The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-02 00:00:00

(From the Hull Adv s) -
Considerable alarm has exi., .Hull duri,
'k, fqam the report which slimed on Monday,: ti
lad at last arrived in England, and
Ues ad occurred in Hu 1. For two g r
three days in the earlier part of the week much uti -
certainty generally existed, both as to the"nrimber aof
deaths and the circumstances in connexien with the m t.
It was rumoured that the &ceased had been poisor. Led,
and the statements prevalent in support of this rums lit?‘
were plausible enough. In order to dispel-all doubts
the.matter, we give the following circunistau flak
reeita,c. on the accuracy of which the fullest reliaiiice
may be ple,„7ed :
The Prussian barque Pallas arrived in Hull in the
month of April lasi, with a cargo of timlAr from
Dantzic, and was prevented from returning in conse-
quence of ,the Danish blockade. Her commander,
Capt. Moller, for the sake of economy, discharged his
crew, who returned home. When the armistice was
recently declared, he engaged a fresh one at Barth,.iin
Pomerania, and on the 20th arrived in Hambure,h,
and took them on board the steamer Victoria, which oat
the following morning sailed for this port, though
it is to be feared that the men in the interim were ore
shore. It seems pretty clear that during the passage
to Hull, notwithstanding the precautions of- the cap-
tain, they indulged freely in eating fruit, especially
plums, of which the Victoria brought a considerable
quantity. On arriving in Hull,' ,tp Friday, the
captain left the men (ten in nualberYon bo!rd the
steamer, until he had made every ertengeiFet for
their comfortable reception on board the:Tapas,
Which vessel, for the space of a month, had beet left
under the charge of the carpenter, who appears to
have had the hatches off daily, and to have--dons
everything to promote cleanliness and tijoicough
ventilation. On the following morning (Saturday),
about nine o'clock, the captain was informed.thitt one
of the seamen, named Carl Peter, "was VeryTick:'
The captain went to him and found he had been enuth
purged, and had vomited largely ; had considerablesain
in his back and loins, and violent spasnak. He imme-
diately ordered some strong camomile tea to be given
him, and went to Mr. Lambert, the druggist, in;Carr-
laee, who administered such medicines as•he.thetight
the ewe demanded, but the Poli-'marapifeci A` littlek=-
after midnight. About eight o'clock On Sunday monitik
a second roan was taken ill, with similar symptoms.
Mr. Lambert was immediately consulted, and the
same course taken as in the last case. At one o'clock
Captain Moller called upon Mr. Bright, the Prussian
Consul, who immediately requested Dr. Cooper to see
the man who had been attacked, which he promptly
did, and under Dr. Cooper's treatment the mail was
restored. At about one o'clock A.m. on Sunday, a
third roan, Carl Rose, the cook, was seized. Dr.
Cooper was immediately seen, and prescribed for him,
but in this case the symptoms were worse, and the
attack far more virulent than in either of the previous
cases, and the man died at nine o'clock—eight hours
after being seized ! About the time he died, the
mate, William Fischer, was attacked ; betweep ten
and eleven o'clock was evidently beyond hope of
recovery ; and at four o'clock in the afternoon died.
Two other men were also taken ill, and under the
direction of Captain Moller and Mr. Bright were
removed front the vessel to lodgings on shore, and
have since recovered. The rest of the crew at the
present time are quite well.
These are the only cases of cholera which have
occurred in Hull. There have been no other attacks
in the town.
Too much praise cannot be accorded to Captain
Moller, for the promptness and skill which he has
exhibited throughout the trying circumstances in
which he has been placed. Not only did he apply
the proper remedy immediately on his knowledge of
the men being attacked, but, in every case, lost no
time in calling medical aid. The whole crew, with
the exception of himself, were more or less indisposed,
and had a dread of approaching their shipmates who
were fatally attacked, but he waited as a nurse upon
all, being unable to procure assistance. After thew.
men were removed to lodgings on shore he fumigated
the cabin, roundhouse, and hold, with brimstone, and
subsequently washed them with chloride of lime, be-
sides immersing the clothes of all who had the disease
in the dock. To such a man not only the town but
the nation is greatly indebted.
The cases of cholera having been reported to Lon-
don, an official order was addressed to the Custom-
house authorities at this port, to place the Pallas
in quarantine, all communication between her and
the shore being cut off for six days after thel ast
death, excepting to medical men under certain re-
staictions. This has called forth some animadversions.
from a correspondent, which will be found in a letter
below. However unpretending the signature, the
writer is a gentleman of high standing in the town.
On Wednesday the Town-Clerk received a letter
from Mr. Edwin Chadwick:, requesting him to give
every facility to Dr. Sutherland, who had been sent
from London to inquire into the facts of the cases of
cholera which have occurred. --Information was con-
, veyed to the magistrates and to the Sanitary CORl-
inittee of the Town-Council, and yesterday C-aptlln
I Moller, Mr. Bright, the Prussian Consul, the Mayor,
several of the magistrates, members of the Sani-
tary Committee, and medical men were ex-
an fined by Dr. Sutherland, for the purpose of
eliciting, as far as possible, every fact con-
nected with these cases, so as to be enabled to
draw any general deductions therefrom, and also
to general inquiries respecting the sanitary
mak
stateortehe town, and the nature of the interco.upse
between this port and Harnburgh, so that, if the
disease should break :out in Hull, the Board of Health,
in London, may be prepared to advise the course to be
taken, and to pronounce on the expediency of imme-
diately establishing a Board of Health in this locality.
In conclusion, it may be well to state that the
rumour spread yesterday that the captain of the brig
Cato, which arrived in the morning from St. Peters-
burgh, was laid dead on board, of the cholera, was
entirely groundless. A counter-rumour was also
prevalent that he died in a state of delirium tremens,
arising from excessive drinking. This is not less fhlse.
Captain Hare, who has bog been a total abstainer,
was well when the vessel left Petersburgh, about a
fortnight ago. He became ill the day after leaving
Cronsradt, and was attacked with spasms at the chest,
of which he died ten days since. Not a drop of any
kind of beer or liquor was on board. We simply
mention this that our readers may be on their guard
against attaching credence to all the reports which, at
such s-asons, are often wickedly originated and cre-
dulously believed."

