The Sun.
London, England, 1831-12-27 00:00:00

LONDON,
TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 27, 1831.

CHOLERA MORBUS, OFFICIAL REPORT,

COUNCIL OFFICE.-(THIS DAY.)
DAILY REPORT of CHOLERA CASES,
SUNDERLAND, DEC. 25, 1831.
Remained at last report 8
New cases 3

Total ll

Died 1
Recovered 1

Remaining at this date, 8 o'clock, A. M 9
From the Commencement of the Diser.se, on Oct. 26, 1831.
Cases, 525.—Died, 195.
NEWCASTLE, DEC.2S.
_ . _ .

Remained at last report
New cases

Total .

Died
Recovered

Remaining at this date, 8 o'clock, 4O
From the Commencement of the Disease, on Dec. 7, 1831,
Cases, 210.—Died, 77.
NORTH SHIELDS AND TYNEMOUTH, Dec. 25.
Remained at last report 3
New cases 0

Died 0
Recovered 0
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Remaining at this date 3
From the Commencement of the Disease.
Cases, I3.—Died, 9.
No other Returns received.

(Signed)

WM. "ifii_,"ls:AN, Secretary.

Guildhall, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Dec.:', 1831.

SIR,—I am directed by the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common
Council of this town to convey to you their unanimous vote of
thanks for the valuable assistance you afforded the town in ar.
ranging those sanatory measures which they have reason to hope
will materially contribute to limit the ravages of the disease
which has now reached us.

I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your most obedient servant,
Dr. Barry.. JOHN CLAYTON, Town Clerk.

The French Papers of Sunday, and some of
yesterday's date, contain satisfactory accounts
from Lyons and Grenoble. All for the time,
was tranquil at those places. The inhuman exe-
cution of the gallant TORRIJOS and his
patriotic associates had produced, as was
to have been expected, a great sensation
at Paris. The revolt at Neufchatel was said to be
completely at an end, but a conflict was on the
eve of taking place between the inhabitants of the
Upper and Lower Valais. The Duke of RoviGo,
on his passage through Marseilles, announced
that the French Government intended to colo-
nize Algiers. In the Chamber of Deputies the
resolution for abolishing the celebration of the
anniversary of Louis XVI. had been carried by
a majority of one hundred and eighty-six. The
important trial respecting the will of the Duke of
BOURBON had been continued, but was not yet
brought to a termination. It will be resumed
on Friday next.

A portion of the Press, reasoning as if it
advocated the interests of clients, rather than
the public utility, has again taken up the alleged
grievances of the shipowners, in a strain which
would have produced greater effect, if it did not
consist in a reiteration of statements which have
been so often refuted, that it is only upon those
who have never considered the subject that the
arguments in question can have any possible
weight. It is really rather too bad that at
Christmas, 1831, we have it again gravely asserted
" that the shipowners have been ignorantly and
cruelly sacrificed by shallow and conceited
theorists to their own vain speculations, aided
and abetted by Ministers of the Crown, who, if
they knew any thing, ought to have known that
the navigation laws were the foundation of the
maritime greatness of England ; and that, in
breaking down those laws, they betrayed the
gates of our commercial power, which it was
their duty to guard, to the foreign rivals of our
trade, who had long viewed with a jealous eye
the advantages which a wise system of policy
obtained and secured for England, until that evil
hour when the work of masculine statesmen was
levelled by the mischievous folly of babbling pre-
tenders to new lights in political science." After
various comments in support of this proposi-
tion, our contemporary (the Morning Herald)
concludes with the following sarcasm Well
may that portion of the Press which flattered the
speculative and mischievous follies of RICARDO
and HusKissow, in currency and commerce, and
now offers the incense of flattery to such burn-
ing and shining lights' of political science as
MACCULLOCH, and his pupil, POULETT
THOMSON—weII may that portion of the Press,
we say, fling all manner of scorn and contumely
on the shipowners for daring to know better
than the theorists when they are ruined."
Now, if the fact were true that the ship-
owners had been ruined by theories, there might
be some ground for pausing before entirely ap-
proving the working of Mr. HustussoN's
system ; but inasmuch as both that Minister and
his successors, up to the present year, have, in
answer to such charges, uniformly shown that
neithei our foreign trade in general,uor the amount
of British shipping employed in such trade, has
decreased, hut, on the contrary, it has augmented,
it is plain that the argument has been raised upon
false premises. Conceding, however, that the
shipowners are suffering from depression of