The Sun.
London, England, 1849-09-18 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

perceive in your last Saturday's (15th)
paper a return of cholera cases, the last on the list is
Newton Abbot, Torquay; deaths, 7 chclera ; 1

This may mihlead many of your readers. I can
assure you, as Chairman of the Sanitary Board at
Newton Abbot, that we have, as yet, had no cases of
cholera in Newton Abbot. Our town is very
healthy. Cases of diarrbcsa do occur, but are speedily
relieved by our medical men.
The cases at Torquay have occurred principally in
a back street, very confined and dirty.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
ROBERT RENDELL.

Newton Abbot, Sept. 17, 1849.
P.S.—Torquay is in the Newton Abbot Union, this
may account for th© naming Newton Abbot in con-
nexion with Torquay.

THE EGLINTON STUD.—The Earl of' Eglinton
has sold his celebrated horse Van Tromp, w:nner of the
Doncaster St. Leger and the Goodwood and Ascot CI p 3,
as a sire, to Mr. Kirby, of York, for a large sum, the
precise amount of which has not transpired. Van
Tromp will close Lii racing career at the conclusion of
the leviathan match with Surplice and Justice, to come
off during one of tt e ensuing Newmarket meetings. He
will then be delivered up to Mr. Kirby. who some years
since was the purchaser of Lanercost, Van Tromp's sire,
from Mr. Ramsay, of Bsruton, at the high figure of
3,000/.

FALMOUTEE CiIURCII-TARD.-1 correspondent
writes us as follows:—On Monday last, in Falmouth
church-yard, a scene took place such as would not be
allowed by the American Indians to their deceased
friends, and that it should occur among a civilised Chris-
tian people is passing strange. A respectable old in-
habitant was being lowered into tle gave, but the spat
between other cLffins intended for that of the deceased
was too small, and it was consequently stopped in its
descent by two of those underneath. The service was
gone through, and the parson left. It was, of course,
impossible to leave the corpse in such a position; the
wcrk of removing old coffins, and pushing and dragging
them about to obtain room therefore commenced. While
in the act of this unseemly work they broke into an old
cholera coffin, and ended the wretched scene by leaving
the coffin eighteen inches under the surface of the yard.
Our correspondent adds that one of the under coffins
which prevented the corpse being further lowered was
that containing the wife of the deceased and mother of
the mourners. Surely we must say, Christianity cannot
so sear our feelings that a subject like this should be no
the thfarnighin: t
one's business, lam forced to say that lately our in-
torments
woesm a en
sin inwdheieodh,
punishes it i
with
torments have been more like the burying of dogs than
,! Christianren ce
, nmaend
hal retribution. Every man in the county ought to raise
his voice against it.— Nest Briton.

LECTURES ON TRH COTTON MANUFACTURE.—Last
night Mr. Frederick Warren, of Manchester, delivered
his third facture on the cotton manufacture, before a
numerous audience, at the Whittington Club, Strand.
The lecture consisted of a rapid sketch of the rise aid
progress of the British cotton trade, pointing out the
coincidence of its growth with the various improvements
effected in machinery, and showing the simultaneous ad-
vancement of other industrial interests, such as the
shipping interest, the coal, iron, leather, oil, and other
trades. It also dwelt on the influence of the cotton trade
upon the wealth of the nation, and of machinery on the
condition and comrorts of the people. The lecture was
illustrated by a series of working models of the most
improved machinery used in the manufacture of cotton
cloth, and the different manu'acturing processes were
gone through systematically, from the el( nosing of the
raw cotton to its being finally woven by the power•loom.
For this purpose the apparatus was set in motion by
steam powers when the various operations were popularly
The lecture excited the greatest interest,
eanpctlnd.
was very favourably received by the auditory. It
was originally intended that the fourth lecture should
conclude the course; but it was announced last night
that a supplementary lecture is to be added.