The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-17 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON,

THE CHOLERA.
WOOLWICH, OCT. 16.-,—There have been four new
cases since twelve o'clock yesterday, making in all
thirty-five cases oChttack. There has been one death
to-day, and the names of those who died of cholera
having been returned, it appears that eight have died
of the disease. The following are their names, and
the date of the days on which they died :—Oct. 3d,
0 wen !Janes ; 7th, John Rutherford and James
Tones ; Bth, James Bigwood ; 10th, John Debark ;
13th, George Mitchell; 14th, William Eastman;
16, Edward Devine. The number of recoveries are
returned five, same as yesterday. No cases, or the
least appearance of cholera, have been returned by
the medical practitioners in the town and parish of
Woolwich up to twelve o'clock to-day, so that the
disease is still exclusively confined to the Justitia
convict hulk.
BIRMINGHAM, OCT. 16.—We regret to state that
a decided case of Asiatic cholera is said to have oc-
curred in this town yesterday. Mr. John Cheetham,
a clerk in the bank of Messrs. Attwoods and Spooner,
was seized with asequivocal symptoms on Saturday
evening, and extl7o.a last night. Mr. Cheetham was
attended by Dr. 'Wright, Mr. Chavasse, and Mr.
Blake, and no doubt is entertained of the disease
being that of Asiatic cholera. The deceased was a
healthy person, of regular habits, and resided in
George-street, Eigbaston, which is considered to be
a very healthy part of the town.
The cholera, we are well pleased to state, does not
make much progress in this country. It has arrived
late in the year, and we hope to prove that its fearful
energies have been expended in less fortunate climes.
It appeared as if the close, damp, oppressive weather
which hung over us many days at the commence-
ment of this month was the cholera blight; for since
the air has become more brisk and open the disease
seems to have been checked. We are desirous of
preventing our readers from experiencing any unne-
cessary alarm on this subject, therefore we have
forborne to occupy our columns with the numerous
speculations, nostrums, and rumours thereupon
which are going the round of the papers. We
believe that vet', few more instances of the disease
will be heard of. Even where it has presented
the most fatal aspects, the deaths, though exhibit-
ing a large proportion to the cases, have shown
lipt a small one in relation to the population. In
Edinburgh, for instance, where of 30 attacked 25
died, those who fell victims are described as " all
persons already broken down by hunger and dissi-
pation, the very class who form the ready victims
of disease." In Hull a few persons continue occa-
sionlly to drop off, principally in the vessels trading
to Hamburgh, where they appear to obtain the
seeds of the cholera epidemic, which on the voyage
or soon after their arrival break out fatally. On board
of the steamer Rob Roy, which arrived at Hull yester-
day, the stewardess died on the passage. In London
comparatively few cases have occurred. No case has yet
been reported in Glasgow or Liverpool, and we have
every hope that the disease will die out with the
present cold weather, and that the towns on the
western coast will escape the infliction.—Liverpool
Albion.
We are happy to state that there has been
a marked decrease in the number of cholera
cases towards the end of last week. Four cases
which occurred on Wednesday were reported on
Thursday, the localities in which they occurred being
Canongate, West Port, and Newhaven ; three of
these proved fatal within ten hours. On Thursday
there were only two cases ascertained, both of which
resulted fatally; one was a man residing in the West
Port, the other man a patient in the Royal Infirmary.
On Friday we understand that three cases occurred,
all of which terminated in death • two of the
victims resided in the Canongate, the other one in
the Grassmarket. On Saturday there was only one case,
that of a woman living in the last named locality, and who
is now convalescent. Yesterday a man residing in
Glacbtone's-close, Canongate, died of cholera, and in
the evening a woman from the same close, who had
caught the epidemic, was carried to the Infirmary.
The great mortality among the cases reported cannot
but be remarked, but when the condition of the loca-
ities is considered, as well as the circumstance that
veral mild cases may have occurred which have
'n treated privately, and have not terminated
!ly, it will occasion less surprise. In Leith cholera
is said to have broken out on the 9th inst., and we are
sorry to hear that eight or ten fatal cases have oc-
curred there, chiefly about the foot of the Kirkgate.
Li the meantime the authorities of the city are active,
end a meeting of the Local Board of Health took
place on Friday in the Council Chamber, but the re-
sult of their deliberations was not made public.—
Caledonian Mercury of yesterday.
The CIIoLERA.—There are still some cases of
cholera occurring here, but their number seems to be
gradually on the decrease. On Wednesday then-) were
four cases; but since that time there have beeen only
two. It is calculated that about thirty-six cases, in all,
have occurred in Edinburgh; and of these, about
irty have terminated fatally. In Leith, we are
to say, that the epidemic appears to be spreading.
drat bro;:a out there on the 9th instant; and it is re-
prted that, altogether, about a dozen cases have oc-
curred, and of such a bad type, that most of the indi-
sinals seized have died after a few hours' illness. In
the neighbouring village of Newhaven the disease is also
progressing. It is stated that sixteen cases, and eleven
deaths, occurred up till yesterday afternoon.— reotsman.

