The Sun.
London, England, 1831-12-31 00:00:00

DECEMBER.

1 The new Russian tariff comes into operation, by
Which 121 per cent. are levied on all imports.
2 A Special Commission is issued for the trial of the
Bristol rioters.
-- The Judges of the new Court of Bankruptcy are ap-
pointed.
5 Bishop and Williams, who, with May, were con-
victed on the 2d for the murder of an Italian boy, are exe-
cuted at the Old Bailey, when a number of persons are se-
verely injured, owing to the pressure of the vast crowd.
Diey is respited.
-- Returns are published which gives the following
summary of the state of the cholera at the respective
Places mentioned :—St. Petersburgh, total number of cases
up the 13th tilt. 9,238 ; died, 4,754 ; Vienna, up to the
21st ult., total 3,864; died, 1,847 ; Hamburg, to Nov.
25, total, 855 ; deaths, 448.
6 The King opens Parliament in person, and, after re-
commending the immediate consideration of the question
of Reform, adverts to the distress which prevails--the pre-
valence of the cholera in the north—the opposition to the
Payment of tithes in Ireland—the conduct of the Portu-
guese Government—the Treaty relative to Rolland and
Belgium, and that with France on Slave Trade—the
Bristol Riots and Political Unions.
Sir Anthony Hart, late Lord Chancellor of Ireland,
dies at hid house in Cumberland-street, in his 72d year.
7 The cholera makes its appearance at Newcastle.

10 The Spanish Constitutional General, Torrijos, with
about 60 followers, who, trusting to the promises of the
Governor of Malaga, had landed in the neighbourhood,
and been surrounded by troops, are all shot, without trial,
in the market-place of Malaga.
12 Lord John Russell obtains leave to bring in a third
Rtform Bill.

-- The Earl of Mar is convicted at Edinburgh of
shooting in the direction of John Oldham, Esq. ; sen-
tenced to two months' imprisonment, and ordered to find
security for his good behaviour for five years in the sum of
5,000/.
14 A dreadful affray takes place near Kilkenny, in
Which 19 policemen are killed by the peasantry.
14 Os the motion of Mr. Stanley, a Committee is ap-
Pointed to inquire into the state of tithes in Ireland.
16 Holloway is executed at Horsham for the murder of
/is wife.
An interesting trial relative to the Duke of Bour-
bon's will commences at Paris.
17 After two nights' discussion in the Commons, the
Reform Bill is read a second time by a majority of 162,
the numbers being 324 for and 162 against the second
reading. Parliament then adjourns to Jan. 17.
20 The Countess of Orkney dies at Beaconsfield, in her
76th ye tr.
22 The Countess Dowager of Darnley dies at Learn-
ukgton.
23 The cholera breaks out at Haddington, in Scotland.
26 The cholera breaks out at Gateshead with great
violence.
26 About this time dense fogs prevail in the metropolis
for
several days.
27 The motion for abolishing the Hereditary Peerage
to Prince is carried in the Chamber of Peers by a majority
01 103 to 67.

HINTS TO BRITISH PEERS,
By 0. P. Q.

