The Sun.
London, England, 1831-12-15 00:00:00

DEPARTURES.

Lord Farnborough, for his seat, Bromley Hill, Kent ; Sir
Richard and Lady Hunter, from Batt's Hotel, Dover-street, for
their seat, Arundell, Sussex ; the Earl of Kerry, from Lans-
downe House, Berkeley-square, for Bowood Park, Wilts; Mr.
and Mrs. W. Moore, from Arlington-street, for Bath ; Captain
Saltwell, for Brighton ; Mr. and Mrs. Sosverby, for their seat in
Norfolk; Joseph Neeld, Esq. M.P. from Coulson's Hotel,
Lower Brook-street, for his seat in Wiltshire ; the Hon. Mrs.
Ffrench, from Mivart's Hotel, for the Continent; Earl and
Countess Cawdor, from ditto, for their seat, Stackpole Court,
Pembrokeshire; Lord Dunalley, from ditto, for Cheltenham;
Lord Dormer, from ditto, for Warwickshire; H. It. Milford,
Esq. from ditto, for Brighton.

'We are authorised to state, that the article
which appeared in our last, entitled, " Visit to Brighton,'
was entirely a confidential communication, and never de-
signed for the public eye ; and its insertion in the news-
papers was wholly without the knowledge or consent of
Dr. BURNS, or his friends.—Paisley Advertiser.

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We receive daily letters about IRVING and
his unknown-tongued tribe. We say nothing of these
creatures continuing their game as long as they are al.
lowed, but it is most di,graceful to the owners of thy•
chapel not to shut it up. Money and fun may probably
be their objects in permitting the exhibitions to be carried
on; but how can respectable people conse❑t to derive
money from such a source, or discover fun in such a de-
basement of our nature ? We have been assured that one
of the speakers in the unknown tongue, and who is desig-
nated by the title of Miss, is the wife of a Polish Jew ;
and it is the Hebrew with the Polish accent which she
yells out. But the owners of the chapel ought to be ex-
posed by name, if they do not shut it up.—Times.
The Princess MARIA THERESA Of ESTER-
HAZY, who for many years was the " presiding genius"
of the gaities of Chandos House, is, we understnad, at pre
sent residing with her mother, the Dowager Princess of
TOUR and Taxis, in Germany ; and it is said that hei
Serene Highness contemplates a permanent residence
abroad. The daughters of the Princess, the young Pain
cesses MARY and RosA, the eldest of whom was educated
in England, and has just attained her 18th year, are ac-
companied by their mother abroad. The Lady of the
Austrian Minister is allied to the Royal Family of Great
Britain ; her mother, the Princess of Toon. and TAXIS,
who before her marriage was the Princess MATILDA of
Mecklenburg Strelitz, being sister to her Royal Highness
the Duchess of CUMBERLAND.

Mr. Baron VAUGHAN, one of the Judges
who tried those atrocious criminals Bailor and WILLIAMS,
was present at the dissection of the body of the former
murderer at the King's College last week. The Learned
Judge was accompanied by Dr. F. lIAwKaNs, one of the
Professors to the College. Previous to the body being
opened, the Professor of Medical Jurisprudence delivered a
lecture on the appearances, external and internal, of death,
by strangulation, drowning, and other violent means, to
exhibit which the cavities of the head, chest, and abdomen
of the murderer were then carefully examined by the Pro-
fessor of Anatomy. The brain presented an unhealthy ap-
pearance, a circumstance attributed to the great mental
anxiety which Bistioe underwent during his repeated
examinations and at the trial. We understand it is in-
tended to preserve the skeleton of Basator in the King's
College, in the same manner as that of CORDER'S in the
hospital of Bury St. Edmund's.

OAKS IN AMPTHILL PARK.—The oaks in
Ampthill are particularly celebrated for their great size and
age; several of them are supposed to be upwards of 500
years old, and some do not hesitate to say 1,000 years;
the girth of many of them is ten yards or considerably
more. A survey of this park, by order of the Conven
tional Parliament, in 1653, pronounced 287 of these oaks
as being hollow and too much decayed for the use of the
navy. The whole of these remain to this day, and may
perhaps continue two or three centuries longer; some few
of them have been scathed with lightning.— The Mirror.

The anticipations of the lovers of fiction, re-
specting Miss LANDON'S first work in prose, have been
surpassed by the appearance of the volumes. " Romance
and Reality" has been pronounced to be, in more respects
than one, a new production ; it is dissimilar in manner and
subject from its predecessors, and will, most probably,
originate a separate class in novel-writing. The fable, the
style, and the principal character, bear upon them the im-
press of originality---that severest test of genius; and the
public has recognized, with one accord, the talent and in-
vention of the authoress.

