The Sun.
London, England, 1857-06-04 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL.

INEW YORK, MAY 22.
Money was without change, and rather easier.
Stocks were dull, and in short supply. Excbang°
on London, DOI to Cotton was steacli•
Breadstuffs advanced in value. Freights Ow
altered.

The Sydenham has arrived from Port Philip IV"
31,462 ounces of gold, valued at 125,8001. lb°
193,0001. announced yesterday by the Morning Star 146
reached London. A portion will be purchased for th°
Eanl: of France, and the remainder is expected to'he
taken to the Bank of England.
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PROPOSAL FOR A NEW CATTLE AND SHEEP
AT THE HARROW RAILWAY STATION.—We believe OA'
if the owner of any site in the immediate vicinity of the,
Harrow Railway Station, were to establish a cattle anc;
sheep market, the undertaking would succeed beryl
his most sanguine expectations. The want of it, and
the certainty of its success, we hear of repeatedly. It he'
been suggested that Tuesday would be the best day, ill
following the Metropolitan and preceding the Southall
markets. A great deal of cattle are unloaded Alcoa/
at the Harrow Station, and we bear that a large number
of the leading salesmen would give the scheme their beet
sur pert.—Harrow Gazette.
The ships Orwell and Palmerston have left Deptford
tl receive the 77th Regiment on board for conveysee°
to Sydney, New South Wales. The following she
have been chartered by the East India Company for the,
conveyance of troops to India, viz. :—For Calcutta
Encephalitis, 838 tons, July 1 ; Ellenborough, 853 totO,'
July 8 ; Cressy, 999 tons, July 11 ; Octavia, 1,05 w
tons, July 25. For Kurrachee Bombay, 1,280 toe::
July 21 ; All-meta, 852 tons, July 21. The ships PIP'
maise and Beechworth are to take the 95th Foot tree'
Dublin to Cape of Good Hope, the 89th Regiment Irecil
Cape of Good Hope to ii.uckland, New Zealand, an"
return to Portsmouth witTi the 58th Regiment.
ORIGIN OF THE BONNET.—The first bonnet worn in
En; land was brought from Italy in the reign of Quell:,
Elizabeth, and its form was a cempromise between
present round Italian peasant bat and the French boo"'
The materials employed in constructing these bead ores'
menta were crimson satin, elaborately embroidered,
cloth of gold and similar rich materials. The Leghorn
Rat, with perpendicular crown and a wide brim standiq
out far around the face, was the first legitimate bonne
It
worn, and this appeared long after Elizabeth's time.
was trimmed with artificial flowers and immense rows °a
ribbon. Our present neat and exquisitely delicate an e
tasteful head covering is but a modification of this Mgr,
affair, which not until very many years back, was s"
universally worn and admired.
ORIENTAL WATER WORKS —lt is said an influential
a
body of East India merchants and others have fore3e
themselves into a company under the above title, for tbd;
purpose of supplying the principal towns in the Ens
with pure water. Calcutta, with its 400,000 inhabitael
is the first city upon which it is proposed to operate, s°.
it is estimated by Mr. Fulton, the engineer, that a eeP/,
tal only of, 300,0001. wilt be necessary to provide that eitJ
with an adequate supply, and taking the amount 00
receipts, as calculated upon by Mr. Timing, the leta
Government engineer of India, it would give a divide°,
of 19 per cent. upon the proposed capital. Wheveve;
cholera appears to any extent in India, Calcutta is end,
to be heavily visited, which is, to a great extent, r
mittad to be owing to the impure and filthy watt;supply, and nothing can show more clearly the
iWPO j,
ante, in a sanitary point of view, of a pure and abeede
ant supply of water, than one fact which was 100
known a few years ago with respect to the prevalee'
of cholera in 1849 on the south side of the Thaphet,S;
There was a large and unhealthy ""
district into which th
pipes of the Southwark, and Vauxhall, and Lambeth
Water Companies were laid side by side. The Solln";
wark and Vauxhall Company derived at that time the,
supply from the Thames, at Battersea, below the Ple
lagh sewer. The Lambeth company took their suPPLI
from a purer source, namely, the Thames, above li°1",
ston. When the ravages of the cholera, in that ti,ng,
healthy district, came to be investigated by the Re /%,
trar-General, it was ascertained that, with very feWijed
eeptions, the cholera raged only in those houses 0313_,
by the then impure water of the Southwark and VW`
hall Company, thus clearly demonstrating that the
t of
purity of water greatly assists in the dissemivatoo:a
tbat most fearful of all diseases, cholera. With rega_„,,
to the prejudices of the natives, which are by sonoeo`_T'
~
posed to exist, it may be mentioned that the Cornisir.,
sioners for the Improvement of the Town of CalcutttiL.;
a report, dated 4th September, 1832, state that r„0
and habit they believe would soon have its due effect
regards the use of good and
the Elude° OP°
hours of the day or night, even with P the
tioo, or at all events with so large a proportion 01.
pure water, accessible at
tniaotni.v,e, inhabitants generally as to warrant its introdu'