The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-01 00:00:00

TURKEY.

Constantinople journals of the 14th tilt. have ar-
rived. They announce that Omer Pacha was every
where victorious over the Bosnia insurgents.
The y Osservatore Delniato quotes letters from
Vgrgoras of the 13th, stating that a week before the
insurgents of Mostar attacked Rustan Bey, the son
of Ali Pacha, who still defends the citadel within
the town, called Saraj, armed with twelve guns.
It adds that the assailants were repulsed with
loss. The chiefs of the insurrection are three rich
Turks, named Passe Bey, Aprnirovic, and Cis-
sissic. Ali Bey had marched from Vizina to meet
the troops of the Sultan, and prepared every% here
for their accommodation ; but having reached the
fort of Gliubuski, which is in the hands of the insur-
gents, he could proceed no further. It appears from
the latest accounts that the insurgents of Mostar have
sent a deputation to the Seraskier, proposing the
recal of the old Vizir of Herszgovine. The new
Vizir of Bosnia having sent his secretary to
Mostar, in order to inquire whether be might
pass through that town on his way to Bosnia
with a suite of only sixty persons, the in-
surgents refused, unless he was furnished with full
powers to treat with them, and to remove their
grievances, in which case they promised not only to
receive him well, but to obey him also. The resolu-
tion of the Vizir was not known, but it is certain
that he has proceeded to Buns, to confer with Ali
Pacha. The corps of Mayas Pacha has disbanded;
it is not known whether he has been killed, or has
succeeded in making his escape. Eleven of his men
have been sent as prisoners to S,2rrojevo, where the
Seraskier is daily exp9cted.

STATE OF TRADE.
(From the Manchester Guardian of this day.)
MANCHESTER, TUESDAY —Through a combination
of causes, the previous liveliness cf our market has
given place, since Thursday, to a general quietness,
which has been particularly marked to-day. The
extensive transactions of the last fortnight leaving the
market bare of yarns and goods at large, would na-
turally be followed by a diminution of activity.. And
the advance in the rate of interest must, of course,
check operations for distant markets, based upon
long-dated bills. Practically the rise is one per cent.;
and as this takes:away the profits ordinarily made by
the agency houses in the discount of such
paper, they are not very likely to enter so readily, as
has lately been the case, into that kind of business.
Besides, there is the check of an increased difficulty
of obtaining discounts even at the higher rate, and
also the additional one of the possibility of its further
enhancement. Certainly, the effect of this measure
upon our staples is greatly lessened by the very fa-
vourable iposition of the producers; yet it is
manifestly felt. Then, the American accounts,
showing a tendency to enlarged estimates,
and also a decline in cotton at most of the
ports—at New York of to of a cent per lb.— have
excercised a slightly unfavourable influence, which
would no doubt be greater, but that that giving way
is seen to have been mainly occasioned by the appa-
rent imminence of war betwixt Prussia and Austria.
But for the quietness which has peculiarly charac-
terised this day's market, we have to thank the
Liverpool brokers, whose statement of the cotton on
hand shows there to be a stock exceeeding
by 70,000 hales the quantity which ought
to be held, according to their own weekly
returns ; and what makes matters worse is, that
the representations latterly put forth by some
of them had led people to lock for a deficiency
of 30,000 or 40,000 bales. This enormous excess
over what was expected has caused all parties to
pause, and inquire what its effect may be upon the
value of cotton. These special circumstances have
rendered this last day of the year one of very much less
business than it would otherwise hale been. The trans-
actions, indeed, are altogether immaterial. However,
the quotations for yarns and goods remain unchanged,
and a general firmness prevails. 9s fair and im-
partial chroniclers of the day, we are bound to
tell the brokers of Liverpool that they have been sub-
j ected, on every hand, to the most severe animadver-
sions, which, in most instances, impute to some of
their body something much more culpable than care-
lessness or want of system; and they may depend
upon it that it will be long before the weekly and
monthly returns they make of the receipts-sales, and
30 forth, have any confidence placed in them, after
what has so strangely happened in the way of
blunders, in the
gether. same direction, for two years to-

ROCHDALE, MONDAY. The market to-day has
been very quiet ; but this is generally the case at this
season of the year. The
'w°ol trade is firmer, and
higher prices are beingrp
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are unable to
report any great business doing among
factures, stock taking at this se
branches
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wart buyers operating, excepting for imme-
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te , although in some
the trade, such as piece goods, a fair
wand exists. The dyers are well employed, which is an indication that preparations are making actively
for the spring trade. Sales of thrown silks have been
to a fair extent, but prices are without the least ins-
provement as yet. In raw silk there is no alteration
in price since our last. The market is quieter than
it was.

