New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-08-17


IN rHg CABINET ON THE REPoRM oUEsTIoS-PRo-
PIE GOING OUT or TowY-DorSGs IN PARLIAMENT
a STRANGE PACT ABOUT TUE CABLE DIS.
PATCHES.
From ON Special couespopdent-
..-.. LoSnoy Aug. 4, 1906
With the war virtually concluded and Europe, settling
down into sltry peace or rather armed truce, to be
soon as the bgerent powers thinks
his ners to do with the Parliamentary session at It's
las, gasp and the unpopular Tory Ministry yearning for
the bcattude of sagnant calm which they hope TO lind
in tho recess with town Reform demonstrations tenn
porary at an end with the Atlantic telegraph IN good
working order lat pound word, and no message sent
short Of wcny with these and other late topics OF inter
est already rec~ding into the background OF the public
mind VIZ have yet another, which has already assumed
grim awful prominence, before whom tne others JUST
mentioned scatter like many barn-doOr chckehs at e
approach of kite or vulturc or ike tho ominous
fowl which herAdcd the approach OF lncarnate cath III
the vision coninred up before Don Cleophas Leandro
Perez Zamlullo by the Devil on two sticks Dcath IS
here sunly in of its terriblest shapes-that OF
Cholera We all talking OF 1t, Just now IN London
LIS progress in the metropolis has been rghtiuly rapid
a. U1tns the rcport of General, published
on the laS day Of the preceding MONTH INC to'ai NUM-
Der OF deaths IN tho week ending July ~ TINS day week
was 6 an e1cess OF liJ over tbc estimated hunper-
an EXCESS says the Registrar caused entirely by cholera
and darAca There 9oi deaths ny cholera, 3'3 Dy
dorrhel In the asst five weeks the Numbers OF the We
tins Of either disease have ceu rcs9ecYey-oi cholcn
D. H. b. $40 aad 81; U. dmrrhea e, lV2 ioV ~ ana
$40. Thus the mortality has more than dod0iei IN tho
lat days and there are indications rather OF us
Increase than s attachments cons quenuy We mus, ine,
tina, the viii present rs with me grim toai
81 no les than 2Ui0 victims 10 tue prevailing estchee'
Surulse zee 20 on 40 rate what al a|fu version
Of e old rroem of the nails the horseshoe, exhibiting
the accumulation II interest shall we work out IN pop
aion or over OOj u human beings, resident IN TINS
great grmy, tong. striving, swarning hive oi Lon
dom II i appalling u tnnk OF yei very many per.
sons are thinking it, and of little else, at the present
I a
the cosdcd, fctd, dentey li"e u',cts VI S,oPi
NJ the East mite Chapel and Poplar all on the
north side OF the river aud at end 81 me metropolis
There pecncc hes natural home the people are bor
rhy seasoned for IL ia advance by poverty aud misery
" thin these and other adjoining ds,rics-compnsing,
the tells u.s. onescyonth OF the nhabit-
ants and one fourteenth Of the of the metropolis
exists what may be called the maritime element OF inc
London population. There IN regions known only 20 us
residents To- police 20 adventurous literary men,
like Charles Dickens james Greenwood, Ia leprons
sus and streets almost those or C0Dstanti-
nope in uuGrained uni GIFTED alleys aud courts where
the limited supply Of tainted and haltposOnOus wafer Is
kept under the ragged beds where the pump and the cess
pool in CHASTITY patnershipwhere only the gnshop
Ourshes aud sin disease and suffering are e all the
year roundtherc has King Cholera established his head
quarters and Staying mercessly mercllessy And not
in these districts alone already the comorttDe ana we'll
conditioned classes Of the Tower Hamets have felt ms
aud Southwark People" says the Registrar, are
falling Ill every hour you see them OF al aees,
under the influence of deadly poison, soine
acutey suffering, nearly all conscious OF their
fate and Of all that going on around them Here the
doctor drawn in by the husband to the wife now at
tackled there the husband lies in spass here s an old
woman seated dead with eyes wide open; there lies fine
child his curly head dropping III death but
his mother says the pulse strong and he takes what she
gives him. The accounts in the papers are hearrenahg
To-days have report Of poor fellow whose death by
cholera of the extremely yirulcnt Asiac type was AS
sudden as Il sunstroke flash Of lightning He stag.
gred the street. uttered sharp, short cry and fell
scnscess lie dead when brought TO the hospital,
s,.ttn tha tafna ttnaa
found 10 contain tho peculiar Witty substance indicative
of cholera which the vid appearance OF the BODY con-
frmed. Another case OF similar nature occurred lew
days ago in the severely affected district Of Poplar It's
subject missed for day from his ordinary avocation, vas
the breaking open OF his door BY the police
kneelng by his bed side if he had been praying-dcad
medical is that tie peshienoe 81 1860 -
more malignant tyre than that Of 1919, when
the months Of August September witnessed an awful
mortality the rate of deaths suddenly rising from IN
London alone to 6,s6I. and September only sharing
dmnuton to 604J though in October the numbers sank
from Thousands hundreds But what need of multiply
ing horrors The hospitals doing tremendous bust
ness especially the Londona vast and magnificent IN.
sutution like the Hotel Deu Of Paris only not supported
by Government funds-both public and private charity
taxing itsc TO the utmost The good Bishop OF London
and Mr. Gladstone have identified themselves with this
portion of practical Christianity and some OF the nurses
have died at their posts. should add in conclusion to
this sombcr topic that the weather has been snguarly
Observation-Disclosures. squally aud rainy Last night
the wind blew with strength and persistence onlnousy
suggestive of at sea; tho house in which write
rather tall exposed one) fairly rocked again. But this
is better than heat should August prove sultry Heaven
help London,
10 gossip on other subjects after talking Of the cholera
is like playing every day accordion after the
performance Of the Dead March in Saul, but must risk
the comparison. And, first, little moro about Reform.
The people generally very much satisfied with their
demonstration the Agricultural Hall, Ellington, which
surprised both The Times and the Tories, who found 1t
mposb bic write down its moral effect, to deny
its significance though of course they do their drest
in that direction Lave who went tiither himself with
those intcutions-subscquently canned with charae
eristic ablity-haif admitted his establishment. Now,
thanks 20 the "pary Of stupidity" It no longer be
pretended that the working classes Of London are indf-
erent 10 Reform. Under very strong ptoyocaton too,
the temper shown by them has been admirable They
had everything To irritac them insult dcrison an oen-
sve 0btrsOn of force the part of the police, the
appearance of the military and latery concealed troops
aud artillery. all in readiness to "pit down entirety
hypothetical msbehayior. | say hypothetical because
throughout, the much talked OF rough mas I DeeL
in Insignificant minority Even at hdyo ,snr
there Was violence, thcft " VI /, ~
Infringement of the law except what the pohco u cJ
selves than ordinarily occurs at coronation & hnev
ding, sham fight similar occasion W helo .l9 ts
is thither fhe bees will loek Virgil has IL, ana Ie
have the like taste When it shown that tnc b.
could and would assemble by thousands IN Den1 id"n
form the next idea was TO caumniate them anu h"n,
tify them with the thieves and iders VINO "I -
upon the skirts of great asseulDihs boil
me T,mes Post and Standard nave Hs,lu!uousy 81.
ovor srco Ilut the mass meeting az isihkion VOC -
great e,cf and an orderly, AMI there ~ io Pon -
cssS i belvug H. In consequence the heoFiucIs arc
exnltant and hopeful, the Torres very 1ucn euoP,I t
Nothiug nut tlrir gnoninons capuu,l'lVn s,oplt ~