The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-02 00:00:00

RAILWAY.
ANDOVER, MONDAY.—A large and influential meet-
ing of the clergy, gentry, and other respectable in-
habitants of this borough and neighbourhood, interested
in this line, was held in the Town-hall this day, con-
.

vened by requisition to the mayor. The requisitionists
hawing heard with regret that the Bill recently before
Parliament, for making a railway communication between
Manchester and Southampton through Andover, had
been thrown out by the Committee of the House of
Lords, and feeling the great advantages that would arise
to the town and neighbourhood, and to the public
generally, if such an undertaking were carried out, con-
sidered it advisable to urge the directors of the under-
taking to renew their application to Parliament in the
next session. Tho disappointment, says our corre-
spondent, in this borough among the shareholders and
inhabitants generally, scarcely knew bounds on its first
becoming known that the Committee of the Lords had
rejected the Bill, as not only Andover, but Whitchurch,
Stockbridge, Marlborough, and other important towns,
are yet without railway communication, much to the
pecuniary injury of every tradesman, it costing at the
present time more for the transmission of heavy goods
from the station to Andover (ten miles) than it does for
the whole of the other distance, either from London or
Southampton—to the great deterioration of trade
generally—as the price of articles, such as groceries,
coals, building materials, &c., have to be kept up in price
in this borough, so that the retailers or tradesmen may
get a profit, or compete with tradesmen at Winchester,
and other towns on the line.

Henry Earle, Esq., was voted to the chair.
Mr. HENRY MARSH, of Hatherden, stated the benefits
that must be derived by this line passing through
Andover. Were not all the inns half shut up? There
was nothing to bring people to Andover at the present
time without railway ; therefore the more they had
through the town the better it would be ; therefore ha
said persevere, and you must eventually prosper.
Mr. B. HAWKINS, draper, seconded the resolution.
All the opposition had been withdrawn or overcome, but
from the Groat Western, and they, it appears, had in-
fluence sufficient with five of the Lords to cause the re-

jection of this measure. He concluded by expressing a
hope that the second attempt would be more successful
than the first.—( Applause.)
Mr. HENRY LOSCOMBE, solicitor, proposed as an
amendment, " That the meeting should not bind them-
selves to any particular line of country." His opini:m
was, that a line by way of Didcot would be more direct
and of greater advantage than through Marlborough.
Mr. FOWLE thought not, as the present proposed
line went more into the heart of the iron and other
large manufacturing districts.
Mr. W. 11. HEATH, banker, expressed himself in
favour of the original plan.
After some further discussion the amendment was
withdrawn.
Mr. JOHN PoonE, spirit merchant, proposed the
second resolution. He feared some under speculation
contributed to getting it thrown out—(Cheers)—while
such noblemen as the Earl of Aylesbury supported and
approved of the line, he thought they had but little to
fear. When he heard that a Russell Ns as the chief op-
ponent,
nent and had the greater share in getting this Bill
rejected, he at first thought it was the present Prime
Minister.

Mr. FOWLS, of the firm of Tasker and Fowle, large
iron-founders, seconded the resolution.
Mr. SANDERS proposed an amendment to the follow-
ing effect :—That this should be a free and independent
line, unconnected with the Great Western or the South
Western Companies, which was ultimately negatived.
The following resolution was passed unanimously :
" That the inhabitants of this town, having learnt with
deep regret that the Manchester and Southampton Rail-
way Bill has been rejected by a committee of the House
of Lords, upon the opposition principally of the Great
Western Railway Company, and not from any deficiency
of its merits or want of proof of its necessity or im-
portance to the district through which it was intended
to pass, and being fully convinced of the immense utility
and advantage such a line of railway, if made, would
prove to the pubic generally, and to this town and
neighbourhood in particular, do earnestly request the
committee of management and directors of the Man-
chester and South-Western Railway Company to renew

