The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-08 00:00:00

" JUVENILE POOR ESTABLISHMENT.

"TOOTING, SATURDAY, JAN. 6.—Forty fresh cases of
cholera have occurred since four o'clock yesterday.
Many of them do not present the very severe symptoms
that exhibited themselves in the first cases. Neverthe-
less, the number of fatal cases have amounted to twelve
within the same time. Great numbers of the healthy
children have been removed from the premises, making
the number now remaining in the establishment consi-
derably less, consequently the numbcr of new cases of
cholera here may, of course, be expected to lessen.
" Mr. Grainger, from the Board of Health, is insti-
tuting inquiries into the probable cause of the epidemic,
and, by his suggestion, the medical staff has been in-
creased by the addition of four qualified members of the
profession, so that the duties of attending to the sick are
much lightened.
Number of cases of cholera since the com-
mencement 229
Fatal
Now under medical treatment ... ••• 160
Recovered 16
(Signed) " W. J. KITE, Surgeon."

IRELAND.
THE CASE OF MR. DUFFY.
DUBLIN, SATURDAY.—The proceedings yesterday
in the Commission Court have presented the extraor-
dinary case of Mr. Duffy in quite a new aspect. The
presiding Judges have given it as their opinion that,
although certain portions of the indictment are bad,
there are counts sustaining the charge which are good,
and they, therefore, have determined to overrule the
demurrer ; but they decline the responsibility of pro-
nouncing final judgment upon the demurrer, which
would debar the prisoner from a trial before a jury.
The case has been adjourned until Thursday, when
the Crown counsel are to determine upon the course
to be pursued in such novel and difficult circum-
stances.

Respecting the chances of a trial, the Freeman's
Journal says—

" Whether that trial is toltake place now, or after
the summation of an infinite series of new :adjourn-
ments, in which probably some novel points of cri-
minal law may be settled at the joint expense of Mr.
Duffy and her Majesty's treasury, the proceedings of
Thursday next will determine. In the meantime,
however, it does not tend to disembarrass the course
of the Crown lawyers that Mr. Duffy has presented
his petition, under the Habeas Corpus Act, to be tried
at this commission, and that by the provisions of that
statue he is entitled, at the close of the commission, if
not tried, to be discharged."
DUBLIN, SUNDAY.—EMIGRATION—SALES or Go-
VERNMENT STocL.—For some weeks past the sums
of money drawn out of the Bank of Ireland, by far-
mers emigrating to America, have been very consi-
derable in amount. However strange it may appear,
there have also been sales of Government Stock by
those farmers, in small amounts, but in the aggregate,
to a large sum. In the cash offices of the Bank of
Ireland, any day, you can see those freize-coated
emigrants drawing out their savings, preparatory to
a winter voyage across the Atlantic.
REPRESENTATION OF DONEGAL.

Since the death of Colonel Conolly, which took
place at Castletown, near Celbridge, on Thursday
last, there has been a rumour that Mr. Hamilton, of
St. Ernanis (who has so much distinguished himself
by his efforts to promote employment on his estate in
Donegal), would he called upon to start for that
county. It has also been stated that Mr. Thomas
Conolly, late sheriff, intends to offer himself. It is
probable that some arrangement will be made to pre-
vent a contest, as the landlords of Donegal have
been considerable sufferers from the long-continued
distress, which so terribly affects all classes. Lord
Mountcharles, son of the Marquis of Conyngham,
has also been spoken of as a candidate.

BURNING or THE OCEAN MONARCH. —A clever
lithographic picture of this memorable catastrophe on
board the Ocean Monarch emigrant ship, while
passing through Abergeley-bay, North Wales, on
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Thursday, August 24th, 1848, has just. been produced
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Ocean yacht (Commodore Littledale) going to the
rescue of the blazing vessel ; and the interest of the
sketch is painfully enhanced by a conviction of its
accuracy—the artist having himself been an eye-
witness of the calamity. Those who bear in mind
the terrible and touching incidents connected with
this misfortune—rivalling in horror and pathos the
harrowing scenes which took place long ago, under
similar circumstances, on board the Kent East India-
man—will look with deep interest to this melancholy
and graphic representation.

EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF BILLS OF EXCHANGE
FROM THE ROTHERHAM RAILWAY STATION.—Last
Tuesday evening a wooden box, containing a large
number of bills of exchange, to the amount of between
twelve and tbirteen hundred pounds, was stolen from the
Midland Railway Station, at Rotherham. The property
belonged to the Sheffield Banking Company. It is cus-
tomary for certain account books to be transmitted by

railway in an oaken box from the branch office of the
Sheffield Banking Company, at Rotherham, to the prin-
cipal establishment in George-street, Sheffield. On
Tuesday last, in opposition to the practice, thirty-seven
bills of exchange for various sums were deposited in
the box along with the books, and having been pro-
perly fastened, it was carried in the evening by a
junior clerk to the railway station, to be forwarded as
usual by train Ito Sheffield. The clerk, it would seem,
was ignorant of the fact that the box contained aught of
greater value than the books; for, on entering the station,
and finding that the manager, Mr. Bishop, was ab-
sent, be placed the box on the counter in the corner of
the room where tickets are issue d, and left it there, re-
lying on Mr. Bishop finding the box there on his re-
turn, and forwarding it as usual. It did not so turn out,
however. The circumstance of the non-arrival of the
box at the Sheffield office was not of a nature to excite
apprehension, :and probably it was never thought of
again till the following Thursday morning, when tidings
were conveyed to the manager of the Rotherham branch
that the identical box had shortly before been found in
the river, by some men who had occasion to drag the
stream some distance below the Rotherham station. It
was tied up with a cord, the same as when dispatched
from the bank. On being opened, the books were found
in their place, but the bills had all been abstracted. On
inquiries being made at the Rotherham station, it tran-
spired that the box had not been seen there at all on
the Tuesday. It was clear, therefore, that it had been
stolen and carried away in the interval between the clerk
leaving it at the station and the return thither of the
station manager. The bank is in possession of every
particular respecting the bills.
HEARTLESS ROEBERY.—A young woman, named
Martha White, on Tuesday last left the service of Mrs.
Bacon, of Bedford-place, and proceeded to lodge with a
friend. On Wednesday she went into Oxford-street with
the intention of purchasing a few articles to make a
present to her father and mother, who are poor people
in the country, and was just entering the shop of Messrs.
Walley and Hardwick, when she discovered that her
purse, containing 31. 10s., had been abstracted from her
pocket. The despair of the poor girl, on finding herself
deprived of every shilling she had in the world, may be
easier imagined than described; and were it not for the
kindness of Mrs. Wall, of 74, Castle-street East, who
has taken compassion on her situation, she would be at
this moment literally without a roof to cover her, or
bread to eat. Tbis is one of those truly distressing cases
worthy the notice of the benevolent.
MACKEREL FISHERY AT FALMOUTH.—The first
mackerel boat which has arrived here for the present
season is the Mary and Ann of Hastings, Captain W.
White, and she made her first attempt on Friday. The
nets were so full that they grounded with the weight of
fish in them, and it is supposed that if the dog-fish had
not devoured a great quantity of mackerel in the meshes
the nets would have parted altogether. As it was (count-
ing 120 fish to the 100), 7,750 mackerel were secured in
a perfect state, and a great number in a broken state.
Besides these there was a large quantity of pilchards,
and, it is calculated, about 5,000 dog-fish, which were
thrown SR ay. The 7,760 mackerel were sold for 751. 10s.,
and the major part forthwith dispatched for Billingsgate
market.— Western Times.

