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contagion, and the propriety of enforcing quarantine.
is to be found in the fact, that the appearance of tht
disease in one country has been generally shown ti
have immediately succeeded the arrival of per-
sons from another in which the epidemic prevailed
In Persia the gates of Ispahan were closed ag,ains
a suspected caravan, and it was obliged to pas
s
through Yerd. Shortly afterwards the cholera de
sir oved 7,000 of the inhabitants of Yerd, wbih
Ispahan escaped all infection. Cholera is capricious
in the selection of its victims. The infirm and tia
debilitated are its favourite subjects, but the bes
• state of health will not secure exemption. Tin
:clack population, however, have suffered meet
more than the white, for it is supposed that mon
than four millions of the natives of Intra
'wen swept away since 1517', in tile course of it,
progress. The Englishman's Magazine, from which
we have selected the greater portion of these facts
and observations, thus concludes a vely elaborate
tccuunt of the progress and return of the disease
" The laws of cholera bear the impress of that pre-
siding intelligence who has described a circle beyond
which every species of phys:cal evil must cease ti,
mar the harmony of life. Were the disease to con
tinue its ravages in the same place for a series on
years, it would depopulate the world. Few loca-
lities have suffered longer than four or six week.

tit a time under the worst form of distemper,
and to this succeed long intervals of safety, more ter
less complete. It does not, moreover, promise to be
a plague that will descend as a miserable inheritance
to many generations. Some countries, formerly af-
flicted, are even now returning thanks for perma-
nent relief; aid in most the destroyer has relaxed
its severity. 'Wherever it may next (Erect its course,
the principal danger is to be apprehended. May its
footsteps be averted from the dwellings of the poe,
in Great Britain and Ireland." In concluding this
brief sketch of the progress of the cholera, we are
bound to repeat our conviction, from all we have vet
read or heard on the subject, that t his disease, whether
it arose from vegetable decomposition, or from animal
exhalations, or even from a peculiar state of the atmos-
phere, is now decidedly contagious, and as much to be
guarded against as any oftlinE,e plagues which have de-
-ola•ed this country at various periods of our history.
We know that therearea• the present moment many in-
genious, learned, and scientific men, both profes-
sional and private, who, having contended that the
plague and the yellow fever are local diseases, de-
pendent on particular atmospheres and exhalations,
and prepared not to follow up their views, by hold-
ing the same theory with respect to cholera. It is
quite certain that much new and important informa-
tion, with respect to vellow fever, has been ohtained
through the real investigation of Mr. Elugh Fraser,
Air. Wilson, anti Dr. Smith, during the progress of
the epidemic of 1828, at Gibraltar; and we are pre-
pared to admit, that the evidence which their con-
troversies with Sir William Pym and Dr. Barry has
called forth, deserve the utmost attention, and should
even be made the subject of renewed Parliamentary
inquiry ; but with the experience of the progress
of the cholera for years, through the coldest as well
as the hottest countries of the world, and at every
season of the year, we think that any relaxation of
the severest quarantine, would, with our present in-
rormation, be the height of insanity. It will be said,
arid truly too, that this dread of infection most
aggravate the difficulties of the brave defenders of
Poland. We are pained to think it must; but when
the Govermnents of Europe, from mere !racy, have
hitherto scarcely raised a voice in their favour, sub-
jects of these Governments can scarcely be much
blamed now for calling on their rulers to protect
them from pestilence.—Observer.

