The Sun.
London, England, 1850-12-26 00:00:00

EVICTIONS FROM BARRA.

On Wednesday a meeting of gentlemen, called
by circular, was held in the ante-room of the Council-
chamber, at three o'clock, to take into consideration
what means should be adopted for providing for the
temporary wants of the expatriated Hebrideans, who
had found their way in a totally destitute condition
to this city, to lay their case before Colonel Gordon,
of Clunie, the proprietor of Barra. Sheriff Monteith
was called to the chair, and Dr. Candlish opened the
meeting with prayer.
Mr. Ross, who had accompanied the exiled High-
landers from Glasgow, stated that the population -of
Barra was 2,300, of whom 1,809 had received aid
through the parochial board from the Highland Des-
titution Fund up to the 30th September last. He
quoted from the report of the Commissioners of the
Highland Destitution Board to
.show that the condi-
tion of the people of that island was wretched in the
extreme—their crofts being of a most miserable de-
scription, and scantily furnished. In March last they
had been summoned to quit their crofts, but having
disregarded the intimation, the houses f 132 families
were in May last pulled down.' The wretched
people then erected tents, with their blankets, hung on
posts, and some of them took refuge in caves, and
others lingered about their old haunts. They passed
their time thus till the relief operations ceased, and
the officers again warned them to remove. They
said they had nowhere to go, and could not remove
from the island. The officers then procured warrants
from the sheriff substitute, and demolished the tents
and shipped all the inmates in a steam- boat to Tober-
mory, where they were left to wander on the main-
land, to beg or starve. The amount of destitution
that existed now was far greater than in 1846.
Dr. Bsoa thought it would be necessary not only
to call the attention of the public, but of the Govern-
ment to that question. They were not only entitled
but
,bound to ask Government to interfere in the
matter.

The CHAIRMAN said there was at this moment in
the act of formation a society for the express view of
considering these very questions, and he thought
probably that society might be able to effect some
good. He would not recommend a public subscrip-
tion in the meantime, as that would only have the
effect of alluring the poor Highlanders to come and
settle here. He was afraid the law could not prevent
any proprietor turning off his people, however long
their tenure, as long as they had no title of posses-
sion ; but be suggested that several gentlemen should
wait on Colonel Gordon, not as delegated from a
public meeting, but as individuals, to state the case to
him.

Mr. MACLACHLAN said, if they got Colonel Gor-
don to yield in the matter it would have an important
effect over the whole proprietary of the Highlands.
At this moment he regretted to say, a very exten-
sive proprietor, whose estates had a population of
23,000, was taking steps for the removal, in the course
of next spring, of a very large body of poor High-
landers, and if the influx was not stayed they had the
prospect of about 50,000 or 60,000 Hebrideans being
thrown destitute on the main-land.
After some further conversation, a committee was
formed of the gentlemen present, as well as others
who had offered to lend their aid in any steps that
could be taken in the matter. The committee was
as follows :—The Lord Provost, Sheriff Monteith,
Professor Alison, Professor More, Rev. Drs. Cand-
lish and Begg, and Messrs. Maclachlan,
and Mlienzie ; G. Duncan, Esq., J. F. Madarlen,
Esq., William Cowan, Esq., J. Johnston, Esq.,
Charles Spence, Esq., James Greig, EN., convener.
It was understood that the Lord Provost, Sheriff
Monteith, and Mr. Ross, should wait on Colonel Gor-
don, and report the result to a future meeting.—Edin-
burgh Post.
The Edinburgh Courant has the following :—" We
understand that Colonel Gordon left his residence in
Edinburgh for his estate at Clunie, early last month,
whence he has not yet returned. The deputation ap-
pointed by the meeting held here on Wednesday to
have an interview with the Gallant Colonel, have not,
in consequence, been able to perform their mission,
and the ejected families still remain in the night
asylum. Yesterday (Friday) we were shown an
account for meal furnished by Messrs. Harvie and
M`Gavin, of Glasgow, some time since, for distribu-
tion at Barra, by order of Colonel Gordon, which
amounted to the very handsome sum of 1341.

