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London, England, 1831-12-28 00:00:00

tender hearted—wit for the witty—something too

personality—eharact. re for the lovers of the dranascol
mischief for the mischievous—thought for the cc° di'
tire—and a well-timed hint or two for all. I °0.o(
pointed, hut whether agreeably or not, I leave you la'
We'll read the bcok agan."
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THE FOG.—The density of the fog de";
day in the city, between twelve and one o'clock? ;
remarkable as the sudden changes in the atrnosPbr',l?,
accompanied it ; and it may be recorded that then
ness—considering it was noon-day—was greater th,,,e
been remembered by the most observant meteore',;
Shortly before the commencement of noon the a
,0
speak of the city from the Royal Exchange to P.jr4
bar), was comp iratively clear, but soon afterward° Itepl4
fog, of a dingy yellow hue, approached from lh
eastern part of the metropolis—the wind, then
perceptible, being due east—and enveloped the ,i 1;
houses, and public buildings, in gloom and dark ,
an extent that required much caution in walliico6l.*
more care in the drivers of vehicles. The shopPl;Jr;
offices, coffee-houses, sale-rooms, and places of generte;"
sort, were lighted up in haste, and the conserine"„oo)
prise and hustle afforded a strange contrast with the
routine of mid-day business. The fog, howe'reir'rei
passed onwards in a westerly direction, and Ong°
have attained the great density at the foot of VII °
street. Above, the atmosphere had a singularly lu_roii°
pearance, as of the reflection of an extensive connwl,
on a misty night. At this time the fog in tbeA"fro;
bourhood of the Bank was fast clearing away? an;!•l°,'
deVkareerihpatroenh, eeaxrieleopftinsogmethaactciodrielt
Holborn in a northerly direction there were snarc-ti. b-A;
anpopneeaorafn
acesseroifoui ts.
crossing Ludgate-hill, who was knocked down by
of a private carriage, and, before the coachman °r
pull up, she was once trod upon by one of the I c°
Assistance and surgical aid were promptly renderelafe
the lady was conveyed home in the carriage with°
coining, as was stated, any dangerous injury.
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MILITARY COURTS MARTIAL..--Vrtlvii
Correspondent.)—lt was generally believed la
et
that the Officers of his MAJESTY'S Household rrroet
consequence of the disapprobation which, it is weil",(P.;
his MAJESTY has expressed on the brutal erten'," i"
ging, had determined for the future, in complianter,
the humane wishes of the Monarch, and the public j
on the subject, to at once abolish such a brutal adrt/j
grading punishment. This, however, it is to be r%
is not the case, for another unfortunate wretch tic,
flogged until human nature could no longer boar t-011.k1
ture. On Saturday morning last the first battalion 1,?0
first regiment of Grenadier Guards mustered at tbecitlei
place in Knightsbridge-barracks, where a private °to I'll
named GRIFFITHS, belonging to the battalion, °Olll
i
been for some days imprisoned, was brought out f-coo'
place of confinement, to hear the minutes of a pi
martial read over by the Adjutant of the regiment. ,foo:
peared that his crime was desertion, and the Court
him guilty, and sentenced him to receive 500 lobe%
unfortunate man was instantly tied up, and the dray
event to work with their cats. GRIFFITHS is a ferlif
man, and his cries were dreadful. After receieiP'4
lashes his back was in a horrible state, and it sve°
evident that he had received as much flogging so bei
bear, and it was deemed advisable, for tear of
quences, to proceed no further with the punishmeM
was then released from the torture, and conveyeu)i
Military Hospital, to be cured of the laceration 01:,,FA'
had received. There is but little doubt that, if
punishment had been inflicted which his knit I'4
awarded him, he would have been flogged to deatbea',/i,
terday morning the second battalion of the 3d reg!",fdli
Foot Guards mustered in the Armoury-yard, 15",,,i'd:
walk, when a private soldier, belonging to the t' °"
named TWIGG, was brought out from his place ofl6
silent to hear the minutes of a Court-martial reAer,,lS
which had been held upon him for the crime of `lento
The Court found him guilty, and sentenced
months' imprisonment in Brixton HOUIII of Cor#.

