The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-23 00:00:00

THE !'SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER, 23, 1

ous mischief, and there is the still greater
danger of the impurities of the soil passing un-
changed into the water, and being a source of quick
and certain injury. The water from the city wells
is constantly changing—in fact, it is hardly the
same from hour to hour; for the soil through which
it passes is pierced in every direction with drains
and sewers, and is charged with every species of
corrupting refuse, which passes in variable propor-
tions into the porous strata from which the water
is pumped. This ought to tell us, not merely of
the disgusting nature of the supply, but also of the
dangers which lurk within it. Experience has
shown that wells like these are liable at any mo-
ment to receive the leakings of a cesspool or a sewer,
and thus be the immediate cause of fatal disease. In
the autumn of 1854 there was a sudden and serious
outbreak of cholera in the parish of St. James's,
Westminster. The course of the disease was con-
fined to a small area in the neighbourhood of a
favourite pump in Broad-street ; and soon it was
remarked that of 73 persons who died during the
first days of the visitation 61 had been drinking
the water of the pump. It was also remarked that
among persons -vg ho were living in the same street,
and occasionally in the same houses,those only were
attacked who drank the favourite water of the
pump; in fact, in a number of cases which were par-
ticularly investigated it was ascertained that per-
sons who lived at a distance from the parish, and
who had the water sent to them because of its sup-
posed goodness, were seized with cholera and died.
A full inquiry into all the circumstances of the
matter proved that the well had become charged
with cesspool drainage, and had thus acquired its
poisonous action. Again, in the cholera visitations
of 18489 and 1853.4 there were two striking ex-
amples of the influence of such water in the propa-
gation of disease. The Southern districts of Lon-
don, comprising nearly a fifth of the population of
the metropolis, were visited most severely with
cholera at both of these outbreaks, and the persons
who suffered most on each occasion were those who
drank the worst quality of water. The inhabitants
of those districts are supplied by two rival companies,
who obtained their water from the Thames at diffe-
rentparts of its course. In one case the water was
charged with a larger amount oforganic matter than
in theother ; and,although the conditions of the popu-
lation were in every other respect the same, yet this
had the effect of augmenting the mortality to a
frightful extent. In the second visitation of the
disease the circumstances of the supply were changed
the water of, the old company, which was once the
worst, was then the best, and the severity of the
disease was then changed likewise ; for those who
partook of the still bad supply suffered as before,
and there mortality was three and a half times
greater than their neighbours. The town of New-
castle-upon-Tyne was supplied with comparatively
pure water in the year 1849, and then it suffered
but little from cholera ; whereas, in the visitation
of 1853, when there was so calamitous a loss of life
from this disease, the water supply was made im-
pure by the drainage from the sewers. The same
effect was the result of the same cause in Hull, in
1849 ; and other examples may be cited, in which
the converse happened, as at Exeter, where the in-
habitants, after having suffered severely from
cholera in 1852, obtained pure water and escaped
its ravages. Nor are the percolations from the
graveyards of a city less injurious; experience has
demonstrated that this also is a prolific source of
disease. Sir James Macgregor relates that when
the British army was in Spain about 20,000 soldiers
were buried in a rather small space of ground; this
was done in the course of two or three mouths, and
soon the troops who drank the water from the wells
of the neighbourhood were attacked with dysentery
and malignant fevers. The cause of the mischief
was clearly traced to the hardly recognizable im-
purity of the water from the shallow wells.
Here, however, in the churchyards of this city,
there are remains of ten times such a buried
army undergoing decay; and in the whole of
this metropolis, in a space of not more than 218
acres of soil, there were buried not long since as
many as 50,000 dead in the year. In a generation
of 30 years this would give us 1,500,000 of decom-
posing bodies in the surface soil of London ; and
through these the water percolates to find its way
into the porous stratum which supplies the shallow
wells. At best the change of this corruption is but
imperfect, and the presence of ammonia and saltpetre
tells of the process of decay, and indicates the dan-
gers which accompany it.
"All these considerations have forced upon Dr.
Letheby the conclusion that water from rivers and
surface wells, contaminated with the refuse of drains
and the soakings from graveyards, is unfit for public
use."

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The report, of which the above is an abstract,
was ordered by the commission to be printed and
circulated.

