The Sun.
London, England, 1849-08-18 00:00:00

very favourable position, and operations progressing
towards some very important points. A parcel of about
131 tons was sold on the 10th.

The Wellington Mines bi-monthly meeting was held
on the 10th. The balance in favour of the mines
amounted to 4481. 15s. 3d.; a dividend of 11. 10s, per
256th share was declared for March and April, leaving
a balance of 641. 153. 3d. to next account. The agent
reports the lode productive in the 32 fm. level especially,
which is the deepest level, and there is every prospect of
the course of ore holding down.
The Alfred Consols adventurers met on the 10th, and
audited the accounts for February, March, April, and
May; the division of loss for the four months amounted
to 11. is. 2d. per 1,024 th share. The mine is repre-
sented to have considerably improved since the last
meeting.
Kingsett and Bedford meeting was held on the 6th,
when the accounts for April, May, and June, were read,
the statement shows a balance of 5/. 2s. 7d. against the
company, to meet which, and future operations, a call of
ss. per share was made, with a sanction for the com-
mittee of management to make a further call of 55.,
should it be required, before the nexi meeting. The
agents report is highly gratifying; exclusive of the
course of lead which they are now working upon, several
improvements were anticipated, which we learn have
been realised since the meeting.
Vincent meeting was held on the Bth, when the re-
ports of several agents were read, confirming the opinion
of, and the mode of operations adopted by the managing
agent as being the most satisfactory towarls bringing
the mine into a profitable position; the statement of ac-
counts was satisfactory, and a call of 10s. by two instal-
ments made, which will free the mine from all liabilities.
Wheal Tregorden account for April, May, end June,
was held on the 9th; the accounts showed a balance of
1421. 10s. 10d. against the mine, and a call of 103. per
share was made. The mine has much improved since
the last account, and continues to hold out prospects of
further and immediate improvement ; the lead raised
here is unusually rich for silver, averaging 271. 18s.

per ton.
In foreign mines there has been a fair proportion of
business done. United Mexican has been in demand,
and several transactions closed. In Alien, Copiago, S'.
Joh❑ del Dey, and Australian buyers havo been found,
and bargains effected.

•
THE ARMY AND NAVY.
(From the United Service Gazette of this day.)
CHATHAM GAnnisma.—During the absence of Colonel
Simpson, the Commandant, on leave of absence, the
command has devolved upon Colonel Sir Frederic
Smith, KAI., Re; al Engineers. Several cases of
cholera having been reported to have terminated fatally
in Chroham, Rochester, and Strom], on the evening
of Sunday last, the whole of the troops in garrison
have been prohibited entering the towns, except on duty,
' and sentries have been placed on the upper and lower
draw bridges, near the Ordnance Gun Wharf, to pre-
vent the men parsing cut. This is a wise and salu-
tary measure, for it has been ascertained that Os o
soldiers of the garrison were thinking in the house
where the case ce- cholera terminated fatally on the very
evening of the disease breaking out in an adjoining room.
One of the Royal Marines, alien on duty as sentry on
Monday night, was attacked by cholera, and died in a
few hours after. By a garrison order of Monday last,
the whole of ;the married men, of the various corps in
garrison, residing out in the towns, have been ordered
into barracks, and by a suteeqaent order of Tuesday,
the troops in garrison, tegetlo:r with the women and
children, are to be medically in•pected, each day, with a
view to arrest the progress of disease, should it show
itself among the troops in garrison.
THE OFFICERS WHO DESERTED FROM THE CHIL-
DERS.—A Court-martial is ordered by the Admiralty to
assemble at Devonport to try Lieutenant Graham and
Mr. Elliott, Master, R.N., late officers of the Childev, on
certain charges arising out of the desertion from that
sloop, when at the Cape, by the Lieutenant, he being
commanding-officer at the time; and on the part of the
Master for quitting the Childers with Lieutenant Gra-
ham, he being under arrest at the time.
TORRES STRAITS SURVEYING EXPEDITI)N.—The ?ar-
rival of Mr. M'Clatchie, lato assistant surgeon of the
Bramble, gives us infermarion of the plst and futnre
movements of this expedition. The Rattlesnake and hcr
tender has completed the survey of the Inner Barrier
route from Rockingham Bay to Booby Island, and were
on the eve of sailieg( April 15) for New Guinea to resume
the survey where it was left off by the Bramble. Mr.
M'Clatchte has brought home with him the charts of the
inner passage. We suppose they will shortly be pub•
fished. Mr. McClatchie went out in 1842 under Captain
Blackwoode's command, when the Bramble was attached
to the Fly, and has thus been absent more than seven
years in an arduous service, and one necessarily at-
tended with many privations. The scientific gentlemen
of the Rattlesnake were eargerly looking forward to the
rich field of inquiry which the little known shores of New
Guinea would, doubtless, afford them.

