The Sun.
London, England, 1832-01-16 00:00:00

THE CHOLERA. IN LONDON.

The greatest alarm to-d ,
vailed y anay in
westminster, owing top are rumourester thatday a private in the
Goode, who was in confinement in te Military Hospital,
Rochester-row, had been attacked with cholera. The
Port reached the ears of the Central Board of Health this
twain, and an immediate consultation was held upon the
%Ned. A communication was sent to the medical gen-
tleman of the Hospital, who made his repot t of the symptoms
ne discovered in his patient to the Board of Health, and Dr.
Gibson and Dr. DLun were directed to visit the afflicted
man, and make their report thereon. At two o'clock the
above medical gentlemen returned, and made tie following
official communication :
" From the statements of Drs. Dams and Gibson to the
Central Board of Health, there is no reasen to believe that
the case of private Webb, of the. Guards (alluded to, in
the public prints) was one of Asiatic cholera.
(Signed) 4, W. MACLEAN, S'eretarv."

CHOLERA AT NEWCASTLE, GATES-
HEAD, AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, .JAN. 14.
_ . .

The cholera, which has been gradually declining in New-
castle, since the sth inst., appeals, by the report of this
ddY, to have slightly rallied. By it we are informed,
there are 20 new cases, 11 recoveries, and one death.
But a considerable part of the 20 new cases, I under-
Stand, belong, not to this town, but to the township of
Byker and the township of Westgate. Nothing can he
More absurd than the conduct of the Board of Health of
Newcastle, with reference to their reports. They at first
included the Byker cases in the report for this town with-
out m king any distinction—then for a few days they spe-
cified how many of the new cases, and how many of the
whole cases remaining, were in the township of Byker.
}'Oe some time past there has been no discrimination, so
that Newcastle has been obliged to bear a character of
Pestilence which it did not deserve. When the reports
raised to state what number of the cases belonged to
Byker the public were naturally led to infer none be-
!coked to it—a conclusion directly opposed to truth. It
has been understood here for some days past, that the vil-
lages, both above and below Newcastle, where the cholera
has made its appearance, were henceforth to be comprised
in separate district reports. lam told this is now done.
But of what use is it if the information is to be withheld
from the public? It is possible you may receive the dis-
trict reports in London, but.tbe people in Newcastle, who
are most interested, are not favoured with a sight of them.
The (Loewe, I know, is raging with great virulence in
Villages both up and down the river. At Newborn, above
Newcastle, considering the size• of the pare, it has been
attended with as great mortality as at Gateshead, or
greater, in proportion t 3 its inhabitants. At Newcastle
We are comparatively easy, for though we now and then
hear of persons being hurried out of existence who, a few
hours before were apparently in perfect health, yet they
ere for the most part not only poor, often ill fed, often
dissipate!, almost always ill lodged, anti living in impute
air, but they are not known beyond their own immediate
connections. This will generally be the case in large
towns. If we saw a list of all the names of persons who
have died of cholera in this town, we should be able to
recognize very few of them. The case is very different in
Newburn and other villages. There every one is known
to all the inhabitants, and the consternation which every
euccessive death produces is much greater on that account
than it would otherwise be. The disease is very virulent
also at Walker and Howden, villages on the river side, be-
tween this town and Shields—virulent, not in the number
of eases only, but in their malignity. At Walker, for in-
stance, a few days ago, an old woman in going from one
house to another was struck down by the cholera as if by
a stroke of paralysis. On Thursday night last a strong,
healthy man, a blacksmith, at Walker, was seized with
the disease at nine o'clock, and the next morning, that is
Yesterday morning, at half-past four, he was a corpse. He
had left his work at six o'clock in the evening quite well,
Went borne, and smoked his pipe as usual.

