The Sun.
London, England, 1847-06-24 00:00:00

JUNE 24, 1847.

(From the Mark-lane Express.)
The weather has been decidedly broken throughout
the week, and though the rain which has fallen has done
no further positive mischief than deranging a portion of
the hay in the early districts, where cutting was com-
menced the first week in June, still it has caused some
uneasiness. That a dry summer generally proves fa-
vourable for wheat in this country is a well-known fact ;
and there can be no doubt that plenty of moisture has
fallen for the spring sown corn. A change to dry warm
weather would, therefore, be very desirable, whilst a
longer continuance of rain might prove injurious. Up
to the present time the reports from the agricultural dis-
tricts continue to speak well of the grain crops, but the
complaints respecting the reappearance of the potato
disease have lately increased, though they are not, we
are happy to say, so general as to have given rise to
serious apprehension. That the late wet weather must
have proved very trying where any predisposition to
the disorder in the plant existed is certain, and should a
moist state of atmosphere unfortunately prevail during
the summer, the failure would probably again prove ex-
tensive. Several large growers of potatoes with whom
we have conversed on the subject stated that their great
fear was an excess of moisture ; with dry weather they
hoped and expected they should do well. The very im-
portant fall which took place on Monday in the price of
wheat had a depressing effect on 'all the leading pro-
vincial markets, held in the early part of the week. At
Liverpool, on Tuesday, considerable surprise was occa-
sioned by the tone of the London advices, so great a
reduction at Dlark-lane coming wholly unexpected ; the
re,ult was, that though the market was well attended by
local and distant buyers, sales of wheat could not be
made except at an abatement of 9d. per 701 b.; whilst
American flour was taken off slowly at a decline of 2s. 6d.
per barrel, and all other articles were decidedly easier
to buy than on that day se'nnight. Later in the week
something like confidence appears to have returned, still
on Friday neither wheat nor flour was at all dearer.
At most of the other large consuming towns the wheat
trade had taken its tone from the London and Liverpool
reports, and as regards wheat, the decline, taking the
kingdom collectively, may be estimated at 6s. to Bs. per
quarter. Meanwhile very little,. if any, increase has
taken place in the deliveries from the growers; and,
cautiously as purchasers have operated, there has been
no accumulation of stocks in the hands of merchants.
Last week we directed attention to the extreme insig-
nificance of the quantity sold at the 290 towns at which
an official account of the sales is kept for the purpose of
compiling the averages ; small as the return then was,
that for the week ending 12th of June shows a further
falling off. To put this matter clearly before our
readers, we beg to call their attention to the folloaing
statement :
SOLD AT THE 290 TOWNS RETURNING THE AVERAGES.

1847. 1846.
In the week ending May 8 ... 111,156 ... 129,169
15 ... 100,676 115,681
- —22 ... 78,269 ... 78,064
29 ... 68,843 ... 79,001
- June 5 ... 41,223 ... 88,378
12 ... 31,364 ... 87,508
It will be scan that the decrease has been progressive,
uninflu?neecl by the important fluctuation which prices
have undergone during the time referred to ; and we
can, therefore, draw no other conclusion than that the
stocks of home-grown wheat have been reduced into an
extremely narrow compass. If we are right in this
belief, the expected arrivals from abroad are likely to
be all wanted before the new crop can be ready for con-
sumption. A large fleet of vessels grain laden have this
week arrived off the coast, the greater part at Cork and
Falmouth for orders; this arrival is principally from the
Mediterranean, and has been long expected. By far the
greaser number of the ships appear to be laden with
Indian corn, and that article has consequently fallen
materially in value not only in London and Liverpool,
but likewise in Ireland. The quantity of wheat, when
distributed to the several ports, will not, we apprehend,
prove so great as to have much influence on prices; but
Indian corn seems likely, for a time at least, to rule
much lower than it has done of late, the consumption of
the amide being comparatively small, except in Ireland.
The arrivals of English wheat into the port of London
have not increased to any extent, the supply up to this
(Saturda3) evening having amounted to only 2,864 '
quarters. The trifling nature of the home supply has,
however, failed to cause any uneasiness, liberal receipts,
viz., 20,646 quarters, having come to hand from abroad.
It must, however, be recollected that very little of the
foreign wheat is sufficiently fresh to make a good sack
of flour without an admixture of English; and, if the
latter comes forward in such small quantities as it has
done of late, its value must remain relatively above that
of the former. A considerable proportion of the English
left unsold on Monday was disposed of on Wednesday,
without any further decline occurring in quotations. On
Friday the millers tried hard to obtain a concession, but
finding factors more inclined to raise than to lower their
pretensions, and their wants being urgent, the whole on
sale was taken off at quite previous prices. Our market
has again been visited during the week by country
millers from distant parts of the kingdom, for the pur-
pose of purchasing foreign wheat; but finding importers
Amer than they had calculated on, the transactions have
not been particularly large, Early on Wednesday a few
parcels of Danalc were parted with, to clear vessels com-
ing on demurrage, at rates which would not have been
accepted at the beginning of the week ; but towards
the close of tho market there was less pressure, and
we heard of the sale of a cargo of fine Rostock at 88s.,
being is. to 2s. per quarter above the highest offer made
for the same lot on Monday. Since then the disposi-
tion to purchase has increased, and a fair share of busi-
ness was done in the finer sorts on Friday at fully pre-
vious rates.

