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London, England, 1847-05-27 00:00:00

17,063. LON DON, THURSDAY EVENING SUN,

!CALEDONIAN A3YLUAL
(Incorporated 1815.)
For " Supporting and Educating the Children of Soldiers, Sailors,
and Marines, Natives of Scotland, who have Died or been Disabled
in the Service of their Country, and of Indigent Scotch Parents re-
sident in London, not entitled to Parochial Relief."
TheTHIRTIEFH ANNIVEItSARi FESTIVAL of the Charity
will he held at the FREEMASON'S TAVERN, Great Queen-street,
on SATURDAY, the 29th instant, at Six o'clock, P.M.
His Royal Highness the DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE, K.G. G.C.8.,
Patron of the Institution in the Chair.
STEWARDii.
His Grace the Duke of Montrose, K.T.
His (trace the Duke of Roxburgh, K.T.
The Most Noble the Marquis of Huntly, K.T.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Rosebery, K.T.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Zetlartd.
The flight Hon. Lord Glenelg, F.R.S.
Lord Macdonald.
Lord James Stuart, M.P.
Lord James Murray.
The Hon. J. T. Leslie Melville.
Sir Charles Forbes, Bart.
Sir John Shaw, Bart.
Sir James McGrigor Bart., M.D. F.R.S.
Major-General Sir William 'ferries, C.B, K.C.H.
Major-General Duncan Mcleod, C.B.
Colonel Sir Andrew Leith Hay, M.:P.
Sir William Charles Ross, 11. A.
Charles Forbes, Esq.
Captain James Lamont, R.N.
George Forbes, Esq.
Lieutenant J. S. Lean, R.N.
Hector Rose, Esq.
David Philip Brown, Esq.
William Gladstone, Esq.
James Davidson, Esq.
John Murray, Esq.
William Noble, Esq.
John Stewart, jun., of Relladrum, Esq.
E. R. Cutler, Esq.
John Irvine Glenule, Esq.
James Adamson, Esq.
Dinner on table at six o'clock.
Tickets twenty shillings each, to be had of the Stewards, of the
Directors, at the bar of the tavern, and of the Secretary at the
Institution, Copenhagen-fields, Islington.
JOHN BURNIE, Secretary.

ROYAL BANK OF AUSTRALIA,
2, 310ORGATE-STREET, LONDON.

The lIALF-YEARLY DIVIDEND, at the rate of 6 per cent, per
annum, due on the 15th inst., will be PAYABLE on or atter the Ist
MAY next. To Shareholders resident In Scotland at the Office of
the Agents, Messrs. R. and T. Allan, 11, St. Andrew•square, Edin-
burgh.

The Court of Directors grant Letters of Credit and Bills, at three
or 30 days' sight, on their branches at Sydney, Port Philip. Hobart-
town, and Launceston, and are also receiving money on deposit, for
fixed periods, at a rate of interest to be agreed on, varying according
to the term for which it is taken.

April 7, 1847.

By order of the Board,
G. 11. WRAY, Manager.

CIRCULAR NOTES AND LETTERS OF CREDIT.

THE LONDON AND WEST MINSTER
BANK Issues CIRCULAR NOTES for the use of Travellers
and Residents on the Continent. These Notes are payable at every
important place in Europe, and thus enable a traveller to vary his
route without inconvenience ; no expense whatever is incurred, and
when cashed no charge is male for commission.

These Notes may e obtained either at the Head Office of the Lon-
don and Westminster Bank, in Lothbury ; or at the Branches of the
Bank, viz. :-1, St. James's-square ; 213, High Holborn ; 4, Strat-
ford-place, Oxford-street ; 3, Wellington-street, Borough ; and 87,
High-street, Whitechapel.
By order of the Board,
JAMES WILLIAM GILBART, General Manager.

