The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-14 00:00:00

THE CHOLERA.
CIVIC PRECAUTIONS AGAINST CHOLERA.
Yesterday, upon taking his seat at the Mansion-
house, the Lord Mayor said that at the present time,
when much apprehension was entertained regarding
the appearance of the cholera in this country, he was
happy to say that the greatest efforts were being made
by the City Commissioners of Sewers to enforce the
sanitary arrangements of the Board of Health, and
that the receipt of a letter that morning from the
President of the Royal College of Physicians had
given him much satisfaction; and as he thought it
might tend to the prevention of alarm, he could not
do better than hand it to the reporters who attended
for the public press for the information of his fellow-
citizens. _ _

The following is a copy of the communication :
" Diver street, Oct. 12.
"My Lord Mayor,—Your Lordship, I feel assured,
will learn with satisfaction that the College of Physi-
cians has appointed a standing committee, consisting of
the physicians of the great metropolitan hospitals, and
other eminent persons, for the purpose of inviting and
considering communications on the subject of cholera,
and, if necessary, of suggesting such measures and pre-
cautions as may appear expedient to insure the confi-
dence and safety of the public.
"I have the honour to be, my Lord,
"Your Lord,hip's obedient servant,
" J. A. PARIS,
" President of the Royal College of Physicians.
" To the Right Hon. the Lora Mayor."
His Lordship then forwarded the letter to the City
Commissioners of Sewers.

We are informed that four cases, confidently stated
to be of Asiatic cholera, were notified at Uxbridge
yesterday. In London scattered attacks were re-
ported, and very numerous cases of diarrhoea, but no
fatal cases. From Hamburgh we learn that up to
the 9th instant the total number of persons attacked
was 2,229, of whom 1,043 had up to that day fallen
victims ; that 411 remained under treatment, and 775
had been cured. The information from Lubeck,
where the pestilence had broken out, was unfavour-
able; it was rapidly increasing.
WOOLWICH', OCT. 13.—The cases on board the
convict-ship• Justitia up to this day are twenty-five,
six new cases having been reported within the previous
twenty-four hours. Of that number five are reported
as having died, and one discharged. The other
eighteen are not apparently in any immediate dan-
ger, but so debilitated that their medical attendants
have not considered themselves justified in entering

them in the list of recoveries. There was no appear-
anoe of any syrnptoms of the disease in the town or
parish of Woolwich, according to the returns of the
medical practitioners, up to twelve o'clock to-day.
The scarlet fever was abating, and a better state of
health prevailing within the last two days. It has
been observed that the Justitia con►ict-ship is at pre-
sent stationed opposite the outlet of a sewer, and that
it would be advisable to have her removed farther
down the river.
EDINBURGH.—We have not heard of the occur-
rence of any new cases of cholera since Tuesday even-
ing, and hopes are beginning to be entertained that
the disease will pass over the city without farther in-
creasing its mortality. Some of our contemporaries
stated yesterday that the number of deaths from cho-
lera amounted to 25; but we understand that at least
three of these were cases of British cholera. At a
meeting held on Tuesday, the general acting commit-
tee of the parochial board of St. Cuthbert's appointed
twelve of their number to carry into effect the direc-
tions of the local Board of Health, as to the measures
to be adopted for the prevention and cure of cholera.
During the course of the proceedings it was stated
that the board had an hospital ready for 24 patients,
and that if more accommodation was necessary, there
was another ward which could be put into a satisfac-
tory state at an hour's notice, capable of holding 28
patients. The local Board of Health is constituted
as follows :—The Right Hon. Adam Black, Sheriff
Gordon, Sir John M'Neill, D. J. Thomson, Esq.
(Dean of Guild), Dr. Christison (President of the
Royal College of Physicians). and Dr. Pagan (Presi •
dent of the Royal College of Surgeons).
LORD PONSONBY'S REMEDY FOE CHOLERA.—The
following is a transcript of part of a letter from Lord
Ponsonby to the Bishop of Derry :—" The cholera is,
I perceive, making its way in these dominions ; I
therefore send you a prescription which, if taken in
time, is a certain cure, and has proved to be so in
many cases to my own knowledge. Its simplicity,
and the extremely minute quantity of the doses, will
probably induce you to doubt of its efficacy, but trust
to this fact, that you will have had experience of its
power and virtue before it will be in your power to
obtain medical advice ; that is to say, in a quarter of
an hour or twenty-five minutes. Observe one thing,
viz., if you take any other thing than cold or iced
water its whole effect will be destroyed. All
you have to do is to place the patient in bed,
and not to overload him with clothes, or plague him
with any external applications, but leave him to the
medicine ; which is, one-sixth part of camphor dis-
solved in six parts of strong spirits of wine, or two
drachms of camphor to an ounce and a half of spirits
of wine. Of this, immediately on being attacked,
the patient is to take two drops on a little pounded
sugar, in a teaspoonful of cold or iced water ; in five
mtnutes after, two more drops ; and so continue until
the symptoms begin to yield. If the vomiting
should be violent, so as to render it difficult for the
stomach to retain the madicine, a small piece of ice
about the size of a nutmeg must be given before and
after the camphor ; proceed till there is a sense of
returning warmth, with a disposition towards perspi-
ration, and a manifest decrease of sickness and cramps,
&c. This will never fail if done at once, and will
always do good at any period of the disease, but the
least mixture of medicine neutralises the effects of
the camphor.—Yours ever, PONSONBY. To the Hon.
aid Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Derry. 1832."

