The Sun.
London, England, 1849-08-29 00:00:00

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SUN' OFFICE, Seven o' Clock.

CAPTURE OF MANNING.

BY EXPRESS.-(THIS DAY.)

Captain T. Rus,ell, of tr,e L'runswi k steam-packet,
from Jersey to Torquay, th's morning, at four o'clock,
reperts the positive capture o Minning, the supposed
murderer of Patrick O'Connor, on Monday evening,
111 a small public-houv, at St. Aubins, near St.
hilliers, Jersey.

LATEST PARTICULARS.
Tuesday Morning, Eltven o'clock, Aug. 28.
St. 11eliers, Jersey.

Last night, about 9 o'clock, Frederick Manning,
the supposed murder of Patrick O'Connor, was
taken into custody by I\ Ir. Centenier Chevalier,
and two Metropolitan Police officers, at an
hotel in St. Aubins, about three miles distant
from this place. He had retired to bed, where he for-
tunately was secured, and brought to her Majesty's
prison shortly before ten o'clock, and delivered over
to the charge of Mr. Kendrick, the Governor thereof.
Soon after Sir Thomas Le Breton attended at the
gaol, and every proper precaution being taken, he
was left for the night in immediate charge of the
Principal turnkey.
During the night he alluded to the murder of
'Connor, endeavouring to exonerate himself of the
dreadful crime laid to his charge ; also stating distinetly •
that his wife committed the horrible deed.
tie talked with a degree of satisraction that his wife
'lras in custody, as she had done ill, and had left him
111 total ignorance of her destination, without money.
When breakfast was taken to him he observed a ner‘ s
Paper that was given by one person to another, and
IVithout hesitation asked for a perusal of it, which
\Vas declined, he also caked for a pipe and some
tobacco of a turnkey on duty, and was told it was
against the rules of the prison.

From appearances it is evident be has been addicted
to drinking to excess lately. He looks emaciated
and pale.
From the information respecting his possession of
la, nney, it appears he had not the command of mere
than the amount obtained by the sale of his stock of
furniture.

SUPPOSED APPREHENSION OF

MANNING.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sr ,—I believe that Manning is apprehended. The
description
at Landils took up a man who answered to the
given of him in the Hue and Cry. 1
stopped at the White Hart, Taunton, twice whilst
believe
kept it. I saw this man, and I firmly
that it is Manning. I could not swear to him.
Yours respectfully,
A COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER.
Brecon, Aug. 28, 1849.

n
4tOPOLITAN COURT OF
SEWERS.—(THIS DAY.)
lit‘ecUlnif-past ten o'cluck this morning an adjourned
zerreeek
n '4l Court
of Sewers was held at the Court House,
-Sirs", Soho, when the following Commissioners
Lealpresent:—The Rev. Mr. Stone (in the chair), G.
I°, Bullar, C. W. Johnston, A. Bane, Rev. John
4
--.urraY, M.A.' E. Chadwick Thomas Hawes, J. Bedwell,
Hume, m.p '
thehe sh '•
tho f ECRETARY having read the requisition calling
manic
Court,
ma• BULLAR stated that he had received a com-
Inunication from Sir J. Burgoyne, in which that
tentleman stated that he thought it injudicious
mix up with the business of the Commission any per-
"Jnal altercations which might have arisen amongst the
members; and as, in the requisition calling the Court,
111.8°,141 allusions of an unpleasant nature were made to
the ur'hadwick he (Sir John Burgoyne) suggested that
„Court should not entertain the subject contained in
to inquire
requisition, but that a fresh Court should be called
Inquire into the expense of flushing without reference
individuals, and he therefore would propose a rest).
lotion to that eflect.

Mr. LESLIE objected to the resolution, and stated, to
IV the least of it, that it was not very good taste on the
part of Sir John Burgoyne, an absent member of the
Commission, to dictate the course which the members
Present should pursue. The Court had been sum-
moned for a specific purpose—thst purpose being to
consider the expenses of removing the soil by means of
fleshing, under the new Commission, as compared with
at under the old Westminster Commission, and he was
prepared at once to discuss the whole subject.
I "Ir. Rumt observed that the Court was called to take
that could b e
lito consideration the expenses of flushing, but before
done he thought that the returns of the ex•
rnenses which both of the Commissions cost ought to be
tetthe hands of every member. They had not these
be "us, and he would therefore suggest that the returns
bleordered, and that the matter be discussed at a future
ring of the Court.
miter
some discussion, the resolution was agreed to.
that .°II3IIE then proposed a resolution to the effect
retthe officers of the Commission be requested to make
be
rout% of the relative expenses of the two systems, to
urwarded to each member of the Commission.
ses7 LESLIE said he had sufficient returns in his pos
kr."?.,rl to enable him to proceed at once. Mr. Flume,
Per. iseclwell, Mr. Byng, and himself, represented pro-
Was the to the
amount of two millions and a quarter that
rate annually rated, and it was their duty to protect the
Qapel3ayers. lie was ready, and could prove, that the
ses
With th under the present Commission, as compared
aseret „,,at of the late, were most extravagant; that the
Of th-,‘"iittnittee had been, and were, spending the money
Thelte'Payers in a grossly extravagant manner.
kr. LE v• CHAIRMAN rose to order.
hit 11;,.,48L1R said there was no objection to his being
Was hot when he attempted to return the blow, he
4ctled to order.
Payers, observed that not a shilling of the rate-
hrlder2mra"eY was expended without the accounts going
scrutiny of the finance committee.
the et.' AiEstin would call the attention of the Court to
eenlxPenditure-of 7571. on behalf of the Sewers Manure
(0143 s anY, "
th e return of which would only be IMss.
of No, ."errollr. JOHNSqN) rose and said such was not the fact.
Blihjeet 14trME and other members suggested that the
had better be dropped.
41.11 r• LESLIE was surprised that Mr. Johnson should
at;',” such an assertion. The money had been grossly
tfrn_properly expended.
the ter a long and angr dicussion of a personal nature,
resolution fM Humes was adopted, and the Court
ofnMr.
adiOUrlled.

'''LKENN Y and GREAT SOUTHERN
RAILWAY.—(THIS DAY.)
The half-yearly general meeting of the proprietors
of
this railway was advertised to take place to day
at the Company's offices, Delahay-street, Westmin-
tter, but there not being a sufficient number of share-
'older& present at one o'clock, the meeting adjourned
sine die.

CRICKET.

ELEVEN OF ENGLAND V. TWENTY OF DERBYSHIRE.

This match was resumed at Derby yesterday
koroing. The following is the score at the close of the
Beeond day's play:—

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
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- - _
GREAT YARMOUTH RACES.— TUESI:AX.
The Welcome Stakes of 3 EUVS. each, and 20 added,
ono utile (5 Subs), we :e won by Mr.
B,t 31b (raldrick), beating Mr. Wilaon's Berna-
dotte. 3 yrs, 76t (a.,ekeray), and two tact's, by two
lengths.
The Norfolk and Suffolk Stakos of 20 move. Each, h ft,
&e., with 100 added. Two miles.
Mr. T. B. Charlton's Kissaway, 3 yra (Dockeray) 1
Mr. Dribkald's Amazement, aged, Bst 71'o (Ford) 2
Mr. St. Aubyn's Julia. 6 yrs, 7st 71b (Pettit) 3
Sir E. Lacon na Genuine, 4 yrs 7st 111b...(Balclriek) 4

