The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-24 00:00:00

APPOINTMENTS.

Assistant Sargeons—Arthur Adsms (1841) and Henry
Slade (1847), to Haslar Hospital; Dr. Samuel Denny
(acting), to the QIIPPII, 110, flag-Ahip, Mediterranean;
Robert Sproule (aging), to the Impregnable, 78, flag
ship, Dt-vunport.
Midshipman—Charles Hope Johnstone, to the Victory,
flagship at Portsmouth.

Masters' Assistants—John R. Richards and John M.
Missing, to the Caradoc, steam-packet, flitting at Wool-
wich.

Gunner—Richard Page (acting), to the Spitfire, sur-
veying siesta-vessel, Mediterranean.
Commander Charles J. Thistle (1845) died on the 15th
instant, at Rostreen, county Down, aged 43 years.
" This gallant officer," says O'Birne, in his " Naval
Biography," "passed his examination in 1831, and on the
occasion of his promotion to the rank of lieutenant,
July 6, 1836, was appointed additional of the Caledonia,
120. He next joined the Bellerophon, 80, sad Portland,
52. Pilot, 16, Ninth America and West ladia,Vanguurd,
80, again in the Mediterranaau, 1841 to the Coast
Guam, and 1842 to the command of the Lizard and
Flamer steam vessels, the former of which was run
down and sunk by the French steamer Veloce, July 25,
1843. Lieutenant Po tie, in De ce mber, 1845, received a
most complimentary adores'. from the members of the
Exchange Committee of Gibraltar, expreesivt, of the
numerous obligatives they owe-d him. Tne humane end
devoted nature of the exertions he afforded, in the course
of the same month, to the crew •of rthe French steamer
Pepin, wrecked between Azamoor and Mezagan, on the
coast of Barbary, had the effect of eliciting a letter of
thanks as well from the Consul-General of France in
Morocco as from the Consul of France at Gibrabar. The
King of the French expressed his intention of confer-
ring upon him she Cross of the Legion of Honour. The
regulatious of the British service, however,not permitting
him to accept it, his Majesty presented him instead with
a pair of valuable pistols appropriately inscribed. He was
promoted to the rank of commander Dec 12, 1845, and
has been employed since August 15, 1846, as an inspect-
ing commander iu the coast guard at Dundalk, where,
on Jan. 28, 1846, he again found means of rendering
himself conspicuous by the services he performed on the
occasion of the wrack of the cutter Lord Nelson, the
owners of which, Hours. Borstal( and Sons of Liver-
pool, presented him with a sliver box of great intrinsic
value and of exquisite workmanship."
Surgeon JALIUtS Lepper (1809), or Strabane, Ireland,
died Feb. 3, at Buenos Ayres, a• ter a, residence of more
than thirty years in that city. Ho was on the retired list.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
TIMES.—It has been rumoured for some time that
there existed an intention of cutting a public ride in
Kensington-gardens. We hare refrained from noticing
the scheme hectuse we did not ivish to call down need-
less unpopularity on the heads of its originators. It
seems, however, that the thing is to be, unless some
stern and urgent protest be made against the desecration
of the-only spot iu London which gives promise of quiet
and seclusion. What occasion is there for such an act
of wanton aggrgas,iou? The gardens, as they stand, are
for the convenience of persons who cannot mount on
horseback, and seek green fields and quiet at a distance
from the bustle of the town. The pr.iposed change is fur
the b-ta fit', of equestrians alone—of v.rsons who within
15 or 20 minutes from mounting might shake off the
toen, rolls) find quiet cantering-ground on any side of
Leatort tin.. ; 104,3 e. The monopoly of Hyde-park fur
one year 0:1 ::,. :: .ssould be a sufficieet concessicu ti the
rusnagers of t.e e;reat Exhibition. But, it is answered,
there is a third ine:rest concerted. What is to become '
of tho equestrians woo, during the course of the
London season, were in !hi habit of taking their exer-
che and meeting their frieAde iu Rotten. row? Now,we
are fully prepared to admit that, even if their accustsme d
ride bad out drealiy been attacked Cut fur the enteeusive
use of carriages, &0., it is impossible to make use , f
Rotten-row as a public ride while the Exhibition lasts.
We acknowledge also, to its futest extent, the propriety
of providioi a suitable riding-ground for the use of those
persons who hail been in the habit of taking their piss-
pransite cNnter in Rotten-row. There is no reason that
naid,tht-ag.d geirtle men with a tendency to run to tat
should b- exposed to a lengthened series of dyspeptic
phehorn-na because of the Great Exhibition. Even
setting their piteous case aside, we are of those
who thiek ths:, Lyndon has few sights which can
be compared in beauty with the public ride in
ILde-park towards the close of a summer's day
when the season is at its height. There is no ctiti-
nenfal capital which can pre, ut a sp‘ct...ele ha:f so gra-
tit) ins to the .1 eor th.• undo of an Englist,m,o. The
Champs E's, e.s or
..thetois de Iliilogne et Paris. the
Caicine of Fi rarity-, y ield hut vile imitatio.s of the
'wile ride in Litele-purk when the throng of riders
is at its fullest. Were -not- the feelings of a
section of the public who have a right to
consideration concerned in, this matte r, we should
wish to see the mere show pte.ssrved as the
last expression or the wealth and beauty of the Bri-
use empire. Having said thus much it will he clear that
we do not approach the subj,ct in any spirit of vulgar
ferneicisas. We would wish to see the rights and
Pleasurse of all parties preserved iistect. Let the
Great Exhibition be provided with a fitting car-
l'iaae aPPrnanb, and let the riders in the Park
be tils,o acsommudated with a suitable can-
"on-ground. But both these results may be oh-
tsined without desecrating the single spot iu London
round which the charm of ' seclusion still lingers, and
Inveitgti rh h"botuitilheo a tt'
g r and unnecessary annoyance on a
'W-hrt..hea hast already suffered so severely
from the proximity
of the Exhibition. The question
remains in this form
:—Where are the riders Sc' go who
have been
Where is a temporarilypai disposseszed or Rotten-row?
ride to be laid out for their use? Tee
answer isl 7 the leetlizoiear. Let such a ride be mad,- within,
not withoutl its of H de-park itself. Whatever
objections apply to eutti
-le with at lea,t equal LI"
the turf in Hyde-park,
iezi.,,e3n...gardens
whiciimi
.orce to any section of Ksns-
tit be chosen for the purpose.
But there is a propriety ig.
ut.dnetheroe!i instance which there
is not in thees orrthi:gre.e
and
eptish
01E5
titshiarltre a day,h
