The Sun.
London, England, 1849-09-07 00:00:00

LON DON, FRIDAY EVEN:I N G SEPTEMBER 7, 1849.

THE CHOLERA.
RETURN OF CASES, SEPT. 6.
THE METROPOLIS.
SUPERINTENDING REGISTRAR'S DISTRICT.
Deaths.
Cholera. Diarrh

Attacks.

Holborn Union
St. Giles and St. George
St- George, Southwark
Greenwich
Bethnal-green
St. Olave
Bermondsey ...
Lambeth
Whitechapel
Stepney
St. George-in-the-East
Newington ...
Marylebone
St. Pancras ...
Poplar ...
Strand ...
St. George, Hanover-square ...
St. James, Westminster
Clerkenwell ••• •••
St. Luke ••• ••• •••
Camberwell
St. Saviour, Southwark
Hackney
blington
Kensington ... ...
Wandsworth and Clephatn ...
Lewisham ...
East London ...
Shoreditch •••
Rotherhithe ••• •••
Chel4ea••• ••• ••• •••
St. Martin-in-the-Fields ...
Westminster ••• ••• •••
Edmonton, Aug. 27 to Sept. 4
Total

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AGAZINES, &c.—(CONTINUED.)
TAIT.

If the picture of serfdom in Austrian-Gallicia as it
is drawn in the " Modern Vassal," contained in the
present number of Tait, be true—if the Polish nobles
bear the remotest resemblance to Count Stanoiki and
his son Casimir, then we are not in the least surprised
at the failure of the outbreak of 1845, or at the
massacres of the nobles by the serfs. The nobles
should have come into court with clean hands, and have
commenced their movement by giving to others that
which they claimed for themselves—liberty. Any
Polish movement to deserve success should begin
by a general emancipation of the • serfs.
The " Modern Vassal" is to be concluded
in the next number. Tait this month is rich in tales
of travel. The most interesting of these is " There
and Back Again," a sentimental journey, by James
Augustus St. John. In the present portion of his
narrative Mr. St. John takes us over the Simplon to
Milan, and thence through Lombardy into Piedmont.
He is the most delightful of travelling companions,
tells a piquant anecdote with the most exquisite point
in the world, and dashes off a sketch of society with
the ease and spirit of a Balzac. As a specimen of his
descriptive powers, take the following picture of the
passage of the Simplon before sunrise :
" Never shun forget that morning. Far in the dis-
tance behind us the summits of the Bernese Alps,
blanched with snow, pierced the sky, while the bright
moonlight se( med to repose with pleasure on their cold,
glittering peaks. Towards the south-west the sight
plunged down a series of deep valleys, partly lighted up
by the moon, partly enveloped in shadow, while one
solitary lamp from some window, perhaps in Brigg,
sparkled like a star among the rocks below. Scattered
masses of white, silvery vapour hovered over the distant
valleys and lowlands far beneath, and looked like a
broken floor, through which the moon's rays penetrated
to the earth. Close by the road, chasms, which in the
moonlight appeared of prodigious depth, wound along,
while rapid torrents, whose white foam was once or twice
visible between the dark pines, brawled and roared at
the bottom. Here and there, vast conical mountains
sprang up from these abysses, and their white heads,
clothed with preternatural beauty by the moonlight, at
once astonished and delighted the imagination. The
stars shone with amazing brightness, and the constella-
tion of the Great Bear, in particular, seemed to have a
brilliance and beauty I bad never observed before. But
the exquiste beauty of the dawn surpassed everything.
The snow-sprinkled peaks of the Alps now seemed to
become transparent; while starlight, moonlight, and the
pale yellow metallic brilliance of the sky, flushed with
the first approaches of the dawn, diffused over every
rock, and glen, and stream, and forest, and glacier, a
wild, sparkling, mysterious, unearthly beauty, which
electrified the very soul. I see lam repeating the same
terms again and again; but language, with all its plastic
power, is insufficient to render with fidelity the nume-
rous exquisite emotions which at such times crowd upon
the mind. I was certainly for a time literally wrapt,
inspired.' Heaven appeared to touch earth, and
Poetry sat enthroned upon the mountains."
But it is not alone amusement that may be found in
the perusal of this new sentimental journey ; the
conversations of the various travellers are replete not
with wit only, but with wisdom. What can be more
just than the following criticism on Machiavelli:—
" Machiavelli,' he replied,' was essentially a revolu-
tionary writer; he despised all the established govern-
ments of his time, and laboured earnestly to subvert
them by propagating those principles of expediency
which render men indifferent respecting the means they
employ to accomplish their ends; he esteemed liberty
the greatest good that men can enjoy, and thought them
justified in wading to it through seas of blood. The
princes and rulers of his time set no value on human
life, which they sacrificed in all ways to gratify their
most despicable caprices. He therefore counselled the
people to follow their example, and laboured all his lite
to undermine the sentiment of respect for greatness
which is one of the most fatal weaknesses incident to
human nature. To dissipate this feeling, he dwells on
the crimes and follies of kings and princes, and seeks
to overwhelm them beneath a load of contempt. Nd
man can rise from the perusal of Machiavelli with the
same sentiment of loyalty with which he commenced it,
His attack is conducted in the most insidious manner,
for he often praises what he wishes you to hate; but is
careful that his praise should be calculated to provoke
your detestation.'
should 'thatboef
ksnoo gwrne.a, t a
" Strange,' interposed Carlotta,
man's life so little, consfarativelY,
" Signora,' replied Gistroci, the lives of the greatest
men the world has ever produced have been obscure,
like his. We see the effects their genius produced, but
are unable to measure the productive force; just as, in
our own country, we beholds mountain thrown up into
the air by volcanic agency, but never perceive the power
at work."'

