The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-24 00:00:00

APPETITE AND DIGESTION IMPROVED.

EA and PERRINS' WORCESTERSHIRE
SAUCE imparts the most exquisite relish to Steaks, Chops,
A-d all Roast Meat Gravies, Fish, Game. Soup, Curries, and Salad,
a•id:by its tonic and invigorating properties enables the stomach to
p rtectly digest the food.
The daily nseof this aromatic and delicious Sauce is the best safe-
card to health.

Sold by the proprietors, Lea and Perrins, 19, Fenchurch-street,
London, and 68, Broad-street, Worcester; also by hie,srs. Barclay
;nd Sons, Messrs Crosse and Blackwell, and other oilmen and mer•
,bants, London ; and generally by the principal dealers in sauce.
N.B.—To guard against imitatiors, see that the names of "LEA
and PERRINFt" are upon the label and patent cap of the bottle.

C ANCER HOSPITAL, London and West
Brompton.—Pecretary's Office, 167. Piccadilly.—This Tnstltu-
ion has been established excluAvely for the treatment of the poor
afflicted with cancerous diseases. Out-door patients to attend at 167,
Piccadilly, on Tuesdays. at 2 o'clock. In-door patients are admitted
at the lirompton Esta' lishment, for one month. and for a longer,
period If reconarnendeit by the medical officers. The number of per-
na under treatment as in or out-door patients have averaged for
rt.e last three yearS about 400 cases each year. Since the foundation
,t this hospital in 1851, 1,799 poor persons, suffering tinder every
rorm of this dr adful malady, have received the 11,-nelits of this
~*harity. A weekly Board manage its affairs, and every informa-
to:in connected with the Institution may be obtained on application
to the Secretary. Contributions to enable the Committee to continue
this yreat work of benevolence are urgently solicited, and may be
ptid to William Loxham Farrar, Esq., the Treasunr, 66. Lincoln's-
inni.ftelds ; Messrs. Coutts and Co., Strand and at the Secretary's
dices, 167, Piccadilly.

By enter.
W. J. COCKERILL Secretary.

t► OYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road.
Patron—The QUEEN.—Founded 1828.
The sick poor are admitted ,m their own application alone; no re.
commendation is required.
iMrine the past month the following number rem:Ted the benefits
of this Charity, either as out or in-door patients, on their personal
a(cation :

Week ending 7th February ...... 2,095
Ditto 11th February ..•• 2,351
Ditto 21st February ...... 2,550
Ditto 28th February .... 2,890

Total in February .... . 9.986
of which 3,379 were new cases, the remainder (still under treat-
ment) having been admitted previously.

'rhe clergy of all denominations have unlimited access to the
patients.
Heavy expenses are inevitably incurred in affording such exten-
sive relief. The Committee, therefore, earnestly entreat the aid of
the public.
The management of the Hospital is in the hands of 30 Governors,
yearly elected from the general list of subscribers, at the Annual
onieral Meeting in January. A Board is held every Thursday, at
4 o'clock (Rev. J. B. Owen, Chairman). to conduct the business,
when any subscriber may, attend, if so disposed, the Board being at
Si times desirous of receiving suggestions or giving explanation.
The Hospital is not endowed, but is wholly dependent on volun-
tary contributions and legacies, which are received by the Treasurer,
John Masterman, Esq., M.P., Nicholas-lane ; also by Misers. Coutts
and Co. ; Drummond and Co.; Berries and Co.; Ransom and Co.;
Prescott, Grote, and Co. ; Smith, Payne, and Co.; Glyn and Co. ;
Jones Loyd and Co.; Harclay and Co.; Denison and Co.; Williams,
Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gurney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co., Ber-
ners-street ; Masterman and Co.; and at the Hospital.
Clothing for the destitute patients will he thankfully received.
By order. J. B. OWEN. M.A..Chairman.

VIE SECRET INFIR3IITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY.
Just published, price is., post tree, in an Envelope, fur 13 stamps,
QELF-PRESERVATION.—A Medical Treatise
).0 on the FUnctl,ms and Disorders of the Generative System,
and on the cure of 'Cervix's and Physi al Debility, resultng
from vicious habits acquired during the critical passage nom youth
to +' atilt ,od, with practical observations Oil the Physiology of Mar-
riage in its social, moral, and physical relations. To which are added
remarks on the wonder.; of the Microscope in revealing the hidden
mysteries "of Life within Life,' and it" advantages in detecting, by
urinary examination. the cause and effect of every variety of these
complaint-, with numerous engravings and cases.

