The Sun.
London, England, 1849-09-13 00:00:00

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SEPTEMWEIt_ 13, 1849

best 2 blooms of J. Howard's fancy dahlia, Miss Jane-- 3. ACCIDENT ON THE MERSEY.
Mr. Powell.; On Monday -the adjourned iriqtrest was resumed at
-
Liverpool on the body of Edward Wilson, sen., who,
Open to both classes.—By H. ffsrms, Rig., for the
best 2 blooms of any one white dahlia—Mr. Keynes. By togectier with his grandson' of the sarne name, was
fel' the he" fancy recently drowned in the river near Woodside, by his
Mr. W: Hamilton, of Cheapside,
dahlia—Mr: Turner. By Mr. H. Hook, of Brixton, for
fishing-boat
coming into •th• hßirkenhead
the best single truss of any seedling verbena—Mr.,
inquiry had
George Smith. By an amateur, for the best 3.seedlit g ferry steamer Fanny. Some preliminary
petunias—Mr. Young. taken place on Thursday, but the principal evidence
First class certificates for seedling. dahlias to Keyn es, was taken on the present occasion...
crimson; Keynes, mottled rose; Veney, white-tipped Mr. Charles G. Morris said he was on boittd of
purple; Legg, crimson purple; Bragg, rose and w4its: the Fanny at the time. He did not see the captain
(fancy); Liddiard, scarlet and white (fancy), &c. or mate on = board. When about half way between
Monks Ferry and Woodside, he saw a small boat on
the river, about 150 yards off. When the boat got
within about 10 yards of thelteamer, he saw two par-
ties in it, and they shouted out, '" Ahoy, there I" A
seaman saw her and shouteno the Man Brisbane at
the helm to stop her. Witness seeing the mast of
the small boat touch the side of the steamer, ran to
the engine-room and shouted, " Stop her." The en-
gineer was at the other side of the engine-room, and
asked, " What's the matter ?" Witness told him they
were running down a small boat. He lost sight of
the boat, but saw two men in the water. The steamer
was stopped after the crash.
William Garnett, captain of the steamer, after being
cautioned, said the hands on board were six—includ-
ing himself, a mate, a fireman, two seamen, and an
engineer. This was an efficient crew fur the steamer,
which was 45-horse power, with a steeple engine,
more difficult to start and. stop than the ordinary
kind. The only signal the steamer had for starting
was the ringing of a bell. Witness was not on board
at the time, as the 'crew ,had a>7ule amongst them-
selves that one man should be let off at eight at night,
and should join the boat at eight in the morning.
The man he had let off the night before 'was the Mate.
He did not think three men a sufficient crew for such
a boat. The engineer frequently attended 'both to
the fire, and the engine. This was kgeneral rule
among the boats. The mate ought to have been there
that morning. . There ought to be at least four hands
on board, but three might take such a boat across with
safety. If the engineer were below firing he could
not stop or reverse the engines. The steam-boat
might go about 400 or 500 yards in two minutes in
slack, tide.
Mr. Topping, on the part of the corporation, stated
that that body had granted to the widow of the de-
ceased an annuity of 12s. per week, in consideration of
her bereavement.
The CORONER carefully summed up, pointing out
the points of law involved in the case.
The jury' retired, and, after considerable delibera-
tion, returned a verdict of "'Manslaughter against
James Carr, the man who attended to the engine, and
the same against James Brisbane, the man who took
charge of the vessel."
The CORONER said. he
,would have been glad had
another verdict been returned; as it was he was com-
pelled to commit both the men to Kirkdale, to await
their trial at the next assizes. It was intimated, how*
ever, that steps would be .taken to have them bailed
out.—Liverpool Standard.

Climb 92bittott

DONCASTER RACES.

(THIS DAY.)

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walked over.

MY SUSIE 'S AWN.
I'm uneasy, and restless, and sleepless, an' a',.
And I'm very down-hearted; while Susie's awa';
I aften start up just atween twat. an' twa,
And think I hae Saiie=-but slie's far awe'•
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But she's far awa',
My Susie'e ewe',
And sleep flies froth me when my Susie's awa'.