I am not very fond of writing to my betters,
or else I should be tempted to address a letter to
the PEERS Of GREAT BRITAIN! Without
'Paning to offend them, I should begin my ad.
riress to them somewhat in this style
-
Loans—l have the pleasure to inform you,
t.t Air- friends and brothers, the Peers of France,
1,-
hit yourded,by
a majority of THIRTY-THREE VOTES,
th ve d
eCi7RENCH PEERAGE SHALL NO LONGFit BE
at the I.IY !! ! This decision my Lords, was
"eREDITAnIy yesterday, the 27th December, 1831,
darter
ettroe to c,:thened and solemn discussion of several a
fen
he
French Peers were called upon to de-
ItYs ! Th, r, after the Revolution of
Bide whethe.y Peerage was longer possible in this
Hereditaad I hare the satisfaction to state, that
eou
oNl.lcryry; aIDRED AND THREE PEERS said No !
riEJ:.NTy PEERS said YES ;' and Six PEERS
*ld
SEV;;ve no opinion at all; and thus, by a ma-
- :II TIIIRTY-THREE VOTES, it was decided
that an Hereditary Peerage is incompatible with the
age in which we live—with liberty, civilization, and
the progress of the schoolmaster, whose lessons you
,40 cordially hate, and whose principles, you who
'eve privileges and monopolies, have such good rea-
l% to fear."
And if I were not afraid of offending my
Lord Shaftesbury and my Lord Eldon—my
Lord Londonderry, and the hereditary Duke of
Newcastle, I should follow up my congratula-
tions with a word of admiration to the following
effect
"My Lords I. Learn from this decision five
!—First, that you cannot resist the progress of
Public opinion; second, that a Peer is but an unit
as well as a Commoner, and that units have no chance
with the millions ; third, that the French Peerage
'tis lost its hereditary character by opposing, for 1.5
Years, public opinion ; fourth, that you have now
Your day of probation before the millions shall
decide upon your fate; and fifth, that if you con-
tinue to resist the progress of constitutioual freedom,
sad the granting of those ameliorations which would
bysatisfy and cheer, you also will be swept away
by
torrent, and before the 27th December, 1832,
liritish Hereditary Peerage may be a mere fact of
uistory."
If I so addressed the Peers of Great Britain,
it Would be as their friend and their counsellor,
4,°(1 not as their enemy or their hater. lam no
hater of a rich man because he is rich, nor of a
nobleman because he is a Peer ; but I am sure
°f one thing, that if rich men and Peers will not
'°otribute of their wealth and influence to the
general good, the social revolution which is now
organising in Europe beneath the surface of hu-
man society will sweep away those riches and
,c°se titles, and leave their present possessors
thPoor indeed !" It is because, then, I think
, at the gradations of society are desirable, and
bei,
a ca the
I wish to preserve, and not to destroy ;
41'd because I prefer reparation to destruction,
now
moderate measures to a revolution, that I
say to the British Peers—" My Lords,
154blic opinion is too strong for you—public opi-
vti.'°o demands Reform of Parliament ; make a
irlue of necessity, and yield—or else, in De-
t"lber, 1832, among the events of the closing
3141.) we shall have to record an historical fact—
I!VMUCTION OF BRITISH HEREDITARY
qRAGE!"--Morning Chronicle.

t The person of the LORD MAYOR was regarded
sacred in 1479, that ROBERT BYFELDE, one of the
t baying presumed to kneel close to that Magis-
rf4c at St. Erkenwald's shrine, during the rage of a
::4(11111 plague, was complained of to the Court of Alder-
t)'
and fined fifty pounds towards the repairs of the
conduits.
Isze °I-1 the morning of the 9th of November,
York Cathedral, situate in the state of New York,
completely destroyed by fire. This church was dedi-
x ;,iled to the Holy Virgin, and was situated in Sheriff-street.
4t,N'e is little doubt that the fire was caused by a culpable
The building was of wood, and the progress of the
,%0141 was so rapid, that scarcely a vestige of it remained.
1,44 or the gold cups were saved. It is said that the
itlt Was tied in such a manner as to prevent an alarm be-
,l:eiten• The church and organ were insured for
etli, dollars, but more than twice that stun would be ne-
try to build such amother.American Paper.

;:41
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LONDON,
SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER SI, 1831.

CHOLERA MORBUS, OFFICIAL REPORT.

COUNCIL OFFICE.—(THIS DAY.)
DAILY REPORT of CHOLERA CASES,
SUNDERLAND, DEC. 2f,, 1831.
Remained at last report 7
New cases 1

Total 8

-
Died 1
Recovered 1

Remaining at this date, 8 o'clock A.ll 6
From the Commencement of the Disease, on Oct. 26, 1831.
Cases, 529.—Died, 198.
NEWCASTLE, DEC. 29.
Remained at last report
New cases 22

To tal .

Died 8
Recovered l5

Remaining at this date, 8 o'clock ♦.at 66
From the Commencement of the Disease, on Dec. 7, 1831.

Cases, 307.—Died, 107.
GATESHEAD, DEC. 29..
Remained at last report
New cases
Died 8
Recovered
Remaining at this date 74
From the Commencement of the Disease.
Cases..l72.—Died, 63.

NORTH SHIELDS AND TYNEMOUTH, DEC. .;.1).
Remained at last report 6
New cases

Died 0
Recovered 4
Remaining at this date '2
From the Commencement of the Disease.
Cases, 16.—Died, 9.
SOUTH SHIELDS AND WESTOE, DEC. 29
Remained at last report 1
New cases

Died 0
Recovered
Remaining at this date
From the Commencement of the Disease.
Cases, 2.—Died, 0.

HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING AND PENSIIER, DEC. '29.
Remained at last report
New cases 0
Died 0
Recovered 0
Remained at this date 8
From the Commencement of the Disease.
Cases, 29.—Died, 14.
HADDINGTON, DEc. 28.
Remained at last report 2
New cases 4
Died 0
Recovered 1
Remaining at this date
From the Commencement of the Disease.
Cases, 10.—Died, 4.
No other Returns received.

(Signed)

WM. MACLEAN, Secretary.

We have been favoured with a copy of the
following letter :

" Stu,—Since I had the honour to communicate
to the Lords of the Privy Council the unanimous
expression of the sentiments of the Board of Health,
established at Sunderland, on the occasion of the re-
call of Dr. Dann from his official duties in this
neighbourhood, the Board have been informed that
Dr. Gibson, who succeeded him at Sunderland, but
whose presence and superintendence were recently
required at Newcastle, is now permanently stationed
at that place.
" Dr. Gibson was the active coadjutor of Dr.
Daun in all his humane and well-directed exertions
during the greater part of his residence in these
towns. They laboured together and separately in
visiting the patients afflicted with cholera at their
homes, and when admitted into the hospitals esta-
blished by Dr. Daun for their reception.

" But it was in the direction of the Sunderland
Hospital, especially that Dr. Gibson displayed an
intelligence, a zeal, and an assiduity, which seconded
the views of the Board and of Dr. Daun, in the
ablest manner.

" Upon Dr. Gibson, for some time previously to
the departure of Dr. Daun from Sunderland; was
devolved the troublesome duty of drawing up the
daily report of cholera cases, from the returns made
by the medical practitioners of these towns; and
the energy which he evinced when entrusted with
the superintendence or every measure directed by the
Central Board of Health, for checking the progress
of cholera amongst us, proved the best substitute
for the necessary absence of his friend and colleague
Dr. Daun ; and deservedly entitles him to a distinct
expression of their regard, and of their united thanks
from the Members of this Board.
" I have the honour to he, &c. &c. &c.
(Signed) " G. ROBINSON, Chairman.
" Sunderland Board of Health, Dec. 28, 1831.
" C. C. Greville, Esq."

We have just received, by Express, the Mes-
sager des Chambres, dated yesterday, from
which we give the following :

Considerable sales h we taken place at the opening of
the Bourse, and the Funds have receded. It was soon,
however, known, that the Syndical Chamber had paid
their respects, or the money, to the Minister of War, and
that the Marshal bad assured the deputation that they rnigh t
enter upon the operations with perfect security, because th

chances of war were less probable. such an assurance from
such a source was well calculated to dissipate the unplea-
sant tumours which had been industriously circulated' for
some days, when the abundant calls for money sock
were in preference to gambling speculations. The priof
the Three per Cents. .rose thirty-five cents. ; Five per
Cents. the same. ,

