The Sun.
London, England, 1858-07-28 00:00:00

SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY E V ENING, JULY 28, 1858,

" ToWn sewage," he observes sententiously,
" which many engineers look upon as refuse to
be discharged, I regard as property to be admi-
nistered." In demonstration of the justice of
which assertion he has an ingenious little sum by
which he estimates an annual profit accruing
from a sagacious application of London sewage to
soil impoverished by exhausting crops—a profit
calculated by him as reaching the enormous
total of 500,0001. per annum, or in other words
an amount equivalent at 5 per cent. to a capital
of 10,000,0001. This—through simply raising
the value of 1,000 farms by at least 101. per acre
per annum. The rainfall, as already intimated, he
considers very reasonably to be the especial pro-
perty and right of the River Thames as of every
other running stream in the wide world in
countries where there is known to be any rainfall
whatever. Separately he maintains that the
rain-water and the sewage matter are excellent
—the rainfall for the scour of the river—the
sewage matter for the purposes of agriculture.
Maintaining the converse of this, he writes epi-
gramatically—" Esch spoil] the other—sewage,
rainfall by pollution—rainfall, sewage by dilu-
tion." Wherefore he insists that they ought to
be conveyed out of Landon separately—the rain-
fall being poured into the Thames—the sewage
carried by tubular channels subterraneously int o
the country for the purposes of irrigation.
Altogether the daily dry foul discharge from
Landon amounts to 139 tons, certainly, as Mr.
WARD remarks, " a comparatively insignificant
quantity if delivered as fast as produced,"—
thereby securing to the capital a regular diurnal
evacuation. But instead of this, as things are
at present managed, or rather mismanaged, we
are actually keeping (Mr. WARD says "at the
lowest estimate") at least twelve months' excreta
in the sewers and cesspools, continually stagnat-
ing, underground. He adds—" The mass of
putridity thus constantly retained in subterranean
London, actually equals one day's evacuation of
the whole population of Europe and Asia, num-
bering 800 millions. The figure is a startling
one, and the fact still more ED j but a simple cal-
culation proves it true : for the number of the
London population, multiplied by 365, gives a
quotient exceeding 800,000,000." A sudden
rainstorm acting upon the foul accumulation—by
sweeping nearly nine or ten days' filth into the river
"at on© fell swoop"—necessita tea a simultaneous
discharge into the Thames of what is equivalent
to the mass of excrement produced in one day by
the entire population of Great Britain numbering
21,000,000. Such are some among the astound-
ing facts and figures condensed into this really
notable pamphlet. We commend its reasoning to
the careful scrutiny of Mr. THWAITES and his
coadjutors.

* Pu►ification cf the Thames. A letter from F. 0
Ward, E.q., to William Cluingham, Esq., M.P. Bvo.
pp. 14. 1653.

COLONEI, ST MATT ON.

-.-
There is one sentence in our CAlcutta letter which
we sh hild like to have written in large capitals it,
every mess-room in Indic. It is this—" Colonel
Stra'tou, of her Majesty's 77th, just arrived from
Australia, marched his men to Dura lute, eight
miles, with their stocks on. An hour after he and
his instructor in rifle practice were both dead of
apoplexy." When the justice of Heaven falls, or
when the laws of Nature vinoicate themselves' it
is wrong to rejoice ; but we cannot commit the
hypocrisy of affecting to mourn the death of
Colonel S-ra.ton, if, indeed, he fell in such a
cause. —Tiotes.

LATEST NEWS.

