The Sun.
London, England, 1832-02-16 00:00:00

CHOLERA MORBUS.

.1 BILL for the PREVENTION, as far as may be possible, of
the DISEASE called the CHOLERA, or SPASMODIC or
INDIAN CHOLERA, in ENGLAND:—
Whereas the disease called the cholera, or spasmodic or
Indian cholera, has appeared in the United Kingdom : and
whereas, with a view to prevent, as far as may be possible, the
spreading of the said disease, it may be necessary that rules and
regulations should, from time to time, be established within
Cities, towns, or districts affected with, or which may be threw.
tened by the said disease; but it may be impossible to establish
such rules and regulations by the authority of Parliament with
sufficient promptitude to meet the exigency of any such case as it
may occur : be it therefore enacted,hy the King's Most Excellent
Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spi-
ritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament
assembled, and by the authority of the same;—
That it shall and may be lawful for the Lords and others of
his Majesty's Most Hono'urable Privy Council, or any two or
•rbrt of them of whom), the Lord President of the Council, or
one of his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State for the time
being, shall always be one, by ally order or orders to be by them
from time to time made, to establish, and again from tune to
time, by any such order or orders, to revoke, renew, alter, and
vary all such rules and regulations, or to substitute any such
dew rules acid regulations as to them may appear necessary or
expedient, for the prevention, as far as may be possible, of the
spreading of the said disease called the cholera, or spasmodic or
Indian cholera, within the United Kingdom, or any other part
thereof, or for the relief of any persons suffering under or likely
to be affected by the said disease, and for the safe and speedy
interment of any person or persons who may die of the said

disease.
And be it further enacted, that every such order as aforesaid
shall be certified under the hand of one of the clerks in ordi-
nary of his Majesty's Privy Council, and that the publication of
any such order in the London Gazette shall, for all intents and
purposes, be taken, admitted, and received in all Courts, and
by and before all Judges, Justices, Magistrates, and others, as
good and sufficient evidence of the making, and of the date and
contents, of any such order

And be it further enacted, that any person who shall or
may violate or wilfully and knowingly infringe the provisions
Of any such order, or who shall or may refuse or wilfully
neglect or omit to act in obedience to, or in conformity with,
any such order, or who shall resist, oppose, or obstruct the
lawful execution thereof, shall for every such offence be and be.
deemed guilty of a misdemeanour, and shall also incur and be-
come liable to a penalty not exceeding - nor less
than - -, to be recovered in the manner hereinafter

mentioned; Provided always that no person against whom any
such penalty shall be so recovered shall be liable to be indicted
or proceeded against in respect of the same offence as-. for amis.
demeanour. •

And he it further enacted, that all such penalties as afore-
said shall be recovered by any person or persons who shall sue
for the same before any two Justices of the Peace, having ju-
risdiction within the county, riding, city, or place in
which the offence shall have been committed, and that the
amount of the penalties to be inflicted upon any such offenders
shall, within the limits hereinbefore prescribed, be in the dis.
cretion of such Justice.

And be it further enacted, that it shall be lawful for any
such Justices of the Peace, in all cases where any information
shall be laid before them, on oath, of any such offence as afore-
said, and they are hereby required to issue their summons to
any person or perions whom they may have reason to suppose
capable of giving any material evidence on the hearing of such
information, requiring every such person or persons to appear and
give evidenee at a time and place to be specified in such sum-
mons ; and if any person so summoned shall not appear before
such Justices at the time and place so specified in the said sum-
mons, or shall not offer any reasonable excuse for such default,
to the satisfaction of the said Justices, or, appearing, shall not
submit to be examined as a witness, then and in every such
case it shall be lawful for the said Justices, and they are hereby
authorised (proof on oath, in the case of any such person not
appearing to such summons, having been first made before such
Justices of the due service of such summons on such person, by
delivering the same to him or her, or by leaving the same lat his
or her usual place of abode hours at the least before
the time appointed for such person to appear before such Justices)
by warrant under the hands and seals of such Justices, to com-
mit any such person so making default as aforesaid to some
gaol, house of correction, or bridewell, within the jurisdiction
of the said Justices, there to remain without bail or mainprize
for any time not exceeding days, or until such
person shall submit to be examined or give evidence.
And be it further enacted, that all Justices of the Peace
shall, and are hereby empowered, on the conviction of any per-
son before them for any such offence as aforesaid, in default of
payms nt of any such penalty as aforesaid, to cause the same to
be Levi, dby distress and sale of the goods and chattels of the
offender, by warrant under the hands and seals of such Justices,
together with the reasonable costs of such distress and sale; and
in case it shall appear to the satisfaction of such Justices, either
by the confession of the offender, or by the oath of one or more
credible witness or witnesses, that such offender bath not goods
and chattels, within the jurisdiction of such Justices, sufficient
whereon to levy any such costs and charges, such Justices may,
without issuing any warrant of distress, commit such offender
to any such gaol, house of correction, or bridewell as aforesaid,
for any time not exceeding days, unless such

