The Sun.
London, England, 1866-08-15 00:00:00

THE CHOLERA.

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MANSION-HOUSE RELIEF COMMITTEE.
Last evening the fund now being raised at the
Mansion-house, under the auspices of the Lord
Mayor and a committee of eminent bankers and
t merchants of the city of London, for the relief of
the distress consequent upon the visitation of cholera,
amounted to nearly £7,000, as the result of a week's
subscription. Of that £664 odd was received at the
Mansion-house alone, in addition to the sums paid
into the different banks in connection with it.
At 1 o'clock the committee held a meeting to hear
applications for assistance from the fund, and to
make grants, there being present the Lord Mayor,
Sir Mordaunt Wells, Mr. R. N. Fowler, the Rev.
William Rogers, the Rev. F. G. Blomfield, Mr.
Alderman Cotton, Mr. Andrew Johnston, Mr.
Charles Hetton, Mr. R. B. Wade, Mr. Ripley, Mr.
Needham, Mr. P. C. Glyn, and Mr. W. J. Maxwell.
A deputation of six of the principal inhabitants of
St. Luke's, Millwall, waited upon the committee to
ask for a grant. The population was about 6,000,
almost entirely poor. There were now 50 or 60
cases of cholera. The disease had slightly abated,
but the distress was very great, private charity being
nearly exhausted, and the £25 given to the clergy
by the Bishop of London's Fund was very inade-
quate for the exceedingly pressing wants of the poor
families suffering from the epidemic and its atten-
dant diseases. The committee granted £5O, as a
beginning, and five gallons of port wine.
A local committee of nine gentlemen formed in
Mile-end Old-town had also an interview with the
committee. They are raising a fund for assisting
persons and the families of persons suffering from
cholera, convalescent patients, and especially the
widows and orphans of persons who had died from
the effects of the disease. There are 12,000 houses
in the " hamlet," and the population is about 84,000.
The deaths from cholera from the outbreak were
56 in the week ending the 21st July ; 136 in the
next week ; 155 in the third ; and they decreased
to 65 in that ending Saturday last—making 412
deaths in all from cholera.alone. Of these 84 were
the deaths of husbands, who had left 84 widows
and upwards of 400 children. Throughout the
whole hamlet 1,912 cases of cholera and choleraic
diarrhoea had been treated during the week ending
Saturday last, or 273 on an average daily, excluding
those in the Union. The committee granted £l5O
and ten gallons of port wine. They also granted
£5O and five gallons of port wine to the Stepney
Relief Society.
An application was made by Mr. Walter C.
Cocks, honorary secretary to the House of Charity
in Greek-street, Soho, for a grant. He stated that
20 children, who had been cholera patients at the
London Hospital, were now residing there, and
would be kept until sufficiently strong to be re-
moved, when other children would be admitted.
The charity, he stated, had been put to great ex-
pense in providing bedding, food, and clothes for
these children, especially in clothes, as the children
were sent from the hospital wrapped in blankets,
consequently clothes had to be provided for them.
£25 was granted by the committee for clothing.
From a communication addressed to the committee
by the Rev. Sherrar4 Beaumond Burnaby, rector
of Wapping, it appeats that the total number of
cases (not including those in a temporary hospital
there) treated for cholera and diarrhoea in Wapping
and that portion of St. George-in-the-East which
was attached to his benefice, have been 1,091, and
the deaths 23, from July 21 to Friday last. That
amount of illness had caused great distress. In
addition to those numbers 93 cases had been ad-
mitted into a cholera hospital in the parish, from
July 28 to Friday last; the deaths there had been
32, and 33 patients had been discharged as cured.
From 40 to 50 out-patients had been treated daily
since July 28.

Out of about 1,200 men employed at the Great
Eastern Railway works at Stratford New Town
there had been an average of 80 cases of cholera
and diarrhcea, 13 of which had terminated fatally,
and very many of, the wives and children had
perished besides, leaving in many cases large families
in the deepest poverty and misery. In one case a
father, mother, and one child were taken away, and
eight other children left helpless and dependent.
In St. George's-in-the-East the total mortality for
the five weeks ending 6n Saturday last had been
149, as compared with 39 in the corresponding five
weeks of last year, and as compared with 95 in five
weeks of September and October, 1854, the last
visitation of cholera. In the parish of St. Mary,
St. George's-in-the-East, 31 cases of cholera and
diarrhoea ended fatally during last week, and there
were many new cases of both this week, chiefly
arising, it is believed, from want of good food.
There have been some distressing cases of bereave-
ment among the poor German and Dutch in the
Bow-road. From Bethnal-green an influential de-
putation, headed by Mr. Bevan, attended before
the committee and asked for a grant towards a fund
they are raising for the express purpose of relieving
the widows and orphans of persons who had died
of cholera. The whole population of Bethnal-
green is estimated at 108,000. The disease, they
thought, was abating, but many were suffering
from the consequent bereavement. A poor woman
called upon one of the deputation that morning
to ask for assistance. Her husband and one child
had died, and she was left with five children.
The committee made a grant of £2OO to the
deputation. The Rev. William Rogers, rector of
Bishopsgate and a member of the committee, took
occasion to speak in the highest terms, on his own
personal knowledge, of the efficient manner in
which a local committee of comparatively humble
men in the district of St. Matthias, Bethnal-green,
with the assistance of the curate, are working to-
gether to relieve the distress in that very poor
quarter consequent upon the epidemic. It was in
striking contrast, he said, with the very unchristian
spirit which existed in some other paris of Bethnal-
green in this emergency.

