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PROGRESS OF THE INDIAN CHOLERA. Indian or Spasmodic Cholera, which gives a name to, and forme the immediate object of this paper, is a plague of .reilern origin. This disease is in its principal symptom! ~'together unlike the English Cholera, yet many persons, oht acquainted with the nature of both species, have con fuentled them. In Hindostan, Spasmodic Cholera has pro table always existed as a comparatively mild climatic dia . ase. affecting at certain seasons of the year a small number of individuals in various parts of the country This opinion is countenanced by Hindoo authority. Bat there is no evi dence to shew that it ever bore the epidemic character until the year 1817. unless we admit the statements of Mr. Scott, who considered the cases that occurred towards the close of the last century sufficiently numerous, and the sweep of country travelled by the malady sufficiently large, to warrant the conclusion. However this question may be disposed of, it is at least certain that the Indian Cholera was not entitled to be classed with pestilential scourges of the worst descrip tion, previous to the beginning of August, 1817, when it suddenly broke out with unprecedented malignity. temmencing among the inhabitants of Jessore, a town 1(10 miles N. E. of Calcutta, in less than a month it travelled along the course of the river to that city, having desolated the intervening villages. Before the expiration of August, the native population of Calcutta were attacked, and early in September the disease was also manifested among the , Europeans. From January to May, 1818, the pestilence raged with ; extreme violence, extending its destructive influence across Bengal, front Silbet to Cuttack ; and towards the interior, from the mouth of the Ganges to its confluence with the .1 umna, a space including 450 square unites. Leaving Bengal, the disease retired for some time to the western bank of the Ganges and Jumna. In its most ma- 1 lignant form it appeared at Benares, where in two months 15,000 persons perished. At Allahabad forty or fifty died', daily. To other localities situated on either bank the disease soon spread, and the mortality was equally great. In the district of Gorrakpore 30,000 were carried off in a month.', Then suffered in succession Lucknow, Cawnpore, Delhi, Agra, Muttra, Meerat and Bareilly. Between the 6th and 7th of November, the epidemic bad reached the grand army, which, on the approach of the Pin- 1 darree war, had been concentrated at Jubbulpore, Mundel lah, and Sauger, under the command of the Marquis of Hastings. It consisted of 10,000 troops, and 80,000 fol lowers. To the different divisions of this force, the cholera roved more fatally effective than could the shot of the ene my in a well-contested field. In twelve days nearly 9,000 men had fallen to rise no more. At this time the thermo meter ranged from 90 to 100 deg. Fahrenheit. The heat was moist and suffocating, and the atmosphere a dead calm. The progress of the cholera in the centre division of the army was as follows :—After creeping insidiously for a few days among the lower classes of the camp followers, it seemed instantaneously to gain fresh vigour, breaking out with ir resistible force in every direction. Previous to the 14th, it had overspread the camp, sparing neither age nor sex in the indiscriminating violence of its attack. The old and the young, the European and the native, fighting men and camp followers, were alike selected, and all equally sank within its death-grasp. From the 14th to the 20th, the mortality had become so extensive that the stoutest hearts were yielding to despair. The camp wore the aspect of a general hospital. The medical officers, night and day at their posts, were no longer able to administer to the numerous sick who continued to pour in from every quarter. At this time the scene was strikingly contrasted to what it had been a few days before. The noise and bustle almost inseparable from the presence of a multitude of human beings, bad nearly subsided into still ness. Nothing was to be seen in motion, save a solitary in dividual, here and there anxiously hurrying from one divi sion of the camp to another to enquire after the fate cf his companions. Nothing was to be heard but the groans ofl the dying, or the wailing for the dead. The natives, per ceiving the only hope of safety in flight, now deserted in crowds. But their speed frequently deceived them. The fields and highways, for miles round, were covered with the bodies of many who had carried with them the seeds of the distemper. It was evident that such a