The following letter of apology from Mr. Craven Berkeley to

Mr. Rona- dell Palmer, a member of the late Cheltenham Election Committee, was published on Tuesday.

The Queen's Hotel, Cheltenham, Sept. 9.

" Sir—Though I cannot divest myself of the conviction that the decision of the Committee was erroneous, unsupported by evidence, and that in consequence I was unjustly deprived of my seat for Cheltenham, and in this conviction I am supported by the opinions of more competent persons than myself, I am neverthe- less bound to state, that under the influence of excited feelings I made UM of ob- servations and expressions touching yourself which my cooler judgment totally

disapproves of These I beg therefore completely to withdraw, and to tender you my sincere apologies for having given utterance to them. " I have the honour to be your obedient servant, " To Bounden Palmer, Esq., &c. CRAVEN F. BERKELEY. " P.S. You are at liberty to make what use you please of this communication. I have forwarded Lord Palmerston a copy, accompanied by the enclosed note." Mr. Roundell Palmer's reply was appended; a concise yet genial accept- ance of the amende-

" I am satisfied you would not have used" the expressions " except under the influence of a temporary excitement"; and they will "from this moment be entirely dismissed from my mind."

Sir William Clay also received a verbatim copy of Mr. Craven Berke- ley's letter, and published his reply; by no means so concise as Mr. Palmer's, but a better sample of the true House-of-Commons style of am- plifying and reduplicating eloquence- " As you now state, with an explicitness that does you honour, that in your cooler judgment you reject and disavow the expressions of which, under the in- Ruence of excitement, you were tempted to make use, you may rest assured that

I shall think of them no more "• moreover, "that they will henceforth be for me as if they had never been uttered."

The Irish Central Board of Health has published a circular of instruc- tions in anticipation of the arrival of the cholera in this country; an event which they regard as certain. The circular insists particularly on the now ascertained fact that the disease is generally uncontagious and uninfec- tious; and grounds on this fact its recommendations, that the hospital arrangements of past years need not be again resorted to, but a more simple and effective system of dispensaries be organized for the public behoof. To effect the objects which they consider desirable, they urge the following arrangements-

" 1. The prescribing room of every medical institution, whether hospital or dis- pensary, should be open day and night without intermission during the prevalence of cholera, and a medical officer should be in constant attendance to prescribe for all applicants. " 2. Each hospital and dispensary should have a certain district allotted to it; and the attending porter or clerk should keep a book in which he should enter the names and residences of all applicants for relief within the district who are unable to leave their homes. The book should show the time of application, and the name and residence of the tient.

"3. A second medical eer should be constantly in readiness to receive the names of all such applicants, and to proceed without delay to visit them. The visiting physician, instead of writing a prescription at the residence of the patient, should be provided with a small portable pocket medicine-box, containing the medicines most generally required, made up in such a form as to render their ad- ministration as speedy and as simple as possible. Such portable medicine-boxes can be procured at a very small cost, or may be made up, on an emergency, of pasteboard, or thin board, or tin, in the form of a book about seven inches long, four inches broad, and one inch deep, with one of the sides to fold back, or open on hinges. The services of an apothecary will be required to keep up a constant supply of the medicines required, made up ready for use. The medical officers will generally give formulre for the medicines they may deem best. The following may, however, serve as an example of what should be generally provided in the pocket medicine-boxes. The most portable forms for the medicines are selected: the directions should, as far as practicable, be printed.

" Powders.—Carbonate of ammonia, in waxed papers, each paper containing 40 grains, with the following printed directions on the outside—' Dissolve this powder in half-a-pint of water; give two table-spoonfuls every hour.'

"Powders.—Compound powder of Chalk with Opium, (Pulv. cretse c. opio,) in packets each containing six papers, each paper containing ten grains of the powder, with printed directions—' One powder every half-hour until the loose- mas ceases.'

"Pills of Powdered Opium, each containing one quarter of a grain of opium, and two grains of powdered ginger, made np with oil of peppermint. The pills to be in boxes, each box containing six pills, with a printed label—`Opium pills, one every half-hour until the looseness ceases.'