agricultural wealth is most remarkable ; so that
the wellbeing of the people has advanced in a
double ratio. The most extraordinary increase is
in the numbers of live stock. " The animals alto-
gether are 50 per cent. more numerous than they
were 20 years ago ; but cattle and sheep have mul-
tiplied far more quickly than this. Horses have
hardly increased since 1841; pigs, owing to the
emigration of cottage feeders of bacon and pork, are
actually much fewer; but the number of sheep is
3,538,000 in 1860 against 2,160,000 in 1841 ; and
the number of horned cattle is 3,600,000 in 1860
against 1,864,000 in 1841—that is, sheep have in-
creased more than 50 per cent. and cattle about 100
per cent. in 20 years." In the meantime 3,200,000
acres, being nearly one-sixth of the extent of Ire-
land, have been sold in the Encumbered Estates
Court, the sums realised amounting in the whole
to £23,000,000. Ireland is therefore now on the
high road to prosperity, if not to great wealth. The
change in the condition of the peasant is shown by
the comparatively small number of those outrages
which made Munster a field of blood. Wages have
risen from 6d. and 10d. to ls. 2d. a day, and it may
be said that political agitation is dead and religious
hatred is dying throughout the island. But it
would be untrue to say that Ireland even now is a
model country. The deficiencies in its agriculture
have beer pointed out in these letters, and we need
not recur to them here. But it may be observed
that even now a fourth of the soil of Ireland is un-
cultivated, and that, though much of this is bog
or hill side, yet hundreds of thousands of acres
still wait the improving hand of man to minister
to a large population, and to add to the strength
of the Empire. One remarkable change, however,
is, we think, in store for Ireland, and perhaps Great
Britain. No one can reflect on the prospects of
agriculture as influenced by the wants of such
masses of population as dwell in England and Scot-
land without feeling that a time must come when
the breeding of cattle and the growth of the crops
they consume will be the chief occupation of the
British farmer. Wheat can be grown over vast
tracts of sunny territory in both hemispheres, and
brought to this country at rates which, as new
land comes under cultivation, are likely to become
gradually lower. The climate of Ireland, on the
other hand, is most unsuitable to the growth of
wheat. In a land of rain and mist the wheat harvest
must ever be a lottery. The tendency must then
be, we think, to abandon this ungrateful culture,
and to produce in larger quantities the increasingly
valuable staple of butcher's meat.— Times.

TEE CHICIIESTEI? MURDER.

CHICHESTER, OCT. 22.

The adjourned inquest on the body of Jas. Outon
was resumed this morning in the large room of the
Dolphin Hotel before the coroner, Mr. Jas. Powell.
The prisoner, John Cleary, was for the first time
present at the examination. Shortly after the
opening of the court the large room began gradu-
ally to fill with the people, and towards the middle
of the day became much crowded.
Thos. Flood sworn—The rifle produced is Cleary's
rifle. I know it by the number-383.
Patrick Mears sworn—l am .a private in the 59th
Regiment. I went to bed last Tuesday night, the
15th, between 7 and 8 o'clock. I belong to Com-
pany No. 12, the same as Cleary's. I saw him
come into my hut about 9 o'clock, and throw his
cap on the bed. He lay down on his bed with his
clothes on. He said he was bad in his bowels from
bad beer which he had had. At a quarter to 10 the
lights were put out. A short time afterwards he
went out. Three-quarters of an hour after he left
I heard the noise of a gun.
David Miller gave evidence to the same effect.
John Woodham sworn—l am colour-sergeant in
the 59th Foot, now stationed at Chichster. I
know the prisoner Cleary. On Tuesday, the 15th
inst., about half-past 10 o'clock at night, from in-
formation I roceived, I went to the prisoner's hut,
which I searched. I found his rifle and 10 rounds
of ammunition gone. I produce his pouch and the
10 rounds left. A light jacket was found in the
hut, and his forage cap.
Wm. Dawtrey, sworn—l live in Chichester. On
on the night of October 15, at half-past 10 o'clock,
on passing the old gravel-pit, about a mile from the
city, and 700 to 800 yards from the barracks, I was
startled by seeing the flash and hearing the report
of a gun. The man who fired it was on my right
hand, the barrack side, and 70 or 80 yards from the
road.
James Jolliffe, sworn—l am a farm labourer, and
live at Ashling. On the night of October 15 I was
coming from Funtington towards Ashling about 12
or 1 o'clock that night. Wm. Sheppard was with
me. I saw a man under the hedge about 100 yards
from East Ashling. He was standing up. I saw a
rifle piece under his arm,
Charles Cowper, sworn—l am a farm labourer
and shepherd, living at Funtington. On the even-
of Wednesday, Octooer 16th, I was at the Fox and
Hounds publichouse, Funtington, between 7 and 8
o'clock. While there a person of light complexion,
with no whiskers, came in with a long, dark rough
coat on.
The prisoner was here directed to stand up, and
his cap was put on.
Witness—l cannot swear to the man, but I be-
lieve him to be the same man that came into the inn.