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(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, Dec. 26.
The information I sent you yesterday of the cho-
lera
havingbroken out in Gateshead you will find
is but too true. To day it has increased to an alarm-
'"g extent. The following is the report just issued
by the Gateshead Board of Health :
CASES OF CHOLERA AT GATESHEAD, 'FROM TES,
A.M., 2.5 th, TO TEN, a.m., '26th.
lumber Attacked. Recovered. Died. Remain.
39 9 30
Bad as this is all at once, I am sorry to say I
have heard of several other cases since the report
Came out—not less, I think, than twenty new cases
and about six deaths. It is not surprising, consi-
dering
the filthy streets there are in Gateshead, and
its Contiguity to Newcastle, that the disease should
have made its appearance there ; but it is extraordi-
n"Y that it should have attacked such numbers at
!no same moment. lam afraid the panic to which
It has given rise will add to instead of diminish the
sickness.
The official report for Newcastle to-day is rather
mote favourable. It states the new cases to be 16,
the recoveries eight, and the deaths six. They are
It'll confined to the lowest class of the community,
441 chiefly to the dissipated, ill-fed, and ill-clothed,
tes;ding in the low and filthy streets of the town.
Mr. Wilkie, the apothecary to the Dispensary
here, has just published a sensible letter, in which
he states what he considers the chief, though re-
,rniptei causes predisposing to spasmodic cholera.
il• hese he considers to be bad bread, bad spirits, and
fear, These are all very likely to have considerable
4111tience. Diseased wheat and rye, he contends,
(); the continent, have repeatedly produced spasmo-
affections epidemically, and he conceives it
t'gh.ly probable that they may have been instrumen-
-41, m producing or extending the malady which pre-
vails in this neighbourhood.
I have now no doubt that the idea of a case of
toolera, which I alluded to in a former letter, having
occurredin a house at North Shields by means of
;hags brought from Sunderland, was well founded.
The old man's wife was attacked and died. The
1:1..1(1 man himself who brought the rags next took
tue Complaint but recovered, and the nurse who at-
Tided him observed an offensive smell to arise from
had ;11e rags, took it, and died. The disease, it is true,
reached Shields before this. It might have
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in a similar way, but at least this added to it.
h! case itself suggests the obvious precaution of
t`, _log care that clothes and similar articles used
.
,9out cholera patients are either properly purified or
destroyed.
The complaint has made its appearance at How-
se,l?l a village by the river side, between North
s,'"elds and Newcastle, and, I hear, at Seaton
'ujoe, nearßlyth. There have been, I am informed,
four cases at each place.

Ministers, it is said, begin to calculate, with
c°llsiderabie confidence, on many
Ref converts in favour of
ef orrn on the Reverend Bench. The votes of the Arch-
hilhop of YORK, and the Bishops of Lorroox, NORWICH.
b 4ltt and WELLS, and Cuic RESTER, are looked upon as
tt
trtain ; and others are named who, though not willing
aPPear as absolute converts, have given good reason to
-4PPose they will, at least, be neutral.

GIFTS.--If it should be wondered at that a
14biect cannot receive a gift from his Sovereign, without
Paging for it to some one person or more, how will it
"IlurPrise to hear that, within a century, the King could
f°t snake himself a present upon any other terms. In the
ki°?rth volume of Earl ORFORD'S work, among his " Re-
141ecences," written in 1788, we find the subsequent
44eedote of GEORGE the First :—" This is a strange
t:untry," said his MAJESTY; " the first morning after my
4ival at St. James's I looked out of the window, and
wllly a park with walks, a canal, tcc., which they told me
of
mine. The next dAy Lord CHETWYND, and Ranger
i 'ray park, sent me a brace of carp out of my canal ; and
Was told I must give five guineas to Lord CHETWYND'S
cant, for bringing me my own carp, out of my own
4c,4 in my own park."
The Aberdeen Observer of Friday states,
that the
" Extraordinary Story," which we copied into
our last from the Aberdeen Journal, of a traveller having
shot,.rt a man through the heart on the highway, with all
Wonderful circumstances connected therewith, is all a
41141 fabrication.— Caledonian Mercury.
bo The journeymen bobbin net hands of Lough-
rough, who are now making a stand for the general
tat
of the trade, have receid great assistance from
benevolent inhabitants of that town, who have kindly
contributed to their support, and also from the machine
il''oers of Nottingham and Derby, who have been and are
berally contributing to their aid. Stamford Arews.