The Commission of Inquiry into the State of the
Law respecting the letting and general management of
Ecclesiastical Property should not be confounded with
the Ecclesiastical Commission, from which it is wholly
distinct, and its duties altogether different. The Com-
mission, which is an unpaid one, will consist of the Earl
of Harrowby (chairman), the Dean of Canterbury, the
Rev. R. Jones, W. Page Wood, Esq., M.P. for Cam-
brige, R. B. Armstrong, Esq., M.P. fur Lancaster, and
J. Shaw Lefevre, Esq., Chief Clerk House of Lords.
The state of the law respecting Church and corporation
property has long been complained of, and has called
loudly for revision. The magnitude of the property and
interests at stake, however, precludes the expediency of
hurried legislation, and suggests the nomination of such
a commission as the present, so constituted as to com-
mand the confidence of the public, and of all parties in-
terested in the inquiry.
A MATCH-SELLER BURNED.—In Lombard-street,
Deanagate, Manchester, James Blakeley, a match-seller,
was suddenly enveloped in flames from the matches he
carried in his pocket exploding. The unfortunate man
was severely and dangerously wounded.
THE SEAMAN JEROME.—A few days back a docu-
ment was published in many of the newspapers throwing
doubt on the merit to receive rewards of the seaman Je-
rome, who earned the admiration and applause of the
distinguished party on board the frigate Atfonso by his
humane gallantry on the melancholy occasion of the
burning of the Ocean Monarch. The consequence of
this unfounded report has been the withdrawal of many
gifts destined for him by persons wishing to show their
approval of his conduct. On the authority of a distin-
guished officer who witnessed the conduct of Jerome, and
who is fully competent to judge of the merits of the case
we are requested to give an unqualified contradiction to
this statement, and further that the gifts so liberally
bestowed upon him are amply deserved.
ROYAL COLLEGE OP SURGEONS. —The following
gentlemen, having undergone the necessary examinations
for the diploma, were admitted members of the college at
the meeting of the Court of Examiners on the sth

instant :—Messrs. Robert Blagden, Albemarle-street ;
Charles Walter Poulton, Cricklade, Wiltshire ; Henry
Rowland Hoskins, Hoxton ; John Wilmshurst, Col-
chester; Frederick Dicker Fletcher, Canterbury; ltichard
Scott Boley, Bristol; John Baker, Bo'ey, Bristol; and
Charles Mills Wills, London.

SMALL THINGS OF GREAT MEL—During my three
days' sojourn with Lord Brougham we quarrelled about
the pronunciation of words! He :said Lunnon, I said
London. I reproached him, also, with pronouncing
haunted haunted, and asked him why it should not
rhyme with enchanted? The matter is a trifle; but I
have a full conviction of being in the right. [And so he
was.]—Life and Letters of T. Campbell.
REPRESENTATION OP TRUEO.-2.`RURO, JAN. 4.
The writ for this borough is expected to arrive to-day,
in which case the nomination will take plrce on Tues-
day, and the election on Wednesday. The candidates
are Mr. Montague Smith, of the Western Circuit, in the
Conservative interest; and Mr. Humphrey Willyams, a
banker, of the town, on the Liberal aide. Both parties
profess to be confident of success, and the contest is ex-
pected to be a close one.

