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

NE TV CITY TNEATRE.

The subscription theatre, called the New City Theatre, in
Milton-street, re-opened last night to a merry, though not
a very fashionable audience. A ballet, a drama founded on
the well-known story of the " London Apprentices," and a
grand spectacle called the " French Spy," the scene of which
is the French camp before Algiers, formed the amusements 01
the evening. This piece is adapted from the French, and
Mademoiselle Celeste, the original French spy, appeared to
reap new applause in this part. She is very clever, and makes
the piece an interesting one. The theatre is small, being here-
tofore a chapel or meeting-house.

THE CHOLERA AT NEWCASTLE AND

GATESHEAD.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, DEc. 25.

The report of cholera for this day, I regret to state, i•
very unfavourable. It informs us there are twenty-on,
new cases and nine deaths. Five of the new cases, it i.
admitted, however, are in the township of Byker, that is,
at Dent's Hole and St. Peter's. In addition to the street•
of Newcastle I have enumerated already, the cholera has
appeared and produced three or four deaths in the close co
street which, as the name seems to imply, is narrow an,
confined, but was, nevertheless, considered rather healthy
than otherwise. There is a good deal of dirt and filth in
it undoubtedly, and it is the most smosky of any street
here, in consequence of the great soap-manufactory of
Doubleday and Easterhy, and several of the glass-houses
tieing situated in it.
A strong robust woman, who lives somewhere about tit,
North shore, and who was best known by the name of
" Bonny Jean," died yesterday of cholera, after a few hours'
illness. She was a washerwoman, and I am informed
her death is attributed by her neighbours to having taket,
in to wash some of the clothes that belonged to a Mrs.
Dennison, who had just before died of the same complaint.
This is the report. I shall endeavour to ascertain it,
truth, because, if it Can be certainly known that the disease
is communicable by the clothes of an infected person, we
acid an important fact to what we have already learnt re
specting its phenomena, which may assist us in lessening
its ravages. lam quite aware, that precautions are fre
quently taken to prevent the clothes of cholera patients
trom being used till fumigated or otherwise purified, but
there are few, if any cases, where it is distinctly prove.
able that contagion has taken place in this manner.
I have heard, indeed, that the disease has been intro-
duced into North Shields from Sunderland i■ this way,
but I have not yet been able to obtain satisfactory evidence
of the fact.

I am sorry to say, that I have just heard there hay.
four cases of cholera appeared in Gateshead : two in
gate, one in Oakwellgate, and one in Bottle Bank. I have
seen no official announcement of this, but I have no clout.,
of its truth, from the person from whom I derive my in-
formation. Gateshead is just separated from Newcastle by
the river Tyne. One end of the bridge is in the jurisdic-
tion of Newcastle, the other is in Gateshead, and in the
county of Durham. lam surprised rather that the dis-
ease did not appear there before, than that it should hr
there now, for many of the streets are particularly dirty,
narrow, and close. This is especially the case with Hill-
gate and Pipewellgate, which are as bad as our Sandgate.

There is likely very soon to be a " stick" among the
colliers of the North again. The pitmen at Waldridee
Colliery, near Chester-!e-street, have, for a dispute %lid,
their employers, left the colliery. Lead.miners are now
working in their place under the protection of a troop of
the 2d Dragoon Guards, who have been stationed at Ches-
ter-le-street to protect them.