MEMOIRS OF THE DUCHESS OF ABRANTES.
;-;'°f this work, the Literary Gazette observes that—
IvWritten with all the liveliness of a clever woman, and
'th all the advantages of near observation., it combines
7:e4t interest and entertainment. Madame JUNOT had
yft rluu'ual opportunities for studying Narotrox ; as a
ng man he was continually at her house, and she
;"4.ards was wife to one of his favourite Generals.
' have every reason to place great reliance on the truth
of
her statements, and to believe them to he as generally
Ze.orate as they are interesting. The early anecdotes of
tTi3NApAtiTE: are the best yet given to the world, because
re most intimate and familiar." The English translation
°th tnia work contains two engravings not to be found in
originals ; and the elegant French edition, printed in
4don, is only half the price of its Parisian prototype.
UNION OF LITERARY COMPOSITIONS.-
wt a large literary party in Edinburgh, some years ago, it
114 mentioned that a certain well-known literary character
44 written two poems—one called " The Bible," the
6
t,"r " The Ocean"—that he was offering them to the
„qsellers, who, however, would not accede to Isis terms
Publication, and that the worthy author was therefore
Auctionsot a little as to what he should do with his pro-
" Why," remarked a sarcastic gentleman who
t 1154 present, " I think the Doctor could not do better
44 throw the one into the other !"

t ORIGIN OF A POPULAR PHRASE.—A
t:l°, of Samarcand, living near the gate that led to the
j;Ying-place, had by his shop-board an earthen pot hang-
, g Upon a nail, into which he threw a small stone when
h4Y Corpse was carried by; and at the end of every moon
tiel counted the contents of the pot, in order to ascertain
hie number of the deceased. At length the tailor died
Ns!"11,8elf and some time after one who was unacquainted
his death, observing his shop to be deserted, inquired
(1, t Was become of him ? Ooe of the neighbours of the
ii,-"Jief:l answered, " the tailor himself is gone to the pot
' well as the rest."
CAUTION TO TEA-DRINKERS.—A lady in
roPtt Bedford-place, Kensington, had a narrow escape
,na
4 being poisoned on Monday evening. Having drank
I,:uP of tea which had been simmering, with a metal
°n in it, for about three hours, in an oven by the side
44
a rt., she was shortly afterwards seized with violent
hrnings in the chest, vomiting*, severe pains in the
wela and head, and all the symptoms of mineral poison-
„g• It is believed that had she not, on perceiving an
nPleasant taste, as of burnt tin, mixed cold tea with that
1)n the cup, the consequence would most probably have
fa fatal. There can he no doubt that the accident arose
trwri a slight decomposition of the spoon by the boiling
as the lady had taken nothing for hours before, and the
Mme tea had been drank by all the members of the family,
lthout the smallest effect.

11XLIGIOUS LIBERTY !—On Sunday se'n-
k,,ht one of Lord 111InnLEToN's stewards, being on a visit
th. ''4ewark, sent one of the tenants from Little Carton, in
feet him
of Muskham, (two miles from Newark,) to
h„,. at Newark. The wife of the tenant came, and
viii:Pg knocked at the door of the house where he was
afte''g, was told that the steward was gone to church ;
of r waiting his return, she was ushered into the presence
yothi, great man, who immediately said, " I understand
receive the Methodists into your house, and have
4-reaci.
ye„'inys in it ; HIS LODSHIP WILL NOT SUFFER IT !
‘ "°le, if you persist in R
it, you will be discharged from
read'''. Cottage, &c." The poor woman then withdrew,
to faint; and having told a fiend what had oc-
-I:4err:t'd, remarked that they could not take her Bible from
4 The husband of this poor woman is deaf and dumb,
ot: theY have six children : and this will be called religi-
„e tolerance in the nineteenth century...4ls this another
144' of the notorious Duke's declaration " May I not do
k I like with my own?" Oh! these enlightened
c)1111! n—Boatom Gazette,

