The Sun.
London, England, 1848-08-08 00:00:00

violence in the country. My h-tters from the district re•
present its effects us most destructive."
" A return of the casualties from cholera of St.-Peters'
burgh, compiled from official pub.ications, to the latest
dates, July 24:—Cases, 17,742; deaths, 10,131; cures,
4,618; under treatment, 2,986. Proportions :—per 100
—deaths, 57; cures, 26; under treatment, 17.—Britisb
Consulate, July 26.
" Moscow.—Cases, 9,754; deaths, 4,309."
" Cairo, July 18.
"My Lord,—l regret extremely to inform your LJni•
ship that the Asiatic cholera has suddenly appeared here
in a form of unusual malignity. Whence or how it came
I am at present unable to state, as no case has been re°
ported from any of the ports or frontiers of Egypt. lii•
therto its ravages have been chiefly confined to Boulak,
the port of this city on the Nile. On the night of the
15th instant five cases occurred in that suburb; on the
ictb, 18; yesterday and last
_night, 49 cases. What is
most melancholy, and also most extraordinary, is, that
although the sufferers have all possible medical aid
from practitioners who have had great experience is
the treatment of cholera, not one case has hitherto
been saved—every single patient has died in the course
of a few hours. The Board of Health have assembled and
have issued a series of precationary regulations, with *
view to limit the ravages of this fearful scourge; but it
is in rain to hope that, having begun with ouch force
and intensity, its progress can now be arrested by ail
human effort. The will of Providence may, indeed,
cause it to disappear as suddenly as it appeared ; but
until some cases of successful treatment shall have basil
reported, it will be difficult for the public mind to be
much tranquillised by the suggestions of the facult
" I have, &c., " C. A. MURRAY."
" Therapia, July 1.
"My. Lord,—The strength of the disease appears t°
fluctuate in some degree with the wind, being on the ill'
crease whenever a south or south-east wind prevails.
" The accounts from Broussa, Odessa, and Bache
rest, not to mention other places of less note, are -ref
alarming. " STRATFORD CANNING.
" The Viscount Palmerston, G.C.8."
_ . "Belgrade, July 9.
Sir,—A letter from the small town of Gradixa, oB
the Danube, about 20 leagues from hence, states:—,
" The cholera has appeared is a dreadful form. 11 e
have heard of no recoveries, and most of the cases ter"
minated fatally within twelre hours.
" A healthy woman, while occupied in cooking, rs,
attacked- by agonising cramps in the limbs,whichlbreeuge'
her to the ground in an instant. Her skin became WO°
and cold, and in less than five minutes she expired. To°
men in the next village died almost instantaneoaslK
their bodies all blue, and their knees drawn up to 001
stomachs, Every hour we see corpses carried oett fet
interment, it being impossible to keep them uuatil
next day.'

" I am, Sir,
" T. DE G. vJ FONBLANQUg.
" John Bidwell, Esq."
" Tchekerghi, near Brottass.
" ley Lord,—l lament to hare to perform the duty °'
announcing to your Lurdship a fearful visitatio fa of the
cholera in this district. It manifested itself in the tO
about eight days ago, and the number of attacks 101
increased to 60 or 70 a day. In most cases they biaveao
been late where prompt medical assistance was o.b;
tained. In the immediate vicinity of the consulate P
malady broke out and continues to rage with in use
violence; not a houSe has escaped. It has swept. oti two
of my domestics, a third recovered from an attack, fiP;
one of my daughters fell a victim to the scourge a feet
hours after our arrival at this village, where the O
mineral springs are situated, which escaped the fcifril"
,er
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visitation iu 1831, and hitherto is exempt for the prose
It is spread over many of the villages near, and te• gre
part of the district, extending also to Balukissar, vita t 0.74
valley of the Sangarius, from such imperfect info mks"'
as I can yet obtain. "I have, &c.,
" D. SANDISON, C
" Viscount Palmerston, G.C.8."

" Belgrade, June 30%
"Sir,—ln a letter from Ulexinii, Captain Cecil
son says—` There is nothing new here, except that o'
the 18th a swarm of caterpillars, such as no man eer
l
saw before, took possession of this valley, and b:r sung
had destroyed every plant. Such was the nu: nber
these insects that the people were turned out at fob
o'clock in the morning to destroy them with besol
branches of trees, &c. The roads were literalllrbloc,
with them, and the house in which I live was co 'Trod'
the first-flJor. The heat is overpowering, a breere
ing like the hot winds of India. A Tatar from Siateab°
reports that the cholera was 'aging in that city.' .Welchear,lii/•
similar phenomena to these mentioned were 4)00;4
at different places in 1831 and 1835, and assumed! to V",
some occu:t connexion with cholera. It is cersainUm
singular coincidence that (besides Alexinii) most of,ve
valleys on the south-eastern frontier of Servia aDd `mr,
west of Bulgaria should have been covered with eatgo
pillars (of a peculiar kind, as the peasants allegeyjtisi
the cholera was advancing to within a few league;
these districts ; but then it should also be considereetlio
the same unusual -heat, which adds intensity and ihrPll,4
to the disease, may also account for the extraordin9"
development of insect life.

