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

N°. 17,770.] LONDON, itIDAY E E.N N G 117 Ny SEPTEMBER 7, 1849.

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Capital £500,000. Empowered by Act of Parliament.
The leading features of the Society are guaranteed of an ample
Proprietary Capital.
Moderate Rates of Premiums.
Two-thirds Premium Loaned to the Assured.
' Annual Division of Profits.
" Half the Premi'im may remain as a Loan for Five Years.
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- Moderate.extra Premium for Residence In Tropical Climates.
N.B. The last Annual Bonus to the Assured.varied from 27 to 65
der cent. (according to...aze) on the Premiums paid. •
Examiples of Bonuses already Declared, and Options. _

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' Bonus in Perma- Sum the • PUBLIC NOTICE. •
'4,.„; Annual Policy,
addition Bonus neat • Re-1 Assured •
1 BELVIDERE .TAVERN, PENTONVILLE.
Age. ~., V. Pre- taken ~, in duction of may bor-
• ;7. •mium. out in! '''' Sam Cash: Annual row on . RICHARD ROUSE, of the late White Conduit house
Assured.
I Premium. Policy. Tavern, begs to infOrm the Public, and the Chairmen, Committees,
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- .. , . -- 1£ s. d., £ s. d£a.d.£ s. d. liberally and invariably honoured him with their patronage during
1837 1276 14 31 128 14 3 21 7 2,593 6 8 his Proprietorship of the late White Conduit House, that he has
1838 251 18 10,115 14 8 18 12 8543 17 9 taken the BELVIDERE TAVERN, PENTONVILLE, where in a
- £ 1839 ;226 6 o'lo2 15 1 16 2 91494 8 10 few weeks, when the alterations and additions now making are
60 1000 Xs. d. 1840 178 0082 14 212 14 11445
0 0 completed, he will resume providing Dinners on the same extensive
- 74 3 4 1441 174 0 078 3 4 12 3 0'395 11 1 and liberal scale as at the late White Conduit House Tavern, and
- 1842 147 4 2 .5 15 10 10 2 4 346 2 3 respectfully solicits a renewal of their favours.
1843 99 18 4 41 8 4 615 11 296 13 4
1844 62 6 8 27 13 4 4 4 0 247 4 5 WENHAM LAKE ICE.
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J COMPANY.-8, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London • 97,
-Goorge-street, Edinburgh; 12, St. Vincent-place, Glasgow; 4, Col-
lege-green, Dublin.

DIRECTORS.
JAMES STUART, Esq., Chairman.
CHARLES GRAHAM, Esq., Deputy Chairman.
H. Blair Avarne; Esq.- F. Chas. Maitland, Esq.
E. L. Boyd, Esq., Resident. William Railton, Esq.
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the most perfect security in a large paid•up Capital, and in the great
success which has attended it since its commencement—lTs Azolukt,
liecossa LUNG UPWARD' OF 99,000/,

In 1841 the Company added a bonus of 21. per cent. per annum on
the sum insured to all Policies of the participating class from the
time they were effected, to the 31st of December, 1840, and from
that date to 31st December, 1847, 2%/. per cent. per annum was
added at the General Meeting on the 6th of July, 1848.
The bonus thus added to policies from March, 1834, to the 31st of
December, 184 g, is as follows:

Sam
Assured.

£5OOO
5000
5000
5000
5000
5000
5000

Time Assured.

13 years 10 mths
12 years
10 years
R years
6 years
4 years
2 years

Sum added to
Policy inlB4l

£683 6 8
500 0 0
300 0 0
100 0 0

Sum added to
Policy In 18481

X 787 10 0
787 10 0
787 10 0
787 10 0
675 0 0
450 0 0
225 0 0

ium payable
at Death.

£6470 16 8
6287 10 0
6087 10 0
5887 10 0
5675 0 0
5450 0 0
5225 0 0

The Premiums, nevertheless. are on the most moderate scale, and
only one-half need be paid for the first five years where the In-
surance is for Life.