state of things could not con tinue much longer. Unless an immediate check were given to the malady, it would soon depopulate the camp. In this emergency, • it was fortunately determined by the com mander-in-chief that change of locality should be tried as a last resource. The division accordingly moved in a south easterly direction. In a short period the Marquis of Hastings was enabled to transmit a despatch to the go vernment, intimating that having marched fifty miles, be had at last fixed upon a dry and elevated soil, where the pestilence rapidly declined. The cholera now directed its course across the Deccan, advancing, in many instances, at the rate of fifteen or eighteen miles a-day, and remaining at various posts during a period of from two to six weeks. In this way it reached Husseinabad, where the mortality was frightful for several days. It then followed the banks of the Nerbuddah to Tanali, and afterwards traversed Aurungabad, Ahmednug gur, and Poonah. Taking the direction of the coast, it arrived at Bombay, August, 1818, having crossed the In dian Peninsula in twelve months from the date of its ap pearance in Calcutta. We have thus been able to trace the footsteps of this de • structive traveller through the country of its birth. Its mea sured rate of progression, and the occasional halts which it made for definite periods in thickly inhabited towns, are worthy of remark, as the epidemic still retains these cha racteristics. Like a nascent river, its course has been at tames direct or devious, uniform or temporarily interrupted ; appearing at various places, not at the same period, but in succession, either by the gradual advance of the main cur rent, or of some of its distributive branches. While the interior of Hindostan was submitting to this, the pestilence had spread along the coast of Malabar and Coromandel, reaching Madras the Bth of October. With its progress here, a new and alarming feature was developed. The possibility of transporting the contagion by sea was evinced in its transit from Coromandel to the island of Cey lon. In Candi, the capital, it broke out December, 1818, with even greater violence than upon the continent. By the 15th of September, 1819, Mauritius was included in the islands infected. The disease did not appear till after the arrival of the Topaze frigate from Ceylon, where the epidemic was then raging. The vessel, at the time of sailing, seemed healthy, but during the passage the cholera had appeared among the crew. In Pout Louis fifty persons died daily. The malady, however, was chiefly confined to the coast ; for though the deiiths in the hospital of the town amounted to about ninety-four cases out of one hundred and thirty-three, on the plantations the mortality was not higher than 10 or 15 per cent. In the adjacent island of Bourbon, the disease began early in the month of December, 1819. The governor had adopted measures to interdict all communication with Mauritius ; but notwithstanding this, two boats from the dif ferent islands held clandestine intercourse, and the con tagion was imported. Of 257 persons seized with the dis temper, 178 died. During the last six months of 1819, the cholera, pur suing its route to the south and east, had also invaded the ludo-Chinese Peninsula. Siam received more than a pro portional share of misfortune. In Bankok alone 40,000 individuals are said to have fallen victims. The contagion marched onwards to Malacca and Singapore. By the end of April it was announced on the northern coast of Java. During May it extended with violence in the interior of this island. Cochin-China and Tonquin were invaded in 1820. In December of the same year, it entered China, beginning its ravages at Canton. Pekin admitted the enemy in 1821, and during that and the following year the mortality was P.O enormous, that coffins and other funeral requisites were necessarily furnished at the expense of the public treasury, for the interment of the poorer classes. Num bers of people engaged in the pursuits of business or plea sure, riding or walking, were seen to fall in the streets, ex hausted by the sudden impression of the disease, which carried them in a few hours afterwards to eternity. We shall now return to Bombay, and describe the course which the epidemic took to the north and west, in its ap proaches from that island towards the confines of Europe ; and the route by which at last it was enabled to traverse the Russian empire, threatening, in the present day, the neigh bouring European states. In July. 1821, through the intercourse maintained by ships trading between Bombay and Muscat, in Arabia, the contagion was exported to the latter. Here the disease destroyed 60,000 persons ; many expired ten minutes after the accession. The cholera now spread to different parts of the Persian gulf—to Bahrein, Busheer, and Bassora. In Bassora, 18,000 individuals perished, of whom 14,000 died in a fortnight. From the Persian gulf the cholera extended inland, in two directions, following the line of commercial intercourse. On one hand, it ascended the Euphrates, traversing Meso potamia into Syria; and the Tigris from Bassora to Bagdad. lOn the other, the disease was propagated into Persia.