The Sun.
London, England, 1832-01-12 00:00:00

CHOLERA MORBUS.

The following letter has been addressed to the Editor o'
the Morning Chronicle:—

regret to inform you that a case of spasmodic
cholera has occurred at Doncaster; perhaps, on hearing
the case, you may deem it necessary to call the attention of
his Majesty's Government to the fact ; because, whilst the
diseise can be so easily spread by travelling mendicants,
it is ridiculous to use precautionary measures by ordering
vessels to perform quarantine.
I am, Sir, yours truly, JOHN S. PIERCY.
East Retford, Jan. 10.

It appears that the deceased was a travelling mendicant,
and arrived at Doncaster on Saturday last. After follow-
ing his vocation there, he set out on his road to Tickhill,
but, on getting about three miles from the former town, he
became so ill as to be obliged to return. He did so, and
went to a lodging-house, where he was shortly after
seized with the cramp in his extremities ; his nails turned
black, his flesh became shrivelled up, and turned to a lead
colour; he continued getting worse and worse for three
or four hours, when death put a period to his sufferings.
He was interred, along with his clothes, in about two
hours afterwards. Su that without a full stop be put to
tramping, the disease, which might have terminated in
the north, will be conveyed to all parts of the kingdom.

Those gifted with much imagination are most
addicted to waking dreams. There are some
men whose minds are so practical and so
thoroughly prosaic, that they seldom get beyond
the boundaries of absolute reality : others are so
ideal and excursive, that they have a perpetual
tendency to transcend the limits of absolute truth,
to leave this " visible diurnal sphere" behind,
and, on the pinions of fancy, soar away into the
regions of poetry and romance. Waking dreams
are merely the efforts of unbridled imagination.
This faculty, when exercised under common cir-
cumstances, is kept in strict subordination to
reason, which guides and restrains it in its
flights, and never for a moment permits us to
suppose that the fictions it calls forth are reali-
ties. But when the sway of the reasoning
faculty is shaken off—when the spirit mounts
upwards, " unfettered and alone," and we forget
that the sights revealed to► it are merely. illusive
visions, then, and then only, are we assailed by
waking dreams. These curious states of mind
may occur at any time ; but the most common
periods of their. accession are shortly after we lie
down, and, in the morning, shortly before get-
ting up ; they are, in fact, a species of castle-
bu►lding. Men of vivid, sanguine, imaginative
temperaments have dreams of this kind every
morning and night. Instead of submitting to
the sceptre of sleep, they amuse themselves with
creating a thousand visionary scenes. Though
all the while broad awake, their judgment does
not exercise the slightest sway over them ; on the
contrary, its functions are suspended, and fancy
becomes " lord of the ascendant." The train of
ideas which fill the mind at this time depend
much upon the age, situation, and character of
the individual. If he pine ardently after wealth,
his mind is probably filled with visions of gran-
deur and opulence ; and the hallucination is often
so great that he supposes these things to be in
his actual possession. If he be young and un-
married, he perhaps conjures up the form of
some lovely female, whom he invests with the
beauty of an angel ; and love, marriage, chil-
dren, and all the delights of the matrimonial
state, seen in perspective through the deep vista
of many coining years, are the result. Whatever
emotions prevails has a character of extrava-
gance ; we see every thing through the serene
atmosphere of imagination, and imbue the most
trite circumstances with poetical colouring. The
aspect, in short, which things assume, bears a
strong resemblance to that impressed upon them
by ordinary dreams. They are equally full of
pathos and of beauty ; and only differ in this,
that, though verging continually on the limits of
exaggeration, they seldom transcend possibility.
—Macnish's Philosophy of Sleep.

THE MARKETS.

COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK.

LL MARKET—Jan. 10.

—s. 565. 58s. New —9. 569 58,
-50 s. 545. ln bond... —s. —s..-s.
—s. 20s. 2'). 01d......... —s. —s. 30s.
—s. 20s. 21s
—S. 295. 21s
... —a. 40s. 425. Line. & %Vold —s. 34s 365.
—s. :324. 345.
..... :345. 365. 3Ss. Foreign —s. 365. 38s.
—s. 38s. 40s. Grey
- —s. —s. Foreign —s. 30s. 365.
n0ne.......... Free, per last —/. 261. —4.