The Sun.
London, England, 1847-12-13 00:00:00

N, IVIONDAY E VENING, DECEMUER 18, 1847.

FL...EVADERS MAIL.
BRUSSELS.—COD iMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.---From
the Ist to the 51. h December three vessels, laden
wholly or in part with corn, entered the port of An
werp. The importations were—
Wheat
Rye
Rice

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
PORTSMOUTH, SUNDAY.—The Fairy royal yacht em-
barked the Duchess of Kent yesterday at Trinity Wharf,
on her Royal Highness's return to town. The 1-a ry
entered this harbour, under the usual ceremonies, at live
minutes past twelve, and her Royal Highness disem-
barked, together with the royal suite, comprising Lady
Fanny Howard, Colonel Grey, and Sir G. Couper, at ten
minutes past twelve. Sir Charles Ogle, Flag-Lieutenant
Cochran, Captain Sir Edward Parry, and the usual stuff
and guard of honour, were present to receive the Royal
Duchess, who left by express train, under the superin-
tendence of Mr. R. W. Stevens, of the South-Western
Railway, at half past twelve, from the Clarence-yard.
The Blenheim steam guard-ship, Captain Yates, was
docked yesterday after a great deal of labour, a leak
having been discovered in her bread-room, occasioned, it
is supposed, by the working of thescrew propeller. From
her great draught of water, owing to all her heavy
weights being on board, it was upwards of three hours
after the basin was closed before she could be got into
the dock, during which time the steam-engine was kept
incessantly pumping.
The Cockatrice, tender to the Asia, 84, in distress at
Plymouth, is ordered away to join the latter at Ply-
mouth without delay; so urgent is the order for her to
"move on," that she is not to be allowed the customary
embellishment of painting at this port.
The Cormorant steam-sloop, Commander Seymour, is
totally dismantled, and will be paid off to-morrow. One
of her midshipmen (Mr. Farringdon) was peremptorily
dismissed her Majesty's service by order of the Lords of
the Admiralty on Thursday last.
Wind south, fresh breezes, and fine weather-5 P.M.,
Sunday.
ENGINEERS' PAY.—The King of Naples has given
orders to increase the pay of all the engineers in his
steam fleet. His Majesty has also ordered the engineers
(who are Englishmen) to wear the cocked hats and
swords.—Nautical Standard.
Extract of a letter from the Electra, 14, Commander
F. IV. P. Bouverie, dated Gaspi, at the entrance of the
river St. Lawrence, Oct 30:—" All well. The potato
crop here is a total failure, but flour and other provisions
are abundant and cheap; flour, 325. per barrel currency.
An immense number of emigrants have arrived during
the summer, but sickness has prevailed to such an
alarming extent that Government has been compelled to
erect several hospitals."—Nautical Standard.
PROMOTIONS.
Commander—Charles Conrad Grey (1142), of the
Columbine, to the rank of Captain.
Mates—J. J. Barnard, W. David Lock, and George
Don Murray, to the rank of Lieutenant.
APPOINTMENTS.
Rear-Admiral—Henry Prescott, C. 8., to be Superin-
tendent of Portsmouth Dockyard, vice Shirreff, deceased.
Captains—J. Shepherd, to the Inconstant, vice Bruns-
wick Popham, whose appointment is cancelled ; William
Fanshawe Martin, to the Prince Regent ; Bartholomew
J. Sulivan, additional, to the Victory, for special service;
Charles Eden, to be Flag-Captain to Admiral Sir C.
Ogle, vice Milne (in the event of the latter officer accept.
ing the offered seat at the Admiralty Board, in the room
of Rear-Admiral Prescott).
Commander—John Charles Dalrymple Hay, to the
Columbine, vice Grey, promoted ; W. F. Fead, to the
Prince Regent.
Lieutenants—H. F. M‘Kellop, to the Hydra ;J. P.
Branch to the Inconstant ; R. J. J. G. Macdonald, Flag-
Lieutenant to Sir G. Seymour, to the acting command of
the Modeste ; E. E. Morgan, to the Cygnet ; J. C.
Bailey, to study at the Steam Factory ; H. Caldwell,
Frederick A. Egerton, Francis B. Porteous, Alexander
C. Gordon, and George Murray, to the Prince Regent.
Masters—T. Bowen, to the Hydra ;R. Read, addi-
tional, to the Blenheim ; Robert Fulton, to command
the Hercules, 72, on a voyage to Bombay with troops
and stores, and to bring home a cargo of teak from
Moulmein.
Chaplains—R. Thompson, to the Victory ;W. M.
Dyne, to the Inconstant.
Naval Instructors—R. M. Inskip, to the Victory ;A.
Turmine, to the Inconstant.
Paymasters and Pursers—T. S. Heywood, to the
Hydra ; J. Goldsmith and J. Williamson have been
placed on the retired list ; Charles E. Cottrell, to the
Prince Regent.
Surgeons—Thomas H. Keown, to be superintendent
of the Mountstewart Elphinstone convict ship; D. G.
Miller, to the Blenheim; T. M. Jewell, to the Victory;
J. W. Bowler, superintendent to the John Calvin con-
vict ship; H. Morris, superintendent to the Bangalore
convict ship; W. F. Carter, to the Inconstant; W. H.
Brent, to the Pantaloon, vice Dr. Graham, deceased.'
Acting Masters—G. Allen and J. Scarlett to the
Victory; Erancis Lee, to the Plover. ,
Clerks—E. J. Forster, in charge, to the Firefly ;
Arthur A. Davis, to the Prince Regent; J. E. Stiles, to
the Acheron.
Second Master—H. B. Akaster, to the Inconstant.
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Assistant-Surgeons—J.
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Simpson
(b), to the Plover;
oth V e ic to ry.
W. Smith, M.D., to the Meander; H. W. Horsell, to the
Bonetta; W. M. Ogilvie, to the Inconstant.
Midshipmen—T. J. Young, to the Stromboli; R. H.
Burton, to the Excellent; S. W. H. Thompson, to the
Cygnet.

... 224,0001 k
... 186,000
... 348,62,5

758,625
BRUSSELS, DEC. 9.—ln the sitting of yesterday
the Chamber heard the reports of the petitions of MM.
de Denterghein and Simons, and other matters of
private interest, and gave an order for twenty-five de-
mands for ordinary naturalization.
M. Goblet made a report on the demand for a sup-
plementary credit for the War Department, which is to
be discussed to-morrow.
BERLIN, DEC. B.—The Committee of the Diet is
convoked at Berlin for the 17th of January. M.
l3cckerath, of Crefeld, one of the most distinguished
representatives of Westphalia, has tendered his resig-
nation as member of the colntnittee. M. Muller,
who was nominated in his :stead, has likewise sent in
his resignation.
The Prussian Government strenuously continues its
efforts to centralise and, settle the affairs of the Pro-
t7stant Church, and so give it uniformity and unity.
A supreme consistory is to take place at Berlin, com-
posed of all the provincial consistories. M. De
Goetze, who is well known by his strict religious
orthodoxy, has been nominated president of this
supremo authority of the Ecclesiastics.: Administration
of Prussia.

The Gazette de Cologne states that the Minister for
Foreign Affairs at Berlin received a dispatch from
Warsaw on the 4th annivesary, that by special
order of the Emperor, addressed to the Prince of
Warsaw, the measures already taken to abolish the
line of Customs between Poland and Russia and which
had been officially announced to the Prussian Go-
vernment some time si-ace, had been abandoned, and
that consequently the Reunion Douaniare of
Poland with Russia will not take place at the new
year, as it had been at first intended.
RUSSIA AND POLAND —Letters from Presburg say
the news from Cr:Alicia is terrific. Famine and disease
are committing such awful ravages among the pea-
santry, that in almost every village a third part,
and even the half of the population, is dead.
All the misery of Ireland is king reacted in this
wretched country, and, at thti same time, we want
especially a second Engle.nd, rich, powerful, and
benevolent, to come to lta aid, for all that is done by
the Austrian Govern-Anent its utterly insufficient.
ST. PETEusuußun, Nov. 26.—0 n the 20th of this
' month a large number of vessels, which had been kept
in port a long time, left the road of Cronstadt with
a favourable wind, and the thermometer at
8 deg. Reaumer. On the 22d a storm arose, which
made us very apprehensive for the fleet. At Newsky
the rain was frozen even, when an impetuous wind
and a mild temperature broke the ice, and submerged
a large number of barges and small craft, which were
laden \%ith a cargo of 85,000 to 90,000 chetworts of
grain, flour, and linseed. The loss is very great.
MUNICH, DEC. 4.--The report which was circulated
that a loan had been concluded with the house of
Rothschild, is quite groundless. Baron Rothschild
has again left Munich.
STUI'TGARD, DEC. 3.—The Swabian Mercury of
to-day contains an ordinance of the Minister of the
Interior respecting the insurance of the effects of
eml.grants, through the medium of persons duly au-
thorised to effect the transport. The effects may also
be insured against damages by sea.—Flanders Mail,
Dec. 10.