FRANCE. •
PARIS, TUESDAY.
Despatches have . been received at the Foreign-
office announcing that an attack was made on the
24th, by 3,000 Turkish troops, on the Montene-
grins, and that the latter had retreated to the
mountains, with five of their advanced guard killed
and eight wounded.
It invariably occurs that when the Emperor is
absent, or on the point of undertaking a journey,
we hear rumours of plots, conspiracif s, discovery
of imp'ements of destruction of some kind or other.
This is now the case, and for the last day or two a
rapurt has circu!ated about something of that
nature havine, been found out at St. Rienne, and
it is also said that an inquiry is going on.
We read in the Moniteur that the bronze plate
with the inscription commemorative of the opening
of the wcrks and the inauguration of the basin of
NaCherbourg, ur
gelican steamer, Com--
has arrived at its
destination
p ol e n 111,,0 n
a otarCdh
wander Hamelin, from Havre, whither it was trans-
mitted from Pat is. This plate weighs upwards of
b
half a ton, and measures nearly seven feet in
length, by nearly four feet in breadth. It bears
the follow ng inscription :
" This basin, decreed on the 15th of April, 1803,
by Napoleon the First, was begun on the 28th of
June, 1836, and was inaugurated on the 7th of
August, 1858, in presence of their Majesties the
Emperor Napoleon 111., and the Empress Eugenie,
his Excellency Admiral Hamelin being Minister of
Marine." _ _

A plate of platina, bearing the same inscription,
will be fixed at the bottom of the basin, with
meials, and a specimen of every sort of gold, silver,
and copper money struck during thy reign of the
Emperor Napoleon 111.
BOURSE,
—The following were the last
quotations July:—
27.—The

ii per Cents 96
Do. end month —
3 per Cent. .....
Do. end month 63 20
Bank Shares -

Credit Fonder ..... 600
Belgian ... --
Piedmontese (5) B9
Roman
Austrian
Spanish Threes
43A38
Home Debt
-FOR CASH.

Credit Mobilier 615
Do. Account 613 75

RAILWAYS.
Orleani

Northern
New Ditto

Midi
Western 5!!0
Eastern
Grand Central
4111
Austrian

JEDDAH.

tained permanently in Fort William and Barrack-
pore, and a proposal for enlis•ing 100 European
riflemen, as the nucleus of each police battalion,
has been 'very favourably received. Nothing, has
yet been done towards the formation of a Euro-
pean militia, but the measure is anxiously desired,
and Government is reper ed not unfavourable.
Next to the affair at Gwalior, the publication of
the despatch rebuking the Oude proclamation
creates the most excitement. The popular hatred
of the Governor-General has in no degree dimin-
ished. In spite, however, of this, the publication
of the despatch is unequivocally condemned. It is
considered almost an act of treachery, and Lord
Ellenhorough is declared on all hands to have
gained nothing either in judgmenr or in courtesy
since he quit.ed India. Tha following passage
from the Friend of India, a journal which disbe-
lieves in Lord Canning, and condemned the Oude
proclamation, expresses the universal feeling :
"Thus far the President appears to have fulfilled
his duty well. He had mitigated without recalling
the obnoxious menace. He had expressed in terms
not to be uiis'aken the disapproval of her Majesty.
He had hinted net ambiguously at the policy which
must hereafter be followed will the landholders of
Oude, but Nature, who has bestowed upon Lord
Ellenborough no stinted measure of her choicest
gifts, has denied him the minor a- trihutes of pru-
dence and good taste. He has insetted in the
despatch words condemning the annexation of
Oude, and, though as out of place as a diatribe
:against Hengist, they were in the secret cornmittt e
at least simply silly. Seen cy, however, is net in
the charac.er of the intellectual charlatan. The
paper was shown to Mr. Br:ght, was hawked about
over the clots, and at last published for both
houses. A proceeding more thoroughly opposed
to all maxims of policy, to the most common
and necessary etiquette of Governments, we never
rememember to have seen. We utterly abominate
the Oude proclamation. It is to us the most
perfect example of what Arthur Helps is wont to
call the tyranny of weakness. An official condem-
nation was required. buy so net than that condem-
nation should be published we would have endured
another year of administrative anarchy. The pub-
lication is a direct attack, not on Lerd Canning,
which mat- ers nothing, but on the air hority of the
Governor-General, which is essential to the empire.
It proclaims at once to every native that a menace
or a premi,e from the Governor-General of India
may be made of none effect. H. isv is peace ever
to he secured if the word of the Governm-nt for
good or fir evil is not to be absolutely sacred ? Tne
natives distrust our proclamations already. Liars
themselves, they b,:lieve official w rds to be only
instratreuts to cense 1 official thought. Lord
Ellen hot ough has contrived •,o add one additional
distrust—to preve that, even when true, the words
may be ineffectual. As for the evil so much dwelt
on in England of telling the Oude men they are
patriots, it is lithe in comparison. The sepoys do
not fight for patriotism, or the landholders either.
They think themselves ale ea iy in the right, and no
approval uttered by a Kaffir Peer is likely to in-
crease much the happy quiescence of their can-
sciences. But the evil of publicly upsetting such au
order, of teaching men in arms that the menaces of
their rulers are mere talk, cannot be exagserated.
Nor, to revert to the personal aspect of the ques-
tion, can we perceive the manliness ef publishing
such a ceristue, while declining the responsibility of
recall. Tee Oude proclamation was ground suffi-
cient for the removal of Lord Canning. It would
have been ground sufficient for the removal of his
father. But, gladly as we should hail the acces-
sion of Sir John Law, ence to supreme power, we
cannot, as Englishmen, commend the man who,
afraid to dismiss a servant, insults him into resig-
nation. Lord earthing may hold on in spite of the
despatch, but its intention is as manifest as i s im-
pudence."
The Press Act expired on the 13th of June with-
out a remark in the Legisla.ive Council.
It is generally believed here that, unless the vote
of the House of Commons should be against him,
Lord Canning will not resign. His own arguments
is said to be, that the Ministry, if they dis rust
him, must say so, and not merely condemn
isolated measures—a power always exercised by
the Court.

