The Sun.
London, England, 1870-10-29 00:00:00

79 7 3
994 9 2

£1,07316 5
AS TO MONEYS BORRROWED FOR THE ENLARGEMENT

OF THE COUNTY LUNATIC ASYLUM AT HANWELL.

Balance in the joint names of Henry Pownall, Esq.,
Henry Morris Kemshead, Esq., and the County
Treasurer, on 2nd July, 1870
Cn.
Amount in the.names of Henry Morris Kemshead,
Esq., Francis Brockman Morley, Esq., and the
County Treasurer, on Bth October, 1870 4.338 19 0

THE UNIVERSITIES.—A course of lectures for
ladies is announced at Cambridge, under the management
of Mr. Seigwick, of Trinity College. The members of
Brasenose College, Oxford, have subsCribed the sum of
£sl2s. 6d. for the sick and wounded at the war.

SHIPPING DISASTERS.—The steamer Continental
left Mazatlan, Mexico, for San Francisco with a full com-
plement of passengers, $140,000 in treasure, 700 tons of
salt and a large mail. On the 28th of September she en-
countered a severe gale in the Gulf and sprung a leak.
The pumps were worked constantly for 12 hours, but to
no avail. At 9 o'clock on the morning of the 29th the
water reached the furnaces, putting out the fires. All hopes
of saving the vessel were then abandoned, and six boats,
filled with people, shoved off. Seven passengers and the
second cook refused to leave the steamer, and went down
with her. Two of the boats arrived at Cape St. Lucas on
the evening of the 30th, The other boats landed near
Cape St. Lucas. The treasure and mails were a total
loss. The steamship Washington, 400 tons, which left
Wilmington for New York on the 14th of October, took
fire when nine miles out, and was expected to prove a
total loss. She was run ashore at Big Island. Her cargo
consisted of turpentine, cotton, and resin.

WHY SOLDIERS DIE IN INDIA.—A report recently
made by the Sanitary Commissioner of the Punjaub
paints so melancholy a picture of the unhealthy condition
of Peshawur that we do not wonder the Army Sanitary
Commission have recommended the removal of the troops
stationed at that place to a more healthy climate. The
average death-rate of European troops for nine years is
found by Dr. Brlden to be 55 per 1,000. Out of 522
deaths among huropean soldiers, no fewer than 250
were due to cholera, 37 to bowel complaints, and 39 to
fever, and out of 225 deaths among the native troops,
151 were due to like causes. In the ten years from 1858
to 1868 the average mortality in the gaol was 10.54 per
cent. The death-rate from cholera from the recent
epidemic in the East-end of London was only 73 per
10,000, and the mention of this fact will enable
one to appreciate the state of things at Peshawar.
But we cease to wonders at the unhealthiness of the
place when we learn the state of the drainage and water
supply. "The water is got chiefly from wells, which
are numerous and surrounded by the most polluted soil—
large ce,ss-pits full of black offensive stuff being found
within a few feet of those wells. But part of the water
used by the people comes from a small canal led from the
Bara river, and about eight miles long, and we are told
that the water flows through the cantonment in a number
of open surface channels simply scooped out of the soil,
and is exposed to every species of contamination—lat-
rines, urinals, washhouses, stables, slaughter-houses &c.
There are no fewer than seven burial-grounds on the bank of
the stream; several fresh graves were noticed within 3ft.
of the water's edge. There are, moreover, three
villages on the banks of the cut, with an aggregate popul-
ation of 1598 souls ; and 37 mills are worked by the
water of tie stream before it enters the cantonment."
But this is not all ; there is no sewerage system in
the city • a portion of the solid excreta of the 58,000
inhabitants is removed, but a large part of it and
all liquid excreta soak into the soil or evaporate
on the surface. In short, only the heat and dry-
ness of the climate, we are informed, have preserved
the people from extinction, by permitting them to sleep
in the open air on the tops of the houses during the greater
part of the year. And yet all that is needed is the
adoption of measures for securing an improved water
supply and efficient drainage to thoroughly transform the
place into a fairly habitable city. The Lieutenant-
Governor has directed the district officer to aid the execu-
tive engineer and sanitary commissioner to draw up a
scheme for that purpose.—Pall Mall Gazette.