The Sun.
London, England, 1853-09-01 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 1, 1853

nication between Plymouth and London, for the Ad-
miralty have actually ordered the Daedalus, 18, Captain
Wellesley, with treasure from the Pacific, to proceed to
Portsmouth, land her freight there, and return to Devon-
port to be paid off. Could any order be more absurd or
more unfair to the interests of the Great Western Rail-
way line to Plymouth ?
The sloop Harlequin, 12, Commander E. P. Wilmot,
may be daily expected from the coast of Africa. A
letter from her states that she left Loando July 6 for
Ascension en route to Spithead, to be paid off.
We hear that the Admiralty have determined to erect
a new chapel at Woolwich Dockyard, without delay,
for the use of the artificers, &c.

THE CORN TRADE.

(Front the Times.)

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in this country by French and other foreign dealers,
have had a powerful effect on our markets. The
last returns from Mark-lane show a clear rise in the
price of wheat cf no less than 4s. per quarter on the
week ; and the aggregate average price of the pre-
ceding six weeks is 525., which is 12s. a-quarter
higher than the comparative average for the corre-
sponding period of last year. The top price on Mon-
day was 555. to 58s. a-quarter, and flour rose to
60s. a-sack. This extraordinary increase of price,
at the very time of year when a turn generally takes
place in the market, is attributable to the demand
abroad even more than to the fears excited for our
own harvest. Although the French Government
endeavours by assurances in the Moniteur to per-
suade the country that the crops have turned out
better than was expected, the measures it has taken
and the active speculations of the French corn trade
prove that considerable scarcity is apprehended.
Louis Napoleon judges, rightly enough, that no-
thing is more likely to embarrass his Government
and to arrest the immoderate speculations now
afloat in France than a sudden rise in the price
of provisions. Accordingly, he some months
ago suspended the sliding scale of the French
Corn Law, and has since removed the differ-
ential tonnage dues on cargoes of corn. The
supply of flour which we have received from France
for the last few years has ceased, and the French
dealers begin, on the contrary, to import largely.
The floating cargoes in our ports were brought up,
and we soon fo:nd that when we went to the
Baltic and Black Sea ports for further supplies,
there, too, French orders had sent up prices. At
Dantzic fine high mixed whea:;, weighing 621 b. a
bushel, cannot be bought under 585., free on
board ; at Stettin the same advance had taken
place ; in Holland the best Rhine wheat was fetching
60s. and 61s. Nor is there much prospect of
any large supply from the Black Sea, for freights
at Odessa have risen to 17s. a quarter, and are 3s.
higher from the ports of the Danube. There is,
moreover, a great probability that the supplies
from the East will be largely required in the South
of Europe. The Belgian Government has also
taken the alarm, and the low duty established in
that country by the Corn Law of 1850 is suspended;
wheat and every other kind of grain are to enter
the Belgian ports free. Our correspondent in
Paris relates how rapid has been the rise in the
price of flour in that city, and corn is selling in
several parts of France at 100 per cent. above
what it would have fetched a few months ago. The
demand is everywhere excessive. The fear of con-
tinued!high prices is, perhaps, somewhat exagge-
rated ; but the stocks of old wheat are low, and
the returns of the present harvest are generally
scanty. It is scarcely necessary to remark that this
unfortunate scarcity in many parts of Europe is
aggravated by the hostile attitude of Russia in the
Principalities, and by the ill-judged opposition of
the Porte to the terms recommended by the Con-
ference of Vienna ; and it is, to say the least of it,
an intolerable nuisance that the lawful operations
of trade should be paralysed and the sustenance of
large masses of the population of Europe raised to
famine prices, because the ambition and the pride
of two semi-barbarous States are pleased to inflict
those evils on the world, and to increase the hard-
ships of a natural calamity.
Our principal object, however, in calling the at-
tention of our readers to the peculiar state of the
corn market at this moment is to show the probable
effects of this scarcity on the progress of free trade.
The scarcity and high prices known to be impend-
ing over ,this country in 1845 were the decisive
causes which led Sir Robert Peel to the abolition
of the Corn Laws, and from the time of the passing
of that measure it was evident that the citadel of
Protection was carried. The present state of
Europe is strongly indicative of a similar change in
other countries, for it is clearly impossible for any
