The Sun.
London, England, 1840-05-18 00:00:00

MORTALITY OF NEW YORK.

INTERMENTS IN THIS CITY FOR 1839.
From the annual' report of the city inspector we have
gathered some facts! .of interest in relation to the health
of New York, for Cho year 1839. The whole number
of interments for the' twelvemonth ending on the 31st of
December last was 7,953, being 100 less than those of
the preceding year. Of this number 4,389 were of
males, and 3,564 of females ; showing an excess of mor-
tality among the z tale population, much greater than
the proportion of mdo over female residents. Of the
whole number of' des as of persons over ten years of age,
1,419 were natives, and 1,853 were Europeans. More
than half the deaths that have occured are those ofchil-
dren, who have not completed their fifth year. The
three months most !alai to human life in the city are
those of July, Augest., and September.
The mortality for pulmonary consumption is rated
at one•sixth of all .the deaths ; more than one-half o
those above ten years of age, who die from this disease
being natives of Europe. Of 5,564 deaths among our
native white citizens, 'only 610 were from consumption ;
and of the 1,853 deaths among our European popu-
lation, 563 occurred fi om the same disease.
The table shows but 68 death sfrom the small pox, 38
of which were among children, under five years of age.
No fatal epidemic ha 3 visited the city, and with the
exception of the meat les, the various contagious diseases
have been less prevali an than in previous years.
This statement of deaths is founded on the number
of interments tlr at have taken place in the
city ; but the report suggests that in order
to furnish exact returns, our bills of morta-
lity should be -drawn, not from the number
of interments, but: from the actual deaths which
occur here. To secure this accuracy, and enable us to
form a correct estit sate of deaths in proportion to our
population, nothing further can be done until we are
furnished first with. a register of births, and secondly
with the new sensual of the county and city now in the
course of preparatio:a.
Of the interments, 2,543 were in the Catholic bu-
rial-grounds ; 1,495. in the Potters' Field ; 1,451 in the
Methodist ; 961 im the Presbyterian ; 370 in the
Protestant Episcopal.
The number of births in Philadelphia during the
past year, was 7,262, of whom 3,769 were males, and
3,493 females. Tie number of deaths during the same
period was 5,113, of whom 2,711 were males, and 2,402
females. Excess of births over deaths, 2,143. The
greatest number of deaths in any one week, was from
the 13th to the 20t.h of July, when they amounted to
153 ; the smallest Lumber, from the 16th to the 23d
of November, 64.-- New York Paper.

TURN-OUT OF POWER-LOOM WEAVERS AT

RocitnaLE.--At the l,attar end of last week, Messrs. Kelsall
and Partlemore, loch Sale, gave their power-loom weavers no-
tice that they should reduce their wages ; on which the weavers
immediately struck work. An arrangement was, however, soon
entered into by the pa rties, and the men returned to their
work at their former mi,ges.—Manchester Guardian.

