The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-31 00:00:00

TIIE CHOLERA.

Yesterday it was reported to Mr. Bedford, the
coroner, that two more convicts had died on the pre-
vious day in the Millbank Prison, from Asiatic
cholera.

Mr. Prebble, the registrar of the district, yesterday
received intimation that two deaths had occurred at
the Peckham Lunatic Asylum, both certified by Mr.
Pergusson, the assistant-surgeon of the establish-
ment, to be cases of spasmodic cholera.
WOOLWICH, OCT. 30.—Three new cases have been
reported on board the Unite hospital ship since yes-
terday at noon. No deaths have occurred, and the
disease has assumed a milder form.
EDINDURGH.—We regret to state that there is no
abatement of this disease, there being no fewer than
thirteen cases here yesterday, one in Leith and one
in Newhaven. It is painful also to have to notice
that the fatal cases are very numerous.—Edinburgh
Paper.

WINDSOR, MONDAY EVENING.—The heavy rain
which has fallen within these last three days has caused
the Thames to overflow its banks, and all the low lands
and roads, for some miles around Windsor Castle, are
now completely under water. All direct communication
between Datchet and Windsor is entirely suspended.
The new omnibuses established for conveying passen-
gers from the terminus of the Windsor and Richmond
Railway are of course laid up in ordinary, and, in the
interim, the directors of the company have engaged a
small steamer to convey their passengers from Datchet
to Windsor, by the River, but this answers very imper-
fectly, for the steamer cannot, for various reasons. ap-
proach Windsor-bridge, and consequently the passengers
cannot get to dry land without great inconvenience. The
royal carriages, when they went to Claremont on Satur-
day last, found the road so flooded that they were
obliged to be taken through the Long-walk, over
Spring-hill, on by Bishopsgate, Englefield-green, &c.,
in order to reach Chertsey, and in returning the
same evening, it was found necessary to take the
same circuitous route, nearly four miles out of the
way. There was again much rain last night, and
at day break this morning the flood was so increased
that Windsor and its royal Castle seemed to be standing
on an island. Shortly after day break, however, the
clouds in a great measure cleared off, and about ten
o'clock the carriage and saddle horses were ordered out
for his Royal Highness the Prince Consort and his suite
to go out pheasant shooting in the Great Park; but the
rain came on again with such violence that they were
sent back to stable, and it was not until nearly twelve
o'clock that the royal party left the Castle, when the
Queen signified her intention to accompany them. The
royal attendants were, the Lord in Waiting, the Earl of
Listowel, Gtneral Wemyss, and Colonel Seymour; and
for their use, as the weather still appeared threatening,
the covered carriage called the Sefton was brought out,
hilst her Majesty and the Prince occupied one of the
royal carriages. Whilst the Prince and the gen-
tlemenother
in attendance were occupied in the sport, her
Majesty drove round some of the upper roads of the
pat, k and returned with his Royal Highness to the
Castle between one and two o'clock.
SOUTHAMPTON, MONDAY EVENING.—The Penin-
sular and Oriental Company's steam- ship Indus, Captain
John Soy, arrived at Southampton at half-past ten
o'clock from Alexandria, and landed the heavy portion
of the Indian mail from the following places and dates,
in charge of Lieutenant Fancock, Admiralty agent. Her
dates of sailing are—Alexandria, Oct. 15 ; Malta, Oct.
19; Gibraltar, Oct. 25. Weather during the voyage—
Fine in the Mediterranean, with the exception of a
westerly gale after passing the island of Galeta; from
Gibraltar to Ushaut lair winds, but cloudy and rainy.
Freight-602 packages of specie, 168,246 dolls., from
India on account of merchants, 6,6071. British coin, and
a general cargo consisting of elephants' tusks, opium,
~tiine, silk, poppies, seeds, S:c.
MYSTEMOUS CASE.—Yesterday an bluest was
held on the body of Adeline I+l. Bloihe, aged five years,
the daughter of a painter, residing in St. George's in the
East, who gradually sunk and died without her medical
attendant being able to discover her disease. She suf-
fered great pain, caused, as it was suspected, by a slow i
poison, but, on a post mortem examination, no traces
could be detected The father of the deceased said that
this was the fourth child ho had lost since February
last, and that two of the others had exhibited similar
symptoms to those observed in this case. The drainage
of the house was said to be very defective, and the pre-
sence of a most noxious effluvia almost constant. Ver-
dict, "Natural death."

DEATH OF SIR 11. WILMOT SETOIC, KaT.—This
gentleman, formerly one of her Majesty's judges in the
Supreme Court at Calcutta, died on the 2Gth of July hut,
on board the ship Earl of Dalhousie, on his return to
England from Calcutta. lie had been pensioned, and
was returning to England with the view of passing the
remainder of his days in his native country.

TUE LATE LORD CHIEF JUSTICE TINDAL.—The
subscription for the erectien of a statue to the memory
of the late learned Lord Chief Justice Tindal has
reached the snm of 5601.

DEATH OF MRS. CHARLES CAVENDISH.—It is our
painful duty to announce the death of this lady, which
took place at an early hour on Sunday morning last, at
Little Casterton Rectory, near Stamford. Mrs. Caven-
dish's accouchenzent took place on the 21st inst., when she
was delivered of a still-born daughter. This estimable
lady, who was the eldest daughter of Major-General the
lion. 11. B. Lygon, was only married on the 26th Octo •
her, 1847, to the Rev. Charles William Cavendish, third
son of Major-General the Hen. Henry Cavendish, who
is plunged into the deepest affliction at this sudden and
melancholy bereavement.
THE DUKE OF ATHOL AND THE MARKED SALMON.
-It is some years since we first brought before the
country a series of experiments that Lord Glenly on
(now Duke of Athol) was carrying forward on a large
scale, to throw some light on the instincts and habits of
the salmon, and thus add another leaf to the natural
history of that celebrated fish. We are glad to say that
the problem has now been proved to a demonstration
that foul or spent salmon, after depositing their spawn
in the gravelly beds of our rivers during the close
months, seek their way back again to the sea, their rich
pasture and feeding ground. After remaining there a
certain time, they enter our rivers again, each to his own
proper river, as cows grazing on a field to their own stalls
at night, or as a bird to the nest; but how changed—the
sickly, loathsome-looking kelt or red fish, now the rich,
plump, beautiful salmon. Friday morning lust proved
the truth of this to a certainty; for, on the gathering
boat landing their fish at Orchard •neuk, a few miles
below Perth, a fine salmon, weighing sixteen pounds
six ounces, in prime condition, was brought into the
house, with a metal ticket, engraved " Duke of Athol,
Dunkeld, No. 128," and fastened with copper wire round
the tail. That this marked salmon had gone down to
the sea there can bo no doubt of, as it brought up with
it a sure and certain proof of its being an inhabitant of