Star. — London, England, 1829-09-22 00:00:00

~ that is about the number of combatants with which its army has been reinforced. Thus London begins to be sick of its own work. As constitutional ideas finally prevail there over the ephemeral combinations of the policy of a day, the Duke of Wellington and his colleagues already feel that there is no way of venturing upon an alliance offensive and deten.ive with Ministers who want the first condition of existence and duration—the majority in the country and in the Chambers. At Vienna, though the institutions are not in such an advanced state, proper names were immediately und erstood ; and it is said that M. de Metternich believed, like the Duke de Laval, on the day when the composition of the new Ministry was shown to him, that a toystificaiiss was intended. At Peter.burgh they begin to take things more seriously. All this was inevitable, anti in spite of what May be said, the Polignac Ministry has had success no where but at Lisbon. Messrs. Bert, the director of the J ournal dos Commerce, Berths. ten. director' of the Journal des Debass, Chevassut, director of the l'onstitufiossisel, and Lapelouse, director of the Courier Francais, appeared this morning before 4sf. Gamine Gaillard, Juge d'lnstruc. Lion. They are accused, the first of having inserted the article rela tive to the Brittany stociation, and the others with having copied the same article from the Gazelle de France—l• Of exciting hatred and contempt against the King's Government ; 2. Of provoking disobedience to the laws ; 3. Of an attack against the constitutional authotity of the King ; 4. Of an attack against the rights and au thority of the Chambers. Ihe Editors of the last three Papers have declared that they only inserted the incriminated article because the Gazette de France, after having given it in its morning's edition. repeated it in that of the evening. They could only believe, that if the article had appeared criminal to the Government, they would have taken care to have communicated the seixurewhickhad taken place by the Evening Papers. NI. Gailard was to make his report to-day, and the Council Chamber will to-morrow pronounce upon the validity of the seizure. We have to-day received news from the theatre of war, which comes to the .23c1 of August. On that day the headuarters of the Co un t Diebitsch were at Myna The General K-qrassowsky had had a very serious engagement at Sebumla, with the Grand Vizier. The latter had had a horse wounded, and General Eras snwsky a horse killed under him during the action. Palmas RPM —Rade', Free per cents. 1071. 20c. 40c. 35c. 107 f. 35c. Three per cents. 811. 50c. 25c. 30c. Biak.Actions, 1842 f. 50c. 18451. Fnaztou FUNDS.—Neapolitan Rentes, Cert. Fat. 871. 861. 95c. Spanish Ilentes, 5. Royal Spanish Loan, 73,721 /. Interminable Spanish Annuities, 49/. Il gytian Loan, 380 f. Exchange on Lou don, one month, 25f. 65e. three months, 9.51. 45c. THE EVENING STAR. alz ""k - , ;-4 1 11 )1( - 10 , 3 " t frr LONDON. TUESDAY, SE PRICK OF STOCKS PTEMBER 22. AT TWO O'CLOCK. Bank Stock Shut. ; India Bonds 63 4 3 per Cent. lied. Shut I South Sea Stock :5 per Ct. Cons. 896 1 1 1 New Annuities 31 per Cent. 1818, Shut. ./1000 Excleq. Bills, 71 VI 4 per Cent. lied. Shut. £5OO Ditto 71 78 4 per Ct. 1031 2/ 3 £lOO and .1200 Ditto 71 72 4 per Cent. 1826, Shut Advertised, bong Ann. Shut Bank for Acct. India Stock 2211 Consols for Acct. 891 I C FOltioCiv Flit4lls, TWO O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Ct.6l 11 Mex. Bds, 1825.6 p Ct. 18 Do Acct. 61 1 1 Ituss.Bds, 1822. 5 p 0.1001 I Chilian Bds. 6 pa Ct. Ditto Acct. 100 Do. Acc. 181 Spanish Bonds, 5 p Ct. 81 Colom. Bds. 1824, 151 Do. 510. 81 Greek Bonds,s p Ct. 18 Fr.Rentes.3p C. 81f. SOe Do. lids. 1825, 5 p Ct.lB 19 1 Exchange 2.5 f 55e 60e BRITISH ANI) FOREIGN SH ARES, TWO 0171.1 0 CK. SHAKE. TAM tilt MARI. 300 300 350 35 20 563 64 50 9 26 400 400 676 40 391 121 Bolan Brazilian. Imperial Hibernian Beal del Monte United Meilcan We have received the A lgemeine Zeitung co: Its reasoning on the armistice granted by Count Dm- BIT9CII, which we noticed yesterday, is as remarkable Its it is humiliating. We never for an instant imagined -- whatever intelligence of preliminaries proposed might, and may reach us—that Russia would be the simpleton to re-cross the Balkan, and abandon the fruit of her important victories. There can be no doubt that she will retain Turkey,•either in tributary—or more immediate—subjection, and that she does not dream of giving up a singl4 fortress to the remonstrances of cozened Cabinets. The ar ticle is dated from the Danube the 12th of September : " The victories of the Russians over the Turks begin to be more and more generally acknowledged, as a desirable means of opening to the commerce of the European