The Sun.
London, England, 1831-08-26 00:00:00

CHOLERA MORBUS.

ST. PETERSBURGII, Anc. s.—On the morning of the
241 4)f August there remained It 69 patients in the hospi-
tals and private houses. _

New Cases. Recovered. Deaths.
Aug. 2

3
`t3
4
Remained 748, of whom 30`..1 are likely to recover.

Despatches were received this morning at
the Colonial-office, Downing street, from the Island of
Ilarbadoeß, dated June 27, and from the Island of St.
Thomas, dated July 17, with matters connected with our
Coknies.

A report is prevalent, that Sir T. D. ACL A ND
will be elected to the Peerage on the ensuing Coronation.
Sir G.W. BANtryLDE has also been named in the rumoured
list.--Exeter Alfred.
REPRESENTATION OF MA NCHESTER.--.
MA RK PIiILIPS,Esq., has announced himself, in a public
address, as a candidate for the representation of Manchester.
REPRESENTATION OF BOLTON.--MAR-
SHALL WILLIAMS, Esq., has offered himself as a candidate
for Bolton.

Sir CHARLES WETHERELL, (luring the
week, has
paid several strictly private visits to his friend,
Lord ELDON, at his resilience in Hamilton-place. On
these occa•ions he has quitted the hackney-coach in which
he was conveyed at some distance front the Noble Earl's
residence, and walked thither, his pockets being evidently
stuffed full of papers. It is supposed that these meetirws
have reference to the tactics to be adopted relative to the
Reform Bill when it finds its way to the Upper House.
boep uAlleenr
nt
bA, Aristocrats
erat
expected
gers, who happen to
Lord Er.nott: has never connected himself with the Charles-
street Conclave, towards the support of which all the
otroousguhb,mcorinbe.
and
Ii

Subscriptions arc forming for the Irish in dif-
ferent parts of Belgium. In Antwerp, the sum already
subscribed is 4,874 francs. A person, signing himself
" Anonymous," has since sent 1,000 florins.
A large boa constrictor made its escape one
day last week from the menagerie now exhibiting near
Bathwick.bridge. It was found drowned in the Avon two
Jays alter. —Bath Chronicle.

TUNBRIDGE.—ELOPEMENT.--011 Saturday
morning, whilst the limily were at church, a fashionably-
dressed young man, attired in a green frock-coat, was ob-
,r,„,d to drive up to I—y cottage, situated iti this neigh -
lourhood. Soon afterwards a lady made her appearance,
enveloped in a white veil, which completely covered her
lady
yi‘biaiLs,
,o
sincetiari o
b;eieint)numtdeti
discovered
immediately seten,ei ot
of
face, and instantly sprang into the vehicle which waited
n{} with ,}:itt'irl rrael2itt'y°.n. Thel h g
be the accomplished heiress,
the hero of this exploit is still unknown.—Maidstone
Paper.

ATTENIPTED SUICIDE ON WATERLOO
BRIDGE,—This morning, about one o'clock, a Mr. Nl-
gentleman residing in South Lambeth, at-
drown himself, tempted
trades of Waterloo Bridge. A man anti hi: wife, who
by jumping over the bah's-
happend to be coming over the biidge at the time, saw
the unfortunate.man. with one leg over the coping, and
tiwy immediately
.seized him, and prevented hint from
rariying his rash intent into execution. W.M. HANDS, a
private watchman, ot the Savoy precinct, and YOUNG, a
cuohns,
toa
neetww, were cayed to the unhappy mares assistance,
im ' ' • found in a - of ,
Low they • state frenzy, and commenced
an attack upon the officers; they, however, took him to
the station-house, •
in Covent-garden, where he was locked
lip, and whilst these the deluded man made several at-
• wits to hang himself, but did not happily succeel. Ile
,t%4( cardied befoere re
i Air. illiNsitunr,, the Magistrate. at
Va
li,olv.stre,t, it IS elicited that he had become bail
Omanfor
worked 300/., who had absconded, and the circum-
stance had
determined to de so powerfully on his mind, that he was
him to be conve stroy himself. • The Magistrate ordered
yed Imme, which was aecoidingly done by
a
!iceman, the. Magistrate desiring
that every attention
po
should be paid hun.