The Sun.
London, England, 1871-01-17 00:00:00

SMALLPDX AND THE LONDON CABS.

Hardly a day now elapses without some one being
summoned to a police-court to answer a charge of hiring
a Public vehicle while suffering film smallpox. On
Saturday Rebecca James, who, it is stated, ' was very
ill, and has recently been under medical treat-
ment for smallpox," appeared before the magis-
trate at the Thames Police-court, on a charge of this.
description. It seems that on the 17th ult. the defendant,.
who was then labouring under the disease in question, was.
driven in a cab from Boar's-head-court, Whitechapel-road„
to the Whitechapel Union House, and thence to
the smallpox word in Pavilion-yard ; but as she did
not herself hire the cab she escaped conviction. This
is only one of many other similar cases that are con-
stantly occurring, and will occur so long as there
are no proper arrangements for providing, means for the
conveyance of infected persons from their homes to the
hospitals. The evil has been so often pointed out to the
authorities, and they have been so often warned
of the inevitable consequences of their neglect
to adopt this simple sanitary precaution, that
with them rests the blame of the wholesale propaga-
tion of small-pox which has taken place through the
medium of London cabs, It is not enough that in some
districts-a carriage for sick persons is kept at the work-
house. When a case of smallpox occurs in a
house, and it is necessary at once to remove the
patient, our organisation should be such that
the removal may he immediately effected with-
out trouble or expense to those concerned, instead of,
as at present, an utter ignorance prevailing as to the
course to be adopted. The security of the public
should be provided for by a simple administra-
tive process. In the condition to which London
has been now reduced, owing to the shameful
apathy displayed by those in power with regard to the
public health, we require a central sanitary board, sittinr;
en permanence, whose office should be open night and '3
a 3;
and where every information can be afforded 19111), assist-
ance given to those standing in need of its- —Pall Mall
Gazette.

At St. James's Hall, on SP:turday, in a match
between Bennett and W. Cook., the latter had a break of
752. He made 220
"spots." 6
or 60 of the whole number
of pointg.
The eatholic4 'a Flanders are said to have re-
sponded with 'readiness to the appeal of the Archbishop of
Malines, b.jr signing petitions to the King, entreating him
to intncede with the great Powers in favour of the resto-
ration of the temporal power of the Pope.
Intelligence comes by the arrival of the Seine with
the West- India mails, that the French war steamer
Bouvet, which recently had an encounter with the Prus-
sian gunboat Meteor, near Havannah, had taken in a
supply of coal at Kingston, and left for Martinique.
DEATH OF GARIBALDI'S DAUGHTER.--ACCOunts
from Rome state that Teresita Canzio, the only daughter
of Garibaldi, is dead. She was the daughter of his first
wife, the Spanish Creole Anita, and the twin sister of
Ricciotti, his youngest son. She is said to have been the
favourite child of the General, and an amiable and kind-
hearted woman, The General has received addresses of
condolence.

AN OLD SALT.—The Philadelphia Ledger chroni-
cles the death of George Giles, who was born in England
in 1780, and, when quite a lad, was seized by a press-gang
in London and forced into the Navy. He witnessed the
famous mutiny of the Nore, and saw some of the muti-
neers flogged. While on an expedition under Nelson he.
managed to desert, and eventually escaped to the old dis •
trict of Southwark, Philadelphia. He resided there until!
misfortunes and old age drove him into a benevolent.
institution there, known as the Old Man's Home, in which,
he died last month at the patriarchal age of 91.

THE NEW CUSTOMS REGULATIONS.—At a meet-
ing of the Shipping Committee of the Hull Chamber of
Commerce, under the presidency of H. J. Atkinson, the
new Customs Regulations as to the furnishing of certified
particulars of the quantities and values of goods on board
outward and inward bound ships, within a week after •
clearing, were discussed. As this would entail copies;
of manifests and of bills of lading of every shipment,.
amounting in many cases to four or five hundred different
entries in one steamer, and the separate values of each, it;
was felt as almost impossible to do this without, in many'
cases, grave errors, and equally increased expense. lt
was decided to appoint a deputation to wait upon the
Lords of the Treasury at the end of the month ; and, its
the meantime, to seek the co-operation of other chambers
interested in these regulations.
MR. J. A. ROEBUCK ON THE PRESENT CRISIS.,
—Mr. Roebuck has written a letter to an elector at Shef-
field, in which he says, after stating that he had thought
two years' absence was quite enough to wipe him out of
men's recollections :—`, I can easily fancy, however, that
the want of a plain, bold speaker, with some political
knowledge, may be felt at the present hour, whet"
England's interests are trembling in the balance.
I sit and chafe, knowing I can do nothing,-
and seeing that weakness and imbecile vanity'
rule and guide our councils in this important crisis-
The next year will place in jeopardy the honour,-
the power, aye, the very existence of our country, and alli
we can dp is to sit by with folded hands, and accept quietly!
what fate shall bring. But this language is useless; Wei
must submit. As for myself, I am very well, and men'
tally I believe myself to be as vigorous as ever. AIY
blindness, thanks to modern art, has been greatly relieved,
and I can read and write as usual. lam writing to yon
by the aid of what I t
may call my new eye, and the result
lies before you, no very bad specimen of renovated sigh.
Years are stealing on ; I know not what I may be capable,
of when the time for action comes. But if then I sAialt
be as I am now, I shall be willing, if called on, to fight
my old fight in favour of truth and freedom, 4KI to do-
battle against noisy humbug and vulgar hypocrisy."
MR. GLADSTONE AND GREENW/554.--,-The Lib Oral
Association of Greenwich have held another meeting Wits
respect to the requisition on faot calling on Mr. Gla,dston6
to resign his seat for the boroUgh. Some discussion took
place as to the course which the supporters of Mr. Glad,
stone should follow—whether they should hold a public'
meeting of their own, or attend the meeting held by the'
promoters of the requisition, It was suggested that It
the meeting of the opposite party was a ticket affair, I
would be difficult to gain an entrance, and therefore
'it would be idle to attend it in the hope of fro',
discussion taking place. After various proposaLs -an
amendment was carried to the effect that a meet3' icy by
ticket could not represent the opinions of the 3- iZgli,
and therefore the affair should be regarded w' -'°, We'
rence by the general electors. A resobatir
Ai
that a counter-meeting should be heid vr
also an amendment that mew as rejected, tike
electors should go to the
the requisition meeting woes wo' a
ofure Hall, ~
admission. It was anno,uwed '
had received a letter fro la held, and deinfv
344,, used that ,",,r0
Greenwich, which stateA.l a well-known inhabitai vrial
. that Mr. Baxter-Lally ,31
itphroivnu_s:'lloa
had originated in a how- that the Gladstone menolito
intended limits. .It , .., and had now passed Ley on, the
Liberals w6Alintoi - seemed generally understood thal;_ort
time, - .d a vote of confidence meeting in as"