The Sun.
London, England, 1856-06-11 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, June 10.
The market continues exceedingly flat, and business
has only been done where sellers have been willing to
concede Id. to 3d. per piece on cloth and a fraction per
lb. on yarns. Some houses report a good inquiry for
India, and an inquiry which they think will lead to busi-
ness, but this is not the account generally given by the
trade. There have been some large offers at a decline,
but they were at prices which manufacturers were un-
willing to entertain. No doubt one great cause of
inactivity is the distrust occasioned by the political ad-
vices from America. In yarns the reports of sellers are,
that what little business has been transacted has been
done at very irregular prices, but mostly at rates not
quotably below those of this day week. Buyers, on the
contrary, report an advantage in some cases of id. to id.
per lb.

LEEDS, June 10.
There has again been a quiet market in the cloth-halls,
and buyers have purchased this morning but sparingly.
The news from America by the Asia steamer has not had
any perceptible effect on the market. Cloths suited for
the fall trade are saleable at late rates,
and they move off
in moderate quantities ; but all parties appear to be act-
ing with great caution, and immediate rather than pros.
pective wants are supplied.
The local woolbrokers are getting in their late pur-
chases at the London sales, at which they bought largely
of the finer kinds of Australian wools. Prices are firm
at fully the closing terms obtained at those sales. At
Pontefract wool-market last Saturday there was a good
supply of the new clip of English wool, but prices were
rather lower than on the preceding Saturday. Hog wool
fetched from 17e. to 18s. 6d., and ewe from 168, to 17e.
per 141

TEE INUNDATIONS IN PRANOZ.
The LORD MATOR.—Yielding to representations made
to me, I have called a meeting of merchants, bankers,
and traders, and I trust we shall be honoured by the
presence of many noblemen and gentlemen from the
western parts of the metropolis, to be held on Friday
next, at one o'clock, at the Egyptian Hall, to express our
sympathy with the sufferers by the recent inundations in
France, and to raise a sum to be added to the subscrip-
tions now making in Paris for their relie£ (Hear.)
TEE TRILL OF PALMER.

Alderman and Sheriff KENNEDY—My Lord Mayor,
beg to present to the court sundry bills of expenses con-
nected with the trial of William Palmer, and move that
they be referred to the gaol committee.
Alderman COPELLND said he was of opinion that the

clerk of arraigns at the Central Criminal Court was the
functionary to whom the bills should be handed in the
first instance, and who should then forward them to the
county of Stafford. (Hear; hear.) He did not wish to'
prevent the bills from being sent to the committee ; but
if this course were pursued a precedent might be set
which might hereafter operate injuriously upon the
funds of the corporation. (Hear, hear.)
Alderman WIRE said a great number of bills had been
sent in to the sheriffs, which must necessarily-be eau-
mined by some competent authority, in order that it
might be seen whether the special act of Parliament
ender which Palmer had been tried authorised their
payment. Mr. Clarke, as the organ of the Central Cri-
minal Court, would have to report to the Treasury, but
it was casting too great a responsibility upon that gen-
tleman to ask him to examine the bills without assistance
and advice.

Sir J. lktraonovz said it behoved the court to take
great care how they acted in the matter, otherwise they
might establish a precedent of a very dangerous cha-
racter, and which would involve the corporation in an
inquiry entailing upon them not only great labour, but
very considerable expense. The gaol committee might
consider that the accounts contained items not warranted
by the special act of Parliament, and the corporation
might find itself in the position of being compelled to
take proceedings against parties to obtain payment of
certain sums of money. The meaning of the act ought
to be construed by the clerk of arraigns, before whom
the accounts ought to be laid, and if that learned of
experienced any difficulty in coming to a conclusion as
to the source from which payment of the bills should be
made, he could easily come to the gaol committee for
assistance and advice.

Alderman FINNIS said that •an account of no leis
sum than 1801. odd had been forwarded to the sheriffs
by Messrs. Buckler and Barnet, the shorthand writers
appointed by the corporation to the Central Criminal
Court, for taking notes, furnishing, and printing a tran-
script of the trial of Palmer. Now, some years ago
the City Lands Committee entered into a contract with
Messrs. Buckler and Barnet, by which these gentle-
men undertook to furnish and print the proceed-
ings at the Central Criminal Court at a certain
salary amounting to some hnndreds of pounds. Under
these circumstances he could not understand how they
had the conscience to send in an account of se extra-
ordinary a character. At the time this contract was
made the sessions lasted 13 or 14 days ; and at the pre-
sent time they seldom extended beyond three or four •
days. By their contract they were also bound to find
extra clerks and assistants in the event of the sessions
lasting a longer period than usual. That they should
therefore send in an account for extra services was one
of the most unwarrantable things he (Alderman Finnis)
had ever heard of.

Alderman COPELAND—I am quite of the same opinion
as my friend Alderman Ennis. The shorthand-writers'
contract with the City was, that the whole of the Ix ork
should be done at a certain sum per annum—rather a
large sum too.

Alderman Fmns—Very large. About 900/. per an•
num.

