The Sun.
London, England, 1844-02-19 00:00:00

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MON OPOLY A le

TO THE EDITOR OF THE $ UN-
Sra,—Monopoly is hydra-headed- —corn, cattle, sugar,
=tie difficult, and t.water, coals, all alike, restricted,
the millions denied ! In this vast meta.spolis--the queen
j.
of cities and of colonisation—the focus Ot :a hundred cha-
rities and a thousand schools—monopol reigns para-
mount. No where else is there such a monopoly infire—no where else is there such a monopoly in v!,ater..
You did your duty long and ably in attacking the anuses.
of the coal monopoly. Do I err in thinking that‘yots
will aid the inhabitants of Lambeth, Southwark, and! *a
South London, in also attacking the water monopoly ?
It so happens, that all the three companies supplying.
South London with water, have in their Acts of Parlia-
ment the same clause, making it " unlawful" to supply
such water in an impure state, which all join in treating
with contempt. Their customers cannot help themselves;
hence the enclosed petition, which is receiving signatures
in all directions.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant,
A SURGEON.
[We have received a copy of the petition, but at pre-
smt we cannot promise to find room for it.]

ST. M'AUL'S AND WESTMINSTER

ABBEY.

TO 77-LW EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sin,—Parliament i;Ping now assembled, I beg to sug-
gest, through the medium of your' valuable paper, the
propriety of convening a public meeting, for the purpose
of considering the steps which it may bye advisable to
take in reference to the present disgraceful Condition of
the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, and th.e Abbey
Church of St. Peter, Westminster, in order to effect, if
possible, the following important objects
First—The abolition of fees.
Secondly—To obtain in these churches increased and
better accommodation for the poor, belonging to Ate
cities of London and Westminster, and
Thirdly—To get the Pagan monuments, which die-i
figure and profane these holy temples, removed to some
other more appropriate receptacle.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,

AN ENGLISHMAN.
[We know of no Pagan monuments in these temples ;
but we know of monuments to Johnson and Howard, and
Watt, men who adorned and civilised Christian society.
Could there be better places, too, for the monuments of
gallent men who have died in the service of their
country ? In the other two propositions, however, We
entirely concur.]

NATIONAL ANIMALS' FRIEND

SOCIETY.

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
This Society has been particularly active during the
past week in no less than twelve prosecutions, viz.:—
Samuel Baily took into custody George King, in the
employ of John Gore, scavenger, for cruelly beating ft
horse—Fined, 40s. Also, Chas. Farns, for cruelty to a
horse, laden with coal—Fined, is. Also, .las. Hughes,
of Bishop Stortford, with torturing a horse by the canal
side—Fined, 40s. and costs. Thos. Radcliffe took into.
custody Thomas Pickett, of St. Pancras, for working a
horse with dreadful wounds—Fined 10s. and horse
killed. Mr. Henry May, Secretary, charged Henry
Knight, of Adam-street, Rotherhithe, before Mr. Hal',
Chief Magistrate, with cruelty to a horse laden with
wood. The Worthy Magistrate took the trouble to va-
cate his seat to see the animal, and was horror struck.
Three gentlemen also expressed their strong feelings to-
wards the inhuman master—Fined, 20s. Thomas G.
Plume, with the assistance of Henry M. May, has suc-
ceeded in obtaining several convictions at Richmond, for
cruelty to animals.

SPREAD OF FEVER FROM DESTITUTIOII.—Doctor
Southwood Smith has just given his annual report upon the
state of the London Fever Hospital during the past years
from which it appears that the admissions during the period
were 1,462, being an excess of 418 above that of any pre-
ceding year. Fever raged most violently in the Central,
Northern, and Southern Districts, which was attributable to
the undrained, cldse, and filthy condition of these localities.
A large proportion of the inmates were agricultural labourers
or provincial mechanics, who had come to London in search
of employment, and, who were seized with the malady either
on the road or soon after their arrival, evincing the close
connection between fever and destitution. These poor crea-
tures ascribed their illness—some of 'them to sleeping by the
sides of hedges, and others to a want of clothing, many being
without stockings, shirts, shoes, or any apparel capable of
defending them from the inclemency of the weather ; while
the larger number attributed it to want of food, being driven
by hunger to eat raw vegetables, turnips, and rotten apples.
Their disease was attended with such extreme prostration as
generally to require the administration of an unusually large
proportion of wine, brandy, and ammonia, and other stimu-
lants. The gross mortality was 15% per cent. An unpre-
cedented number of nurses and other servants of the hos-
pital were attacked with fever, namely 29, of whom six died.
THE LATE MR. LounoN.-*--On Saturday a meeting of
the friends of the late Mr. Loudon was held in the Horticultu-
ral Society's Rooms, Regent-street, with the view of adopting
whatever measures might be deemed best for relieving his
family from the state of pecuniary embarrassment in which
they had been left. Dr. Lindley took the chair at two
o'clock, and, in an address of some length stated the circum-
stances under which the late Mr. Loudon had involved him-
self in pecuniary difficulties. It was not, Dr. Lindley re-
marked, through any personal extravagance, for he lived in
a moderate style. It was solely through the losses he had
sustained by the publication of his " Arboretum Britanni-
cum"—a work which had been published at an expense of
10,000/. At the time of his death, his loss by this work was
about 2,600/. It was proposed to relieve Mr. Loudon's widow
and family in two ways ; first, by getting the friends and ad-
mirers of Mr. Loudon to purchase copies of his works ; and,
secondly, by subscriptions of money. Resolutions to this
efiect were proposed and unanimously adopted, and a com-
mittee appointed to carry them into effect. The name of the
Duke of Devonshire, as President of the Horticultural So-
ciety, was announced at the close of the meeting as a sub-
scriber of 25/., and it seemed to be the opinion of all pres'xtt
that a handsome sum will be realised for the benefit of Mrs.
Loudon and family.
RAILROADS IN FRANCE.—The Journal de,v- Tra-
vaux Publiques gives the following as the answers of the
Commission appointed by the Minister of Public Works to
report on the best direction to be given to the intended rail-
road from Paris to the coast opposite England. To the first
question, whether there should be two lines, one from
Boulogne, joining the Belgian road at Amiens—the other
from Calais, joining the same line between Arras and
Lille—the answer was in the negative. To- the question
—whether, in case of there being a line from Boulogne
to Amiens, there should be made-: simultaneously a
second line from Calais and Dunkirk to Lille, the opinion
was in the affirmative. On the third question—whether, ill
case the Government should determine upon executing one
line only, that from Calais and Dunkirk to Arras should be
preferred, the opinion was in the affirmative. On the fourth
question—whether the line between Arras, and Calais and
Dunkirk, ought not to pass by Hazebrouck rather than by
Aire, the Commission again replied affirmatively. Thus, if
the Minister adopts this advice, the Paris and England 'Rail-
road, having the Belgian line at Arras, will run by Bethune
to Hazebrouck, the principal road continuing on by St.
Omer and Watten to Calais, while a branch will turn off to
Dunkirk.

