The Sun.
London, England, 1857-05-29 00:00:00

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.)

LONDON, May 29. —Wind this day at noon, S.E,; light
breeze, and cloudy at times.
COWES, May 27.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Esmeralda,
from Africa. and sailed for Hamburg.
SOUTHAMPTON, May 27.—Wind S.E.—Sailed—Argo
(s.), for New York.
PORTSMOUTH, May 28. —Wi d E. S.E. —A rr i ved—Wel.
lesley, from London, for Mauritius and Calcutta;
Vesuvius, Devonport.
PLYMOUTH, May 28.----Wind E N.E.—Arrived—Witch
of the Wave, from Buenos Ayres. Sailed—Martin Luther,
for Quebec.

CLYDE, May 37.—Arrive. —Ocean Child, from Bono%
Ayres.

(PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
LIVERPOOL, Friday Morning.

Wind E.
Arrived—Doncaster, from Alexandria ; Nymph, Cadiz ;
Amoor, Emden ; Carl, Dantsic.
Sailed—Dorothea, for St. Petersburg ; St. John and
Rachel, New York ; Zwanta Hendrika, Narva ; Theodore
and Hermanna, Konigsberg; Vixen, Dordt.

DUBLIN, May 28.

Wind S.
Arrived—Courier, from Griefswald ; Lubenon, Memel ;
Petrel, Amsterdam.

(BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISLI TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Friday, 0.51 a.m.
Wind E. ; tide four hour's ebb ; cloudy and fresh.
Arrived, May 28. —Helen Lindsay, from Hamburg ;
Sea Gull, and Elizabeth, Cronstadt.
Arrived, May I:U.—Harmonic), Hardwicke, Corymbns,
Meta, Paragon, Ariel, Cmsar, Her Majesty, and Endurp.—
all from Cronstadt; Vrow Gluf, Honummerseil; William,
Harblurg ; Quarryman, Stettin; Richard and Francis,
Dunkirk ; Courier, Yestadt ; Ariel, Berbice ; Blondine,
Hookseil.
Sailed.—Aotos, for Sydney.

DEAL, Friday, 9.31 a.m.

Wind N.E., moderate
Passed, 27th.—Brunswick, from London, for Bideford.
Passed, 28th.— Sea Bird, from London, for Sheri)ourne ;
Derwent, from London, for Geelong ; Alma, from London,
for Adelaide; Fingal, from London, for Hobart Town;
Mecklenburg, from Shields, for Hong-Kong ; Daniel
Wieler, from Shields, for Algiers.

MURDEROUS ASSAULT —Yesterday James Burke, an
Irishman, was fully committed for trial, from Marl-
borough-street police-court, for murderously assaulting
the gaoler of the court, and also for threatening the life of
police-constable Rogers.
lONIAN BANK.—Yesterday the 16th annual meeting
of the proprietors of the lonian Bank was held at the
bank, in Great Winchester-street—Mr. Oliver Farrer
(chairman of the izioard of directors) in the chair.. The
usual formalities having been gone through, the report
was read. It stated that the balance to credit of profit
and loss, on the let of January, 1856, was 7,3131. 18s.
10d. ; the net profits of the year, after deduction of
charges, and an allowance for bad debts, are 9.6771.
104. 6d. ; together, 10,9911. 9s. 4d. ; from which is to
be deducted the amount,of two half-yearly dividends, at
the rate of 6 per cent. per annum, 7,5001. ; leaving to
the credit of profit and loss, on the tat January, 1857,
9,4911. 94. 4d. The report was adopted.
QUEEN'S THEATRE ROYAL, DUBLIN.—A. crowded
audience was richly entertained yesterday evening by
the graceful and brilliant performance of Mademoiselle
Auriol, the celebrated danscuse, and not lees by the
astonishing feats of Flexmore, the equally renowned
pantomimic contortionist. They both appeared for
the first time en the Dublin stage last night, and suc-
ceeded, a merreille, in exciting wonder and winning ad.
miration—Maale. Auriol, by her graceful and singu-
larly expressive action in a dumb character, and Flex
more, by his matchless personification of the appearance,
habits, and lithe agility of an individual of the monkey
tribe. Cuvier defines the Borneo ape as being " most
painfully like man in external appearance, differing,
however, from the human subject in anatomical for-
mation and in having no notions of religion." Cer-
tainly some of Flexmore's amazing jumps and contor-
tions would lead one to els: sify him in the genus quadru.
niana. The French newspapers teem with extatio en.
couiums ',on his performance. The entertainments of
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next notice.
We congratulate the lessee on what pro-
' 11'1egg to i;,3 the most successful coup of the season.—
Dublin Freeman's Journal, May 20.
Tan DERSY RACE AT Ereou.—The richest Derby
ever won was in 1849—the Flying Dutchman's year—
when the value of the stakes was 6,3251. The race has
been timed for the past elevenyr
orosv.Td this The quickest
run race was that by Surplice, who ore
in 2 mine. 48 secs., 12 secs. quicker than the Flying
Dutchman, ,q secs, speedier than West Australian,
and 9 secs. quicker than Teddington. Messrs. Gully and
Risdale, it was 'calculated, won 50,0001. when St. Odes
won in 1832. The same parties stood to win
80,0001. on Rod Rover in Priam's winning year,
1830. Waxy and Sir Peter were tile sires of the
most Derby winners, four each :—Eclipse got
three. Mr. F. Swinilells won 5,0001. about Daniel
O'Rourke, although he had not entered a bet in his book
before the horses went up to start. West Austra-
lian, The Flying Dutchman, and Teddington were
the years when the fortune f the gentleman division
prevailed. They " milked " the ring of 150,000/. in
the latter's year. The gentleman's gentlemen's
year was Voltigeur. The ring triumphed in
Little Wonder and Merry Monarch's year. Mr.
Davis, " the Leviathan," a few years ago a journeyman
carpenter working for Messrs. Gubitt,) has been known to
make a book of 100,0001., but now bets only littleamunt byo before
a race comes off. He stood to win a lie
Barbarian's success, and half the sum if Hotspur had
won. In Voltigeur's year 40,0001. was paid over his
list counter to the backers of that
horse. He paid Mr
Greville a cheque for 15,0001. the day after Teddington
won. Daniel O'Rourke is said to have cost him
30,0001•, as parties had got on at 100 to 1. He paid
Mr. Bowes a cheque for 30,0001. in West Australian's
and lost in all over that horse 48,0001.
yaTeher, ,
Prince of Wales, afterwards Georgae the
won the race with Sir Thomas inl7BB,
Fourth, nd his
brother, the Duke of York, on two occasions—in 1816
with Prince Leopold, and in 1822 with Moses, who was
afterwards sold to the Duke of Richmond for 1,100 go.

