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London, England, 1866-08-14 00:00:00

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chusetts manufacturers desire to extend their mar-
kets and think they have a chance of d • oing so.
We cannot have a better proof of the value at-
tached by the United States to British America
than the fact that they urge the general government
to assume the provincial debts, and to annex the
territory. Mr. Taylor possesses statesmanship
enough to provide for an improvement to which the
Canadian Government have shown most reprehen-
sible indifference—the enlargement of the Canadian
canals. Mr. Taylor proposes to appropriate fifty
millions of dollars " to aid the navigation of the St.
Lawrence and the Great Lakes, that vessels of
1,500 tons burden shall pass from the Gulf of St.
Lawrence to Lakes Michigan and Superior."
Although ignored and neglected by the Canadian
Government the scheme is quite feasible. At pre-
sent the produce of the West passes by the great
lakes to the foot of Lake Eric, where it has an en-
trance at Buffalo, which is the point of entry of

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of which was a dispensary station, open night and
day. Five men were employed in disinfecting.
In the district of Bow and Bromley, with a popu-
lation of about 50,000, there had been between
2,000 and 3,000 cases of diarrhoea during a week
and cholera in proportion. On Thursday last, ac-
cording to the medical officers of the Local Board of
Works, there were 154 new cases of diarrhea, 17
new cases of cholera, and six deaths. The private
practitioners on the same day reported 112 new
cases of diarrhcel, 13 of cholera, and one death ;
but their returns were imperfect. The committee
made a grant in this case of £l5O.
In the Christ Church or Marsh district of Strat-
ford there were 150 cases of cholera under treatment
yesterday, but the reports were rather more favour-
able generally in the East of London than they had
been.

Before the committee separated yesterday the Rev.
W. Rogers urged upon them the necessity of taking
steps • towards establishing a temporary home for
convalescents, referring to a case in which a whole
village had been infected by a convalescent child
which had been removed thither from London. The
Trinity-house, Corporation have made a donation of
£5O to the committee for this express purpose.

During the past week the epidemic has been
steadily though slowly on the increase about the
river and the docks, and the number of patients re-
ceived by the Dreadnought authorities on board the
Belleisle up to this date amounts to 35. The Com-
mercial Dock still continues to contribute a large
proportion of this number, and the locality of other
cases indicates a very defective sanitary condition
of the upper and lower pools, particularly off the
well-known landing-place called Stone-stairs, where
colliers and other small craft are moored in tiers of
two or three deep. The Committee of Management
of the Seamen's Hospital Society have resolved to
commence a daily inspection of vessels lying on the
river between Loudon-bridge and Woolwich, and
there is no doubt that this arrangement will, as a
preventive aid, afford very great benefit to the vast
floating population of this port.

The following is the official return of deaths from
cholera and diarrhoea for Saturday, Aug. 11:
Cholera. Diarrhoea.

West districts ...
North districts ...
Central districts...
East districts
South districts

... 4 ...
... 8 ...

... 5
... 12

... 4 ...

•• • 4

... 94

Total ...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Stn,—Now that so much importance is attached to the
use of pure water, we wish to bring before the poorer
classes, through you, the fact that we manufacture syphon
filters under Daltlke's patent, which will purify six gallons
of water per day at a cost of 2s. 6d. each ; and to notify,
that as long as this country is afflicted with cholera we
shall be willing to deliver ono of these in any part of the
United Kingdom on receipt of 2s. 6d.
The general and also the district post-offices in London
aro supplied with our filters.—We are, sir, your obedient
servants,

THE SILICATED CAUBON FILTER. COMPANY.
Works, Church-road, Battersea, London, S.W., Aug. 11
We send specimen herewith.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.