From the dawn of the morn till setting of sun,
My thoughts are of Susie, because we are one;
But hundreds of miles, and the wide stormy main,
Now divide us, and make us as if we were twain;
For she's far awe',
My Susie's awe';
Oh, there's nee rest for me while my Susie's awe'.

Pear Friends, now I wish upon you to prevail
To stud back my Susie by steam or by rail,
For pestilence* spreads now with fearful alarms;
Ohl send Susie speedily hame to my arms.
For ae week or twa
l'd carena ava,
But months have pass'd over sin' she geed awe'.

Now, Uncle and Aunt 13—, and all your dear gang,
I am sure you lo'e Susie—ye keep her sr.e Lang;
And our maiden friend, too, to detain her is fain;
I entreat you to send Susie'safe hame again.
Tho' lasses I've twa,
My comfort is ama';
It doesna seem hanie when my Susie's awa'.

C. B.

' Cholera in Dundee.

ROYAL GENERAL DISPENSARY.—Yesterday morn-
ing a general court of governors was held at the Dispen-
,ary, Aldersgate-street; Mr. Atkinson in the chair.
The quarterly report, which was read by the secretary,
presented some interesting features with reference to
the prevailing epidemic, showing how easy it was in a
large majority of cases to check the disease in its inci-
pient stage. The return of patients from the 1;tof April
to the 30th of June showed a total of 4,496 received Of
these 2,764 were relieved or cured, 1,705 were under
treatment, and 27 died. During the two following

inuntle of July and August there— Isere 5,157 cases re-
lieved. This was to ho fiecountEd for by the sudden

ncrease of cholera and diarrt-,cet, and the-fact that the

governors had determined that in the event of any case
whatever of disease of the bowels applying fur relief, it
,nould be administered immediately at any hour of the
day or night. In consequence of the publication of this
determination there had been a great increase in the
❑umber of applications, of which 1,474 were entirely
casual. There seemed to be a great probability that at
the end of the year the number of potients, instead of
being about 5,500 as usual, would be 8,000, the increased
number being composed chiefly of casts of diarrhea and
cholera. Almost every case of incipient cholera had
been checked, and it was also very satisfactory to find
that a good deal of alarm was removed from people's
minds by the knOwledge that there was a place always
ready for the treatment of dhease by day or night. The
expenditure of this charity generally exceeded its income
by about 3001., and the number of applications for assist-
ance was daily increasing. The expenditure for the
present year would considerably exceed the income, and
it was hoped that those interested in the welfare of the
poor would come forward to endeavour to remedy this
deficiency. This report was received and adopted, and
the meeting separated after thanking the chairman.
A SHIP'S MAST SHITERED Er LIGHTNING AT
DEAL.—During the thunder storm, about eight o'clock
on Sunday evening, the electric fluid struck the foremast
of a barque in the Downs with 50 much force as to
splinter its whole extent in various directions. On Mon-
day the temperature was oppressively sultry, and the sky
threatening; nothing extraordinary, however, took place
until the evening about six o'clock, when the lurid clouds
which had been scattered about during the day, seemed
to merge in one dense mass. The rain now began to
pour down in torrents, and the storm with one brief in-
Sermission continued to rage nearly four hours. Nothing
could exceed the vivid intensity of the lightning, and
several peals of thunder were remarkable for the appal-
ling sharpness with which they struck the ear. Report
says that a boatman named Verrier, residing inWalmer-
road, was struck by the lightning, from the effects ol
which he soon, however, recovered. _