The speech of the American PRESIDENT is a
document which may truly be called refreshing,
as it offers to a mind fatigued with the contem-
plation of the existing impediments to social
happiness in Europe, the spectacle of the rapid
progress of the Republic of the United States,
towards that zenith of political perfection which
the people of Europe still behold far away in the
distance. It presents a cheerful picture of the
happy results of a really free Government, and
gives another triumphant refutation to the appre-
hensions of evil entertained by some, from the
prospect of a state of things in which the people
may wield in their own hands the substantial
sceptre of power.
In their foreign relations, the United States
have, as usual, brought to successful issues the
most part of their negotiations, because they have
uniformly pursued that straight-forward course of
policy, which a nation can only follow that is
perfectly free from diplomatic entanglements.
The end of the foreign policy of the United
States is simply the advancement of the inte-
rests of the American people, and hence we
see that a language is held to Spain and Por-
tugal, and has been used towards this country,
manifesting a vigorous determination to disregard
any other considerations than those which are
forced upon the Government by the will of the
American people. The sound policy of neu-
trality during European wars exposed American
commerce to injuries at the hands of almost
every European Power, and the negotiations
carried on to obtain indemnity for those injuries
have been most successful, because the American
claims were, with some exceptions, founded in
justice, and pursued with energy and vigour. The
PRESIDENT holds out threats to Spain and
Portugal which, it would seem, those Govern-
ments would do well to take warning from in
time, for there can be little doubt that they have
both dealt rather too unceremoniously with the
property of American subjects. With other
countries the American relations appear on
the whole pacific, and it is especially
satisfactory to notice the PRESIDENT'S an-
nouncement of the mutual good feeling and
amicable relations with Great Britain, which
he cordially hopes may not be interrupted
—a hope in which we are sure the British Go-
vernment heartily concurs. The PRESIDENT
concludes his Foreign Budget by recommending
a revision of the Consular system—a revision
which is equally needed by other countries, so as
to adapt the Consular duties to the commercial
wants of the present state of society, rather than
allow their offices to remain expensive antiqua-
rian memorials of the usages of the middle ages.
The removal of the Indians appears to be
going on with rapidity, and all of the States
will, no doubt, be soon " disembarrassed of the
aboriginal population." There is something in
the practice indicated by this phrase, a little re-
pulsive to humane sentiments, since we see the
progress of civilization dispossessing by con-
quest the natives of the soil, and that such dis-
possession is rapidly leading to the extermination
of the native race. It appears that the inter-
mixture with Europeans has constantly led to
the extinction of Indian tribes, instead of raising
them from barbarism to a state of civilization, and
we are almost brought to think that some races
of mankind are never destined to rise from that
state of subjugation to which their physical in-
feriority to other races appears to have condemned
them. We, therefore, do not partake in the
PRESIDENT'S hopes of civilizing the red men,
but fear that destruction, not civilization, awaits
that unhappy race of creatures.
The financial accounts are, as usual, as gra-
tifying as under a system of real economy may
be expected. Within four years the national
debt of the United States will be wholly
extinguished, and steps are to be forthwith
taken, in anticipation cf that event, to re-
model the tariff and materially to reduce
the taxation. Then will the United States
present an enviable contrast to the heavily
indebted States of the old world, and to none
more than Great Britain, upon whom the tre-
mendous eight hundred millions are a continuing
incubus, pressing with a heavy hand upon the
energies of the industrious portion of the nation.
The law of imprisonment is to be modified, so as
to restrict its operation to cases of fraudulent
concealment of property, which may remind us
how greatly we are behind the United States in
regard to our inconsiderate and mischievous
law of arrest. In regard to the proposed sim-
plification of public accounts, and the extension
of the Judiciary system to distant provinces, as
well as the consideration which the PRESIDENT
recommends of the Bank monopoly, we may
also take some casual hints from the tenour of the

Message.
The proposed amendments in the election
and term of office of the PRESIDENT and
VICE-PRESIDENT of the States are such as
will probably receive a considerable share of dis-
cussion. It is important, on the one hand, to
secure to those Magistrates, especially the
former, the dignified superiority to ephemeral
applause, which the present mode and term of
election do not, perhaps, afford, while, on the
other hand, nothing can be more material than
to resist strenuously any encroachment tending
to endanger the preservation of that entire repub-
lican freedom on which the integrity and prospe-
rity of the United States (so interesting and im-
portant to the old world as well as the new)
must, under GoD's blessing, always mainly
depend.

The people have yet their ledger in which
they have just entered to the debit of FERDINAND of Spain
the death of Toaavos and his fifty-two companions. Pa-
tience !—Lc Corsaire.

AN ITCHING PALM.—It is not to be won-
dered at that the Bishops, from a habit acquired by fte
quent confirmation, have an itching for laying their hands
on every thing that comes in their way, for this kind of
imposition has always been one of their principal functions.

VICE-CHANCERY COURT-(THIS.DAY )

His Honour the VICE-CHANCELLOR, notwithstanding
his great assiduity, will not be able to dispose of all the
bankrupt petitions set down for hearing before him, as wa.
anticipated, to-day ;it is now expected that his Honour
will sit during nearly the whole of next week, having in
his list of to-day nearly thirty petitions, and several heavy
ones are specially appointed for Monday week. Nothing
of the slightest public interest came before the Court this
morning previous to our reporter's leaving.

WESTMINSTER SESSIONS-(TIIIS DAY.)