A CHAPTER IN THE HISTORY. OF
PAPAL ROME.
A REPORT or TELE DEMOLITION OP THE PALACE OP
TILE INQUISITION AT MADRID, MADE BY COLONEL
LEMANOIS, OF THE 9TH REGIMENT OF POLISH
LANCERS, IN THE TEAR 1809.
Ordered by Marshal Soult, the Governor cf Ma-
drid, to destroy the buildings of the Inquisition,
conformably to the decree of the Emperor. I ob-
served to him that the 9th Lancers was insufficient
for that service ; the Marshal then added two regi-
regiments of Infantry, one of which regiments, the
127th, was unders the orders of Colonel Delilie.
With these troops I marched to the Inquisition, the
buildings of which were surrounded with strong
walls, and guarded by about 400 soldiers. On my
arrival I summoned the fathers to open the gate. A
sentinel who was on one of the bastions appeared
to converse for an instant with some one in the inte-
rior, after which he fired upon us, and killed one
of my men. This was the signal or the attack, and
I ordered my troops to fire upon all who appeared
upon the walls. It became soon evident that the
combat was unequal, and I changed the mode of
attack. Some trees were cut down and made into
battering-rams, and two of these machines being
well directed, under a shower of balls, a breach
was made, and the Imperial troops rushed into the
Inquisition.
Here we had a sample of what Jesuitical effrontery
can do. The Inquisitor-General and the Father
Confessors solemnly issued forth from their retreats,
clothed in their sacerdotal robes, and with their arms
crossed upon their breasts—as if, knowing nothing,
they came to learn what was the matter. They
rebuked their soldiers, saying, why do you fight
with our friends, the French ? They appeared
to wish to make us believe that they had not or-
dered the defence, and they hoped, no doubt, to be
able to make their escape during the confusion oc-
casioned by the pillage. They were deceived. I
gave strict orders that they should be kept in view,
and all their soldiers be made prisoners. We then
began our examination of this prison of hell. We saw
chamber after chamber : altars, crucifixes, wax tapers
in abundance, riches and splendour were to be seen
everywhere. The floors and walls were highly
polished, and the marble Mosaic inlaid with exquisite
taste. But where were the instruments of torture of
which we were told, and where were the dungeons in
which it was said that human beings were entombed
alive; we sought for them in vain ; the holy fathers
assured us that they were calumniated, and that we
had seen everything. I was about to abandon my
researches, persuaded that these inquisitors were
different from those of whom we had heard spoken,
but Colonel Delilie would not give up, so easily. He
said to me, " Let us examine again the floors; let us
pour water upon them, and we shall see if it does not
run through some part." The flags of marble were
large and quite smooth. After we had poured the
water, to the great displeasure of the inquisitors, we
examined carefully all the interstices to see if any
()oiled through. Yery soon Colonel Delilie cried out
that he had found what he sought for. In the
joinings of a flag, the water disappeared very quickly,
as if there was an empty space beneath.
Officers and men set to work to raise the flag,
whilst the priests cried out against the desecration of
their beautiful and holy house. A soldier struck a spring
with the butt end of his musket, which disclosed a
flight of steps. I took a lighted taper four feet long
from a table in order to explore our discovery, but
was stopped by one of the inquisitors, who gently
placed his hand upon my arm—" My son," said he,
with a devout air, " you ought not to touch that
taper, it is holy." " Well," I replied, "I require a
holy light to fathom iniquity." I descended the steps
which were under a ceiling without any opening
except the trap-door. Arrived at the bottom we en-
tered into a vast square room called the Hall of Judg-
ment. • In the middle was a block of stone, upon
which was god a chair for the accused, VA cue

side of the room was another seat more elevated
for the Inquisitor-General, called the Throne
of Judgment; and there were lower seats for
the fathers. From this chamber we passed to
the right and found small cells extending the whole
length of the edifice. But what a spectacle pre-
sented itself to our eyes ! How the beneficent
religion of the Saviour had been outraged by its pro-
fessors ! These cells served as dungeons, where the
victims of the Inquisition were immured, until death
relieved them from their sufferings. Their bodies
were left there to decompose, and that the pestilential
smell might not incommode the inquisitors, ven-
tilators were made to carry
,it off. In the cells
we found the remains of some who had died re-
cently, whilst in others we only found skeletons
chained to the floor. In others we found living
victims of all ages and all sexes. Young men and
young women, and old men up to the age of seventy,
but all as naked as the day they were born. Our
soldiers first busied themselves to free these cap-
tives from their chains, and then took off part of
their clothes to cover them. After having visited
all the cells, and opened the prison doors of those
who yet lived, we went to visit another chamber on
the left. There we found all the instruments of
torture that the genius of man or demons could in-
vent. At this sight the fury of our soldiers could
no longer be contained—they cried out that every
one of these inquisitors, moaks, and soldiers, should
undergo the torture. We did not attempt to prevent
them, and they immediately commenced the work
upon the persons of the fathers. I saw them employ
four kinds of torture, and then withdrew from the
frightful scene, which lasted as long as there was a
single individual in that antechamber of hell upon
whom the soldiers could wreak their vengeance.
When the victims of the Inquisition could be
brought without danger from their prison into the
light of day, the news of their delivery spread abroad,
and those from whom the Holy Office had torn their
relations or friends came to see if there was any hope
to find them alive. About one hundred persons were
rescued from their living tombs and restored to their
families. Many found a son or a daughter, a brother
or a sister. Some found no one. A large quantity
of powder was placed in the subterraneous passages
of the building—the massive walls and towers were
blown up into the air, and the Inquisition of Madrid
ceased to exist.

