The Sun.
London, England, 1831-12-20 00:00:00

VIENNA.

The Austrian Observer contains the following article,
under the head of Miscellanies :

"It is hardly to be conceived how much European cre-
dulity has been imposed upon with respect to Portugal.
The author of a pamphlet lately published at Lisbon, has
taken the pains to sum up all the misfortunes which, ac-
cording to the liberal journals of Paris and London, have
befallen Portugal. The result is, that from the accession
of Don Miguel to the Ist of September this year the
number of persons who have emigrated from Portugal is
606,828 ; the number of those who have been thrown
into prison, 3,408,367 ; of those who have died in
prison or on the scaffold, 15,683. There have
been in that period, 2,354 rebellions and insurrec-
tions in Portugal. Don Miguel has perished by violence
twenty-eight times, and has fled from the kingdom, either
by water or by laud, twenty-five times. The Infantas,
Don Miguel's sisters, have been by his order confined
eighty-six times, in prison., convents, and other palaces,
they have fled twenty-three times into foreign countries,
and died seventeen times a violent death!"
VIENNA, DEC. 6.—Since the 2d instant there have
been again no new cases of cholera and no deaths, and the
number of patients remaining is now reduced to six. In
the suburbs too the disorder is rapidly abating, there hay-
ing been in the same four days only nineteen new cases,
with forty-three recoveries, and eleven deaths, so that only
100 patients now remain.
The disorder has spread in Bohemia, but has not proved
very malignant ; in seventeen villages, with a population
of nearly 12,000 souls, only 151 persons had been at-
tacked, of whom eighty-six had recovered, and sixty-one
died, so that only four remain.
BREDA, DEc. Is.—We hear from Maestricht that the
Belgian troops have left Tongres, but that the Belgians
now stop at Hasselt all merchandize going from Bois-le-
Due to Maestricht, and that General Dibbets has in con-
sequence prohibited the admission of Belgian produce into
the fortress. Coals must, therefore, he landed above
Maestricht, to be conveyed by waggons to Ruremonde and
Venloo, the consequence of which is a scarcity of fuel on
their part. The: populace at Ruremonde have already,
more than once, cut down trees in the public walks for fuel.

BOIS-LE-DUCE DEC. 14.—His Royal Highness Prince
Frederick arrived here yesterday.
HELDER, DEC. 15.—Admiral Zierwogel has arrived
here, and taken the command of the fortress.
THE HAGUE, DEC. 15.—We hear that his Majesty has

just signed a resolution, regulating the organization of the
department of the interior. The Second Chamber of the
States-General has received a note from M. Van Streefkerk,
Secretary of State, stating that his Majesty having considered
the observation of the sections of the States-General, on
the project of law relative to the land tax for 1832, had
caused another project of law to be drawn up instead, by
which the amount of the land tax for 1832 is fixed at
8,427,321 florins ; the sum to be paid by each of the
provinces is annexed to the proposed law.
AMSTERDAM, DEC. 16.
Actual Debt, 23 per cent 414 to 4014
Amort Svndic, 4 4 per cent
Ditto, ditto, 314 per cent.
Voluntary .oan, 6 per cent B6X to 87}4
Exchange upon London, one month li 90
Two Months

Hamatrac, Dac. 18.—There have been in all 96 per-
Eons attacked by the cholera in the kingdom of Hanover ;
35 recovered and 61 died ; and, as, there have been no
new cases, the kingdom is at present free frotn the disorder.
BERLIN.—CHOLERA.
New cases. Recoveries. Deaths.
Dec. 10
11
12
Remain 5.

On the 2Stli November it person was attacked with cholera at
SL Petersburgh, and died on the 29th.

.., .
HAMBURG—CHOLERA.
New caws. Recoveries. Deaths.
Dec. 10
11
h.!
2 ............ 0
13
Remain

HAMBURG, DEc. 13.---BortsEN.HALLE, lIALE-I.Airr Two.—
Little or no demand fo: stock to-day. Prices are .s shade lower.
Discount, 4 per cent. End of December.
Anglo-Danish Loan 3 per Cent. 63w
Anglo-Rusc,an Loan 9314
Hamburg-Russian Loan
Russian inscription, 5 per Cent.
Russian Inscription, 1831
Polish Bonds 115%
Austrian Bank Shares 1146
Ditto Metalliques
New Austrian 4 per Cents 77
PETERSSURCII, Nov. 30.—Privy Councillor Thomp-
son, lately Director of the Household of the Grand Duke
Constantine, has been entirely discharged from service
with a pension of 9,000 rubles, as a just reward for 54
years' unexceptionable conduct.
An Imperial rescript addressed to General Kisselew,
President of the Divans of Moldavia and Wallachia, ex-
presses his Majesty's satisfaction at finding, from the ac-
counts for the maintenance of the troops in those princi-
palities, that he had been able by reducing the expences,
not only not to call for the sum of 675,000 rubles intended
for that purpose in Silistria, but had paid out of the re-
venues of the principality the remainder of the sum 01
100,000 ducats, advanced in 1828, amounting to 4,1,500
ducats.

