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` colour of her CURIOUS Leard the fo the number of the of the name of hie struclion for the I vince the Uree PROGRE —I. In tl in an incredibly short sl ,stic ev itself of obtain offered the ME ' —Lady' 3 Neu enment perstit tamed that larknes . Greece I'alkin University church. _ IV. The don ever been more pure till Leo XI R ROB . than tc the ho ,nce go ;elf for ha• arving pec of the fir ion was to ever will be ben The Corn-lav bad in theniselv present, we are bably there is n empire who dre, had, then Sir I which they ha stoutest advoc his bungling m up his mind to dered them in than they ever Granting that t L'S LETTER ELECTIONS, .aser's Magazine for August) rt Peel's Measure - with respect to the • tend to relieve the distress which fell r ? Was it not the necessary result of a actuating to a fixed duty, rather to en liminish the price of the necessaries of of need ? Under the old law, corn no average price of seventy shillings than . Under Sir Robert Peel's act, it was ,f four shillings, over and above the mar grain, be that what it might. Can as- h further, then, than the writer of the has carried it, when he claims credit to " by a measure involving the ultimate placed food within the reach of *his from being the fact, that Eittraturr. ODD COURTSHI s Act, the u VARIEI ler owing him money from an when t Oh, court him in Covent-, ing to ye, I'd thank you to your_ the 'ell put the lad XLCULATION s VII. succeeded I us VII. died inlB2, 29 : Leo XII. died in 18 gory XVI., who lave died in 1 But there •ernarka :- 1 16 4- pply to thee - pr9sent pope, wh are past (1824 and 1842). But if we XII., Pius VIII., and Gregory XVI.), to the year 1855, and Pius IX. has ei him, to Ifil the high mission the Val the nineteenth centut le following c be made known to every fruit grower, sumn being too frequently altogether neglected. IN the authority of The Botanic Garden and Fri present mont horizontally or by the fan mode are acquainted with their habits .ncy, during the growing season, to prodt itery shoots, near the points at which t it is well known and the t to itself, would or four y starve th r ai the earliest-formed (and of caus These water first on which we commence operation aoiw- i iinching off their points, when they are six or eigh inches in length, This will in general occur when th he size of an acorn tence of the operation is, that the sap, which the 'rob would, by their rapid extension, have consumed, i Jelled into the fertile branches, for the nour - fruit. In June and July, a thinning out of tl )ts is to be gradually effected, and the rema e t , ) about six or eight inches in length, taking care to 1 growing unstopped at the extremities, to de ling sap. Care must now be taken, that ligl nonest all the branches .nd by ti sufficient shoots should h liuht e been removed mgh the whole fabric of the trE av W A.mong . - thus relates for the simple pur -1 the minds of the Greek people :ed will ng it impossible to resit. he divine tal of f,bl vve mea ) relinquish without effort the Ar: act a p: plolts of Theseus or the labours of le at mention of a race of Amazons the sceptical Arrian nor Julius Ctesar himself ventured t doubt their .dtfitted freely end of July to admit sui WAS TIT-1 when w men s all of it t of TO; gonautie e sale truth out of the ex Herehles, and who smi et shrink from surrende and all entirely to the ing the tale cf Troy, with all its military details its hosts, and all its kings and chieftain domain of fiction t of it true no Aga no battles on memnon ?—no Ul that plain where t —no Troy tat eller still tra, the position of ' they might ex- the hostile forces claim in the langu: a, when Tiling . in his his- tory of that fabulot sprang from Brute tl line of English monarchs which Trojan—in his time still lingering ed to sleep unvesed by the in men's faith, now suffer keenest historical research, ." Those old and inborn mngs, never any to have been real persons, or done in their lives at lea-' line part of what so long hath been re membered-- • , t be thought, without too strict in the whole narrative, were it not for the fami] and exploits of th liarity we early acquire with the persons its famous legend, would be seen at.once -eritable history among t the pe attack aft iticism, and ha been graduall: lorious circumstance, till now, even lor filling to believe, there remains the imaginable of what may be pro- Hermlotus, with all his mt to attribute the gned : he seems to 3 ' -fie Knight, that the could not as popularly as :ould nc " for ( ffe con- part of the story immediate ced, they tight on bject of the strife is forgotten in the ,pponent thinks only how to destroy Ls, however, had heard another ac :s of Egypt, which made him still c ute the popular tradition. Accord ccount, Helen was in fact detained in Egypt Paris, it seems, in ariven thither in a storm ; earing of the wrong he had com nel, as, had sent him out of the coun aed Helen till her lawful husband should ap her. The misfortune was, that when the e Troy demanded Helen, and were told that as. nor had been in the town, they would not i of the sieg qPnelat Sys Herodotus, given up, even if she had If instead of Paris : the Tro- lly been in Troy Lrred utter and irretrievable de- )f retaining her; their misfor v did not possess, and therefore t found it impossible to con -Blackwood. hat such Was the fa, T OF SOCIETY IN GREECE Greece has acquired polish and refine knowledged RA one of the rrowinz civilization. The 7i -laws measures of Lord John Russell's admini suspend the Peel law, and suspended it Think of this man 5e ever since cl to the'end of time ! nay have been good in themselves, or That is a question in which, for the 'hey are gone, and pro- iot a statesman worthy of the name in; the :sans of reviving them. But if they were Robert Peel is responsible for all the evil we done ; for, besides that he was their ite for more than a quarter of a century, ethod of repealing them after he did make follow in the footsteps of the League, ren their transition state more mischievous were while in full vigour. Nor is this all. he time had come for repealing them ; al- lowing, for argument's sake, that Mr. Cobden was right, and the Duke of Wellington, and Sir Robert Peel, and Lord Melbourne wrong ; was it, therefore, necessary for the prime minister not only to stultify himself, while abandoning his party, but to drag through the mire such men as Mr. Goulburn, Lord Aberdeen, and even the hero of Waterloo himself Why did they consent to be come his tools ? Why did a mistaken notion of loyalty— which was never shaken—prompt them to recall their re signations after they had once sent them in, and aid him in perpetuating a wrong which their honourable minds condemned even while they tookpart in it ? If Sir Robert Peel intends his letter shall serve as a point round which men shall gather, for the purpose of forming a party distinct from that of Lord John Russell on the one hand, and Lord Stanley on the other, we beg to assure him that he has egregriously mistaken the tem- per of the people of Engfa'nd. Read it will be, read it has been, in every political circle ; but if we may judge of its effect upon other men's minds froin the impression WlHell lb ills llmuC 11pUll uul uvv, c vvl ILICI rizeu in the estimation of any of them, but fallen. For our selves we can say with truth, that we bore with Sir Robert Peel long and patiently, and experienced the utmost dis inclination to fall off from him to the last moment : but all that feeling is at an end now. He has shown himself, in his Letter to the Electors of Tarnworth, to be without any fixed principle whatever ; indeed his protestations of attachment to the established institutions of the country seem to convict him of a readiness to betray them. Nor has he alone, of the members of his cabinet, contrived ms travel, mix with the world, seek educa- to destroy, at the end of the session, whatever of prestige best to be had ; and bring back to their they may have carried about them during its progress. count of knowledge and experience which Sir James Graham has thought fit to come out in the local peculiarity except the love of court- character of a reviler of the Church. His attack upon in her cause. 