The Express.
London, England, 1851-01-04 00:00:00

THE CHOLERAPALLTNO IN CEPHALONDISASTERSIA AND ITS
AP.

TO Till EDITOI OP Till S.
Sin,—The sufferings of the Cephalonime have re-
ignited, as was forcibly predicted last year by • writer
in the Avingtnesis, in rendering them fit food for
the pestilence which seized upon them on its
fatal march scram Europe. As the philosophical
physician, looking over a map of your great city, can
lay his finger upon certain d owed spots, sayin4
" Here will year by year disease take off the greatest
number of its victims, for here is bad vcntila-
tion, here bed sewerage, and here are filth
and poverty, this is the home prepared foe
death "—so might it have been mid • year
winos of Cephalonia, " Here reigned military outrage,
here were the people shot and flogged, here were
soldiers quartered upon the poor ; here were vineyards
destroyed and means wasted. Here, then, if any
where, will cholera, if it come, rage most fiercely.
Such has proved to be the melancholy fact; for it is
precisely at Arguetoli, Lizuri, Eriwe, Valearnata,
Piloro opposite Ithaca, Sala oppatite Zante, the die-
!riots which were under the rigours of the martial
lawohat the terrible disease has made its moot fear-

eel vigil scion.
Words are wanting in a description of this
awful c eternity. Cephalonia has been an Ireland on a
smaller mile, with p. stilence added to famine.
Thu. whom the cholera spared starvation
ferries off. and the deaths hive amounted to from
100 to 204) and upwards a w. ek, about fifty per cent.
dying of those attacked. The rural population re-
siding in Imely village., in far-away mountain dis-
tricts, lay dying in their vine-yards, and by the road
lide—a hat remained of their little harvest after a
great WAX 02 which, accompanied by a rain of several
as)s' duration, eestroyed their currant and olive
Drops, the sttple of tha island, being still uogathered,
—the survivors, the widows, the aged, and the young,
press in upon the towns, imploring succour end sup-
port; the maritime population, deprived of employ.
ment by tlei rigid quarantine. which shut them in on
all sides (worse than S,r 11. Ward's blockade of last
year), Gum Greece and from their brethren, thought
illkMlWlT.lcaged in for starvation, and terror-stricken
lay down to die, or rushed is crowds to t he authorities,
elaniorous for food. What cauld be done Who ever
knew a goverunient equal to such exigencies ? The
English government of the lonian Islands, I teed
lot say, formed no exception to the usual deficieocy
of authority on such occasions ; bet lam rejoiced to
bear tmitiewee to the generous and continuing huma-
nity o: itdividual officers in thin emergency. 'lhe pub-
lic Mans, however, of the island ate insufficient to so
universal a calamity. Public subscription bas been
tried also, but the call has been to the utmost
promp ly and generously responded to by all classes.
The inadequacy of private resources, however, have
rendered such subscription but a very small @mist-
anew to a distress so great. I subloia the passages
from the hulas' newspapers—the one, the Pains, the
organ of the liberals ; the other, the Friotil of lAe
People, that of the government—by which it will be
seen that is the presence of so terrible an infliction all
parties speak the same lanenage and advise the same
remedies. One paper says :
The terri 4e pet...eons scourges without mercy he much-
sufferiog Cephalosiser. Misty .4 then, hsr'ng messed after
being attacked by it, die through want. Wfule households
are made desolate, and whole hunilks eel .ruished. Innu-
merable sad iadescribable are the dreadlol sufferings of our
broth,. n. Indifference es oar put would be ei-grace. Let
▪ b see to their aid; let each person, acco...ion to his
moans, according to his good inclination. contribute same•
thing foe those in need, whether from his abundance Sr
seerelty—let es ourselves lulll, since the gov. rawest fall
short in hastening to the wastages of the &irritate, this fra- '
terns) duty ; sod let us show that we have art the love of
our race anti patriotism on oar lips only, but al oia reality,
and II our hearts.
Until other arrangements are made, rubscrip• boo will be
received is the oaks of the Patric
The other journal Jays:—
Tee news from Lephelonta is most distressing. The cholera
minimum to enrage its ravages with pleat fury throughout
the turnery districts. Daring . ight days, the number tit
deaths amounted to 260, ant opera& of 400 were attested
by tLe diens*. The seal and &robots of the public autho-
rities, the benevolence of the finance, the iadetatigrble at.
teatime of Dr. Pretentleri and of the other is' yeicians who
have resialeed faithful to their duty, have by no means
abated is the midst ail all esteem and privations; bat what
can all their exertin.' prevail SOillei a emerge winch i• pro.
pana•ed with the rapidity of ligatoing in each an incompre-1
Isensible ssasee ? la Cephalonia, the It.gent, who
is always settee, mid co MI occasions the first to
leas'es to the assistauc., of the population, has
°peered a subieriptich 1.1 the relief of the parr
familits ma ingot reh m the cholera has spec id desolation,
sad ram, of whom have beta deprive d of their supporters
and of the means of ezisleoce. A hot of subscriptions is now
circulation in Corfu. I o the actual deoremion of the
Samoa, the government has done all that was in its pow. r
to do. Let lie now hasten, as Chris4ans, to the help of our
anfortunate brethren ut Cephalonia, by contributing to their
relief. Let as for a eminent give a thought to the deso-
lation somas te hich that island pr r nte How mane innocent
children ttat have lost their mothers tow stretch forth their
arse, imploring the chanty of :heir fellow beings! how
aunt wretched old man as etriek,n down by the cslamity,
deprived of the seemeary ear., waiting for death to pat an
end to their tefferiues, and to reunite them to their eons,
who have just ezpired Deism. M ear eyes how many un-
happy mother., how Issue wives, how malty daughters. are
Whim • ut for help, atd remain helplessly abondoned, for
want of adequate means, is the List of a univers safe
tint !
Under these circumetances, it has been suggestedl
that on appeal be made to the generous svmpathies et
the British public on Is-half of the Ceplialonians suf-1
tering from cholera. This suggestion is, 1 believec
about to be carried out by a committee of noblemeall
and g. ntlemen of all parties, many of whom have I
been resident in the Wear, thus affording to {Jul
English people an opportunity of testifying that tits
poor of England can be used not only to destroy I
but to rive, and fast the hated .Lich has been heavy
to chastise con also be gentle to alleviate affliction.
Such a demonstration, Mr. Editor, will, I feel
assured, do more to win back the Cephalonians to
Englodid than hundreds of }ea,e of Sir H. Ward's
rule, and mitigate the impression produced by the
late lamentable exhibition of whiten- power, as mis-
placed in its exercise. as I am c.,ntident it was dis-
tasteful to those noble Brdish officers who were its
involuntary instruments.
I have the honour to be, your obedient servant,
AN lONIAN.
Erechtheum Club, St. James's-square, Dec. 20.