ACCIDENT IN A COAL-PIT.—OH Monday afternoon
an inquest was held at the police-office, before Thomas
Holden, E-q., deputy-coroner, on the body of a youth
named John Collier, who was killed on Saturday after-
noon, in consequence of the breaking of a rope, at a new
pit in course of being sunk by Messrs. Blair and Burton,
on Tonge Moor, near Turner-bridge. On the same
day another inquest was held at the Starkie's Arms,
Tonga Moor•gate, by the county coroner, on the bogy
of Wm. Drennand, who met his death at the same time,
and from the same cause. It appeared that about half-
past three o'clock on Saturday afternoon, Drennand and
the young man went down the shaft to fire a blast. The
depth is forty-four yards. llrving done what they went
down for, ono of them called to the bankaman, who
commenced winding them up. When they came near
to ,the scaffolding upon which they should have landed,
the rope by which they were ascending broke, and they
were precipitated to the bottom of the shaft, a distance
of twenty-six yards. The man (William Drennand)
was killed on :the spot, and. Collier only lived till eight
o'clock the same night. It appeared that the men had
every confidence in the rope, and no blame being attri-
buted to any one, the jury, in each case, returned a ver-
dict of accidental death.—Manahester Guardian.
COLCHICUM A REMEDY TOR CHOLERA.—Dr. Thos
Young Cotter, of South Australia, in a communication
dated the 6th of February, speaks thus:—" It was not
until I visited the Cholera Hospital in the west of Ire-
land, and had witnessed numerous cases in London, in
which every variety of treatment had been tried, via.,
the stimulant, the mercurial, the antimonial, the saline,
the actual cautery, &c., each in turn succeeding in a few
cases, but'all failing in the aggregate, that I was induced
to seek a more rational plan of treatment, when I was
led by some analogy between the chemical character of
the blood in cholera with that of some other affections,
in the treatment of which colchicum had been found use-
ful, to adopt this drug as a remedy for that disease. I
had subsequently an opportunity of administering it to
upwards of 30 cases in London, of ages varying from?
years to 54 years, and 20 more isolated cases in this
province, including two during tho present month,
and lam now hippy eiyithat the whole of the
cases so treated have recovered. I have ?swill),
administered half-druchm doses of tho tincture
of the seeds every 10 or 15
minutes, and
have not had occasion to exhibit a larger quantity in the
whole than two fluid ounces before the balance of the
circulation had been fully restored, and all the urgent
symptoms disappeared. In the majority of cases less
than one ounce has been found sufficient. The patients
have been allowed an unlimited supply of cold water to
allay their thirst, but nothing else, and till external ap-
plications have,betn abstained from as much as regard
for the patients feelings would allow. I feel confikh nt
that colchicum is an effectual—and I believe will be
found to be the only certain—remedy for malignant
cholera; and if administered as above, wal cure every
case that has not been subjected to any other plan of
treatment,.
The Central Observatory for Natural Philosophy
at St. Petersburgh was opened on the Ist July last.
This establishment, which is placed under the direction
of M. Keipfer, is intended not only to furnish a suitable
place and the necessary apparatus for philosophical re-
searches which require instruments of great precision
and long-continued labours, but also a central point for
all the magnetic and meteorological observations of the
(=pip. This establisnmenk it)pompletely, independent
Of the Academy of Sciences.

THE WOUNDED of the PUNJAUB.

