PROGRESS OF TILE CHOLERA IN ENGLAND.

SINCE our last report, the cholera at Sunderland seems to have abated its virulence,—whether from the state of the weather, or whether the disease, which since its commencement has displayed very little of that activity that distinguished its first inroads on the Continent, is really a milder variety, or whether from the want of pabulum (which is the more probable), a short time will show. The cases at Newcastle seem now to be placed beyond a doubt as to their character : they have been mostly mild. At North Shields, where the disease is also reported to have made its appearance, it is nearly stationary. Three or four eases have been reported at two collieries, Seghill and Walker, near New-

castle, which we have included in the reports of that town; at these places also, the disease is apparently very sluggish in its movements. Two were reported in the course of the week, at another colliery, Wideopen ; but we have heard no more of them. Since its commence- ment in this country, the cholera seems to have proved fatal in but one case in which the party was of known moderate habits and moved in a respectable rank of life, and, apparently at least, was. not of a weakly or broken-down constitution. We say apparently, for the medical his- tory of a man's life would be required to prove that he was not ob- noxious to a disorder which fixes with so giant a grasp on a particular portion of the human system. The exception in question was a Dis- senting clergyman.

The cholera has attracted the notice of Parliament this week, and insulation has been again recommended. If it were limited to one or two houses, or one or two streets, this might be done ; and when done, notwithstanding the confident assertions in Parliament, would be found, in all probability, as useless to prevent the spread of the evil as such measures have been found elsewhere. It is strange to hear a sensible person like Mr. Warburton recommending so confidently a process which all medical men, who have seen the disease, declare to be not merely useless, but injurious.

Remained, Dec. 8

Sunderland.

48

Newcastle. North Shields.

New:Cases. . 9 10 3

10 17 2

11 10 2 2 12 9 9

13 8 16 1 14 7 18

Total 109 50 3 Recovered, Dec. 9 3

10 23

11 9

12 9 1

13 10 1

14 8

Total 62 2

Deaths.... Dec. 9 9

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10 4 2

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11 5 1 1 12 6 2

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13 3 3

-

14 2 — 5 _ 1

Total 29 —

13

_ 2 Recoveries and Deaths 91 15 2 Remain, Dec. 14. 15 35 1 Total Cases 456 50 3 ecovered 281 2

Died 157 13 2 Remain as above 18 35

The reports from Sunderland, received to-day, mention 8 new cases '2 deaths, and 5 recoveries. Those from Newcastle are rather more serious ; there are 15 new cases, 10 deaths, and only 2 recoveries. At North Shields, the disease is extinct, if it ever existed there. The same remark applies to Walker colliery, and to Seghill. At Seaham, 8 cases and 1 death have occurred.