A long conversation arose on an application made
by Mr. Palmer, a director of the Bank of England,
for a grant towards the cost of, establishing a tem-
porary cholera hospital in Commercial-street, White-
chapel, by adapting a large unoccupied warehouse
there to that purpose. The building is said to be
large enough to accommodate 200 patients, and
£l,OOO has been already subscribed or guaranteed
towards carrying out the enterprise by private muni-
ficence. Mr. Palmer dwelt on the vast importance
of taking the cholera sick from the healthy in. poor
and crowded districts, and removing them to a
temporary hospital, properly conducted, both as
affording means and chances of recovery and with
the view of gradually stamping out the disease itself.
The committee were a good deal divided on the sub-
ject, both as to the necessity for such an institution,
seeing that the epidemic was said to be abating, and
on other grounds. Sir M. Wells contended that in
the event of a large outbreak of cholera the London
Hospital would be wholly unable to cope with it,
and that it was the duty of the committee, in the
common interest, to prepare for any emergency
that might arise, cholera being now present, and
they knowing not what turn the disease might take
in the next week or ten days. In the result Mr.
Palmer was informed in effect that in the event of
his consplying with the rule they had laid down for
their governance in distributing the fund through
local committees, by forming such a committee for

the management of the proposed hospital, they
would be prepared to reconsider the matter with the

view to a irant in aid.

The following is the official return of deaths from
cholera and diarrhoea for Aug. 13 and 14 :
Cholera. Diarrhoea.

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

-123

Total ~, ,„139

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HER MAJEST Y.

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OSBORNE, Tuesday.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise and
Princess Beatrice, embarked yesterday afternoon
on board the Royal yacht Alberta, Captain his
Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen, and steamed
through Spithead, passing close by the forts in course
of erection there.

In attendance were Lady Waterpark, the llon.
Flora Macdonald, and Col. Du Platt.

The Duke of Marlborough had the honour of
dining with her Majesty and the royal family in the
evening.

The Queen drove out this morning with Princess
Louise.

Prince Leopold drove out also.

Lord Stanley had an audience of the Queen to-
day, after which he presented to her Majesty the
Rev. John Fladd, lately detained in Abyssinia. gr.
Fladd, whose family remains in that country, is
about to return there, under instructions to effect,
if possible, the release of the remaining prisoners.

The Duke and Duchess of Newcastle left town
on Monday evening for Mrs. Hope's seat, Blayney Castle,
Castleblavney, Ireland, where the duke and duchess intend
to remain a fortnight, and then go to Clumber for tho
autumn.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Kildare and
family are expected to leave Carlton House-terrace, on
Monday next, for Kilkee Castle, their seat in Ireland.

Viscountess Jocelyn, accompanied by Viscount
Jocelyn and the Hon. Miss Jocelyn, is expected to return
home in a few days from a tour 'hi the south'of France.

The Count and Countess de Jaucourt have ar-
rived at Claridge's Hotel, from Paris.

The Countess de 1•T ()allies, accompanied by Mr•
Vicars, has arrived at Claridge's Hotel, from Ingatestonet
Essex.

The Lord Chancellor left town ou Saturday to.
join Lady Chelmsford and the Hon. Miss Thesiger at
Folkestone.

Lord and Lady Walter Scott have joined the
family circle staying with the Duke and Duchess of
Buccleuch at Drumlanrig Castle, Dumfriesshire.
The Earl and Countess of Carnarvon and family,
accompanied by the Countess of Chesterfield, passed
through town yesterday on their way to Buxton, Derby--
shire, from Highclere Castle, near Newbury.
Lord Henry Percy, M.P., left town yesterday
for a tour in France and Spain, and will be absent abroad
for several months.

We understand that a marriage is arranged and
will shortly take place between Mr. Henry Arthur Her-
bert, of Muchross, Killarney, and M.P. for Kerry, and the
Hon. Emily Keane, only child of Lord and Lady Keane.
MARRIAGE IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY.
morning, Lady Rose Sophia Mary Fane, only sister of the
Earl of Westmoreland, 0,13., was married in Westminster
Abbey to Mr. Henry Weigall, the eminent portrait
painter. The Abbey was thronged, and outside it there
was a vast amount of bustle and excitement as the nume-
rous carriages poured into Dean's-yard. The bride, ac-
companied by her noble brother, left her mother's house,
29, Portman-square, about half-past eleven, and entered
the Abbey, attended by the following young bridesmaids,
dressed in the Earl of Westmoreland's turf colours—white
and green :—Lady Grace Fane, Miss Thomson (daughter
of the Archbishop of York), Miss Alice Weigall, glee
Lowther, Miss Ada Ibbetson, and Miss Alice Bagot.
Fred. Cockerell wad the bridegroom's best man. The cere-
mony was a musical one, a chorale being sung, the peals'
chanted, &c., by the full Abbey choir. His Grace the
Archbishop of York was the principal celebrant. After
the ceremony a grand wedding breakfast was given by the
Dowager Countess of Westmoreland, at her town residence,
29, Portman-square, and at 2.30 Mr. and Lady Rose
Weigall were to leave for Apethorpe Hall, Lord West-
moreland's seat in Northamptonshire. Among the valu-
able presents received by the bride are some from her
Majesty the Queen of Prussia, her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Cambridge, the Duchess of Cleveland, the
Countess of Jersey, &c.