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LONDON,
WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 28, 1831

CHOLERA MORBUS, OFFICIAL REPORT,

COUNCIL OFFICE.—(THIS DAY.)
DAILY REPORT of CHOLERA CASES,
SUNDERLAND, Dec. 26, 1831.
Remained at last report 9
New cases 0

Total

Died 1
Recovered t2

Remaining at this date, 8 o'clock, A. 74
From the Commencement of the Disease, on Oct. 26, 1831.
Cases, 523.—Died, 196.
NEWCASTLE, DEC. 26.
Remained at last report
New cases

Total. 56
Died 6
Recovered

Remaining at this date, 8 o'clock, A.M....... 42
From the Commencement of the Disease, on Dec. 7, 1831
Cases, 226.—Died, 83.
GATESHEAD, DEc. 26.

Remained at last report 1
New cases 39
Died lO
Recovered
Remaining at this date 3O
From the Commencement of the Disease.
CasesZ•ll.—Died, 12.
NORTH SHIELDS AND TYNEMOUTH, DEC. 26.
Remained at last report 3
New cases
Died 0
Recovered
Remaining at this date 3
From the Commencement of the Disease.
Cases, 13.—Died, 9.
SEGHILL, DEC. 26.

New cases 9
No other Returns received.
(Signed) WM. MACLEAN, Secretary.

Guildhall, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Dec. 22, 1831

SIR,—I am directed by the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common
Council of this town to convey to you their unanimous vote of
thanks for the valuable assistance afforded by you in the ar-
rangement of those salutary measures which are likely to con-
fine within narrow bounds the ravages of the disease which has
now broken out amongst us.
I have the honour t• be, Sir,
Your most obedient servant,
JOHN CLAYTON, Town Clerk.

Dr. Daun.

The reports respecting a new creation of Peers
are numerous and contradictory. One day there
is to be a new batch manufactured, the next, Earl
GREY is decidedly opposed to any such mea-
sure ; now the KING is averse, and now he is
favourable to any step, no matter how extreme,
that may ensure the triumph of the Reform Bill.
Between these conflicting statements it is im-
possible to come to any thing like a decision ;
reasoning, however, from probabilities, it is
certainly far more likely that there will be a new
creation of Peers, than that there will not ; first,
because it has become almost self-evident that there
can be no carrying the Bill without it ; secondly,
because Earl GREY is bound, both as a man
and as a Minister, by the strictest obligations
of honour and gratitude, to do his utmost to
support that measure with which he is more
closely identified than any other individual in the
kingdom ; which, in fact, is his own cherished
bantling, the offspring of years of thought and
observation ; and which, when he first brought it
before public attention, he must have known
was an extreme measure, and could only be sup-
ported hp measures of equal energy. These are
two, among many other cogent reasons, which
warrant us in the belief that a new creation of
Peers will take place. As for practising
the " soothing system " any longer, Lord
GREY, in common with every other per-
son of the slightest pretensions to common
sense, welt knows that the very attempt
is ridiculous, and will be misinterpreted by the
Ultras, as surely as it will be laughed to scorn
by the Reformers. Promptitude and energy
are now the sole resources left to Government to
enable them to carry the Bill. And the sooner
they put these into operation, the better will it
be both for themselves and the country.

