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

During September the cholera continued to rage
in Southern Russia, assuming a severe 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 ward:and:west-
war, and that some cases had occurred at Orel, at Toula,
at Saratof, and as far as the village of Pensa, only
fifty leagues from Moscow. In this, its north-west-
ern route through the province of Astrakan, and to
the borders of 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 arc
now met with in Saratof, Woronesch, Tarnbof, and
liasan ; but that there is a fresh outbreak in Persia,
whence the epidemic tends to Asiatic Turkey. It is
al:o 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 itiospitals 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
.t against
us we should be active enough, but as only a
pestilence, we sit still with shut eyes and foldedhands!

" JUST LIKE MY MONSTER."—A curious. circurn-
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Madame Celeste, who was performing in the character
of Miami, the Indian gitl, shoots the English husband
by whom she has been deserted, a woman started up in
the pit and exclaimed in a loud voice, " Serve him rights
—it's just like my monster !" This explosion of in-
sulted womanhood, produced by the " cunning of the
scene" and Madame Celeste's powerful acting, was
followed by a shout of laughter from all parts of the
house, proving that art frequently possesses more in-
fluence over our feelings than nature herself.

A complete collection of the engravings of
Soelen,
hag left by the late Count Verstoelk
a2oeie
baa just been publicly sold at Amsterdam. The Rust.
bran.dt with the sword went off at 3.600f11;,20th2e1.; Flight
into Egypt, 752 f.; the Resurrection of Lazarus, other-
wise the piece of the 100 florins, sold at
at 100 the Cure of the Sick
florins, sold for only
.issurabjne,ect,al6loedof.t;hseamenegsruabiveengt,
3,2001.; although proofs of it were mach dearer during
the lifetime of the author; the Christ presented to the
people, 1,9001.; portrait of Franze, 3,300 f.; a portrait at
Zelling,3,6oof.; and several other portraits atihgh prievs.
The work of 801, and that, ofxLieven Van ©lies were
sold together for 10,400 f. lhe enti,re collection of en-
gravings of the late M. Verstoelk \ an Soelen, produced
70,660 f. Almost the whole of it was purchased on ac•
count of the British Museum.
METROPOLITAN IMPROVEMENTS.--Yesterday her
Majesty's Commissioners of Woods and Forests
lodged
notices of intended application to tho ensuing session of
Parliament for power to forma new street from the
Lincoln's Inn-fields, to Fetter lane, demolishing
Junction of Star and Bell yards with Carey-street,
houses on the east side of Star and
Bell yards, on both
sides of Carey-street, between Star and Bell yards and
Chancery-:atie, the whole or some portion of Symond's
Inn, the west end of Rolls-buildings, the west side of
Fetter lade, and both sides of Rolls-buildings, Fetter-lane,
White's-alley, east side of Lee's-buildings, and the
whole of Acorn-court ; and also for power to remove
the Colonnade of the Regent-street Quadrant, and to
sell the materials to defray the expense of new fronting
the houses, and should that prove insufficient, to make a
rate ou the inhabitants, who have for some time past
complained of this colonnade as a hindrance to their
business, and as affording a harbour to questionable
characters.

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.—
Aria's Birmingham Gazette.
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PROGRESS OF THE CHOLERA.
(From the Lancer.)
In 1831 and 1832 the cholera de wastittd the prin-
cipal countries of Europe, which it ib; thought to have
then visited for the first time; for p re•viously to 1817
the poison originating about the Indian jungles
seemed to have limited its operation to their imme-
diate localities ; but in that year if. overstepped its
ancient boundaries, and ravaged Ma lacca and Java,
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carrying off 400,000 people; next al so Borneo and
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ern course, it entered Persia, then Arabia, and in
18'23 appeared at the foot of the Cameasus, and the
borders of the Caspian Sea. In 1826 it spread over
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Siberia, and penetrated to the centre of Russia ; and
in the following year invaded successivel
—Egypt ; in Europe Poland , in Africa
, Gallici y
a, Austria,
Bohemia, Hungary, and reached Pruis;ia in 1831.
Continuing its progress, it passed across the sea to
England, and thence turned aside to France, and,
by and bye, invaded the New World. Besides this,
its northern route through Europe, the ch.olera also
took one course through the south of Eurc.pe, 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 13okhara 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. A.ll 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—al ways 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-
cines. 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 ofthe 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-lihale. 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 had 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.