The Sun.
London, England, 1859-04-15 00:00:00

BOROUGH HOP.

Our market continues firm for all new hops, and prices
are well supported. Yearlings are in fair request. Other-
wise the trade is heavy.

Mid and East Kent pockets B4s to 147 s per cwt.
Weald of Kent do 64s to 80s ~
Sussex do 6os to 72s „

COLONIAL.

TEA.—The private contract market continues very firm,
and prices have an upward tendency. At public sale, out
of 17,814 packages offered, 7,350 were sold at full rates.
Common congou is quoted 14d. per lb.
SUGAR.—There has been rather less activity in the
market ; good qualities of British West India, however,
fully maintained their value ; inferior descriptions were a
shade cheaper. In the refined market sales for home con-
sumption have been effected to a moderate extent, at full
rates; but for exportation the inquiries were limited.
COFFEE.—Plantation Ceylon has been in good demand,
and at public sale full prices were realised. Native Ceylon
and Jamaica were at about previous quotations.
RlM—The market is very firm, and prices have an up-
ward tendency. East Indian qualities realise higher rates.
FRUlT.—There has been a good demand for Valencia
raisins,, and in currants a steady business has been done at
former quotations.
SALTPETRE.—There has been a fair inquiry for the better
qualities, and prices have been fully supported. At public
sale Bengal descriptions sold at a small advance on former
values.

TALLOW.—The market is rather quiet. P.Y.C. on the
spot has declined to 150. 3d., and for delivery the last three
months 645. per cwt.

