The Sun.
London, England, 1832-02-17 00:00:00

dollars per annum, which he is to pay to his fa-
ther out of the Civil List of 392,000 dollars which has
been made over to him.

Saxe Weimar has How likewise protested, in energetic
terms, to our Government against the breach of the Com-
mercial Convention of Central Germany.
FRANKFORT, FEB 9.—The reFort of an expected visit
from his Imperial Majesty the Emperor Nicholas at Berlin
is contradicted.

His Highness Prince Augustus of Leuchtenberg will go
to Alarnheim, to meet the Duchess his mother, who will
stop some days with the Dowager Grand Duchess of Baden.

It is with much satisfaction that we observe
the indifference, amounting almost to derision,
with which intelligent persons in London treat
the panic which the name of cholera has spread
among people of limited information, and little
accustomed to reflection. Now that the disease
is actually in the metropolis, we do not hesitate
to remark that nothing can be more puerile than
to treat as a calamity of all-engrossing magnitude
a malady which, in the North of England, in a
space of four months, carried off, up to yester-
day, only 1,346 souls. While the disease was
on the Continent, there was more excuse for a
general apprehension from what was then en-
veloped in more mystery than it is now, but
there is really no longer any excuse for reason-
able people acting on the rule of " o'nneignotum
pro mabrnifico," and raising up a bugbear of
cholera morbus for the surprise and terror of the
vulgar.

We by no means deprecate any of the precau-
tions adopted under the orders of the Board of
Health—quite the contrary ; for we are sure they
I cannot fail to be useful, whatever the disease may
be, and that whether that disease be contagious
. or epidemic, indigenous or of foreign importation,
' it is of great importance to impede the progress
of the maladies which filth, poverty, and impure
air are certain, sooner or later, to engender. The
general condition of the poor of the metropolis, and
especially of the eastern districts and the suburbs,
is an afflicting contrast to a state approaching any
thing like well being. The large portion of the
inhabitants of this overgrown city, who are the
habitual victims of want and misery, ought to be
a cutting reproach to those who are in the prac-
tice of extolling the society in which they live.
To this unfortunate class of persons the incident
of the cholera is likely to do much good, as
bringing to them various means of the preserva-
tion of health, such as ventilation, cleanliness,
warmth, and improvement in diet.
There is much and reasonable dissatisfaction
at those measures of Government whose tendency
is to check commercial intercourse, by augment-
ing the absurd terror entertained by continental
nations of the disease in question. The regu-
lations in regard to quarantine have, it must he
confessed, been somewhat unworthy of the in-
telligent spirit which appears, in most matters,
to animate the Board of Trade, and the inju-
rious effect upon commerce has hitherto been by
far the greatest evil to which the cholera has
given rise. This evil, we presume, Mr. BRISCOE
must admit to result from the want of wisdom
in man, and can, we suppose, form no part of
the Providential infliction proposed to have been
recited in Lord ALTHORP'S Bill. We concede
with Mr. BRISCOE that Divine Providence rules
mankind, in health and in sickness—in prosperity
and in adversity--at all times and seasons--and
that it is the part of men to bow with meekness
and reverence in all things to the Divine Will ;
but we are at a loss to understand why the death
by a particular disease of less than 1,400 per-
sons, out of a population of twenty-two millions;
is to be interpreted as an especial judgment of
the Supreme Power on a condemned land ?
What can induce Ministers to tolerate such stuff
as the Saints are constantly pestering them with ?
These gentlemen ought to be satisfied with
carrying their point of the General Fast, and not
obtrude themselves so perpetually to the inter-
ruption of public business.
FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.