Won by a head.
The Theatre Stakes of 3 sovs. each, and 20 added.
Once round, (6 Subs.), were won by Captain Warriner'a
Squire of Walton, aged. 11,t 71b (Captain Broadley);
beating Present, 1 Ist 81h; Daddy Longlegs, lOst 91b
(Keble); and three others, by a length.
The Borough Plate of 50/. Heats. Once round.
Mr. Marson's Pious IX., 4 yrs, Ss! 71b( Bartholomev% ) 1 1
Mr. Webster's PAllage, 5 yrs, 9st (S. Rogers) 2 2
Sir E. Lacon's Genuine, 4 yrs, Bst 11b...(Baldrick) 3 3
Captain Brockofake's Baskire, aged, Bst 131b,(Witde) dis.
Won by a neck.
The Consolation Stakes of 2 sovs. each, and 15 added.
One mile. Were won in two heats by Present, aged, 9st
131 b (Baldrick); beating Little Red Biding Hood, 4 yrs,
Bst 121 b (Tey); and two others, by a neck.
BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—TUESDAY.
THE LEAMINGTON STAKES.-2 to 1 agst Fernhill (t)
—8 to 1 agst Collingwood (t)-8 to 1 apt Wanota-10
to 1 agst Dart-15 to 1 agst Grief (t).
Sr. LEGER.-2 to 1 on the Flying Dutchman (offers
to take)-8 to 1 agst Uriel-15 to 1 agst Oid Dan
Tucker-20 to 1 agst Volcano-30 to 1 egst Herbert
(offers to take)-30 to 1 agst Saucy Dick (offers to take)
—3O to 1 agst Nuunykirk (offers to take).
NEWMARKET SECOND OCTOBER MEETING,

1849.
The Cesarewitch Stakes, of 25 sous. each, 15 ft. Ac-
ceptances to be declared on or before Tuesday week, the
llth of September— Canezou, 4 yrs—Bon Mot, 3 yrs—
Retail, 3 yrs—Quasimodo. 3 yrs—St. Rosalie, 3 yrs—
gr c by Verulam, out of Whim, 3 yrs—eh fby Magpie,
out of Spray, 3 yrs—Repletion, 3 yrs—Fugleman, 4 yrs
—Kissaway, 3 yrs—Grasshopper, 3 yrs—Bonny Rubin,
aged—Glutton, 4 yrs—lron Rail, 5 yrs—Watchdog,
5 yrs—Cymba, 4 yrs—W} ke, 5 yrs—Trouncer, 5 yrs—
Keraur, 4 3 rs—F by Harkaway, out of Coranna's dam,
3 yrs—Second Sight, 3 yrs—Diplomatist, 5 yrs—
Tophana, 4 yrs—Tisiphone, 4 yrs—Gardenia, 4 yrs—
Glenalvon, 3 yrs—Grace, 3 yrs—Midia, 3 yrs—Thi-
hault, 3 yrs Miss Bunney, 3 yrs Remembrance,
4 yrs—Sylvia, 3 yrs—Herbert, 3 yrs—Volcano, 3 yrs
--Clatterbox, 6 yrs—Fernhill, 4 yrs—Montpensier,
5 yrs—Bacchanalian, 4 yrs—Vatican, 3 yrs—Van Die.
man, 3 yrs—Whitley, 3 yrs—Ballinafad, 5 yrs—Chanti-
cleer, 6 yrs—Miss Ann, 3 yrs—Rhesus, 3 yrs—Chan-
trey, 3 yrs—Nunnykirk, 3 yrs—Smuggler Bill, 6 yrs—
Ellen Loraine, 4 yrs— Plebeia, 3 yrs—John Cosser,
4 yrs—Cockermouth, 4 yrs—Old Dan Tucker,
3 yrs—Bingham, 5 yrs—Backbiter, 4 yrs—Oddity,
3 yrs—lrish Jig, 3 yrs—General Sale, 6 yrs—Mantle,
3 yrs—Lady Evelyn, 3 yrs—Mrs. Taft, 4 yrs—Chicot,
3 yrs—Eagle's Fiume, 4 yrs—Colocynthus, 4 yrs—Wa-
nota, 5 yrs—Surplice, 4 yrs—Rathmines, 5 yrs—Tire-
;erne, 3 yrs—St. Antonio, 4 yrs—Loadstone, 4 yrs—
Planet, 5 yrs— Honel.comb, 3 yrs—Fire eater, 3 yrs—
Csrthagenian, 3 yrs—Fiatcatcher, 4 yrs—Shylock; 4
3 rs--Pelham, 3 yrs—Swiss Boy, 4 yrs—Lady Superior,
3 yrs—Westow, 3 yrs—Malton, 4 yrs—Present, 3 yrs—
Legerdemain, 3 yrs—Vanguard, 3 yrs—The Flapper,
3 yrs—Thringath, 3 yrs—The Knout, 3 yrs—Blucher,
4 yrs—Mongrel, aged—Amazement, aged—Dulcet, aged
—Fern, 4 yrs—Juggler, 3 yrs—Sauter la Coupe, 3 yrs
—Thornhill, 3 yrs--Grief, 3 yrs—Over-fork-over, 3
re—Susan Lovell, 3 yrs—The Dart, aged—Pity the
Blind, 3 yrs—Horn of Chase, 5 yrs—Dough, 4 yrs—
Chorister, 4 yrs—c by Don John, out of Impertinence,
4 yrs—Maynooth, age:l—Strychnine, 3 yrs—Morpeth,
aged—Hagley, 4 yrs—Gulden Pippin-3 yrs—f by
Piccaroon, out of Bonny Bonnet, 3 yrs--D ceptive, 4
rs—Glen Saddel, 4 yrs—Belus, 3 yrs—Elthiron, 3 yrs—
restator, 3 yrs—Peep-o 'day. Boy, 5 yrs—Essedarius, 3
yrs—Chatterer, 3 yrs—The Hero, 6 yrs—Black Eagle,
3 yrs—Vampyrc, 5 yrs—Halo, 5 yrs—Helter Skelter, 4
yrs—Borneo, 3 yrs—Rattrap, 6 yrs—Montague, 3 yrs—
Eva, 3 yrs—Cliepidus, 3 yrs—Osterly, 3 yrs—Bride of
Lammermoor, 5 yrs—Collingwood, 5 yrs—Plus IX., 4
yrs—The Admiral, 5 yrs—Dacia, 4 yrs—Sesostris, 4
yrs—Vasa, 3 yrs—Quinine, 3 yrs—Tadmor, 3 yrs—
Indus, 3 yrs—Nautila, 5 yrs—Sotterly, 4 yrs—Doctrine,
5 yrs—Trap, 4 yrs—The Mercer, 3 yrs—Loupgurou, 3
yrs—The Old Fox, 3 yrs—Sir Tatton Sykes, 6 yrs—
Giselle, 6 yrs—Rodney, 3 yrs—Croagh, Patrick, 3 yrs—
The Highwayman, 6 yrs—Prior of St. Margaret's, 6
yrs—The Sheriff, 4 yrs—f by Muley Moloch, out of
Guzman's dam, 4 yrs—Saucy Dick, 3 yrs—Landlord, 3
yrs—c by Colwick, out of St. Winifred, 3 yrs—Puffy, 3
yrs—Roland, 3 yrs—Snowstorm, 3 yrs—Raby, 3 yrs—
Wensleydale, 3 yrs—lnheritress, aged—Ellerdale, 5 yra
—Alp, 3 yrs—Defaulter, 4 yrs—Priestress, 3 yrs—
Robert de Brus, 3 yrs.

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... 19
... 16

—A. ENGLAND—FIRST INNINGS.
?4tYlln, Esq.—run out ...
,lrho--b Tinley ••• -• ..•
1,47,-;•-c Potter, b Paxton ...
ileh—b Tinley ...
Hunt, b Pa. ;ton 0
ea•Y
.c Horsley, b Paxton •••
.•
.• 146
et(tila White—c Paxton, b Thai y ••• 14
a_r.ti9gell—b Paxton ...
RiEtala Lautour—b Clark
Yer—not out
825,w3

Total ...
DERBYSHIRE—BIRST INNINGS.
,I).Yebe—C Box, b Clarke ...
"aeon—h Clarke ... —•
kegory—st Box ,b Hillyer •
•C. Clarke, Lq•—e Lautuar, b Hillyer .
C. CC.
Clarke ... • kunt—b Clarke
••• ••• ••• •
orsloy—st Box, b Clarke •••
J. Clifford b w, b
bakin—at Box, b Clarke
Paxton-1 bw, b Hillyer
Atten borough —b Clark .„
Earle, E.t.q.—c White, b Hillyer
A. Bass, Esq.—b Clarke ...
S. Potter, E,q.—b Clarke .. S. Mallaby, Martingell .
korria—b Clarke
Smith— b Martingell
S. )dune, Esq.—b Martingell •••
It. Wilson—not out ..
I. Calladine—e b Clarke

B 9, w -2

Total
N. Poi; Esq.n ENGLAND—SECONDotout••• ' INNINGS.
r,G4Y—c Hunt, b Paxton .•
‘,aptaiu White—not cut
kartingell—b Paxton ... ••• '••
B 1, w 0

_lO4

... 14

9
...