What may be the length of the journey which Mr.
St. John contemplates we know not, but if he goes on
as he has begun the longer it is the better. Among
the works of imagination in the present number ot,
Tait there is one which is quite a literary curiosity ;
it is entitled " Tarass Boulba," and it a translation
from the Russian of Nicolas Gogol of a tale illus-
trating the manners of the Zaporog Cossacks. Under
the title " The Hungarian and European Wars,'
Tait gives a resume of the history of the last eighteen
months, which he thus concludes :—" This is the
wretched end of an eighteen months' struggle for
freedom, and the game might have been better;
played." Undoubtedly it might, but the end has not
arrived yet. "If it was na wed bobbit we'll bob it'
again."

THE HISTORY OF PENDENNIS. No. XL:

By W. M. Thackeray.
Pendennis is now regularly engaged on the " Pall
Mall Gazette," and the present number of his history
is replete with piquant sketches of the purveyors of.
periodical literature of every grade. The description
of the grand dinner given by Bungay, the publisher,,
to the contributors to the " Pall Mall Gazette," of
which he is proprietor and publisher, is one of the best.
pictures of society that Mr. Thackeray has yet given
us, but it is unfortunately too long to extract. The
following could have been written only by one who,
had himself been behind the scenes:—

"Considerable success at first attended the new journal.
It was generally stated, that an influential political party
supported the paper; and great names were cited amongst
the contributors to its columns, Was there any founds-'
tion for these rumours? We are not at liberty to say
whether they were well or ill founded; but this much we
may divulge, that an article upon foreign policy, which
was generally attributed to a Noble Lord, whose con-
nexion with the Foreign-office is very well known, was
in reality composed by Captain Shandon, in the parlour
of the Bear and Staff public-house near Whitehall-
stairs, whither the printer's boy had tracked him, and
where a literary ally of his, Mr. Bludyer, had a teqa-1
porary residence; and that a series of pilfers On finance
questions, which were universally supposed to be written'
by a great Statesman of the House of Commons, were.
in reality composed by Mr. George Warrington of the'
Upper Temple. That there may have been some deal-,
ings between the Pall Mall Gazette' and this influential,
party, is very possible. Percy Popjoy .(whose father,
Lord Falconet, was a member of the party) might be
seen not unfrequently ascending the stairs to Warring-
ton's chambers ; and some information appeared iu the
paper which gave it a character, and could only be got
from very peculiar sources. Several poems, feeble in
thought, but loud and vigorous in expression, appeared
in the Pall Mall Gazette,' with the signature of P. P.';
and it must be owned that his novel was praised in the
new journal in a very outrageous manner."