TIIE NEW METROPOLITAN SEWERS COMMISSION.
—On Saturday, a precept was received from the Lord
Chancellor by Lewis C. lierslet, Esq., Clerk to the late
Metropolitan Sewers Ct,ininission, notifying that the
following gentlemen had been chosen as commissioners
for the purposes of the new Act. The commission is
dated " Jan. 1, 1849," and subjoined are the names of
the persons selected, viz.:—The Earl of Carlisle, Lord
Ashley, M.P., Viscount Ebrington, M.P., Hon. Frede-
rick Byng, Sir James Clark, Bart., Sir Edward North
Buxton, Bart., Sir Joh❑ Burgoyne, R.E., Sir Henry
De la Beche, Very Reverend Dr. Buckland, Neill Ar-
nott, E-q., M.D., T. Southwood Smith, Esq., MD.,
Joseph Hume, Esq., M.P., Robert A. Slaney, Esq.,
M.P., John Walter, E-q , M.P., George Bidden Airey
Esq., Edwin Chadwick, Esq., C. 8., John Leslie, Esq ,
William John Broderip, Esq., Robert Hatton, Esq.,
Richard Lambert Jones, Esq., John Buller, Esq., John
Bidwell, Esq., Joseph Hodgson, Esq., Captain James
Welch, RE., Captain Robert K. Dawson, R.E., William
R. Groves, Esq., F.R.S., Thomas Banfield, Esq„ Ed-
ward Lawes, Esq., ItAfexandEr Bain, Esq., Thomas
Hawes, Esq., Cuthbert William Johnson, Esq., Rev.
William Stone, M.A., Re►. Morgan Cowie, M.A., Rev.
E. Murray, M.A. The commission will be opened on
Wednesday next.
ATTEMPTED MURDER AND HIGHWAY ROBBERY-
IN SURREY.—WARPLESDON, SATURDAY MORNING.—
Considerable excitement has prevailed throughout this
usually quiet district during the past day or two, in con-
sequence of a brutal attempt having been made to mur-
der Mr. J. Loveland, a farmer highly respected in the
village. The circumstances connected with the case will
be understood by the following summary of the evi-
dence, sworn to before George Gibson, Esq., the ma-
gistrate for the district:—lt appears that on Tuesday
last Mr. Loveland was at the New Inn, where he re-
mained until about half-past seven o'clock, in company
with a person named Charles Hepburn, whom he
knew perfectly well by sight, and as a visitor of the
inn. After the prosecutor had left the inn, and
was proceeding along the road to his own house,
he was pursued and o►ertaken by Hepburn,
who, without saying a word to him, gave him a blow
at the back of the head, which knocked him down.
He then knelt on his breast, and, after trying
to strangle him, struck him seven or eight times over the
head. He cried out " Murder," and by the light of the
moon he distinctly saw that the party was Hepburn.
Ile called him by name, and begged of him to spare his
life, and he might have all he had. The villain then
rifled his pockets of all they contained (3s. 6d.), and gave
him three more blows on the head, saying at the time,
" There, you —, you won't tell any tales now." Mr.
Loveland pretending to be dead, the fellow made off, and
returning again to the Now Inn, called for some more
drink. Mr. Loveland, as well as he was able, crawled
home, and gave information to the police, and Hepburn
was apprehended, and on Thursday night was fully com-
mitted to take his trial for attempting the murder, and
for having robbed Mr. Loveland. Witnesses were
examined, who proved having seen the prosecutor leave
the room, and the prisoner following a few minutes
afterwards, and returning again in three quarters of an
hour, with his trowsers covered with mud, evidently
showing that he had been struggling on the ground with
BORIC one.

CRITICISM or ART.—A small crowd gathered be-
fore a window recently, to admire the figure of a cat
that was there, as if for public inspection. Nearly
every one was delighted with its likeness to life. " But
still," said Augustus, "there are faults in it : it is fur
from perfect; observe the defect in the fore shortening
of that paw, now ; and the :expression of that eye, too,
is bad; besides, the mouth is too far down under the
chin, while the whiskers look as if they were coming
out of her ears. It is too short, too." But, as if to
obviate this defect, the figure stretched itself and
rolled over in the sun "It is a cat, I vow," sail a
bystander. " It's alive !" shouted an urchin, clapping
his hands. " Why, it's only a cat, arter all," ex-
claimed Mrs, Partington, as she surveyed it through
her specs; but Augustus moved on, disappointed that
nature had fallen so short of his ideas of perfection in the
manufacture of cats. But Augustus was quite as com-
petent a critic as many others whose judgment of paint-
ings leads the town.—New York Observer.
__