BELGIAN FUNDS.—Baussus, DEC. 9.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent .......... .
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent • • t...
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent .•
Ditto Threeper Cent .... ..........
Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto • •
Ditto, ditt0,1840......
Ditto, d1tt0,1842
Ditto, 1844...
Ditto, 1836. •
Ditto, 1838 --
Ditto of the City, 1832
Ditto, 1843 .. •• • • • • •
Bank of 8e1gium......
Brussels Papers. Dec. 9.
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BEELIN, 'W. 7.
ls.
St. Schuld Sch., 3% per Cent •• •••••• • • • • 92 Money.
Bil
Pruss. English Bonds, 1839, 4 per Cent •• •. • •
Foreign Exchanges.. •• • • ..... ••••• • • • • •
Exchange on London, £1 Sterling, 3 Months 6 274
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, DEC. 2.
5 per Cent. Metalliques •• • • ••.• • • • . 105%
4 per Cent. ditto. .• • • • •••••• • • • • 93
3 per Cent.ditto• ••• •• ••••••• • • • • • • • 65
Loan, 1834 • • •• • • •• • • ••• • • • 156%
Ditto, 1839 • • • • 116
Bank Shares • • • • • • • • • • 1624
Esterhazv's Loan . • 62
RAILWAYS.
The Northern, or Ferdinand .... ••• • .. . 158
Gloggnitx .. • • •• •• ••••.•••• • • • • • • .. 1103(
Vienna—Milan • •••••• • • • • • • 9736
Leghorn • • • • • • • • ••• • • • •
Pesth ..................
Sienna
Grosetto ...............
Oldenburg ..............
Pcstoja

•• 98%

93'

•-•
6 27

Naval Cadets—A. Wigney, R. C. Mayne, and H.
Parke, to the Inconstant; J. Page and William R.
Shine, to the Hydra; Philip Brock, to the Mutine; G.
D. Panter, to tho Acorn; Thomas B. Pratt, to the St.
Vincent.

• • 931
.. .. .. .. .. .. _

•• 94%

Masters' Assistants—J. H. Harvey, to the Cockatrice;
E. Spry, S. Libby, and P. C. Moss, to the San Josef ;
D. Spear, to the Seagull.
PLYMOUTH, DEC. 10.—In addition to the damage
received in the late gale, her Majesty's ship Asia, 84,
sprung her mainmast, and will be some time detained
hero under repairs. Admiral Phipps Hornby and
family have landed from her.

ACCIDENT ON THE BRISTOL AND BIRMINGHAM
RAILWAY.—SPETCHLEY, FRIDAY.—An accident hap-
pened on this line last night which occasioned at the
time the greatest alarm amongst the passengers of the
train to which it occurred. The particulars are briefly
as follow : —The third class down Parliamentary even-
ing train left Birmingham at half-past six o'clock,
heavily laden, and nothing occurred until about half-
past seven o'clock. The train had left Dunhampstead,
and was proceeding towards the Spetchley and Wor-
cester station, when suddenly a severe concussion was
felt throughout the train, and the first impression
amongst the passengers, who were much shaken, was
that the carriages had got off the line. The engine-
driver, perceiving that something had gone wrung,
turned off the steam, and applied the break, but the tranin,
had proceeded fully half a mile before it was stopped.
A guard then proceeded back to the spot where the con-
cussion was first felt, and found upon the-rails a piece of
thick chain, over which the engine and train had passed,
happily without being thrown off the rails. The
engine-tender was at the first shock thrown off, but sub-
sequently, before the train was stopped, got on the rails
again. The ballast was torn up for a considerable dis-
tance by the tender before it got upon the rails again.
Had the passenger carriages or engine been thrown off
the line, the consequences might have been most disas-
trous. The train was a long and heavy one, and it need
scarcely be added that the greatest consternation was
excited amongst the passengers until the engine-driver
had stopped the train. The result has happily not been
attended with any serious consequences, but the night
being exceedingly dark added greatly to the terrors of
those whose lot was cast in the unlucky train. It is sup.
posed that the chain which caused the mischief had been
dropped by some previous train passing along the line.
The last passenger down-train before the Parliamentary
passed the spot at about five o'clock, leaving abundance
of time for an examination of the rails by the policeman
on duty. Had the train been a light one, it is feared
the whole of the carriages would have been thrown off
the rails, in which case the consequences must have been
frightful.
THE EDINBURGH ELECTION. —The Caledonian
Mercury says—" The re-election of Mr. Charles Cowan
will shortly take place. We hope it will be unopposed
and uncomplained of. We openly and heartily sup-
ported Mr. Macaulay so long as he was in the field ; but
he is so, we understand, no longer ; and Mr. Cowan
possesses such qualifications in point of character, busi-
ness habits, amiable dispositions, and sound Liberal
Opinions, that we shall rejoice in his unopposed return.
We aro not aware that opposition from any quarter is
to be expected—certainly not from Mr. Macaulay or his
fi iends, and we are decidedly of opinion, that any oppo-
sition would be vain and injurious. As we can no longer
have what we consider the distinguished honour of being
represented by Mr. Macaulay, we cannot elect in his
place a more worthy citizen and more estimable man
than Mr. Charles Cowan. His unanimous re-election
will tend, we hope, to obliterate all irritating recollec-
tions, and to restore and cement the union of all classes
of constitutional reformers.

The merchant ship Chapman, Captain Brooks, be-
longing to Messrs. James King and Co., arrived here
yesterday, with timber, from Quebec, for her Majesty's
dockyard. On the 6th inst. she encountered a heavy
gale from W.N.W., which drove her towards the coast
of France, when a sea struck her, broke her bulwarks,
swept her decks, and bruised her cook, John Williams,
of Devonport, who died from his injuries the same
evening.
This morning came in the American ship Lady Eli-
sabeth, Captain Hasty, from Liverpool, for Philadelphia,
out sixteen days, bore up from long. 12 W., with loss
of boats, round-house, &c., and the chief officer's leg
broken. Also the Danish schooner Maria, of Apen-
nade, Captain Ipland, from Rio Janeiro, for Christi-
ania, in Norway, leaky, with loss of bulwarks, rails,
stanchions, &c., and will have to discharge her cargo
of hides and coffee.

THE SUBMERGED PROPELLERS.
On Saturday last, an additional series of experiments
were made on board the Albion steamer, in the presence
of Captain Smith, R.N., commander of her Majesty's
ship the Rattler steam-frigate; Captain Chappel, R.N.,
of the West India Mail Packet Company; Professor
Rowcroft, of the London University, and several other
scientific gentlemen, in order more fully to test the
powers of the submerged propellers with which the
vessel is furnished, and to hear the explanations of his
inventions and patents given by Mr. Simpson, the
patentee. The propellers, as it has been befere stated,
consist of wheels acting horizontally or vertically in-
closed in cases affixed to the sides of the vessel, and
placed beneath the water, so as to be invisible. A
column of water is ejected in a line parallel with the
vessel's motion, which column acts against the water
outside the vessel. There is no swell occasioned by the
operation of these propellers, and there is none of that
vibration by which the screw propeller is accompanied,
which must occasion very great wear and tear. The
diameter of the submerged propeller wheels, fitted to the
Albion, are only two feet, indeed the whole apparatus
is so small in comparison with the cumbrous machinery
of common paddle wheels and propellers hitherto used,
that the speed and aptitude of the Albion appears
almost a miracle. The ;party on board the Albion left
Blackwell about twelve o'clock, and steamed down the
river several miles against a strong tide and a contrary
wind. She however made way at a great speed, and
satisfied those on board of her capabilities. Mr. Simp-
son explained,. by the aid of models and diagrams, the
principle of his invention. The vessel, after her per-
formances, returned to Greenwich, where the gentlemen
on board left her at her moorings.