Government to support the odium of exclusive
duties while the people have not enough to eat, and
the example of England has shown that the great-
est security against the consequences of all artificial
systems of protection is absolute freedom. Accord-
ingly, the French Government has suspended its
sliding scale of duties and opened its ports ; but
all the well-known evils attendant on that
plausible but deceptive scheme are now felt in
France, as they long were in England, and there
is, undoubtedly, a growing disposition in that
country to establish the principle of a low fixed
duty. We shall not be prepared to find that the
Imperial Government is prepared to take advan-
tage of this season of pressure to propose a modifi-
cation of the existing law, and, if this great breach
be made in the protective system, we shall gradually
see a more liberal and enlightened policy extended
from the first necessary of life to the raw materials
of industry, and at last to its other productions.
The sliding scale of protective corn duties in
France has not by any means preserved that
country from a period of severe agricultural dis-
tress, equal at least to the depression felt in the
United Kingdom, and erroneously attributed to the
repeal of the Corn Laws. In France prices have
been lower, rents worse paid, and the condition of
the rural population more wretched in the last three
years than at any period since the war ; and, so
strongly was this felt by the community, that land
recovered more slowly than any other kind of pro-
perty from the effects of the revolution of 1848,
and a larger proportion of capital was consequently
thrown into commercial and industrial speculations.
In consequence of the want of means of internal
transport in France corn is frequently unsaleable,
at remunerative prices, in the departments which
grow it, while the population are reduced to miser-
able and unwholesome substitutes a short distance
off. M. Moreau de Jonnes states, in his essay on
the rural population, that the food of the bulk of the
French people has not improvedsince Arthur Young
described it in the reign of Louis XVI. "A large
portion of the French peasantry," says this writer,
continue by habit and by necessity to subsist on a
detestable sort of bread, an indigestible mixture of
rye, barley, bran, beans, and potatoes, which is
neither leavened nor properly baked, but kept for
mouths, until it is covered with mouldiness and
fungi, which would be revolting to the sight of the
most barbarous nations :" and this state of things
continues, although it is admitted that the rate of
wages and the profits of agriculture are at least
double what they were under Louis XVI. But if
under ordinary circumstances the nourishment of
the French peasant is of this coarse and wretched
quality, what must his condition become at a time
of scarcity and famine ? A people habitually fed
on wheaten bread may in a season of unusual hard-
ship descend. to a lower kind of food ; but, as wo
saw in Ireland, a people habitually subsistinc, on
the lowest kind of food have no resource left when
that is deficient. Louis Napoleon professes to have
established his Government on the broad basis of
the lowest and most numerous class in the nation,
and lie has promised to ameliorate their condition.
But the first, if not the only, practical service he
can render them is to insure their unrestricted ac-
cess at all times to the cheapest and most abund-
ant supplies of food. Until that stimulus be ap-
plied, French agriculture will remain what it now
is in the greater part of the country—the most back-
ward in Northern Europe ; and the peasantry of
one of the finest countries in the world will con-
tinue to be ill-fed, and exposed at times to the
horrors of scarcity.
We see reason to hope that the causes which are
leading several Governments to open their ports on
the present occasion will convince them that the
corn trade ought to be placed on a more liberal
basis ; and that the sustenance of a dense population
is best secured by establishing large and systematic
means of commercial exchange. At present
England is the greatest corn maret in the world,
because grain is sold in our ports not only to our-
selves, but to other countries under the most ad-
vantageous circumstances. As far as we are con-
cerned that position is all we can desire, but we
cannot imagine that the short-sighted policy of
other States will long continue to throw into our
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MONUMENT TO DR, JENNER.—HiS Ral
Prince Albert has transmitted 25/. to the ocyommitHighnesstee for
the propoeed monument to Dr. Jenner, to perpetuate
memory of that distinguished physician, in connexic
with his discovery for the preventien of that destructive
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SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