... 61
... 0
... 6

... 8
... 3
... 0
... 13

... 17
... 0
• 8
••• 2
••• 6
▪ 0
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LITER A TURE.

MEMOIRS ANT) COiII?ESPON_DENCE OF
SIR R. _MURRAY KEII IL Edited by Mrs.
Gillespie Smyth. 2 Vols.
"'There are," says the editress of this work, " in
the annals of every family, any of who ,e rneinhei.,;
have filled conspicuous places in the public sers ice,
some privileged epochs round which its own memories
have been fondly taught to congregate, and •Ahich it
would fain rescue from oblivion in those of others.
Such, during the long diplomatic career of Sir
Robert .vi urray Keith, was the episode of the revo-
lution in Denmark in 1772 ; and his spirited rescue,
as representative of Great Britain, of a daughter of
England,' and the sister of his Sovereign, from a
late, the least disastrous probable issue of which
was imprisonment for life in a northern fortress.
The omission—probably from prudential motives—
of this most critical and important interposition, in a
foreign work of fiction recently translated, naturally
led to a search into those familiar archives where re-
posed the familiar letters and official correspondence
penned during the events themselves, and so honour-
able alike to the character, the feelings, and the fame
of him by whom they were written and received. To
weave those valuable, and hitherto inedited documents,
into a slight record of the charms, the sorrows, and
the injuries of the British Princess—to whom (in his
own striking words) it was a proud commencement
for the Envoy's chivalry to convey, through the
vaulted entrance of Hamlet's castle, the welcome

tidings of fraternal affection and liberty restored—
was felt to be alike a duty and a pleasure. To this
the following sheets would have been exclusively
limited, had not the reputation of Sir R. M. Keith
for political sagacity, on the one hand, and wit and
bonhommie on the other, suggested, on high literary
authorities, the propriety of a more extensive selec-
tion from his twenty years' correspondence, while a
resident at other foreign courts, than had been ori-
ginally designed." Such is the interesting nature of
this work, which has evidently been a labour of love to
Mrs. Smyth. Each volume is divided into three
parts ; the first contains—" Correspondence from St.
Petersburgh, Vienna, &c. " Memoirs of Caroline
Matilda, Queen of Denmark," and " Familiar Cor•
respondence with various Distinguished Writers."
The second volume contains—" Familiar Correspon-
dence with Marshal Conway, &c.;" " Official and
Personal Correspondence from Vienna," and "Official
and Familiar Correspondence from the Congress of
Sistovo in Turkey, in 1791." These volumes con-
tains beautiful portraits of Queen Caroline Matilda
and Sir R. Murray Keith.

CROMWELL DOOLAN; or, Life in the Army
By the Author of " Echoes in the Backwoods." 2
Vols. _ . .

An amusing series of strange and laughable ad-
ventures, as may easily be suppose,l, when we say
the hero is at once a soldier and an Irishman ; for
whatever an Irishman may be on terra
_firma, in a
book he is always the must adventurous of mortals.
Cromwell Doolan is, however, a misnomer, for we
find, at the conclusion of the strange eventful history,
that Cromwell is not Cromwell after all, but another
individual who has been exchanged for him. The
real Simon Pure long since sleeps in his grave, and
the O'Neil presumptuously sends forth his own ad-
ventures under the name of a history of Cromwell
Doolan!

EXPEDITION to DISCOVER the SOURCES

of the WHITE NILE in the YEARS
1840-41. By Ferdinand Werne. From the
German, by Charles W. O'Reilly. 2 Vols.
This is a book of travels of that must interesting
kind which, together with a picture of foreign scenes
and customs, details the fortunes of an expedition of
inquiry. The writer of the preface speaks of this
work as presenting the liveliest views of the natural
productions and people of regions hitherto entirely
unvisited. " The surprising novelty," he adds, "of
the phenomena is described by a writer of much ex-
perience, bold energy, and intense devotion to the
land of the south. The discoverer of the sources
of the White Nile under the vertical rays of
the sun, in equatorial Inner Africa, will share
the same fate as his illustrious predecessor,
James Bruce, the discoverer of the sources of
the Blue Nile, if many of his statements should he
doubted, criticised, and misunderstood." Neverthe-
less, the writer of the above remark must be aware
that such is almost the inevitable lot of all things
human. This interesting work is illustrated by a
beautiful map of the White Nile, laid down from the
diary of Mr. Werne, and by many specimens of the
arms, &c. of the natives.

THE EMIGRANT FAMILY; or, THE
STORY of an AUSTRALIAN SETTLER.

By the Author of " Settlers and Convits."3fols:
This work contains " hints to emigrants " of a more
practical nature than those contained in the facetious
brochure of Percy Cruikshank. This Australian
handbook appears under the novel form of a novel.
" The main design in the composition of these
volumes," says the author, " was the delineation of
the actual life of an emigrant family in the middle of
the nineteenth century..... With the single excep-
tion of the introduction of a character necessary to
furnish the tale with sufficient of plot to interest the
lovers of romance, everything exhibited is a simple
copy from actual daily life."

MEMOIRS of the HOUSE of ORLEANS
By W. Cooke Taylor, LL.D. 3 Vols.
These three volumes, which contain " sketches and
anecdotes of the most distinguished characters in
France during the seventeenth and eighteenth centu-
ries," are of a character which needs little commen-
dation to ensure them a favourable reception with
the general reader. They contain a mass of anec-
dotes, accounts of historic importance or mournful
interest, but fcr the most part of a light, gossiping, and
amusing nature. It is a work, perhaps, little calcu-
lated to benefit its readers, unless, perhaps, by making
them content with an humble station. They may
read in these records of royalty, as for example, in
the sad story of Maria Louisa, of Spain, how many
are the trials and temptations which beset the path of the
so-called great. One important object with the writer
in composing this work was to throw some light upon
Louis XIV. " secret," and also to inquire whether
Henrietta, of England (Madame) and her daughter,
Maria Louisa, Queen of Spain, really met with their
deaths by poison, as has been suspected.

The CHURCH of ENGLAND QUARTERLY

RE VIEW.

The nine articles in the last number of this Quar-
terly are of as varied and interesting topics, as "Jewel
and the Reformation," " Religious Doubters,"
" Sterling's Life," " Brampton Rectory," " Horatio
Nelson and Emma Hamilton," " Romanism and Civi-

lization," " Prince Rupert and the Cavaliers, " The
Religion of Architecture," "Puritans at d Pilgrim
Fathers," " Southey's Common-place Book," " Man
Primeval."

