The Sun.
London, England, 1848-08-24 00:00:00

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YORK RACES•
(THIS DAY-By EXPRESS.)

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The Bramham Park Stakes of 100 stns. each, 30 ft.

Ladybird
The Lamb

One mile and a half.

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The Filly Stakes of 15 sot's. each, &c. Two miles'
Queen of the May
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••• Camphine 2
THE GREAT EBOR HANDICAP OF •200 SOS'
Mr. S. L. Fox'a Meaux
Captain Harcourt'a Ellerdale

Fifteen started.

CHOLERA.
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POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
On Friday afternoon, during the delivery of his intr
resting and important lecture upon the Asiatic Choler.o9:
tracing its connexion with the electric condition of gr
atmosphere, Mr. lsham Baggs suggested a means
which the mortality caused by that great scourge of te,
nineteenth century miht be very materially diminish!!
b' which, indeed, in tie instance of many hundreds Its
terrors might be altogether evaded. The • mode eri,
plained by the lecturer is one so peculiarly simple, and
yet so obviously efficacious, that at the first moment O.:
suggestion of it almost amounts to "an in:.
suit to one's understanding "—the effect of
surprise experienced by those who heard it on
Friday afternoon was only comparable to that'
depicted by llogarth upon the features of the Spa-
Dish courtiers when Columbus made the egg stand upon
the table. Yet preposterously simple as the expedient
of Columbus was, it had never occurred to any one be-
fore the great navigator flattened the broad end of the,
egg upon the mahogany. Mr. Baggs then proposesu•
that those whose fortunes admit of the expenditure should
escape from the ravages of the Asiatic cholera bi
taking up their residence in some elevated localitft
as not one single case of the epidemic b 1
ever been known to have occured upon 111°
top of a mountain, whereas in fiat countries,
yalli t
and especially in the neighbourhood of water, the 03Oe:
tality has been enormously great. Beyond this, 014.
learned gentleman observed that the track of Of
cholera can be calculated with the utmost degree of
precision, and that consequently the most certain inel°,
r
es
of avoiding the chances of death from this partietusu
disease would be to shun those towns and cities wblof
the cholera must inevitably traverse. In testimony
the accuracy of this assertion, we need °D„'i,
refer to the speech recently delivered in
House of Commons by Lord Morpeth, in wns
°
it was shown from authentic statistics that the cola;
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pursued by the cholera was very nearly identical in e,,,0
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respect with that followed by it on the occasion of /
last visitation. Among the more ingenious
portionS°
the lecture in question, was that in which Mr. 134 g,
us
developed one tif the most beautiful theories of ,
Liebig; and it must be acknowledged that the total°
investigator carried out the views of his illustrious c°°.
temporary by a singularly simple
process of retool:lit:
In every man's blood, said he, there is a certain quBlll,lio
of iron, and Liebig believes this iron to be an agent es
the arterialization of the venous blood. He suPP°94
that the dark venous blood contains the iron in the tar
of protoxide, and thut, in passing through the 1uD11546
the arteries, this protoxide becomes peroxide by
absorption of oxygen in the process of respiratts
Supposing this to be correct, Mr. Baggs maintained L;75
a corollary of extreme interest necessarily follows. "o
venous blood containing protoxide of iron must from
that circumstance be magnetic, and the arterial bl/).
containing the peroxide must, on the contrary, bed
his
magnetic. The circulation of the blood therefore in t.i.
condition, he argues, constitutes a continuous relti:ter,
movement between conducting and magnetic PA" of
and must consequently give rise to the generation
magneto electricity, which currents will be, doubaeo ..
found upon investigation to fulfil most important pbrireos
logical functions. Thermarkable character of the lee° or
now being delivered by Mr.lsham Beggs impresses us troi
the more forcibly with a sense of the usefulness of such
establishment us that of the Royal Polytechnic Usti 0
tion; and the arguments of the lecturer, applYinfoss
they do, so immediately to the sanitary condition of for
people of these realms, call in an especial manner
the attention of the Government.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
COWES, AUGUST 0. •
ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON REGATTA. ad
PRINCE ALBERT'S CUP.—The Flirt, Enchantress,l4o, „
Capricorn, started this morning at eleven o'clochy,„ a j
Capricorn appearing to have the lead. There "'op
nice breeze trum the westward, and the vessels rellif a
nearly together; the Flirt got round the Nab he'A
minute before the Enchantress, and one minute 011%a
half before the Capricorn. In beating down, she gelll3-0 :
so much that she rounded the vessel off Yarmouth se„o%
minutes berme the others, and arrived at the ete,rh-ers
vessel at twenty-four minutes past eleven, the 42isa..
being considerably astern, indeed not in while we ~boa Corke steered the Flirt, and, as usual, /I°
the Cup.

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On the 7th of June, atBIRTILS
Mussoorie, the lady Capes
Renny, Bengal Engineers, of a daughter.
,h, ife (7' On the 19th inst., at Old-square, Birmingham, ---
V. W. Blake, Esq., of a son. Viler On the 19th inst., Mrs. Vickers, of Trinity-squl'
hill, of a son.
06°1' On the 19th inst.. :t Wells, Somerset, the wife
Bernard, Esq., of a son.

MARRED. c!,
Robert
rLt aldvy. Ilavn,idis-ohno,utT
jateTtshGiirass,goown.t
yheounlBgtheslndst.aut
g•---hrer
the late W. Cochrane, Esq , of Ladyland. Lotto. s=
at °:
On the 2lst inst., at Fulham, Lieutenant F. „
vAa.
R.N., to Louisa, eldest daughter of John Goodered,•
Elysium-villa, Fulham. M D.• s°tl
At St. John's Church, William Neville, EgThs -
of Mrs. James Raymond Barker, of London, 0, I-eold
Mary White, eldest daughter of the late C. V. It'd*
granddaughter of 'l'. White, Esq., Danker, of the

DlAb.
On the 13th inst., Mr. James France, of the garq°l
~a 60, Ar
Camden,
most deeply and sincerely regretted by his family
On the 22d of June, at Mussoorie, Eleanor Josephine' the
infant daughter of Capt. and Mrs. Renn), Bengal Enginee—f,
On the 16th inst., GI A : daughter o
at Glasgow, Anne, youngest
the late T. Cole, Esq.
Esq., of tbe
On the 21st inst., at Fulham, John F. Waller,
office of Woods. &c., aged; 0, son of John Waller, .E6(l, /at°
cashier of the said office. Arownedf 6
On the 21st inst., at Hampstead, accidentany„-- -wawa°
Charles Edward, aged 11 years, the youngest son 0, "'"'
Hughes, Esq., of Lincoln's Inn. and tri l'i;

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