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LONDON,
MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 5, 1831.

CHOLERA MORBIA, OFFICIAL REPORT.

COUNCIL OFFICE.—(THIS DAY.)
DAILY REPORT of CHOLERA CASES.
SUNDERLAND, Dec. 3, 1R11,:

Remained at last report

Total
Thecl..
n?,c.overed . ...

Remaining at this date, ti o'clock, A. M.

I Cholera Morbus.

Cases. Died.'
From the Connnencement of the Disease, on
the 'AO October, 1831
.109
(Signed) G. STEPHENSON,
Secretary to the Sunderland Board of Health.

At two o'clock this day, the KING and
QUEEN arrived at St. James's Palace, from
Brighton. Their MAJESTIES, as they passed
over Vauxhall•bridge into the Metropolis, were
unanimously cheered by crowds of people.
His MAJESTY afterwards held a Council, at
which the Speech for the opening of Parliament
to•morrow, was discussed.

We are glad to find that a Commission, con-
sisting of the LORD CHANCELLOR, Marquis of
LANSDOWNE, Lord DURHAM, Dukes of
BEAUFORT and DEVONSHIRE, Marquis Of
VELLESLEY, the CHIEF JUSTICE Of the Com-
mon Pleas, Mr. Justice BOSANQUET, Mr. Jus-
tice TAUNTON, the ATTORNEY-GENERAL,
Mr. Serjeant WILDE, Mr. GURNEY, and Mr.
S Er,wyN, K.C., has been appointed to
inquire into all the circumstances of the late
riots at Bristol. The issuing of this Commis-
sion will doubtless have the effect of calming in
a great degree the effervescence that still exists
in the city of Bristol. Had the affair been left
in the hands of the local authorities, there would
have been no end to crimination and recrimina-
tion. At present there is every rational prospect
of the affair being strictly and impartially sifted.

The French Papers of Saturday have been
received, but they do not yet contain conclusive
news from Lyons, though by the latest accounts it
was expected that the Duke of ORLEANS would
enter that city on Friday last. The people
were settling down into tranquillity, and posses-
sion of the city was expected to be obtained
without any further effusion of blood.
A report prevailed in Paris that an attempt
had been made to assassinate DONNA MARIA
the young Queen of Portugal, but the story
was not credited. It appears that a ball had ac-
tually broken a pane in one of the windows
near which the young Queen was talking
with one of her Maids of Honour ; but the af-
fair was a mere accident, as the ball came from a
neighbouring garden where people were firing at
a mark.

The execution of the miscreants Bishop and
Willianzs took place this morning, in presence
of the greatest crowd ever known to have been
assembled at the Old Bailey. A full and au-
thentic confession of the crimes of these wretches
will be filmic] ;n another column, and proves the
necessity of the Legislature at once and effec-
tually interfering to prevent any future repetition
of such atrocities. Had some regulations been
adopted by the late Home Secretary, to supply
the surgical schools with anatomical subjects,
when the Edinburgh murders were discovered,
the public would have been spared the shock of
perusing the record of the present murders. We
hope Lord MELBOURNE will be more cautious,
and direct the immediate attention of Parliament
to the subject, for it is really one of the most im-
portant ones that can come under the notice
of the Legislature. So long as the dreadful
trade of body-snatching exists, there can be no
security for the lives of the lower classes—on
whom the miscreants chiefly prey—of his MA-
JESTY'S subjects.

The Dutch and German Papers contain no
intelligence of moment. The following are ex-
tracts :

Tins HAGUE, DiEc. I.—The gun-boats still stationed
in the Maese and Waal are all ordered to return to Flush.
ing. On Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, the several
divisions passed Gorcum, in conformity with this order.
On the 27th another strong detachment of the North
Brabant Militia arrived at Gorcum, and marched the
following day to Naarden. The men were still in high
spirits, and seemed to have put on their best clothes, as if
they were going to a festival. Two strong detachments
of the same militia followed on the 29th.

Accounts from Maestricht of the 23d say that the works
for strengthening the fortress advance daily, especially on
the side of the Maese, towards Liege, and several new
fort, are there provided with cannon. The whole for-
tress is besides defended by a triple, and, in some places, a
quadruple line of pallisades.
Belgian deserters arrive daily, and that morning five bad
arrived from the citadel of Liege. Most of them are natives
of Luxemburg. They invariably complain of bad sub-
sistence, quarters, and treatment. The market of
3laestricht is well supplied, and is even more frequented
by the peasants
.than in time of peace. The desire of the
peasants to get rid of every thing that they can spare con-
tributes to this. The inhabitants have. had to provide
themselves
provisions for three months. For the
garrison reihs a stock in hand of 300 oxen, and 60,000
t there
bushels of potatoes, and wheat for three years' consump-
tion. The fine ship of the line Zeeule, and a corvette,
have arrived in the road of Flushing.

The river Waal has been falling for some days past.
THE Rao uE, Nov. 29.—The sections of the Second
Chamber of the States General are still engaged in exa-
mining the projects of fare laid before thew, and hue jtat

concluded their investigation of the Budget for the expen-
diture of 1832. As has frequently happened before, they
have proposed to the Government various retrenchments,
at the same time expressing their gratitude fo'r tbn;.!
ready introduced. _

'AMSTERDAM, DEC. 2.
Acttnt p'et cent to 4O
siktri,)rt Syndic 04 per cent
Ditto, ditto, 3 per cent.
Voluntary Loan 6 - • cent 86%
,to
h.

per c.
Exchange on London, 11. W.—Two months ICd2.
FRANKFOIM
From an extract from he V'rOt64l,oc the '.-seth Sitting
of thn Diet, on the itth November, 1831, we learn that
the Anss'il.Zl Minister, President of the Diet, made a. prt-
Pnsal from his Court respecting the abuse 'of 12re•Isc
which proposal was unanimously elibtoti?!., and embodied
nearly word for word in 't;?::-..‘`fol:Owing resolutions :
" 1. As ail 'tile Alembers of the German Confeckras
tient!. 1-, are solemnly pledged themselves to each other to
exercise strict vigilance with respect to thn newspapers,
periodicals, and pamphlets appealing in their dorninions,
so that mutual complaints and rmptensiStaVAssion's may
be as much al possible vrev.,ented ;,I'..nd as in these latter
time the tbnte oil the 1.-olitical Press has increased in a
t:egree, the Diet reminds the several Govern-
Ments of this obligation, which remaina ira I.,rct.: till they
have agreed on a definitive law rlt:ative to the Press, and
requests themto te.o`e't the best measures for exerc..sing a
sucieriisenMiance over the newspapers appearing in their
States, according to the spirit and intention of the existing
resolutions of the Confederation.

" 2. The C'mmittee of the Diet created by the law on
the Press, of 20th September) 1f32e1 is completed by the
addition of the Danish MinitAct."

(Here (bliows an extract from the Protocol of the 39th
Sitting of the Diet, on 19th Nov. 1831, respecting the
prohibition of the newspaper called Constitutional Ger-
many, published at Strasburg, by G. Silbermanß and Co.