The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-07 00:00:00

ELECTION MOVEMENTS.

ANDOVER.—RETIREMENT or MR. ETWALL, M.P.—
On Monday an address, of which the following is a copy,
was circulated amongst the electors of this borough:—
"TO THE INDEPENDENT ELECTORS OF THE BOROUGH OF

ANDOVER.
" Gentlemen—A canvass having commeneed for the
representation of your borough I beg to announce to you
that it is not my intention to solicit a renewal of your
confidence at the approNiching election. I have not taken
this step without great regret and reluctance, but I find
it impossible constantly to attend to my Parliamen-
tary duties without a total sacrifice of my health.
During the last sixteen years I have served you in the
Commons House of Parliament. I have endeavoured to
act faithfully, honestly, and independently, in strict con-
formity with those liberal :principles which first secured
to me the distinguished honour of being one of your re-
presentatives. I shall carry with me into private life
the sincerest wishes for the prosperity of my native
town, and a deep anxiety for the welfare and happiness
of its inhabitants. I shall still be as zealous as I ever
have been in co-operating with the unflinching friends
of the poor in my exertions to improve their condition,
maintain their rights, and redress their wrongs.
" With every sentiment, &c., &c.,
(Signed) "R. ETWALL.
"Brooke's Club, St. James's-street, April 30, 1847."
Mr. Newton Fellowes, of Hartabourne Park, a rela-
tive of Lord Portsmouth (Liberal) ; Mr. Cubitt, the
builder, of London (Conservative) ; and Mr. Coles, of
Andover (Conservative), have already addressed the
electors, and it is stated that a gentleman well known for
his Liberal opinions, will be put forward in conjunction
with Mr. Fellowes.

EAST SUSSEX.—Lord Cantalupe's address to the elec-
tors has been issued some days. In the meantime much
uncertainty was felt as to the course that would be taken
by the present Member, Mr. Frewen. On Saturday, at
the Hastings market, that gentleman met a considerable
number of his constituents, and delivered an address, in
which he vindicated his recent conduct in Parliament,
and stated, that if any gentleman holding the same opi-
nions as himself, and possessing the confidence of the
electors, should come forward, he would place his seat
at their service. In conclusion, the Honourable Member
said he was chiefly anxious to consult the wishes of the
electors, and left it entirely in their hands whether he
should retire or not. Lord Cantalupe has announced his
willingness to join the Anti Malt-tax Association.
MALDON.—We understand that David Waddington,
Esq., deputy chairman of the Eastern Counties Railway
Company, has consented, in compliance with a requisition
numerously signed by the freemen and electors, to be-
come a candidate for the seat for this borough, to be
vacated by the retirement of John Round, Esq., at the
ensuing election.—Essex Herald.

HEALTH OF THE METROPOLIS.
In the week ending Saturday, May 1, 983 deaths,
being 503 males, and 480 females, were registered in the
metropolitan districts. Of these, the zymotic (or
epidemic, endemic and contagious) diseases, the class
we have at present most reason to apprehend danger
from, was slightly below the average ; this, we think,
must be attributed to the unusually cold weather that
has lately prevailed, but should hot weather set in, that
is above 66 or 68 degrees, it is greatly to be feared' that
the typhus fever now raging in Ireland, and to which
persons of the lower, middle, and highest classes have
already fallen victims, will appear in its worst form in
this crowded metropolis. Vast numbers of poor Irish
are, it is well known, flocking over to this country, their
bills emaciated cad their constitutions broken by
famine, their s food having long been of a greatly
deteriorated description, composed cf rotten potatoes
and refuse vegetables, the veriest garbage, such as in
ordinary times would not have been given even to
animals. It can hardly be doubted, then, that these
wretched people bring over in their systems the seeds of
a disease of a highly contagious character, which,
although it may be restrained for a brief period by a
low temperature, will inevitably break forth at last, and
spread death over the land. It is already on our thresh-
hold, for it is even now raging at Liverpool, where an
excess of nearly 100 deaths (from typhus) over the
ordinary weekly average shows how destructive this
scourge must prove when it reaches London, where
narrow streets, ill-ventilated rooms, defective drainage,
and an incessant vapour of miasma, arising from slaughter-
houses, gas works, chemical works, heaps of decaying
vegetables, and animal matters, and a thousand other
sources of the most noisome and deleterious exhalations.
will add incalculably to its powers of destruction
Warning ought to be taken in time, and some step
adopted for the mitigation of the impending evil, seeing
that it is now too lice to prevent its approach altogether.
Increased cleanliness and improved ventilation may do
much ; houses might be whitewashed, heaps of filth
removed from their ancient abiding-places, and other
means taken to counteract the pernicious effects that will
result from a rise of temperature. The number of births
last week was I,276—males 622, females 654. From the
meteorological observations taken at the Royal Ob-
servatory, Greenwich, during the week ending Saturday
last, we find the mean light of the barometer to have
been 29 569 : thermometer, highest 59.5 ; lowest 37.1 a ;
mean 48.1 ; mean direction of the wind S.W., with a
maximum pressure of 1001bs. a square foot. the mean of
horizontal movement of the air (for three days) being
785 miles ; mean amount of cloud 7.7; sum of rain 0.54
inches.