George Wm. Reed, sworn—l am a carpenter at
West Ashling. lam a member of the Sussex Vo-
lunteer Rifle Corps. On Wednesday night, the 16th
inst., I was standing near Mr. Russell's gate, at the
side of the main road at East Ashling. About half-
past 9 or 10 o'clock I saw a man coming towards
me from Funtington. He had under his right arm
a gun or a rifle. The rifle produced is like the one
he had.
Charles Stringer—l am a police sergeant of the
city of Chichester. On the night of Oct. 16, at about
a quarter to 12 o'clock, I was at Northgate, Chi-
chester, near the Sun publichouse. I saw a young
man come round into Franklyn-place from North-
gate. It was Outon, who passed me. Pullen joined
me, at which time we heard a loud report of firearms,
followed by a scream, apparently from the New
Broyle-road, going towards the barracks. We went
to the barracks on our way. We saw no one but the
infirmary surgeon. I, with the barrack police,
searched the barracks. While there Pullen sent for
assistance. I afterwards saw the deceased at Mr.
Parrington's house. It was the same person who
passed me in Franklyn-place.
John Parnell, sworn—l am superintendent of
police of the Midhurst division. From information
I received on Thursday, the 17th of October, I went
in pursuit of the prisoner. I met him in the turn-
pike-road betweenouPewtiwthortthheanwdilCfaelulmteurrsdhearmo.f
aI
said, " I charge y
young gentleman, a student of Bishop Otter's Col-
lege, last night, at 12 o'clock, by shooting." He
said, " You have got the wrong man ; I am only a
deserter, and left Chichester two days ago." He
said, " How could I commit a murder ? I have no-
thing to do it with."
Henry Grant, a police constable of the Midhurst
division, gave evidence to the same effect.
Lewis Henry Wheeler, sworn—l am Armoury
Sergeant at Chichester Barracks. I examined the
rifle produced last night. It is numbered 383, and
belonged to the 59th depot. It was loaded with Go-
vernment ball cartridge. It was not capped. I drew
the .charge. I have been acting as Armoury Ser-
geant to the regiment three years last August. The
rifle had been fired off since it was last cleaned.
Michael Quin, sworn—l am a private of the 73d
Regiment of Foot. On Thursday morning, the 17th
October, I went in search of the prisoner. On
searching the fields, about three or four fields from
the College, in a water meadow leading to the White
Swan, I found the rifle produced, concealed under
some bushes near the watercourse.

Richard Clark, sworn—l am a police constable of
the city of Chichester. On Friday morning, the
18th inst., I saw the prisoner in the police-station at
Ensgate in his cell—from 6 in the morning to 9 at
night. He said he slept in a wood on Wednesday
night this side of Petworth. I said, " What time
did you leave the barracks ?" He replied, " About
10 o'clock on Tuesday evening, and I went to
Littlehampton that night." I asked him who com-
manded his depot. He replied, " Major Bushe,
who would hang me if he could." On Sunday he
said it was reported in barracks that Major Bush&
had been shot at in China twice, and that the Major
knew who did it. I said, " What did the sol-
diers say about it ?" He replied, " Some said it was
a dirty action ; others, that he deserved it."
Superintendent Everett, sworn—l produce a rifle,
No. 383. It was found in a field through which
runs a footpath leading into the high road. The
statement made by the deceased, that the soldier
ran away towards Chichester, would indicate this
pathway.
David Miller recalled—There were 12 men in the
hut on Tuesday night, the 15th inst. Cleary was
the only man absent, except one who was in hospi-
tal. On the night of the 16th the prisoner was the
only man absent. He said, "he should not do the
drill," or "he'd drill some of them," or words to
that effect.
The Coroner having summed up, the jury retired,
and after an absence of a quarter of an hour re-
turned a verdict of wilful murder agaiiit John
Cleary.
The inquiry did not terminate until past 5 o'clock,
some 400 persons being present during the day.

During the six months ending in Sept.,lB6o, the
Peninsular and Oriental Co.'s steamers conveyed to the
east gold to the value of £1,102,383, and silver to the value
of £5,193,010. During the six months ending last Sept.
the steamers conveyed gold to the value only of £681,116,
and silver to the value only of £4,491,182, showing a fall-
ing off of nearly half a million of gold and about a million
of silver.

BUNIVING THE BLOCKADE.

We suggested a fortnight ago that the most effec-
tual blockade of any Southern port where such a
measure is possible—as, for instance, Charleston
and Savannah—would be to render its channel im-
passable. To escape the vigilance of a cruising
squadron is not, as all history proves, a difficult
matter, and the facility of doing so in this age of
steamships is immensely incregged. In all the Euro-
pean wars of the last 75 years where blockades have
been attempted, the trade carried on with the inter-
dicted countries has been immense, in spite of fleets ;
it is idle to expect that our own prohibition of com-
merce along our hundreds of miles of sea coast is
to prove an exception. How many ships and other
vessels have run in and out of Southern ports, what
quantities of arms, of provisions, and munitions of
war have been thus conveyed to the rebel forces
within the last three months it is impossible to
tell ; but, as we know that the war was not
undertaken without careful forethought, that
the conspirators used Floyd, long before the
rebellion was an overt act, to disarm the Govern-
ment, to deprive it of a navy, and to secure for
themselves the weapons which they have turned
against it, so it is not at all likely that they neg-
lected other means to put themselves in a condition
to carry out their. treasonable purposes. Certainly
if they made arrangements to purchase arms in
Europe, as seems highly probable, they have been
successful in running them into Southern ports, for
none that we know of have ever been intercepted.
Nor is the British steamship Bermuda, reported to
have gone into Savannah a few days ago laden
with arms, the only vessel that has thus carried
aid and comfort to the enemy. That the Ber-
muda has been thus successful we have no doubt.
A gentleman arrived here last week from Savan-
nah, by way of Louisville, assures us of the fact,
and as he is vouched for to us as a man on whose
word implicit reliance may be placed, we see no
reason for doubting his statement. It is in
itself, moreover, entirely credible. He assures us
that Mr. Edward C. Anderson, as ex• Mayor of
Savannah, went over to England in Lord Ducie's

