The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-06 00:00:00

THE CHOLERA.

MANSION HOUSE RELIEF COMMITTEE.

Yesterday the working committee held a meeting
at the Mansion-house. Sir M. Wells reported that
the sum of £5OO recently set apart from the fund, on
the motion of the Lord Mayor, to enable poor
widows whose husbands had died of cholera, leaving
children dependent upon them, to redeem little
articles they had been compelled to pledge in their
affliction and distress, 241 widows had been assisted
with £2 each, and he believed, in every case, that
sum would be found sufficient for the purpose. With
respect to the orphans, the result of a meeting he
had on Thursday with Mr. Tilsou, representing the
Bishop of London's committee, went to show that
the two committees would have to assist in provid-
ing for 1,230 orphans in all, or 615 each, out of the
£lO,OOO they had set apart for that purpose. In all
cases these were children of parents who had never
received parochial relief except in occasional in-
stances where the mother had been compelled to re-
sort to the parish in the dire distress brought upon
the family by the visitation of cholera. He had been
in frequent communication with the local commit-
tees on the subject, and had thus ascertained the
exact number of children made orphans by the epi-
demic iu each district, and the circumstances of each
family. That morning he had had an interview with
Mr. Wigram and Mr. Currie, representing the local
relief committee in the Poplar district, and from
them he understood that a most satisfactory arrange-
ment was being made. There 153 children reduced
to orphanage by cholera, exclusive altogether of the
pauper class, had to be provided for, and in some
cases where the Mansion-house committee were pre-
pared to spend £4O in respect of these orphans, the
local committee would supplement that by £4O.
(Hear, hear.) Altogether the local committee would
supplement the Mansion-house grant for the sup-
port of these 153 orphans by £6OO out of their own
pockets. (Hear.) Some of the children were going
into the country, others were to be parcelled out
among relatives, with an allowance to be spread over
a given number of years, and dispensed by trustees.
The sr.lietne contained a little history of every family
and child, and was admirable in every way. On
Monday he should ask the committee to vote the
money at once with respect to Poplar, and he hoped
before another week elapsed they would have dis-
posed of the whole orphan question in respect to all
the rest of the districts. The Lord Mayor said that
question disposed of, they would then wind up their
affairs. He added, amid expressions of approbation
from the whole committee, that Sir Mordaunt Wells,
in the labour and attention he had bestowed on the
subject, had laid the committee, and especially the
poor orphans, under perpetual obligations to him.

The following is the official return of deaths in
London from cholera and diarrhcea registered on
Thursday, Oct. 4:—

Cholera. Diarrhoea.
0 ... 2
3 ... 1
3 ... 4
9 1
7 3

West districts
North districts
Central districts
East districts
South districts

Total

Naval and Military Intelli;ence.

Her Majesty's screw frigate Leander, 39, 400
horse power, Capt. W. M. Dowell, C. 8., arrived at
the Nore, from the Pacific, on Wednesday evening,
and saluted the flag of Vice-Admiral Sir B. W.
'Walker, K.C.8., Commander-in-Chief. After
transferring her powder and shells to the War De-
partment transports, she was yesterday ordered into
the steam basin, where the work of stripping her
and removing her stores into the dockyard will be
carried on, and it is expected that the crew will be
paid off on the 15th inst. The Leander has been in
commission about three years and a half, having
left England for the Pacific in the summer of 1863.

A very successful trial was made yesterday on
board the Mersey steam frigate, at Portsmouth, of
Brank's patent capstan pumps. The pumps are
worked on the upper deck of the ship by a messenger
chain from the capstan, runni►►g over the pitchwheel
of the pump. The advantage of -this arrangement
over the old plan is that it enables the crew, in event
of the ship being on fire below, to continue working
the pumps without being driven away by the smoke
when working them below and between decks, as
was the case with the crew of her Majesty's late ship
Bombay, on the loss of that vessel by fire off Buenos
Ayres.

The Dee steam transport, Staff-Commander Ray-
mond, arrived at Portsmouth yesterday, from Wool-
wich, with machinery and stores.

The Medea paddle-steamer, 835 tons, 350 horse
power, has been taken in hand at Portsmouth for
repairs and outfit as a steam transport for service
between the home ports of a similar character to
that now carried out by the Dee.

The screw sloop Rosario, 11, 150 horse power,
Commander L. H. Versturme, from theWestlnclies,
having been inspected by Vice-Admiral Sir B. W.
Walker, Commander-in-Chief at the Nore, has been
placed in the steam basin, where she is being dis-
mantled preparatory to being put out of commis-
sion. She has returned her powder and ammunition
into the Government stores at Chatham.