— ]ln the city of Shiraz, the population of which is , 40,000, there died 16,000 in the first few days. Among the victims was the East India Company's resident, Claudius James Rich, Esq. He had retired to rest but very slightly indisposed. In the morning, he was found dead in his bed. Extending through Persia, the contagion visited several districts in the north and south of the kingdom. Ispahan escaped in consequence of the caravans from Shiraz being prohibited from entering the city. The route that was sub stituted lay through Yezd. This town paid dearly for the vicarious visitation, as seven thousand persons were after wards swept away by the cholera. During the succeeding winter, the contagion became dormant, both in Persia and Syria. In the spring of 1822 the Syrian and Persian streams of contagion had their frozen energies restored to activity. They quickly spread in their primitive vigour. Mosul, Beni, Aentab, and Aleppo were infected. In Persia, during Sep tember, the disease spread to the northward of Teheran, throughout all Kurdistan and Tauris. In the spring and autumn of 123, Diarbekr and Antioch were attacked, and the disease ravaged many of the towns along the Asiatic side of the Mediterranean. It also extended in an opposite course, attaining, in the month of August, Baku, upon the border of the Caspian Sea. At length, in September, it reached the Russian city of Astracan, at the mouth of the Volga. It first broke out in the marine hos pital. From the 22d of September to the 9th of October, there died 144 patients, nearly two thirds of all who bad been attacked. Rigorous measures were enforced by tha authorities for checking the contagion, but it continued to manifest itself until the severity of winter had set in. During the ensuing summer it did not return. The winter of this year was also destructive of the Syrian branch before it could reach Egypt. Sanatory precautions, however, in expecta tion of its arrival, had been prescribed by the Viceroy. Although Europe was relieved from the impending dan ger, by the complete destruction or exhaustion of those parts of the contagious currents which had penetrated to Astra can, and to the borders of Egypt, yet the cholera continued to reappear, every summer, in many of the countries pre viously infected, spewing that the cold of winter had, in general, power to check its morbid influence upon the hu man body, but not to destroy the miasm altogether. In 1822 it re-appeared in Java, and carried off 100,000 people. After visiting 'fernat, Celebes, and Banda, in 1823, it first reached Amboyna. The inhabitants had no recollection of the disease ever having been in the Spice Islands before. Afterwards it committed great havoc in Timor. For several years the cholera pursued its destruc tive course through China. After desolating several cities in Mongolia, it had reached the frontiers of Siberia at the end of the year 1826. In February, 1827, the disease for tunately received a check during the prevalence of a strong north wind. After the first invasion, Persia had several returns of Cholera. In October, 1829, a very serious inroad com menced in Teheran, the royal .esidence. But the occur• rence of winter stopped its progress for the time. The con tagion, however, was again resuscitated towards the middle of June, 1830, in the provinces of Mazanderan and Shirvan, upon the southern shore of the Caspian Sea. From the lat ter it passed through the town of Tauris, and de stroyed 5,000 of its inhabitants. Crossing the Rus sian frontier, it rapidly advanced towards the interior. In two provinces 4,557 persons were seized with the malady, of whom more than a third died. The Bth of August it entered Tiflis. The population was soon di minished from 30,1)00 to 8,000, by deaths, and migra tion to avoid the distemper. To avert the spreading mor tality, the inhabitants had recourse to religious ceremonies and processions, which, by collecting crowds, only served to extend the disease. In the mean time, by the Ist of July the malady had reached Astracan. Ten days afterwards, 