The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-24 00:00:00

Of the gaseous origin of cholera I am as thoroughly

convinced as I was on the 10th of September, whey
I addressed my third report to the Board of Health on
the state of Lambeth, Newington, and Camberwell
when I first broached these views, which were re-
peated in my fourth report, dated two days subse-
quently, in order to urge upon the hoard that remedy
which I considered necessary to mitigate the sufferings
of the nfHicted, if not to save them from death.
It is not with the intention, however, of still
further directing your attention to these reports—
for your Lordship has informed me that you have
these reports under consideration—but of praying
you to continue your exertions in sanitary reform in
the direction of the sewers, notwithstanding your
separation from the Metropolitan Commission, to
whose charge the all-important subject of sewage is
delegated; exertions absolutely essential as long as
that commission refuses to recognise science, and—
' neglecting to follow the example of the brewer, who
has long since abandoned the human finger, in ascer-
taining the precise time for drawing off the wort, for
the less perishable and more certain test of the ther-
mometer—still uses man to detect by smell the pre-
sence of destructive gases into the history of which
the most advanced chemistry only supplies us with a
glimmer of light.
I never beheld a more beautifully developed nasal
apparatus, and a more strongly marked illustration of
blue asphyxia—and ethnological research has long
been my favourite study—than the sufferer Attwood
presented to my view ; and but for vulgar prejudice,
deeply rooted in the poor widow of the unfortunate
man, 1 should have preserved on canvass a record of
one of the most remarkable phenomena of the epidemic,
which we hope has now passed away.
The errors which have been commmitted in the
construction of the Kenilworth street sewer, will
form the subject of a letter addressed by me to the
Metropolitan Commission of Sewers.
As long as plague, pestilence, and famine surround
me in my daily haunts, I hope your Lordship will Le
pleased to bear with me, and allow me to subscribe
myself your Lordship's most obedient and very humble
servant, RICUARD hING.
17, Saville row, Oct. '2O, 1849.

POSTPONEMENT OF THE SECOND INSTALMENT 01'
THE HOP DUTY.—The payment of the second instalment
of the hop duty duo next month has been postpcned
until October, 1850, the usual bond being required. The
payment of the first instalment of the 1848 duty com-
menced yesterday week at Town Mailing, and has con-
tinued throughout the Nvetk in the different districts,
and the growers generally have paid the duty.—llluid-
stone Gazette.

EAST SURREY REGISTRATION. -- The Revising
Barrister (S. C. C. FiA, Esq.) for the Eastern Division
of Surrey concluded the revision of the county lists yes-
terday morning, at the \Vorkhou e CommitLe-reom,
Bermondsey. The subjoined figures exhibit the number
of electors on the register now in force, the number of
them expunged, the claims allowed, and the number of
electors for the electoral year, 1849-50, namol3 :—The
number of electors on the register for 1848-49, 6,351; of
them expunged, 561; the rest of electors, 5,790; add
claims allowed, 598; the number of electors for 1849-50,
6,388; increase, 37. Of the number expunged 234 will
be on the new register, and 155t-are deceased.
RESIGNATION OF MR. SEMIEANT MURPHY.—WO
are authorised to state that the friends of Mr. Sergeant
Murphy have formally withdrawn that gentleman's name
from the list of candidates, as it is not their intention to
persevere in a contest, and thereby divide tho Liberal
interest. This decision settles the election of Mr.
M'Carthy, and secures the triumph of national principle
and political purity; for of the chance of the Conserva-
tives we have not the shadow of a fear, as they have not
the shadow of a hope.—Cork Examiner.

An immense turnip, weighing 27ilbs., and
measuring 3 feet 7 inches in circumference, was brought
to our office on Friday. It was grown by Mr. William
Robinson, of Eastham, and is called " Skirling's Purple
Top Turuip."—Liverpool Mereut

FRANCE.
The Siecle says :—" The speech of M. de Monta-
lembert contains an assertion against M. Mamiani,
which we think it useful to correct. •It was the
chief of the constitutional party of those days, Ma-
miani,' said M. de Montalembert, who constituted
himself the successor of the assassinated Minister, and
the gaoler of the Pope.' Now it is notorious that when
the affair of 16th Nov. took place M. Mamiani was at
Genoa. His name was, it is true, put down in the list
of persons which the people drew up, to form part of
the Ministry ; but M. Mamiani only arrived at Rome
on the eve of the departure of Pius IX. for Gaeta.
That gentleman only accepted the Ministry, when
he saw the country exposed to remain without a
Government, and on seeing an autograph letter of
the Sovereign Pontiff, who, at the moment of leaving
Rome, confirmed the Ministers in their charges, and
recommended to them to maintain public tranquillity
and order. Mamiani did not therefore constitute
himself the successor of the late M. Rossi,' and
still less the gaoler of the Pope."
THE MURDER OF COUNT LOUIS BATTIIYANY.
The Debats publishes the following extract from a
protest of Count T, leki, ex-Envoy of ®
Hungarian
Government, against the execution of Count
Batthyany :
" This condemnation without proofs, this decision with-
out tribunal, this sentence without law, this execution of
the 6th of Oct., the anniversary of the murder of Count
Latour, this measure adopted now that Hungary is crashed,
and which would not have been dared when Hungary was
unconquered; this measure which has been taken after
having spared those who had prolonged their resistance to
the last extremity—how can it be designated? I leave to
the friends of order and of society, among all parties,
whether Conservatives or Radicals, the task of finding a
name for it. I have fulfilled my task, I have done it
with calmness while serpents were gnawing my heart ;
I hare only had to analyse one sentence of death. There
is no occasion for me so speak of Batthyany, he is suffi-
ciently well known ; he bore an illustrious name ; his
was a noble nature ; he was always noble and generous.
He rose to the sublime at the important hour. Heroic
martyr of a great and noble cause, you have rendered
up your soul to God, but the remembrance of you will
dwell eternally in our hearts; it will there live until the
last sigh of the last Maygar."

AUSTRIA.
VIENNA, OCT. 18.—The Wiener Zeitung of this
day publishes a letter from the Emperor Nicholas to
Baron Gulai, thanking him for the notification re-
ceived from him, which announces that the imperial
regiment of Cuirassiers shall henceforth bear the
name of the Czar.

It is not probable that Baron Haynau will return
to his post, as he is to replace Baron Welden as
military governor of Styria.
The Bohemian Journal says that Baron Haynau
has left for Gratz, after tendering his resignation to
his Mij,!sty, who, however, refused to accept it. It
is whispered that General Haynau, a man of deter-
mined resolution, when spoken to by the Ministry
relating to the numerous executions that had taken
place in Hungary, replied, " That his Majesty had in-
vested him with full powers ; that his resolution once
taken could not be shaken, and that if an attempt
were made to do so, he would at once resign his post
of General in command, and even quit the army."
The Mince Zietung contains the statement of the
Minister of Finance relative to the voluntary loan,
which already amounts to seventy-one millions.