The wooden screw corvette Orestes, 1,715 tons,
which has been lying in dock at Portsmouth now
for some months under survey, has at length had a
number of hands placed upon her to break her up
-where she lies. A similar course will be followed
with the corvette Harrier, 748 tons, lying in the
adjoining dock.
►t The Imperial Russian screw corvette Griden,
Capt. Karnazewski, was taken into the Corporation
dock at Portsmouth yesterday for repairs. The
Griden is from Cronstadt, bound for the Pacific and
the Amoor River, and sprung a leak since leaving
the Baltic ; hence the necessity for docking her pre-
vious to quitting the Channel on so long a voyage.
The Imperial Russian screw despatch vessel Gar-
naslay, Capt. Lutke, aide-de-camp to his Imperial
Highness the Grand Duke Constantine, which ar-
rived at the Motherbank, off Rykle, Isle of Wight,
on Wednesday, is filling up with fuel and water
preparatory to continuing her voyage.
The United States'paddle steamer Frolic, bearing
the flag of Rear-Admiral L. M. Goldsborough, has
returned to Cherbourg on the conclusion of the gal-
lant admiral's flying visit to Southampton and
Portsmouth.

The screw frigate Endyrnion, 21, 500 horsepower,
Capt. C. Wake, was yesterday ordered to be placed
in the steam basin at Sheerness dockyard,
where she
will complete fitting for sea. She is rapidly
filling up
her sea stores, and most of the officers appointed to
her have alaeady joined and taken up their commis-
sions. A portion of her crew have been sent on board
from the receiving ships at the ports, and her Royal
Marines and Marine Artillery have joined from the
Chatham and Portsmouth divisions.
In consequence of the activity just now prevail-
ing at the Sheerness dockyard a number of the
sawyers from Chatham dockyard are to be lent to
that establishment.

The Reindeer, 7,200 horse power, Mr. C. Wotton
master in charge, has a number of shipwrights and
other workmen employed on board, in dock at
Chatham, effecting the necessary alterations to her
decks and hatchways, to enable her to mount the
heavy ordnance she is to carry on her spar deck,
amidships, and in making good the injuries to her
false keel sustained on the recent occasion of her
getting aground.

The Swallow, 9, 60 horse-power, screw sloop
lately employed on the surveying service in China:
was yesterday removed from the steam basin, and
placed in the third division of the steam reserve, in
the Medway. Since put of commission she has been
surveyed at the hands of the master shipwright's
staff, to ascertain the nature of the repairs requir-
ing to be effected in her.
The War Department steam store vessel Earl de
Grey and Ripon, T. IL Moore master in command,
laden with iron gun carriages, slides, &c., and shells,
shot, and general war stores, hauled off yesterday
from Woolwich Pier, in readiness to take her de-
parture this morning for Portsmouth.
Major-Gen. E. C. Warde, C. 8., proceeded to
Purfleet in her Majesty's yacht Vivid, Commander
Sullivan, on Wednesday morning, and inspected the
Coast Brigade, Royal Artillery, stationed there,

together with the barracks, stores, &c., after which
he went to Walley, in Essex, where he was received
by Col. Hay, Commandant, and Col. Radcliffe,
commanding the Royal Artillery, and inspected the
barracks and hospital. The garrison consists of about
700 men of the Royal Artillery, and a detachment
of the Coldstream Guards. In the evening a ball
was given by the officers of the Royal Artillery. The
General completed his inspection of the garrison at
Warley by seeing the troops at parade on Thursday
morning, and returned the same day to head-
quarters, Woolwich. Yesterday morning the sth
brigade, commanded by Col. Gardner, and the 17th
Brigade, commanded by Lient.-Col. Gosling, were
inspected by the General on the barrack parade-
ground. General Peel, the Secretary for War,
arrived at Woolwich, where he was received by
General Warde and Staff, and spent upwards of
three hours in visiting different branches of the
garrison.

One of the 23 ton:guns :made at the Royal gun
factories at Woolwich was yesterday despatched in
the contract lighter Scales, for Shoeburyness, to un-
dergo an experimental test of endurance and capa-
city.

In proof of the satisfactory result of the Admi-
rality inspection of Woolwich dockyard their lord-
ships have granted a complete holiday. The dock-
yard will in consequence be closed to-day.
A garrison order has been issued, stating that the
General Commanding had much pleasure in notify-
ing to the troops at Woolwich that he bad received
the commands of the Duke of Cambridge to convey
to them his royal highness's approval of all he had
seen of them on Saturday.

A large plot of ground adjoining the Townshend
redoubt, and close to the inner line of fortifications
at Chatham, has been surveyed by the officials con-
nected with the Royal Engineer department, on
which is intended to be erected a block of buildings
to be as quarters for the married non-commissioned
officers and men belonging to the corps attached to
the 3d Depot Battalion, at Chatham garrison. The
site of the intended buildings lies near St. Mary's
casemated barracks, occupied by the 3d Battalion,
the entire extent of land taken in being rather more
than two acres. Yesterday the workmen employed
by Mr. Stump, of Brompton, who has been engaged
by the Government to erect the buildings, com-
menced the formation of the roads leading to them,
and making the necessary excavations for the foun-
dations.

The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty :—Sub-Lieut. Alfred E.
Denny, to the Eudymion ; William L. Bennett,
second master, to the Achilles ; Selby Lilburan, se-
cond master, to the Hector ; R. W. E. Middleton,
second master, to the Ocean ; W. E. Striven, se-
cond master, to the Bellerophon ; Wm. Maunsell
and Alfred F. H. Dragson, master's assistants, to
the Endymion ; and Wm. Webber, engineer, to the
Asia, for service in the Trinculo.