A MEMOIR of the COUNTESS DE ROSSI
(MADAME SONTAG). Published by Mr.
Mitchell, Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street.
The career of Madame Sontag has been one of the
most brilliant, and, at the same time, one of the most
romantic ever recorded. It is in itself a drama,
a drama of intense and singularly varied inte-
rest. The pleasures and the pains of every station of
life, from the very highest to the very lowest, from
the garret of the struggling artist to the magnificent
salons of royalty, have been personally experienced by
Madame Sontag. She has by turns occupied every,
step of the social ladder, and has been the orna-
ment of every station which she has occupied, and
after having retired from the stage, hailed by the
unanimous suffrages of the dilettanti of Europe as the
most perfect soprano singer the world ever saw, she,
after the lapse of twenty years, returns and resumes
her place, nemine contradicente, with powers improved
rather than impaired, and at once creates a greater
furore, and achieves a greater triumph than she had
done twenty years before. Iler biographer thus
accounts for this surprising preservation of her vocal

powers:—
" The Countess Rossi's voice is a pure and perfect
soprano of the highest register, from the first settlement
of her voice—it is to the manner bore.' Thus she has
never been compelled to superadd to her studies of vocal
science those efforts by which most of the greatest vo-
calists have been obliged to transmute their contralto or
mezzo soprano tones, to polish their guttural or husky
tones, and—almost nil of them—extend artificially their
register. On the other hand, during their long seces-
sion from the stage, the love of musical art has always
remained predominant, and its science been constantly
cultivated, without necessity of taxing her powers, with-
out the exhausting exertions of other singers; whilst
her style of s nging is that of the high classical Italian
school, the only one that nurses the voice, whilst it dis-
plays all its melodic power. Had not the Countess
Rossi yielded up the German school—bad she not re-
sorted to the Italian school to modify her singing, as her
great countryman Mozart did, to modify the form his
inpirations assamed—h(r voice would no doubt have
been injured, and she would have lost that marvellous
power of overflowing richness of embellishment, requir-
ing purity of tone, agility, and elegance, iu which she
is unquestionably unrivalled?'
Henriette Sontag was born at Coblentz, on the
3d of January, 1809. Her parents were artistes of
limited means. At seven years of age she became
celebrated for her exquisite voice, and at that
age, placed on a table, she has been heard
to sing the grand aria of " The Queen of Night" in
the Zaubeijldtc, in a style that would have made
many a prima donna burst with envy. At eleven
years of age she made her first appearance on the
stage at the theatre at Darmstadt, in a piece written
expressly for her, and entitled The Little Daughter
of the Danube, but, although her success was extra-
ordinary, her parents knowing the fate of infant
prodigies, withdrew her from the theatre and sent her
as a pupil to the Conservatoire of Prague.
" Scarce three years had elapsed since her matricula-
tion at the Conservatoire, and she bad hardly attained
• hi Nia of fourteen, when ske saved the fortunes of tkat

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TII E SUN 14019 bON WEDNESDA EVENING, AUGUST 29, 1849.

great imrerial Op,-ra of Prague, associated with so Many i
glorieui memories of music. and whieh would be immor •
taliseet by 11. e fact alone of letvieg been tie stage "here
the Clean nzo di litL) and the 151aryi.Ige of Fig3ro acre
first produced eiezei t. The fevouritei e r,aw donna
ed this teed: theetre eas suddenly teken n!,(1 s" st-
riously, that there wtie, little hope left of hi r r, -appear
iur some lime. The manager, in di spa'r, and at a
loss which way to turn, could think of no other resource
to retain his audiences then the appearance of the young
prodigy of the Conservatoire—little Ilenriette Sontag.
Such vow her pre ficier.cy in her art, that her parents no
longer saw the settle danger in allowing their offspring
to tread the fictive scene.
" If nothing were wanting in courage, natural gifts of
voice, and intellec cal power, on the part of the child
as regards the height of her person there was a manca-
meta° of several inches. As the French proverb says,
le temps coy, ige cela but, in the mean, time, the stage-
manager, a learned Hellenist, was not oblivious of the
means by which the Greeks gave altitudes to their scenic
heroes and heroines, and the little prima donna, to whom
was assigned fur her debut the part of the heroine in a
translation of the favourite French opera, Jean dc Pat is,
was supplied with enormous coik heels. There was a
time, at the Court of Louis XV., when an inch and a
half of red heel was the distinctive characteristic of a
Marquis, or of a lady of sufficient quality to be allowed
to sit in the presence of royalty. On the occasion of
the debut of Henriette Sonteg, four inches of vermillion
coloured cork foreshadowed the rank of the little lady.
destined to becOme one of the most absolute mimic
queens of the lyrical world, and afterwards a real and
much respected countess. When the singer who enacted
the pompous seneschal in the opera of Jean de Paris
came forward, and announced, ' It is no less a personage
than the Princess of Navarre whose arrival I announce!'
the applause and laughter were universal. When the
little prodigy appeared on her cork pedestal, the house
was filled with cheers and acclamations. As the busi-
ness of the stage proceeded, the auditors found that
there was no longer any indulgence necessary on the
score of age, but that there were claims on their admi-
ration for a voice which, for its purity, its peculiar flute-
like tone, and its agility, has never been surpassed. The
celebrated tenor, Gerstener, who enacted Jean de Paris,
that night sang better than ever, finding that he had to
cope with the attraction of a new melodic power. Many
nights successively did she thus sing the Princess of
Navarre with increasing success to crowded houses. Her
next part was one far more difficult—that of the heroine
in Peer's fine opera, Sargin.
" The capital of Bohemia was not destined long to
retain its chief ornament. Long before the conclusion
of the season, the Imperial Court had heard of her ex•
traordinary success, and Henriette Sontag was sum-
moned to Vienna, where she appeared, the very next
season, at the German Opera."
From this time her career was one series of triumphs
—Berlin, Paris, London, St. Petersburgh in turn
hailed her as the greatest of living artists; and on her
marriage with Count Rossi, a young Sardinian
nobleman, and her consequent retirement from the
stage, the dilettanti of Europe were inconsolable, as
they felt they " ne'er should look upon her like again."
Count Rossi became the representative of his Sove-
reign at the Courts of the Netherlands, St. Peters-
burgh, Vienna, and Berlin successively, and the
Countess of Rossi was the admired and the beloved
of all.
" But at last came the fatal year 1848, when a politi-
cal eruption, unprecedented for magnitude and extent,
fell upon the whole fabric of human happiness on the
Continent, as unforeseen and as destructive as the vol.
canic outburst which, in a past age. buried Pompeii.
Madame de Rossi's fortune, when the revolution broke
out at Berlin, was placed partly with hankers. partly
in commercial securities; commerce ceased, public credit
was shaken, and private credit lost, and with the latter
the fortune of Madame de Rossi. Shortly afterwards
fo:lowed ;he events in Sardinia, in its turn deeply affect-
ing the fortunes of her husband, and threatening the
Count Rossi with the loss of that office which he had so
long and so honourably held. On the first news of the
losses e xperience d by Madame de Rossi, knowing how
perfectly she had preserved her voice, the Direction of
Her Majesty's Theatre made, in the most delicate man-
ner that could be devised, ample offers to the unfortu-
nate lady, in case she should deem it necessary to return
to the scene of her former triumphs. The Count and
Countess Rossi did not contemplate then the necessity
of so great a sacrifice. Later offers of unlimited temp-
tation were made by other parties, and emissaries sent
to Berlin secretly to treat with the great vocalist of the
golden age of the opera. But they were at once refused.
As etents assumed a darker complexion, Madame de
Rossi, the most affectionate of mothers, grew more and
more anxious for her children, and used every endea-
vour to prevail on her noble husband to sacrifice the
privileges and prejudices of rank, and the sweets of high
office, to the future welfare of their children. An ar-
tist of European fame, who not only commands admi-
ration by his talents, his conversational powers, his
elegant and amiable manners, and his noble and
elevated character—M. Thalberg, happened some months
since to be in Berlin, and he is said to have seconded
Madame do Rossi's efforts to persuade her husband.
Communications were resumed with the Direction of Her
Majesty's Theatre, although still in a problematical and
conditional form, and the Count Rossi repaired to Turin
to endeavour to release himself from his duties. After
some delay, the Count obtained permission from his
Sovereign to retire for a time from his career. When it
was known later at Turin what was the cause of his re-
tirement, and that it was definitive, letters were written,
by order of the Sovereign, in the highest degree cordial
and flattering, both to M. and Ivtaaame.de Rossi. From
Turin the Count returned to Berlin; there Mr. Lumley
had suddenly arrived—every arrangement was made,
and a week after he had left Berlin, the Count and
Countess Rossi arrived in London in a manner totally
unforeseen. In a week more she appeared on the stage,
and although, unlike other great singers, she had not,
owing to the necessity of secrecy, been preceded by
those announcements which habitually long beforehand
herald forth a prima donna, and work upon public ex-
pectation, her reception was one never surpassed in
enthusiasm.
" When the circumstances in which Madame Sontag
has once more appeared on the horizon with undimi-
nished glory are considered,:a feeling of something more
than admiration takes possession of the observer. To
behold beings, of which there are not one in so many
millions, whose existence has scarcely been thought of,
come in a critical hour, interpose their power, uphold
a noble establishment, and at once defeat all the work-
ings of intrigue, envy, and ingratitude, partakes of that
providential character of events to which all others are
secondary. This is the second time that such an inter-
position has occurred as regards the greatest theatrical
institution of the country. If there existed in reality
such a random power as chance, such events could scarcely