DE ATLI Or THE VISCOUNTESS HOOD. This lady
Y Court, Warwick, aged
t wenattshi oe3.n
guard weads i a
or
died on the sth inst., at Whitley
daughtertl and heiress
93. Her Ladyship was the ownlyhi
Viscount
Court, and was
mother
Hood, who
of the late Lord
of Francis Wheeler, Esq , of
married, in 1777, to the second
To THE COUN-
TESS died in 1836. Her ladyship was
Countess of Illta-
Bridport.
THE LATE RAILWAY ACCIDENT
door of his carriage,
lan i OFn t
hZeEsTaLmAeN D .
train,A statesgentleman
that
h :I,shaot
carriage at a short distance from the
at-
tracted by the screams of the Countess and her atten-
dant, and by the smell of something hurnin_ He
en-
deavoured in vain to convey an alarm to 6
and succeeded in reaching the truck
__ on vvhich her Lady-
ship's carriage was placed, and found
engine driver. He then opened the
her clinging to
the wheel in a terrible state of alarm. The lady's maid
had fallen off. On the train arriving at Rug an en-
gine was sent along the line to look for herb y she had
fallen in a state of insensibility, with her hands across
the rails, and before the engine-driver discovered her,
the wheels of the engine cut off her hands. She has
been conveyed to the Leicester Infirmary, but fears of
lockjaw are entertained.
DEATH- OF LIEUTENANT-GENERAL CARNCROSS.
It is our painful duty to announce the death of Lieute-
nant-General Sir Joseph Hugh Carncross, R.C.B , of
the Royal Artillery, which sad event occurred at. hie
seat, Roselawn, Celbridge, at five o'clock A.-at. on Tues
day last. The Gallant General was in the 78th year of
his age, the 55th year of his service, and was the oldest
Colonel-Commandant of the Royal Artillery but one.
lie served in the West Indies from 1797 to 1801, at
Walcheren in 1809, and in the Peninsula and France
from 1811 to 1814, during which time he was engaged
in the battles of Salamanca, Siege of Burgos, Vittoria,
Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, and Toulouse. For
the last- named victory he received a pension of 200/. a
year " for good services,
• " for Salamanca medal
andcross,
and for other actions two clasps. By his death Colonel
F. Campbell succeeds to the vacant Bth battalion of
Artillery.
MADLLE. DELuzy.---Wre read in the Droit
.._
" Madlle. Deluzy-Desportes has just presented a demand
agams • t Marshal Sebastiani for the delivery of the
legacy of 3,000 f. in Rentes which the Duke de Praslin
made her, as governess of his daughters, by his will
of
1843. Madlle. Deluzy further demands that different
objects which were given to her by her pupils, and
which are at present under seal, shall be restored
to her ; and finally, she demands the restitution of a
sum of money which, she says' she confided to M. de
Praslin to invest."

ALARMING FlRE.—This morning, shortly before
one o'clock, an alarming fire broke out upon the pre-
mises of Mr. Stebbings, linendraper, No. 3, Capel-street,
St. George's-in-the-East, which was attended with the
destruction of considerable property, and nearly accom-
panied by loss of life. It appears that as a police con-
stable of the 11. division was going his rounds, he had
his attention drawn to some smoke issuing from the
fanlight over the door. He at once endeavoured to
arouse the inmates, but before they could be awakened
the flames forced their way through the upper part of
the shutters. Two powerful engines were speedily
brought to the spot, and the firemen having an abundant
supply of water succeeded in confining the flames to the
premises of Mr. Stebbings.
EXTRICATION OF FOUR BODIES FROM AN IRON-
STONE PlT.—The four persons confined in the iron-stone
pit, near Dysart, were got out on the morning of the 7th
of December, all dead, and fearfully crushed. We un-
derstand three of them have left wives and children.
Mr. Watt, of Dysart Colliery, sent all his men to assist
as soon as heard of the accident, and it should be no-
ticed, to their credit, that they exerted themselves to the
utmost, and without intermission, till they ascertained
the melancholy result. The iron-stone is worked by the
Carron Company, and several other persons made a nar-
row escape when the fall took place. One was close be-
side Mackenzie, whose expiring groan he distinctly
heard.—Scotch Paper. •

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.—We learn from the best
authority that Mr. Beale, in consequence of a deli-
cate state of health, which disinclines him from very
arduous duties, joined to his numerous avocations con-
nected with the great establishment in Regent•street,
has withdrawn from the management of this theatre.
Mr. Beale's loss, as a manager, will be universally re-
gretted, but his influence and interest will continue to be
exerted in behalf of the new Italian Opera.—Musical
World.

MORTALITY IN PERTIL—There were 40 funerals
last week and 39 the week before, an amount of mor.
tality far exceeding that of any previous two weeks in
the records of the city. We may state, however, that
the town is assuming a much more healthy tone of late.
—Perthshire Courier.

COAST GUARD.—Acts of piracy have become so
frequent on the western coast of Ireland, that Govern-
ment have determined to strengthen the Coast Guard
force in that quarter, which has been reinforced already
by three revenue cruizers, placed under the orders of
Lieutenant Broad, commanding the Dolphin.—Dublin
Paper.

FRENCH PLAYS.
ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.
Le Chef d'CEucre Inconnu is the title of an inte-
resting drama of art which was produced here on
Friday last, and which afforded M. Fechter an op-
portunity of completely establishing himself in the
favour of the audience of the St. James's. Rolla, the
hero of the piece (M. Fechter) is a young Genoese
sculptor, who is deeply enamoured of the daughter of
a senator. A reward is offered by the Grand Duke
of Florence for the best statue of St. Cecilia ; and the
young sculptor, taking his lady love as the ideal
of beauty, produces a statue which, in the opinion
of Michael Angelo, far surpasses any of the
works offered for competition. The hand of his lady
love has, however, been promised by her father to a
a Florentine noble as the price of his pardon, and
the father, in an agony, beseeches Rolla to hide the
statue. The likeness is unmistakeable, and the ho-
nour of the lady would be compromised by its dis-
covery. The nobleman to whom his mistress has
been promised comes to Rolla to award to him the
prize, and to demand the statue in the name of the
Duke. The young artist seizes his mallet and de-
stroys the statue, and then, overcome by his feelings,
falls dead, and a lifeless corpse is all that is left to be
adorned by the golden laurel. The acting of M.
Fechter was most pathetic. He was a
true child of the " sunny south " in his
enthusiasm for art and in his intensely
impassioned emotions. His Rolla is indeed a
chef d'ceuvre, but which will not be long in-
connu. The new vaudeville Le Reviel du Lion, which
is well known to the English public from the trans-
lation of it (The Roused Lion), now performing at
the Haymarket, was likewise produced here on
Friday, Castigny austainink the part sustained by
Webster, and Madame Valmy that sustained by Mrs.
Keeley. They were both admirable, as was also M.
Montaland, who made a most amusing character of
the fop.

