The Express.
London, England, 1863-08-01 00:00:00

TB I: EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 1, 1863.
SHARE LISTS.--(THIS DAY.)

ALLEGED SHOCKING MURDER IN THE KINGS.
LAND-ROAD.

This morning great excitement was created in the
neighbourhood of the Kingslaud:tool bye rumour that a man
had been murdered in Ely-place, under very shocking cir.
cumstances. Upos inquiry it was ascertained th►t a man
named William Burke, 42 years of age, had been cohabiting
for some time past with a female of very violent character, at
No. 67, Ely.plaos. Kittpland.rotd, and that dreadful quar-
rels often took place between them. Lest night, be.
two= eleven and twelve o'clock, they were heard quar-
relling as usual, and suddenly an outcry was heard
that the man was stabbed. Upon the neighbours running in
they learned that he had received a frightful wound in the
thigh from the woman. The fatal weapon, a
large dinner knife, wee lying close by, covered
with Moot. It appears that deceased had in the
quarrel struck the woman, whose name is Maria Jane
Perry, and thrust her outside the door. She burst in again,
and seising the knife inflicted the fatal stab with determined
force. The man rushed out into the street, exclaiming, "I
am stabbed 1 I want a man who knows a doctor." He
proceeded along to the end of the street. a large crowd
following him. He dropped in the roadway from loss of
blood, and when Dr. Burchell, of 1, Kingaland-road, arrived,
deceased was removed on a stretcher to the Hiogaland-road
police station, where he instantly expired. The woman Perry
was then apprehended by the police, and information
wee forwarded by Mr. Waller, the coroner's officer, to Mr.
John Humphreys, the Middlesex coroner, with a view to as
inquest. The deceased man Burke warn married, but his
wife has been for SOILS time put in coofiuement in a
lunatic asylum. He was a labourer and was a person of very
violent habits. It is believed that he was not quite sober at
the tinsel he met his death.

FORGERY BY TELEGRAM 1.-EXTRAORDINARY

CASE.

The Court of Assizes of the Seine yesterday
tried two commission sputa, named Krieg and Vend, the
former residing at Marseilles and the latter at Paris, both
representatives of the firm of Nadiroff and Co., silk mer-
chants at Tiflis (Georgia), for forging and despatching two
telegrams to Tiflis, ou the 18th April last, with infest to
injure the brothers Slogans and Martins Termykertit,
chiang, silk merchants at Tiflis and Paris. It appeared
from the evideoce that on the 27th April, Stepson received
at Tithe two telegrams from Paris, apparently from
his brother Martinis. One of them was soot off at
10 a.m. on the 18th, and contained the following
words:—" Wool and cotton, ninth lower; silk higher •,
revolved two bales of wool ; business very bed at present."
The other was couched as follows :—" This morning's de.
Ispatch sounded ; await letter." On the 14th May, Mar-
tiros received a letter from hie brother stating that these
two despatches bad greatly embarrassed him. Martinis at
once endeavoured to discover the authors of them, and
traced them to the prisoners, who had forwarded them to
bykpromote the interests of them. principals, Nadiroff and Co.,
k eepiag Teemykertitehisag out of the market for a
time. Krug at oboe confessed that he had forwarded the
Brat despatch to Vital in Paris by letter, requesting him
to mend it to Tibia, and had bees enabled to give it an &o-
pium°e of reality by seeing the two bales of wool inscribed
is a ship's manifest. Vire' coufirmed this statement, and
added that having, after reflection. repented of the fraud he
had practised, he sent off the second despatch the same
day to prevent its doing any mischief. The prisoners both
declared that they were not at first aware of the gravity of
the act they had committed, and seemed very penitent. The
counsel for the defence argued that their clients had sot
been guilty of forgery in the legal reuse of the word, sod
denied that the brothers Termykertitobiang bad any claim
for damages. The jury, taking that view of the case,
brought in a verdict of not guilty, and the court, is pet:s-
wamies their siequittal, said that the question of damages
must be decided by a civil tribunal.

The statement circulated in the daily press,
copied from a Bruniels journal, u to the alleged great
bosoms bestowed on Mr. Henry Thompson for his meant
sisccessful treatment of King Leopold is unauthorised,
and is not known here to have any foundation on fact.—
Lancet.

A C 17110178 WOUND. —Dr. Chem IMMIX, • surgeon
is the French nosy, was consulted in 1827 by • cavalry
officer, M. Elophe, about a small sore which be bad bed in
the nape of the neck aunts June, 1815. This sore would
sometimes heal, sod remain closed for about • Week or so
but at the end of that time it would again become painful
—then open, and suppurate as before, and so on. Y. Elophe
had belonged to the Old Guard, ad at the battle of
Waterloo charged the British 01111111 Mien ; but was hit oa
the breast by • fragment of a howitzer shell, and fell
insensible from Lis horse. He wee just coming to him-
self again, when the greoadien, driven back by Um
loaners, passed over him ; and the latter. seeing he was not
dead, wounded him in several places with their lances ; oa
M them wounds was inflicted on his neck. Repulsed io their
tarn, the boxers passed over him again, and the gem.
there, seeing him attempting to get up, carried him to the
rear, where his wounds were dressed. Sins them be had
Owing been afflicted with this tietulous sore. On probing it
Dr. empassux felt something hard at the bottom, and soon
discovered from the sound that it mast be • metallic
fragment, most probably of • lama The extraction wee
resolved upon and anomedad. The extruseons body ex-
tracted was found to be one of the thin braes scales which
sower the strops of a helmet or grenadier's cap, and whir*
bad been violently forced into the wound by the lance.
This isconvenient guest bad remained in fur eleven years ;
the wound got well, and It. Elophe only died this year,
and therefore survived the battle 48 years, and the opera-
tion 38.