1229 individuals had been seized, of whom more than a third died, including the civil governor, and nearly all the officers of police. This was the second time the devoted city of Astraean had been visited by the contagion. It was decreed, however, that the present attack should not yield so readily as the former had done seven years before. The resietless pro gress which the malady has since made from this locality, over a vast portion of Russia, has served to fix the attention of professional men in every part of Europe, and to excite rational alarm in the minds of the enlightened members of, the general community. The contagion, in penetrating to the heart of the Russian empire from Astracan, pursued the course of the Volga, which spread its navigable waters over the most populous provinces. Considerable havoc was made among the Cossacks of the Don. The capitals of the several districts between that and Moscow were ravaged in succession. In this city the ap pearance of the destroyer was announced the 28th of Sep tember, having travelled from Astracan, a distance of 900 miles, in less than three months. In Moscow, energetic measures were instantly instituted by the government to afford every assistance to the sick, and to oppose the progress of the malady. The city was divided into forty-seven departments, completely insulated one from the other by barriers and guards. Restrictions and precautions heretofore found serviceable in neutralizing or excluding the contagion of Egyptian plague, were rigidly enforced upon all ranks of the people. The 11th of October, twelve days after the invasion, 216 cases of cholera had occurred, and of these 76 were fatal. The mortality, how ever, exceeded even the preceding proportion with the ex tension of the disease. By the 10th of November, 5,507 cases were returned , and the deaths amounted to 2,908, or more than a half. By letters of a recent date (January, 1831) we learn that latterly the malady bad greatly declined in Moscow, but that it bad appeared to a limited extent among the troops march ing to the reduction of Poland. Report says that it was carried thither by some regiments which the necessity of the occasion had summoned from the provinces previously infected. —Englishman's Magazine, No. 1. PANORAMA OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE. KENT AND ESSEX MERCURY, APRIL 5. --- Seven columns of this paper are occupied with the interesting contest between Mr. Mayhew and the Corporation of Colchester, who, baffled by Mr. Mayhew In their return of the Sing's Printer, have exerted the last effort of such expiring bodies to thwart his election, but, to the general satisfaction of the public, without success. It seems, on the evidence of Messrs. Hope snd Mills, that Sir W. Curtis was obtruded as a candidate, 'without his appearing, or personally pardeipating, but after four days' poll, Mr, Mayhew was 97 a head. The defeat of this well-entrenched Corporation will he the signal for independent electors every where to exert themselves as those of Colchester have done. A close corporation is always an incubus on the pros perity and freedom of a town, and one of the first ten acts of a re formed parliament should be to open theeir offices to popular election. The inhabitants of Rochford Hundred, at a numerous meeting, have sanctioned the plan of Reform. Mr. Smith, of Rawneth, Mr. Mill, of Raylegh Park, Mr. Ralph, the Rev. J. Harris, and Messrs. Wellesley and Harvey, M.P. spoke at considerable length. HUNK BAY, Kzwv.—The Royal Assent has just been given to an Act of Parliament, by which a company is formed for the erection of a pier at Herne Bay, which is situate on the Kentish coast, four miles on the London side of the Reculvers, and 10 nearer the metropolis than Margate. The town of Herne Bay has been for sonic time past rapidly advancing in public estimation as a select sea retreat, but the want of a landing plate has prevented visitors reaching it by water. The Royal Adelaide steam boat performed the voyage from Margate to London, a distance of nearly 80 miles, in five hours and 17 minutes, on Tuesday la: t, being the quickest passage ever made. CIiELMSFOZD M .-Wheat, White, 72s to 80s; Red, ditto , 68s to 765; Barley, 34s to 46.; Oats, 27s to 345; Peas, Partridge, 351 to 38s ; White, 48s to 501; Beans, Tick, 34s to 38s. Saturday last, seventeen persons, emigrants, left Hadleigh for liar , with, where a ship is waiting for their reception, ;bound to Upper Canada. Same day, four labourers and two children left Layham, nuar Hulleigh, for the same destination. MARRIED.—A. Watson, Esq Lieutenant 58th regt. to Isabel, (laughter of the late J. Forbes , of Hutton-hall, Essex. DIED.