THEATRE-ROYAL, DUBLIN.
That most beautiful of the plays of our gifted
countryman, Knowles, The Hunchback, was per-
formed on Saturday evening, and never was the vola-
tile and wayward, but true-hearted Julia, represented
with more consummate, grace or more exquisite feel-
ing. It is a character in which all Mrs. Kean's best
powers can be most effectively displayed, and as a
perfect piece of acting it cannot be surpassed. In the
earlier scenes, when the petted and wilful country
girl is transformed into the dashing and sprightly
city belle, her voice, her air, her carriage, her every
gesture, told of the proud and triumphant beauty
enjoying to their utmost those scenes so full to her of
novel excitement and varied attraction. And then
when, even in the midst of her anticipations of new
conquests in the race of fashion, the truths intended
to chasten and correct are poured into her unwilling
ear by her betrothed, her sudden anger and impe-
tuous pride spurning at all restraint—scornfully
rejecting the smallest curb, were admirably deli-
neated. Her acceptance of the Earl of Rochdale,
while this passion, overwhelming all reflection,
yet had sway, and then her after-remorse and agony,
awakened by the sight of Clifford, stripped of his
lands and title, the poor secretary of the Noble Earl
she was about to wed, were true to life—her ex-
pression of the latter feeling being indeed painfully
real. In the interview with her lover, reduced from
a lofty to a lowly state, the struggles between pride
and passion were finely rendered. It is evident that
a lofty feeling of duty and a fine sense of honour
joined to haughtiness not yet subdued, impel her to
observe the contract into which she has entered. But
the love, the first awakened love of a young, warm
heart, irresistible in its impulses, pleads for the poor
and humbled Clifford ; and her half-frantic exclama-
tion of Clifford, " Why don't you speak to me ?" and
the thrilling tones of blended hope and joy in which
she asks if " these hated nuptials" can be shunned
" with honour ?" were rife with the most impas-
sioned tenderness. In this scene, too, the acting of
Mr. Kean was worthy of all praise. V'e are aware
that he undertook the comparatively insignificant
part of Sir Thomas Clifford, as Charles Kemble did
when his daughter first appeared, in order to give
the public an opportunity of beholding the character
of Julia developed in all its beauty; as other actors,
in theirendeavour to dra w down applause for themselves,
mar the completeness of her representation. He, there-
fore, while he threw enough of feeling and earnest..
ness into the part to render it sufficiently effective,
never attempted to divide the attention of the
audience, or to turn their view for a single instant
from the vivid picture presented to them by Mrs.
Kean. During the entire of this trying scene, there-
fore, the interest was centered in Julia ; and thus one
of the finest portions of the finest of Knowles's dramas
was given as it rarely is, but ever should be.
In the after-interview with Master Walter, when
love has trampled pride beneath her feet, Mrs. Kean's
acting was superb; and the following grand passage,
so trying to the powers of the actress, was delivered
with a passionate emphasis, positively sublime :
" Beware how you abandon me
To myself I'm young, rash, inexperienced, tempted
By most insufferable misery !
Bold, desperate, and reckless ! Thou hast age,
Experience, wisdom, and collectedness ;
Power, freedom, everything that I have not,
Yet want, as none e'er wanted ! Thou canst save me.
Thou oughtst !—thou must I I tell thee at his feet
I'll fall a corse, e'er mount his bridal bed
So, choose betwixt my rescue and my grave—
Azad quickly, too ! The hour of sacrifice
Is near! Anon the immolating priest
Will summon me ! Devise some speedy means
To cheat the altar of its victim. Do it,
Nor leave the task to me'!"
Mr. Kean's Sir Thomas Clifford, subdued as it
was, was a perfectly gentlemanly and most correct
portraiture ; and though one of our morning contem-
poraries has stated that he appeared to him "to be
too self-collected—too much a master of his own
feelings," we are of opinion that if he were not self-
possessed, he would not have truly interpreted the
meaning of his author. Why, in the scene where
he appears as secretary, the bitterest reproach of
Julia's yet unconquered pride is, that he is " all
himself," while she cannot but betray the deepest
emotion. In conjunction with Master Walter, he,
in fact, throughout all the latter scenes is but acting
a part, to the perfect performance of which, a com-
plete control over his own feelings is necessary. Our
critical contemporary further observes—" To judge
from the cheers of the house, his interpretation would
seem to have been regarded as the truest to the text
of his author." And in the judgment so pronounced
we altogether agree.
The Master Walter of Mr. Calcraft was marked
by his usual ability. Mrs. Ternan was a pleasing
and animated Helen, and was very deservedly ap-
plauded in the wooing scene with Modus, well sus-
tained by Mr. King. The other parts were effectively
cast, and on the falling of the curtain Mr. and Mrs.
Kean were enthusiastieally called for.
The entertainments concluded with a new farce,
called the Follies of a Night, in the annexed notice of
which, from the Saunders of yesterday, we entirely
concur :

" The afterpiece of Follies of a Night proved quite
a gem in miniature. The Duke de Chartres of Mr.
Kean was a gay, easy, and most successful perform-
ance; and the Duchess found in Mrs. Kean a truly
charming representative. This vaudeville is one
which never grows dull for an instant; it has been
adapted to the stage in a kindred spirit, and bears a
person back to the days of a brilliant period, when
the most serious part of life was a comedy, and the
business of existence to learn to be amused. The
mistakes at the masquerade--the innocent accident by
which the Duchess finds herself in the sixth pair back
room of the rustic Pierre Palliot—the entry of the
Duke, who makes love to his own wife, unconscious
of who the lady in the pink domino is—the difficulties
of Pierre—all these are very happily treated, and the
afterpiece passed off admirably. Mr. Smythson did
justice to his part, and was humorous without appa-
rent effort. There was some excellent dancing during
the evening, and the performances were such as to
eminently merit what they received, the plaudits of a
crowded and fashionable house."—Dublin Evening
Packet, Dec. 7.

ABOLITION OF CHRISTMAS GRATUITIES.—OH Satur-
day afternoon, a meeting of several tradesmen was held
at Mr. Nevill's, baker, Sidmouth-street, Gray's-inn road,
for the purpose of promoting the movement for the
abolition of Christmas-boxes. The chair was taken by
the proprietor of the establishment, and several resolu-
tions were unanimously passed, urging upon the body of
tradesmen the necessity of meeting at once for the pur-
pose of doing away with the system. Preliminary
arrangements were entered into for the purpose of form-
ing district committees throughout the north and north-
west parts of the metropolis in aid of the object, after
which the meeting separated. On Friday afternoon
proceedings to the above effect took place in the Sub-
scription-room, Mark-lane, amongst several of the large
factors and mealmen. A subscription in aid of the steps
now being taken for the abolition of the Christmas-
boxing impost was entered into, and arrangements were
made for a future meeting on a larger scale for the same
purpose. The proposition was very cordially received
by all present.
THE SMITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE SHOW.—This
exhibition closed on Saturday evening. No less than
60,000 persons, including some of the noblest in the land,
visited it (luring the four days it was open. Tho sales
of the cattle and other stock exhibited at the show have
exceeded in number those of any preceding year since
the establishment of the club, and the animals have
generally obtained unusually good prices.
Another unfortunate fracas has recently taken
place at the Royal Military College, Woolwich. The
Master-General of the Ordnance, the moment the intel-
ligence reached him, proceeded to
.Woolwich, and insti-
tuted an investigation into the affair, which has termi-
nated in the dismissal of one of the students and the
suspension of three others. The offence of the young
men was their extreme ill-usage of another of their body.
—United Service Gazette.

Of the 170,000 weavers in Lancashire, there are
only 48,000 employed.