EMIGRATION.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Slll,—As public opinion begins to be favourable to
my plan of emigration and colonization through poor-
law unions, I beg to go rather more into detail. To make
emigration a real benefit to the mother country and
the colonies, Government should make a scale, and
give land to every union and emigration society in
proportion to the number of emigrants they sent out.
Suppose the coat of conveying to Australia a man or
woman is 20/., Government should signify that land
in the proportion of twenty acres for every adult,
and about five acres for every child, would be placed
at the disposal of any party sending out emigrants ; a
poor-law union, for instance, could then give the ne-
cessary notice that it had the land to sell ; and for the
purpose of elucidation we will presume that twenty
purchasers came forward and took 1,000 acres, no
improbable circumstance. This, at 11. per acre,
would yield the union 1,0001., out of-which the pas-
sage money of the twenty purchasers would have to
be paid, leaving 6001. to promote the emigration of
thirty poor pebons, or to aid the emigration of the
connexions of the twenty purchasers, as might be
agreed on between them and the union. In some
cases, perhaps, none but persons requiring twenty
acres each would offer, then there would be nothing
to spare. My object is to make unions retailers of
land ; for, desirable as it is to have ten and twenty-
acre men in the colonies, as well as great capitalists
and mere labouttrs, yet it is not in the power of Go-
vernment to crate such a class ; the process would
be too tedious, and can only be efficiently done by
local authorities. Every person who can pay 201.
ought in have a right to demand a passage out and
twenty acres of land on his arrival.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
Hall, Oct. 9, 1848. T. R.

INQUEST-ON THES BODY OF MR. SIMARD, AT BlR-
MlNCSHAN.—Brusuricaast, FRIDAY.—Today an in-
vest on the body of the above gootkman was com-
menced at the Qtwen's Hotel, 13,fore J. B. Davies, E-q.,
coroner, and a highly respectable jury. Some el idence
having been taken, the inquest was adjourned till next
Friday.

SALE OP THE MEDICAL TIMES AND PHARMA-
rEUTWAL TlMES.—Yesterday morning Mr. Hodgson,
the auctioneer, submitted to public competition, under
the order of the-mortgagees in possession, the copyright
and printed stock of these weekly medical journals. The
former,' which 'has been established nearly nine years,
gained considerable notoriety a short time since in con-
sevence-of a seri.es of libellous attacks which appeared
in its colnmns upon Mr. Wakely, the coroner, and who
was at that time and still is the proprietor and editor of
the Lancet, a rival journal. In consequence of these
attacks, Mr. Wakley entered several actions for libel, in
all of which he was successful, and heavy damages were
inflicted upon the defendant, which- in all probability led
to the presect sale, as the auctioneer stated its receipts
at this time to be such as to produce a clear income of
10001. per'anntim. The first offer for the entire copy-
right and right of continuation of the Medical limes
was 3001,which rose slowly until it reached 1,7101., at
which figure it was ultimately knocked down to Messrs.
Tyler and Reed, the well-known punters. The Phar-
maceutical Times was then put up, but, despite of the
eloquence of Mr. Hodgson, it failed to elicit one single
pffer, and the sale, after a considerable delay, was ad-
journed.

_
DIOCESAN VISITATION AND CONSECRATION. OX.
FORD, FRIDAY.—The Lord Bishop of Oxford held his
an dual visitation on Thursday (yesterday), at the Uni-
'entity church, St. Mary's, Oxford. There was a large
attendance of the resident and neighbouring clergy and
churchwarden 9. The service (which was a full cathedral
one) commenced at eleven o'clock, and was not over
until within a few minutes of f4nr. His Lordship's
charge occupied nearly three hours. This morning his
Lordship, attended by Dr. Phiilimore, the Venerable
Archdeacon Clarke, R. Morrell, Dq.; the Rev. Robert
i h Hose , B.D. ; Charles Page Eden, James Elwin Mil-
lard, n William Knott, Thomas Chamb:rlain, Robert
Hake, harles Warner, and several other of the parochial
clergy, consecrated the newly-erected chapel and bury-
ing ground adjoining Holywell Church, and dedicated it
ta,“ Saint" Cross. This is the third cemetery that his
Lordship has consecrated in Oxford within the last six
weeks.