DIED.—Dec. 31, at Regent's Park, Heavitree,
aged sixty-three, Mr. John Trimble, late pawnbroker of
this city. Its him the Exeter Reform Association has
lost ono of its earliest and liberal supporters. The last
time he was in Exeter he plumped for Mr. 13urrington,
for the ward of St. Paul.—Exeter Western Times.
JENNY LIND.—On Saturday last a concert was
given at Liverpool, at which Jenny Lind performed gra-
tuitously, for the purpose of raising a fund to add au ad-
ditional wing to the Southern Hospital, in Toxteth-park.
There was a most numerous and brilliant attendance,
and the proceeds, it is said, will reach 1,8011.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.
THE HULSEAN PRIZE, 1849.
CAMBRIDGE, JAN. s.—The late Rev. John Hulse
having bequeathed to the University of Cambridge cer-
tain estates for the advancement of religious learning ;
and having directed in his will that out of the rents and
profits, so soon as annuities and other incumbrances
would admit, an annual premium should be given " for
the best dissertation in the English language on the evi-
dence in general, or on the prophecies or miracles in
particular, or on any other particular argument, whether
the same be direct or collateral proof of the Christian
religion, in order to evince its truth and excellence," to
be written by a member of this University under the
degree or standing of Master of Arts; the trustees have
given notice, that a premium of 100/. will this year be
given for the best dissertation on the following subject—
" The influence of the Jewish and Christian Revelations
on Pagan writers."
The dissertations are to be sent to one of the trustees
(the Vice-Chancellor, the Master of St. John's College,
or the Master of Trinity College) on or before the 20th
of October, 1849, with the names of the respective
authors sealed up.
The author of the essay best approved is to print it at
his own expense, and is not to be a second time a candi-
date for the premium.
THE SEATONIAN POEM.

The subject of the Seatonian Poem for the present
year, as announced by the electors, is " Edom."
Each candidate is to send his performance, without his
name, to the Vice-Chancellor, on or before the 29th
September next, with some Latin verse upo❑ it ; and
he is at the same time to send a paper sealed up,
with his name written within, and the same Latin verse
on the outside.

The electors also give notice that if any poem shall
appear to possess distinguished merit, a premium of 80/.
will be adjudged.

POISONED PARTRIDGES.

Dr. Henry William Fuller, of St. George's Hos-
pital, has sent to the Lancet a communication of cu-
rious interest :

" For some months past, in certain parts of Hamp-
shire, partridges have been found dead in the fields,
presenting a very remarkable appearance. Instead
of lying prostrate on their sides, as is usually the
case with dead birds, they have been found sitting
with their heads erect and their eyes open, presenting
all the semblance of life. This peculiarity, which for
some time had attracted considerable attenticn among
sportsmen in the neighbourhood, led to no practical
result until about ten days ago, when a covey of ten
birds having been found nestled together in this con-
dition, two of the birds, together with the seeds taken
from the crops of the remaining eight, were sent up
to London for examination."