§IITOULLII. DEATH TROY POISONOUS VIZI:IN—M.
Anger, a (demist, residing at Brest, has just lest his life in
• slimly manner. He was about a month epee tsetse's's(
at some distance from the town when in pulling op a plant
he felt something prick one of his linger& fhinking it was
merely a thorn he took no notice of it, but at the end of a
week, finding that the whole of the hand had become swollen,
be fancied it must proceed from a whitlow, sad bad it
lanced. The medical man, however, soon discovered that
the affair was move serious the 4 Anger had imagined,
and that his whole system was affected by some poisonous
virus either from the sting of an insect or from • venomous
substance on a plant which be had handled. All medical
efforts were in vain, aid M. Anger died three days ago.—
Oretigamsi.

DIPHTHERIA.—This affection, which comprises
those known under the various names of bad sore throat,
re
anPna, croup, and tbe Fnch ine eouenneuse, ban
bi*erto been considered one of tire mng
ost difficult to cure.
We some time back rea an account of Dr. Tridesn's me-
thod, which consists in sdministeriogstom under the form
of • syrup; but we now find in the Revue Thiropeuiique a
paper by Dr. A. De Grand Boulogne, late French rime
consul at Hsvansah, is which he mentioas ice as an infal-
lible specific. As this, from its extreme simplicity, would,
if effective, be far superior to any vet tried, we cannot re.
train from quoting the cubes mentioned by the author,
who had published this remedy se far back as
February, 1860, and consequently complains (not
without reason, if its efficacy is such as he describes
it) of the isexcumble negligence of practitioosn
in not taking notice of it, alai thereby allowing
many valuable lives to be lost. The following cases came
under his observation after that date. In March and April,
1861, the disease in question broke out under an *deans
form, and chiefly attacked adults with such virulence that
in one week three young women died in a single boom. Om
of Dr. De Grand's patients afflicted with blephacit• WOO
seined with it, and am be could not immediately. attend,
owing to the severity of the ZOO another physician was
called in, who ordered emetics and slnioinous gargles, whisk
produced no effect. At length Dr. De Grand came, and
found the tonsils greatly swollen, and • false membrane
covering them. He immediately administered small pieces
of ice, and by the following morning the tumefaction
of the tonsils had diminished by half, and the fan
membrane had nearly disappeared. That very evening she
was enabled to take food. Profiting by this example, a few
&natter her brother was seised with sore throat, present-
ing the same preliminary symptoms as those of his sister ;
but he, without waiting for the doctor, at owe took ice,
end was rid of his awe threat in a few hoary. Some days
later Dr. De Gland was names...mei to • young lady who bad
been labouring under the disease for irty.eight boon ; all
remedies had failed, and the parents, relations, and friends
of the family were plunged in the deepest sorrow.
When Dr. De Grand ordered ice a general cry of
astonishment was uttered by all present. Ice for
a sore threat! Impossible, it was sheer murder!
Dr. De Oland maintained his ground, and after much
expoetulation, during which much time ass loot, he obtained
his es& Before 24 boors were over the patient was in full
coavalescence. Being at Vera Cruz oe a mission, he was rs
quested to see a young man who was attarked with malig-
sant sore throat, arid had been treated without effect by
eauterizatioes with hydrochloric acid and astringent gargles.
Here again he had to battle with the prejudices of the
family, but was at length allowed to administer ice. The
young man recovered in the coarse of the following day.
Dr. De Grand has now been acing this remedy for the last
12 years, without baying met with a singlehollunt This is
what be says, but even if only half of whet he says wen
tine, the method should bos tried he others. Cold gargles
have been employed with atimme by Dr. Blanc, of Sine-
Pug ; why not roe!—WaJignani.

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MOUNTLIN RAILWaYk—A letter from Twin of
the 27M mays :—" The roost striking awn of the day is the
complete encore of the exprrinteutt wide& were made yes-
terday t surmount the steep of Desna) letwon this city
•pg Asti by a system of treetien invented by M. Aguwlo,
esset • deputy in the Italian parliament. The
train seessded the steep hy means of curves with great
fasillty. This trucesee will be attended with important
lb. system will allow of the !Automates bung
reidleju lows before the completion of the teasel of float
The istealioe ales ie to *poly it on the late from
Naples be Okieti, in order to more nesdily mese the Appe-
stats."

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without change. There is not much business.
London and North Western stock is now quoted
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laud, 1281 to 129 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 1131
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911 to 921 ; Great Eastern, 53 to 3 ; Great
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Western, Id 6 to 107.
Lombardo Venetian Railway shares are inquired
for ; other foreign lines being inactive. Great
Indian Peninsula stock is firm.

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MONEY MARKET.-(THIS DAY.)

Two oNkoas.

The stock markets are dull to-day, and the ten-
dency of prices in many cases is rather unfavour-
able, owing to the receipt within the last hour of
lower prices from the Paris Bourse. The funds are
quoted about I per cent. worse than yesterday.
Several of the principal home railways have re-
ceded. In the foreign stock market there is a fall
in the chief speculative securities, including Greek,
Mexican, and Spanish Passive.
At Paris this uwrning, according to Mr. Reuter's
telegram, the Three per Cent. Ranks opened at
66fr. 65c., showing a decline of nearly 1. per cent
compared with the last price of yesterday.
Consols are now quoted 94 to 93, both for money
and the account (August 6). The official business
report is as follows :—Three per Cent. Con-
sole, for money, 921, 931, 921 ; ditto, for ao-
count, 93 ; Three per Cents. Reduced,
931, 1, 93 ; New Three per Cents., 934, 93 ; Bank
Stock, 237 ; India Five per Cent. Stock, 1081, 1;
ditto Four per Cent. Debentures, 1863, 1004 ;
ditto Bonds, 16s. prem. ; Five per Cent. " en-
faced" rupee paper, 116 ; and Exchequer Bills,
March, 2s. prem.