HOME.
BY THE REV. JoRN YOUNG.
(From Eliza Cook's Journal)

" Our home is not where we are, but where we wish

to be.”—DIAMOND DUST.
'Tis Home where the heart is, wherever that be,
In city, in desert, on mountain, in dell ;
Not the grandeur, the number, the objects we see,
But that which we love is the magical spell.
'Tis this gives the cottage a charm and a grace,
Which the glare of a palace but rarely has known;
It is this, only this, and not station or place,
Which gives being to pleasure, which makes it our own.
Like the dove on the waters, a rest-place to find,
In vain for enjoyment o'er nations we roam;
Home only can yield real joy to the mind,
And there where the heart is, there only is home,

COURT CIRCULAR.
BALMORAL, SEpr. 3.
Her Majesty and the Prince, accompanied 'by tho
Princess Royal, the Princess Alice, and Prince Alfred,
drove out in a pony carriage this afternoon.
The Prince of Wales, attended by Mr. Birch, rode out
on horseback.
The Earl of Aberdeen has arrived on a visit to the
Queen.

Sir.
afternoon.
Her Majesty will hold a Privy Council this
The Council will be attended by hie Royal Highness
Prince Albert, Lord John Russell, the Earl of Aber-
deen, and Earl Grey.
Dispatches were. received yesterday at the Colonial
office from the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian
Islands, and from the Governor of Gibraltar.
Viscount Palmerston returned to town on Wednesday
evening.

SUDDEN DEATH OF MISS HOXIIIOUSE..--We regret
to state that the above young lady died yesterday, at
Erlestoke Park, the seat of Sir John Ilobhouse, alter a
very short illness. Sir John had just returned from a
tour in tbe Channel Islands with his family, when Miss
Hobhouse was suddenly seized with illness, which, un-
fortunately, ended fatally.
DEATH OF COULON TEE DANCER--COUIOIII, the
well known operatic dancer, died at Paris a few days ago
of cholera.

WREXPIAM THEATRE.—This place of amusement
will be opened by Mr. George Owen, the celebrated
tragedian, on the Ist of October, the opening play being
Othello—Othello by Mr. George Owen, who has gone
to a very heavy expense in newly decorating this beau-
tiful theatre in a novel manner; the walls are hung with
300 ynrds of costly chintz, and the theatre elegantly
beautified.
AMERICAN Icz —Amongst the late imports into
Liverpool, we notice 200 tons of Wenham Lake Ice,
which has been imported by the proprietor of [the
Waterloo Hotel. As the stock of this article on hand
was-rapidly diminishing, this arrival has come in good
#l4llOl