The concession made by the millers on Monday has I
led to a somewhat better sale of flour, and a tolerable
quantity has been taken by the bakers during the week.
The transactions in American had not been of much
importance, the arrival of 33,705 barrels, and the ex-
pectation of further receipts, having led buyers to
expect a greater abatement in price than sellers have
been willing t ) submit to.
The supplies of barley have been small coastwise,
Duly 483 quarters having come to hand, and from abroad
~ 5 686 quarters. This grain, has, nevertheless, hung very
heavily on hand ; indeed it has been absolutely impos-
sible to sell except in quite retail quantity. In this
position of affairs quotations afford but very little
guidance us to the real value.
Malt has participated in the dullness which has pre-
vailed in the barley trade, and the turn has been in
favour of the purchaser.
The market has been sparingly supplied with oats,
and should we be much longer without large foreign
arrivals the dealers' stocks will run very short. Of
lirlish only 84 quarters, Scotch none, Irish 4,205 quar-
ters (principally screenings), and foreign 6,566 quarters,
have been received during the week. Notwithstanding
the insignificance of the supply, business has remained
in the same languid state as before. Factors have, it is
true, displayed rather more confidence, and fine corn
could perhaps hardly be bought so well at the close as at
the commencement of the week ; but there has been a
total want of activity in the demand, which has rendered
it impossible to realise any advance.
Banns and peas have come sparingly to hand, and the
inquiry for these articles has been of a strictly retail
character. Needy buyers have had to pay former terms,
but to have sold largely less money must have been
taken.

The arrivals of Indian corn have been more that equal
to the demand, and stocks have lately accumulated, the
effect of which has been an important fall in its valur.
Our foreign advices are not of much interest this
week, business in grain having, it appears, remained in
much the same position at the different continental mar-
kets as before. At the lower Baltic ports the tendency
of prices had, it seems, been downwards; whilst at
Danzic, as well as most of the markets in Holland, and

Belgium, and France, quotations of wheat and rye had
rather risen. Stocks appear nearly, if not quite, as
trifling on the continent as with us; and we are in-
clined to think that when what is now on passage to this
country shall have conic to hand, the supplies will for a
time be unimportant.
Letters from Danzic, of the 12th instant, inform us
that the quantity of wheat in granary there had been
reduced into a very narrow compass, and that owing to
the want of sufficient water in the Vistula, great diffi-
culty was likely to be experienced in getiing supplies
down from the interior. Holders of the little on hand
had, consequently, raised their pretensions ; and though
the business actually done had been trifling, an advance
of is. to 2s. per quarter on the currency of that day
se'nnight had been partialiy established.
From Stettin our advices are of the 14th of June.
Though no increase had taken place in the deliveries
from the neighbouring farmers, business had become
dull in wheat, and very little was being shipped to Great
Britain. The last prices paid had been equivalent to
sos. for red, and 82s. per quarter, free on board, for
white, the weight being only about 591 b. per bushel.
Rye had been in active request for transit into the in.
tnior, and prices equal to 56:. up to 60s. per quarter
had been paid for the article. The wind having been
contrary the expected arrivals from Russia had not come

to hand.
The accounts from Rostock are of the 17th of June.
No increase had taken place there in the supplies of
grain from the growers; and though the weather had,
on the whole, been favourable tor the growing crops,
holders of wheat had remained decidedly firm.
At Konigsberg the tendency of prices had been rather
downwards, owing to an unexpected increase in the
supplies from Poland. Freights appear to have receded
materially ail over the Baltic, which will be an item in
favour of the importer.
llamburgh advices of Tuesday last inform us that
very little
.had been passing there since the previous
post day in the grain trade ; holders of wheat on
the spot had, nevertheless, continued to ask 88s.
to 90s. per quarter for the best qualities of red,
weighing 601-10. to 611 b. per bushel, and other kinds
had been held at proportionate rates. In barley and
oats scarcely anything had been done, and prices had
tended downwards. Rye on the spot had commanded
655. to 675. per nnartcr free on board.
In the I)utch markets rye has risen materially, and
in Belgium prices of wheat have advanced.
From 'Marseilles we learn that the trade had recovered
from the panic which had prevailed during the previous

PRICE SD.

week, and that a slight improvement from the lowest
point had taken place in prices.
From the Black Sea we learn that stocks of wheat and
Indian corn were large and vessels scarce, which latter
circumstance had rendered the execution of shipping
orders very difficult.