NEWMARKET SECOND OCTOBER MEETING.
WEIGHTS for the CESAREWITCH STAKES. 2 miles, 2
furlongs, 28 yards. Acceptances to be signified on or
before the 12th of September.
Age st lb
Teddington 5 9 7
Stockwell
Newminster
Chief Justice 6 8 9
Goldfinder 5 8 9
Mountain Deer
Red Lion
Lady Evelyn a 8 7
Landgrave a 8 5
Weathergage 4 8 4
Buckthorn 4 8 4
Leopold
Little Harry 4 8 3
Daniel O'Rourke 4 8 2
Nancy
Truth-.... .
Knight of the Shire 4 8 0
Nabob
Trifle
King of Trumps 4 8 0
Rataplan
Torment 3 7 13
Cin eas 3 7 13
Frantic
Kohinoor
Grey Tommy 4 7 12
Neasham . ••• 5 7 12
Fancy Girl 4 7 12
Calot
Merry Bird 4 7 12
Songstress
Surprise colt
Colsterdale 5 7 10
Hurworth
St. Michael
Bairownie
Muscovite
Iles 4 7 9
Joe Miller 4 7 9
Caracara 4 7 9
Galvanism 4 7 9
Prime Minister
Father Thames
Trickstress ........
Goorkah 3 7 7
Lambto n
Honeywood
Indian Warrior._ 4 7 7
The Reiver
Crusader
Cobnut
Defiance
Butterfly
Lerrywheut
Ben Nevis
Gadabout
Bardolph
Harbinger
Board School
Miss filly
Maid of Team

Age st lb
Sextus
Rattle.. 3 6 12
Lough Bawn 5 6 12
Terpsichore 5 6 12
Braxey
Lord Fauconberg 3 6 12
Tickton
Mentmore Lass 3 6 12
Cleveland
Pug Orrock
3 6 12
Abdallah 6 6 12
Jouvence
Guicowar
Sackbut
Ballinasloe
Rackapelt
Mayfair
The Friar
Diomedia
Invasion 3 6 10
Candlewick
Good Morning 3 6 9
Catspaw 3 6 9
Perfidious
Richmond
Laßelle 3 6 8
Dove
3 6 8
Gossip 3 6 8
Countess of Theba 5 6 8
King Pepin 4 6 8
Michaelrnas Maid 3 6 7
Black Bess 3 6 7
Dagobert
Jullien
Annie Sutherland
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' Peggy 3 6 6
Maria Bell 3 6 5
Hope (h b) 3 6 5
Dear Polly 3 6 5
Radcliffe Hero 3 6 5
Charley
Pancake 4 6 5
Aaron Smith 5 6 5
Chesterton 3 6 5
The Proctor
Missive
Mr. Sykes 3 6 5
Nutpecker 3 6 4
Corybantes 3 6 3
IMrs. Birch 5 6 3
Saguenay
Charity
Honeydew 3 6 2

The Ratchet 3
Richard Primmer 4
Strawberry 3
Misletoe 3
Nervous 3
Miss Tennyson 3
Peacock

7 5

Valley
Garforth 6 7 4
Cariboo 6 7 4
Scarecrow
Friday
Lucio
Haricot
Exact 3 7 3
Barbatus
Sally Warfoot colt 4 7 2
Pelion 3 7 2
The Deformed
Dick Turpin
Lady Amyott
Ethelbert
Talfourd 3 7 1
Audubon
Nutshell 6 7 0
Massa Mungo
The Cruisk..
Comnburland
Statesmon
Mayor of Hull
Old Soldier 3 7 0
Gladiole 6 7 0
Black Doctor 5 7 0
Orestes
Montague
Evadne
Eulogist 3 7 0
Little Fawn
Miss Peddie
Catherine Hayes 3 7 0
Unity 5 6 13
Grapeshot
Pharos

Auchinleck
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Pride
Begum colt 3

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Wasp
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Baron Oswy 3 5
Anteverta
Fright 3 5

