The Sun.
London, England, 1850-01-12 00:00:00

which of us is it that questions the dignity of th°
literary profession—my neighbour who would like
to eat his soup in quiet, or the man of letters who
commences the argument ? And I hope that a
comic writer, because he describes one author as
improvident, and another as a parasite, may not
only be guiltless of a desire to vilify his profession,
but may really have its honour at heart. If there
are no spendthrifts or parasites among us, the satire
becomes unjust; but if such exist, or have existed,
they are as
good subjects for comedy as men of
other callings. I never heard that the Bar felt itself
aggrieved, because Punch chose to describe Mr.
Dunup s notorious state of insolvency, or that the
picture of Stiggins, in
" Pickwick," was intended as
aninsult to 4111 Dissenters ; or that all the attorneys
in the empire were indignant at the famous history of
the firm of
Gammon, and Snap ;" are we to
be passed over. because we are faultless, or because
we cannot afford to be laughed at ? And if every
character in a story is to represent a class, not an in-
dividual—if every bad figure is to have its obliged
contrast of a good one, and a balance of vice and
virtue is to be struck— novels, I think, would become
impossible, as they would be intolerably stupid and
unnatural ; and there would he a lamentable end of
writers and readers of such compositions.—Eelieve
me, Sir, to be your very faithful servant,
Reform Club, Jan. fd. W. M. MA CIiBBA

SPORTING IN TELLI GENCE.
BETTING AT MANCHESTER—FRIDAY.
Very little business on racing or veePiechtising, or tt.•
grand billiard match. which Rol arts won.

METROPOLITAN HANDICAP.-300 to 12 agat Black
Eagle (t).
Ch ESTER Cur.—Not a bet laid. Offers to take 35 to
1 about Peep•o'•day Boy, and 40 to 1 about Lady
Evelyn

Di nsr.-500 to 5 agst Black Susan colt, and 500 to 5
agst Crossbow.

STATE OF THE STREETS AT
THE EAST END.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sin,—Perhaps you would favour the inhabitants at
this part of the " modern Babel" by calling the atten-
tion of the proper authorities to the disgracefully dirty
condition in which the streets are allowed to remain
for days together after rain or a thaw. The majority
of the streets here are generally in a most filthy state,
It would, however, occupy too much of your valuable
space to enumerate such streets; suffice it, then, to
say that the principal thoroughfare from the Mile-
end-road to the Commercial-road during the season
mentioned is -absolutely shoe-deep in mud ; and I
can assure you, Mr. Editor, the ladies in this part
are not a little inconvenienced and annoyed thereby.
The complaints on the subject are loud and numerous,
but the cause still exists. The opinions as to whose
duty it is to cleanse the streets are various. Some
say the Commercial-read trustees are to blame, others
the surveyors, and a third class that the parochial
authorities should do it. If the scavengers are inter-
rogated on the matter, their reply is,lthat.it. comes not
within their contract. It is easy enough 'to believe
this, inasmuch as when the authorities condescend
to employ a few road-scrapers or sweepers, the mud
and dirt are swept on one side of the street, where it
remains for a length of time before being taken away.
Sir, lam convinced that nothing short of the
power of the press will ever awake the slumbering
authorities here to a sense of duty, and therefore I
hope you will kindly find room in your paper for the
il*ertion of this brief note.—l am, Sir, Ar.,l
Stepney, Jan. 9, 1850. AN OBSERVER.

ELIZA CIIESTNEY.-It gives us great pleasure to
be enabled to state that this intrepid young woman, who
is now residing at Wymonclham, where she is carrying
on the business of a milliner and cressmaker, is now so
far recovered as to be able to walk up and down stairs,
without the assistance of either a crutch or stick. It
must be gratifying to those who have taken such deep
interest in this young woman, to learn that the poor
sufferer is at length restored to the use of her limbs.—
IVerfolk News. ,

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THE FISTULA' INFlRMAltY.—Yesterclay a J'I'“11-
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one
ah, :uatinittee; 'Mr. Potter, judge of the Secondaries'
Court; and Mr. Salmon, the surgeon of the establish-
ment, waited on the Lord Mayor upon the affairs of the
charity, and his Lordship fixed the middle of May for
the celebration of the festivsl, and pledged himself to do
all in his power to carry into full effect the benevolent
objects of the institution.
ST. MART, NEWINGTON.—A, vestry was held yes-
terday evening in the United National School-room for
several important purposes, among which were the con-
sideration of co-operating with the Auti-Cholera and
Dwellings-Improvement Committee of Lambeth, the
question of erecting baths and washhouses, and other
sanitary measures necessary to preserve the public
health, The chairman, Mr. Churchwarden Boyson, road
a requisition which had been signed by upwards of 50
ratepayers, requesting the co-operation of the clergy,
churchwardens, and other parochial authorities of St.
Mary, in forming a committee for general sanitary mea-
sures, A long and keen discussion arose on this subject,
in the course of which it was insisted with referunce to
baths and washhouses especially, that the parish did not
require anything of the kind, and that the burden of the
poor-rates was already too heavy to permit of such a
proposition being entertained. Mr. Charles Cochrane
represented that the establishment of baths and wash-
houses would be a remunerative undertaking, and stated
that in two instances where they had been erected they
had yielded a large profit. Finally, an amendment on
the original mo'ion for a committee was carried, to the
effect that the notice of meeting required by Act of Par-
liament in such cases should be complied with. The
subject of the water supply was then taken into consi-
deration, and it was resolved unanimously that the vestry
should co operate with the Parochial Water Supply As-
sociation ou the subject. The proceedings then termi-
nated.

