The Sun.
London, England, 1849-08-22 00:00:00

EVENING, AUGUST 22, 1849.

Sut,--IsQlfeTa;liged by your handing the
enclosed amount (12s. 6d.) to the committee formed
to carry out the testimonial to the Hungarian refugees,
and allow me, Sir, to express my admiration of the
noble manner in which you advocate the cause of
that heroic nation, Hungary. Let me beg of you to
continue to do so, and you will secure the admiration
of all the generous of the United Kingdom.
We are poor enough here; but still there are a
few that can feel for a gallant people fighting, against
tremendous odds, for the independence of their country
and their homeo. The enclosed sum is made up be-
tween two .or three friends, and I trust that I shall in
a day or two enclose you another mite.
I am, sir, yours most faithfally,
Limerick, Aug. 20. R. L•

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STN.
SIR,—.I have enclosed an order for a trifle for 'the
Hungarians from a few friends at Banbury, wishing
them every success in their glorious struggle for free•
dom ; at the same time thanking you for your advo-
cacy in their behalf.—Your obedient servant,
A CONSTANT READER
Banbury, Aug. 21. For Fifteen Years.

HUNGARY.
Shout, Hungary, shout—let your fierce triumph cry
O'er the tumult of battle be lifted on high!
Let the roar of that glorious thunder roll far,
Till it palsies with panic the soul of the Czar;
Into Poland's brave heart drives the life-blood again,
And makes Italy writhe in her half-broken chain.

Lo the great words of Kossuth arc sown in all hearts,
And the harvest—a people of warriors upstarts;
"Smite and spare not, strike home till thekdastardly
standard
Grovels prone at the feet of the heroes they've slander'd.
No mercy! no pause! while a foeman yet stands
On the soil of your fathers with arms in his hand.''
On, on! ye wild riders who rush without reins,
A whirlwhind- of war o'er the shelterless t•plains;
Let your swift clearing sabres flash death thro the shroud
Of dust rolling round, like the bolt from the cloud,
Up, np, ye wild herdsmen, and break through and
through
Their wavering ranks with your deadly Iassoo;
While breast-plate and helmet crash fragile as flax.
Beneath the rude might of the keen whirling axe.*
Glory, glory for ever be heaped on,the nation
That has poured out its heart in one mighty libation—
Nobler blood never crimsoned Thermopylais sod—
At the altar ofFatherland, Freedom, and God.
Glory, glory for ever shall brighten each name
Of the heroes who fanned that high passion to flame,
Dembinski and Kossuth, and Georgey and Bem;
Fame's echoes shall never wax weary of them.
May the vengeance of God nerve your sinews with might,
Not for Hungary. only—for Europe ye fight—
Yes! this is the war whose far thunders have rolled
So long o'er tho nations—the strife oft foretold.
Between those who would loosen and those who would

bind
In the bonds of mere force the expansions of mind:
Between those who would prop Power's dotard decay
By imbruting the souls that succumb to his sway;
And those who would lift to its uttermost span
Of unbounded achievement the spirit of man.

Can it be that the Mother of Freemen stills sleeps
In tame dreams o'er the wealth she ingloriously heaps,
Is her high spirit quenched—has her proud heart grown
cold?
Has her clear eye of valour grown jaundiced with gold!
Shall she, who once smote with the fire of that glance
In the strength of his soaring the Eagle of France,
Shrink cowering back, at his huge bulk aghast,
From the Condor who screams on the black Aretic blast,
Though his mate be the grim two-necked vulture that

flings
O'er Ansonia the gloom of her death-dropping wings?
No, perish the thought—be the craven abhorred,
Who would counsel our &gland to crouch o'er her

hoard.
Change her swords into ledgers, and tame down the soul
That Glory, not Mammon, was wont to controul.
No ; let France, if she will, after trampling at home
Upon Liberty's corpse, go and trample down Rome;
Her spasmodic convulsions but serve to attest
That French freedom's a farce, and French justices jest.

But we—the great nation who've trodden for ages
In the footprints of Liberty's martyrs and sages ;
The descendants of Milton and Sydney—we must
Be undauntedly righteous and daringly just;
The first-born of Freedom, our watchword must be,
"Aid all who aspire and deserve to be free."

