The Sun.
London, England, 1850-09-03 00:00:00

THE SEA SERPENT AGAIN.

The present being the age of wonders, it will ex-
cite no surprise to learn that his mightiness the sea
serpant has been sporting his dimensions in the peace-
able waters bounding the west coast of C )rk. Let
those who may b 3 incredulous of the fact read the
following letter, addressed to the Cork Constitution,
by a gentleman, who, sailing in his own yacht, had
the apocryphal pleasure of seeing the monster so-
lacing his idle moinants by a comfortable scratch
against a neighbouring lighthouse, with a view, it
would seem, of ridding itself of its old and useless
scales. But 1e: Mr. Travers tell his ow❑ story :
" Courtrnasherry, Aug. 29.
" Sir,—The following particulars, the accuracy Of
which need not be quostioned, will, I doubt not, interest
many of your rcad,rs

" The different fishing establishments on the shore of
this extensive bay, extending from the Old Head of
Kinsale to the Seven Heals, have been within the last
few days abundantly supplied with fish of every de-
scription, and the greatest activity prevails to profit by
the bounty which has teen thus sent to us literally in
shoals. It his been noticed, too, that some description
of fish, hank for instance, have been captured further
within the limits of the inner harbour than was ever
known before. In fact, as I heard it observed, the fish
was literally leaping ashore.
" These novel Appearances, however, it was my lot to
see fully accounted for yesterday. At about one o'clock
A.M., when sailing in my yacht, with a slight breeze off
shore, about two miles to the south of the beacon erected
on the Barrel rocks, on of the party cf four gentlemen
on board (Mr. 8., of Bandon) drew attention towards
the structure mentioned, with the interrogatory of ' Do
yeu see anything queer about the Barrels?' In an in-
stant the attention of all on board was rivetted on an
object which at first struck me as like the up-heaved
thick end of a large mast, but which, as it was made out
plainer, proved to be the head of some huge fish or
monster. On bearing down towards the objtct we
could distinctly see, with the naked eye, what I can
best describe as an enormous serpent without mane or
fur or any like appendage. The portion of the body
above water, and which appeared to be rubbing or
scratching itself against'the beacon, was fully 30 feet
long, and in diameter I should say about a fathom. With
the aid of a glass it was observed that the eyes were of
immense size., about nine inches across the ball, and the
upper part of the back appeared covered wiih a furrowed
shell-like substance. We were now within rifle-shot
of the animal, and, although some on board exhibited
Pardonable nervousness at the suggestion, it was resolved
to fire a ball at the under portion of the holy whenever
the creature's unweildly evolutions would expose its
vuluereble part. The instant the piece was discharged
the monster rose as if impelled by a painful impulse to
a height which msy appear incredible,—say at least
thirty fathoms,—and culminating with the most rapid
motion dived or dashed itself under water with a splash
that almost stopped our breaths with amazement. In a
few moments all disturbance of the water subsided, and
the strange visitor evidently pursued its course to sea-
ward. On coming up to the beacon we were gratified
to find adhering to the supports numerous connected
scaly masses, such as one would think would be rubbed
from a creature coating,' or changing its old skin for a
new one. These interesting objects can be seen at the
Horse Rock Coast Guard station, and will repay a visit.
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nut so gocd an opportunity of seeing the entire appear-
ance of the animal as those in my boat had, should send
you a more readable account of it, I pledge myself none
will more strictly adhere to the real facts.
I am, sir, your very obedient servant,
" ROGER W. TRAVERS."