An old man, named John TVooller, was indicted for as
Phoebe, his wife, on the 9th instant.
The complainant, who seemed at least her husband's
junior by twenty years, related a long list of grievances
during the seven years they had been married. lie we.
a pensioner, and always spent his pension in liquor; after
the money was gone, he was in the habit of taking her
clothes and pawning them ; no less than eleven times bad
she been obliged to redeem the articles, and besides all
these he was in the constant habit of beating her. On the
9th instant be came home drunk, knocked her down, and
gave her two black eyes because she had no money to give
him. She was now deterinieed to live no longer with
him, and she claimed the assistance of the Magistrates in
affording her protection from his ill-treatment.
The CHAIRMAN asked the prisoner what he had to say
to the charge ?—The poor old man seemed quite con-
founded at his situation, but at length stammered out an
apology to his wife, and solemnly promised never to be
guilty of the like conduct again.
The CHAIRMAN advised the complainant to accept the
apology, with the addition of security against further vio-
lence, to which she with evident reluctance complied.
The defendant was found guilty, and ordered to enter
into sureties in the amount of 501., to keep the peace for
two years.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(MS DAY.)

FROM LLOYD'S.
DEAL, DRC. SO.—Arrived and sailed for the river, the
Minerva, Robertson, from India.

PORTSMOUTII,DEC. 30.—Sailed theMauriti us transport,
for London.

CORK, Dec. 28.—Wind E.N.E.—Arrived the Leonidas
transport, from Dublin, for Barbadoes.
LivsapooL, DEC. 29.—Sailed the Sir J. Rae Reed,
Hay, for Bengal; Huron, Hardy, for Bombay; and Mary
Ann, Mitchell, for New South Wales.

Cowes, DEC. 30.—Arrived the Dolphin Broeh, liar-
dinger, leaky, bound to Villanova.
STANDGATE CREEK, DEC. 30.—Arrived the Pomona,
Burn ; Glory, Gillies ; and Jane, Wylie, from Riga.
Duman, DEC. 29.—Arrived the Wilton, Purdy, and
Isabella, Hanes, from Quebec.
Humara, DEC. 30.—Arrived the Three Brothers,
Fleming, and Rhine, Matson, from Riga.

The Brilliant, Cyder, from Guernsey to London, was
on shore on Margate Sand yesterday, but expected to be
got off.
The Eagle, Duncan, from Glasgow to Londonderry, is
wrecked off Port Rush.

The New John, of Newcastle, has been abandoned off
St. Paul's, being water-logged.
The Liverpool, Rowe, and Eliza, Porter, from Liver-
pool, have arrived at Bahia.

TIIE MARKETS-(THIS DAY.)

COVENT-GARDEN MARKET.

There was a good supply at this morning's market, but the
trade was sluggish. Apples, Oranges, and Lemons, are dearer
than on this day se'nnight ; but little variation in the prices of
other Fruit mad Vegetables.

.., _
s.d. s.d. s.d. s.d.
Potatoes (cwt.)
Ca',l3ages (12 heads) 0 0 0 0 Apples 4 0 7 0
Red ditto 3 6 5 0 Onions (for pickling) 3 0 4 5
Savoy ditto 3 0 4 6 Span. Chesnuts (peck) 6 0 10 0
Horse Radish(bundle) 3 0 6 0 French ditto
Brocoli 0 9 1 6 Spanish Hazlenuts .... 6 0 10 0
Celery
Carrots
.12 bunches)... 4 0 6 0 Brazilian Nuts 2 0 4r)
T+irnips
Coleworts or Greens 1 0 2 0 Pine Apples (lb.)
Leeks 1 0 1 6 Sweet Oranges (100)... 6 0 12 0
Radishes (12 hands) 0 6 0 9 Seville Oranges 7 0 12 0
Endive (pummet) 0 6 0 9 Lemons 9 0 16 0

HAY MARKETS.—(At per Load of 36 l'russes.)
CUMBERLAND (LATE ST. JAMES'S.)
Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £2 5 to £2 10
Kew Meadow Hay 2 15 3 10
Useful Old Ditto 2 15 3 10
Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 3 15 4 0
Clover Hay 4 5 5 10
Oat Straw £1 Bto £1 10 1 Wheat :straw... 1 12 1 14
Supply rather limited, trade dull, and prices as last quoted.