The Sun.
London, England, 1849-09-03 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

MR. EDlTOR,—Permit me through your journal to
ask Mr. Dover, whose plan for de-putrefying the
sewage of London and other populous places in
England and Wales, has been so ably and generally
demonstrated in the Atlas and other papers, upon
what foundation he concludes Mr. Chadwick " has
no small interest in the system for converging the
sewage, and with it flooding the country ?"
Your constant reader,
FATHER THAMES.
Richmond, Surrey, Sept. 1, 1849.

COURT CIRCULAR.
BALMORAL, Aue. 31.

Yesterday the Queen and his Royal Highness Prince
Albert went on a fishing expedition on Loch Maniell.
Her Majesty and the Prince slept at "The Hut" on
the banks of the loch, and returned to Balmoral late
this evening after his Royal Highness shooting.
Lord John Russell returned to day from a visit to
Mar Lodge.

His Serene Highness Prince Ernest of Leiningen ar-
rived at Clarence House, St. James's, on Saturday, from
a visit to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, at
Eden House, Tonbridge Wells. His Serene Highness
loft town yesterday for Portsmouth.
Dispatches were sent off on Saturday evening from
the Colonial-office, for the Governor of the West India
colonies.

COLONEL SIIITIIORP. We regret to learn the
hoalth of the Hon. and gallant Member for Lincoln is
not so satisfactory as his friends would desire. On the
other hand, no immediate danger is apprehended.
VISCOUNT BRACHLEY, Ml'.—By accounts received
in town from Worsley-hall, Lancashire, not the slightest
hopes are entertained of the recovery of the Noble Lord,
who was sinking fast. The demise of his Lordship will
occasion a vacancy in the representation of North Staf-
fordshire.— Weekly Chronicle.

Sir Henry Litton Bulwer, our recently-appointed
Ambassador at America, arrived in London yesterday,
from Paris.-- Weekly Chronicle.

LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY.—The steam ship Europa,
Captain Lott, departed from the Mersey at noon to-day,
for Halifax and Boston, with the usual mails for North
America. She also carried out 140 passengers ;
amongst them was the Hon. Mr. Bancroft, the ex-
Minister of the United States to the Court of St. James.
The steam ship America, Captain Harrison, which would
leave New York on the 22d, and Halifax on the 25th
ult. with the inward mails, is expected to arrive in the
course of Monday.
EXTENSIVE ROIIDERIES.—On Saturday informa-
tion was received by the police, that the George and
Vulture Hotel, Cornhill, had been entered by thieves
and plundered of 4001. worth of foreign gold silver coin;
the residence of Count Latour, 79, Great Titchfield-
street, of a quantity of gold plate and jewels, value
3501.; the Hon. Mrs. Holmes, Westow-lodge, Tulse-hill,
of silver plate, valued at 2001.; and E. Morris, Esq.,
Argyle-lodge, Clapham, of silver plate, valued at 801.,
and 40 sovereigns.
CAPTURE OF AN ESCAPED CoNvier.—lnforma-
tion was received at Woolwich on Saturday last that
Wood, " the celebrated Wood," so cleverly detected by
Mr. Field, one of the inspectors of the Metropolitan
Detective Police, during his recent visit to Paris in
search of Manning, is the convict belonging to the War-
rior conviet ship who escaped from Woolwich Dockyard
in the daytime about five weeks ago. Although the
stolen watch was found in Wood's boot, the authorities
at Paris have expressed their readiness to hand him
over to the authorities in this country, Wood, who is
known by a number of names, was a most daring burglar
and a bootmaker by trade.
Feßocar of WASPS.—In a small out-house at
Baledgarno, used for holding broom and firewood, a
colony of wasps had planted their paper palace several
months ago. The house cat had taken possession of
a part of the same premises, and was rearing three
thriving kittens among the brushwood. One day last
week one of the kittens, seeing the wasps' nest sus-
pended from a twig, drew it down with one of her
paws to examine it, when she was instantly assailed by
hundreds of tho ferocious inmates. Her screams
brought the old cat to her rescue, but, being met by a
dozen or two of the enraged wasps, she was glad to
escape, and the kitten was stung to death in a few mi-
nutes. The other kittens, singularly enough, remained
unscathed, not a single wasp touching either of them.—
Dundee Courier.
SOOT AS A MANURE FOR POTATOES.--We saw a
few days ago, a few miles from this city, one of the
finest fields of potatoes that we have met with since the
rot appeared some years since, and we are told by the
intelligent occupier of the farm that the manure used
was soot, and that he has tried it both with early and
late potatoes with great success, the crop being large and
very healthy. Since then we have met with the follow-
ing local letter:—" As very contradictory rumours are
afloat as to the result of this year's potato crop, I should
wish you to know that, as regards the few I grow, and
of which the second crop has been gathered to-day, one
root alone produced 87 potatoes, and the most of them
good sized and perfectly sound, as all the rest of the crop
were, some bearing 40, others 50, to each root. (Ma-
nured with soot.)"—Gloucester Chronicle.