Continent, by an, intercourse with Asia,—a great market, which may and must be secured against the arbitrary power of England. Hence the eager participation,—the impatient curiosity, after news of the advance of General DIEBITSCH to the Turkish capital. It is remarkable that a foreign General should have acquired so much popularity, by vic tories in remote countries, merely because these victories seem to be a defeat of the English policy, which people are now convinced is inimical to the developement of commerce and manufactures on the Continent. Hence proceeds the anxious fear lest General DIERITSCII should be induced, by some diplomatic obstacle, sud denly to suspend his triumphant march to Constanti nople. This apprehension is kept up by those who see that nothing is to he hoped for their private interest, unless they succeed in gaining time. They, therefore, spread a report that the Russian General has concluded an armistice for sixteen days. But the Turks would not be able, in so short a time, to repair the total dissolution of their military force, —hence the armistice ould have no object, but to leave the English time to come to the support of their old friend in Constantinople. The friends of England, and of the Turks, disregard (as a mere trifle) the circumstance that Gen. DIEBITSCH has no reason whatever to open a way for the British ships. The London Journals themselves have, however, observed that the Cabinet of St. James's would not be indisposed to send ships to the Black sea, to burn the Russian esta blishments. The Russians must, therefore, be destitute of recollection and foresight, if they neglected to secure themselves for ever against such a threat, when an oppor tunity presents itself of acquiring immortal glory. Can it be suppOsed that this opportunity, which may never return, will thoughtlessly or foolishly be thrown away, out of complaisance for England, or from fear of the threats of those monopolists ? We see how arrogantly some people presume to depreciate the exalted sentiments of the Emperor Nicitoins.." The following are extracts from other Continental Papers just received. AU that is necessary to be said on the subject of this ominous conquest, is,—that if these be the terms, Tur- key has but a nominal existence ; and, as is very cor rectly stated by the Hamburgh Reporter—" Turkey will be virtually as completely under the controul of the Russian Government, as Poland, Finland, or any other interior province." After this, how the giant, Russia, means to dispose of the rest of Europe, must become matter of very serious consideration FRONTIERS OF SERVIA, SIFT. 4. According to reports wbkh are to-day in circulation in Belgrade, the Russians have occupied the whole line from Adrianople to Ro dosto ; and it is therefore to be presumed that the nest mail from Constantinople, (that of 25th August,) will either not come at all, or pass as usual by way of Adrianople, through the Russian army. —lt is Armed at Senna, that news has been brought there by a courier, that on 47th August, some light Russian troops had shown themselves near Constantinople. SiPT• $. It Is said that a great State•—part of whose territory belongs to Germany. is not &inclined to depart from she system of exclusion, which it has hitherto followed in commercial matten with respect to other German States, particularly those belonging to the Association of Central Germany. if proposals are made to it equivalent to the advantages which it bas derived from that system. It is armed that the Congress still assembled at Cassel is engaged in discussing a plan to this ef fect; and the result is more impatiently expected, as the necessity is more felt of adopting decisive measures, to remedy the evils which are the ground of such numerous complaints in most of the countries belonging to that Association, and against which the ar rangements of the first Convention of Cassel afford only very in sufficient palliatives.—.Nnremborg Cernispoissinst, Sept. 14. BERLIN, Ssrr. 16. We'espected to find to-day, in the. State Garotte, something of the news that has been brought by the courier from Constan tinople ; but the dispatches have probably been sent after his Majesty ; and -we are for the present obliged to be content with reports, the truth of which will appear in a few days. lIAMBURGEL Barr. Is. Ns official intelligence respecting the affairs of the East has reached us since Tuesday ; but of ntmours and speculations there has been in the meanwhile no scarcity. Of these, the most im portant is one which got into circulation in Berlin shortly after the arrival of a courier from Constantinople, whose dispatches, it is said, brought positive information that the preliminaries of peace had been definitively concluded between Russia and Turkey. The conditions agreed to are said to be the following : .1. kloklavia, Wallachia, and Bulgaria, are to be placed under the sovereignty and protection of Russia. S. The unconditional emancipation of Greece is to be recognlrd. and its territory to be enlarged. 