Greek Bonds have fallen 1 per cent., being
quoted 321 to 1 ; Turkish Conaolid& are 2
per oent. worse, at 48e to g, but the Anglo-
Turkish Bonds are fairly supported ; the Loan of
1854, at 921 to 93 ; that of 1868, 701 to 1 ; and that
of 1862 at 671 to 2. Spanish Passive and Mexi-
can Bonds are both lower, as will be seen by the
list of sales below, and the decline extends to
Spanish Certificates. Venezuela Bonds of 1862 are
firm. Transactions arerecorded as follows :—Buenos
Ayres, for account, 93 ; Egyptian, 1031,
1021, 103 ; Greek, for account, 321, 331, 321, 1,
; ditto Coupons, for account, 151, 2,
15 ; Italian, for account, 701 ; Wilmot for
account, 36g, 1, ; NJW Granada, 141 ; Portu-
guese, 1856, 1857, 1859, 1860, and 1862, 48 ; ditto
for account, 48; Russian, 1822, 94; ditto, 1862, 921,
1; Spanish Passive, 311; dittoforaccount, 32, 1, 31# ;
ditto Certificates, 121 ; ditto, for account, 120,
12 ; Turkish, 1858, for account, 701, 1 ; ditto 1001.
Bonds, 74 ; ditto 1862, 671; ditto for account,
671, 1 ; Venezuela, 231, 1 ; ditto, 1862, 56 ; ditto
for account, 561, 1.

The Confederate Loan is dull, at 17 to 15 die.
count. Italian scrip is quoted II to 1 prem.
The shares of the new financial companies aro all
rather lower. International Financial are quoted
31 to 41 prem.; General Credit and Finance,
1 to I prem. ; and London Financial, at If to 11
prem.

Hudson's Bay shares are quoted to die.,
being dull ; and Egyptian Trading, jto prem.
The discount market yesterday was affected by
the absorption of money in the Stock Exchange
settlement. A good demand was accordingly expe-
rienced both at the Bank of England and in the
general market. Good bills, however, continued
to be taken at 31 to Si per omit.
Two more failures were announced yesterday in
the Stock Exchange. In neither case is the amount
of liabilities important. In onethe default is owing
to a West.eud principal having left his broker in
the lurch. A dividend of Ma, in the pound will,
however, it is said, be realised.
. . . _

Nearly the whole of the recent large impply of
Australian and Californian gold is expected to be
taken to the Bank, in the absence of demand for
the continent. Yesterday as much as 194,000/.
was bought by that establishment.
The steamer Magdalena, from Brazil for South-
ampton, has arrived at Lisbon, with 15,0741. in
specie.
There was little alteration yesterday afternoon
in the foreign exchanges, but the tendency, on the
whole, was scarcely so strong as on Tuesday.
Subjoined is our usual list :

AiTtistardsts, 3 months, ILIBI to ; ditto, 3 tkys,
1L 161 to 17 ; Rotterdam, 3 swaths, 11.181 to ; Antwerp,
3 wombs, 2550 to 53; Handaug, ma. 'casco, Qrs. nmatbs,
13.81 to ; Patio, 3 days, 25.25 to 321 ; do., 3 mouths,
25.521 to 71 ; Franldortess•tbirMame, 3 moetbs, 1191 to
1 ; Petersburg (per rouble), 3 months, 351 to j ; Vienna,
eff. 80., 3 months, 11.55 to 60 ; Trieste, ed. So , 3 months,
11.55 to 60 ; Madrid, 3 mouths, 48j so 49 ; Cadis 3 mostly,
481 to 49 ; Leghorn, 3 months, 25.60 to 65 ; Otmos, 3
months, '25.60 so 65 ; Milan, 3 mouths, 26.60 to 65 ;
Naples, 3 months, 25.60 to 65 ; Palermo, 3 months, 25.621
to 71; MBllllOl, 3 months, 25.621 to 71; Lisboa, 90 days,
521 to j ; Oporto, 90 days, 521 to 53.

At Parts the rate of disuount in the open market
ix now 4 per oeut. ; Vienna, 5 ; Hamburg, 31 ;
Turin, 4} ; Frankfort, 21 ; Amsterdam, 3} ;Berlin,
31 ; Bruasels, 3 ; and St. Petersburg, 5 per cell.
The Agents General for Crown Colonies invite
tenders, until 1 o'clock on the 13th Aug., for British
Columbia Government Six per Cent. Debentures to
the amount of 50,0001. The debentures are
redeemable in 20 years. The loan is secured on
the general revenues of the colony, and both prin-
cipal and interest are payable either there or in
Loudon, at the option of the holder. A sinking
fund of 4 per cent. per annum ix provided, ensuring
the rodumption of the whole debt in 1883.
The following proposed railway dividends
were officially announced yesterday, 'viz. ;—Nortb
Staffordshire at 31 per cent. per annum, agaivat
3 per cent at the corresponding period of J 862.
North Eastern as under, viz. :

Berwick section, et 4
Leeds ditto „11 Per cent. per annum 'pipet the
York ditto „ 3 NUM woe in 1862,
Garlick ditto „ 6
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The lettered allotment to London applicants for
shame in the Life Association of England were
issued on Thursday. Business has been commenced,
and Mr. W. J. Fred. Norfelk, formerly of the
Standard Life Assurance Oompany's London branch,
has been appointed manager and actuary.
At the meeting yesterday of the United Kingdom
Electric Telegraph Company, the directors' report
was agreed to. The (batman referred to the im-
portant progress made of late by this undertaking,
and to the strong probability of the declaration of
a good divideud at the next meeting. Mr. Andrew*,
the manager, stated that the company is now sup-
ported by the leading men iu every town with
which it communicates. _

