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L rMY EVENING, DECEMBER 23, 1831.

[OLERA. NIORBUS, OFFICIAL REPORT.

COUNCIL OFFICE.—(THIS DAY.)
DAILY REPORT of CHOLERA CASES,
g_, SUNDERLAND, DEC. '2l, 1831.
ained at last report
Cases

Rod Total lO
ttov,red

Remaining at this date, 8 o'clock, A.M
torn the Commencement of the Disease, on Oct. 'X, 1831.
Cases, 511.—Died, 188.

R, NEWCASTLE, Dec. 21.
1c~,4, inctl at last report
''' cases 3O
4i Total .
heV 4
')vtred

kill Remaining at this date,
the Commencement of the Disease, on Dec. 7, 1831.
Cases, 153.—Died, 53.
Tim.,,"TH SHIELDS AND TYNEMOUTII, DFC. 21.
Ne•zained at last report 1
" eases 2
b t'd ......
...
Remaining at this date 1
From the Commencement of the Disease.
Cases, 9.—Died, 7.
HOUGHTON.LE-SPRING, DEC. 21.
at last report 3
`' casey 4
14„,
--overed 0
Remained at this date
From the Commencement of the Disease.
Cases, 19.—Died, not reported.

nfl Itt,na,
.SEAHAM HARBOUR, Dec. 21.
SCiellCes 'lb Itung at this date
From the Commencement of the Disease.
i Sundtriii:rer Cases, 7.—Died, 5.
Id the te.,ct No other particulars received.
(Signed) WM. MACLEAN, Secretary.
r the dist' t,
Llano cvs',go( lay the
courigeouteri 11l „ additional heavy duty of twelve and a
lence. 01 4t,t,l'er cent., which the Emperor of RUSSIA
+monad° pfe' 'tkr°SeS to levy on imported goods, he seems
iderlan vet, iv. ,
14 ry tray' oe c
i a that the European Powers (France and
L. cis, ed bei,ed iliilli4uszi particularly) shall pay the expenses of
.en far
piej, 4 me
have ibrio ° ,qt magnanimous campaigns in Poland ;
become! the 41 they shall be punished for having
he reta'P'oce 'till guilty of the crime of only wishing
I counte3.o6 N t
this, ho'''; or 0 the Polish cause—for GOD knows, they
'a:l7'l,o°4lll°r; 14,,tjt0:,:t guilty of the sin of interference ! This
sease. 1011 Iphi,i us duty will of course have the effect of
effort is. the '' r Lng in no slight degree the British trade
der,, aria 0, 111
Russia ; but even the most timid, and cour-
nindont• or 1•04
t for °°t 0 i '1
' and forbearing become desperate by re-
, which' 04 ' feel insults, and we trust the Imperial Auto-
4ecttnilt " v
hoil Will
fatal t 1 the reap the full benefit of this desperation
_....\lol,„itli'
,!hott, part of England. Before the EMPEROR
, tbee° )11 .ed on levying this duty, he should have
' has )e lit' • 4(lered well the means for carrying it through
Tonity 1:1,,,,re 'the
Bedreamb; three ':;rate Utmost, and not have indulged in intern-
,. DA.„TI.,r; ate
bravadoes which he cannot eventually
coaling , io, ii. If the mere fact of a dispute with
MITCI-0. n gitla
005 (tti, 4 has so far affected the revenues of
reams 0 fit .sla
'8
-terrace ),0 th ' that she is compelled in her necessity—
! evenings'l,o4 t ' CZAR has the grace to plead necessity as
Detween tr, ht • our 1091 ,i.. t of his present proceeding—to annoy
it rowirkgpe 'ill °lurriercial interests of other nations, how
e, he helirdie 114 i, thebe revenues be affected, when Russia
could Pr, to II 6
ieard 11 o,', q) find herself hampered by the hostility of
ted anzitog tiirasueb
influential kingdoms as France and
3of its '-,,r wand ?
kll these rtiit
td before .p!
State of things in France for the last week
idaV,:b% iilef' NI
ere hest judged of by an attentive considera-
,
by a
,Irtt it All , the Government report upon the Lyons
ipect.ibili`lliie it ,4",auees—of the report of the Committee of
o'
if }to .0.0 ‘-tiatilh
er of Peers upon the new Peerage
e murder roz
azettc. leet'"'-and of the proceedings in the Court of

A,

First Instance in Paris, instituted by the Prince
of RonAN, for the purpose of nullifying the
will of the late Duke of BOURBON CONDE. As
all these documents are before the public, it is
hardly necessary to do more than direct to them
the attention of those of our readers who desire
to be rightly informed of the political condition
of the French nation.

