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London, England, 1851-09-24 00:00:00

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STATE OF TRADE.
(From the Manchester Guardian of this day.)
ALINCLIESTEIt, TUESDAY.—Thy New York steamer
of the 10th inst. arrived in the Mersoy on Sunday
at noon. We give the following particulars of her
tedvioes, in great part from a summary in Messrs.
Williams and Smallpage's circular of yesterday.
At New York, a speculative advance of
per lb. in the price of cotton had been pro-
duced by the America'; accounts from Liverpool
isy the alleged occurrence of a destructive storm
in Florida, and by expectations of the growing crop,
which were lowered to t,400,000 bales. In the
southern markets, however, there was no sensible
alteration of prices. According to the " Official An-
nual Statement," the crop for the year 1850 to 1851
amounts to 2,355,257 bales ; whilst that of the pre-
ceding was 2,096,706—exhibiting an increase of
258 551 bales. In this statement, however, the
stocks in the interior, the quantity there burned,
and what was lost on its way to the markets,
are not included. Taking these at a moderate
estimate, they will swell the crop to 2,450,000
bales. It will perhaps be remembered—at any rate
the circulars will show—that twelve months ago the
most liberal constructors of estimates could see no
chance of there being more than 2,000,000 bales;
whilst the majority, scouting that as a wild calcula-
we.re believers in more moderate amounts, down
to 1,600,000. The consumption in the States is
taken at 404,108 bales, or 83,661 fewer than
in the preceding year. These accounts have
had no effect in Liverpool, beyond that of
counteracting the slight tendency to a relaxation,
which showed ;tself at the latter end of last week.
In this market they have produced a still smaller
impression of the same kind ; for most people have a
vivid recollection of the confident, but delusive, pre-
dictions referred to above, which have seriously
shaken their confidence in estimates framed at a
period when no sufficient data exist. Although,
therefore, any further manifestation of that
disposition to make some concession in price,
which was last week observable in certain
departments, appears to have been checked,
still the sellers have not recovered any of the little
ground that was (then lost. Goods and yarns for the
,Eastern markets are quite as low as they were then,
and in no degree less difficult to sell. In other
des'eriptions of cloth there is a want of animation,
which occasions the bias of prices, in such as are
least under contract, to be, as it was on Saturday,
slightly against the makers ; but in domestics and
T cloths this is not observable. The buyer
of the lower counts of warps retains the advantage re-
ported in our last ; and, as far as it goes, so also does
the buyer of pincops and cop twist. There is an un-
abated firmness in 20's and 30's reeled water twist,
at ising out of the continued scarceness of those ranges,
as compared with the demand ; and the lower num-
bers of water are also firm, though hardly so scarce
as they were a short time back. In fine yarns there
is no change. Throughout the: day a spirit; of
caution has prevaded every department of our market.
ROCHDALE, MONDAY.—There is no improvement
in the flannel market to report to-day. The mer-
ohants continue to buy very sparingly, at previous
raeices. The manufacturers are beginning to com-
pia:Ts that country orders come in rather slackly ; and
if th,ere is not a change, stocks will begin to increase
at the very time of the year when the demand should
be the criskest. There is no change in price in wool,
but the d.-tilers complain that they have nothing to do.
SATUILDAY.—Neither in our piece hall
nor in the vy, arehouses is there anything approaching
an active inglie'rY for worsted goods. Lastings of low
quality are the I,,riocipal objects of at ention, and the
supply seems to ek.eale much nearer than it did to the '
wants of purchasers • As the demand for yarn con-
tinues exceedingly limited, and the prices wholly un-
remunerative, the spil'ners are producing as little
as is consistent with ,keeping their machinery in
order. Wool remains mus'th as it was, the sales being
very moderate at about late rates.
IlophEssrlELD, TUTSDAY.--We have no altera-
tion to report in the state of oter market of today.
A feve deliveries have been mac;e of goods for the
coming winter season, but it is yet full early for any
large orders in that lass of goods. There has been
a little increase in the shipping trade during the week.
The wool market is slack for the season.

LEEDS, TUESDAY.—The market at the Cloth
Hall has again been dull, and the woollen trade caa-
tinues quiet. Business has been rather better in tho
warehouses during the past week.

EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF ARSON AND
SUICIDE IN FRANCE.

