The Sun.
London, England, 1847-11-09 00:00:00

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,then visited for the first time; for previously to 1817
he poison originating about the Indian jungles
-erred to have limited its operation to their imme-
cdaiarrteyaiicalities ; but in that year it overstepped its
ancient boundaries, and ravaged Malacca and Java,
gdgeoavnfranesdrta4al‘lOtlieyOad,,uorO China,
people ; next also Borneo and
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reaching Mauritius. the
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e course, it entered Persia, then Arabia, and in
1823 appeared at the foot of the Caucasus, and the
borders of the Caspian Sea. In 1826 it spread over
Siberia, and penetrated to the centre of Russia ; and
in the following year invaded successively, in Africa
—Egypt; in Europe Poland, Gallicia, Austria,
Bohemia, Hungary, and reached Pruisia in 1831.
Continuing its progress, it passed across the sea to
England, and thence turned aside to France, and,
by and lop, invaded the New World. Besides this,
its northern route through Europe, the cholera also
took one course through the south of Europe, from
Asia Minor.
From the preceding sketch, the north-western
course of the cholera is especially observable; and
this course the disease appears to follow, but more
irregularly, at the present time. In September,
1845, the cholera manifested itself at Bokhara and
Samarcand, and in the same year, at a point dia-
metrically opposite, at Bagdad, in which city, con-
taining 80,000 inhabitants, from 400 to 450 died
daily. The disease thence followed the course of the
pilgrims to Mecca, and in November, 1845, advanced
towards Teheran, one of the chief cities of Persia, but
did not appear in that city till June, 1846. The
patients there seized with it did not suffer, it is said,
from cramps or vomitings, but fell into a kind of
lethargy, accompanied with paralysis. All remedies
were unavailing, and those seized died at the end of
from three to eight hours. Not less than 300 died
every day, and of 130,000 people in the city, 9,000
fell victims to the scourge. The epidemic declining
there, then directed its course through the dis-
tricts of Schirmun, Kasbin, and Kaschan ; and
in August approached Tauris, and then Astra-
bad—always pursuing a westward course. At
Tauris the malady did not appear with so great
severity ; little was complained of by patients except
vomiting and cramps, which were relieved by medi-
-1 eines. In its course through Persia the cholera did
not always follow the direction of the winds, nor that
of the chief roads or valleys, but its march was irre-
gular, and large tracts were passed over.
In October, 1846, the cholera showed itself in the
region of the Caucasus, but in a very mild form ; and
on the 13th of May, 1847, appeared at Tiflis. In
that city, from the 13th of May to the 24th of June,
but sixty-seven persons died out of 164 attacked, and
amidst a population of 6,000. The lower classes,
exposed to various depressing agents, were those
who suffered.
In the middle of July, the cholera advanced to New
Russia, about the months of the Don, where every pre-
paration had been made by the Government against
its approach. In August, the disease continued to
rage in Tiflis, and advanced to Erzeroum, Kars, and
Koutais, as well as to some parts of the Black Sea—
viz., Batoum and Redout-Khale. At Erzeroum the
malady was very mild, but at Batoum more se-
vere. In the Caucasus, the Russian army
suffered greatly from its ravages, and it has
lately carried off some of the chief corn-
manders,—diminishing in some detachments, but in-
creasing in others. The tables of mortality in New
Russia state, that of 639 seized, 501 have died.
On the 9th of September the cholera reached Tre-
bizonde; from that date to the 15th, the epidemic in-
creased; but from the 15th to the 18th, it declined.
About 300 cases occurred in this period, of which
103 died ; and the sanitary physician of the city de-
clares, that if the malady be treated early, ninety out
of 100 may be saved. On the 4th of September,
Erzeroum, which bad suffered in July and August,
began to be free from the disease, whilst it had again
broken out at Bagdad, but not so severely as before,
and by the last courier was announced to be on the
decline.
During September the cholera continued to rage
in Southern Russia, assuming asevere form, and
carrying off, as reported, whole villages, but had not
passed beyond Charkow. Riga was said, but it would
seem erroneously, to be visited by the epidemic. On
October the sth, the Russian official reports announced
that the malady pursued its course north vvard:and:west-
war, and that some cases had occurred at Orel, at Toula,
at Saratof, and as far as the village of Pensa, only
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of
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efi
therf nty
throughbroloeuradtgeeuress o from
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Smra Wallachia and Moldavia, 7,248 persons
had been seized, of whom 3,342 had died—i. e., from
the close of August until the middle of September.
