The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-22 00:00:00

LABUAN.

From this new settlement we have accounts to the 9th
Nov. The visit of ceremony to the Sultan by Sir James
Brooke was undertaken on Oct. 26, when the final ar-
rangements for the treaty obligations of the two nations
were oarried into effect. On Oct. 24 his Excellency
Governor Brooke left Labuan in the Jolly Bachelor, fol-
lowed by the small steamer Ranee. Having passed up
the Bruni river the party halted near the town, and a
royal salute was fired from the Sultan's fort. Raja
Brooke and suite were accommodated with temporary
lodgings erected on the site of the battery which first
opened fire on the steamer Phlegethon. On the 26th,
accompanied by the small number of Europeans present,
and attended by his suite and a party of the Maeander's
marines from Labuan, Sir James Brooke presented
the Sultan with a ratified copy of the treaty with the
Queen of England, enclosed within a handsome silver
box; the latter was eyed by his Highness with visible
marks of satisfaction, but the treaty he did not take the
trouble to examine. Sir James then, in the name of the
Queen, informed his Highness that eternal friendship
having been sworn between them, her Majesty had di-
rected him to present his Highness with 3,000 Spanish
dollars, as a mark of respect for the free cession of the
island of Labuan. Sir James then presented Pangeeran
Moormein with 1,000 dollars, and other sums to the
members of the Court at which they were delighted; the
presentation in each case being accompanied by some
appropriate remarks from the Raja of Sarawak. The
party returned to Labuan on the 31st. The accounts
from Labuan itself are very unsatisfactory. Sickness was
general among the small nnmber of persons on the island.
The colonial surgeon had happily recovered, but Sir Jas.
Brooke was laid up with fever at the date of our last
advices. The site selected for the town appears to be an
unhappy one, being in the centre of a swamp, part of
which is below high water mark. The Chinese and
Kling coolies had almost deserted the place or died of
fever, and such was the scarcity of labourers that the
wooden houses of the governor and others, which were
constructed at Singapore, and carried over in the Wil-
liam Shand, were not set up. The local authorities
were living in rude huts built on the mud, but
were about to remove to some higher ground,
as fever had laid nearly every one prostrate.
Three more of the Maaanders's marines died, and every
one of them were on the sick list. The admiral had
ordered their immediate relief by Madras sepoys from
Singapore. Where so much fever prevailed, the clear-
ing of the jungle was of course proceeding very slowly,
and the public works were comparatively at a stand.
Colonisation is out of the question, for until the island
is drained and its salubrity established, it would not be
prudent or safe to embark life or capital in the venture.
The barque William Shand left for Singapore on Nov.
5, and brought away from the island the whole of the
assistants to the Lieutenant-Governor, postmaster and
surveyor, who had severely suffered from fever, and
quitted the island with a firm resolve not to return to it
on any rate of salary. About fifteen coolies left by the
same vessel. The whole of the artificers also essayed
to leave, but were prevented by the marines, and forced
to labour, although reduced to mere skeletons.

ANNIVERSARY OF THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO STOWE.
—On Tuesday last, the Royal Bucks Yeomanry Cavalry,
who composed the guard of honour to her Majesty and
Prince Albert, on the occasion of their visit to Stowe,
Jan. 15th, 1845, dined together at Mr. Bacon's, the
Woolpack Inn, to celebrate the anniversary of the visit.
The chair was occupied by Captain Smith, and amongst
the company were Captain Wells, Lieut. F. E. Bartlett,
surgeon; J. Denne, Esq., Thomas Bartlett, Esq., and a
number of non-commissioned officers and privates of the
regiment. After the usual loyal toasts, Thomas Bart-
let, Esq., proposed the health of the chairman, which
was drunk with honours, The band of the regiment
added much to the enjoyment of the feast, and a most
pleasant afternoon was spent.—Northampton Herald.