penalty, costs, and charges, be sooner paid, in such manner as
if a warrant of distress had been issued, and a return of nulls
bona made thereon, in which case it shall be lawful for. such
Justices to commit any such offender for Such term of
days, or for any shorter period, to any such prison as aforesaid.

And be it further enacted, that all such penalties as aforesaid
shall he applied in or towards the relief of the poor of the pa-
ri.sh or place in Which any offence as aforesaid may have been
committed.

And be it further enacted, that all and every the expenses
which may be reasonably or properly incurred in carrying into
effect any order or orders of the Lords of his Majesty's most
Honourable Privy Council, so to be made as aforesaid, shall, in
the first instance, under and by virtue of an order or orders in
writing of two Justices of the Peace, dwelling in or near the
parish or division, and which said order or orders any two such
Justices are hereby empowered and directed to make from time
to time, as occasion may require, commanding the churchwar-
dens, overseers, or guardians of the poor for the time being, to
pay a certain sufficient sum of money for such purposes, to
be defrayed out of the- rates for the relief of the poor of the
parish, township, or extra-parochial place, maintaining its
own poor, in which the same shall be so incurred, and in
other extra parochial places, out of the poor's rate of the
parish nearest adjoining; and that all disbursements which
may be properly and reasonably made for the purposes afore-
said out of any such parish rates shall, by such parish or town-
ship or extra-parochial place maintaining its own poor, or
parish next adjoining to such other extra parochial place, be
charged against the county or riding wherein such parish or place
may be situate, and being audited and allowed by the Justices
assembled at any General or Quarter Sessions of the Peace in
or for such county or riding, shall thereupon, by the treasurer
of such county or riding, be repaid to the overseers or guardians
of the poor of such parish or township, or extra parochial place
maintaining its own poor, or parish next adjoining to such other
extra-parochial place, for the benefit thereof, for which purpose
a rate or assessment shall be made by the order and under the
authority of such Justices within and throughout any such
county or riding.
And be it further enacted, that it shall be lawful for the
Lord President for the time being of his Majesty's most Hon.
Privy Council to authorize and direct one person in the Privy
Council Office (whose name shall be from time to time trans-
mitted to the Secretaries of the General Post office in London
and Dublin) to send letters and packets by the General Post
from London to places within the United Kingdom free from
the duty of postage, during such time only as the several clauses
and enactments herein contained shall continue and be in
operation, but no longer; provided all such letters and
packets shall relate solely and exclusively to the execution of
this Act, and of the directions, powers, and authorities herein
contained, and shall be in covers with the words " On
his Majesty's Service, Council Office," printed on the same,
and be signed or subscribed on the outside thereof under
such words with the name of the person so to be autho-
rised as aforesaid in his own hand-writing, and pro-
vided all such packets shall be sealed with the seal of the said
office; and the person to be authorized is hereby strictly for-
bidden so to subscribe and seal any letter or packet whatever,
except such only concerning which he shall receive the special
directions of his superior officer, or which he shall himself
know to relate solely and exclusively to the execution of this
Act, and the directions, powers, and authorities herein con-
tained ; and if such authorised person or any other person shall
send, or cause, or-permit to be sent, under any such cover, any
letter, paper, or writing, or any enclosure other than what
shall relate to the execution of this Act, and the directions,
powers, and authorities herein contained, every person so
offending shall forfeit and pay the sum of and be
dismissed from his office.