STRATFORD AND WEST HAM.

PLAISTOW AND
S;
VON.IORIA. DOCK
MISCT
DEPUTATION TO THE HOME SECRETARY.
On Tuesday, the 19th inst., a deputation, con-
sisting of the Rev. B. W. B. Marsh, the Rev. Al-
fred W. Mason, and Antonio Brady, Esq., the
promoters of the Plaistow
and Victoria Dock Mis-
sion, had an interview with Secretary Sir George
Grey at the Home Office, and presented a petition
from the inhabitants of Hall's Ville, a new town
built in a swamp in Plaistow Marsh, praying for
immediate sanitary measures. The petition was
signed by the four resident medical practitioners,
and by about 250 of the inhabitants. It set forth
the frightfully bad state of the place for want of
proper roads and sewers, &c. ; and that there was
a total absence of any drainage, and consequently
a high rate of mortality, and much sickness. The
deputation was introduced by T. W. Bramston,
Esq., and R. B. Wingfield, Esq., the two county
members, who bore testimony from personal know-
ledge as to the truth of the statements put forth.
The Home Secretary's attention was called to the
map of the district, published in 1855, in explana-
tion of the very valuable report of Mr. A. L.
Dickens, C.E., the Government Superintending
Inspector, a copy of which was appended to the
petition. We may as well inform our readers
that in his general description of the parish Mr.
Dickens states, " That since the execution of
the Eastern Counties' Docks, the population
has increased very materially, and has spread
nearly over the whole area of the parish. Fresh
districts have sprung up, houses have been
erected ; and, as cannot fail to be the case when
buildings of the class that have been erected here
come into existence, without any adequate super-
vision or control, the commonest precau ions for
drainage or general arrangement of streets have
been neglected ; the surfaces of the courts and
alleys are almost without exception unpaved ; lines
of street remain undedicated to the highway au-
thorities ; and in winter it is said that they are
actually impassable from mud and filth." Mr.
Dickens proceeds—" The whole parish is divided
and subdivided, as I have before stated, by open
ditches or sewers; and in no single instance within
my observation (and I perambulated nearly the
whole area of the parish) did I find ONE that was not
MOST HORRIBLY FILTHY AND OFFENSIVE. They are
usually stagnant, and filled with refuse of the
foulest description, their smell being sickening in
the extreme. When I state that in the surveyor's
book in 1821. the area of these ditches is estimated
at upwards of 140 acres, it may be conceived, more
especially as that area has now been much increased
by road cutting at the railway, fresh sewers, &c.,
what the effects of this large and filthy evaporating
surface must be on the sanitary condition of the
district. In many parts of the parish these offen-
sive open ditches divide the gardens at the backs of
the houses. They are invariably filled with privy
drainage, and the smell from them is perceptible for
a considerable distance. Under these circumstances
it is not surprising that the medical gentlemen,
who recorded their evidence on my inquiry,
are unanimous in their statements that fever,
cholera, small-pox, or some other epidemic,
is constantly scourging the parish. Nui-
sances upon nuisances accumulate, and it is
unfortunately not only from the smells from the
open ditches that the district suffers. Stratford.
Langthorn (West Ham) is just without the boun-
dary fixed by the Metropolitan Buildings Act as
the limit within which no new building for the
purpose of carrying on offensive trades shall be es-
tablished after the Ist day of Jan., 1854, unless
under the restrictions imposed by that Act. Thus
it happens that several new and offensive trades
(such as naptha making, oil boilinz, varnish mak-
ing, printer's ink making, ikc., &c.), have been
newly established here, and which are bitterly
complained of by the neighbouring inhabitants.
Under section 4 of the Metropolitan Buildings Act,
7 and 8 Vict., cap. 84, her Majesty, by order in
Cnuncil, may order the extension of the Act to
any place within 12 miles of Charing-cross ' • this
place is about 7 miles only. It would seem, how-
ever, that no steps have ever been taken to obtain
such extension to this district ; although (adds Mr.

Dickens) it appears to me that this is One of the
cases which the section desires to meet." Want of
space precludes our quoting the section on the
present occasion ; we will only say that since this
report was written the abominations described have
vastly increased from the accumulations of the sub-
sequent two years, and the extension of buildings.
We hope to recur to this subject shortly ; mean-
while we trust, now that public attention is called
to the subject, means will be taken to abate the
nuisances complained of. The deaths in Hall's
Ville average five times the rate of mortality in
ordinary towns. The only wonder is that it is not
greater.