BY SAMUEL LA'MERT, M.D ,
37, B .DFORD SQUARE, LONDON,

Matriculated Member of the University of Edinburgh, Honorary
Mem,er of the London Hospital Medical Society, Licentiate of
Apothecaries' Hall London, &c.,
'the essential object of this treatise is to point out the fearful con-
segnerces resulting from certain habits, irregularities, and excesses,
which have produced more mi,ery in Youth, degradation in NI
hood, and premature decay at all stages of life, than, perhaps, any
other class of dis awe k.lown to modern pathologists. Its perusal is
part culnrly recommended to in rpons entertaining secret doubts of
their physic,' c-nditlon, end who are conscious of having hazarded
the heath, happiness, and privileges to which every human being is
entitled.

It is absolutely necessary that all men should know that there are
principles of personal man ,gement which cannot be violated with-
out incurring grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret suc-
ceed the heyday of incousiderate self-indulgence, how those penalties
may be mitigated, how the sting of their bitterness may be removed,
and how the evil and its consequ:nces may be avoided, and, above all,
that the, els sea rely any degree of ph) s:cal infirmity or functional
derangement to which the timely aid of science cannot aeply a cure.
Published by J. Allen, 20, Warwick-I •ne, Paternoster-row, and
may be bad of Mann, 39, Cornhill ; Horne, 19, Leicester-square ;
Gtrdon, 46, Leadenball-street ; or from the Author, who may be
consulted daily, from II till 2, and from 6 till 8, at his residence, ".t7,
Bedford square, London.
The w,,rk may be had in India, of Mr. Von Litzky. Loll Bazaar;
Calcutt t— ,iessra. C. and J. Horm awe, Apo 10-street; Bombay—
Circulator Office ; Madras—Mefassilite Office ; Agra—Dodsworth ;
Colombo, Ceylon; and of all,,Bookaellent,throughout the Colonies.

" Within the last -100 years, and previous to 1844,
the Crown, by virtue .of the Royal prerogative, and in
exercise of that right, has granted several charters with
limittd liability to banks for carrying on businegs in
Great Britain and Ireland, such as the Bank of
,Frig-
land, Bank of Ireland, Bank of Scotland, Rupl Rank
oaf Scotland, the British Linen. Company and Commer-
cial Bank of Scotland, in all of which the liability is
limited to the amount of the shares held.
" In 1844 Peel's well-known Banking Act Was passed;
by whine the Crown gave up and abandoned the Royal
right or prerogative to grant charters for home banking,
awl that Act provided that henceforth it should only be
lawful to commence business under letters pat -.tit,' and
that the Ciown might, with consent of the Lord of
Privy Council for Trade, issue such letters patent' in
terms ~f the various regulAtions, rus7rictions, &c., men
tinned in al,: Act itself. One very important omission
in tbat Act i!s the abnencskebitirely of any,„clauJoJeittritit,-
.iiig or empowering the
crown to restrict the liability of
starebolders, and the consequence is that no banking
company incorporated for home banking since 1844
could obtain limited liability,
" By a confusion of ideas and an improper application
of terms, the banks for home banking so incorporated
have invariably advertised themselves as acting under a
Royal charter,' that, term is used over and over again
by the directors of the Royal British Bank, whereas
the Qaeen bad no power to grant, and no Royal
cheer ever was granted to that bank, the docament
bring the more modified and less comprehensive
thing called letters patent;' and it is by this
rii application of .the right name to a wrong sub.
ject that much of the existing ignorance on the Habig ty
of shareholders has been fostered, and perhaps even en.
c.turaged,

Peel's Act left the Royal prerogative perfectly no
torched and unfettered in so far as the colonies and
foreign States were concerned. Toe consegnence has
been that the Quten by right of that power inherent in
the Crown has granted real 'charters' with limited !la-
id ity to-varions col•inial companies since 1844 for bank-

lo g in India, China, Aug!ralia, and Canada, and also to
various English companies for banking in and with
lireign countries, but having their head-quarters in Lon-
don, for the promotion of the trade and commerce of
Great Bri'ain.

"In these, latter comp•tnies so incorporated by Royal
charter,' the liability of shareholders at the time of the
di-solution of the company is limited to double the
amount of the shares held at the time of winding up,
should there be any deficiency to meet the obligations of
the company ; and the benefit of a ' charter' under the
Royal prerogative is such that all shareholders whose
shares have been duly transferred previous to that date
—viz., the date of the dissolution—are thereby relieved
from all liability whatever. Such is the inherent power
of a Royal • charter.'
"I am, Sir, your obedient servant, _

" LEX."