—At Gravesend, Pante), relict of the late Mr. Wm. Tabrum, Woodham Ferris,—At Great Tey, Mr. Joseph Firmin, 64.—At Col chester, Miss Maria Cox, of Ipswich.—At Dover, Mrs. Elgar.—Mr. R. Taylor.—At Canterb ury, Mr. E. Penny. BATH JOURNAL, APRIL 4. Air. Justice Park, after congratulating the county that it had been disturbed by none of the violence and outrage which had prevailed hi some parts of the country, ascribes the great increase of crime to the " Beer-Houses, " because he could cite a solitary instance of manslaugh ter, resulting from a quarrel which had taken place in one of these houses. Whatever weight the opinion of a learned Judge may have. we think a very little reflection will sheer, that his Lordship's zeal in the cause of virtue had, in this instance, overstepped his understanding, or that he had not duly considered the subject. Only one instance iti the county, of crime originating in a beer-heuse, is no proof that the newly-created beer-houses are the cause of crime. The County of Somerset Meeting adds an important proof of the unanimity of the people, in favour of the Ministerial plan of Re form. Mr. Dickenson has lust the favour of all, and the people arc nn the look out for another representative. We understand that Mr. Northmore hat been canvassing the freeholders of the county. Our cor respondent of Sitepton- Mallet says he has been there, accompanied by Mr. Hunt, Mr. Perrott, and the Rev. 3lr. Cresswell, and left two lists I for signature—the one calling on Mr. Dickenson to resign, and the other an invitation to Mr. Northmorc, to stand for the county. [Forty years' acquaintance with Nlr. N. enables us to say, that it: is one of the soundest patriots and most elegant classical scholars in the united kingdom.] Astaivazs—Countess Stanhope, Lady Somerset, Lady Charlotte Rankest and family, Lord Carrington and Hon. Miss C. Gardiner, Lieut.-Colonel Barrow, Captains Decres, R.N. Crooke, R.N. Dacrcs, Hampton, Rev. Messrs. Evered and Harwood, &c. &c. ALLOTMENTS OF LAND TO THZ Poos.John Fuller, Esq. at his late Tithe Audit, at lieathfichl, liberally abated 101. per cent. which was acknowledged with gratitude by the tithe-payers. Mr. Fuller'' , steward handsomely tendered his services to cooperate with the leading men in the parish, in au endeavour to alleviate the condition of the labouring poor, by granting to them allotments of land for cultivation, instead of encouraging emigration to America. He considered that it must be more gratifying to a feeling mind, to have an opportunity of viewing the improved condition of the poor at home, than reading the vague and contradictory accounts of their success in a fortivn land. At the Somerset Assizes there were 187 prisoners for trial. After the Reform Meeting in Cornwall, on Wednesday last, a reso lution was entered into at a meeting of the freeholders, to return, in the event of a dissolution of parliament, a second member pledged to Re form, instead of Sir R. Vyvyan. The Clifton and Bristol Rates are fixed for the 27th and 28th inst. Thirty horses are already nominated for the Clifton Stakes, and thirty one for the Tradesman's Plate. litanwsxza.—On Tuesday evening, about five o'clock, part of a farm house, in the parish of Donyatt, occupied by Mr. Coleman, was discovered to be ou fire while the family was absent at milking ; the labourers succeeded in confining the fire to the cellar and milkliouse, which were destroyed, and saved the dwelling house by cutting off the communication in the roof. The same premises were attempted to lie set on fire a fortnight before, when the family were in the fields, but it was got under with little damage. It h, no doubt, the act of an incen diery.—On the same evening, the church In the parish of Ashill was entered, and a box containing the communion plate stolen. CORN MARCET.—Wheat, per quarter, 50s to 78s; Flour, 63s to 684 ; Seconds, ditto, 57s to 58s ; Beans, 38s to 55s ; Barley, 30s to 454 ; Peas, 461 to 74s ; Oats, Ns to 300 ; Four pound loaf, wheaten, Med ; Standard wheaten, 91d. MA 11111E11—At Purton, Maurice, eldest eon of Wm. Maakelyne, Esq. of Oaksey Park, to Sarah, only child of Matthew Vivash, Esq. of Purton.— Mr. James Remington, of Somerford Keynes, to Miss Mary Ann Weeks, of Poole, Wilts.—Thomas King, Esq. of Aire. tliaton, Wilts, to Elizabeth Grace, daughter of Sambrooke Anson, Esq. of lver, Bucks.—At Swatiswick, by the Rev. Mr. bload, Mr. Andrew Bright, to Alias Sarah French. DIED—AL Compton Patincefoot, Mrs. Harbin, wife of the Rcr. J. Harbin—At Mark, Sint. Elizabeth Bragg, 69.