The Sun.
London, England, 1849-08-14 00:00:00

ST. LECIER.

2 to 1 on Lord Eglinton's Flying Dutchman—taken
15 to 1 ugst Lord Stanley's Uriel—taken to 100/.
19 to 1 agst Lord Chtden's Honeycomb—taken
20 to 1 agst Mr. Pedley's Chatterer
DERBY, 1850.
35 to 1 agst Lord John Scott's Windhound---taken
40 to 1 agst Mr. Stephenson's Voltigeur—taken
1,000 to 20 agst Mr. Watson's Paul—taken
1,000 to 15 agst Mr. Grutwicke's The Nigger—taken
WOLVERHAMPTON RACES.—MONDAY.
The Trial Stakes of 5 SOTS. each, and 30 added. Once
round and a distance. (4 Subs.)
Mr. Barnes's Sotterley, 4 yrs (Simpson) 1
Mr. T. Parr's Woolwich, 3 yrs (G. Oates) 2
Mr. Miner's Shropshire Witch, 4 yrs (Darling) 3
The Produce Stakes of 10 sous. each, and 20 added.
Once round. (18 Subs.)
Mr. Copeland's Aldgate, Bst (Marlow) 1
Mr. Stagg's Christiana, Bst
Mr. John Fowler's John Dory, Bst 61b (Templeman) 0
Mr. 11. Wadlow's Sarah, Bst (Tasker) 0
Mr. Stubb's Glorious, Bst 31b (Denman) 0
Mr. Critchley's Sir Henry Hardinge, Bst 61b
The Wolverhampton Stakes of 25 sous. each, and 10u
added. Twice round; the second saves his stake. (36
Suns., 25 of v. horn declared.)
Mr. Meiklam's Snowstorm, 3 yrs, sst 71b...(Arnold) 1
Mr. Gaud na Thu Model, 3 yrs, sst Sib (G. Childe) 2
Mr. Fowler's Zingari, 3 yrs, sst slb (Wells) 3
Mr. Murphy's Dough, 4 yrs, Bst 71b (Magee) 0
Mr. Parr's Van Diemen, 3 yrs, 6st 31b (41b extra)... 0
Van Diemen threw his jockey.
Sweepstakes of 50 sous. each, h ft. Mile and a quarter.
Sir C. Monck's Vanguard, Bst 61b walked over.

SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—The annualha
fete in celebration of the birthday of her Majesetyr
yesterday.
Queen Dowager took place at these gardens
f yoostpenaing
The day being also the 18th anniversary of the
of the garden, the two events were celebrated
than usual splendour and éclat.usual
entertainments of other evening
j and the fire
owz,of the wild
birds and beasts, the storming of
of four military
works, which were more brilliantg
than on ordinary occa-
sions, there were the performances
bands, viz., tho band of the 2d Life Guards, of the
)of tho Coldstream Guards, and
Hors© Guardsevenings,
uheadvaie_ addition with
t,e
(Blues), from Woolwich, the perform-
of the 'loyal Artillery
f the German band and chorus from Drury-lane
execs o
Theatre, and of the band attached to the establishment,
formingaltogether an orchestra of 250 musicians, the
whole conducted by Mr. E. Godfrey. The selections of
concerted music were from the first masters, and made
with judgment, and it would be unjust not to say that
the manner in which the whole was arranged and car-
ried out was most creditable to the liberality of the pro-
prietor, Mr. Tyler, to the conductor, and to the musi-
cians. Amongst the solos were Mr. Roberts, the Welsh
harper, Mr. Laztrus, the clarionet player, and Mr.
Richardson. The Misses Wells and other favourites of
the public were amongst the vocalists. The gardens
are in excellent order, both the trees and parterres ex-
hibit signs of experienced horticultural judgment and
good taste, and notwithstanding the, at times, threaten-
ing state of the weather, during which the company
crowded into the new refreshment rooms, there were
Some thourtands of pereone preseat.

