The Sun.
London, England, 1866-09-18 00:00:00

THE CHOLERA.

MANSION-HOUSE RELIEF COMMITTEE,

LTD to last evening the total sum received by the
Lord Mayor, from the thy on which the relief fund
was set on foot at the Mansion-house six weeks ago,
amounted to £17,828. Of this sum £8,891 has
been dispensed in the relief of the distress through
the agency of local committees, £5,000 was recently '
set apart towards the maintenance of children made
orphans by the epidemic, and £2,000, to assist con-
valescents, leaving a balance in baud of £1,937. The
promptitude with which the Lord Mayor entered on
this humane enterprise at a time when the epidemic

was assuming an alarming aspect to the whole me-
tropolis, and the unflagging interest he has taken in
all the subsequent proceedings, have repeate lly eli-
cited expressions of the warmest approval from his
coadjutors in the committee, which is composed of
some of the most influential men in, the city of
London, including eminent bankers, merchants,
clergymen, and other persons of consideration, who
rallied round him on the occasion. Only those who
have sat from day to day on the committee during
the last six weeks have hal opportunities of wit-
nessing the manifestations of respect which the part
taken by. him in the emergency, and the practi-
cal wisdom he has brought to bear in dealing
with the business in hand, have produced in that
quarter. All along, from the first, he has recom-
mended the speedy application of the money and
materials placed at their disposal for purposes of re-
lief by the generosity of the public wherever they
appeared to be most wanted in the infected districts,
holding that what waspromptly given at such a time
was twice given, and he has invariably urged upon
the local committees the duty of distributing the
relief in their respective districts regardless of creed,
and, indeed, of every other consideration except the
single one of distress, occasioned in any way by the
epidemic. In these views he has been heartily sup-
ported by the committee, among whom the greatest
unanimity has prevailed, and there is abundant rea-
son to believe that the general result has been-to dif-
fuse a great amount or substantial- relief among
thousands of distressed families, and, what is more,
materially to arrest the progress of the malady,
which has now all but disappeared. The public spirit
shown by the Lord Mayor on the occasion is enhanced
by the graceful act on his part of placing at the dis-
posal of the committee, of which he is chairman, one
of the best apartments in his official residence for
holding their meetings, and for conferring with the
local committees from day to day during the last six
weeks.

Yesterday the Working Committee had under
consideration at their meeting the question of deal-
ing with the orphans, for whom, as has been stated,
they had set apart the sum of £5,000. There were
present the Lord Mayor, Sir M. Wells, the Rev. F.
G. Blomfield, the Rev. W. Rogers, Mr. T. F. Bux-

ton, chairman of the house committee, Dr. A. Clark,
physician to the London Hospital, Mr. R. B. Wade,
Mr. H. Ripley, Mr. R. Wigram, Mr. P. Glyn, and
Mr. R. Hoare. Having agreed to set aside the sum
mentioned to assist in maintaining orphans, and
having elicited from the Bishop of London's Corn-
mittee that they were prepared to devote a like sum
of £5,000 for the same humane object, the Mansion-
house authorities called upon the local committees to
furnish returns of all the children made orphans by
the disease in their several districts, with a statement
of the attendant circumstances in each case, and, 23
of the committees in the East of London having re-
sponded to the invitation, Sir Mordaunt Wells has
been engaged during the last few days in digesting
and tabulating the information thus obtained for the
use of the committee. The result has been to show
that in those 23 districts 810 children have been re-
duced to orphanage. Of these 59 have lost both
parents, 644 their fathers, and 107 their mothers.
These are all cases in which the parents were never
in the receipt of parochial relief, except here and

there, where a wife, since her husband's death from
cholera, has been compelled by the exigencies of her
little family and herself to resort to the parish for
temporary relief. Yesterday, in stating the general
result of his inquiries, Sir Mordaunt Wells observed
to the committee that it presented a fearful catalogue
of misery. In some instances a commercial traveller
had died of the disease, leaving a wife and eight de-

pendent children ; in others a clerk or a skilled me-
chanic ; 300 women had been made widows, 37 of
them in pne district, nf

Am station, respectable persons : and the returns

showed in an extraordinary way the strong desire
of the mother in such cases to maintain her humble
home, and the dislike there appeared to be to or-
phanages. Those returns, he said, also bore out in
a remarkable manner the wisdom of the suggestion
recently made by that able and benevolent man
" S. G. 0." as to the desirability, especially for the
sake of the children themselves, of parcelling out the
orphans among relatives, and even strangers in de-
fault of relatives, with a little allowance for their
maintenance until they could do something for them-
selves. He felt satisfied that, by making such allow-
ances to aunts and other relatives in respect of such
orphans, a great number of them would be absorbed.
The LORD MAYOR said several distressing letters
had been addressed to him in respect of orphans.
by cholera in districts in which there were no
local committees ; and the committee would
have to lay down some principle on which to
distribute the sum set-apart for orphans through the
agency of the local committees, and, if possible, make
some provision for those isolated and very distress-
ing cases. He was convinced there were many in-
stances were a widow would not wish to part with
her children, but who with some timely assistance
from the committee would do her best to support
them.

The committee were engaged some time in settling
the conditions on which the money should be distri-
buted among the local committees and applied by
them, and eventually Sir Mordaunt Wells, the Rev.
W. Rogers, and the Rev. G. Blomfield were ap-
pointed to confer with the Bishop of London's com-
a St. George-in-the-East, to
m iAt t ee
localc theeo msmuibtjtee subject.
whom the Mansion-house committee hadmade three
grants of £lOO each, attended yesterday and reported
that the total number of deaths from cholera and
diarrhcea there up to the Bth inst. in a population of
48,000 had been 424 ; that 300 cues had been re-
lieved, including 57 husbands ill, 38 mothers ill, and
55 families in which there has been much sickness ;
44 husbands had died, leaving 82 children dependent
upon their mothers ; 16 wives had died, leaving 38
children dependent on their fathers ; 38 widows had
been relieved, many of them with large families de-
pendent upon them ; six single women, and two
single men.
The committee made them a final grant of £25
and adjourned.