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THE GREAT NORTHERN RAIL-
WAY SOUTH OF DONCASTER.
DESCRIPTION OF THE LINE.

Proceeding from the temporary station at Don.
caster the line, at 270 yards from that point, crosses
the Hexthorpe road on the level. This road—as, in-
deed, all the immediate locality—has been so com-
pletely metamorphosed by the operations of the
railway company that it would scarcely be recognised
by any one who has not seen it for two years. All
the land opposite to the Union-house, including
several large fields and a considerable portion of
Crimpsall, has been re-levelled for the site of the plant.
This work has occupied a very long time, as in some
places the surface has been excavated six or seven fret,
whilst in others the ground has been raised 10 or 12
feet. A little distance from the Hexthorpe-road, and
just opposite to the Union house, the junction with
the South Yorkshire main line is formed. The Great
Northern line next crosses the line called Cherry
Grove-lane on the level, and then enters into the
cutting which commences on this side of Littlemoor-
lane, and passes through the hill to the Carr on the
south side of the Balby-road. A temporary bridge at
present accommodates the traffic on Littlemoor.lane,
but the road is to be diverted over the tunnel bridge
just beyond, and workmen are at the pre-
sent time engaged in making the deviation.
The depth of the cutting at Littlemoor-lane is
30 feet, through a hard and solid rock of red sand.
About 160 yards from this point the:line ia,joined by
a small branch from the South Yorkshire Railway,
which branch commences about a quarter of a mile
From the main junction with the Great Northern,
and which is intended to facilitate the traffic of the
coal trains to the south, obviating the necessity of
their stopping at the Doncaster station. The line
then passes under a well-designed and well-con-
structed brick bridge, which, from its unusual dimen-
sions, is called a tunnel bridge. As the line of rail-
way at this point intercepts at an acute angle the road
to
,Sheffield, Rotherham, &c., and as the trustees
would not permit of at* alteration or deviation of
their road, the length of the arch is 200 feet; the
width between the parapets being 197 feet in the
clear, and it has the appearance of a tunnel ; the span
is 51 feet, and the height 17 feet. The bridge was
built by Mr. Morton, whose contract (under Messrs.
Peto and Betts) extended from Doncaster to the
Mother drain on the Carr; the plate laying, however
being executed by Mr. Price. Emerging from under
the bridge the line enters the deepest and heaviest
part of the cutting, and then passing Pease's mill pro-
, ceeds by a curve of 70 chains, radius to the Potteric
Carr, a large tract of land which, not many years ago,
was one huge swamp, but whiah has since been
reclaimed by the operations of certain commissioners
appointed for the purpose. The soil is of a black,
peaty, boggy character, and it was thought that there
would be some difficulty in finding a sufficiently firm
foundation for the embankment which now stretches
across it. Whatever may have been the obstacles in
this respect they have been surmounted, and the
traffic of the Great Northern Railway is about to be
carried over this once extensive marsh. The em-
bankment across the Carr is mostly on a level, and is
about four feet high. The route across the Carr
presents but few features worthy of notice. The
point-best known in it is the Decoy—a thick belt of
wood which was formerly used by the worshipful
mayor and corporation of Doncaster, for the purposes
which its name imports. At this point the line
crosses two private occupation roads, one of which
leads to Loversall, &c., the other to some lands im-
mediately adjacent, and also presents a view of the
villages of Bessacar, High Ellers and Low Ellers,
Top Hall Farm, the property of G. J. Jarratt, Esq.
The line then crosses the main or mother drain, con
fleeted with the system of drainage which carries
off the superfluous waters of the Carr. A
deviation of the drain has been made for
the purposes of the railway. At this point
the contract of Mr. Morrell commences and
extends to within three miles of Bawtry. From
the same point also to the cutting at Piper wood
there is a rising gradient of 1 in 198, or 27 feet in
the mile, and from Piper-wood to Scrooby there is a
descending gradient in the same ratio. The next line
passes over the small river Tome, which has been the
subject of so much litigation between J. W. Childers,
Esq., and the participants of the level of Hatfield
Chase. It then strikes through a small plantation
called Park-wood, after passing which it brings us in
sight of the village of Rossington, which, together
with a large surrounding estate, commencing at
Mother-drain and terminating at Piper-weed, is the
property of James Brown,.Esq., of Harehill, Leeds,
who purchased it of the Doncaster corporation about
12 years ago for the sum of 95,0001. The line passes
Rossington close to the west end of the village, and
shortly afterwards passes under the Rossington- bridge,
