The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-09 00:00:00

THE CHOLERA AT TOOTING.

Yesterday, in pursuance of a request from the
General Board of Health, a return was made of the
number of fresh cases of cholera that had occurred
from two o'clock r.m. yesterday. The return stated
the number of such cases to be ten, the number of
cases of diarrhoea four, the number under medical
treatment 118. We were informed, however, that
six more children were seized before six o'clock yes-
terday afternoon, and that seven more deaths had oc-
curred at that hour. With regard to the children
removed to their parishes in London, we understand
that in St. Pancras twelve have been attacked with
cholera, and four have died ; in the Royal Free Hos-
pital, ray's Inn-road, several new cases have occur-
red, and live of the children are dead. In the Tooting
Asylum itself the total number attacked has now
amounted to 260; and the deaths to 84.

Yesterday a meeting of the Board of Guardians
of the parish of St. Luke, Chelsea, was held, for
the purpose of considering where the pauper
children of the parish, who have hitherto
been at Mr. Drouet's establishment, should
be placed. Communications were read from the
General Board of Health, and from the Poor-law
Board, recommending the removal of the children.
After some discussion, however, upon the difficulty of
finding an eligible abode for them, it being al,o stated
that Mr. Drouet's Asylum was not now overcrowded,
it appeared to be the general opinion of the guardians
that the children had better remain there ; and a
deputation was appointed to wait upon the Poor-law
Board and the General Board of Health for their
further advice upon the matter.
It was stated by Mr. Gaskell, at the meeting, that
Mr. Drouet's establishment ought never to have had
more than 800 or 900 in it ; but that the collection
of the much larger number recently there had been
sanctioned by the Poor-law Commissioners. It was
also stated that a complaint of the quality of the food
had more than once been made on the part of this
parish, and that for some time the removal of the chil-
dren had only been a deferred question, the difficulty
being where to put them.
The CHAIRMAN (Mr. Ryder) said he believed the
cause of this outbreak of disease to be princi-
pally, if not entirely, overcrowding and poor living.
The charge allowed to Mr. Drouet was stated
to be the sum asked by him, nor had he ever com-
plained.of it as insufficient; and at Mr. Aubin's, at
Norwood, with double the number of attendants, the
charge was the same. It was added, that Mr. Drouet
was supposed to make, upon an average, a clear
weekly profit or Is. by each child after paying the
whole expenses of his establishment. Some of the
ol ler boys were sent out to work, and he got ss. per
week for their labour.

After some further discussion, and the appoint-
ment of a deputation to visit the asylum, the board
adjourned.

A HARD CASE.—Mr. Robert M'Cormick, R.N.,
surgeon of twenty-one years' standing, and fifteen
years' actual service, chiefly in the West Indio s, and
rth and South P,lir regions with Captain Sir
Ede ard Parry and Sir J. Clarke Ross, performing
the duties of naturalist in addition to those of surgeon,
contributed the geological portion to Ross's narrative
of the expedition; on his return from which he re-
mained on half-pay for two years, when he received the
appointment of surgeon to the William and Mary, one of
the royal yachts, an appointment held by all his predeces-
s rs for a permauency, or until promoted (one of whom
was made Deputy-Inspector of the Woolwich division of
Marines, another receiving the appointment of Surgeon to
the Dockyard). On the yacht being paid off last year
to be replaced by the Fisgard frigate, Mr.'M'Cortuick
was not even permitted to serve the ordinary period
of three years, customary on an appointment to a ship
newly commissioned, thus placing him on half-pay in.
stead of giving him that promotion to which he was so
justly entit!ed, not only from the peculiar nature of the
servic-s he had performed, but which had been conferred
on every other officer of the expedition alluded to, on
its return, now five years since, during which period no
less than eight surgeons have been made Deputy-In-
spectors, four of whom are juniors to Mr. M'Cormick,
and with no other services to recommend them for
that step than the ordinary routine duties of their
station. Notwithstanding the unjust treatment to
which he has been subjected by the Admiralty autho-
rities, Mr. M'Cormick offered his services to Govern-
ment to conduct an expedition in search of Sir John
Franklin—an expedition which he was eminently quali.
tied to undertake from his great experience under two
such distinguished leaders as Parry and Ross. This
gentleman has, moreover, other claims on the attention
of the Admiralty as being the son of a naval surgeon
who lost his life in the shipwreck of her Majesty's ship
Defence, during the war.
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SAM SLICK'S NEW WORK, " THE OLD JUDGE ;
OR, Ling IN A COLONY."—The style of Judge Hali-
burton is as familiar to us now in England as is that of
Dickens or Thackeray. By the aid of his humorous and
frank Saxon pen; we now can realise to ourselves life in
the North American colonies as perfectly as though
they formed some of our own counties. The old Judge
takes us among the people, and with a rough. humour
paints their oddities, their ugly angles, and their sturdy
independence. Stephen Richardson, the character of the
book, is an admit able specimen of the Nova Scotian—a
watch, with his downright blunt nia,twer and genuine
humour, for the 'cute and lively genius of Sam Slick him-
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Chronicic.

A HEAVY BLOW AND GREAT IitSCoURAGEmENT
I have been refused the freedom of the city of Paisley!
Observe, I miter applied for it; but before the dinner
given to Professor Wilson, the provost and magistrates
met to discuss the question, whether John Wilson and
faminas' Campbell should be offered the high honour
of being made burgesses of the town. It was decreed
that Wilson was ineligible for being an inve [(irate Tory;
and that I was ineligible for countenancing 'Wilson! So
take care, M.! You Tories are dangerous folks! One
cannot even keep company
with you without disgrace!
Only think of my misfortune! Who knows that 'might
not have set up a snuff-shop at Paisley, with a High-
lander for the sign-post—called it the Lochiel snuff-
shop"—rcade lots of money—and became a Kill° of
rtyidey!—Life and Letters of T. Campbell.