The following is the official return of deaths from
cholera and diarrhoea registered on Saturday, 15th
Sept.:—
Cholera. Diarrlacca.
West districts ... ... 2 ... 3
North districts ... ... 5
... 2
Central districts ... ... 3
... 3
East districts ... 1')
South districts
6 •..

Total in London ... ~. 2-6

ONE OF SIR EDWIN LANDSEER'S FINEST PICTURES
painted when his eye, hand, and judgment were in their
fullest vigour, has been bequeathed to the National Gal-
lery, under reasonable stipulations, by the late Mr. New-
man Smith. The picture is the celebrated "Member of
the Royal Humane Society," the noblest figure of a dog
that ever looked out from canvas. The picture is to re-
main with the testator's widow for life. It is then to pass
to the National Gallery.
PROFESSOR LONGFELLOW has written in the Sep-
tember number of the Atlantic Monthly the following veil
Catholic sonnet " On Translating the Diving Cot:media ":
I lift mine eyes, and all the windows blaze
With forms of Saints and holy men who died,
Here martyred and hereafter glorified ;
And the great Rose upon its leaves displays
Christ's triumph,
and the angelic roundelays
With splendour multiplied
, upon splendour ;
And Beatrice, again at Dante's side,
No more rebukes but smiles hor words o praise.
And then the organ sounds, and unseen choirs
Sing the old Latin hymns of peace and love
And Benedictions
bells efg
theamon Holy
the Ghost;
spires
A n
O'erdth
alle the
Melodious
house-tops and through heaven above
Proclaims the elevation of the host !

11? E B OA'l` SE ILVI CE S. —1) urih g the storms
of the past twenty months the National Lifebeat
..siitution, by its life boats and other means, contributed to
the savin; ot 1,5) persons from different wrecks on our
coasts. The Institution also expended £42,420 in the same
period on its lifeboat eLtablishmeats, in addition to grautiog
£3,362 as iewarde.

The Committee of the Institution earnestly A'i'PEAL to
the public fur ASSISTANCE to enable them to meet the
continued heavy demands on the Institution's 172 lifeboat
establishments.

Contributions are received by the London and country
b tnkers ; and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis, Esq., at the
Institution, 14, John-street, Adelphi, London.

THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE.—
Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. CEIATTERTON.
The public is respectfully informed this Theatre, having
been Redecorated and Refurnished, will OPEN for the
DRAMATIC SEASON on SATURDAY next, Sept.
22d, when will bo performed Shakespere's Tragedy of
KING JOHN : King John, Mr. Phelps ; Falconbridgo, Mr.
Barry Sullivan ; Hubert, Mr. T. Swinbourno, Prince Arthur,
Master Percy Roselle • Constance (first time), Mrs. Herman
Vezin. At the conclusion of the Tragedy, the National
Anthem will bo sung by the entire strength of the Com-
pany. Principal solos by Madame Jenny Bauer, Miss
Poole, and Mr. W. Harrison. To conclude with Shalc-
spore's COMEDY OF ERRORS : Dromio of Ephesus, Mr.
Henry Webb; Dromie of Syracuse, Mr. Charles Webb. .
Prospectuses of the Season Arrangements to be obtained
at the Stage Door.
Prices : Private Boxes, 1,2, 3,4, and 5 guineas ; Stalls,
75.; Dress Circle, 55.; First Circle, 4s. • Second Circle, 35.;
Pit, 25.; Lower Gallery, ls. ; Upper dallery, 6d.

Box-office open from Ten till Five daily.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE,
Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Fechter.

THIS EVENING, and during the week.—Mr. and Mrs.
DION BuUCICAULT in the new Drama, " THE LONG

Performances :—At 7 o'clock, NURSN:Y CHICKWEED,
Messrs. H. Widdicomb, Moreland, D. Evans, and Miss K.
Blandlord.

At a Quarter before 8, the new Drama, in Four Acts, TILE
LONG STRIKE, written by Diou lioucic,ault. The New
Scenery by Mr. 1. Greive and assistants. Messrs. S Emery,
Wid dcomb, Fitzpatrick, Dalton, D. Evans, Anderson,
1 ewbound. Stanley. Lomas, Moreland, Andrews, Reynolds,
and J. C. Cowper.
To conclude with UP IN THE WORLD.

Acting Manager, Mr. H. Barnett. Stage Manager, Mr. W.
West.

Box office open daily from Ten till Fin.

THE LONG STRIKE.-ROYAL LYCEUM
TII am.-- Johnny Reilly (an Irish Sailor), Mr. D.
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OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE,
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Doors open at Half-past Seven, performances commence
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THIS EVENING, a New and Original Drama, in Three
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CAPTAIN. Principal characters by Mrs. Stirling", Miss
Neilson, Miss Augusta Thomson; Mr. Geor,e Honey and Mr.
Vining. Grand Ballet of Bohemians, in which MM. Flageo-
let, Clodoche, Comete, and Normande, will appear. New
scenery by Mr. F. Lloyds.

THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI,
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Will RE-OPEN on MONDAY, Oct. 1. Ths Company to
m :et in thc Green Room on MONDAY, &pt. 21, a. One
nclock. Miss KATE TERRY will make her First Appear-
ance at the Theatre Royal Adelphi on Monday, Oct. 1.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
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