HUDDERSFIELD, TUESDAY.—There;has been a good
trade doing to day in the Cloth Hall, amongst fancies
and woollen goods generally, for the American
market. There have been a more than usual number
of foreign buyers in town for the time of the season.
Several of the warehouses have been very busy during
the week for c'in tinental orders, and, altogether, there
has been a brisk business doing. There has been
rather a stillness in the wool market to-day.
HALIFAX, SATURDAY.—Our Piece Hall has been
pretty well attended to-day for the last Saturday of
the year, which is generally considered a " dead
market." The chief business has been in fancy goods
of which a fair quantity is now being manufactured to
order. The yarn trade is more buoyant ; and the
shipping houses give out orders freely, at advanced
rates. There is scarcely so much doing in wool, and
the quotations are very firm.
LEEDS, TUESDAY.—The market has been well at-
tended ; and, considering the season of the year, as
many goods have been sold as possibly could be ex-
pected. The woollen trade, generally, is ;
.n a satis-
factory state. The makers being generally fully well
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will probably be better established, in consequence of
merchants taking stock at present. Not much doing
in the warehouses.

CALUMNY AND INTRIGUE.
A correspondent says :—" In the south of England
there resides a family of very high rack. The lady
is a Baroness in her own right, and a Marchioness by
marriage. She was left a widow when young, and
she married secondly an amiable and accomplished
gentleman, a nephew of an Irish Duke, and who on
his th'arriage adopted the name of his wife's ancestors.
The noble lady and her husband took up their resi-
dence where the former (who had been left an
orphan when an infant) had resided in her youth.
Here they have lived in a style suitable to their rank,
and have been highly distinguished for their charity
and hospitality. Passionately fond of music, they
gave a series of musical soirees to the neighbouring
nobility and gentry, at which musical amateurs, even
of ducal rank, were performers. Although the family
are Liberal, almost ultra-Liberal in politics, this was
not of course thought of while dispensing hospitality,
and the whole of the Tory families of suitable rank
in the neighbourhood participated in that hospi-
tality. From the influence which the family natu-
rally acquired in the neighbouring town, by means
of their kindness and .wealth, the husband was
solicited by the inhabitants a few months ago
to become their representative in Parliamenn. This
he declined, but he recommended an intimate friend
professing similar politics as himself, who was, after
a desperate contest, elected. In this contest both
the noble lady and her husband took an active and
conspicuous part. Now, the representation of this
town had always been in the hands of the Tory
families in the neighbourhood, and they were en-
raged beyond description to find it taken from them.
They studied what insults and slights they could
safely offer to the family that had supplanted them,
so as to annoy and drive them from the
neighbourhood. It appears that an attache of one of
the most distinguished foreign embassies in London,
and who is intimately related to a princely family,
had been introduced to the lady by her husband's
uncle as an eminent musical amateur, and one who
was competent and would be willing to assist her
ladyship in getting up her musical parties. He was
of course treated with the utmost kindness by the
family, and became a constant guest. About two
months since he, presuming on the noble lady's frank
and unsuspecting disposition, offered her a gross and
unmistakeable insult. Astonished at the outrage,
she summoned her husband, who was in a distant
part of the house, to her protection, and he imme-
diately knocked the scoundrel down and kicked him
ignominiously from the mansion. The lady's poli-
tical enemies have fabricated shameful insinua-
tions from this circumstance, but with such
cunning as proves that their cowardice equals their
malignity, and they have just now had the audacity
tto exclude the lady's name from amongst the list of
patronesses to a public ball. The great spite ball, as it
is termed, was to come off last night. in the mean-
time the inhabitants of the neighbouring town have
taken the matter up, and, one evening last week, when
the noble lady (noble by birth and by many gifts and
virtues) entered the Polytechnic Institution in the
town, an institution of which she is a munificent
patroness, the audience rose en masse, greeted her
with the most enthusiastic cheering, and spoke un-
mistakeably what they thought of her enemies."—
Daily News.

