The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-20 00:00:00

LITERATURE.

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ABOLITION OF QUARANTINE.-ORDER IN COUNCIL.
—A communication has now been received by the Com-
missioners of the Customs Department from Mr. Ba-
thurst, ono of the clerks to the Lords of her Majesty'.
Privy Council, stating that he has been directed by the
Lords of the Council to inform him that an official com-
munication having been received on the 17th inst. by
their Lordships from the General Board of Health,
stating the actual existence of Asiatic cholera in Great
Britain, although not in an epidemic form, and that such
being the case their Lordships are of opinion that qua-
rantine precautions against that disease are no longer
necessary ; and that he (Mr. Bathurst) was further di-
rected to state that in future it will not be necessary to
report on or detain vessels arriving in Great Britain with
cases of cholera on board ; and further, that all vessels
at present under restraint of quarantine might be imme-
diately released. In pursuance of this communication
from Mr. Bathurst, a copy of their Lordships' order has
been furnished to the principal officers of the Customs
Department at the several ports and places throughout
the kingdom, as well as to the port of London, with di-
rections to take care that the same be duly obeyed.
THE INSTITUTE OF ACTUARIES.—We are requested
to state that the following gentlemen were elected au-
ditors (and not actuaries), as incorrectly stated, at the
recent meeting of actuaries reported in our impression
of Monday:—B. Henderson, Esq. (of the Liverpool and
London), F. G. Smith, Esq.
(of the Scottish Union),
and Wm. Eramens, Esq. (of the Church of England).
Mr. DYCZ SOMBRE.—Pursuant to the order of the
Lord Chancellor, this gentleman has arrived in town,
appartnaents having been taken for him at Mivart's with
the view of being examined by the medical gentlemen
appointed by his Lordship. It will be recollected that
by the last decision of the Lord Chancellor in this case,
Mr. Dyce Sombre was restored, on certain conditions, to
the control of his large property, and the object now
sought to be attained is entirely to supersede the com-
mission of lunacy issued against him. Drs. Southey and
Bright, the gentlemen who made the last report as to
his state of mind, are again appointed to conduct the
examination; and in addition, Sir James Clark will be
present on the part of Mrs. Dyce Sombre, and Mr.
Martin, a gentleman whose medical experience has been
acquired in India, on behalf of Mr. Dyce Sombre.
BALLOONlNG.—Lieutenant Gale makes an ascent
from Dundee this (Friday) afternoon.
It is affirmed that Louis Philippe has declined any
compromise with the elder branch of the Bourbons
having for its object the recognition of Henri V. and
his adoption of the Count de Paris. It is even said that
Louis Philippe has by no means abandoned the hope of
being able to resume his position is France!
TRH BOOKSELLERS' PROVIDENT INSTITUTION.—
Last evening a meeting of the board of directors of the
above institution was held in the committee-rooms in
Paternoster-row for the transaction of general business.
The statement of the progress of the institution and the
continued increase of new members was highly satisfac-
tory and encouraging. The report of the past year
stated that the directors had been enabled to add up-
wards of 1,0001. to the permanent fund, and that the re-
cipients of relief had been twenty-four individuals,
eighteen of whom were males and six females (widows),
at a cost of 2621. 15s. 4d., of which number five were
permanent annuitants. The amount of relief granted to
distressed members of the trade since 1840 had been
nearly 1,3001. In connexion with the above there is a
" Provident Retreat" for aged and decayed members of
the trade, consisting of seven houses, most pleasantly
situate at Abbots Langley, Herta, in which there are at
present only two inmates.
The distinguished Italian sculptor, Baron Maro-
chetti, is at present in Glasgow, on a visit to some of the
members of the committee on the Wellington monument.
—Glasgow Constitutional.
INQUEST.—Yesterday Mr. Baker, the coroner, held
an inquest at the Duke of Wellington, Cannon-street,
St. George's, touching the death of Sarah Sutton, aged
67, a mariner's widow. John Sutton, a labouring man,
son of deceased, deposed that she had been entirely do-
pendent
on him for sustenance. Latterly she had suf-
fered a good deal from witness's inability to support her;
in fact, she frequently wanted the common necessaries of
life. She, however, retained her usual health up to the
forenoon of Wednesday, when she was seized with a sort
of fit, and fell heavily on the floor of a miserable room
at 23, Cornwell-street, in the above neighbourhood. She
never rallied, and died in a few hours afterwards. Mr.
Roberts, the surgeon, said that the poor creature was in
a most wretched condition, attired in rags, and not hav-
ing a blanket to cover her. Witness could readily attri-
bute the apoplexy resulting in death to a want of suffi-
cient covering, and the absence of other necessaries. The
Coroner remarked on the distressing nature of the case,
and the jury returned a verdict of " Natural Death."
HULL CORN EXCHANGE.—The gentlemen appointed
at the late meeting to obtain a Thursday's market, find-
ing it expedient to waive the proposition, confined them-
selves to asking for some improvements in the place
where the Tuesday's market is held. The deputation
was received with much urbanity by the property com-
mittee of the corporation, who promised attention to the
alterations sought for, including the covering in of the
centre of the market.

