The Express.
London, England, 1853-10-27 00:00:00

THE CHOLERA.

Mood %Kinard' Board of Health, Oct. 2d.)
METROPOLIS.
From returns made by the superintendents of the
K, M, and P divisions of police to the commis-
.ioners of police, and •ransmitted by the commis-
sioners to the General Board of Health, it appears
that on the 22nd, 23rd, and 24th instant, there have
occurred within those districts four cases of cholera,
all terminating fatally. In one case the person died
9 hours after the attack, and in a second 18 hours
after seizure.

GATESHEAD.
Oct. 24.—Two deaths from cholera were registered
as occurring this day in the i leworth district of this
union. This makes the 4tOth death from cholera,
there having also been 43 from diarrheea. There
were also two deaths at lleworth on the following
day.
In a communication recently received from this
town deploring. that so little preparation had been
made for meeting the pestilence, the following are
enumerated among the disastrous consequences of its
, visitation : „Our tradesmen, wholesale and retail,
have 10.,t thousands, their customers being afraid to
enter the town even wit?, supplies; an enormous
expense has been incurred in tending and feeding the
sick and burying the dead; a grievous permanent
charge upon the rates for the support of the widows
and orphans who have lost their bread-winners; and
the work is yet to do." An instance was recently
given at Huwden, on the north side of the Tyne, of
ono particular house, in w Lica the first caws of
cholera appeared iu 1831, in 1818, and now in 1833.
Ou the south bide of the Tyne, at Gateshead, perfectly
Isimilur occurrences are represented as having taken
place with reference to entire districts.
51r. Lee, one of the engineering inspectors of the
General Board of Health, after giving a vast num-
ber of details characterised by a loathsome monotony
of horrors, thus concludes an able report upon
Gateshead. Speaking of Hillgate, he says:—" I can
bear testimony to the truth of all the above; and
yet, faint as is the resemblance to the original (even
in times of comparative health) there requires to be
added—to complete the picture as it came under my
observation—all the horrors of a raging pestilence ;
in almost every snot of open Fround in the courts
the surface spend with filth, including the cast out
straw or chaff from the miserable beds upon which the
last struggles of patients had recently taken place ; the
quietness resulting from an almost entire cessation of
business traffic ; the absence from the district of all
respectable persons, except the-e whom imperative
duty required to bo there ; the anxious importunity
of wretched half-clad females soliciting the means of
drowning their excitement in intoxication—the
panic-stricken countenances of others who had lost
all power of motion from fear ; the medical officers
followed along the streets, as I often wee, and asked for
medicine by human beings alive, but already touched
by the finger of the destroyer, and destined in all
probability to be soon numbered among its victims.
On the ono hand and on the other, as we proceed
with our inspection, lie the dying and the dead,while
among the chief sounds that meet the ear are the
moans and the bitterness of the bereaved—husbands
and wives, parents and orphans. In Dunn's and
Price's Yard the ordure was lying at the very doors
of the wretched tenements. Them had been more