THE LATE ACCIDENT TO MR. W. S. DUGDALE.—
In The Sun of Friday we stated that Mr. Dugdale, the
late Member for North Warwickshire, while out upon ft
shooting excursion in the neighbourhood of his estate at
Merivale-hall, near Atherstone, had been accidently shot
by his son. We are happy to say that, although the
consequence of this accident has been the total depriva-
tion of the sight of one eye, the Hon. Gentleman, ac-
cording to the latest accounts, was going on favourably.
SUICIDE OF CAPTAIN BOWMAN.—An inquest was
held on Friday night, at Brighton, before Mr. Gell, the
coroner, on the body of Captain David Bowman, of the
East India Company's service, whose death took place
on the previous day, under the most afflicting circum-
stances. The deceased, who was upwards of 77 years of
age, resided with his son-in-law, at Claremont Cottage,
in the London-road. He was a naval captain in the ser-
vice of the East India Company, and enjoyed an excel-
lent pension. For the last four or five days he exhibited
some degree of excitement, being attacked with a severe
cold and hoarseness, but nothing to excite the least
alarm of his friends. About nine o'clock on the morn-
ing in question, while the domestics were preparing the
breakfast, a loud report of fire-arms was heard to pro-
ceed from the deceased's bed-room. Two of them im-
mediately ran up to ascertain the cause, when, on enter-
ing the apartment, they discovered that the deceased
had shot himself whilst lying in bed. Ho had placed
the muzzle of a pistol in his mouth, and its contents had
passed through the skull, the bull lodging in the ceiling
of the apartment. Death must have taken placo instan-
taneously. Thu jury returned a verdict of " Temporary
insanity."
THE FIRE AT IRON-GATE WHARF.--LATEST
PARTICULARS.—The fire which broke out upon the pre•
mises of Mr. William Buddle, at Iron-gate Wharf; Pad-
dington, on Friday night, was not wholly extinguishedis
until late the next day. The property destroyed
greater than at first anticipated. The premises burned
down covered an area of nearly 100 feet by 60 wide.
Mr. Braidwood returns the damages done as follows:
Buildings, 90 feet by 60, consisting of steam sawing and
planing mills, moulding-lofts, engine-house, and marble
polishing shops burned down. The roof of marble
show-rooms damaged by fire, and the contents by re-
moval. The contents, the machinery, and stock in trade
were insured in the Westminster Fire-office. The build-
ings,
, which are the property of the Grand Junction
Canal Company, are supposed to be insured in the Sun
Fire-office.

THE TOOTING CHOLERA CASES.
TOOTING, SATURDAY EVENING.— The frightful out-
break of cholera at Mr. Drouct's Juvenile Poor Estab-
lishment at Toeting, is, we are harpy to inform cur
readers, now on the decrease. Indeed it appears that
the epidemic has almost entirely left the Tooting estab-
lishment, and, under the management of the medical
gentlemen connected with the various parishes to which
the poor children belonged who were farmed out there,
since their removal the disease has almost ceased to
exist.

Many doubts have arisen, and various statements have
been made, as to the actual number of children whom
the cholera attacked at the Tooting establishment, and
the number also on whose constitution the malignant
disorder exercised its baneful influence with fatal etrtct.
In order, therefore, that the minds of the public may be
set at rest upon this very important point connected
with the terrible affair, we are enabled to lay before our
readers the following official statement:—

" Surrey Hall, Lower Tooting, Jan. 20, 1849.
" Return of the number of cases of cholera, with death
and recoveries, up to this day—
Total number attackf2d . 360
Deaths from cholera and its complications ... 150
Now under treatment ... ... 43
Convalescent 167
"No fresh case oF cholera has occurred since Satur-
day last, and no deaths during the last forty-eight
hours.

" The cases under treatment are those suffering prin-
cipally from the consecutive fever, and these are pro-
ceeding towards convalescence.
" Our medical staff was reductd on Tuesday by the
removal of Messrs. Popham and Bailey, IN ho were in at-
tendance on the St. Pancras children.
"From the withdrawal of the healthy children from the
establishment the disease has left us suddenly as it came
upon us.
(Signed)

"WILLIAM JAMES KITE,
Resident Surgeon."
In addition to the numbers actually attacked and
treated in the Tooting Asylum, it appears that amongst
the children removed there have been attacked with the
disease:—At St. Pancras 180 children, 10 terminating
fatally ; at Holborn about 30 attacked, and four
deaths ; at the Strand Union 25 attacked, and two
deaths; at Hackney, the_lslington children, 30 or 40 at-
tacked, and four or five deaths ; at Kensington about
20 attacked, and one death. At the Wandsworth and
Clapham Union a very large number have been attacked,
and the deaths have amounted to ten or twelve. At St.
Mary, Newington, a similar state of things has existed.
And thus it appears that, in the aggregate, from 700 to
800 children, or more than one-half the entire number
placed under the care of Mr. Drouet, have been attacked
with the disorder, and in about 200 instances it has ter-
minated Totally-.
Since the melancholy calamity nothing can be more
praiseworthy than the course of conduct which has been
pursued by the St. Pancras board of directors. On
Friday the following reports from Mr. Bird, the medical
gentleman specially appointed to attend the children
since their return from Tooting, were received:—
" St. Pancras Temporary Hospital, Jan. 18.
" There have been no new caves since my last report.
The nurse Blake (attacked with cholera) is better. The
other nurse (Matsell) is merely suffering from ptyalism,
the effect of the medicine she has taken. The two girls
still continue in a precarious state. The remainder, I
am happy to say, are going on well.
" I have examined all the children that were returned
yesterday from Tooting as convalescent, and found them
in good health.
(Signed) " HENRY BIRD, Surgeon."
" Temporary Hospital, St. Pancras,
Jan. 19th.