—1 n Seymour street, Mrs. Elisabeth Routh, daughter of the late Reverend P. Houtii.-111rs. Hassell, wife of Mr. Hassell, Frome.—Mrs. Anstee, of Morford-street.—Elizabeth, wife of Mr. James Gunning, of F.xfurd. —April 1, at his residence, Bloomfield.bouse, at a very advanced age. J. Grose, Esq. a gentleman whose literary attainmenu, practical good sense, and benevolent disposition, procured for him the esteem and res pect of all who had the pleasure of his acquaintance —74, Mrs. ll:night, wife of Mr. R. Knight, of Devizes.-84, S. Slocock, Esq of Newbury, banker and brewer, sen. alderman of the corporation.—At Comtism, 51. Burrough, Esq. late of Salisbury.—Emtus, wife of Mr. G. Navin, of Trowbridge.—Mrs. Walton, wife of the Rev. W. Wal ton, of Trowbridge. LEICESTER CHRONICLE, APRIL 2. _ . The County reform meeting was so numerously attended that the Castle hall was not large enough, and an atljournoneot took place to the Castle yard, where waggons were ranged for the purpose. The chief speakers were Lord Sondes, E. C. Hartopp, Esq. E. Dawson, Esq. the Rev. J. Dyke, who for the clergy spoke in support, R. 0. Cave, Esq. M. Babington, Esq. Colonel Cheney, and C. M. Phillips, Esq. hut the most striking circumstance was the speech of a journeyman frame work knitter, named Seale, who spoke as follows:—He said, he presented himself before the meeting as the representative of the aeon. ments of the great body of the working classes of Leicester. Little did be expect to see the day when the nobility, gentry, and freeholders would come forward and unite with the working classes in promoting the self same object—Parliamentary Reform. However, that day had arrived, and he rejoiced that it had. (Cheers.) It had been charged upon the people, that they supported reform, because it would promote anarchy and confusion. The present meeting proved the falsity of the assertion. (Cheers.) He nested then, that as the many respectable gentlemen whom he saw around him had become their friends, they would feel for their miserable situation, and endeavour by all means within their power, to raise them in society by plating them in that state, which they felt was due to them, as the industrious portion of the community. Then indeed, tbe working classes would acknowledge them as their natur al leaders, and not only step forward to protect their persona, but their property also: (cheers.) He had no wish to intrude too much upon the notice of the meeting, but he could not refrain from calling attention to one fact, which deserved to be extensively known. He alluded to the condnct of a most ho nourable gentleman (C. M. Phillips, Esq.) whom he saw on his right, who had benevolently granted small plot* of land to his poorer neighbour—en example well worthy of imitation, and one that he trusted would not be abused by those for whose advantage it was intended.—(Cheers, followed by an expression of satisfaction from Lord Sondes, who exclaimed " Very good, very good.") The editor, speaking of the state of parties, says—" We divide the bloodsuckers of the community into various classes. The booby, who, right or wrong, thinks be is entitled to the possession of whatever his father possessed before him—the approach to a knave, who, without caring a maravedi for merit, will never give up any thing if he can re tain it—and lastly, the social freebooter—the unqualified rover—who will rob society at every opportunity, and under all possible eireun:. stances. Both in and out of Parliament, specimens of each kind Mb% be readily found. The man who will do " what be likes with his own" —the vested right people, who, on the strength of having chcateJ you two or three hundred years, claim a privilege to cheat you two or three hundred years longer—and, lastly, the pirate of representatives,—the plastic unprincipled nominee—the mental posture master, who is to play antics at dictation and command, and Swiss it through a stipulated number of sessions." The friends of Mr. Otway Cave, electors of this town, have held meetings during the week, and have come to the determination to put him in nomination as a candidate to represent the borough in the next Parliament. Mr. Cave has given his assent, and will either unite with Mr. Evans, or act independently, as circumstances may render De cessary. Lord Sondes, who resides at Rockingham Castle, employs many la. bowers, to whom he pays good wages—the most inferior workman not receiving less than 2s. 841. per dff. LEICESTER, (Saturday.)—Wheat 82s 3d ; Rye 40a; Barley 46s Sd ; Oats 26s 441; Beans 45s 7d ; Peas 38s • Fine Flour 63s to 64 s • Standard Wheaten file to 625; Household 581; to 60s. Quenon Loa f' Wheaten, ll ed—Ditto, Househokl, 104 d. MARRIED.