be reckoned amongst its casualties.
" It there could be any one so devoid of love for what
is really good and really great, as not to be inspired by
interest iu the eventful life we have so very superficially
sketched, they need only to repair to the theatre where
our heroine appears, for them to change their disposi-
tion. Nothing ever could resist, off the stage or on it,
the sterling merit either of Countess Rossi, or of Madame
Sontag."

TO THE RIG

lIT

DLEY STUART.

My Lord,—During my service in company with
the Polish Legion in Lombard, under Mantua, by the
Lago di Guarda on the Tyril, your Lordship's name
was so often the motto for a " brinoisi ;' and even in
the "Citta Eterna," Rome, such cordial responses
rang out when your Lordship's name was proposed,
that I am emboldened to address )(Jur Lordship the
following lines, trusting to your Lordship's patience
for a perusal, and to your Lordship's generosity for
the rest.

In the first days of March, 1848, I found mpelf in
Turin, on my road for England, with about I,ooof. in
my pocket, the fruits of a twelvemonth's labour in
Italy. I had in that time traversed nearly the whole
peninsula of Italy, and had seen and sympathiL.ed with
the wrongs under which the Italians generally had
suffered, and were suffering, and determined, in case
of a struggle, to aid them to the last. I became ac-
quainted with several students of the University of
Turin, among whom was George Kohinsky, a Pole;
and informed of the forthcoming outbreak, we went to
Milan, when in the revolution which commenced on
the 17th we fought. Poor Kohinsky fell on the 19th
at the attack on the Palazzo del Genio. My com-
panions returned to Turin, and I went off and joined
the Piedmontese, with whom I was present at the
first battle of Goito, in April. Being an engineer by
profession, in May I was sent to Pescheira, the fortress
on the Lago di Guarda, to assist in directing the
works which were being thrown up round the place ;
and on the 21st I quitted that place and joined the
Tuscans—among whom were several Englishmen—.
encamped under Mantua. I remained with the Tus-
cans until the 29th May, when our camp—a camp ex-
tending over nearly seven miles—and defended only
by about 6,800' men, was attacked at Montanara,
Curtatone, and St. Sylvestro, by an overwhelming
Austrian force, and almost annihilated. I made good
my retreat to the Grazia and Goito, where I was
present at the battle the day after, in which we de-
feated the Austrians. Here I was wounded in the leg,
and remained in the hospital of St. Lucia, at Brescia,
until the 23d of June. In the month of July we left
Brescia for Caflaro, near the Lago d'ldro, on the
Italian Tyrol, in company with the Polish Legion,
and in the latter end of that month we marched
rapidly down to the Lago di Guarda, and fought the
Austrians two days successively at Lonato and De
senzano. We again marched into the Italian Tyrol,
to Storo, where we encamped, and the out-
post duty was confided to me. Having ex-
tended one day our excursions too far, five
of us were surprised by a body of armed
peasants. We got into a house, and held these at
bay until the arrival of a party of Kaiser. Yager, or
Tyrolese Riflemen, when, our ammunition being ex-
pended, we were obliged to surrender. With an
escort double our number, we were marched off to-
wards Innsbruck. Arrived at Castel-Dublino, our
guard became intoxicated, and, bayoneting the sen-
tinel, we escaped, carrying with us five rifles, ammu-
nition, &c., &c. Seizing a peasant, he became, under
pain of death, our guide. We crossed the mountain
fonale, SA am the Adda in Val Camonica, and then,
taking the mountain again, we crossed into Val Tel-
line, where we joined General Griffini, and with him
retreated into Canton Gregioni, in Switzerland,
Piemonte-Genoa, &c., and from thence I went to
Genoa, to Leghorn, and to Venice. I remained in
Venice until December, when our regiment, the
Roman Volunteers, parted for Rome. I entered the
Roman service in the Bth Regiment of the Line. I
was present at Palestrina, and Velletri, against the
Neapolitans ; at Rome, on the 30th April, against the
French; and during the whole siege of Rome. We
were for the most part stationed under the orders of
General Garibaldi, at St. Pancrazio; and here my
company, from 125 men, became reduced, from killed
and wounded, to 521 I received on the 13th the
grade of Sergeant-Major, and on the '22d of Tenente,
or Lieutenant. On the 29th the French commenced,
at 3 A.M., a tremendous cannonade against the bastion
No. 3, to the right of St. Pancrazio, which was con-
fided to me. In halt-an hcur my little band was re-
duced to 29 men. I received no reinforcement. The
French stormed the bastion with an entire battalion,
and, after a desperate resistance, gained a footing. I
was knocked down by a blow from a Chasseur, and
taken prisoner, and conducted first to Palo and after-
wards to Civita Vecchia. On the Bth July I was
liberated, and, in company with a Pole, named l?aus-
tenberge, set out to Bologna, in the Roman States,
with the intention of passing, if possible, Venice,
Trieste, Illyria, and so into Hungary. We crossed
the Po at night, end reached Rovigo; here we were
arrested, and cautioned that a similar attempt would
be punished with death. We reached Milan, turned
again towards Tyrol, with the intention, if possible,
of reaching Hungary, were arrested in Val Engadin;
we resisted, and in the struggle poor Faustenberge
received a ball in the stomach. I got away to Bel-
linzona, and here I read the account of the meeting in
favour of heroic Hungary, held at Marylebone, and
presided over by your Lordship. I determined at once
to gain England, hoping that from your Lordship's
acquaintance of the Hungarian leaders to find some
means of reaching Hungary, perhaps with Colonel
Reid. My Lord, there is many a mile between this
and Rome, and with the zigzag way I have taken
many more; yet I have done the whole way on foot.
Neither the Po, nor the Alps, nor hardship, nor many
a night's bivouac by the road, has checked me; but
now, my Lord, I have received a check which I can-
not surmount. My poor fund, which .1 hoarded and
have expended so carefully, has decreased to a shadow ;
my habiliments, torn by many a mountain scramble,
are in tatters ; and now, my Lord, I turn to you. I
have yet twelve francs left me, and with this I hope
to reach Dijon, which is about 150 miles from Paris.
Your Lordship is generous, and I have no hope but in
your Lordship, and in such of my countrymen as
may pity an Italian crusader. Your Lordship will
not, I am sure, allow me to die by the road-side.
Write me, I pray, at least to Dijon, were I await your
Lordship's letter, and, with every wish ad interim
for your Lordship's well •being, and for the well-being
of Hungary, believe me,
Your Lordship's very obedient servant,

- - .
CHARLES SYDNEY.
Geneva, Switzerland, Aug. 20, 1849.

