The Sun.
London, England, 1854-07-15 00:00:00

MILITIA.

The Ist Royal Lancashire Militia, under the com-
mand of Colonel John Talbot Clifton, who have been
stationed in the Royal Marine Barracks, Woolwich, for
some time past, and doing duty there and at Deptford
Dockyard, were marched from the Royal Marine Bar-
racks at half-past 8 a.m. yesterday, headed by the bands
of the Royal Artillery and Royal Marines, to the Dock-
yard station of the North Kent Railway, and conveyed
by it to the London-bridge station, en. route to Ports-
mouth. _ _ _

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The Royal Wilts Militia crossed over from Gosport to
Portsmouth yesterday morning. They are a very fine
body of men.

SHIPPING STATISTICS.

According to the statistics of vessels entered inward,
the port of London shows an increase of 75, with 31,916
tonnage, the difference between 365 vessels and 205,186
tonnage in 1853 and 440 vessels and 237,102 tonnage in
1854. Liverpool exhibits an increase of 3 vessels with
161 tonnage, the arrivals in the former period having
been 129 vessels with 77,319 tonnage, against in the
latter 132 vessels with 77,480 tonnage. In the case of
Bristol there is an increase of 4 vessels with 3,157 ton-
nage, the difference between 23 vessels with7,B26 ton-
nage and 27 vessels with 10,983 tonnage. The return
for the Clyde gives an increase of 7 vessels with 3,644
tonnage, the arrivals in 1853 having been 31 vessels with
11,277 tonnage, and in 1854 38 vessels with 14,921 ton-
nage. The total increase presented is 89 vessels with
38,878 tonnage, the difference between 548 vessels with
301,608 tonnage, and 637 vessels with 340,486 tonnage;
while the principal arrivals have been .from Mauritius,
Madras, New South Wales, Calcutta, Ceylon, China,
Java, and Sumatra.
The statistics of vessels cleared outward present un-
favourable results, owing to the diminished activity of
the trade to Australia as compared with the correspond.
ing period of last year. In the case of the port of Lon-
don a decrease is exhibited of 93 vessels with 19,657
tonnage, the difference between 472 vessels with 218,864
tonnage in 1853 and 379 vessels with 199,207 tonnage
in 1854. The return for Liverpool shows a decrease of
68 vessels with 123 tonnage, the departures in the former
period having been 262 vessels with 134,895 tonnage, and
in the latter 194 vessels with 134,772. The decrease in
the case of Bristol is 6 vessels with 1,286 tonnage, the
difference between 16 vessels with 4,666 tonnage in 1853
and 10 vessels with 3,380 tonnage in 1854. The
Clyde figures for a decrease of 22 vessels with 749
tonnage, the departures in the former period having
been 81 vessels with 29,566 tonnage, and in the latter
period 59 vessels with 28,817 tonnage. It will be noticed
in these instances, that, although the number of vessels
has decreased, the aggregate tonnage, except in the case
of the port of London, has nut proportionably diminished
—a circumstance showing that a larger class of ships is
now generally employed. The net decrease is 189 ves-
sels with 25,815 tonnage, the difference between 831
vessels with 387,991 tormaee in 1853 and 642 vessels
with 366,176 tonnage in 1854. The departures for Aus-
tralia, Cape of Good. Hope, China, Singapore, Calcutta,
and Bombay exhibit the principal falling of.