" I have to report much the same as yesterday. It is
necessary to mention that occasionally one or two of the
children become affected with a low kind of fever (no-
thing whatever to do with cholera), sometimes checked
in a few hours, but at others assuming a typhoid cha-
racter. A boy named Forkett was taken this way in
the night, and one girl yesterday, both of whom had
been at Tooting.
(Signed) " HENRY BIRD, surgeon."
The report of Mr. Bird yesterday was to the effect
that there had been no new cases, but that the two chil-
dren referred to in the previous reports were much in the
same condition.

It appears that the General Board of Health have de-
termined not to c,nfine their inquiries merely to the
Tooting establishment, but are about to extend them to
every workhouse or place to which the children have
been removed from the asylum at Tooting. With this
view the Board of Health held a special meeting on
Friday, when the following order was issued to Mr.
Grainger and to Dr. Arthur Farre, the medical superin-
tendents of the Board of Health.
" General Board of Health, Gwydyr House, Jan. 19.
" Gentlemen,—l am directed by the General Board of
Health to inform you that the board have resolved that
an examination shall be made of the present condition
of the children that have been removed from Tooting,
and they accordingly request that you will visit all the
places where any portion it them now reside, and report
the result of your inspection to the board.
" The board also require that the medical officers of
the several unions shall attend at the examinations of the
children belonging to their respective unions.—l aw,
gentlemen, your obedient servant,
"HENRY AUSTIN, Secretary.
" To H. D. Grainger, Esq., and Dr. Arthur Farre.'
In pursuance of this older of the Board of Health,
Mr. Grainger and Dr. Arthur Furre last night
visited St. Pancras Workhouse, and minutel- in-
spected the whole of the children removed
fruit' Tooting, and paid particular attention to those
still inmates of the cholera wards. Air. Bird, the medi-
cal gentleman who has been appointed specially by the
board of directors to attend the children, was examined,
particularly as to his mode of treatment, especially that
part which related to his watching of the supposed con-
valescent children on their arrival from Tooting.

The medicml inspectors went through the whole of the
workhouse, and were pleased to express their approba-
tion of all the arratriments ; at the same time they
strongly recommended that every inmate should be ex.
unlined daily, in order to detect at the very outset the
slightest premonitory symptom of cholera. It was to
this precaution they attributed the success of Mr. Bird
in alla) ing the virulence of the disease, there being out
of the 180 cases of attack but nine or ten terminating
fatally.
The reports from the Holborn Union, the Strand
Union, and the other places to which the children have
been removed from Tooting up to last night, were
highly favourable.

ROYAL SAPPERS AND MINERS.—The 18th Corn•
pang of the Royal Sappers and Miners, under Captain
Barry, R.E., at Woolwich, will proceed on the 25th
instant to Portsmouth, for employment on the works of
that garrison.
THE LATE MURDER NEAR EXETER.—EXETER,
JAN. 20.—The magistrates of this city have been en-
gaged in hearing further evidence against James Lan-
dick and James Mills, the two men who were appre-
hended on suspicion of having murdered Mrs. Holman,
at Tedburn St. Mary's. The particulars connected with
this diabolical case appeared in the journals at the time.
The chief evidence against the prisoners was that given
by their accomplice, a person nicknamed Cockney
Harry. He stated that he was engaged by Landick
and Mills on the night the murder was committed; and
at nine o'clock they all left Moreton, and arrived at
Wcstwater, in Tedburn St. Nary, at half-past eleven,
when Landick entered the house of the deceased by
means of a prop found in the orchard; he then admitted
the others. They blackened their faces at the foot of
the stairs. They entered the deceased's bed-room, and
were there some time before she awoke and became con-
scious of their presence. The witness further stated that
Mills held the deceased down in the bed while Landick
rifled ier boxes and drawers of their contents, and that
the latter ultimately threw a heavy box of clothes on
her body, exclaiming, " That will stop the old woman
from howling." They shared the money of which they
plundered the deceased. The prisoners were fully com-
mitted for trial.