which is built on the skew at an angle of 38 degrees,
and which is really an admirable piece of workman.
ship. The span is 26 feet, and the width between
the parapets is 25 feet. The appearance of the bridge
on approaching to it is very singular, and it is well
worth examination. The line then proceeds through a
cutting 16 feet deep, passing under two flying arches
which are thrown over the line at short intervals,
and which are intended for the accommodation of oc-
cupiers of land in the locality. The first is called
Brown's Flying Arch ; the next Shooter's Hill
Bridge. The singularity of these erections is that the
arches spring from layers of brickwork placed on the
banks of either side, and not from regular abutments.
We understand it is the intention of Mr. Brown to
plant laurel and other hardy evergreens on the side
of the embankment at Shooter's Hill, which will, we
doubt not, produce a very picturesque effect. The
line then proceeds to Piper Wood, the property of
the Duke of Newcastle, and which is situated in Not-
tinghamshire, the boundary line between that county
and Yorkshire, being drawn just on the north side cf
the wood. There is a cutting at this point varying
from a dead level to 17 feet, and, as we have already
stated, a descending gradient of 1 in 198, or 27 feet
in the mile, here commences and extends to Scrooby,
just beyond Bawtry. A flying arch for the accomo-
dation of the occupiers of land at Martin, &c., is
thrown over the cutting at Piper Wood. At this
point also the contract of Mr. Morton (under Messrs.
Pete and Betts) begins, the works being of a rather
heavy character as far as Bawtry. Shortly after passing
Piper Wood the line enters a cutting through the hill
at King's Wood, which is 27 feet deep. It is remark-
able that from Doncaster to Bawtry the cuttings on
the line are all made through a continuous stratum of
hard, heavy, red sand, which has had to be blasted.
At this last mentioned cutting the line intersects the
Great North-road, so famed in days of yore for the,
almost incessant traffic of coaches and (Aber vehicles,
which the modern inventions of steam locomotives and
railways are fast superseding. The Great North-road
bridge crosses the line at this point, and it is a struc-
ture of excellent design and workmanship. It is com-
posed of a series of arches built on the skew, at an
angle of 33 degrees, from square abutments. It has
the appearance of great strength and durability, and
is, we understand, less costly than the bridges con-
structed on the usual plan. The span of the arch is
52 feet 8 inches ; the width of the bridge between the
parapets is 35 feet 3 in. • and the height from the level
of the line 24 feet. Between 400,000 and 500,000
bricks have been used in constructing it. It has been
built by Mr. Morton, under the superintendence of
Mr. Butler, sub-engineer of the works from Askern
to Retford, and is considered by competent judges
to be a splendid piece of work. At this bridge the
estate of Mr. Milnes, of Bawtry, commences and ex-
tends to Scrooby. Beyond the bridge the depth of
the cutting increases to 27 feet. This cutting ex-
tends with varying depth nearly to the station at
Bawtry, or rather the outside of Bawtry, the object
of erecting it so far from the centre of the town being
apparently one of an economical character, as by
building it at the point where it now stands the
heavy expense of raising the ground to the level of
the embankment and viaduct which extends over the
valley of the river Idle and the low land adjacent for
nearly the whole length of the town of Bawtry, is
obviated. The station at Bawtry is a very neat and
commodious edifice, and may be regarded its. the
principal of the four stations between Doncitifa „Vaa
East Retford, namely, at Rossington, at Bawtry, at
Serooby, and at Ranskill. They have been designed
with a view of affording ample accommodation for
the respective districts in which they are situated,
and, at the same time, a comfortable residence for the
parties in charge. They are built of white bricks,
with dressings of stone, and covered with Welsh
slate. The I3awtry station has recessed windows, with
semi-circular heads, and a bold projecting cornice to
the eaves. The gate-lodges at the several crossings
upon the line are well adapted for the purpose, and in
the construction of both stations and lodges the
utmost regard has been paid to economy.
the cost of the Ranskill and Rossington stations is
about 4001. each, and that of Bawtry about 700/.
The stations and lodges were designed by H. Goddard,
Esq., architect, of Lincoln, f)ntisiltitr
from whose designs
the splendid Railway Hotel, at, Lincoln,
the Great Northern Company. Mr.
.Goddarda lately
y riculturil
received the prize of 501. from
Society of England for the btheestßTeohisaa ong the con-
struction of labourers' cottages. e stations were
built by Mr. C. rd, of Lincoln. 'They are all
provided with signaWl posts at p
a distance. of about 500
yards
d from each of the stations.. Passing the station
at Bayftry the lisle crosses a deviation of the Bawtry