The first document, relating to Lyons, shows
that the Government has no intention or hope
of doing any thing to ameliorate the condition
of the operatives, who, at Lyons and elsewhere,
are in a state of alarming destitution. The
fluctuations of trade, caused partly by political,
and partly by other causes, have deprived Lyons
of the business that once gave full employment
to her citizens. Not only in Lyons, but in
Paris, there is a hungry and almost starving
multitude, who respect neither law nor order,
and are ready to lend themselves to any change,
good or bad, in the existing Government. This
class of citizens, so dangerous to the public
peace, the Ministers have confessed themselves
to be unable either to permanently pacify or ame-
liorate in their conduct towards the rest of the

nation.

The report of the Commission on the Peerage
Bill is a most elaborate, and, at the same time,
most unsatisfactory document. The Commis-
sioners have assigned the most ample reasons for
the reluctance with which they part with the
principles of hereditary succession—so indispen-
sable, as they truly observe, to the conservation
of the aristocratical element in the State. But
the fact being that the Aristocracy in France is
utterly demolished and gone, the Commission
loses sight of the real question, which is, how f'ar
it is expedient to raise up a sham Aristocracy to
supply the place of the real one, which is extinct?
We like not, moreover, the proposal of the Peers
to omit the condition in the category, which
prevents the nomination of merchants, &c. pay-
ing 3,000 francs a year in taxes, unless they
shall have been six years members of a General
Council, or Chamber of Commerce. This amend-
ment to the ministerial scheme was designed as a
salutary check to corrupt nominations of eldest
sons of Peers, and Court favourites, who had
not been trusted by the nation, to fill offices of
public confidence for a certain period, and its.
omission will probably not be acceded to by the
, Deputies. _ _

Of the proceedings in regard to the Duke DE
BOURBON'S will, in which the Citizen KING
has, in fact, been put to a public trial, we will
at present, only say that we seldom recollect the
exposure, in a Court of Justice, of more mean
and disgusting conduct than that with which
Louis PHILIPPE, in conjunction with Madame
DE FEUCHERES, stands charged. How this
person can repel the evidence of his shameful
manceuvres to secure for his son the inheritance
destined for another, remains to be seen by the
defence. But the correspondence already pub-
lished is enough to sink this Citizen Sovereign
in the esteem and respect of those who
value the laws of honour and decency, and
who feel a just scandal at attempts to obtain
filthy lucre by intimidation and fraud, practiced
upon weakness and old age.

The Birmingham Political Council have just
issued a declaration of the views and objects of
the Union, which contains, among others, a
statement to the effect that, " Upon maturely
investigating the cause of the national distress
ourselves, we found the whole to originate either
in positive acts of the Legislature; or in the
general mismanagement of public affairs. We
found difficulties and dangers accumulating be-
fore us, behind us, and around us. We found
the House of Commons either totally unable, or
totally unwilling, to adopt the necessary mea-
sures for the relief of the country ; and in the
mean while we saw the foundations of society
giving way under our feet. It was therefore that
we formed the Political Union. We could place
no confidence in the House of Commons. We
saw the reward of industry destroyed. We saw
the mass of the people injured and degraded in
their wages, in their employment,in the comforts
and necessaries of their families, and in the ho-
nest independence to which they are entitled.
We saw the whole country covered with diffi-
culties, discords, and anxieties,—with broken
fortunes,—with broken hearts.' There was no
hope for our country from any quarter,—except
from the interference of the people in rectifying
their own affairs." What an answer is this plain,
simple, energetic statement, to the blundering
sophistry of the Statesmen of the CROKEIt
school, who assert that there is not the slightest
occasion for Reform, for that the country is just
as prosperous as it ever was, or as it ever ought
to be !