BEARS FROM CALIFORNIA.—Among the passengers
brought by the West India mail-packet Avon, which arrived
at Southampton on Sunday, were three grisly bears from
California. They were caught in the following manner :
At one of the gold diggings the carcase of a bullock had been
hung up in an open place. Its magnitude was reduced con-
siderably one night, and the owners suspecting that a human
thief was in the vicinity, set a watch, when an enormous
grisly bear was seen approaching the carcase. Bruin was
caught violating the laws of Ineum and tuum, and, of course,
was killed by the watchers. It proved to be a she bear
giving suck. Her den was tracked, and three very young
cubs were found. They were purchased in California by one
of the passengers on board the Avon, who brought them to
England. They were very docile on board, and were allowed
to run loose about the deck. One of them particularly was
so tame that it would play and roll about the ship with the
boys on board. They grew amazingly after they left
Chagres. The passenger who brought them home brought
to Southampton 25,000 dollars' worth of gold-dust in skins,
after paying his passage for himself and bears, which coat.
him about 800 dollars.
PROPOSED FORTIFICATIONS IN MILFORD HAVEN.
—The contemplated fortifications and defences for the More
efficient protection of the important naval station and esta-
blishment at Pembroke-dock, will shortly be commenced.
During the week Lieutenant-Colonel Victor, of the Royal
Engineers, with the other officers of that corps, have been
busily engaged in examining and inspecting all the com-
manding situations, with the view of selecting the best sites
for the erection of the proposed works. The Stack Rock,
Thorn Island, Dale Point, &c., have been severally exa-
mined ; and it is now understood that on the Stack Rock,
situate at the entrance of the harbour, a fort will be erected.
and marten° towers be constructed on other commanding
positions. These will be mounted with guns of heavy calibre,
fixed on traversing carriages. The works will entail the
erection of additional barracks for the accommodation of the
men necessary for their defence.
On Thursday last a dreadful accident, occasioned
by fire-damp, occurred at the works of Messrs. Kenworthys,
Heys Colliery, Ashton-under-Lyne, by which three persons
came to their deaths. At the inquest the jury returned a
verdict that there was no evidence to satisfy them how and
by whit means the sulphur was ignited.

• IN 3IEMORIAIIi---
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN:
SIII,—A correspondent in your paper of Saturday
draws the attention of your readers to what he con-
ceives an error in the title of Mr. Tennyson's work,
saying that it ought to be " In Memoriii," as " In,
except in a few instances, governs the ablative case."
This, however, is one of those instances. In, with an
ablative case, signifies rest or position, with an accu-
sative motion or direction, bodily or mental. klere
the object to which the poetry is directed is the me-
mory of some one, therefore " In Memoriam" is
right. I would refer your correspondent to the titles
of several of Horace's Odes and Epodes—" I❑ cani-
diam veneficam," Epod. iv. " On or to Canidia the
Witch." "In Mcevium poetam," Epod. x. "On or
to the Poet Moevius." To this I may Add that monu-
ments to the deceased are inscribed " In Memoriam,"
and not " In Memorift.." .
I am, Su., your obedient servant,
Sept. 2, 1850.
CANTAB.