' THE AFFRAY WITH THE CONSTABULAY AT
MIDDLETON.—Since our last, all has remained peaceable and
quiet ; and it is said that the men who attacked the police, and
rescued the prisoner, have left the neighbourhood. Still there
appears to exist in the minds of the colliers, and amongst the
factory hands, a notion that the introduction of the county po-
lice is only a preliminary step to that of the Poor-law Amend-
ment Act • and they co aaequently look on the force with no
very friendly feeling. It is stated that the police now at Mid-
dleton are shortly to b a considerably reinforced, in order to
prevent anv recurrence of the lawless opposition so recently
offered to them, in the ,execution of their duty.—Manchester
Guardian.
Shrewsbury fair, this week, was remarkable for
the quantity of fat stock. offered, and the number of purchasers
who attended. On Tuesday, fat sheep, shorn, were worth
6d. per lb. ; very few were offered in the wool, and these
were readily purchased at 'lid. per lb. Good couples of ewes
and lambs were scarce:, and obtained high prices, as did the
few yearlings offered for sale. Pigs were 2s. a head better
than at last fair. The supply of cattle was great for a May
fair, but the desire to purchase was so eager, that the market
was very early cleared at 6(1. to 61td. per lb. Good cows and
calves sold readily and well, as did useful store bullocks and
barrens. Bacon was plentiful, and brought W. to qd. per lb.
Large hams, of which a considerable quantity was offered, were
unsaleable ; but those from 15 to 201bs. each brought 6d. to
7d. per lb. No butter was offered. Not above 60 tons of
cheese were in the fair; low qualities brought 45s to 505., the
best from 565. to 71.5. per cwt. At Church Stretton fair,
scarcely any fat sheep or prime cattle were offered, and a great
malty ors were disappointed. At Leominster fair there
was a good show of cattle, and a brisk sale. Mr. Wheeler of
Ivington Park, was offered upwards of 3001. for one two- year-
old bull, which he refused to take.—Shrewsbury Chronicle.
COLD IN THE STEPPES OF KnlvA.—At the
last meeting of the Geographical Society, an extract of a letter
front Professor Baer, at St. Petersburg, was read, communi-
cating the degree of cold experienced in the Steppes by the
Russian expodition, whence it appears that in latitude 46, the
mean temperature for December, January, and February, was
16 degrees of Reausnur, or 4 degrees below Zero of Fahrenheit.
The climate , there fore, was far more rigorous than in the
1-or of Lapland; yet, notwitstanding the excessive cold, the
Cossacks of Oreriberg suffered no inconvenience, and amused
themselves with singing in the midst of the most dreadful
storms of the Steppe. The spot wl.ere the Russians suffered
most, was in'the -neighbourhood of Khiva, which is in the lati-
tude of Naples an .d Constantinople.

3. In case this should be answered in the affirmative,
to present the basis of a system of maritime commerce,
which it might be advisable to establish for the interest
of the nation. The Committee of Inquiry to be named
by the Chamber, by ballot, out of its own members, and
by a majority of votes. It shall consist of seven members.
It shall appoint a Secretary, who shall be one of the
members.
The expense of the Committee shall be defrayed out
of the budget of the Chamber.
The President asked M. de Foere whether he agreed
to the project of the Central Section ?
M. de Foere said it was essentially the same with his
own, and therefore he assented to it.
The Minister of the Interior opposed the motion. He
said " according to the calculation of those who complain
of the state of our foreign commerce, the imports exceed
the exports annually by forty millions, a difference, say
they, which must be made up by the exportation of
ready money. If it were true that such a sum was
exported annually on our own frontiers, not only would
there be no coin in Belgium, but more would have
been exported than there is in the whole world. I
do not think it necessary, he continued, to inquire
whether a country has more interest in preserving its
coin than its other articles of merchandise, Out I can
certify that the quantity of coin in Belgium sensibly in-
creases. It is true we do not examine the pockets of tra-
vellers leaving the kingdom to see how much money they
have with them, but we know that above 100,000 more
travellers come to Belgium than leave it, and if we sup-
pose that they leave only 10 francs each in the country,
we shall have a million which does not appear in any
statistical table."
The Minister then entered into various details proving
the exports of Belgium have much increased. In the
five short prosperous years of the kingdom of the Ne-
therlands, from 1825 to 1830, the exports to France
were 81 millions annually. Belgium alone has exported
to France, from 1835 to 1838, to the value of 78 mil-
lions annually.
" Considering the whole of our foreign commerce, I
find that it has successively increased in eight years from
93 millions to 166 millions ; the increase of exportation
last year was 37 millions.
" We are continually told of Java. In the most pros-
perous year of the kingdom of the Netherlands the ex-
ports to Java were only 51 millions of francs ; and with
these facts before you you would change at once the
whole system of commerce which we have hitherto fol-
lowed."
The Minister declared that he saw no practical use
in the proposed inquiry.
Some members would rote for the inquiry, but on
condition that the Government would name halt' the
members of the Committee. Some thought an inquiry
useful. M. de Laugho said the old Government ep-
pointed Commissioners for every thing. One was ap-
pointed to inquire what retrenchments could he made
in the several departments of the Administration. At
first the members were very diligent in their attendance.
Every one had something to propose ; but as the other
members did not approve it they became discouraged and
ceased to attend. This continued three years and the
expenses of' the Commissioners always appeared in the
budget. At length it was discovered that the most
economical thing would be to dissolve the " Commis-
sion of Economy."—(Great laughter.) The same will
happen now, and I am so convinced of this that I will
take the liberty of giving the Chamber a few words of
edvice Would you get rid of an affair appoint a
Commission of Enquiry to examine it ?"
BRUSSELS, MAY 15.—The Chamber has agreed to-
day to the motion of M. de Foere by a majority of 35
to 22.