HABITS OF THE HEDGEHOG.
The " Hedgehog question," as to whether the little
animal ever milks the cow, is yet a moot point in many
quarters, and we heard it recently talked over in an
omnibus, and gleaned sundry facts of the habits of the
animal, a few of which we note down :—Our informant,
who, while in sporting rambles amongst the woods, had
often found the nests of the hedgehog, says they often
adopt a rabbit burrow as their home, and choking up
the thoroughfare with half a sackful of leaves, there
deposit the young hoglings, and he never found fewer
than three or more than seven in the same nest. He has
often watched the young ones, about the time when the
sow deserts the litter, venturing forth from the nest, awl
uttering a little squeaking cry ; the only sound, as he
thinks, the animal usually makes ; as even when worried
by dogs, the hedgehog is usually without cry. The
young hedgehogs gambol together much like young
rabbits, and at the first alarm scamper back to the nest.
the mature animal, in a state of nature, is fond of fruit,
and our informant once saw one apparently of twice its
usual bulk, and on approaching it, perceived that its
spines were surmounted by small crabs, the animal hay
ing apparently rolled itself amongst the fallen fruit,
below a neighbouring tree, and thus carried off his
booty. In some parts of Cheshire, hedgehogs were for-
merly much more numerous than of late ; for the game-
keepers, having found they sucked eggs of partridges
and other “ game" in their nests, they now destroy them
whenever found. Our informant was of opinion that the
hedgehog never sucked the cow. A gentleman in the
omnibus said that when a boy, at his grandfather's farm,
he remembers seeing a hedgehog within a few inches of
a. cow that was lying in the field just before milking
time ; and that when that cow was next milked, then•
was very little milk came from one teat, and that milk
was streaked with blood. This was the nearest ap-
proach to a proof he had himself witnessed ; but it
appeared to be generally believed by the farmers, that
the hedgehog did suck the cow. Of one thing it is
clear, that the hedgehog, when domesticated, is exceed
ingly fond of milk ; and he, having procured one for a
friend, whose house was much infested by cockroaches,
the little animal soon earned its wages, by its wholesale
destruction of these creatures. As this gentleman ex-
pressed his desire to have an opportunity to put the
question of the hedgehog's cow-sucking propensities to
the test of observation, the person whom we have noticed,
as well acquainted with the habits of these creatures,
promised to procure him one in a few days, which the
gentleman said should have every chance of approaching
the cows in a farm with which he was connected. The
flesh of the hedgehog is said to be exceedingly delicate ;
and we have heard of a lady who gave 6d. each for as
many of these creatures as could he procured, and had
them roasted.—Manchester Guardian.

ALLEGED LIBEL ON THE DIRECTORS OF THE
EASTERN COUNTIES RAILIVa T.—The directors of the com-
pany have caused steps to be taken to ascertain the name 01
the writer of certain letters which have lately appeared in
the columns of our contemporary, the Independent Press, in-
sinuating that the sum of 960,0001.—a tolerable item cer-
tainly—had utterly disappeared in a manner which could not
be accounted for on any known principles. The name of the
writer has been given, and is found to be that of a director 01
the Royston and Hitchin Railway Company. This gentle-
man appeared before the mayor on Thursday, and gave bail
to answer an indictment for libel at the next assizes for this
county —Cambridge Advertiser.
HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO GUERNSEY.--MT. W. B.
Coiling, of the Regent's-park, is the successful competitor
for the premium offered by the committee charged with the
erection of a tower in commemoration of her Majesty's most
gracious visit to this island. We understand that nearly
thirty designs were sent in, some of which are said to have
possessed great merit. Mr. Coiling arrived here on Friday
last, and in the course of the afternoon inspected the proposed
sites.—Guernsey Star.

COMMISSIOiOF LllNACT.—Wednesday &commission
de lunatic 9 inquirendo was opened at the Tyssen Arms, Dal-
ston. before Mr. Commissioner Winslow and a spacial jury,
to inquire into the state of mind of Arthur Edward George
Tumour, Esq., aged 43, late an officer in the 17th Regiment
of the Honourable East India Company's Madras Infantry,
now of Pembroke House Lunatic Asylum, a gentleman pos-
sessed of property under the will of his father (the late Rev,
E. Tumour, of Shrewsbury), and from the East India Com-
pany, of upwards of 10,0001. The evidence of Dr.
Williams, of Pembroke House, Dr. Southey, and other
witnesses, tended to show that the alleged lunatic
had been an inmate of the above establishment since
the 28th November, 1835, and had throughout been of un •
sound mind, and he laboured under the delusion that
snakes, boa constrictors, and other reptiles, were constantly
beirg placed in his bed-room by persons who wished to
he heard
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opposite side " Ex piissimo Meratorum, Agrieolattia,
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