The Sun.
London, England, 1861-12-18 00:00:00

THE LATE PRINCE CONSORT.

(From a Supplement to the Gazette of yesterday.)
GENERAL ORDER.
Horse Guards, S.W., Dec. 18.
Orders for the Mourning for the Army, for his late Royal
Highness the Prince Consort.
The General Commanding-in-Chief has received her
Majesty's commands to direct, on the present melancholy
occasion of the death of his Royal Highness the Prince
Consort that Officers of the Army be required to wear
when in uniform, black crape, over the ornamental part of
the cap or hat, over the sword-knot, and on the left arm ;
with black gloves, and a black crape scarf over the sash.
The drums are to be covered with black, and black crape
is to be hung from the head of the colour-staff of the in
fantry, and from the standard-staff of cavalry.
When officers appear at Court in their uniforms they are
to wear black crape over the ornamental part of the cap or
hat, over the sword-knot, and on the left arm—with black
gloves, and a black crape over the sash.
By command of his Royal Highness the Duke of
Cambridge, Gen. Commanding-in-Chief.
JAMES YORKE SCARLET; Adjutant-General.

ADMIRALTY, DEC. 18.

Orders for the Mourning for Officers of the Royal Navy
and Royal Marines, for his late Royal Highness the
Prince Consort.

The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have received
her Majesty's command to direct, on the present melancholy
occasion of the death of his Royal Highness the Prince
Consort, that the officers of the Royal Navy and Royal
Marines be required to wear, when in uniform, black crape
over the ornamental part of the cap or hat, over the sword-
knot, and on the left arm, with black gloves ; and the offi-
cers of Royal Marines, in addition, a black crape scarf over
the sash.

The drums of the Royal Marines are to be covered with
black, and black crape is to be hung at the head of the
Divisional Colour-Staff.

When Officers of the Royal Navy and Royal Marines
appear at Court, in their uniforms, they are to wear black
crape over the ornamental part of the cap or hat,
over the sword-knot, and on the left arm, with black
gloves, and officers of Royal Marines, in addition, a black
crape scarf over the sash.
By command of their Lordships,

G. PAGET.

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY).

(Before Mr. Justice Keating.)
CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER.
John Madeley, a middle-aged man, was indicted for the
manslaughter of William Sylvester.

On the evening when the deceased received the injury
which resulted in his death, the prisoner, Sylvester, and
several other persons were in the parlour of a public-houss
when some " chaffing" arose, which eventually led to a
quarrel, when the prisoner struck deceased several times•
As they were leaving the house deceased attempted to strike
the prisoner, and the result of that was a violent scuffle and
both men closed, and in a short time after they both fell to
the ground, the prisoner falling on the deceased. When he
was raised from the ground Sylvester said his leg was
broken, and he was conveyed to the hospital, where it was
discovered he had received a severe compound fracture cf the
thigh, from the effects of which he died.
The prisoner had since the fatal occasion shown the
greatest contrition for the unfortunate accident.
The jury returned a verdict of guilty.

The learned Judge said there were certain circumstances
in this case which greatly mitigated it, and, having com-
mented on the lamentable effects of drinking to excess,
sentenced the prisoner to three months' imprisonment with
hard labour.

NEW COURT.
(Before the Recorder.)
STEALING A DIAMOND NECKLET.

Thomas Thompson was indicted for stealing a diamond
necklet, value £6B 108., the property of George Atten-
borough.
From the evidence of Lewns, Mr. Attenborough's assts.
tent, it appeared that early in November the prisoner,
accompanied by another man, entered Mr. Attenborough's
shop in the Strand, and asked to look at some diamond
necklets, as ho wished to make a present of such an
ornament to his daughter. He was shown several
valuable specimens of jewellery, when he selected the dia-
mond necklet. While he was looking at the necklet he
asked to be shown a silver teakettle which was in the oppo-
site window, The porter brought the article to the counter,
and then the prisoner wished t, know exactly how much it
would hold. Water was sent for to fill the kettle with, and
this article also being approved of, the prisoner said—fie
would call and pay for both in the course of the day, and then
left the shop. After he had gone it was discovered the neck-
let had been abstracted from the case, and then the shopman
went in pursuit of the two men. He lost sight of them for
a few minutes, but he saw the prisoner, who, when he per-
ceived he was being followed, ran away, and entered a
tobacconist's shop in Hungerford-market, ani was in the
act of lighting a cigar when Mr. Attenborongh entered and
charged him with the robbery, which he denied. Notwith-
standing this assertion the shopman called a constable and
gave him into custody. The necklet was not recovered.
Tho Jury found the prisoner guilty.
The Recorder said he could not see the slightest grounds
for blaming that gentleman. Ho thought he had acted
with extreme promptitude in capturing the prisoner. He
sentenced Thompson to three years' penal servitude.

ROBBING CHILDREN.