EMIGRATION TO NORTH
AMERICA.
(From Charles Willmer's European Mail.)
The number of emigrants now crossing the
Atlantic, and the immense amount of sickness which
usually takes place on the voyage, has attracted a
good deal of attention from the fact, that the poor
who are thus afflicted are beyond the reach of
' medical aid, not one ship out of fifty that sail with
emigrants carrying a surgeon. Efforts have been,
and indeed are now being made, for the purpose of
providing these vessels with medical assistance, and
among those who have been most energetic in their
efforts in endeavouring to accomplish this most de-
sirable end is Mrs. Maury, of Liverpool, who, in
speaking of the measures which have been adopted,
says, in a letter now before us—
" I subjoin a copy of the memorial which was pre-
sented to the Senate and House of Representatives, in
Washington. The subject met with the entire appro-
bation of the President of the United States, and with
the hearty concurrence of the Secretaiies of State. All
the civil local authorities were in its favour. The medi-
cal profession, and the Catholic priesthood (who are in
many cases the sole physicians and nurses of the suffer-
ing immigrant,) concurred in its approval. Meetings
were called in New York and Philadelphia, and petitions
presented from those cities, as well as from Baltimore,
Charleston, and New Orleans. A large majority in the
Senate and in the House were heartily in favour of the
Bill, but the shipowners contrived to secure five votes
out of nine in the Committee of Commerce, and the Bill
was withdrawn to be tried in England. Here its fate
has been no better. I obtained an interview with the
Commissioners of Colonisation in London, and they
would cheerfully comply with the recommendation ; but
such is the overwhelming distress of the country, and so
great the necessity for relief by means of emigration,
that they are fearful of proposing any measure that could
by any possibility interfere with its progress, or increase
the expenses of the emigrants. The wishes of the Ame-
rican Government were frustrated by the avarice and
short-sightedness of the shipowner; and the wishes of
the English Commissioners by the difficulties attend-
ant upon the present awful visitations of Providence.
" But where Government fails the pestilence succeeds;
the scourge of God has power where the efforts of man
are unavailing. The suffering crowds that rush into the '
Atlantic cities of the United States reward the hospita-
lity they receive with infection. In the " between decks"
of the passenger vessel is fostered fever. No skilful
hand is there to minister to the sick ' • no experienced
mind to adopt to preventive means by which alone
escape from universal death may be effected. Such
a state of things cannot continue ; and already many
vessels in the port of Liverpool are advertising
for surgeons, and recently several have sailed thus
provided. The captains generally are themselves in
favour of such a precaution ; it is the shipowners only
who have objected. Could the emigrant be informed
upon a subject so nearly connected with his dearest in-
terests he would himself accomplish this desirable pur-
pose, by selecting for his voyage such a vessel only as
may be provided with a " doctor," and rejecting all
others ; and this has now become his legitimate mode of
redress, for other means have failed.
" Among the various provisions of the Passenger Act,
there exists one of so capricious and incomprehensible a
nature, one so inconsistent with all prudence, so utterly
at variance with all humanity, that it is impossible to
imagine on what grounds such a regulation should
have been suggested or adopted. The Act of Parlia-
ment provides that
" All vessels carrying one hundred passengers and
upwards, and going to all parts of the world (North
America excepted!) shall carry surgeons.'
" I, Sir, have seen the evils I allude to, and personally
have gone through the opposition I have related. With-
out presumption I trust that I may assert the imperative
necessity of employing medical officers on board of emi-
grant vessels, and the futility of all the objections
against the measure.
" It remains only to be stated, on the authority of Dr.
Sutherland, of Liverpool, and Dr. Carmichael, of Dub-
lin, that medical men having taken out their diplomas
could be procured in abundance in both these cities,
at a small salary, for emigrant vessels. This precludes
all difficulty.
" I remain, Sir, in the earnest hope that shortly this
moat desirable object may be attained,
" Your obedient servant,
"SARAH MYTTON MAURY."
"Liverpool, June, 1847."
REPORT ON THE SHIP lIOTTINGUER.
Captain Ira Bursley, which sailed from Liverpool on
6th May, 1845.
DY RICHARD FRASER, SUROEON.
" Having been requested by Mrs. Maury, of Liverpool
and the other cabin passengers, as well as Capt. Bursley
to draw up a statement of facts which occurred on board
the Hottinguer, during her voyage from Liverpool to New
York, and to subjoin therewith my own private opinions,
I now beg most respectfully to lay before them the fol-
lowing details:—
" The Hottinguer sailed from Liverpool on the 6th
May, 1845, having on board 397 steerage passengers, a
crew of 22 sailors, with four officers of the ship, and six