CURIOUS CONTRIBUTION TO THE IN-
DUSTRIAL EXHIBITION OF 1851.

In the New York Tribune of the 10th inst. we find
the following intimation :
" MissioN TO ENGLAND.—We understand that an
extensive operator' in lottery tickets and policies,
well known among the ' sporting men' of this city,
sailed yesterday for London. He goes out for the
purpose of establishing in Great Britain the lottery
business, and bears letters of introduction to the
habitues of Crockford's, by means of which he will
get the ear of the most distinguished gamblers ; then,
by a secret plan of operations, it is supposed that he
will introduce the sale of the lottery tickets of Dela-
ware, Maryland, and Virginia Companies—the deci-
sion to be subject to the drawings made in those
states. It is unnecessary to say that all this will be
done sub rosa. Parliament put an end to legal lottery
gambling many years ago. In this country, 28 of
the 31 states have outlawed the business, and it is
probable that in the course of the winter one or more
of the three benighted Legislatures will do the same
thing. If they could be brought to appreciate the
immense injury that their lotteries inflict upon men
in this city alone, they would wind them up forth-
with. We commend the new missionary to London
to the attention of the authorities."

As the English public may be curious to know
something more about the class of New York " in -
dustrials" who are sending their " missionary" to the
World's Fair of 1851, we extract from the same
paper the following account of them—the first of a
series of descriptive essays in the course of publica-
tion respecting them :
" The public attention has recently been directed
to the prevalence of this degrading and destructive
vice in our city. The accounts given of its horrible,
heart-rending effects—of the extent to which it is
carried—of the number and the previous respectabi-
lity of many of its victims—of the arts used to entrap
the unwary—and of the regular, business-like system
to which it is reduced in several magnificent estab-
lishments that rival the worst hells of London and
Paris though drawn from perfectly authentic
sources, and in many cases from personal observa-
tion, have been of such a startling character as
scarcely to be deemed credible by those of our good
easy citizens who do not look beyond the smoke of
their own chimneys.
" But the half has not been teld. The strongest
language would not be strong enough to describe the
whole in its full extent of terrible depravity. Scenes
are daily and nightly passing within a short distance
of our most fashionable thoroughfares, which would
harrow up the soul of any one on whom the curtain
of the infernal orgies was raised. We have sees
enough with our own eyes to chill the blood and tura
the heart into stone. _ _ _