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

FROM TILE MORNING PAPERS or YIDS DAY.
HERALD—When the French Revolution of July,
1830, took place, now 19 years and one month ago, many
over-sanguine persons supposed that the new Monarch
of France, who had lived a great portion of his life out
of his own country, and who had sojourned for many
years in England and America, would see the propriety
and fitness of abolishing the execrable passport system.
But though the Duke of Orleans, subsequently King of
the French, must have been well of the folly and
and futility,of the passport system—though he must
have been aware how much it interfered with the busi-
ness avocations, the pleasures, and the free power of
locomotion, of Frenchmen and foreigners—though he
must have known how little security it afforded to the
honest and well-intententioned—and how little calcu-
lated it was to put a bit or a bridle into the mouths of
knaves—yet for 18 years he and his various Ministers
suffered the execrable, the lying, the fraudulent, and the
exacting system to continue, to the shame and disgrace
of France, and to the spoliation and an-
noyance, not alone of natives, but of all
foreigners of all nations. Such a system of
fraud—such a means of rising money—such a
despotic interference with the liberty of the subject, was
well worthy of that Government which raised the budget
which in 1829 was fixed for 1830 by the Government of
Charles X. at 972 millions of francs, to one millard and
a half. The time for delusion, for deceit, and for tric-
kery, is now past, and it is due to history and to truth
to declare that never was there so reckless, so profligate,
and expensive a Government in France as that of the ex-
King Louis Philippe the First. At the commencement
of the present century, and in the most glorious epoch of
the Consulate, a budget of 500 millions sufficed. In 1807,
in a period of five years, those 500 millions increased
only to 720—in 1810 they had risen to 795 millions—
and in 1814 and 1815, with all the expenses of a restora-
tion, of a restored nobility, and of indemnised emigrants,
the budget was only 884 millions. In 1822, the year
before the expedition of the Duke of Augouleme into
Spain, it was 912 millions; and in 1829, the -last year of
the restoration, it was 972 millions. The revolution of
1830, however—called the best of republics—namely, a
monarchy surrounded by republican institutions—greatly
increased the public burdens. The lowest budget of the
Government of July was that of 1835, which amounted
to one milliard twenty-one millions. In the twelve years
from 1835 to 1847 the budget of the fallen Government
presented a scale of continued and progressive elevation,
till at length it attained, as we have already stated, the
enormous figure of more than a milliard and a half. The
disproportion between income and expenditure—not-
withstanding all the legerdemain tricks of French finan-
ciers—must have ended in bankruptcy by 1850, had not
bankruptcy been anticipated by a revolution in 1848.
Bad, however, as the financial condition of France was,
public liberty suffered in a greater degree at the hands
of the best of republics: In 1827, 1828, and 1829,
though passports existed in France, yet, except in gar-
rison and frontier towns, they were rarely demanded,
and foreigners were under no obligation to take a
passe provisoire. But, no sooner had the " best of re-
publics " been installed in 1830, than this system was
altogether changed. Vises and examinations greatly
multiplied, and every foreigner was obliged on landing
to take a passe provisoire at an expense of two francs.
For very many years, we entertain no manner of doubt,
that the yearly tribute derived from the English
alone, in this respect, amounted to an annual sum of
eighty thousand pounds or more, making, from
the period of the accession of Louis Philippe down to
February, 1848, a sum, in round numbers, amounting to
about 1,500,0001. What became of this money, or how
it was applied, we have no means of informing our
readers. But this we will say, that a more unjust or
more iniquitous spoliation was never committed by one
civilised government upon the subjects of another than
the exaction of this money in detail. The pecuniary
sacrifice and expenditure, however, was by no means
the worst feature of the transaction. Most of the per-
sons who travel abroad are persons in the better classes
of life, in very easy circumstances, to whom a sum of
one shilling and eight.pence is of no manner of moment.
The pecuniary tax, though a most unjust one, was not,
therefore, half so much felt as the unwarrantable inter-
ference with one's personal liberty. An Englishman,
whether of the highest or of the lowest rank, always felt
himself degraded by this passport system. He was
obliged to attend himself, or to send a commissioner from
his hotel, at the bureau de police of the frontier town
at which he landed, and there his signaiment, or per-
sonal description, was entered dowa in a book, and re-
gistered on the passe provisoire which he obtained. This
signalment, meant for the protection of himself and
others, was in ninety-nine cases out of every hundred
grossly incorrect. We have seen passports by hundreds,
in which men with blue eyes were described as men
with grey, in which men with brown hair were de-
scribed as black haired, and in which men and women
of fair complexions were described as basanes, or tawny.
We have seen passports in which women of sixty were de-
scribed as thirty and thirty-five, and men of seventy-two
and seventy-five as forty-eight, and fifty. If the system
were goad for anything-;-which it plainly is not—it
should have been strictly and correctly enforced by a
proper and trustworthy description; whereas, not in
one instance in 20,000 was the description given of
Englishmen, or any other foreigners, in the faintest de-
gree correct, or even approaching to correctness. Nor
was the system more exact in reference to French men
or French women. We have seen French men with
long faces described in the passport as " visage ovule,"
and French women with long sharp chins described as
menton rend. The system, though so vexatious, mi-
nute, and exacting, afforded no security what-
ever. So notorious and well-known a personage as
the Duchess of Berry, at a period when her capture
would have been of the highest importance, traversed
France from one end to the other without recognition or
discovery; and Don Carlos, a personage equally well
known, made his escape from London to Spain, though
the French police and all the prefects and gensdarmes of
the kingdom were on the alert. A more striking in-
stance, however, is afforded in the case of the present
President of the French Republic, M. Louis Napoleon
Bonaparte, who, though well known in that part of the
country, escaped from the fortress of Ham, in Picardy,
with a false passport, and arrived safely in London. How
a man who availed himself of a false passport to deceive
the police and gensdarmes, and who succeeded in deceiv-
ing them, can allow so worthless and vexatious a system
to continue, we cannotimagine. The whole thing, from be-
ginning to end, is a delusion and a mockery, affording no one
real advantage, harassing the honest and well-intentioned,
and too often misleading the officers of justice in pursuit
of criminals. Chateaubriand, in his most interesting
memoirs just published, tells us, that when proscribed as
an emigrant he lived during the Consulate in Paris for
many months as a Swiss, with a passport under the name
of Lassaing; and we have ourselves known three Minis-
ters of Charles X. and one Ambassador (two of the gen-
tle-men are still alive) who lived in Paris for months
under false names and with false passports when a price
was upon their heads. To suppose that the passport
system favours the detection of criminals and aids the
French police in scenting them out is the greatest of all
delusions. There is not a bagne in France, from Brest
to Toulon, in which there is not a regular fabric of
false passports—nor a' large town in which a criminal
cannot find a passport and a disguise for a very small
sum. The escape of so many criminals—political
and social—during the last 18 months under a pass•
port system affords the best evidence of the utter
worthlessness of that system. Political criminals have
always been more vigorously hunted down in France
than murderers or forgerers ; yet within a few months
see how Caussidiere, Louis Blanc, Ledru Rollin, Boichot,
Demontry, Felix Pyat, and so many hundreds of others,
have escaped. Compare this system with our own, in
which, without passports, Manning and his wife, Tawell,
and the murderer of Mrs. Henrichson at Liverpool, are
apprehended almost instantaneously, and there can be
no question as to which is the more efficient and prefer-
able, on every public, private, and social ground. At
the present season, when so many English are leaving
London, many of whom land at Boulogne, Dieppe,
Calais, and Havre, the discussion of such topics is ex-
tremely opportune. English interests at Paris ought
surely to be represented by the only English journal in
that capital, Galignani, and we could wish to see that
paper directing the attention of the French Govern-
ment to a grievance which must, more or less, affect
every one of its subscribers.
ADVERTISER.—The slaveholdera of the United
States appear to have great expectations in reference to
chat California,
expectations which;nicfhraesalitsheedtmwoisltl fiendish
intoa
scene
spirits in this or any inferior world must contemplate
a
with ineffable delight. They have discovered that slave-
labour will be very profitable in that country, " parti-
eularly so since the discovery of the gold mines." Their
unbiassed judgment, after due consideration of the whole
subject, leads them to the conclusion that " no labour
can be so well adapted for mining purposes as slave-
labour;" and they are quite satisfied that the people of
California will soon ascertain this fact to a demonstra-
tion, and, as the result, insist on the introduction of
slaves into that country. Of course it will create no
surprise in the mind of any one, that there should be
found in our day, as there have been in former times,
men so completely under the influence of selfish prin-
ciples, as to be morally incapable of perceiving the iai-
quity of anything by which their lust of gain may be
gratified. If these men, who have accustomed them-
selves to regard one portion of the human family as
essentially inferior to themselves, and created for the
purpose of occupying a place scarcely superior to
that of beasts of burden, should now discover 'that
Africans were created expresfly to fill the pockets, and
augment the happiness of southern men, the discovery
would be just such as we should expect them to make,
and every way worthy of the men by whom it might be
made. It would; however, then remain a question, in
the solution of which we should take a deep interest,
bow far these men are under the control of public opi-
nion throughout the world, and we should be concarned
to ascertain whether or not there is power in the
Northern States of America, in Great Britain, or in
other non-slave-holding countries, to prevent these mon-
sters in human shape sporting with the feelings of hu-
manity, and re-enacting the worst deeds that have
blackened the annals of man's history. It is somewhat
amusing to observe the manner in which the slave -
hoiding Americans deprecate all interfence, •n the part
of Congress, with their assumed "right" to do wrong to
the slaves whom they are anxious to carry into Cali-
fornia. "For the Congress to interfere with that right
to introdue them would ba not onlypunconstitutional, but
grossly oppressive and unjust. ' How strange—
that men whose occupation is to trample oni the
ms
rights of human nature, and grind their
sensevcti of
in the dust, should still have such a delicateeselves.
justice in reference to their own i"
The Congress will, we hope; whenfo
question comes under discussion,
expectations of the men who, withoutrever disappoint the
its sanction, will
this important
most
t precious
most
es favour
to O
toilf t forh those
who
be unable to accomplish the purpose on which they are
intent.are Itd eiestianhed by
happy col rccouemosltasynec-emr
,