11. Besides all this, the bishops has done him more damage than his opp Os lo country itself—its old and glori- tion, however misplaced, to the erection of the see of -oble monuments of classic anti- Manchester : and it will not be forgotton, we beg to as 'n every side serve tr ;ve a sure him, in a hurry. Indeed, we have good cause to be- ne eye , and elevation to general conversation, lieve, that if Mr. doulburn lose his sea for the Univer no small effect in moulding the national cha- sity of Cambridge, and Mr. Gladstone fail of winning his It seems to the Greek to be almost impossible to for the University of Oxford, both the one and the other nink or act meanly in the presence of such a literature will owe his defeat, much more to the fact that they sat Ind such a locale as his. He is, as it were, in an amphi- in the same cabinet with Peel and Graham , than to their from which the glories of five-and-twenty centu- shortcomings, whatever these may be. He represents, in his own We are no Whigs. We anticipate little from the pre whose ancestral renown he is sent Government ; except a series of blunders ; for they -trong in the determination are confessedly, one and all, the worst men of business 'lns pedigree by one un- that ever undertook the management of public affairs g But were 0 - -^f -L `qween them and ion e_ of dignit cl to uphold honourable feelit ne. The modern I return to p he necessity of choosing Lit.. Power of Peel and Graham forced upon us, we rnest in his result is manifest from look anxiously to the general election for supplying them. _ ible ill THE SANCTUM OF A DOMESTIC TYRANT.—Behind Mr. ,ecially those connected with Osborne's dining-room was the usual apartment which lately established, is flourish- went in his house by the name of the study ; and was whereever a fair prospect pre- sacred to the master of the house. Hither Mr. Osborne dars. 111. Connected with would retire of a Sunday forenoon when not minded to go is the improved condition of to church, and here pass the morning in his crimson The sacerdotal body is now in.,4-1,,,,. ,4,..;.. ~...,,i;,,,, +l,. vs.v..” A ~,,,,,I. of ..1.7A0 riversity —as well as spiritual enlight- book-cases ;es — were here, containing standard works in stout that church has, in the midst of the g i lt bi nd i ngs. Th e "Annual Rester," the "Gentleman's ever "kept the true faith as a pre- Magazine," "Blair's Sermons," and "Hume and Smol -ket," good hopes may be enter- lett." From year's end to year's end he never took one -. , rge from her comparative ' --inch of the universal of these volumes from the shelf; but there was no mem ber of the family that would dare for his life to touch one Greeks has, of the books except upon one of those rare Sunday even- It has of ;—. ...Lon +barn tuna nn dinnnw rt.w+mt onrl rtrltem +l,n crraat :eneral lity of the ie Turks. late years been sensibly improving, and patterns of true fidelity and affection are to be found in most of the fami lies throughout the country. To all these instances of . _ . we and prayer-book were taken out of the corner There they stood beside his copy of the Peerage, and the servants being rung up to the dining parlour, Osborne tent, most of them not at all or very imperfectly read the evening service in a loud, grating pompous voice. '-is country, may be added the almost total No member of the household, child or domestic, ever en son troghot Greece. An unpro- tered the room without a certain terror. Here he check& may now travel from one extremity of the the housekeeper's accounts, and overhauled the butler' `..-:1y as through tax best parts of _.... so rare is c r i me o f an aggrava t e d d ye , that cellar book. Hence he could command, across the cl' ca pital punishment is s carce ly k nown . I n d ee d, t h e odium whit in which it is held renders it extremely difficult for govern- the coat. 'rent to procure any one to undertake the office of execu- Osborne .'er. The difficulties of other kinds experienced some -To in travelling through Greece, too, are now in a year Mi:. and ' his d altogether removed, and in the rest rapidly George The roads are good, the horses so un d, and „._ •- - - ~ - .....v-side accommodations -. tion of briga ;ected p to the other: a of the y been I veyance ; and the trayE expect to suffer a ms to iT had to encounter fifteen years ago thpqe indications may be an earnes Osborne's dent then from modern denuded of those who are mo driest, scantiest veneration for II Trojan war .tothi cur so cu. fess that which would at f mint from the dti"ring the whole t ling tin it cannl Nevert I SEC( iND EDITION. Standard- !dice, Two o'clock MARKET—This DAT with mode rease of Sti ur ; whit in addition to previous impc of the panic has been done in Flour, at a THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. CRIMINAL RETURNS The annual tables showing, for 1846, the number of criminal offenders in England and Wales, compiled from the registers kept in the Home-office, were laid before parliament on the 19th of June, and were subsequently delivered to The members. From these documents much interesting information may be gleaned upon the state of crime. The total commitments in 1846 were 25,107, or an increase of 3.3 per cent. over the numbers in the pre ceding three years, which increase is spread over a consi derable part of England, and appears attributable 'to causes of a general, not a local nature. In the first class of offences, (against the person,) the increase over the preceding year was no less than 14.4 per cent., which was most conspicuous in rape and attempts to ravish. In the second class, (offences against property with violence,) the increase was 2.4 per cent. In the third class, (of fences against property without violence,) an increase of 2.7 per cent. appears to have spread over the chief offences of this large class. In the fourth class, (malicious of- fences against property,) the increase was no less than 40 per cent. on 1845 ; the commitments, however, being still greatly below the numbers in 1843 or 1844. In the fifth class, (forgery and offences against the currency,) the forgeries have increased, but there is a decrease of 7 per cent. in the commitments for uttering counterfeit coin. In the sixth class, (miscellaneous offences,) there is a de , chiefly in breaches of the peace ; gainst the game-laws, which are inclu have increased. The following are the lg under each class, committed for the last crease of 9.3 per cent ded in this class three years : 1844. 2,306 1,759 20,425 347 1845. 1,966 1,471 19,506 149 438 773 Second class Third class.. Fourth class Fifth class .. Sixth class.. 1,507 20,035 209 406 701 Total 26,542 .. 24,303 . 