COURT CIRCULAR.
WIND SOR, THURSDAY.
The Queen and Prince Albert took their usual
early morning.
The Royal Family took walking and pony exercise
in the pleasure-grounds around the Castle.
Prince Albert hunted this morning with the hariers.
His Royal Highness was attended by Captain the
lion. J. Denman, and Colonel Seymour.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, accompanied by
their Serene Highnesses the Princesses Amelia and
Eliza of Hohenlohe Schillingsfurst, arrived to-day at
half-past one o'clock, on a visit to her Majesty and
the Prince Consort. Her Majesty was attended by
ber Lady in Waiting, and Earl Howe, Lord Cham-
berlain.

The Hon. Miss Kerr and the Hon. Miss Cavendish
have succeeded the Hon. Misses Murray and Mac-
donald, as the Maids of Honour in Waiting to the
Queen.

The royal dinner party at the Castle this evening will
include her Majesty the Queen Dowager, her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Kent, their Serene High-
nesses the Princess of Hohenlohe Langenburg and
the Princess Eliza of Hohenlohe Langenburg, their
Serene Highnesses the Princesses Amelia and Eliza
of Hohenlohe Schillingsfurst, the Lady in Waiting of
the Queen Dowager, Lady Anna Maria Dawson,
Baroness de Speth, Earl Howe, Lord John Russell,
Lord Edward Howard, Mr. G. E. and the Hon. Mrs.
Anson, and Sir George Couper.
The band of the Coldstream Guards will attend
during dinner, and her Majesty's private band will
afterwards attend in the Castle.

The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch took leave
of her Majesty the Queen Dowager yesterday morn-
ing, at the Priory, Stanmore, and left for town. Her
Majesty, accompanied by the Princesses Amelia and
Eliza of Hohenlohe Schillingsfurst, and attended by
Marchioness of Ormonde and Earl Howe, afterwards
took her departure for Windsor Castle.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
COWES, OCT. 19.
FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.
DEPARTURES.—The Hon. Mrs. Osborne, from
10th Cliff Cottage ; Mrs. Pelham Warren, from 9th
Cliff Cottage ; Sir Bellingham Graham, Bart., from
Grantham House, for Town ('tis said the Vice-
Commodore is tired of his yacht, the Flirt, thinks
her too large, and has either sold or is about selling
her). The Countess of Darnley leaves Beach Villa
on Monday next. Captain Hamlyn Williams is ex-
pected to leave Belmore House in about a week.
ARRIVALS.—Mr. Hare has taken Busigny House
for the winter, and Mr. Williams Claremont House.
Lady Ashworth is in treaty for Trafalgar House.
J. Gee, Esq., has taken Castle Hill Cottage for a
term of years. Captain Kelly is in treaty for Moor
House.

Married, on Tuesday last, at St. Paul's Church,
Whippingham, Gustavus Edward Estwick, youngest
son of R. Estwick, Esq., of Kingston, Surrey, for-
merly Comptroller of the Customs here, to Sarah
Elizabeth, second daughter of W. A. D. Nunn, Esq.,
of Broadlands, Newport.
Died, on the 14th, W. Dawson, Esq., Comptroller
of the Customs at this port.

