The Sun.
London, England, 1831-11-10 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The 1,
I'l:k4teerorlf—theker4o4redi Duchess O.
fdtUitSUl' andl E RINLI Ai
:i slit er s a t entertained
dinner
11,4::c4o)ti'if,art,ritheeeirg4r!sAidneill"attK Kew.
h la> Aust • of the Ambassadors. and Ministers of
Ptsto . r'as France, and Prussia, with Viscount PAL-
laa' ' ' l'id
Was held yesterday afternoon at the Foreign.
~-,ton e2rp,'„- renlained ' deliberation about three hours.
p—i..,l4°lair:_ ni,,N II'nEVET , the Minister on a special
F,7.fur 44 tt'e King of the NETHERL , DS, was ccu-
n at the
go,c4cconsiderable time yesterday atternoo
} lb' SI • •
t4terda elkal board of Health held their first meeting
It' ~,,Y 4t the co ..1 ffi • Whitehall.
144 q,),,,i
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ci..:lds,i b..
~,.I.,lgiiness Prince FREW-RICK of Wurteniberg,
1344,eoltrit,Y k.4.1111t NIA IiDEL:,OHI left
t ,wn yesterday for
t,:l?his of '''?. a visit to their Royal Highnesses ;
ring h. KENT mid the Princess Vicio in the
the
Clatcr t,r411:31°.141 Highness •-erurned to town.
11,i_Nc,,t,
~ LIVERPOOL and the Ladies JENKINSON left
+14°44 1,17", ti a Visit to ihe Duchess of KENT and the
lie il.hdv ~c'roata, on Monday, and CHARLOTTE
114h.' tritNRIETTA Sr. MAnE joineday their Royal
e' Party there nn Tuesday.

BRIGHTON, Nov. 9.

Th
l'
at
'"U't-it4Es'rtt.s continue to enjoy uninterrupted good
10,1Nerdthe Palace
<ll,tn/Pith'Y, MAJESTY drove nut in a carriage-and-
Ea outriders, accompanied by the Prince
to nss
tiklNit:eitohe Duchess of GLOUCESTER, and Lady
Ftn, ng the Marine Parade, as far as Kern, rt.tokven,
Dr 0%; returned to the Palace about four cot. oe
LeNt tite4 ra of the Scotch Greys had the honour of being
MAJESTY, by the Earl of MAYO, the
rtleersa At-cusTa, attended by Lady MARY
IC, Ul' an ailing yesterday morning on the Chain
4Atolure Gto
ik Itc.t of Cambridge, accompanied byn his pre-
Vile bat, through -• A Duke -ougc, various parts of the tow
4)."" °le ` t•oucEs.rzte took an airing on horseback
"
ttkit, the artist, is taking the portrait of his
/4e. 11TzeLanENcE arrived at the Palace last
entd
t,, oLLANia
, Lord JOHN TOWNSHEND, Count and
the 14ZetA°40Nzow, the Earl of COVENTRY, and Lord.
'l'had the honour of being included tri 4, dinner
T tallparty last evening.
to geit
tSt the Palace were esc, edingly numerous.,
th I,j'isTlEs gave a grand entertainment last evenh.,
114 d rits 'laee,
I'4 nin celebration of the bir9i-day of t e
41ur 0. The following distinguished persons
i
?q, 3 Qof being Tited
Argyll
an-dinMontrose; Duchesses of Argyll,
.at,kb llNott'euat,Tl Cannizzern ; Marquis of Carmarthen;
Syrre brotiph °l' Carmarthen and Cornwallis ; Earls of
1.181:stton-e11, Uxbridge, Charleville, Coventry,
rou.l ;ionoul ; Countesses Dudley, De Molandi,k
}141.8e Learbarnp,LlK, innoul, Newburgh, Stradbro e,
and Surrey; Lords William and
Obt„On?x, Havvarden, Alolesworth, Berehaven,
eltn 4dit, iNevvark, Maryborough, Southwell, and Petre.,
; I'ehnSeph7oOthwell, Petre, Pulteney, Jane Peel, HaNI
54,!-'eonox, Mary Meade, Williams, Gordon, G.
ar-
,„ eorgianßrougham,
14,,t:44%itet::: Carr, Mary Sheppard, Agnes
a Paget, Maryborough ; Honourables—
eci, I‘.l
.! Pelham, Grey, Keppel.
and Hon. Mrs. Keppel.
'-‘%l)o..l:l:l4'srtz,b,4:7:Oettib,
Taylor, R. Wilson, T. 11.
'Mahon,
Nano?. ' C. Pratt, J. Osborne, M. Tierney, T.
V,' 4.01, Codringtou, Keir Grant, G. Anson, Charles
y, ert
APIN_ sva), R, APFarlane, Isaac Coffin, George
Albs 43., 1,,,, Ott, Taylor, McMahon, Fremantle, Osborne,
mei Pavel, Downman, Codrington, Grant,
tod Dl Fatlane, and Way.
rton tire, Mr. and Mrs. Cunningham,
,Mr.
and :11c1 Airrual, Mr. and Mrs. Jerningham, Mr. Elliot,
'lite k /3. Price, Mr. and Mrs. A. Baring, Mrs.
4.17, Ceur r°4ll'ead, Mr. and Mrs. A. Cottin, Mr. and
fiile et toeg.bawson, Captain Codrington, &c. &c.
to, e, the "er, for the last two days, bas been extremely
L4e"rherPromenades have been crowded with the hang
e a great number of Members of
.Parliame.nt
giantlitb 'n a store of health for the ensuing Parka-
14:irt't hyt,ign. Many ladies, who evidenced a great
eg the !t constant attendance in the House of Lords
discussions on the Reform Bill, are also here,
5 to witness another constitutional struggle.