cabin passengers. Of the steerage passengers one-
eighth were infants; a very small proportion of these,
as of the adults, had undergone vaccination. On the
eighth day after departure two children were seized with
the small-pox, which quickly developed itself in the
most virulent form. Of course this infection had
been imbibed previously to coming on beard. Their
respective ages were- five and seven. Neither of these
children had been vaccinated. These cases both termi-
nated fatally. It is impossible to describe the dismay
which prevailed throughout the ship ; nor was this
dismay unfounded; because, notwithstanding every
precaution that might be taken, the probability was that
had the voyage been prolonged another week, many
would have fallen victims to the disease. In justice
to Captain Bursley, I wish to state that he most
cordially adopted every suggestion that I made to
him, both for the comfort of the patients and the safety
of the ship. The bodies were thrown overboard the
instant that life had ceased; their beds, bed clothes, and
linen were also thrown into the sea, and their berths puri-
fied with burnt tar. But notwithstanding these precau-
tions, even now (seven days after landing), seven of the
passengers have been attacked with the small-pox, and
Mrs. Maury herself; the instigator of the present report,
has been a sufferer from varioloid. These cases have
been under my own care since landing; how many more
may have broken out it would be impossible to state.
Mrs. Maury's son, a boy of fourteen, has also had a
slight attack of varioloid.
" Were this a solitary case less importance would of
course attach to it; but I have made the subject a matter
of inquiry, and find that it is of constant and daily re-
currence in all the emigrant vessels upon the Atlantic.
" I attribute the yearly visitation of this deplorable
malady, the small-pox, in the cities of New York, Bos-
ton, Philadelphia, and other ports, in a great measure to
the landing of emigrants from vessels in which the dis-
ease has been raging. No quarantine examination can
be efficient in this case, because small-pox will lurk in
the system many days before it appears externally, or
before the patient even feels himself indisposed.
"It is customary for the American emigrant ships to
carry a full complement of passengers without a surgeon
on board, neither is the health of the passengers ever
inquired into ; still less is it considered requisite that
they should be vaccinated.
" From the 40 circumstances, I am led to the fol-
lowing suggestions :-Ist. That every emigrant ship be
compelled to carry a surgeon, who shall examine into
the supply of medicines necessary for the cure of the
most probable kinds of disease which may occur, 2nd.
That every passenger, immediately after coming on
board, be submitted to vaccination, although he may
have previously gone through this operation, because
vaccination produces no personal inconvenience, and
because it has been found that it invariably modifies,
though it does not always prevent the invioloid and small-
pox. Mrs. Maury and her son had each of them been
twice vaccinated. The patients under vaccination would
suffer no more at sea than they do on land. 3d. That a
small surgery be allotted to the use of the surgeon, where
he may receive his patients in private. This is urged
for manifest reasons of propriety. 4th. That no emi-
grant labouring under any infectious or contagious dis-
ease be allowed to sail in any vessel, because where so
large a number of persons is congregated together, and
confined for a length of time, it is probable that disease
of some description will break out, the risk and fatality
attending' it depending on the malignity of its nature,
the means available for cure, and the length of the
voyage.
"There will be no difficulty in procuring surgeons for
these vessels at a trifling expense, because many young
practitioners would gladly avail themselves, for a very
small remuneration, of the opportunities thus offered to
improve their knowledge and experience, and thus also
they would be enabled to proceed to Europe for the pur-
pose of enlarging their acquaintance there with profes-
sional men and practice, while the vessel remained in
port. "RICHARD FRASER.
"New York, Bth June, 1845."

FEVER VESSELS.—In compliance with a request to
the Government, the Admiralty have ordered two ships
at Pembroke to be immediately cleared out and fitted as
fever ships for Liverpool, to which port they are to be
towed by steam vessels as soon as they are ready. The
Saturn, old 74, is one selected, and will be fitted as soon
asossible.
SUPPOSED SUICIDE OF A FEMALE. Tuesday
morning, about seven o'clock, the body of a female,
about eighteen years of age, and five feet five inches in
stature, with fair complexion and dark hair, was found
floating in the Regent's Canal, near Cat and Mutton
Fields, Hackney. She was dressed in black. The body,
which had apparently been in the water several days,
was taken to the Sportsman, Margaret-street, Hackney-
road, to await a coroner's inquest.
We learn by letters from Russia that the Trans-
Caucssian provinces have been ravaged by locusts. The
Iquantity was so immense that the people collected them
in heaps )qovered them with straw, and burned them.