CHATHAM, SEPT. 11.—This afternoon the wounded
soldiers from the battles of the Punjaub arrived at
the Invalid Depot, Fort Pitt, and it was a mournful
sight to see the number of poor fellows that are maimed
of their limbs. Twenty of the men have each lost
an arm, and eight men have each lost a leg, several
others are severely wounded, particularly two men of
the 10th Foot, Corporal Leggett and private Griffin.
There were several of the military from the gar •
risen present to witness the arrival of their
comrades. The wounded consist of the follow-
ing detachments, viz. :—Sergeant M'Caskie, of the
3d Light Dragoons, who has lost his left arm, and
one sergeant and two privates, both maimed, of the
14th Light Dragoons; two sergeants and 12 privates
of the 24th Regiment (2d Warwickshire) ; one
sergeant and 10 privates, with one woman, 10th
Foot (North Lincoln) ; one corporal and four pri-
vates, with one woman and three children 22d Regi-
ment (Cheshire); eight privates and one woman, 29th
(Worcestershire) ; five privates, 32d Regiment (Corn-
wall) ; and one corporal and six privates, with one wo-
man and three children, 61st (South Gloucestershire).
The troops were medically inspected by the chief me-
dical officer, Dr. Walter Henry, and three men were im-
mediately sent into the hospital. The remainder
were forwarded in vans to the depot, St. Mary's
Barracks, to await an examination by a Chelsea
Board. The troops are in charge of Captain A. J.
Macpherson, of the 24th, who is wounded in his left
arm. This officer entered the battle of Chillianwallah
sixth lieutenant, and came out of it a captain. The
regiment lost in less than one hour 519 killed
and wounded, -including 23 officers. Assistant-
Surgeon W. G. Trousdell, of the 29th, is in medical
charge of the detachment. Both these officers are on
leave of absence for two years. With the above in-
valids were seven lunatics and one convict of the 78th
llighlanders. The troops sailed from Bombay, by
the ship Herefordshire, 1,350 tons burden, Captain
Richardson, and put in at St. Helena on the 17th of
July, where they remained one night and one day,
and arrived off Gravesend this day after a passage of
121 days. During the ♦oyage they lost one man of
the 14th Light Dragoons, Sergeant Harwood, and
one man of the Company's service; also Captain
Prowther and Lieutenant Delamot, both of the same
service The troops belonging to the Company's
service which came 1;y the ship were conveyed to
London. The Queen s troops speak very highly of
the kind treatment they received on board from the
captain, and indeed from all bands.

BLINDFOLD CHESS-PLAYING.
MATCH BETWEEN HERB HARRWITZ ♦ND FOUR
MEMBERS Or THE GLASGOW CHESS CLUB.—The con-
ditions of this match were, that Mr. Harrwitz would
play two games simultaneously, and without seeing
either of the chess-boards, against four members of
the Glasgow Chess Club—two in consultation at each
chess-hoard. From the extraordinary nature of the
conditions on the part of Herr Harrwitz, the match
has created great interest among the chess •players
of Glasgow. In accordance with the previous
announcements, the match was played in the
splendid club-room of the Glasgow Chess Club,
Regent Hotel, Buchanan-street, on Thursday even-
ing. The company, amounting to about 100 gentle-
men, having, at seven o'clock, nearly all arrived and
taken their seats, and secured for themselvess chess-
men and boards, a service of tea and coffee was
handed round ; and while the company were thus
occupied, the secretary was busily engaged in making
arrangements for the accommodation of the onlookers,
as well as the gentlemen to be engaged in the contest.
The preliminaries being adjusted, Mr. Harrwitz was
then introduced to the company, and after a short con-
versation with a few of the gentlemen present, whose
acquaintance he made on his former visit to the club, took
his seat in a corner of the room, where he sat with his
back to the company, and totally excluded from the
sight of the chefs-boards. Mr. Harrwitz having to
lead off in both games, called out the move he in-
tended to be played for him on board No. 1, and
immediately followed his move on board No. 2 ; the
players at the first board made and communicated
their move in answer, and the players at the other
board did the same ; and thus the games proceeded,
Mr. Harrwitz giving his two moves simultaneously,
and not moving again till he had received moves in
reply from both boards. The games lasted from
bhcrtly after seven o'clock till half-past eleven, and the
result was that Mr. Harrwitz won one game and lost
the other. _ _