25,107 Of these 25,107 committals, 6,935 were acquitted and discharged ; 28 were detained for insanity ; and 18,144 were convicted. Of the 18,144 convictions, 56 were sen tenced to death ; 2,805 to transportation ; 14,902 to im prisonment ; 372 to whipping and fine ; and 9 were par doned. Of the capital convictions (56), 13 were for murder ; 9 for attempts to murder, attended by bodily injury ; 5 for turglary, with violence • 8 for robbery, with wounds ; 4 for arson of dwelling-houses, with persons therein ; and 17 for other capital offences. Of the 13 sentenced to execution for murder, six underwent the penalty ; one in Berks, one in Leicester, one in Middle sex, one in Northumberland, one in York, and one in Norfolk : they were all males,—one for murdering his wife, one for murdering his father, two for murdering their children, one for murdering his employer, and one for murder with burglary. The numbers sentenced to death in the last seven years are 20 per cent. less than the numbers executed in the sa na period only 20 years pre ceding—a striking proof of the extensive abolition of ca pital punishments. With regard to the instruction of criminals, which is restricted to the simplest particulars, the criminal records now extend over a period of ten years, and during the whole of that time there is conclu sive proof of the increase of primary instruction. The proportion of those entirely uninstructed, shows a yearly decrease ; and of those who have received only the first elements of instruction, a corresponding increase; the one class being absorbed in the other. The proportion and degrees of instruction in 1837, when these records were first kept, and 1846, are as follows : 1837. 1846. 35.85 30.66 52.08 59.51 9.46 7.71 Unable to read and write Able to read and write imperfectly Read and write well Instruction superior to reading and 0.43 writing well Not ascertained A comparison of the relative state of instruction of the two sexes, proves that the proportion of the females without instruction is much larger than of the males ; and of those able to read -and write well the proportion is considerably under 4 per cent., while in the males it reaches nearly 9 per cent. : Males. Females Unable to read and write Able to read and write imperfectly Read and write well . 8.79 3.65 Instruction superior to reading and l 0.42 0.03 writing well Not ascertained The return concludes by observing, that although much stress cannot be laid upon the moral restraints to be ex pected from the small amount of instruction shown in these tables, yet they are evidence of the increased pro portion, not only of criminals, but of the classes from which criminals spring, who by the spread of knowledge become subjected to those improved habits which attend early control ; and are at the same time proof of a pro gress in the lowest grades of society, which must tend to the diminution of crime. INDUSTRIAL AND RAGGED SCHOOLS The following passages, from various works, illustrative F the effects of Ragged and Industrial Schools on the pupils and on their connections may be read with interest. The committee of ladies who manage the affairs of the Aberdeen Girls' Industrial School, after a close examina tion into the working of that institution, stated in their last report (for 1846) that the history of the school— " Demonstrated the great moral fact, that the children of the poor, sand, it may be, of the careless and the worth less, can, at a small amount of labour and expense, be brought within the sphere of all that is good, and estim able, and praiseworthy ; and, without being altogether separated from their parents, made instrumental in carry ing to their homes the saving truths of the Gospel ; and by practising the lessons of industry, and cleanliness, and order, altering the character of these homes, and making them the abodes of social happiness and domestic corn fort ; proving that the feature of the Industrial School, which many deemed the most objectionable, may, by the Divine blessing, become the one which most enhances its value. For without breaking the family tie, the child is permitted iuring the day to receive a sound, practical, and religious education, allowing the parents to pursue, without interruption and without anxiety, their respective avocations, and to carry home at night, for the solace and improvement of the family circle, the influence of the school training, and thus strengthening and confirming the natural affections, without exciting any feelings of de pendance and degradation ; because, although the child is fed and educated at the expense of the school, she gives in return for these benefits, all the labour of which she is capable."_ - In our former article we showed how striking had been the effect of the establishment of such schools in Aber deen, where they annihilated juvenile vagrancy. Take the following passage from the evidence of the Rev. W. Russell, before the Criminal Law Committee of the House of Lords, as to the effect of a similar school in Westminster : " I have seen in the worst parts of Westminster a Ragged School established. I had the pleasure of taking part in establishing one of these schools ; and out of a large number of the worst families in the district, where there had been from eighteen to twenty of the members of those families annually convicted, SUBSEQUENTLY NOT ONE OF THEIR CHILDREN BECAME JECT OF A CRIMINAL PROSECUTION AGAIN THE SUB- Mathematical demonstration was never more complete than this, as to the effects of such schools as that whose enlargement and extension we are anxious to pro mote. In this town they are especially needed, since the concurrent testimony of our excellent Recorder, of Mr. Serjeant Adams, and of Mr. Stephens, the chief superin tendent of our police, is to the effect that, excepting London, there are more juvenile offenders in Birmingham than in any other large town in the country. This fact they trace partly to the injudicious and improper ex posure of goods outside shop-doors, and partly to the pe culiar nature of the trade of the town, articles being ne cessarily made partly by one person and partly by ano ther; and the parts carried to and from the various work shops by boys who are beset by tempters to steal. What ever be the cause, there is no doubt of the fact ; and here lies the strength of our case. Schools like to that which we refer, are calculated to meet this great moral and social want of the town. Shall they not be supplied me I ie only objection that we know of is One akin to that raised a few months ago by a cold-hearted few against : that it tends iamentary succour to t. lie starving Iris iv aeprive me recipient or tne ieelings of self-dependence. Just or not, it may be truly said that this is an objection which woul/ never occur to a man whose Christian feel ing was more than a name. It is not true, however,'*at least so far as Industrial Schools are concerned, as an ad mirable passage from the Rev. T. Guthrie's " Plea for Ragged Schools" will show. With this we quit the sub ject for the present : . " This is no scheme to relieve those whose vices have brought them to ruin, or whose indolence keeps them in poverty. We fully accord with this sentiment of the apostle, 'He that will not work should not eat.' This is both the judgment of Scripture and of reason. In very mercy to this world, God has linked crime and suffering together ; and it were a short-sighted benevolence which, interfering with that law of Providence, would dissolve the connection. Let guilty parents suffer : they have eaten sour grapes—let their teeth be set on edge. But has not God said, ' What mean ye that ye use this proverb con cerning