. .
I hear a case of cholera has occurred in a child at Prest-
Wick, near Ponteland, six or seven miles from Newcastle.
The disease, as far as I can learn, is only virulent in the
villages at the river side. It is much milder than it was
both in Newcastle and ,Gateshead. I aril glad to inform
You that Watty, the Captain of the Jean, of Aberdeen,
Whom I mentioned in a former letter as being carried in
the blue stage to the hospital at the Old Castle, is going on
very favourably, and is, I believe, considered out of danger.
At Gateshead there are five new cases, five recoveries,
one death, and fifteen cases remaining.
P.S. You have doubtless heard there is a case of cho-
lera at Grantham ; a letter has reached this town to-day
to that effect.

The following is a copy of a circular from the
Chanc.llor of the Exchequer, issued on Monday, among
the Ministerial Members :--" Lord ALTHOBP presents
Lis compliments to Mr. —, and takes the liberty of re.
Minding him that the House meets, for the despatch of
business, on Tuesday, the 17th inst., and that the Com-
mittee on the English Reform Bill is positively fired for
Friday, the 20th January.--January 9, 1832."
Mr. BRAINE, surgeon to the St. James's
Infirmary, and Mr. Dowmaic, jun., of Hammersmith,
are gone to Newcastle and Gateshead, to investigate the
nature of the cholera prevailing there, and to ascertain the
Most successful mode that has yet been adopted of treating
the same. They are expected to be absent about a fortnight.
THE CHOLERA ALLEGED TO BE IN LON-
-1)°11.--Ruritnurs have been afloat for some days that cases
of malignant cholera have occurred in London ; one in the
Parish of St. Paul, Covent-garden--the other in Bucking-
ham-street, Strand ; in both of which cases death had
ensued. But as no report had been made to the Medical
Council, implicit credit was not attached to the reports,
although alluded to by the Magistrates at Bow-street. On
Friday afternoon, however, a soldier was seized with spasms
and other indications of the disease in its most painful
form, and he was removed to the Military Hospital,
Rochester-row, Westminster, where on examination by
Jonaasoar and other medical men, no doubt was enter-
tained of the character of the disease. Ail the patien is
in the Hospital capable of being moved were in consequence
sent away, to prevent the spreading of the infection, and
the usual remedies were applied to the invalid, with some
success. Although not out of danger on Saturday, he
was pronounced better. The man had been under arrest,
and had been kept on low diet.
PECULIARITIES WITH REGARD TO CHO-
LERA.—The proportion of mankind susceptible of cholera
seems to be decidedly smaller than holds good with respect
to small pox, plague, or other malignant epidemic or con-
tagious diseases ; we know of no data, however, on which
any rational calculation as to the relative numbers can be
founded. Then there are other certain peculiarities, which
are distinctly traceable with regard to cholera ; thus
. children, though not entirely exempt, are much less liable
to it than adults; women, too, according to general ob-
servation, are less susceptible than lanai, a circumstance
which shows that something more than relative degrees of
strength must be taken into the account. But again, in
all countries prostitutes have suffered very severely, proving
that depravity is the most powerful ally to cholera in either
sex alike. There are differences between most writers on
nertain circumstances connected with the disease, but on
this point they all agree—intemperance gives a claim to
the pestilence which it never overlooks ; in every town
and every district, from the Ganges to the Wear, the
drunkard has been the object of its earliest attack, and its
most ruthless visitation. Nor was this principle ever
more conspicuously illustrated than by the occurrence at
Gateshead, where intoxication, which was indulged in to
a frightful extent on Christmas day, accompanied by a
strong breeze blowing from the north and over Newcastle,
where the disease existed, was followed by the lamentable
irruption of cholera which has been so often alluded to.—
afedieal Gazette.
THE • DORSETSHIRE ELECTION.---44 It
appears that Mr. PONSONBY will be at last the sitting
Aletnber for Dorsetshire. The Anti-reformers were a
little premature, both in and out of Parliament, in their
statements that the Globe had misrepresented the state of
Public feeling in that county. It took pains to ascertain
what it really was ; and if the Tories had profited by our
• observations, they would have saved themselves both ex-
Pence and mortification." The facts are these—ASHLEY
started for Dorsetshire with a promise that all his elec-
ti°ll expences would be defrayed by the Charles-street
le:lmmittee, and like every other person who trusted it, he
al been deceived. The expenses of a contest extending
t° near three weeks could never be less than 25,0001.
s here is no humbug about us, and we state the fact,
equally known to both Whig and Tory candidates, that
'ess money will not do. Out of this the Charles-street
People gave to ASHLEY, in two instalments, 12,0001. leav-
Ljng him to pay the remainder, about 13,0001., as well as
Ile Could. ASHLEY very naturally dislikes adding the ex-
Pellet's of a petition to the money for which he is already
and therefore declines to oppose PONSONBY before a
Committee. This is the whole secret. The Charles-street
Set have done the Tory cause infinite mischief, and we may
'all foul of them yet. We wish somebody would give us
a hint as to the amount of their funds, and the way they
'Were got rid of. We know something about it ourselves.

