The Sun.
London, England, 1868-01-31 00:00:00

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FUNERAL OF CHARLES KEAN.

/ The Telegraph, in describing the funeral of theisie
I Charles John Kean, says :—" Mrs. Kean had summoned
the necessary fortitude to follow her husband to the grave
near Keydell, the residence he had bought for his mother
to end her days in. At ten o'clock the hearse and three
mourning coaches, followed by a string of private car-
riages, left Queensborough-terrace for the Waterloo
Station. The widow, accompanied by Miss Kean, Miss
Chapman, and Mr. Platt, occupied the first coach ; in the
second were the Rev. Dr. Gatty, Sir William Fergusson,
and Mr. Young ; and in the third Captain Barrow,
Dr. Joy (the family physician), and Mr. George
Everett, who has been professionally associated
with Mr. Kean for seyeateen years. The Ports-
mouth train, which leave& Waterloo station at
half-past eleven, took the party of mourners to Row-
land's Castle, a little station which is the last on the
route before Havant. Few passengers were cognisant of
the fact that the hearse, denuded of its nodding sable
plumes, and shunted on a truck to the end of the train,
bore within it the body of poor Charles Kean ; and those
who were told the truth heard it with a regretful interest.
From Rowland's Castle to Catherington Church, the road
lies through the prim little village of Horndean, which
has almost as many clipped yews as it has house-roofs ;
and three last, being all peaked- and sloping, and of
about the same height as the well-grown trees before-
mentioned, seem to be of one family with them, and to
have sprung dip together. Horndean is nearly four
miles from the railway station, and Catherington
Church is another mile or so beyond Horndean, its
square tower and high red-tiled roof, with an odd,
homely-looking casement in the midst of it, crowning a
hill. At corner; of the road, country people with their
scarlet-cloaked children stood in little groups to see the
funeral procession go by; and in Horndean, where all the
houses and shops had their 'shutters partially closed, two
or three open carriages of the village. kind tacked them-
selves to the end of the. line. The vicar of Cathering-
ton, the Rev. Thomas Baugh, met the body at the
church ; but, at the request of Mrs. Kean, he had
relinquished his offices for the day to Dr. Gatti*,'
Sub-dean of York and vicar of Ecclesfield, one of
:he oldest friends of the departed. The church—a very
small one—was nearly filled, some addition to the
local congregation having)?eca made by the attendance of
"Th-rFOindianifitlo-in the Portsmouth Theatre, headed by the
manager, Mr. Harry Rutley, one of the warmest admirers
of Charles Kean's histrionic talents. The village choir
was accompanied in the hymn by Mrs. Baugh, wife
of the clergyman ; and her place as organist was
then yielded to Mr. Gelling, a musical amatetszi
who had requested permission to play the read
March, and who, as a friend, had come dawn
from London for that purpose. The details, of the
funeral, simple in appearance, but needing some judgment
and care to ensure that very character of si',nplicity, were
carried out by Mr. D. Butler, of Farriagdon-street, with
all the unobtrusive attention that cep:in have been wished.
A calm and almost a bright da:a the feeble wintry sun
struggling now and then to assart its power, gave place to
profound darkness before the mourners were on their
journey back by rail fram Rowland's Castle to London."

ADULTRI:A7ION OF FOOD A.ND DRUGS.

A bill on this subject has been prepared by Mr. Postgate,
F.RC.S., of Birmingham, and placed in the hands of Mr.
for Pre
George Dixon, M.P., to be introduced into Parliament next
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Food to
oarmDe Drink, k 6th August,
an
Act
Session.ve I
the Adulteration A
1860, 23rd and 24th Viet., cap. 34, and to Prevent the Adul-
teration of Drugs." The preamble declares the adultera-
tion of food, drink, and drugs to be hurtful to health and
dangerous to life, and that the practice requires to be re-
pressed by more effectual laws than those which are
now in force. The first clause makes adulteration
an offence, as follows:—" Every person who shall admix,
and every person who shall order any other person or per.
sous to admix, with any article of food or drink any injtn
rious or poisonous ingredient or material to adulterate the
same for sale ; and every person who shall order any other
person or persons to admix any ingredient or material with
any drug to adulterate the same for sale, shall be guilty
of a misdemeanour, and be imprisoned for six calendar
months with hard labour." The second clause refers
to persons selling adulterated articles. It increases
the penalty to £5O, and drugs are included with
food and drink. The third clause substitutes " shall "
for " may " appoint, in Clause 2 of the present
Act, thereby giving further powers to local authoritiek
and rendering the appointment of analysts compulsory.
The Act is now merely permissive. Clause 4 gives- power
in Great Britain to one of her Majesty's principal
Secretaries of State, and in Ireland to the Lord-
Lieutenant, to appoint one o•-• more competent persons
to act as commissioners to confer with and assist the local
authorities in carrying out and enforcing the Act. Clause
5 gives power to local authorities to direct inspectors of
nuisances, or weights and measures, or inspectors of
markets, as they shall think fit to determine, to pro-
cure samples of articles suspected to be adulterated, to have
them analysed ; and upon receiving certificates from the
I •
analyst stating that the articles are adulterated, the
inspectors to initiate proceedings against the adulterators or
sellers, under the Act, by lodging cause of complaint and
taking out the summons. Clause 6 provides that the
analysts shall report quarterly to the local authorities ap-
pointing them, the number of articles examined, specifying
the nature and kind of adulterations detected. All such
reports to be read publicly at the meeting of the local autho-
r rities appointing the analyst. Clause 7 directs that on the
hearing of any complaint under the Act the purchaser or
inspector shall prove to the satisfaction of the justices that
the article of food, drink, or drug alleged to be impure was
delivered to the analyst in the same condition as when
received from the seller. Clause 8 provides that any pur-
chaser shall on payment of not morethan ss. be entitled to
have any article analysed by the public analyst, and re-
ceive a certificate of the.result of the analysis, specifying
whether in the opinion of the examiner the article is adul-
terated, and whether, if it be an article of food or drink, it
is so adulterated as to be injurious to the health of persons
eating or drinking it ; such certificate, in the absence
of contrary evidence, to be sufficient testimony before a
justice, or in any court of justice, of the matters therein
certified, and the sum so directed to be paid for the cer-
tificate to be deemed part •of the costs. By Clause 9,
analysts or inspectors are to report the prevalence of adul-
terations in food and drink and drugs, and in manufactories
in their districts, the objectionable goods to be seized by
order of a magistrate. Samples to be sent to the analyst
to be examined and reported on by him. The other
clauses of the present Act are to be continued, merely
with the addition of " drugs " after the word drink.