3. Several fortresses oa the Black Sea, taken by Count Paste - witsch, are to be ceded. 4. The free navigation between the Black Sea and the Medi terranean is to be secured by the demolition of several of the for tresses on the Bosphorus. 5. A pecuniary indemnity of several hundreds of millions of rubles is to be paid to Russia, in consideration of the expenses of the war, and as the Sultan declares his incapacity to comply with this demand at present, security for the future payment is to be given.—Homburgh Papers, 19th September. HAIIBURGH, Sart. IS. - . ------ - Borsen- Halle, Four &Clock. WHILAT —The arrivals from the interior have been considerable the last few days, both old and new—the latter of good quality and heavy. Several of the best lots were sold at reduced prices for exportation. During the first eleven days of September 99 cargoes of Corn passed through the Sound, of which 92 were bound to British, and 49 to Dutch ports. Rix dollars. Mimic Wheat .. 125 to 135 Pornmeranian Anbalt (white) . 125 to 132 Ditto (red) . Danish Petersburgk and Riga .. 122 to 126 Dantzle Rye 5B to 68 hlagdeburgh Barley .. .. 50 to 56 Anhalt ditto . . 54 to 60 Mecklenburgb Oats .... .. Pomeranian Malt Holstein Rapeseed .. .. .. 146 to 151 A good deal has been done iu Funds since Tuesday. At the prices quoted below there are buyers and sellen.—Dis. 5 per cent. End of Sept. Anglo Danish Loan, 3 per cent . 6B Anglo Russian Loan Hamburgb Russian Loan .. .• ... • . .. . .. 92 Polish Bonds . •. 'poi Shares ... . Austrian Bank _ Ditto bletalliques Exchange on London.—Two Months, 13 9i —Sight, 13 11. Homburgli Reporter, Sept. 18. • Austria probably is meant. It is affirmed, in letters from Rome, that Don MI GUEL'S endeavours to obtain recognition at the Court of his Holiness, have entirely failed : the Porn having de clared, that he can never bring himself to acknowledge a person stained with so many and such foul perfidies and perjuries, and whose life—since his usurpation of the throne in Portugal—has constituted one tissue of enor mous violence against morals, justice, and religion. Mr. SADLER has been milking a speech to the Mer chants and Shipowners of Whitby, on the difficulties and distresses of the country. The Honourable Gentleman refers them all to Free Trade and Catholic Emancipa tion : he sees even the sufferings of the poor through the distorting optics of party, and harps upon that rousing theme, ad captandum potius qudrn ad medendam. It is undeniable that great misery is prevalent in the lower classes, but it is not derived from the causes indicated by Mr. SADDLER. If the reciprocity system—as the Hon. Member calls it—were abolished to-morrow, would the manufacturing population find its comforts and prosperity revive It is only going skin-deep, tq talk of pettifogging commercial restrictions—or the immunity from them—as capable any longer of ex alting, or depressing to any influential degree, the ba rometer of the general condition. The debt is the incubus that presses upon it, and will continue to cause indigestion to sounder economists than Mr. SADLER, and cleverer financiers than Mr. GOULBURN. Until that pressure is removed, it is idle to expect any permanent benefit, or extensive amelioration. The following pas sage, nevertheless, from this oration of the Member for Newark, will repay the trouble of perusal. In it, he sweeps with a bold hand the chords to which our sym pathies respond, and artfully intermingles much ac cusatory matter against the persons and principles, which he was brought forward by the Duke of NEWCASTLE to oppose. " Till very lately, however, the prevalence of pneral distress was insultingly and mendadoudy denied by many of our public oracles. That impudent falsehood will now, however, avail no longer. Pa. tient as the people of England usually are under their altering , and privations, they are now, I deeply regret to observe, beginning to be turbulent. When the weavers of Spitallields were refractory, do these oracles coolly recommended . sot their rearm., but their union ! The Imams was to be removed at their dictation to dis tant parts. Well! is Congleton at this moment any better off? Has Macclesfield been' less ;Insurrectionary? Look at Rochdale, at Manchester. at Barnsley ; what is the state and condition of these places? Would to GOD my voice could reach than and might be listened to, I would earnestly exhort them to peace and obedience to the laws; but I would pot advise them to desist from remeastra ting concerning their grievances. if the Ministers could be