" Our experience shall be made known. In this
case secrecy would be a crime. What we shall tell
we know, and if any one demands the proof, the proof
shall be forthcoming. In a few short articles in the
Tribune we shall lay open some of the heights and
depths of this mystery of iniquity. Would that our
words might pierce the dull, cold ear of selfish apathy,
and arouse the public mind to the gulf of pollution
which yawns in the midst of our shining city.
" Let us begin with the beginning. The germ of
gambling in New York is to be found in the streets.
The first novitiates in the dreadful trade are the boys,
who may be seen at every hour of the day, in certain
parts of the city, swarming the pavements like flies,
intent on juvenile games which contain the seeds of
gambling in its most loathsome forms. With the
song of earliest birds these unkempt, unwashed, un
cared-for urchins emerge from the dens and rookeries
of the Five Points, and other similar localities. Many
of them destitute of parents or friends, entirely with-
out a home, have passed the night—Heaven knows
where—sleeping in coal boxes, under stairways, awn-
ings, cellar doors, or crouching in the nearest vacant
spot, which can give them a miserable shelter for the
night. The first thing in the morning is to get pos-
session of a few coppers. These they gain by beg-
ging, pilfering, or doing any little job that may turn
up. With this stock in trade they are ready to
commence operations. The excitement of precocious
gambling has already poisoned their blood. They
are more eager to get a chance at a game than to get
their breakfasts. They have soon drawn around
them other boys, not of their own set. If they can
get hold of pupils on their way to school, they are
sure not to let them go till they have effectually
cleaned out their pockets of what stray coppers may
be found in them. The favourite game is pitching
and spanning cents., tbough betting on marbles also
runs high. In these games they have the expertness
of old stagers. It is a study to watch the pluck and
science with which they enter into the spirit of. the
game. Coppers change hands rapidly, and on a
small scale you can see developed all the passions of
the veteran gambler. The lucky boy who has won a
few coppers is usually apt to invest his capital in the
purchase of a horse, ' saddle,' or gig,' so called, at
the policy office. To make good this outlay, which is
pretty certain to prove a total loss, he goes to the
pavement and plays with fresh zeal, for the purpose
of getting what he calls ' hunk.'
" This is the first stage. But young ambition soon
takes a higher flight. The aspiring gambler next ex.
pands his wings at the ton-pin alley or bowling
saloon. Here he goes through a new course of
sprouts; he is getting his eye teeth cut rapidly. The
next move is to the billiard-table, where his profici-
ency is marvellous; and, diversified with the new
wrinkles he obtains at the raffling rooms, he is ready
for the faro table, at which he takes the first degree
in the higher branches of the desperate career which
has now become his destiny. The street boy thus
launched, often sails before the wind at an astonish-
ing rate. Many of the most notorious gamblers
have risen from these small beginnings to their pre..
sent eminence in their detestable trade. We might
name three of the most celebrated faro tables in New
York that are now owned by two full-feathered
gamblers, who pride themselves on being regulars'
in the profession, and who have come up through all
the degrees from spanning coppers in the street to
their present disgraceful pre-eminence.—R. L. E."
RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.

NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE RAILWAY. - ( Miles open,ll2.)
Return of traffic for the week ending Dec. 15:—
Railway and canal . 41,390 0 0
Corresponding week last year ... 4,037 0 0

MANCHESTER., BUXTON, MATLOCK, AND MIDLANDS JUNC-
TION RAILWAY.—Return of traffic for the week ending
Dec. 22 :
Passengers, &c. £54 0 1
Merchandise ... 71 19 5