CANADA.

LIVERPO )1,, TUESDAY EVENING.

The steamer Anglo-Saxon, from Quebec, 17th
inst., has arrived, bringing 251 passeugt.-rs and 205
soldiers of Ihe 100th Regiment.
The Canadian news is of :light impirtance.
Telegriphm advicei from New York are to the
evening of the 16th. Cotton was firm, but qui-t.
Flour t.e,v), but unchanged. Wileatfirmer ' • but
an advance in frei,hts checked business. CLru
scarce and firmer for good, but interior was tower.
A Washlngton telegram says the Utah peace com-
missioner, in a despatch to the Government, s aces
that they have settled the difficulty between the
Goverment and the Mormorp. The despatch
substlntially confirms the previous accounts.
California advices to June 21 say the Fraser river
gold excitement was increasing. Sao Fr inci-c
was crowded with people, em route fur the Fraser
mine. S x steame's had b-en put on the route,
besittes sailing ve-sels. The Huds m's Bay Com-
pany had placed armed vessels ou the river to pre-
vent emigrants from carrying goods into the inte-
rior to s -11. One American vessel had entered the
river in defiance of the hlocks-de.

The dote►t of Colonel S'eptoe by the Indians in
Oregon is fully confirmed, and a general ludian
war was expeweki.

LWYD' SHIPPING.—(This Day.)

LONDON, July 28. —Wind this day at noon, N.N.E. ;
moderate breeze and cloudy. A good deal of rain has
fallen daring the night and this morning.
SOUTHAMPTON, July 27.- Sailed—Tagus, (s.), for Gib-
raltar.
PLYMOUTH, July 27. —Wind S.E.— Arriied—Confiance,
from London, for Adelaide.
PILL, July 21.—Win i E. by S.—Sailed--Queen of the
Fleet, for Mir 'march' ; Niord, ditto; Marathon, Quebec.
CARDIFF, July 27. Wind E.—Arrived —Mar y Curzon,
from Sr. George US. SAile,i—Arthur White, for New
York ; M. S. Franks, for .New York ; E. Bawkley, for
Charleston.
PORTSMOUTH, July 27. —"Wi nd S.E.—Arrived— M. S,
Terrible, from Eastward, H.M.S. Archer, ditto;
.Hater, ditto.
COWES. July 27.—Wind S.E.—Sailed—Antonie, for
Cape of Good Ilope.
TORBAY, July 26.—Wind S.S.E.—Arrived-11.
Brunswick, and ailed for Liverpool. Sailed—Triumph,
from London, for Mogadoro.
NEWPORT, July 26.—Wind E,— Sailed— Rabens, for
St. Thomas.
LIVERPOOL, July27.—Arrived---Anglo.Saxon, (ss), from
Quebec.
GLOUCESTER, July 27. Arrived—Ann lll`Lister,
Edwina, and Doctor Bunting, all from Quebec. •
WHITEHAVEN, July 2G. —Wind W.N.W.—Arrived --
Thos. Lee, from Quebec.
. _

