The Sun.
London, England, 1857-03-03 00:00:00

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Naval and
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rived at Chathan.
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The colours of
Guards, the Ist bt
and the Ist battalion of the Scats Fusilier Guards,
borne by those regiments during the late war in
the Crimea, were on Friday deposited in the mill.=
Major-General
three regiments
tatty chapel adjoining the Wellington barracks in
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the Guards who served during the late war were
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present at the ceremony. After placing' the
colours in the building, the three bands of the
Gat tads played the National Anthem.
Lieutenant-Colonel Holloway of the Royal Ma-
rines, has been appointed aid-de-camp to the Queen
in the room of Col. •nel Graham, promoted. -
The fo'lowing is an extract from a letter from
Captain Denham, of her Majesty's ship Herald re-
porting an accident to a boat's crew of that ship,
which hasj est been received at the Admiralty
"It is my painful duty to state the accidental
upsetting and sinking in deep water of one of our
cutters on the 20th of October, 1856, whiie return-
ing fro& the island of Wakaya, adjacent to Ovolau,
in the Fejees, while under a press of sale, with an
overload of cocoa-nuts, through which the officers
in charge, Mr. A. R. Nugent, midihipmtn, aged 20,
and five seamen, heat their lives, while so free from
turbulence was the channel between the island
and ship that two of the crew swam back to. the
shore, a distance of two miles in the wind's eye, and
another gained the ship with the sad intelligence.
" All the united efforts of the small craft of Ovo-
lan, and- the ship's boats failed •in even recovering
the bodies of our lamented shipmates.

- " The names of the seamen drowned were—Geo.
Findley, A. B. , Alex.. M 'ln tyre, A. 8., Daniel
Webster, A. 8., Benjamin Minims, ordinary, and
Fred. M'Carriek, ordinary."
The following appointments have been made at
the Admiralty :
Lieut. A: R..owen, to the Retribationi John
D. Irvine, -mate to the Emperor; C. Albert, mas-
ter to the Juno; the Hon. J. C. Ellis, midshipman
to the Calcutta, for disposal.
Commander Walter Reid and Commander F.
H. Stevens have been appointed agents for mails on
board contract steam vessels.

Commander Wm. Howat has been promoted to
the rank of captain on reserved half-pay list.
The extensions and improvement of the dockyard
at Pembroke are this year to be carried out to the
extent of 120,0001. The widening of the entrance
dock is to cost 8,0001., and the lengthening and
widening of the dock which has been so long in
hand is to cost 20,0001. this year. The two new
slips and the boat basin extending along the wharf
are also to be vigorously carried on, and these, with
provision for scouring away the mud between the
Cair Spit and the dockyard back in front of the
dockyard, will cost 30,0007. It is proposed to im-
Prove the navigation in front of the yard, and to
thepen and widen very materially the channel.
This will be done by removing large quantities of
mud which have been for years accumulating. The
roof over slip No. 12 is to be extended k e ward,
and altogether the sum. appropriated to this will be
10,000/. The erection of larger sawmills, engine-
house, workshops, a new foundry, and plumbers'.
shops, is to cost upwards of 20,0001. The sawmills
are advancing towards crmpletion, and the sheds
over Nos. 1 and 2 ara being extended seaward.
The foundry is to be erected on the site of he old
iron store. The new slip ara beiug constructed in
the uest manner. The ed is of limestone and the

copings of grancte, and the whole is being laid meat
Pati-factorily. The wo►k of each contr tctor is per-

formed under the superintendence of an inspector,
who seer that it is done in a proper manner.

LONDON SAUSAGES.

(From ac Lancet of tebruary SS.)