[PRICE SD.

and Thorne road. over a well-constructed brick arch,
and then proceeds on to the viaduct, which, like
similar works on the Great Northern Loop, is built
of wood, and is 1,200 feet long. It is slightly curved,
and consists of a timber platform, supported on a
great number of piles 49 to 45 feet long, bound by
cross timbers, the whole being coated with tar, to
preserve it from the injurious action of the weather.
This viaduct was built on account of the bad
foundation—peat and bog—at this part of the
line. It, is a very substantial and costly
erection, though of course, less expensive
than a viaduct of other materials would
have been. At the extremity furthest from Bawt*y
station the viaduct terminates in a bridge over the
Gainsborough and Lincoln turnpike-road, and is
succeeded by an embankment which gradually dimi-
nishes in height until it brings the line on a level at
Scrooby. From Scrooby to Retford the line presents
very few features to describe. In the first place, the
rails are laid on nearly a dead level, and in nearly a
straight line the whole of the distance. Scrooby is
in Nottinghamshire ; the township of Bawtry is in
Yorkshire ; and the boundary line between the two
is about 146 miles from London by the Great North-
ern main trunk line. The Archbishop of York is
lord of the manor. The line passes to the left of the
village of Scrooby, about a mile and a half from
Bawtry, crossing the river Ryton and the mill-
stream by pile bridges, and about a furlong further an
loccupation road called Ings Bank-road. At Scrooby
there is a small but neat station of white brick,
sufficiently commodious, however, for all the require-
ments of the neighbourhood.The line then pro-
ceeds through several fields, chiefly pasture, be-
longing respectively to Earl Spencer, R. P. Milnes,
Esq., Viscount Galway, Mr. John Haynes,
and others, to the towship of Ranskill. Be-
fore reaching Ranskill, the _line. passes -under
the Mattersey road, which is carried over by a sub-
stantial brick bridge of 50 feet span. The station at
Ranskill is in character with those at Bawtry and
Scrooby ; indeed, throughout the line, economy and
convenience appear to have been more studied than
elaborate ornament or architectural display. Leaving
the village of Ranskill to the right, the line skirts
on the left the plantation of Mr. Francis Chester, and
after passing through several fields of arable land,
enters the township of Torworth, crossing the road
leading from that village to Danesbill on the level.
The line then traverses a considerable part of the
estate of Viscount Galway, and intersects the town-
ship of Barnby Moor for a distance of a furlong and
a half, and then enters the township of Sutton-cum-
Lound, skirting the boundary line of Barnby Moor
for above a mile. After leaving Sutton-cum-Lound,
the line crosses the Great North-road, at an angle of
61degrees, about two miles and a half from East Retford,
passing into the parish of Babworth, and principally
through the estate of the Hon. John Bridgman
Simpson, whose residence it leaves to the right. The
line then enters the parish of West Retford, in a field
belonging to the trustees of the Trinity Hospital, at
West Retford, whose property the line principally
traverses in this parish. About a mile and a furlong
from the junction with the Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincolnshire Railway, the Great Northern line passea
over the Chesterfield Canal by a bridge constructed
of tubular girders, similar to the bridge over the Don
at Doncaster. The width of the bridge between the
buttresses is 25 feet, and it crosses the river at an
angle of 32 degrees. About three miles beyond this
point the line crosses the Worksop and Retford road
at an angle of 33 degrees, and then, about a furlong
further, enters the parish of Ordsall, intersecting the
high road from Ordsall to East Retford, and also
cutting through a small plantation, the property of
Mr. P. H. B. Dickenson. It then proceeds through
arable and pasture lands belonging to the trustees of
the Holy Trinity Hospital of West Retford, for about
half a mile, and then joins the Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire Railway, where, for the present, the
works of the Great Northern Company stop.—Don-
caster Chronicle.

