The Express.
London, England, 1847-06-22 00:00:00

SCOTLAND.

EDINBURQII, Jews 19.
Fever has not yet reached its climax either in Edin-
burgh or Glasgow—the daily retarns still exhibiting
ascending figures. In reference to the latter city,
the Glasgow Herald says :
.
We have looked over the statistical book kept by the in-
spector of lodging houses, the entries in which are of a most
distressing character. For instance, the following entry is
made regarding a lodging house kept by a widow in Salt-
market-street— 'One apartment, on ground-floor, measuring
15 feet by I t ; seven beds ; the place confined almost to su
fixation. Eight cases of fever at present. Nine corpses
taken from the same place in a short period. No sooner
were the dead removed than the place was occupied by ano-
ther lodger, who was teckleasly laid to sleep on the same
straw and infected bedclothes. She (the lodging-house
keeper) is reported to have got food and cordials from the
Town's Hospital, for the lodgers, which she sold. The
neighbours are afraid to pass the door or window." In one
apartment in klain-street, Goebel, six corpses, from fever,
have been removed within a few days ; and in another
apartment in Rutherglen Loan, fourteen persons are at pre-
sent lying ill of fever.
Emigration itself is not likely to arrest the morta-
lity, as may be seen from the following extract of a
letter from a gentleman in Montreal to his friend in
Leith :

Montreal, 28th May, 1847.-1 fear we will be eatolakez
this year. lam told we may expect nearly 100, 'oe
emata, 10,000 have already arrived at the quarantine
where sickness is making sad ravages among the, poiselain.
rable creatures. In one vessel seventy had died sir how IR
the voyage oat ; in another, fifty ; and it is duellists those
vessels which bare not yet arrived the movtabty must be
fearful, as the spring voyage out has been unuacially pro-
tracted, owing to the fields of ice in the Atlantic.
Specimens of the new government agricultural sta-
tistics have been published. Those for Mid Lothian
are exceedingly elaborate, and detail, in separate
tables, the piantage of the different crops in each
parish of the county. The total cropping from harvest
of 1844, to harvest of 1845, wee 176,874 acres, 1 rood,
35 farlongs ; waste, 8,720 a., 2 r., 4 f. ; fallow, 1,829 a.,
38 f. The live stock was—cows, 4,693; sheep, 68,797;
swine, 3,075 ; various, 9,838.
Good accounts have arrived of the British vowels
engaged in the seal fishery at Greenland, 16 ships
having captured about 62,000 seals.
A rumour is prevalent that Mr. Black, the lord
provost of Edinburgh, is to receive the honour of
Imighthood.

MATRIMONY AND MEAL. —A beam country girl ha Ar
shire left her place last Whitsun term, with the morifhl
termination of putting a matrimonial period SI fie 11.1110
and sighs of her stalwart swain ; but, having thoof
caution large, she read of high markets, and seer
I thereon ; and, ultimately, she lot week arrivelfatimea.
ing of a civic functionary, in whom she placed faribit re.
Hance, and requested as a most particular favour that he
would give her his advioe. The question she put was,
whether markets were likely to rise or fall ? " for," added
she, in a whloper, " Alick and me inrudit to gang thegither
at this time, but I canna mak up my mind to't In' the meal
at 2s. 3d. a peck. Mick, I see, wed risk it at twa shillings ;
but faith I'll no try't aboon ewe/Items pence."