The Sun.
London, England, 1831-05-28 00:00:00

CHOLERA MORBUS.

LThe writer having furnished us with testimonials o:
his skill from eminent professional men, we cannot with-
hold his letter any longer.]

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.
His Majesty's Hospital Ship Canada,
river Medway, May, 1831.

request permission, through your extensively
circulated Paper, to convey to the public my opinion as to
the nature, and my successful practice in the cure of the
cholera morbus, for more than thirty years, with uniform
success.

I have published my practice in the London and in the
Edinburgh Medical Journals, many years since, which has
been republished in the Edinburgh Practice of Physic ;
but I wish the world to be made acquainted with it, and
herewith claim your benevolence and kumanity to assist in
administering relief to the thousands of suffering Russians
and Poles.

The disease is induced by causes too well known, and
shows itself at first by violent pains from stricture of the
gall-duct, and is afterwards kept up by the irritability of
the bowel, brought on by the excoriations of the internal
coat, from the acrid or scalding nature of the bile when first
expelled the gall-bag. This irritation keeps up the dis-
ease till nature recovers or sinks.

I never use calomel, because I have a more certain, safe,
and speedy remedy, that produces an almost instantaneous
relief; calomel relieves by inducing a more copious secre-
tion of mucus to defend the membrane from excessive irri-
tation, where it succeeds; whilst the remedy I recommend
affords a tone and firmness of the membrane—a smoothness
of surface that defends it from the action of the bile, and
removes excessive irritation ; by which means the disease
goes off as soon as the gall-bladder is emptied of its exces-
sive irritative contents, which is very soon accomplished,
as from three to five or six doses completes the cure. The
following is one of the proofs of my assertion :
I was surgeon of the Dolphin in the year 1825, be-
tween the 17th and 26th of July in that year ; I had 264
cases of cholera morbus, from which, with the exception of
16 being kept under treatment for three days, four pa-
tients demanding attention for four days, and three for
five days, every patient was restored within the space of
50 hours : one who had been previously ill demanded
longer attention.
I persuaded the chief-mate to take a dose of the remedy
before the healthy remaining part of the ship's company,
to induce them to follow his example ; they all complied,
and to the best of my recollection not one of them had
occasion to trouble me from illness.

The remedy I gave was—One drachm of nitrous acid
(not nitric, that has foiled me), one ounce of peppermint
water or camphor mixture, and 40 drops of tincture of
opium. A fourth part every three or four hours in a
cupful of thin gruel. The belly should be covered with a
succession of hot cloths dry ; bottles of hot water to the
feet, if they can be obtained; constant and small sippings
of finely strained gruel, or sago or tapioca ; no spirit—no
wine—no fermented liquors till quite restored.
I sill your obedient humble servant,
THOMAS HOPE, Surgeon.

Of the Scotch burgh elections, which took
place on Monday last, we have as yet only received the
following:—

Perth, Forfar, &c.
Kirkahly, Kinghorn, S,O
East of Fife District

Stirling, Inverkeitiing, &c Mr. Johnston, of Straiton,

Dumbarton, tic.
Ayr District T. F. Kennedy, Esq.
Lanark, Peebles, &c.
Aberdeen, &c.
lladdington, &c. , Mr. Steuart, of Alderston.
All the above are in favour of the Reform Bill.
Dumfries District

This is at present the only one against it. The chunty
elections will be completed this week, and we shall then
begin to " count noses." We can see at present, bow-
ev,r, that there will be a majority office, at least, in
favour of Reform; and this is a result which, we repeat,
does great honour to Scotland, considering the trammels
by which she is bound on all sides.—Caledonian Mer-
cury, May 26.

We understand that the Peers of Scotland
assemble at Holyrood-house ou Friday the third day ofJune
next, between twelve and two o'clock, to elect the sixteen
Peers for the ensuing Parliament, and that the LORD
CLERK REGISTER has, in obedience to his MAJESTY'S pro-
clamation, appointed the principal Clerks of Session, or
any two of them, to officiate in his name, and make the
return of the Peers elected to the High Court of Chancery.
—Scotsman.

It appears that it is not the Arch-Duke
MicHAEL that is expected at Sidrnouth, but his consort,
the Arch-Duchess HELENE, with the Princess GAZARIN,
Counts NEssErAtoDE, and upwards of forty attendants,
for whose accommodation four houses on Fort Terrace have
been engaged.—Exeler Flying Post.
ROME, MAY 12. Private lettersfrom
Naples confirm what the English papers slid some time
King
ago, of a great attachment felt by the of NAPLES
for an English lady, but insurmountable Objections have
arisenST itAc troAnlr , is s both ilde s.This lady,
years of ge
her mother, in company of the Marquis of HERTFORD*
ady., Miss —MATILDA
quitted Naples with
We are glad to hear that Signor PAGANINI,
yielding to his own judgment rather than the counsel of
pretended friends, has abandoned the idea of attempting to
evade his contract with M. LAPORTE, and that he is to
appear at the King's Theatre, at old prices, very early in
Jim ne. Paper.

