterwards
it was found that the bar-parlour had become ignited.
Two or three of the neighbours therefore rushed into
the place and succeeded in extricating Mrs. Kemp
and in extinguishing the fire. Mr. Bartlett, the
surgeon, of Hatton-garden, was sent for, and he
promptly attended, and found blood streaming from the
injuries inflicted on the female. He at once adopted
measures to alleviate her sufferings, but she still remains
in a very precarious condition. Her husband was ou
at the time. Several police-officers of the G division,rom
however, soon arrived,
being plundered during the confusion which
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and prevented theetohhnoaetu,heiseiehsssaatfdor..wyn
ensued. As to the cause of the accident no hi
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BANK-NOTE.—On
SINGULAR RECOVERY OF
_Aelilier,
after partaking of
Wednesday last a poultry
od°
d class refreshme-room
some refreshment in the sec
discovered to his great dis-
:t e
taltietmheich-SI
may that he had. lost bank-note. He remembered
of his goolherds7inibtieub Shrewsbury ta st.
place,ot i 5
i.nd in the forlorn hope at
pilrinogeetoedn
Shrewsbury station, . he r
tpya: (hi
eforre
of hearing
having,
somet
afternoon train. He went at once to the by an
refresh-
ment-room, and there, trampled upon and dirty by eon-
.ns,eeorif thhisi!lowsthepnro
con-
tact with many feet, he found, to his surprise and infi-
nite gratification, the note he had dropped three or
four hours before.—Shrewsbury Journal.
RECOVERY OF A WIFE THROUGH THE
ELECTRIC TELE
GRAM—A few days since a telegraph is n
ceived at the Strood Station of the Northi Kent Railway,
re
e -
to the following effect :—" pi
ease to detain two ladies, one
short and the other tall, and a man very much marked
with small-pox." The parties were stated to be in a first-
class carriage. In consequence of this communication,
on the arrival of the train
at Higham, the carriages were
locked, and the parties were detained on their arrival at
Stiood. A.
message back to London brought down a
gentleman who claimed one of the ladies as his wife, who
t was said hail eloped with his managing man. After
some parleying the lady joined her husband, and the
parties departed in cabs, taking different directions.—
Kentiete %sour.

THE CHOLEBA.

( From the General Board of Health.)

DUNDEE.
Oct. 27 nd 28---Cholera (deaths) ................ 5
The parochial board of Dundee report that, since the
last return as to the state of diarrhoea in this town, the
cases of this disease have gradually increased, though, as
yet, we cannot say that there is any very alarming num-
ber of such cases. We find them existing in all parts of
the town.

LUTON.

Oct. 28.—Cholera (deaths)..

In respect to these cases the registrar remarks, that
little has yet been done to purify the houses where these
and previous cases have occurred, or to remove the
nuisances. The yards, cesspools, &c., are at the pre-
sent time in a filthy, unwholesome condition, emitting
most noxious effluvia, and can only be fruitful in diseases
and death.

NEWCASTLE•UPON-TYNE.
Oct. 2.9.—N0 deaths were registered in the union since
last return.

GATESHEAD.

Oct. 29.—N0 deaths were registered in the union
since last return.

METROPOLIS.