yacht America, which was, if our memory serves
ue, in the port of Charleston some time in June,
for the express purpose of buying arms. The Ber-
muda was sent out by Mr. Anderson and brought
6,500 Enfield rifles purchased by him. This we
understand from our informant is only one instal-
ment of Mr. Anderson's purchases, as three to five
more steamers are looked for with confidence at
Savannah, all to bring arms. The Bermuda gets,
of course, a high freight on these arms, but her
profit will be still larger on a return cargo of cotton,
should she be as fortunate in gettinr, out as she was
in getting in; and the double chance of a good
voyage both ways is inducement enough for all
' these steamers to tak6 the risk of capture. The
Bermuda, it seems, was expected, and may possibly
have been signalled somewhere on the coast. At
any rate, at a precise moment to suit her conve-
nience a heavy cannonading was opened at a dis-
tant post by the rebels, and the blockading
squadron hastened thither to ascertain its cause.
When out of sight the Bermuda slipped
in. She took a risk which there are always men
ready enough to take in time of war with the hope
of great gain, and we, of course, are without remedy.
Were Savannah closed by proclamation as a port
of entry we might have some ground of, complaint
to urge to the British Government at the evasion
of our laws by her subjects. But, as the case now
stands, her sufficient and very proper answer would
be, " You have proclaimed a blockade, and the
whole world has a right to break it if you can't
maintain its integrity." But if one department of
Government does not think it best to close Savan-
nah by law, we pray that another department will
close it with hulks. Two or three ..!n the channel
off Tybee Light a fortnight ago would have been a
loss to the rebels of 6,500 Enfield rifles and the sale
of a cargo of cotton. If done now it will prevent
the entrance of the expected steamers, and it is
better to rely on a material obstacle so impassable
than upon the chance of the squadron not being
again enticed away by some new " dodge," or the
luck being next time with our ships. The loss is
too much and the gain too small on our side, while
the rebel gain is too great and the loss only that of
adventurers, for us to leave anything to chance in
this matter where it can be avoided.—New York
Tribune.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

GLOUCESTER RACES.-TUESDAY.

Tho Badminton Stakes of 3 sovs each, with 20 added, for
all ages ; mares and geldings allowed 31b, with selling
allowances. One mile.
Mr. Stevens's Violet, 2 yrs (MO), Est (car. Get 21b)
(Pearson) 1
Mr. York's The Principal, 2 yrs (L 150), 6st 101 b
(Wheatley) 2
Mr. 11. J. Smith's Avongrove, 2 yrs (LSO), Get 31b (car.
Get 41b) (Woodhouse) 3
Mr. J. Land's Dunoon, 2 yrs (DO), Gst 31b.. (J. Reeves) 4
Mr. Adams's Wortham, 3 yrs (£80), 7st 121b(H. Taylor) 5
The following also ran :—Joy, Ludlow, Maid of Peru,
Whimsical, and Couleur-de-Rose.
Betting-5 to 2 agst The Principal, 7to 2 agst Dunoon,
5 to 1 each agst Wortham and Couleur-de-Rose, 7 to 2 agst

The running was alternately made by Dunoon, The
Principal, and Avongrove, until rounding the turn for
home, where Violet passed Avongrove and Dunoon, and
reaching The Principal at the half distance, raced in with
him neck and neck to within a couple of strides of home,
where Violet got her head in front, and won a good
race in by a head ; four lengths between the second and
third; Dunoon and Wortham close up; Whimsical last,
beaten off.

The Innkeepers' Plate of 30 soya, added to a handicap
sweepstakes of 5 sous each. Winners extra. One mile.
36 subs.
Mr. S. Jacob's Bookaloom, 3 yrs, Est 21b (car. Est 41b)
(Roper) 1
Mr. J. Clerk's Dotterell, 3 vrs, Est (Cannon) 2
Mr. J. B. Starky's Nativity, 3 yrs, Est 131 b (G. Parsons) 3
Mr. J. Turner's Jackall, 3 yrs, 6st 91b (Woodhouse) 4
Mr. J. Wood's Caliban, 3 yrs, 6st 41b (E. Taylor) 5
Betting-5 to 4 agst-Jackall, 2to 1 agst Caliban, 4to 1
each agst Bookaloom and Nativity.
Caliban was the first off, and led at a good pace, followed
by Bookaloom and Jackall, Nativity and Dotterell several
lengths in the rear. In this order they came up to the
railway turn, where Bookaloom left Caliban and jackal],
and before entering the straight was half-a-dozen, lengths
in front. After this he came on at his leisure, and won
easily by two lengths. Nativity was a bad third, Jackall
several lengths behind her, fourth. Caliban broke a blood-
vessel a quarter of a mile from home, was pulled up, and
trotted in last. _ _