At the half•yearly meeting yesterday of the
Scottish Australian investment Company the di-
rectors' report, recommending a dividend at the
rate of 10 per cent. per annum, was adopted.
The first half-yearly meeting of the United King-
dom Railway Rolling Stuck Company was held
yesterday at, the company's offices, Mr. John
Biddulph iu the chair, when a dividend of 6 per
omit., free of income tax, was declared.
The Caleiunian Railway traffic return shows this
week an increase of 1,1441. over last year.
A private telegram received in London yester-
day, dated Calcutta, June 4, states that a destruc-
tive earthquake had taken place at Manila.

Famar Emma.

Consols, which closed yesterday at 93 to 1, both
for moneyand the 6th of August, were first marked
this morning 931, and after being dealt in between
that price and 921, closed at 93, or 9n to 93/.
The official business report is as follows :—Three
per Cent. Consuls, for money, 931, 93, 921 ; ditto
for 11000111ity 934 ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 931,
1, ; New Three per Cents., 931, ; Thirty
Years Annuities, 1886, 14 ; Red Sea Telegraph,
21 1-16 ; Bank Stock, 239 ; India Stock, 226, 228,
ex di,. ; ditto Five per Cent. Stock, redeemable in
July, 18704108 i, }';ditto Four per Cent. Debentures,
1863, 1004 ; ditto 1864 1001, ; ditto Bonds, 16s.
prem. ; Five per Cent. "eufsoed " rupee paper,
107 ; ditto Five-and-a-Half per Cent, 116.
The India Five per Cent. stock was steady at'
1081 to 1, and India Bonds at 16.. to 19s. prem.
Exchequer Bills have declined L., closing at Is.
die. to 2*. prem.
Greek and Mexican Bonds cad

Itscept 11;, rewardsL
Spanish Passive Bonds and Certificates, all of
which continue to meet with much attention, the

' business in the foreign stock market has fallen off_
The tendency, however, was decidedly favourable.
International Financial shares were firm, at 4k
to 41 prem., General Credit have improved to
4 to 14 prem., and London Financial to If to If
prem.
Hudson's Bay shares were rather firmer, closing
at If to If die.
lu the market for bank shares, Provincial Bank
of Ireland and Bank of Victoria were quoted rather
better, London and County and Colonial Bank
lower. There were inquiries for Crystal Palace
stock and Italian Irrigation Bonds.
Ocean Marine shares closed to-day at 124 to 131
prem. ; Thames and Mersey, 24 to 3 pram. ex int. ;
Commercial Union, 2 to 21 prom. ; North British
and Mercantile, 174 to f ; and Oriental and
General Marine, 14 to If prem.
The nominal closing quotations for shares in stow
undertakings to-day were as follows :—Company
of African Merchants, i to 4 prem. ; Oriental
Hotels, 4 to 1 prem. ; Portugal Coal and Iron,
i to i Prem.

MINES.-(THIS DAY.)

Two o'CLoor.

The transactions in the mining market today
are upon a very limited scale, and prices
generally exhibit no variation, compared with
those last current yesterday. East Caradon
shares are pressed for sale, and have declined 155.,
the present quotation being 30t to 31. No
business is officially recorded in the Stack
Exchange.
Foreign and colonial mining shares are inactive.
Yudanamutana are inquired for, and East del Rey
fiat.

We are requested to state that the share list of
the New Mansfield Mining Company will be closed
on Wednesday next.

A special general meeting of the shareholders of
the Yudanamutana Copper Mining Company of
South Australia is convened for the 21st Augturt,
for the purpose of considering the declaration of a
dividend.

At North Dolcostb meeting on Thursday the accounts
showed a debit balance of 2101. A call of 2a. per share
was made.

At the Lead meting yesterday the awonnts
showed a debit balance of 9001. A call of i,i. per share
was made.

At Long Rake meeting oe Thursday the amounts ■bowed
*debit bassos of 6464 The 'hares were subdivided • into
2,000, upon which a call of 10s. per share was ramie.

The subjoined weekly summary of the metal
market is from the circular of Messrs. Von Dadels-
zen and North :

The metal market continues very quiet ; consumers only
but for their most preening went', while speculators prefer
to look on, awaiting the result of continental politics. The
fall in some kind of metals has been conoterhalasoed by aft
advanos is others. Iron Welsh bees are in moderate de-
mand, and prime fully maintained at 61. 15s. f.o.b. Woks,
and from 61. 7a. 6d. to 6/. 10s. f.o.b. here. Staffordshire
deseriptioes are 6rm. The Scotch pig We market has beam
very animated during the last few days, and s large homi-
ness has been done at higher pekes, closing boyees ali
535. 6d. cash, Ns. three months open. Copper : The
smelters on Monday last advanced the price of
English, both ra w and manufactured, 31. per ton.
!locoed-hand parcels are obtainable a trifle under official
prima For Barra 1001. is asked. Kapunda. 1021. nominaL
Spanish, 911. to 921. ; Chili, 871. Tin : The downward tan-
dem" io foreign has roused an official fall in English of 41.
per toe; this was declared on the 25th inst., and may improve
the dammed. Straits is now obtainable at 1721., and Baas&
as 1271.. but buyer, do not come forward. The Dutch mar-
ket is doll at 74;11. Tin Plates in steady demand, and meal.
tered in value. Lead matinees dull of sale; good wit
English from 20/. fie. to M. 1U 6d. Spelt's Busilial has
been curtailed. bat prices have not uadinasa an, challis et
Importance. For parcels on the spot 164 6s. is naked, and
in some instances paid, while for forward delivery 181. 16e.
is firmly demanded. Hull pares* W. to 18/. 2s. Id.,
aocording to brands.