their-benefit-in -" the diggirgs,"-Mat the Congress will
have the power to fru! trate their evil designs. They
tell us that they "confidently expect to see the Southern
people 3et enjoying their full share of that valuable
territory for which they so bravely fought—and in due
time slave-holding states on• the Pacific, represented in
Congress by slave holding citizens, whose voices will be
raised in trumpet-tones in defence of the institutions of
their forefathers." Considering the progress of legis-
lation in the• United States, hoiv it is gradually ad-
vancing in favour .of freedom, • we indulge expectations
the very opposite of -those which are expressed by
" these slave-holding citizens. There may, indeed,
be voices raised in "trumpet tones" in-defence of -the
oppressive "institution," but • there will be other
voices in still louder tones raised against it. Those-who
wish to • convert. California into a hot-bed of slavery
cannot act alone; - if this most disgraceful result should
ever be brought about, it must be done in the name of
the whole Federal Government, and• by its constnt.
There is, in our estimation of the abolutionists, too much
of determined purpose, of wakeful intelligence, of daily-
increasing influence, to render it possible for this
most iniquitous project to succeed. At the same time,
bearing in mind how great is • the prize by which the
cupidity of these "Southern people" is tempted, and the
desperation of. which they have given such frequent
displays, and which drowning and dying men may be
naturally expected to display, we are prepared to witness
a tremendous conflict before this great question is finally
dec:ded. The friends of freedom in America have the
honest and philanthropic men of our own and every
country on their side, while the traffickers in human
flesh may rest assured that their miserable cause is one
against which are arrayed, not only their own country-
men in the Northrrn States, but a hose of powerful and
energetic men in every civilized land, who will not allow
the cause of freedom to retrograde, but are pledged to its
advancement throughout the, world.

