The Express.
London, England, 1852-10-13 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

The papersitTclTeitT;7by this arrietl report business
very brisk in all the marts of commerce throughout the
UlllOl2. Money was mesa scarce, and slightly higher rates
demanded.

In the stock market the demand was moderate, and in
prices there was not any change.
Corrox.—ln cotton there was but little doing. Holders
were not pressing sales, and the quotation received by the
Wt mail fully sustained.
BIZADSTUFFIL—The market rather quiet, and not any
important sale bad taken place. Holders were waiting
further advice, from England. Western Canal flour,
4 dole. 50e. to 4 dole. 62ic. ; Genoese.° prime wheat, 1 dol.
10e. to 1 dol. 12e. ; Indian corn, roand, yellow, 70e. to 72c.;
Indian meal, 3 dots. 62ic. to 3 dole. 75e.
PROVISION.—In the market for provisions a larger busi-
ness was doing, but prices unchanged.
Freights are not changed since last advice.

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK.

The official report says :—ln the week that
ended last Saturday 984 deaths were registered in London.
In the corresponding weeks of the ton years 1842-51 the
average number of deaths was 936, which with an addition
for increase of population, and for the sake of comparison
with the present return, will be 1,030. The present state of
the public health is therefore not unfavourable, for though
scarlatina is prevalent in some parts, the mortality from
. other epidemics is much diminished.
The deaths referred to meules last week were only 3, to
small-pox 6 to hooping-cough 16, to croup 6, to thrush 4, to
diarrhea 43, to dysentery .5, to influenza 3, to ague 1, to
remittent fever 1, to rheumatic fever 1, to typhus, synochus,
ac., 47, to erysipelas 6. A boy, aged nine months, died
lon 6th October, at 33, Prebend street, Camden New Town,
of "cholera infantum (34 dap)."
The mortality from scarlatina is still considerable, but
sot eo great as in the two previous weeks. The disease
was fatal in the last three weeks in 83, 81, and 70 cases
eneeemively.
The mortality from small-pox contianes low, and only S
deaths were registered last wick.
Last week the births of 697 boys and 653 girls, in all
1,360 children, were registered in London. The average
number in correepondiog weeks of seven previous years,
1846-61, was 1,266.
At the Royel Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height
of the barometer is the week was 29.534 in. The mean
temperature of the week was 46.3 degrees, which is 6 de-
grees below the average of the same week in ten years.
The mean daily temperature was below the average on
every day of the week. The air was coldest on Friday,
when the mean was way 391 degrees, or 12 degrees below
the average. The wind was in the south-west on the first
three days, and generally in the north-west afterwards.

COMMITTAL OP A SOLICITOR AT LP.ED9.—A per-
son, named James Shillito, who was educated for the legal
profession, but who has not for many years taken out his
certificate, wee brought before the Leeds justices on Mon-
day, charged with obtaining money by false pretences.
From the evidence brought against him, it appears that
some few months ago a working man, named William
Dame, of Thorp Arch, had an action for debt brought
against him, which he was anxious to defend, and the
prisoner was recommended to him as a likely man to
undertake the defence. Daces and the prisoner accord-
ingly met at a publie-horse in Leeds, where the matter was
tared over, and Shillito, who represented himself as a
solicitor, agreed to undertake the defence, promising to
put in an appearance, which he said would cost 31. lOa.
Dam gave him 21., all the money lie then had with him,
an•! promised to send him the remainder on the following
market day to the Spotted Cow Inn, where Shillito was to
meet either him or his messenger. Deere's father was
sent with the money, but Shallots could not then be found,
and a short time afterwards the plaintiff in the action put in en
execution and levied upon Dane's goods for 81. 15s. In
consequence of this, Dame waited upon Shillito, to ask why
he had not put in an appearance, when the latter said he
had intended to have done it but could not, and made other
excuses ; but promised to repay the 21. Kr. Ferns, the so-
licitor who conducted the prosecution, said he had caused
the roll of attorneys to be searched, but the prisoner's name
could not be found upon it. This, then, was the false pre-
tence relied on, that the prisoner, under pretense of
being a practising attorney, had obtained this V.
from Dacre, fur which ho had done nothing whatever.
The prisoner, on being called upon fur his defence, said he
had not acted with any fraudulent intention, but would re-
serve stating anything further in defence until another
time. He was then committed for trial at the quarter ses-
sions for the borough, but the justices offered to liberate
him on bail, himself in the sum of 201. and two sureties in
j the sum of IV, each.
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TIRE TAXES ON KNOWLEDGE.—A meeting was
held on Monday evening, at the League Rooms, Manches-
ter, to take into consideration the propriety of obtaining the
repeal of the taxes on knowledge ; Sir E. Armitage in the
ehair. Mr. Collett, to illustrate the difficulties created by
the existence of the paper duty, remarked that the proprie.
tun of the Morning Pest were some time ago unable to
meet their engagements, and that that newspaper wan
consequently given up to the paper-maker, to whom 20,0001.
was owing. The paper-maker, however, had found that 1w
had made a very bad bargain of it, and notwithstand'ng
that he had reduced his establishment to the utnwst by
bringing in Scotch comeositom, etc., he had recently bee.:
obliged to amalgamate the Post with the Nom In America,
eleven millions of advertisements were inserted in the
newspapers annually ; in this country, however, there were
only two million. Were the duty abolished, the number
of advertisement. here might be expected at least to equal
the number inserted in the American papers ; and if each
advertisement elicited six letters by post in reply, which
was not an immoderate calculation, the loss by the repeal of
the advertisemi iit fluty would he made up to the revenue
ig‘the increase in the Post.office returns.—J. Kershaw,
~ M.P., said he had always voted for the repeal of these
duties. and he thought this a very proper time to coznience
a movement for that object. Ile moved—" That the taxes
upon the manufacture of paper, the stamp upon newspapers,
and the duty upon advertisements, are, in the opinion of
this meeting, repressive of industry, prevent literary effort,
and seriously hinder educational progress."—Rev. William
Gerken seconded the motion, and it was carried untie&
rammly.