The Sun.
London, England, 1847-10-02 00:00:00

The cholera is making rapid progress. The Em-
peror of Russia has deferred his proposed visit to
Poland, in consequence of the approach of the disease
to that kingdom. The number of the persons who
died of cholera between the 16th October, 1846, and
the 14th June, 1847, in the Caucasus, amounted to
6,318. The cholera reached its greatest intensity in
Astracan on the 25th July. On the 31st of that
month 131 persons died. It still raged in Georgia,
and so great was the apprehension felt in Trebizonde,
that all communications had been interrupted between
that city and Batoum, where it was believed to have
manifested itself. At Erzeroum the number of
victims was inconsiderable ; not more than 20 or 25
cases occurred daily, one-third of which were fatal.
The poorer classes were principally affected. The
disease had appeared at Redout Kale, but was of a
mild character. After quitting Persia, it had re-
entered that country by the Carabagh.

A general armament is taking place in the Canton
de Vaud and some others, of all men from eighteen
to forty years of age. It was feared that this mea-
sure would produce a collision between the cantons
previous to the assembling of the Diet.

Accounts from Athens have been received to the
20th of September.

General KITZO TZAVELLAB, Minister of War, has
been appointed President of the Council.
CoLErri was buried on the 12th Sept. The whole
diplomatic and consular body, the civil and military
authorities, and the deputies and senators attended
the funeral.

The KING issued an ordonnance on that day, com-
manding all the civil and military employes of the
State to wear mourning for five days for COLETTI.

The French steamer from Alexandria arrived at
Malta at three P. M. on the 24th ult. She reported
that the India steamer had arrived at Suez, and that
the Ariel, with India Mails, would leave on the 21st.

Madrid papers of the 25th ult. have arrived.
They publish the letters addressed by ESPARTERO
to the QUEEN and the Ministers. The letter to the
QUEEN is as follows :
" Senora,—On receiving the royal decree of the 3d,
my first impulse was to express my gratitude for the
favour your Majesty deigned to confer on me by
calling me to occupy a post in the Senate, and also
the lively satisfaction I feel in being permitted to
address myself to your Majesty.
" Your Majesty being graciously disposed towards
the conciliation of all Spaniards, hitherto divided by
political oscillations, the majority of the nation will
sustain with enthusiasm a desire as benevolent as it
is generous ; but if there remain obstacles to over-
come, your Majesty may permit your generous heart
to yield to its own impulse. Let not your Majesty
lay aside the valour inspired by sublime actions, in
the certainty that those who, with so much constancy,
combated, even before the time when your Majesty
could comprehend their sacrifices, to defend the
throne based on the constitution of the State will
never abandon your Majesty in the hour of danger.
" The nation, Senora, hopes much from your Ma-
jesty ; counting on a support as noble as it is pa-
triotic, your Majesty will not forget that you are
called to restore its splendour to the monarchy, and
that the reward which awaits your Majesty is as
great as the work you have undertaken—a glorious
renown and the benedictions of an entire people.
" Senora, on giving expression with so much frank•
ness to the sentiments which animate me, I do so in
the hope that your Majesty, convinced of my respectful
veneration, will benignly receive the words of one
who with loyalty served your Majesty and the State
—of one who, though far from his native land, has
never ceased to pray for the preservation of your
Majesty, because on your preservation depends that
of Spanish independence.
" At the royal feet of your Majesty,
" THE DUKE OF VICTORY.
" London, Sept. 12."
The communication to the Government is addressed
to the Minister of the Interior :

"Most Excellent Sir,—l have received the Royal
order of the 3d instant, which your Excellency has
done me the honour to transmit to me, and which in-
forms me that her Majeaty has been pleased to name
me senator of the kingdom, the duties of which office
I shall endeavour to perform worthily.
"I trust that your Excellency will be so good as
to place the accompanying letter in the royal
hands of her Majesty, and at the same time express
to her my unalterable sentiments of gratitude and of
loyalty.
" Those sentiments, as your Excellency will per-
ceive, are in complete harmony with the generous
and patriotic principles of the preamble of the Royal
decree of the 2d of September, which does so much
honour to the Ministers who subscribed it.
"May God preserve your Excellency many years,.
" THE DUKE OF "VICTORY.
"London, Sept. 12."