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QUARANTINE IN ENGLAND.
The notification of the British Privy Council of
the sth instant, enforcing the performance of six
day,' quarantine by all steam-vessels coming from
ports where the cholera is prevalent, is a measure
which must excite general and just surprise. We
are not here alluding tae the special and partly severe
regulations of the edict, but to the entire arrange-
ments of the same, which, indeed, will not reflect
rdditional credit to the often lauded praise of the
" practical" mind of England, which does not seldom
regard the doings and acting of the European
continent with special disdain. All the countries of
the European continent, with only the exception of
Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, have become con-
vinced by experience of the inutility of cholera
quarantines, and in their sanitary regulations have
most carefully guarded themselves against the fresh
introduction of vexatious obstructions to traffic,
by which both commerce and industry have so mate-
riallysuffered, at the time of the former outbreak of cho-
lera some fifteen or sixteen years past. England alone
is disposed to disregard most glaringly her own in-
terest and that of the different nations with which she
stands connected by her commerce, and thus considers
it necessary again to call into existence measures long
since acknowledged as useless to the purpose, and
merely suggested through blind and ignorant fear.
And that at a time, too, when it is thought an un-
necessary hardship to enforce quarantine against the
plague; and in spite of the daily increasing number
of voices raised against the same in the British Par-
liament. Bese,ats, it must be observed that the cholera
cuarantine, pursuant to the notification of the Privy
Council on the sth instant, is no longer applicable to
carry out its pretended object, namely, to prevent
the invtzsion of the disease ; for it is a notorious fact
that the cholera has already broken out in different
parts of England as well as Scotland; consequently
any further precautions or preparations directed
towards foreign parts must prove worthless, even if
the theory of immediate contagion were admitted.
However, we :do not doubt, ere long, it will be evi-
dent that the cholera quarantine is, in every sense,
an untenable measure, and that the British Govern-
ment, when instructed by numerous complaints of
the unnecessary and tiresome impediments to com-
merce caused by its strictly observing an almost uni-
versally abandoned system, will speedily remedy the
evil, by the withdrawal f the order issued by the
Privy Council on the sth instant.—[We quote the
above from a Hamburgh paper, and, for the sake of
our commerce with the northern:ports, we trust
bhat the Privy Council may be induced to reconsider
The subject. The General Steam Navigation Com-
pany have appealed to the Sanitary Board respecting
the hardship inflicted on them by the order in coun-
cil, as to ships from Hamburgh being subject to six
days' quarantine, making at least four days from their
arrival in the Thames.]

MEILANCHOLT OCCURRENCE.—On Saturday, the
neighbourhood of Neath was thrown into a state of much
excitement, in consequence of the following distressing
incident. It appeared that a daughter of Mr. Tamplin,
a publican, residing a short distance from Neath, acci-
dentally fell into the canal, which was near the house,
whilst playing with her younger brother. The little
fellow lost no time in giving the alarm, which was heard
by the mother, who repaired to the spot and immediately
jumped into the canal. After considerable effort, she
succeeded in getting her child into her arms no less than
three times, notwithstanding which her attempts to save
it proved fruitless. The deceased in her dying struggles
proved too strong for the mother, and her foot slipping,
both got into deep water nearly out of sight. A man
having seen the desperate position of the mother, gal-
lantly plunged in, when he too nearly lost his life, in
consequence of the powerful grasp of Mrs. Tamplin,
who pulled him under water. Another man being for-
tunately at hand, and seeing the state of matters, jumped
in and ultimately succeeded in rescuing the other man
and the mother, but the daughter by this time had dis-
appeared. Mrs. Tamplin was carried to her house in- '
sensible, and, when brought to herself, found, to her
inexpressible grief, her child was gone for ever. The
body was recovered in about a quarter of an hour after-
wards. The deceased was nearly seven years of age,
and was universally beloved, being a very amiable and
interesting child.—Cambrian.
NEV s' e ithe It CENTRAL RAILWAY.—The details of the
arrangements for leasing the undertaking to the southern
companiespire now finally concluded, and the agreement
has been signed by the chairman and other officials of
, ' • the2corapanies interested therein. The Scottish Central
is now guaranteed in perpetuity seven per cent. and half
:surplus profits by the Edinburgh and Glasgow, Cale-
donian, Loicaster and Carlisle, and London and North-
Western, at which rate it will yield to purchasers at
present prices a minimum return of 71. 18s. per cent.
