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THE FIELD. 
METROPOLIS. 
City Commissioners of Sewers. — On Tuesday the Com- 
missioners assembled in the Guildhall for the first time since 
the holidays, Deputy Peacock in the chair. Mr. Daw, the 
chief clerk, stated that lie had Obtained the consent of the 
New River Company to supply water for purposes of cleans- 
ing courts and alleys, "ii demand of the inspector of 
nuisances. That consent had proved extremely advantageous, 
and had been noted upon vigorously, especially in the poor 
and crowded districts. It was stated that the slaughter- 
houses had beon carefully examined, and Mr. B. Stubbing, 
of Leaden hall -market, and Mr. Sawtell, of Newgate-market, 
had been summoned before the magistrates for non-com- 
pliance with the rules of the commissioners, and severally 
fined in penalties and costs. — Tho medical officer of 
health reported the coses of cholera, sixty-one in num- 
ber, which had occurred in the whole City during the 
four weeks ending Monday, the 28th August, and stated 
the gratifying fact that, in consequence of tho vast exer- 
tions of the commission, the dreadful disease hud not 
appeared in a severe form in any of tho districts of the C'ity 
when), on former occasions, it liad assumed the very worst 
features. Tho medical officer also stated that he had felt it 
to be his duty to adopt measures by which, in eases where 
ovners of proporty in the C'ity hud not conformed to the 
irdera of the court to amend their houses, and put them in 
proper condition, the neglect might undergo investigation 
before an inquest jury in case of a death from cholera on any 
silch premises, and the responsibility be fixed upon the party 
atiRwerable for such prcvcntiblu evils. Tho commissioners 
most warmly expressed their admiration of the vigorous and 
skilful seal of tin* medical officer of health. Several parties, 
whose premises had boon neglected by themselves, and 
repaired by tho commission, were ordered to be sued for 
costs. 
The Public Health. ( From the Registrar-General’s Return.) 
— In the week that ended Saturday the 26th, the number of 
deaths arising from nil causes was 2,031). In the ten corre- 
sponding weeks of the years 1844—53, the average number 
was 1,114, which, If raised in proportion to increase of 
population, becomes 1,225. The prevailing epidemic has 
produced an oxcess, amounting to 814, above the corrected 
average. From cholera and deaths in last week were 847 
while those from diarrhoea were 214, In the corespond- 
ing week of 1840, cholera carried off 1,272 persons. In 
the present Bummer its weekly progress is traced in the 
following numbers: — 5, 20, 183, 399* 014, 721), and 
847. In the first seven weeks of the epidemic of 1849 
the deaths were 9, 22, 42, 49, 124, 152, 839. 2,783 
persons have already died of cholera; and 1,706 of 
thB number have fallen on tho low grounds of London, out 
of 595,1 1!) people whoso dwellings are not ten feet above the 
Thames; 705 have died out of 618,619 on the higher ground, 
extending from ten to forty feet above tho same level; and 
only 345 out of the 1,070,372 who live on tho ground that 
lias an elevation extending from 40 to 350 feet. The mor- 
tality from cholera to 100,600 living at tho three elevations 
is 287 at, the lowest, 109 at tho middle, and 32 at the highest 
region. The knowledge of this fact must tend to a large 
increase of Imuse-seekcrs on the higher ground, descending 
from Hampstead and Hornsey towards tho squares abutting on 
the New-rond. 
Extensive Robbery at Mr. Albert Smith's. — O n Mon- 
day the police received information of an extensive robbery 
committed at the house of Mr. Albert Smith (the popular 
author), No. 12, Great Percy -street, Tottenham-court-road. 
The property stolen comprised a quantity of silver plate, 
including Bpoous, forks, sugar tonga, sauce-ladles, milk-ewer, 
teapots, &c. ; also a brace of pistols, in a case inlaid with 
silver, a small clock three inches high, wearing apparel, &c. 