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Olinder
Percival

Heapy
Captain Cornish

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. 3 5

Brother to Grey
Tommy
Lord Lieutenant 3 5
Erycthion
Rosalba

Noisette 3 5
Crassus
Contentment 3 5
Shropshire Lass 3 5

TOWN PLATE.—A sweepstakes of 3 sovs. each, with 30
added ; for three-year-olds and upwards. Optional
selling weights. Winners extra. The winner to be
sold, &c. Heats, one mile.
Mr. Reeve's Luxurious, 3 yrs (201.), 4st 1 Olb
(Cresswell) 1 1
Mr. Hammond's Sophistry, 4 yrs (201.), 6st 51b
(Cowley) 2 dr
Mr. Harris's Cotton Lady, 4 yrs (201.), Gst
(Palmer) 3 dr
Mr. B. Land's Miss Talbot, 5 yrs (201.), Gst 1 Olb
(Land, jun.) 0 dr
Betting—First heat : Even on Luxurious. Won
easily by a length and a half. Bad third. Second heat :
Luxurious walked over. The winner was sold for 51
guineas.
CUP STAKES of 10 sovs. each ; for 3-yr-olds, 7st llb ;
four yrs, Bst 71b ; five, 9st 21b ; six and aged, 9st 61b ;
mares and geldings allowed 31bs. The winner to be
sold for 3001. ; if demanded, &c. ; three miles.
Mr. Barne's Waverley, by Dromedary, 4 yrs, Bst 71b
(S. Rogers) 1
Mr. B. Land's Brunette, late Theorem, 5 yrs, Bst 131 b
(May) 2
Mr. Sufflin's Antigone, 5 yrs, Bst 131 b ...(G-. Sharpe) 3
Betting : 5 to 4 each agst Waverley and Antigone.
Won easily by a length ; half a length between second
and third.
MARKS HALL STAKES, of 10 90VS. each, with 25 added ;
3-yr-olds, 9st ; four, lOst 71b ; five, 11st 31b ; six and
aged, llst 91b ; mares and geldings allowed 31bs ;
winners extra ; gentlemen riders ; one mile.
Mr. Elwes' Farmer's Boy, by Trueboy, 4 yrs, lOst
101 b (Mr. Bevill) 1
Count Batthyany's Lady Isabel, 4 yrs, lOst 71b
(Owner) 2
Mr. Howell's Wilmont, 6 yrs, list 61b (Capt. Rowley) 3
Mr. Stewart's YEsculapius, 6 yrs, list 61b
(Captain Lane Fox) 4
Mr. Messer's Grasshopper, aged, list 6lb
(Captain Burnaby) 5
Betting : 6t04 on Farmer's Boy. Won cleverly by
a length ; moderate third.

PLYMOUTH RACES-WEDNESDAY.

HANDICAP STAKES.

Ethelwolf
Pride .....

Five ran.
QUEEN'S PLATE.

Lambton
Charles XII. filly .

Five ran.

Mr. Knowles's yearly colt Damascus, by Lanercost,
out of Palmyra, died on the 25th ult.

RA.CING FIXTURES FOR 1853.
The figures within parenthesis denote the number of
day's racing.
SEPTEMBER.
Lincoln (2).
Bridgnorth
Marlborought
Cheadle (Sta ff.) (2)
Warwick (2)
Totnes & Briidgetown (2) 7 Bedford (2)
I Weymouth
Morpeth (21
Western Me f tincr 8 Manchester Autumn (2).22
Rochester &Charham (2) 8 Canterbury (2) 22
Western Z.cl•land and Newmarket F. 0. (3) 27
I
Bridgwatel• (1) l2 Walsall (2) 28
Northallerton (2) 29
,BER.
Warwick Autumn (2) lB
Caledonian Hunt and
18

OCTI
Chester Autumn (2) 4
Monmouth
Yorkshireth a ionHunt(l) 6
Wrexham (2;►
Newmarket 0. (5) lO

Kelso
Richmond (2) l9
Newmarket (11.) (6) ...24
IBER.
Shrewsbury (2) 15
Newtol Autumn (1) 24
Aberystwith (3) Last week

NOVE:
Worcester (2)
Epsom Autumn (2) 3
Cowbridge Runt (2) 9
Liverpool Aurtumn (2) 9

EXTRAO' .RDINARY CASE OF POISONING.