-.---/NOMMa•
13UIIIALS IN L DUN,
TO 7'HEEDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,--I again intrude upon the columns of your
parer a description of the state of the graveyards .
of
the metropolis. "The City Bunbill Burial-ground,"
better known as the Gold,- n-land graveyard from the
notoriety given to it by Mr. G. A. Walker in his lec-
tures, is again open for the interment of the dead.
This graveyard is situated in one of the most thickly-
populated districts in London, in the midst of a poor
and impoverished neighbourhood, which, during the
prevalence of cholera and the annual epidemics, was
visited by the fatal consequences attendant on the
poisoned air produced from the burial of the dead in
crowded localities. It has been proved that the bodies
were taken from their graves and disposed of by burn-
ing or by some other means, and the coffin wood,
saturated as it must be by the liquid from the decom-
posed and decomposing corpses, caused a stench which
was felt for several hours after all through the neigh-
bourhooi. The pariah of St. Luke's will be found on
reference to the Registrar-General's returns
to be most unhealthy, and it may be argued that
the local graveyard system of burial is the
cause of that evil. The Act passed in the
last session of Parliament, and which was considered
by Ministers of sufficient importance for the public
benefit to call for encomiums from the Sovereign in
her speech, would seem to be a nullity, when the
Commissioners appointed, under the provisions of the
Metropolitan Interments Act, allow the graveyards
of crowded, impoverished, and sickly localities to be
opened for interments, in defiance of the law ; and as
the Act provides for land in the present suburban
cemeteries, pointing thereto as a remedy for the ex-
isting evils in the parishes of the cities of London and
Westminster. The powers of the Metropolitan In-
terments Act extend so far as to prevent all inter-
ments in the city, and to compel the interment in the
present cemeteries, where there is sufficient ground
undisposed of, until a cemetery of adequate dimensions
is prepared for the interment of the dead of this great
city. Something ought to be done to compel the
Commissioners to do their duty, if they are unwil-
ling ; and the farce of advertising for 100 acres of
ground, within twenty miles of St. Paul's,
with the perfect knowledge that such a quantity
of land in one eligible spot is not to be had,
will be no excuse for the fearful results of the neglect
of the duties imposed upon the Board of Health, as
Christians, and as servants of the Crown, to whom
they are answerable for the neglect. It has been re-
marked by an observer of the present plan of inter-
ment, that he knows not "how the repulsive system
of burying the dead in intramural nooks and corner!,
in such grave-holes and charnel-dens as abound in
London, could ever have come into practice, or been
thus long perpetuated, and says it is explainableupon no principle either of enlightened Christianity
or rational humanity. There is, on the contrary,
something grand and religiously consoling in the
idea that the civic generations, who in life have
dwelt together, should not in death be divided.
Community of sepulture would be a powerful stimu-
lus to a higher standard of religious and moral ex-
cellence than as yet exists ; for, when the ashes of the
deceased rich and poor, of the deceased good and bad,
repose within the wall encircling one vast mausoleum
church, the living rich and poor and the living
good and bad will be desirous of hastening the day when
time shall more and more be regarded as a prepa-
ratory stage to eternity—the day when death and
the grave shall more and more be looked to as the
gate and entrance to immortality."
The burial-ground of a vast Christian metropolis
should occupy a great space in the public eyeond fill
a large place in the public heart, and I would impress
on the minds of the Commissioners, and the public at
large, the necessity there is for having a stop put to
burials in London, and also the benefit to be derived
from the interments being made at a distance from
any inhabited locality, and in a space of ground ap-
propriated to cemeterial purposes, of vast and, exten-
sive dimensions, so as to prevent useless outlay of the
public money by keeping up separate establishments
for dill...rent cemeteries. Let, then, a space of several
hundreds of acres be enclosed for one grand cemetery
at a great distance from, but within a short time of,
London ; this will remedy the evil of disseminating .
from different points or cemeteries the mephitic gas
which produces so much disease in the locality of
every graveyard, and, above all, to hasten the closing
of those graveyards and charnel-dens in populous
localities.

Hoping that the authorities will b! called upon to
inquire into the fearful miseries entailed by the
spread of sickness and destitution brought on by their
neglect, I remain, Sir, your obliged servant,
London, Sept. 2. W. H.

COURT CIRCULAR.
A deputation, consisting of Mr. Jones, Mr. Perfect,
and Mr. Lewis, on behalf of the Bolton, Blackburn,
Clitberoe, and West Yorkshire Railway Company,
had an interview with the Commissioners of Railways
yesterday, at their office in the Board of Trade.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colo-
nial•office from the Governor of Canada, and from
the Governors of the other North American Colonies.
Dispatches were also received yesterday from the
Governors of the West India Colonies.