THE MURDER IN BERMONDSEY.
LATEST PARTICULARS.—(THIS DAY.)
The accounts which hare been given in the morning
papers of the circumstances under which this extraor-
dinary murder has been committed, appear to be
as correct as the present limited sources ofin-
formation will allow. The deceased, Mr. Patrick
O'Connor, has been many years in the Cus-
toms as a gauger, which may be surmised from the
fact that he received 3001. a year, and expected
shortly to be superannuated. Ile was a person
who was well known, and is described as being about
fifty years of age. He was stout, of fair complexion,
and possessed generally a respectable and gentlemanly
appearance. 'The person who is understood to be
Mrs. Manning is about twenty-five years of age,
and is said to be good looking and interesting. The
deceased had known her some time previous to her
connexion with Manning; and while, it is said,
she was in the employ of the Duchess of Sutherland.
Manning, it is now well known, was indicted at the
Old Bailey for his connexion with the late robberies
upon the Great Western Railway, and he is, we are
informed, well known to the police as a person of very
doubtful character. The most extraordinary part
of the circumstance is, that although the Murder is
supposed to have been committed on Thursday
evening, Manning and his wife should have
remained at the house for three or four
days afterwards, and should have had daring
enough to sell their furniture to a broker in the
neighbourhood. It appears that Mrs. Manning
went to the deceased's lodging the day after
the murder was committed, unlocked his drawers,
and took away all the most valuable part of
his property, consisting of foreign railway
bonds and shares, besides 3001. in cash.
No suspicion was attached to her, owing to her being
in the habit of visiting occasionally his lodgings
during his absence. The house where the murder
was committed forms one of three newly
and neatly-built residences, one story high, with
kitchen underneath, called Minerva-place, which
abuts on Molesworth-square, and is said to form a
portion of the property belonging to Sir William
Molesworth, Bart. The Mannings had resided at it
about three months.

This afternoon an inquest was held at the Leather
Market Tavern, before Mr. Carter, to inquire into
the death of the deceased, but only one viitness had
been examined at the time we went to press, a
Mr. Welsh, a personal friend of the deceased,
whose evidence went to show simply that he had ac-
companied the deceased to Manning's house the night
previous to the murder (Wednesday) about ten o'clock,
and that they remained there together about an hour
and a half. The deceased, he being rather faint,
laid upon the sofa and smoked a pipe. They left
together, and parted at the end of lioundsditch.
No evidence except corroborative of the facts
already laid before the public was expected to be
adduced, and in all probability the inquest would be
vdjourned.
Every exertion is made to discover the where-
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SOUTH LONDON MEDICAL SO

CIETY-EPIDEMIC CHOLERA.

An extraordinary meeting of the members of this
society was held on Thursday at the Literary Institu-
tion, Borough-road, for the purpose of discussing the
nature and treatment of the prevailing epidemic.
Mr. HILTON, surgeon, of Guy's Hospital, and pre-
sident of the society, took the chair, and said the
meeting had been called in consequence of the general
feeling of medical men, in the district and elsewhere,
that those who had experience might communicate
the results at which they had arrived, and so extend
the benefit of that experience over a wider area. For
the better guidance of their discussion, therefore, he
advised that they should confine themselves rather to
an enunciation of principles, or a statement of strict
facts, than to attempt to diverge into the different
modes of treatment. It would be of great im-
portance, for example, to state facts which went to
show whether the disease was contagious or not, under
certain favouring circumstances ; for to prove that it
was not contagious would be impossible. But facts
tending to show that it was communicable from one
person to another, under certain favouring circum-
stances, would be most important.
Mr. WRIGHT said a case occurred in his own
practice which went to show the contagious nature of
the disease. In Wandsworth a person living in a row
where no case of cholera had occurred, was seized
suddenly, became blue, and died in seven hours;
medicine bad no effect. Three nights after he was
called to attend a child seized with cholera in the same
house, and this case, too, proved one of extreme cha-
racter, for the patient died in nine hours.
WATERWORTII said it was necessary to show
that the district had been untainted for at least half
or quarter of a mile round, because two or three of
a family living in the same house might die in
consequence of exposure to the same tainted cir—
cumstances.
Mr. HICKS said his experience led him to discern
between three degrees of the disease. First, there
was a class where diarrhcel was permitted to con-
tinue for perhaps a fortnight without attention ; that
was a class amenable to treatment, if not too far gene.
Secondly, there was a class where the poison had
taken more serious effect and occasioned purging and