HEALTH of TOWNS ASSOCIATION to Id. for every thousand gallons.—(Hear.) HMt
es. , all the difficulty that at present existed in dealing.
A public meeting of the Health of Towns Associa- , with any question in the least connected with the
Lion was held on Saturday, in the Hanover-square ' public revenue or taxation; but he must express the
Rooms. There was a numerous attendance. The ' hope that some arrangement might be made with
Marquis of Normanby, President of the Association, I reference to the window-tax—(Loud cheers)—so that
was in the chair, supported by Lord Ashley, m.p.. I with regard to the lowest class at least,
.they might
Lord Ingestre, M.P. ; Earl Fortescue ; the Earl oi
not be deprived of the solace, amid their 89t. hours,
Mackin- of a glimmering of light.—(Cheers.) Any 01.1 C who
Mulgrave ; Lord Ebrington, M.P. ; Mr. W.
non, M.P. ; Mr. Ewart, M.P. ; Mr. R. Adair, M.P.;
had paid attention to this subject could mark the
sdif-
Mr. E. Ellice, M.P. ; Mr. Cardwell M.P.; Mr. R. ference between the countenances of those who weeee
A. Slaney, M.P.; Mr. H. Tufnell,,
M.P.; General habitually huddled together in their dark dens, bees
Turner; Mr. J. Heywood, M.P; Mr. W. S. Craig, yond the reach of day, and of those who, even in
comparatively dark courts, still expanded beneath the
M.P. ; Mr. %V. Baines, M.P.; Mr. C. Fortescue,
influence of the sun.--(Ceers.) He trusted that the
MP. ; Mr. H. Suffield ; the Hon. F. P. Bouverie,
Featly increased public interest in this whole ques-
M.P. ; Mr. R. Palmer, M P. ; Dr. Bearing, M.P. ;
tion would be further proved by the repetition, if
Mr. Parker, M.P.; Mr. C. P. Grenfell, M.P.; Sir
J. Birch, M.P. ; the Hon. F. Byng; Mr. R. D. necessary, of meetings like the present in different
arts of the country, and that they would be able to
Granger, F.R.S. ; Mr. C. W. Grenfell ; Sir I. L. P
Goldsmid, Bart. ; Dr. Southwood Smith, Dr. Guy, give that effective support to a willing Government—,
Dr. Aldis, Dr. Hall, Dr. Mose!ev, Rev. Dr. Warren, (Loud cheering)—in passing a comprehensive legis-
Rev. Mr. Lusignan, Mr. Tottie, Mr. F. L. Goldsmid, lative measure, which might at length overbear all
&c. Depute-
Mr. C. Cochrane, Mr. D. Sal smons that opposition which really, in its nature and amount,
tions attei ded from Bradford, Derby, Notting-
,
was utterly contemptible.—(Cheers.) Ifthey were suc-
ham, Sheffield, Halifax, Wolverhampton, Stafford, cessful in their efforts, then they would have the great
East Retford, Liverpool, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and satisfaction of looking back to an improved state of
t
other places. Apologies for non-attendance were things throughout the country; and, viewing the
received from Lord J. Russell, M.P. ; the Duke of question practically and comprehensively, they would
liuccleuch, the Earl of Shelburne, the Bishop of increase that which was the best foundation of a
Norwich Lord Morpeth, M.P. ; Sir B. Hall, M.P. ; nation's strength—the vigour of a thriving popula-
Sir W. bay, M.P. ; Mr. H. G. Ward, M.P. ; Mr.
Jehn Walter, M.P. ; Mr. C. Lushington, MP. ; tion.—(Cheers.) They would be able to hold out to
Mr. John Bright, M.P ; Mr. J. L. Bramstone, the working classes some prospect of that which used
to be the boast of this country—the modest comforts
M.P. ; Mr. R. W. Grey, M.P. ; Mr. J. Greene, of an English home.—(Great cheering.) They would
M.P.; Mr. G. Thompson, M.P ; Hon. W. F. also, as far as depended on the removal or counter-
Cowper, M.P. ; Mr. H. Currie, •111. P. ; Mr. W. action of all those noxious influences that now existed,
Brown, M.P.; Mr. W. Marshall, M.P. ; Mr. H.
Broadley, M.P., &c. - secure to the rich and extend to the poor that first of
worldly blessings—a sound condition of body and
The Marquis of NORMANBT, on taking the chair, mind, the mens sana in corpora nano, without
was received with great cheering. He had been which no luxury could be enjoyed, and with
summoned to this country at the commencement of a which there was hardly any privation that might not
new Parliament, and it gave him great pleasure to be endured,--(Cheers.) Apologizing to the meeting
have an opportunity, before he returned to his usual for having been ,*awn further into the subject by a
duties, of attending a meeting of the association over sense of its overpovre4.7s importance than he had
whom he had the honour to preside, acting in con- intended, the Noble Margate', amid loud cheering,
cert with other advocates of sanitary reform. He resumed his seat.
had therefore readily agreed to take the chair on the Lord ASHLEY (who, on rising, was loudly cheered)present occasion.—(Cheers.) It had so often been said, it was very gratifying to him, as it must th. .
his lot to address detailed statements showing the the Noble Lord in the chair, and to all present, tO
paramount importance of the subject which had see the numbers and respectability of those who
brought the meeting together to public assemblages, as thronged the room and the platform on that occasion,
well as to that branch of the Legislature of which he because it showed the great and increasing interest
was a member, that he might well forbear from entering felt in this mighty question, while it held out a well-
upon it, and leave it to its own merits. But at this grounded hope of effective support being given to her
moment there were certainly some peculiar circum- Majesty's Government in the excellent course they
stances. A not unnatural alarm for the future which hed determined to pursue.—(Cheers.) His gratitude
certain indications connected with public health had to them in this matter would be shown by his making
presented could not, he was afraid, be entirely un- the shortest possible speech, so as not to detain them
mingled with some feeling of self•reproach for past more than one minute; mud for this reason—because
neglect.---(Cheers.) But, at the same time, the pre- there were many present who ought to be heard on
sent afforded hopes of a more substantial character this question—many new labourers in the vineyard,
than the past. Within the last few days a report had men of " mark and substance," w-.!iose sentiments were
been presented of a Commission appointed since he worth hearing, and who, if they
delivered not their
had last had the honour of addressing the Health of sentiments, would at least benefit the cause by .re-
Towns Association. That report embodied a precise cording their names in favour of the gh2at and im-
and definite recommendation, to which the Executive portant movement in which they were embre. e• nnt had promptly and vigorously responded ; and, in re- The resolution he had to propose would, wits.' - ference to the sewerage of the metropolis, it contained any explanation of his, tell its own story. It wase—
information of a scientific and practical character " That the vast amount of disease always prevailing,
which could not fail to be of the greatest advantage. —greatly augmented during the past and present
Connected with this subject there was another of very years, and likely to be still further increased by the
painful interest. At this moment, when they were visitation of the cholera—and proved by successive
threatened with a more than possible visitation of the Government commissions, as well as by recant local
great pestilential scourge of the age, it came upon investigations, to exist in every part of the empire, in
them as utterly unprepared as when fifteen years connexion with causes admitting of removal—renders
ago it burst upon Europe with all its unknown it imperative that sanitary legislation should be imnee-
terrors.—(Loud cheers.) Information had been col- diate and as universal as the evil it seeks to remed3ri."
lected only to be thrown aside. The most obvious Now, they would observe that their attention was
precautions had been entirely neglected. Wherever particularly directed to the apprehended visitation of
endemic disease was found prevalent the recur- cholera. The resolution went on to say, that disease
rence of cases was most to be dreaded. Filling a at all times existed in all parts of the country; but it
public situation at the time, he had felt that no time added this, and it was to this point he wished to direct
should be lost in directing the attention of the Go- their most anxious attention—that the evils which ex=
vernment and the Legislature to the subject. Though isted were "in connexion with causes admitting of ro-
be had to address a Parliament which was not friendly, moval."—(Hear, hear.) They might depend upon
in a political sense, he was able in the last days of it that not one single truth had been more firmly
Lord Melbourne's Administration to pass a measure established of late years in this country than that the
which obtained support on all sides, including that condition of our great towns and of the people in-
of the Duke of Wellington, who then commanded the habiting those towns was not a natural, necessary,
suffrages of a large and influential party. In dealing and inevitable evil.—(Cheers.) It was not in the
with this question different persons had pronounced order of a merciful Providence that millions on mil-
different modes by which they hoped to arrive at a lions should be left in that dreadful and neglected
satisfactory conclusion. He had objected at the time condition.— (Cheers.) It was the consequence of our
to the appointment of a commission, which delayed any own neglect, of our own wicked and sinful neglect;
practical measure ; but it was impossible to overstate and, from the bottom of his heart, he thanked God
the amount and value of the information collected. that He had brought this country to a better sense of
But how came it that, on a question that appealed to its duty ; and he prayed and believed that He would
every man's home and family, there had been no po- bless all the efforts now directed to the tem.
pular agitation ? Agitation had gone on for years, poral, aye, and to the spiritual benefit of so many
shocking many prejudices, and advancing many in- millions of His created and responsible beings.—.
terests which conflicted with those prejudices. But (Cheers.) Now, let the meeting b this in
never during all that time had popular agitation mind, that the evils complained of
wereear capable of
mingled its cries with the feeble moans that issued removal ; and, if capable of removal, it was clearly
from the fever wards of the crowded hospitals.— not only our interest, but it was manifestly our duty
(Hear, hear, and cheers.) The Health of Towns Asso- to bestir ourselves for the ado •of adoption those measure*
ciation had pursued its own career, independent of po- that were necessary for their removal.—(Hear, hear.)
litical parties, during the past, as he trusted it would Perhaps they would permit him very shortly to point
be for the future. But he recollected that when the out other benefits that would follow in the train of
association was established they were told that the those great physical improvements which they hoped. public asked for bread, and they offered them a stone. to accomplish. He would read a letter which had
The taunt was not very just, as the figure of speech been sent to the association by the Rev. Charles
was not very correct. What they did desire was to Girdlestone, a man whose opinions on such a subject
save a struggling population from being entirely could not fail to have the greatest weight with all
crushed under a shapeless aggregation of atone and present. The Noble Lord here read the letter, which
brick, which had grown up over the length and was to the effect that the writer, "in visiting thebreadth of the land.—(Cheers.) They wished the people of his populous parish (Dudley), saw daily
population not to suffer an entire deprivation of ac- illustration of the truth and importance of those prin-
cess to that first universal gift of a bounteous Provi- ciples which the meeting was summoned to uphold
dente—the pure air of heaven. When masses of men —that the clergy ought to be the first to come foe-
were congregated together for the purposes of labour ward in this great cause.—(Cheers.) None knew so
some sacrifice must be made ; all they asked was that well as they that the state of the dwellings of the
the same care should be taken in preserving the living labouring classes—to a greet extent beyond their
machinery as was taken in upholding the inanimate own control—was not only incompatible with sound
machinery.—(Cheers.) The question had made great health of body, but also such as to render all but ab-
progress. Within the last few days, since it had been solutely impracticable some of the most essential
announced that he would be able to take the chair, graces of the Christian character."—(Hear, hear.)
he had received letters, not only from individuals, If he might be allowed to add his feeble experience
but from local bodies, in reference to inquiries to that of this eminent clergyman, he did not hesitate
which they had instituted. From the mass of to say that their pulpits and their school-rooms, their
information before him he wished to draw forth daily and their nightly visitations, their exhortations
one or two particulars which seemed to merit consi- and their example, were pretty nearly fruitless so long
deration. A few days ago he had received a report as they left the great mass of the people filthy, and
published under the authority of the town of Sheffield. schooled under all those noxious influences which led
It was, in many respects, a very valuable report. to indulgence in those very vices which they were
Putting sentiment and sympathy aside for the mo- labouring to uproot.--(Cheers.) Now, let them set
ment, it was interesting to see how men of business, themselves to remove those noxious influences, which,
such as had drawn up that report, looked at the sub- if there were time, he could prove were the cause of
ject in a pecuniary point of view. The annual loss much of the frightful intoxication that was the be-
by preventible disease in the West Riding of York- setting evil of the working people, and a more fruit-
shire, from death, sickness, and loss of productive ful cause of poverty, degradation, and the workhouse
labour, skilled and unskilled, was estimated in round than any others that he was aware of in the whole
numbers at 1,500,0001. sterling, in a population of catalogue of those sins and mischiefs that charac-
less than 1,000,000, being at the rate of from 275. to terised the working population of this realm.-
28s. per head yearly. This was the report of men (Cheers.) Let them set themselves to place the
of business.—(Cheers.) It was published under the people in such a condition as decency required—to
authority of the Health Committee of the Town- place them, ho would not say in circumstances pecu-
council of the borough of Sheffield. One word on liarly favourable, but in such a condition that it
burial clubs. He had received a letter on the subject would be possible for them, which it was not now, to
from Mr. Clay, of Preston, in which that gentleman, practice the lessons of virtue which the teachers of
well known to the advocates of sanitary reform, ex- religion inculcated.—(Cheers.) If they went for-
pressed his regret at not being able to attend that ward and did that, then the ministers of religion, of
meeting, and stated some interesting facts which all denominations; then the scripture readers, and
he (the Marquis of Normanby) wished to coin- that admirable man, the city missionary, might go
municate to the meeting. A Bill had been passed forth to their work with fruit and acceptance ; and let
during his absence from the country which was them doubt not that in a short space of time, by the
intended to diminish the great evils arising from the blessing of God on their endeavours, they would see
insurance of infantile life. It provided that in- a prosperous population gathering around them, and
surance should not be legally effected on the lives of then would they bless God for the :enjoyments they
children under six years of age. Mr. Clay stated themselves possessed, and for the good things which
that in the quarter with which he was connected the Ile had put into their hearts to perform for others.
Act was entirely inoperative. Frightful examples Dr. GUY, in seconding the resolution, would ley
were well known to have occurred of the evils to before the meeting a very few facts to show that
which the custom had given rise.—(Hear, hear.) At disease, which was always prevalent, had been increase
the last assizes at York a father was tried for the ing among us of late years. Without entering into
murder of his child, on whose death the father ex- minute details, he trusted he would be able to prove
petted to receive 50s. from a burial club. It was the p,
would take the most "moderate standard as the
ositions laid down in the resolution, and, in so
proved that the father had said he had another child doing
who would bring him 505., and two others who would amount of mortality, namely, 2 per cent., one very
bring him Si. a piece. At Lincoln a woman had been much below that employed by the Registrar-General
tried for the murder of three of her children ; and it in his reports from week to week. The system of a
was impossible to assign any other motive for the registration of deaths, Scre 'had been in force for nine
crime than the desire to appropriate the money for years, and he would take, in his calculations, the
burial. At Warrington a coroner's jury brought in healthiest of those years. The total number of deaths
a verdict of " wilful murder" against a woman whose in England and Wales in the healthiest of those
husband was the victim, and for whose burial she re- years, above the moderate standard he had taken, was
ceived 20/. from the burial societies. In Preston, 25,000; in the whole. United Kingdom, supposing
with a population of 60,000, there were no fewer than the mortality to be the same, the deaths were 43,000.
49,000 insurances effected in such clubs. Mr. Clay Take the average of seven years, of which 1841, the
also stated that while the deaths under five years of year of the census, was the middle year, and they
age in Preston were 59 per cent'
, the medical at- found the total deaths over and above the reason-,
tendance on children under that age was only able standard he had taken to be 30,000 in Eng-
-13 per cent. So long had the subject of sanitary im- land and Wales, and in the United Kingdom
provement been discussed, that certain truisms were 51,009.—(Hear, hear.) It had been estimated that
established, one of which was that a town population as for every necessary death there were twenty-eight
compared with a country population was unfavour- cases of unnecessary sickness ; that mightbe too
ably situated, the average deat ain the country being high an estimate, and he would take it at twenty.
The There were, in England and Wales, daring
lin 25, while those in towns were 1 i 38
In R. tland--, therefore,
500,000 cases of unnecessary
average for all England was 1 in 46:u the healthiest year,
Manchester.
shire life was twice the value of life in sickness; and, taking the average of seven years, the
United Kingdom exceeded 1,000,000.
Regiments raised in agricultural districts loastted twice numbers in the
recruits (Hear, hear.) In
as long as those raised in large towns.
annual waste of life was in the healthiest year 8,000,
the case of the metropolis the
many
coming from manufacturing districts. twice
.as
were rejected as of those coming from agricultural and 160,000 cases of unnecessar sickness •• taking the
districts. These facts had been long impressed on his average of sevenyears the y
deaths were 11,000, and
memory :but others had recently come to his know- the cases of 250,000.—(H ear.)
unnecessary sickness
ledge which further illustrated the subject. In St. These facts fully • •
justified the first clause of the reso-
Saviour's Southwark (the most unhealthy of all i •
ution —Meer, hear). The next clause of the resole-
among of the metropolis), the average duration of life '
tion was to the effect that this disease had been
among the gentry was 47, tradesmen 25, artizans 22, greatly augmented during past years, and on this
whilst amongst the lowest class it did not exceed 15 point he would give the figures of the Registrar-Ge-
He would not, however, enlarge. He could, for England and perish Taking the 117 districts off
example, have said much upon the water monopolies nd that in the
Wales included in his reports, theythoeu
_(Greatcheering)—upon the necessity of . considering year ending September, 1843, deaths were
water at least as great a necessary of life as bread or 161,000 ; 1844, 167,000; 1845, 171,00 ,0 • 1846,
any other article of food.—Cheers. R f e erring again 178,000; 1847, 210,000; being a difference between
to the report from Sheffield to
, 1843, and September, 1847, of 50,000
which he had alluded, September,
he found it stated that great as was the improvement deaths.—(Hear, hear.) They were beginning to con-
in that town, compared with •
the time when people had gratulate themselves that this amount of sickness and
to carry water into their houses with the hand, yet even
mortality was on the decrease; but three weeks ago,
now the difference
between
the price of water as fur- in consequence of the prevailing epidemic, there
nished by the company and what it might be, wasas 6d. were seven hundred deaths above the average