THE BRITANNIA BRIDGE.
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Considerable delay, inseparable from the stupendous
character of the machinery, the care required in, ad-
justing it, and the calculations necessary to insure
success in an experiment so vast and novel, have
unavoidably taken place, so as to give time for the
preparation of all appliances, and the bringing to bear
all the engineering ,sisdom of the day upon a work
that is watched with so much interest by the public
and the scientific world. Under these circumstances
it will be gratifying to know that, under the superin-
tendence of Mr. Stephenson's band of engineers,
Messrs. E. and L. Clark, Forster, Wild, and Mr.
Amos, the designer and manufacturer of the huge
machinery, the great tube is now making its
way majestically upwards. The raising is going on
successfully at the rate of six feet a day, and the
machinery acts most admirably. The great agents
that work it, and that elicit the enormous pulling
pressure of the hydraulic power, and by which the
water is forced into the presses, are two steam-
engines of forty, horse power each, with tubular
boilers, as in a locomotive, and it is these acting on the
chains that troll up the two thousand tons, foot after
foot. The steam cylinder is horizontal. A continu-
ation of the piston rod, which passes through both
ends of the cylinder, forms the piston of the force
pumps, which are placed one at each end, in the same
line as the cylinder. The ram of the hydraulic press
that works the mass of metal upwards is 20 inches.
The simplest and most diminutive, but at the same
time the most amazing instrument of power, is the
pipe through which the water is forced into the
press. It is of wrought iron, and though exercis-
ing a force over two thousand tons, is not larger
than the hollow of a lady's thimble, its circum-
ference being that of a sixpence. The stroke now
daily accomplished by the presses is six feet. This
must be understood to imply that the hydraulic
power is only empowered to raise six feet at one
lift. The tube, when lifted that height, is sustained
by the chains until six feet of masonry are, for every
successive six feet, built under. Then to obtain a
fresh hold the chains are gripped between another set
of clams at the foot of the press, the upper set of links
are taken off and laid aside, and arrangements made
for another hoist. The upper clams are then
again closed, and the operation repeated as before.
The number of these separate lifting operations
required will be about fifteen, and as there will be
one a day, the whole operation will take a fortnight,
including the process of holding up beneath. Each
six feet stroke of the press occupies an hour, and an
additional hour is occupied in adjusting the machinery
for the next. The key beams employed in the pro-
cess, and on which the tube rests at intervals on its
upward journey, are 24 feet long by 4 feet high, and
weigh eleven tons each. The following up beneath
with timber and brickwork employs a number of
masons. Should not the present plans be modified or
altered, the lifts will be confined to six feet a day.
It is a grand sight to see the tube as it now hangs
suspended in the chains, swinging across the Straits,
during the present heavy gales in the Channel, with a
cradle like motion.

In the mean time the preparations for the floating
the next .tube are complete, and the operation will
take place as soon as the machinery for lifting can be
shifted, in order to raise it as soon 83 it is floated, so
that the first train will very soon cross the Straits.

MORTALITY IN THE ANJJS-
WORTII-ROAD.
For some days past a feeling of very considerable
alarm has possessed the inhabitants of that part of the
Wandsworth-road comprised within the parish of
Clapham, and extending about a mile, in consequence
of the cholera having appeared in its most malignant
form, and occasioned a mortality unexampled in in-
tensity and numbers, even in the most squalid and
ill-drained portions of the metropolis. Albion-ter-
race, a row of second-class houses on the north side
of the road, and situated near the 'William the Fourth
has been more particularly the scene of the calamity,
and in ten houses of that devoted terrace, during the
course of eleven days, there were seventeen deaths
from Asiatic cholera, independent of several others
who left their houses infected, to die elsewhere. In
one house, No. 6, no less than five persons died of
cholera. The house was in the occupation of the
Rev T. llarrison, a dissenting minister, and with
that gentleman and his wife were staying, prepara-
tory to a departure of the whole of the family to
Brighton, Mrs. Henrietta Roscoe, a very aged lady,
and Mrs. Edwards, with a cook and housemaid.
Mrs. Roscoe was first seized, and died on the 4th
instant. Mrs. Edwards, who had attended upon her
relative, was next seized, and on Mr. llarrison return-
ing from the funeral of his aunt, Mrs. Roscoe, on
Tuesday last, he found his wife attacked with the
same dreadful disease, and that lady expired early the
next morning. It appeared that Mr. Harrison, over-
whelmed with grief, fled the house soon after his
wife's death, incempany with a lodger in the next house.
On the same morning that Mr. Harrison left his
house Mrs. Edwards died, and the cook was taken ill
and died the same evening. On the day following,
Thursday, the three bodies were taken to Mrs.
Roscoe's grave, in Kensal-green, and on the return
of the mourners the nurse who had attended Mrs.
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simultaneously, and the head of the house dying from
home, created an extraordinary excitement, which
was considerably increased by Mr. Milledge, the
undertaker who had buried the other members of the
family, receiving the card of a medical gentleman at
Hampstead and a note from the landlord of the Jack
Straw's Castle, stating that the Rev. Mr. Harrison
had died at his house, after having had his will
written out by a young man who had accompanied
him. On Friday the young man who had accom-
panied deceased from his home called on the under-
taker, and wished some boxes of jewellery and other
property to be moved out of the house, saying
he would take care of it. Mr. Milledge denied him en-
trance to the house, when he threatened to use force,
and Mr. Milledge said if he did he would give him in
charge of the police. The young man then said he
would go and remove the deceased's property from
the tavern at Hampstead, but as that was known to
be valuable, the landlord had been cautioned not to
part with it. These f.!cts coming to the knowledge
of Mr. Harrison's relatives, they determined upon
communicating with Mr. Higgs, the coroner for the
Duchy of Lancaster, and that gentleman appointed
an inquest to be holden, and a post mortem examina-
tion of the body to be made. Yesterday a long in-
quiry was gone into at the William the Fourth, and
evidence embracing the facts already mentioned having
been given, Mr. M'Donough, the surgeon to the
parish of Clapham, was examined as to the result of
the post mortem examination he had made. He stated
that great inflammation existed in the abdomen,
stomach, viscera, and thorax, and the heart was very
soft. He had placed the heart, stomach, and right
lobe of the liver in separate jars for the purpose of
examination. Mr. M'Donough, who bad pricked his
finger in opening the body, which had poisoned it,
was in excessive pain whilst giving his evidence.
The CORONER said it was highly essential that this
very extraordinary case should be thoroughly in-
quired into, and the young man alluded to, who would
appear to have been with the deceased in his last mo-
ments, must be looked after.