RAU IJTHAB-USA ERA VS QUA iiMBLY sacrum.

------
This return comprises' the births and deaths
wagieured by 2.201 madams in . 1 th di,hicte of Li.gtto
&nog the quarter that enoest or Jul.. 1863, ad
the marriages to 12,630 cheers or dept.
with
at 4.808
gegi.t.red places of worship uocomerited he estah-
111'1 church, sad 640 auparintoodent . bars' o~ae,
the quarter that elided on March 31.
which 1863.
to the
hk it
gunterly report it wee stated that in the period e
ref -trod the birth rate had been unusually well main-
Mims'. That rate was still higher last quarter ; and io all
the quarters of all the ten years, 1853-171, only two M-
etes *warred in which it was as high, or higher. The
fart may be remarked in connection with the generally
healthy stab of the population during last year. The mar.
doges in the first quarter of the year were more otimemus than
is the two previous correspooding quarters, a result w hid the
nastropolis appears to have mainly helped to produce. But
taking a general survey of the returns, that which chiefly
Balms notice is the fact that the mortality, which
was high in the first quarter of the year, re-
booed high in the quarter that ended on the Ask J.,.
TY- • marriage rate in the first quaver of the year was 1.404
per cent., or. as A may be stated, if the same rate were to
operation for • year 1,404 perms would be married in that
tame out of every hundred demand of the population. The
average rate per coot in the same quarter an ten yearn is
L 334. Following the Christmas quarter, in which the
(ward number of marriages are celebrated, the period to
which the pretest returns relate is that in which they are
always found to be fewest. The number of marriages re-
Msated is 35,434, against 33,274 sod 33,976 is two previous
arch quarters. In Loudon menages ware 5,305 sod 5,752
a 1861.2; in tie preemie year they rose to 6,226. There
was also em increase on both the pricer oorreneediog
quarters in the south-eastern counties, the south-wester°,
eat the west midland counties, in Yorkshire, and the
northern counties. Lancashire exhibit' a revival in its
marriages as compared with thole in the first quarter of
1812: for is three periods taken in the order of time they
were in that county 6.431. 4,887, sod (this year) 5,245. The
threese is very coosidrable in Liverpool and West Derby,
which have hem comparatively unharmed by the prevailing
&ekes& The annual birthrate in the 3 one quarter was 3.706
per cent., against the average 3.587. It never happens that as
many as thirty-six children are bore to a thousand of the
population is • year, and in the twenty-four years 1838-61
there occurred only one year (1859) ID which there were
Shirty-five ; and it is also a rare ociarreoce that children
wit born is a quarter et the rate of 37 to 1,000 of the pope-
astir per annum. The number of births in the quarter was
189,611, that in the ante period of 1862 having been
1811,38. Nearly 26 000 children were born in London in
12 weeks. More than 25,000 were hors in Lancashire.
• re was an increase in the birth■ over those of the MVO.
spooding quarter of 1862 in all. the eleven divisions except '
the mirth mestere, which compress Cheshire wed Lareashire,
where • decrease would arise from • reductioo of the marriages
in list year, and ma:telly from • cause of greeter momeot—the
emigration of heads of families horn those counties in quest
of employment. The births exceeded the deaths by 71,298.
Therefore each day is the three months gave co an ave-
rage a natural increase of 783 to the population. Immi-
gration and emigratioo modify the remit. It was
stated in last report that the emigration of the March
quarter, tionsistiog of 37.806 perms of the English,
Botch, Irish. end other oatioue, was greater than it
had teen in the same moron since 1854. The retort, of the
commis doom for last quarter shows that emigration had
attained a magnitude that can hardly fail to surprise when
the circumstances of the western world, by which it ap-
p. .rs to have been chiefly evoked, are taken into considers-
iioo, The number of migraine rose to 83,290, which is
more Ursa in any June quarter since that of 1857. In the
name period of 1861 it was about 38,000 ; is that of last
pear, 47,000. The Austrians', colonies ripply an increasing
attraction ; British North America also draws a growing
nantber ; bat of the 83.290 emigrants, 56,436 (of whom at
bast 40,000 were Irish) chore the United States as their
destination. The English people contributed about a fourth
part of the emigraties to all parts. The lowest and highest
Rrroes of beef at Leadenholl and Newpte were 40. and
bad. per lb. sold by the caresse. lo the same period of last
year they were 4d. and 6d. During the last twelve moths
the average price of the beet quality has not varied. The
price of mutton fell. In the June quarter of 1862 the
word and ben qualities were sd. sod 7d. per lb. ; sod they
were neer those prices in the succeeding sine months, till
lad quarter, when they were 40. end 61d. The average
mks of wheat fell to the. 2d. per quarter ; that of the
hest potatoes to 120 s. tier ton airiest 190 s. its the same gum-
tree last year. Bed furnishes the only exception to the
sompustive obiapien of the principal articles of food. Mr.
Glsiaber writes that the period of five months that began
with December and ended on 30th April was as
warm as say correspooding period in meteorologi•
eel annals. The first half of the lot quarter.
rice„ from the beginning of April to the middle
of May, with the exception of a few days, had a mean
temperature which was no an average two degrees in
rem daily. Abet the 17th of May, for • period of Moe
Ism, it was no lees than 6 deg. reader the avenge. Again
the temperature rose, and was 3.25 dAlin amen till sth
June, from which date till the end e quarter the air
was cold. The memo temperature of • air in April was
49 deg. ; that of May, 52 dee. ; sad that of June, 58 deg.
The mean temperature of April was higher than that of the