BERLIN, DEc. 10.—The proclamation of General \Too
Kraft to the Polish troops Lae not had the desired effect,

as they are not to be induced to return to Poland. The
Prussian Government has taken paternal care of these un-
happy men; a great part of them, even the officers, ra-
ther engage as servants to a Prussian farmer than go to
Poland, where they, perhaps, less fear being incorporated
in Russian regiments than being subject to the knout of
the Polish Nobles, from which the revolutionary Diet by
no means intended to deliver them. Now that they have
seen in Prussia the value of personal freedom, of the right
of acquiring property among our peasantry, they by no
means desire to return home.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.)

CHOLERA AT NEWCASTLE.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
NEWCASTLE, Dec. 18.

The official report of this day states that there are eleven
new cases, three recoveries, two deaths, and fifty-three
cases remaining under treatment. Persons at a distance
from such a statement are very likely to be greatly
alarmed. They will at once conclude the foreign or
malignant cholera prevails in this town to a great
'xtent. Nothing, I assure you, can be more op-
posed to the truth. I have nothing to gain, no object
to serve, by misrepresentation. I have admitted, and I now
repeat, that the disease by whatever name it may be desig-
nated, which has so long prevailed at Sunderland, is at
present in Newcastle, but the extent of it is very egre-
giously misrepresented. Let us examine the report for a
moment. Fifty-three cases remaining ! To my know-
ledge considerably above twenty of these are at Dent's
Hole, a village by the road side, which is not with-
in the jurisdiction of the Newcastle authorities a,
all, but is like North Shields and Seghill, 'n the county of
Northumberland. But these Dent's-hole cases, and seve-
ral of those actually in this town, are either cases which
resemble the ordinary bilious cholera, which would never
have been remarked at a period of less excitement than the
present, or cases of diarrhces, or common bowel complaints.
The number of cases of real malignant cholera is very small
at present. I doubt sincerely if any of the faculty could
point out half a dozen tolerably well marked cases now
under treatment. We, in Newcastle, can hear of no more
cases occurring at North Shields, though, from the ostenta-
tious exhibition of the report in London as " remained at last
report," it might be supposed the disease was progressing.
There have only been two cases there, and of these I gave
you intimation on the 11th December, the very moment
they were known. There has not been one instance of a
person in a respectable station in life in Newcastle being
attacked with the cholera. They have been all poor, ill
fed, and ill lodged—and, with scarcely any exceptions,
lived in very filthy situations.
The Sunderland report of December 17 states there are
five deaths and 28 cases remaining.

COURT OF CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)

EX-PARTE HARTNEY, IN THE MATTER OF HARTNEY, A

!BANKRUPT.

Sir EDWARD SuanEx was instructed to apply to the
Court, that a petition in this matter might he retained in
Chancery, so that it may come on to be heard before his
Lordship, instead of being transferred to the new Bank-
rupt Court. The question here would be, in the opinion
of the Learned Counsel, whether the new Bankrupt
Act had removed the jurisdiction in bankruptcy from the
Court of Chancery, except in matters appealed from the
Bankrupt Court. The present petition was one that wes
heard before Lord Eldon—it had been set down to come
on before his Lordship (Lord Brougham) for consequential
directions, and it was a matter which from its nature it
was extremely desirous the Court should hear, if it still
had the jurisdiction. This was assuming that it could
not come on till after the 11th of January.
The Loan CHANCILLOR said, if this was a question
arising upon the Act which must be decided, it would not
be seeming in him to shrink from the di.posal of it, but
as the nature of the present petition certainly made it very
desirable that he should hear it, the knot might be cut for
the present by having the matter at once opened, so that
it could afterwards stand over till subsequent to the 11th
of January, and then come before him as a part-beard
petition, and be adjudicated upon as if it had been heard
out now.

Sir EDWARD SUCDEN expressed his gratitude for this
suggestion on the part of the Court, and availing himself
of it, after he had partly stated the nature of the petition,
it was ordered to stand over to a given day after the
Christmas vacation.

SWEARING •IN OF THE NEW BANKRUPT JUDGES AND

COMMISSIONERS.

The new Bankrupt Judges and Commissioners all at-
tended the Lord Chancellor in his private room this morn.
ing, and were sworn into their respective offices before his
Lordship entered the Court.