A reward has been offered for the apprehension of the 
thieves. 
the harem, that forbidden ground, in which the several female 
figures cannot but rivet the attention of all visitors. The 
“ dear little baby in swaddling clothes ” is already a great pet 
with our English mammas and their unveiled daughters, while 
with the male portion, the stem janissaries and the digni- 
fied courtiers of Sultan Mahmoud carry offthe palm. We pre- 
sume, now that Omar Pasha Is somewhat at leisure in Bucha- 
rest (Tchok Yasha !), his “ presentment” will be photographed, 
and his uniform, and Favourite orders noted down for the 
benefit of the talented modellers of this Turkish Exhibition. 
We should much like to see Omar added to the groups 
already collected in St. George’s Galleiy. By-and-by, it is 
to be presumed, when the patronage of the public lias par- 
tially reimbursed the enterprising proprietors, a few of the 
“trades” of Constantinople may find a niche in the exhibi- 
tion. A pipe-shop would be attractive (and real cheny- 
sticks might be sold there, by a veritable Stambouli, with 
great advantage), nnd fill trades where Muslims use their 
toes as well iis fingers might be added, as novelties to most 
of us Franks; and, Inshttllah , some of these fine mornings 
we may moreover be gratified, in the refreshment-room, 
with the unrivalled yeJiat-lokoum, & c., Ac , instead of merely 
English cakes and biscuits. Ladies look for these oriental 
rarities, and Messrs. Oscanyan and Aznavour are just the 
Wen to arrange For their not being disappointed. Bonn fide 
shetbet would have a great “call," for, in the present 
weather, visitors are as thirsty os a Turkish tiler in Ramazan. 
But without OMtir Pacha, or cherry-sticks, or sherbets, the 
Turkish Museum deserves immediate support; and if any 
of our readers have not yet visited it, we strongly urge them 
to do so at once. They will thank us for the recom- 
mendation. 
His remains were escorted by a large number of his brother 
actors from the Coney Island boat yesterday, to the Camden 
and Amboy Dep8t, to be takeu to Philadelphia for inter- 
ment. — New York Spirit of the Times. 
Madrid, August 22.— The bull-fight for the benefit of the 
wounded, widows, and orphans of the late revolutions, took 
place yesterday. The thermometer was at 32 deg. ReaUmur 
the bull-ring crammed with spectators, and heat indescribable’ 
When quite full, the receipts of the Madrid Plaza de Tor.-s 
are said to be about £1,000. All the best bullfighters in 
Spain were yesterday iu attendance. The montU (knots of 
ribands that are stuck on the back of the bull) were contri- 
buted by the Countess of Luceua and other ladies of rank, 
and were remarkably beautiful. The toreros , nnd everybody 
concerned in the business, gave their services gratis. The 
bulls were nil presents. The Queen did not go to tho fight 
but sent a handsome contribution to the fund; 
PROVINCIAL. 
<Dnr (Dpta-dMitw. 
Haymarket. — Senora Perea Nena, with her bright eyes 
and agile steps, is nightly adding to her own popularity, 
and, judging from the crowded houses, to the coffers of 
the merry manager of this theatre. A new ballet, eutitlcd 
*' The Gipsy Queen,” has been brought out for Nena nnd her 
c unpanions. Tho novelty is full of charming and pic- 
turesque grouping, achieved with a precision and faultless 
nicety which are the most remarkable characteristics of the 
Spanish dancers. The style of La Nona's dancing is entirely 
new to us ; it is not the conventional Spanish dance of the 
stage that we see her execute, but one full of life, character, 
and originality. The animated dancing, bright costumes, 
and inspiriting music, gained for the now bullet a most 
favourable reception, and its repetition has added to its 
success. 
Lyceum. — Mr. Henry Russell, the popular vocalist, com- 
menced a campaign at. this theatre on Monday eveniug. The 
entertainments consisted of an interesting discourse on emi- 
gration and slave life, plentifully interspersed with humorous 
anecdotes and Bongs. Mr. Ilussoll, both as a singer and a 
composer, has contrived to gain a large share of the public 
favour, to which he is undoubtedly entitled. His composi- 
tions are apt nnd pleasing, and hence it is that we find every 
street-organ grinding out some one or more of his ditties, 
which are also great favourites with our at fresco vocalists. 