At a meeting cf the Association for Promoting
the Erection of Drinking Fountains in the Metro-
polis, the Earl of CARLISLE said—The many claims
upon public sympathy and benevolence which are
made in this large metropolis, however strongly
they may excite our feelings and compassion, how-
ever they may appeal to the conscience or to the
heart, do not. often abound in novelty ; but I be-
lieve our undertaking this afternoon may at least
lay claim to originality, since this is certainly the
first meeting that has been held in London in con-
nexion with public drinking fountains. (Hear,
hear.) It is true that the enterprise is not wholly
new in the provinces, and in the great town of
Liverpool especially an example has been set which
we in London ought not to be ashamed, but should
be very proud and very wise to follow. (Hear.) The
undertaking in Liverpool was originally set on foot
and the expenses of it have been in a very large
proportion defrayed by a young and public-spirited
merchant of that town, Mr. Chas. Melley,who, I am
happy to say, is present with us this day. (Cheers.)
I believe 45 public drinking fountains have been
erected in Liverpool, 35 of them wholly at the expense
of Mr. Melley, and I will trouble you with a brief
extract for the purpose of showing the operation of
the scheme in that town. It is quite a new thing
for statistics to enter the domain of the Naiads, but
so it is in this case, and as we wish to appeal to
common sense and experience I trust you will listen
to what has taken place in Liverpool. lam about
to quote from a very interesting pamphlet, entitled
" A Plea for Free Drinking Fountains," written by
_.;,Wakefield,
who acts as.Aeorgtary to this insti-
. ile-says, referring to the authDrity of Mr.
Melley, " a calculation based upon a series of obser-
vations taken at different seasons, and in different
parts of the town, by persons of perfect reliability,
employed for the purpose, gives an average number
of upwards of 1,000 persons drinking every day
throughout the year at each of the 40 fountains
scattered throughout the town and its outskirts.
This would give 15 millions of persons who annually
drink at the Liverpool fountains. And in a sub-
sequent communication, dated March 5, 1859, Mr.
Melley writes that he is quite sure that if 20 more
fountains were judiciously placed in Liverpool, both
the new and old fountains would average 1,000 each
the year round—that is, if Liverpool were ade-
quately supplied with fountains, they would be fre-
quented 22 millions of times in the year." (Cheers.)
Besides Liverpool I have been furnished with a list
of towns in Great Britain in which drinking foun-
tains have already been erected, and I find the num-
ber of fountains erected to exceed 250. In Aberdeen
the number erected is 12 ; in Bolton there are 10 ;
in Bradford one has been erected in the People's
Park ; in Birkenhead four have been erected by
the commissioners ; in Burnley three have been
erected by my excellent friend, Sir J. K. Shuttle-
worth; in Rochdale one has been erected by the
corporation ; in Edinburgh one has been erected by
a lady, Miss Sinclair ; in Sunderland seven have
been erected by the corporation, and they are going
to put up more ; in Glasgow 32 have been erected by
the corporation. London makes a poor figure in the
catalogue • but one fountain is in course of erection,
mainly under the superintendence of Mr. Gurney,
who has led this movement in the metropolis ; and
some of the railway companies are beginning to
construct fountains at their stations. (Hear, hear.)
Following up our statistics, if Liverpool requires 50
fountains, 400 will be necessary for London. (Hear.)
Authorities differ as to the amount of the expense of
each fountain, some placing it as high as £3O, in-
cluding decorations ; but, according to Mr. Melley's
experience, each separate fountain need not cost
more than £lO. This, however, must partly depend
on the circumstances of the locality. It would be
most desirable if a capital sum could be furnished
to keep the fountains in repair. I am afraid we can
hardly expect any metropolitan Moneys to furnish
the whole cost. This might naturally seem to be the
proper province of the parochial or other local autho-
rities—(hear, hear) —but I think we could hardly be
justified in relying on any sustained or systematic
course of action from such quarters ; and I think
that an association beginning with such men as
those by whom I am nowsurrounded would form the
best nucleus for the requisite series of operations ;
and such an association once formed would, I hope,
enlist the co-operation of municipal, of parochial,
and of other local bodies, in this beneficent scheme.
He should hope that the great Corporation of Lon-
don, as well as other public authorities, would not
be backward in helping this good work ; and that
our old friends of the Woods and Forests would
furnish the parks with suitable provisions of this
kind. (Hear, hear.) Now with respect to the
mechanical construction of these fountains, I be-
lieve it is considered necessary that a thorough
filtering arrangement should be invariably attached
to each fountain, probably by means of charcoal.
It is also thought desirable that the supply of water
should be continuous. Mechanical means can also
be provided for preserving the water constantly
cool, so that the rills of water will flow as chaste
and pure in Cheapside or Houndsditch, as if they
crept along the fresh crisp moss, or trickled down
through their native rock. (Cheers.) We are asked
what are our motives for this enterprise ? Having
recourse again to our statistics, if the people in
London are as much inclined to drink as they are
in Liverpool—and who can give me a good reason
why they are not—it would follow that 132,000,000
of draughts of water would be taken every year in
London; and I think you will admit that people
will not drink water unless they are thirsty or have
a relish for it. lam sure all those whom I have the
pleasure of addressing will agree with me that gin-
palaces and beer-houses, and habits of intemperance
and drunkenness, are amongst the most besetting sins
of our social condition, and are probably the most
prolific of all the sources of suffering and crime that
harass and infest our population. (Cheers.) I think
I should be indulging in a very sanguine, or rather
Utopian, speculation, if I were to express any con-
fident expectation that even after the supply of the
necessary fountains ale and gin will at once be
given up for cold water ; but I will quote an autho-
rity to show that great benefits may be anticipated
from the step now contemplated. The Rev. Mr.
Thorold, the excellent rector of St. Giles's-in-the-
Fields, says :—" It is impossible to overrate the
benefits which will arise from the establishment of
drinking fountains in various parts of the metro-
polis, more especially in localities where the poor
are thickly planted and are constantly movinc,
about to or from their work. When a man actually
earns his bread by the sweat of his brow, he finds
out what thirst means. It is no inconsiderable
kindness to enable him to quench that thirst with-
out risk to himself or to his family. And, indeed,
the mischief which these drinking fountains will
obviate preponderates, in my own view of the case,
very considerably over the positive advantages
which they will confer. Drinking,' like many
other bad habits, does not always spring from a
love of vice for its own sake. 'No man is very bad
all at once,' and no man is a drunkard all at once.
It is the habit of drinking intoxicating liquors un-
der the pressure of thirst in default of any better
substitute, that has gradually turned a sober fel-
low into a drunkard almost without his knowing
it ; and I am convinced that hundreds of working
men will be only too glad to avoid temptation and
keep their money in their pockets, if they can quench
their thirst with a draught of cool pure water close
by. Drinking fountains will prevent drinking,-and
all who subscribe to them may have the satisfaction
of knowing that by means entirely unobjectionable
they are lending a most real aid to the diminution
of intemperance among working men." (Hear.)
Having read this strong opinion respecting the
moral and the utilitarian parts of the scheme, let
me say one word with reference to its architectural
and decorative aspect. They did not for a moment
think of offering anything like the great works of
art which as fountains adorned the cities of the
continent. No one dreamt of throwing away money
upon mere ornament. The design they had in view
in their fountains:was such as had been prefigured
by one of the best and simplest of their poets when
he said—

" Not to the skies in useless columns test,
Nor poured in falls magnificently lost,
But clear and artless flowing through the plain,
Health to the sick and solace to the swain."
(Hear, hear.) They should have suitable and ap-
propriate designs for their fountains. But let me at
the same time say that a suitable and appropriate
design need not be more expensive than a tasteless
and unmeaning one. Very often it will be less so,
and I do not see why we should not hope that some
of our artisans and architects, and persons of taste
and fancy may be induced to furnish, even gra-
tuitously, plans and suggestions for the embellish-
ment of their respective neighbourhoods. A
suggestion has been made to me that there is a fine
opportunity of introducing appropriate inscriptions
in connection with these fountains. I think the
suggestion is well worthy our attention, but this of
course would be left to an arrangement between
the association and those individuals or bodies who
may choose to assist the association by raising
funds in their own neighbourhood. I do ust that