bullied out of their principles, as some of them professed to have been, I think they might be importuned oat of their polity ; though I am fully aware that, to the scandal of human nature, whims are much more tenaciously maintained than principles ; and such, perhaps, still think that agitators for emancipation ought to be listened to ; agitators for bread put down ! But now that the general die treu can be no longer denied, still this darling theory is to be de fended, by attributing our sufferings to other causes ; and it must be confessed they give us abundance of choice. Sometimes it has been laid to the charge of stagnation, more frequently to overproduction ; now the bankers are in fault—now the traders ; our agriculturists have produced too much—they have produced too little. We have a surplus of capital.--we have had a want of k; but now it seems that an indifferent harvest or two is the most convenient apology for our distresses, which distresses, however. commenced before the harvests were deficient ; bat bad it been ieberwise. variations in our seasons always have existed, and row will recur, as certainly, though perhaps not so regularly, as the cycles of the planetary system. And for these, as they must always be expected, a wise and paternal Govern ment will never be unprepared. In a word, the people of England, it has long appeared .pretty plain, cannot trade to the .satisfaction of their rukea ; nor does PROVIDE:Mt appear to please them any better. These facts, however, ire certain — first, that the distress is great.; and, secondly, thit its date is coincident with that of the operation of the new theory ; wit ness the statistics of misfortune, of poverty, of crime, in the instant and vast increase of bankruptcies, the multiplication of criminal committals, the chic in the poor rates. all taking their date from the identical period in question. Can events of so strik ing and tremendous a character exist without a cause, and one ade quate to their production) It were absurd to suppose it—one of the most important duties of the Government is therefore to search it out, and. instead of withstanding those public inquiries for which the people have so long and so loudly called, to solicit rather than reject their evidence and information." No doubt of it ; the time for these public enquiries is come, and the grand remedy—adjustment of the debt— must be proposed. It is true : " the statistics of mis fortune, of poverty, and of crime," speak to us every hour of the coming catastrophe, in tones of admo nition equally portentous and touching, and the Honour able partisan is trying to make the most of the warning. He would exhort—he says—the rioters at Barnsley, and Manchester, and Macclesfield, to keep the peace and yield submission to the Magistracy : yet he would reconi mend them to yo on remonstrating. But we can tell Mr. SADLEIt, that whether they break the peace—from which he dissuades them, after the most approved man ner of travelling instigators—or keep it, their dis tresses will go on augmenting. It is not in the changes which Mr. SADLER is labouring to produce —but vainly labouring—that the re-organization we require must be sought : the extinction of the Ministerial DEBT—for the nation had nothing to do with the con tracting it—either by the spunge, or some covenant of equitable reduction, can alone deliver us. In fact — as far as regards the TA X E/1-41 Revolution : but its cha racter—either as regenerative or anarchical—will depend on the spirits at the helm. NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICAN COFFEE-HOUSE By the arrival of the New York, Captain BEN\ ET, from New York, and the packet ship Boston, Captain MACK AY, from Boston, files of Papers have reached the above establishment to the 2d instant. THE SPANISH INVADING EXPEDITION. The schooner Eclipse, arrived at New Orleans from Tampico. which place she left 19th July, reports, that part of the Spanish squadron which left Havanna, consisting of sits ship or the line one frigate, and two corvettes, had arrived, and were at anchor. off that place; the transports. having on board the troops, bad nut yet been heard of. The Commandant at Tampico had received instructions from his Government to declare that port blockaded on the first appearance of the hostile fleet, which we infer has actually taken place, in consequence of Its arrival. It Is also stated that a levy by Government of ten millions of dollars was to take place on all monies that shall be brought from the interior for the purpose of clothing and paying the army, which was to be accounted fur at the close of the campaign. Orders bad been given to station 10,000 troops at Tampico. 