The Sun.
London, England, 1847-11-04 00:00:00

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS.

NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN
THE MEEK ENDING SATURDAY, OCT. 30, 1847.
Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases ... 276
Diseases of Uncertain Seat ... .„ 90
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... ... 133
Diseases of tho Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration ... ... 243
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels ... 27
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and. other Organs
of Digestion... ... •
Diseases of the Kidne3s, &c. ••• •
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. .
Diseases of the J.,ints, Banes, and Muscles
Diseases of the Skin, &c. ..- -
Old Age, or Natural Decay... ... ... 36
Deaths by Violence, Privation, or Intemperance ... 19
Causes not specified ... 2
DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES 945

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Po ulation
Enumeraled,
1841.
West Districts... 301,326
North Districts.. 376,396
Central Dist.icts 374,759
East Districts ... 393,247
South Districts .. 502,483

Average weekly Deaths;

Deaths, 1842-6. in the
Five AutuuriS. Week.
• . 146 ... 122
... 184 ... 191
••• 196 ... 170
... 232 ... 192
••• 288 ... 270

Totals... ..... 1,948,211 ... 1,046 ... 945
Malea ... ... ... ... ... 452
Females ~. ... ... ... ... 493

BIRTHS IN THE WEEK.

Males
Females

... 658
... 633

Total .

-. -.1,291

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTAR, TUESDAY.—It has been the subject,
of frequent remark upon 'Change that for a number
of weeks past, with only a single exception, some
large and important failure took place, or was first
announced in this town on the Monday or Tuesday
morning ; and that, consequently, the great marlzet
of the week was held under the depressing influence
of a heavy and recent calamity. The effect of these
repeated disasters was necessarily to destroy the con-
fidence which the comparative absence of failure
at the end of each preceding week had tended
to restore ; and the market consequently suffered
under severe depression. Yesterday, however, passed
over without any disastrous announcement, and it
seemed as if to-day was likely to elapse without
experiencing any such sinister influence as that which
had weighed upon previous market days. About
noon, however, it became known that Messrs. Coates
and Company, American merchants, of London,
having a branch in this town, under the firm of
Coates, Hilliard, and Company, had stopped pay-
ment. The London firm was one of the few Arne-
recan agency houses which survived the panic of
1836-7; but we understand that its business has
not recently been very extensive. The liabilities of
Coates and Co. are stated to be about 100,000/.; but
we understand that the ,debts here are not likely to
prove large, and the announcement of the failure pro-
duced but little effect on the market, which, on the
whole, presented a rather better appearance than that
of last week. There was more inquiry than pre-
viously, both for goods and yarn; and a fair amount
of business would have been done, if spinners and
manufacturers would have accepted the lowest rates
which were current last week. There was not, how-
ever, much disposition to make sacrifices, and the
amount of actual business was consequently limited.
ROCUD ALE, MONDAY.—There has been a rather
quieter market to-day, and less business transacted
than the three last Mondays. In the wool market
there has been very little doing, and prices may be
quoted as rather easier.
HALIFAX, SATURDAY.—Our Piece-hall still looks
gloomy, and scarcely any business is transacted. In
yarn, also, the extreme depression continues, and a
further curtalment of production is the consequence.
Prices ha►e fallen too near the cost of the mere raw
materials used to make it worth while to run the
machinery, should current rates not be maintained ;
so that, with the present prices of wool, there is not
any room for giving way in the price of yarns. No
wool is corning to market. Spinners are only buying
for daily cot :sumption, and prices are much the same
as last weep

HIJDDER4 ;YIELD, TUESDAY.—We had another dull
market, au, 1, during the week, but little doing in
the warehouses. Nevertheless, as regards the dis-
trict, it is considered that trade wears a more healthy
appearance than might be expected, from the heavy
pressure to which the mercantile world is at present
exposed.
LEEDS, 'TUESDAY. Our market continues ex-
ceedingly 'quiet,—there was hardly anything doing
to-day.— Manchester Guardian.

PEAT E 1 OF A ROMAN CATHOLIC
BLIMP FROM TYPHUS FEVER.

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)

NEWCA'3 TLE-ON-TYNE, Nov. 2.—The Right Rev.
Dr. Riclde:Al, Roman Catholic Bishop of the Northern
District, died to-day, in Charlotte-square, at about
three o'c qlock, aged forty-two. Dr. Riddell had
been coat liutor to the late Dr. Mostyn (who died
about a nit .nth ago) for the last three or four years,
and of col arse had only recently succeeded. to the full
charge of the district, when thus suddenly called
away. 11e typhus fever having made such havoc
amongst t be Catholic priesthood, and there being no
priest to officiate in the old chapel here, the deceased
prelate ha d been officiating on Sunday week, after
which he, was seized with the epidemic, and lingered
till to•da3 r; when death put an end to his sufferings Dr.
Riddell u us a native of Northumberland, connected
with au a• ocient family, beloved by all who bail the
honour I of his acquaintance, and his loss has cast a
gloom o rer, and will be deeply felt by, a large and
populous district.

