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

pansion whenever an emergency may occur. Many
cmplaints 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 IS4B among the
pauper children at Tooting, as being iu 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 an 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 in a filth y
unwholesome condition. Local committees, formed of
the members of the board, have perambulated different
districts ; and already much good has resulted
be mentionedltedfromtheir
labours. In proof of their activity, it may
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 other
means of daily removal, should never be listened to ;
where there is a will, and still more a necessity, there is
always found a way. The defective and otherwise very
faulty state of the sewerage in many parts is represented
as a serious impediment in the way of sanitary improve-
ment. With the view of giving greater efficiency to the
labours of the local authorities in carrying out the regula-
tions and directions of the General Board of Health,
issued under the recent order in Council, the boards of
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officers, when the nature and amount of such
elleicatdrasiervices shall have been ascertained. That the
clerk do forward a copy of this resolution to the medical
officers severally." The very responsible duties of active
sanitary inspection, in conjunction with those of vigilant
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 TUE AMERICA.—On Saturday forenoon
the royal mail steam-ship
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United, States and British possessions in
North America, 130
passengers, and a large and valuable
cargo of merchaT
CAPE Mndise on freight.
MAILS ,—SOUTHAMPTON,
OUTHAMPTON, Oct. 29.—A letter
from the Cape,
dated Aug. 26, contains the subjoined
paragraph in reference to the inco • nvernent working of
the re p sent 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, aid now invariably leave this a day
or two previous to the arrival of the latter. Corre-
spondents must, therefore, put off their replies until the
next month, or adopt this course and write, via 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, must 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 posts would remedy
this inconvenience."
b
In consequence of the representations on the subject
, 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
• ss, per cut., as well as that which is now on the way,
is to be delivered on payment of that rate.