INCRRABE OF HYDROPHOBIA.-Yesterday Mr. Bed-
ford, coroner for Westminster, held an inquest at the
King's Head, James-street, Buckingham Palace, on
William Willet, aged 8 years, whose death was caused
by hydrophobia, produced by the bite of a dog in the
public streets. It appeared from the evidence of de-
ceased's mother, and a little girl who witnessed the ca-
tastrophe, that as the deceased was playing in York-
street, a dog which was passing bit him in the leg, and then
crossed the street and bit another child. The dog, in-
stead of being killed on the spot, was hunted by some boys
out of the neighbourhood, and had not been since seen
or heard of. Both children were taken to Westminster
Hospital, from whence, afterthe wound had been properly
dressed, deceased was sent home, no hydrophobic symp-
toms having set in. After the deceased had been an
out-patient of the hospital some weeks, the wound com-
pletely healed. The bite occurred on the 28th of April,
but nothing serious showed itself in the deceased until
last Friday, when he complained of pains up the leg, and
in the course of a few hours lost the whole use of the
limb. His mother thereupon called in parochial medical
aid, hut deceased continued to get woreP, Ponfirmed
symptoms of hydrophobia set in, and, atter enduring the
most excruciating sgonv, death terminated his sufferings
on Tuesday. The coroner said that he had never had a
eas. of hydrophobia until within the last month, and,
unless some regulations were laid down, he feared there
wit;lit be an increase of such calaniities. '('lie j ,rv, in
'wording a 1 erdiet of " Death from hydrophobia," added
that they hoped some steps would be taken by the Police
Commissioners to have all dogs found about the streets
without proper muzzles destroyed.
CONSUMPTION OF COAL IN THE METROPOLIS.-The
following abstract, from authentic papers, shows the
quantity of coal and coke, brought within the London
district by railway and canal, and entered at the Lon-
don Coal-market, during the half-year ending the 30th
of June, 1854: January.-Per Great Northern Rail-
way, 31,905 tons 14 cwt.; London and North-Western,
15,855 tons 10 cwt. ; Eastern Counties, 8,455 tons
1 cwt. ; Great Western, 8,021 tons ; South-Eastern,
1,953 tons 7 cwt. ; total, 69,191 tons 12 cwt.
February.- Great Northern, 36,987 tons 13 cwt. ;
London and North-Western, 24,501 tons 8 cwt. ; East-
ern Counties, 14,244 tons 2 cwt. : South-Eastern, 2,761
tons 1 cwt. : Great Western, 2,092 tons ; total, 80,586
tons 4 cwt. March.-Great Northern, 28,474t0ns 7 cwt.;
London and North-Western, 22,361 tons 8 cwt. ; Eastern
Counties, 20,124 tons 12 cwt. ; Great Western, 10,509
tons ; South-Eastern, 1,099 tons 3 cwt. ; total,
82,568 tons 10 cwt. April.-Great Northern, 26,814
tons 10 cwt. ; London and North-Western, 24,888
tons 14 cwt. ; Eastern Counties, 15,096 tons ; Great
Western, 10,744 tons ; South-Eastern, 1,314 tons 9 cwt. :
total, 78,457 tons 19 cwt. May.-Great 'Northern,
23,947 tons 7 cwt. ; London and North-Western,
16,965 tons ; Eastern Counties, 10,614 tons 5 cwt. ;
Great Western 5,342 tong ; South-Eastern, 1,884 tons
15 cwt. ; total, 58,753 tons 7 cwt. June.-Great
Nerthern, 23,430 tons 13 cwt. ; London and North-
W"tern, 17,178 tons 13 cwt. ; Eastern Counties, 14,965
tons 19 cwt. ; Great Western, 6,006 tons; South-Eastern,
10ta1,022
the corresponli
'tlautitY ofcoals brought •to London by rail, from
crease in the yrineseg
June 30, 1854,
togs, 14 cwt.: total, 62,603 tons 19 cwt. The
jazittary
to
.3.
hr, period
- el aaart
was 43") 161 tons 5 cwt. ; in
•
nt
entries by meal werecwt..year,
tons. The
as follows :-January, 1,811 tons
tons 10 cwt. ; 7, 3,320 tons 15 cwt. ; March, 3,449
June, 1,584 tonsPn3l.6 2,229 tons; May, 2,551 tons;
June 30, 14,945 tons 19 t.
Total from January 1 to
year, 4,623 tons 19 cwt.wt
; entries in corresponding
semi during the
present
11:4ital increase by railway and
corresponding period in 18537140 sr a 5
compared with the
DD3COTERT BONES Os. s .423 tons 8 cwt.
SMITHFIELD.-On Thursday and for °sin
Marrvits IN
as some men in the employment of Msroe days previous,
Munday, contrac•
tor to the City Commissioners of Sewers,
ing the ground for a sewer at the west endweefloenzgeavat,
Smithfield, they discovered a quantity of burnt
bones and charred wood, at about four or five feet humandepth
from the surface. The bones were carefully taken
ere
of, and after being put into a coffin, were deposited iana
churchyard. The remains are supposed to belong to
some martyrs who forfeited their lives at the stake dur-
ing the progress of the Reformation.
HATCHING GROUSE.-On Saturday last we were shown
in the aviary of Mr. Bowstead, Duke-street, the novel
sight of a brood of young grouse. The birds, four in num-
ber, appeared strong and healthy, and were perfectly
tame. In another apartment a female was sitting on
about a dozen eggs. The nest is made of blocks of peat
moss; and the bird did not appear to be the least alarmed
at the approach of strangers. The old birds were also
quite tame, and picked up the crumbs thrown to them
'by the visitors.-Glasgow Herald.