Then let Harlequin-Cicero rave as he will—
Let the Cabinet drivel—we're Palmerston still;
With him for her leader, let England uprise,
And speak out in the thunder none dare to despise.
While her red-dragon standard floats far o'er the waves,
" This nation of heroes shall never be slaves."
Temple.

J. A.
• Laisoos and thrown battle-axes seem to be weapons used
by the peasant soldiery of Hungary.

LINES
TO THE HUNGARIAN HEROES.
Roll on—roll on—l hear the drum,
And the voices of millions nearer come—
Roll on—roll on—l hear the cry
Of a Nation's voice now raised on high,
Shaking the earth and rending the sky.
'Tis a martial sound, and Victory's there,
For nerved is the mind, and arm made bare;
With burning hearts, and glittering swords—
A PROPHET'S amongst them, with holy words,
Inspiring with courage what Freedom awards.
March on—march on, ye great and ye brave..
The heart of the freeman disdains to be slave,
For greatness encircles the dazzling lines
Where the Patriot's banner in glory shines.
And courage cemented are found in those lines.
The tyrants shall fall before your might,
And Ileav'n will befriend you in every fight,
Snapping asunder the galling chain
Which branded each home, and stinted each plain,
Where the Despot shall never more rule there again.
Haste on—haste on, they are fleeing the camp,
And Liberty's lit up her glorious lamp,
Shining in splendour, a brilliant star,
Shedding its beauties on nations afar,
Fed.by the Patriot's blood in war.
Saint Stephen's flag is proudly borne,
And floats o'er the towers of old Comorn,
Whilst the victories gain'd at Raab and Ash,
In the Tyrant's eyes like lightning shall flash,
Bearing all down in their war-like crash.
Move on, and in haste, Vienna's walls
Are growing deserted, and so are her halls.
Move on—move on—for, oh I it is good
To crush an old House of pillage and blood,
Which for centuries past has freedom withstood.
There's music that sounds in wildest alarm,
When Freedom is snapping the Tyrant's arm,
Whose battle in earnest has now begun—
Where the souls of the millions are all as one—
God grant that its struggles may crown the Hun!
A. B. M. WILDMAN.

QUEEN VICTORIA'S VISIT TO DUBLIN.
Och such rushing and crushing,
Such pushing and lushing—
Such racing of carriages, crashin' of ears—
Was ne'er before troublin'
The city of Dublin,
Since Misther Turgesius brought over his wars.
Such music and firin'—
Every sowl, too, admirin'
The young Queen, and her Consort so stately;
In the little Princesses,
In their purty silk dhresses,
And the smart Prince of Wales doin' sailor so nately. ,
• There was somethin' so grand in
Her Majesty's landin'4,
That every one shouted,, and every one smiled;
' bad people in millions—
Dukes,-lords, and civilians,
Policemen, postilions, and all running wild. - -
Cocked hats with big plumes,
-
Country folk hirin' rooms;
high arches, quick marches, and han'kerchiefs wariu';
Carriages, marriages,
Dhresses, adhresses,
And nobody dhreamiu' of sleepin' or savin'.
In yachts there was hanlin' ;
From brats there was bawlin',
When mothers got wedged at the station-house door ;
Commandhers, highlanders,
Difectors, projectors,
Ahd trains Chat were crowded soon made to hold more.
muchtoo, was
morle light too,
Atoo,
By gas aTndhnedbymnitagadhleltO w, by wax and sky-rocket.
There were catches and glees,
Boxin' matches and sprees,
And ev'ry one busy, from Peer to pickpocket. "
, .
Och, sure 'twas done heavy
• All at the grand levee ;
Not to mintion the visit to the Gardens and Bank ;
Or to Trinity College,
Where they've got the dead knowledge,.;
And the Schools, where the children all sung in a 'rank.
'Twas grand altogether, -
The sights and the weather ;
The drancin' and prancin', the dhrawin'-room, too.
Here's long live Victoria
'ln honour and glory,
- And more power to the Prince, and the babes and
review ! ,
Warder. ,-*

THE SECRETARY OF TLIE LEEDS INFIRMARY.-'-
After two remands, William Beckwith, the secretary and
collector of the Leeds Infirmary, was brought up at
the Leeds Court-house for final examination on Tuesday.
It was proved that his defalcations amounted to
1,0201. 75., the sums embezzled having been collected by
him during the last three years. Nothing was urged in
his defence, and he was committed for trial at the Bo-
rough Sessions, which will be held in October next.