Sin—However good the water supply may bo made by
care or filtering, it is poisoned afresh in every house by the
modern cheap, abominable practice of having ono and the
same cistern to serve both water closets and sinks for
drinking purposes.
To all water closets there is a length of pipe more or lees
always full of the foulest air, which, on the lifting of the
valve, rushes up into the cistern, ever polluting it, and in
the time of epidemic making it the wet nurso of contagion.
To the fond belief or assertion that the water descending
drives out the bad air, I declare to you, sir, most emphati-
cally and earnestly, that it is not true. Lot any one stand
ever a cistern where a closet below is used, let any house-
keeper, any builder, or ono of my own profession do it,
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supply to the kitchen boiler, and he will see and smell
what ho will not easily forgot. Let any ono come to mo
and see two cisterns side by side both emptied and refilled
daily in constant use by sinks and closets, he will seo that
for the former clean, the latter with a horrible scum.

You speak plainly of the danger of the poor pcopio using

the same pails for fetching water and for cholera patients (and
it is no time now to be pricking for words when hundreds
are dying), but if the air from the stool of a patient can be
seen rising into a cistern or butt at the very moment that
some one is drawing water for drinking or cooking
can that bo harmless ? We drink the virus of disease. I
would gladly show how easily and cheaply an old or new
cistern can be divided to keep the sink or clean part from
contamination by the closet or foul part without an addi-
tional service and ball-cock. I have had the arrangeinent
in use for years, but the owners of poor property will not
afford, and there is not time for alteration. This, however,
can be done quickly. The district boards can have stand
pipes in the infected neighbourhoods for all corners for
drinking purposes. The visitation is more fearful than
frost or fire.—l am, sir, yours faithfully,
J. J. COLE, Architect, Stock Exchange.

the route at Lake Erie. On the other hand, it
takes the Welland Canal on the Canadian side
to Lake Ontario—to Oswego—passing by the
canal of that name to the main Erie Canal. The
latter connects Lake Erie with Albany—the waters
of the Hudson. Such is the pressure of the trade
that a vessel is eleven and twelve days passing front
Lake Erie to the Hudson. New York is thus the one
seaport of the West, but it would cease to be so to a
great extent if the Canadian canals were deepened,
and the navigation improved, as Mr. Taylor, who is
a Western man, has the sagacity to see. No little
of the trade would then be transferred to Boston,
which, indeed, might become the depot of the west.
But the greatest benefit resulting from this work
would accrue to Canada. If the canals were deepened
so thata sea-going vessel could pass, without breaking
bulk in its cargo, to the Far West, the maritime high-
way would be through that province. For it may be
said that the Erie Canal can be improved only to a very
limited degree, owing to the difficulty of obtaining
water, which is nowadmitted tobe barelysufficient. It
is true that the work would cost millions of dollars, and
that the shallow waters of Lakes St. Louis and St.
Francis would require a large expenditure to dredge
them ; further, the necessity of keeping the naviga-
tion open while the enlargement was in progress
would add greatly to its expense. But no one has
doubted the feasibility of the scheme, or, at all
events, has put his objections in such a form that
they can be examined and answered. On the other
hand, the condition of improving the navigation has
been examined both by American and Canadian
writers of eminence, at length, and with ability, to
the extent that the information at the disposal of the
writers would admit. It is plain that the American
authorities are conversant with the value of the St.
Lawrence as a highway, and General Banks may be
considered to represent the public opinion of his
State when he proposes that it shall be developed.
Here lies the value of his extraordinary pro-
position to the English statesman. Even its ridicu-
lous side disappears when it is so considered. The
well-wisher of Canada ought, therefore, to be thank-
ful. But to judge by the tone of indignation which
without exception, characterises Canadian journal-
ism, British America is not particularly grateful to
the General at the offer of incorporation in the great
republic. If, however, Canada, and the maritime
provinces would examine it from our standing-point,
they might thing differently. Very probably the
attention of English statesmen may be directed to
the subject by it ; and, what evidently is more diffi-
cult to effect, Canadian politicians may be turned
away from their bickerings and intrigues to consider
a policy which will advance every interest in the
province, and will give a healthy stimulus to trade,
so that progress will really be effected. It is hard,
indeed, to unlerstand the indifference with which
this important project has been treated.