the land of Israel, saying, the fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set ,ou edge ? As I live, saith the Lord God, ye shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel. Andthe question which we put to a humane and Christian public is this : Are we, without any efficient effort to save them, to allow parents to draw down into the same gulf with their innocent and helpless offspring ? W e to contaminate our hospitals with such it would be one thing to rear the chil -lin affluence,—to provide them with a I,—to house them in splendid palaces ; , to save them from the pangs of hunger, ---les to which hunger tempts them and drives them,—to bless them with a simple education, • , do not propo children. Surely lege Wynd of the Old Grey with some she was a drunkard save some straw there ; But there was there was no bed in her bons( a drunkard ? And if not—if what I did was not to be condemned, but rather commended how ought this scheme to commend itself to the zealous support of Christian men ! That food, perhaps, served to spin out for but a little their feeble thread of life : it secured to them no permanent benefit. But we beseech the public to observe, that the charity given in the way we plead for does what common charity does not ;—it secures for every child whose hunger it allays, and whose life it saves, the blessings of a eommon and a Christian edu cation."—Birmingham Journal. etittral THE BISHOP OF NORWICH AND JENNY LIND.— Mdlle. Lind has been invited by the Bishop of Norwich to stay at his palace during the approaching concerts. The number of married couples above sixty years of age, who are inmates of the various workhouses in England and Wales, is 574. On Wednesday, the Rev. Samuel Jackson was elected president of the Wesleyan Methodist Society for the ensuing year. The Rev. Mr. Beecham was second on the list. At the Stafford Assizes, a postmaster, named Robert Ingle, was convicted of robbery, having embezzled a security of £2 Os. 3d., the property of the Postmaster General. He was sentenced to ten years' transportation. On Saturday last, Hannah Boys ' the wife of a labourer, at Alaston, Surrey, who had been haymaking, was struck dead by lightning whilst seeking shelter from a thunder storm. A movement is being made for the formation of a com pany to promote the cultivation of cotton on the Pacific coast of Australia, from the 30th parallel of latitude to the tropic of Capricorn. LAUNCH. — Wednesday, Messrs. Robert Steel & Co., of Glasgow, launched a magnificent steamer of 700 tons, named the Niagara, being the second of the addition to the Halifax line. It is stated that Jenny Lind was offered £4OO to sing at Sheffield, but she declined under £l,OOO, as she has only one night disengaged during her stay in England, which she quits in September. A playful whirlwind, says the Gateshead Observer, betook itself to haymaking the other day, in a field be longing to Mrs. Backhouse, of Norton. It ran off with a quantity of the crop, two hundred feet in the air, and then sportively scattered it over its fellow haymakers. FRENCH FRUIT.—The steam-ship Columbine arrived at the St. Katharine's Steam Wharf, from Havre, has brought the immense quantity of 2,528 baskets of the various kinds of fruit in season, the production of France. This is the largest importation of the kind. The present restricted weight of letters by post, of six teen ounces, will be removed on the Ist of August, and from that day the Treasury are empowered to fix the maximum weight of letters to be sent by the post, in or der to prevent packets of an unwieldy bulk, or an incon venient size, being transmitted. THE CHESTERFIELD MURDER.—The grand jury, at the Derby Assises, ignored the bill against Robert Statham, charged with having, at the borough of Ches terfield, in the year 1845, aided John Platts to murder George Collis, on the ith day of December, 1845. Anthony Lant was tried on a similar indictment on Tues day, and was acquitted. REMARKABLE HORTICULTURAL FEAT.—The gardener of Lady Rolle has succeeded in ripening pine-apples in the open air in Devonshire. After the fruit was set in May last, the pots containing the plants were placed in a trench sheltered from cold winds, and covered with charred hay, and the result has been ripe pines of excel lent flavour. A company, formed out of the late Drury-lane com pany, have been lately performing operas at the Surrey, and have migrated from the far south to the far north, their whereabouts being. now Sadler's Wells. The prin cipal soprano and tenor are Miss Rainforth and Allen. They have produced the " Sonnambula " with consider able success. The new post-office act provicles " that it shall be law ful to allow any printed words, writing, or marks (in addi tion to the direction), to be put on any newspapers, or other papers sent by post, or on the covers thereof, and any such newspapers, or other papers, shall from hence forth be forwarded either free of postage or subject to such rates of postage as the Postmaster-General with the Com missioners of the Treasury, shall from time to time direct." To PROTECT GRAIN FROM RATS.—An individual of much practical experience informs us that green elder, deposited in and about the mows of hay and grain, will prove an effectual preventive against the depredation of mice and rats. We have long known that the leaves of common mullen will drive rats from their haunts. There is something in the odour of this plant that is disgusting to the rats—they " cannot abide it." —Scotch Gazette. At the Beaumaris assizes, Mr. Davis, surgeon, New burgh, and medical officer of the union, and Mr. Williams, a schoolmaster, were convicted on an indictment of libel against Mr. John Lloyd, surgeon of Llangefni, in the shape of a printed handbill, describing the prosecutor as an ignoramus. They were sentenced, Davis to imprison ment for two months, with a fine of 1100, and Williams to two months' imprisonment. INCREASE OF THE PROPERTP-TAX. —The following rather startling announcement was given as the first article in Thursday's Standard:—" It is designed at the meeting of the new parliament to propose an augmenta tion of the property and income-tax to five per cent. Of this the public may be assured, and the design will explain what has been hinted in some of the hustings speeches of the ministerial candidates." At the Worship-street police-court- an Mondayi Wil liam Sheeue, the man who acquired so much notoriety some years since by cutting off the head of his child, from which charge he was liberated by the judges on a technical informality, was placed at the bar charged with cutting and wounding a woman, named Mary Anne Sulli van, with whom he had cohabited, with intent to murder her. _ He was fully committed on the capital charge,_ A YOUNG LADY SHOT BY HER BROTHER.-0 . 11 Wed nesday, a young lady, daughter of Mr. Lesourer, of Sloane street, Chelsea, was joking with her brother in the garden, when the latter brought a fowling-piece with him to clean, presented it at her, and touching the trigger, the discharge entered the young lady's neck and face. Medical assist ance being obtained, it was found that the charge was chiefly small shot. Though the injuries are serious, fatal consequences are not anticipated. SINGULAR PHENOMENON.--A SHOWER OF BLACK GNATS.—On Sunday evening, the good people of Mer thyr were very much astonished by being visited by a shower of these small insects. So dense were they for about an hour, that people coming from chapel could hardly see their way along the streets, and were obliged to cover their faces for protection. They were of a larger size than the common gnats, and their sting like that of the musquito. CURIOUS INCREASE OF CHURCHES AND SECTS.