HULL POLICE COURT, OCT. 19.—BASTARDY CASE.
--" CHAPMAN v. BEAUCLERCK."—This case, which was
heard privately about a fortnight ago, and adjourned,
was this day resumed in public, before George Cook-
man and Thomas Palmer, Esqrs., magistrates of the
borough, when such portions of the evidence as had been
committed to writing by the magistrates' clerk during
the private investigation were read over, and an alibi
attempted to be proved to-day, by Lord Frederick
Beauclerck. After a very patient hearing the magistrates
consulted a short time, and decided in favour of the
complainant, Miss Chapman. The evidence was after-
wards animadverted upon by Mr. Palmer, as being very
contradictory, and the particular points stated which had
weighed with him in coming to a conclusion. It is much
to be regretted that the licence indulged in by the
wigged members of the bar should be aped by attornies
practising in police courts, by which informers h
who
drawn and characters aspersed prejudicialto parties
do not appear on the face of the evidence at all con-
nected with the case. To-day great liberties were taken
by the defendant's solicitor with an absent party, in
order to strengthen his client's case.
The marriage of Dudley Coutts Majoribanks,
second son of Edward Majoribanks, Esq., with Isabella,
eldest daughter of Sir JalnesatWSeti. George's,r Hogg,
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was solemnised yesterday,
square. The ceremony
Rev. H. Pitt Chohnondelwas performed by the Hon. and
given by eY, and a dejeuner was after-
wards Lady ling, at her residence iu
Grosvenor-square.
STATE or THE METROPOLIS.—The physical and
moral state; of
It
is a factmenyparts of London calls loudly for
amendment.
Abbteh at, in a small space in West-
minster, close to the
are crowded together in
inhabitants of this disnt 3', no fewer than 700 families
.190 houses. Above 500 of the
part
or fictare unmarried; while, in al-
most every other
drained, ill-ventilated co the metropolis, the filthy, un-
urts will supply a proportionate
amount of persons entirelyregardless of this social in-
stitution. Although mu
gating the evil by draining
and ventilation, a vast deal
still remains to be accomplishede ; and, in order to the
nuisances, removal of suchs, it is at first necessary it
o a
name
should be known that they
the town some of the worst courts At the west-end of
courtts are situated. There
is one known b
spot is 45 yards lony the
r of Orchard-place ; this
g and
houses. There resided in thiB broad, and contains 27
fami-
lies, including 882 Persons, of whom 582 were above
s court, in 1845, 217
fourteen years of age. The
was thus comprised in a population of a large village
singlenumber
r court, and it might be
supposed that a larger
crowded therein. It is of persons could not be
nevertheless true that the popu-
lation of Orchard-place has,
217 to 476 families,
and
froms since 1845, increased from
882 to 1,222 individuals.
The number of adults is 88
or larger than its entire
population,at the
former period. Disease, as may be
imagined, is rarely if ever absent fromsuch localities,
an
and it is there that the cholera or y other pestilence
may be expected to cause its worst ravages. The wealthy,
who dwell in the streets and squares behind which these
congregated abodes of wretchedness are situated, are
little aware, or apparently wholly careless, of their
existence. One of the first steps toward amelioration
must consist in the erection of dwellings ;fit for human
beings to dwell in, and recent efforts in this direction are
something more than a recognition of the evil which it
is so desirable to eradicate.
Mr. J. C. Bennett, late clerk at the Margate
Savings' Bank, and who decamped with above 2,0001. of
the funds, was brought down on Monday night in the
custody of a Bow-street police. officer, and after a private
examination before a magistrate at the York Hotel, re-
manded to Dover gaol. We understand that since leav-
' the town the fugitive has been to America, but having
mg
no peace of mind returned to give himself up to justice.—
Kentish Observer. e a —Th
' 13Aris. OF MANCNESTS • _ annual meeting of
the shareholders of the Bank of Manchester was held
on Wednesday at the Clarence
FarrarHotel, Manchester, Mr.
G. R. Chappell presiding. air. E read the report,
which stated that in June, 1847, the net assets of the
concern were estimated at 82,151/. 35. Id., and the
liabilities at 20,210/. 3s. led. The assets at present were
estimated to produce 35,243/. O. Id,
ties outstanding amounted to 18,780/. Is
surplus of 66,452/. Is. Bd. The cash, whilst the liabili-
ties 4d., leaving a
in the hands of
the directors was 40,6031. 65. report was adopted,
and the retiring directors re-el The
ected. A committee was
then appointed to confer with the directors as to what
steps should be taken to pay the shareholders a sum of
68. Bd. per share, and also to consider the propriety of
e-establishing the bank as a bank of discount. After a
to of thanks to the chairman, the meeting terminated.
THE UNEMPLOYED AT GLASGOW.—We learn that
in consequence of the recent decision of Sheriff Alison,
regarding the right of the able-bodied poor to interim
parochial relief, the parochial authorities of the city have
arranged to apply a labour test to the applicants for re-
lief, who may now be expected to become very numerous.
This test, we understand, will, in the first instance, be to
set them to work along with the firemen and scavengers
of the city, in aiding the sanitary measures which are
now being so vigorously enforced through every quarter
of the municipality. Yesterday forenoon, the practical
value of the test was exemplified in the case of seven
of the unemployed who applied for relief. When told
of the conditions on which it would be granted, four of
the number refused to work, and their application was, of
course, at once dismissed.—North British Mail.
SCOTCH COOLNESS.—The tranquillity and phlegm
of the Scotch, in the most extraordinary circumstances,
" brings to mind," says Colman, in his " Random
Records," "the incredible tale of the Sootchman's
tumble from one of the loftiest houses in the old town of
Edinburgh. He slipped, says the legend, off a roof
sixteen stories high; and when midway in his descent
through the air, he arrived at a lodger looking out at a
window of the eighth floor, to whom (as he was an ac-
quaintance) he observed, en pageant, ' Eh, Saundy, mon!
' sic, a to' as I shall haer "

LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 20, lB4B.