same mouth in any year since 1844. Days and nights in
April were warm; sights in May sad days in June were
cold. Rae fell to the emceed se 16 ie., of which 3.9 io.
fell is Jam. In the preceding two months of the quarter
the rain-fall was scanty. This account of the weather is
derived front the observationa at Greenwich. The pauper.
em of the Jun 'porter declined as is usual, on that of the
March garter : lint as regards the recipiems of out-door rip.
Ref it was !mob greater than in the June quarter of len.
After a period of two years in which the public health was
better them meal the mortality roes in the last three mouths
of 1862, an high is the first three months (the winter
limner) of the current year, and continued above the ave-
nge is the quarter for which the returns are now made.
le this last period the death-rate was 2'313 per cent, per
minim, whilst the average was 2'191. With the regent
eimptioo a spring quarter has sot mooned since the year
1853 in which the rate of mortality was as high as 21. Both
town and country testify to an inereme of deaths in their
respective populatioos, for the rate in shed:lief tow was 2478
(against an average of 2•716), and that which prevailed is
small towns and worry parts was 2'10'2 (against 2031).
Sam abr. like weather in the early, ear, sod cold days ar nights
driking • Boddie shill into tbe heart of it, produce effects
from which neither city ace hamlet is exempt. That wad
tows population that resides within "the bills of mor-
tality" 'offered in common with the provincial population,
end in its due proportion ; for though those compere
that are more directly traceable to meteovelmend eanam,
namely breeching and promos* were little if in any de.
area more fatal in the metropolis titan usual, both small-
pox and aradatina were very prevalent, and aimed name-
gees deaths. Beall-pox carried off 788 persona in Icedoo,
se matt y sine daily ; scarlatina and diphtheria 1,230.
Though the forme demo destroyed fewer lives than the
loner, it was more powerful in inspiring the public mind
with a mlatavy dread. It should not be overlooked that
prophylactic measures are arailable against scarlatina as
well as smell-pox, and both maladies are subject to
modificatios. Smell-pox was not confined to Los- •
doe ; its pregeoce, which dimmed in some in-
stances • character of virulence. is announced by regis-
trars in many sod distant parte of the conetry. The fol-
lora( are the Mid discrete, parishes, or townships
when the attack was of sufficient importance to
premere a notice in the replete of the local officers
In Surrey Croydon and Godstone. In Kent : Bed-
dow sod Rochester. In Berkshire : Reading sad
Lin In Bedfaellabite : Wing (Leighton Bag.
red). la Ram West Hans, Oriett, Rochford, Mae-
Antrim Onieherese, and &Me Hedinatiam. Jo Suffolk :
Cavendish. In Cornwall Bodroin Truro, litedrotb. and
Penraxee. To Warwickshire: Kilsby. In Lincolnshire:
Grantham, Market Rages, and Mistarton. In Derbyshire :
Derby sad Gloom& In Cheshire : itiookport. In Lan-
/astir,: West Derby, Wigan, Didshary, Obositon-upoia-
bedeck, Maseliester (where it was very pieveieet). Ash-
tea, sad Oldham. In Yorkshire_ Barnoldswielt.
Harrogate, Wetherby, Yeadon Maid (Halifax), Shipley
=WI, Bromley, Leeds, Dewsbury. Barnsley, F.cceeall
shield. Bramhem (Teak:aster), York, ticulooates,
Hall, Whitby, and Northallertoo. la the northers otiooties
flteoldon. Yana. Bishop Aookkad, sad Cbeeter-le-Street.
Far of the dimes, minatory rotiom issued by guardians, or
the infection of example, have given a useful stimulus to
vaccination is many places where it had been opposed by
prejudice sr had sunk into veiled. Not only smell-pox.
but also measles and scarlatina, Mersa the industrial
both is Lawmabire and Yorkshire. Of 287
la the St. Hakes sub-district of Precut 68 were
from measles; and out of 776 is Wises 72 were foam the
same disease. Is Wed Leigh a fourth part of the total number
of deaths wog from measles, wli 'eh was also ',gybed in Bolton-
In the rub-district of Oldham-below-Town out of 312
deaths 15 were from small-pox and 57 from scarlstim.
In the north rub-dietriat of Sheffield 21 cases of small-pox
sad 20 of scarlatina were fatal ; sod in Brightsida (Sheffield)
27 mate of small-pox, 25 of scarlatina, said 20 ot marks
were abraded with the same revolt
The mortality of London in the quarter was 2.403 per
err. • that of the north-western diviaion, 2 569 ; that of
Yodeler". 2.589. Cheshire and Lancashire temititute the
sorth-western deities ; sad the death rate in the latter
county apart from the former was 2.592. Liverpool, Mae.
theater, and other large town.. have long ireeted this
runty with an nefavourable client:idiom, which it is hoped
the important meters sow pared by palisineet for
insiding the distressed salons to borrow money for works of
public utility will be successfully employed to remove. Is
the present day the rate of or in Lanesabir• furnishes
a striking centred to that of the south-eastern eowntiss,
whish was 1.968 lase quarter. To redoes, if sot to sanihi.
late the differseces M me se immootatehle teak. Thedeethe
in London roes from 11230 sad 15,695 in the Jump queers
of 18814 to 17,417 Mat quarter. Tree is the seder
ire.ters reaties rose from 17.576 sad 16,017 to
19.467 ; these in Yorkshire from 11,4100 and 11,916 to
13,33 e. The amerce is lenerbire aid Cheshire in last
muster es the mesa mortality of the two previous were
Intel me and bee then in Lando° earl Yorkshire,
whim it wee 13 par met. Taking paunman rticelar dirket of the
erten mansfaseure, there was en la Oldham.. io
Ilasatiesher and Warne:gem of 20
_par is Charles
Ned Wiese of 115 and 84 per cent. Breaks and other *pi-
demist as hes hem shows shove, were a
ugh
their parte. On the other band there wiTeadalateregagthrolg
Ambles, Preaters, and Charley eameatiag, is the lest two
diarists. le 20 per emit, er mew. It is probable that fewer
donde hare been registered in amity Adder in rime
of the emimatioa or removal d the lahalaileaterflooneeht.