A remarkable instance of the extraordinary
sagacity of a dog of the Newfoundland breed occurred yes-
terday in the family of Mr. PRENCIIFLEY, of Brome-ter-
race, Bayswater, whereby, in all probability, the lives of
three individuals were saved, and the destruction of the
whole house and furniture by fire prevented :—lt appears
that the cook and housemaid were left in charge of the
house during the temporary absence of the family, the
latter haviag the care of an infant child between thirteen
and fourteen months old. Between twelve and one
o'clock the attention of the cook was drawn to the dog,
who came running down stairs, barking in a violent man-
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whining, and again took hold of her gown, and drew her
towards the stairs. She suffered it to lead her to the
door of the back drawing-room, which on opening, the
smoke poured out so violently that she was nearly suf-
focated, and the fresh air being admitted, the room was
instantly filled with flame. An immediate alarm being
given, the fire was, with much difficulty, extinguished. It
was found to have originated from some window curtains
being placed too near the fire. The housemaid and Ile in-
fant child were both asleep at the time in the room over.
head, and, but for this fortunate discovery, the whole of the
house would probably, in a few minutes, have been on fire.

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CHOLERA AT NEWCASTL:
DERLAND.

TO THE EDITOR OF ri#4o`l7
Str.,—The following is a copy of tie t
.his morninz
NEWCASTLE_VroN-TYNE, Ditc. I , ()al ref
DAILY REPORT OF CASES OF SPASMODIC CIIOLERA.
Remained at last report
New cases

Total

Recovered
Died

Remaining this day at IO o'clock n.rit
JOHN BROWN,
Secretary to the Board of Health.

Candour obligea me to declare that I have no longer
any doubt that the spasmodic cholera is in Newcastle, hut
I am convinced that it does not exist to the extent repre-
sented in the above report. Our Therikal gentlemen have
been long anxiously looking for the dise,,,e, and now that
they have got it, they seem resolved to make it appear as
formidable as possible. The faculty at Sunderland were
extremely unwilling to admit that the cholera had reached
them. The factf:t7 at Newcastle appear resolved to dis-
cover the cholera in every disorder. I suspect that many
cases are improperly included in the reports, because,
though not present at the meetings of the Board of Health,
I know that some have been very wrongfully admitted into
them. A woman of the town, for instance, of the name
of Helen Al'Donald, was attacked with illness of some
descriptityn on the 6th of December; on the 9th and 10th
she gave birth to a child ; on the 11th she died ; and on
the 12th she was put into the official report as a case of
spasmodic cholera! This day lam informed Dir. Alder-
man Sorshie, a member of the Board of Health, objected
very decidedly to a case being included in the report, be-
muse it was not a case of cholera ; but he was over-ruled,
and it was included among the rest. It would be much
more satisfactory if the names and residences of the parties
were published. We should then be able to decide between
the true and the false.
In a former letter I said the di'ease was confined to the
street called Sandgate. I regret to state that this is no
longer the case. It is not only on the New-road which
adjoins Sandgate, but it is now in Pandon, Queen-street,
and Castle Garth. These are c'ose and dirty streets.
There is, I hear, a case of cholera at St. Peter's, and one
at Dent's- hole, villages on the river, distant from a mile and
a half to three miles from Newcastle

It will be satisfactory to you to know that the majority
of the cases have not only occurred in the filthiest situations,
but where the parties were both ill-lodged, ill-clothed, and
ill-fed. This was particularly the case with two children,
of the names of Dennison and Millar, who were attacked
at what is called the Black-gate in the Castle Garth, in
this town. An hospital has been established in the parish
of All Saints, at the North Shore, for the accommodation
particularly of Sandgate, where the greatest number of the
patients are, Other hospitals are to be provided in the
other parishes without delay. Dr. Daun still remains in
Newcastle.

The disease at Sunderland appears to be on the decrease.
There were 6 deaths on the 12th, and I understand there
are only 3 this day (the 13th), and only 21 cases remaining
under treatment.—l mu, Sir, your obedient servant,
PHILia.ETHES.
Newcastle-on-Tyne, Dec. 13, 1831. '•

LEEDS, DEC. 13.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sex,—l have seen a reply to my letter, by Captain Car-
den, in The Sun of last evening, on which I feel exceed-
ingly sorry Captain C. should have grounded any con-
struction of offence.

Inferring that Captain C. supposed the hot air bath had
not been tried in Sunderland, from the general tenour of
his later, 1 had no other intention than to set him right
on tlntt head ;—certainly not to deduct from Captain C.'s
claim to its invention or introduction, or even, that by his
recommendation, it had first been tried on the cholera i❑
Sunderland.