A Farmer's Plato of 25 sous, added to a Sweepstakes of 3
soya each, for horses bona fide the property of the nomi.
nator and regularly hunted during the season. To be
ridden by farmers or gentlemen, not professionals.
Winners extra. One mile and a half.
Mr. Chapman's Gift, 5 yrs, 12st 31b (including 101 b ex.)
(Mr. Bryer) 1
Mr. Smith's Perseverance, aged, 12st 10th (in. 101 b ex.))
(Mr. Harraway 2
Mr. Denton's The Corporal, aged, 12st .... (Mr. Blake) 3
Mr. Dowding's Holdfast, 6 yrs, 12st (Owner) 4

Betting-7 to 2on Gift.
The Corporal had a slight lead when passing the Stand
the first time, Gift laying off until nearing the railway
turn, when Gift, who was pulling hard, closed with the two
leaders, and at the distance had them safe; Gift then came
on and won without an effort by a neck; The Corporal was
a bad third ; Holdfast beaten off.
The Gloucestershire Handicap of 10 soya each, 2 ft, with
50 added, for 3-yr-olds and upwards. Winners extra.

One mile. 33 subs.
Mr. P. Bell's Gleam, 3 yrs, Est 101 b (J. Reeves) 1
Lord Coventry's Flitch, 5 yrs, Bst 21b (L, Snowden) 2
Mr. Dray's Noblesse, 2 yrs, Est 21b (G. Parsons) 3
The following also ran :—Fitzavon, Atherstone, Miss
Eleanor, Billy Dwindles, Conqueror, Sycophant, The Don,
Redpole, Confession, Acco, and Wortham.
Betting-3 to 1 agst Billy Dwindles, sto 1 agst Gleam,
6 to 1 agst' Flitch, 7 to 1 agst Noblesse, 8 to 1 each agst
Acco and Redpole, 100 to 8 agst Confession, 10 to 1 each
agst The Don and Miss Eleanor, 100 to 6 agst Conqueror,
20 to 1 agst Wortham.
After a couple of false starts with Sycophant and Red-
pole, khe signal was given, when Sycophant was several
lengths in the rear; Billy Dwindles, Redpole, Flitch, and
Noblesse heading the lot, with Gleam and Acco close at
their quarters. On rounding the bottom turn Redpolc
deprived Billy Dwindles of the lead, the two coming on in
front to the turn for home, where both were beaten, and
Flitch, with Gleam and .Noblesse close up, came first into
the straight. At the half-distance Gleam had caught
Flitch, and in a few strides was leading, was never headed,
and won in a most easy mannerby three lengths; Flitch
beating Noblesse for second place by two lengths. Wor-
tham and Confession close up, fifth and sixth, Sycophant
and Fitzavon bringing up the rear. Conqueror, when go-
ing round the first turn towards the Willows hung so much
to the left that he ran against a couple of flagstaffs and sent
them flying. On rounding the turn for home he ran against
one of the posts and came down on his head, rolling over
little Parson, who was not severely hurt, as he soon got up
and walked to the weighing-room. Conqueror immediately
jumped up and bolted round the course. .
Handicap Hurdle Race of 3 soya each, with 20 added. Over
four flights of hurdles. Winners extra. Ono mile and a
quarter.
Mr. T. Patrick's Kington, 4 yrs, 9st (G. Smith) 1
Mr. J. Weymer's The Miller (h. b.), aged, Oat 71b
z
(H. Sly, jun.)
Mr. Marshall's Emily Harris (late The Nun), 4 yrs, Ost 71b
(G. Holmer) 3
Yorkshire Grey, Mary Stuart, Eheu, Estella, and Gril-
lade also ran.
Betting-6 to 4 agst Estella, 4to 1 agst The Miller, and
6 to 1 agst Emily Harris.
Estella went off at a fearful pace, flying the hurdles in
fine style, Ebeu following in her wake, second ; Emily
Harris next, Grillade and Yorkshire Grey heading the re-
waiWilsr, with The Miller last, all the lot going over the

hurdles in fine style. In this order they went along the
bottom of the course, when Eheu went up to Estella, the
pair coming awa.y[several lengths in advance up to the Rail-
way turn, where both dropped back, and Kington, with
Emily Harris, took first and second places. At the half
distance The Miller made his effort (having laid so far from
his horses in the early part of the race), but failed to reach
Kington, who won cleverly by two lengths, half a length
separOing the second and third ; Eheu was a good fourth,
may Stuart and Yorkshire Grey close up, fifth and sixth;
Grillade,and Estella both beaten off a long way.