—Ten years ago the town of Girvan had only two churches, in which public worship was regularly performed, with two chapels, in which there was occasional service. Since then three new churches have been built, and there are now no less than nine congregations of different denomi nations in Girvan ; all this while the population has not increased above 700 or 900.—Edinburgh Witness. The ruins of Kilcolman Castle, the residence of Spen ser, in the north of Ireland, remain to this day. A tourist thither, inquiring of a postillion whether he had ever heard of Spenser at Kilcolman, was answered, " Is it Mr. Spenser, of Kilcolman, your honour ? " Troth, then, I can 't just say that I ever heard tell of him ; but I sup pose he goes round by Doneraile way. for he never took horses in Mallow in my time, sir."—Lady's Newspaper. MOST MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.—On Friday last, about mid-day, an Irishman, called Peter Hair, with three children, his whole family, aged fourteen, eleven, and six, the oldest and youngest being boys, left the Newabbey shore, to gather cockles on the bank opposite Carsethord. Not being acquainted with the run of the tide, they remained too long on the bank, and before a boat could reach them the three children were swept into eternity ! Their father was rescued by Captain Blair, just as the water was entering his mouth, and must also have perished in a few minutes.—Dumfries Herald. THE REMAINS OF MR. O'CONNELL.—The Chester Courant of Wednesday contains the following :—" The mortal remains of the late Mr. Daniel O'Connell arrived in Chester on Monday evening, and are now lying in the Roman Catholic Chapel of this city, whence they will be removed on Sunday night, on their melancholy journey for interment in Ireland. Mr. Gardner, of Chester, has received orders to make a new coffin, as that in which the body is now encased, and which was made at Genoa, is of rather common workmanship. The corpse is to be em barked on board a steam-packet at Birkenhead for Dublin." The - Dublin Freeman of Tuesday says " The funeral will certainly take place on Thursday, the sth of August." SERIOUS CASE OF POISONING A SHIP'S CREW Saturday se'nnight, a very frightful occurrence took place on board the Achilles, of Newcastle, lying at Gloucester. On the previous day a new cook, a black, had been re ceived on board, who on Saturday proceeded to mace soup for dinner. Most reprehensibly, a jar of arsenic had been left in the lazaret, and the cook mistaking this for flour, used a handful of it to thicken the soup, of which when preliared, the cook himself, the mate, the carpenter, the captain's child, and a nurse girl partook. A custom house officer on board tasted the soup, but not liking it, refused it. The other five were speedily taken alarmingly ill. The nurse and child were soon placed out of danger by the prompt remedies applied, but the three seamen were for some time considered in extreme danger. On Friday night, a thief at Northmoulton, near Exeter, came by her death in a most extraordinary manner. A woman named Wesmacott, wife of a schoolmaster in the village, had gone out with an empty sack in her hand, and on the following morning she was found jambed and quite dead in a corn mill, between the water wheel and the wall. It appeared that the miller had latterly missed corn from his mill, on several occasions, and had watched a few nights previously, but without detecting the depre dators. There is an aperture above the axle of the water wheel, through which the entrance must have been made ; and, theref n.e, on the night in question, he left the mill wheel slowly turning, to prevent the access of the thieves. However, through this opening the woman ventured to PRESERVING LIFE AT SEA.—A very interesting expe riment took place on Monday week, in the river Tyne, of the town, and a la'ige concourse of s; pectators It was to test the efficacy of an invention to preserve life at sea by means of tubes of vulcanized India rubber, lashed to CHARGE OF FORGERY AGAINST A CL ER X IN SOME SET HOUSE.—On Wednesday, William Yates, chief clerk in the Income-tax Office, Somerset House, was brought up in the custody of Constable Kerr, F, division, and placed at the bar of the Bow Street Police Office, before Mr. Jardine, charged with forging a receipt for the sum of 1137, with intent to defraud the Drapers' Company, and also with stealing that amount, being the property of the Receiver-General. The. prisoner was in the receipt of £4oo' a-year, and was said to be tha son-in-law of Lord Robertson. He was remanded for a week. At the Exeter assizes, all the men indicted for con spiracy and mutiny on board the Thomas Campbell were acquitted. In the course of the evidence for the prose cution, it was elicited, on cross examination, that the captain was a man of a violent and brutal nature, and that he had just been liberated from Newgate, where he had been confined ior a most violent attack on one of the crew of the ship he had formerly commanded. The captain himself admitted, on cross-examination, that he had been thirteen times before different tribunals, at home and abroad, on charges of cruelty to his men. THE SECRET SERVICE MONEY AND THE ELECTIONS. —The £30,000 a-year, secret service, at the disposal of a Minister of the Crown, and especially at the period of a general election, is a sum capable of being spread" either good or for evil. That some (if not very large) portions of this £30,000 will be sunk in certain election eering contests, which we have heard named, there is not the shadow of a doubt. Whether any share of the ex penses of the City of London election will he paid from out of this sum, it is, of course, impossible for us to say. We have, however, an opinion about this matter—and Lers en y coinci wouiu De ratner nara - upon the Jew, say " the people " bf Houndsditch and Bevis Marks, to call upon the great Hebrew capitalist to pay all the expenses, while Lord John has got so large a sum of money at the quiet disposal of the government.—John Bull. THE FACTORY ACT.—We have been looking forward with no small degree of anxiety to witness the spirit in which this important measure would be acted upon by those manufacturers who anticipated its results with the most gloomy anticipations. The factory workers of this district are now in a position to rejoice at the result of its introduction thus far. The noble and benevolent-minded Fieldens, of Waterside, have again come forward with an example worthy of imitation, and which, we are glad to report, is not without its pleasing effects on many others, who have honourably followed the example of Messrs. Fielden, and are now working their mills 11 hours per day, and paying the day hands with 12 hours' Wftol.2_ We rejoice to find that the result of the new bill has cre ated a spirit of inquiry among the factory workers (espe cially the young men), who are considering the best means of appropriating to advantage the extra time that is already and will hereafter be afforded them. And we are informed of several applications that are now being made to rent small plots of land, for the purpose of making cottage gardens. This is a step in the right direction,—Halifax Guardian. RIOT AFTER THE NORWICH ELECTION.