The Sun.
London, England, 1837-10-30 00:00:00

THE CHOLERA.

(From the Observer.)
From accounts which have reached us, it would appear
that the cholera has again broken out in the eastern part
of the metropolis, and that three persons have already fallen
victims to its malignity. The circumstances connected with
this alarming visitation are, as reported to the Board of
Guardians of the Stepney Union, briefly as follow :
On Wednesday evening last, four persons, two men and
two children, who had previously enjoyed the hest health,
were attacked suddenly with symptoms of cholera, and three
of them died on the midnight of Thursday. The men's
names were Green and 111. Carty, both " Itnpers,” %yolk-
ing in chins in the docks, ;and residing with their wive g and
two children, each in e room, in Well-alley, Rope-
Aker's-ticldF,. Linnehouse-; this court being only separated
by the road from White's-rent,;, where the cholera first
niltle its npr.;icatioe inns,tte. qnce of the re-
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" Stepney Union, Limehouse, Oct. 27, 1837.
"St R,—Several cases of reported cholera having occurred
in Limehouse, I am directed by the Chairman to request
the attendance of all the medical officers at Limehouse
Workhouse, this afternoon, at three o'clock precisely, to
examine and report upon the subject, and also to attend the
Board at the Ratcliffe Workhouse, at eight o'clock in the
evening precisely.
" I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
" W. BAKER, Jun., Cletk.".

The surgeons accordingly met on Friday afternoon, and
found that two of the deceased persons—a man, and a girl
ten years of age7,-had already been buried. The body of
the child was, however, exhumed, and examined in the
dead-house in the churchyard, and the examination of the
still (at that time) living child, and the body of the unburied
man, left no doubt upon the minds of the surgedns of there
all being cases of Asiatic cholera. On Friday night the
surgeons made their report to the Board of Guardians,
specially convened at Ratcliffe Workhouse for that purpose,
when• Mr. Young, M.P., took the chair. Mr. Heelis
went into a very lengthened description of the examination
of each case, and the Guardians, from the evident of the
medical men, appeared to have no doubt as to the existence
of the pestilential disease. A discussion then took place,
and the advice of the surgeons was requested as to the
best means of preventing its extension, and relieving the
sufferers when attacked:

Mr. Birtwhistle, one of the surgeons of the Union, said,
on being applied to by the Gu.:rdians, that having seen
much of the disease in India, he should say that it was ab-
solutely necessary that some place should Le taken as an
hospital, so that the sufferers might receive proper atten-
dance, and that cleanliness be secured, which alone could
prevent the extension of the disease. Work-houses, he
observed, were not the proper places, in his opinion, to
take persons to suffering under cases of cholera or fever, of
in
stances
in latter of which there had long been numerous
in which the surgeons had found much difficulty in treating
their patients properly, from the often destitute condition
of the sufferers, many of whom had been found sleeping on
the bare floor. Indeed, such was often the miserable con-
dition of many of them, that nurses could not be procured
to attend, even when high wages were offered. The
workhouses would not admit such cases, and the absolute
necessity of appropriating some building -for the reception of
those of a malignant nature was every day more apparent. He
theninstanced the advantages which had resulted to the hamlet
of Mile-end Old Town, by the establishment of a cholera house
in a field, on a former visitation of the cholera, in proof of
his position, and concluded by saying that the interests of
humanity and the health of the district would, in his opinion,
be best preserved by providing a proper place for the re-
ception of all cholera patients, and by the cleansing of the
houses in which they had lived.
The other medical officers of the Union corroborated
Mr. Birtwhistle's statements as to the wants of the district
in cases of fever, and expressed a similar opinion with regard
to a cholera hospital.
After some discussion it was unanimously agreed to ad-
dress Lord John Russell, the Home Secretary, acquainting
him with the fact of the cholera having broken out in the
district, and requesting his advice with respect to what steps
may be necessary, both as regards the care of cholera
patients, and the enforcing of cleanliness in the filthy streets
and houses of the district.

A report is current, but which we hope will be contra-
dicted, that a few days since the cholera broke out simul-
taneously on three decks of the Dr( adnouglit hospital ship,
and that some deaths have occurred.

DESTRUCTION OF THE COLONIST

WEST INDIANIAN BY FIRE.

