The Sun.
London, England, 1849-03-28 00:00:00

BIRTHS IN THE WEEK.

Males
Females

... 740
... 705

Total ... ... ... ... ... 1,445
*ln this number are included 10 cases of death by
Cholera, 40 by Scarlatina, and 40 by Typhus Fever.

LEEDS PAROCHIAL EXPENDITCRE.-011 Monday, a
public meeting of the inhabitants of the township of
Leeds was held at the Court-house, in pursuance of a
requisition, signed by upwards of 450 rate• payers, to
take into consideration the best means that can be de-
vised for effecting a reduction in the local expenditure
of the township. Mr. Alderman Bateson presided ; and
after speeches from Mr. Bissington, Mr. Councillor
Newsome, Mr. Councillor Brooke, and others, a resolu-
tion was unanimously adopted, which recited that, dur-
ing a few years past the local rates had accrued to an
almost unprecedented amount, resolved that a committee
should be appointed to investigate the causes of this in-
crease, and to report to a future meeting, and also to
inquire into the causes of the increase of pauperism,
and also into the remedies for the same, with a view
of profitably employing pauper labour on land or other-
wise. A committee was accordingly appointed for that
purpose.

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DECLINE OF TRADE IN SHEFFIELD. Too little
union among the masters, and too much of it among the
men, appear to be fast ruining this once busy seat of
trade. Every one complains, yet no one moves an amend-
ment. Thus, while Belgium, Germany, and the United
States, in which no such pernicious system prevails, are
beating the English out of extensive markets, and
even bearding the Sheffielder in his own den, or shaving
him rather with his own weapon—by help of the same
sure instrumentality the latter is deliberately cutting his
own throat—smashing his own machinery, in fact, in
more senses than one. There is a talk of the necessity
of some new trade. But of what use would a new trade
be with the old system of " union" and disunion? It
is " a new man" that is wanted probably still more than
a new trade.— The Builder.
Thirty-four steam and sailing vessels were pre-
paring to leave New York, on the 7th instant, for San
Francisco ; including several old Liverpool favourites,
amongst them being the celebrated ship Memnon, and
the Clyde-built steam-ship Unicorn. The Unicorn was
entered also for Vancouver's Island, Oregon.—Liverpool
Albion.

A FLESHLY GHOST.—After several drovers had
finished their labours at the market here, on the evening
of Tuesday last, and bad partaken of supper, one of them
—an old tar who had seen service in foreign lands—
determined to play a practical joke upon one of his com-
rades. He accordingly slipped out, and having donned
a white sheet, he waited at a part of the road which his
companion, a sturdy son of the mountain, had to pass.
The Highlandman, when he approached the spot, ob-
served the apparition, which came forward muttering
strange unearthly sounds. The Highlandman, nothing
daunted, exclaimed, "Be ye deevil or be ye dragon, I'll
try what ye're made o'l" and suiting the action to the
words, he dealt the "ghost" a tremendous blow across
tho face with a stout oaken staff. The ghost measured
its length on the road, and roared out, "It's me, John."
"Bhugt beho dstun now
' wi' what ye've gotten then." The
piece which his folly was the means of procuring him.—
Arbroath would-begirepents him of the mangled frontis-
piece
breath Guide.

MANCHESTER CHURCH EDUCATION SOCIETY.--
The annual meeting of this association was held yester-
day at the Town-hall; Manchester, and was very nume-
rously attended. The Bishop of Manchester took the
chair, and was supported by the principal clergy of the
a 1..; ueighbourho• d. inf,i;ting t;ddreised by
the Rev. Hugh P, the Ve►y Rev. t.!l, D.:ha of tie
City, the Rev. Canon Sergeant, Henry Houldsworth,
Esq., and Robert Brandt, Esq., who moved and supported
resolutions approving the objects Otto society.