Since the above was written, we have just
dipped into an able article in the last published
number of the 117-csiminster Review, entitled
" The Adjustment of the House of Peers,"
which views the question of a new creation pre-
cisely in the same light as ourselves. The writer
observes, " even on the supposition of the most

favourable event, as respects the simple passing I
of the Reform Bill, two questions must ever re-
main subjects of equal wonder, till time, the divul-
ger, shall explain the mystery ; first, if the
Bill be finally carried without a creation of
Peers, why the opportunity was lost of
carrying it with one ;—secondly, if it be
carried by means of a creation, why this
did not take place before ?" Whv, indeed ! The
surprise expressed by the writer has been
shared by thousands besides himself, whom
the experience of every day more and more
convinces that the Reform Bill should have
been adjusted long ere this ; and that the
delays consequent on the measure have
mainly contributed to the difficulty of passing
it. However, the auspicious opportunity has
not yet wholly gone by ; let but a sufficient crea-
tion of Peers take place, and the Bill will be
triumphant and the country regenerated.

Despatches were received this morning at the
Colonial-office from the Earl of BELMORE, the
Governor of Jamaica, dated November 22.

We understand the pitmen in the employment
of the owners of Waldridge Colliery have turned out, in
consequence of a dispute with their masters relative to the
prices of working some fresh seams of coal. The owners
have consequently engaged several lead miners, who are
now working the colliery ; but it has been found neces-
sary to call in a party of military to protect them from
the violence of the pitmen.—Durham, Chronicle.
FORBIDDING THE BANNs.—An occurrence,
not very usual at Chesterfield, took place at the Church
on Sunday morning, during divine service. When the
Rev. T. W. MINTON had concluded publishing the banns
of marriage between different persons about to enter into
that " holy estate," a man very audibly called out, " I
forbid the banns." He was informed that his objections
would be received after service, in the vestry. It would
scarcely be " quite correct" to state further particulars
than that he was father of the intended bridegroom (a
minor), who not being well able to support himself, the
paternal objection surmised would not be able to support
a helpmate.—Derbyshire Courier.
A GREAT DIFFERENCE.—The friends and
opponents of the Reform Bill are divided into two very dis-
tinct classes—the a-bility and the no-bility.

The following is extracted from the Leipsic
Gazette of the 16th. inst. :—" The opinion is gaining
ground at Vienna that the cholera is entirely telluric, and
created by mephitic vapours which are formed in the earth,
and first communicated to the water. It was owing to
this, it is said, that at Vienna the cholera first broke out
in the city, where the wells and fountains are deeper than
in the suburbs. In the same manner is accounted for
the fact that the cholera often attacks many persons in one
house, whilst, in others, it attacks nobody. The water of
the latter is not saturated with the telluric miasma. In
consequence of this hypothesis, many persons drink boiled
water, as they consider this a preservative against the
disease. From this supposition it is probable, has arisen
the generally-prevailing belief among the people that the
wells have been poisoned. In some places the poultry
and pigeons died in great numbers. A mortality has also
been remarked among the fish in several rivers. Numer-
ous facts, moreover, prove that the cholera follows the
course of rivers, and breaks nut chiefly in the neighbour-
hood of waters."

EDINBURGH ROYAL SOCIETY.=—The se-
cond ordinary meeting of this Society, on Monday, was
very numerously attended, principally in anticipation of a
letter from their President, Sir WALTER SCOTT, respect-
ing the new volcano in the Mediterranean. This com-
munication was addressed to Mr. SKENE, and by him read
to the Society, being expressed in the worthy Baronet's
usual happy style, and affording considerable interest to the
friends of science. He describes Graham Island as about
bOO paces in extreme length, elliptical in form, but broken
down on one side by the sea, which has made an inroad
into its centre, and not more than 40 feet high on one side,
and 80 on the other : the water round it is extremely hot,
and at a few fathoms distance no soundings. lie found,
on landing, the remains of two dolphins, apparently de-
stroyed by the heat of the water near the island ; also the
body of a robin redbreast, whose death evidently arose from
starvation, and picked up a large mass of the lava, which
is now on its way to the museum of the Royal Society.—
He mentions what some of our less scientific readers may
he fully more interested in knowing, that his health is very
greatly improved, and that he enjoys himself extremely.._
Caledonian Illercuri„.