SERIOUS ACCIDENT ON THE RAILWAY.—An occur-
rence took place on Saturday morning at Colchester, which,
besides the destruction of much valuable property, nearly re-
sulted in the sacrifice of human life. The scene of the catas-
trophe was on the farm of Mr. Garrad, veterinary surgeon,
through which runs the Eastern Counties Railway. It ap-
pears that there is a road-way from the above gentleman's
farm over the line to his fields on the other side, and that
since his occupation the company have erected a high en-
gine-shed just below the crossing, so that an up-train could
not be seen coming till it was close at hand. A waggon with
three horses and driver were engaged carting barley, and
were in the act of crossing' over for another load when at the
same moment the eight A.m. passenger-up train dashed into
them smashing the waggon to pieces, and dreadfully mutila'-
ing the horses. Most providentially the driver, who was
riding at the time, just before the engine struck the team,
had the presence of mind to spring to the ground, but in so
doing, barely escaped with his the engine in his perilous
descent, catching the flaps of his coat and completely sever-
ing them from the garment; one of the horses was found
under the engine, -and the others lay helpless on the ground.
The passengers in the train were alarmed, and rushed shriek-
ing to the windows, but it does not appear that any were
injured.—Essex

PROPOSAL TO CONVERT THE THAMES TUNNEL
INTO A SEWER FOR DRAINING TILE MIDDLESEX SIDE 01
TILE METROPOLIS.—A proposal has been forwarded to Lord
Ebrington, as cbairman of the Metropolitan Sewers Com-
mission, by Mr. James Graham Harding, a gentleman of
independent property, although a practical man, residing
in Albany-street, Regent's-park, for the conversion of the
Thames Tunnel into a means of draining the whole of the
Middlesex side of the metropolis, and carrying the sewage
into the main sewer of the Ravensbourne, on the Surrey side,
as proposed by the engineer of the Sewers' Commission for
the drainage of the whole south site of the river. Mr. Har•
ding's proposal is as follows:—Let a sewer be formed along
the side of the river so as to receive all the present sewers
and drains into it which are above and below the Thames
Tunnel ; next make two sewers along the bottom of the
Thames Tunnel to the Surrey s de, emptying themselves into
the intended main sewer proposed to be made, according to
the plan of Mr. Frank Forster. By adopting this plan it
would be making a valuable use of pat t of the Thames
Tunnel, and a ready way to get rid of the vast amount of
filth which at present pollutes the river Thames, to the
great injury of the health of the inhabitants of London .
The proposal is considered by several scientific men to be
exceedingly advantageous, and it remains to be seen what
decision the Commissioners of Sewers will come to on the
subject.

THE LONDON COFFEE AND EATING-HOLM.
KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION.—Yesterday evening a meeting of
subscribers and the committee of management of thf above
institution, was held at the Freemasons' Tavern for genera 1
business. The report of the society's progress was very satis-
factory. During the past half-year the committee has been
enabled to add upwards of 2001., thereby making their capital
stock in the hands of the Commissioners for the Reduction
of the National Debt now to consist of 2,4491. The balance
sheet for the past year showed the receipts from all sources
to be 4171. The expenditure left only a trifling balance.
The report concluded with an earnest appeal to the members
of both branches of the trade to extend the society's use-
fulness.

SECESSION FROM TEE CAURCIL—The Rev. Er re
Stewart Bathurst, rector of Kibworth, Beauchamp, Leices-
tershire, and formerly fellow of Merton College, Oxford, liar
resigned his living, value 1,5001. per annum, and was received
into the Roman Catholic Church, on Thursday last, by the
Very Rev. Dr. Newman, at the Oratory, in Alcester-street,
in this town.—Aris's Birmingham Gazette.
SINGULAR, VERDICT.—On Tuesday T. Lee, Esq.,
coroner, held an inquest on the body of a childeraetthplle:o:dsinswtteoenirdgteheydt.
near Barnshi V. It appears that a young unmarried woman,
named Stones, had been delivered of a still-born
child, and made no one acquainted with it for several hours
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NATURAL CURIOSITY.—During the present week
a pigeon belonging to Mr. Jonas Jennings, of Horton, has
batched a hen's egg, and produced a live chicken ; and what
makes the 'circumstance more strange is the fact of the
pigeon being of the masculine gender, its mate being ben%
shot $OlllO time ago.— Leeds Mercury.