A shocking' case has just occupied not fewer than five
days' sittings of the Court of Assizes of the Aude. A
young wom.o n named Saint Martin, and a man,
still young, named Desprat, were indicted for hav-
ing poisoned the husband of the former and the wife
of the latter. The facts were these :—An adulter-
ous connexion existed between the two accused, and
it was no se,i3ret for their neighbours. On Ist March
last Francis Saint Martin, husband of the woman,
died suddenl!,y, after vomiting a great deal. His
wife alone attended him, and she obtained no me-
dical advice. Towards the latter end of March Mme.
Desprat wen t; to the house of the woman, and asked
for a glass of .liquor, called in the country Carthagene.
The woman loured out something from two bottles, and
almost immed lately after drinking it, Mme. Desprat was
seized with violent pains and sickness. She was con-
veyed home, and after lingering some days in great suf-
fering, expire ti on the Ist of April, crying "I burn, I
burn !" Her husband was frequently requested by his
neighbours to procure medical advice for her, but he re-
fused. These, strange deaths, combined with the adul-
terous connex ion of the man and woman, caused sus-
picions of fom. I play to be entertained. The two bodies
were dug up, and rather large quantities of arsenic
were found iii the intestines of each. The woman
then told sonde absurd tale about her husband having
just before his death confessed to her that he had
taken poison,, in order to place her in an embarassing
position ; but it was well known that the man, so far
from having .any reason to contemplate suicide, was
contented with his little fortune, and had planted vines,
repaired his b ouse, and negotiated for the purchase of a
horse, as if he had expected to live a long time. With
respect to I glrue. Desprat, the woman accounted
for her death: in this way :—When her husband told
her that he had taken poison, she sought for a
packet of arsenic which had been purchased some
time before, .2 lid on finding that a portion of it had
been taken ab way, resolved to give him an additional
dose, so as to make sure of his death, and prevent him
from making any accusation against her. Whilst she
was completint g this design Mme. Desprat came in. In
her confusion she had laid down the poison, and went
to another room, and Mme. Desprat, thinking it was
sugar, took sot me of it. But this story, improbable on
the face of it., was disproved by the fact that Mme.
Desprat contii rued in health until towards the end of the
month, when she took the glass of liquor. As to De-
sprat, the pri r icipal evidence against him was, Ist, that
his connectio:n with the woman rendered it unlikely
that she could have committed such crimes without
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a declaration made by the woman in gaol, to the effect
that "If she i vere lost, and Desprat got off, she would
reveal all aboi it the poisoning." Before the court, the
woman abandoned her original plan of defence, and
boldly accuse 1 Desprat of having perpetrated both
murders. ID ), on his part, accused the woman ; and,
for some time , the court was almost horrified to see the
cunning and the energy with which each tried to shift
the whole hi arden of the guilt to the other. The jury
declared the woman guilty of both poisonings, and
Desprat of b eing her accomplice ; but it said that there
were extenwa ting circumstances in favour of both. The
court conders ned the woman to imprisonment with hard
labour for lit 3, and the man to twenty years' imprison-
ment with h; and labour.

.RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL, AUG. 31.
STOCK E R CHANGE.—The share market continues inac-
tive, with rdilnost an entire absence of buying orders. Our
quotations i!k ,r what has been done were again a shade under
yesterday's prices :—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 75 ; Lan-
caster and 'Carlisle, 106 ; London and North-Western,
1101 c., ; (Litt° One-Eighth Shares, par c.

MANCHESTER, AUG. 31.
STOCK EZOHA.NGE.— The market opened at the rates of
yesterday, I)ut declined towards noon, and closed lower.
The sales w are :—Leeds Stock, 75A 5 ; ditto Pref., 15 1-16;
London Sto ck, 1111 111; Dover, 21 1-16, 20 15-16 ; East
Lancashire :e ref. Qrs., 9 5-16 ; —Caledonian, 331; Eastern
Counties, 12;i ; East Lancashire, 174 ; Midlands, 69.

BIRMINGHAM, AUG. 31.
STOCK Er,CHANGE.—There was scarcely anything done
in our share market to-day. Shrewsbury and Birmingham
stock was tr enacted at 66 and 65i.

BRISTOL, Aug. 31.
STOCK EX:THANGE.—The market to-day was inactive,
and prices cl A)sed dull. Great Westerns were done at 86k;
and Taff Val 63 (No. 1 Pref.) at 152.

THE /4 Mt DER AT LITTLEPORT.—An adjourned in-
quest was he id on Monday to inquire into the circum-
stances attnding the death of the woman who was
found dead in a field near Littleport, on the 30th of
July last, having several bruises on her body, and in her
stomach thtare were found not less than 6i ounces of
the essence of almonds. Several witnesses were ex-
amined but no satisfactory account of the woman could
be obtained,. or of the manner in which she had met
with her death, and the jury returned the following ver-
dict:—"Thtabt the deceased woman, to the jury, un-
known, was, on the 30th of July last past, found dead
in a field wit bin the parish of Littleport, and the said
deceased wcealan came to her death by blows and poison,
feloniously s•dministered to her by some person or per-
sons unknown." One of the witnesses, James Jessop,
stated, that .on the night of the 29th of July he dreamt
three times that he heard the cry of " murder" issuing
from the ph we where the dead body of the woman was
afterwards f o und. Twenty years ago, he also stated,
he dreamt tit Lat he saw a woman hanging in a barn, and
on passing the barn next morning looked in just in
time to cut clown a woman who was hanging there,
and to save 'her life.
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HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK.

