CHOLERA.—The Government of Hamburg has declared, that all vessels from
Russia must undergo quarantine ; and that all vessels from any port of the Baltic must be looked o.r as suspected. The disease now rages in St. Petersburg with frightful violence. Out of 596 cases, the last accounts record only 5 recoveries ; the doubtful cases were 315; the deaths 279. The lower orders of the people, from the terrible mortality in the hospi- tals, had taken it into their heads that the patients were poisoned, or buried alive. Numerous riots had been the consequence, in which a Ger- man physician had been murdered, and several of the temporary hospitals destroyed. At Rip, the disease does not seem to have at all abated in violence : of 203 new cases, between the 4th and 7th of July, 52 had died. The intelligence from Archangel is contradictory; some accounts say the fever is milder than it was, others that it is as virulent as at first. The Cholera has broken out in the East: At Odessa, the cases were on the 27th June at the rate of 40 a-day. Jassy is a desert from plague, con- flagration, and lastly Cholera, more-wasting than either. An Irish paper mentions the breaking out of a contagious fever near Strabane, but does not state its symptoms. The Hull letter received on Thursday, mentions a case of Cholera on board a vessel then coming from Riga. The vessel had just completed quarantine ; she has been again subjected to it.
DON PEDRO.—A French journal states that the ex-Emperor of Bra- zil is about to fix his residence at Malmaison, which is to be arranged or his reception with all possible speed. ACTION BETWEEN TI1E FRENCH AND FORTUGUESE.-011 Friday, theist instant, a ship of the line, a frigate, and a brig, forming part of the French squadron off Lisbon, chased a Portuguese vessel, the Lord Wel- lington, of 300 tons, into Cascaes Bay, keeping up a constant fire, to oblige her to heave to. When within the range of the guns of the bat- tery, the Portuguese opened a brisk fire on the squadron ; the Lord Wellington then came to anchor wider the batteries. The line-of-battle- ship and frigate returned the fire from the batteries, and silenced the guns ; after which they sent in their boats, which succeeded in bringing out the 11rel1ington.—Fahnou1h Packet.
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