ENORMOUS RATTLE-SNAIER.--11 rattle-snake .was
killed, at Chester village, on Tuesday, by Mr. W.Dick-
inson, which measures six feet in length without the
head. Its girth was eight inches, and its tail was orna-
mented with a beautiful string of fifteen rattles. We
believe this is the largest rattle-snake ever killed in this
region.—Springfield Republican,

HEALTH-----OF: LON-DON DURING

THE WEEK.
(From the Registrar-General's Return.)
It is one of the characters of epidemic diseases that
in some years their fatality is inconsiderable, in other
years excessive. Since 1832 and 1833 cases of
cholera have appeared in the tables, but the deaths in
the second week of August, during the past five years,
have fluctuated from Ito 23. In the week ending
Saturday, August 18, the deaths in London were
2,230, of which 1,230 were by cholera, 188 by
diarrhcea. The deaths from all causes in the last
seven weeks were 1,070, 1,369, 1,741, 1,931, 1,967,
1,969, and 2,230 ; the deaths from cholera, 152, 339,
678, 783, 926, 823, and 1,230. The deaths from
cholera exceed those in the previous week by
407; but in that week the mortality declined.
The population is about 2,206,000, so that ,
nearly one in 1,060 of the inhabitants now die
weekly. The deaths from all diseases, except
cholera, are 1,000, which is the average number of
the season ; and 539 were at ages under 15 ; 256 at
the ages 15-60, 205 at the age of 60 and upwards.
Of the 1,230 persons who died from cholera, 318
were under the age of 15 ; 72] were 15.60, and 191
were 60 and upwards : it carries off an excessive
proportion of people in the prime of life. 597 males
and 633 females died of the disease last week ; at an
earlier period of the epidemic the deaths of males
exceeded those of females. Of 6,194 persons who
have died of cholera in London since September,
1848, 3,524 died on the south side of the Thames.
It has now crossed the river. The mortality last
week increased in the districts of St. George, South-
wark, Newington, and Lambeth : it broke out with
extraordinary violence in Greenwich; and on the
north side of the Thames, in Stepney, Shoreditch,
and Bethnal-green, 55, 98, and 125 deaths were
registered. The deaths from cholera in the last two
weeks were 35 and 125 in Bethnal-green, 21 and
98 in Shoreditch, 24 and 55 in Stepney, 42 and 76 in
the districts of the east, west, and city of London,
comprehending the jurisdiction of the city, properly
so called, 7 and 24 in Alarylebone, 17 and 34 in
Westminster district, 5 and 20 in Chelsea.
This excessive mortality must be viewed with great
regret. Looking to the authentic reports of the
effects of general sanitary measures, and of efficient
medical relief placed within the reach or carried to
the homes of the people, it is quite evident that the
measures now in operation are unequal to the emer-
gency. The classes which have the greatest claim
for public succour are not idle habitual paupers, but
the hard-working artizan; yet it is stated that in some
parishes the arrangements are such that medical
relief is not procurable directly from the district
medical officers, who are, to the utmost extent of their
powers, discharging their painful duties with praise-
worthy diligence and humanity. In a disease which
so often attacks in the night, and is fatal in twenty-
four hours, the poor have to procure orders before
they can be treated. Unless some change be made
in these simple administrative arrangements, the
mortality from cholera may be higher than it has yet
been in London.

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS
NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN
THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, AUG. 18, 1849.
Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases ...*1593
Diseases of Uncertain Seat ... ~. 40
Tubercular Diseases ... ... 149
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... ... 11i
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels ... 35
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration .. ••• ••• ••• 83
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs
of Digestion... ... ..• -••
Diseases of the Kidneys, &e.
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus,
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles
Diseases of the Skin, &o.
Malformations...
Premature Birth
Atrophy
Old Age
Sudden
Violence, Privation, Cold, or Intemperance
Causes not specified ...

