The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-11 00:00:00

THE CHOLERA.

MANSION-ITOUSE RELIEF COMMITTEE.
At the meeting of this committee yesterday, Sir
Mordaunt Wells in the chair,
expressions of great
gratification dropped from several of the members
that the Times had, in a leading article that morn-
ing urged upon the Government the necessity, on
many grounds, but especially as an incentive to
exertion on the part of local sanitary authorities, of
resuming the daily publication of the returns of
deaths from cholera and diarrhoea, and had so en-
dorsed and enforced the views expressed in the
committee on that subject at their meeting on Mon-
day last. In the course of the day a communica-
tion was received from Mr. Arthur Helps, Clerk to
the Privy Council, to the effect that a letter which
the Lord Mayor had addressed to that department,
recommending, on the part of the committee, the
resumption of the publication of the daily returns,
had been referred to Mr. Secretary Walpole, with
whom the matter rested. From that quarter the
committee confidently expect a favourable answer.
At the meeting yesterday the committee voted
£l,OOO towards the maintenance of the children
made orphans by the disease, thus supplementing
by so much the sum, of £5,000 which they had pre-
viously set apart for that purpose. From that fund
they granted yesterday £1,230, to assist in providing
for 123 orphans in Mile-end Old-town, the money
to be dispensed by trustees selected from among
some of the most influential inhabitants of the dis-
trict, and at the head of whom are two of the
Messrs. Charrington, the brewers. At their previ-
ous meeting the committee voted £1,530 to Mr. R.
Wigram and Mr. E. Currie, representing the Local
Relief Committee in Poplar, towards the mainte-
nance of 153 orphans there, the money to be dis-
pensed in like manner by trustees carefully chosen.
Mr. Wigram, who is himself a member of the Man-
sion-house Committee, took occasion to say that the
more wealthy of the inhabitants of that district had
raised upwards of £9OO among themselves as a pro-
vision for the orphans there, and that sum would go
to supplement the Mansion-house grant. The Lord
Mayor, Sir M. Wells, and the Rev. F. Blomfield
bore emphatic testimony to the energetic and credit-
able manner in which the Poplar Committee had
acted all through the emergency. The Lord Mayor
thanked Mr. Wigram personally for the conspicuous
part he had taken on the occasion. 3lr. Wigram
explained that much of the credit in reference to the
orphans was due to his coadjutor, Mr. Currie.
Yesterday an anonymous donor sent to the com-
mittee three dozen of port wine and a dozen and a
half of brandy for distribution among convalescents
from cholera. The Lord Mayor has received £l2
Bs. Id. from Bromsberrow, Malvern, a collection at
a harvest-home, through the Rev. R. Hill ; £2O
from Mr. J. Clerk, barrister-at-law, through Sir M.
Wells ; £lO from Mr. J. Wood, Blackheath ; £lO
10s. from Mr. R. Burrow ; £lO from Mrs. Long-
ridge ; and £7 25., a collection at a harvest-home
at Silverton, through the Rev. H. Palmer.
The committee at their rising adjourned until
Friday.

A Wiesbaden journal expresses the hope that
Prussia will maintain. the abolition of death punishments
in Nassau in which duchy no punishment of that kind has
taken place §iAGe