THE HAGUE, MAY 13.—This day, at ten, the discus-
sion of the Budget for 1840 was to commence in the
Second Chamber. It was observed, however, before
the commencement of the sitting, that the Members
were engaged in conversation with each other—that the
Central Section were assembled, &c. At length, after
eleven o'clock, the sitting was opened, and the Presi-
pent proposed to commence the debate. M. Van
Rappard requested leave to speak, and moved that the
Chamber should adjourn the debate on the Budget,
because his Excellency the Minister of Finance had
that morning been in the Central Section of the Second
Chamber, and had informed it that the King, always
animated by the wish to secure harmony between all
the branches of the Legislature, had resolved to comply
with the wish manifested by the majority of the Mem-
bers of the Chamber, and to introduce the responsibility
o,t Ministers into the alterations of the fundamental
law, and that a project of law on that subject would be
submitted to the Chamber.
M. Dam van Isselt saw no reason to adjourn the
debate, and should vote against M. Rappard's mo-
tion. He was glad of the concession made by Govern-
ment, though yet unacquainted with the measures to be
proposed.

- M. Van Alphen was in favour of adjournment.
M. Van Sytzame was grateful for the concession made
by the king to the wishes of the States-General ; he
should vote for the adjournment.
The Minister of Finance thought that the discussion
of the Budget, fixed for to-day, was quite independent
of the Constitutional question, at the same time he
expressed his respect for the opinions expressed by some
of the members, and sincerely wished that the new step
to comply with the wishes expressed in the Chamber
taken by his Majesty, who loved peace, and would do
everything possible for the sake of mutual harmony,
might have the effect of preventing all disagreeable dis-
cussions.

Some of the members having spoken for and against
the motion, the question for adjournment was then put,
and carried by a majority of 41 to 11.
The Chamber then separated.
THE HAGUE, MAY 14.—1 t is affirmed that the
Second Chamber will meet on Monday, and receive the
project of law on the responsibility of Ministers, which
will be immediately examined ; after which the discus-
sions on the Budget will be proceeded with.
ST. PETERSBURGII, MAY 3.—The Gulf before Cron-
stitch is still covered with thick ice, and the access of
foreign ships to the harbour is still impracticable. On
the 14th of the last month, the ice on the Duna, at
Riga, broke up without doing any damage. In the
Road of Revel the ice was still immoveable, as far as
the island of Norge°, on the 25th of April ; but be-
yon' it the water was open. Seven ships, with fruit
from the south of Europe, had however arrived by the
20th at Baltisch Port, an outer harbour of Reval.
His Majesty has ordered the establishment, at War-
stw, of a school for the clergy of the Greek Church,
consisting of three classes, under the jurisdiction of the
Synod of St. Petersburg,
PESTS!, MAY 4,—We have just received the la-
mentable news that the populous, industrious, and rich
market town of Baja, on the Danube, with above
16,000 :nhabitants, was almost totally destroyed by
fire, on the Ist instant. It is said that above 2,000
houses were burnt, with the palace, several churches,
and all the great corn magazines. The loss of property
is said to amount to half a million of florins (42,0001.)
The continued drought makes us apprehensive for the
harvest. Prices are rising. However we hear that in
Bannat, the granary of Hungary, the corn promises well,
and does not yet want rain.

DUTCH FUNDS.—AmemaDAu, MAY 15.