"Pills of Mercury and Opium, each containing one quarter of a grain of calo- mel, twograins of hydrargyrum c. creta, (mercury with chalk,) and a quarter of a grain of opium, made up with oil of caraway, (which will serve to distinguish them from the plain opium pills,) in boxes, each containing six pills, with a printed label—'Idercnry and opium pills, one every half hour. "Bottles, (one or two ounce phials, with cork stoppers,)

"1. Containing—Tincture of opium, (laudanum,)

2. „ Hoffman's liquor, 3. e Tincture of rhatany, 4. „ Creosote. "Along with the box should be carried a small jar of strong brown mustard. "The visiting physician should also be furnished with printed forms for the removal to hospital of patients who are destitute of assistance in their own dwell- ings; in short, every measure should be adopted that will obviate the least delay. It may be necessary in some instances to establish temporary district dispensaries; but it is most desirable, for reasons already given, that the permanent institutions should be first made available.

"It is not within the purpose of a communication such as this to go into de- tails of treatment. There are, however, two points on which the Commissioners of Health feel it will not be out of place to give an opinion—viz. the employment of frictions, and the allowance of drink to the sick. The Commissioners cannot recommend that fluid applications of any kind should be employed in frictions on the body or limbs, as the cold consequent on prolonged exposure and evaporation more than counterbalances any supposed good effect from friction; which, if at all need, should be made merely with the warm hand, without disturbing the bed- clothes. The Commissioners also advise that when patients suffer from thirst they should in general be permitted to drink freely; as experience shows that the denial of drink does not check vomiting, while it increases very much the suffer- ing of the patient from the burning thirst that so often accompanies the disease."

We reprint also the "Precautions and Instructions" for the public; though much of their substance is not new in our columns: our object in the repetition is to fix important sanatory knowledge in the public mind and memory.

"PRECAUTIONS AND INSTRUCTIONS FROM COMMISSIONERS OF HEALTH.

" Shun damp and low situations; and if possible, quit dwellings in such places, during the prevalence of cholera. Keep your houses and rooms dry, and the win- dows and doors open as much and as long as the weather will permit: there can scarcely be too much ventilation. An abundant supply of fresh air is as necessa- ry durzn the night as in the day; and pure air is as requisite for the support of We and health as good food.

"Remove all stagnant water and dung-heaps from around your dwellings, and clean out all sewers without delay. Do these things at once, without waiting for the outbreak of the disease. It will be unsafe, and it will be too late to under- take them, when cholera shall have broken out.

"Avoid chills: do not wear wet clothes a moment longer than can be avoided. Wear a flannel belt round the stomach and loins—make use of plain wholesome food, in the solid rather than in the liquid form—abstain from fruit, raw and ill-cooked vegetables, pastry, smoked and hard salted meats, and salted ish, pork, cider, stale or sour malt drinks, pickles, and all articles of diet that frau expe- rience are known to have a purgative effect.

"Avoid purgative medicines, particularly castor oil, Seidlitz powders, aid salts. "Be very careful that the water used as drink is of good quality. "Abstain from stimulants, unless prescribed as remedies under medical idvice. In former visitations of cholera, many persons, both rich and poor, resorted'o the use of stimulants—wine, whisky, brandy, &c.—under the false impressiot that what was sometimes useful as a cure was also good as a preventive. Thu is a great error. Stimulants frequently taken, or taken in excess, are followed by col- lapse, which predisposea to the disease; and the general health, moreover, is ten _onsly and permanently injured by the practice. In fine, shun damp places, pall-

cnlarly for sleeping; breathe pure air; observe cleanliness; keep the surface of the body warm; avoid excesses of all kinds; use wholesome plain food; live temper- ately; preserve as much as possible a state of general good health; and you will have adopted the best safeguards against cholera. "1. If attacked by diarrhma or looseness of the bowels, however alight, whether with or without pain, apply without a moment's delay at the dispensary where medical relief will be given at any hour of the day or night. "2. Let notice be given without delay, at any hour of the day or night, at the same place, of the name and residence of any patient affected with vomiting, pur- ging, or cramps, who may be unable to go out: immediate attendance will be gi- ven, and if necessary the patient will be removed to the hospital.