THE PRAYER OF KOSSUTH.
Lord God of Arpad's warriors
Look, from thy throne of stars,
Upon afflicted Hungary,
Her children's wrongs and scars.
To thee, a million earnest prayers
From patriot hearts ascend;
Rise God! and fight their battles—thou,
Creator, Gusrdian, Friend.
Thy sun, the torch of Liberty,
irradiates the skies,
As lighting to a glorious grave
Each corpse that round me lies.
Thy heaven is blue—the carpet fair
Beneath thy footsteps spread—
But the green earth of thy making
With hallowed blood is red.
Send, God, upon these fallen ones
Thy spirit's genial ray,
That not one lifeless image here
May perish in decay;
But that from these rude scattered seeds
Immortal flowers may bloom,
And shed a spirit grandeur round
The martyr hero's tomb.
God of the nations, far and wide!
God of my ancient sires!
Peserve, on this blood altar scene,
The light of Fr( edoas's fires.
Oh let the murd'rous rant's arm
Fall powerless 'neath thine own,
And every thunder of our belts
Be answered in tby tone.
'Tie sacrifices such as these
That sanctify the earth—
That purge it from corrupting sin,
And give thy glory birth.
This sacred soil must never hold
A captive nation's slaves,
Nor fierce barbarians trample down
And riot o'er its graves.
Father, Almighty ! Father, God!
Of Heaven, of earth, and sea,
Make all the nations of the eartll
High-minded, noble, free.
Blast with the lightning of thy glance,
And lay them in the dust,
The savage hordes whose conquests are
But infamy and lust.
Lo! a light, prophetic, rising
From the bodies of the slain,
Illumines far the battle front,
'And lights the battle plain;
TLe outward robe and veil it is
Of spirits soaring high,
As, marching from the fatal field,
They travel to the sky.
God! in thy mercy, bless their dust,
And cherish long their fame,
By blotting out the despot race,
The Despot's power and name.
Our sword, our shield, our fortress be—
To victory lead the way,
Or bury in one bloody grave
The war-wolf and his prey,
Harrogate, Atte% 24. G. LINN/EUS BANKS.

COUitl' CIRCULAR.
BALNIORAL, AUG. 26.

This morning her Majesty and the Prince, attended
by Viscountess Jocelyn, tha. Miss Dawson, Lord John
Itussell, Colonel the Hon. Alexander Gordon, Mr. An-
son, and Mr. Birch, attended Divine set vice at the palish
church at Crathie.

Service was performed by the Rev. Mr. Anderson.

ROYAL GARDENS, VAUXHALL.

Monday was the commencement of a new season
at Vauxhall. After so successful an opening, and an
attendance so aristocratic, the startling announce-
ment of the reduction of price to one shilling seemed
to us to require some notice.
On entering the gardens, we turned into the beau.
tiful Italian walk, which is now hung above with
festoons of co:oured lamps, forming an arcade of light
at once brilliant and imposing. The lighting alto-
gether is vastly improved, and announces at once
increased spirit in the establishment. In the circus
we found a new troupe, and were astonished by the
daring and novelty of their extraordinary feats, which
threw their French predecessors far into the shade.
An Anab, who is announced as the most extraordinary
vaulter in the world, fully sustained his reputation by
a series of summersaults and leaps, which were almost
frightful, clearing at a bound eighteen men with up-
lifted swords. The most wonderful thing in his feats
is that he uses no spring-board, but leaps from a
solid block of stone on the ground. The riding of
Hernandez, matchless, graceful, rapid, unique and
sufficient in itself as it is, received a very interesting
addition in a group of two, who rode in almost every
possible and classic posture, the boy actually stand-
ing on the shoulder of the horseman whilst galloping
round the circle. Standing on a series of bottles,
one above another, and at the same time ballancing a
variety of things, was a trick so strange and difficult,
and performed so adroitly, that it is utterly impossible
to describe it. The rolling globe was admirably per-
formed by a boy, who, not only walked on it, but at
the same time executed a
i set of juggling and ba-
lancing tricks, as well as ▪ f he were on the surest
footing. But not the least astonishing Was th:,
per-
formance of the clown and his son. The boy stood
on his head, and in that posi▪ tron was balanced on the
hand, and after being tossed about, tumbling in the
air like a ball, concluded his performance by standing
on his bead on the end of a pole, balanced on the chin
of the clown, and carried about the circus.
The whole performance was of surpassing excel-
lence, and we are proud, in saying so, that we are at
the same time bearing our testimony to genuine
merit, and our applause to native talent, which of
late it has been too much the fashion to overlook.

DEATH OF CooMnaS, THE PRIZE NAT ATERMAN.—
Yesterday morning, David Coombes, who, with his
brothers, arc well known as the first natermen on the
River Thames, was engaged in Piquing the platform at
Chandler's, Milbank, for the approaching contest for the
silver sculls. About eight o'clock he retired home to
breakfast, when he was seized with violent pains in his
stomach. Medical aid was instantly resorted to, and
every attention paid to his sufferings, but he died of
cholera yesterday afttrnoon. The deceased was 35
years of age, without family, and, with his three brothers,
had been the successful competitor for many hard-
earned prizes. He was a man much respected by all
who knew him.
As gold which he cannot spend will make no man
rich, so knowlidge which he cannot apply will make no
man wise,—Eliza Cook's Journal.

INDISPOSITION OF DR. SOUTHWOOD SMlTH.—Yes-
terday information was received at the office of the
Metropolitan Commission of Sewers, Greek-street,
Soho, that Dr. Southwood Smith had been taken so
suddenly ill, at his residence, at Highgate, es not to be.
able to attend to the business of the finance committee,
appointed to sit at ten o'clock, of which he was a very
punctual attendant.
liners the
TUNBRIDGE WELLS.—HET Royal Hig
Duchess of Kent directed that meat and bread should be
given to upwards of 500 poor families residing in the
Wells and its neighbourhood for their Sunday's dinner,
that being Prince Albert's birth-day; adults receiving
one pound of meat each, without bone, and one pound
of broad; and Children half a pound of meat each, and
half a pound of bread. It was given to all parties,
without distinction as 'to religious sentiments.

Total

THE HEALTH OF LONDON COLLISION BETWEEN the BOARD
DURING THE 'WEEK. I OF HEALTH AND TH MARY...F;LONE
(From the Registrar-General's Return.) IiOARD OF GUAItDIANS. •
in the week ending Saturday, Augue` 25, the 1 Yesterday, a special meeting of the Vestry pi St.
deaths iii London were 2457; of which 1,276 were I Marylebone took place at Court-h 1,17
by cholera, 238 by diarrllo2a. The deaths from all purpose of receiving a communication w4ch ‘beo—
caust.s in each of the last seven weeks were 1,07 u, receiv.ed from the Board of Health by the!..4,ear,i
of
1,369, 1,741, 1,931, 1,967, 1,909, 2,229, 2,457; the guardians, with reference to the alleged outbreLk of
deaths from cholera, 152, 339, 678, 783,
.926, 823, I cholera in Marylebone. _
1,229, and 1,276. Although the number of deaths Mr. Churchwarden MALLALITE hiving been called
last week is greater than any number yet recorded, to the chair, the document from the Board of thaith
it is gratifying to learn that active measures are now was read. It was addressed—" To the Sel.e.ct Vestry
in actual operation, or commencing in every district, lof St. Marylebone," and peremptorily ordered the
to combat the great epidemic which has already appointment of two medical officers in addition to tJle
destroyed 7,470 lives in London. The mortality present staff, to pursue the system of house to hoU-se
stands in favourable contrast to that which has been visitation; and that buildings should be provided for
felt in other cities, where the visitation has recalled the removal of the inhabitants in proximity with
the ravages of the middle ages. But if the general places where the cholera existed. It also orders d
sanitary state arid arrangements are superior to those that the vestry should be assembled to consider the
of the other civilized countries of Europe, it is quite matter and carry out the said order, and it also ordered
certain that while the present epidemic has excited that not only a copy of the minute of the vestry, but
some talk and terror, the efforts which have hitherto also the names of the vestrymen present and those ab-
been employed to combat it look feeble and insignifi- sent, be forwarded to the:l3oard of Health. This do-
cant when contrasted with the vast means and agency cument was signed " Ashley, E. Chadwick, and To
hkh • -,then Southwood Smith."