Matsu fat Gutst.—Woonwtc it, Nov. 3.—The Lords
Cas mmissdo ners of the Admiralty issued instructions, in
January, 1843, to the Master Shipwright at Chatham
a ,ekyarct, to have the mainmast of the Curacoa, 24
gi .as, then fitting at that port, joined with marine glue,
te • test its capabilities for that purpose. Tho mast was
a ?,cordingly made of several pieces of timber joined to-
Lei ?eher, under the immediate superintendence of Mr.
J effrey, when completed measured 28 inches in diameter,
a ad 66 feet in length, and when put up, with the top-
x last, 90 feet 10 inches. The Curacoa was soon after
's ) mmissioned by Captain Sir Thomas Pasley, Bart., and
pi -oceeded to the South American station; and, on serving
ti ,e usual period, was ordered home, and recently paid
of Fat Sheerness. The vessel having been dismasted,
ti lair Lordships ordered that the mast should be opened,
a s is usual after four years' service, to ascertain its pee-
s ?nt condition. The master shipwright, Mr. Isaac Watts,
t Sheerness Dockyard, in compliance a ith their Lord-
-1 .hips' order, set eight men to work yesterday with
sledge-hamm:: rs and wedges to separate the timbers, but
their whole united efforts at one time failed to separate
the joints, and only split the solid timber iato large
pieces. The foremast, which was joined in the upper
part in the usual manner adopted at the dockyards, was
found to be very rotten, the parts where the wet had
1
entered and been retained being equally yielding
pressure of the hand as a piece of sponge, and in otr r
places where dry crumbled into powder on beingpressed.
to the
Both masts being in the same vessel, and exposed to
other
•
same weather and climates, afford a correct eem pauy risofour,
and pieces of each have been sent to the Admira
their Lordships' inspection.
THE QUEEN IN A MEss.—Loyalty will indeed take
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change—not her most gracious Majesty herself—that
eve are alluding to. It is true enough that things have
been looking very black in the City, autl the statue of
the Queen is looking as black as everything else, for
want of a little friendly whitewashing. On the last visit
we paid to our broker, to make a purchase in order to
inspire confidence, we were almost disheartened by the
dinginess of the aspect of royalty. We are convinced
that every truly British heart would lend a hand and a
scrubbing brush to restore her Majesty's representative
in the City to her. original look of cheerful brightness.
The application of one of those rasping instruments used
for renovating statuary would have its effect ; and if, in
these times, Punch can be of any use in helping his most
gracious Sovereign well thruugh her scrape, he will feel
the utmost delight in doing so.—Punch.
Colonel Sir Henry George Macleod, K. 11., late
Governor of the Island of Trinidad, who died at his
country- seat, Bishopegate, near Chertsey, on the 20th
of August, has left personalty in England amounting to
14, 000/., and made his will in London, on the 29th of
Ju ae last, in his own handwriting, leaving to his
rel ic, who is his sole executrix, a life interest in the
MI ole of his property, end at her demise the same to be
eq sally divided between his three sisters and for their
da aehters. The property lie received with his lady on
ma irriege he gives her an absolute centroleover.
BIBLE AND BAP Tier MISSIONARY SOCIETIES.
..N7 e-s. Willey, who died at Hampstead on the 24th of
S eptember last, has bequeathed, upon the decease of 1 . 1
iece (with the exception of about 3001. left in legacies),
'
t kes whole of her property, personal and funded, to the
if ne.er mentioned societies in the following 'proportions:
-One-third to the Bible Translation Saciety, and the
t, se a-thirds to the Baptist Missionary Seclety, on • I oh: which ii to be applied in aid of the
society's' c mll
re i'Ssiot-n-
-iis the Best Indies, and the other to the mission in Africa.
?
ne trustees are, Mr. f. Croft, Mr. S. Gale, and the
leiev. Joseph Augus,the secretary to the Baptist l'slis-
pereonal
property administered
''.;vi°it'lhairnYtlSl:epiretY wince The
of Canterburyamounted
t o
ue nearly
1 4,(11301.

! OXFORD UNIVERSITY, Nov. 3.—The Regius Pro-
f, !riot of Divinity (Dr. Hampden) will cominence his
2tiblic course of lectures in this term on Thursday,
40/ember 18, at twelve o'clock. This course is in-
t ended for students in divinity %ho have passed their
4 :xamination for, the degrees of 8.A., and those gentle-
men who desire to attend it are requested to call on
the professor on Tuesday the 16th, or Wednesday
the 17th instant. The Professor of Political Ec,norny
ill delivzr two lectures in the Clarendon on Satin;
4ay, the 13th, and Monday the 15th instant, at three
o'clock.