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of the week ; and last week the increase amounted to
1,400, being double the average mortality. The
recent report of the Metropolitan Sanitary Commis-
sion proved that during the years 1845, 1846, and
1847, our pet pestilence, typhus fever, had gone on
increasing week by week and year by year.—(Hear,
hear.) His had thus proved, if figures could prove
anything, the second clause of the resolution.—
(ilear, hear.) On the subject of cholera he was
extremely anxious not to create any unnecessary
alarm ; but it was right to state that it was reported
that cases of cholera had actually occurred in this
metropolis.—(Hear, hear.) He would wish to put
the most favourable construction on those cases, and
to assume that there was a mistake. What then ?
The whole history of the present epidemic went o
prove that the cholera was likely to follow in its
train.—(Hear.) The question, then, was—" How
are we prepared to meet it ?" It appeared that they
were altogether unprepared to meet this fearful epi-
demic.—(Hear, hear.) The report of the commis-
sion to which he had alluded pointed out, among
other facts, one of a con=olatory nature, that
the cholera was not a contagious disease—(Hear)—
and that, therefore, no one need fear attending on
relatives and friends. But they must not forget
that the cholera track was the fever track and the
filth track--(Hear, hear)—that these diseases were
found calling at the same houses and the same spots,
and visiting the same persons.—(Hear, hoar.) At a
preliminary meeting held on the previous day to talk
over these matters, he might state that the gentle-
men from Sheffield and N ottingham stated exactly
the same fact with regard to fever and cholera visit-
ing the same houses and spots. The prevailing
epidemic (influenza) was found to visit the. most un-
healthy districts. Indeed, the most unhealthy spots
were those that uniformly produced the greatest
mortality. Take the population of East London and
that of Wandsworth, the latter a healthy locality ;
Wandsworth lost 19 out of a population of 40,000,
and East London, out of the same population, lost
75.—(Hear, hear.) Poplar lost 36, while Camber-
well lost 52. West London lost 64 out of the same
population as Poplar. Hackney, with a population
of 42,000, lost 37, while St. George's-in-the-East,
a most unhealthy district, lost 82.—(Hear, hear.)
He had called fever a pet pestilence.—(Hear,
hear.) If we loved it we could not take more pains
than we had done to keep it among us and to nourish
And. cherish it.—(Hear, hear.) We had been taught
over and over again, that where there was filth there
was danger of fever, and yet we took no more pains
to remove the filth of our towns than if we thought
fever a natural blessing.—(Hear, hear.) Dr. Guy
then referred to the efforts of the benevolent Howard
for the removal of filth and infection from prisons,
and remarked, that the houses of labouring men were
now what the prisons were three-quarters of a cen-
tury ago, while prisoners received every comfort and
convenience that was denied to our working men.—
(Cheers.) It was a erring shame that three-fourths
of a century ago we began t,) do that for prisons
which we now refused to do for the labouring man.
—(Hear.) He rejoiced, however, that there was
some prospect of improvement in this respect ; and
he especially rejoiced that men possessed of good
sound sense had united the commercial principle with
b.nevolence, and begun to erect such houses as they
knew the poor wanted, =o as to enable a few of them at
least to enjoy the same comforts in their own dwell-
ings that prisoners alone could at present obtain. ,It
might he said he had been using the language ofexagge-
ration ; but when men heard without feeling such
facts, they seemed to labour under an exaggeration of
indifference.—(Cheers.) The people were beginning
to discover the interest they had in the question.
The necessity of sanitary reform had found a voice in
the fashionable novel of Di.‘raeli, in the popular
work of Charles Dickens, who had shown his sym-
pathy in the cause by transmitting a contribution
of 101.