THE BRITANNIA-BRIDGE.—We learn from the
Menni that there is at length a complete roadway over
the Straits, the &cond great tube having been safely
raised to its 100 feet elevation, and forming, by its junc-
tion with the other tubes, a continuous rigid wrought-
iron highway, 18.401 feet long and between .5,000 and
6,000 tons in weight. The workmen are now engaged,
day and night, in completing the junctions and adjubt-
manta. The greater portion of the permanent way and
rails for the trains is laid. The grand approaches to the
bridge at either end, where the colossal lions rest, are
finished, including the continuaticn of the line of rail
to the stations on each side at Bangor and Llanfair, and
every exertion is being made, to have the line complete
by the end of February, for the first trial trains to go
through.

THE LATE CHAPLAIN OF AYLESBURY GAOL.—
JOHN TAWELL'S CONFESSION.—It Will, probably, be
within the re collection of our readers that the Rev. Mr.
Cox, the late chaplain of the county gaol at Aylesbury,
was compelled to retire from the chaplaincy in conse-
quence of his refusing to divulge to the magistrates the
nature of the confession of John Tawell (the murderer
of Eliza Hart, at Salt-hill), after repeated motions, to
the effect that he should confide the confession to the
county magistrates, had been unanimously adopted at
three or four quarter sessions subsequently to Tawell's
execution. At the Epiphany Sessions, just held, Mr.
Cox memorialised the magistrates, praying that an an-
nuity might be greeted him until he obtained some cle-
rical preferment, and strongly urging that his " inadver-
teree,' as regards his pertinacity in refusing to accede to
the wishes of the county bench, might not have a preju-
dicial effect. The memorial was accompanied by a medi-
cal certificate, setting forth that Mr. Cox's health had been
seriously affected by the nature of the duties connected
with his late appointment. It appeared, from the act of
Parliament relating to the power of the magistrates to
grant pensions to their superanuated officials, that they
could grant an allowance not exceeding two-thirds of
the salary previously enjoyed by the memorialist. A
motion to the effect that the prayer of Mr. Cox should
be taken into consideration was then proposed by Mr.
Barker, and seconded by Dr. Lee, the latter gentleman
observing that, although he did not consider that Mr.
Cox had performed his duty in the case of John Tawell's
confession, he thought the matter ought to be enter-
tained, the memorialist being, in his (Dr. Lee's) opinion.
a modest, learned, arid quiet man. The motion having
been strongly opposed by Mr. Carrington (who main-
tained that the real oause of Mr. Coxs compulsory re-
tirement from the chaplaincy was quite different from
that alleged in the memorial, and expressing his astonish-
ment
bythe only hands held
that such a motion as that before t
ht heeehbeanircmhasnhould
have been introduced), it was put (Sir
T. D. Aubrey, Bart.), and negatived, f
BROTHER EDITOR. -- James
up in its favour being two—those of the mover and
seconder.
DEATH OP A
of age. The immediate cause of death was
( e nes ay,. was about
editthoirs amndeprnroiepgri.etovvr odf. the Inverness Advertiser,
but the
disease seedy:: hereyears
rhs
of the heart, deceased laboured under a
' complication of physical weakness and malformation,
that rendered his activity of mind a remarkable instance
of energy. Mr. If.`Cosh had only recently established
a newspaper here, but he was long connected with the
press in Dundee. He was a aealous member of the Free
Church, and at the time of the disruption wrote a pamph-
let on the clergy, entitled " The Chaff and the Wheat."
—.lnverness Courier.
Dispatches were sent off last evening from the
Colonial-office for the Governors of the North Ame-
rican Provinces.
CHESTER AND lIOLTIIIEAOD:_IiCA.ILaInI
Main—Traffic
L ifnoer
the week ended Jan. 6, 85
1,015/. 2s. id.; Mold, 661. Ss. lid.; steam-boats 70/.,
10s. 6d.—Total, 1,1521. Is. 6d. ,

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LONDONDERRY AND ENNISKILLEN ItArLwAy.—
The extension of this line from Strabane to Omagh has
been actually commenced at the Strabane terminus. The
extension from the terminus here to the bridge is pro-
ceeding with great vigour and rapidity.--Londonderry
Journal.

LAW APPOINTMENT..—AVe understand that last
week Mr. James Martin, clerk to the Lcrd Advocate,
received the appointment of depute clerk of session, in
room of Sir James Wemyss, Bart., lately deceaEed.—
Edinburgh Courant.

On Monday last, as a woman who subsisted by
.begging was procceding from Upton to Gloucester, she
was seized with the pains of labour, and delivered of a
male child in the public road. Assistance was pre-
sently procured, and the woman and child were, after
some delay, remov^d to au inn, but the child diod from
want of attention and exposure to the cold.