According to the Eco del Comercio, her Mezasry
received Colonel GUERRA, ESPARTERO'S Secretary, in
the kindest possible manner, and inquired with great
interest as to the health of the Duke and Duchess of
VICTORY.

In reply to the laudations of the disinterestedness
of France, in which the Heraldo is wont to indulge
the Clamor Publico says—
" Our colleague may have excellent reasons for not
bringing into public discussion the too notorious pro-
jects of the neighbouring kingdom; but it will per-
suade no one that our powerful ally, regardless of its
traditions, no longer interferes in our affairs, or that it
respects the independence of Spain. Neither exer-
tions nor force have been diminished merely from the
fact of the question having changed its ground and
aspect. With the same perseverance the Cabinet of
the Tuileries endeavours at this very moment to carry
out its favourite plan of placing a crown on the head
of the French Duke, as its old designs of placing under
its dependence constitutional Spain, beginning from
the death of Ferdinand, and ending with the double
marriage which sealed its Machiavelic system. And
we hazard nothing in assuring that at this day its
efforts are still greater to reap the fruits of the nego-
tiations and cabals of so many years, introduce into our royal race a
scion all directe
of the fortud to
family raised up by the revolution of July. nate
It ia not (
possible for France to desist from its constant policy
at the very moment when it touches, as if with the
hand, the realisation of its golden dreams."
The Three per Cents. were done at 26 fo;, cash; the 1.

tion in the sewerage throughout the kingdom, but
until that re-organization can be properly effected, let
such simple precautions be adopted for the diminu-
tion of the pestilential exhalation from public drains
as that of periodically pouring into those lairs of
fever and infection a given quantity of the disinfect-
ing fluid. That extraordinary advantages result
from the employment of this most important disco-
very, we can ourselves attest, having very recently
witnessed experiments which proved the existence
of a powerful disinfecting property in the liquid
concocted in the laboratory of the philanthropist. A
bucket full of water drawn from a tan-pit, and im-
pregnated to such a frightful extent with decayed
animal matter, that the stench was absolutely unen-
durable, was in a few seconds rendered as inoffensive
as a cup of spring water, by adding to it a small
portion of the disinfecting fluid. Immediately the
two liquids are combined a thick scum rises to the
surface, thereby adding to the advantage of destroy-
ing all the pestilential exhalations that of afford-
ing to the agriculturist a wholesome and nutri-
tious manure. It is such sanitary precautions as
this of the disinfecting fluid that we would willingly
see adopted in every city, and town, and hamlet in
the United Kingdom. Were they to be enforced upon
every municipality and local guardianship by an enact-
ment preliminary to a comprehensive law of sanitary
reform, the ordinary mortality of the country would
be very considerably diminished. Then, indeed, we
might await the dispensations of DIVINE PROVIDENCE
without any undue fear for our poorer brethren, and
tarry even the dread arrival of the Cholera with
calmness and resignation.

We learn from Berlin that the trial of the political
prisoners implicated in the late Polish revolution was
going on rather more rapidly than at the commence-
ment. About eighty cases had been decided, but few
of the sentences had been promulgated. M. MIERO-
Lawn! has been condemned to death. The defence of
this gentleman was bold and animated, and in some
parts so affecting that his judges shed tears.

The Pallade of Rome announces that Pizzo, in
Calabria, has joined in the revolt, and that the insur-
gents have put to death the family TRENTA CAPILLI.
The banner of the insurgents of Calabria bears a red
cross on a white ground, surrounded by as many
green crosses as there are States in Italy.
A letter from Italy, in the Augsburg Gazette, an-
nounces the death of Admiral BANDIERA, the father
of the two unfortunate officers who were executed at
Cosenza.