The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-02 00:00:00

FRANCE.

The Presse has the following on the sub-marine
telegraph. This is not the first time that M. de
Girardin has done justice to the energy with which
the President of the Republic gives encouragement
and protection to useful projects :
" Tho communication between London and Paris by
the electric telegraph of M. Brett is entirely esta-
blished. Here again a chimera has become a rea-
lity, thanks to the faith of M. Brett, a faith which
has traversed the ocean, and thanks to the perse-
vering intervention of Count d'Orsay, who obtained
a year ago, from the President of the Republic, a
promise that he would substitute his own good will in
place of the bad one of the bureaux? Perhaps the same
success might have been reserved for M. Petin if the
same intervention bad in his case been used between the
President of the Republic and the Minister of the In-
terior. It appears that the only function of the bureau-
cracy in France is to do nothing, and to prevent every-
thing. If such be its part, it certainly fulfils it in a
most irreproachable manner. It will not be its fault if
the sub-marine telegraph has taken its place among the
list of accomplished progress, it will be that of the Pre-
sident of the Republic, of Count d'Orsay, and of M.
Brett."

We read in the Bulletin de Paris of Tuesday
evening :7

" The first expedition of emigrants to California, with
the funds derived from the lottery of the golden ingots,
will take place to-morrow from Havre, if the weather
permits. They are to leave Paris this evening by the
railroad. They are 140 in number."
It has been stated that M. Langlois, Director of
the Lottery of the " Lingots d'Or," contracted with
M. Savalette for the sale of the last 500,000 tickets.
Yesterday M. Savalette brought an action against M.
Langlois before the Tribunal of Commerce, to obtain
the annulment of the contract, to get back 100,000 f.
which he had paid as a guarantee, and to obtain
250,000 f. as damages. He based his application
on the ground that the contract was that he was to
have the last 500,000 tickets, and that M. Langlois,
by fictitious sales, had made it appear that only
500,000 tickets remained, whereas the number was
much greater, and he was selling them in competition
with his. M. Savalette's advocate demanded that the
case should be heard forthwith ; but the advocate of
M. Langlois opposed this, and the Tribunal directed
that it should come on in the regular order.
M. Langlois, having published a letter in the
Clement
Reyre, the Government Commissioner of the lottery,
the Minister of the Interior has ordered a prosecution
of M. Langlois, who will thus be called upon to sub-
stantiate his statement, or to take the consequences
of calumisious accusations.

Scorn...3El CENTRAL RAlLWAY.—Traffic for the Week
ending Sept. 28, 1851 :
Passengers (10,926), parcels, horses,
and carriages ... ... £1,226 210
Goods, cattle, &c. ... 696 410

Total .. 1,922 7 8
Corresponding week in last year... 1,701 11
Perth, Oat. 1, 1851.

FATALAFFRAYAEA R ALV WICK.
On bunday week the village of Ellingham, near Ale-
wick, in the county of Northumberland, was the scene of
a serious affray with a number of drunken Irish reapers,
which has unhappily resulted in the death of one of
them. About four o'clock in the afternoon of that day
several Irish reapers broke a number of panes of glass
in the house of Mr. Laidlaw, a publican, where they had
been drinking, after which they became riotous and per-
fectly unmanageable. On leaving the house they pro-
ceeded in a body down a lane in the village, and were
followed by Mr. Laidlaw and two men, named Smith and
Gibbinson, who demanded payment for the damage done
to the windows. The Irishmen used very abusive language,
and one of them, whose name was M'Cormick, swung
his reaping hook in the air, and threatened to kill Mr.
Laidlaw with it, and so violent was their conduct that
he was glad to take refuge in a joiner's house. About a
quarter of an hour afterwards, three of the Irishmen,
one of whom was M'Cormick. met Smith and Gibbin-
son, and, after threatening them as they had done
Laidlaw, struck at them with their hook!, and in-
flicted a slight wound on Gibbinson's hand. Smith,
who at this time had a gun in his hand, threatened to
fire if they did not stand hack, when M'Cormick replied
that there was no fear, for the gun was not loaded.
Smith and Gibbinson then retreated, but were pursued
by the three Irishmen, who continued to strike them
with their hooks, but Gibbinson contrived to ward off
the blows with his stick. The two men were then
driven to a place where they could not retire further on
account of the bushes, upon which a desperate struggle
took place, in the midst of which Smith's gun went off.
Gibbinson and Smith then ran away, and the Irishmen
again pursued them, and one of them threw his hook,
which struck Smith on the shoulder. The two men
then escaped from their pursuers. It was afterwards
found that M'Cormick had been shot, and Smith, when
he heard of it, expressed great sorrow, and said he had
no intention to hurt him, but only wished to protect him-
self. M'Cormick's wound was found upon examination,
to be of a serious character, and he died from the
effects of it on the following Sunday. Smith has since
been apprehended. A jury has been summoned by
Mr. Russell, th 3 coroner for the distric', by whom a
thorough investigation into all the circumstances will be
made.