On tho evening in question, the singer nnd lecturer was ap- 
plauded to the echo by an audience who, quite regardless 
of the “ melting moments,” crowded tho house iu nil parts. 
“Cheer, boys, cheer!" "Tho Maniac,” “Tho Gambler's 
Wife,” “ I’m afloat,” &c., were among the songs most espe- 
cially in demand. 
Turkish Exhibition, St. George's Gallery, Hydb-park- 
COUNER. — The numbers attending this very interesting 
Museum are still rapidly on the increase. Open daily 
from eleven till ten o’clock (Saturday excepted, when it 
closes at six), it dooms uot to disappointment “ our country 
cousins,” who, when visiting tho Panopticon or Polytechnic, 
complain so bitterly of these places closing at five for an 
hour or two, before tho evening exhibition commences. 
But the Turkish exhibition rejoices in open doors all day, 
and is so easy of access by omnibus from all parts of the 
town, that already one continuing stream of sight seers ap- 
proaches its portals from “ morn till dewy eve.” The rooms 
in which the figures are to be seen are not wanting in space. 
Great cave has, nevertheless, been taken by Messrs. Oscanyan 
and Aznavour to make the very moBt of it. Each “turbanod 
Turk” is liberally flanked by a crowd of compatriots, so that 
Ave may almost fancy ourselves perambulating the streets of 
sunny Stamboul. But while out-of-door life is here before 
us, a walk to the end of the room brings us to two odas of 
Tun Panopticon, Leicester-square. — The fountain “at 
high pressure” is still all attractive at this elegant establish- 
meut ; and while the great organ and Distin’s fliigel-horus 
delight adults, " young Englaud " seems to prefer the diver, 
whose writing under water is daily a subject of astonish- 
ment. Among the shops in the galleries, Farley's (filled 
with models of yachts) seems a favourite resort. The 
sewing-machine, and other scientific arts and mysteries, 
claim careful attention; add tho lecture-rooms are already 
popular. 
British Museum. — This museum lias been closed for the 
autumn vacation. It will be re-opened to the public on 
Friday, the 8th of September. The lioura of admission, 
during the months of September and October, will be from 
ten till five, and for the remainder of the year from ten till 
four. 
Festival of the TiinEE Choirs.— The forthcoming 
meeting of the three choirs of Worcester, Hereford, and 
Gloucester, at Worcester, Ojpeus on the 5th of September. 
Tho festival is held once m three years at each of the 
cathedral cities named above, iu aid of a society for the 
relief of widows and orphans of clergy of the three dioceses, 
who may be left unprovided for. The festival will occupy four 
days, viz., the 6th, 6th, 7th, nnd 8tli of September, and will 
consist, as heretofore, of performances of sacred music each 
morning at the cat hedral, nnd of secular music each evening, 
except Friday, nt the college-hall — a noble concert-room 
attached to the cathedral, formerly the questeu-hall of the 
monks, but now the place of education for the boys of the 
college school. The nave of the cathedral is being fitted up 
with seats and an orchestra, Dicing which will be a spacious 
gallery reaching to the ivest window. The college-hull is 
also being fitted up as a concert-room. A grand ball is 
announced for Friday night, and this will wind up the festival 
week. The festival will be opened with full cathedral service 
and a sermon on the Tuesday morning, with a concert iu the 
evening. On Wednesday morning Mendelssohn's oratorio of 
“ Elijah ” will be given ; on Thursday morning the oratorio 
of the “ Creation," nnd the “ Last Judgment; ” aud on Friday 
morning tho “ Messiah.” Concerts will also be given on 
Wednesday and Thursday evenings. 