" Should you be attacked with diarrhoea or looseness of the bowels, with a without pain, and that medical advice should not be at hand, go at once to bed ; wrap yourself m warm blankets; roll a swathe warm flannel, sprinkled with hot spirifs of turpentine, or whisky, closely round the body, extending from the chest to the hips; and take a teaspoonful of brandy or whisky in a little water, with fifteen

drops of laudanum; repeating it every hour, if the attack be not checked, until a third dose has been taken: but do not venture further in the use of laudanum. without medical advice."

The Lords of Council have communicated their opinion to the Com- missioners of Customs, that the restraint of quarantine should be enforced against every vessel arriving, if a case of cholera has occurred on board, until the clothing and bedding of the following persons shall have been_ thoroughly immersed in water, under the direction of a Customs officer- " 1. Of all persons who shall have died of cholera on board of such vessel at any foreign port, or on shore at such port. 2. Of all person who shall have died, or who shall have had an attack of cholera on board of such vessel during her homeward voyage." Vessels with cholera actually on board to be detained till further orders.

The Commissioners have "forwarded express directions" in accordance with these opinions.

The Paris correspondence of the Morning Chronicle had this intimation, of Tuesday's date— "It would appear as if the cholera, which has been making such ravages in the- North of Europe, has at length reached Paris. Yesterdayand today several cases have appeared, which are said to have all the symptoms of Asiatic cholera, but in a mild shape. A medical gentleman informs me that he has two cases of what he calls cholera asphyxia, and that in both cases the patients are likely to recover."

A letter from Hamburg, of the 15th instant, states that the cholera is making rapid progress there. " Almost every case is fatal: we have no au- thentic report of the number of cases, but from what I can learn, we have- not less than from thirty to fifty fatal cases daily."

The marriage of the Grand Duke Constantine, second son of the Em- peror of Russia, is to be celebrated on the 23d instant. The ceremony will take place in the Palace of Peterhoff, but without any pomp. The. Enms peror has handed over the sum which a more magnificent ceremony would have cost, to the committee formed to assist the:widows and orphans of whose who have fallen victims to the cholera.

The Empress of Brazil gave birth to a son on the 19th of July. The heir-apparent thus born displaces the presumptive heirship of the Princess de Joinville, who is the Emperor's sister.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, it is stated, has refused to preach at St. Mark's College, Chelsea: the reason, it is understood, being that the forms there employed during Divine service are too numerous, and that too much singing is introduced.—Daily News.

The Scotch title of Viscount Kenmure is to be revived in the person of Mr. John Gordon, late of the Royal Engineers. The last holder was be- headed for his share in the rebellion of 1715; but, having taken the pre- caution to convey his estates before trial, Mr. Gordon inherits the solid as well as the ornamental portion of the inheritance of his unfortunate ancestor.—Daily News.

It is understood that early next year a variety of new regulations will be adopted in reference to the barrack accommodation afforded to the troops- in Ireland, and also in parts of England. It appears that Lord Harclinge, during his stay in Ireland, gave it as his opinion that sufficient accommo- dation was not afforded to the troops, nor sufficient attention paid to their comforts.—Globe.

Intelligence, upon the authority of which it is said the utmost reliance may be placed, has reached Dublin, that the British Government has been foiled in its negotiation with the Holy See to effect an amicable adjustment of the Irish " Godless " Colleges question; that, in fact, the Pope has "pro- nounced " against the scheme, and in favour of the objections raised against it by the turbulent titular of Tuam. According to the same author- ity, the "Great Reformer" has also put his veto upon the Diplomatic Relations with Rome Bill.—Dublin Correspondent of the Times, Septem- ber 16.

Experiments were made on Friday last with Mr. Bakewell's copying electric telegraph, between the Electric Telegraph Company's station in Seymour Street and Slough; which, we understand, proved very satisfac- torily that the same amount of power requirekfor working the needle- telegraph is amply sufficient for the copying process. Copies of the written. messages were made on paper with a single wire, and at double the speed. of transmission by the ordinary needle-telegraph; though, with the small model instruments employed in the experiments, rapidity was not at- tempted. With larger and more accurately-constructed apparatus, we hear that Mr. Bakewell expects to be able to copy 800 letters of the alphabet per minute.