the Royal Artillery in that island in December, 1843.
Intelligence has been received at Woolwich of the
death of Captain Stanway, Royal Artillery, command-
ing the 6th company of the Ist battalion at St. John's,
New Brunswick, to which station he proceeded with his
company in August, 1845. This gallant officer served in
the Peninsula and France from February, 1812, to July,
1814, including the siege of San Sebastian and passages
of the Bidossa and Adour. His remains were interred
in the new burial-ground with military honours.
Her Majesty's troop-ship Belleisle, Captain King-
come, arrived at Halifax, Nova Scotia, on Wednesday,
July 29, with the 89th Regiment, and two companies of
the 14th Regiment, from Quebec, and embarked at
Halifax on Monday, August 3, the whole of the 2d bat-
talion and three companies of the reserve battalion of
the :Rifle Brigade, for conveyance to Canada. The
Rifle Brigade had been quartered about four years in
Nova Scotia, and during that time, by their exemplary
conduct, recommended themselves to all classes of the
citizens, who universally regret their departure from the
garrison.

SUMMER CHOLERA—ITS CAUSES
There is a much more efficient and much more proba-
ble cause than either pickled salmon or plums. Under
the streets of our best-drained towns and cities there is a
widely extended magazine of miasmata. That magazine
is hidden from our view, yet it is übiquitous. It enters
every court and alley, and during the heat of summer it
is put into fearful activity, and night and day evolves
suspects
until
pre_ l
many thousand cubit inches of foul air; and that foul air.
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everysen
s gully-hole, Nobody
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viously to or during rain, when it is held in solution is
the aqueous vapour of the atmosphere, and becomes per-
ceptible to the sense of smell. People will answer you,
if you inquire the condition of
their house drainage,
" Oh, it is very good ; the drain in the back kitchennever smells except against rain; it is very sweet in-
deed." Yet night and day a miasm is ascending. from
the cess-pool called the sweet drain, through the sink-
hole in that " sweet back kitchen," and infecting the air
of the whole house. Bat whether it stinks or not it is
of very little consequence ; it may have no smell, cr no
unpleasant smell, and yet be a deadly poison. There is
no smell in pure carbonic acid gas, and it is only an in-
nocent odour of (garlic that characterises the fumes of
arsenic ; yet both these are deadly things. What it
offensive to the sense of smell is injurious to the system*
or some part of it ; that is generally true ; but the
reverse is not true ; you carnot say that what is
inoffensive to the sense of smell is not injurious. I
hold it, then, as an established principle, that.
the malaria arising from the abominable sewers„
especially in the metropolis,
.where water-closets and
crowded churchyards abound, is the fruitful source of our
summer epidemics ; and you may rely upon thin, that
wherever you have cholera or typhus epidemic, there you
have a source of malaria. I always inquire into this
matter, and I always give the sufferer or sufferers a
practical lesson in hygiene, whether they be poor .or rich.
You find a family suffering from cholera or fever, and
there is a filthy drain close by. You say to the head of
that family, " Would you like to know why you all have
the cholera? It is that abominable drain." The, answer
will be, "It is really most nauseous, sir, but our :landlord
will do nothing." " Well, thee," answer, " pay a pound
or two a-year more rent, in a healthier spot, where the
landlord will do something ; you will more than. srsve the
sum in escaping sickness." Now, this is a way of.' effect-
ing sanitory reform without an Act of Parliamenit, and a
very effectual way too.—Mcdical Gazette : Dr. Lay-
cock's Lectures.

AMERICAN ELOQUENCE.—The following is
an extract
from a speech of General Buncum in favour of 54 40 :
" Mr. Speaker—When I open my eyes, and look over the
vast expanse of this country—when I see how the yeast of
freedom has caused it to rise in the scale of civilization and
expand on every side—when I see it grcwing,
roar-
ing, like a spring freshet—l cannot resist the idea; ir, the
day will come when this great nation, like .a young school
boy, will burst its straps, and become entirely too big for its
boots. Sir, we want elbow room—the continent, the whole
continent, and nothing but the continent—and we will have
it. Then shall Uncle Sam, placing his hat upon the Canada',
rest his right arm upon the Oregon and California coast, bis
left upon the eastern seaboard, and whittle away the Blitish
power, while reposing his right leg, like a freeman, upon
Cape Horn! Sir, the day will— the day must come." eta
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