The Sun.
London, England, 1831-12-29 00:00:00

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Pytits or THE STOCKS TH
Bank Stock
a Per Cent. Red .82% 3 2.7 i
per Cent. Cons.
,Z 4 Per Cent. gOY.4
..itto Red 90!4 30
;'."'' 3% per Cent &nal
4 Per Cent. Ann. 1756 -
Per Cent 1826 qg Ys%
`‘,lk Long Ann. to expire
Jail 5, 1860 l6 9-16
Oct. 10, 1859 t-
Jan. 5, 1800 -
Jan. 5, 1880 -
APril 5 18ft --
Jan. 5.
1870
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New 5 per Cent. -
India Stock
Ditto Bonds I dis.
South Sea Stock shut
Old Annuities -
'New Ditto
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A per Cent. Ann. 1761 .... shut
Ex. Bills, Xl,OOO 7 S pm.
Ditto 5 7 B pm.
Ditto Small
Ditto Commercial.... ...... pm.
Ditto Advertised — pm.
Bank for Opening
India for Account.
Cons. for*Jan. 19 ... 8.41 i 4 S 4

'KICKS Or FOILIIGN FUNDS THIS DAT AT ONZ O'CLOCK.
AUltrian Bonds (Neapolitan
linlillan /sonde ... ......... —.43 ..y Peruvian Bonds
Eu
°nos Ayres Bonds ;Portuguese Bonds
'l,llian Bonds lB ;Prussian, Old
Colombian Bonds — Ditto, New
Ditto, 1824
Osnuth
Creek Bonds .-- 18.13. —
r.. .ntto 1&25 French Rentes, sp. c. —t. —,
Cluatimala. - Exchange ...... --f. —c.
/Lexica/1 Bonds 28 '--- 3 per cent, —f. —c
, itto. lab 35% Exchange...... —t. —c.
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PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Paid. ter Share.
Liglish 'Mining Company 12% 21%
General Steam Navigation Co
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.. PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, DEC. 26.
I,4nic Stock
onsols 3 per cent.
Gov.
„. Stock, 3j,:, per cent. 895 i iNational Ditto
rtto, New 90% Patriotic Ditto
' Per Cent — Hibernian Bank
Go .
~:7. Deb. 3y per cent.... 8.4% Provincial Ditto ......
"'Yal Canal Stock - Royal Irish Mine —
P.Yand Canal Stock imperial Mine
`'ltY Deb. 4 per cent. — Mining Co of Ireland
Ballast Office Deb. 4p. c. Commercial Buildings

HIGH WATER AT townow BRIDGE TO-MORROW.
Morning ... 21 minutes after 11.1 Evening...4B minutes after 11.
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LONDON,
THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 29, 1831.

CHOLERA MORBUS, OFFICIAL REPORT.

COUNCIL OFFICE.—(THIS DAY.)
DAILY REPORT of CHOLERA CASES,
SUNDERLAND, DEC. 27, 1831.
Remained at last report 6
New cases

Total 8
Died 0
Recovered 1

Remaining at this date, 8 o'clock, s.ki 7
Prom the Commencement of the Disease, on Oct. 26, 1831.
Cases, 527.—Died, 196.
NEWCASTLE, DEC. 27.
Remained at last report
New caeca

Total. 62
Died lO
Recovered 0

Remaining at this date, 6 o'clock, s..se 43
From the Commencement of the Disease, on Dec. 7, 1831.
Cases, 246.—Died, 93.
NORTH SHIELDS AND TYNEMOUTH, DEC. 26.
Remained at last report 3
New cases 3
Died
Reoovered 0
Remaining at this date 6
From the Commencement of the Disease.
Cases, 16.—Died, 9.
SOUTH SHIELDS AND WESTOE, DEC. 27
New cases
Died
0 '
Recovered
Remaining at this date
From the Commencement of the Disease.
Cases, I.—Died, 0.
GATESHEAD, DEC. 27.
Remained at last report 3O
New cases. 59
Died. 32
Recovered
Remaining at this date 49
From the Commencement of the Disease.
Cases, 99.—Died, 42.
• No Returns have been received from two of the Medical
Gentlemen at Gateshead who have Cholera patients under their
tare, but it has been ascertained that eight deaths have `taken
Place in addition to those returned.
HOUGHTON-LE—SPRING AND SUBURBS, Dec. 27.
Remained at last report 7
New cases 3
Died 3
i Recovered 3
Remained at this date 4
From the Commencement of the Disease.
1 Cases, Z.—Died, 14.
HARTLEY, Dec. 27.

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New cases 4
Died 3
Recovered 0
Remaining at this date
From the Commencement of the Disease.
Cases, 4.—Died, 3.
HADDINGTON, N. 8., DEC. 27.
New cases 3
Died 3
From the Commencement of the Disease.
Cases, 3.—Died, 3.

A report has been received from Walls End, stating the ap-
Pearance of Spasmodic Cholera there, but without detailing
Particulars.
(Signed) WM. MACLEAN, Secretary.

The latest accounts respecting the cholera
are most frightful—most appalling ! The
Plague is traversing the North with a giant's
speed, and more than a giant's energy. Young
and old—the feeble and the strong—the dis-
solute and the abstemious—all fall before
it. It is now at the gates of Edinburgh ; at
Raddington, at which place three deaths have
already taken place. But at Gateshead, the
mortality is terrific. The pestilence rages in
every quarter of that town, and the inhabitants
are completely panic-stricken. Possibly the
number of victims has been augmented by the
Saturnalia which usually take place at Christ-
mas among the lower classes; but if this
be the reason, how is it that Newcastle and the
surrounding districts are not equally affected ?
The causes that would tend to aggravate the
disease in one place, would, we suppose, be
equally effective in another. The fact is, the cholera
Is one of those inscrutable distempers which set all
speculation at defiance, and place the ignorant
and the experienced on the same level. Hitherto
we have seen it traversing the continent, with
(we might almost say) the method and regu-
larity of a sentient being, afflicting Berlin, Vi-
enna, St. Petersburgh, Hamburg, Altona, and
a hundred other places, with pretty nearly the
same amount of mortality ; but in the instance
of Gateshead, it has reversed its usual order of

Proceeding, and rages like a devouring flame,
with a suddenness and phrenzy almost without
Parallel in the annals of infectious visitations.
The cause of this abrupt change of cha-
racter is, and vve fear will long continue
to be, a mystery. We are far from wish-
ing to create unnecessary alarm by these
remarks, but the time has arrived when
even the most thoughtless should begin
to think, and the boldest to adopt
precautionary measures. That the cholera will
confine its ravages to the North is not
to be expected. It will advance, like the
Destroying Angel, North, South, East, and
West, but may yet be combatted with success,
by temperance, regularity, and a just confidence
in the behests of a benignant Providence.

Our City Correspondent says—" An express
has arrived within this hour from Paris, bring-
ing the important information, that the grand
question of the Peerage has been carried by the
of thirty-three."
Ministers, by a majority

We insert, in another part of The Sun, the
American PRESIDENT'S Speech, which is in
every respect worthy the character of the ruler of
a powerful and independent State. We may