An extraordinary crime has been committed at St.
Hippolyte, in the department of the Tarn and Ga-
ronnie. On the 11th inst., at about nine in the even-
ing, tie house and outbuildings of a farmer named
Aradel, commonly called Corrah, were observed to
be on fire. Twenty or thirty people soon assembled,
and were taki.eg measures to extinguish the flames,
when the report of gun shot wee heard, and at the same
instant the son of the mayor of Boulac, who was in
the crowd, fell senseless and severely wounded. He
was scarcely raised frorn the ground when a second
shot was firod, and another young man fell bathed
in his blood. The crowd, which had increased, then
became panic struck, some ran off to Lauzerte, to in-
form the magistrates of what had heppened, while
others, half stupifird, gazed about, trying to discover
in vain where the shots could have come from. A
third shot, wounding a third person, dispersed the
crowd in all directions, and the flames were left to
spread unchecked. The flash of the third shot was,
however, observed to proceed from the window of
a❑ adjoining granary, by two or three persons,
who, not having themselves the courage to make
further search, went to meet the gendarmes,
on the Lauzerte-road, and informed them of it. They
marched at once to the granary, at which there was
no staircase, or means of entrance but by a ladder.
The brigadier, regardless of the danger, instantly
mounted, and was followed by his men. They found
a young man seated on a stool with his back turned
to the window from whence the shots had been fired.
He was deadly pale, trembling, and his garments
were dripping with blood. His left hand was
leaning on a gun, and at his feet was a double-
barrelled pistol yet smoking. His face was one
large bloody wound. His lower jaw was broken,
and there was a hole in his forehead from which blood
flowed in torrents. The wretch had just shot
himself in the head. Although horribly mangled
he still breathed. He was recognised to be Bartho-
lomew Aradel, the son of the proprietor of the house
burnt down. He was arrested and taken to the hos-
pital of St. Lauzerte, where he soon died of his
wounds. The explanation of this terrible drama is as
follows :—Bartholomew Aradel, ruined by gambling,
or nearly so, and owing money in all directions, re-
solved upon suicide. But he first set fire to his
father's house, and then bid himself in the granary to
fire at all those who attempted to extinguish the
flames. It is supposed that he had meditated the
diabolical project for seine time, as several cartridges,
bullets, and a quantity of powder and lead were found
upon him. Tue three wounded persons are happily
expected to recover.—Galignani's Messenger.

HEALTHOF LONDON DURING THE WEEK.
(From the Report of the Registrar-General.)
The health of London was last week rather below
the average. The deaths of 1,097 persons were regis-
tered ; of whom only 206 had attained the age of 60;
496 were children under 15 years of age and 394
were in the middle period of life. The age of one
person was not stated. The deaths of males (569)
exceeded the deaths of females (528) by 41. The
births of 1,527 children were registered, and the girls
(785) exceeded the boys (742) by 43.
Cholera is decreasing,. It was only fatal to 7 per-
sona, 5 children and 2 adults in the week; whereas in
the five preceding weeks the deaths from this disease
were 28, 19, 28, 17, 17. Diarrhcea is returned as the
cause of 97 deaths; 67 in children, 30 in adults.
Small-pox was fatal in 23 cases, measles in 13,
pooping-cough in 19. Scarlatina is increasing ;
it was in the last five weeks the cause of 18,
20, 29, 27, and 41 deaths. The mortality from
typhus has gradually increased ; about 36 persons
died of the fever weekly in June and the begin-
ning of July. The deaths rose to 50 weekly in Au-
gust. In the present month the disease has grown still
more fatal ; and last week it destroyed the lives of 67
persons— 24 children, 5 old people, and 38 persons in
the prime of life. An increase of this formidable
epidemic is to be apprehended. 13 women died in
childbirth; 4 of them of metric or childbirth fever :
2 deaths were referred to burns and scalds, 3 to hang-
ing, 9 to drowning, 11 to fractures, 1 to wounds.
186 of the deaths in London occurred in public in-
stitutions; 124 in workhouses, 5 in military and
naval asylums, 42 in hospitals, 8 in lunatic asylums,
3 in military and naval hospitals, and 4 in prisons.
The following are the particulars of seven cases of
cholera which were registered and certified by the
medical attendants during the week ending Saturday
the 20th September. Tae cause of death is stated in
the words of the attendant.
In Fulham, at Bone•shed, Fulham-fields, oa the
10th September, the son cf labourer,,gaa a year,
"cholera infanturn (14 days), den:ition.
In Fulham, at 1, North-row, North-end, on the
Bth September, the widow of a courier, aged 33 years,
"diseased kidneys (long standing), English cholera
(36 hours)."
In Marylebone, St. Mary, at 10, Newnham-street,
on the 11th September, the son of a servant, aged
seven months, "cholera infant= (1 month)."
In Clerkenwell, St. James's sub-district, at 10,
Silver-street, on 13;11 September, the son of a litho-
graphic printer, urged 7 months, " cholera morbus
(15 hours)."