Colonel George Wyndham, of Petworth, Sussex,
just created a baron of the United Kingdom, by
the title of Baron Leconfield, of Leconfield, in the
East Riding of the county of York, is the eldest of
the three sons of George, third Earl of Egremont,
on whose death, in November, 1837, he succeeded
to the large estates of that nobleman in the county
of Sussex. He is brother of Colonel Charles
Wyndham, formerly of the 76th Foot, and General
Henry Wyndham, M.P., and of the late Countess
of Munster. The new peer was for many years in
the army, in the 27th Regiment, and served in the
'Peninsula. In July, 1830,, he retired from the
service. He married Miss Blunt, only daughter of
the Rev. Wm. Blunt, of Crabbe, Sussek, His
eldest son, the Hon. Henry Wyndham, is M.P. for
West Sussex, and is father of Lady Naas.
William Tatton Egerton, crested Eiron Egerton
of Tatton, in the county palatine of Chester, is
eldest son of the late Mr. Wilbraham Egerton, of
Tatton Park, who, like his ancestors for many
generations, represented Cheshire in Parliament.
This powerful branch of the Egerton family seated
at Tatton Park, is a scion of the ennobled stem of
Bridgewater, and possesses paramount influence in
the palatinate, and has for more than a hundred
years almost uninterruptedly given a member to
the county. The new peer was married in
December, 1830, to Lady Charlotte Loftus, eldest
daughter of the second Marquis of Ely. His lord-
ship entered the House as Commons as representative
for the borough of Lymington in 1830. In 1832,
on the retirement of his father from political life,
he was elected for North Cheshire, which division
he continued to represent until within a few
years back. On his retirement he was succeeded
by his eldest son, Mr. Wilbraham Egerton, M.P.
Sir Charles Robinson Morgan, Bart., created
Baron Tredegar of Tredegar, in the county of Mon-
mouth, is eldest son of the late venerable Sir Charles
Gould Morgan, Bart., by his marriage with Mary
Margaret, daughter of Captain Storey, R.N. The
family of Morgan have for many generations been
one of the most opulent families in 'Wales and
Monmouthshire, which county has been almost
constantly represented by one of the family for
more than a century. The first baronet, Sir Charles
Gould, who was Judge Advocate-General and
Judge Marshal of the Forces, in pursuance of the
will of his brother-in-law, John Morgan, obtained
the Royal licence for assuming the name and arms
of Morgan. The late baronet died in 1846 at a
great age, verging on ninety. The newly-made
peer was born April 10, 1792, and married Oct. 6,
1827, to Rosamond, only daughter of General and
the Hon. Mrs. Mundy, granddaughter maternally
of Lord Rodney, the distinguished admiral. He
represented Brecon in the House of Commons from
1818 to 1832, when he was ousted by Mr. John
Lloyd Vaughan Watkins, by a majority of six. At
the general election, in 1835, he was again returned
for the borough, and continued its representation
in Parliament up to 1847. He was appointed
Major of the Glamorgan Militia in 1849, and re-
ceived the honorary degree of D.C.L. from Oxford
in 1848. The eldest son of his lordship, Godfrey
Charles Morgan, born in 1830, was in the 17th
Lancers, and served in the East during the cam-
paign of 1854 and 1855. At the close of the war
he retired from the regular army, and in 1856 was
appointed Major of the Gloucester Yeomanry
Cavalry.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTER SALLS'—YESTERDAY.
METROPOLITAN.
9to 1 agst Old Robert (taken)
10 to 1 agst Yellow Rose (taken)
10 to 1 agst Lifeboat (offered)
12 to 1 agst Greek (offered)
100 to 8 agst Newcastle (taken)
14 to 1 agst Beacon (taken)
14 to 1 agst Tunstall Maid (taken)
20 to 1 agst Blue Jacket (taken)
20 to 1 agst Pan (taken)
20 to 1 agst Arsenal (taken)
CITY AND SUBURBAN.
sto 1 agst Accurate (taken and offered)
Bto 1 agst Beacon (offered)
10 to 1 agst Production (taken)
20 to 1 agst Little Gerard (taken)
20 to 1 agst Lord of Lorn (taken)

CHESTER CUP.
50 to 1 agst The Brewer (taken)
60 to 1 agst Jordan (taken)
1000 to 15 agst Leamington (taken)
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS.
100 to 15 agst Nimrod (taken)
1000 to 10 agst Promised Land winning the 2000
Guineas and Balnamoon the Derby
1000 to 10 agst Phantom winning the 2000 Guineas
and Musjid the Derby

• DERBY.
25 to 1 agst Ticket of Leave (taken)

DERBY, 1860.
30 to 1 agst Thormanby (taken)

MALTON RACES—TRuRsnAy.

(ITY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
Two-year-old Stakes.

Starbeck
Afoulvie . 2

Cramond
____ _ 3

Eight ran.
Malton Handicap.

Prince of Denmark
Charlotte

Six ran.

Farmers' Cup.

Harlequin
Pompey

Twelve ran.
Birdsall Handicap.

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