The Sun.
London, England, 1832-01-10 00:00:00

HADDINGTON.-THE CHOLERA.

While every precaution to prevent the spread of cholera.
which prudence can dictate, and reason approve of, is
highly commendable in our present position, as respects
this dreaded, and it must be allowed, dreadful disease—
there are bounds which even frail humanity would shudder
to overpass, and cowardice itself shrink from with shame.
The following particulars regarding a poor man who died
of cholera last week at Haddington, place the selfish feel-
ings of human nature ;in a very unfavourable light. The
facts are related by a person who left the town for self-
preservation, and although fear and common rumour have
the effect of exaggeration in almost every instance, still we
hare reason to believe there is more truth than we could
wish in the statement. The unfortunate man referred to,
was seized with cholera, and died--or was given up by the
doctors, which in a case of cholera is the same thing--
after a few hours' illness. The clamour to have bodies
buried immediately after death, obtains to such a degree at
present, that the relatives or friends of the deceased were
forced to comply with the public wish, and the man was
immediately invested with the usual habiliments of death.
We are not aware if it be known in Haddington, that in
cholera cases symptoms of life often happen after death—
that is, to judge charitably, nervous movements take place,
occasioned by the active operation of the fatal virus, which
produces the appearance of death before life is really ex-
tinguished. Dr. Crichton, who describes the symptoms
of cholera in the Dundee Advertiser with skilful miaute-
ness, says, " A medical gentleman of great authority men-
tioned to me, that in some cases in India he had seen vio-
lent convulsions for some time after death,—so much so
that the fellow soldiers bound the lifeless limbs to the bed-
frame, in order to calm the timid." Now, whether these
facts were known to the Haddingtonians, our informant
dues not intimate, but the first thing the dead man did,
was, by a sweep of his right arm, to throw the grave
clothes from his breast. A few fir boards were hastily
nailed together for his coffin, and he was thrust into this
" narrow house," while his chest undulated with the
spasms " which are said to occur after death !" From
the period of his reputed demise until the clods of the
valley covered him, a space of little more than five hours
elapsed ! Such are the particulars related by a woman who
lived near the habitation of the poor man; and if they he
not literally correct—as we said before, we hope they are
not—still they are told for truths by persons who were on
the spot where the alleged occurrence was witnessed, and
deserve publicity, least any such shocking spectacle should
take place; and be tolerated.—Scotsman.

The Marquis of ANGLESEA concludes a letter
written a few day s since to a gentleman of this county, with
these remarkable words.—" I have no doubt that the Lords
will pass the Bill. —Caernarvon Herald.
The conferences amongst the diplomatists at
Paris have become more frequent than ever. The last was
occasioned by the arrival on Wednesday of an extraordinary
courier from Vienna, with despatches for Count D'Arroxy.
—French Paper.
The cholera continues to make progress at
Haddington, but has not yet reached Edinburgh ; where,
we are informed, its attack is hourly expected.—Morning
Paper.
RUMOURED CONFLICT AT TAGIIMON..--
We saw a letter yesterday, written by a highly respectable
gentleman in Wexford, mentioning a rumour, that a
conflict took place on Tuesday, between a large party of
police and a considerable number of the peasantry, in the
neighbourhood of Taghmon, in which seven of the
country people were killed, and several wounded. The
letter also stated, that a considerable addition was about
to he made to the military force in the county of Wexford.
We give the statement of the conflict merely as a report,
having been unable to obtain accurate information on the
subject. The melancholy occurrence is stated to have
been the result of the tithe system.—Freeman's Journal.
NOTTINGHAM SPECIAL COMMISSION.—
Yesterday the Court was occupied with the trial of some
fresh prisoners, for having set fire to the Beeston Mill.
The trial was going forward when our reporter quitted
the Court. It was of no great interest or importance.
Last week we heard a report that the Asiatic
cholera had reached Batley, and that a person had died
there of that complaint the Thursday preceding. We have
the pleasure to state, on the authority of a respectable re-
sident medical gentleman, that there is " no foundation"
for the report.—Leeds Mercury.