Total £125 19 6
Corresponding week last year 100 16 5

TRANSMISSION OF BASE COIN BY RAILWAY.—On
Friday morning Mr. Beswick, chief superintendent of police,
received information that a parcel, supposed to contain base
coin, was lying at the London and North-Western Railway
parcel-office, London-road station, and he dispatched police-
man Harper to see who came for it. and whither it was
taken. The parcel was directed " William Johnson, Rail-
way-station, Manchester. To be lett till called for." Between
twelve and one o'clock at noon a man came for it, and signed
" William Johnson ;" and he was followed to the house, No
12, Clock-alley, by Harper, who then gave information to
Mr. Beswick. The superintendent, accompanied by Inspec-
tor Buckley, went to the house, and saw the parcel lying on
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OAS-LIGHT ANXI COX COMPLINIES.
Dividend i Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
- ----
X. s. d. X. s. d.
British ••••••• • • • • • • • 11. 40 0 0 18 0 0 13
Ditto Provincial•• •• 11. 83. 20 0 0 20 0 0 173(
Brighton ••••..• • • • • • 51. 20 0 0 - -
City of London .. •• •• 6/. 100 0 0 150 0 0 -
Continental Consolidat. 925. 75 0 0 31 5 0 -
Equitable-. ••••• • • • • • 50s. 50 0 0 50 0 0 -
Imperial • • .... ••• • • • 31. 50 0 0 50 0 0 73
Independent ... ••• • • • 61. 40 0 0 40 0 0 46
L0nd0n..............- 50 0 0 50 0 0 -
- 50 0 0 50 0 0 -
Do., Parl. Preference 61. 25 0 0 210 0 ' -
Phcenia .••..•• • • • • • • 4361. 50 0 0 49 0 0 1 2834
Ratcliff ••• • • .. ••• • • • 5/. 100 0 0 90 0 0 I -
United General ••• • • • 1/. 50 0 0 50 0 011 15%
Virestminster Chartered 3/. 50 0 0 - ' 48
Ditto, New •••• • • -12 s. 50 0 0 10 0 0 eN,
LIST OP SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
----. ---- -- -.-. -
X 8. d. X s. d
Bank of Scotland
dritish Linen Company 81. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 202
Jaledonian Bank
City of Glasgow Bank 61. per cent. 10 0 0 10 u 0 li%
lydesdale Bank •••• • d% per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 e 13%
"lommercial Bank -•• 71. per cent. 500 0 0 100 0 0 175
-'.astern Bank •••• • • • • 61. per cent. 25 u 0 10 0 9/. is
Edinb.&Glasgow Bank 6/. per cent. 5 0 0 5 0 0 4%
Eaehangeßnk of Scot.. 41. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 )3%
NTational Bank 6% per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 15%
Northof Scutlandßank 4/.percent. 20 0 0 5 0 0 2/.lls.
Royal Rank of Scotland 51. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 133
Union Bank of Scotland 81. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 8830
Western Bank • ••••• • • 71. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 7139
Alliance Fire and Life 3391. pr cent. 10 0 0 10 ) 0 203
British Guarantee
Caledonian Fire Insur. i 01. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 23
City of Glasgow Life 6/. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 0 21. 17s
Colonial Life ... ..
eldinburgh Life Insur. 51. per cent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 203(
Eng. & Scot, Law Life 6/. per cent. 50 0 0 217 6 2%
Life Assoc. of Scotland 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 21. Os
National Fire and Life 61. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 243.0 d
North British Insur.
Scottish Union Insrnce. 6341. pr cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 '244.6d
Standard Life ...... - 51. per cent. 50 0 0 4 5 0 ' 10
United Dep.Assurance 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 17s 6d
MISCELLANEOUS.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
-- -.......
X. s. d. E. s. el.
Assam Tea ........ - - 20 0 0 20 0 0 4%
kuctien M art •••• • • • • 2/. ss. 50 0 0 - 28
tustralian Aqricalturl 1/. 100 0 0 30 0 0 Is%
Australian Trust •• .. 61. per cent. - 35 0 0 20'4
tnglo-Mexican Mint.. 11. 10s. 10 0 0 10 0 0 20%
Ditto, Half Shares.. - - 2 10 0 5
British American Land - - 38 10 0 -
Canada ............. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 32 10 0 44
Uppr Canada Bonds 51. per cent. - - -
Ditto ditto .... 6'. percent. - - 106
City Navigation Bonds 3} per cent. - - 96
Gen. Revers. & Invest. sp. c.& bs, 2/ 100 0 0 100 0 0 90
Equitable Reversienry 5 p.c. & bs. 5 / 100 0 0 100 0 0 108
Ditto New .••• • • • - 50 0 0. - 5039
GeP.. Steam Na.vigation 11. Bs. 15 0 0 14 0 0 27%
Hudson's Bay.. - • • • • - Stock. - -
Hungerford ...... •• .. 2/. ss. - 100 0 0 47
London Institution ... - - 78 15 0 -
New Zealand Company - 25 0 01 25 0 0 -
Ditto, New . ...... - 25 0 0 12 10 0 -
Russell Institution.... - - 126 5 0 -
Penlnslr & Orient.Stm. 81. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 88
Reversionary Int. Soc. 1391. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 101
Royal Mail Steam.... 4/. p. share. 100 0 0 60 0 0 74
South Australian.-- 11. per share. 25 0 0 25 0 0 24
Van Dieman's Land. - 100 0 0 29 .0 0 -

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK.

(From the Registrar-General's Return.)

In the week ending last Saturday, the deaths re-
gistered in the metropolitan districts amounted to
1,166. This result shows a small increase on the
average of corresponding weeks in the ten years
18409, which is 1,146 (without correction for pro-
bable increase of population); the numbers severally
returned in these weeks having been less than 800 in
1841, and having risen to 1,262 in 1846, and, by the
force of influenza, to 1,946 in 1847. During the
three weeks, which have just elapsed, of the current
month, 1,004, 1090, and 1,166 deaths have been
successively recorded ; but it must be observed that
the formidable increase in the present return is caused
not exclusively or principally by an augmented rate
of mortality, but by an influx of coroner's cases,
which occurred at dates antecedent to last week,
though the registration of them has been postponed
till the close of the quarter. Of the deaths on which
inquests are held, the largest proportion fall under the
category of "violence ;" and of these 4 are now enume-
rated under poison, 11 under burns and scalds, 6 und,
hanging end suffocatioe, 2 under drowning, and 27
under fractures and wounds (or which 14 nests; red to
men by accidental jails in the stre.t, and by falling
from windows and other heights). Two boys, 3 girls,
and an aged womanwere burnt by the clothes takilig
fire; three children were eceidentallv suffecated in
bed; 6 children died from want of breast-milk ; a
woman was poisoned from an verdose of laudanum
and a child by Godfrey's cordial. Intemperance w
s
fatal to a man and a woman by producing apoplexy;
and a miller of 19 years died from " disease of lungs

