FEVER IN LONDON.

New Zealander, Volume 3, Issue 152, 13 November 1847, Page 3

FEVER IN LONDON.

Throughout the country, but especially in tin metiopolis and the larger towns, there has bee a great increase of deaths from epidemic or spo radic disorders. At the present moment, the Iris) epidemic is rapidly increasing in the metropolis The London Fever Hospital, after admitting, for some time, thrice the usual number, is obliged to close its doors to close its doors (o application* and the list of those who are waiting their turn, is daily augmented. A third of the cases are Irish, or traceable to Irish infection. The degree of danger from this source may be gueised, from a morning's walk anywhere in the streets. Never were there so many Irish, solitary and in groupes. Many arrive with the fever upon them. Where, and how, they all lodge, in what numbers, in what condition, by what means, they live and into what hands they fall wheu they sicken, no one can tell. It is their nature to herd together, and to avoid any opportunity of airy and cleanly lodging that may be afforded .them. They prefer to lie in heaps of their own. There are, therefore, in every part of this metropolis, and very often in the immediate vicinity of the most spacious and splendid streets, festering accumulations of misery, dirt and disease, breeding a pestilence which taints the air, and will not abate till it has seized a few noble victims. Last week a Curate of St< Giles-in-the-Fields, shared the fate of the six Liverpool Priests who have already died, from contact with the Irish fever. This is only a beginning. The whole summer and autumn are before us. 1 hey who are obliged, as ninety-nine out of a hundred of tbe Londou population are, to stay it out all the year, know well the state of the atmosphere in August and September, when the beat of the summer has penetrated to the depths of tbe drains, and the temperature of the earth gives fresh activity to tha decomposition of their contents. This is a gloomy prospect, and as the present bill does not apply to the metropolis, it may seem superfluous to dwell upon it— but our other great towns are ia much the same state, and are not excluded from, the benefits intended by this bill. They should bestir themselves, to secure and accelerate its progress through Parliament. — Times, June 21. The "Swedish Nigtingale," we undeistand, has named as remuneration for her aervicei at Liverpool, for six nights, the small sum of £500 anight! She has be.en offered, it is said, by a private individual, £600 for two performances, here. Report says that her engagement at Her Majesty's theatre, brings her in £500 weekly, for three nights' performances, besides- being provided with an house to live in, a carriage for her own use, and covers being laid daily at her own mausion for twenty persons.

Serenade to Jenny Liwd.— At ten o'clock last evening, a party of sixteen gentlemen, members of the German Vocal Club (Liederkranz), repaired to Miss Lind's residence at Brompton, and having obtained admittance to the garden at the back of the house, they executed several beautiful serenade airs, in a very superior and musician like mauner. ' Madamoiielle Lind Walked into the garden and thanked the gentlemen for their unexpected attention.' The party then left, delighted with their visit. — Globe.

"Can the Ethiopian change his Colour t" — The extraordinary fact of a black woman turning white has recently occurred at Cairo. The woman is married to a black soldier belonging to Ibrahim Pasha's guard, and according to the evidence brought forward, it it during the last two years that her black skin hat peeled off ty degrees, and that without any inconvenience to herself, and has been replaced by a white skin. Her features distinctly belong to the European race, and her flat note, thick lips* woolly hair, peculiar cheek-bone, accent, and the shape of feet, all denote her origin. Five European medical men at Cairo have certified to the above facts. The woman is about forty years of age, has always enjoyed tolerable health, and comes from Sowauli, in Zanzibor, in the dominions of the Emperor of Muscat.— •Correspondent of the Times, at Alexandria. A printer on the Iron Times, committed suicide owing to his baying failed to set a piece of tabular work to his own satisfaction,

Tahitian Beauty.— Notwithrtanding tb« physical degeneracy of the Tahitians at a peopeople, among the chiefs individuals of personable figures are still frequently met with j and occasionally majestic-looking men* and diminutive women, as lovely as the nymphs who, nearly a century ago, swam round the ships of WallU. In these instances Tahitian beauty. is quite as seducing as it proved to the crew of ike Bounty ; the young girls being just such creatures as a poet would picture in the tropics,— soft, plump , and dreamy eyed. The natural complexion of hoth sexes is quite light} but the males appear much darker from their exposure to, the, sun. A dark complexion in a man is highly esteemed, as indicating strength of body and soul.^Hence there is a saying of great antiquity among them— 44 If dark the cheek of the mother The son will sound the war conch j. If strong her frame be will give laws." With this idea of manliness, no wolider tbe Tali itians regard all pale and tepid-looking Europeans, as weak and feminine ; whereas a sailor with a cheek lik^ the breast of 'a roaut turkey, is held a lad of brawn,— to use their own phrase, a <( taata tona," or man of bones. Speaking of bones, recalls an ugly custom of tbeir's, now obsolete, that of making fish-hooks and gimblets out of those of their enemies. This boats the Scandinavians turning people's skulls into cups and saucers.— Adventures in the South Seas.