—The Rev. Thomas Pruen, A.B. to Mary Saffron', eldest daughter of J. D. Lewis, &q. of St.Petersburgh—At Tamworth, Mr. J. D. Hurts, to Emma, eldest daughter of Mr. G. Shirley. DIED-39, Mr. Charles Bloomer, surgeon-60, Elizabeth, relict of the late Mr. Bowntar—ln Belgrave-gate, Mr. Digby—At Whissen. dine, 38. Sarah, wife of Mr. Fowler—At Irthlingborough, 48, the Rev. T. Allen, pastor of the Baptist church-27, Sophia, wife of Mr. T. Bowley, Loughborough. THE CORNUBIAN, APRIL 1. Of the forty-two Cornish members only ten voted for the Reform Bill, twenty-nine against it, and three were absent, two of whom were for it. Nothing to record occurred at the Launceston Anises, excepting the very sensible liberation of seven rioting miners. The Judge ordered them to be brought into Court to be discharged by proclamation, and addressed them as follows : John Smith, Jas. Harris, Wm. Michell, Richard Curnow, Williant Itemphrey, Thomas Prisk, Wm. Dribble, 1 have sent for you, not because any indictment has been found against you but in:order that you should he discharged by procl ama ti on .— these things are not usually done before coons, hut in point of law I have the power of doing so, and 1. have consulted my learned brother on that, who agrees with me that it is better to be done In the presence of those who are in court. And I have done so because I wish to impress on your minds, young as you are, the duty and obedience you owe to the prosecutors for not proceeding against you, and also to the magistrates. And because they have, with a great deal of for- I bearance iuul lenity, determined not to prefer a bill against any of you, they have done so not from any foolish fear, but from a great desire to impress on your minds that which ought never to be eradicated front ' them, as to the line you are in future to pursue, thete being alaa)s every disposition, on time part of those who are your masters, to show the greatest attention to your wants, while under their care." —This is the true way to make peace in a country, and the course which ought to have been pursued in Hants, Wilts, Berke &c. Government have stipulated for the building of six new steamers of 500 tons each, to be built in private yards by contract. Mr. She ffi eld, late a student in the School of Naval Architecture in Portsmouth Jock yard, is appointed overseer to one now in progress in Fearnall's yard, at Linvehouse, and the remaining 'aye will be built at the various private yards on the banks of the River, each under the immediate inspection and superintendence of some government officer, in order to ensure a due execution of the WOlll of the contract. The Stag, 40, which is to carry the broad pendant of Sir Thomas Trowbridge, is to be armed with long 24-pounders. She has been takcn into Sock. Paostorrows. APPOINTMENTS, &c.—Mr. J. !sett, Supernumerary Surgoon of the Talavera, Surgeon of the Barham. Mr. W. Anderson, .1 isteni Surgeon of the Chatham division of Royal Marines. The following Lieutenants are appointed to the Preventive Service on the Sussex Coast, viz :—F. Phillips, A. Kortright, T. M. Wil liams, G. Hawes, James Pratt, W. Maxwell, T. Evcrsfleld, E. Earle, J. Alettley, IL Joachim, W. Winnlett, J. Rawstone, H. Carr, W. Ferrer, A. M`Tnvish, J. Prattent, H. Courtney, J. Conjuit, J. (Mei'. icy (14 G. Smith. J. Raymond, F. Hite, J. Nicholas, R. Woolver, J. Hills, F. Collins, H. licworthy, S. Connor, T. Pennington, G.Palmer, C. M. ‘Vright, E. Franklin, C. A. Petch, J. W. Tomlinson, H. D. Foster, W. Bill, G. 31ason, H. Biugliam, J. Stewart (b) and T. Ca. rey. Mr. George Clarke of the Sapphire, Clerk to the Sr. Vincent. Quantity of Copper Ore sold, .884 tons—Average Produce, 91— Quantity of flue Copper, 11 tons 16 cwt.—Amount of Sale, 5,9141. 2s. —Average Standard, 971. 10s. Tau so, MARCH 30.—Wheat, 26s Cd ; Barley, 12. 6d ; Oats, 9s Cd. Hscrrow, Mmics 2G.—Wheat (average) 27. ; Barley, 271 ; Oats, Ss. PINZANCI, 1114acH 24.--Wheat, 26a to Ns; Barley, 14; Oats, 9r. DIED —At Stoke, Mrs. Symons, 78, widow of the late Rey. J. Symons, Vicar of Fkock.—At Taristock, the wife of Mr. Penrose, as. sayer of tin.—At his seat, hlaristow, near Jump, Sir hlanasseh Maueh Lopes, Bart. His nephew, Ralph Franco, Esq. succeeds to the title and estates. POLII E REPORTS. Maationonott-traxxv.