GILWAY, July 25.—Arrived.—Mountaineer, from
Quebec.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday Morning.
Wi r. d E.N.E.
Arrived— Arago (s.), from Havre, and leaves at 2 p m.
for New York ; La Creole, Carentan; Telamens, Cargi
Foyle (s.), Dublin.
Sailed---Tagus (s.), for Gibraltar; Foyle (s.), London.
LIVERPOOL, Wednesday Morning.
Wind N.E.
Arrived, July 27,—Iremad, from Miramichi ; Queen of
the South, Marseilles.
The Cintra, screw steamer, from Oporto, at this port, in
making fur the landing stage ran oul of the Anne Wilson,
from A kyab. Both vessels received injuries.
Sailed, July 27. St. Brelade, for Gaspe ; Prima Donna,
New York ; John Russell, Mobile; Highland Light, and
the Queen, Quebec; Juno, Memel; Lizzie Grace, Dunkirk;
Christen, Aalborg.

(By SIIBMARIIIE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning.
Wind N.E., fresh ; tide first hout's.flood ; cloudy, with
rain.

Arrived, July 27 Lynker, from Riga ; Fluntleys,
Crr nstadt ; Elbe, Dantzig ; Augusta Gravelines ; Mary
Gill spie, Faro ; Lionno, and Furet, Gravelines.
Arrived, July 28 - Enew, frAn Odessa ; Bona Fide,
Cronstadt ; Leo, Rotterdam.
Sailed, July 28 —Hanover, steamer, for Calais.
DEAL. Wednesday Morning.
Wind E.N.E. ; fresh and sbowry.
Passed--A ship, s apposed to be the British Merchant,
from Loudon, for Sydney.

Lord Lyons arrived at Arundel Castle on Friday, on
a vi-it to the,r Graces the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk.
His lordship does not appear to be in the enjoyment of
hi,' usual excellent health. We trubt, however, that the
salubr,ty of the air of Arundel will soon restore the
gallant aaniral to his wonted health and vigour.—
Sussex Express.

rHE REPRESENTATION OF SOUTH DEVON.—The ele-
vat:on cf Sir J. B. Yarde Buller, M P., for the southern
division cf Devon.,hire to the peerage, has caused tbr
political parties in the county to be OU the qui vire. It
wa [rept rted that the conservatives intended to bring
ow, the Hon. Mark Rolle, son of Lcrd Clinton, and hair
to the extenAve estates -cf the lye L ird Rolle ; but it
shn, th it the young gentleman Les declined to star),
Mr. K kewic , who once-reoresent, d tae city f E.e r,
has also been named as th,-• co- servative candi 'ate, tut
at pre eat nothing definitive is known. Mr. Sillifant
has been prominently brought forward in a local paper
as the probable libera.l-car:didate.
FIRE AND Loss or Lin.—Yester lay, between the
hours cf one and two o!plock, a fire brace out on t e
premises of Mr. Sautidero, carver and gilder. No. 31.
Foley-:4reet, Great l'irtland-etreet._ Mr. R. Saunders
jun., who was.,sleeping on•tle,third fib ,r back, managed
t e,caped, much cat and-biun.ed, on to the roof. When
toe flames were sufficiently subdued to enable the house
to' be entered, Mrs. Et iurideri was iound lying on the
Loot flour third pair, suffocated and lifeless. Mr. Saun-
ders was found in the-third floor back, nearly suffocated,
and is now a!, 3t.,9'x,w,p,9's rforTit'll in a Urecariouu
state,