VI hich are brought to bear by the nation in O\
fields for the protection of life and property.
The energy with which parts of our institutions
work makes the defects of the rest more evident. On
August 9 last, a man was murdered in Bermondsey,
and before his death, reported by the coroner, will
appear in these returns, one, and it is probable both
the persons charged with the murder, will be in
custody. Steam-ships, the electric telegraph, the
heads of the police, and professional agents, specially
chosen, were all employed to arrest the destroyers
of this life; the columns of the newspapers were
filled with the details of the death. On the same
day (August 9) a stockbroker died at No. 12,
Albion-terrace, Wandsworth-road ; a widow lady,
and an old domestic servant atNo. 6 ; in the five
preceding days in the same terrace the daughter of a
grocer, a child of five years of age, had died at No.
1 ; the widow of a coach proprietor, and a commer-
cial clerk, at No. 2 ; a gentleman's widow at No. 3 ;
a surgeon's daughter at No. 4 ; a spinater of 41 at
No. 5 ; the wife of a Dissenting minister, his mother,
a widow lady, and a servant at No. 6; a young
woman of 21 at No. 10; a gentleman at No. 12,
where the stockbroker died ; a commercial clerk and
a young woman of 19 at No. 13, where a young
woman also died on July 28 ; a gentleman's wife at
No. 14, who had seen her daughter die there the day
before. The 19 persons died of cholera, many of the
inhabitants of the terrace were dispersed ; and the
deaths of several have been registered elsewhere. " It
appears," says the registrar, Mr. Frost, " that at No.
13, inhabited by Mr. Biddle, where the first death oc-
curred, and where two deaths were afterwards regis-
tered, the refuse of the house had been allowed to ac-
cumulate in one of the vaults (which is a very large
one), for about two years, and when removed last
week, the stench was almost intolerable, there being
about two feet of wet soil filled with maggots. The
drains also had burst, overflowed into the tank, and
impregnated the water with which the houses were
supplied. On the back ground in the distance, was
an open ditch, into which nearly the whole of the soil
of Clapham runs." As turpentine to flames, so is the
exhalation of such cellars, tanks, and sewers to cho-
lera; it diffused itself rapidly, attacked many, and
19 inhabitants, after some hours of suffering, sickness
and spasms, expired.
The effects of decomposing refuse and water on
health were well known—their fatal subsidies to
cholera had
_been heard of every day ; yet no steps
had been taken for their removal from Albion-
terrace in July, no medical police had interfered to
disturb the contents of Mr. Biddle's cellar; and now
the nineteen masters, servants, parents, children rest
in their graves, it appears to be taken for granted
that blame attaches to nobody—to nothing—to the
householders themselves—to the guardians of thr
district—to the institutions of the country ! Such
mean intangible instruments of death can be invested
with no dramatic interest; but fixing our eyes on the
victims, it is well worth considering whether sub
stantially it is not as much a part of the sound policy
of the country that lives like those in Albion-terrace
should be saved, as that the murderers of the man in
Bermondsey should be hanged.
The revelations of the state of their districts in
the registrars' notes of this and last week prove that
it will be no easy task—l say, not to stay the plague
of cholera, for it will subside, but to remove the evils
which make cholera and all epidemics fatal. The vast
task of the physical amelioration of the population
demands the energies of the best mem n her Ma-
jesty's dominions. When, in the country from which
Asiatic cholera came, our armies seemed for a moment
worsted, and the empire threatened, the great captain
of the age is reported to have addressed to another
the memorable words, "If you do not go, I must."
That enemy was distant. We have one very near, in
our streets, of which cholera, a servile minister, has
destroyed already 7,470 lives in London, and thou-
sands more in the rest of the kingdom. Who will go
out against this enemy ? Is it too powerful or too
feeble for the arm of the greatest ? Will no glory
crown its conquest ? Is the country insensible to its
magnitude? Will not all the national strength and
resources be put forth to improve the bygyenic condi-
tion of the people, and to rid England of the causes
of the fatality of epidimics ? This may yet be done
by the Government, aided by the force of facts and
of enlightened public opinion.

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS
NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED
THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, AUG. 18, 1849.

Mr. MICHIE, in bringing forward a resolution on
the subject, denied the existence of cholera in Mary-
lebone, and declared that the conduct of the Board of
Health was calculated to frighten the public into the
disease. He moved a resolution to the effect—
" That, in the opinion of the vestry, there was no
necessity for the appointment of any additional me-
dical gentlemen, inasmuch as the board of guardians,
on Friday, the 10th of August, instructed their re-
sident physician to engage any assistance he might
require, at any time when he perceived such a ne-
cessity."
Mr. LOWE seconded the motion. As a proof that
the statements about the cholera in Marylebone were
fallacious, there had not been so few patients
amongst the poor for sixteen years as at this moment,
and there was medical staff enough to meet any
emergency.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. JOSEPH proposed an amendment—
" That, in acknowledging the receipt of the com-
munication from the Board of Health, the vestry have
to state that the entire medical charge of the sick poor
is by law under the control of the guardians ; mid
that this vestry desires to express its warm confidence
that the guardians will adopt every means calculated
to meet any necessity which cholera or any other
epidemic may create ; and that, in so doing, the
guardians and directors will meet with the ready co-
operation and support of this vestry."
Dr. GRAY seconded the amendment.
Mr. H. C. WILSON, whilst he deprecated the inter-
ference of the Board of Health, thought that the board
of guardians had not sufficiently done their duty in
not having appointed district medical men to atter.d
the poor in their own localities during the present
prevailing epidemic.
Mr. BROUGUTON, the magistrate, at some length
deprecated the attack which had been made on the
private character of the members of the Board of
Health. He believed that the suggestions of the Board
of Health were excellent, and that the vestry would
be doing their duty to co operate.
Mr. Nicholas, Mr. Lowe, Mr. Anvil, Captain
Holland, and other gentlemen addressed the meeting,
some of them contending that the Board of Health
had themselves admitted that they had no power
to
enforce these orders ; but it was contradicted by Air.
Kirby, the magistrate, who said they had the power
by the 11 and 12 Vict., passed during the last session.
The amendment was carried by a large majority,
and the meeting separated.

Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases ...*1714
Diseases of Uncertain Seat ... ... ... ... 52

TESTIMONIAL
TO THE HUNGARIAN REFUGEES.

THE HUNGARIAN NATION COUNTS ON THE SYMPATHY
OF EVERY NATION WHICH LOVES EIGHT AND Ll-
EERTY."—Kossuth's Protest against Russian Intel ven-

Lion.

Subscriptions may be sent to the following
Messrs. Coutts and Co.
Messrs. Drummond.
Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smith ;
or to any one of the members of the committee recently
formed to carry out the Testimonial.
***All further Post-office orders to be made payable to Murdo
Young, Esq., at the Money Order Office, Strand.

Subscriptions already received ...
Per the Editor oft Examiner :
Friends at Kelvedon 1 0 0
The Compositors at Messrs. Raynell & Weight's 1 10 6
Mr. Wm. A. Long, jun., Wotton-under-Edge 1 0 0
Second Subscription of Working Jewellers' Work-

.. 963 10 5i

Tubercular Diseases ... ••• ••• ••• ..• 182
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... ... 108
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels ... ... 32
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration ... ••• ••• ••• ••• •.. 93
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs
of Digestion... ..... .•• .•• ••• ••• 77
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. ••• ••• ••• 8
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, B.z. ... ..• 10
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles ... 4
Diseases of the Skin, &c. ... ... ••• ••• 0
Malformations... ... 7
Premature Birth ... ... •• ••• ••• 34
Atrophy ... 37
Old Age •.• ••• ••• ••• ... ... 48
Sudden ... ... ... ... ... 8

Violence, Privation, Cold, or Intemperance 39
Causes not specified ...

