New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-08-23
NEW YORK DAILY TRIBUNE THURSDAY AUGUST %, 1866

friends Of salutsy roforn Tories are ia enemies, Of
OF course by the law of their existence "Iho question
of Reform" said Lord Derby last week at tho Mansion
House Is one mch ought 20 be approached with the
greatest dCbcatOn ard calmucss, and treated 100 inc
most dispassioraio md impartial manner only ~ calm
aud dspassOuGto tunes anli- formers refuse 10 Dtetan
IT, on the elo nd TAI the people care nothing GbOut IT,
aud when the people ag6tc they are told that are too
ouoh excited for the caluDess and dcbeatiJn Lecesy
f. enc occasion The truth IS the um9 u mover oppoI-
tune FOR doing what dislike, Just es there no
pleasing Joe Millers soldier under the cat whether the
drmmoTboy hit him high or low IL Is being laid on Con-
eervstiyo hides now handsomely. Reform meetings
the order of tho day all England On the 9Th there
was large at Guild Hail. the shrewd and sensible and
uber Lord Mayor occupying the chair The people filed
tho hall and the great yard IN front Of IT, whore they held
a supplementary meeting Inside the speeches were
mainly by workingmen, addressing thelr ieo|s-theTe
could be no doubt about that-and dong Il admirably
with respect to tho purpose in hand Very generously,
thc actually cheered Lord Derbys private character and
en- auson to his kindness in Lancashire during the cot
ton famine Tho resolutions, proposed and carried.
were all in favor Of registered manhood Suffrage;
There neither "roughs nor ponce present, ana
everything went off In to most satisfactory and cedabe
manner Most of the gcat provincial towns too duDg tho
week have cmulated the example OF the Reformers OF
London. The Tories like your President, know that they
hold office by accident. and are IN desperate lninony'
Meanwhile they wonderfully thankful for small mer-
ces their organs cackc and The Times Lies on as per-
stenty oyertThc astounding stupidity and porveIshy
exemplifed just by its course both on homo ana
American politics. That it should really exert the IN,
classes who regard it lay Bible and ignore all cthei
sources of information is marycous-or would be- apart
from considerations of tho imTeacteabc eonserSpts OF
ono side OF the English character Outside OF the p'i
legged classes however aud those who ape their opinions
Ihe1Times has power whatever There are innumc,-
able Britons fed on better intellectual food and hencor:h
they strike for registered manhood suffrage shall
not DO surprised if the next year brings thom moro success
than they OF present have reason to anticipate.
The Registrar Generals return for the week onding Au-
gust 4'shOws that cholera still increasing IN the me-
ropos though nothing like to,he extent to which Popn-
lar rumor had magnhea it, for we had the aWias1.
persons while ISL died of dahca berg on excess OF i9
over the previous wcekof the first and by tho St mar
adv Since then the ,etns are issued daiiy ana snow
hopeful dminuon of the mortality occasionod BY the pes
thence. On Sunday and Monday last 2is persons area
from cholera and o. from diarrhea; on tuesday iSo rom
cholera and - from diarrhea on "Wednesday w ll9ul
cholera and 81 from darrhca; and ofhursiay ia from
cholera ard II from darrhea. BY far tho agerpopoion
Of those deaths in the eastern parishes OF London
"The violence of tho attack writes The Registrar, IS
still expended in Bethnal GTcen Whitcchape ST. Georges
in tile last. Stcpncy, Mile End Od-Town and Poplar IN
Guiding Bow fheatack has bcei crcumscrbod by nearly
the Same lines for three weeks in successon Further
he mentions contaminated water as the principal cause
and adds that until constant supply OF wholesome hud
DO granted 20 the wrotchcd denizcns o. these pop
ulous districts, that neither cholera nor Vphus
can DO expected 10 disappear from tho metrop-
oils fact London is enormous that the local water
companies cant purvey decent article from the present
sources especially the largest Of them, The Thames Whch
though longer serving sewer to the cry rs wen as
cistern performs that Office for all Tho towns ABOVE the
are obliged to drink, from impurities. AS for The land
springs they infinitely worseso bad indeed that the
pumps have 10 be chained up 10 prevent people seasoning
themselves for the cholera La consequence, some new
adequate source OF supplv is imperative akin 10 that
which provides Ncw-fa ~ with The beautiul oro,oh
Two schemes have been suggesied one the building OF 40
aquelDct from the Welsh hills l.J miles in length;
another tho converting Ullswaic lake lying 2iU miles
away, upon the confines of WestmoeiAnd and CunDer
land, into the grand tributary OF the inetopol Which
requires 200 0Oo Go gallons Of water every day Mean
| tno folks do Of tho cholera. The London
.ers generally, have responded noby 70 tho
can for help ON their brethren in he poor Parishes
they raise l. 900 daily. All classes arc engaged IN
tho god work. which is manifested MOI only IL the shape
OF money, but personal devotion 10 tho afflicted Many
hdes visit the hospitals daily, doing norc than enuAing
the admirable Christianity Of the trtnch Empresi may
mention Mrs Gladstone rs ono of them. Mt Gaishcr,
the acronaut and astronomer has drawn attention, IN
letter t. The Tmss TO peculiar ccrduon'f the Alho'
rhere which he calls the Cholera hist, observable at
Grcenwol IL noticed ~ the tine q the last out
break OF the scncc, ia thin, mnsparcui blush
hazc-and Is visible IN miny different parts 81 ne
country The most extraordinary fact m connection With
u is thnt IL remains stationary being unneci1 by thc
high winds that have Of late prcV1i.c1. lnc some.
thiag very gha,ty in thc idea % tbs atmospheric ,iOud
of the orthodox cholera color too Us identity VITA
the pesence has been confirmed by The publication OF
paraTaphly d.. Cooper, principal medical MGR o 'he
Great Western Railway Company, WHO asserts iha si.
lar mist ryaild a Nafua during the Crmran wax sad
IN tho West Indies IA lHjiboth cholera pcfio!t WIN
sucI clue tho cause Of the posilencc oaghi to DO Dis
Ibe p1ze.aeht between Mace and Goss--thc two pu.
gilisis VINO sod former contest AL thor patf,us-
exctei very l;tc attention or interest TIC former b'ng
victorious after hours hard hsLiug Cos, was baiy
puui.hed his Antagonist scarcely hurt Aot more thaA
| 300 persons were present .
seven vessels have been claimed By The United Sl'c3
Government az Liverpool a. tie property Of The laie
G. S. one on information given by clerk 10 tue employ OF
their pretended We have had Volunteer Artillery
practice ~ Shocbuuncss cricket AZ Canterbury aud yacht
ing Il COWes-a during extremely bad weather. An
abortyc amai, Guy FaWkes has len nine PACKAGES 81
gunpovdef. "aud a tenth one, evidently broken and
ztrewn oytr 4 others with fuse attached, partially
burned but 40 uchcd' in the immediate vicinity o. the
Houses OF Pay lament And the Prince ani Princess OF
Wales arc jnuketng in y orkshirc