egi vperni v
privacy
toot. HEALTH of LONDON during the WEEK.
the use of (From the Report of the Registrar-General.)
Kensington-gardens hat —
never, that wa
one,-, and that recolkct, been The return for the week ending last Saturday ex-
profaned by a horse's hoof time out of mind, hibits a further improvement in the public health
• 5 --d
83.V,3 o 0-, e a the act caused so Tne deaths in London, which in the last week of
mach dissatisfaction that the attempt was never March rose to 1,418 and declined in the two subse-
renewed. It is litterally the enly
precincts of this vast Babel quent weeks to 1,059 and 1,042, have now fallen to
the
mortar where seclusion and quiet can be eobftsaPbiorrlleiedk.wiTtahnhidno 998. It appears from a comparison of the ten corre-
sponding weeks in 1841-50, that the deaths of last
adjacent houses arc in many. cases inhabited by famitie
who settled. themselves in that neighbourhood for ns week were exceeded in only one instance, namely, in
other reason than tecause the beautiful gardens were 1849, when they rose to 1,089. If the- average .of
there, with their chestnuts and their firs, to cheat them corresponding weeks, which was 934, be increased in
into the idea pr country file, even if' it were their hard the ratio of supposed increase of population, it be-
fate to be bound to town for the greater portion of the Comes 1,019, and on this estimated amount the pre-
year. The place has been sacred to the.use. of the ladies sent return shows, a decrease of 21.
of the nei,i, I -,! tr) th poor invalids in their Bath A
eetioureoot.---- ---43
who are allowed
week, both
with the results of the preceding
chsirs—to the rosy-cher, the class of "
diseases Of the respiratory
ked children,
to roll and tumble about on the turf to their hearts' organ' oot
a and that termed " tubercular," of which
content, without the fear that at any moment they may phthisis is the
having carried off
most important, now exhibit a dirni-
under the hoof's of a passing horse. Be-
sides these, it is the object of a walk with the Londoners
week .and only 35 in the last.
ality. The difference is principally ob-
who wish for Pneumonia among children,.•
71 young persons in the previous
this complaint
psrpetual din Is(,aflf-an•hJur to shake off fur awhile the
thweeto!n and the cares of businev:
sfr2ominptireulrnasotn. ialwheareBs in The deaths at all ages
If the classes
the preceding week arid
sassed . for the e havek enumeratehdotasreemeod,ispos-
of the
know not where AO e
also of perceptible amount, for
y one can obtein the last two weeks is decrease in consumption during
sion and security similar seclu-
this side Richmond-park.
Now this is hard.
stiret,ifk_ing this disease was fatal
if the Itoyal gardens behind
Would it g votfherritice Consort Successively to 138 and 108
persons, the latter
converted into a public rite? the number being' unusually low •
when taking .weeksnorrespoisdie
he will to Wicdsor, with itsbarn Pelee° were
_.
et he can escape w
.to last,'
in 10 years,
deep forestsea glades, or to it will .. be seen that the lowest number
03berne, with its spat klimgthe number was 122, the
The persons whose highest 174, and average 150:
eitl49 we are pleading have no . Ro •
oping-cougb,
such alternativ If Kens does not maintain the
sneton-garciens be violated, the .-ey are l e• however, same Steadiness of de-
s isomer. The presence of the Exhibitieecked up fel. the crease, and the registrar of Charing-cross observes
v, mucn uggra". that lately it has prevailed more in his district. The
V tte3 their case- Not to fuII:JAI in the
a 41 refer the blame in the matter exclusively
course, numbers of children who have been carried off by
y ta Prince
Albert, we would just put the matter in 0, t • • complaint during the last six weeks appear in
the
-e same way tda
to the proper fe. hag of the equestrians who have follow ink,' series :-92, 81, 63, 59, 50, and 62.. There
in the habit of ustne Rotten rosy as their ride, been , -
k 11 children from croup; and 12
To cut !died also last wee
a new ride in Kensirren-gardens for their saki
v. ,if -cos---eq, from influenza.
persons, c varteu ea . .
-N • ,
ha to a censidcreble numbsr of their fellow subie 14 1
But while, 'concurrently with the progress d the
what it would be to theta if the privacy of their 'eiest„3 year eo a snore healthful season, the severity o'f
psrks and grounds was invaded in a similar man_ .
any step so violent
as nor. We said that what was necessary might be an. disorders of the above description becomes mitigated,
co r,pii,o,,i without taking any diseases of the zymotic character discover a ten-
this. Let the south side of tba Serpentine be dency to increase. :Measles has increased from 28
abandobed entirely to.. the Exhibition. , Still ,Ei.yee.. in the former week to 35; typhus from 25 to 37 ; and
pa; kon the north of the Serpentine, that is to say four- suaahPex, which had shown considerable -iibitti
fifths of Hyde-park, remains intact. As at present the meat, has been fatal in the last three wet-ke• succes-
pabde drive is immediately on the north of the water, aively to 9,,.12, and 18- persons. Five deathe•occurred
we ask why should not a temporary ride be cut imme- last week in the Smallpox Hospital at Holloway, one
diately to the north of that again? The ride we pro- that of a girl 420 m • 't , .
maths on the 15th • two of men,
~...-,-,s-;-p.oe should run parallel with the drive, and behind the aged 37 and 30 ' 1
. ,
years, on the 17th - and two of Mep,
•• .1 riOal Humane Society's -•- sec-ivinghouse. It' this be . aged respec ively nt;
i.:_„_a_frsa...6.4 man
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ow to altnougia we cannot conceive any rational teen had been va s ' and 2 ,
oon the 19th. Two of the
A elartsund of t• . •
le B. , oeteatiesuserthonnie &leo 4i—hiegta.Opoi VOW el btMrire 3tekd to iliv. b
diwhen o three other
3, ungobe
7.2k,',721:5eii e,ard whie4 tairtti the ;orthern drive of the park, is .;„ ~.., •c, ezisiten " unprotected." A home
w.azie+varm la zt, -
whore nine 4,ldrea b 44
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SUPERiNNITATIONS —The tulluwing workmen have
bern auperaunda,ed: James Langley, shipwright ;
Joshua 117 a ts, painter; Richard Herron, spinner—at
241 per annum t ach. John Friaby and CharLs Wright,
pinhers—a, 231. p:•r annum.
Boacawen, 70, in duck, fitting for the ordinary guard-
ship, at Chatham, is proceeding with her rigging and
internal fittings, and will be completed about the middle
of May.
Warspite, 50, fitted as an advanced ship at Chatham,
bat been taken into dock to have the bo t m cleantd.

