The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-21 00:00:00

7.11 E EPIDEMIC IN 711 E MAURITIUS.

In spite of more favourable weather, the fever
does not disappear. The general mortality in town
and country, and especially in the latter, has cer-
tainly diminished; it is, however, far greater than
it ought to be, and particularly in Port Louis,
where the death-rate is 10 per cent. per annum.
The population of the whole island was 340,000 last
year, and the mortality was over 41,000 ; yet, not-
withstanding this enormous fatality, the authorities
kept squabbling in a most disgraceful way. The
Government and municipal authorities did not act
as they ought to have done ; and the General
Board of Health, hampered as it was by the Local
Board, and by the ill-health of Dr. Reid, the Vice-
President, who has just resigned, made little sari-
tary effort to improve the state of the public health.
We are glad, therefore, to see some chance of earnest
work being done. His Grace the Duke of Bucking-
ham sent a despatch to the General Board, recom-
mending a system of drainage for Port Louis ; and,
although many of the local papers resisted the idea
on the most absurd and ignorant pretexts, a move-
ment in the proper direction has been taken. A Com-
mission, including the resident engineer of railways
(who, we hope, is a good sanitary engineer also), has
been appointed to decide on the system of drainage
to be sanctioned ; and the Commission have re-
solved to request his Excellency the Governor to
order a block contour survey to be made, prelimi-
nary to the whole question. The Fever Inquiry
Commission have also appointed a sub-committee,
including three medical men, to prepare a concise
report on the evidence already obtained; which
should have been collected in a useful form long
ere this. Whether the efforts now being made will
come to anything, it is difficult to say ; but, should
they not have a speedy result, it is the duty of the
Government at home to take the matter up in a more
earnest spirit, and send out a Commission to inves-
tigate what has been shameful, and we might add
criminal, mismanagement and neglect, on the part
of the authorities, of the sanitary means at their
disposal.—British Medical Journal.

The duties of Brigade-Major at the Royal Engi-
neer Establishment, Chatham, are ordered to be
carried out by Lieutenant W. Merriman during the
absence, on two months' sick leave, of Major R.
Harrison.
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GROSS BRUTALITY BY A COLLIER.—At the Liverpool
Assizes, Anthony Fillingham was found guilty of the
manslaughter of Phillis Hayes, a woman with whom he
cohabited. He had behaved with the most atrocious
brutality, had beaten her about the head with a poker,
had kicked her from room to room, and at last had
thrown a bar of iron at her which stuck in her forehead
like an arrow. He was sentenced to penal servitude for
life.

MAGISTRATES AND MAGISTRATES.—A few days ago a
sergeant of the B division charged a young man at the
Westminster Police-court with having been drunk ; but
t',e defendant produced testimony which appeared to
Prove, not only that the charge was unfounded, but that
lie had been violently assaulted by the officer. Mr. Selfe
was so convinced that the defendant's version of the case
was a true one, that ho dismissed the charge,
stigmatised the sergeant as a man utterly un-
worthy of belief, expressed un opinion that he
ought not to remain in the force, and recommended
the young man whom he had arrested to prosecute him
for an assault. This has been done, and the matter was
again investigated on Thursday, but with a very different
result. Mr. Ingham, who presided, declared that the
evidence for the complainant bad failed, and that the
sergeant's statement of the case was the correct one. There
had been no want of discretion, and the officer had simply
done his duty. The summons was dismissed, the com-
plainant to pay a guinea costs.

Sir Bernard Burke is, it is stated, rapidly recover•
mg from his illness.

The Prime Minister, on the part of the Crown,
has nominated the Rev. W. H. Thompson, M.A., to the
vicarage of Exmoor, Somerset, vacant by the preferment
of the Rev. Morton Drummond, M.A.

ACCLIMATISATION OF BEES IN RUSSIA.—An
exhibition of bees has just been opened at Moscow, under
the auspices of the Acclimatisation Society of that city.
It comprises a collection of hives of all times and all
nountries, of instruments and utensils employed in apicul-
,ure, and of the perfumed honey furnished by the beeS
which suck the plants known popularly by the names of
Ivan-tchai and Koporski-tchai. The honey and the wax
are shown in all their stages, from their appearance in the
comb to that which they present when variously prepared
for commerce.

TILE FATAL ACCIDENT AT CILAMOUNIX. —The
btatement that Miss Stevens, the young lady who recently
lost her life on the Mer de Glace, was climbing a mountain
at the time, and was crushed by the rollingdown of a large
rock which she had loosened with her staff, is contradicted.
A correspondent says that she was sitting with her sister
at the side of the Avegron, when a small stone was started
from its place by the slight but constant movement of the
glacier, rolled down to the lowest point, from which it
bounded, striking Miss Stevens upon the top of the head
and instantly killing her.

EMPLOYMENT DURING CASUAL DISTRESS.—A
prize of £2,5 is offered by Mr. W. R. Lloyd, for the paper
containing the best and most feasible plan for the tempo-
rary employment of operatives in casual✓' distress. The
paper is to be read at the forthcoming Congress of the
Social Science Association at Birmingham. The prize will
be adjudged by the council, and the name of the successful
author will be announced at the opening meeting. Papers
competing for this prize must be sent to the general secre-
tary, at the office of the association, 1, Adam-street,
Adelphi, not later than the 21st of September.
THE POLISH MONUMENT.—The inuaguration
of the Polish monument at Rapperschwyl, in the canton
of St. Gall, Switzerland, took place on the 16th instant.
The proceedings were opened with an eloquent address
delivered by Count Platen. The chairman of the
Municipal Council of Eapperschwyl, the Landman of
St. Gall, Herr Kinkel, and M. Anatole de la Forge, of
the Side, also spoke. At the dinner in the evening, at
which there were three hundred present, Count Platen
read letters from eminent men in all parts of Europe,
wishing well to the cause of Poland. Communications
were also received from the working men's associations 2f
England, Belgium, Switzerland, Hungary, Germany, and
Holland. Speeches were delivered by General Perczel,
M. Henri Martin, the French historian, Herr
Kinkel, and the American consul at Zurich. There
was enthusiastic applause when the consul protested
against any oppressive alliance between the United
States and the persecuting Government of Russia. The
following is an extract from Count Platen's opening ad-
dress :—" The international character of this day's cele-
bration, which is intended to perpetuate, by a monument,
the memory of Poland's long-continued struggle, and
the presence of so many eminent men of different
countries and of representatives of Poland, gives great
significance to this demonstration. Poland decimated,
despoiled, blood-stained to-day as it was a hundred years
back, only awaits an opportunity to enforce her right,
for right is the basis of modern societies. What would
become of Europe if the Mongol-Muscovite ideas Were
substituted for European ideas ; that is to say, if the right
of the strongest were substituted for that by virtue of
which peoples presme. th„e,i; r*lit);(4tal nationality
iudeNTlticiio r ' i~r*dit~Qnal - .