ROYAL WELSU EISTEDDFOD.—On Tuesday, the
14th inst., and two following days, a royal Eisteddfod
will be held at Aberffraw, in Anglesey. Some of the most
influential names in the principality appear on the lists
of vice-presidents, and preparations on a most ample
scale are in progress to accommodate the vast concourse
expected to be present on the occasion; thirty-two prizes
will be awarded to the successful competitors; and at a
Gorsedd, to be held on the 16th inst., degrees also will
be conferred on those who have distinguished l
them-
selves for their bardic skill. A grand processiobnarwil,
take place, consisting of the archdruids, druidts,o ,
willq!
harpers, &c., to the marquee
be held. Contests of Penillion, singing, and other_.o_
the proceedings f
of minstrelsy will be intersperzed in
each day.
LONDON.—On Saturday
ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF
society, situated in the
last the splendid grounds of
scene
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in
which
the
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essay s
a new arrangement of
gaiety and animation,. o i
h the excellent brass band of the
of more than ordinary
whiessembles in the Gardens once a
Regent's-park,
bwyere thew_sncg
to
Second Life Guardshea
members and visitors, by their
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w selectionh whose
s e o f
week, to enliven t
marches,
musical quadrille's, &c., was executed on the occasion,
numbers the
waltzes,
and "(lonely afforded greatdelight to a numerous com-
pany of ladies
'evil. per.termaanndcesg.enAtlemeheonie,
fineness of the weather, as well as the treat of sweet
sounds, was no doubt instrumental in adding. Commo-
dious tents and marquees were pitched through the
gardens to shelter the company from the too ardent heat
of the sun. The band will perform every Saturday
afternoon until further notice.
The following are the barristers appointed by Mr.
Justice Cresswell to revise the list of voters for the
pounties and borcughs cn the 'Western Circuit for
1849 :--

south Hants and Isle of Wight, J. Aldridge, Esq.
North Hants, G. N. Oxenhain, Esq.
Dorset, Douglas, EQq.. Holdsworth, Esq.
South Devon, J. L. Lucena, Esq., 11. T. Erskine, Esq.
North Devon, W. Hodges, Esq.
East Cornwall, C. D. Bevan, Eeq.

West Cornwall, J. S. Stock, Esq.
East Somerset, J. S. Graves, Esq., F. W. Slade, Esq,
West Somerset, C. Saunders, Esq.
South Wilts, C. It. Dayman, E6(l.
North Wilts, G. Poulden, Esq.
The light of duty, hen fully clear, casts no
shadow of hesitation.—Eliza Cook's Journal.
1 Ocfaspklsum of
s,
HANSEATIC ERODUCE.—The steam- ship Princess
Royal, arrived in the River from Hamburg, has brought
234 bales
pork,s42agb 30s o
baskets
outs, 17
asketso3f
of cherries,
beano, 5
280 of peas, 1,377 of wheat, 24 bead of oxen,
6 horses, and general merchandisv,
ofof
apples,bacon 254