We understand that the expenses caused by the late accident on the North-western Railway, including all claims, will amount to about 2,600L: the relatives of the late Colonel Baird have, in the handsomest manner, intimated their intention not to make any claim on the Company.—Mors- ins Chronicle.

The Directors of the London and North-western Railway Company have passed a resolution expressing their approbation of the ready and cheerful manner in which the guards and breaksmen performed extra duties during the dispute with the engine-drivers; and have awarded a gratuity to each.

The Liverpool Chronicle of Saturday contained this bit of turf gossip—" Lord George Bentinck's visit to Doncaster has been far more profitable than his con- templated trip to Ireland could have turned out. At the Carlton Club, yester- day, it was stated that, in the event of Surplice carrying off the St. Leger, the Protectionist chief stood to win 80,0001., aportion of a bet made at the time Sur- plice was foaled. You know the result of the race, and the upshot of the long odds, taken by Lord George Bentinck against this crack horse winning both the Leger and the Derby, a feat unperformed since the year 1798. In order that you may judge of Lord Stanley's knowledge in horse-racing matters, I just mention the fact that, on Tuesday afternoon, a member of the Carlton received a letter from his Lordship stating, ' There was not the shadow of a doubt but that Cane- son would win in a common canter.' If his Lordship happened to be a betting- man, I should say he calculated at a serious disadvantage; but it is known that beyond the entrance subscription he did not lose a single penny on the transac- tion."

Mr. William J. Hammond, the comedian, died very suddenly, of diarrhoea, in the United States; after making a very successful debilt there.

John Frederick Stanton, Esq., of Foley House, London, has forwarded to Mr. Neilson a very handsome silver tankard for Jerome, who so nobly rescued seven- teen lives from the wreck of the Ocean Monarch.—Liverpool Journal.

Preparations were commenced on Wednesday within the Tower of London for the erection of a granite statue of the Duke of Wellington. It is to be placed mid-way between the White Tower and the Green, fronting the flight of steps leading from Traitor's Gate.

The first twenty-five days of the sale of Stowe, up to last week, realised 65,4411. Of the original sale ten days then remained to ran; and it is expected that there will be a supplemental sale of five days.

The North Wales Chronicle says that the number of tourists now in the Prin- cipality exceeds that of all former years.

Several Wiltshire farmers, especially in the Northern division, have been drawn into a bubble joint stock society, termed." The Agricultural Cattle Insurance Company," by which many of them will be involved in utter rain. The society was got up in London, by parties who have since absconded from the country; and the unfortunate shareholders are now called upon to make up a deficiency of 45,0001. It is said that some of the Wiltshire agriculturists are holders of 1,000 shares, nominally of 201. each; others of 700 shares, &c.—Salisbury Herald.

The Cork Reporter narrates a sanguinary conflict at Silvermines, under very strange circumstances. " It appears that some time ago a neighbouring farmer married the daughter of a man named Cleary, with whom he was promised ' a fortune.' Offing to some cause with which we have not been acquainted, the fortune was not forthcoming in due time, and the husband determined to enforce his claim by the summary process of laivh laidher. Accordingly, on Monday, (the 11th instant,) accompanied by an armed band of friends,' and servants, who were plentifully supplied with pitchforks, reaping-hooks, scithes, &c., he went to the house of his father-in .law, an old man, to distrain for the amount of the fortune. Cleary and his sons, with their servants, met him near their resi- dence- when, after the interchange of hot words on both sides, the conflict com- menced, and raged fiercely for some time, until, we have been assured, blood flowed abundantly on both sides; old Cleary having received three desperate cuts of a scithe on the head, from the effect of which his life is despaired of."