Southampton Theatre.— We have much pleasure iu 
announcing that the season will commence on Monday, 
Sept. 4. Mr. Holmes, who has so ably and successfully con- 
ducted it for the last two years, again assumes the reins of 
management, aud we feel that his exertions will be crowned 
with that success he so richly deserves. His company, we 
understand, is unusually strong, both numerically and in 
talent, anti the lovers of the drama may anticipate a series of 
treats of very high order. We are glad to learn that Mr. 
G. J. Hall will again preside iu the orchestra, which will be 
full and efficient. A limited number of season tickets will 
be issued by Mr. Collings nt tlio box office. 
Grisi and Mario, — On Sunday a large company of musical 
geutlemeu are to sail to the Hook, with a view of meeting 
these distinguished artists, and welcoming them with a 
serenade. A steamboat has beefi chartered for the occasion. 
A sea serenade, with a chorus of boisterous waves, will be a 
grand affair. — The Spirit of the Times, A ug. 19. 
Liverpool. — At the solicitation of a number of the lovers 
of the Shakesperinu Drama at Liverpool, Mr. Vandeuhoff, the 
distinguished tragedian has, for u time, abandoned his 
intention of retiring from the stage. 
Winchester. — A large company of equestrians made a 
public entry into Winchester on Monday, and iu the evening 
they gave a performance in a field near the Lawn, which 
was attended by nearly 2,000 persons. The proprietors 
were the celebrated American rider Hernandez, Eaton Stone, 
and Newsome. 
Chard. — Cooke’s Circus. — M r. Cooke paid us a visit on 
Saturday last, and much gratified us by his magnificent 
allegorical procession. He gave two performances, admitting 
the poor school-children gratuitously to the morning enter- 
tainments. Iu the evening the spacious hippodrome was 
nearly filled, and the spectators departed highly pleased 
with the performances of men, women, children, horses, and 
monkeys. 
Italian OrERA, Toronto, Canada, Aug. 10. — The opera 
is entirely successful ; Madame Itosa Devries was received 
with enthusiastic applause, and Signora Yietti aud Tafl'anelli 
were also loudly applauded. The opera announced for Friday 
next, is Donizetti's tragic opera of “ Lucia di Larnmer- 
moor," which coutains some of the most exquisite operatic 
music that was ever composed. — Colonist. 
Sad Accident. -Wo learn from our contemporaries that 
ou Monday evening, while a party of actors from New York 
were bathing in the surf at Coney Island, one of them, Mr. 
Joseph Ihelsford, attempted to dive from the shoulder of 
one of his companions, and struck his head on tho bottom 
with such force as to break his neck. Mr. B. had but lately 
arrived in New York, to await the opening of the new 
theatre on Broadway, of which company he was to have 
been the leading man. He was well known iu the South 
and Wwt. He leaves a wife to mourn her sud bereavement. 
Bristol. — A day or two since Messrs. Evnbs and Arrow- 
Bmith, of Bristol, received at their establishment a sheet of 
paper weighing three cwt., aud measuring 2,784 feet in lebgtli, 
or more than half a mile. 
^ Liverpool. — The committee of the Liverpool Exchange 
News-room, acting upon a memorial of the shareholders* hud 
given notice that on and after the 2nd inst. the Exchange 
News-room will be closed at five p.m. on Saturday, the hew.s- 
papers being removed at four p.m,, except ou the occasion of 
a foreign arrival, when the room will be kept open until 
eight p.m. 
Melbourne Athenaeum. — In consequence of the races at 
Derby, and other circumstances, the committee have decided 
upon postponing the opening festivities. 
SCOTLAND. 
Frigate in Leitii-roads.— The frigate Indefatigable, of 
fifty guns, Captain Hope, arrived aud anchored in Leitli- 
roads ou Thursday forenoon. This is the largest man-of- 
war, says the Edinburgh Courant, that bus anchored iu Leith- 
roads since the Bonbow. 
The Scottish Rights Movement. — We learn that the 
Earl of Egliutou has accepted an invitation, presented to 
him on Monday last by a deputation from the Council of the 
Association for the Vindication of Scottish Rights, to dine 
with the members ; and the banquet is expected to come off 
in the City-hall, Glasgow, ou the 4th of October. — Glasgow 
Constitutional. 