It appears, from returns made by the superintendents
of the D, K, M, N, and V divisions of police to the
commissioners, and by them transmitted to the General
Board of Health, there have been eleven cases of cholera
within those districts on the 26th and 27th inst., of
which five have resulted fatally. In two instances, the
patient died 14 hours after attack, and in a third in 12
hours from the time of seizure.
BLACKHEATH.--A very severe case of cholera is re•
ported as having occurred at Blackheath. The patient,
a child, was, at the time of the report of the surgeon, is
a state of collapse, and dying. The house is " one of
eight, in a small place misnamed a square, all without
water and drainage, and all with overflowing closets."
" In my opinion (adds the medical attendant) all are un-
fit for human habitation, and all ought to be closed to
prevent further cases of cholera." A fatal case occurred
in the house directly opposite in 1849, and diseases of a
low type, fever, &c., have prevailed ever since that pe-
riod. The same surgeon, in reporting the above-men-
tioned case in 1849, at that time stated his conviction
that these houses were " unfit for human habitation."
Mr. Hall, from the Poor-law Board, and Dr. Milroy,
from the General Board of Health, had an interview on
Thursday with the board of guardians of Wandsworth.
The union embraces the parishes of Battersea, Wands-
worth, Putney, Clapham, Tooting, and Streatham dis-
tricts, varying much in respect of natural advantages, as
well as in other local circumstances intimately affecting
health. The full extent of the onerous and very respon-
sible additional duties imposed on the parochial medical
officers, by the regulations and directions which the Ge-
neral Board of Health has issued under the present
Order in Council, would not appear to have been quite
appreciated by these gentlemen or by the board of guar-
dians. After the explanations given by Mr. Hall and
Dr. Milroy, the board at once recognised the importance
of the suggestion that the duties of sanitary inspection
and general hygienic superintendence of the union be
committed to their medical officers by passing a formal
resolution to this effect. Hitherto resident medical gen-
tlemen have been exposed to considerable obloquy,
and the risk of injury to their professional pro•
spects, when called upon occasionally to certify to the
existence of nuisances on the premises of the inhabitants,
or to make complaint of the unwholesomeness of many
dwellings, the property, it may be, of an influential
parishioner. But these inconveniences are, of course,
at once got rid of when it is understood that these gen-
tlemen have no Option left them in the discharge of
duties officially imposed upon them, and which are no
longer merely voluntary or permissive, but imperative
or compulsory. Independently of being constituted the
sanitary inspectors of their respective parishes or dis-
tricts, the medical officers are required to act as health
officers at the same time, by maintaining a vigilant Bur-
, veillance over the health of the poorer classes, so as to
detect at once and bring under immediate treatment all
cases of epidemic disease from their first development.
Should any considerable increase of sickness take place,
so that they cannot efficiently undertake the additional
duties required of them, they are without delay to apply
to the board of guardians for such assistance as may be
necessary. The machinery, when once properly esta-
blished in conformity with the regulations and directions
of the General Board of Health, is capable of ready ex•
pansion whenever an emergency may occur. Many
complaints were made by the members of the board of
guardians respecting foul stagnant pools and ditches in
different parts of the union, and allusion was made to
the disastrous outbreak of cholera in 1848 among the
pauper children at Tooting, as being in part connected
with the raking up of filthy ditches, and the exposure of
their putrid contents on the bank, without any means
having been taken to correct or neutralise the noxious
effluvia. There is no question that any disturbance of
such foul matters is a most unwise proceeding in times
of epidemic sickness, unless due precautions are taken
to prevent the atmospheric pollution by the free use of
such powerful antiseptics as chloride zinc, chloride of
lime, with allum, &c., or by immediately covering all
offensive matter with a sufficient stratum of earth and
quick lime. On the 28th inst. Dr. Milroy had au interview
with the board of guardians of Shoreditch and of St. Luke.
In both parishes the guardians have been energetically at
work in removing many nuisances, cleansing out courts
and purifying the poorer dwellings when found iu a filthy
unwholesome condition. Local committees, formed of
the members of the board, have perambulated different
districts ; and already much good has resulted from their
labours. In proof of their activity, it may be mentioned
that on one day no fewer than 21 owners of houses were
summoned at the instance of the guardians of St. Luke's,
before the magistrates at Worship-street, for neglect and
disobedience, and in every instance an order was ob-
tained for the suppression or removal of the nuisance
complained of. Much difficulty has been experienced in
Shoreditch in dealing with the offensiveness caused by
the accumulation of dung and other refuse in the yards
of manure contractors, &c. These accumulations excite
the disgust and grievously injure the health of the resi-
dents in the neighbourhood. The only plan of abating
this abominable nuisance, if such occupations should be
permitted at all in towns, is to require the daily entire
removal of the offensive matter, so that no collection is
ever permitted to remain. The usual pretext for delay,
viz., the alleged difficulty of procuring barges or
t
reothoer
means of daily removal, should never be listened
necessity, there is;
where there is a will, and still more
always found a way. la,(lotherise
eparts.tis represented
y
impediment in the way of sani ary improve-
faulty state of the sewerage The
as a serious di
ne fe
manyct i r-
ities in carrying out the
labours of the local author
ment. With the view of giving. greater efficiency to the
th boards of
issued under the recent orde
regula-
tions and directions of the General Board of Health,
he ' th lanations
nirnously adopted the following
given by Dr. Milroy, uua
officers be directed to
"That the medical
guardians in both parishes, after arm, e explanations
resolution :—"That
d of
of the directions of the oar
trict, in pursuance
That this board will be ready
act forthwith as sanitary inspectors,. each in his own die-
Healt
the nature and amount of such
officers, when
medical
hereafhtereetwo ciaonsfiedreeer the extra remuneration of the
of this resolution to the medical
extra services shall have been ascertained. iat the
" The very responsible duties of active
officers severally'
sanitary inspection,
in conjunction with those of vigilant
clerk do forward a copy
8a
supervision
of the health of the different districts, are
thus devolved upon those who, by their local knowledge
and their professional avocations, can most efficiently
discharge them, thus making a first but very important
step towards the formation of a health police.

DEPARTURE OF THE AMERICA.—On Saturday forenoon
Amlearilseßytfaonir -ship
mails for the United States°3 andella
North America, ftrhoemrotyhael
America,
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withiin)oLssaeitsligsj
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merical
merchandisel
THE CAPE MA131.0
from the Cape, dated.
PlossusefnrgelFgrhs,t.and a large and valuable
subjoinedA
cargo
AoungT.H2a6m,
iOnest.t2h9e.
P Tc
contains
paragraph in reference to the inconvenient working of
the present mail packet arrangements :--" The Bos-
phorus steamer, with the July mail, arrived here early
on the 22d, but, notwithstanding her excellent passage,
too late for sending replies by the Indiana, which left
for England two days previous. Much dissatisfaction is
felt here with the present arrangement of the days of
departure of the steamers, both from England and. India.
The homeward steamers make the Cape in less time than
the outward ones, and now invariably leave this a. day
or two previous to the arrival of the latter. Corr e-
-1 spondents must, therefore, put off their replies until the
next month, or adopt this course and write, rid Ceylon,
overland. The evil, however, is not confined to. the
Cape, for the English mail for St. Helena, which is sent
from this by the first homeward packet, mast now re-
main in the post-office here for a whole month before it
is dispatched. The alteration of a few days in the de.
parture of the vessels from either posti would remedy
this inconvenience."
In consequence of the representations on the subject
i lately made by Messrs. Duncan Dunbar and Sons, the
Treasury have notified that, pending the consideration
of the general state of the law as regards the native
States of India, all ginger which has been imported from
those States on the faith of being admitted at a duty of
r cwt •, well as that which is now
Js. per cw ~ . on the way,
is to be delivered on payment of that rate,