Religious animosity has caused an atrocious crime at Limberg. There is a bad feeling between the Jews of the ancient faith and those of the "Reformed creed." The Government had imposed a rabbi at the instance of the Reformed sect on the whole body: hence bickenngs, and insults to the rabbi from the ancient believers; and eventually one of the latter managed to put a large quantity of arsenic into a pot of food in the rabbi's kitchen. The whole household, nine in number, were poisoned; the rabbi and one of his children soon died, and the others were in dan- ger. Many Jews have been arrested on suspicion.

The New Orleans Crescent, of the 8th August, describes an Indian execution. An Indian had murdered one of his tribe, on the shore of Lake Pont Chartrain, and was taken into custody by his brethren. " On Sunday morning, a court, composed of ten Indians, was formed to hear the case and pass sentence. The proofs were most conclusive, and the prisoner was at once condemned to death. Whereupon he was measured, his grave marked out, and he himself set to work digging it. When the grave was finished, a rifle was placed in the hands of the murdered Indian's son, for the purpose of doing the execution. At the first shot death was not produced; the second shot also took effect, but did not kill; and the stoical violator of innocent life fell into his grave, and was there finally killed, and covered with earth as he lay. The Court that had condemned him then took their own instrument of justice into custody, and started off for the purpose of de- livering him to the civil authorities at Covington, to obtain his final discharge as an innocent man."

While the schooner Duncan Dunbar was on a voyage from Scarborough to Har- tlepool it was found that she leaked rapidly; and the crew brought her to port with considerable difficulty. It was then discovered that some miscreant had bored two holes through her bottom, with an augur.

No fewer than six serious fires are reported to have occurred last week from children playing with lucifers. In one case, Mr. Edward Freemen, farmer, at Pinchbeck Marsh, near Spalding, lost five stacks of wheat, seven of oats, one of clover, and one of straw, as well as the whole of the farm-buildings, including a barn containing a quantity of thrashed wheat. In another, at Crowfield, about nine miles from Stowmarket, the whole of the Rose public-house, a bullock-shed, and a barn containing six Coombs of wheat, were completely destroyed.

On Tuesday the 12th, an inquest was held on the body of Nathan Parr, aged fifty-seven, who met with a succession of accidents which terminated in his death. A fortnight ago he hurt his left thumb, it having been jammed between two casks. Shortly afterwards, whilst backing a horse, the animal snapped at him, and bit him between the wrist and the elbow. The pain resulting from this accident extended from the arm into the body; but when he began to re- cover from the effects, and was nearly able to return to his work, he fell suddenly upon the footpath outside his own door, and received a severe cut on the right side of his head. He probably might have recovered from this latter accident, had not lock jaw, resulting from the injury to the thumb, set in, and that speedy finished his earthly career. Verdict, "Accidental death."—Liverpool Mail.

James Collins, a miner at St. Blayey, has made a remarkable escape from death. Whilst nutting amongst trees which grew at the mouth of a deserted mine-shaft, he overreached himself, and fell to the bottom of the shaft, a great many fathom deep. By chance be was comparatively uninjured. The shaft was in a lone vet, and all hope of aid was quite vain; so he set about climbing to the top by the small projections in the rock of the shaft-side. The nature of his task and his resolution in performing it may be judged from the time it took: he fell into the shaft at eight a.m., and reached the summit only at six p.m. He crawled home nearly dead with fatigue. A child belonging to Mr. William Rhind, tailor, while amusing itself looking over a window, lost its balance and fell from the height of two stories. Fortu- nately for the child, a young man was passing by at the time, who observed the accident, and, with a presence of mind beyond all praise, ran forward and caught it in his arms before it reached the ground. The child felled $c be Inthoc the worse.—Elgin Courier.

At the Monmouth Board of Guardians, on Saturday, an application was made for the burial-fee of Is. 6d. for interring an amputated leg in the churchyard. Referred to the auditors.—Merlin.

The Hampton Court vine, more than 120 years old, nearly as many feet in length, its stem 32 inches in circumference, is now laden with more than 2,000 bunches of fine grapes, rapidly ripening, and weighing on an average 17 ounces i

each bunch, or in the whole nearly one ton.