TESTIMONIAL
TO THE HUNGARIAN REFUGEES.

THE lITJNGARIAN NATION COUNTS ON THE SYMPATHY
OF EVERY NATION 'WHICH LOVES RIGHT AND Ll-
BRRTY."—Kossuth's Protest against Russian Interven.
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Bub:

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Messrs. Coutta and Co.
Messrs. Drummond.
Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smith ;
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to carry out the Testimonial.

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William Davies
A Few Friends assembled at the Crown Tavern,
84, Edgware-road .. ...
A Few Chartists, Cripplegste ...

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CITY COMMITTL.E OF HEALTH.
Yesterday the committee assembled in Guildhall, Mr.
Barclay in the chair.
INTERMENTS IN CITY CHURCHYARDS.
The CHAIRMAN said the following letter had been
transmitted to the Town-clerk from the General Board
of llea!th.

Gwydyr House, Whitehall, Sept. 5, 1849.
Sir,—l am directed by the General Board of Health
to acknowlf dge the receipt of your letter of the 4th in-
stant, inclosing a copy of a letter addressed by the com-
mittee on health of the Corporation of the City of Lon-
don to the churchwardens of the several parishes within
the bounds of the City, on the danger arising from the
interments now taking place in the confined churchyards,
and I am to state in reply that the Board are gladlto find
that the attention of the committee has been directed to
this very important subject, which has also come under
the special consideration of the general board. The
Board, however, are required by law to proceed by a
separate inspection of each burial ground; and from the
present severe pressure upon the attention of their in-
spectors, they are unable to undertake the task of in-
spection so rapidly as could be desired.
I am, Sir, your most obedient, servant,
ALEXANDER BAIN, Assistant Secretary.
The letter was entered as read in the committee.
REMONSTRANCE AGAINST THE PLAN OF RAISING A TEM.
FORAM' CHOLERA. HOSPITAL ON THE BITE OF THE

OLD FLEET PRISON.
A •ery numerous deputation from the inhabitants of
the ward of Farringdon Without, with Alderman Sidney
at its head, waited upon the committee in consequence of
a report in the newspapers, from which it appeared that
the committee had directed the City architect to make
a temporary hospital for the reception of cholera patients
on the site of the Fleet prison in Farringdon•street.
A discussion then ensued, in which several members
of the committee and the deputation took part; and
upon the motion of Mr. OWDEN, seconded by Mr.
MATTHEWS, it was determined that the committee
should adhere to its former resolution, that a temporary
hospital should be erected on the site of the old Fleet-
prison, in the event of no 'more suitable place being
found.
The numbers for the affirmative were 5, for the nega-
tive 3.

The gentlemen of the deputation were then called in,
and informed of the result, and they retired expressing
their determination to agitate the question and to resist
the decision of the committee with all their might.

THE CITY OF LONDON UNION AND THE GENERAL
BOARD OF HEALTH._

The CITY SOLlClTORdetailed the substance of a con.
ference which a deputation from the committee held with
the members of the General Board of Health, in the
course of which it was strongly recommended that the
system of house-to-house visitation should be adopted in
the city.
The deputation took leave of the Board with the under-
standing that they would report to the committee, and
that in all probability the recommendation of district
visiting, as suggested by the Board, would be recom-
mended to the Court of Common Council.
The committee then adjourned.

