The Sun.
London, England, 1831-07-25 00:00:00

we can assure him, is beginning to evince symp-
toms of impatience. We take- for granted that
the remaining nineteen boroughs in sche-
dule A will be all disposed of to-morrow night.

We point attention to a masterly article in the
Times of this morning, on the subject of tl.e
Public Press, which will be found in our Spirit
of the Journals. This article discusses the ques-
tion in a temperate, dignified, and convincing
spirit, and will, no doubt, have the effect of put-
ting an end to the yelpings of those who are in
the habit of denouncing the Press in Parliament,
as a mean, mischievous engine, devoted to the
worst of purposes.. In this article Sir R.
PEEL is dealt with as he deserves, in a mild,
gentlemanlike, but by no means an unduly
deferential spirit. In fact, we almost regret that
he is treated with so much lenity. His
unqualified abuse of the Press--which he
would fain persuade the world he despises—en-
title him no particular courtesy, and we are quite
convinced that his talents are not lofty enough to
extort it. As a statesman, as an orator, as a law
reformer, the Right Hon. Baronet belongs to the
prolific family of the common-places. He
has no mark nor likelihood, no charac-
teristic faculty to distinguish him from
other politicians, who are in the habit of making
long speeches in Parliament. In smoothness
of manner he is a servile imitator of the late
Lord CASTLEREAGH, though without an atom
of his Lordship.'s firmness and perseverance.
The force of circumstances has for years ele-
vated him above his level.; but those cir-
cumstances being no longer in operation, he is
now rapidly descending to it. Henceforth
he must stand on the ground of his own merits,
aru.l the foundation, we fear, is a ricketty one.
Cant and Ultraism can support him no longer ;
they can scarcely support themselves.

THE CHOLERA MORBUS.

The accounts from t]e Russian capital received to-day
are of a very unfavourable nature as regards the spreading
of the cholera: The letters state that up to the 9th inst.
1676 cases had occurred, of which 900 had proved fatal.
The disease was rapidly spreading.
The accounts from Riga to the 10th inst. state that 4441
cases had occurred up to that day, of which 2317 had re-
covered and 1839 had died—there remained ill 285.

From Archangel the dates are to the 2d inst., up to
that date 1365 persons had been attacked-914 had died
and 241 recovered.

It is reported in the city that not less than 36 cases of
cholera had occurred in Glasgow. Nine of the private
letters, it is understood, from thence mention the circum-
stance.

The inhabitants of Chelsea have agreed to
petition Parliament to be allowed the privilege of returning
a Member. The population of Chelsea was, in 1821,
26,860, and in 1831, 32,371 ; being a larger number than
is contained in any ene of the 26 new districts in schedule
Dof the Reform Bill, and as great as the population of
12 of the boroughs in schedule B.

LAMBETH-STREET.—CHARLES GREEN, an
aged Greenwich pensioner, was re-examined on a charge of
attempting to cut his wife's throat, and was fully com-
mitted for trial. It appeared that they had been for some
time on very unhappy terms, which was chiefly occasioned
by his harsh conduct. On Thursday week she saw him
go by the house, and she went to advise him to return to
Greenwich, saying, that if he did so, a warrant which had
been taken out by her against him should not be put into
force. They walked together for some distance, when he
said that he should die, and that he should kill her first.
She endeavoured to get away from him, but he caught her
by the shoulder, and drew a knife across her throat, which
inflicted a wound, but it would have been much worse if
she had not worn a thick shawl at the time.—The prisoner
said nothing in defence.

