The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-17 00:00:00

QUARANTINE AT NAPLES.

We understand that official information has been
received from Naples, stating that the Board of Health
of that city has thought fit to place the whole United
Kingdom of England, Scotland, and Ireland in
quarantine, in consequence of a report that two cases
of Asiatic cholera had occurred in this metropolis, in
the month of November last. It is intimated that all
vessels which may have cleared from the port of Lon-
don since the 3d of December will be refused admit-
tance altogether into the port of Naples, and that
vessels from any other port of the United Kingdom
will be subjected to a quarantine of from 14 to 21
days.
We trust that the Foreign Secretary will lose
no time in protesting with. suitable alacrity and
vigour against this absar‘emeasure, so extremely
injurious to the mercantile interests of this country,
and so utterly unwarranted by the facts of the case.
If the Neapolitan Government or its agents in Lon-
don had made proper inquiries, they would have
found that the only cases of illness which were as-
similated at the time to Asiatic cholera, were but two
in number, that they were isolated cases, accompanied
and followed by no circumstances which could in any
degree warrant the existence of contagion, infection,
or even of epidemic disease._ This is not the first time
that we have had occasion to remonstrate against the
extravagant and precipitate measures taken by the
sanitary officers of Naples. Some years ago they
thought fit to place we know not how many ports
of the United• Kingdom under the same ban, because
a newspaper had reported the existence of typhus
fever in the wynds of Glasgow ; and it has been shown
that they have it personal and pecuniary interest in
inflicting these vexatious restrictions upon commerce
on all possible occasions. The present case is really
one of such consummate impertinence and folly, that
it calls for a prompt correction, and compensation to
all such British merchants as may have been inter-
rupted in their lawful undertakings by the capricious
fears of the Neapolitan Board of Health, and we have
no doubt that an immediate withdrawal of this order
at once be required by the British Government
in such a tone as to obtain it —Times.

George 'William Traill, Esq., formerly of the Ho-
nourable East India Company's civil service, but lately
residing at Hanover-square, London, who died on the
19ih of November last, has left personal property in
England, valued at 30,000/., besides his freehold:z, and
estates and possessions in the. East Indies. He made his
will in June, 1845, and a codicil in May, 1847, and has
bequeathed all his leasehold estates in or near London,
find all estates he held on mortgage to trustees for his
daughter Mary, born in the East Indies, and his estates
in the East Indies, real and personal, and all money and
other property there, he leaves in trust for his son
Charles, also burn in the East Indies, to receive there-
(ruin a sufficient sum for his maintenance and education
until he arrives of age; an annuity of 600 rupees to be
allowed therefrom to their mother, for her life, who is
residing at Alinona, in the East Indies—the children are
in England. He has also left the following legacies:—
To James Traill, Esq., formerly of Union Hall, 1,0001.;
to Louisa, the daughter of Sir John Scott Lillie, 2,0001.;
to Rosalie, the daughter of J. C. Colebrooke Sutherland,
Esq., 1,0001.; and to his son George, 2,0001. The tes-
tator confirms a deed, giving the whole of his landed
property in the Orkney Islands, on his decease, to his
great nephew, Frederick William Burroughs, son of
Captain F. NV. Burroughs, of the Bengal Native Infantry,
and has appointed his said great nephew, his residuary
legatee. The acting executors are Sir Thomas E. Cole
brooke, Bart., and James Traill, Esq., a power being
reserved to F. NV. Burroughs, Esq.
FATAL DUAL.—The family of Count de la Feld
Sternberg has been plunged in great affliction by recent
intelligence from Estonia. The young Baron Theodore
d'Ungern Sternberg, who was deservedly lored by all
who knew him, has been shot in a duel occasioned by
some trifling offence given or received in a " Salon" at
Royal. Baron Gustave de Sternberg, brother of the de •
ceased, who acted as his second, had the misery to see
his brother killed before his eyes. The Emperor has
ordered Baron Gustave to retire for six months to his
estates in the island of Dago.—Journal de Prague.
BRISTOL.—The Mayor of this city moved in the
town council on Saturday week, that petitions be pre-
sented to bath Houses of Parliament, praying for the
removal of Jewish Disabilities. Mr. Jose moved an
amendment, which only obtained five supporters, whilst
iu favour of the petition there were twenty-eight.