Alderman COPELAND—Since that contract was made
the number of prisoners tried during each session has di-
minished by at least 70 on an average ; and I am there-
fore more than justified in saying that claims of this na-
tureought not fora moment to be entertained.

Alderman HUMPHREY said the account charged twelve
guineas for attendance, 75/. for the transcript, and for
correcting and printing it 821. 125., making upwards
of 1701.

Sir P. LATRIN said he cauld corroborate every word
that had fallen from Alderman Finnis. How the short-
hand-writers should have the audacity to send in an ac-
count of that description he was at a total loss to un-

derstand ; and he should certainly take an opportunity
of moving that their allowance be reduced.

- .
The accounts were then referred to the gaol committee,
with instructions to report specially upon them.

THE MAYORALTY SEAL.
The LORD MAYOR handed to the Recorder the mayor-
alty seal, which step, ha said, he had been requested to
take in order that it might be more accessible to the
public.
The court adjourned.

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING TITB

WEEK.

(Prom the Report of the Registrar• General.)

In the week that ended on Saturday the deaths from
all causes registered were 1,068, of which 539 were deaths
of males, 529 those of females. To the people of Lon-
don the month of June is the healthiest in the year, and
probably the mortality is now nearly as low as it will be
this season. The average number of deaths in the first
week of June during the ten years 1846-55 was 956 ;
but as the deaths of last week occurred in an increased
population, it is necessary for comparison to apply a
correction to the average, which makes it 1,052. The
present rate of mortality therefore exceeds the average,
though only i❑ a smell degree. For six weeks, though
the mean daily temperature has been occasionally above
the average, the mean weekly temperature has been
constantly below it.

Last week 249 persons died from diseases of the
zymotic character, of whom 174 were children ; the cor-
rected average for deaths at all ages in this class is
245. To diseases of the tubercular class, comprising
-crofula, tabes messenterica, phthisis, and hydrocephalus
200 deaths are referred, the average being 210 ; to dis-
eases of the nervous system 109, the average being 129 ;
to diseases of the respiratory organs, 119, the average
being 133 ; to diseases of the digestive organs, 67, the
average being 68 ; to diseases of the heart, 62, while
the average is 41. Ten cases of smallpox are returned,
41 of measles, 42 of scarlatina, 44 of whooping-o.egh,
13 of croup, 53 of typhus and common fever. Three
deaths from " febris" occurred in the workhouse, Mile-
end, New-town, on the 3d instant, and one on the 4th.
In some instances at least the sufferers were probably
brought in when under the attack. Thera appears to be
a good deal of illness from measles in the south and also
in the central districts. Nine children died from mal-
formation, the nature of which in a great proportion of
the cases appears to have been cyanosis. Two persons
died from intemperance, besides a young woman who
was killed by falling down stairs when intoxicated.

Last week the births of 376 boys and 831 girls, in all
1,747 children, were registered in London. In the ten
corresponding weeks of the years 1846.55 the average
number was 1,454.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29'902
inches. The mean daily reading was above 30 inches
on the last two days. The highest reading in the
week was 30.45 inches on the 7th. The mean tem-
perature of the week was 56'7 degrees, which is the
highest weekly temperature obtained this year, but is
still 0.4 deg. Belo x the average of the same week in 38
years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher). The mean daily
temperature was more or less above the average on four
days. The highest temperature in the week occurred on
Tuesday, and was 75.5 deg. ; the lowest on Friday, when
the temperature fell to 41.1 deg. The range of the week
was therefore 34'4 deg. The thermometer in the sun
rose to 103'S deg. on Wednesday. The mean tempera-
ture of the water of the Thames WAR 53.3 deg. ; its tem-
perature varied from 53'9 deg. to 62.1 deg. The mean
dew-point temperature was 46 6 deg., and the difference
between this and the mean temperature of the air was
10.1 deg. The wind blew generally from the south-
west ; on Thursday and Friday it was in the north. No
rain fell in the week.

MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.
NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED
IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JUNE 7.
Zymotic Diseases 249
Diseases of Uncertain Seat ... 54
Tubercular Diseases
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves and Senses
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 62
Diseases of the Lungs and other Organs of
Respiration , ...................................... 119
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs
of Digestion . 67
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 and Debility. 3O
Atrophy 4l
Old Age ........ . ................ .
Sudder.
Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 3
Causes not specified

DEATLIS nom ALL CAUSES
Population Deaths in corm- Deaths
Enumerated. aponding week in the
ltin. of 1855. Week,
West Districts
North Districts 490,396
Central Districts 393,256
East Districts 485,522
South Districts ...... 616,635 ...... 296

Totals - ---
2,362,236 1,687 1,063
Males 539
Females 529
BIRTHS IN THE WEEK.

Males
Females

866
881

Total •• •• • MOM. 000000000 1,747

FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION.--Shortly after 8 o'clock
yesterday morning, the boiler at the colliery of
Mes-re. Wharnton and Sons, Whittington, near Ches•
terfield, exploded with a terrific report, causing much
deAruction of property, and killing one man on the
spot, and fearfully injuring another