RAILWAY EXCURSION TICKETS.
At the Southwark County Court yesterday, before
Mr. Clive, an action was brought by an individual
named Raikes, against the South-Eastern Railway
Company, to recover the sum of 17s. for an alleged
breach of contract on the part of the company.
Mr. Church appeared on behalf of the railway
company.
Plaintiff stated that a month ago he took three return
tickets for Abbey Wocd and back, and paid a shillog
each, expecting to return at eight o'clock. When that
train came up to the Abbey Wood station, he W 33 told
the train was quite full, and that he and his party must
wait for another. Being compelled to be in London at a
certain time, he took a conveyance to London for him-
self, sister, and niece, for which he paid 145.; which
sum, with the 33. paid for the tickets, was the amount
sought to be recovcred.
Mr. Robertson, a gentleman who was on the platform
at the time the eight o'clock train arrived, when there
were 500 persons waiting to be conveyed to London,
said he tried several trains afterwards, but could not be
conveyed hence. There were no printed bills posted up
stating that there would be other trains run until all
the people were carried to London.
Mr. Church, on behalf of the company, contended that
the Abbey Wood, being an intermediate station, no ad-
ditional trains could by any possibility be added there,
and that they were protected by their by-laws (which
were hung up in every station) from taking passengers
when the train was full. They (the company) had com-
pleted their contract with the excursionist 3 by sending
additional trains until all the passengers were taken to
London and other stations. He considered the contract
of the company to be, to convey the passengers by ex-
cursion trains to their destination and back in one day,
_ giving them the opportunity of returning by any train
there might be room in, and before they cou!d say the
company had broken their contract they must wait un-
til the last train.
His Honour said the present case was one of vast im-
portance to the public, and as he had some doubts as to
the liability of the company, he should take time to
consider bis judgmeat.—Judgment deferred until Mon-
day next.

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MONEY ORDERS.—UIceby, Lincolnshire, having
been constituted a post town, the office there will be opened
for the issue and payment of money orders, ou and after the
6th October next.
THE GALE OF LAST WEEK.—SHIELDS, TUESDAY
EYENING.—We have now an idea of the extent of mischief
occasioned by the gale of last Thursday and Friday. Be-
tweeneo and 40 vessels are wrecked between Holy Island
Lowestoft;sndlt
are m ens? more would have been drowned it' there had
not been a number of vessels on the coast, which assisted in
rescuing the crews of the vessels that went down. Inde-
pendently of the vessels that are sunk and ashore, there has
been an immense destruction of property caused by vessels
lusing their canvass, anchors, meets, &e. It would be im-
possible to enumerate the casualties within reasonable
length ; some of the wrecks are of a very heartrending cha-
rO
acter. The Seven Brothers, of Shields, is lost near the
wer, with eight of her crew, and the master's wife. The
mater and three of the crew were saved, and have arrived
at Shields. Two other vesaele, one at Holy
other at Whitb Island, and the
37, and all hands, are lost. From the quantity
of wreck observed floating in the Norh Sea it aear
that there are are other ve for. The vessels that are w
la lolst that are not accountsd
ports on the coast. Two
thereeked belong to the various
in the Tyne to-day. All of hrQd'rtil oflight colliers arrived
except the Freemans; it Is feareiCl4s have arrived safe home
war steamer La fiche, which bee tY are lost. The French
night, left for Yarmouth yeeterda
rohueglenden and Ilam-
IR in the Tyne a fort-
" burgh. steamship, after encounteii-ng
weather, arrived
safely on Sunday.
THE NEW-DoAD.—Yesterday, at the meet;
the vestry of St. Pancras a resolution was -dirneegtel4
the con rectors to pave one half ct the carriedNei -
St. l'ancru Church and King's-cross. with there granite ewineert
transversely, that portion with which they are naitt-,;;?s,
proceeding being paved diagonally. The object is to e—n"
rest by practical exeeri,nce the disputed poiet ot evheAaetr
the granite block-paving, laid diagonally or tran 1 •
averse y,
most durable.
GETTING INTO BED.—Mc. J. Dickson, a an
of Clifton, Westtnoreland, lies in a dangerous state fronithe
effects of a strange mistake. Returning from Penrith
market he went to sleep in a recess on Lowther-bridge; ,ion
awaking, be grouped about, found the parapet, and imagining
'he was getting into bed, leaped over and fell into the river,
crawl to the edge (the stream, where he was found next
morning.— Cumberland Parquet.
PILL, OCT. "—The Columbine ship, of London, from
Newport, outward bound, has put back leaky, and pro-
ceeded to Bristol to discharge and dock.