We have received this morning Lisbon and
Frankfort Papers, from which we extract the
following :

LISBON, DEC. 6.

OFFICIAL-DEPARTMENT OF ECCLEq-ASTI-

CAL AFFAIRS AND JUSTICE.

" Sin,—The King our Sovereign basing been informed
of the great enthusiasm which has manifested itself in
the kingdom for the defence of the just and holy cause of
religion, of the throne, and of the safety of the State, which
our enemies madly and rashly think to attack, his Ma-
j sty is pleased that your Excellent.), should order the
districts in which inch noble and truly Portuguese senti-
ments have been especially shown, to signify to the in-
habitants his royal approbation. His Majesty has never
doubted that on the present occasion he should meet with
such sentiments, as he knows by his own experience that
his subjects ate and has abs aye found them equal to them-
selves in the most difficult and arduous circumstances, and
above all, his Majesty's approbation is merited by the im-
movable constancy with which the Portuguese,now certainly
imitators of the excellent qualities of their ancestors,
have at all times been ready at the expense of the greatest
sacrifices to oppose, and destroy the monster of impiety and
revolution which has so persecuted us since 1820, and has
been the cause of all the evils that we have suffered, and
which would have been much greater if it bad not always
been conquered• His Majesty likewise desires that your
Excellency should signify to some local Magistrates, who
have the most distinguished themselves by their zeal in the
performance of their duty, that their good services are
known to his Majesty.
" LUIS DE PAULA FURTADO DE CASTRO
DO RIO DE MENDOCA.
" Sr. Joaquim Comes da Si:va Belfort.
" Palace of Queluz, Dec. 6, 1831."
" SlR.,—His Majesty, desiring to lesson by all possible
means the inconveniences which the movement of a great
part of the army occasions to the people, is pleased to order
that the requisitions of provisions, or of means of con-
veyance for the army, shall be levied in preference on

what is confiscated or sequestrated for the crime of
treason, or on such as ..re about to depart from
the kingdom without his Royal license ; such requisitions
being to he levied on the inhabitants only when they can-
not he raised in the manner above mentioned; and i❑ the
delivery of the vales, and other proceedings, the same for-
malities are to be observed towards the administrators of
confiscated or sequestrated property, as towards all other
persons. All which I communicate to your Excellency, that
you may give the necessary direction to the Magistrates
under you."
(Dated, signed, and addressed as the preceding.)
The Lisbon Gazette gives long extracts from the Act
of 59 George 111. against recruiting for foreign service,
and an account of the breaking up, in the Isle of Dogs,
of the Ist division of the expedition against Portugal.
Lisbon Gazettes to the 10th December inclusive,
announce various regulations and numerous promotions in
the army.
. .

CASSEL, DEC. 12.-111 i Majesty the Electoral Prince
has issued the following Proclamation :

" While the united efforts of the Government and
of the representatives of the country were producing
the most satisfactory results, a deplorable event had
disturbed the peace of the capital. The voice of an
authority obliged to maintain publi, order was
disregarded, and the interference of the armed force
became necessary. A combination of uufor•tunate circum-
stances occasioned in the dark some accidents, which not
only afflicted the faithful inhabitants of Cassel, who are
such friends to order, but fills our heart with profound
grief."
His Highness declares that a most strict investigation
shall be made, which will show how far the laws have
been violated, and by whom, and that justice shall be done
without distinction of persons.
The Minister of War announces that it has erroneously
been asserted that in the A•semhly of the States, the
order for troops to come to Cassel had been revoked.
The Assembly approved the proposal of M. Jordan to
petitition the Government to relieve the communes about
Cassel from the burden of quartering cavalry.
In consequence of an accident this morning, when a
garde-de•corps ill-treated a child, the Estates resolved to
petition the Government to remove those troops from the
capital without delay.

The Paris Express says, " it would appear
that the rigorous measures directed against the
students, who were proceeding on Monday with
an address to General Rom ARINo, has cat!sed
much dissatisfaction among all ranks of the
Parisians."