The Derry Sentinel describes an instance of a phainomenon very rare in our latitudes—the apparition in the horizon which in Italy is called Fats. Morgans, and which in the African and Asian deserts is known as "the mirage." Two fishermen were the spectators, out in a boat on Lough Foyle, off Quigley's Point. "At about two in the afternoon, the sky was of a more than ordinary dark and lurid aspect, so much so that the men were apprehensive that there would be a heavy fall of rain; when almost instantaneously the clouds to the Westward parted, and an opening as it were, of a reddish hue, became visible, to which their attention was directed. Then there appeared in the heavens a regiment of men in uniform; and so minute was the representation, that the dresses of the officers could be easily distinguished from those of the men. This passed away in a panoramic manner, and was quickly succeeded by the view of two large three- masted vessels of war under full sail, which traversed the same apace as their predecessors in the scene, and at length they faded from the sight. The mysterious vision was not, however, yet completed; for their wonde-ing eyes now beheld the appearance of two human forms, male and female, standing with their faces towards each other, as if engaged in conversation; and so vivid was the out- line of these figures, that they distinguished the male from the female, the for- mer being apparently clothed in a frock-coat. This aerial personation of huma- nity occupied about the same apace of time as the two first-mentioned. This most bewildering scene was closed by the forms of a swan and a pea-hen moving across and disappearing; after which the sky assumed the sombre hue which it wore previous to this strange illusion."

Last week, as Mr. Hylton's menagerie was entering Rhayader, Wales, the ele- phant was regaled at a baker's. He carefully " surveyed " the premises; and about two o'clock the next morning brow out of his temporary lodging, forced a way into the baker's shop, and in no time put out of sight fourteen quarters loaves. He then demolished the bottles containing the sweetmeats; and, but for the timely appearance of the keeper it is' not known what pranks this huge beast would have committed before daylight—Liverpool Mercury.

The Globe has pointed out an oversight of expression, rather than an error in the reasoning-of a paper in our last number; and has satisfied us that the ad- ditional " sixpence a ton" chargeable on coals from the Denain colliery is caused solely by the arrangements within the mine, and not by the peculiar restrictions on the hours of labour; the small amount of work performed by each man, and other circumstances favourably affecting the social condition of the workpeople, but being certainly unfavourable to the commercial interests of the mine in a merely trading point of view. Our contemporary goes on to describe places where wages are high, work brisk, the people brutalized, and strikes common, as proving that the people live in dirt and ignorance, without doing so to save " sixpence a ton." That is quite true. There is the admitted waste of bad arrangements in many English collieries: in many better mining systems, such as those of Cornwall, effective labour is made compatible with some degree of education, training, and cleanliness. But our contemporary will agree that a mere trading spirit would not create those better circumstances : it is done by something beyond trade, and mainly by a philanthropic activity of that intelligence for which the educated classes in Cornwall are distinguished. And the social condition even of a Cornish miner might be improved by making it approximate more to that of a Denain miner. We believe that a great improvement is taking place, but not by the operation of the mere trading spirit. The State, trade itself, derives benefits from the better condition of the labouring classes: an improved collier does become "a larger consumer of soap," but the consumption of soap operates as no direct inducement to the coal-owner, in a merely trading point of view; no rise in the demand for soap would cause a rise in the shares of a coal- mine. Free- dom of trade can only give the utmost efficiency to the process of exchange: it cannot effect unexchangeable commodities and necessities—it cannot satisfy the highest wants of mail.

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

Zymotle Diseases 374 .... 257 Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat .. 41 .... 45 Tubercular Diseases. 142 .... 191 Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses 90 .... 120 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 22 .... 28 Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration... 70 .... SO

Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion . 74 . . .. 79 Diseases of the Kidneys, Sc 6 .... 8

Childbirth, diseases of the Uterus, Sc.

Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones, Joints, &c Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, Sc Malformations Premature Birth Atrophy Age Sudden Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance

temperature by 7.3°. The direction of the wind for the week was variable. the shade; the mean temperature by day being colder than the mean average The temperature of the thermometer ranged from 90.8° in the sun to 23.0° in

Total (including unspecified causes) Number of Summer Deaths. Average.

9 .... 10 12 .... 22 16 .... 25 29 .... so

zo ....

31 925 972