THE GREAT ATLANTIC SUBMARINE
TELEGRAPH CABLE.

Mr. Charles T. Bright, engineer to the Atlantic
Telegraph Company, in writing to the editor of the
Times, says:—

Will you allow me to assure the writer of the article
Mader the above beading in your impression of to-day
that his apprehensions in regard to the Atlantic line are
groundless, and that the form of cable now being mane
factored has not been hastily adopted.
I will not remark upon the kind of cable which he so
earnestly advocates, for the columns of a scientific
journal are more suited to such a discussion, bat I namit
say that I d., not wish any antagonist so certain a loss
as the endorsement of Mr. Ailan's theories by an experi-
ment of their value upon a largo scale.
I de not know upon whose authority he ventures to
rush in upon us so boldly with the assumption that our
conducting wire is "ridiculously small." I have had
some practical experience for some years in working
telegraphic hive, and have had, as engineer to the Mag-
netic Telegraph Company, the charge of the greatest
length in the woor►d of subterranean wires, the con
&Lions c f s hich are electrically the same as those of sub-
marine wires ; and Mr. Whitehouse,, the electrician to
the Atlantic Telegraph Company, has been engaged for
a long time iu tatieriments upon submarine conductors.

We are not oppressed by any fears as to the eleii.trical
success of the cable ; and, to my mind, the alteration in
the conductor, by using return wirer, which your article
alludes to, would be (to fo low up the writer's simil,)
lixe laying an additional pair of rails over a long line of
railway, when a modification in the form of loComotive
employed wool.' answer every purpose.
It would be more graceful for those who are without
that knowledge of telegraphic matters which practical
experience alone can teach to pause before they thrust
forward their theories so positively.

THE LAID EXPLOirf)N AT LU2 DRILL.

LUND RILL, THDRSOAT.

During yesterday and to-day five more bodies have
been recovered, making a total of nine which have been
got out of the pit.

We have previously stated that upwards of 100 miners
had volunteered to assist in the work of recovering the
bodies and restoring the pit. From this number 72 of
the most experienced and intelligent men were selected
to take part in the work. On Toes isy evening these
men were assembled at the Lundhill Coal Company's
offices and divided into six parties, each party consisting
of 12 men. An experienced colliery viewer was deputed
to direct the operations of each party, and, as from the
confined space in which they are, at work no more than
one party could he employed at the same time, it was
arranged that they should work in shifts of four hours
each. The six enperintending viewers are Mr. W.
Madison, of the W.)inbwell Main C dliery ; Mr. R. C.
Webster, of the II yland Collieries ; Mr. Brown, of
Barnsley ; Mr. Potter, of the Barnsley Collieries; and
Mr. Palmer, a gentleman from the north. Mr. Coe, the
viewer at Lundhill, is deputed to superintend the opera-
tions of the three day shifts, and Mr. Peace, the former
viewer at Lund bill, those of the three night shafts. Char-
coal respirators are provided to be used when necessary,
disinfectants are supplied in abundance, and all other re-
quisites are furnished. A surgeon is also in constant
attendance at the pit, to be rewly in case of ilneas or
accident. The first relay of volunteers commenced their
operations during Tuesday night, and one of their first
proceedings was to explore the immediate locality of the
shafts, for the purpose of removing any bodies which
might b lying there. Within the short distance the
very partial ventilation enabled them to penetrate they
speedily t,,und four bodies, which were brought to bank
at an early hour yesterday morning, placed in coffins,
and conveyed to the reception shed. They were all
somewhat mutilated, and in such a state of decom-
position r.s to be beyond the possibility of re-
cognition' so far as the bodies themselves were con-
cerned. Two of the bodies had no clothes on which
could he recognised, and they were conveyed in a hearse
to Darfield church yesterday evening, and there interred.
It was thought possible that the other two might be
identified by their boots or clothes ; they were conse-
qnently kept with that view, and have been seen by a
considerable number of the bereaved, but without being
satisfactorily identified. After the removal of the few
bodies they could find the volunteers commenced the
work of removing the debris of the fallen roofs in the
neighbourhood of the shafts, as an essential preliminary
to the reventitation of the pit. As the falls of roof
caused ley the fire are more extensive than had been an-
ticipated much labour will be involved in their removal,
but the relays are proceeding vigorously with the work.
The fifth corp-e was found this morning by the men on
the shaft, commencing at midnight and ending at 4 o'clock
a.m., in the course of their excavations. Like the other
bodies it wasmutilated and decomposed, and has not yet
been recognised, if indeed it be recognisable, which is
very doubtful. At the time the parcel left is was still
lying in the reception shed along with the other two not
interred on the previous day, that full opportunity might
be given for recognition.
Thus far the operations of the volunteers have been
cnn6ned to the south workings of the pit, the removal
ef the carcases of three horses which are lying near the
shaft on the north side, and emit a very offensive stench,
having prevented operations on that side. Preparations
are being made for the removal of the carcases. Mr.
Coe and some of the viewers have been able to penetrate
near 200 3ards on the levels and enter some of the board-
g,tes for a short distance. So far as they have gone
not the ,lightest appearance of fire has been discovered,
hut until the ventilation has been further restored it is
impossible to fully explore the parts where the fire raged,
so as to ascertaib with ,absolute certainty that none re-
mains, although it is confidently believed that the fire is
•.c holly extinguished. Mr. Coe has penetrated as far as
the ventilating shaft, but from the extent of the falls
around it was unable fully to examine it.