MA RYL EBONE-OFFICE.----A French woman
complained that an assault bad been committed upon her
person by a tradesman at whose house she lodged, in the
Edgeware-road. She had bee._ only a few weeks in Eng-
land, and was under the care of a physician for an affec-
tion of the lungs; and on Saturday last her landlady said
that her husband had a nostrum that would cure her com-
plaint. In the middle of the following night she was
awoke by a dreadful pressure on her person ; and to her
utter astonishment, she found her host, the landlord of the
house, attempting her cure by sitting oa her chest ! She
screamed and struggled, and he left the room. On the
following morning the landlady asked her husband if he had
cured the lady, and he replied "he had." The Magis-
trates could not refrain from laughter, and the French lady
added in her native tongue, " 'Tis true, Alessieors, 'tis true ;
but the lady is very large (tr?..s pros) in the family way."
The Magistrates granted a warrant against " mine host,"
to account for the proceedings upon the French lady.
TREATMENT OF A FEMALE, BY Two
PARtstiEsc—(From a Correspondent, who has sent his
name and address.)—On Friday evening last, about five
o'clock, a young woman, in a state of pregnancy, residing
at Hampstead, was walking towards Cripplegate work--
house, to which parish she supposed she belonged, when,
in Gossvall-road, she was suddenly taken in labour, and
obliged to sit down on the step of a door, where her dis-
tress soon collected a crowd around. She was accom-
panied by a female friend, who was totally inexperienced
in such emergencies, and some time elapsed before a coach
could be procured, when a respectable married female
kindly conapassionated her situation, and offered to ac..onn-
pany her, as the poor woman's agonizing hour had evi-
dently arrived. At a slow pace they reached Cripplegate
workhouse, and instantly despatched a message to the ma-
tron, informing her the infant was already born ? She,
however, not only refused to go to the coach, or to render
any assistance, at a season of such extremity, but ordered
them away, to the next parish. Full of agitation
and alarm, and ignorant of parochial farms, they next
proceeded to the workhouse of St. Luke's. Here ,
the young woman who accompanied the sufferer from
Hampstead, appeared before the Board, who were sitting
at the time, and made her appeal to the compassion of
its members ; but, alas, in vain ! These also followed
the inhuman precedent of the matron of Cripplegate ;
and although the unhappy patient -was then lying at the
bottotn of the coach, with her baby dead by her side,
they were ordered from the door ! " The world was all
before them, where to choose," and the coachman next
drove to Clerkenwell workhouse, where they arrived at
half-past seven p.m. Here the overseers were sitting,
and, most happily for the afflicaerl mother, were gentle-
men of a different spirit. No sooner were they informed
that a poor woman was brought, in the agonies of child-
birth, than before becoming acquainted with any of the
foregoing particulars, they ordered her to be immediately
taken in. The matron prepared a warm bath, and with
the greatest tenderness and delicacy assisted in the removal
of the patient, who was in a few minutes placed in bed,
in circumstances of comfort and safety. The precautions
which had been adopted, in the hope of preserving the
infant, were, alas ! unavailing, as li!C was found to have
been long extinct.— Tim:-
MODERN EDUCATION.—It is unquestion-
ably one of the most important points in education to lead
the young to think on all they do, and to conceive accurate
notions on all matters connected with their amusements as
well as with their studies. This object iris never been
so fully accomplished as in a little production of one of the
most eminent philosophers and physicians of the clay, aptly
entitled " Philosophy in Sport made Science in Earnest."
We were therefore not surprised to learn that at the late
general meeting of the scholastic prolession in and round
the metropolis, it was unanimously resolved to adopt that
work in future as a classabook in all their establishments.
A man hung at Caen, after being cut down,
began to show some signs of returning animation- He was
carried to the house of a calenderer close to the place of exe-
cution, and laid on a bed. Some constables, his guards,
waiting for instructions from the Judge, set themselves
down to cards. In the mean time the man quite recovered,
and his mind still full of the pious exhortation) of the Con-
fessor, who had followed to the place of execution, seeing
men paying at cards, Ire began asking himself whetliea
grming was permitted in Heaven, where he thought he
was. This he related himself, having entered a convent
and taken the monkish habit, after cleverly escaping whi'e
the constables played on.---Mirror,