—During the after part of the day of polling at the Norwich election, on Thursday, about 200 navvies," wishing probably to give an extra cheer to their master, Mr. Peto, one of the successful candidates, came into the city, and regaled themselves rather too plentifully with strong drink, and perambulated the streets, uttering the most vociferous cheers for Mr. Peto, till the closing of the poll. Mr. Peto had beaten the popular candidate, Mr. Parry, and that was enough to stir up the ill-feeling of the Norwich mob, hundreds of whom had nearly all day filled the Church-mall of St. Andrew's. When these jolly fellows, unarmed and waving their hats, came past, an attack was commenced upon them. The Norwich men were chiefly armed with sticks and bludgeons, and chased the navvies. The half-inebriated men turned round, and, having no other weapons, the stones fell thick as hail amongst the crowd. A fight followed, and the "navvies" were driven through the market-place, along Davy-place, across the Cattle-hill, taking refuge in the Cattle-market Inn. Here the windows were dashed in, and in the fight nearly forty of the men were severely injured, chiefly about the head. The police force was called out, and drove back the mob, taking the wounded men to the police station, from whence they were afterwards removed to the railway station to be sent home, followed by the infuriated mob, who were with difficulty prevented making another attack upon them. The rest got off safe. DIABOLICAL ATTEMPYTO BURN A WHOLE FAMILY.— One of the most cold-blooded attempts to destroy a whole family that has probably ever been made was tried on Wednesday morning, shortly after twelve o'clock, and there is no doubt if it had not been for the providential discovery that was made every person in the house would have been burned to death. It appears that a waterman named Maxwell, with his wife and family, have resided for some time past in Love-lane, Rotherhithe. The fa mily retired to bed at their usual hour on Tuesday night, but at the time before stated Maxwell was aroused from his slumbers by a strange noise in the lower part of the building. He immediately got up, and on getting about half-way down stairs he smelt fire very strongly. He went back and informed his wife that he thought the house was wrapt in flames, at the same telling her to get up and arouse the other inmates, whilst he went below to ascer tain if what he imagined was correct or not. The mo ment Maxwell got to the foot of the stairs, he was met by a young man, who, armed with a heavy hatchet, struck him on the back of head with such violence as to knock him on to the floor, after which he inflicted another blow on the head of the poor man. The family, hearing the man fall, ran down to learn the cause, and the villain, seeing the people moving, rushed through one of the back doors, and succeeded in effecting a safe escape. In the confusion of the moment the residents forgot that their first cause of alarm was the outbreak of fire, and it was not until a dense body cf smoke issued from one of the lower rooms, that they became aware that the place had been fired. WLen they entered the apartment in ques tion they found that a bottle of spirits of turpentine had been set on fire in the cupboard, and that the flames were extending. By the timely assistance afforded, the fire was happily soon put out. Everything has been done for Mrr Maxwell, but he lies in a very precarious state. ELECTRICITY AND THE POTATO DISEASE.—III a letter addressed by Sir R. Meyrick to the Hereford Times, we find the following interesting statement :—"A valuable piece of information was communicated to me yesterday, by the Dean of Westminster. He had been a day or two before informed of the following interesting fact:—On my stating my disbelief in the injury having been effected by a fly, he said that I was right, and that the conclusion come to by the various committees of savans abroad was, that we knew nothing about the matter, and tnat it must therefore have been caused by the peculiar state of the atmosphere. This assertion induced a scientific gentle man, living at Kensington, to inqure what had occasioned any such state in the air. On examining the meteorologi cal tables, he found that during the last two years there had been a much greater quantity of lightning than pre viously. Then came the question, would that injure the potato plant ? Lightning being electricity, to ascertain the point he enclosed some atmospheric air in a receiver, and having insulated it, applied the electrifying machine. The potato plant being then introduced into the receiver was immediately affected in the same way as those diseased ones of last season. The potato was removed, and corn of various kinds, mangold wurtzel, and such like vegetable substances, subjected to similar treatment. They were unsullied. A fresh potato plant was then put in and the effect was the same as before. Thus was established the fact that the potato disease was occasioned by lightning. Now to prevent it. The first thing necessary was to as certain how the lightning acted. Mr. Adams found that it separated the air into its component parts, oxygen, hy, drogen, and nitrogen, the first so requisite for animal life, and the last for that of vegetation; but this was not all, for it did the injury to the potato by converting the nitro gen into nitrous acid. Mr. Adams knew that quic lime was an antidote to nitrous acid; he therefore took a fresh potato plant, sprinkled it over with quick lime, and intro duced it into atmospheric air electrified as before—the po tato plant remained uninjured." THE MONEY MARKET.—There is very little to notice in our weekly summary of money and commercial affairs, almost universal attention being directed to the prepara tions for elections now at hand and in progress. The ac counts relative to the probable yield of the harvest con tinue to be of a most satisfactory nature, and this circum stance has inspired a considerable degree of confidence in all banking and trading circles. The amount of business doing, nevertheless remains limited, and will doubtless continue so until after the first week in August at least has passed. The amount of mercantile paper coming to ma- turity on the 4th instant proves to be larger than was ex pected. Every effort is being made to prepare for such payments, and, though difficulty is experienced, and will still be felt, until the event has been arranged, it is never theless expected that, on the whole, the matter will be brought to a satisfactory conclusion. The foreign ex changes were quoted for three months bills as follows : Paris, 25.65 to 70 ; Antwerp, 25.70 to 25.75 ; Amsterdam, 12.41 to 5 ; Hamburgh, 13.11/ to 12 ; Frankfort, 121 ; and Trieste 10 to 10.1. These rates exhibit a small ad vance upon Holland and Germany, and more firmness upon other cities. The fluctuations in the funds have been but limited since this day week, but the tendency of the week has been rather downwards. There has been some demand for cash both in the stock exchange and disconnt markets, and the rates rule high, considering that there is little or no export of bullion going on, and that the capitalists and brokers are very full of cash. The fluctuations in the English stocks since our last, have been in Consols for immediate transfer 88+ to 881 and for the account 888 to 891. Exchequer Bills have realized Bs. to Ils. premium, and East India Bonds 10s. to ss. premium. Bank Stock has been at 196/ to 198 and East India Stock at 246 to 2431. The New 31 per cents. have been marked. 91+ to 901, the Reduced 3 per cents. 