The Sun.
London, England, 1832-05-28 00:00:00

CENTRAL BOARD OF HEALTH.

COUNCIL OFFICE, WHITEHALL.—(THIS DAY.)
DAILY REPORT of CHOLERA CASES.
Remaining at last Report, 1218 COUNTRY.
—New Cases, 85—Deaths, 36--
Recovered, 38—Remaining, :v29. Total Cases since the coin
mencement, 10,4'20—Deaths, 3,903.
(Signed) WM. MACLEAN, Secretary

Such is the backwardness of the present sea-
son, that haymaking, even near London, will not con-
[mace for a month later than usual.

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M. Casimir Perier was born on the 12.111 of
)ctober, 1777, at Grenoble. The son of a
•ich merchant, he at an early age embraced the
-areer of arms, and served in the Italian campaigns
)11799 and 1800, in the staffofthe Military Engi-
leers. On the death of his father, however, he
witted the army, and devoted himself wholly
o commercial pursuits. In 1802 he founded a
tanking establishment at Paris, and subsequently
established a number of manufactories of cotton-
spinning and sugar-refining, and also steam flour-
atilia, all of which were eminently successful, and
contributed to the formation of the immense
fortune which he leaves behind him. He first
became known to the public in 1816, by a
pamphlet against the foreign lean system, which
was equally remarkable for a lucid clearness of
argument, and a profbund knowledge of finance.
In 1817 he was elected one of the Deputies for
the department of the Seine, and from that time
until the Revolution of 1830 continued the firm
opponent of every Ministerial encroachment on
the rights and privileges of the people. He parti-
cularly distinguished himself by his hostility to
the Villele Administration, having himself sup-
ported ahnost singly the whole burden of the op-
position to the famous Budget of M. de Villele,
which he disputed item by item with a talent and
perseverance worthy of entering the lists with the
illustrious financier to whom he was opposed.
When M. de Polignac became President of the
Council the opposition e 1 M. Pe:ier assumed a
more violent character, and lie waa preeminent
among the 221 Deputies who Toted the famous
address which led to the fatal Otdonnances of
July. When the Revolution b; eke out, he at
once avowed himself the advocate of the popular
cause, and opened his house as the place of
meeting of the Deputies who assembled to pro-
test against the illegality of the proceedings of
the Crown. Firmly, however, attached to the
principles of constitutional opposition, and
shrinking, therefore, from the probable effects of
a revolution, he was one of the last to abandon
the hope that his infatuated Sovereign would
open his eyes to the gulf on the brink of
which he was standing, and, by a timely re-
vocation of the Ordonnances, prevent the ne-
cessity of the extreme measures of an appeal
to arms, and a consequent change of dynasty.
When, however, these became inevitable, M.
Perier attached himself firmly to the work of
consolidating the new throne of Louis-Phi-
lippe, and reassembling those elements of order
and stability which the convulsion of July had
scattered, but not annihilated. On the dissolu-
tion of the Ministry of M. Lafitte, M. Casimir
Perier was called to the head of the Government,
and immediately entered into the system of con-
servative policy, which he continued until the
close of his career. The last time he took any
important part in the debates in the Chamber of
Deputies was on the 20th of March, when he
pronounced an eloquent defence of the conduct
of Government with respect to the events of
Grenoble. The last time he was present in the
Chamber was on the 29th of March, when he
merely brought in several private Bills. On the
3d of. April he was attacked by the scourge
which has desolated Paris, and, although the in-
defatigable care bestowed on him by his me-
dical attendants had more than once apparently
eradicated the disease, his frame, enfeeYed by
a long-standing internal complaint, azgravated
by his intense and incessant applicatioz:, was
unable to resist the violence of the disease, and,
after several relapses, he at length sunk under
his sufferings, on the morning of the 16th of
May. The dissection, which was performed by
the first surgeons of the capital, proved that the
seat of the disorder was in the inte3tinal organs,
and that the brain was in a perfectly healthy state ;
the development of that organ, so eminently
remarkable in M. Cuvier, was observed, though
in a less degree, in M. Perier, and is fully justi-
fied by the penetrating and comprehensive na-
ture of his talents. As an orator M. Perier was
energetic and impassioned ; the natural warmth
of his temper, added to the irritability produced
by illness, frequently imparted a brusque acer-
bity to his style, which injured both the orato-
rical and moral effect of his eloquence ; but his
reasoning was forcible, and his style command-
ing and effective. It is not our province to exa-
mine the merits or demerits of his political
system ; recorders of not actors in, the great
political struggle in which France is engaged,
we have too often had occasion to quote the en-
thusiastic eulogiums and unmeasured invectives
heaped upon him by the different parties, to
render it necessary to repeat here that he pos-
sessed the strongest proof that the reproach of
mediocrity never could be applied to him ; it is the
attribute of genius alone to make warm friends
and bitter enemies. Be his system good or bad,
it will at least be allowed by his strongest oppo-
nents, that the course he adopted from convic-
tion he supported with unbroken energy ; stir-
rounded by obstacles of every description, op-
posed by ultra-royalism abroad and ultra-libe-
ralism at home, he opposed the single bulwark
of his undaunted resolution against the waves of
the factions which, flowing from opposite corners
of the horizon, united only in the attempt to over-
throw and destroy him ; and though he at length
sunk under the mighty cunfilet, he lived to see
his system adopted by Europe, and died before
its evil consequences, if it have any, could arrive
to cloud his triumph.—French Paper.

Their MAJESTIES, accompanied by the Prin-
cess AUGUSTA, the Duke of GtoucEsms., end Prince
Groaos of Cambridge, and attended by the Loan CHAM.
HEKLAIN, the Master of the Horse, Lord FARNBOROUGH,
Sir A. 13A KNARD, Sir H. BLACKWOOD, &C., &C., visited
the exhibition at the Royal Academy on Sunday last.
They were received and conducted through the rooms by
the President, and Council and Officers, Sir W. BEECHLY,
and Mr. WILKIE.

MARRIAGE IN HIGH LlFE.—There has
been cot a little gossip in circulation this week respecting
a nuptial arrange►nent between the. son of a Noble Earl and
the daughter of an Edinburgh tradesman, which, we un-
derstand, actually took place here some days ago. The
happy pair severally subscribed a minute of agreement to
that effect, in presence of witnesses, and befire a Magis-
trate, who accordingly declared the parties husband and
wife.—Perth Courier.

EXORBITANT PRICE OF GREEN PEASE.-
This morning Mr. Wm. KEENE, the celebrated grower of
seediand strawberries, brought into Portman-market 21
half-sieves of green pease, fur which he asked 72 guineas,
hut ultimately disposed of them for the enormous sum of
48 guineas!

APPEARANCES IN THE BODY OF M. RE-
RIER.-Tbe corpse retained an extraordinary degree of
heat. The most remarkable circumstance about the head
was
iffu Jhone
undertlik
icness o
the
membranes,f t he skull.
b uTt htehr w
the brain
brasis a
nwl Serous
healthy.
The stomach internally presented several portions of a
bright red, from the minute injection of vessels in an ar-
borescent form ; similiar spots presented themselves in
lions portions of the alimentary canal; and th inuco.ts
membrane was in several places very touch attenuated.
The lungs were healthy, the heart so t And I'l tecid, sad
the walls of the ventricles thinuer than natural. —.ll;dieul
Gazette.