LA.T.O 'Y BETTING ON 'IHE COURSE.
S
CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
9to 2 ags llenham Lass (taken)
25 to 1 agst Limeflower (taken freely)

BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—ThESDAY.
The doings on the Cambridgeshire proceed but slowly;
sto 1 was freely offered cm' the field. Asteroid was a little
more in request to-day, 10 to 1 being taken. The only
animal that was supported to m uch money was Limeflower,
but she did not advance beyond 100 to 3 (taken). There
seems to be plenty of hedging nioney to be got off Came-
rino. 25 to 1 was freely offered. The last bet we saw booked
about him was 1,000 to 30. 40 to 1 was laid to a little
money against Gridiron. Closing pr ices
CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
11 to 2 agst Henham L ass (wanted)
10 to 1 agst Asteroid (tstken)
12 to 1 agst The Roe (ts ken and offered)
16 to 1 agst Confectioner (taken)
30 to 1 agst Ivanhoff (taken)
33 to 1 agst Baron Munc,tmusen (taken and offf.ired)
33 to 1 agst Limeflowcr (fa liken)
33 to 1 agst Camerino (taken)
33 to 1 agst Donner and Bli.tz (offered)
33 to 1 agst Palestro (offered)
40 to 1 agst Gridiron (taken)
40 to 1 agst Wizard (offered)
40 to 1 agst Rameses (offered)
40 to 1 agst Doefoot (offered)
50 to 1 agst Precise (taken and offered)
50 to 1 agst Sawcatter (offered)
1000 to 10 agst Libellous (taken)
THE DERBY.
12 to 1 agst The Marquis (taken)
1000 to 15 agst Tolurno (taken)

FROM TEE GAZETTE OR LAST NIGHT.

CITY OF LINCOLN.

The Gazette contains the Speaker's warrant for issuing
a new writ for the electing of a member to servo in Parlia-
ment for the city of Lincoln, in the room of Major Gervaise
Tottenham Waldo Sibthorp, deceased.

WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MA LL, OCT. 22.
Ist Regiment of Life Guards—The Hon. Maurice Wing-
field to be Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant, without purchase,
vice Hessey, promoted.
Ist Dragoon Guards—Captain Fitzbardingo Jones, from
12th Lancers, to be Captain, vice Henry Marlow Sidney,
who exchanges.
Bth Hussars—John Cooke, Gent., late 2d Lieutenant, Tip-
perary Artillery Militia, to be Cornet, by purchase, vice
Daniel Dudley Valentine Maher, who retires.
9th Lancers—William Charles Chitty Erskine, Gent., to
be Cornet, by purchase, vice Floyd, promoted.
12th Lancers—Captain Henry Marlow Sidney, from Ist
Dragoon Guards, to be Captain, viceFitzhardinge Jones,
who exchanges.
18th Hussars—John Parkinson, Gent., to be Cornet, by
purchase, vice Fuller, promoted.
Military Train—Lieutenant Henry Adams has been per-
mitted to retire from the Service by the sale of his Com-
mission.
3d Regiment of Foot—Major Thomas George Gardiner,
from half-pay Unattached, to be Major, vice Henry .john
King, who retires upon half-pay ; Ensign Charles James
Hamilton, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice George
Thomas Gape, who retires ; Wm. Synge Cooper, Gout.,
to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Hamilton.
4th Foot—Lieutenant George H. Kittoe, to be Instructor
of Musketry, vice Captain J. W. Laurie, promoted to an
Unattached majority.
6th Foot—Captain and Brevet-Major Edward Lister
Green, from the 77th Foot, to be Captain, vice Jolua
Augustus Staines, who exchanges.
12th Foot—Major Edward Geo. Hibbert, to be Lieutenant-
Colonel, by purchase, vice Brevet-Colonel John Max-
well Perceval, C. 8., who retires upon half-pay ; Captain
James William Espinasse, to be Major, by purchase,
vice Hibbert ; Lieutenant Coningsby Michael Harward
to be Captain, by purchase, vice Espinasse; Ensign Ed-
ward Charles Colley Foster to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Harward ; Joseph Boulton, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Foster.
14th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon William Henry Jenkins,
from the 84th Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice John
Martin Hyde, who exchanges.
18th Foot—Staff Surgeon-Major James Alexander Fraser,
M.D., to be Surgeon, vice Thomas Crawford, M.D., ap
pointed to the staff.
19th Foot—Ensign Edgar Angelo Dickenson Ao be Lieute-
nant, without purchase, vice Conynghame sours Backas,
deceased.
21st Foot—Ensign Michael Thunder to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Francis Nevil Reade, who retires ; En-
sign Clement John Sneyd to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice William Henry Slingsby Beamish, who retires ;
Ernest Theodore Evans, Gent., to be Ensign., by pur-
chase, vice Sneyd; George Herbert Burrows, Gent., to
be Ensign, by purchase, vice Thunder.
23d Foot—John Joseph Mahon, Gent., to be Ensign., with-
out purchase, vice Hay promoted ; Lieutenant B:l.muel
William Ralph Sadler to be Instructor of Musketry,
vice Lieutenant Geo. Packe, who has resigned that ap-
pointment.
24th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Albert Frank Adaißs, from
the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, by purchaa
vise Philip Ccnolly, appointed to the 81st Foot.
35th Foot—Assistant-Suro.eon John Clarke, M.b., from
the 13th Foot, to be 'Assistant Surgeon, vice John.