Ruse, 14, guu brig, and Viper, brigautine, are in dock,
being tsit.n ro pieces.

P, lITSNuUTII APRIL 23. —The Pcrtamouth Sailors
Home wa,, opene.l this day with much éclat Toe
band of the Victory was in attendance, and a large
assemblage of fa,hionahles assembled on the occasion
The chair was taken by Admiral Sir Francis W.
Austen K C. 8., woo was surrounded by is gallant
circle of etlica-rs, warm patrons or toe prakct. The
taisiness of the opening commenced with prayer, after
which the chairman a xps.:nited open its b utfi;s, and
the blessings it war, calculated to c.alf,r upon thousands
of those classes who bad so lung ben a prey to the
stinks of the shore. Captain Sir Edward Parry, Cap
tarn Gambier, Captain W. H. Hall, and other offic.rs
addressed the meeting. Admiral toe Hun. Sir Bladen
Cap,-1, Commander-in-Chief, iusptcted the building
(which is situated in the chief thoroughfare in the bo-
rough—gueen-street)and warmly complimi rated and con
gra: ulateu Captain W. H. Hall upon the success of his ex-
periment so far. It is by Captain Hall'. exertions that the
Sailors Homes of Portsmouth, Dublin, and elsewhere
have been founded. He has devoted his time, money,
and beat inter, at to the futtl4erance of these philanthropic
objects. The Portsmouth sailors Heine opens with 24
beds, but will admit of 100 when the success of the trial
shall have developed itself. An excellent and substantial
dinner was pr.vided to-day, of which a number of sailors
of her Majesty's ships Victory, Britannia, Victoria and
Albart. Blenheim, and otner ships partook.
WooLwicif, APRIL 23 —Salamand,r steam-sloop,
Commander Juhu S. Eilman, arrived at Moulmein on
February the 15th fur the purpose of t•ming the tank
vessel, built by the late Mr. William Mould, to Trine°.
males. be workmanship i f the tank vessel was exe-
cuted by Chinese, and is said to be highly creditable to
those ingenious artisnns.