DRURY-LANE THEATRE.—On Wednesday Mr. C.
Kean re-assumed the part of Hamlet, a part in which he has
frequently distinguished himself at this and other theatres.
The audience assembled on this occasion was numerous and
respectable, and Mr. Kean was greeted throughout his per-
formance with many marks of approbation, though, we con-
fess, we did not witness his enactment of the character with
unmixed gratification. He was eminently successful in the
scene in which the play is introduced, and where he is sup-
posed to detect the criminality of his uncle. In this scene
his silent as well as his enunciated acting was most effective,
and highly excited the sympathies of his audience. The
text of Shakspeare was somewhat curtailed in its represen-
tation last night; but this was judiciously effected. With
all due admiration of the genius of our great dramatic author,
we are disposed to think it possible so to improve the actual
representation of his plays by a well regulated abridgment.
CONDUCT OF RUSSIA TOWARDS POLAND.—The
Paris Univers states that the report of the Commission of
Domains and Apanages, charged with the liquidation of the
mortgages upon the confiscated estates of the Polish emi-
grants, has made its report to the Emperor of Russia, up to
the end of last year. The Report makes the number of these
estates amount to 459, of which 228 are cleared of the
charges upon them. The debts acknowledged to be just
amount to 1,707,100 silver roubles (about 6,830,000 f.), and
those declared to be illegal to 3,512,414 roubles (about
14,070,000 f.), which, consequently, are annulled. In these
last are comprised all mortgages made by the owners of
the estates during the insurrection. There still remain
to be paid off mortgages acknowledged to be legitimate
to the amount of 1,251,332 roubles (about 5,012,0000
so that, not only are the emigrants punished by
the confiscation of their estates, but their mortgagee
creditors are equally subjected to a confiscation of their
claims. The Univers goes on to say that a numerous class of
the lower order of nobility, in Poland, who cultivated either
their own lands or:rented farms, has recently been reduced to
the condition of free peasants. As they had all shows a firm
attachment to the Roman Catholic faith, the Government
had decided upon removing them into other provinces.
During the last two years 5,000 have been torn from their
native soil, and colonised in the Governments of the Tauris
and Yekaterinoslaf, reduced to the same condition as the
vagabond gypsies, 8,000 of whom have in three years been
fixed as Crown peasants on the imperial domains. Further,
the Russian Government, says the Univers, is pursuing with
inexorable perseverance the destruction of the Catholic
church in all its western provinces. The Catholieclergy are
reduced to the most absolute dependence, by being deprived
of all means of subsistence beyond the meagre salanesgranted
by the State, and every means is now employed to pretreat
the renewal of this priesthood, in order, if possible, to drive
the Catholics into the national church."

SUSPECTED MURDER.-011 Saturday last the body
of a decently-dressed, middle-aged man, name unknown,
was found on the road near Carronbridge, parish of Kileyth,
who, there is strong reason to suspect, has been murdered,
from the fact that one of the eyes has been nearly knocked
out, and there are marks of violence about the neck and
throat.

THE PERSECUTION OF THE RUSSIAN Jsive,-.—" Is
the Emperor Nicholas," exclaims the Courrier Francais, " a
Christian Monarch. or the revival of the ancient tyrants of
Nineveh or Babylon ? With him persecution is a means of
government, and the transportation en masse of 30,000
families is a simple measure of administration. Ac-
cording to an ukase carried into execution about the 18th
of January, the entire Jewish population of 150,000 souls has
been transported from their residence in Lithuania to
within twelve leagues of the frontier, and delivered over to
the brutality of the police during the rigours of a northern
winter, without distinction of age, sex, or condition. Thus
willed the Salinanasar or the Nebuchadonosor of St. Peters-
burgh I This atrocity is the result of the association of two
despotisms, of two barbarisms—imperial despotism and the
despotism of the protective system—Russian barbarity,., and
prohibitive barbarity. -The Jewish population
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Emperor Nicholas, when he displays such severity is merely
a custom-home officer in a rage. Such is the result of the
omnipotence of the tariff; of the prohibition under the crown,
and of the protective systehl enforced by the Attoord."