Mahon, who retires.
48th Foot—Lieutenant Reginald Pennell to be Instructor
of Musketry, vice Lieutenant Edward Feneran, pro-

moted.
52d Foot—Captain John Thomas French, from the 96th
Foot, to be Captain, vice the Hon. Debonnairo John
Monson, who exchanges.
67th Foot—Herbert Reid Lempriere, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Price, promoted.
68th Foot—Ensign John Pitts Briggs to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Edward Deshon, who retires.
72d Foot—Assiptant-Surgeon Alex, Campbell M'Tavish,
from the 60th Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Theo-
dore William Rutter, M.D., resigned.
74th Foot—Sergeant-Major Charles M'Lagan, to be
Quartermaster, vice George Watson, deceased.
77th Foot—Captain John Augustus Staines, from 6th
Foot, to be Captain, vice Brevet-Major Edward Lister
Green, who exchanges.
78th Foot—Lieut. Melville Augustus Walker to be Captain,
by purchase, vice Brevet-Major Jas. Duncan M'Andrew,
who retires ; Ensign Alex. Balfour Ker Williamson to
be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Walker; John Lacey
Morley, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase,viceWilliamson.
81st Foot—Ensign Wm. gustus Claude Stuart-Menteth
to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Fane, promoted, by
purchase, in the St.. Helena Regiment ; Ensign Philip
Conolly, from the 24th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Stuart-

Msnteth.
84th Foot—Assistant.. Surgeon John Martin Hyde, from
the 14th Foot, to be Assistant Surgeon, vice Wm. Henry

Jenkins, who exchanges.
91st Foot—Lieut. John Edward Burton to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Charles Goddard Dewell, who retires;
Ensign Henry Caesar Kemm to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Burton ; William Cecil Hinton, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Kemm.
96th Foot—Capt. the Hon. Debonnaire John Monson, from
the 52d Foot, to be Captain, vice John Thomas French,

who enchanges.
3d West India Regiment—Capt. Alexander Dunlop to be
Major, by purchase, vice Frederick George Nuttall
Clarke, who retires; Lieut. Frederick C. Clifton to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Dunlop.
St. Helena Regiment—Lieut. Henry John Fane, from 81st
Foot, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Edmund Charles

Barnes, who retires.
Royal Newfoundland Companies—Ensign Wm. Cavanagh
to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Daniel Edward
Daly, deceased.
TJNATTACIIED.—Lieut. Thomas Gardiner, from the 58th
Foot, to be Captain without purchase.
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.

Staff Surgeon-Major Robert Thomas Scott, who' retires
upon half-pay, to have the honorary rank of Deputy In-
spector-General of Hospitals.
Surgeon Thomas Crawford, M.D., from the 18th Foot, to
be Staff-Surgeon, vice Surgeon-Major Fraser, appointed to
the 18th Foot.
Assistant-Surgeon William Langworthy Baker, from the
10th Foot, to be Staff Assistant-Surgeon, vice Opie Smith,
placed upon half-pay.

BREVET.
The undermentioned promotions to take place consequent
on the death of General Dennis Herbert on the 19th Sep-
tember, 1861 :
Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Erskine Napier, K.C.8.)
Colonel of the 71st Foot, to be General.
Major-General Henry Lord Rokeby, K.C.8., Colonel of
the 77th Foot, to be Licutmant-General.
Brevet-Colonel Charles Trollope, C. 8., Lieutenant-
Colonel, half-pay 62d Foot, to be Major-General.
Lieutenant-Colonel Charles John Foster, IGth Lancers,
to be Colonel.
Major John Cowell Bartley, sth Foot, to bo Lieutenant-
Colonel.
Captain George Frederick Berry, 24th Foot, to be Major.
Lieutenant-Colonel Isaac Moore, Depot Battalion, hav-
ing completed five years' service as Lieutenant-Colonel, to
be Colonel in the Army, under the Bth clause of the Royal
Warrant of the 14th October, 1858.
Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel LELWITTICe Shadwell
years ' Majori on
ce
half-pay Unattached, having completed five p
as Lieutenant-Colonel under the Bth clause of the Royal
Warrant of 14th October, 1858, to be Colonel in the Army.
The Commission of Honorary Captain conferred on Lieu-
tenant William Hughes, Paymaster 82d Foot, on the 24th
May, 1861, to be antedated Ist April, 1861.
ADMIRALTY, OCT. 18.
Corps of Royal Marines—Second Lieutenant Edward James
Westby to be First Lieutenant, vice Hesketh, removed
from List of Officers of the Corps.

BANKRUPTS.
Robert CowtanLegroicshera,inC.ahleig, Caledonian-road, Middlesex.
Louisa Jenks, Lew
Richard Watson, licensed victualler, Gravesend,
John Millar, baker, Barbican, Middlesex.
Clementina Cargill, the College. Bromley.
Joseph Evans, builder, Wimbledon and Clapham.
John Willson Howell, builder, Tottenham.
John Lea, Sewardstone and Forest-gate, Essex.
Joseph Smith, tailor, Lombard-street.
John Williams, printer, King-street, Bloomsbury.
Albert Dummler, Grove Hill-terrace, Camberwell.
Joseph Sumpton, corn chandler, Uxbridge-road, Ealing.
Wm. Knight, hair dresser, Baker-street, Walworth-
road, Camberwell.
John Stevens, builder, Lonsdale-road, Bayswater.
John Ivens, farmer, Water Eaton, Buckinghamshire.
Wm. Henry Osborn, accountant Broad-street-buildings,
City.