~:litenatlt-General Sir JOHN BYNO, the
riderittrn of the Forces in Ireland,
1,444 terview this morning at the Home.offiee,
'"111 Atatnouitv and Member for

LONDON,
THURSDAY EVENING. NOVEMBER 10, 1831.

CHOLERA MORBUS.

In an article headed " The Cholera at Sun-
derland," which has been transmitted us by an
intelligent correspondent at Newcastle, our readers
will find much useful information. It seems
that up to the 7th twenty cases of cholera and
fifteen deaths had occurred, though the disease,
with one solitary exception, was confined to the
lowest and most dissolute in the community, and
above all, to those who were most exposed to
cold. The following extract will sufficiently
account for the state of ignorance in which the
metropolis has been hitherto kept with regard to
the spread of the disease at Sunderland :
" Sufficient pains have not been taken to ascer-
tain whether the different individuals affected
have been infected one by another. Indeed, I
may add, in conclusion, that there appears to be
no co-operation whatever between the resident
medical men of Sunderland and Dr. DAUN : on
the contrary, there appears to be a complete de-
termination on their part to suppress, as much as
possible, all information on the subject. The
object they have in view is doubtless to preserve
the port of Sunderland from the ban of exclusion
to which they fear it may be condemned."

Since writing the above, we regret to find the
accounts received by his Majesty's Government
from Sunderland are still of an unpleasant nature
as to the existence and progress of Cholera.
The following is the report received this day—
SUNDERLAND, 6 1..31.. NOV. 8.

New cases
De4ths

The following is the official report of Doctors
RUSSELL and BARRY :
We have to announce that a continuation o
the reports and observations of Dr. RUSSELL
and Dr. BARRY will very shortly be given
to the public, in the mean time we are
enabled to publish by authority the im-
portant conclusions to which they have
arrived, upon a full consideration of all the
circumstances which came to their knowledge in
the course of their mission

" After having meditated on the above facts
and documents from the moment they came to our
knowledge, up to this day—after having weighed
them all with all the attention of which our
minds are capable, and after having compared
the opinions which each of us separately and
without discussion had grounded upon them,
we find our impressions as to the mode of origin
and spread of the late epidemic of St. Peters-
burgh and its neighbourhood, so perfectly iden-
tical in all important particulars, that we now
agree to sign the following propositions, con-
taining the heads of our unanimous opinion
on this part of the business of our mission :

" First, That the germs of the disease were
brought to St. Petersburgh by the boats and
barques which arrived from the interior this year,
previously to the 14th (26th) of June.