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENTS...—. TLIE MATOR Or
HARTLEPOOL DROWNED.—Often as it has been Our
painful duty to publish the deaths from accidental drown-
ing in the Docks at Hartlepool, yet upon no previous
occasion have we felt so acutely as in this of the hight)
respected Mayor of that town, W. J. Vollum, Esq., who,
in the prime of life, in the full enjoyment of health,
station, wealth, and honour, presiding for the second
time over that corporation, has been so suddenly removed
from amongst them. After enjoying the society of a few
select friends at his own house on Thursday evening
last, Mr. Vollum took a walk down to the Docks, when
it is supposed he had fallen over the quay, within a
quarter of an hour of leaving his own dwelling, as his
hat was picked up floating in the Victoria Dock, about
half-past ten o'clock, half an hour after he had
left home. The person who found the hat, not
having any idea of any person having fallen into
the water, took no particular notice of the circumstance
that night, but on the following day named it to several
captains in the harbour, thinking they were the most
likely parties to have lost it, but without learning any
tidings of the owner of it. The household of the Mayor
did not say anything about his absence, expecting he
would reach his own home in safety, as he had on some
previous occasions been from home for a day. Howevner,
after six o'clock on Friday their fears were excited, a
of
no means were left untried to learn what had become
at
him. In their inquiries, the account of thoeryb
'clock,
communicated to them, which led to the distcotevn 0
body of the unfortunate
gentleman about
floating,
near to the place where the hat of the
The deceased was in his 38th year,iament his untimely
and has left a widowed mother to m
was
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widower himself;
manager of Messrs.
end. He has been for many yearsnk,
at Hartlepool, and
Backhouse and Co.'s Branch
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Hartlepoolhous
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from an officer Plumper,
AhGeArlNm.aie„ty,s
ship
dated at sea, Jan. ,
Bath morning I was at the mast head, looking
TilE
SEASEo niu'lbEoNal
out for the squadron, when what should I see ut a long
black thing in the water. I hastened on deck and told
the capta2u. He looked at it, and found it was the great
sea serpent. lie immediately called the officers and men
aft to see it. It came close to us, holding its head about
two feet out of water, and we could see about fifteen to
twenty feet a little out of water. It had a kind of mane
on its back, and a white breast—a very ugly-looking
beast, very much resembling the picture in the Illus-
trated London News, only the head was sharper. Two
artists have taken sketches of it, and I will bring one
with me when I come home. I dare say you will think
this all a hoax, but wait with patience, and you will see
an account of it in the papers. We are second Captain
M'Quheas."—Keene's Bath Journal.
BUNN V. JENNY LIND.—The long contested suit
of Bunn v. Lind has at last been settled, it is said, for
the cum offered before litigatiQa corareefact)d, noaely,
,jOO9/.

SACRED HARIVIONIC SOCIETY.
EXETER HALL-HANDEL'S JUDAS MACCA•
BEUS.

Handers magnificent oratorio of Judas Mactabeus
was repeated at Exeter Hall, on Friday evening last,
by the members of the Sacred liarrnonic Society.
The leading parts were distributed as on the former
evening, being supported by Miss Birch' and the
Misses A. and M. Williams, and Messrs. Sims,
Reeves, Phillips, and T. Williams. These several
artistes very ably sang the portions allotted to them,
and equal praise is due to the well-trained band and
chorus, consisting of nearly 700 performers.
M. Costa was the conductor, and never has this.
superb oratorio been more effectively given than it
was on Friday evening by the members of the Sacred
Harmonic Society. Great credit is due to this
society for having popularized the works of Handel,
which before its institution were caviare to the
vulgar; now, however, on the contrary we have
excellent and cheap editions of Handers works
constantly published, and as constantly finding a
steady and a remunerative sale. We have recently
seen this very oratorio of Judas .2lfaccabeus, for instance,
arranged for the organ and pianoforte by Mr. W.
Foster, the talented organist of Tooting, pub-
lished at an astonishingly low price. Mr.' Foster's
edition of Judas Maccabees is a marvel of musical
literature. It is admirably edited (the alto and tenor
parts being given in their original and proper
clefs), most. correctly printed, and excellently got up.
It is to the Sacred Harmonic Society, however, that
we are indebted for having so revived the taste for
sacred music as to render the publication of new edi-
tions of Handel not only safe, but profitable.

ASTLEY'S AMPHITHEATRE.
The magnificent equestrian spectacle, entitled
The TVars of the Jews, still continues to attract
crowded audiences. The scenes in the circle are unsur-
passed and unsurpassable as exhibitions of the science
of horsemanship, and as examples of the highest train-
lag. Miss Woolford's performances on the tight rope
are as graceful as they are astonishing, and bring
down nightly the most enthusiastic applause, while
the pantomime (an equestrian one, and therefore a
perfect novelty of its sort), is the best in London.
The title is a happy one—Bold Robin Hood. Whore
is to be found the child who has not heard of
" Bold Robin Hood," and of " Little John," and
of "Friar Tuck," and of " Maid Marian,"
and who would not prefer seeing a pantomime, sup-
ported by all Its old nursery favourites, to any panto-
mime with the personages of which it was unac-
quainted ? Accordingly we are not surprised to hear
that this is the pet pantomime of the children, and
as in all pantomimic matters children are the
best critics, we bow to their decision, and congratu-
late Mr. Batty on the result.