-WYLD'S PLAN OF CHERBOURG,

According to his usual custom the hon. mem
ber for Bodtxtin is the first in the field with a plan
of Cherbourg, its ports, sea, and land fortifications.
The plan is among the very best that has recently
issued from our great geographer's establishment.
It is as comprehensive as could be well desired—
embracing to the west Fort Querqueville, and to
the east Fort Imperial. To the south it extends
to Fort Basquesne ; while northwards it gives the
whole magnificent sweep of the Breakwater—from
Fort Central hither to Musoir do l'Ouest, thither
to Musoir de l'Est. Proceeding between the latter
and Fort Imperial, by the Eastern passage, one
passes by Fort des Flamands, on to the Little
Road, and further along by Fort Longlet and Fort
du Galet, within view at once of the three outer
ports and three inner basins. The panoramic out-
lines of the bay aro completed by the Fort du
Hornet, Fort St. Anne, and the Fort de la Roche
Chavaiguac. Altogether the plan opportunely
issued by Mr. Wyld, in the very nittk of time, will
prove a very godsend to the English visitors to
Cherbourg.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

GOOD WOOD RACES.-TUESDAY.

The programme of the meetieg has been judi-
ciously revised. The alterations hive been efft-cted
with much discrimination, and al ,hough they a-e
few, they have materially strengthened a list which
was in parts meagre and unattr .ctive. By acting
upon the suggestion made in the daily papers last
year, to bring the Stewards' Cup forward to the
first day, au item of interest was imparted into a
card which wouli otherwise have provided merely
a scanty supply of sport. With the exception of
that event the races decided were not remakable
for the numerical strength of the fields. Sill
improvement in the number of starters will be
made with' the progrete of the meeting, and a pau-
city of racing will not be a subject of complaint.
Nereus won the first event in a canter, and for the
second the American colon s were borne in triumph
past the post. lii leed the match bet vve-n Mim ea
and Orianda resolved itself into a match of judg-
ment between the rept esentative of the American
turf in this country, and an English gentleman of
ackn wlefiged shrewdness in raving affairs. Eace
gentleman had in turn possessed the animals wlit(h
were pi'ted against . ach o her, and the result of
the rice showed that John Bull in his tuff pursuits
is sometimes out witted by Jon athan. The succets
of Orianda proved et least the correctness of Mr
R. Ten B oeck's judgment. Toxopholite, who
was reported lame, was withdrawn from the Grat
wicke Stakes, and the race—save the mark l—was
reduced to a match between Mentmore and Maid
of Kent. The affair was a burlesque, for the horse
walked more than half the distance, Mentmore
shook Maid of Kent off with difficulty, and indeed
the layers of the odds were not very easy in their
minds until after the horses had passed the pest.
The defeat of Merryman for the Lavant Stakes
created some sensation, ana caused hisretrogres-
sion in the Dolby bet ting to 30 to 1. He ran for
the first time in Mr. Greville's colours. The
Stewards' Cup commanded twenty eight runners,
and was the prettiest and most exciting race of
the day. It was won by Glenmasson, of whom,
it may be remarked, great expectations were
entertained for the Derby of 1857, but who
broke down before the race. He won with ease
to-day. Zotiave, the Frencit champion, achieving
the s, c ho nours' , whilst the " American" Baby-
lon could not ontain a place. The Ham stakes
was won by Mayonaise, a goodlooking daughter of
Teddington, and the last event was remarkable
from the fact of two out of the three starters break-
ing down. _
_ _

The weather was cloudy, and slight showers fell
at intervals, and the spectators quitted the park
amidst a soaking shower of rain. The c )mpany
in the Grand Stand comprised many aristocratic
visitors, but the alendance was very Feanty, and
altogether we do not remember a duller opening
day. From our list of quotations it will 1)4 seen
that the beTting on cowing events was very limited.
The mot important inovcmPnt was the retrogr, s-
sion of Toxophilito for the S . Leger. When the
ring was first foira,d, 4to 1 was taken about him
to money, and afterwards 8 to 1 was laid, tut
b ;fore the close of the afternoon 6 to 1 was booked
about him. The "St dKes" was scarcely touched
upon, and the "Cup" WAS a dead letter.