The quarantine in Spain is supposed to be
finally settled. The following are the particulars :—Ships
from all places between the Humber and the Frith of Forth
excluded ; also all vessels from the west coast en the same
parallel of latitude ; from all other ports of Great Britain a
quarantine of twenty days.
Lord FITZGERALD and VESEY (late the
Right Hon. VESEY FITZGERALD), who by the recent
death of his mother, the Baroness FITZGERALD, succeeds
to the dignity of an Irish Peerage, has left town on his
return to Ireland. His Lordship's father, the Right Hon.
JAMES FITZGERALD, still survives at a very advanced age.
Mr. FITZGERADD held for many years high offices under
the Crown, which he voluntarily relinquished on the great
question of the legislative Union of Ireland with Great
Britain, and finally retired from public life after having
borne a distinguished part in the political history of his
country, and been a Member of the House of Commons in
ten successive Parliaments. The Right Hon. Gentleman
united himself to the late Baroness, who was descended
from the same ancestry with the Viscounts DE Vzscx, in
1782, and by her Ladyship had the present Peer, the
Hon. and Reverend the Dean of KILasoKE, Lady Ross
Mallow, Mrs. LESLIE FOSTER, and the Hon. GERALDINE
FITZGERALD.

STATE OF TRADE.—We are glad to say
that the prospects of trade continue improving, and thit
they have produced this week an advance in the price of
yarn. It is to he hoped an advance in wages will follow.
—Man ch ester Titnes.

QUARANTINE.--We have the pleasure to
state, that it appears from a letter received by a mercan-
tile house i❑ this town from the Foreign-office, that the
severe quarantine regulation issued by the Spanish Go.
vernment does nut apply to vessels from the west coast of
England, but is confined to the east coast, including ves-
sels from Yarmouth, to within fifty leagues along the east
coast to the north or Sunderland. Consequently vessels
from London, Liverpool, and Bristol, are admitted into
Spanish ports on the usual mild quarantine of twelve day s
at the ports to which they sail, whilst vessels from ports
within the prescribed limits are compelled to sail to port
Mahon, in Minorca, discharge their cargoes, and perform
there a quarantine of 40 days.—Leeds Mercury.
"The Orange Parsons and others, calling
themselves " the friends of Scriptural education," are
to meet on Tuesday, at the Rotunda, to make an effort to
compel the Government again to adopt the proselytising
and atrocious system which excited the indignation and
abhorrence of all honest and charitable men against the
Kildare-place Society. But the real object is to make a
parade of another " Protestant grievance." A grew
grievance, truly, because the canting hypocrites will not
be allowed to force upon the Catholics a plan of education
repugnant io their religious tenets.—Dublin Morning
Register.

THE CHOLERA AT NEWCASTLE AND
GATESHEAD.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
NEWCASTLE-IUPON.TYNE, JAN m,

The reports both for Gateshead and Newcastle this
day confirm the opinion I ventured to express in my
letter last night namely, that the cholera is in both towns
now on the decline. The Board of Health for Newcastle
informs us there are twenty-nine new cases, twenty-four
recoveries, and nine deaths. On the sth of January there
remained one hundred and twenty cases under treatment :
on the 6th there were one hundred and eleven ; on the 7th
one hundred and three, and this day, the Bth, there are
ninety-nine. So that, though the disease declines slowly,
it is clearly becoming less step by step. Of the ninety-nine
cues remaining, we are not toll how many are in the
township of Byker ; but I believe a considerable portion
of them do not strictly belong to Newcastle. A writer in
one of the London Papers, I think the Times, has stated
that a considerable number of the cases of cholera that
had appeared here have occurred in Byker, which is a de-
pendency of Newcastle, situated on the top of a hill. This
is quite a mistake. The village of Byker, it is true, is on
the top of a hill, but the great mass of the cases have oc-
curred in the township of Byker, which comprehends
several small villages, which are in low situations, close by
the side of the river, as St. Peter's, St. Anthony's, Dent's-
hole, &c. In fact one of the most marked peculiarities of
this disease since we have had it is, that it has followed
the course of the river. Its principal ravagei have been
amongst poor people, who hare lived very short distanc
from the river. For instance, Sandgate, in Newcastle,
where it first appeared and was most destructive, is close
to the river ; Pipewellgate and Hillgate, in Gateshead,
tre the streets where it has caused most havoc—they are
close to the river. Then look to the villages where it has
been most prevalent up the water—Bell's-close, Newburn,
Ryton—these are very war to the river. The same may
be said of Dunston, S vallwell, and Heworth.
It is true that several cases occurred on Gateshead-fell,
which is the highest, airiest, and most healthy part of the
parish of Gateshead ; but the same North wind which
brought the nuisance into one part of the parish, would
account for its appearance in the other. I before men-
tioned another cause for its appearance on Gateshead-fell,
namely, the removal of the corpse of a young man who
died at Springwell, near Wreckenton, of cholera, to Gates.
head-fell.

The Gateshead report of this day states that there are
seven new cases, three recoveries, and only two deaths.
The number of cases remaining under treatment there is
thirty-seven.