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

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

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

This may mislead many of your readers. I can
assure you, as Chairman of the Sanitary Board at
Newton Abbot, that we have, as yet, had no cases of
cholera in Newton Abbot. Our town is very
healthy. Cases of diarrbon do occur, but are speedily
relieved by our medical men.

The cages at Torquay have occurred principally in
a back street, very confined and dirty.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
ROBERT RENDELL.

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

Tun EGLINTON SILTD.—The Earl of Eglinton
has sold his celebrated horse Van Tromp, Wenner of the
Doncaster Sr. Leger and the Goodwood and Ascot CI, p 3,
as a sire, to Mr. Kirby, of York, for a large sum, the
precise amount of which has not transpired. Van
Tromp will clo. e li+ racing career at the conclusion of
the leviathan match with Surplice and Justice, to ccme
off during one of ti e ensuing Newmarket meetings. He
will then be delivered up to Mr. Kirby, who acm years
since was the purchaser of Lanercost, Van Tromp's sire,
from Mr. Ramsay, of Barnton, at the high figure of
3,000/.
FLLMOUTU eIIURCII.TIRD.—A correspondent
writes us as follows:—On Monday last, in Falmouth
church-yard, a scene touk place such as would not be
' allowed by the American Indians to their deceased
friends, and that it should occur among a civilised Chris-
tian people is passing strange. A respectable old in•
habitant was being lowered into tEe grave, but ale ipso
between other ci.ffins intended for that of the deceased
was too small, and it was consequently stopped in its
descent by two of those underneath. The service was
gone through, and the parson left. It was, of course,
impossible to leave the corpse in such a position; the
work of remoing old coffins, and pushing and dragging
them about to obtain room therefore commenced. While
in the act of this unseemly work they bruke into an old
cholera coffin, and ended the wretched scene by leaving
the coffin' eiviateen inches under the surface of the yard.
Our correspondent adds that one of the under coffins
which prevented the corpse being further lowered was
that containing the wife of the deceased and mother of
the mourners. Surely we must say, Christianity cannot
so sear our feelings that a subject like this should be no
one's business. lam forced to say that lately our in-
terments have been more like the burying of dogs than
Christian men and women; indeed, it is worse than in-
difference, and becomes a sin which punishes with fright-
fat retribution. Every man in the county ought to raise
his voice against it.— West Briton.

LECTURES ON THE COTTON MANUFACTURE _Last
night Mr. Frederick Warren, of Manchester, delivered
his third lecture on the cotton manufacture, before s
numerous audience, at the Whittington Club, Strand.
The lecture consisted of a rapid sketch of the rise and
progress of the British cotton trade, pointing out the
coincidence of its growth with the various improvements
effected in machinery, and showing the simultaneous ad-
vancement of other industrial interests, such as the
shipping interest, the coal, iron, leather, oil, and other
trades. It also dwelt on the influence of the cotton trade
upon the wealth of the nation, and of machinery on the
condition and com'orts of the people. The lecture was
illustrated by a series of working models of the most
improved m-ichincry used in the manufacture of cotton
cloth, and the different manufacturing processes were
gone through systematically, from the cleansing of the
to its
s e b woven by the power-loom.
apparatusll was set in motion by
rawFo r cotton
this
p urp
otheierg fin''Y
steam power, when tte various operations wore popularly
Tho lecture excited the greatest interest,
eaxnpalawiansedv.ery
favouraWy received by the auditory. It
was originally intended that the fourth lecture should
conclude the course; but it was announced last night
that a supplementary lecture is to be added.

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