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

LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 7, 1849,

their benefit in "the diggings," that the Congress will
have the power to frct,tr.lte their evil designs. They

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time slave-holding states on the Pacific, represented in
Congress by slave holding citizens, Ns hose voices will be
raised in trumpet-tones in defence of the institutions of
their forefathers." Considering the progress of legis-
lation in the United States, bow it is gradually ad-
vancing in favour of freedom, we indulge expectations
the very opposite of those which are expressed by
" these slave-holding citizens. There may, indeed,
be voices raised in " trumpet tones" in defence of the
oppressive " institution," but there v.ill be other
voices in still louder tones raised against it. Those who
wish to convert Culirornia into a hot-bed of slavery
cannot act alone; if this most disgraceful result should
ever be brought about, it must be done in the name of
the whole Federal Government, and by its consent.
There is, in our estimation of the aholutionists, too much
of determined purpose, of wakeful intelligence, of daily-
increasing influence, to render it possible for this
most iniquitous project to succeed. At the same time,
bearing in mind how great is the prize by which the
cupidity of these " Southern people" is tempted, and the
desperation of which they have given such frequent
displays, and which drowning and dying men may be
naturally expected to display, we are prepared to witness
a tremendous conflict before this great question is finally
decided. The friends of freedom in America have the
honest arid philanthropic men of our own and every
country on their side, while the traffickers in human
flesh may rest assured that their miserable cause is one
against which are arrayed, not only their own country.
men in the Northern States, but a host of powerful and
energetic men in every civilized land, who will not allow
the cause of freedom to retrograde, but are pledged to its
advancement throughout the world.

TESTIMONIAL
TO THE HUNGARIAN REFUGEES.

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CITY COMMITTEE OF HEALTH.
Yesterday the committee assembled in Guildhall, Mr.
Barclay in the chair.
INTERMENTS IN CITY CHURCHYARDS.
The CHAIRMAN said the following letter had been
transmitted to the Town clerk from the General Board
of Health.

Gwyelyr House, Whitehall, Sept. 5, 1849.
Sir,—l am directed by the General Board of Health
to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 4th in-
stant, inclosing a copy of a letter addressed by the com-
mittee on health of the Corporation of the City of Lon-
don to the churchwardens of the several parishes within
the bounds of Oat) City, n the danger arising from the
interments now taking place in the confined churchyards,
and I am to stew in reply that the Board are gladlto find
that the attention of the committee has been directed to
this very import ant subject, which has also come under
the special consideration of tho general board. The
Board, however, are required by law to proceed by a
separate inspect ion of each burial ground; and from the
present severe pressure upon the attention of their in-
spectors, they are unable to undertake the task of in-
spection so rapidly as could be desired.
I am, Sir, your most obedient, servant,
ALEXANDER BAIN, Assistant Secretary.
The letter WENS entered as read in the committee.
REMONSTRANCE. AGAINST THE PLAN OF RAISING A TEM-
PORARY CHOLERA HOSPITAL ON THE SITE OF THE
OLD FLEET PRISON.

A very numerous deputation from the inhabitants of
the ward of Farringdon Without, with Alderman Sidney
at its head, waited upon the committee in consequence of
a report in the newspapers, from which it appeared that
the committee :had directed the City architect to make
a temporary hospital for the reception of cholera patients
on the site of the Fleet prison in Farringdon-street.
A discussion then ensued, in which several members
of the commiti.ee and the deputation tth,k part, and
upon the rnot2.on of Mr. OwDEN, seconded by Mr.
MATTHEWS, it, was determined that the committee
should adhere 0..0 its former resolution, that a temporary
hospital should be erected on the site of the old Fleet-
prison, in the event of no more suitable place being
found.

The numbers for the affirmative were 5, for the nega-
tive 3.

The gentlemen of the deputation were then called in,
and informed a the result, and they retired expressing
their determination to agitate the question and to resist
the decision of the committee with all their might.

THE CITY OF LONDON UNION AND THE GENERAL

BOARD OF HEALTII.

The CITY SO LICITOR detailed the substance of a con-
ference which a. deputation from the committee held with
the members of the General Board of Health, in the
ccurse of whicl i it was strongly recommended that the
system of house-to-house visitation should bo adopted in
the city.
The deputation took leave of the Board with the under-
standing that they would report to the committee, and
that in all probability the recommendation of district
visiting, as sunested by the Board, would be recom-
mended to the Court of Common Council.
The commiti ee then adjourned.

