The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-09-20 00:00:00

CHOLERA

NEWCASTLE, SEPT. 16.—There were 101 deaths from.
cholera, and four from diarrhoea. Gateshead, 36.
Great efforts are making by the medical authorities, and
it is gratifying to. find that the mortality has made no ma-
terial progress in the last twenty-four hours.
A house of refuge has been opened, and bedsteads sip.
plied from the barracks, by authority from the Board of
Ordnance.

At Hexham, the epidemic has as yet made little way,
only six deaths are recorded, though the tendency to diar-
rhoea is general.

SRIET:Dey SATURDAY NlGHT.—There have been four
fatal cases in South Shields since yesterday at noon,—one
man, a young woman, and two children ; the man had
been unwell some time ; the children died in a new part
of the town, airy, but badly drained. There was a fatal
case in North Shields on Thursday ; another in the
village of Tynemouth on the same day. They both appear
to have been brought from Newcastle.
A very distressing case happened at Jarrow yesterday.
A fine little fellow, twelve years of age, son of Mr. Thomas
Bell, of Jarrow-hall, one of our large Tyneside alkali ma-
nufacturers, died after a few hours' illness. The ascer-
tained fact that the disease can be stopped in its early
stages by timely application for medical advice is very
much re-assuring our people. _ _ _

SUNDERLAND; SEPT. f7.—The health of the town is
in charge of a united committee composed of the sanitary,
sewerage, and corporation committees, John Newton, a
Newcastle carrier, died here yesterday morning of cholera,
after a short illness. Two women have died in the village
of Whitburn ; but those cases were imported from the
neighbourhood of Newcastle. There has been a death in
fHartlepool—a coal trimmer, living in an ill-drained par
01 the town.

THE CAPE MAIL STEAMERS areto start from Southamp-
ton for the future, instead of Plymouth.
THE ANNUAL BRAEMAR gathering of the clans took
place on Friday at Braemar Castle. All the Highlanders
appeared in the full national dress, wearing the tartan of
their respective clans. The chiefs being attended by their
pipers and usual personal retainers. Her Majesty having
signified her intention of honouring the gathering with
her presence, the Farquharsons, under the command of
Mr. Farquharson, of Invercauld, the Duff Highlanders,
under the command of Mr. James Duff, and the Forbes
Highlanders, from Strathdon, under the command of Sir
Charles Forbes, were drawn up in front of the castle to re-
ceive her Majesty.
FIRE AT BALMOBAL.—On Friday afternoon, one of the
cottages occupied by the masons engaged at the new
palace at Balmoral was discovered to be on fire, and; being
contiguous to the Royal residence, the utmost alarm for
a time prevailed. In a short time: a number of men
were on the spot, the Royal family being not only present,
but actively engaged in efforts to extinguish the flames.
" We are assured by a speciator," says the Aberdeen
Herald," that when a line of men was formed to eonveY
water to the burning pile from the river, Prince Albert at
once took a position, and continued working shoulder to
shoulder with a sturdy Hlghlandman. The Prince of Wales
and Prince Alfred were also actively engaged,
while
Her Majesty stood by the whole time and gave such
directions as she thought would tend to assuage the
fire, seemingly deeply interested by the efforts of the
men to save ;their clothes' chests, in which many of
them had considerable sums of money." The fire is sup-
posed to have originated by a spark getting among some
brushwood in one of the cottages where a woman was
baking, and as they were all five composed of timber, the
flames were speedily beyond the power of control. Islo
&silage has been done to the new buildhigs.