The Cholera Report of this morning gives, for London, 15
new casese, S deaths, in the two days since Thursday's report. In-the Country, the new cases are 144, the *deaths 67.
Lieutenant Staepoole, of this Royal Marines, arrived in town yester- day from Sierra Leone, with despatches from Lieutenant-Colonel Findley, the Lieutenant-Governor.
Staines Bridge is to be opened on Easter Monday. It is expected that the ceremony will take place at three o'clock, and that the King and Royal Family will be present.
The attention of the fashionable world is still occupied with the cir- cumstances attending the presentation and refusal of a .cheque for .5,0001.to which allusion has been already made by some of our con- temporaries. It was after a trio tkiertni! Os we have heard) that the parties proceeded to the banking-house in question, and the' cheque was presented by the noble drawer himself-the affectionate couple for whom the proceeds were destined not having left the carriage. We understand that great credit is due to the bankers for singular firmness and adroitness evinced under the trying circumstances ofthe case ; the mental aberration of the noble Earl haying been painfully evident even before the period. referred to.- True Sum. [The noble drawer, alluded to by our contem- porary, is Earl Dudley, whose absence from the 1-louse of Peers ott Friday last week is understood to have liven Occasioned by the most melansholy visitation to which human nature is subject. Of the affec- tionate couple, we have beard the names, but we must not venture to tell them to our readers--the subject is too delicate for a public jour- • nalist to handle.]
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