( From. the Registrar-General's Report.)
The deaths of 1,021 persons were registered during
the last week (August 21-7) in London. The number
is below the average of the corresponding week in pre-
vious years, even if we strike out of the calculation the
week of 1849, in which 2,796 persons died from epidemic
cholera and other casues.
Of the 514 males and 507 females, 517 were children
under 15 years of age, 316 were adults of 15 and under
60 years of age, 187 were old people ; 2 of the men and
19 of the women had attained the ages of 85, 90, and
upwards.

The causes of death present one feature of much in-
terest ; 137 of the deaths were referred to diarrhoea, 18
to cholera. Five of the persona who died of cholera
were adults, and the shortness of life after attack, 7
hours, 9 hours, and 13 hours in three cases, with the
other symptoms, appears_ to have left no doubt on the
minds of the medical men in attendance that they had
before them cases of epidemic cholera.
In the corresponding weeks of 1851 and 1852 the
deaths from cholera were 28 and 15, and the deaths
from diarrhoea were 174 and 125. But it was shown at
that time, from the analogy of the previous epidemics
and the general character of the cases, that the disease
was not likely then to assume the Asiatic form. Now
our hopes that England may escape are less sanguine ;
but it is right to mention that in the last weeks of
August and the first weeks of September the cholera of
the common form is virulent, and sometimes simulates
the Asiatic cholera, which has besides never prevailed
here to any extent until it has been some months in the
country.
_

It is satisfactory to reflect that active measures have
been adopted by the Secretary of State to close the Lon-
don churchyards, and that the water supply, although
still bad, is likely to be greatly improved ere long.
While this great disease is evincing so much activity,
our sanitary arrangements, particularly that greatmea
sure for the purification of the Thames and the drainage
of London,- will not be allowed to linger unachieved.
The public should at this moment bear in mind that
nearly every quickly fatal case of Asiatic cholera is pre-
ceded for a few hours by a painless diarrhoea, and that
in its first stages the diarrhoea can generally be cured by
medical men, and the threatening attacks of cholera be
averted. They should therefore in all cases of diarrhoea,
whether occurring in children or in adults, immediately
apply for medical advice. The importance of this rule
was adverted to last week by Dr. Macloughlin, and was
painfully confirmed by the ballast heaver, aged 46 years,
who had early in the morning " diarrhoea, which he did
not heed," and died in seven hours after the first evident
symptoms of cholera appeared.
The following are the details of the 18 cases of cholera
registered in the week :
"In the sub-district of Whitecross-street, at 9, Nag's-
head-court, on the 22d August, the son of a whalebone
coverer, aged 6 week, " infantile cholera (7 days)."
In the sub-district of St. Mary, St. George-in-the-
East, on the 20th August, at 11, Princes-street, the
daughter of a commercial clerk, aged one year,
" English cholera (10 days), inflammation of lungs (48
hours), congestion of brain (12 hours), terminating in
convulsions."

At 9, St. Oswald's-place, Lambeth, on the 20th
August, a labourer, aged 41 years, •'cholera spasmodica
(9 hours)." The informant stated that they have no
drainage beyond that into a cesspool, and that in rainy
weather there is a most offensive effluvium. The medi-
cal man informed them that it was a decided case of
Asiatic cholera.

In the sub-district of St. John, St. George-in-the-
East, at 32, Broad-street, on the 22d Angust, a ballast-
heaver, aged 46 years, " cholera (7 hours)." The re-
gistrar says—" I am informed by the medical attendant
that this was ' a very bad case indeed of undoubted
cholera ;' that he saw the deceased at 12 o'clock, who
was then in collapse, had severe cramps, and no pulse ;
was scarcely conscious. He could not refer the case to
any cause, the house being tolerably free from bad
smells, and the man of temperate habits. The patient
had diarrhoea early in the morning, which he did not
heed.'"