MONEY MARKET.

(From the Times.)

The Stock• Exchange transactions are still, more or less,
under the influence of the settlement of the account. In fact,
there has not been for many years an occasion of the kind
which has produced so much inconvenience and mischief
among the members of the Stock Exchange. Not only
the immediate connexions of the parties who have become
defaulters, but a majority of the whole body, have suffered
perhaps directly or indirectly by the failures. Several
small failures have occurred to-day (Friday), but fewer
than might have been anticipated, and none at all approach-
ing in magnitude to the two first announced. The scarcity
of stock, as regards Consols, has a good deal diminished
since yesterday (Thursday), and on the other Government
Securities, of which, not tieing at all the subject of specu-
lative transactions, there has been all along an abundance,
money could have been obtained to-day (Friday) on more
favourable terms. The prices are well maintained, and
unusually free from fluctuation. Consols for the opening
in July left off at 831 to 4, and for money at 834 to
Exchequer Bills are at 7s. to Ss. premium.
The foreign stock market presents no new feature. The
prices are there also well maintained. No speculation of
the least moment is at present going on in any of the foreign
funds.

(From the Morning Herald.)
We understand that no less than seven members of the
Stock Exchange have been unable to meet their differences,
besides those already announced. They have not, however,
been declared ; and, as their liabilities are not great, the
probability is that the greater part will be able to make
private arrangements with their creditors.

(From the Morning Chronicle.)
Comparatively little business was done in the Stock
Market to-day (Friday), the speculators being so busily
engaged in paying and receiving differences, The fluc-
tuation in Consols did nat excs.fed one quarter per cent.—
Anotlur defaulter was declared in addition to some private
failures, but the sum due from any of them is not very
considerable. Besides the individual who occasioned the
failure of the great Bear speculator yesterday (Thursd ,y),
a firm of three broilers in the vicinity of the Colonial
Market has been very successful in obtaining credit from
different brokers, and not coming forward to pay the loss
upon the accounts. We understand that the total sum of
which the brokers have been defrauded exceeds 14,0001.
The amount of Stock posted in the Market to-day (Fri-
day) as not having been delivered yesterday (Thursday),
and a portion of which was bought in this morning (Fri-
day), was not so large as was expected, from the great
difficulty the dealers experienced in obtaining it yesterday
(Thursday). Nevertheless, it was more than 100,0001.
A dividend was declared to-day (Friday) on Mr. Battye's
account, of one-third of the whole sum due, but nothing has
yet transpired regarding any other failure. In the morning
Consols opened at 83n, advanced to 834, fell again in the
afternoon to 83i, and left off at four o'clock at 83k,
buyers. Same purchases were afterwards made in private
bargains at 83,i, but without any decided feature, indi-
cative of improvement or decline. Some sensation has
been created in the City by the circumstance, that Minis-
ters have not yet given notice of the payment of the in-
terest on Exchequer Bills, and of the issue of new ones,
as has been customary on the 24th of the present month.
Perhaps the flatness of the Market to-day (Friday,) for
Exchequer Bills, is to be attributed partly to this cause—
the premium not having been higher than Bs., while for
the principal part of the day it was only is. India
Bonds, which in the morning were at 2s. discount, left off
at par. India Stock has fallen 1 per cent. from 204 to
20.3. The difference between the price of Consols and
Reduced Annuities, has not to-day (Friday) amounted to
more than about a per cent., matters having nearly re-
sumed their usual level. Yesterday, (Thursday) it will
be remembered, the difference between the two was 1 per
cent. Foreign Stocks were generally neglected, and
Russian remain stationary at the quotations of yes-
terday (Thursday.) The French Three per Cents. and
Five per Cents. may be both quoted at nearly the same
price as that given in the private letters from Patis of
Wednesday. The Three per Cents. left off at 65f. 70c.,
and the Five per Cents. at 91f. 50c. In the Scrip of the
new French Loan, not a single bargain was reported.—
The accounts from the French capital this afternoon
(Friday), by estafette, are unusually warlike; and the re-
ceipt of despatches from Vienna, addressed to the French
Government, occasioned a decline of one per cent. in the
Paris Stock Market. Of course the precise nature of the
intelligence in the public advice. did not transpire; but in
the private accounts from Vienna it is said that the war-
like preparations spoken of some time ago, and which
were said to have been discontinued, had been renewed,
even with greater activity. The declarations of the Em-
peror and of his Ministers were also said to be of a hostile
character, and that the reason for not assuming this tone
before was, that the Court of Vienna was anxious to gala
time, in order to ascertain, in the first instance, the sen-
timents of Russia and Prussia. The present posture of
affairs in Italy is much spoken of in the letters; but not-
withstanding all that has been recently said regarding Bel-
ginm, that subject is not to-day mentioned.