METROPOLITAN SEWERS COMMISSION.—Yesterday
a general court was held at the offices, Greek-street,
Soho. Sir John Burgoyne presided, and the following
justices were presents—The Rev. Messrs. Stone and
Murray, Mr. Buller, Mr. Bain, Mr. Leslie, Mr. Johnson,
and Mr. Hawes. Mr. Buller said that, considering the
cholera returns showed upwards of 200 a day, and that
doubts existed as to whether flushing operations were
beneficial or not, he Proposed that a circular letter be
forthwith sent to various, medical practitioners request-
ing their opinions of the effect which the flushing of
sewers has had on the general health. Agreed to.
The Honourable Commissioner also moved—" That
the Trial Works Committee be authorised to expend
any sum not exceeding 250/. on the ventilating and
trapping. of sewers in .those cases in which they.gbilo
it would be most beneficial." Mr. Leslie objected
the motion on two distinct grounds, nanadelY9-
been exhi-
bited had been given, and that no planebs_ea
feasibility
of
alat no
bited to enable the Court to judge of th 8,
carried by
the proposition. The resolution thenwaswas
presented from
majority of five to one. A g reportolera in the Wandsworth
Mr. Grant, respecting thvel°h°
road. Albion-terrace, 'ands worth road, consisted of
Albion-terra
an annual rental varying from
sevente,,u houses,
501. to 801. each. In twelve of these houses deaths from
h occurred ; from July 27 to Aug. 13, there
had cholera
been-thirt)-eight cases, of which twenty-five were
fatal. These had lately increased to fifty. The malady
had been ascribed to the Heathwell sewer, to the removal
of foul matter, and to bad water. The report attribut.ed
the spread of the epidemic mainly to the contamination
of the water with which the terrace was supplied. As
remedies, it recommended an altered system of house
drainage, the cleansing of cesspools, and the destruction
of the brick drains. The entire cost of these improve-
ments would be about lOL per house. 'By this outlay
the property would most likely be much increased in
value. There bad been nothing done by the Commission
which, in the opinion of Mr. Grant, would have caused
the recent outbreak of the cholera in that neighbourhood.
It was intimated that Mr. Grant might inform the pro-
prietors that they could peruse this report on applica-
tion. The Court thou scbourued..

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SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S.—YESTERDAy.
A very thin attendance, and business so sleek :bat we
are obliged to nr.di.e up most of the subjoined quo.ationa
froth " offers":—

ST. LEGER.
2 to 1 on Lord Eglinton's Flying Dutchman—tak en
15 to 1 agst Mr. A. Nichols's Nunnyk irk
20 to 1 agst Mr. Gregory's Loupgarou
25 to 1 eget Mr. Bowes's Thringarth—taken
25 to 1 agst Mr. Pedley's Chatterer—taken
25 to 1 agst Mr. Nevill's Herbert—taken
25 to 1 agst Lord Stanley's Uriel
25 to 1 agst Mr. Gamble's Volcano
100 to 10 agst Lord Exeter's Glenalvon
200 even between Chatterer and Tringarth
Old Dan Tucker was not mentioned.
GREAT YORKSHIRE HANDICAP.
9 to 2 agst Mr. Bowes's Thringarth mks, 5 to 1
8 to 1 agst Mr. Nevill's Letitia—taken
10 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Mrs. Taft—taken
5 to 1 agst Mrs. Taft and Fernhill—taken
DONCASTER CUP.
200 to 100 on Canezou (p.p.)—taken
CESAREWITCH STAKES.

22 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Glenalvon—take 25 to 1
25 to 1 agst Duke of Bedford's St. Rosalia—taken
25 to 1 agst Captain Lowther's Iron Rail—taken
25 to 1 agst Mr. Disney's Bon Mot—take 30 to 1
35 to 1 agst Lord Clifden's Rathmines
1,000 to 20 agst Sir J. Hawley's Fernhill—taken
1,000 to 20 agst Lord Eglinton's Elthiron—taken
400 to 100 agst Lord Exeter's lot—taken and
afterwards offered
CAMBRIDGESHIRE STARES.
2,000 to 50 agst Mr. Nicholls's Woolwich—taken
DERBY, 1850. _ •

1,000 to 30 apt Duke of Richmond's Compass—taken

MORPETH RACES-WEDNEEI>AT.