We can hardly attempt to convey to the minds of
our readers the difficulties of such a marvellous per-
formance on the part of Mr: Harrwits. To play a
single game well, with the board before you, is of
itself a difficult task, and cannot be exaggerated.
To play two games at a time over the boards must
be snore than proportionately difficult; but how
much greater must the difficulty be to play two
games ,simultaneously, and without seeing either of
the hoards—when the mechanical objects of the
chessmen and chessboards are abstracted, and no
longer exist save in the powers of the mind ;
when the windows of the brain are closed down, and
the faculties of sight hermetically sealed ; hen all that
is left of chess-board and men is in their vague and
timid shadow, wandering spectre like across the
mental
chamber; and when memory and the percep-
tive faculties of the brain must be taxed unaided to
name the position of every piece and pawn, and square
of the chequer I The most wonderful part of this
extraordinary effort of the mind is, that while the
blindfold player's whole thought and attention is re-
quired to consider the best mode of play to parry an
attack of his adversaries at one board, he is of neces-
sity obliged to banish from his mind the position of
the game on the other board, and yet to have them so
placed before his mind's eye as to recall either of them
ut pleasure.
At the conclusion of the games, Mr. Sheriff Bell
made a few remarks on the highly intellectual feat
which the company had just witnessed. He said he
was sure the members of the Chess Club, and the
strangers present, would join with him iu expressing
their sincere,:;thanks to Mr. Ilarrwitz for the very
astonishing performances which he had gone through
that evening. When it was considered that the
powers of memory, concentration of thought, and
great intellectual ability were required for such a task,
he doubted if there was another person in the world—
he was sure there was not another in Great Britain—.
capable of performing it. All who understood
chess knew well that at every move the possible
variations of play were innumerable, and that the
operation of castling in particular changed the rela-
tive position of the pieces, and the whole aspect of
the game completely. Now, in these two games
which had just been played, and conducted by four
of the strongest players in the west of Scotland, the
opponents of Mr. Harrwitz both castled
about the same time, the one on the king's
side and the other on the queen's side, thereby in-
creasing the difficulty of the task greatly, and
rendering the avoidance of error on the part of
Mr. Ilarrwitz scarcely possible. It would he re-
marked also, that on one side of the board the players
altor-ther ceased for some time ; there was a com-
plete cessation of hostilities for upwards of an hour;
the ibattle going en in another quarter, and yet,
when it afterwards reverted, as it neceesarily did, to
the former point, Mr. IL had such a perfect percep-
tion and remembrance of the relative position of all
the pieces, as to play apparently as easily as it' he had
all along had the boards open before him. The whole
performance he repeated, kept up as it was for more
than three hours and a half, showed such a concen-
ration of mental power, and such intellectual re-
sources, as were truly wonderful. Chess players
alone could properly appreciate it, and to them it
was undoubtedly a mental treat of the highest order.
The sheriff again expressed the thanks of the company
to Mr. Harrwitz.
Mr. Harrwitz, in a few words, thanked the sheriff
and the company for their kindness, and the satisfac-
tion expressed at his performance. He said he had
of late practised this mode of play—vis.,, without
seeing the board, very seldom, as he found it w
at-
tended with too much mental exertion.
mean by this, however, to detract. at. allediads not
mean the con-
merits of the gentlemen opposed to hiimn
trary, he considered the
highly instructive.—North Brats 211 it.
defence.h_
_a.: both games

Genius is lord tof the world. Men labour at the
foundation of society,
while the lowly lark, unseen and
hard by, in his nest on the earth,
Fathering strength little Prized'sits
to bear his song up to the sun.
slowly rise basement and monumental aisle, column and
e, dome and lofty tower; and when the cloud-
piercing spire is burnished with gold, and the fabric
standsi perfect and wondrous, up springs the forgotten
lark, with airy wheel, to the pinnacle, and standing
poised and unwondering on his giddy perch, he pours
out his celestial music till his bright footing trembles
with harmony. And when the song is dose, and mount-
ing thence, he soars away to fill his exhausted hesrt at
the fountains of the sun, the dwellers in the towers
below look up to the gilded spire and shout—not to the
burnished shaft, but to the lark— lost from it in the sky.
—N. P. WILLIS.—EIiza Ccoh's Journal.