" Second, That these germs were diffused, and
the disease propagated in two ways ; one,
which may be called personal, by the dis-
persion over the whole city, immediately
after their arrival, of several thousand pas-
sengers and boatmen, who had come from in-
fected places, or had been exposed to infection
on the passage, or on board these vessels. The
other, which may be termed atmospheric, by
emanation from the barques and their contents,
suspended, indeed carried, by curents of air
to susceptible persons, independent of direct
communication.

" Third, That the germs of the same disorder
were carried to Cronstadt, and propagated their
by boats and lighters, which had been loaded
directly from the barques already mentioned, and
by persons who had had recent communica-
tions with these barques, or had been in their im-
mediate neighbourhood.
" Fourth, That the disease was introduced into
all the villages round St. Petersburgh, in which
we have been able to obtain authentic intelli-
gence of its progress, by persons directly from the
city or other infected places.
" Fifth, That from neither the near'approach, nor
the immediate contact of an infected individual,
were indispensable to the infection lof a healthy
individual, susceptible of the disease at the
mo-
merit.
" Sixth, That the epidemic of St. Petersburgh
did not possess those absolute and indiscrimina-
tive communicable qualities attached to plague
and small-pox, and that the risk of infection
incurred by the healthy susceptible who ap-
proached the sick of that disease, was in direct
proportion to the want of ventilation, cleanli-
ness, had space round the latter.
" Seventh, That in a generally infected atmos-

phere the additional danger of infection,rincurred
by approaching one or more individuals labour-
ing under this disease, was not greater than
would accrue from approaching one or more
typhus patients under similar circumstances.
"Eighth, That under favourable circumstances
of body and mind personal seclusion did afford
protection against disease, more particu-
larly if that seclusion had been accompa-
nied by shelter from currents passing through
sources of infection.

"Ninth, That those continued exempt from the
disease who retired from and avoided infectious
places, those who resided to windward, and
those who were protected from currents of
air passing through such places. That the next,
in point of community, were those who, though
living in the midst of general infection, avoided
large accumulations of sick placed in con-
fined atmospheres—the young, the vigorous,
and those who could afford to live well, yet live
temperately. In fact, those who were placed
within circumstances ;,the most favourable to
health, strength, cheerfulness, and comfort of
every kind.

" WAL RUSSELL, M.D.
" D. BARRY, M.D.
" Calais, November 6, 1831."

The Lanarkshire Reform meeting, at which
the Duke of HAMILTON presided, is an over-
whelming proof of the intense interest that Scot-
land takes in Reform, and the unbounded -eon-
fidence that it continues to place in Ministers,
and more especially in Earl GREY. The
language of the speakers at the meeting was full
of vigour and significance. Mr. MAXWELL, of
Pollock, in particular, observed, that the people
of Scotland would stand out for the Reform
Bill "in the spirit of the old Covenanters,
whether they were in fetters, or sword in hand."
Sir MICHAEL SHAW STEWART very pro-
perly observed that the instant adoption
of Lord EBRINGTON'S motion after the loss
of the Bill had done more to keep
the peace in the West of Scotland than
marching a whole army would have done. This
is an unanswerable argument in favour of
the growing intelligence of the people, and the
propriety of still more facilitating the progress of
knowledge. The more the people know, the
more reasonable will they become in discussing
public matters, and the more jealous of their
rights. It is only the ignorant who are made
the tools of despotism. At least ten thousand
people were present at the Lanarkshire meeting!

