The Sun.
London, England, 1850-05-02 00:00:00

DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES

Population
Enumerated,
1841.
West Districts... 301,189
North Districts.. 376,568
Central Districts 374,199
East Districts ... 393,067
South Districts.. 503,346

Totals... ..... 1,948,369
Males .
Females ...

Deaths in corre-
sponding week
of 11149.
. 179 .
. 198 .
. 195 .
. 201 .
. 285 .

Males
Females

... 1,058

BIRTHS IN THE WEEK.

Total ...

... 391
... 412

BU3

... 729
... 770

... 1,499

•
*ln this number are included 21 by Scarlatina, 25
by Typhus Fever, 11 by Diarrhces, and 1 by Cholera.

STATE OF TRADE.
(From the Manchester Guardian.)
MANCIIESTER, TUESDAY.— The Europa's advice-,
showing the deficiency in the receipts of cotton at tt.e
American ports to be upwards of 500,000 tales, have
had much the same kind f effect on our marker, to-day,
as previous accounts, pointing the same result, have
of late produced. With the raw material still rising on
their hands, the spinners have again raised their quot :-
dons; and the manufacturers have followed in the same
course, at least as la gards those cloths which are most
in request. In this move, the latter class of producers
hate scareely had cry turther success than that of
being enabled to attain, for some artelt r, those full
rates wldch could nut be got a week ago. It is et,ly
in some particular thiegs toat the imprkaaahee, has
amounted to wore than what we have just :tate(' ;
while the entire business of the day has certainly been
restricted within narrow limits. Some of the makers
of domestics are doing rather more with the home
dealers. The spinners have succeeded in their de-
mands rather better than the manufacturers. The
impression that cotton is not at present likely
to be lower, and may possibly rise sum. what
higher, apps ars to have made a little progress amongst
the German buyers, who, though still acting with great
caution and making no large purctiases, have operated
more freely, as well as more generally to-day, than for
some time back; paying, in alieost every instance, such
prices as they retused to give a 'erg days bats. Iti the
various yarns which they purchase, prices are, prac-
tically, at least J. per lb. higher than they were
this day week. in some kinds the gain is rather
more than that. The manufacturers also are pay -
ing about an equal advance for warp-s
and ws f, ; but
they purchase very sparingly. The India houses are
doing but little in yarns, as well as in goods. Spinners
and Manufacturers feel most painfully that the present
course of things is fraught with serious evils to them.
If a rise in prices should now be made good, they see
that the finished article is likely to be lett further than
before in the rear of the raw material.

ROCHDALE, MONDAY.—We have had something like
an average market to-day, both in prices and number of
pieces sold. The wool market is still heavy, and very
little business doing.
MACCLESFIELD, TUESDAY.—Since our last report
there have been many buyers of manufactured goods in
town, but the sales are reported only to a limited ex-
tent. We might have expected larger operations at this
season tf the year, particularly as it is generally under-
stood that stocks of silk goods in the wholesale houses
are comparatively light—the buyers are evidently pur-
chasing for immediate w ants, and we hope, ere Jung, to
be enabled to report a more active demand. The throw-
ing trade continues in the same quiet state it has dote
for the last few weeks, but the mills are sill! working full
time. In the raw silk market prices remain as f
HUDDERSFIELD, TUESDAY.—We have been compara-
tively slack in the market to-day—very little has teen
brought into the hall. The warehouses have also been
dull; buyers being very sby except at reduced prices.
BALIFAX, SATURDAY.—There is no noticeable change
in the condition of the worsted trade. The principal
inquiry is for lasting,, which are very difficult to be
obtained. In yarn there is a steady business, without
any alteration in price. There is not much doing in
wool, and the quotations remain as they were.
LEEDS, TUESDAY.—Me have had a fair average busi-
ness to-day and on Saturday; also considerable deli-
veries have been made direct to the warehouses. Stocks
are low, and prices without alteration. nu shipping
houses continue busy; but there is not quite so much
doing for the home trade, the very cold w easher we ex-
perience at present having a tendency t.) check the sale
of light summer goods.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
BAIL COURT, May I.
(Sittings in Banco, before Mr, Justice COLERIDGE.)
TRH QUEEN V. THE PUBLISHER OF THE " MORNING
HERALD."