WARNING TO IVll;::SCA.C:rrespondent of
the 25th ult., " I will thank you to put the following
lines in your paper.' Caution to hot-t(mperid wifes
when your husband quarls never leave the house for fear
of a padlock a young couple living in the -- Market
gnarled the other day she plat her husband about leaves
the House expecting her husband would seek her but
instead of that he puts a padlock on the dour she ro-
turns next morning but what a blonk when she saw the
padlock, well what was she to do but to Seek advice
the attorney advises her to coax her husband to love her
again 0 Graceious what a site we saw next she sitting
on her knees crying; for him to forgive her if you for-
give me she cries i will do anything to please you i will
clean your shoes and wash your aprons if you will only
of forgive gt Ye d
e
me
Ysin'il shall never have reason to put a padlock
d i hope wifes who queries with their hus-
bands will always think on the PADLOClL."—Gateshead
Observer,

THE CHOLERA AND DIARRHEA.

The Registrar-General's return for the week end-
ing Saturday, September 8, has, as usual, a long list
appended to it, containing the particulars of each fatal
case of cholera and diarrhoea. It also embodies short
reports from several of the registrars upon the pro-
gress of the disease and the sanitary state of their
districts. The information thus conveyed, though
compressed into the smallest possible space, isof great
value, as throwing light upon the mode in which
cholera commits its ravages, and many of the cases
recorded will not fail to suggest a mournful interest
in the mind of the reflective reader. Subjoined are a
few extracts from the return which have struck us
most forcibly :

"FULHAM.
"F. 40, wife of licensed victualler, cholera 10 hours,
September 7, Seven Stars, North-end-house, exactly op
posite to Orchard. place, Sun-street and Star-lane.
" HA3IMERSMITII; St. Paul.
" F. 50, charwomae, cholera, 24 hours, September 6,
Broadway.—Locality open; always in great poverty, in-
temp rate—had been nursing in a house where cholera
had been. I attended her about Ilia weeks since for a
moderate attack of diarrhcei.
" F. 28, wife of journeyman tailor, cholera 18 hours,
September 8,1, Salem-place, Bridge-road.—No particu-
lar observation as to locality. Husband, wife, and three
children occupying one room, always filthy and offensive.
The family al vs ays in the utmost destitution and poverty ;
not intemperate. Wife of a feeble constitution and sub-
ject to epilepsy; only returned from Bermondsey the day
previous, where she had been to visit a sister and two
children, all dead from cholera; no premonitory symp-
toms, but collapse ushered in the disease; she never
rallied in the slightest, although she bad immediate
medical assistance.
" ST. GEORGE'S; Hanover-square.
" M. 37, horsekeeper, cholera, 16 hours, in a cottage,
Commercial road south, Pimlico.—This cottage is
situate in an omnibus yard, close to the main open sewer,
and near waste ground that is the receptacle of mach
filth. The wife of this man has since died in the hospital
(St. George's) of cholera.
" M. 29, policeman, cholera, 22 hours, 25, Union-
street, Ptinlico.—This man fell in the street exhausted in
the Borough, and was brought home and died. He had
and was suffering great mental distress, and had gone
long without food.
" WESTMINSTER; St. John.

"F. 45, wife of a plumber, diarrhan eight days,
cholera tour days, 7th of September, 5. Emery Cottages,
Dougla,t-street.—The second death in this cottage, which
consists of two rooms in the ground floor.. Her son's
death being reported last week, this is the woman wbo
expressed herself in the terms mentioned in my remarks
—the place being ♦ery unfavourable to health.
" ST. MA ATIN• IN •THE-FIELDS ; Charing•cross.