••• ••• 54
••• ••• 12

... ... ... 2

... ... .. ... ... 26
... ... ... ... ... 31
... ... ... ... •• • 45

... 22
... ... ... 3

DEATIIS FRO3I ILL CAUSES ... ... 2,230

Population Average weekly Deaths
Enumerated, Deaths, 1844-8 in the
1841 Five Summers. Week.
West Districts... 300,711 . . 147 ... 231
North Districts.. 375,971 .. 191 ... 272
Central Districts 373,653 ... 183 ... 307
East Districts ... 392,444 ... 227 ... 587
South Districts .. 501,190 ... 260 ... 833

Totals... ..... 1,948,369 ... ],OOB ... 2,230
]Slales . ... ... 1,116
Females ... ... ... 1,114

SUNDERLAND DOCK COMPANY.
An ordinary general meeting of the shareholders of
this company was held, on Monday last, in the Ex-
change Commission Room, Sunderland.
In the absence of George Hudson, Esq., the chair-
man of the board of directors, Christopher Bramwell,
Esq., the deputy chairman, presided.
The usual preliminary business having been gone
through,
_

11.1 r-. J. J. WRIGHT, the company's solicitor, read
the following report:—
" At' the last general meeting the directors had the
satisfaction of reporting the then advanced position of
the company's works and the entire completion of
the half-tide basin, as well as the removal of the rock
and deepening of the bed of the river in front of the en-
trance, and they have now to acquaint the shareholders
that since then they have let the formation of the tidal
harbour to Messrs. Thomson and Hunter, and the mak-
ing of the dock gates to Messrs. Hawks, Crawshay, and
Co. These works are progressing with great rapidity,
the excavation of the tidal harbour being at the
present moment nearly accomplished and on both
sides already at the depth required for the foundation
walls, and the gates being likewise in a very advanced
state of construction. The main dock being also now
nearly completed, the company will open the dock at
the close of the present year, as originally pro-
jected. With this view also the directors have let the
formation of the Groynes on the south of the dock, to
form a place of deposit for the ballast to be taken from
the ships; and as this company will be enabled to offer to
the shipowners the many advantages of the dock, espe-
cially that of baling their ships afloat, instead of lying
on the ground, as they now do in the river, at a cost not
exceeding, if not less than, the aggregate amount of the
harbour dues and expenses they now incur, there can be
no doubt that extensive business and considerable reve-
nue may be early, if not immediately, anticipated. The
directors, as they have announced in previous reports,
have always regarded the making of the intended southern
outlet to the dock as an object of paramount importance,
not only to this undertaking but to the port of Sunder-
land at large, and in order that no time may be lost in
its accomplishment, the engineer is now engaged under
the orders of' the directors in making revised plans and
estimates that its formation in the most advantageous
situations may be taken into early consideration. The
directors of the company have long felt the necessity, and
have for many months past importuned the directors of
the York, Newcastle, and Berwick Railway Comp any to
come to some definite arrangement for the shipment in
the Sunderland Dock of all the coals and other merchan-
dise brought down their Durham and Sunderland
and their projected new branch railways, and the time
has now arrived that unless such agreement be entered
into the interests both of the dock and the railway com-
pany must necessarily suffer. The directors have, there-
tore called an extraordinary meeting to be held to-day,
at which they will submit a resolution for the considera-
tion and adoption of the shareholders, investing them
with an authority to conclude an arrangement so heir •
ficial to all parties concerned. The directors who retire
from office under the provisions of the original and
amended Acts of the company are Christ. Bramwell,
John Scott, Thomas Reed, 'and Richard Spoor, Esquires,
the three former being eligible for re-election ; but the
latter, Mr. Spoor, having resigned that office, the direc-
tors recommend to the meeting the election of Robert
Scurfield, Esq„ as one of the directors of this company.
The auditor who retires at this meeting is Thomas Rob-
son, Esq., who having declined re-election, the directors
recommend the election of Charles Strathmore Moon,
Esq., as one, of the auditors, as a gentleman in every way
eligible to fill that office.—By order of the Board.
" Sunderland, 20th August, 1849."
The financial statement was neat read. It showed
an income upon calls from the commencement of
179,294/., and from other sources 2,751/. ; total
receipts, 182,0451. Total expenditure, 175,1051.
These accounts were made up to the 30th of June.
The CHAIRMAN then made some remarks on the
advanced state of the works, and the advantages that
will be secured to the district by having a better
shipping place than they at present possess. 12,000
vessels annually clear from this port,' and 1,600,000
tons of coal are annually shipped in it ; and if only
half that quantity were to be shipped in the dock, he
repeated what he had said on a former occasion, it
would yield the shareholders 5 per cent, on their in-
vestment. But with better means of shipment, and if
certain arrangements now contemplated were carried
out, the shipment would be very greatly increased.
There was one gentleman present who had, within the
last three weeks, had five American vessels on his list
for coals, and for want of accommodation those vessels
had to go to adjoining ports. With 22 feet water in
their docks they would be able to accommodate such
vessels as those referred to. The chairman concluded
by moving that the report now read, and the accounts
subjoined thereto, be received, adopted, printed, and
transmitted to the shareholders.