By analysis, Dr. Fuller discoved considerable
quantities of arsenic in the viscera of the birds :
this was traced to the seed-corn in their crops. In-
quiry established that "inHampshire,Lincolnshire, and
many other parts of the country, the farmers are now
in the habit of steeping their wheat in a strong solu-
tion of arsenic previous to sowing it, with the view of
preventing the ravages of the wire-worm on the seed,
and of the smut on the plant when grown ; that this
process is found to be eminently successful, and is
therefore daily becoming more and more generally
adopted; that, even now, many hundreds weight of
arsenic are yearly sold to agriculturists for this ex-
press purpose; that although the seed is poisonous
when sown, its fruit is in no degree affected by the
poison; that wherever this plan has been extensively
carried out, pheasants and partridges have been poi-
soned by eating the seed, and the partridges have been
almost universally found sitting in the position I have
already described ; and lastly, that the men employed
in sowing the poisonous seed not unfrequently pre-
sent the earlier symptoms which occur in the milder
cases of poisoning by arsenic." The question was
then suggested, " Might not the flesh of birds so poi-
soned prove injurious when eaten ?" Dr. Fuller cut
off the breast of a bird, and gave it to a fine healthy
cat. " She ate it with aridity ; but in about half an
hour she began to vomit, and vomited almost inces-
santly fur nearly twelve hours, during the whole of
which time she evidently suffered excessive pain.
After this, nothing would induce her to eat any more
partridge.—l kept her without food for twenty-four
hours, but in vain ; she resolutely refused to touch
an atom snore of the bird. This being the case I gave
her some beef and some milk, which she eagerly
swallowed; proving, beyond doubt, that her instinct,
and not her want of appetite, induced her to forego
the dainty meal which had just been offered her."
Dr, Fuller also found in every part of the flesh of the
other bird strong traces of arsenic : the bird could
not have been eaten by a man without very serious
consequences. "It is notorious," Dr. Fuller says,
" that many of the dealers in game are supplied
through the agency of poachers and others who have
a direct pecuniary interest in supplying them with
the largest possible number of birds. It is certain,
moreover, that if men of this sort were to find a covey
of partridges in a field, dead, but fresh and in good
condition, they would not hesitate to send them with
the remainder of their booty to the poulterer ; who
would as certainly, without suspicion, sell them to
his customers." The conclusions are, that " sus-
picious cases of bellyache" at this season are not
always to be taken for cholera; and that the practice
of steeping seed in arsenical solution may become
matter for restrictive legislative interference, both on
sanitary and me -ico-legal grounds.

- -
LOCHCARRON.-The herring fishing has failed in
Lochcarron this season, and there aro few potatoes in the
place. The people on the coast who depend on the fish-
ing will be very destitute when the present stock of grain
is consumed. The grain cannot last long.—Ross-shire
Advertiser.

Advices from Bordeaux state that the holidays had
during the week interfered with business. The markets
were firm, however.

