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The cholera in the Metropolis made a rapid stride last week. The numbers who died from the epidemic increased from 26 in the previous week to 138: namely, to 42 children under fifteen years cif age, 78 men and women between that age and sixty years, and to 13 persons sixty years old and upwards 71, or more than half the number Qt. Cases, ee- eurred on the South side of the river, 35 in the East districts, and the remainder in various _other parts of the Metropolis as far as its Western extremity. Diarrhcea increased from 58 to St in the last two weeks. During the week, 1219 persons died ; an increase of 211 over the pre- , vious week, and 40 in excess of the caloulated average.

At a meeting of the City Court of Sewers, on Wednesday, the Medi- cal Officer of Health, in his usual report, remarked upon the fact that up to the 29th July six deaths from cholera had occurred in the City, and stated that he had reason to fear that an epidemic visitation of the dis- ease had already commenced in the Metropolis. He urged the Court not to relax its defensive measures ; and recommended that great vigilance should be used with respect to the sale of unsound and unwholesome provisions. But he pointed out, that it is now for others to struggle ac- tively with the disease, especially by organizing arrangements for tho discovery and control of premonitory diarrhcea.

The ship Lord Auckland, on her way down the Channel with drafts of several regiments for service in India, put into Plymouth Sound on Mon- day, with the cholera on board—seventeen cases and three deaths. A bulk was sent out as a hospital ; and Sir Harry Smith visited the ship. Ile found the men neither clean nor well disciplined, and he sentenced two of them to imprisonment. Subsequently, five more deaths occurred, and six fresh cases. The frigate Endymion has been sent to receive the troops and crew.-

Result of the Registrar-General's return of mortality in the Metropolis for the week ending on Saturday last.

Ten Weeks of 1054-23. Week 0( 1534.

Zymotle Diseases 3,748 422 Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat • 406 .... 47 Tubercular Diseases 1,917 178 Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses 1,170 .... 141 Di5e116C4 of the Heart and Blood-vessels 310 34

DMe. o e s n of the other 0 ans of Res rati f4111 ISToarigi .A 11 n Diseases o e stomach. Liver, an other Organs of Digestion

808 710 106 70 Diseases of the Kidneys, &e.

C.hild birth, diseases of the Utereir, die 95 12 Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones. Joints, ite. 62 4

Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, Sc.

13 3 Malformations. 33 6 Premature Birth 253 34 Atrophy 311

Age 370 45 Sudden 63 6 Violence,Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 290 43 Total (including unspecified causes) 10,716 1,219

The Queen has sanctioned the immediate erection of the Mauritius and its dependencies into a Bishopric. ' The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel has appropriated 3000/. out of its Jubilee fund, and the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge 20004 The Reverend Vincent Ryan, Principal of Highbury College, is mentioned by a religious contemporary as likely to be the first Bishop.

El Ilamee Pasha, the son of the late Viceroy of Egypt, arrived at South- ampton on Saturday, in the steam-yacht Paid Gehaad. It appears that he had been only-one day's sail from Alexandria when his father died, but that he first learned the fact at Southampton. He gave instant orders to return to Egypt. His object in coming to Europe was to pay a visit to Queen Vic- toria and the Emperor of the French.

Vely Pasha, Ottoman Ambassador in Paris, arrived in London on Saturday for a short 'drat.

The Speaker gave his "official dinner" on Wednesday—an entertainment to the chief officers of the House of Commons.

Mr. H. M. Clarke, the brother of Mrs. Moore, contradicts the statements that the widow of the Colonel has been appointed apartments in Hampton Court Palace, and that Major White has placed 20001. at her disposaL

Sir Roderick Murchison announces that about 2000/. has been received for the Bella testimonial. Of this, 5001. is to be devoted to the erection of a granite obelisk on the wharf of Greenwich Hospital, the authorities having granted a site ; and the remainder will be divided amorig the five sisters of the gallant Frenchman.

The will of the late Duke of Portland has been proved. The personal property was sworn under 900,000!.; probate-duty, 12,0001. The Duke directed that the cost of his funeral should not exceed 100/. He bequeathed 5000/. to be divided among his servants.

Mr. Jeremiah Smith, formerly Mayor of Rye, who was convicted of per- jury, was recently liberated from Newgate before the expiration of his sen- tence, not because there was any doubt of the justice of his conviction, but because a medical man certified that his life was in danger—it was feared he would die of apoplexy.

Last week there were thunder-storms in various parts of the country, at- tended with great loss of property and some of life. A labourer was killed near Heavitree ; he and two others having incautiously sought shelter under a tree, which the lightning struck. At Ilfracombe, a labourer's wife was killed by the lightning striking her cottage. In many parts of Devonshire sheep were killed. .

In South Wales the storms were attended by tremendous falls of rain, flooding the country, carrying away bridges, and sweeping off produce and animals. Piston's monument at Carmarthen was damaged by the light- ning. An old man and a woman perished at alydrim, swept away by a flood.

Last week 69,598 bathers and 7576 washers of linen used the eleven baths and washhouses of London.

A final dividend—about twopence in the pound—has been declared this week under the estate of Chambers and Son, bankers.

A thief has carried off a number of eggs from a case in the Natural His- tory Society's museum at Belfast : he selected the most valuable specimens, which leads to the inference that he was not a common pilferer.

The capital sentence on Tzquierdo, the Spaniard who killed a boy in Hert- fordshire, has been commuted to penal servitude for lifo ; on the ground that it is unknown what took place between the boy and his murderer—whether the Spaniard received any provocation. A bedridden old man named William Ronald, once a ploughboy to Robert Burns, may be seen and talked with at Maulside, near Beith, in Ayrshire. He knew much of the poet's character; but, being a very modest man, es- caped the notice of almost all the inquirers after Burns.—Glasgow Common- wealth.

While a labourer named Mitchell will working in a ditch near Gains- borough, a gentleman came to inform him that he was heir to property valuedau 20,000/., left by Mr. Sutton of Thorpe, a distant relative.

The Due rElchingen, second. son of Marshal Ney, died very suddenly, at Gallipoli, on the 14th July. He had been slightly indisposed for some slays; on the morning of the. 14th he received the news of his mother's death ; he was greatly agitated, andhe died at four in the afternoon. [It is also stated that he died of cholera.) The Duke commanded a brigade of cavalry in the French army of the East. His son, who was serving as a noncommissioned officer, is carrying his father's heart to France.

A scientific expedition to explore Eastern Siberia has been decided on by the Geographical Society of St. Petersburg, and approved by the Czar. The survey is expected to last three years, and will be of an extensive kind.

The Honourable George C. Washington, one of the few remaining rela- tives of George Washington, died on the 18th July, at Washington city.

After a temporary revival of confidence, the New York money-market has exhibited as much panic as ever, in consequence of new failures of firms and a new discovery of fraud. The discovery was at Boston. Mr. Edward Crane, President of the Vermont Central Railway, has over-issued 8000 shares, of the nominal value of 10/. each. One cause of depression was a fear that holders of shares on this side of the Atlantic would pour them into the 'United States market for sale. Investigations are proceeding into the state of various companies : a committee has already reported satisfactorily respecting the New York and Erie Company.