Mr. BOUVERIE, M.P., stood forward amidst some
cries of "Cochrane;" but the interruption ceased on
a remonstrance from the Chairman. Mr. Bouverie
moved the second resolution, as follows :

"That this meeting regards with lively sati.ifaction
the earnest recommendation contained in the Speech
from the Throne ; the expressed determination of her
Majesty's advisers to renew the efforts made by Lord
Lincoln and Lord Morpeth in former sessions of
Parliament ; and the practical step taken by the Lord
Chancellor in remodelling the Metropolitan Sewers
Commissions."

When public opinion was definitively expressed, the
obstacles to the attainment of the object in view
disappeared. The Government had done what
they ought to have done ; they had acted promptly
and firmly, though there were " vested interests" in
filth which had endeavoured to thwart their efforts.
They had removed the Commissioners of Sewers,
who were a great impediment in the way of sanitary
improvement.—(Hear, hear.) In the midst of the
great concourse of people in large towns, in Lon-
don, Liverpool, Glasgow, Leeds, Hull, and other
places, it might be said that there was a manufactory
of poison--a manufactory which never worked short
time—(Cheers)—and the result was, that thousands
were carried to a premature grave, and that many
more thousands of women and children were plunged
into destitution. Sanitary measures would tend to
lessen the numbers who required relief from the
public, and were, therefore, to be desired, even in a
pecuniary point of view. There was something
strangely illogical in bestowing immense sums on the
maintenance of their army and navy to protect them
from a foreign enemy, while they had a domestic foe
to encounter which destroyed more life than the
other would, which spared none, and which never
slept or rested.—(Cheers.)
Mr. CARDWELL, M.P., seconded the resolution.
There was one fact which, he thought, showed the
progress made by this country. Within the last few
years, by the multiplication of facilities and the
cheapening of comfortf, many of the advantages pre-
viously confined to the rich had become extended to
those of comparatively humbler means. Comfort,
cleanliness, domestic affections, were great practical
enjoyments. Of these the man of competent means
had his share as well as the rich man. But why
should they not extend to the working man ?
(Cheers.) He had not those enjoyments in their
towns; and why ? Not because he had not the means
of paying for them, a larger amount of wages being
distributed in the large towns than within an equal
space anywhere on the, surface of the earth. Then
why had not the working man those enjoyments ?
From the manner in which the smaller buildings
were collected together, individual cleanliness could
not be secured without universal cleanliness. A
family settled in a crowded neighbourhood with in-
dustrious cleanly habits ; they maintained an unsuc-
cessful struggle, till at last they subsided hopelessly
into a state of discomfort.—(bear, hear.) The
disposition to live cleanly would be general if
the power were general. He knew not why he should
be called on to second the resolution, unless it was
that he had the happiness to be connected with a town
which was not behind others in intelligence and en-
terprise, but which was unfortunately situated in re-
gard to public health. But they were striving to
effect a salutary change. They were bringing water
from the hills of Lancashire, which they hoped would
afford an ample supply. There would be no cisterns
in the place ; and all a person would have do would
be to go to the spout and turn it. Neither would
there be a fire-engine in Liverpool. It would only
be necessary to open a plug and attach the hose, when
the water would flow forth to save their merchandise.
—(Cheers.) If the means of procuring comfort and
cleanliness, with economy, were afforded, what fol-
lowed ? The means of cultivating domestic attach-
ments. Could they expect men to stay at home when
they had scarcely a home to stay in ? It was idle to
expect real religious training for youth when they
were immersed in sin at home, which set at nought
the lessons of the clergyman. And that which was
offered as the result of the measures advocated by
such meetings as the present was, in truth, economy,
safety, opportunities of cultivating domestic attach-
ments, and the means of encouraging religious
affections.
Mr. SHAFT° ADAIR, M.P., moved the third reso-
lution, as follows :
" That all past experience, and the nature of the
case, enforce the necessity of combining in any sani-
tary measure an efficient local administration respon-
sible to the ratepayers, with the superintendence of a
Government department duly represented in Parlia-
ment."

Mr. tizyw M.P., seconded the resolution.
Re stated that °"' Manchester, where there was a
lz2eal..._th‘of, Towns Association, Association, they had derived the
Eo=;:eoersfi . from the report of the Government
of it which related
published, particularly that part
and to sewerage. The formation proper sewers the opening up of
greateststreets
w e
roef
matters of theimportance
There was no place about which large towns.
cholera loved to
had the greateste
mouth of sewer.— Hear.
resolution. pleasure in seconding the
Here there were again calls fo
a portion of the audience, metr Mr.
Cochrane from
" No, no," from others, and generalwith loud '
cries of
The Noble CHAIRMAN, on obt:i7fTir.
stated that the proceedings had all been arranged - hearing,
a committee, as was the custom in such aerrasaenged by
view to give the greatest possible effect to the
a
inonstration. lie therefore thought it would bee dfei
the convenience of the meeting that the arrangement
which had been made regarding speakers should be
followed out ; but at the conclusion, if Mr. Cochrane
or any other gentlemen wished to explain their views,
be would remain and hear him with patience.
The resolution was then put, and carried unani-
mously.
said he and several other
Lord EBRINGTON, M.P.,
gentlemen stood there not merely as members of
Parliament, but as representatives in that meeting of
their various boroughs.— (Hear.) At a meeting held
a Plymouth to consider the necessity of sanitary re-