his =ay villages beide' Belmosc, Mak& tin Registrar,
i.e.,. • a 'alio.% umolialoimi, oven% to toe 6411 1.4 110
trade." cianplide of empty hulloes; but ill revissiog the
a lode facie of the pre.a.t return they will lie footed b. .p
port the machnrion which former reports teoded to eetabli.h
that sicheem Las not been aggravated nor the mortality ie
creased by the chatters which has prevailed. and which
haw)) to a certain extent bas now been subdued. It moat
be regarded es a provideutud interposition to favour of the
wader fed and half-clad workmen sod thefi fannlea. that toe
period embracing Lieiandier sod four suooesilsog mouth.
was in the words of the meteorological report., diatiognisheal
by a tempeisture higher than in any correspoudiog period
eine 1771.

The leading facts in the financial history of the distress
may be stated in a few words :—The number of persona
dependent on the parochial rates and relict Ned. was
60000 b.f. re Christman, 1862, when the maximum wail
eitaloed ; at the end of June it was reduced to 288,Zin.
Nearly half the burden is at the present time removal.
The expenditure from both sources in December wail
289,Z24. It was reduced in June to 102,241 i. The loss of
• factory waste per week, at the end of January, 1863. was
172,0181. ; at the end of June, 13'2,8531. The decrease in
weekly expenditure from Use rates sad relief tunic Ithe last
west in December, 1862. being competed with the lam week
in June. 18631 has been in six mouths, 20,0018. The tram
moeuditure is twelve mynahs from:3oth Juan, 1862, to the
mine period m 1863, was about 1,676,413/.., of which amouet
1,614,41.6. wav deuced from relief funds, and 641.11.88.
expesil.d on the outdoor indigedt ouly, from parochial
isles. The improvement in the cotton district; by which
47 local committees have been enabled to suspend opera-
tion*, has arisen from various causes; the emigration or
removal of oyes alive., the iumesee of out-door work, the
partial revival of industry. The Public Works Act, if
adopted and carried into execution with earnestness and
goodwill, is expected to provide the wage. of labour to a
fifth or sixth pert of tbepopulation who without its aid would
be is want. But, notenthauioding prevent eutwunKenicht,
the central executive committee tikes a despooding view
of the awning winter. Thom external 000ditioos of the cotton
tads from which the ruin of the manufacture moues
re-
main unchanged, sod there is little prospect of that cheap-
Dees of material on which farmer praperity eras baited.
Prompt alleviate:nu of the distress will, some of them, cease
when summer and autumn have passed. Private savage are
spent. credit exhausted, relief foods diminished. Therefore
it is not uureesooable to anticipate that though the distrem
of the approaching winter may visit fewer hearths, its
severity, where it falls, may be greater, because the means
of relieving it may be Ira.

THE PROSPECTS OP THE COTTON TRADE IN
LANCASHIRE.

' Mr. Potter, M. P. for Carlisle, was present al. a
meeting of the Lbrlisle Relief Committee on Wednesday
eight, sod made some remarks on the present aspect rod
future prospects of the distress. Hs said that in the parish
to which he belonged there was utifortunately much more
Metres* than they bad is Oarlisle. They had there, under the
new act, power to borrow to a considerable extent, arid be
believed they would have to use it. Their asseemable value
was about 50,000/., they had had from charity, be was
ashamed to say, something like 27,01101. That showed a
large distress ; but his impression was that they would
bays • still larger distress in the ensuing whiter, and that
their paying power would lie thoroughly exhausted. last
year trey had • very bountiful supply of clothing from
the district, worth, he should consider, shout 2,0101.,
40001., or 4.0001. ; but he did not think they could expect
that strain. He dare say they had now a rather lees popu-
Lamm tome few having emigrated, and some few having
guns into the Yorkshire districts, but he thought the pres-
sure se the number left would be much greater, and he
feared the people who had to War the burdens would be
less able to meet them. On that ground he feared the
mums would be very great next year. With respect to
the prospects of the cotton supply, the facts were as patent
'to them all is they were to himself. There were only
200.0110 bales in this country ; that is 20,0110 or 30.000 lees
thew at this time last year, a large proportion of it being
Indian cotton, very bed, and not tempting for mauufac-
tarers to Mime upon, especially those who are stopped.
There are 31.10,M0 bales of Indian cotton on the water ;
but they must remember that • large portion of it goes to
the comment. A Linger proportion his gone there than
formerly : fur they depend entirely upon us, and seem to
be able to pay a letter price than tie English manufac-
turers one. With these views the prospects are very dat k.
As to any prospect of may cotton being set at liberty iu the
Stoke, Uwe did not appear to be faith that there would ;
his own imprimaturs was that there would not. Many of his
neighbour bad begun using Indian cotton, bat he thought
they would tether diacouutemece working, and he did
but anticipate that many of the manufacturers would start
with it, bemuse it was exceedingly costly and difficult
to work sod very risky. He had applied to • opener is
his owe eeighboarbood, who employ■ 700 or 800 hands, and
who had been winking lidless cotton, having started some
few months ago, fur informatics as to what it would cost
him to start his mill. His mill was one of tie brat claw,
with sew machinery ; yet it would take about 18.00 W.
to buy cotton and start his mill, and run at cue smelled
pmeible out ; sad if them were say doss of the American
war, and a check in the cotton market, he lead 110 doubt
that that 15,0004 would le reduced in value to
5,0001. or RUM. He thought with • prospect of that
kind before the manufacturers they should hardly be called
epee to take • risk of that kind. He knew of three or
' four mills in a certain district which were not working, and
the amount it would take to put them into work "'mud be
160,001. The wieners of those mills had bees • goal deal
premed and remarked upon, but they could hardly expect
iedividuals to rue • risk of losing 100,0001. in the comae of
• mouth. These (sets were becoming very patent, and he
dad out think they should fled say increase of working in
his own district. It wee • painful thing to offer opinious of
this gloomy character, but, after all, it was better to speak
the truth.