The last accounts from Russia, however, state that
the malady is on the decline, and that few cases are
now met with in Saratof, \Voronesch, Tambof, and
Kasan ; but that there is a fresh outbreak in Persia,
whence the epidemic tends to Asiatic 'Turkey. It is
also reported that the cholera has shown itself at
Perecop, about fifty miles from Odessa ; but that it is
declining in intensity at Trebizonde, and has disap-
peared from Tangarok and Marcanopel, on the shores
of the sea of Asoph.
Towards the close of September, it was announced
that the cholera had arrived on the frontiers of Gal-
licia, and that some cases had occurred in Silesia and
Moravia. It has been more recently stated, that a
case had presented itself in one of the hospitals of
Vienna ; but this wants confirmation.
From the preceding account, based on official
documents, the approach of the cholera to this coun-
try is rendered morally certain ; it follows pretty
much the same route as heretofore, it is seen to be
unstayed by climate ; penetrating, as it does, to-
wards northern Russia ; to vary in intensity, and
even in character, at different places ; to pass over
tracts of country; and not to follow, except a gene-
ral north-westward course, any direction favoured by
the physical features of the country, or the direction
of the winds.
Upon the whole, the career of the present epidemic
does not appear to be so fatal as that of the last; and
it would also seem to differ in some characters, al-
though presenting in all, that peculiar one—viz., ex -
cessive collapse.
The various Governments on the continent have
dispatched physicians to the foci of its action, to in-
vestigate into its phenomena and nature ; England
alone neglects this duty of informing herself of the
disease, and of effecting energetic sanitary arrange-
ments, and will probably remain inactive until the
scourge sweeps across her surface, carrying off its
thousands. if any army were advancing against
us we should be active enough, but as it is only a
folded
pestilence, we sit still with shut eyes and
hands I

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i the editor of the journal, and the same paper which
• contained that letter misstated the facts and opinions
[ he had advanced. It was a remarkable thing, but
the journal was at all times remarkably successful in
one thing, and that was in misrepresenting him. Well,
when he saw this error he wrote another note to the
journal, and then the next week they put in an article,
the plain meaning of which was to show that it was
better a part of the previous one had not been
printed.—(Hear.) They said they didn't take their
figures from M'Culloch. For his part he didn't
know whether they did or not, but this he did know,
that they couldn't have a worse authority. The Hon.
Gentleman next read at length the article in the
Times, commenting upon the alleged inaccuracies in
it as he proceeded. He denounced it as a " perfect
piece of manufacture, full of false representation,"
and " without one word of truth in it, it
being utterly, totally, and gratuitously false."
In conclusion, he said, that for thirty-five
years they had been in a state of profound peace, and
now they were in a worse condition than ever, with
the prospect of a heavy property-tax. He pointed
out to Lord John Russell the increased evils which
would result hereafter from the attempt to miti-
gate the pressure, because he was convinced that they
would be infinitely greater than if Government had
never interfered. It was now the duty of the people
to rid themselves of a Government and a press which
upheld such a pernicious and ruinous system, or they
would be beggars as long as they lived.—(Cheers.)
Mr. SPOONER said, that having, like his friend Mr.
Muntz, come to the meeting without his dinner, he
should necessarily be brief. He wished to state at the
outset, however, that his friend and colleague, Mr.
Newdegate, would have accompanied the deputation
to Lord John Russell, but that, consequent on prior
engagements, he had been unable to be in London
on the day; at the same time he was desirous of
rendering every assistance in his power to promote
the object they had in view. The Hon. Gentleman
next confirmed the observations which had been
made by Mr. Muntz, with reference to the inaccu-
racies in the Times' article. He supposed (he
said) that the editorial " we " had written something
in anticipation of what he supposed they might say,
and that he afterwards thought it too good to be
omitted. Adverting to the step which Government
had taken for the relief of the pressure, he said that
although it had had the effect of turning the ex-
changes, it had also depreciated the value of property
in this country to the benefit of foreigners. He ad-
mitted that the pressure would for a while be miti-
gated in one quarter, and that further failures might
be prevented ; but the burthen would now fall on the
labouring classes, their misery and destitution were
inevitable, and the Ministry that could act with so
little regard for the wants of that important part of
the community ought not to be suffered to go on.