GREAT SOUTHERN AND WESTERN
RAILWAY (IRELAND).
EIGHTH CALL OF 51. PER SHARE,
Making 351. called up on each Share.
Notice is hereby given, that in pursuance of a resolution passed
by the Board of Directors, the PROPRIETORS of SHARES in the
Consolidated Capital of this Company are hereby REQUIRED to
PAY a CALL of 51. PER SHARE, 21. 10s. on or before FRIDAY,
the 25th day of June, and 21. 10s. on or before MONDAY, the 26th
day of July next, to any of the undermentioned Bankers. Accord-
Mg to the provisions of the Acts of Incorporation, Interest at the
rate of Four per Cent. per Annum, payable half-yearly, will be
Allowed on the amount of Deposits and Calls paid up until the Rail-
way shall be completed; but should any Call remain unpaid after
the day above-named, Interest at the rate of Five per Cent. per
Annum will be Charged thereon ; and " no interest shall accrue to
the Proprietor of any Share upon which any Call shall be in arrcar
in respect of such Share, or any other Share to be holden by the
same Proprietor during the period while such Call shall remain un-
paid." By Order of the Board,
WILLIAM TAYLOR. Secretary.
3, College-green, Dublin, May 22, 1847.
Bank of Ireland, Dublin.
Messrs. Glyn and Co., Lombard-street, London.
Manchester and Salford Bank, Manchester.
Bank of Liverpool, Liverpool.
Borough Bank, ditto.
All Shareholders wishing to pay money in anticipation of Calls,
will be allowed Interest on same at the rate of Five per Cent. per
Annum from the date of payment.

THE RACES-LIGHT WEIGHT
ANTI-DUST, RAIN, &c.
NICOLL'S PALETOT VETE, ONE GUINEA.
114, REGENT-STREET, and 22, CORNIIILL—not elsewhere in
London.

IF THE SUMMER, now approaching, should
IF
prove as hot as it was last year, doubtless .NICOLL'S LIGHT
PALETOT, of Lama Cloth, will be again much worn, without any
other coat under it. This luxurious ease and comfort once expe-
rienced is alone sufficient inducement to adopt the same course
again.

Price of Paletot, rich silk linings, Two Guineas and a Half; not
silk, Two Guineas.

114, Regent-street, and 22, Cornhill.

ASCOT RACES. - CHARLES DOTESIO,
ROYAL HOTEL, SLOUGH, begs to inform his friends and
the public that he still has disengaged some of his best Apartments,
and, to prevent disappointment, respectfully begs to be favoured
with their earliest commands for Post Horses and Carriages, and
also for Stalls at his Stables.
N.B.—A GRAND TABLE D'HOTE, as on former years on the
Cup Day, at Seven P.M.

WILSON'S SCOTTISH ENTER-
TAINMENTS.
MUSIC-HALL, STORE-STREET, BEDFORD-SQUARE.
On MONDAY EVENING, May 31, at Eight o'clock, Mr.
WILSON begs to announce that he will give, for the first time, a
selection from the
SONGS OF THB ETTRICK SHEPHERD.
And will also sing some favourite
MISCELLANEOUS SONGS.
PART FlRST.—Donald M'l)onald 0 Jeanie, there's nacthing to
fear ye—Come o'er the stream, Charlie—Why weeps yon Ilighland
maid —Bauldy Fraser—The Stuarts of Appin— The Skylark.
PART SECOND.—WheII the kye come hame—Come row the boat—
Lock the door, Lariston—Roy's wife of Aldivalloch—Last May a
brave wooer cam down the long glen—The waeftf heart—Lizzie
Lindsay.
Tickets, 2s. ; Reserved Seats, 2s. 6d. ; Private Boxes for Six Per-
sons, 15s. ; for Eight, 1/.
Mr. WILSON will give an Entertainment in Crosby Hall, on Tues-
day Evening, at Eight o'clock ; and, in compliance with the requests
of many families of distinction, a Morning Performance on the Songs
of Scotland, at Willis's Rooms, on Friday, June 4, at Half-past
Two o'clock.

TO WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS.
TO be SOLD by TENDER, by order of the
ASSIGNEES of Messrs. SHEPHERD and CO., the whole
of their valuable STOCK of BONDED, DUTY PAID, and BOTTLED
WINES and SPIRITS, as now on the Premises, No. 57, MAGDA-
LEN-STREET, and in Stack No. 9, on the QUAY, EXETER.
The above is of superior qualities, in good order, well apportioned,
and laid in with great care from the first London and foreign houses.
Parties desirous of purchasing—to tender either for the whole, or
separately, for the Duty-paid and Bottled Stock, or for that which is
Bonded—such Tenders to be for the Wines and Bottled Stock " at
per dozen," for the Duty-paid in Draught "at per gallon," and for the
Bonded Stock " at per hogshead," kc., as the case may be—such
Tenders to be sent to the office of the Official Assignee, Paul-street,
Exeter, on or before the sth of JUNE.
A person will be on the premises on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and
Saturdays, and at the Bonded Cellars on the two next successive
Fridays, each day between the hours of Twelve and Three, for the
purpose of showing the stock and giving samples.
This is a most advantageous opportunity for any gentleman of
capital desirous of entering into this trade, as an arrangement can be
made with the owner of the premises, so as to secure the goodwill of
the business.