NORTHEIN RAILWAY or BUFFOS AYRES.
Th• first orchuary general meeting of the proprietors of
this compeey was held at the London Tanen yesterday
Mr. E. H. J. 01AUFIAD, IL P., presided. The report was
taken as read. The chairman, iu moving it. adoption, con-
gratulated the rieton on the progress of the line.
The temengers numbered as an average about 10,400 per
month. It was oleo to be remembered that only one-
fourth of the line bad been opened. The reosipte during
the bee mouth. in which the hue wee in operation had
been equal to ilbf. per mile per week. This
wee a higher rearms then wee geoerally oh.
Wired on the beet Indian railways, which averaged
about Zit. per mule per week. All three things led the
board to suppose that the promises originally made would
he fully carried out, that the government would out be
called on to do anything, but that the railway would itself
pay 7 pee cent. on the pretense@ @hare& The way in
which the line had been coostroated tediated the highest
credit on the contractors. He believed it sae possible that
the hue might be completed within the year, but he would
sot make any certain statement on the point. He thought,
however, that the whole line would be completed
within twelve months from this date. Alter stating
. that the prospects of the company wine extremely
good, that the people in Bosun Ayres were very
well disposed towards the railway, and that the abase-
holders were much indebted to Mr. Zimmerman, t:.eir
agent, for the ability and integrity numifeated, be c.wciuded
by moving the adoptiou of the report. The truitiou Living
been aecimded some convereetiou ensued, and in sumer to
questions, the chairman said the 3,500 deferred preference
shares lately advertised did not participate in the goveru-
. meat guarantee ; they were the property of as iadividual
proprietor and had been lamed by the compeny some time
since. The report wee then adopted, and the retiring di-
rector@ were re-elected.

PITKOLCII2I.—During toe last two or three
years, as enormous quantities of petroleum have been int.
ported into Liverpool and stored in various parts of the
tows, inceseeet disputes and recriminations have taken
place bet seen the owners of the article in question and the
resident@ in the districts where the oil is stored. The
Latter have complained bitterly, both in memorials to the
authorities and through the medium of the mess, of the
offensive odour of the petroleum, insisting that it is not
only disgusting to all the mew but positively in.
junous to health. This, however, is strongly denied
by the importers and dealers, and finally. to settle
the question, the town council recently isetructed
Dr. Trench, the medical officer of health, to report
es the subject. Dr. Trench now states that after
making minute inquiries in portions of the town where the
alleged 122202C00t petroleum is most loudly complained of,
he dads that so far as the health of the inhabitants is
concerned there ere no great grounds of complaint, and
that in no districts of the borough did be end the residents
geserall), and particularly the children, more healthy and
better looking than these in which the petroleum is staled.
After this report the inhabitants will probably have to put
op with an abominable stench, because they cannot prove
that the nauseous gas shortens their days or makes their
features look pale and wan.
TH2 Loin OF THE ANO2O-8411102.—The report
relative to the for of this ship bear Cape Bans on the 27th
of April last has been prepared for treasninisioe to the
Board of Trade by Er. Raffles sad Coptaius Harris and
Baker. before whom the Board of Trade inquiry into the
circutuatanoes attending the wreck took place. The court
characterised the conduct of the late Captain Burgers in
driving the &hip at the rate of 12 knots an hour I. hen she
was pressing • dangerous meets. highly reprehensible. Cap-
tain Burgess is also severely blamed for sot naive the lead
when the ship was so seer Claps Race. and in a position
which be ain't have known from recent surveys was a most
danwrosis one. The smart approve of the regulation. drawn
up
by Massis. Allan Brother., the owners of the steamer,
sad regret that the officers did not pay more attention to
them.

Fttt AT SPITALIIELDII. —Teat°lslay morning,
hotness the hours of two arid three o'cloch, a Bre broke out
in the premiers of Mr. Tatars, rick Moth and terpauling
manutacturer, No. 3, Criapin-etreet, Ow* In the inflato-
r able Ware of the stook the Ilre Ivrea with nipidity,
mad Ins DM entinindebed until the manufactory wee
lejtThe loss will tali a the Phoenix Fire-olike.
tiennout. 1,—HOLLOW AT 'II OiNTM [NT D
Prlta.—Better than • ortunc—The partly vegetable carters
• be safely end effective, used by all pm.. suffering
from Internal or oatmeal Miasma The directions • rapped
resod every pot of Ointment and every of Pills at. amply
eafecient to guide the most thfildent and encourage them st
Unlit Who. 11 mess maim lit timeworn:* and 'rowdies en
*ma/ anegbi idler none will be found more effeetted than UM.
lowerY In alleviating and astuagum the paint of the detested
wad Yr Wasted. loth ointment and WY purity and preserve.