Aberdeen ,Ilerald,

PROPERTY OF LOUIS PHILIPPE. 1
On Friday the report of M. Berryer, in th?.name
of the Committee of Finances, on the proposition of
M. Jules Favre, to declare that all the property com-
posing the private domain of Louis Philippe should
be taken by the State, was distributed to the Assem-
bly. After some preliminary observations, and after
setting forth M. Favre's proposition in detail, the
report states that the Provisional Government had
decreed that the real and personal property called
biens de la liste civile should return to the State ; that
the properties known as biena du domaine privet should
be placed under sequestration; and that the real and
personallproPerties of all the members of the ex-Royal
Family should also be sequestrated. The Committee
then proceeds to say that the proposition of M. J.
Favre is of a different character, and would have dif-
ferent effect to the acts of the Provisional Government.
M. J. Favre had laid down that the deed of 7th Aug.,
1830, by which Louis Philippe, before formally ac-
cepting the crown, made over all his private property
in France to his children, reserving only a life in-
terest, ought to be considered " null, of no effect,
and as stained with fraud," the object of it
being to prevent the legal union of the properties of
the Duke d'Orleans to the domain of the crown, in
conformity with the old principles of the law. But
the Committee shows that the properties constituting
the apanage of the Duke d'Orleans were made over
to the State on 9th August, 1830; and as to the
private patrimonial possessions of the house of Or-
leans, the Committee declares that though it was the
principle of the old monarchy that the private proper-
ties of the king should go to the State, that principle
could not be maintained when an entirely new state
of things was established in 1830; and it further shows
that a law of 1832 specially enacted that the king
should preserve, or dispose of as he pleased, the pro-
perties which belonged to him on his accession to the
throne. The permission to him to retain these proper-
ties was, the Committee observes, subsequently urged
as a reason for refusing dotations to his younger sons
and daughters. The Committee declares that, even
without the law of 1832, Louis Philippe was justified
in making over his property to his children by the
deed of 7th August, 1830. " Until (it says) the day
on which he accepted the revocable compact between
him and the Chamber of Deputies, the Prince, as
proprietor, was only subjected, like all French citi•
zens, to the rules of the common law. He ascended
the throne on the faith of the validity of the act which
he was able to make in favour of his children. The
events which have caused him to descend from it, and
which exiled his family, justify all the provisions of
the donation." The Committee then adds :—" Far
from seeking under present circumstances an oppor-
tunity of annulling such an act, justice, good faith,
national dignity ought to surround it with more severe
respect. Henceforth the holders of the patrimonial
properties of the house of Orleans cannot be dispos-
sessed of them without a manifest violation of the
contract; to declare these properties acquired to
the State would be consecrating a violent en-
croachment on the right of property, would be
pronouncing an arbitrary confiscation." The
report, after branding in strong terms the
idea of confiscation, proceeds to state the se-
cond part of M. Favre's proposition, that a com-
mission shall be nominated to superintend the liqui-
dation of the debts of the private domain. It says
that such a commission already exists, and that
the law enacts that the debt of the Civil List
must be paid out of the [private domain. As to the
proposition that the princes of the house of Orleans
shall be constrained to sell within six months the
real properties they possess in France, the Committee
thinks it unnecessary and impolitic. " The seques-
tration of these properties," it says, " appears to us to
present for public tranquillity greater security than
the conversion of such vast domains into disposable
capital." On the whole, then, the Committee recom-
mends that N. Jules Favre's proposition shall not be
taken into consideration. But the Committee recoils-
mends that a law shall be passed regularising the se-
questration, and authorising, for the liquidation of the
debts, that sales and loans on mortgage shall be effected.
It announces that all the members of the house of
Orleans to whom the properties were made over by
the act of the 7th of August, 1830, have consented,
by regularly-executed deeds, to a general and special
mortgage on such properties, in order to secure the
payments of the debts of all kinds owing by their
father. The Committee states that the debts of the
Civil List are 30,000,000 f., and that the Treasury is
creditor for 25,000,000 f. more. To meet these, the
properties of the private domain, which even in these
times cannot be estirnatA at less than 100,000,000 f.
in value, present a sufficient security. But, as the
revenues of them are merely sufficient to pay the in-
terest of the debts, capital must be raised by sales or
mortgage. The revenues are put down at 4,900,000 f.
of which 3,200,G00f. to the private domain,
200,000 F. to the properties of the Queen,
1,500,000 F. to those of the late Madame Adelaide,
the outgoings for administration, repairs, assurance,
taxes, Scc., are represented to amount to 1,900,000 f. ;
leaving a clear income of 3,000,0001. The Commit-
tee recommends that, as the real properties afford
sufficient security for the payment of the debts, the
personal properties of all kinds and the properties
disposed of in marriage settlements shall be imme-
diately given up to the princes of the house of
Orleans ; and that, until the completion of the liqui-
dation, the Council of Ministers shall fix an amount
to he paid from the sequestrated properties to each of
the proprietors. " 'We have thought," says the Com-
mittee in conclusion, " that it would be contrary to
the dignity and generosity of France to impose other
sufferings and other miseries on those who must feel
so much at being proscribed from the territory of the
Republic, or of leaving foreign states to offer the
homage of their assistance to a family which for
nearly twenty years had the honour of governing our
country and commanding our army and our fleets."