The rage for the gold mines of California proceeds
with gigantic paces. Besides vessels for that quarter of
the globe previously advertised, Mr. John Shepherd, of
Lime-street, advertised one for this modern El Dorado
on Thursday, and in the course of the day he had no
fewer than twenty-five applications for passages.
An effort is to be made in Aberdeen for the aban-
donment of open fishing-boats, and the substitution of
small-decked vessels, with air-tight compartments, to
prevent sinking. The boats at present in use cost .60/.,
those proposed would cost 150/. ; but, then, instead of
being employed, as at present, for some six weeks in the
herring fishing only, they could be at sea all the year
round, for every kind of fishing trade.
BUSINESS IN THE WESTMINSTER COUNTY COURT.
—The number of causes entered for trial in the West-
minster County Court during the year 1848 amounted
to 14,600. Of these, upwards of 14,400 have been
heard, and judgments given upon them, but of this num-
ber but twelve have been tried by juries, thus showing
that litigants, in the present day, aro desirous of getting
law as cheap as possible (the cost of a jury being some-
thing like 145.), and abide by the decision of one man,
sitting in the capacity of " Judge and Jury." To
enabl the Judge (D. C. Moylan, Esq.) to get
through this immense amount of business (which is ex-
elusive of applications for summonses out of districts,
' &c.) he was compelled, during the first portion of the
year, to sit six days in each week, and latterly, four
days; frequently from ten o'clock in the morning until
six or seven o'clock in the evening. In several of the
other courts the judges do not sit more than as many
days in each month, and yet they receive the same
amount of salary. Taking the above return from one
out of the nine courts in the metropolis into considera-
tion, it will show the great number of persons who must
be interested in the proceedings of them during the year
ANECDOTES OF JOE lIAINES, TIIE ACTOR.—Joe
Haines, the comedian, who died in 1701, was no less
celebrated for his great facetiousness and his wicked
pranks than for his acting. He was in danger on one
occasion of being seized and thrown into the Bastile at
Paris, for having personated an English Peer, and run
3,000 livres in debt. Another time in London he was
arrested in the street for a debt of 201. by a couple of
bailiffs, as the Bishop of Ely was passing in his coach.
" Ali!" said Joe to the bailiffs, " here's my cousin, the
Bishop of Ely; let me but speak to him, and he'll pay
the debt." Tho bailiffs thought they might venture, as
they were within three or four yards of him; so up goes
Joe close to the coach, and taking off his hat, the Bishop
ordered the coach to stop, while Joe, thrusting his head
in at the window, said softly, " My Lord, here are two
poor men who have such great heavy scruples of con-
science, that I fear they may hang themselves, and I be-
seech your Lordship to speak with them." " Certainly,"
said the Bishop, and, calling to the bailiffs, said, " You
come to me to-morrow morning, and I'll satisfy you." The
men bowed and went away, and Joe, hugging himself
with this fallacious advice, was permitted to go free. In
the morning the bailiffs, expecting the debt and charges,
repaired to the Bishop's, where, being introduced, " Well,
said the Bishop what are your scruples of conscience?"
"Scruples!" said the bailiffs, " we have no scruples; we
are bailiffs, my Lord; arrested your cousin, Joe Haines,
for 20i Your Lordship promised to satisfy us to-day,
and we hope your Lordship will be as good as your
word." Tho Bishop, reflecting that his honour and
name would be compromised if he refused to pay, wa
reluctantly obliged to discharge the debt and costs.
FOREIGN
I and
FOREIGN OILS.—By the revised tariffi
Vic., cap. 90), train oil, blubber, spermacets(°);!ann:!l
head matter, the produce of fish, or crevatusirecislsim,d inal".
the sea, caught by the crews of British
any
British pos
ported direct from the fishery, 0_
fcrreeea;t uarneds
blubber, British setsheel,
and spermaceti oil of
streasisniooniliannad
fishing, a
living in the sea, of foreign
itoh SIX and fifteen pounds
juil:tloboereration
on
the
enactments provided
fpoerre it gu nn fishing,respeu t
iv:l7. charged
esa"in.
1
and after the Ist J .
that the former
maceti oil to be free on .
trivary,lB47,
producewere dre
ocf ifs° raiibt
,o
or
free of dut or
and also d l 1 duty
'
and after the Ist January, 1849.
Spermaceti oil, °f foreign fishing, is now therefore free
mileerynotihortiievdingoilesonasheo
of duty, the pri .
Ist inst.
N-Ely HOUSES AND WAREHOUSES INLIVERPOOL.
—The following is a return of the number of houses and
warehouses erected, or in course of erection within
January
the municipal borough, from the Ist
of '
to the
31st December, 1848, as presented yesterday by .
Rishton, the building surveyor:_., or: -
annum; 506 from 12/. to _ . y ''''''l 4 under 121. per
from 351, and upwards;
25/.; 48 from 25/. to 351; 28
total, 656 houses, together
statement of .
with 6 warehouses. The comparativethe
number of houses
erected within each year since 1838
is as foll
ows:-1838, 1,052; 1889, 997; 1840, 1,576;
1841, 1,761; 1842, 2,027; 1843, 1,390; 1844, 2,450;
1845, 3,728; 1846, 3,460; 1847, 1,220; 1848, 656;
total, 20,317—LiverivaitlerGury.

AUSTRIA.
VIENNA, DEC. 30.--It is said that proposals have
been made for the marriage of Francis Joseph, Empe-
ror of Austria, and Princess Amelia of Saxe Weimar,
born 1830, youngest daughter of Duke Bernhard.
Accountsjust received from Presburg state that
the fortress of Essegg has surrendered to the Imperial
troops.—Haniburgh Papers, Jan. 2.
M. Louis Raveaux, brother of a deputy of the
National Assembly at Frankfort, has just been con-
demned to death at Vienna, for having sold the com-
bustibles by which one of the bridges was destroyed
in the insurrection. It was, however, hoped that the
sentence would be commuted.