And be it further enacted, that every order which may be
so made as aforesaid, by the Lords and others of his Majesty's
Privy Council, or by any two or more of them, shall be forth-
with laid before both Houses of Parliament, if Parliament shall
be then sitting, and that such orders as shall be so made when
Parliament shall not be sitting shall be laid before both Houses
of Parliament within days next after the first Ses-
sion which shall ensue upon the date of any such order.
And be it further enacted, that this Act shall continue in
force until the and thenceforward until the end of
the then next Session of Parliament.

A FANIOUS STAG HUNT.—The Surrey Stag
Hounds, on Friday last, turned out a favourite deer at
Sutton Grove for a day's sport. before a large field of
sportsmen well mounted. The deer went away in gallant
style towards Mordan, turning short to the right, crossing
the river Wandrel to Beddington Corner, across Mitcham
Common, through the deep to Pollard's Hill, crossing ti e
Croydon-road to Biggin Hill and Norwood into Mrs. NES
BIT'S Park, where the fences were taken with gallant style.
through Dulwich Woods, across Sydenham Common, acros„
the Canal, which was swam by two gallant young sports-
men well known in the hunt. The deer took to B6rockham
and Penge Common, where he was taken alter a fine run
of one hour and forty minutes, over a fine country and
plenty of fencing. These hounds have had the best sport
this season of any stag-hounds in England. A favourite
deer will he turned nut to-morrow at Smitharn Bottom,
when it is expected they will have a good run; they will
meet on Tuesday, the 20th, at Addington Village, and on
Friday, the 24. th, at Reigate, at the White Hart Inn.

CHOLERA M4RBUS.

MEETING IN ROTHERBITHE.

Yesterday a meetinit of the Disttiet Board of Health for
the poish of St. May, Rotherhithe, was held in the
Committee-room of tie Wm khouse;in the Deptford-road.
to receive a report fron the resident surgeons tespecting the
existence or non.exitence of the cholera notrbus in that
parish.

Mr. Skeggs, the senior churchwarden, w is called to the
chair, and stated tie of ject of the meeting, which was to
controvert the official statement issued by the Centr,l
Board of a'th at Vihiteball, that three cases of spasmodic
cholera had occurred at Rotherhithe. He was hippy to
state that that dreadful malady had not yet visited the }wilt
A long report drawn-up by
,Mr, Wright, the parorhia!
surgeon, and ?Messrs. Morton and Johnson, two oth,r
medical genletnen residing in Hither loth., was ri ad by
Mr. Nottingham, the vestry clerk. It stated that ho• the
last sis months the perish bat not been in such a healthy
state as'it was at present, and that, from the most minute
inquiries ,which they had made, no case of cholera laid oc-
curred in that-parish.
A parishioner said he was much surprised that an of-
ficial document should have beta prmuuleated by the
Central Board, that three decided cases of cholera ;iambus
bad occurred in Rotherhithe, one of which had proved
fatal. Messrs. Wright and Morton hail been attached to
the Army Staff, and were conversant with the disease
called the lodian cholera, of which they had seen many
cases in India and on the Continent, arid were as well able
to judge as any of the medical gentlemen attached to the
Central Board at Whitehall respecting the existence of the
disease. The other gentleman,.Mr. Johnson, was also in
extensive practice; anti, after their united opinions that no
case of cholera had occurred in liiitherhithe, he hoped
t' at the unfounded report would be as publ'cly contradicted.
A gentleman said, the business of the parishioners had
been injured by the official report from the Council-office,
and the depression of trade had been sensibly felt before,
and the false report that the cholera had reached the pa-
risk was not wanting ta depress it further.
A long discussion then ensued, and it was mutually
agreed upon that resolutions founded on the report of the
surgeons, declaring the parish of Rotherbithe to be in a
healthy state, anti no case of cholera had yet occurred,
should he advertised in the Morning and Evening Papers,
in order to remove the alarm occasioned by the official
report of the Central Board of Health.