than ten deaths iu this Yard, and at the time of my
visit one woman lay dead, and another was r 1) lug.
A young woman in the Yard had just been left a
widow with four small children. She was maunderinr,
about, out of doors, herself in the premonitory stage of
choleraic diarrhoea, with the youngest child in her
arms, and one or two others hanging on to her
ragged skirts. She appealed for the price of some
bread for her children, and I was assured immediately
afterward, that she would spend the money in
drink. Several aged female wretches sallied from
a bedside to beg pecuniary charity for another sick
woman, but I fuund that she could never take food
or medicine again, and was informed that if they
had obtained money it would have been imme-
diately expended in ardent spirits for themselves.
These are come of the melancholy features that in
a time of pestilence have to be added to the pic-
ture drawn in 1850 by Mr. Itawlinson. They
show not only the exceedingly small value of
human life in the locality, but also, that all social
and moral feelings are destroyed, and that man
becomes utterly brutalised. when surrounded by such
degrading physical circumstances as exist in Hill-
gate in the borough of Gateshead."
STONEDATEN.—The medical officer of the parochial
board of Punnottar reports on the 24th instant that
he was called in on that afternoon to inspect the
body of a man who it was stated "died after an ill-
ness of six hours, on Friday morning last at sea, on
board the sloop Farmer, from Shields to Montrose.
The said sloop put into the harbour of Stonehaven
this afternoon (24th), where it now lies. The body
has been removed from the ship. From the appear-
ance of the body (adds the medical officer) and from
the history of the man's illness, which I received
from the other men belonging to the ship, I am of
opinion that he died of cholera, and under that im-
pression gave such orders to the crew as I thought
necessary to prevent the disease spreading."
HEMEL HEMPSTEAD UNION (130111100R).-24.th
October, Cholera, 1 death.
NEWCASTLE.-011 the 23th October, no cases from
cholera were registered. One death from diarrheca
was entered on that day as having occurred in the
Westgate district.

EFFECTS OF " SPIRIT-RAPPING" IN
AMERICA.

The following are extract from the American
papers:

"The wife of Michael Catt, of Decker Township, In-
diana, was shot on Monday last by her daughter-in-law,
who was much excited on supentahual objects at the
time."

" Mr. Orville Hatch, of Franklin, Connecticut, has be-
come insane, having devoted considerable attention to the
subject of spiritual rapping,. Mr. Hatch is a fanner, and
has been instrumental in introducing many important im-
provements in agriculture."
"Mr. Barber, a deacon in one of the churches (Congre-
gational) in Warwick, has become insane, in consequence
of surrendering himself to the 'spiritual rapping' delusion.
His wife and other members of the family are in a similar
state."

" Mr. B. Peabody hung himself in a barn in Grafton,
Lorain county, on Friday last. Ho was an amiable, in-
telligent, and respected young man, and became so ab-
sorbed in rappings as to unbalance his mind. llis case is
but one of a long list of insane, made so by modern rap-
ping, and spiritualism."
" The annual report of the Ohio Lunatic Asylum dis-
closes the fact, that there are no fewer than 26 persons

(13 men and 13 women) who have found their way there
by means of the spiritual tappings."
" Samuel Dole, of Warlington county, Ohio, was made
insane by the spirit rapping., and became posscsaid with
the idea that he must offer, like Abraham, a sacrifice to
the Supreme. He accordingly proceeded to cut cif one of
his own feet, which he succeeded in doing in a very
scientific manner, and with heroic determination. His

family, fearing that some other of his limbs might be de-
manded in alike cause, had him conveyed to the Lunatic
Asylum."
" A young woman was removed to the Asylum at Utica
this week, having become insane in consequence of witness
lag some ' spiritual' experiments in blimachussets. She is
now wild with madness."

" Mr. Christopher Snevely, a very worthy and industrious
citizen of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, has became insane in
consequence of attending to' spiritual manifestations,' and
bas been conveyed to the Pennsylvania Lunatic Asylum,
and is now a raving maniac."
"Ebenezer Pope, of Milton, bung himself on the 14th
instant; cause 'spiritual rappings.' lie was one of the
select mcn, and leaves a family to mourn over his terrible
delusion."

We regret to announce that a lady of Northampton,
Musachusetts, a lady too of great beauty, lovedness, and
intelligence, the mother of six children, has become raving
mad through the influence of 'spiritual manifestations.'
She was conveyed to the Dattictorough Insane Hospital,
on Wednesday, in such a slate of excitement that it took
two attendants to hold her. These instances are multiply-
ing with fearful rapidity in every quarter of the country.
Smile of the most sane, too, out of the mad-house, talk
like madmen."

DINNER IN A GASOMETER.—Tho contractors of
the l'Aisley Oas oral commemorated the completion of
the new works on Tuesday evening by entertaining up-
wards of 160 gentlemen within the gasometer, which was
suitably fitted up for the occasion.