TI e Morpeth (Handicap) Stakes of 10 soya. each, 5 ft,
and 3 only if declared, with 50 added; the second to
save his stake. (10 Subs., five of whom declared)
Mr. John Gill's Lady I'm-off, 4 yrs, 7st 21b 1
Mr. Dinning's Railway King, 5 yrs. Bst 71b
Mr. Robert's Lady Flora, aged, 7st 101 b
Sir C. Monck's Gulliver, 3 yrs, 6st 101 b
Won easy by a length.
The Hunters' Stakes of 5 sous. each, and 20 added; 12st
each; half-bred horses allowed 71b; winners of 501.
once 31b extra; twice, 51b extra. Gentlemen riders.
Two miles and a half. (4 Subs.)
Mr. Dinning's Railway King, 5 yrs 1
Mr. Atkinson's Heather Bell (h b), 4 yrs 2
Mr. G. Cutler's Naany Banks (h b), 5 yrs 3
Mr. Humble's Grand Seignor, aged ... 4
The Member's Plate of 504 Heats one mile and a
half.
Mr. Dawson's The Little Queen, 3 yrs, 7st 3)b 4 1 1
Mr. J. Gill's Lady I'm-off, 4 yrs, Bst 21b
Mr. Palmer's Tity,3 yrs, 7st 61b
Mr. G raham's Lizzie of Brampton, 6 yrs, Bst 71b 5 4 dr
Mr. Hepple's Cynthia, 3 yrs, 7st 31b
ROCHESTER AND CHATHAM RACES.
THURSDAY.
The Maiden Plate of 401. Heats, one mile.
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Mr. E. Farrance's The Old Fox, 3 yrs, 7st 11b 1 1
Mr. Robert's Heroine, 3 yrs, 7st 11b.,.... (Sabin) 2 3
Mr. Wotton's Marchioness, 3 yrs, 7st Ilb
Mr. Hembury's Rutb, 3 yrs, 7st llb (Trinder) 0 0
Mr. Rose's Manchester, 4 yrs, Bst 41b...(Eatwell) 0 0
Mr. L. Davis's Reine Claude, 4 yrs, Bst 41b
Won easy.
The Members' Plate of 501., added to a Sweepstakes of
5 sovs. each ; the second to save his stake, and the
winner to be sold for 5001., &c. Two miles and a
quarter. (5 Subs.)
Mr. W. Etwall's Messman, 4 yrs, 7st 41b 0 1
Mr. Stevenson's Old English Gentleman, 3 yrs,
6st 31b
Mr. Simmonds's Dan Tucker, 4 yrs, Bst llb 3
Mr. Wilkins's Ima, aged, Bst 7lb (Yates) 4
Mr. C. Formby's Grist, 4 yrs, 7st 81b (Crouch) 5
A fine race, ended in a dead heat. Deciding heat.—
Messman walked over.
The Garrison Stakes of 3 sovs. each, arid 50 added.
Once round and a distance. (3 Subs).
Mr. Purvis's Mountain Dew, 5 yrs. I Ist 6lb (Cowan) 1
Mr. Pollard's Minus, aged, 11st 131 b (Owner) 2
Mr. Bachellor's Bustle, 6 yrs, list 131 b (Owner) 3

Won in a canter.

The Medway Stakes of 2 soya. each, and 25 added, the
second to receive 51., once round and a distance, (5 Subs.)
were won by Mr. Drewitt's His Excellency, 3 yrs,
6st 21b (Sherwood), beating Mr. Mytton's Martingale,
5 yrs, Tat 41b, and two others.

The Rockingham Stakes of 5 sovs. each, and 50 added.
Heats, one mile and•a•half. (4 Subs.)
Mr. Marson's Pius 12., 4 yrs, Bst 31b (Bartholomew) 1 1
Mr. Douglas's Tom Tough, aged, 7st 121 b 2 dr
Mr. Edny's Master Murray, aged, 7st 121 b
Mr. H. King's My Mary, aged, 7st 121 b (Crouch) 4 dr
Won by a neck.
WEYMOUTH RACES.—WEDNESDIT.

The Weymouth Stakes of 5 sm. each, and 30 added.

Heats.
Mr. Smith's Holloa, 4 yrs (Buckle) 1 1
Mr. T. Parr's Baronet, 6 yrs ... •• • •• • 3 2
Mr. Wilkin's Lady Day, 3 yrs ... ... ... 2 3
Mr. W. B. Smith's Grey Hen, 5 yrs ... .. 4 dr
The Members' Plate of 504, added to a Handicap of 10
sow. each.
Mr. Herbert's Radulpbus, aged, Bst 81b
Mr. Drew's Truandaise, 3 yrs, 6st 81b
Mr. E. Davis's Chorister, 4 yrs, Bst 2ib

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