THE HEALTH OF THE TROOPS IN ABYSSINIA.—
The Lancet has received, information by the last mail
from Abyssinia relative to the expeditionary force. The
health of the troops is alike excellent in the highlands and
lowlands. There are not more than about forty sick out
of the entire force. These have been placed on board the
hospital ships, all of which had arrived. The climate at
Zoule, is spoken of as very tolerable ; it is hot during the
forenoon, but a cool sea breeze springs up about mid-day-
The hospital ships, as receptacles for sick, have not, of
course, really been tested yet ; so far the experience obtained
is not so unfavourable as might have been anticipated. We
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are assured, however, that the Indian Government, at
whose request those vessels were supplied and fitted up in
elsewhere, as
this country, never intended to employ them as stationary
floating hospitals in the Red Sea. They will remain at
Annesley Bay until a sufficient number of sick have accu-
mulatedill
emobini-lleits,ntai. field and divisional hos-
removal,
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they variouswwhospitalseeiblceit:diot
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rent halting.required. Meanwhile these ships have been turned to very
good account. Not only did some of the British troops bor-
row
of
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these hospital vessels have been drawn
a new appearance. It is rendered disagreeable
of fin,..sand and dust, but its sani-
topre sienn tq
conse-
quenceu ite
of the quantity
and every pal, s is Wren
on the whole, decidedly satisfactorY,
sani-
tary condition is,
water supply and be`tuk:enrleaaiimitpainarirtasnog.enTiehnetsinbcardeasneodt
been without their inluence on the health of the animals.
sources. Two condensers were
All the water at Zoula had to be obtained from artificial
the shore • and
presUme, for r the dnaoitly amounted
in process of erection on
before they f-e were
tievraial tneldou,
to about 30,000 ll
ga ons. The rations are satisfactory,
there bei •ng a good issue of bread and vegetables,
and althougn the beef is not very. prime, it ig
very nearly as good as the troops get in India. The
arrangements for the despatch of troops are as follows:
They are forwarded in small detachments, accompanied
by on assistant-surgeon, from the camp at Zoula to Senaf6,
which is the plateau of Abyssinia, and distant 60
miles from the seaboard. The difficulties of the ascent to
Senafe art. great, and the march is divided into four stages,
provision heir g made for the reception of any sick at four
small detached hospitals, each iu charge of an assistant-
surgeon. The first stage is from ki ulkutto to Komeyloo,
about 10 miles ; the second froth Komeyloo to Upper
Sooroo, about 18 miles ' • the third from ljpper Sooroo to
Undel Wells, also about 12 miles ; the fourth is to Rarce-
middy, 16 miles. The distance between Eareeguddy and
Senate is only about eight miles. At the last•named place
will be the chief camp and divisional hospitals, at an
altitude of 7.000 feet, where the air is bracing, and the
nights are cold in the extreme. There is ample camping-
ground, abundance of water, good forage, and supplies of
various kinds procurable from the neighbouring districts.
The village of Senan is about one mile from the site of the
camp ; its total population numbers between 290 and 300,
chiefly of the Caucasian race, and lodged in wretchedly--
dirty llat-roofed houses. There does not seem to be much
disease among them beyond ophthalmia ; bet they are said
to have suffered from cholera in 1565. It will be seen that
everything has hitherto tamed out very much as those
best acquainted with the climate of Abyssinia predicted it
would. There has been no serious loss of health and life
eon the troops,