8,000 at Cantpeachy. and at all other places on the coast, in the same proportion. The convoy with 800,000 dollars. which was due at Tampico 16th July, had not arrived ; bad weather, it was supposed, had detained it. It was repotted at Trinidad de Cuba on the 20th ultimo that our Minister, Mr. Poinsett, had been assassinated at Mexico. This we deem unworthy of credit. (f, rwst.vs o'CLoca. Canals, which left off yesterday at 891 jig's. the Account, opened this morning at 891. In the Foreign Market nothing doing. CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. Consols are not so good as in the earlyput of the morning, when they were 891, buyers, since which they have been dose at 891 foe the account, and a: present may be quoted 691 and 8$ for money. This depression was caused by a report in the Stock Exchange that the armi.tice between the Russians and Turks was not true, and that the Russians had entered Constantinople en the 27th August. We can now positively state from the first authority. and be yond all doubt, that the Armistice took place on the s9th August, and two days after preliminaries were signed between the Russians and Turks, and there was not the least doubt it would terminate in a peace. In the Foreign market Greek Beads have got up ; Danish and Russian Stocks 'have also improved. By the American Papers just arrived to the lst September, ac• counts from Tampico of the 19th July state, that part of the Ha vannak squadron had arrived there ; the transports with the troops had not been heard of. The New York Packet, left the Ist Sept. has arrived off Holyhead. The papers and letters have not yet been received. Accounts from Burgundy, in France, bring very un favourable tidings in regard to the vintage, which has completely failed. Letters from French Cerdayne state, that Puyerda is in the greatest state of fermentation. All the gates of that town were closed. The Charlestown Papers say that there being very little stock of cotton on hand, and no vessel loading for any port in Europe, the market does not present any fea ture different from what it had exhibited for two weeks jt It is also stated that the claim by the British on the State of the Maine contains not less than eleven thousand square miles. The Port au Prince and Mauritius Papers are void of information. EQUITABLE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. It will be in the recollection of our readers, that a case has lately been laid before Mr. BROUGHAM, by Mr. bloacau, the Secretary of this Institution, to kcow whether the usual mode of computing the value of the existing Policies, before ascertaining and dividing the surplus, could be altered ;—this value may be computed either from the Northampton Tables, or from the Equitable Experience ; and the question of importance is, what difference exists between the two as to the decrease of lives.—Mr. )loaoax has stated, and continues to state, that this difference is only as 2 to 3. We have seen a pamphlet written by a Mr. BALDWGI, in which it is contended—by a line of arguments equally simple and convincing—that ea this point, Mr. Montan is istsen. hots* deceiving the Public, and the Assurers : that the differ ence between the two it not as 2 to 3, but as 44 to I—and that Mr. MORGAN la fully aware of this fact. We think this of sufficient importance to call the attention of the Assurers to it, as well for the sake of Mr. MORGAN'S character as for the interest of the Soei-ty. From the Hague, of the 17th instant, we hear that his Royal Highness the Prince of °RANGY will, in the course of next week, review the Burgher guards in the capital, and other towns of the province of Leige. His Excellency the Minister of Finance is expected from Brussels, next week, at the Hague,with his bureaux. It is affirmed that M. de Brouckere, Member of the Second Chamber of the States General, is engaged on a work relative to the improvements which it may be neces sary to make in the system of public instruction. From Petersburgh, of the sth of September, we find that there is almost an uninterrupted succession of files and illuminations. On the fourth instant the city was again illuminated on accou: t of the anniversary of their M J EST lES Coronation. Accounts from Odessa of the :30th of August say, that the negotiations for peace between Turkey and Russia were to be opened on the above day. From Manchester it is stated that another week has passed over, and, it is much regretted, without appear ance of any termination of the ruinous contest of the turn-out of the fine spinners ; and the hands of two or three of the course mills turned out last week. At Bolton the prospects of trade is gloomier in the pre sent month than it was last month. Charlestown Papers, three days Inter, to the 16th of August, Port au Prince to the 10th of August, and Mauritius to the 7th of June, have been received at the North and South American Coffee-house. Tug PRINCESS POLIGNAC.