Our readers will perceive that HUNT'S gang
have, as was to be expected, been doing their
utmost to create disturbances at Preston. Pos-
sibly the Hon. Member is desirous that that
town shall have the honour of rivalling Bristol.
But whatever may be his wishes or motives, of
one thing he may rest satisfied, that the North
of England will not suffer itself to be led away
by the frothy declamations of an illiterate itinerant
political mountebank. The very lowest classes
have now outgrown Mr. HUNT in intelligence.
Let him hold forth even to a meeting of fifty or
a hundred thousand Radicals upon those topics
with which he has been most conversant, and
on which he has traded as a pedlar politician
for years, and we will take upon ourselves to
assert that he will not find two out of the
whole number who are not infinitely better in-
formed, infinitely more intelligent than himself.
HUNT'S day is gone by—the very rabble have
become his superiors ; even as a tool in the
hands of the Ultras, he can no longer be of ser-
vice ; they had better, therefore, drop him, and
find out some more effective instrument to pro-
mote their paltry ends. Still impotent as he is,
it is necessary to keep an eye on the man's pro-
ceedings. The present is a period when all
parties should be equally on the alert.

We are happy to announce that the Mayor
and Magistrates of Bath and Bathforum have organised so
powerful and of a constabulary force, that any attempt
on the p at of the lawless mobs to disturb the peace of the
city, will be easily crushed "in the bud." We have not
however, the slightest andcip ition that any such an at-
tempt will be made, as the very knowledge of the existence
of so considerable a civil force will have the effect of keep-
ing the peace. Ttie city and its suburbs have been divided
into four grand divisions, which have been subdivideil into
twenty-one districts ; tie organization is, indeed, mo,t
complete, and reflects great credit on the gentlemen to
whom the arrangement owes its origin. —Bath Chronicle.

Within these last few days his Grace the
Duke of NORTHUMBERLAND has given orders to have
outer Anvers made for the windows in front of his man-
sion in the Strand, in addition to the inner abutters. Yes-
terday morning a number of workmen were employed in
fixing up the shutters; which will effectually guard the
windows for the future against any attacks by the mobi-
lity. The circumstance attracted a considerable number
of spectator:.

Sir WYNDHAM CARMICHAEL ANSTRu.
TNZZ, by the unexpec ed (feat!' of his nephew, succeeds, it is
said, to an unencumbered estate of 14,000/. per annum, ex-
clusive of personal property to the amount of 120,000/.,
which had been accumul iting since the birth of the late
ill-fated young Baronet in 1818. Sir WYNDHAM like-
wise succeeds to the office of hereditary carver to the
King in Scotland. Sir WYNDHAM is married to a
daughter of Lieutenant-General WETHERELL, Comptroller
of the Househo'd of her Royal Highness the Duchess of
KENT, and by his late accession of fortune he probably be-
comes the richest Baronet in Scotland.

REFORM MEETING AT CROYDON YESTER-
D!►Y.--A numerous and highly respectable meeting of the
inhabitants of the hundred of Wallington, containing the
parishes of Cheatn, Sutton, CarNhalton, Beddington,
Mitcham, Merton, Bridge, Morden, Addington, Sander-
stead, Coulsden, Croydon, and Woodwarston, was held
yesterday in the Town hall, at Croydon. At one o'clock
the hall was completely full.

A laughable circumstance took place in the
little theatre of Perth, the other night. The Venerable
Lord LYNEDOCH, who has been long popular in this
county, in consequence of his brilliant exploits during the
Peninsular war, when General ORAHAM, and who has
recently become much more so by his vote in favour of
Reform, on the second reading of the Bill in the House of
Lords, was at the theatre, in company with some dis-
tinguished friends; between the play and the farce, a Mr.
HINDMARSH, one of the teachers in the Grammar Sehiol,
attempted to get up an interlude, by suddenly presenting
himself before the audience, and eulogising the military and
political character of " the Gallant GRAHAM." A young
officer in one of the regiments now stationed at Perth,
named BERNAL (son of the Chairman of Committees in
the House of Commons), expostulated with the pedagogue
on the exceeding bad taste displayed by the latter in thus
Directing the attention of a crowded house to Lord LvsTx-
nocit, whose retiring habits, from age and infirmity, are
well known. Toe schoolmaster answered Captain BER-
NAL's remonstrances in an angry tone, and presented
his card, which the Captain, with the most provoking
composure, tore in pieces, and returned, not in the most
courteous manner. Thus the affair stands at present, and
it is said the schoolmaster will pocket the affront.