In Bethnal-green, at 9, Mapee-street, on 13th Sep-
tember, the daughter of a u eaver, aged 1 year,
" diarrheel (4 months), infantile cholera (3 weeks)."
In St. Peter, Walworth, at 23, Clandon-street, on
12th September,
,the daughter of a journeyman hat
case maker, aged 19 months, " English cholera
(4 days)."
In Woolwich Arsenal sub-district, at the police
station-house, William-street, on 14th September,
inspector of police, aged 48 years, " English cholera
(1 week)."
The annexed cases are taken from the registrars'
reports :
In St. Marylebone, Rectory sub-district, at 16,
Great York-mews, on 18th September, the daughter
of a servant, aged 6 years, " typhoid fever (3 weeks)."
Mr. Gayleard, the medical attendant, adds, that " this
is the fourth or fifth case of typhoid fever in this mews.
Each inhabitant has to empty a pail down a common
grating into the sewer every evening, there being no
closet or any sewer to carry it off, and even the urine
of the horses has to be collected and so diTosed of.
Bubbles of noxious gas are continually appearing
through openings between the stones."
In St. George, Bloomsbury, at 13, Bloomsbury-
street, on Sept. 12, the daughter of an assistant at
the British Museum, aged 12 months, " diarrbcel."
Mr. Yardley acids that " the informant in this case
states that the attack commenced about a fortnight
ago while residing at 17, King's-terrace, Bagnigge-
wells-road, where he lost another child on the same
day owing to offensive effluvia from defective drainage,
and a cesspool in the yard; two visitors were also at-
tacked with diarthea."
In West London sub-district, at 5, Poppin's-court,
St. Bride's, on 14th September, the daughter of a
tailor, aged 6 months, " small-pox (21 days)." Mr.
Nason, the registrar, states that " the father has four
children, none of whom have been vaccinated, and
now labouring under the same disease, one two years
old not out of danger ; the house is well drained and
ventilated."
In St. George, Southwark, London-road sub-dis-
trict, at 3, Duke-street, on 15th Sept., a shoemaker,
aged 34 years, " typhus fever (16 days)." Mr. Red-
ford observes, from information furnished by the me-
dical attendant, that " there is no ventilation in this
poor man's rooms ; they are not fit to be inhabited ;
there are nearly forty persons in the house, with an
imperfect supply of water."

STATE OF THE WEATHER DURING THE PAST WEEK.
SUNDAY.—The sky was generally clear throughout the
day.
bioNnAy.—The sky was overcast till noon; three-fourths
were covered until 6h. P.M., and clear afterwards; cirro-
cumuli, cirrostrati, and Sella.
TUESDAY.—The sky, with slight exceptions, was covered
with cloud throughout the day; cumulostratus and cirro-
stratus.

WEDNESDAY.—The sky was generally covered with cloud
till near noon, and the amount of cloud was variable during
the remainder of the day; cirrocumuli, cirrostrati, and
fleecy clouds. Misty rain fell during the morning.
THURSDAY.—Three-fourths of the sky were covered during
the morning and afternoon, and clear at night; cumuli,
cirrocumuli, and cirrostrati. _ _

FRlDAy.—Three-fourths of the sky were covered through.
out the day; cumulostrati and cirrostrati. A few drops of
rain fell during the afternoon.
_ _

SATURDAY.2-The sky was for the most part covered with
cloud until 7h. v.:it., and clear afterwards; cirrostratus. A
alight shower of rain fell at 3h.
ELECTRICITY.—Nothing was shown throughout the week.
The mean reading of a thermometer placed on the main-
mast, and read each day at 9h. A.M. was 58.3 Q ; and the mean
reading at 9h. p.m. was 55.3° ; the mean readings at the
Royal Observatory for the same times were 59.1 Q and 53•2 Q
respectively.
The reading of the barometer increased from 3022 in. at
the beginning of the week to 30,47 in. by 9h. A.M. on the
16th; decreased to 29.90 in. by 3h. P.M. on the 19th; and
increased to 29.9.5 in. by the end of the week.

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS
NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN
TIIE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, SEI'T. so, 1851.
Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases —.305
Diseases of Uncertain Seat ... 51
Tubercular Diseases ... 218
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... ... 130
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 37
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration ... ... 122
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs
of Digestion... ... ... .. ...
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. •• „.
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &e.
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles
Diseases of the Skin, &c.
Malformations...
Premature Birth ... ... .. •• •
Atrophy ... ... .. ... ...
Old Age
Sudden ...
Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance
Causes not specified ...

... 54

... 36
... 32
... 38

... 33
... 2

DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES ... ... 1,097
Population Deaths in corre- Deaths
Enunaeraicd, sponding week In the
IHSI. of 1850. Week.
West Districts... 376,332 . . 119 ... 163
.. Noy,th Districts.. 490,141 167 ... 206
coin/ a.l Districts 392,9t.'6 ... 132 ... 178
East I.;i,tricts ... 485,336 ... 213 ... 234
bouth Vistricts .. 616,545 ... 227 ... 316

Totals.... 9,361,610
Males ... ...
Females ...

858 ... 1,09

... 569
... 528