—The wife of the new Prime Minister of France, was the Hon. ANNE SARAH PA RKA N s, fourth daughter of the late Lord RANCLIPEE, and sister of the present Noble Peer who represents the city of Nottingham in Parliament. The Princess is in the 38th year of her age, and early in life married the Marquis de CHOISEUL, a French Nobleman of ancient family, by whom she was left a widow ; and she re-mar ried, in 1824, with Prince JULES DE POLIGNAC, soon after his Excellency was appointed Ambassador Extra ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary front the Court of the Tuilleries to this country. The Princess's elder sister married Sir WM. RVMBOLD, Bart. and Sir RICIIARD LEVIxaE, au Irish Baronet. John MARSHALL, Esq. M. P. for Yorkshire, and son-in-law of Mr. Wo nnsWORTII, the celebrated poet, visited Castle Connell Thursday, and after breakfast pro ceeded in a boat to the fall of Doonass, with which he expressed much astonishment. His party afterwards went to Nenagh, on a tour to the Giant's Causeway. Fenny countries, though subject to agues, are gene rally free from consumption, which has induced an emi nent physician to propose the removal of consumptive patients to the heart of the Cambridgeshire fens, in pre ference to Sidmouth or Hastings. Captain TAAFFE, of Cappecada, in the county of Roscommon, has a valet, whose height, by the nicest measurement, does not exceed 34 inches, and whose age is 24 years. His weight in full dress, with hat, spurs, aui top boots, is precisely two stone and ten pounds ; and to add to the singularity of his appearance, he can boast of a perfect symmetry of form. By a statement of the affairs of Messrs. FtEt.otx(is _ • BM/TREKS, of Catteral print-works and Manchester, it appears that their debts amount to 104,0001., and there is property to the amount of about 65,000/. The cre- . ditors expect a dividend of 12s. in the pound. Mr. SHERIDAN lixow Lcs, the author of Caius Grac chus and William Tell, ha.. another tragedy iu prepa-. ration for the ensuing season, at Covent-garden, in the event of that theatre re-opening, in which the principal female character is allotted to Miss SmITIISON, who is shortly expected in town from a theatrical tour in the North, where she has been performing with considerable eclat. _ _ Yesterday being St. Matthew's Day, the LORD MAYOR, Su nu r 4, and other Officers of the Corporate body, according to annual custom, went in state to Christ Church, Xewgnte-street, where an excellent Ser mon was preached by the Rev. Mr. MArru s, of Cambridge, previous to the Annual Orations by the two senior scholars. Master WHITE first ascended the ros trum, and in a clear and firm voice delivered the Latin harangue ; amongst other topics, it spoke of the great benefits conferred by institutions such as Christ's Hos pital, and paid a just and classically conceived eulogium On "our Royal Enw A RD," the founder. Master WIIITE was loudly applauded. Master BEG atz next ascended, and delivered an English translation of the Latin Oration just noticed, in a soft and silvery tone, and with great propriety of emphasis and action ; it was received with continued acclamations. Yesterday morning, about 11 o'clock, the son-in-law of Mr. W RHEN, a coal-merchant, in Scotland-yard, Parliament-street, was speaking to some friends, near the Palace Court, apparently in excellent health, when he suddenly fell backwards, and instantly expired. WicK.—lt is painful to be obliged to state that this season a dangerous, and, indeed, a fatal distemper broke out among the Cellardyke fishermen in Pultney. One man was seized by a fever ; his friends and relations vi sited him of course—the disease spread ; and, besides those who were sent home sick, three men belonging to Cellardyke, and one man belonging to Crail, have died. People attribute the origin of the disease to the great quantity of cod-heads, fish-guts, and fulzie of every description, which lie in disgraceful profusion in that quarter. We have heard that a step, vigorous and decisive, has lately been taken by the British Cabinet in the very com plicated and intricate questions involved in the present relations of Portugal and Brazil. Of the precise nature of this step, we are not yet sufficiently informed to hazard a decided opinion ; we shall therefore content ourselves with a simple allusion.—Morning Chronicle. The small-pox has, we regret to state, been very preva lent in Hexham during great part of the summer, and still rages fatally amongst children, several of whom have re cently died of the malady. Adults, as well as infants, have been attacked ; but, in the former cases, the patients have generally recovered. In some instances persons have been afflicted with the disease who had previously been vaccinated.