The Sun. — 1837-01-19 (London, England)

THE INFLUENZA.  This epidemic still continues without abatement, and appears to have spread to all parts of the kingdom. In the metropolis its virulence is such as to create serious inconvenience, both in the public offices and among mercantile men. Many of the oldest and most respectable parishioners of Chelsea, Battersea, Wandsworth, Putney, Kew, and other villages on the Surrey side of the river have fallen victims to the virulent effects of this dire disorder. On the Middlesex side of the Thames, especially in Kens'ngton, Hammersmith, Turnham-green, and Fulham, the disease' has also prevailed, and the consequences have been equally fatal to the adult population. It is not, perhaps, generally known that the typhus fever and small-pox have been prevalent in many of the befoie-mentioned places, and have carried off a number of both old and young persons. The latter disease has been particularly fatal among infants. In Chelsea the effects have been most fatal, several gallant ye-. terals in the hospital having died, whilst many others are , extremely indisposed. In the Duke of York's Military Asylum, in the King's-road, many of the inmates are afflicted with the complaint. On Monday no less than sixteen funerals took place in the churchyard of St. Luke, nine out of which came from the workhouse. On Tuesday morning, at the usual hour, a vast,number of persons were in attendance at the Board-room, in which the petty sessions are held, to make complaints, prefer charges, &c., before the Bench. The several parties were informed that there would be no court, as the clerk to the justices and the yes• try-clerk were both confined to their beds. This was the second court-day at which no business had been transacted. Many of the magistrates of this district are indisposed. During the past week forty-five persons have been interred in Woolwich churchyard—a larger "number than ever remembered in one week. The Royal Artillery Hospital has at the present time more patients within its walls than it has had for many years past.  So prevalent is the disease among the household troops, that it is with difficulty a sufficient number of men can be got together to mount guard. The regimental hospitals of the Guards are so crowded that orders have been issued from the office of the Commander-in-Caief for the fitting up of temporary hospitals. Thirty-one pensioners have died at Greenwich Hospital since Sunday last. All the public and private hospitals in the metropolia are crowded to excess, and numerous applications for admission are necssarily daily refused. The number of funerals on Sunday last are, we believe, unprecedented.  Since the commencement of this epidemic the Commissioners of Police have discontinued the suspension of the slaing per day, which was previously deducted from the pay of the police constables, when debarred from their duty by indisposition. Prior to this prevalence, the anatomical theatres i❑ the metropolis were very short of subjects under the provisions of the New Anatomy Bill, but these are now very plentiful. The unseasonable weather of the last two days has tended not only to increase the disorder, but restore the symptoms in those that were convalescent. In Hertfordshire the disease is very prevalent. In one house in Buckeridge five of the inmates died on Sunday. A similar complaint has recently appeared among the horses in Hertfordshire, which has been very destructive to them. A quarto pamphlet is preserved in the Royal Collection, British Museum, entitled " Morbus Epidemius, the Newe Disease ; its Signs, Causes, and Remedies." Printed 1643. The description.of the symptoms of this " newe disease," it , is remarkable, agree exactly with those to be found in the malady now prevalent in London—the influenza.  During the past week an act of suicide was effectually perpetrated by Mr. Barr, formerly a solicitor at Leeds, and who, our readers may probably recollect, w tried at the last spring assizes at York, being charged wita forging and signing orders upon the treasurer, purporting to be the claims for the county allowance made by supposed prosecutors on certain indictments for offences which in fact had never been. committed, nor prosecutions taken place. Tile sentence was transportation for life, with 12 months' previous solitary confinement or hard labour in this country. The unfortunate convict, who was about leaving England, was respectably connected, and his remains %dere deposited last Sunday in the parish churchyard at Leeds.—Chesterfield Courier.  ST.