As to the amount of stock, and further particulars, apply either to
Mr. H. L. Hirtzell, the official assignee, ➢lr. Wm. Wills, North-street,
or Messrs. Sanders and Kitson, or Mr. 11. D. Barton, Exeter, solicitors
to the assignees.

Exeter, 21st May, 1847.

lIAVIES'S CANDLES, bid. per lb. ; Genuine
Sperm, is. 9d. ; Yellow Soap, 485., 545., and 60s. per 112Ibs. ,
Mottled, 60s. and 645.; Wax Candles, Is. per lb. ; German Wax;
Is. 2d. ; Fine Wax, Is. sd. •' Transparent Wax, Is. lid.; Genuine
Wax, 2s. Id. ; Waxed-wick Moulds, 73¢ d.; Sperm Oil, Bs. per gallon ;
Aoiar, 3s. 3d., Pale Seal, 4s. ; Argand, or Vegetable, 43. 6d. ; Wind-
..or and Palm Soap, Is. 4d. per packet; Brown Windsor, Is. 9d ;
Rose, 2s. ; Almond, 2s. 6d. ; Sealing Wax, 4s. 6d.;
Composite, requiring no snuffing, 10d. ;or lb.
For Cash—At DAVIES'S Old Established Warehouse, 63, St.
Martin's-lane, opposite Slaughter's Coffee-house. lisle's Paragon

TO LADIES.
HOWLAND'S KAL Y DOR
an ORIENTAL BALSAMIC PREPARATION of singular
efficacy in thoroughly purifying the Skin from all Pimples, Spots,
Blotches, Redness, Freckles, Tan, and Discelourations, producing a
healthy freshness and transparency of Complexion, and a softiies,
and delicacy of the hands, arms, and neck. It is invaluable as a
Renovating and Refreshing Wash in Travelling ; and. in cases of
Sunburn, Stings of Insects, or Incidental Inflammation, its virtues
have long ai.d extensively been acknowledged Its purifying and re-
freshing properties have obtained the exclusive patronage of the Queen,
the Court, and the Ito} al Family of Great Britain, as well as the
principal Courts of Europe, and the most distinguished Nobility and
Gentry of all civilised nations.

*** Beware of Spurious " KALYDORS," containing mineral as-
tringents utterly ruinous to the complexion, and which, by their re-
pellent action, endanger health. Each bottle of the genuine has
the words " ROWLANDS' KALYDOR" on the wrapper, and A.
ROWLAND and SON, 20, Hatton-garden, is also en raved (by desire
of the Hon. Commissioners) on the Government Stamp affixed on
each. Price 4s. 6d. an 18s. 6d. per bottle.
Sold by the Proprietors, and by Chemists and PerfUmers.

and skilfully devised ' • and this disaster, too, might have
been avoided had the party only known how to apply
the break, which shows what care should be taken in the
selection of the subordinate officers. The parties who
have the principal charge of the incline, we are happy to
say, were expressly brought from England, where they
had been similarly engaged, but, as it happened here, all
depended on a breaksman after the lapsus occurred, and
ho, if he had been equal to his duty, could with com-
parative ease have recovered matters.—Cukdonian
Mercury.