7` HORRIBLE CIRCUMSTANCE.—On Saturday last a
woman from the neighbourhood of the Windy Gap elec-
toral division of Addaergole, stated at our office that a
man in her neighbourhood (her own brother-in-law)
had made away with his two children (by his first wife),
a boy, aged fourteen, and a girl, eleven years, and
buried them in a field or skirt of a bog, where the
bodies were afterwards found by the neighbours, covered
with hettlier and earth. Our foreman instantly brought
the woman before Sergeant Conroy, of the constabulary,
and Mr. R. Gallaher, clerk of petty sessions, where she
made the following statement: The father, step-
mother, a• d children were in the poor-house, from which
they were sent out upon the out-door relief; that the
step-mother swore the children should not live with her,
nor be partakers of the food allowed by the union; that
the children had to go away begging; that they returned
to the father's house on Sunday, the 4th instant, wh: n
the wife swore a horrible oath that beneath her roof
they shout I not sleep, and the father insisted they
should remain that night; the children related those
facts to their aunt, who told them to sleep in the house,
as it was their father's wish. She never saw them again
alive; and next day the fath:er was seen, with some
bulk in a bag, and a spade under his arm, going in the
direction of where the bodies were found. On the fol-
lowing Thursday er Friday, a man and woman were ob-
served by the villagers—the man carrying a bulk in a
bag—going to the same spot. The man and woman
then left the neighbourhood, and went to another part
of the union, where the woman's relatives reside.
Policemen were instantly dispatched to the place, and
there the bodies were found by them as described by the
woman. On the same evening the father wai arrested,
and on Sunday he was brought before Dr. Dillon for
examination, and finally was set at liberty. No inquest
had been held that we can hear of—nor were there any
of the villagers confronted with the accused.—Custlebar
nlegraph.
RAILWAY. ACCIDENT.—On Saturday afternoon, the
ten minutes past eleven A.M. train from Edinburgh, of
the Northern Railway, which reaches Ferry-Port-on-
Craig at twenty-four minutes past one, struck the
wooden barricade at the extreme end of the platform,
at the latter place when a concussion was felt over the
carriages, and the passengers were pitched with consi-
derable violence against each other. The shock seems
to have been felt most severely amongst the second class
carriages, all the passengers in the first and third classes
having escaped with little or no injury. So far as we
have been able to discover, the parties hurt are—Mr.
Smart, Montrose, and his servant, both bruised; Joseph
Robertson, sailor, Dundee, cut on the head; Mrs. Fra-
ser, from St. Andrew, and a gentleman from the same
place, both cut about the temples; Mr. Shand, W.S.,
Edinburgh, presently residing in Ferry-Port-on-Craig,
cut on the temple. These, with one or two other trifling
cases, seem the only instances of suffering. Dr. Laing
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continued their trips without stopping, and one of them
returned in about twenty minutes afterwards for the pas-
sengers and luggage left, when the parties for the north
were all able to embark. The accident is supposed to
have originated from the engine going at too great a
speed, a miscalculation of the distance when it should
have been checked, but principally from the wet on the
rails, making the break have less power over it. The
driver, stoker, and (the parties in charge of the train)
are all reported to have been steady and cautious men.—
Aberdeen Herald.
ROMAN REMAINS AT CHESTERFORD.—The Hon.
R. C. Neville having, by the kind permission of Mr.
Edwards, commenced excavating that interesting por-
tion of the Borough-field described by Stukely as en-
closing the remains of the " Temple Umbra," has in-
vestigated accurately the plan laid down by that cele-
brated antiquary ; the result of which proves the incor-
rectness of his statements, the remains being decidedly
those of a dwelling-house rather than a temple. We
take this opportunity of acquainting our readers with a
fact which may not be generally known, that there are
at present the foundations of no less than three Roman
buildings within the space of a mile, which have been
lately excavated by Mr. Neville, open to public inspec-
tion—namely, a dwelling-house and temple in the parish
of Ickleton, and a dwelling-house in the parish of Great
Chesterford.

ROBBERY AT TUE EXCHEQUER- OFFICE. - The
Exchequer-office, Lincoln's-inn, was entered after the
termination of business on Saturday, and plundered of
a quantity of gold and silver, the thieves getting clear
away with their booty.