The Sun.
London, England, 1853-04-18 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

(From the Manchester Guardian of Saturday.)
MANCHESTER April 15.—The American accounts
report a further advance in the price of cotton at
the southern ports, consequent upon the very large
actual and prospective falling off in the receipts.
These advices have had the effect of slightly
strengthening the tone of the Liverpool cotton market;
so that the trade, though still wary and sparing in their
purchases, have to pay some advance on the terms of
last week for what they may Want. The great body of
spinners, however, and the buyers of yarns and goods,
keep their eyes steadily fixed upon the heavy stocks of
cotton which are held on both sides the Atlantic,
amounting to 820,000 bales of all classes here, and nearly
800,000 there, together with A, considerable quantity on
the seas ; and they do not semi inclined to let any reports
of diminishing receipts, or any such statements as we re-
ceived yesterday about the lateness of the season, divert
them from the sound policy of buying with that prudent
caution which hesitates to follow any further advance in
prices. Accordingly, the Liverpool market receives no
impulse from the action of spinners, nor does ours from
that of merchants or dealers. So well engaged are spin-
ners, howeve:, that they notohly hold to their quotations
for the medium and lower counts with unflinching firm-
ness, but in general are harder to deal with than they
were last week. For fine spinnings the late consider-
able advance is easily obtained. Printing cloths are
without change, as are also heavy domestics. The
lighter domestics, together with long cloths, are in
some degree improved. The very meagre telegra-
phic announcement of Eastern intelligence received to-
day, stating some improvement at Bombay, has caused
a partial inquiry for shirtings, which have of late been
dull, though steady in price. altogether, the business
of the week has been inconsiderable ; evidently checked
in those articles for which any advance has been de-
manded.

GLASGOW, April ls.—Our cotton market has been
animated during the week, and a good business has been
done at the full rates of Friday last.

CONCENTRATED AND DILUTED POISONS
PROM DEAD BODIES.

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Death is rife, disease always prevalent, in the vicinity
of intramural burial places. Men accustomed to the
work of grave-digging have been suddenly struck down
by concentrated emanations from the dead. By a just
retribution, the agents in the iniquity furnish, if not the
greatest number of examples, yet, according to my ex-
perience, the most remarkable victims. We have nu-
merous instances of /pave-diggers, sextons, &c., be-
ing destroyed as it were by lightning. The poison
which produces, when concentrated, such terrible
consequences, must necessarily give rise to varieus
degrees of disorder or actual disease when admini-
stered in a more diluted form. Thig I have abundantly
demonstrated. The effects vary according to the degree
of dilution on the. one hand, and on the condition of
health, or in other words, the resistance offered by the
individual to its reception. It is in this simple, yet all-
pervadinc, truth, that we must seek the solution of a
difficulty that has long puzzled the reflecting. We know
as little what constitutes that mysterious power—the re-
sistance to proved sources of disease in individual or-
ganisations, as we do of the animating or vital principle.
If, however, we are yet profoundly ignorant of what
causes the heart to beat, the stomach to digest, the
brain to think, the nerves to feel, and our active limbs
to move, facts have taught •us, that any cause which
weakens the power of resistance, facilitates the action
of miasmatic agencies, and that these, agencies are most
rife and most destructive in the neighbourhood of the
receptacles of the dead. It is true the effects are often
insidious, or mixed up with those arising from other,
but infinitely less easily preventible cause of disease
and hence a few interested parties were enabled to assert
the wholesomeness of graveyards, until the body of evi-
dence which I accumulated became overwhelming, and
reduced them to silence.

Amongst the slighter effects which have been proved
to arise from residence in the vicinity of over-crowded
burial places, I would enumerate eruptive diseases,
headache, giddiness, disorders of the stomach, and
bowel complaints of various kinds. The digestive or-
gans are very soon deranged under the influence of the
impure air respired, and a long catalogue of secondary
mischiefs is the result. These maladies are too often at-
tributed to other causes, but long experience and close
observation force me emphatically to re-assert that
the chief, the primary, the most easily removable
cause of mischief is the proximity to human habi-
tations of public and private burial places. This
is shown to be the case, by the fact that removal
from the poisonous localities is soon followed by restora-
tion to health, and that no amount of medical skill can
benefit the patient so long as he breathes the products
of his deceased neighbour, who is often buried under his
back parlour window; or, as has happened, beneath his
own kitchen floor.

Can we doubt, then, that instances of sudden death,
malignant fevers of various kinds, assuming forms not
to be found elsewhere—typhus fever, that scourge of
crowded cities, cholera, consumption, and many other
fatal disorders, likewise.prevail more frequently and with
increased intensity wherever crowded graveyards abound?
—On the Past and Present State of Intramural Burial-
places, by G. A. Walker, Surgeon.

RACING FIXTURES FOR 1853.
The figures within parenthesis denote the number o 1

days' racing.
APRIL.
...21

Newmarket F. S. (5)....25

Redditch (2)
Bath (2)
Manchester (3)
Epsom (4) 24

.........15

Bibury (1) 22
Stockbridge (1) 23
Winchester (1) 24
Newcastle (3) 28
.LY.

Stamford (2) 19
Nottingham (2) 21
Goodwood (4) 26

UST.
York (3) 17
Radcliffe (3) 22
Eghani (2) 23
Derby (2) 24
Eccles (3) 29
Lichfield (2) 30
MBER.
1 Lanark (2) 22
1 Manchester Autumn (2)-22
INewmarket F. 0. (3) 27
Northallerton (2) 29

IBER.
Richmond (2) 19
Newmarket H. (6) 24

:MBER.
Warwick Autumn (2) 16
Shrewsbury (2) 23
Aberystwith (3)..Last week