-
THE NECESSITY OF SANATORY
REGULATIONS IN THE CITY.
On Tuesday Dr. Lynch, accompanied by several
of the most respectable inhabitants of the Ward of
Farringdon Without, waited upon the Lord Mayor, to
represent to his Lordship the immediate necessity which
existed for the adoption of measures to prevent the
spread of diseases engendered by want of ventilation and
water, and the enormous influx of Irish poor into the
city of London.
" I take the liberty to address your Lordship (said
Dr. Lynch) upon a subject in which I know you take a
most lively interest. I have the honour to be accom-
panied by the churchwardens of St. Bride's, St. Dun-
stan's, and other parishes in the ward, all of whom have
personally inspected the dwellings of the poor, and have
made presentments to the Court of Aldermen, directing
attention to the nuisances which abound in the courts
and alleys in which the poor reside. They have felt it
their duty to wait upon you to state a few melancholy
facts, and to solicit your assistance. Of all the thirty-
six metropolitan districts, the Ward of Farringdon
TWhi
et hhoouut is s
es puerreh
builta the w
bck worst a
tros h a
es
kt,o itsnd
admit narrowu 100 ca li ties.
ventila-
tion. The privies are:t4tuated under the staircases, and
communicate with cesl,oolts et' the most horrible descrip-
tion, which poison the air and pollute the dwellings of
the poor. In such places, where there are sewers, they
become the source of disease in consequence of the want
of traps and an adequate supply of water to cleanse and
to facilitate the escape of pestiferous gases from the
decomposition of animal and vegetable matter. In
Crown-court, within a few yards of Fleet-street, the
cellars of the houses are in a most revolting condition, '
from the overflowing of cesspools, and the accumulation
of impurities of every description. In some instances
we find that the dust contractors had not removed the
offal from one to nine months, and that they refused to
perform that duty unless they received a gratuity. We
found the poor inhabitants sensible of the injury which
such abominations inflicted, and heard them complain of
the inadequate supply of water which visited them for
no more than one hour three times a week, and which
their poverty prevented them from keeping vessels in
which to save it. They complained, too, of the quality
of the water, confined as it was in heated rooms, and
absorbing the animal exhalations and foul air. We
found that the drains run under a stack of houses in-
stead of into the main sewer, and there is at present no
power to compel the landlords to open these drains
direct to the sewers, by which arrangement an essential
cause of malaria and disease would be removed. The
,nouest of St. Sepulchre beg to state that the courts
around Smithfield and the Old Bailey are undrained ;
that in several of the courts there is but one privy, to
which the inhabitants of both sexes and all ages resort,
to the great detriment of common decency and morality ;
that the houses in such places are a disgrace to the sana-
tory supervision of the city of London ; that the opera-
tion of the window-tax is seriously injurious to the
poor ,• that all the remonstrances of previous inquests
have been neglected ; that there is no proper authority
or board which understands the subject in its magnitude
to be found in the city ; that in the several places the
cess-pools overflow the cellars ; that in some cellars,
under the privies, eight people lodged in a place of
twelve feet square ; and that cow-sheds, slaughter-
houses, and knackers' yards, are suffered to exist in the
midst of a crowded population. The gentlemen of the
inquest, after enumerating other horrors, and showing
that the wretched habitations are full of plague vapours,
express their fear that if sultry weather supervene
fever will make awful ravages amongst the poor.
They find that every steamer which arrives from
Ireland imports immense numbers of the poor Irish
direct from Cork, where malignant typhus and dysen-
tery abound, and are carrying off all classes of the
community. They know that these poor creatures re-
sort to the courts and alleys that they have been visiting
on their arrival, and they apprehend that as all the
elements of infection abound there, an epidemic may
break out, as has occurred at Liverpool, at Manchester,
and at Rochdale. It is well known that scarcity of pro-
vision lowers the system, and is a predisposing cause of
disease. To what are these poor creatures to look for
cjmfort, or even hope ? The inquests earnestly and
confidently trust that your Lordship will aid them in
adopting measures of prevention. The workhouses are
beset at this moment. The West London Union has ad-
mitted several, and sent others to the Fever Hospitals.
Bartholomew Hospital placed extra beds in the wards,
but is unable to meet the _:,igency. It has, like the
other hospitals, been admit.ing this influx of patients for
the last three weeks, and within the last three days they
have been compelled to refuse admission to several appli-
cants. Numbers of those who have been admitted into
the hospitals have died. The nurses have died, and the
relieving officers have shared the same fate. In Liverpool
the medical officers have been carried off in the discharge
of their duties. The over-crowded rooms of the poor
are filled still more densely by their wretched relations
who have fled in affright from famine and fever. With
such a teeming population, debilitated by privation and