COUNTY OF CLARE—The Lord Lieute-
nant's Proclamation to the people of Clare, callirg upon
them to resign their arms by the 14th instant, not having
been complied with, the Limerick Chronicle states that
proclamation has arrived from llubli•t laying the entire
county of Clare under the Insurrection Act.
IMPERIAL AND ROYAL CORRESPONDENCE.
—" The C"rrespondence of Sir John Sincl,ir," just pub-
lished, contains letters to the Dukes of YORK and KENT
—the Emperor NAPOLEON—the Emperor JosEPll—the
Empress CATHERINE—the Eatp,ror PAUL--the Etupvri r
ALExANDEK—STA NISLA US, King of Paland—FaEtir-
RICK WILLIAM I. King of Prussia—GUSTAvUs 111.
King of Sweden—BERNADOTTE, King of Sweden—
FREDERICK VI. King of D iimark—the Duke of BRUNS-
WICK. and Prince FERDINAND—the Prince of ORANGE
and HOLLAND—the King of SAXONY—the Duke of
()ELEA Ns—the Archduke JOHN of Austria, &c.
Among the fine collection of autographs which accotn-
p inies the volumes, will also be !aund fac-similes of the
hand-writing of many of the above.
While PASTA and LALANDE were at Milan,
a feud broke nut between them, in their characters of
prima donna of the Scala and Canobiano. The adhe-
rents of each were as furious in their animosity as the
Guelfa and Ghibelincs of old. Each party had their
place of rendezvous, their Catt!t Pasta or Lalandesta, where
they discussed politics over sherbet and lemonade. A
hundred duels were or would have been the consequence,
but for the interruption of the police, who could not, how •
ever, prevent a little private and polite assassination.—
Affairs at length ran so high as to attract the attention of
Government ; and the disturbances at the theatre being
suspected to be the cloak of some treason against the State,
all hissing in public was interdicted on pain of imprison-
ment. An inveterate Pastaist was at a party where LA-
overcome. " Make
LA-
LANDE was present, and was so pleased with her. good-
nature, affability, and, above all, with the refined skill with
twhehchiolyst. His request being
his heresy, and professed which she sang an exquisite aria of her own compost.
ntiloenimtol.iwat
complied with,
him-
self the most enthusiastic of her worshippers. Triumph
for an instant glanced in her eye, but, checking the ex-
pression, she said, " Do not deceive yourself; I owe your
nhtios leer,"i saidec prejudicesabtwee
recanted
praises to my rival's absence; you will change your opinion
to-morrow at La Scala,"

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on Tuesday evening week, which has caused a sensation
in that neighbourhood almost baffling description. An
old man, Wl4l. PAGE, nearly '7O years of age, a labourer,
resided in a small cottage there with his wife, an indus-
trious woman, a few years younger than himself. They
had been married 40 years, and four of their children are
now living. PAGE had been a class leader in the Metho-
dist connection upwards of 20 years; latterly, however,
lie betrayed symptoms of derangement by the 'flightiness
of his manner, but by prompt medical attendance, he re-
covered, and pursued his avocation as a labourer on
the road as usual. On the day above-mentioned he was
sitting 'with his wife and a neighbour, the latter left
them about half-past five in the afternoon, and PAGE, up
to that time, appeared to give no indications of the
dreadful tragedy that was speedily to follow, but, on the
contrary, seemed perfectly tranquil and happy with his
wife, and had made an arrangement to proceed with
her the next day to visit one of her sons, who was I
ill, at Carlton-upon-Trent. She left the house at
the hour stated, to get some linen from a hedge,
which the poor woman had placed there to dry,
and whilst in the act of doing so, her husband came un-
awares behind her, and striking a deadly blow with a
hatchet on her head, felled the poor creature to the ground ;
this was sufficient to cause instant deith, but he made a
second stroke with the same murderous weapon, which
caught her on the shoulder ; she gasped once or twice and
expired. A child belonging to a neighbour witnessed the
' affair, and gave instant alarm, exclaiming that " William
Page had killed his wife." The dreadful news soon spread,
and the murderer was secured, hut he could give no account
why he committed the act. After examination before the
county Magistrates, he was conveyed on the following Fri-
day to the gaol Nottingham, and fully committed for wilful
murder till the ensuing assizes. He appeared indisposed
on his way thither, but refused on his arrival to state any
c tu-e for his conduct, or even t ) name what complaint he
was labouring, under; he likewise objected to take any sus-
tenance or medicine, saying, " It was no use to him." H,
was locked up for the night in his cell, but carefully
axaminea, and deprived of any means of destroying himself.
.., his prison door oot un-
In the morning, about six o'clock
closed, and his lifeless body lay, face downwards, prostrate
on the bed. An inquest was held on his remains, on Satur.
lay last, and after a careful investigation, a suitable verdict
of "Died from natural causes was returned, it having been
proved by a
post mortemexam examination in the presence of
;he faculty, that the wretched mans death had been occa-
Iby an inflammation of the brain and bowels. After
he apprehension of PAsr, he Was heard to say that he had
k.-pt the hatchet in the house solely for the purpuse he had
used it for.