ard knee joint (about 4 months)," whose illness is
stated to h, aye arisen from inhaling the dust of his
mill.
Among the fatal clues of last week, diseases of
" the lungs .and other organs of respiration" are con-
spicuous ors the list; they amount to 274, nearly the
same as in the previous week, and still slightly exceed
the average.. Bronchitis numbers 102, pneumonia
117, and asf:hma 34 deaths. In the tubercular class,
there are 8 from scrofula, 16 from tabes mesenteries,
25 from hydrocephalus (or water in the head), sod
112 from consumption.
Amongst epidemics, small-pox carried off 21
children land 4 adults, nearly the same number as
in the former week ; measles, 21, scarlatina, 30 ;
hooping-cough has risen from 42 to 52, croup num-
bers 10, diarrhea 16, typhus 43, and erysipelas 11.
A single case of cholera was registered as follows
In the workhouse, Mile-end New Town, on 16th
December, a boy, aged 8 years, '• English cholera (48
hours), consecutive fever (3days)."
An analysis of the 1,166 cases registered last week,
shops that—

The causes of death were certified by

written statements of medical at-
tendants in
Coroners' inquests on others were heth.in. "4
914
Medical attendance was not obtained cases

(nor inquests held) in
Causes of death were not certified (or only
by oral statement of attendant or infor-
mant) in

Total 1,166
Hence it appears that the causes of death, either
certified by the medical profession, or which became
the subjects of investigation before coroners juries'
form 97 per cent. of the total number.
The births of 729 boys and 748 girls, in all 1,477
children, were registered in the week. The average
of corresponding weeks in five years (1845-9) was
1,342.

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS.
NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGIS.CEBED 115
THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, DEC. 21, 185°..231
Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases 4$
Diseases of Uncertain Seat .. ••••
161
Tubercular Diseases .. • ••• ••• ••• 149

Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... "' 31
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels f
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs 274
Respiration ... ••• *9
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs
of Digestion...
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. ••
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &o. •••
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles
Diseases of the Skin, &c. •••
Malformations... ... •••
Premature Birth .. •••
Atrophy
Old Age ••• ••• ••• ••• •••
Sudden ... ".
Violence, Privation, Cold, and Int. m?erance
Causes not specified

DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES ...
Population Deaths in cone-
Enumerated, spending week
1841. of 1849.
West Districts... 301,189 . 149 •
-

Ni ors h Districts.. 376,568
Central iets 374,199

206
164

.......--
1,166
Deem
in the
Week'
156
219
231
247
313
----
1,166
564
602

East D siricts ... 393,067
ouch Districts.. 503,346

1,043

..... 1,948,369
Mal, s ••• •••
Females

BIRTHS IN THE WEEK-

Males
Ft-males

Total ... 1,477
*ln this number are included 30 by Scarlatina. 43
by Typhus Fever, 16 by Diarrhoea, and 1 by Cholera.

SHIP NEWS.
GRAVESEND. DEC. 25.—Wind W.N.W., fresh, fine.
Arrived—Adelaide, from St. Michael's; Windsor, from
Calcutta; Petite Fortune, from Gravelines; Elbe, fronz
liamburgh; Gleneaple, from Newfoundland; Albiout
from Boulogne ; John Cobbold, from Jaffa• TriumardPb.
from Guernsey; Queen, from Dunkirk; Sir Edw
Banks, from Ostend; Caledonia, from Pillau,• We
asner•io
trom St. Michael's; Hero and the Bliss, from St. M.
Sailed—El.peth, for Trinidad; Satire, for Jamaic;
Triton, for Osttnd; Stadt Dordrecht, for Dordt; Lie' "
pool, for Brest; Seine, for Boulogne; Diana, for llarli"
gen; Rhine and Apollo, for Rotterdam.