METROPOLITAN SEWERS COIIMISSION.—Yesterday
a general court was held at the offices, Greek-street,
Soho. Sir John Burgoyne presided, and the following
justices were present:—The Rev. Messrs. Stone and
Murray, Mr. Bullar, Mr. Bain, Mr. Leslie, Mr. Johnson,
and Mr. Hawes. Mr. Bullar said that, considering the
cholera returns; showed upwards of 200 a day, and that
doubts existed as to whether flashing operations were
beneficial or not, he proposed that a circular letter bo
forthwith sent to various medical practitioners request-
ing their opinions of the effect which the flushing of
sewers has had on the general health. Agreed to.
The Honourable Commissioner also moved—" That
the Trial Works Committee be authorised to expend
any sum not exceeding 250/. on the ventilating and
trapping of sewers in those
„cases in which they think
it would be Most beneficial. Mr. Leslie objected to
the motion on two distinct grounds, namely, that no
notice had been given, and that no plan had been exhi-
bited to enable the Court to judge of the feasibility of
the proposition. The resolution was then carried by a
majority of five to one. A long report was presented from
Mr. Grant, respecting the cholera iu the IV andsworth•
road. Albion-terrace, Wandsworth-road, consisted of
seventeen houses, with an annual rental varying from
501. to 801. each. In twelve of these houses deaths from
cholera had occurred ; from July 27 to Aug. 13, there
hid been thirty-eight cases, of which twenty-five were
fatal. These had lately increased to fifty. The malady
had been ascribed to the Heathwell sewer, to the removal
of foul matter, and to bad water. The report attributed
the spread of the epidemic mainly to the contamination
of the water with which the terrace was supplied. As
remedies, it recommended an altered system of house
drainage, the cleansing of ce,spools, and the destruction
of the brick drains. The entire cost of these improve-
ments would be about 101. per house. By this outlay
the property would most likely be much increased in
value. There had bceu nothing dune by the Commission
which, in the opinion of Mr. Grant, would have caused
the recent outbreak of the cholera in that neighbonrhood.
It was intimated that Mr. Grant might inform the pro-
prietors that they could peruse this report on applica-
tion. The Court then adjourned.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

_TATEERSALL'S.-YI::,TERDAY.

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ST. LEGER.
2 to 1 on Lord Eglintwi's Flying Dutchman—taken
15 to 1 agst Mr. A. Nichob's Nunnykirk
20 to 1 agst Mr. Gregory's Loupgarou
25 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Thringarth—taken
25 to 1 agst Mr. Ptciley's Chatterer—taken
25 to 1 agst Mr. Nevill's Herbert—taken
25 to 1 agst Lord Stanley's Uriel
25 to 1 agst Mr. Gamble's Volcano
100 to 10 ngst Lord Exeter's Glenalvon
200 even between Chatterer and Tringarth
Old Dan Tucker was not mentioned.
GREAT YORKSHIRE HANDICAP.

9 to 2 ogst Mr. Bowes's Thringarth—take 5 to 1
8 to 1 sgst Mr. Nevill's Letitia—taken
10 to 1 ago. Lord Chesterfield's Mrs. Taft—taken
5 to 1 agst Mrs. Taft and Fernhill—takcn
DONCASTER CUP.
200 to 100 on Canez.)u (p.p.)—taken
CESAREWITCEI STAKES.

22 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Glenalvon—take 25 to 1
25 to 1 agst Dake of Bedford's St. Rosalia—taken
25 to 1 agst Captain Lowther's Iron Rail—taken
25 to 1 agst Mr. Disney's Bon Mot—take 30 to 1
35 to 1 agst Lord Clifden's Rathmines
1,000 to 20 agst Sir J. Hawley's Fernhill—taken
1,000 to 20 agst Lord Eglinton's Elthiron—taken
400 to 100 agst Lord Exeter's lot—taken and
afterwards offered
CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES.
2,000 to 50 agst Mr. Nicholls's Woolwich—taken

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MA NS/ON-HO USE.
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the cuarge uf
,having attempted lo violate a little girl
who woiked for him for miserable pay.
Mr. Brown, a surgeon, deposed that the attempt
had been made, but bad not been successful.

Jarvis, the officer who apprehended the prisoner,
said, the prisoner confessed that he had made the at-
tempt, and that the confession had been made in
English, although he pretended at the first examina-
tion not to be able to speak a word of the language.
The LORD MAYOR asked the child what pay she
received from the prisoner? to which she replied, that
all she got for her week's labour was three-halfpence,
and that her mother had determined not to let her
work for him any more.
The LORD MAYOR—I commit the prisoner for
trial.

Mr. Goodman (the chief clerk) said, there was a
cants ontissus in the Act which prevented, in a case
of misdemeanour, the expenses of the prosecution
from being paid, and the parents of the child, who
was under twelve years of age, were very poorin-
deed, and could not afford to pay anything whatever.
The LORD MAYOR said, it would be monstrous to
allow a case of such a nature to fall to the ground
from a defect in an Act of Parliament when the pa-
rents were too poor to prosecute. When female
children, to eke out the scanty income of their indi-
gent parents,. were driven to go out to work, they
were placed in the power of their employers, and the
law was bound to throw its protection around
them. He should direct the City Solicitor to pro-
secute,

The- child's father begged to say a word. The
parents of the prisoner were, he believed, in a state
of great poverty, and the prisoner was the only sup-
port of them and some brothers and sisters. They
had implored him to ask for his Lordship's merciful
consideration.

The LORD MAYOR said he could not attend to any
such suggestion. He placed the case in the hands
of the City Solicitor to prosecute. Committed
for trial.