HEAL7'HOF LONDON DURING THE WEEK.
(From the Registrar-General's Report.)
The health of London is much better than it was in
the two previous weeks, when the deaths of 1,026 and
1,097 persons were registered. The deaths of 958
persons were recorded in the week ending Saturday,
September 27; 473 were males, and 485 were females;
190 were of the age of 60 and upwards, 460 were
children under the age of 15, and 308 were men and
women in the middle period of life. The decrease in
the mortality is general over the five divisions of
London. 141 persons died in the public institu-
tions ; 69 in workhouses, 8 in military and naval
asylums, 58 in hospitals, 3 in lunatic asylums, 2 in
military and naval hospitals, and 1 in prison. Small-
pox and typhus have declined, but they were the
causes of 13 and 46 deaths. Of the small-pox victims
11 had not been vaccinated ; 2, it is stated, had been
vaccinated. 39 children and 2 adults died of scarla-
tina, which is prevailing in many districts. 7 per-
sons died of erysipelas, 8 women of childbirth and ,
of metria, the following fever. Consumption was
fatal to 123 persons ; 100 of the 308 deaths at the
age between 15 and 60 were referred to this constant
cause which bereaves so many parents of their chil-
dren, so many children of their parents. Violence,
typhus, heart disease, bronchitis, and cancer, are the
diseases next in the order of fatality at the same
period of life. Diarrhoea is declining ; the deaths in
the five last weeks were 174, 192, 101, 97, and 91
in number. The deaths from cholera in the same
weeks were 28, 17, 17, 7, 9. Half of the cases were
of more than three days' duration. It has been men-
tioned before that half the fatal cases of the epidemic
cholera terminate in 24 hours after the first striking
symptoms have appeared. Another singular differ-
ence is shown. The population of London on
the north side of the Thames in 1851 was 1,745,096,
on the south side of the Thames 616,545 ; numbers
nearly in the proportion of 3to 1. Yet the number
of deaths from cholera in the year 1849 on both sides
of the river was nearly equal, 7,000 and 7,137. In
the recent summer cholera the deaths have been dis-
tributed more equally, and in the proportion of the
population.
The following are the particulars of nine cases of
cholera which were registered and certified by the
medical attendants of the deceased during the week.
The cause of death is stated in the words of the
medical certificate :
In Kensington, at Southend, on the 22d Septem-
ber, the daughter of a carpenter, aged 1 year,
"cholera infantum (5 days), hydrocephaloid disease
(5 days)."
In St. George, ,Hanover-square, Belgrave sub 41is-
trict, at Upper Belgrave-place, on 20th September,
the daughter of a builder, aged 15 years, " cholera
(14 hours)."
In Marylebone, Christchurch sub-district, at 10,
United-buildings, Lisson-grove, on 21st September,
the daughter of a labourer, aged 9 months, "cholera
infantum (12 hours)."
In Islington, at 20, Rufford's-buildings, on 24th
September, the daughter of a baker, aged 11 months,
" cholera infantum and dentition (6 weeks)."
In Clerken well, St. James sub-district, at 8,
Brunswick-street, on 16th September, a messenger,
aged 71 years, " cholera morbus, and consecutive
fever (8 days), preliminary diarrhoea (13 days.)"
In Bethnal-green, at Trinity-ground, on 18th Sep-
tember, a master mariner, aged 75 years, " low fever
consequent on English cholera."
In St. Olive, Southwark, at 7, New. street, on 24th
September, the wife of an oil cooper, aged 61 years,
"choleraic diarrhce I (7 days)."
In Lambeth, at 10, Thomas-street, Kennington, on
21st September, the son of a whip-mounter, aged 5
mouths, "cholera infantum (24 days)."
In Greenwich, at Greenwich Hospital, on 22d Sep-
tember, a pensioner, aged 71 years, " alleged cholera
(time uncertain fever (3 days).",
The followieg are taken from the Registrars'
reports :
In Fulham, at 16, Star-lane, on 24th September,
the daughter of a night watchman, aged 13 years,
" childbirth labour (28 hours), died one hour after de-
livery, supposed in a fit (no medical attendant) ;" had
previously applied for admission into the workhouse,
and had been refused.
In the same sub-district, at Nell Gwynne-cot-
tages, on 31st September, the daughter of a journey-
man smith, aged 12 month-, " small-pox (9 days)."
Mr. Knight observes that " another child of the same
family is Since dead from the same disease."
In Somers-town, at 2, Charles-place, three chil-
dren of the same family died of scarlatina—viz., on
Sept. 21, the daughter of a farrier, aged 11 years,
" scarlatina (3 days) ;" on the same day, sister to the
above, aged 2 years, " scarlatina (3 days) ;" and on
27th, a brother to the above, aged 16 years, " scarla-
tina (2 days)."
The wife of a coach-painter gave birth to twin
daughters, born at six months. Mr. Popham, the
medical attendant, adds that " the children were
united along the chest and neck ; that there were two
heads, two arms, and four legs,
and that they lived a
quarter of an hour."
In Shoreditch, St. Leonard sub-district, at Old-
street-road, on Sept. 19, a domestic servant, aged 30
years, " natural death, sudden in the street, accele-
rated by want of proper nourishment and care." In-
quest.
In Bethnal-green, at 6, Satchwell-rents, on Sept.
21, a weaver, aged 29 years, " debility accelerated by
an extraordinary susceptibility to the action of opium,
administered in ordinary doses." Inquest. An out-
patient at the London Hospital.