—A middle aged female named/CU/aloe& Frills,wbo has been some days in custody charged with a series of frauds and robberies on her master, Sir O. Tuthill, was yesterday brought up for anal examination. It appeared by the evidence of Mrs. Walker, the housekeeper in Sir O. Tuthill's establishment, that the prisoner had been engaged there tbr the last four years, in the capacity of cook. It wits her business to pay the weekly hills of tradesmen, and the money given to her by witness every week and she (ptisoner) was supposed to have paid it over immediately to the tradesmen, as she regularly submitted their respective names to the witness, signed in the account books. A few days ago, however. Sir George Tuthill received an ap plication from one of the tradesmen for payment of an accumulated ac count of some months' standing, and on an inn uiry being then instituted, it was discovered that not one of the tradesmen had been paid for the same length of time. The prisoner having declined saying any thing in her defence, she was fully committal for trial. QUECN-SQUAlLE.—lienry Bullard, of Sloane-square, and Iknry Shelton, of Doyley-street, Chelsea, k eep ers of new beer shops, were tined 40s. each, on informations preferred by Johnson, for selling after 10 o'clock at night. HATTOW-GAUDEN.—Yesterday, WM Cole, Thomas Ireland, alias Ilarpur, were charged on suspicion of having been concerned in illicit distillation, at No. 2, Merlin's-place, Spafields. In each of the two cellars of the house was discovered the necessary apparatus for distilla tion, together with 100 gallons of low wine in a large cask, 12 gallons of strong spirits in other vessels, and MO gallons of molasses in nine wash vats. Ireland was convicted in the mitigated penalty of 301. and in default of payment hard labour in the holm of correction. The other pi isoner was discharged. Tnames-Poincx.—Yesterday, John Whewell, a tall ruffianly. looking fellow, in the employ of Mr. Fernee, green-grocer and carrier, in Shadvell. was charged under the following circumstances:—lt ap peared front the evidence of Captain Gaytor, master of a collier, that on the previous afternoon he was passing down the Cannotnstreearasd, when he observed the prisoner cruelly beating a horse, both on the fore and hind legs, I. muse it was unable to extricate a van, heavily laden. front the kennel or low part of the road. He requested the pawner to ;tut his shoulder to the wheel, and offered to assist, but he refused, and the poor amnial being unable to move the load, he flogged it in the most barbarous manner, under the Sank, until the horse fell from wcakners on its knees. Witness remonstrated with him, but to no pur pose ; be was assailed with a volley of the lowest abuse, and the de fendant mixed him by the collar, shook him violently and then knocked him down. (1u recovering his legs, he saw the defendant butting the horse on the head until be was nearly exhausted with his own savage exertions. He again remonstrated with him, when the prisoner ex claimed, t• What the hell is it to you?" and elled him to the ground by a heavy blow in the face, and attempted to drive over him; and after he had been repeatedly struck about the head and face, some persons passing interfered, and saved him front farther violence. —Several persons who witnessed the defendant's conduct, comoberated Captain Gaytor's testimony. The prisoner in defence said, that the animal wanted coaxing and beating to make it draw, but hi was too fond of it to heat it unnecessarily. The prisoner's master said, he never knew him to beat the mare before. "The magistrates, after observing that the interference of Captain Gaytor was highly praiseworthy, and that it was the bounden duty of an Cnglishman when he saw humanity outraged to interpose, convicted the prisoner in the highest penalty— viz. BIRTH. On Saturday, the 2cl inst. at Glocester.plate, the lady of C. Gonne, Req. of a son. 3IARRIED. On Tuesday, the sth inst. at St. John's, Hampstead, the Rev. T. H. Causton, A.M. to the Hon. F. H. Powis, fifth daughter of the late Lord Lilford—On Saturday, the 2d inst. J. Hails, Esq. to H. Sophia. daughter of IL Best, Eaq. of Greenwich—On the 6th inst. at St.Luker, Old-street, by the Rev. Dr. Rice, Mr. T. Fanance, of Battle, Sussex. to Miss R. F. Ingram, of Finsbury-square. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning 10n. 45n. I Afternoon ----* LoNnos : hinted and published by JOHN 31ATNE, at the 8/As OFFICIC, No. 1, Pickett place, Tempi( Bar. HIED. On Wednesday, the 6th inst. at his house in Grosvenor-place, Peter Vert, Esq. in the 62d year of his age. The Rev. James Gray, late one of the teachers of the High School of Edinburgh, afterwards rector of the New Academy, tidiest ; and author of " Cone," " Sabbath among the Nluuntams," &e. This superior scholar and excellent man was appointed to a chaplaincy in India a few years ago, and afterwards became tutor to the young Prince of Cutch. r if I I 11,1 w '