" M. 28, police constable, A division, cholera, 48 hours,
September 6, Police station, Northumberland-street.—
As officer of health of 'the 'district I inspected this bar-
4ack on the Bth,of September. It has the whole sewerage
of Tottenham eourt-read passing in front of it, a grating
close to the front du,)r. and. at the time of inspection the
tide had flooded the kitchen floor with very foul water,
from. the sewer. The sewer debouches, into the Thames
about sixty yards south-east of the barracks. A very
finfavourable position fora police station.
" ST. .JANES, WESTM IN STER ; Berwick-street.
" F. 67, widow;of a tailor, cholera, 24 hours, Sept. 7,
Falteney-'place, Peter-street.--The medical man states
the' deceitied had b-en living low for a long time, and
Was 'totally. unable 'to bear up against the disease.
• No, 2, Pulteney-court) is a very narrow, close, and con-
- fined .placo ; densely inhabited, and very unfavourable
to health..
" MARYLEBONE All Soule.
Ft 32, wife. of a tailor, cholera, 24 hours, Sept. I,
22. Union sqr9et,-,-In.the same house, on Aug. 28, died
of cholera the wife of a turner ; another woman was
attackfal, but ha 3 since recovered. On September 1 the
daughter of the turner, 15 years of age, was attacked
with cholera. aid removed to the Marylebone Infirmary,

where she dik. This is the fount; case of cholera
(during five days) which has occurred in this house, and
three have proved 'fetal. I have already given ley
opioion of this street. Many of the houses are hotbeds
for cholera aud.ait epidemics.
, • " 11,iddlrsex Hospital.
" 33, painter, cholera, 20 hours, Sept. 7, from 31,
,Clevel;nd.atreet.—Street neglected and dirty; vegetable
and varied refu e, cast from the greengrocers' and other
shops, being elf.) d to' rtinain for many days. I be.
2teve' the grail:lap) is not very defective. (All streets
partaking' of the character of bye streets are more or
leas OverlOoked and neglected by parish authorities. In
this parish_ the State of Upper Rathbone•place, Union•
street, part of Wells-street, Ogle-street, Saville-street,
Charlton-street, and the whole of Cleveland- street,
requires strict investigation.)
. , • ":St. John.
"F. 66, widow of' grocer, cholera, 14 hours, September
5, No, 12, Alms-houses.,---Attended upon and washed
the ling n of the patikt.4who died of the cholera at No.
12, Alic.lionses, the.lst of, Sept., and registered the
death; in 'goed health on the 3,1 be:ore washing the
cluthes—seiz-d the morning after. •
" ST. PANCRAS; Gray's Inn-lane.
" M. 2i, son of a dustman, cholera 3 hours, September
5, 17, Brighton-street—An inquest in this case was or-
dered in consequence of there being no medical attendant.
The death occurred in an underground kitchen. The
cl,.seness and stench were so great that the jurymen
hurried from the place, nearly all of them having exp -
rienced a sensation of sickness. The coroner also de-
clared that he Mt the same. In this close apartment,
wherein the dead body was laid, the operation of cooking
was going on, and the occupants upon being questioned
re-peering the stench declared that they ielt no ill effects
from it.

" Regent's-park.
" F. 30, wife of a porter, cholera two days, profession-
ally attended only a few hours previous to her death,
September 4, 17, Edward-street—This house and tho
adjoining are opposite a wharf which is the deposit fur
all kinds of manure, decomposed vegetable matter, and
refuse of the worst description, exhales the most ob-
noxious ( ffievium, and which is much complained of by
the inhabitants.
" ISLINGTON ; Islington East.
"M. 39, labourer, cholera two days, September 5,3,
Brand-court, Holloway.—The medical officer of the
Holloway Dispensary says of Brand-court .--"No less
than seven eases of cholera have occurred in this court
within a week, two of which have already proved fatal,
within ,a few. yards. c 4
_this court.. Malay other cases
of cholera have also occurred. The drainage of this
place, as well as of the whole of Brand-street, is very
defective, and an open sewer runs by the side of this
man's house, and at the back of all the houses on ono
ri.de Brand-street. The houses are all very damp from
the want of good drainage; the floors of the lower rooms
rest upon the ground.'
" The registrar fur this district appends the following
rote to his return:—
" Taking into consideration the " locality, drainage,
ventilation, and miniere d'etre" of those that have died
from cholera anti diarrltce L, since the 23d of June last,
1 find that, placing each case in one of the following
grades, the result to be vary good, 0; good, 5; toler-
Ode. 30; bad, 39; vt.ry bad, 47. This does not include
these removed to Free Hospital, who may safely be
plActd in the list two numbers.'
" HACKNEY; Stoke Newington.