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS
Austrian Bonds
Belgian Scrip
Brazilian Boma 45 1,13 L
Euenos Ayres Bonds
Cl Wan Bonds
Colombian Bonds
Ditto, 1824
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Greek Bonds
Ditto, 1825
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[IS DAY AT ONX O'CLOCK.

New 5 per Cent. —
India Stock
Ditto Bonds par 1 dig.
South Sea Stock 9l
Old Annuities —
New Ditto —
8 per Cent. Ann. 1751
Ex. Bills, £l,OOO 9 11 prr.
Ditto... 500 9 11 pm.
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Cons. forlan. 19 84% % 1,4

LONDON,
MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 16. 1852.

CHOLERA MORBUS, OFFICIAL REPORT.

COUNCIL OFFICE,
DAILY REPO

, WHITEHALL.—(THIS DAY)
,RT of CHOLERA CASES.

"d 1° g = doe
a 0 '-, o
.= E. . 2 E cei c 3 g tfi li
Places. . .14 c°4 6' • i'' 71
~ 8 g2'
, "g (a 8
.. ~.. ;.,- 4 -c,
,s .g c,, s, a 1 .O 2.*8 P. .
1: g-- 14 g g ',`.-E:,.,`•"E
————
Jan.
Sunderland l2lO 0 0 1 533 201
13
Newcastle l4 79 27 2 22 82 700 212
Gateshead ' 111 26 5 3 13 'l5 I 374 129
North Shields and 713 14 8 3 7 12 61 23
Tynemouth
Walker Colliery and il3 1 8 5
Township
Houghton-le-Spring 111431 19 15 6 8 20 114 39
and vicinity
Newburn
Haddington and vi- 7 12 3
6 0 1 1 4 47 19
cinity, N.B. 3 15
_ --
Total 145 63 IS 51 141 1877 e5l

No other Reports received.
(Signed) WM. MACLEAN.

Secretary.

The French Papers of Saturday have been
received, by which we are glad to perceive that a
considerable rise has taken place in the Funds
—the Five per Cents. having closed at 96f. 20c.,
the Threes at 66f. 60c.

The Chamber of Deputies, after having dis-
posed of the Royal Palaces, came to a decision
respecting the amount of money to be given to
the KING. It may be remembered that Lours
PHILIP asked eighteen millions of francs—
being the same amount as voted by the Mi-
nistry of M. LAFITTE : M. PERIER was
fearful the Chamber would not grant so large a
sum, and accordingly proposed fourteen millions
—but the Chamber, at the instance of ODILLON
BARROT, rejected the Minister's proposal, and
granted a Civil List of only twelve millions !
This is a subject which Louis PHILIP cannot
fail to understand, however much he may have
misconceived the spirit and tendency of the revo-
lution of July.
Paris was tranquil on Saturday, and public