HEALTH OFLONDON DURING THE WEEK.

(From the Registrar-General's Return.)

The return for the week engling last Saturday
shows that 1,196 deaths were registered in the me-
tropolitan districts; in the first three weeks of De-
cember they 1,004, 1,090 and 1,166. This increase
is considerable, and must be attributed in part to the
character of the weather, whic h has been unfavour-
able to the public health ; but, as in the previous
week, it is also due to some coroners' returns, which
were net completed, as regards registration, when
the inquests were held, but have been accumulating
till the end of the quarter. In the ten corre-
sponding weeks of the years 1840-9, the returns
varied from 910 deaths in 1845, at a period of rather
higher than average temperature, to 1,403
in 1848, when scarlatina and typhus were rife, and
cholera had begun, these epidemics having succeeded
to the influenza of the former year. The following
comparative statement of deaths at particulari ages
shows that while the mortality of the young was not
greater than usual in the last week there was an
excess above the average among persons of middle
age :

Average of 10 Weeks.
Last Week. (1840.49).
From birth to 15 years 512 514
From 15 years to 60 , . 423 378
At 60 and upwards ... 232 260
Amongst children, however, hooping-cough,
diarrhcea, and small-pox appear on the increase. The
deaths from the first of these complaints were 61,
from diarrhcea (principally amongst infants) 31 ;
while 25 children and 5 adults died of the small-pox.
This direase still prevails severely in Lisson-grove,
where it was again fatal in 7 cases between the 20th
and 25th of December. Only one of the sufferers,
six girls and one boy, had apparently been vaccinated.
With reference to a death from small-pox; without
vaccination, which occured to a boy in High•street,
Shad well, Mr. Ross observes that " four other chil-
dren are suffering from the same complaint in the
family ; the father refuses to give his children the
protection of cow-pox, and such is the result ; but
the mischief does not end here, for the deadly
poison is disseminated through the neighbourhood.'
Another death from small-pox without vaccination
is recorded by the same registrar in a house at Elm-
row, Shadwell, and here also " four other children are
suffering under small-pox, the father entertaining
objections to vaccination." The registrar of Hag-
gerstone West mentions a family at Hoxton, in which
the wife, son, daughter, and servant died of scarlet
fever, all within a short period. A child in Chapel-
street, Woolwich, died, according to the medical cer-
tificate, of " miasmatic poisoning."
The class of "diseases of the respiratory organs"
comprises laryngitis, bronchitis, pleurisy, pneumonia,
asthma, and other diseases of the lungs, exclusive of
phthisis, and numbers in this return 264 deaths,
n hich is more than the average. From bronchitis
there were 120; from pnenmonia 90; the former
showing an increase on the previous week, the latter
a decrease.

Three deaths are ascribed to privation of food or
clothing, 11 amongst children to want of breast milk,
2to neglect, and 2to intemperence. The death of a
girl aged 7 years is reported by the medical attendant
as caused by " hydropericardium—fright produced
by a boy wearing a mask."
The births of 658 boys and 712 girls, in all 1,370
children, were registered in the week. The average
of five corresponding weeks in ]845-9 was 1,228.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE
OF TUESDAY.
WHITEHALL, DEC. 31, 1850.
The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent
to be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity
of a Baronet of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland unto the undermentioned gentlemen, and the
respective heirs male of their bodies, lawfully begotten,
viz.:—Major-General Sir Walter Raleigh Gilbert,
G.C.8.; James Matheson, of the Lews, in the county of
Ross. and of Achany, in the county of Sutherland, Esq.;
and Richard Tufton, of Appleby Castle, in the county
of Westmoreland, Skipton Castle, in the county of York,
and Hothfield-place, in the county of Kent, Esq.
DOWNING-STREET, DEC. 31.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint Sir James
Emerson Tennent, Knt., to be Governor of St. Helena.
Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint James
Vickery Drysdal, Esq., to be Colonial Secretary, and
Robert G. Me Hugh, Esq., to be her Majesty's Trea-
surer for the Island of St. Lucia.;
WHITEHALL, DEL 24.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed John Leach Ni-
cholas, of Monmouth, in the county of Monmouth,
Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court
of Chancery.
CROWN OFFICE, DEC. 28.