SINGULAR AND FATAL ACCIDENT..--.0/1 Thursday
morning last, at about two o'clock, Parson Cocker, a
labourer on the East Lancashire Railway, found the
body of a man lying on the rails, near the Canal-bridge,
in Rishton. On examination, the body was discovered
t.► be that of Lawrence Lee, a stoker of the line. The
deceased had been with the train which left Preston at
9.5 in the evening. John Wild, the engineer, had spoken
to him at a short distance of the place where the body
was found, but had not missed him till the train got to
Accrington station, when he went back four or five hun-
dred yards to look for him. The deceased is supposed
to have fallen off accidentally, or to have been struck by
the partition of the bridge while leaning over the tender,
as was his occasional practice. Au inquest was held, on
the body on the same day, i❑ the Commeroial Inn;
Church, and a verdict of Accidental Death returned.—
Manchester Guardian.

HOME SUMMARY.—Other " houses" being closed,
the drama has taken refuge in the Old Bailey. " The
Blushing Court," an original comedy, has been brought
out with great success. The principal characters were
the Attorney-General and Mr. Kenealy, who blushed
for each other, and Mr. Justice Erie, who blushed for
theta both, "The Visionary President," a broad fame,
followed. Principal characters•—" Lying Tom," Cuffey,
Lacy, and Fay; allegorical characters:—" Luminaries,"
" Hellfire Jack," " Young Bombshell," and "'!both.
picks." The piece went off rather heavily, and will not
be repeated. The company, it is expected, will have an
engagement at Sydney. The accounts of the above
theatricals have been atrdited at Marylebone. The
county of Middlesex is to subscribe 36,0004 and the
Consolidated Fund 12,0001. to make up the defieit.
Popular entertainments are expensive.—John Bull.
FALLING OP THE ROTHE& VIADUCT.--A dreadful
casualty, attended with loss of life, occurred at the
Bother Viaduct, near the junction of the Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway with the AlidlanZl, at
Heighten, on Saturday morning. The viaduct was about
a quarter of a mile in length, and was to consist of 36
arches, built on soft clayey grounds. Upwards of 20 of
the arches were completed, and the rest were in pro-
gress ; the late heavy rains had, however, interfered
with the work. The river bad overflowed, and the water
bad found its way into the foundations of the piers.
The piers had sunk 14i inches since the commencement
of the building, but measures were taken to support
them, which were unfortunately unsuccessful. The 20
arches fell in, killing two men on the spot, and so se-
verely wounding another that he died shortly after.
Two other men were also severely injured. The piers
yet stand, but the brickwork of the fallen arches having
up the channel of the river Bother, the country
around is flooded to such an extent that the place is al.
most inaccessible.

GOOD NEWS FOR SAILORS' WIVESt.—A corre-
spondent at Devonport informs us that the Admiralty
have taken upan themselves the task of regulating
the domestic as well as the public conduct of the
warrant officers of the Royal Navy. An acting car-
penter, late of a ship from New Zealand, has been
called upon to answer grave charges of misconduct
towards his wile. Let the ladies take heart, and
whenever they have reason to be dissatisfied with any
proceedings of their husbands, report them to the
Admiralty.—United Service Gazette.
ANECDOTE OF A CORNISH LORSTER.—Dr. Borlase
relates the following marvellous anecdote of instinct dis.
played by a Cornish lobster:—" As he was fishing one
day, a fisherman observed a lobster to attempt an oyster
several times, but as soon as the lobster approached, the
oyster shut his shell. At length the lobster, having
waited with great attention till the oyster opened again,
-made shift to throw a stone between the gaping shells,
sprung upon its prey and devoured it,