A report was generally circulated on Monday
last that the much-dreaded cholera had reached Durham,
and certainly a man died on the evening of that day
whose symptoms bore strong resemblance to those which
we have been given to understand are the distinguishing
features of that disease. The circumstance of the case
are as follow :—A man, who stated his name to be Joni.;
DALTON, a native of Coventry, and formerly a soldier in
the Foot Guards, applied at the Mendicity Office for a
night's lodging, which was granted him, and on Sunday
morning, according to the regulations of the society., he
was conducted out of town. He had not however, pro-
ceeded more than a mile along the Darlington-road,when
he was suddenly attacked by violent internal pain and cramp
in the limbs. in this state he laid himself down in a field,
where he remained for some hours, and then, with great
difficulty, made his way back ; but, notwithstanding every
attention was paid him, the unfortunate man gradually
sunk, and on Monday evening expired. A post-mortem
examination took place, and his remains were interred the
same night in the churchyard of St. Oswald's parish. A
report of all the circumstances of the case, and the ap-
pearance after death, has been drawn up and forwarded to
London by the medical gentlemen who attended the de.
ceased, but without, we understand, expressing any opi-
nion with respect to the real character of his malady, a,
they could not agree upon this point. DALTON stated
that he had lodged, a few nights before he came to Durham,
in a house at Sandgate, Newcastle, in which a woman
died, when he was there, of the cholera. For ourselves,
setting aside all idea of cholera, and indeed of every other
complaint, we cannot discover any thing remarkable in
the death of a man who had lain for hours on the damp
ground, in an open field, on the 18th day of December.—
Durham Advertiser.

ECCENTRICITY OF THE LATE UGO FOS-
coco.—l am told that be was once dining at the table of
a distinguished Nobleman, when some person present,
whose principles were widely opposite to his own, ventured
to make i•emarks which he considered derogatory to the
honour of Italy. He did not conceal his emotion, but re-
plied with all the force of his stentorian eloquence. The
spirit of refined society quickly yielded to the indignation
of the patriot, and, grasping the table-cloth with both his
hands, he went on, increasing in energy as he pro-
ceeded, till at last his adversary having made a re-
mark which added more fuel to the flame, he jumped
up, and, still grasping the table-cloth, drew, to the in-
finite consternation of the guests, most of the dishes
into their laps. It may be as well, perhaps, to men-
tion here, that he was not less ready to say what he
felt when quietly chatting with his acquaintances,
if he chanced not to be in a remarkably forbearing hu-
mour, than when provoked to do so on some great occa-
sion. A friend of mine, for whom he in reality felt con-
siderable esteem, happened to be sitting alone with him one
day, conversing on a variety of topics, when the discourse
took a turn which tempted my friend to dilate at length,
and with great gravity, on some point of philosophy.
FoscoLo listened to him a long while, but at last, without
saying a word, he rose, rang the bell for the servant, and,
on her appearance, quietly told her to request her mistress
to come up stairs. The lady obeyed, and he desired, in a
supplicatory tone, that she would sit down' and talk with
his friend, for that he had quite tired him with his ab-
surdities. Many instances of his intemperate passion
have also been told by Mr. REDDING and other gentle-
men, who were in the habit of engaging with him at
chess. He was remarkably fond of that game ; but such
was his rage whenever his adversary made a very success-
ful move, that be would start from Lis seat, and gnashing
his teeth, pull up his hair in large quantities by the roots.
It mattered little where he might be when his auger was
roused. A gentleman, who was in the habit of playing
with him in his own house, has told me that he always
took the precaution of running to the opposite side of the
room before he proclaimed check-mate. On the other
hand, it is generally known to his acquaintances, that,
being irritated in a similar manner one evening, when
playing at the house of a Nobleman, he started up, and,
before the whole company, challenged his astonished oppo-
nent to a rencontre of a different kind.--Stebbinis Lives
of the Italian Poet*,

VICE-CHANCERY COURT-(THIS DAY.)

His Honour the VICE-CHANCELLOR still continues to
sit at Lincoln's-Inn to hear bankrupt petitions, of which
his Honour has disposed already of the greater portion bet
down before him, but not one of them have involved any
questions of the least interest to our readers. His Honour
is in expectation of being able to close his sitting on Sa-
turday next, not having more than fifty petitions now re-
maining for hearing.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.)