London sausages—including the subdivisions of
saveloys, back-puddings, and p9tonies—have al-
ways been regard.-d as somewhat dubious articles
of food, being neither fish, flesh, fowl, nor good
red-herring. The process of their manufacture has
been described as equivalent to a practical illus-
tration of the ada•ze " Give a dog a bad name,
and hang him." gorses, dogs, an cats are re-
puted to startle with prophetic dread at the sound
of a sausage-machine ; and writers on instinct can
adduce no parallel incident to that recorded by the
disconsolate sportsman, who, whilst regretfully
whistling the summons of his lost Ponto, observed
'some sausages in a neighbouring window simulta-
treously wagging their tails. We have lately learnt
that these insinuations present the proceedings of
London sausage-makers in a rather favourable
l'ght. It appears that they consider tender young
horseflesh, the meat of a defunct poodle, or the
mortal r6rnains of a cat that has departed heri,ninth
life, as -

" Too good
_brim= nature's ear food."
It is their custom, as reported by one of themselves,
to convert into sausages meat entirely unfit for hu-
man consumption ; whether rendered putrid by
keeping, or unwholesome by the diseased condition
of the animal which supplied it.
Our information concerning the poisonous influ-
ence of diseased or tainted meat has hitherto been
principally derived from continental sources. This
is not due to any supererninent honesty on the part
of our British dealers, but to the absence of any
effectual system of Medicp,l Police in this country,
until the appointment last year of the Medical Offi-
cers of Health. One of these gentlemen, Dr. Aldis,
of St. George's, Hanover-square, district—recently
applied to the magistrate for an order to burn or
bury a quantity of offensive and putrid meat
(amounting to a hundredweight and a half) lying
on the premises of a sausage-maker in Gros-
venor-row, Pimlico, which was being con-
verted into sausages. Dr. Aldis and one of his in-
spectors described the filthy state of the meat. The
defendant then observed, "It would be quite useless
for him to think of carrying on business if proceed-
ings like the present were to be taken against him,
for there was not a sausage-maker's in London but
where the same description of meat was used." As
regards th's man personally, we may remark that
it is possible society would recover the shock, even
if lie were to shut up shop.
Now, the experiments of Gaspard and Magendie
have proved that putrid animal matter introduced
into the system of healthy animals induced a dis-
ease closely resembling the typhoid fever of man ;
and Dr. Christison records a c ice where the lives
of a whole family were jeopardised, and one of its
members died, from partaking of broth made from
meat like that above described. Amongst our
London poor, who consume the abominable gar-
bage of which, according to the above st+tem:nt,
cheap sausages are composed, it is not unusual to
meet wi h cases of fever, the cause of which is in-
volved in mystery ; and it is impossible to believe
that putrid meat, however spiced, may be eaten
with imliunity, especially by a half-starved human
being, living iu a vitia‘ed atmosphere, and often
with a gin-sodden constitution.
More than this, there occasionally occur amongst
our poor, cases of disease of a most anomalous kind,
and presenting many of those indefinite symptoms
which accompany the disease recognised in Ger-
many as due to unwholesome sausages, and distin-
guished as a special kind of poison. In Wirtem-
burg, there occurred, in twenty years, 155 cases,
distinctly traced to the "sausage poison ;" and of
these 84 died. In districts where the sausages are
eaten fresh, the disease is correspondingly rare.
The symptoms are slow in progress and most inde-
finite : abdominal pains ; tormina ; oppressed re-
spiration ; irregular action of the heart ; constipa-
tion, sometimes alternating with diarrhoea ; dimi-
nution of the secretions and of nervous energy
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in no way proved that
the sausage poison of Germany is confined to that
country. On the other hand
we have it stated by
a manufacturer, that the'
putrefaction most likely
to generate a poisonous condition is the normal
state of the sausages supplied for
poor of London. The subject is one deserving ear-
nest attention, especially as we are warned that the
terrible murrain which in 1745 destroyed f_30,000
cattle in one year is now approaching our shores.
It is evident that the conscientious folks _o h
cut
up decomposed flesh into sausages would be little
likely to feel any qualms of conscience about the
t to the same purpose.
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