I LL-TiteAnt esr OF A PARIAH APPRENTICE.—The
ease of Jai.llbred is likely to ha.* tha Off,: of din ctim
more attention to the c•indue. of masters toenails parish
apprentices, on the pan o. boards of guardians, than has
heft total" WA apparent, aced • case of cruelty was brought
Niers the magistrates et blacc.e.ter yesterday, which pro-
bably owes mesh of the aVet.tirit paid to it to the precedent
sot by Alderma• llamphiry. The apprentice was a youth
17 years of age, bound t Mr. ti Cita, a amnia and druggist,
W Weil elected a number of the town council. It ap-
pend the lad, who is oaf; of the stators of au arditiaryboy
of dorm or twelve years old, has been an apprentice to
Mr. M'Oill Ism years, and the charge was that, on Saday
Oh. Mid Dermaaber, he was engaged is drawling one of his
matev's Whiten, when his master knocked him doge oat a '
sofa and beat him with his ties about the chest for not being
up
Whirr. This was at sight o'clock in Pa merning. The
boy, alter being beatea, camplainel aloud of kis
treatment, sad said Le might as well be trau-
Lett.ma live such a lite. Mr. 14.0111 on Moron
rstk at him, and in his augmentable rags, bore
him into tbo kitchen, where he kasha I him &ma, kicked
kb.. at el they Weft Outwards strugalieg together an the
knouts dear. The result was a sever.- rontim.osi of the
toy's hued, and his Met was 'tidbit/ d in court, well eatu-
toted &tote. ape slisoldat with blood. It come out in
disc, that *gosh the beT w,s spprantioed to teen the
Imams of a shunt and droggi-t, Las lowa' earned as a
trade in reps mats. pig* cloy. and salt beef and hal kept b ira
Omer during sin weeks) Is, far yews is that department
of the busuame. The boy Lod widens bees allowed to go to •
plated woesbip ou bondays, but hia master Lad one* allowed
him tP go to Limp wl in it cheap tine, sad paid the hal,-
crown, and ones suety Christmas tad as owsd him to go to
lb. theatre to see the art name awl pay tor !lima
The masor's attorney attempted to make it appear
that the boy cad triad to fora his master, is
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the quarrel Oa the 22nd ultimo, • down the cellar I
step., but the &slowly* sits of the boy, sod the tale manly '
yeopoetitia d 11.0111 caused the prorowioa to he noised '
with coedit:ruble laughter by :Le .our:: though it appeared
patty certain that the too were lay nearly teatime into
the allay. The bore aecositt of the struggle an, grim he
that the latter eight 'bike
Iwyoud ...la in his pitman. lie sail his tester then threw
his down, leaped soca his bed, Wee time., sad kkkal
hue over tee bend. lie had Ik. appeuence of a mad-
t. tapered, sharp, int.lligeot h p. and wu said to have gained
a good eborardar is the workhouse, tefore be wu put oat
apprentice. The magistrates consulted touther for a few
1111111tIlre, and thus Mr SS the chairman, said it was
quits clear that the defen.'ant tad eabibited ea males of
post el, and that his conduct wu inconsistent with the
peeper edema's:ration of COfroCtiOS ; the bench would there-
for. mit et a penalty o. St. The deckles was rtiliTed with
applaese by the court. It was further understood that the
indentuf *wire eahcaLtet