The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-18 00:00:00

HOLLAND.

Tine HAGUE, MARCH 16.—1 n the sitting of the Second
Chamber t.f the States-General, yesterday, a Royal Message
was received, with a project of law and explanatory memoir,
on expropriation for the public benefit.
These documents were referred to the Sections, after which
the following letter was read by the c'erk :
" To the President of the Second Chamber of the States-
General.

Sir,—l have had the honour to receive your letter of the
1 I th, with an extract from the Journal of the Second Cham-
ber, dated the 10th instant, according to ehich the Chamber
resolved to apply to me resrecting a petition of Mr. Lipman,
advocate at Amsterdam, complaining that the King's Commis-
sioners had voted, at a late election of two members of the
Chamber, in the Assembly of the Provincial Estates of North
Holland.
" As the Governors of the Provinces were acquainted by
me yeAerday, by his Majesty's orders, with the desire that
they should henceforth snake no use of the right whit h they
enjoy by the existing regulation, to take part in the voting in
the Provincial Ass:mbiiea at the elections of members of the
Second Chamber of the Stales-General, I must consider the
object of the petition in question as having fallen to the
ground ; at rho same time I take the liberty of observing that
the seconding of the Royal resolution of the Bth of Juue,lB2o,
prevents me from complying with the resolution of the Chan-.
be: in this case.

" The Alinster of the Interior.
" DE KOCK."

After very oximated debates on various motions that were
brought. forward, it was in the end resolved to ask the Minister
of the Intel for for further information.—Dutch Papers,
Mardi 16.

AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VrenNA, MAccu 6
live oer Coats. Mctalliques
For per Cents. 16%
Three p:r Cent.. ..... ............... „... 7
Bank sharrs ... 1603
.....lilienzeine Zeitung. March 11.
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, Marten 12.
Mils. Money.
St. &hold. Sch., 41,, per cent. 10.3A 103%
Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent 100% 100',8
EschAnge on tendon, three Inonths 6 1
—,pr,ssian State Gazelle. March 13
DUTCH FUNDS.—Amsnintosst, MARCH 15
Money. tiles.
tctu:zl Debt, .‘ll4 per Cent
3itti,, ditto 5 per cent.
Aniei t Syndic, ey.i.. per cent 8:1% 8)
Ditto, ditto, 34 per cent 71% 7214
Commercial Comioany. .41,', per cent lOO 161;•.i
Ditto (1&35 and 1837) 5 per cent. _ _
Loan 1037, 5 per cent.
Exci,ahge on London, One month l2 05
Two montha
Dutch Papers, March 16.

RUMOURED EPIDEMY AT ETON

COLLEGE.

ETON, TUESDAY AFTERNOON. —ln consequence of three
children of Mr. Tarver, the Italian and French master at Eton
College, having died of scarlet fever during the past week, the
greatest alarm has prevailed on the subject amongst the parents
and friends of the various boys (amounting to upwards of 600),
now at college.
Yesterday morning a fine youth, twelve years of age, the son
of Mr. William Mount, of Wasing-place, Berks, who was an
inmate in the establishment of the Rev. Mr. Coleridge, one of
the assistant-masters, expired of this distressing disorder. It
was reported yesterday that one of the servants of Mr. Tarver
had died of the same complaint, but she is now better, and
likely to recover.
The following is a copy of a letter which was forwarded
last night, at the request of Dr. Hawtrey, the head master, by
the various assistant-masters, to the parents of their respec-
tive pupils, and likewise by the dames to the parents of those
youths who reside in their several houses, in order to relieve
their minds from the natural anxiety and alarm occasioned by
the painful rumours which were abroad :
" Three eases of scarletina had occurred since the holy-
days in different houses, and at intervals of ten days or a
fortnight. The boys were removed into private lodgings, and
are well or convalescent. Since these, however, three very
serious cases have occurred in the family of Mr. Tarver, the
French master, which have ended fatally. Though there is
at present no intercourse between this house and any other,
and the school is in a very healthy state, yet this afflicting
event induced Dr. Ilawtrey to take medical advice on the
course which it was expedient to adopt; and he was the more
disposed to this as another fatal ease has occurred in a master's
house, the other inmates of which, however, have all been re-
moved.

- " Dr. Hawtrey has received from a physician, who is tho-
roughly cquainted with the present state of health of Wind-
sor and Eton, and who has also made the subject of fever and
contagion his particular study, the following letter. Dr. flaw-
trey wishes to leave the propriety of removing any boy who
has never had the scarlet fever to the judgment of parents and
guardians when they have read this letter. and eoncidered the
possibility of further danger after the sad event of this morn..
ing :-
6" Dear Sir,—ln reply to your inquiry respecting the scar-
let facer now in Eton, I would say that there can be no reason
whatever for removing any of the boys who have already had
the disease even in the mildest form; and with regard to the
'others, I think that, as the contagion is already so prevalent in
almost every other quarter to which they could be sent, and
that it has as yet made so little progress in Eton, they would
run fully as much risk in being removed as in staying where
they are. This is my present view of the case. Shou!d the
complaint, however, become a spreading epidemic, so as to as-
sume a local character, there can then be no question in regard
to the propriety of immediately breaking up the school ; but at
present this predicament does not exist, and, were I a parent
or guardian, I certainly should not seek the removal of any of
the pupils as this advanced and so nearly expiring period of
their stay at Eton.
" Believe me to remain, dear Sir,
" ' Your fiithful and obedient servant,
" ' WILLIAM FERGUSSON, M.D.'

Windsor, March 14.' "
The report that the scarlet fever, nr the most malignant
form, was raging within the walls of the College, has spread in
all directions ; and this morning, before noon, nearly 100 had
left College for their respective homes, and it is expected that
in the course of to-morrow the school will be nearly, if not en-
tirely, deserted.
The writer of this, however, has the highest authority for
stating, that the generality of the school, at present, is unusu-
ally healthy, and up to four o'clock this afternoon no further
indications of the disorder amongst the pupils had then shown
themselves. He is likewise authorised to state, that the New-
castle. Scholarship will be contested for next week as usual, the
examinations commencing on Monday. They will last during
the -whole of the week, and the result will not be known until
Saturday afternoon.

GAS-LIGHTING, LONDON.—For lighting Lon-
don and its suburbs with gas there are eighteen public
gas-works; tweiv3 public gas-work companies; 2,800,0001.
capital employed in works, pipes, tanks, gas holders, ap-
paratus ; 450,0001. yearly revenue derived ; 180,000 tons
i of coals used in the year for making gas ; 1,400,000,000
cubic feet of gas made in the year ; 134,300 private
burners supplied to about 400,000 consumers; 30,400
public or street consumers ; about 2,650 of these arc in
the City of London ' • 380 lamplighters employed ; 176
gas holders, several of them are double ones, capable of
storing 5,500,000 cubic feet ; B9O tons of coals used in the
retorts, in the shortest day, in twenty-lour-hours;
7,120,000 cubic feet of gas used in the longest night, saY
24th of December; about 2,500 persons employed in the
ruetrop:dis aloae in this branch of manufacture; be":;:n_,
1622 and 1827 the 'consumption was nearly doubled ; u
between 1827 and 1837 it was again nearly doubled.
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