The Sun.
London, England, 1831-10-25 00:00:00

On Saturday last the infant daughter, about
four years of age, of Mr. Cox, of Oxford-street, was on a
visit at her aunt's, in Colebrook-row, in the care of her
female attendant, and was there put carefully to bed, and
not left until asleep. At midnight the family were alarmed
by the shrieks of the child, who was found at the bottom
of the staircase, with its skull fractured and is the agonies
of death, from which time it survived only three hour,.
Tht deceased, it is supposed, on awaking, and finding her-
self in a strange bed, had got out and wandered towarr's
the bed-room door, which was not closed, and in endea-
vouring to walk down stairs, had accidentally fallen from
the top to the bottom, and produced the fatal catastrophe.

At a meeting of the Corporation of Ban-
bury, on Thursday, the election of THOMAS NOON Tar..
FOURD, of the Inner Temple, Esq., as Deputy-Recorder
for that borough, was approved of by the Mayor and Al-
dermen ; and D. STUART, Esq., of Wykham Park, was
elected an Alderman and Magistrate.

CLINTON JAMES FYNES CLINTON, Esq.,
barrister-at-law, was on Tuesday last unanimously elected
Recorder of the borough of Newark, in the place of JOHN
BA LGUY, jun. Esq., who has resigned.

ECCENTRlClTY.—Eccentricity finds eccen-
tric reasons in general for what it does. SCHAGAR, a
Danish man of fortune, sold his estate and fixed himself in
the northernmost corner of Iceland, saying that he hated
the confined air of Europe, and chose to have his breezes
fresh from the Poles. An Englishman, some years ago,
was found settled amidst hogs and dirt in a villige on the
west coast of Ireland, and when asked the reason of his
doing so, replied that he wanted to be in the next post
town to America. A Spaniard perched himself on the
Sierra Morena, amidst the clouds and winds. When
asked why he settled in so solitary, cloudy, and stormy a
spot, he said that he bated mankind, and the clouds woul
hide them from him. The storms would drown the noise
and fury of his wife's tongue, and he could not be solitary
when he had the angels for next-door neighbours.
CHOLERA MORBUS.—The character of ye-
cesection has been libelled in a peculiar manner. At an
early period, during the progress of this singular malady,
the blood deserts the superficial vessels of the body, for the
deep seated and internal parts, and even before the period
has arrived in which loss of blood could be injurious to
the patient, not a drop of that fluid can in general be pro
cured, after the opening of both veins and arteries. In
99 cases out of 100, where patients are said to have dud
" despite of blood-letting," it will appear, upon examina-
tion, either that no blood flowed from the incised veins, or
that it came away in drops, or in a small broken stream,
rarely exceeding a few ounces in quantity. On the con-
trary, where blood was freely obtained to the extent of 20
or 30 ounces, and where the depletion was followed by
proper auxiliaries, the patients have usually recovered.--
Kenendy on the History of the Contagious Cholera.

The rules and regulations proposed by the
Board of Health, for the prevention or alleviation cf the
dreadful disease with which we are now threatened, hav-
ing been promulgated in the Gazette by order of Govern-
ment, parish meetings should be held immediately fur the
purpose of deciding on the adoption of those means by
which the virulence of the disease may be mitigated if no-
wholly avoided. Committees of the most active inhabit
tants should be appointed at those meetings, to direct and
superintend the daily cleansing of the narrow streets and
alleys of their respective parishes, The principal part of
London is cleansed by contract, and the state of the
streets, especially those inhabited by the pourer class,
where decayed vegetables and all descriptions of filth are
allowed to accumulate for several days in the centre of the
road, evidently prove how inefficiently that duty is per-
formed. The water that is allowed to escape through the
different drains would, if properly applied, be sufficient
to wash most, of the streets in the city ; and the plugs
which afforded a supply for watering the streets during
summer might he employed fur the same purpose. Col-
lections of manure and sweepings at wharfs, public lay
stalls, and markets, should be constantly removed ;
increased number of scavengers placed at the disposal of
the parish committees would insure the performance of
these necessary precautions for public safety, at the same
time that the poor would be benefitted by employment a'
a period when there is but little demand for their services.
Not an hour should be lost in organizing a system, to be
acted upon with vigour on the first indications of the
disease. When once its symptoms have appeared, it wit'
be impossible to act with that promptness and deeisi.o,
that is required to admit of any chance of arre,ting its
direful progress.—Vows.