The motion was agreed to unanimously.
Mr. Bramwell, Mr. Scott, and Mr. Reed, retiring
directors, were then re-appointed, and Mr. Scurfield,
was elected in place of Mr. Spoor, resigned.
Mr. C. S. Moon was elected auditor in place of Mr.
Robson.

The meeting then resolved itself into an
EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING.
Mr. BRAMWELL, having been continued in the chair,
explained that it was necessary to invest the beard of
directors with powers to enter into an arrangement
with the directors of the York, Newcastle, and Ber-
wick Railway Company, by which they shall give to
the latter a fair and full benefit for their staiths and
drops now along the river side, on condition that they
ship in the dock the coals brought along their lines,
and hitherto shipped in the river. The directors de-
sired to make such an arrangement only as would be
fair and equitable to both parties, and, unless it were
made speedily, the dock works would be retarded.
Certain preliminary arrangements had been made,
but the directors could not proceed without further
powers.

Mr. WTRIGIIT, before reading the resolution about
to be submitted, would refer to certain resolutions
respecting this question in the published report eman-
ating from the committee of investigation of the
York, Newcastle, and Berwick Railway Company.
He thought it proper to state that all negotiations
referred to in that report had taken place with com-
mittees from the board of directors, who were autho-
rised only to receive propositions for discussion. Such
propositions had been received, but the question had
never been fully entered into by the board. The
shareholders were consequently not called upon to
confirm any definite agreement, but simply to em-
power the directors to make an arrangement such as
would be desirable to the interests of the company.
Mr. Wright then read the following resolution, which
was proposed by the chairman :
" That, inasmuch as no arrangement has been entered
into or sanctioned by the directors of this company with
reference to all or any of the special matters authorised
to be considered and decided at this extraordinary meet-
ing, the directors of this company at a board meeting
assembled, or the major part of them, shall have, and
are hereby invested, with full power and authority, at
any time or times hereafter, to enter into any arrange-
ment or arrangements they may think advisable for
the interests of this company, with the York, Newcastle,
and Berwick Railway Company, or the directors thereof
on behalf of such company, for or relating to the ship-
ment in the Sunderland Dock of all coal, cinders, coke, and
culm, or other articles of merchandise which, after the
said dock is ready for the reception of ships or vessels,
shall be led, brought, or conveyed down the Durham
and Sunderland branch of the York, Newcastle, and
Berwick Railway, or the intended Pensher branch, or
any other railway belonging to the said York, Newcas-
tle, and Berwick Company, or for or relating to the
landing of timber or other articles. from
ashoidpfoorr
vessels for conveyance along the railways,
the purchase and removal by the saidsa Sundeland Dock
Company of the staiths, drops,iu timberuseat erections,thesaidp
machi-
nery, or other materials now urliamand Sunderland branch railway shipping places on or
adjoining the river Wear, at Sunderland aforesaid; and
also as to, or relating to the amount of the dues and
charges to be made for the shipment or unloading of said
coal, cinders, coke, culm, timber, or other articles or
merchandise in the said dock, or in the ships or vessels
entering the said dock for the purpose of loading or
unloading the same, or in anywise connected therewith."
Mr. CIIA.RLTON observed that the Railway Inves-
tigation Committee had repudiated the agreements
made by the railway directors.
Mr. WaircluT replied 4 that the committee had not
doue so; they had simply requested the directors to
postpone the consideration of the question until the
buard should be reconstructed. The directors of the
railway had power to make the contemplated arrange-
ment without going to their shareholders ; this the
directors of the dock company could not do, and