Mr. Sergeant SHEE wasiust7ucted to move for a rule
to show cause why a criminal it.formation should not be
filed against Mr. Chapman, the printer and publinher of
the Murnixg Herald newspaper, for a 1! bel published in
that paper. He moved on the affidavit of the Rev. An-
thony Magee, P.!)., who stated that he was the clergy-
man or priest of the Roman Catholic chapel in the city
of Westtninster, and that in the month of December,
1849, he contracted to purchase of and from the Right
Hon. Lord Cottenbam and others, the trustees of the
Law Ws Assurance Society, certain lands situate in
Lb* county of Galway, containing 3,000 acres, being
part cf very large and extensive estates known by the
name of the " Great Martin Estate," in Come:flare, but
that no conveyance thereof, or of any part thereof, had
yet been made to this deponent, nor bath he yet hsd
possession of the said lands so purchased by him. He
then said that in the Morning Herald of the 25th of
April there appeare I of and concerning him, and of the
estate he had purchased, the following paragraph:—

"IRELAND.
"(From our own Currespon lent.)
" THE GREAT MARTIN ESTATE.

seo.the
"It would iiifearl;ythe following letter from the
Mayo Constitution that the last region known ai the
Martin Est Ate, in Connemara,c is about
ptorilbelB7laBd
scene of a sweeping ejectm-rit system:—
" ' I regret to tell you that the parties interested in the
far-famed Martin Estate have obtained no less a number
than 650 ejectment d. crees against the unfortunate te-
nantry of the late Themas Martin, Esq. By this means
3,000 or 4,000 people will be thrown upon the world.
t'cuoluny
to contemplate ntesmuprlelyate,
with our poor-houses over-
such a state of things in a
flowing with wretched inmates, we shall doubly feel
this terrible addition to (ur misery. Bow will they be
supported ?—where could the means be had? Still, the
old saying holds, 'lt is an ill wind blows nobody good.'
The assistant-barrister's fees on these eketments (ruled
in a few hours) amounted to nearly 4001, and the attor-
ney's fees 1,0001., making together a sum of over 1,400/.
It has caused a sensation here that we canna di.scrite.
" ' We (Mayo Constitution) confer a that we have heard
this statement with astonishment. We wish it were
exaggerated; but from the respectability of our informant
we cannot for a moment doubt it And still it is herd
to believe that in a season like this, at the end of a famine,
solveail
when such exertions ate making to crop the land as
never, in our memory, were made before, that 4,000 hu-
man
th
owners btehiinosgrs
athttiesr should
bpurbot be thrown
English mor gigees-
7_utpmomn
ei) the,that the quasi
rates.
having brought the estate to the hammer, and finding
that it did not bring remunerating prices, have adopti,d
the fearful experiment of clearing the country of its it.-
habitants; and never was so shortsighted a policy prac-
tised—never was so blind an attempt made to obtain
higher prices. There can be but one opinion of moun-
tain lands, that they to e only really profithble in the
hands of a tenantry; roll we rosy ask with our corres-
pondent, who will support this mass of pauperism—
where wid the funds be had ? We envy not the fe'.lings
of men who could east 4,000 people together housele:s
on the world. Thank God, the doers of the deed are not
Irishmen.'

" The purchaser cf this property is the Rev. Mr.
Magee, Roman Catholic clergyman,
i resident at West-
minster. His reverence says he s compelled to eject
the vast majority of the tenantry, but he m, ans to re-
store all %ho are dusrrtiug -•• sh,•rt, Nho ha,,.
deatwnattile ch: rp.e of p1)11.,:4 th.): S."
The last psrag, aph eivitz,lAetl of cottur.eLts of I,€:
Morning Herald upon the ktttr. Dr.Magee, in hid aih.