DEATIIS FROM ♦LL CAUSES ... ... 2,457

men ... ... 3 15 9
A Few Chartists, per Samuel Boonham ... 0 3 6
Per K. L. J., Limerick, second remittance ... 0 18 0
H. B. P., per Mr. Dunford, Notting-hill ... 0 2 G
Penny Subscriptions by the Frequenters of the
Sun Coffee-house, 113, Long-acre .
A Liberal Englishwoman, Warwickshire

Population Average weekly Death,
Enumerated, Deaths, 1844-8 in the
1841 Five Summers. Week.
West Districts... 300,711 . . 147 ... 282
North D—tricts.. 375,971 .. 191 ... 363
Central Districts 373,653 ... 183 ... 365
East Districts ... 392,444 ... 227 ... 651
South Districts .. 501,190 260 ... 796

Totals... ..... 1,948,369 ... 1,008 ... 2,457
Malea ...1,172

9 0
0 6 0

Total ...

Females ... ... ... ... ...1,285

... £972 I', 74

BIRTHS IN THE WEEK.
Males ... ••• ... ... ... 664
Females ... ... ... ... ... 653

Total
*ln this number are included 1,276 cases of death by
Cholera. 18 by Scarlatina, 77 by Typhus Fever, and 238
by Diarrhoea.

REPRESENTATION OF WEST SURREY.—RETIRE-
RENT OF ONE OF THE CANDIDATES.—GUILDFORD, AUG.
28.—Considerable surprise has been excited throughout
the western division of the county by the sudden retire-
ment of Mr. J. Ivatt Briscoe, the Liberal candidate,
who has recently completed one of the most successful
canvasses evet known here. A meeting of Mr. Briscoe's
friends has been held, and Mr. Briscoe being present,
gave in his formal resignation. He complained that the
Reform Club, the source from which he had been ltd to
expect the expenses of the election would be provided,
had attempted to exercise an undue dictation over him,
but this charge the Hon. Gentleman's friends distinctly
repudiated. Mr. Briscoe stated that, when he started,
he had been informed that there was great apathy in the
minds of the electors as to the choice of a candidate to
represent them, but he could assure them that such was
not the fact, as he had met with a hearty receptic.n
wherever he had been. Mr. Nicholson assured the meet-
ing that the electors were ready to fight the battle of
civil and religious liberty, and would never let a Pro-
tectionist walk over the course. He proposed that Mr.
R. W. Edgell, a magistrate of the county, should be
solicited to stand for the county. This was seconded by
Mr. G. Best, and carried nem. dis. Mr. Etell said it
was impossible to give vent to his feelings, the matter
had come upon him so suddenly. In consenting° stand
the contest, he might state that he was for civil and re-
ligious liberty in its most extended form; he was for an
extended suffrage, when the vote would be considered
not as a privilege, but as a right, and men might not be
tempted to buy and sell it. He was a free trader in all
respects, yet he meant no mischief to the agricultural
interest. Several questions, all of which were s2tisfae-
torily answered, having been put to Mr. E.igi 11, a com-
mittee was appointed to take the necessary measures for
securicg his return to Parliament for the western diii-
sion of ►he county of Surrey.
FEES ON PATENTS.—Extract from a return to the
House of Commons, from the Lord Chancellor's office,
of fees on patents, paid over to the Clerk of the lianspa
(a sinecure office held by the Rev. Mr. Thurlow):—
£3,120 6 8
1839 ... ... 3,158 13 4
3,386 6 5
1841 ... ... ... ... 3.378 13 4
1842 ... ... ..
... 2,859 6 8
1843 ... . . ... 3 220 0 0
... 3,447 13 4
4,273 0 4
1846 ... ... ... ... 3.895 13 4
1847 ... 3,954 6 8
Total ten years' income (exclusive
of church livings) ... £34,04 0 4
—Patent Journal.

THE CHOLERA.
RETURN OF CASES, AUG. 28.
Attacks. Deatl

In London and vicinity, viz.:—
Lambeth ... ••• 57 :',O
Bermondsey 10
Southwatk ••• ..• •.• 41 12
Rotherhithe ••• ... •.• 9 3

Bethnal- gi eon ... ... ... 12
Camberwell ... ... •• • 21

Shoreditch •••. ••• ••• 19
W hitEch apel ••• ••• ••• 15
Chelsea ... ••• ••• . • 4 ,
West London Union ... ... 6
Greenwich
Limehouse . . 14
Poplar ... ..• ••• ••• 6
Islington ... 8
St. Pancras 18
liensingtou ... 5
City of London Union • 12'
East Loudon Union - ... 8
St. Giles in the Fields . 7 ..;
Other localities . . 112
In England and Wales, viz.
Liverpool . 205
Merthyr Tydvil ... 14
Dowluis ••• ... 11
Cardiff ... 15
Plymouth ... „., 20
Clifton Union ..„ 11
Bristol ••• 12
Newcastle-under-Lyme :.• •••• 3316 -
Leeds is
North Shields ..• ••• ":. 26
Bradford, Yorkshire ••• •
10
Portsmouth ••• •••
... 10
Portsea ••• ••• * 5
Mortlake ..• .••
... 6
Croydon •••
Weymouth.•• .•• 2
Derby ••• ••• ••• ••• 2
Other towns ••• ••• ... 87
In Scotland, viz. :
Dundee ••• ••• ••• ••• 17
Beith
llavrick
Wilton-by-llawick
Crail •.. ... 2
••• ••• •••.. ••• 3
Arbroath ...
Aberdeen ..
• •••

REFUSAL OF GOVERNMENT TO ABANDON PA
BENT OF TPIE HOP DUTY.—An answer has been
received from the Lords of the Treasury to the memorial
from a meeting ot the hop planters of Sussex, pray ing
that the collection of the hop duty of 1848, falling due
in October and November, might not be enforced. To
. this prayer their Lordships state they cannot accede.
The day fixed for the payment of the first instalment of
' the postponcd duty is the 15th ot October. The second
instalment is payable on the 15th of Novernticr.—.yaid-
lune Journal.
LIBERAL LANDLORDS.—Lord Harris returned 15
per cent. and the Right Honourable Pemberton.° 11_1.
L.; .ig h
per cent. at their last rent days.---'-/Proit.7sto,',l,ei cuus_.
OFFICIAL SUPPLIES OF STATIONESLY..--'
turns Beard having caustd an inquiry to be
and
the system of control exercised on the
for the tise of the
very of articles of stationery. requiredffect to she • Treadury
Customs department, for giving effect be mai!e ifito
9reconomy, it
ensimor -ea
minutes enforcing the. nec present par
appears that since the
many descriptiens
°f
el r thedireetion of the ins:pi ct, ri of
commence had t.)bfetehne,4 hole bound
in vellum, have, till
thebin dbi:egk' sathtetthjeieient
bound in vellum, 'and that paper of second
tatrev7ery-,ofßee, been half-bound in cloth,
quality, . for the purpose, however, used,
: binding, will be effected. Certain articlesea drrnntron of expenditure, under the head of
4hich have been heretofore allowed, but considered not
requisite, have been disallowed, and diri,ct tre
ions isd
wherebythii t books
u p aunn the receipt of demands for stationery, the ex- "
aminer of such demands is not only to ascertain that the
al.owance is not exceeded, but that the demand is not
made up of articles unnecessary for the conduct of the
public business.

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- The most brilliant victory is only
the
lighthum an ofitya
conflagration, 'which the tears sufferingf
slakes into a smoke, the faithfulof
emblem of its mis-
called glory.—Eliza Cook's Journal.
Cu Ann G -CROSS HOSPITAL.—CHOLERA WA It DS.--
Yesterday a meeting of governors and committee of
management of this hospital was held in the board-rotm
of the institution. The report for the past year stated
that there had been 1,153 in and 14,347 out patients. Of
the latter class a large number were poor married vromen
who had been atunded during their confinement at their
own homes. The total number of patients during the
year was near 16,000 persons, Ewing an increase aver
the preceding year of 3,000. During the prevalence of
the present epidemic, ta 0 ward's have been devoted to
the reception of cholera patientp.
Half the noblest passages in poetry are truisms ;
but these truisms, are the great truths of humanity ; and
he is the true poet who draws them from their kuntains
i in elemental purity and gives us to drink.—Lliza Cook's
I Journal. . ,

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