It is intended to put Mr. LONG WELLESLEY
in nomination as Provincial Grand Master of Freemasons
for the county of Essex, vice J. P. HoNEYsvooD, Esq.,
deceased.—Essex Standard.

SINGULAR DISCOVERY OF INCENDIARIES.
—The perpetrators of a recent fire in this town, which
destroyed above twenty dwellings, are no doubt discovered
by the dropping of a letter by a young man, who, being
of the Bridport band, Lad been playing at the residence
of Sir \Yuman OGLANDEtt, in celebration of a recent
e lunty conquest. The writer of the letter had gone to
London soon after the fire ; he lived previously with his
father (who is not implicated), in one of the houses
burned, which was insured ; the purport of the letter
was to request the person to whom it was addressed to
give him the earlie,t information i case any of the accom.
plices should split. The writer is hourly expected to be
brought down for examination, which is facilitated by his
address on the letter.—Sherborne Journal.

PEMBROKESHIRE ELECTION.---Of all the
contests which the late election has given rise to in Great
Britain perhaps the most extraordinary is that now going
on in Pembrokeshire. Sir JOHN OWEN commenced as
an Anti-Reformer ; softened down on the day of nomina-
tion into a Bit of-the-Bill Reformer,—and now, by the
introduction of universal suffrage at the poll, has become
decidedly a Radical Reformer. Every cottager, who has
a potatue garden, menial servants, rat-catchers, and coal-
heavers, come up and declare that they have the verbal
promise of a lease, that they have built a fence, or laid
some manure upon the land, gr.e. &c., or in some other
way effected an improvement upon the faith of such verbal
promise of a lease ; and that they would rather pay 40s.
than have their families suddenly turned out of their houses,
and these have been declared valid votes. A scrutiny is
much thought of, and it would certainly unseat Sir Jon N.
I sat by Mr. GREVILLE, the Reform candidate, in one of
the poll booths yesterday, when the lawyers, to gain time,
and to fritter away the remaining five days of the election,
and thus prevent Mr. G REVILLE from recovering the
majority, actually kept one voter under examination one
hour and a ha/f—the man returning no answer; but
nearly one hundred questions being asked notwithstanding.
The Owenite Sheriff declares this to he good in law--
so that a candidate gaining a majority, however trifling, on
the first (lay's poll, may, by manoeuvring through the re-
maining thirteen days, prevent the freeholders polling, and
thus turn the whole into a mockery.—Alas ! alas !......
Reform ! Reform !—Shrewsbury Chronicle.

The General Assembly was occupied the
whole of Tuesday, and up to six o'clock on Wednesday
morning, with the consideration of the case of the Rev.
Mr. CAMPBELL, of Row. The Assembly first confirmed
the sentence of the Presbytery of Dumbarton, which, its
point of fact, convicted him of teaching heretical doc-
trines ; and afterwards, by a very numerous vote, deposed
him from his office. We think the Reverend Fathers of
the Church could come to no other conclusion ; and
although the result of this may be to add another to the
numerous sects already existing in this country, we hold
that to be much preferable to the doubt which might be
thrown over the soundness of faith of the Church at large,
had this clergyman, from any feeling of compassion or in-
dulgence on the part of his brethren, been allowed to re-
main in the undisturbed exercise of his ministerial func-
tions. In his new capacity the Ex-Minister of Row can,
if he continues to preach, offer no stronger guarantee to
his bearers for the soundness and orthodoxy of his doc-
trines, than his own authority; he is no longer in a con-
dition to deceive them by asserting (as he might do before
his deposition) that they are the doctrines of the Church
of Scotland. That Church repudiates and disavows them,
and strips him of the character of one of her sons. This
case, Irons its novelty in the annals of the Scotch Church,
has excited intense interest in this city ; that of Mr.
APLEAN, which was decided yesterday, we shall probably
make some remarks on in our next. In the mean time
we may mention, that the Assembly have in this case also
vindicated the purity of the Church doctrines, by affirm-
ing the sentence of the Presbytery of Irvine, and Synod
of Glasgow and Ayr, finding Mr. 11I'LEAN, the presentee
to the parish of Dreghorn, guilty of, teaching heresy.---
Caledonian Mercury.

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