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

COMMERCIAL.

INEW YORK, MAyst22.
Money was without change, and rather easier•
Stocks wore dull, and in short supply. Exchange
on London, DOI to 4. Cot•on was steadY•
Breadstuffs advanced in value. Freights un-
altered.

The Sydenham has arrived from Port Philip with
31.462 ounces of gold, valued at 125,8001. The
193,0001. announced yesterday by the Morning Star bait
reached London. A portion will be purchas, d for the
Dank of France, and the remainder is expected to be,
taken to the Bank of England. • -
PROPOSAL FOR A NEW CATTLE AND SHEEP MAIL
AT THE HARROW RAILWAY STATION.—We believe that
if the owner of any site in the immediat vicinity of the
Harrow Railway Station, were to establish a cattle and
sheep market, the undertaking would succeed bayou",
ilia most sanguine expectations. The want of it, se°
the certainty of its success, we hear of repeatedly. It hoe
been suggested that Tuesday would be the best day, se,
following the Metropolitan and preceding the Southall
markets. A great deal of cattle are ueloaded already'
at the Harrow Station, and we hear that a large number
of the leading salesmen would give the scheme their best
pert.—Harrow Gazette.
The ships Orwell and Palineraton have left Deptford
to receive the 77th Regiment on board for conveyance
to Sydney, New South Wales. The following ship 4
have been chartered by the East India Company for the
conveyance of troops to India, viz. :—For Calcutta
Bucephalus, 838 tone, July 1 ; El!enborough, 853 tons,
July 8 ; Cressy, 999 tone, July 11 ; Octavia, 1,05$
tone, July 25. For Kurrachee : Bombay, 1,280 tons?
July 21 ; Albuera, 852 tons, July 21. The ships Pe!'
maise and Beechworth are to take the 95th Foot from •
Dublin to Cape of Good Hope, the 89th Regiment from
Cape of Good Hope to Auckland, New Zealand, and
return to Portsmouth with the 58th Regiment,
ORIGIN OF THE BONNET.—The first bonnet worn
England was brought from Italy in the reign of Queue
Elizabeth, and its form was a cempromise between the
present round Italian peasant hat and the French hood,
The materials employed in constructing these head erns'
tnents were crimson satin, elaborately embroidered?
cloth of gold and similar rich materials. The Leghorn
flat, with perpendicular crown and a wide brim standing
out far around the face, was the first legitimate bonnet
worn, and this appeared long after Elizabeth's It
time.
was trimmed with artificial flowers and immense rows of
ribbon. Our present neat and exquisitely delicate and
tasteful head covering is but a modification of this huge
affair, which not until very many years back, was 1°
universally worn and admired.
ORIENTAL WATER WORKS.—It is said an influentisl
body of East India merchants and others have formed
themselves into a company under the above title, for the
purpose of supplying the principal 'towns in the Beat
with pure water. Calcutta, with its 400,000 inhabitantvr
is the first city upon which it is proposed to operate, esd
it is estimated by Mr. Fulton, the engineer, that a car
tal only 0f,300,000/. will be necessary to provide that city:
with an adequate supply, and taking the amount of
receipts, as calculated upon by Mr. Timms, the late
Government engineer of India, it would give a dividend
of 19 per cent. upon the proposed capital. Whenever
cholera appears to any extent in India, Calcutta is sure
to be heavily visited, which is, to a great extent, au;
mitted to be owing to the impure and filthy wet':
supply, and nothing can show more clearly the imperf
re
auce, in a sanitary point of view, of a• pure and abeel:
ant supply of water, than one fact which was ";
known a few years ago with respect to the prevalence
of cholera in 1849 on the south side of the Thames'
There was a large and unhealthy district into which the
pipes of the Southwark, and Vauxhall, and Lambeth
Water Companies were laid side by side. The Santir
wark and Vauxhall Company derived at that time their
supply from the Thames, at Battersea, below the Rat
lags sewer. The Lambeth company took their suPPu
from a purer source, namely, the Thames, above King-
ston. 'When the ravages of the cholera, in that ue•
healthy district, came to be investigated by the Regis.
trar-General, it was ascertained that, with very few e%A
eeptione, the ckelera raged only in those houses supPlie
by the then impure water of :he Southwark and ValY-lc.
tall Company, thus clearly demonstrating that the irai
purity of water greatly assists in the disserninatne °J
that most fearful cf all diseases, cholera. With regsr
to the prejudices of the natives, which are by some sap'
posed to exist, it may be mentioned that the Coincel."_
si suers for the Improvement of the Town of Calcutta, 3:
a report, dated 4th September, 1832, state that " time
and habit they believe a ould soon have its due effect el",
regards the use of good and pure water, accessible at
hours of the day or night, even with the Hindco pop,?,le.
tion or at all events with so large a proportion•ofr.
native inhabitants generally as to warrant its introd
Mort."