898 to 884, and Con sols Scrip to + premium. The foreign stock market has been very quiet on the whole, but the quotations keep up as well as can be expected. The state of money matters both at Madrid and Lisbon is certainly very discouraging, and, as to Mexico, we have no later news thence. The Peruvian bondholders have decided to push their claims nnnn +b. 0,,,,, , ,•,,mpnt at Lima, and not to be at the ex- pense of sending an agem ferenc,e of Lord Palmerston. leading Foreign Securities, since ou. Spanish Active Bonds from 21+ to 22k, the Three t . Cents. 32 to 31, Portuguese Four per Cent s . 308 t o 31 Mexican 19+ to 191, Brazilian 84 to 841 Russian 112 3 1112, Dutch Two-and-a-Half per The ra 57i to 57 iIIE CHINESE JUNK GONE TO NEM, Aug. 3, 1847. this morning have &vet had ocular clelnonstration that such a craft floated on the great waters. This nondescript of vessels is now anchored at quarantine, Staten Island, where she arrived last night, and cast her wooden anchor. All the seventy-fours and frigates in the British or Ameri can navy, if moored below, would not attract half the notice. Every person on the land and on the water is astonished at her unique appearance. She is unlike a ship, brio-, schooner, sloop, steamer, canal boat, or any other craft. Her stern appears like two or three poop decks, piled one above another, nearly fifty feet above the water, and her rudder, which is latticed, weighs eight tons, and is in shape something like, only much larger, than a canal boats. It takes forty men to steer her in a gale of wind. Her prow is nearly square, and open in f r o n t, w ith a large wooden anchor projecting out like a figure-head. She has galleries or walks outside r extending from the stern to midships. Her stern is nearly square, and she is gaudily painted with figures. We learn from her commander that it is 212 days since she left China, She has floated, drifted, and sailed along, stopping at the nape of Good: Hope and St. Helena. She was bound to England, her captain being an Englishman and the speculation English, but in consequence of the long passage her course was altered, and she put into this port, where she will be exhibited for several weeks, and then proceed to her port of destination in Britain. Her bottom is very foul, which has prevented somewhat her sailing. She will have to be placed on the Sectional Dock to be cleaned. She has a crew of about fifteen English and fifty Chinese. It is a singular sight to see many of the crew at work nearly naked, and others in the Chinese garb. She is an ex cellent sea-boat, lies too and drifts with great ease and safety, is about 700 tons burthen, and has a large supply • ' ' _ Vl VI uvials.ma auu vv clacr VII uOara. lie commander states that he has experienced very severe weather, particularly off this coast. The passage has been nearly 100 days less than he anticipated. Her accommodations within are handsome and commodious, and she is filled with cu riosities descriptive of the country she came froni. We do not know her name, and if we did, probably could not give it to our readers. The ferry-boats from Whitehall to the island pass so near her that persons can have a fine view of her.' She will come to the city in a few days." QUARTERLY RI TURN OF HEALTH AND MORTALITY This official and authentic document confirms the appre hensions that were entertained respecting the high amount of mortality during the spring quarter. to is important to state, in the first instance, that the quarterly returns are obtained from 117 districts, subdivided into 582 sub-di s t r i c t s . 36 di str i cts are in the metropolis, and the remaining 81 comprise, with some agricultural districts, the principal towns and cities of England. The population was 6,612,800 in 1841. The deaths registered in the June quarters of the five years were as follows :- 1843, 40,343; 1844, 38,977; 1845, 40,847; 1846, 43:734; 1847, 51,585. Thus the mortality, during the last spring quarter, ending June 30, greatly exceeds the average mor tality of the preceding corresponding periods. Had the mortality been uniform, and the population increased from 1839 at the rate of 1.75 per cent. annually, the deaths dur ing the last quarter would only have amounted to. 44,840 instead of 51,585, the actual number, which is an excess of 6,745 above the corrected average. The deaths regis tered during the four quarters of the five years ending June 30, 1847, were:-1843, 163,162; 1844, 164,673; 1845, 173,810 ; 1846, 163,058 ;1847, 212,210. The average of 7 years is 165,831. Add 7.19 per cent. for increase of population, and the average applicable to 1847 is 177,700. The excess on the year ending June 30, 1847, was thus no less than 34,000 deaths. The districts under review are, however, stated by the registrar -general to include nearly all the towns of England, and are always unhealthy in their natural state. The mortality is not more than 18 in 1,000 in many districts, and entire counties, where the population is far from being in a favourable condition ; and after every allowance has been made, if the ages of the inhabitants had been taken into account, the mortality should certainly not exceed 2 per cent. ; at which rate, as the population was about 7,274,900, the deaths in the year ending June, 1846-7, would have been 145,498, or less by 31,200 than the average 177,700. The excess of mortality tried by this standard during the year ending June, 1847, was 66,712, and that in only one-fourth part of the popu lation of the United Kingdom. These facts prepare us for the information that sickness prevailed to a fearful extent throughout the country dur ing the last spring quarter. Common cholera, says the registrar-general, was fatal ; scurvy prevailed more or less all over the country, from the want of vegetable food, the potato having failed ; all food became scarce and dear ;_ typhus broke out, is still epidemic, and shows no sign of decline. To add to the calamities of the country, the poor of Ireland dying from starvation, and consumed by fever, even cast on the coast of England, are now lodged in the crowded, filthiest parts of the most unsalubrious cities, or in workhouses and hospitals provided by English parishes. In London, we are told, small-pox has been latterly prevalent ; the deaths, which were from to 3 to 7 weekly in the beginning of the year, amounted at the close of June, to 26 in the week. Typhus, which always pre vails more or less, killed 58 persons in the last week of June ; and was on the increase. Diarrhoea, too, was be coming more fatal as the temperature advanced. Pur pura and lnematemesis have both been unusually, com mon. They are probably of the nature of scurvy., '1 he following remarks on diet are particularly deserving of at tention, emanating as they do from the high medical au thorities in communication with the registrar-general ! The metropolitan returns dp ot present a _much more aspect than those of the large towns. In all the districts the mortality during the last spring quarter exceeded the average of previous quarters. The deaths during the last five spring quarters were—in 1843, 11,748; 1844, 11,597 ; 1845, 11,424 ; 1846, 11,423 ; 1847, 12,361. A very large proportion of this mortality was occasioned by epidemic diseases consequent on the want of ventila tion, water, and the absence of sanitary measures. On this subject the registrar-general says,—" That insalubrity exists is incontestable ; the causes of it are known ; and that they admit of removal to a considerable extent is al lowed by all who have paid attention to, the