The examinations that have been made show that the
fire had raged even to a greater extent than had been
uppoFed, and furnish an additional evidence of the pro-
of the course adopted in closing the mouths of the
down cast shafts to cut off the current by which the fire
awl fed, a few hours after the explosion.
It is expected that the engineers will meet again on
Saturday. The recovery of the bodies will proceed but
:I,wly. until the fallen air currents near the shaft are
restored. No serious inconvenience has been expe-
rienced from the noxious effluvia in the pit. -

The annual show of the Royal babliu Society
was held yesterday, but, owing to the unfavour-
able strte of the weat':er—the rain scarcely ceasing
during the whole day—the at'endance of visitors
was very meagre. Lord Carlisle and the Viceregal
suite arrived at*3 o'clock, and stay.;d in the yard
fur fully two kourit.- The exhibition of stock and
farming implements was u. t inferior to that of any
'previrms year, and everything, it may be said,
passed off well: His Excellency was again prei,ettr
at the evening meeting, and the Earl of Clancarty
having 9f-ithankst_ Lord Carlisle
responded in a graceful speech, in the course of
which be thus toucued upon a topic of painful in-
terest just now to the agricultural classes
" We cannot hear of such congregations of herds of
cattle without having our attention perhaps Less agree-
ably, attracted to the .possiblel trust not probable—
course of the visitation from that cattle murrain which
has inflicted such ravages over a great portion of eastern
ai,d, I fear I must now aid, of central Europe—l trust
tbat all that can be smuts by the. authorities on that sub-
ject will be done ; but the laws. of contagion and the
operation of contagious and epidemic influences are still
so obscure that it would be impoSsible to dogmatise on
the 'subject, 'and the contrast between the healthy and
ft surishing appearance of these breeds of all classes
which we have seen on the lawn and in the courts of

this society to-day, wi.h the probable altered aspect
which they must present under the visitation of such a
• pest lease, must tench Ui in what close and immediate
dependency of our most cherished hopes and our best
organised precautions must rest upon' the Almighty
blessing. (Hear, hear, an I applause.) I took the li-
berty just now of referring in a rather light strain per;
haps to,the great electoral contest which has been g)ing
on through the cauntry. To adopt, however, for one
moment rather a graver mood, inclosing these brief re-
marks, I may be permitted to mention that this consti-
tutional process which is no/ brought to a close must
inevitably, perhaps, have engendered on certain occa-
sions acme bitterness of feeling—some interruptions of
good humour—some alienations among th,,se who ought
to be good neighbours. But Ido trust that the laud-
able pursuits which: it is the aim of this society to en-
courage by these annual meetings will have their due
effect in reconciling and uniting all classes and ail
parties in the furtherance of objects which tend so much-
to the common good and undi,puted benefit of all. Con
fident I feel that the dregs and sediment of party busi-
ness cannot be carried by any more wholesome method
of effervescence than in the healthy, useful, and honour-
able calling of agriculture. (Applause) Parties and
Governments may be subject to vicissitudes and change;
but. you, my lords acid gentlemen, have the green soil
of Ireland lying fresh beneath you—firm and fresh be-
neath you. There it is—do justice to it, cultivate it,
enrich it, adorn it—for you will find it ever ready to re
ward and repay the skill and industry which shall best
develope its abounding resources. (Loud.applause.)"