In the Hackney-road sub-district, at 4, Wellington-
I row, on the 22d of August, a servant, aged 15 years,
'• natural death from exhaustion from purging caused by
effluvia of water from a cesspool." (Inquest) Mr. Mur-
ray, the registrar, adds that "the deceased, a servant to
Mr. Gough, of 31, Princes-square, St. George's-in-the-
East, having previously had good health, was suddenly
taken ill with diarrhoea about 4 o'clock on Sunday after-
noon, and removed the same evening to her mother's,
4, Wellington-row, Bethnal-green, where she died about
5 o'clock the following morning. The medical attendant
having described the case as one of Asiatic cholera, an
inquest was held, which resulted in the verdict copied
above ; and, through the favour of Mr. Baker, the coro-
ner, I am enabled to add the remarks appended by the
jury to their verdict : 'that the death was probably
caused by the foetid and noxious effluvia arising from the
foul water daily obliged to be pumped from a cesspool
in Mr. Gough's house, and which was poured into the
surface channel of the street, and stated to be of a most
nauseous and offensive character, there appearing to be
no other drainage or sewerage in the square.' "
- At 54, Whitechapel-road, on the 24th August, the son
of a watchmaker, aged S months, " cholera infantum
(three days)."

In theenb-district of West Hackney, at 2, Bucking-
ham-road, on the 22d August, the wife of an omnibus
conductor, aged 35 years, "cholera (24 hours)."
At 189, Fleet-street, on the 21st August, the daughter
of a stationer, aged 9 months, " infantile cholera (eight
days)." _ _ _

At 26, Water-lane, Homerton, on the 21st August,
the son of a waiter, aged one year, " cholera infantum
(seven days.)"

In St. i3atholomew's Hospital, from 113, Fetter-lane,
on the 25th August, a labourer, aged 30 years, " Eng.
lish cholera."

At 3, St. John's-place, near the Thames Tunnel, Ro-
therhithe, on the 26th August, the son of a labourer,
aged 13 years, " cholera (3 days)." The medical atten-
dant adds that " the house is badly lighted and venti-
lated, with a privy about 8 or 9 feet from the door."
At Turner's-yard, George-street, Chelsea, on the 23d
August, the son of a labourer, aged 8 months, "cholera
infantum (one week)."
At 240, Evelyn-street, St„ Paul's, Deptford, on the
26th August, the son of a coal-merchant, aged 6 weeks,
"cholera infantum (7 days.)"
At 159, High-street, Woolwich, en the 27th August,
the widow of a shoemaker, aged 72 years, " cholera
(English), debility (one week)."
At 18, Quaker-street, Spitalfields, on the 26th Aug.,
the daughter of a cabinet-maker, aged one year, " Eng-
glish cholera (5 days)," accelerated by a bad smell from
back of the house, " diarrhcea (2 days.)" Mr. Deboos,
the registrar, states that " the privy is close to the back
room, which is unfit to live in from the effluvia."
In the sub-district of St. Mary, Marylebone, at 41,
Queen-street, on the 11th August, the son of a butler,
aged 4 months, " cholera infantum (2 days)."
At 22, Winchester-row, on the 21st August, the
daughter of a letter-carrier, aged 5 years, " cholera (18
hours)."

At 60, Seymour-place, on the 25th August, the wife
of a coachman, aged 48 years, " English cholera (2
days)."

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In Haggerstone, west sub-district, at 135, Kingsland-
road, on the 24th August, the daughter of a printer,
aged 14 years, died of " diarrhcea, typhoid fever, exhaus-
tion (7 days)." Mr. Bowring, the deputy registrar,
adds that :—" Adjoining this house there are heaps of
raw bones belonging to a marine store-dealer carrying
on a very large business not at all suitable to the neigh-
bourhood. The house is very much confined at the
back, but the stench of the bones is very noxious, and
they sometimes lay there so long that the steam rises
from them as from a dung heap. This is the second
death in the house from the same cause."
In the sub-district of Waterloo (Ist part), at 1, Pear-
tree-street, on the 19th August, the wife of a currier,
aged 52 years, " carbuncle (5 years), followed by dis-
eased knee joint, diseased liver, and delirium tremens."
Last week the births of 803 boys and 683 girls, in all
1,486 children, were registered in London. In the eight
corresponding weeks of the years 1845-52 the average
number was 1,352.

At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29'543 in. The
mean temperature of the week was 58.6 degs., which is
slightly below the average of the same week in 38 years.
The highest temperature of the week was 74.5 degs., on
Sunday ; the lowest was 47.2 degs., and occurred on
Friday. The greatest difference between the dew point
temperature and air temperature was 15 degs. on Sun-
day ; the least 0.0 degs. on Tuesday ; the mean differ-
ence of the week was 5'6 degs. ; nearly one inch of rain
fell on Tuesday. The wind was chiefly from the south
and south-west.