STATE OF THE WEATHER BUYING THE PAST WEEK.
Su:TIDAL—The sky was for the most part covered with
cloud throughout the day; cirrostratus.
MownAy.--The sky was covered with cloud till 111. P.M.,
and clear during the remainder of the day ; cirrostratus and
light clouds.
TuEsDAY.—The sky was clear until noon ; one-half covered
with cloud till 6h. P. M., and overcast afterwards; cirrostratus
and haze.

WEDNESDAY.—The sky, with slight exceptions, was
covered with cloud during the morning and afternoon, and
clear at night; stratus ar.d light clouds.
TDURSDAy.—The sky was overcast throughout the day;
cumulostratus and cirrostratus. Rain fell at intervals
during the afternoon and evening.
FRIDAY,—.The sky was generally one-half covered with
cloud till near noon; overcast till 7h. P.M., and the amount
of cloud was variable afterwards; cumuli, cumulostrati, and
cirrostrati.
SATURDAY.—The clouds were broken until noon, and
during the remainder of the day the sky was overcast;
curnulostrati and cirrostrati. Misty rain fell during the
evening.
ELELTRICITY.—No electricity was shown during the week.
The mean reading of a thermometer placed on the main-
mast, and read each day at 9h. A.SI. was 55.3° ; and the mean
reading at 9b. P.M. was 53.9'; the mean readings at the
Royal Observatory for the same times were 55.8° and 02•5° respectively.
The reading of the barometer decreased from 29 95 in. at
the beginning of the week to ~9.90 in. on the 21:t at 9h. P.M.;
it continued at about this value till after 3h. p.m. on the 22d ;
then increased to 30'0 in. by 9h. P.m, on the 2id ; turned to
decrease atter 912. A sr. on the 24th ; it was 29'50 in. at 9h.
r or. on the 25th ; and increased to 29.67 in. by 9h. p.M, at
the end of the week.