predisposed to fever, it is most perilous to them and to
the previous residents to be exposed to the noxious in-
fluences which I have so inadequately discribed. We
intreat your Lordship to assist us in procuring a constant
supply of water,
andorshTdlie the
i immediate cleansing of such
places. With this view, we intreat your Lordship to name
an early day for the consideration of the subject of the
public health, included in the memorial of the ward, urging
suggest
to
your Lordship
the corporation to adopt sanatory measures for the be-
nefitug eof t the
pthe gentlemenpropri
eotfytohfeinq callinguesta would
gCom-
mon Council as soon as possible, to apply to Parliament
for a ,short Bill empowering the City authorities to en-
force the abolition of cesspools, and similar nuisances,
which were of mortal injury to the community, to com-
pel landlords to trap and open the drains of every house
into the sewer, and to appoint an inspector who would
take care that this law was enforced. They indulge the
hope that the Government would render every facility
in the laudable endeavour to accomplish such good. The
meteorological table shows that the thermometer rose
on Sunday from 64 to 70 degrees in the shade. There
was a corresponding increase in sickness in the last
week's mortuary record. There was an excess in Lon-
don of ninety-eight deaths over the healthy average.
In such places the labouring classes on the average
do not reach twenty two years of age, and the most
simple diseases become malignant. The mortality
amongst children, who are most susceptible of
atmospheric influence, is double the mortality
in the country. I have sent three very bad cases of
fever to the hospital this morning, and in one instance
the mother was in a state of insensibility. The neces-
sity for immediate interference is extreme. It is a mat-
ter of life and death. In Liverpool they have esta
blished lazarettos and appointed officers of health.
Every precautionary measure which science can suggest
ought to be had recourse to, to prevent the spread of
such an appalling calamity as has appeared amongst us,
To delay, in a moment of imminent danger, would be
criminal indifference to the safety of society. The gen-
tlemen whom I have the honour to introduce to your
Lordship will confirm the statements I have made. They
have always most honourably exerted themselves in the
cause of the poor, and they would join me in entreating
your Lordship to give us your most valuable aid."
One of the overseers of St. Bride's, a member of the
deputation, said that the pestilential nuisance was much
closer to the habitations of some of his acquaintances
than they imagined. Although ho had for some time
occupied premises in Fleet-street, ho ascertained that
there were two houses within twenty yards of those pre-
mises in a state of filth which it would not actually be
consistent with decency to describe. It was an extra-
ordinary fact, that in some localities, of the condition of
which no complaint had been made, he found the abo-
mination as great as it was in those to which his atten-
tion was particularly called. The Corporation had, he
was aware, extensive power, but the power which must
be exercised on the present occasion he did not think
they possessed. A short Act was necessary to compel
the landlord to construct drains to the main sewer, or to
enable the tenant to make that improvement himself, and
charge the expense out of the first rent demanded.
Alderman Hughes Hughes said he could bear testi-
mony to the very great facilities rendered upon all occa-
sions by the Commissioners of Sewers, to the whole
extent of their powers.—(Hear, hear.) He had had
occasion to open drains from some houses which he had
built, to communicate with the main sewer, and the Cora
missioners rendered him such valuable aid that the
expense was quite inconsiderable.
Dr. Lynch said there was no doubt of the disposition
upon the part of the Commissioners, but they had not
the
that ntheyecess should have the power. power, and it wa the wish of the ward
s
mr. George Walter said, that as a member of the
Commission of Sewers, he could confirm the statement
made by Alderman Hughes Hughes, as to the anxiety of
the Commissioners to render all the necessary facilities,
but he regretted to say that it :was a matter of great diffi
culty to prevail upon the parties who kept houses to go
to any expense at all, although the object was so indis-
pensably necessary to the enjoyment of health. In the
locality of Shoe-lane he knew that in many instances the
difficulty was insuperable.
Mr. Herapath said the dust contractors acted in a very
oppressive manner to the poor. The men who were
employed by the contractors were in the habit of impor
tuning those who were in comfortable circumstances for
•
the price of some beverage while performing their work;
did not
in the case of the poor importune, they
demanded, and if tde hmay nd was not complied with
they refused to do their duty, The commissioners had
to in cases of this kind, but
been complained the con-
tractors•
• d ‘‘ We cant help it; f'
1. we change the
replied,
men we have we may get worse. Now that was a cruel
sod brutal oppression upon the poor, and he trusted that
would Le Intlthi, such, a 3
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authority to the police to direct the removal of the dust.
Several other gentlemen of the deputation having
made additional statements in confirmation of the repre-
sentation of Dr. Lynch,