HOW TO MAKE AN UNHEALTHY

BED-ROOM.
(From the Journal of Public Health.)
If you want to have a thoroughly unhealthy bed-
room, these are the precautions you should take :
Fasten a chimney-board against the fire-plac?, so as
to prevent foul air from escaping in the night; and of
course in the night season never have a door or
window open. Use no perforated zinc in panelling;
especially avoid it in small bed-rooms. So you will
get a room full of bad air. But in the same room
there is a bad, worse, and worst : your ohjoct is to
have the worst air possible. Suffocating machines are
made by every upholsterer ; attach one to your bed ;
it is an apparatus of poles, rings, and curtains. By
drawing your curtains around you before you sleep,
you insure to yourself a condensed body of foul air
over your person. This poison vapour bath you wilt
find to be most efficient when it is made of any thick
material. There being transpiration through the skin,
it would not be a bad idea to see whether this cannot
be in some way hindered. The popular method will do
very well ; smother the flesh as much as possible in
feathers. A wandering princess, in some fairy tale, came
to a king's house. The king's wife, with the curiosity
and acuteness proper to her sex, wished to ascertain
whether their guest was truly born a princess, and at the
same time found out how to solve the question. She
put three peas on the young lady's palliasse, and over
them a large feather-bed, and then another, then
another--in fact, fifteen feather beds. Next morning
the princess looked pale, and in answer to inquiries
how she had passed the night, said that she had been
unable to sleep at all, because the bed had lumps in
it. The king's wife knew, then, that their guest
showed her good breeding. Take this highborn lady
for a model. The feathers retain all heat about your
body, and stifle the skin so far effectually that you
awake in the morning pervaded by a sense of languor,
which much must be very agreeable to a person who
has it in his mind to be unhealthy. In order to keep
a check upon exhalation about your head (which
otherwise might have too much the way of nature),
put on a stout, closely-woven nightcap. People who
are at the height of cleverness in this respect sleep
with their heads under the bedclothes. Take no rest
on a hair mattress; it is elastic and pleasant, certainly,
but it does not encase the body, and, therefore, you
run a risk of not awaking languid. Never wash when
1 you go to bed, you are not going to see anybody,
and, therefore, there is no use in washing.
In the morning wet no more skin than you absolutely
must—that is to say no more than your neighbours
will see during the day—the face and hands. So
much you may do with tolerably good will, since it is
the other part of the surface of the body more
covered and more impelled in the full discharge of its
functions, which has rather the more need of ablution.
It is therefore fortunate that you can leave thatil ort.hbef
part unwashed. Five minutes of sponging
bing over the whole body in the morning
a
gwould tend
to invigorate the system, and would send you with a
cheerful glow to the day's business or pleasure.
Avoid it by all means, if you desire to be unhealthy.
Do not forget that although you must unfortunately
apply water to your face, you can find warrant in
custom to excuse you from annoying it with soap ;
and for the water again you are at liberty to take
vengeance by obtaining compensation damages out
of that part of the head which the hair covers.
Never wash it; soil it; clog it with oil or lard,—
either of which will answer your purpose, as either
will keep out air as well as water, and promote the
growth of a thick morion of scurf. Lard in the
bed-room is called bear's grease. In connexion
with its virtues in promoting growth of hair, there is
a tale which I believe to be no fiction ; not the old and
profane jest of the man who rubbed a deal box with
it over night and found a hair trunk in the morning.
It is said that the first adventurer who advertised
bear's grease for sale, appended to the laudation of
its efficacy a note bene, that gentlemen after apply-
ing it should wash the palms of their hands, other-
wise the hair would sprout thence also. I admire
that speculator, grimly satiric at the expense both of
himself and of his customers. He jested as his own
pretensions, and declared, by an oblique hint, that he
did not look for friends among the scrupulously clean.
Of course, as you do not cleanse your body daily, 9°
you will not show favour to your feet. Keepupa
due distinction between the upper and
mem-
bers. When a German prince was told
'hthe liveliness
that he had dirty hands, lcoownldentl y
of' conscious triumph, " Abhe,"dpoliyec(l3,l7citall that dirty ?
You should see my toes !" Some people wash
will do very well ;
f.
them once in every month,
h
or once a year, it matters little which. In
what
washing you find yourself unable to
omit, use only the finest towels, those which
inflict the least friction en the skin. Having made
these arrangements for yourself, take care that they
are adhered to, so far as may be convenient, through-
out your household. Here and there, put numerous
sleepers into a single room ; this is a good thing for
children, when you require to blanch them, and
render them delicate, but you must take care not to
carry this too far, otherwise you will render them
pasty, pot-bellied, and deformed. It was this practice
which was so succesful at Tooting in thinning the
population. By all means let a baby have foul air,
not only by the use of suffocating apparatus, but by
causing it to sb;ep where there are four or five
others in a well-closed room. So much is due to
the maintenance of our orthodox rate of infant
mortality.