Eduard Barwick, lithographer, Union-street, Old Broai.•
street, London.
William Cribb, prisoner in the Queen's Prison.
Samuel William Hall, gentleman, Grove, East Dulwich.
Edward James Stephen Dicey, Strand.

Miles MB ,tthews, licensed victualler, Birmin,gham.
John -Ea wthoz •n, builder, Burslem, Staffordshire.
Charl es Smith ies, commercial agent, Leeds.
John Wilson, coffee-house keeper, Edgware-road.
Jokit Teasd4l€ Softley, plumber, Wandsworth
Jos eloh Paull, farmer, Upper atford, Hants.
Joss ph Sow‘s rby and Charles Thomas Tatton, drapers,
Regen t-circus., .
Will lam T.l comas Hendry, ironmonger, Ca unon-street
West, amity.
Geor, 7,e Br ddry, farmer, Chesterton, Cambriclp•eshiro.
Jame. s At ,kips, butcher, Archer-street, Kensil igton-park,
Middles ex.

Ed win.!..arecraft, picture dealer, Burlington-Arcadc, Pie •
cadilly.
George Wilmshunt, surgeon, Birmingham.
Henry Leigh Jones, draper, Leather-lane, Holborn.
Withal .n Booty, farmer, Worlington, Suffolk.
Itichai d Barnes Austin, gentleman, Tenbury, Worces-
tershire.
Samps on Goodheim, cloth cap manufacturer, Manchester.
Richaa d Carr Stonehouse, corn factor, Datil ngton.
Georg( Wood, timber merchant, Monkwearraouth.
John '1 'omlinson and John Sharpies, joiners, Manchester.
Robert Uric, joiner, Manchester.
Jonatha a Pell, mining agent, Cefn.-Gwyn, Cardigan-
shire.
SCOTCH BANKRUPTS.
Cooper anal Co., milliners, Glasgow.
John M'Pherson, grocer, Oban.
Miss Isabella Miller, Albany-street, Edinburgh.
Alexander Thomson, grocer, Kirkintilloch.
John Robertson, farmer, Aliddleton of Rottearns, Perth-
shire.
James Grant, carter, Grantown, Inverness-shire.

HEALTH OF LONDON .DU.RIIVG THE WEEK.

(From the Regss.trar-General's 111;lekly Return.)

The return of births and deaths in London, issued.
by authoritylof the Jlegistrar-General, states that
the deaths in London, which had previously ranged
above 1,100 in a week, fell to 1,065 in the week
that ended last Saturday. After correction is made
for cholera epidemics within the period of compari-
son, it will be found that the deaths of last week
were less by about 50 than they would have been
if the average rate or mortality in corresponding
weeks of 10 previous years had prevailed.
The births in last week exceeded the deaths in
the same time by 781.
The mortality from measles is reduced in a re-
markable degree, only two deaths from this com-
plaint having been returned in the week; one of
these in Marylebone, the other in Hampstead. There
were six from snsall-pox, two of which were in
Mile-end and three in Poplar. On the other hand
scarlatina is clearly on the increase, and it was re-
corded in 87 cases in the week, besides 17 cases is
which diphtheria was the cause of death. Five
deaths from scarlatina occurred in Camden-town,
11 in Islington, 6 in Bethnal-green, 7 in the Christ-
church sub-district of Southwark. There were 36
death from whooping cough and typhus severally,
and 34 from diarrhoea. Zymotic diseases in the
aggregate produced 286 deaths, while the corrected
average of corresponding weeks is 332. Three
nonagenarians, all widows, died in the week, of
whom the oldest were 95 and 98 years respectively.
Two children, both of the age of 6 months, died
from erysipelas after vaccination. In one case
the erysipelas commenced a fortnight after the
operation. A man in St. Luke's Hospital, aged
44 years, died of "English cholera ; " and a girl
of 16 years died of cholera at 2, Andrew's-build-
ings, Woolwich. A boy, aged two years, died
from the effects of a deadly poison called ' novar-
gent,' taken accidentally and in ignorance." (In-
quest.) It is stated that this composition contains
nitrate of silver, is sold in small bottles by chemists,
and used after having been mixed with whitening,
for renovating plated articles.
Last week the births of 954 boys and 892 girls, in
all 1,846 children, were registered in London. In
the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1851-60
the average number was 1,606.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29.952 in.
The mean daily reading was above 30 in. on Wed-
nesday and Thursday. The barometer rose to
30.17 in. on Thursday, and it fellto 29.74 in. on Sa-
turday. The mean temperature of the air in the
week was 54.6 deg., which is 4.9 deg. above the
average of the same week in 48 years (as deter-
mined by Mr. Glaisher). The mean daily tempera-
ture was above the average throughout the week :
and 4on Monday this excess was as much as 12,2
deg.