hence they required to be placed on an equal footing
with the former. If coals were to be shipped at the
dock, it was necessary to erect staiths, and the time
had now arrived for determing on the matter. There
was great reason to believe that not only the railway
company but the investigation committee would see
the necessity, if they would consult their own in-
terests, of making an arrangement such as that
proposed.
Mr. JOIINASSON made some remarks tothe
benefitcffect
that the arrangement would be to the mutual
of both parties. The railway companyt
o accommodation
had much of
their revenue curtailed for
t
sufficient to ship all thecoofa
the
illibel'roOloumglpitanalyo,nghethbeeirlieli‘ueed
the
completion
tillt play,.
In the present positionh e
Jarrow Dock would not take
place
and in that event they would
additional room for shipping
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n of f
be compelled to •
coals elsewhere. It would therefore be their interest
tc, agree with this company.
The resolution was then agreed to.
Mr. Wnicur next read the following resolution,
which also was moved by the chairman :
" That the directors of this company, at a board meet-
ing assembled, or the major part of them, shall have,
and are hereby invested with, full power to make and
enter into any arrangements they may deem expedient,
with George Hudson, Robert Davies, and James Richard-
son, Esqrs., for or relating to the 2,345 shares of this
• company, now standing in their joint names; and also
with any other persons respecting any share or shares of
this company now standing in their names, and of which
any call shall now be in arrears and unpaid, and either
for the purchase, forfeiture, or transfer of such shares,
or any of them, to this company, or to any trustee or
trustees in trust for this company; and to release or dis-


charge unpaid and future calls, on such shares, or any o f
I
them, or otherwise in the way of compromise or arrange-
ment respecting any
such shares in any manner such
directors shall, after a consideration of the circumstances
enngsudeids,cuthsseiopnurpionrttohfethfeorrmeplioefs
oqfutehsteiocnhaainrd.
connected therewith, deem advisable."
ansAwelro
man and Mr. Wright being as follows:—One or two
of the directors had not taken up their calls on the
shares held by them individually, and proceedings had
been instituted against them . simultaneously with
proceedings against ordinary shareholders. Those
directors had now accounted satisfactorily for their
calls, and therefore the resolution did not apply to
them. With respect to the 2,345 shares standing in
the names of Messrs. Hudson, Richardson, and
Davies, and which, as all present were aware, had
been taken on behalf of the York, Newcastle, and
Berwick Railway Company by Mr. Hudson, and upon
which 41,0001. had been paid up, it was expedient
for the directors to be empowered to accept the
offer of a compromise from those gentlemen, by
which the directors shall take back, without re-
funding any part of the money paid up, a propor-
tion of the said shares in full discharge of all
further liabilities on the part of the gentlemen
so transferring them—the shares so taken back to be
vested in trustees, and sold at a future period for the
advantage of the company. The directors were in-
duced to ask power to make this or any other arrange-
ment that may be desirable, and which does not ind
volve repayment of the money paid up, first, in order
to prevent litigation ; and, second, to facilitate an
arrangement with regard to the shipment of coals at
the dock. The chairman further stated that Messrs.
Hudson, Richardson, and Davies would pay over, as
part of the bargain, a sum of money—he believed out
of their own pockets—and enable the company to
borrow money on its own debentures.
The motion was finally agreed to, as were also two
other resolutions arising formally out of it.
Another resolution, empowering the directors to
borrow 50,0001. on mortgage, or bond, at a rate of
interest not exceeding 51. per cent., was next pro-
posed by the chairman and agreed to.
A vote of thanks was then given to Mr. Bramwell
for his conduct in the chair, and the meeting broke up.