.With a lift thought and dbservition there will
I:be sugges*l to you many more contrivances for the
securing"Of unhealthiness in bed-rooms. An English-
man's castle has a great many fortifications against
the entrance of mere bodily vigour. In two or three
future papers I will endeavour to point out a few
other precautions ggainst health in the home, selecting
chiefly those of which the most timid person can avail
himself, without incurring any risk of being thought
eccentric.

SANITARY MEASURES.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—In reply to your correspondent, "Father
Thames," I beg to say my "conclusion," that Mr. Edwin
Chadwick " has no small interest in the system for
converging the sewage, and with it swamping the
country," is deduced from the following "Minutes of
Evidence taken before the Select Committee of the
House of Commons on Metropolitan Sewage Manure,
26th June, 1846," viz.:—
__

Lord Robert Grosvenor—Have you any idea of

what the effect would be, supposing the sewage water
of London were carried out to Hounslow or Statues, and
that neighbourhood ; and that there were tanks or re-
servoirs there ?

"Mr. Edwin Chadwick—l think the tanks might
frequently be covered. It would depend upon the dis-
tance from i.abitations. All my experience, and all
my information, go to vindicate the integrity of the
nose; that if you did not smell it at any place there
would be no injury from it, and if you did, there
would be.
" Lord Robert Grosvenor—Supposing they were
.overed, do ycu think any danger need be appre-
hended?
"Mr. Edwin Chadwick—lf you did not smell it
there would be no danger.
" Lord Robert Grosvenor—Do you think you
would smell it, considering the extremely diluted
state of it?