Dogs. — Orders have been received, says the Glasgow Herald, 
from the Board of Inland Revenue, to enforce most rigidly 
the levying and recovery of the duty on dogs. Those par- 
ties keeping dogs, if they fail to pay the duty, aud have no 
effects from the sale of which the duty can be recovered, 
will have personal warrants for their apprehension taken out 
against them. Any parties having dogs, aud failing to re- 
turn them for assessment, will have all the penalties Btrictly 
enforced against them. 
The Royal Northern Yacht Club Regatta.— Inter- 
ruftion OF TUP, SronTS by Storm. — Laros, Thursday, 
August 24. — To-day this beautiful villnge and district wero 
all expectancy; but the morning broke sullenly, and it blew 
quite a gale from the west, driving in a very angry swell 
upon the beach, rising sometimes seven feet in height, and 
lashing iu wild fury over the quay. The scene at the quay- 
head assumed a faint resemblance to a fair, for there were 
some dozen or more of the tribes of the wandering foot who 
perambulate fairs with gingerbread, and nut-stands, and 
shooting-galleries. The fine band of the Queen's Own, from 
Glasgow, appeared iu regimentals. The villagers and sum- 
mer sojourners turned out to a man, woman, aud child. 
The Earl of Eglinton, who is commodore of the Royal 
Northern Yacht Club, was duly forward at his post to 
discharge the duties of his office ; but all could not control 
the elements, which forbade the club’s proceedings set down 
in the programme. Such of the yachts ns were hovering iu 
the offing betook them to a "safe anchorage elsewhere ; and 
throughout the day the club-yacht Orion was the only craft 
left riding at anchor iu the bay, and that in a very troubled 
sea, one-half of her keel being occasionally seen out of the surge. 
In this state of the weather few arrived seaward in expecta- 
tion of witnessing the races, for the result must have been 
anticipated at a distance. Those who did come were not 
only disappointed, but experienced anything but a pleasant 
sail, as the steamers pitched and tossed about in a very un- 
ruly way, and, indeed, had some difficulty in touching at the 
quay at all. Happily the high wind was accompanied with 
but little raiu ; and tliu scene looked bright and bracing, 
with a total absence of vessels, except when a ship was seen 
now and then scudding up the firth under close reefed top- 
sails. The principal prize, value £70, is an elegant fac simile 
of the Warn ick Vase, in silver. In the afternoon a large party 
dined in the Brisbane Arms, where the chair was occupied 
by the Earl of Eglinton. — North British Mail. 
IRELAND. 
Captain Ellis, R.N., Emigration Officer nt Limerick 
received by last mail an official letter from Mr. Buchanan 
superintending the emigration department at Quebec, stating 
that he never knew such n busy year as this, having applica- 
tions from every section of the Canadian provinces, com- 
plaining of the impossibility of getting sufficient labour 
women to gather in the hay crop, and the wages offered so 
high as 6s. to 7s. per day for harvest labourers. The 
number of emigrants landed to the 1st of August inst. was 
1 2,000 over the number to the same period of last year, and yet 
there is not a working man or woman unemployed. Many fami- 
lies at both sides of the Atlantic having lost money to a large 
amountby the risk of transmission in letter-orders from Canada 
upon parties in Ireland, the agent general for emigration 
at Quebec lias, with the sanction of his Excellency the 
Govenor-gcneml, Lord Elgin, guaranteed henceforward the 
proper disposal of all sums deposited at the government 
emigration office, Quebec, for bringing out to America the 
friends or relatives of the party making the deposit. “ The 
plan is that this department should receive in deposit any 
sum of money parties in this country (Canada) sending for 
their friends may be disposed to remit, for which they would 
receive a certificate, which would entitle the holder to the 
amount, on arrival at Quebec, of the parties in whose favour 
it was granted. The parties named in the certified 0 toR 
have their choice of port of departure, as also selection of 
ship, and can arrange for their rate of passage.” 