"I am, &c.,
" T. DE G. DE FONBLANQUS•
" Jassy, June 260
" My Lord,—Since my preceding dispatch of the' lito
inst., consular No. 11, I have the honour to report
.0
the prevailing epidenay, the cholera, has assumed s Yrl,
violent character in Jassy, and that the number of osal,lo
shies has varied from 30 to 100 deaths per diem.
Government has not judged it advisable to issue IlatLY'll',l
letins on the occasion. The malady offers quite a net,
charsetee Ti. hag been so rapidly destructive the t Pei;
sons in perfect health have fallen victims to
in the short space of two or three 31°°'i,
and the instances are numerous. It may be ti," „a,
buted, undoubtedly, to the excessive heat of the st 'Oro
The thermometer for successive weeks has 140°
marked less than 29 to 30 degrees by Reaumue
,or 100
,
by Fahrenheit in the shade. At Galatz the malim tiv
almost ceased ; at Ibraila and Bucharest it has
niched ; and the abundant rain now falling will it e"',„sii
the atmosphere, and relieve us from one of thi3Co
causes of disease. In the meantime the city hal, bof
abandoned by all the families who have the me 1,1;',139
quitting it, and my own chancery is - deserted. Jiki,,o
tribunals are closed as well as the schools, and irilr°,r'tbe
measures are employed at _the barriers, or tolls. 0,4'0
city, to prevent the egress of whatever may pr .6:0„
the malady, and regulations prohibiting the intr o oc`a're
of various supplies are also enforced. Provis ions '
becoming scarce and very dear,
" To add to this gloomy picture, immense se •arte, of
p 1
locusts have appeared in every direction, and i
fold amount to that of last year.
" I have, &e.,
" SAMUEL GARDZ.T°'
" Odessa, June 28, 31818'40
My Lord,--The presence of the cholera in theistorif
was for the first time acknowledged by public aultb°- sa
yesterday. According to official report there sv,e'reo,
that day—new cases, 133; deaths, 44; recoverieskt
And from the 19th of May to the present day,ill
,d 0 and in the port—total number of cases, 824; se ‘,5;!.
deaths, 332; of recoveries, 235; remaining sick, ',d
The present population of Odessa is stated to ex o'"00
90,000 inhabitants. lam not yet prepared to apes, Ittie
the modes of treatment adopted here, which, le' or
hands of professional men, varies very materially ti
different circumstances. All condemn neglect of Od
symptoms, however trifling, recommending instant
energetic remedies; and the simplest means thus ap Plies
in numerous instances have proved successful, swill if
largo doses cf the essence of peppermint, even br
with pepper or ginger, and, in particular, violent fcii.
Lion. The cholera is reported to be very severe ill ,
colayeff and Cherson, and in parts of Bessarabia. -1.2„e
spreading throughout the country, and is advanebig
be
pidly westward. It has likewise re-appeared is=
towns on the Azoff, though in a very slight degree.'
" I have, &c.
" JAMES YEAMES'
" The Right Hon. Viscount Palmerston, G.C:I3-"4
He did not mean to say that the adoption of this eilsoo
would stop the ravages of a calamity now raging fro to
the Neva to the Nile ; but everything showed that
t,
adoption' of the precautionary measures tended to 03141
gate such evils. The Noble Lord here quoted a paragl',l
from the " Medico-Chirurgical Review" to show t'ri
the cholera had raged with the greatest intensity Wild
sanitary regulations and precautions were least atte gulf
to. He, therefore, on the behalf of the poor felt hisee%
called upon to ask the House to adopt this atnenderieS,9
for if the cholera should come he should not like to bto
it on his conscience that he had not done all in md,
power to protect the poor from its operation. He begg°,l
therefore, the House to adopt the amendment mode6v"
in the way he had described.
Mr. HENLEY said the great difficulty he III;
with respect to this amendment was that he CO
form no opinion as to the class of towns to
it would apply, and, therefore, it was not possib
ts
to say the amount of additional taxation whicij
such an amendment would create. He WOOO
have been better satisfied had the clanse be d
printed, so that the House and country would have be
an opportunity of looking into it, and ascertaining 1.0
nature and bearing. If disease visited this country egi';l
as rapidly as it did some years ago, the present PI,
would not be of much use, as its cumbrous machint,
could not be put into action with sufficient celerity to
of any real service. He wished to know whether tb
Noble Lord would consent to make the order provisionof
rather than a direct order? The mode propesedAer
judging of the amount of malady and the rule ttrint
which the Bill was to be applied, might be a very
way of judging of the question ; but that was a matte r
:f
which was not made clear ; and, therefore, it was bett
to have some distinct idea on the subject, in place
taking a leap in the dark.
Viscount MORPETH said he bad no objectio?,
t
d
assent to the proposition of the Hon. Member, prove
ae
it was understood that no unnecessary delay to the Weo,
sure was to take place.
Mr. NEWDEGATE protested against being 'Viet
by any suggestion on the part of the Noble Lord
there was to be no opposition to the Bill.
Mr. URQUHART said he objected to the clatele
tato.

In answer to a question put by Mr. CARDWELLWI
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that as the P't,
originally stood, whether there were local Acts or note
where not less than one-tenth of the inhabitants pets.
tioned the general board, an inspection would be allowedl
If there were no Act of Parliament an order in Councis
might be made—if there was an Act of Parliaraetat,o
provisional order might be made. The addition to t.P.,
clause or amendment of the Lords made an intlni%
necessary in a further case. For instance, that in place
where the wealthier classes might be free from diseases
b.
but where there might be a great mortality amongst 'O,
poorer inhabitants—whether from the mal-adminienro
tion of the local Acts or want of n°
knowledge—then t-
Act should authorise the general board to send en 1"-
spector down to the distrie" -
Alderman SIDNEY bad such strong objections to $.136