(From the Hampshire Telegraph.)
The ship Colonist, Captain Smith, of 443 tons, belonging
to Messrs. Thomas Daniells and Co., from London to Bar-
babes, with a general cargo (pi hoard, and eighteen pas-
sengers, had reached as far as St. Catherine's Point on
Thursday,-when the westerly winds compelled her to bear
up, and she anchored that evening at the Mother bank. On '
Friday morning, at eight o'clock, it blowing nearly a gale,
she :truck top-gallant-masts and yards, and was about to
pay out an additional scope of chain cable, when smoke was
observed to be issuing up the main hatchway ; an immedi
ate examination was made, and water poured down, under
the direction of the mate, but who speedily was compelled
from increased heat and smoke to quit the hold. The fore-
top-sail was loosened, and the fore-top-mast stay-sail run
up, in order to slip awl ground the ship in either Stoke's
Bay or on the Spit ; but, before a forelock of the chain
cable could be got at, it was found that the ship was on
fire from stem to stern, and in order to save the lives
of the passengers•an tr.:av, the baits were lowered, and
other boats, at a great hazard, rendered assistance from the
ships Simon Taylor, Falcon, and Orator ; the men of war,
the Hyacinth and Donep,al, lay too far to leeward to be of
service ; and so great was the rapidity of the flames, that
in nine minutes from the smoke's first appearance, the crew
and passengers were in the boats, the ladies and children
being obliged to be lowered, nearly •naked, over the ship's
stern by a rope round their bodies. They were not very
long in reaching the harbour. The Captain, who was the
last to leave the ship, remaining in one of the neighbour-
ing vessels. At the instant of the crew's quitting the ves-
sel, she was so completely enveloped in flames, that any
efforts to extinguish them would have been perfectly nuga-
tory, and she was therefore left a beautiful and awful speca
tacle the whole day and night—a volcanic mass till nine
o'clock on Saturday morning, when she was towed at high
water on Hasler Beach, where she now lies a smoking ruin
with nothing but bricks and ballast in her bottom. Not-
withstriding the uselessness of attempting to put out the tire
on the part of the crew and the agents for the underwriters,
yet we were surprised, considering that when the bits were
burnt, the cable might run out, and the vessel driet
among the many shipping lying near her, that the men-
otwar did not by a .carronade from a boat, endeavour to
sink her, as at an early period the proceeds of her hull
would have paid the expense of weighing her. As it
was, we had the novel sight of an uninterrupted bonfire for
seven-and-twenty hours at the Motberbank. It is quite
impossible to surmise the cause of the fire, but it evidently,
must have been in existence for a long time ; part of her
cargo consisted of boxes of chemicals and casks of lime,
either of which may have produced fire if the vitriol bottles
had broke, or the lime got damp ; she had also on board
about eighty casks of brandy, which greatly added to the
vividness of the combustion, but which was not accessible
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(From a Sunday Paper.)
This fine vessel left the London Dock on Wednesday,
with a valuable cargo, principally consisting of plantation
stores, on a voyage to l3arbadoes. The ship was the pro-
perty of Messrs. Thomas Daniell and Son, the West India
merchants and. shipowners, of Mincing-lane, and was up-
wards of live hundred tous burthen. The value of the
vessel and her cargo has been variously estimated, but it is
believed that the total loss cannot ha less than 60,000/.
There were six mules, and a great many sheep on deck,
which perished in the flames ; one lady has lost a jewel-
box, the contents of which are valued at upwards of 2001. ;
gentleman passenger has lost a gold watch and forty so-
vereigns ; and many others are considerable losers. The
origin of the fire was unknown, but was supposed to have
been caused by the ignition of the cargo. We understand
that every attention was paid to the passengers and crew
of the ship by the military, naval, and civil officers of the
garrison and Dockyard, and the townspeople.. The lady
who was so miraculously preserved, with her children, by
the mate, has promised him a' reward of 1004 for his in-
trepidity on the occasion. It was reported on Saturday
in the City that the vessel was laden with a cargo of lime.
This was not the case. There was no lime on beard, but
we understand there were two tiers of bricks in the bold as
ballast. The Colonist has been many years in the West
India trade, and is insured at Lloyd's.

The Count and Countess Esterhazy have returned
to Chandos House, from a tour.