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS
NI-MBEIt OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN
THE WEEndEKem EN
ic,MI SATURDAY,
Diseases SEPT. 27, 1551.
Epidemic, and Cont Contagious
...*267
Diseases of Uncertain Seat ... 43 Tubercular Diseases
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses...
... 11 ... 1730
Diseases of the Heart and 8100d-vessels
... 31
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration ...
... Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other
Organs 77
of
...
Diseases of the Kidneys GO, &c.
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. ... 9
Diseases of the Joints, Bons, and Muscles
... 9
Diseases of the Skin, &c.
... 2
Malformations... ••• 5
Preoaature Birth ... 32
22
Ago
Atrophy
••• ••• ••• •••
••2
Sudde
Old
45
Violence, Privation, Gold, and Intemperance 58
Causes not specified'
~. 2

DEATIIS 711051 ALL CAUSES ...
958 •••
Populatlen Deaths in corre- Deaths
flunleratedi sponding week In the
1851,
of 1850. Week.
We4t Districts... 376,332 127 North Districts..riets.. 490,441 . •
.. 212 ... 189 ... 133
Central Liistriots 392,986 ... East Districts ... 485,336 170
... 171 ... 163
190
"'S)uth Districts.. 616,545
... 301
--.. ... 283
Totals... ..... 2,361,640 ... 981
... 938
Moles ...
••• &ma ... ••• ... 473
k:a ... ... ... ... 485

BIRTHS IN TIIE WEEK.
Males
... ..• 732
• Total
...1,484
It In this number ar© included 41 by Scarlatina, 46
by Typhus Foyer, 91 by Diarrhoea, and 9 by Cholera.

INFLUX OF SHIPPING.—A large number of vessels
which have been detained in the Chops of the Channel and
further out to sea by adverse winds arrived in the river in
the course of Sunday and Monday last. The number of ships
of all kinds which were reported at the Custom-house on
Monday as having arrived from foreign parts was 106, in-
cluding several from the East and West Indies and the con-
tinent of America, and also Australia, as well as from every
uf the principal States of Europe; and laden with every
'r:meri "lniett of valuable merchandise. This influx of vessels
road add*Con to the ordinary arrivals of steamers
The arrivals
Mi°ll7o.v!'4' "leis friumi the adjacent continental States, will
were also of ave neBdaY
side aria
I",heeet ot causing a great deal of bustle at the water-
have made the ntic
oryreral duck establishments of this vast pc), t.
in the Thames from foreign parts
numerous character; and the authorities
Bare of blisjues, in.ilseay3, arrangements for meeting the prase
Dutepltret
blip w nience and delay. unPort trade, and to prevent inconve-
ington, for Dublin, weni
weathe L.-The Oxford brig, of Work-
ou shore here yesterday during
a gale at S.E., with fore
d Tette she may be got off;
lies bilged. It the ra"l and topmasts gone, and now
r Eno
crew saved.

THE ANGLO-.'AXON RACE.
(From the Revue des Deux Mondes.)
Of all the races which at this day occupy the scene of
the world the most active, and that which possesses th&
greatest weight and influence, is unquestionably the
Anglo-Saxon race. Other nations may be more noisy
and brilliant than England and the United States—they
may exhibit more external glory—but not one, if looked
at closely. can be considered so necessary as both these
people. The Anglo Saxon race is ono of the most im-
portant spring: of the gnat political machine of the uni-
verse; without it it would perish, or be abandoned to
the contempt of the future some of the most important
facts of history, and some of those moral notions which
are most essential to humanity. Without England and
America Protestantism would exist no longer. Had
Protestantism no other support than that of Germany,
we would see it now expiring in delirium and in blas-
phemy amidst the laughter of other nations. Without
the example afforded by England the French revolution
would not only be anathematised, but abandoned as
without reason and full of incoherent extravagances.
Had it not been for England, America would on its
discovery have fallen back into the barbarism in which u
Spanish vessel found it. It is owing to England that the
glorious discovery of Columbus has not proved useless,
and counts for a great human fact, and for a service
rendered to moral order, and not merely a discovery
interesting to science and cosmology. It is England
who at this day prevents nations from falling upon and
devouring one another, and who maintains the equili-
brium of the Continent by the fear of having to measure
strength with so redoubtable an adversary. Thus her
very egotism is useful, for it protects our repose. It is
her who crosses the projects of Oriental Europe, and
says to the two Sclavi races—" Thus far shall ye go and
no further." What a destiny! Her form and power are
absolutely necessary to the moral order of the world.
Let us lay aside all national prejudice and patriotic
pride ; many nations of apparently more importance
might disappear, and which seem to be more immedi-
ately interested in the maintenance of modern civiliza-
tion, but there is not one whose death would leave such
terrible results as that of the solitary, the egotistical,
and independent England.