"Mr. Edwin Chadwick—l think you would, unless
it were in covered tanks. The truth is, a great por-
tion of the London sewerage; I have been in the Lon-
don sewers with the other commissioners, and smelt
it, and I believe everybody who did go down bad
their health affected.
" Lord Robert Grosvenor—Are they (the tanks of
Edinburgh) near to any habitation ?
" Mr. Edwin Chadwick—They were so near that
the effluvia from them was offensive to the inhabit-
ants, and being offensive to the smell, it was injurious
-to the- health; that war-one of the great objections;
and it was in consequence made matter of conflict
between the municipal authorities and the proprietors
of those meadows."

"The First Report of the Metropolitan Sanitary
Commissioners of lgth November, 1847," was, I be-
lieve, compiled principally, if not entirely, by the
said Mr. Edwin Chadwick. In this report, regard-
ing the cholera, it is stated, "In its progress
through England, in whatever places it attacked, it
generally first appeared in the neighbourhood of
rivers or marshes, and principally raged in low and
damp localities, particularly where these were also
the outlets of filth."—" In our Lancashire towns
cholera manifested itself, more than elsewhere, along
the water-courses (including districts occasionally
flooded, &c.), and with peculiar virulence near the
outlets of drains. The progress of the disease in
Manchester, from first to last, furnishes a comment
on this remark."—" In Back Irk-street, in which a
number of cases occurred, the only houses visited by
the disease were close to the main sewer, which there
burst into day and ran above ground 1"—" The whole
of the evidence, however, appears to lead to the con-
clusion that it is the combination of impurity with
humidity of the air which so powerfully predisposes
to cholera!"—" In our opinion there is but one safe-
guard against this malady. Tbat safeguard consists
in sanitary arrangements; and sanitary arrange-
ments, to be efficient, must be such as will secure the
purity of the atmosphere! particularly by the imme-
diate and complete removal of all filth and refuse !"
Again, "If the external atmosphere is not maintained
in a state of purity, it may be the very means of pro-
ducing and aggravating disease !"—" But it is now
universally admitted that a tar more powerful predis-
ponent is the habitual respiration of an impure
atmosphere !"
Upwards of a year and a half after giving the
" evidence " quoted, the said Mr. Edwin Chadwick
delivered to me the prospectus, form of application for
shares, &c., in his company, at Gwydyr House. In
these papers the said Mr. Chadwick's name is to be
found three several times pertinaciously advocating
this swamping system. But the foregoing extracts
manifest, I think, that said advocacy cannot be NN ith
sanitary purposes or on sanitary principles.
I am, Sir, your very obedient servant,
RICHARD DOVER.
28, New-street. Sprin,•-zardens. Sept. 6.

_KOSSUTH.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sin,—l beg leave to transcribe for Sou a sonnet
addressed a few weeks hack to the immortal Kossuth,
at a time when my heart beat high with hope for the
success of the Ilungari in cause.

"To LUDOVICUi KOSSUTH.
"In her security toed linglaha sleep,;
Yet, sleeping, on a pr, Opine doth stand,
With vacant wiz) on the cterztal deeps;
While in the t win-sourd, lion t'etArted land
Of Europe's dawning, cloth the Ma2yars hand

Wave sternly tuw'rd tiie dancer's rocky steeps,
Undaunted, uoappall'd. 0, wan of m' n!
At s;ght of whom the heart of freedom leaps;
Thy trurnvet-clatig must wake that cord again
In England's breast, that ever spell•like wrought;
The age's and thy country's Cromwell! thou
Dost teach the lesson that of old she taught
A teachless race, and let us cherish now