subject. But it is a long time before the plainest principles can be car ried out. When the works are commenced, it will be some years before they can be completed ; and as yet no thing has been begun. After Captain Cook had demon strated that the health of the navy could be immeasurably improved, thousands of the best seamen had to perish, expeditions to be defeated, millions of pounds expended, thirty years to elapse, before anything whatever effectual was dane to place the health of the British navy on a sa tisfactory footing. So it is to be feared that, through the natural obstacles in the way, and the pertinacious opposi tion of parish vestries, of corporations and companies, and the enemies of public health, many times the number who have perished this year will fall a sacrifice ere the towns of England enjoy, by the intervention of science, a mode, rate share of the health which nature confers on the coun-. try around them." There are two striking and most important facts, so aptly illustrative of the advantages arising from sanitary measures based on science, that we add them to the fore going remarks. In 1750, the condition of Newgate and other prisons was such that a fever, called the " gaol fever," broke out, and in the above year killed the Lord Mayor, two of the judges, and an alderman on the bench, who were trying prisoners at the was Old requested ste S d es b s y io t u h s e . The assistance of the Royal Society city authorities, to ventilate the p r i sons ; an d accordingly, Sir John Pringle and other distinguished fellows of the society, took such steps as effectually banished the fever. This is the first record of systematic sanatory measures being adopted in our prisons. Now, these are carried to such a state of perfection that it was only a few weeks ago that we had the pleasure of recording, under the head of " Provincial Intelligence,"_that, in Glasgow, when fever was raging around, the prisons, containing about six hun dred inmates, had not one fever patient. Surely these facts render all comment unnecessary. The meteorological tables which accompany the return enable us to deduce the following results. The mean temperature of the quar ter at Greenwich was 53 deg. 2, which is 2 deg. below that of the corresponding quarter of 1846, and 0.2 above that of the quarter for 25 years. The temperature of the slew point was 44 deg., being lower than in the spring of 1844, 5, or 6, by 3 deg. 1 ; 2 4 ; and 4 deg. 2 respectively. The mean height of the barometer was 29.793 ; the quan tity of rain 4.59 inches. The horizontal movement of the air 849 miles weekly, being about the average amount. We observe that some valuable instructions for making and registering meteorological observations are appended to the report. " The groundless prejudice against fruit, and the abso. lute necessity in diet of vegetables containing an acid, as the potato does, were dwelt on before scurvy and its kin dred diseases made their appearance. It is true, that fruit, when taken to excess, produces symptoms which may be mistaken, by persons unacquainted with medicine, for common cholera. But beef or mutton in excess will do the same; and the experience of this year has shown more clearly than had ever been shown before, that bread and meat alone are not sufficient to sustain the system in health. Fruit and acid vegetables are an essential part of the food of man ; but it appears that the body when duly supplied with the principles it derives from these sources, husbands them up, and can do without the acid diet for some time. The appetite for fruit and pickles is not then without its use, although the chemists have not hitherto explained how vegetable acid subserves nutrition. With out these aliments the blood loses some of its essential properties, and escapes from the vessels in purple spots under the skin, or with more fatal effect into the struc ture of internal organs." Our readers are probably aware, that a great number of medical men have fallen victims to their indefatigable attention to the sick in the poor districts of Liverpool and Manchester. ThE to thesE 1e feelir general very properly expresses a hope, that the heroic conduct of those now alive and of those who have perished ten by t eir country. died. The r Liverpool and one clergyman of the Church of Eng (curate of St. Martin's) nearly fell a sacri A. An r relieving the sick has been the theme of praise w: it From ten to fifteen persons connected with the re ° department in the parish offices have also died of taken by them in discharge of their duties." ie We observe that instructions were given to the that a be once shone out a her hai she may again shine, a star in the co enabled to resist the encroachments of the gi... grasping powers that surround her; and that, if she be s. ,_ singly unequal to the struggle, she may claim and obtain with the,. __ the assistance of that remote, but ever-present and influ- cence so self-cons,. __ —.&-satisfied. Osborne . ential empire, which has witnessed with such intense and stately portrait, with that of his great silver inkstand glowing interest the spirit of early Greece reviving in the arm-chair, had taken the place of honour in the din: bosoms of her sous.—Dublin University Magazine. room, vacated by the family-piece.---Vanity Fair. pan old, what b . fish family-portr the inside of a boat under the thwarts. The inventor is A. H. Holdsworth, Esq., of Dartmouth, who is well known for his many valuable inventions, and contributions to science. The went of the natentees had a boat fitted with the tubes, and holes bored through the bottom, fitted with plugs. On a signal given the rowers withdrew the plugs, and the boat filled to the gunwale. They still rowed on, with the inconvenience only of a cold bath. Several hundred-weights of iron were added, but the boat still maintained her buoyancy. The experiment was perfectly successful. y the miserab, ••• nething to its mother. On asking .st into tears, and told me it was ask- ing for bread, and she had none to give it. They had not broken their fast that day, and it was now past noon. Fresh from a happy country parish, I was horrified at such a scene, and sent out for a loaf of bread. They fell on it like ravenous beasts. Now, the question I ask, and to which I crave an answer, is this :—Should I have left these children to die of hunger, because their mother was Chinese seem weu qualified to realise the old nursery tale of a respectable elderly gentleman, who shot at a pigeon and killed a jackdaw. There was one of them, during the late skirmishes, let off his clumsy firm fit nna of nnr man trars throughout the country to stal whether any epidemic disease, such &c., has been prevailing in their distr ,te in th returns typhus, 8“11 aid {JUG MA v 1.4.11 I.G /IF 1./1 GE,avw-- and contrived to kill a pig which was grunting twenty that typhus, scarlatina, and other epidemic diseas.., - yards off. The crew of the Chinese junk so long expected been raging to a calamitous extent. The registrars in in London hav e , i n t h e i r search for the metropolis of Liverpool and M anchester state that the " Irish fever" England, contrived to arrive at New York. The following has prevailed amongst the lower classes to an unparalleled description of her is given in the New York Express : degree. Indeed, we have seldom perused a more afflict.: "We have read in books a description and have seen pie- ing account of sickness and mortality than i§ here pre' tures and models of these wonderful vessels, , but until seated to us.