THE CHOLERA AT SUNDERLAND

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—At this moment of excitement and
tlarrn, you are doubtless anxious that your readers
should be correctly informed as to the state of
•he cholera morbus at Sunderland. I shall " no-

thing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice."
Yesterday the Members of the Board of Health
of Newcastle were summoned at a moment's
notice to meet in the Mayor's Chamber here, in
consequence of the news having arrived from
Sunderland, that two more deaths had
taken place there from the cholera, and that
a third was hourly expected. The letter
conveying this intelligence was dated " Bishop-
wearmouth, Sunday night, nine o'clock, 4th
November." It was considered necessary to
obtain important particulars relating to these and
the preceding cases which had occurred, and for
this purpose a deputation of medical gentlemen,
consisting of Dr. M'Whirter, Dr. White, and
Mr. Edgcome, were sent off without delay.
These gentlemen made their report this morning.
I expected it would have been printed, but un-
fortunately it has not yet been made public, or I
should have transmitted to you a copy of it.
Having heard the report read, however, I shall
give you the substance of it from recollection.
There have been, it appears, from first to last,
that is up to last night, Nov. 7, twenty cases and
fifteen deaths ; one only has recovered, and four
were still undecided when the deputation came
away. Till within an hour or su of their leaving
Sunderland they had only heard of twelve cases;
at that time eight more were reported to them, of
which four had died ; the result of the other

four• is not vet known. The medical gentlemen
from Newcastle visited one patient who was in
a dying state ; they state the symptoms without
declaring whether it is Asiatic cholera or not.
Dr. Daun, the Medical Commissioner sent down
by Government, arrived at Sunderland on
Saturday last, and then saw the only known case
of cholera ; judging from the symptoms,

he observed, and what he hart seen in India, he
expressed his fears that it was a case of Asiatic
cholera. He yesterday told our deputation,
that every day's experience since had confirmed

the opinion he formed at first. The cases are
in different parts of the tovyn ; one of them in
Nlonkwearmouth, I believe, as it was stated one
was at the oppa,ite side of the river. They are all
persons in the lowest rank of life, except one,
Mrs. Wilson, who was of a respectable station.
They are for the most part past the middle age,
fifty or upwards : one exception occurs of a child
' two years and a half old. The majority of these
were persons who were much exposed to cold,
and of drunken, dissolute habits. It is not cer-
tainly known how this disease, assuming it to In.
the Asiatic cholera, as is generally believed, was
introduced into Sunderland : but my own opi•
nion, and the opinion of most men in this neigh-
bourhood, is that it came with the vessels from

Hamburg, now lying in the river near Deptford.
Sufficient pains have not been taken to ascertain
whether the different individuals affected have
been infected one by another. Indeed, I may
add, in conclusion, that there appears to be no
co operation whatever between the resident me-
dical men of Sunderland and Dr. Daun : on the
contrary, there appears to be a complete deter-
mination on their part to suppress as much as
possible all information on the subject. The
object they have in view is doubtless to preserve
the port of Sunderland from the ban of exclu-
sion, to which they fear it may be condemned.
It is now seven o'clock on Tuesday the Bth
November, and I am happy to say that I have
heard of no new cases.
I need scarcely add, that the story of there
being twenty-one cases of cholera at Newcastle
is all a fabrication. Thank God, we are free
from it yet :
how long we may be so, it is impos-
sible to say.
A 31E11BER OF THE NEWCASTLE BOARD
OF HEALTH.
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Nov. 8, 1831.