The Sun.
London, England, 1831-12-24 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Duke and Duchess of Cu)SIIEALAND came to town
on Thursday from their residence at Kew. Their Royal
Highnesses returned to Kew in the afternoon.
The Princess Sorra), MATILDA came from Blackheath
yesterday, to the King's Palace at Kensington, to visit
their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of KENT and the
Princess `VICTORIA.

Prince GEORGE of Cumberland honoured with his pre-
sence, on Wednesday evening, the ball given by the ladies
occupying apartments in the King's College, at Hampton-

court.

Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office, from Sir WILLIA)t HOUSTOUN, the Lieutenant-
Governor of Gibraltar.

Viscount ALTHORP left town yesterday, on a visit to his
father, Earl SPENCER, at his seat, hithorp-park, North-
ampton.
Sir JAMES GRAHAM left town on Thursday, on a visit
to the Duke of RICHMOND, at Goodwood, Sussex. Vis-
count PALMERSTON and Mr. STANLEY" arrived at Good-
nrooi on Thursday from Brighton. Viscount iAIEL.
BouRNE also arrived at Goodwood on Thursday from town,
on a visit to his Grace. -

Lord HOLLAND arrived at the residence of Earl GREI,
at East Sheen, on Thursday, on a visit to the Noble Earl.
Sir FREDERICK ADAM, the Lord High Commissioner
of the lonian Islands, transacted businear at the Colonial-
office on Thursday.

CHOLERA MORBUS.—A philosophical in-
strument-maker in Bristol named BRAHAM has lately in-
vented, and is about to obtain a patent, for a simple and
effective apparatus to be employed for the purpose
.of fu-
migating hospitals, apartments, ships, and other places
impregnated with foul or deleterious' vapour., and for
rendering the atmosphere therein pure and fit far healthy
respiration. This invention has, we understand, met with
the decided approval of the Faculty and Board of Health
in that city, as it is particularly calculated for the preven-
tion of cholera and other contageous &eases. The appa-
ratus is intended to be carried about by hand in the in-
fected apartment, and is so simple that it may be purchased
for two or three shillings.

REMIIiGTON, STEPHENSON, AND CO'S.
BANK.kurrcr.—A meeting of credi,ors took place yester-
day, in Basinghall-street; additional debts were proved to
rather above 2,0001. The total amount of claims amounts
as yet to 490,7291., a further dividend of twopence in the
pound was declared. The amount of previous dividends is
I's. 6d. in the pound.
•
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE"
—The Chancellor's third gold medal for the encourage,
ment of English Poetry. Subject for the present yearr
The taking of Jerusalem in the First Crusade." F a
the Bachelors—" Qua prwcipue parte debilis sit et man ce
Veterum Philosophorum de Officiis doctrina ?" For th
Undergraduates—" Inter silvan Acadetni quwrere verum.
Sir W. BuowNes sold medals. For the Greek Ode—

" Quid dedicatum poscit Apollinem
" Vates ?"
For the Latin Ode—
,' Oecultum quatiente animo tortore flagellum."
For the Greek Epigram—
Quis enim celaverit ignem,
Lumine qui seunper proclitur ipsesuo ?"

For the Latin Epitiram" Henna sum : hurnani nihil
ame alienurn puto." The Parson Prize, interest of 4001.
Subject for the present year, SHAKSPEARE, Julius Casar,
Act 11. Scene 2. Beginning—
CAS.—.‘ Csesar, I never stood on ceremonies,"
And ending—
., Seeing that death, a necessary end,
" Will come when it will come."

SOMETHING SERIOUS.—The Roxburgh-
shire Anti-Reformers have taken out a protest against the
Kelso Reform address, and after raking 17 parishes, and
boring a circuit of 50 miles, they have got 83 signatures
to the protest.— Glasgow Free Press.
TERMINATION OF THE GREAT PLAGUE
tx 1666.—1 n the middle of their distress, when the con-
dition •f the city of London was so truly calamitous, just
then it pleased GOD as it were to try his immediate hani
to disarm this enemy ; the poison was taken out of his
sting : even the physicians themselves were surprised at it.
Wherever they visited they found their patients better :
either they had aerated kindly or the tumours were broke,
or the carbuncles went down, arid the inflammation round
them changed colour, or the fever was gone, or the violent
headache was assuaged, or some good symptom was in the
case, se that in a few days. every body was recovering ;
whole families that were infected and down, that had
Ministers praying with them and expecting death every
hour, were revived and healed, and none died at all out of
them. Nor was this by any new medicine found out or
new method of cure discovered, or by any experience in
the operation which the physicians or surgeons attained to ;
but it was evidently from the secret invisible band of Him
that had at first sent this disease as a judgment upon us.--
De Foe's History of the Plain.

There has been, in all Governments, a grey
the
backt.ln make deal of canting about the consumption of spirits. W
believe the best plan is to let the people drink what they
like; ando
either for the belly
oragainst rum and rum
sumptuary
laws'
and water are made by men who can change their wet
clothes for dry ones whenever they choose, and who do not
often work up to their knees in mud and water ; and in
the next place, if this stimulus did all the mischief it is
thought to do by the wise men of claret, its cheapness and
plenty would rather lessen than increase the avidity with
which it is at present sought for. Again, human life is
then noobra place,
subject to such manifold wretchedness, that all nations
have invented a something, liquid or solid, to produce a
brief oblivion. Poppies, barley, grapes, sugar, pepper,
and a thousand other things have been squeezed, pressed,
pounded, and purified, to produce this temporary happi-
ness. Noblemen and Members of Parliament have ,arge
cellars full of sealed bottle., to ensble them the biqttr so
endure the wretchedne-s of life. The poor m n seeks the
same end by expending three-halfpence in gin ;--but no
moralist can endure the idea of gin..—Edinburgh Review,
So. 63, p. 41, from an article attributed to the Rev,
SIDNEY SMITIL