The Sun.
London, England, 1847-12-31 00:00:00

RIO DE JANEIRO.

REVIEW OF TIIE MARKETS FROM Nov. 1 To 10.-The
foreign arrivals with merchandise consist of 1 vessel
with general cargo; 2, coals, dry goods, and naval stores;
1, codfish ; 3, flour; 1, flour and dry goods ; 1 flour; 1,
oil ; 1 flour and corn ; 4, hides ; 2, lumber ; 3, salt (of
which one since proceeded to the River Plate); 1, tallow;
1, wine and salt, and 2 with wine and sundries.
The American ship Leland hence for New Orleans,
which returned to port leaky on the 27th ult., sailed
again on the Bth inst., after having discharged 422 bags
of coffee damaged, and sold at public auction.
ExPoitTs.—Coffee—During the past week the trans-
actions were extensive, attended by an advance in the
value of superior and first goods 50 reals arrob :; since,
however, the arrival of the Fury with very disastrous
accounts of failures is England, business has been almost
at a stand. The sales since the Ist amount to 55,000
bags, and the stock is estimated at 70,000 bags. Ex-
ported, 3 bags to Africa, 4,002 Cowes, 3,734 Hamburgh,
4,849 Marseilles, 6,955 New Orleans, 7,782 New York,
25 River Plate—in all, 27,350 bags. Shipped since the
Ist inst., 42,970 bags.
Sugar—The arrivals amount to 109 cases, 1,285 tree.,
and bags. The sales limited to about 160 cases for con-
sumption, leaving 4,000 cases on hand. Exported, 4
cases to Africa, 244 River Plata—together 248 cases.

Freights—A fair business was done last week, since
which quotations have become almost nominal. Our
list shows but very few disengaged vessels, and the
la est rates paid were 755. to Antwerp, Bremen, and
llamburgh; 60s. to Trieste; 16i cents to New Orleans,
and 130 cents to Charlestown.—Rio Mercantile Journal,
Nov. 12.

HOSPITAL FOIL CONSUMPTION AND DISEASES Or
THE LUNGS. IittOMPTON.—The wards of this institution
ere now extended to the admission of seventy patients,
who are at present receiving all the benefits that medical
skill and science can confer upon them. From the
effects of the recent epidemic there has been a sad influx
of out-moor patients, averaging from 300 to 400 weekly.
The fo!lowing statement will show the magnitude of the
evil which this institution was formed to remedy. Of
the 60,000 deaths which occur every year in England
and W ales from slow and lingering diseases, about
36,000 are probably due to pulmonary. consumption.
One-ninth, therefore, of the total mortality of all ages,
and more than one-fifth of the mortality of adults, is
due to this cause; and as the duration of the disease,
taking one case with another, is about two years, it fol-
lows teat about 72,000 persons are constantly suffering
from consumption, being at the rate of four persons in
every thousand of alt ages, and eight in every thousand
adults. Again, of the 45,000 deaths occurring yearly in the
metropolis, about 5,600, or one-eighth of the total mor-
tality of the metropolis at all ages, and little less than
one-fifth of the mortality of adults, arises from this fatal
disease: and upwards of 11,000 persons, being about 1 in
170 of the entire population of tne metropolis, and more
than one per cent. of the adults, are constantly wasting
away under the attacks of this lingering malady. Of
these 11,000 eases, about three-fourths occur in males,
of whom a large proportion are working men, unable to
provide for themselves and families, systematically
excluded from our general hospitals, and uniting
in their own persons every conceivable claim
to sympathy and assistance. It may be well
to add that many—very many—of those poor
sufferers are the acknowledged victims of unven-
tilated workshops, ill-constructed dwellings, vitiated at-
mosphere, long hours of work, and the want of open
places for exercise and recreation ; so that they may
fairly claim from their richer brethren, not sympathy
only, but compensation for the injury which their
neglect has inflicted upon them. When the whole of the
building is completed, accommodation will be afforded to
about two hundred in-door patients. As soon as suffi-
cient funds are provided a chapel will be erected for the
accommodation of the patients and resident officers of
the institution.

[ADVERTISEMENT.]—CARRIAGE FREE.—Families
residing in the country are supplied with Teas and
Coffees at the lowest wholesale price, in quantities not
less than six pounds, delivered carriage free to any part
of England. Orders must be accompanied by a remit-
tance, or if a reference be made in London, payment
will suffice on receipt and approval of the goods. A list
of prices and samples free, on application to G. T. Man-
sell and Co., wholesale tea-dealers, 2, Bucklerabury,
Cheapside.

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[ADVERTISEMENT.]—Coughs, Colds, Asthmas, and
Affections of the Chest Cured by Holloway's
a few doses of this invaluable medicine be taken and a
little of Holloway's Ointment rubbed into the throat and
chest night and morning, even the worst species of
asthma may immediately be relieved and speedily cured
by this simple means, and influenza or violent bad colds
can be generally cured in forty eight hours by those re-
medies. Many persons who for several winters have not
dared to lie down in their beds, fearing to be choked with
phlegm, have been radically cured by the use of Hollo-
way's Pills and Ointment. Sold by all druggists, aad at
Professor Holloway's establishment,244, Strand, Lmdon,
CURIOUS INFLUENCE OF DISSECTING Rooms IN
PRODUCING OBLIQUITY OF VISION.—Not long ago we
heard it gravely maintained by three medical men, at a
dinner table, that the evil supposed to result from the
decomposing, bodies of our heaped-up dead in crowded
town:, a farce; hod, in reply to quoted case:= Of men
stiti,!l; bead es by lightning on breaking into gravo.
that the fatal gases which caused this resulted from the
decomposing coffin-wood rather than from the body...—
The Builder.