David Cochrane was indicted for stealing certain moneys,
the property of Richard Garner.
The prisoner, it appeared, was in the habit of meeting
little children and inquiring whether they had any money
about them. On being informed -that they had he told
them there were thieves on London-bridge, and that he had
better wrap their money up in paper for them. When he
obtained the money from the children he changed the silver
for copper coin. There were two indictments against the
prisoner, in one of which he changed three half-crowns for
throe penny pieces.

The jury found him guilty, and the Recorder sentenced
him to 12 months' imprisonment with hard labour.

SP OBTING INTELLIGE.N CB.

MANCHESTER STEEPLECHASE MEETING.

WEDNESDAY
A Handicap Hurdle Race of
About t,
Age st lb
Heads or Tails a 11 0
Tumbler a 10 8
Vulture 6 10 6
Diadem 6 10 4
Nosegay
Yorkshire Mi s 6 10 0
The Miller a 10 0
Eheu
Peggy Taft a 9 11
Mary Ann a 9 10
Pantomime
Marmion .. a 9 9
The Trial Handicap of 3 Boys each, with 20 added, for all

JANUARY 1.
5 sous. each, with 25 added.
ro miles.

Age st lb
British Workman.. a 9 7
Corona
Irish Emigrant a 9 5
Emily Harris
Physician
North Lancashire 5 9 5
Lord Adair 5 9 0
First Flight .. a 9 0
Gaylad
Solferino
Cambria 5 9 0
Polly

ages. About one mile, on the flat.
Age st lb
Vulture 6 8 9
Nosegay
Ellen
Edmund Kean 5 7 10
Rhcebus 4 7 9
Old Post. 5 7 9
Fast Runner .. 4 7 6
Yorkshire Miss.... 6 7 6
Harriett 4 7 0
Ladybird
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added. About flu
Age st lb
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Wee Nell (h b).... a n 0
Heads or Tails .... a 11 0
Tumbler a 10 8
Dunhallow, late
Gorsehill
Pine Apple
uncle Ned, late.
Knt. of the Shire a 10 3
Piff Paff a 10 3
Corkscrew a 10 3
Leamington, late.
Farmerfrom Kerry- 5 10 0
Friar of Apshall ,a 10 0
Linkbey a 9 12
Sunbeam a a 9 10
Mary Ann a 910
British Workman d 6 9 8
Marmion
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Deserter .. 4 6 12
Rara Avis 6 610
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Stableford (h b), by
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Folly (h b) 6lB 9

DEATH OF DR. SOUTHWOOD SMITH.

It is our painful duty to record the death of the
eminent physician and father of sanitary reform,
Dr. Southwood Smith, who died at Florence on the
10th inst., after six days' illness, from bronchitis
Southwood Smith was born at Martock, in Somer-
setshire, on the 21st December, 1788, and was
therefore at his decease within eleven days of com-
pleting his 73d year, though from the length of
time his name has been before the world, he was
generally thought much older. Originally educated
for the Christian ministry, the name of Southwood
Smith was early brought into repute as the author
of " Illustrations of the Divine Government," which
passed through several editions. The duties of the
pastoral office having brought him much in contact
with the poor, his penetrating and benevolent mind
readily perceived how greatly physical suffering
contributes to moral degradation, and he entered
upon the study of medicine at Edinburgh, with a
view to administer healing to the body whilst con-
veying spiritual consolation and admonition to the
soul. Accordingly, for some time after receiving
his diploma, Dr. Southwood Smith united the sofa-
' ces of pastor and physician at Yeovil. Employed
in this manner, the miserable condition of the
dwellings of the poor became firmly associated in
his mind with the undue prevalence of preventible
disease, especially of fever.
Dr. Southwood Smith's next publication was a
work on " The Philosophy of Health," which
reached a tenth edition.

It has fallen to the lot of few to accomplish such
extensive services for the public benefit as have
been subsequently rendered by Dr. Southwood
Smith. He was the chief originator of the science
of Preventive Medicine as systematically applied in
this country, and the clearness and force of his writ-
ings made him very successful in popularising the
leading principles of national health.
Appointed physician to the London Fever Hos-
pital and the Eastern Dispensary in 1824, Dr. Smith
spent several years in the wards of the one and
visiting patients of the other in their squalid abodes;
at the same time embodying the results of his ob-
servations in a work described by the edical
Chirurgical _Review as " the best work on fever that
ever flowed from the pen of physician in any age
or country." He there proved that epidemic fever
is the great pauperiser of the land, and that it is
preventible : and it has been truly said, that " the
man whose zeal and energy brought these facts to
light deserves to be ranked in the number of his
country's benefactors."

Called, during a violent typhus epidemic in 1837,
to the assistance of the Poor-law Commissioners, he
presented two valuable reports on the causes of
sickness among the poor, which are capable of pre-
vention. In 1839 he was chiefly instrumental in
forming the " Health of Towns Association," ma-
terially aided a committee of the House of Commons
on the same subject in 1840, and served during the
same year on the Children's Employment Commis-
sion.