" M. 19, son of a briekmaker, cholera 13 hours. col-
bpsm 5 hours, September 7, 13, Cock and Castle-lane.—
(11-se and over-crowds d. Tne mother of this youth
died in the same house 12 days since, and I understand
that sho had been in attendance on sick members of her
f and this makes the 13th of them who have died
of cholera, &c., in this and an adjoining district.
" ST. GILEi NORTH.

" Mr. Simpson, the registrar fjr the district of St.
Giles North, includes in his return the following short
rep ,rt :
In reference to the deaths registered in the week
ending S %turd ty, September 8, the deaths from all cans( s
exceed that of any previous week, and the mortality
from cholera and diarbeel is also larger than on any pre-
vious occasion. It is satisfactory to find that the deaths
from cholera last week in Church-lane are reduced to
two, independent of those occurring in the workhouse
which have been removed; but in the surrounding dis-
trict they have increased. The mortality from the pre-
_ v.ril ng epidemic in Church-lane (the " Rookery") among
the poor Irish families, has been excessive; it first showed
itself on the 21st of July. There are fifteen houses on
each side or the way, and twenty-eight deaths will be
found in my returns; as follow :—ln the house No. 3,
Church-lane, three deaths have been registered; at No.
4, two; No. 6. two; No. 7, lour; No. 8, two, No. 15,
one; No. 17, one; No. 18, three; No. 20, one; No. 21,
two; No. 22, two; No.. 24, one; N 0.27, three; and No.
28, one. Many of the inhabitants of the lane have dis-
persed,
and the deaths of several have been registered
elsewhere, independent of those removed and dying in
the workhouse.'
"STRAND; St. Clement Danes.
"The registrar et St. Clement Danes, Strand, reports
as follows on the sanitary state of his district:—
" It will bo observed that the diease in this district
' is fatal in four distinct quarters; they may be distin-
guished as—the White's-alley district, situate between
Chancery and Fetter-lanes—the Shire-lane district,
opening into Fleet-street, near Temple-bar—the Cle-
ment's-lane district—and Milford-lane district near the
river. All the eases of this week, and almost all from the
beginning of the outbreak, have occurred in one or other
of these neighbourhoods, which are dirty, close, badly
drained; stinking, and filthy—every room tenanted by a
distinct family of the poorest description; and in many
of the houses there are thirty people—almost every house
contains
tairls a cesep emptied occasionally by the lodgers,
Rho throw the contents (as at 6, Crown-court, near
Shire-lane), by pailfuls into the court.
Scarcely a case
has occurred
in the more respectable and open part of
this district.'

CLERKENWELL• A
"F. 16, servant of a jeweller, Sept. 2, 14,
Ex mow h-street. —The house iu
abuts on the Spa-641s burying which this poor girl died
ground; the window of
the kitchen in which she hued opens nearly upon the
(-arch; graves are allowed to remain open
night, and
the rx h therefrom are moat off,na all v
the number ot interments in this ground very prejudicial
to to health.
F, 35, wife of glass-grinder, cholera, 20 hours, Sept 7
3. Vine-court—This death took place within a few yai:d;
or Spa-fields burying ground, and the interment is to
Lke place there. I cannot help observing that the
space of ground now open fur interment is only 72 feet
by 72, and from 15 to 30 persons are buried in this space
weekly! •
LksT,l,oinoN ; St. Botolph.
4frnfititer paper-stainer, cholera, one
11,7,14gtkalley, Bishopsgate.--Crowded
n Poe rh.Ledd.--The,rie9ae is now being drained and
rirk4;i previously` it sflvery offensive from the hot
toad 10#4:11g er it from a distillery at the
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