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form a resolution was passed, in which the Mayor was
requested to communicate to Mr. Palmer, his col-
league, and himself, the desire of the electors that
they should attend the present meeting, and give
the weight of their influence to the sanitary cause.
They had accordingly done so, regarding the wish of
their constituents as an additional obligation upon
them to be present on so important an occasion.—
(Hear, hear.) He thought it would add greatly to
the moral weight of the meeting when it was known
that many members of Parliament, and among others,
his friend Mr. Parker, of Sheffield, were in attendance
at the request of their constituents. He had been
requested to move the following resolution :
" That although great exertions have been made
by sani+ iry associations, ably seconded by the press,
to arouse the public mind to a sense of the evils
(physical, economical, and moral) which affect all
classes, but especially the poorest, much ignorance
and apathy still remain ; and that this meeting, while
it pledges itself to aid the Health of Towns Associa-
tion in the efforts now making for their removal,
would especially call upon the clergy and members of
the medical profession to exert their powerful influ-
ence-in furtherance of this great object."
The Noble Lord expressed his satisfaction that the
same apathy did not exist on this question as formerly.
He then gave a variety of statements, having refer-
ence to the condition of the town of Plymouth, and
the necessity that existed for great improvements in
that town, notwithstanding all that had already been
done. The necessity for sanitary reform was indeed
evident in every large town. It was a question
affecting not the physical ccmfort only, but the moral
and spiritual welfare of millions. The Rev. Mr.
Clay, of Preston, had well said that dirt, disease,'
and crime were concurrent.—(Hear, hear.) If they
took a map and marked all the places where there
Ras an absence of sewers and a limited supply
of water, and where the fever, and cholera, and epi-
demics of all sorts prevailed, and if, on the same map
they marked the residence of criminals and the habi-
tual haunts of vice, it would be found that almost the
same spots, from house to house, would represent
them.—(Hear, hear.) How could it be otherwise,
when they found, as in the town of Plymouth, 11,000
people living in single rooms ? And in this respect
Plymouth was not a whit worse than other town,
in-all parts of the kingdom. How could they expect
to find a moral state of society in such districts, when
families were herded together, more like pigs than
human beings, in one single room ?—(Hear, hear.)
The depressing effect of the bad atmosphere which
these people breathed, too, was such as to produce the
most lamentable habits, especially habits of gross in-
temperance.—(Hear, hear.) It had been proved
that in many districts, • and even in the immediate
neighbourhood of Regent-street, the depressing na-
ture of the atmosphere was such that it was almost
impossible for • the poor inhabitants to resist the
to nptations to intemperance.—(hear.) In Glasgow
there was one house for every five or ten for the
sale of spirits; and in that city the deaths from epi-
demics transcended the very worst places of this
metropolis. It was therefore of the utmost import-
ance that all classes, especially the clerical and me
dical professions, should exert themselves in this
cause, so as to promote not merely the economical,
but the moral and spiritual welfare of the poor and
neglected labouring classes in our large towns.
Mr. W. BAINES, M.P., seconded the resolution.
lie was glad to be able to say that the town which
he represented had set on this question an example
deserving of all honour and imitation. The clergy
of all denominations had been exerting themselves
in this great cause, and so had also the medical pro-
fes,ion, with a unanimity and a zeal that had been
attended with the happiest effects.—(Cheers.) Every
medical man in the place joined in forming an asso-
ciation for the purpose of investigating the sanitary
state of the town, with the view of pointing
out those rnea,aires that .might seem to be neces-
sary. A report had since been published containing
many recommendations applicable not only to the
locality of Hull, but to all parts of the empire. He
had no hesitation in concurring in the remark that
had been made, that the hotbeds of disease, engen-
dered by filth, were also the hotbeds of crime—(Hear)
—and that by a regard to our own interests, as well
as a regard for the moral and religious interests of
that unfortunate people, by every consideration of
love to our neighbours and of love to ourselves, we
were bound to say that there could be no cause more
important, more holy, or more deserving the support
of the public and the Government of this country.
The resolution was then unanimously carried.
Mr. SLANEY, M.P., moved the following resolu-
tion :

" That the thanks of this meeting be respectfully
tendered to the Most Noble the Marquis of Norman..
by for his able and impartial conduct in the chair,
and his valuable services to the cause on all occasions."
He observed, that large measures of sanitary reform
had been recommended by repeated committees and
commissions, all of which tended to the same end,
viz , to preserve to the community that first of bless-
ings—health. The Poor-law Commission in 1838
made a similar recommendation in one of their re-
ports, as did also a Committee of the House of Com-
mons in 1838, of which he had the honour to be
chairman.—(Hear, hear.) He was one of those who
had volunteered to investigate the state of the large
towns. The inquiry embraced no fewer than 50;
and, in drainage, cleansing, and the supply of water,
43 were found deficient so far as regarded the work-
ing classes. The advocates of sanitary improvement
had worthy leaders in the Noble Lord in the chair,
Lord Ashley, the Duke of Buccleuch, the Earl of
Lincoln, and Lord Morpeth.
i)r. S. SMITH, who was received with great cheer-
ing, seconded the resolution, and warmly eulogised
the noble chairman for the fidelity and consistency
with which he had supported the association.
Mr. C. COCHRANE, having been again called for,
addressed the meeting. He complained that he had
been treated with personal disrespect, a gentleman
having accused him of creating the confusion. He
had attended in consequence of a letter from Lord
Ashley, and was himself a member of the association.
He had come forward to read the association a kind
Of moral lesson.—(Oh, oh !) In conclusion, he pro-
ceeded to urge the necessity of adopting a system of
public agitation for the purpose of promoting sanitary
reform.

The resolution was carried unanimously.
The Marquis of NoamANny made his acknow—
leigments, and, as evidence of progress in sanitary
improvement, referred to a notice issued in St. Mary's
%V hitechapel, stating that the trustees, wherever they
found any nuisance, or any dwelling not in a habit-
able state, would proceed against the landlords.
The meeting then separated.

SOUTHAMPTON, DEC. 10.—The Peninsular and
Oriental Steam Navigation Company's ship Tagus, R.
W. Evans, commander, arrived at Southampton last
evening from Trebizonde, Constantinople, Smyrna,
Malta, and Gibraltar, bringing the heavy portion of the
East India mails, and twenty-three passengers. She
brings aixty-one packages of specie, supposed to be worth
100,0001., and a large and valuable cargo, consisting of
57 bates and 180 cases of silk, 29 cases of opium, 214
bales of goat's wool, 47 bales of sheep's wool, 5 casks
of wine, 17 tubs of leeches, 7 bags of yellow berries, 8
cases of otto of roses, 1,423 drums of figs, 50 cases of
fruit, and 80 packages of sundry merchandise. The
Tagus experienced very heavy weather between Trebi-
zonde and Constantinople, having at that time nearly
800 Turkish passengers on board. On the 30th of No-
vember, during the passage from Malta to Gibraltar, a
sea struck one of the boats, and an able seaman, named
George Snooks, was washed away and lost. She had
a very stormy passage across the Bay of Biscay, lost
one of her boats, and had her deck-house washed away
Some anxiety is felt for the safety of the Washington,
and intelligence is hourly expected from Bremen, as to
whether she has safely arrived there. She loft Cowes on
Friday afternoon last, with the United States mails and
passengers for Bremen, and must consequently. have been
in the severe gale that raged from Friday to Sunday.
From the Washington's excellent qualities as a sea-going
vessel, hopes are confidently entertained that she has
been able to reach Bremen haven in safety.
ATTEMPTS TO OTERTIIROW TRAlNS.—Within the
past week two most daring and deliberate attempts
have been made by some miscreants to throw the trains
on the Taff-vale Railway, between Cardiff and Merthyr,
1 off the rails, which, had they not been providentially
discovered, must hare caused a fearful sacrifice of life.
.In the first attempt the miscreants turned the points on
the line; but, fortunately, it was discovered by the ser-
vants of the company. Having failed in their first at-
tempt, they on Wednesday perpetrated a much more
malignant act. It appears that the engine driver of the
last passenger train, on seeing, about a mile from the
tunnel on the Merthyr side. at a place where the rail-
way makes a sharp turn, and runs on the brink of a
precipice, that there was something wrong with the
plates, slackened his pace, but not in time to prevent the
engine and tender and the three first carriages being
thrown off the line with a considerable shock. Oa ex-
amining the cause of the accident it was discovered that
a pair of the rails had been taken up, one on each side
of the road. Twenty minutes before a train had gone
down and all was then safe, s) that the rails must have
been taken up in the interval, and from the appearances
it would seem that they had been taken up persons well
acquainted with raising and laying down rails. Fortu•
nately the engine when running off the line inclined to
the right side and ran into the bank; hal it inclined to
the lett the engine and train must have fallen into the
river
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ert and the sacrifice of life would have been
fearful.or As it was, no injury occurred to the passengers
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sue;;eeded to the increased good service pay of 25s .
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