and shortly afterwards was attacked with cramp in his arms

and legs, June 27th 28th 29th

THE CROPS.—Wheat harvest has commenced in Essex, where the crops are heavy, and in excellent condition. Near Brighton it is ex- pected that on Monday the whole of the labourers in the country will be in the field. In Hereford the harvest has already begun. The benefit of the rains round Taunton has been incalculable, and the sunshine that followed has ripened the wheat with almost miraculous rapidity. In Devonshire generally, the crops wall be weighty and fine. Round Bury, the wheats have been cutting down through the whole of the week. The same accounts without almost an exception are received from every quarter. In the North, about Newcastle, the barley harvest has partially begun, and the wheat harvest is expected very soon to follow. In Scot.. land, also, barley has begun to be cut down. The kindness of Providence has not been more conspicuous in England than on the Continent : in 4 France, the harvest is said to be extremely abundant. A paragraph in the Sheffield Courant says, fears are entertained of the labourers in the agricultural districts firing the standing corn ! Is the announcer of such a diabolical intention deceived merely, or is he hinting the plan with a wish to its adoption ? Why, the labourer, or any one for him that at- tempted such an act of incredible wickedness, would be worthily shot like a mad dog wherever he was found. June 26th .. 329 27th • . 527 28th .. 579 '29th .. 570

Cronstadt local authorities of sufficient importance to require their being officially Communicated to the Government. The papers were laid before the Board of Health, who so far concurred in this opinion as to advise that a person familiar with the Indian Cholera should be forthwith dispatched to examine into, and report upon the nature

of the disease. In consequence of this recommendation, Dr. Daun left town the same evening; but as he could not arrive at his destina- tion before Tuesday, sufficient time has not yet elapsed for the result of his observations to be known. Meanwhile, we may state that we have received information of a more recent date, from a sourcewhich we deem authentic, and of a nature to allay apprehension. It appears that seve- ral persons—principally young women—after having been pent up in close and heated apartments, picking hemp, were seized with vomiting and purging, accompanied by cramps of the limbs, constituting precisely the cholera of this country, and under which several of them rapidly sunk: The season of the year, and the circumstances under which they were placed, are quite sufficient to account for such disease without having recourse to infection as the exciting cause : besides which, according to our informant, other persons exposed to the same heat and confinement, but who had not been at work upon hemp, were similarly affected. It would, indeed, have been extraordinary if the state of atmosphere which has prevailed for some time had not been followed by some such cases as those alluded to ; and, in fact, we have had a considerable number of persons in this metropolis affected with similar symptoms. During the present week, for example, a Paddington coachman died of cholera within less than twelve hours. But such cases are dependent upon obvious and temporary causes ; they are sporadic, and wholly independent of infec- tion.—London Medical Gazette.

A letter has been addressed by the Privy Council to the Moderator of the Church of Scotland, requesting him to write to the clergymen of the maritime parishes of Scotland, directing them to caution the people as to the nature of the cholera ; and to recommend them, on account of the danger to be apprehended, not to communicate with any vessels arriving on the coast until they shall have been regularly admitted to entry by the officers of Customs.

It is the opinion of an experienced member of the faculty, residing at Boston, that the cholera morbus has for some time back existed in that town, but that it is non-contagious. The method of cure that has been adopted by our informant is simple, and has been uniformly successful. As the vomiting and purging-are, in his opinion, occasioned by the acrid secretions irritating the stomach and bowels, he has given large draughts PAOANINI AT CHELTENIIAM.—" It appears," says a letter from Chel- of warm diluting drink, such as water heated, tea, barley-water, oat- tenham, "that Paganini had agreed to perform at the theatre for two-

meal gruel, or any thing which dilutes the acrid contents, and causes their thirds of the receipts ; but finding that the house was not half full, in more complete and easy expulsion. He then covers the body with flan- consequence of the prices being doubled, and the ball at the Rotunda, he nel occasionally made warm. To lessen the irritability of the stomach refused to play unless he received 200 guineas beforehand. To this pro-

and bowels, he has given opiates in large doses ; and as a liquid might be position the manager refused to accede ; and having informed his au-

More easily rejected, Le prefers solid opium, and gives it according to dience thereof, the upshot of the event was, that Il Signor was so alarmed the urgency of the symptoms, till the violence of the disease be abated, at the tumultuous assembly which surrounded his hotel, that he was

and then he administers a smaller dose.—Stamford Champion. fain to perform at play-house prices. He himself received nothing, the

seen from the following statement— expenses. We believe this is the only instance as yet upon record of

Daily Cases.

Daily Cases. Recovering. Deaths. Remain.

123

40 179 121 6 . 45

1 59 95

Recovering. Deaths. Remain. Cases. Deaths.

11 156 887

14 177 ... 1221

45 153 ... 1551 ... 2848 .. 1202 54 277 ... 1754 ... 3418 .. 1479

Total