The man, the noble deed, the lofty thought."
Now, under its sad reverse, I do not know that I
need retract a single expression, save one; for if the
course of the Hungarians has been less open to the
suspicion of impure motives than has been the lot of
the great Englith leader, nevertheless it must be ad-
mitted that if the former, like the latter, had been also
a sol Bier, we should, in all probability, have seen a
different termination to the war than that which we
now deplore.
Allow me to ask what is now doing for the cause ?
One thousand pounds is something ; but it will not
go a gr( at way. Within the recollection of us all,
the English nation raised a quarter of a million to
carry an object in which its own self-interest was
concerned, including, however, a testimonial—a
grateful testimonial to the chief promoter of that mea-
sure. Mr. Cobden and the English nation have ex-
pressed, in a glowing manner, their sympathy with
the Hungarians. What will they do now ? For, as
Lord Nugent well said, what is the value of lofty
words unless they are backed by lofty deeds ? If it
be too late to appeal to the
" Great corrector of enormous:times,
Shaker of o'errank states, the grand decider

Of dusty and old titles,"
let us not forget that those whom we have abandoned
to their fate hare still in their adversity to be sup-
ported. Shame enough is ours for what has passed;
let us thank God that we can still retrieve so much
honour as will arise from our making a handsome
provision for those who have deserved so well. As
one of Lord Dudley Stuart's constituents, I call upon
him to renew this agitation. All that is past is
done with; its object has failed. Let him therefore
renew it on the ground of the necessity of supporting
Kossuth and his coadjutors. Let resolutions be
passed at public meetings calling upon the Govern-
ment of this country to give adequate pensions to
these noble men—pensions such as hare been too
readily granted to princes exiled through their own
misconduct. Yet, not depending upon this, let a system
of collecting subscriptions be organized by which a
sum not less than a hundred thousand pounds shall be
raised for such purpose, in the case of need. It could
easily be done if only set about with earnestness;
but it must be done quickly, before the public en-
thusiasm is allowed to cool. And now for the most
important point of all. Resolutions are passed at
public meetings urging Lord Palmerston to protest
in favour of the integrity of Hungarian institutions,
while it is forgotten that in the meantime
" The foremost man of all the world,"
may be shot or hanged, and at all events is in danger
of being so without its being apparent that any active
step on his behalf and that of his colleagues is taken England.
eitherL et
thisby thebe Government
amended.
Theor the
English
pepleof
Government
should be called upon to speak plainly in t matter,
eaonpleinsaurlet miaogtht form
afraid
ofa
and s d b
belllTe
he reminded
English
h apt
cases
war in a just and honourable quarrel; and their minds
are not better affected to the views of the Peace Society
from the reflection that had the Dictator of Hungary
been a soldier his country would now in all probability
have been free.
I remain, Sir, yours, &c.,
S. H., AN ELECTOR OF .MARYLEBONE.

iss Bremer, in one of her delightful novels,
mentions a circumstance trivial in itself', but which be-
came deeply impressed on her memory. She was at the
barrier outside Stoekholm one winter's evening, awaiting
the compulsory visit of the Custom-house officer, who at
length aiprouched with his lantern. ,‘ He had a red
nose, and appeared unhappy." She entered into con-
versation with him, and fuund that the was married, and
was the father of four children; he seemed sad, and
sighed as he told the number of his family. Her heart
softened towards the man, employed in his troublesome
duty of ransacking tra,,ellers' luggage, to see they car-
ried nothing contraband. She felt for a piece of money,
and thought of some gingerbread and a cheese for the
four children's supper; but, while thus feeling and
thinking, the gate-man opened the bar, and the carriage
passed quickly through the gateway. With as oppressed
heart, and uncomfortable feelings, the traveller proces ded
through the city, and saw in the white snow-flakes
before her, as in a transparency, the frozen red nose and
sad face of the Custom-house officer. Every where it
Map up before her, and she regretted, that through
irresolution, she had not placed in his hands some small
testimonial of her kindliness.—(', Glimpses," from Eliot
freoNi AW741.)