He congratulated them on the fact that the people
were at last alive to the real source of their misery ;
he claimed for himself and his friend, Thomas At-
wood, the credit of having pointed out in 1819 the
inevitable result of the fatal measure of that year; the
opinions he then held and proclaimed he had eonsis-
tently and unflinchingly abided by ; and he said to
them now, as he had always said with respect to free
trade, that if they were to have it, it must be free in-
deed. He had told them that it was no use having
cheap bread unless they had the means of
buying it; and had not those words come
true ?—(Hear, hear.) All he asked in future, then,
was, that whilst they held, as they had a right to do,
their own opinions, they would, for Heaven's sake, do
justice to those who differed from them. He con-
gratulated the people on the fact that they had one
amongst them as a leader so talented and well-in-
formed as Mr. Mason, and rejoiced that they had for-
gotten their political differences in their anxiety to
unite in putting down an iniquitous system. The
Hon. Gentleman next alluded to the courteous
manner in which Lord J. Russell had received the
deputation, and thereafter adverted to and explained
some inaccuracies which had appeared in the Times,
the articles in which paper were, he gently hinted,
written at the instigation of some great capitalist,
directly interested in the maintenance of the present
system ; and he concluded by declaring that, whilst
he was quite callous and indifferent to any attacks
which might be made upon him, " Mr." Times might
keep his own opinions, but that he should never ridi-
cule him out of his.—(Cheers.)
Mr. Haneow next briefly addressed the meeting,
and the resolution having been afterwards put was
unanimously adopted.
A vote of thanks was then passed to the Chairman,
and the proceedings terminated.

" JUST LIHE sty MONSTER."—A curious circum-
stance occurred at the Adelphi Theatre on Friday even-
ing during the performance of The Green Bushes. When
who was performing in the character
oMfa Adfaiammei,etehleseltnedian girl, shoots the English husband
produced by
by Tthhies
"cunning explosion of in-
sultedof the
n
by whom she has been deserted, a woman started up in
the pit and exclaimed in a loud voice, " Serve him right!
s—ceites" a
j u""otnmd A like
ha)Inola: po
Madame m
Celeste's powerful acting, was
followed by a shout of laughter from all puts of the
house, proving that art frequently possesses more in-
fluence over our feelings than nature herself.
A complete collection of the engravings of Rem-
brandt, left by the late Count Verstoelk Van Soelen,
has just been publicly sold at Amsterdam. The Rem-
brandt with the sword went off at 3.600 f.; the Flight
into Egypt, 752 f.; the Resurrection of Lazarus, other-
wise the piece of the 100 florins, sold at 1,202 f.; same
subject, 600 E; same subject, 398 f.; the Cure of the Sick
p uhsepd r
Man, called the engraving at 100 florins, sold for only
3.200 f.; although proofs of it were much dearer
dodounruienaccgd.
0
ptheeopliiefe,tlim,
;thpoeraturathitoort Franze, 3,300 f.; a portrait of
;.
the Christ presentedrca to the
Zelling,3,6oof.; and several other portraits atihgb prices.
The work of Bel, and that of,.Lieven Van Alies w
9eool.
were
sold together for 10,400 f. The entire collection of en_
7gr,a6v6ino.. gts oAf
Almost
tatte
ehMw.
hVoelerstoofelikt Vwaasn Soelen,
count of the British Museum.

yesterdayForestsher
METROPOLITAN IMPROVEMENTS.
Majesty's Commissioners of Woods and
notices of intended application to the lodged
ensuing session
Parliament for power to form a
junction of Star and Bell yards with street from the
Lincoln's Inn-fields, to with Carey-street,
Fetter 1
houses on the east side of Star lan®, demolishing the
sides of Carey-street, bet and Bell yards, on both
Chan • eery -lane, the wholeween Star and Bell
or some yards and
Inn, the west end of Rolls-buildings,portion of Symond's
Fetterlade, and both sidesof R the west aide of
White's-alley, east Rolls-buildings,Fetter-lane,
whole of Acorn side
of Lee's-buildings, and' the ,
-court ; and also 0
the Colonnade of the R for power to remote
sell the materials to defray
at reoeve
rate on the inhabitants, whop have
complained of this colonnade as hindrance
business, and as
characters. gtehnt-street Quadrant, and to
p.ensefhof new fronting
rnsfor*cient, to. make a
some time past
a to their
affording a harbour to questionable
It is understood that valuable mines of coal, iron-
stone, and fire-clay have recently been discovered at
Aldridge, near Walsall; and on Monday last the resident
proprietors, Messrs. Clarke and homer, regaled Mr.
John Roberts, their scientific mine-agent, together with
the miners and others employed in the works, with a
bountiful supply of roast beef, plum-pudding, and ale.—
Aris's Birmingham Gazette.
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FOR BILE, Lim, SroLicn, AND BORICLL COMPLAINTS.—These
diseases are most prevalent in hot, close, and sultry weather, and
if not abated by the timely use of proper medielne6, frequently lay
' the foundation of disorders which become inFurablevoid which
take iionowry,s pills; there being no medicine efficacaious in the
cure of these coinplaints, not only ridding the liver of all redundant
bile, but cre
~ keen appetite, and permanently invigorating
' sting
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pills with perfect sa
other disorders incident to the human trams—sold by ali druggists
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