I acknowledge, with much pleasure, its great utility in
many diseases in which I have had considerable oppor-
tunities of witnessing its effect., especially in the early
stage of rheumatic fever, in which its action is miraculous,
and I am perfectly willing to confess Captain C. may have
used it, even before 1 knew such a remedy was in exis-
tence. I presuppose also, it may be an auxiliary in
cholera when the circulation has been brought about, or
is recovering its tone, by the use of other remedies. As
yet, it has had no effect in promoting perspiration in this
disease at Sunderland, the accomplishment of which cer-
tainly seems to hold out the best hope of effecting a cure.
I regret exceedingly Captain C. should have descended to
personal invective, is one mode of strengthening his argu-
ments. My visit to Sunderland was, I hope, for a better
purpose than " to make my name and fame known to
your numerous readers," (much as I am flattered by your
noticing my correspondence,) neither has my " self-
knowledge of cholera" at all had the effect of " bloating me
like a city Ald ," but I forbear. I am not able to
make the comparison for want of experience : myi.world
may have been circumscribed. It certainly has not ex-
tended " through Europe, North and South America,
Africa, Arabia, p irts of Turkey in Asia, Lower and Upper
Egypt, many parts of India, and many nations of the
isles ;" but still I have seen a disease which Drs. Daun,
Gibson, and Barry declare to be the Indian cholera, which
I believe is new to the medical practice of this country,
and one in which I shall be most happy if the use of
" Barbadoes naphtha and the hot air bath," jointly or
severally, may have all the benefit Captain C. presumes
they will have.

I am aware the " Board of Health" in Sunderland do
not want me for a champion. I was not aware there was
any antagonist in the field, or I should not certainly have
taken up arms in a cause, with the bearings of which I ant
not yet sufficiently acquainted. .

In conclusion, I beg again to assure Captain C. my
note was not intended to be " thoughtless nor intempe-
rate." It was worded in haste certainly, which is always
a fault, but not meant to give offence, and I trust he will
still think so, though I venture in addition to express soy
satisfaction, under all the circumstances of the case, that I
am still a resident in Leeds and net in Bath.

I am, Sir, your's most truli7Obliged,
ROBERT BAKER.

If, from the frequency with which the asser-
tion is made—if, from the number of persons who nuke --
it, we are induced to grant that the spasmodic cholera is
actually in Newcastle, we sincerely believe that the ac-
count which has been given is exaggerated, that diseases
are included in the reports which ought not to have been
included, and which are most certainly not cases of spas-
modic cholera. This is calculated needlessly to increase
alarm. Let the reports contain all undoubted cases of
cholera, but nothing more. We are happy to observe
that there is every disposition in Newcastle to meet the
malady firmly and manfully. The Subscription Gas
Company have liberally granted the use of their large
house at the North Shore to the parish of All Saints, as

an hospital, gratuitously. The other parishes in the town
intend also to provide hospitals. The Committee chosen
to dispose of the funds for the relief of the poor have met
daily since their appointment, and have expended large
sums in providing bedding, clothing, and fuel for the poor.
The medical gentlemen appear to be very attentive and
anxious to render every professional assistance in their
power. So far the disease has confined its ravages to
Sandgate, beyond all question the most filthy part of
Newcastle. We do not believe that it will ever reach the
extent it has done in a neighbouring town. We conceive
that there are fewer here exposed by their situatio❑ and
tilth to its attacks; and that the lower classes are more
addicted to beer drinking, and less to spirit drinking than
they are there. It ought to be a source of great satis-
fection that we know from the experience of Sunderland
and other places, the causes which chiefly predispose to
this disorder. They are filth and want of ventilation in
[louses, intemperate habits, want of nourishment, whole.
some food, and exposure to cold. To these we may add
terror of the complaint. Nothing certainly can be more
absurd than that nervous apprehension which some persons
exhibit who are very unlikely subjects to be attacked. No-
thing can be more reprehensible than the ptactice of me-
dical men going about putting on long grave faces and
saying to all sorts of people without discrimination—" this
is beyond all'doubt the Asiatic cholera." Its having made
its appearance in Houghton, Newbottle, Penshaw, Seg-
hill, and North Shields, is an additional reason for think-
ing it may be here. But we believe it will be found that
its nature is modified by the climate, food, and habits of
the people, &c. The best course, we conceive, for us all
to adopt, is never to trouble our heads about the cholera,
to keep our minds perfectly easy, and make ourselves warns
and comfortable at our own fire sides...--Tyrie Mercury.

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