In 1812 he took an active part in founding the
" Metropolitan Association for Improving the
Dwellings of the Industrious Classes." From the
first, indeed, he had laboured to impress on the
public mind the now admitted truth, that a cer-
tain amount of physical comfort is necessary
to morality and religion : " that," in his own
words, " moral degradation is indissolubly united
with physical squalor—moral impurity with
bodily impurity—and that it is only when the
house ceases to be a sty, and is rendered capable of
becoming a home, that it can receive with any
hope of benefit the schoolmaster and the minister of
religion." In 1844 he gave most impressive evidence
before a commission for inquiring into the health of
towns, and in 1347 was appointed on the Metropo-
litan Sanitary Commission. In 1848 the " Public
Health" and " Nuisances" Acts were passed, when
Dr. Smith was appointed medical member of the
General Board of Health,but for nearly 12 months
his services were rendered gratuitously. In 1850,
however, he was appointed permanently to the
board, and altogether relinquished professional
practice.

Of his labours as a member of the Board of
Health, his reports on cholera, his notifications re-
lative to that pestilence, and especially his intro-
duction of the system of house-to-house visitation,
bear witness. -But he at the same time established
additional and irresistible claims topublic gratitude
by the authorship of the " two admirable Reports
in Quarantine, which have obtained a world-wide
celebi ity."

"If (said Dean Peacock) lir. Southwood Smith
had no other claims on the lasting gratitude of the
nation, I would refer to his Reports on Quarantine
as quite sufficient to establish them. They have
contributed more than any other publications on
this subject to dissipate the gross and mischievous
delusions upon which these regulations are founded
and which are known to be so injurious to the free
commercial intercourse and prosperity of nations."
For some considerable time prior to his decease
Dr. Southwood Smith had been actively engaged in
preparing an entirely new and complete edition of
" The Philosophy of Health." Another edition of
"The Divine Government" was also in preparation,
and in all probability both these works will shortly
be republished.

HEALTH OF LONDON .DCTRING THE WEEK.

(From the .Regzstrar-General's Weekly Return.)

The mortality of London declined considerably in
the first week of December, and it showed a further
but not an important reduction in the week that
ended last Saturday. The number of deaths re-
corded in the present return is 1,283. If the rate
of mortality had been equal to that which is ob-
tained by calculation from the return of correspond-
ing weeks in ten previous years (1851-G0), the
deaths instead of the number just stated, would
have been 1,384.

In the last three weeks the deaths from scarla-
tina were 81, 70, and 78, having been less numerous
than they were in the greater part of November,
when they averaged more than a hundred weekly.
Diphtheria was fatal in 15 eases last week. Three
deaths from scarlatina occurred in each of the fol-
lowing sub-districts ;—Somers-town, Islington
west, Hackney, St. Andrew Eastern ; there were
5 in Lambeth Church (first and second sub-districts),
and 4 in Norwood.

Among diseases of the zymotic class scarlatina
was the most fatal ; typhus, which numbered 59
deaths, was fatal in the next degree. Under this
latter head are classed 39 cases returned as typhus
or typhoid fever, 10 cases of " fever," 4 of gastric
fever, 3 of low fever, 2 of continued and 1 of infan-
tile fever. Whooping-cough was recorded in 55
cases, measles in 25, small pox in 4.

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Goodman's-fields, at the greatag
boy, aged 7 years, in Rotherhithe,
burns from sinking into a pot of molten lead
fire therefrom:' ,o "mortal
by his clothes taking Erefrom." lie lived
tawllold,Baoyos after the accident.
s of 924 boys and 876
Last week the birth
the 10 correspondingennumbewwre registered in London. In
the average
At the Royal Observatory, girls, in
waseelk,7Bo4o.f the years 1851-60
the barometer
Thdeahiyeg,hbatnaer_fometricalr
Greenwich, the mean
temperadturereseo
readingsn the
fell week
to 20 was
28i 02. 90.
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was
4TBh.e4
dmeandeg.,
which is 7.9 deg. above the average of the same
week in 43 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher.)
The mean daily temperature was above the average
during the whole of the week, and on Thursday and
Friday this excess was 10 deg. and 11 deg. T
highest day temperature was 54 deg., on Monday.
The lowest night temperature was 39'5 deg., on
Saturday. The range of the thermometer in the
week was therefore 14.5 deg. The mea
we n n
the
daily
range was 8 7 deg. The difference be
mean dew-point temperature and air temperature
was 3.6 deg. The mean degree of humidity of the
air was 89, complete saturation being represented
by 100. The wind blew from the south-west. The
amount of rain was 0.39 in., of which 0.25 in. fell
on Sunday.

A woman named Therlin, employed in the large
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of a steam-engine, which was in motion, and her clothes
being caught, she, was drawn in' and crushed to death.
Another woman, named Lebrun, employed on the premises,
seeing the accident, rushed forward to endeavour to saveher
companion, and would also have shared her fate but for the
exertions of the engine-man, who stopped the machine and
got her out, but with a broken 'wrist and some bruises.