The Sun.
London, England, 1832-09-11 00:00:00

CHOLERA IN SCOTLAND.

The disease has now spread generally over the town of
Inverness,
dest it particularly in the G a
green
re of Muirtown, or western side of the river, where at number of poor and
The ute families are huddled together in miserable houses.
Progress of the disease is thus fearfully accelerated by
want, filth, and a close noxious atmosphere. Yesterday, a
ror man entered a shop and implored a drop of brandy for
B°l3, who was taken ill ; this morning both father and
lying In this unfortunate house there was not a
blanket to cover the wretched victims of disease, and
scarcely a mouthful of provisions ! The effects of the
disease on the social and commercial relations of the town,
are truly striking and melancholy. Business is almost at
a stand, the few schools that are open can scarcely boast of
a dozen scholars, and Mr. Lowe has shut up his dancing—
rooms and returned to Edinburgh. The English tourists
and strangers, who at this season used to crowd our inns
and traverse the surrounding country, have almost wholly
disappeared.

STRIKING MORTALITY IN ROSS- SIURE.
The former stations of the pestilence—Portmahomack,
Balintore, Helmsdale, Embo, &c., are now clear of the
contagion, but it has since our last broken out in the small
fishing village of Inver, near Tain, with a virulence hi-
therto unexampled in this country. Inver is supposed
not to contain more than thirty families, or from 120 to
140 souls, yet in this scanty population there have been
ninety cases of cholera and forty-one deaths! The man-
ner in which the pestilence was introduced is not vtry well
Known.
The most satisfactory account we can learn is,
that the fishermen, when they fled from the herring fish-
ing, left the clothes which at that time they had on in
their boats, where they remained such a length of time ex-
posed to the elements, that their owners thought they
might safely take them home. This was accordingly done,
and on that very night the disease made its appearance,
and at once assumed a most fearful aspect. This occurred
°,l the evening of Wednesday last. Great numbers were
440, and before the accounts reached 'fain the following
morning, four cases terminated fatally. On Thursday eve n-
at4g twelve were dead, and before Friday evening the
deaths amounted to seventeen. Medical assistance was
°llt them as soon as possible. Dr. Macglashan from Ed-
t4huret, whose services were engaged some time ago by
e Board of Health, hastened to the spot ; but unfortu-
a.telY had not been any length of time there when he
fro himself seized. He was succeeded by Dr. Munro
to Tain. The mortality now became so great that it
impossible to procure coffins for the dead, with that
here des impossible
which the urgency of the case required. Eleven
buried without shroud or coffin, six in one grave,
7 _"nu ein another. Ou Saturday nineteen coffins were
out of Tain ; some of them for immediate use, and
rne restto be in readiness. On Monday very few of them
remained. On the fitst alarm of the disease, many of the
Pour people fled to the woods in the neighbourhood ; and
Shortly after, other nine families went off to the Morrich-
more, an extensive tract of •
and a half from their houses,sandY mile
hillocks, about a in
ttvo or three persons were takenv:ilherene regret to add..
So intent werei they
on escaping that they carried nothi
(if away with t;ern;
t1(1 some of the poor women snatched upoff their children.
'l4) a state of nudity, and hastenedfor their lives.
We actors Macandie and Evans visited ttals place and
learn that some of the medical this
also,t
as
theirf opinion, that they never saw cholera wegaravae more
'rlitidable appearance than at this village. qiti
Of tar are daily burnt, and we are told that Great
even uantsome es
of
the houses are set on fire by their ovvners, to s,P er t as a
Preventive of the contagion.—lnverness Courier. e

kr. JEFFREYS ALLEN, Master of College, has announced his intention of offering Dulwich
himself a
4 Alernber for the eastern division of the county of Surrey.s PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 9.—His Majesty's brig
Pantaloon, from Oporto, arrived last evening. Nothing
4e,v by her. His Majesty's ship Britannia, from Lisbon,
,ied this morning—five days' passage. It was ex-
,Pi'eted that MrauEL's fleet would come out of the Tagus
`ue day alter the Britannia left. Admiral Sawa:mins was
qi the port ready to meet them, hut had received no ad-
ition of ships. When the Britannia left the Tagus, all
as supposed to be tranquil at Lisbon,