The Sun.
London, England, 1850-09-25 00:00:00

THE COMMERCE OF LIBERIA.

To the commercial men of our country, Liberia
presents herself as a theatre of extensive and lucrative
business operations. Palm oil is produced by the nut
of the palm-tree, which grows in the greatest shun.,
dance throughout Western Africa. The demand for
it, both in Europe and America, is daily increasing,
and there is no doubt it will, ere long, become the
most important article of trade. Camwood, red
wood, bar wood, and other dye woods are found in
great quantities in many parts of the country.
About thirty miles east of Bsssa Cove is the com-
mencement of a region, of unknown extent, where
scarcely any tree is seen except the Camwood. This
boundless forest of wealth, as yet untouched, is easily
accessible to that settlement; roads can be opened to
it with little expense, and the neighbouring Kings
will readily give _ their co-operation to a measure
so vastly beneficial to themselves. One Liverpool
house imported COO tons in a single year, worth about
50,000 dollars. Ivory is procurable at all points, and
constitutes an important staple of commerce. It is
iuppooed that flora 150,000 to 200,000 dowe'.•ventil

is annually exported. Gums of different kinds enter
largely into commercial transactions. The house re-
ferred to above imported, in three years, into Liver-
pool, of gum senegal, nearly 600,000 dls. Dyes of all
shades and hues are abundant, and they have been
proved to resist both acids and light. Gold, which is
found at various points of the coast—from the Gambia
to the Bight of Benin, and probably to a much
greater extent—is obtained by the natives by washing
the sand which is brought down from the mountains
by the rivers. Besides these may be specified wax,
hides, horns, pepper, ginger, arrowroot, ground nuts,
copper, mahogany, teak, and Gambia wood. Cotton of
a very beautiful staple, yielding two crops a year, is
indigenous, and thrives for twelve or fourteen years
in succession without renewal of the plant. Coffee,
of a quality superior to Java or Mocha, is raised in
Liberia, and can be cultivated with great ease to any
extent. It bears fruit from thirty to fourty years,
and yields ten pounds to the shrub yearly. A single
tree in the garden of Colonel Hicks (colonist), at
Monrovia, is said to have yielded sixteen pounds at
one gathering. Sugar cane grows in unrivalled
luxuriance, and, as there are no frosts to be dreaded,
can be brought to much greater perfection than in
our souther❑ states. Indigo, caoutchouc, tamarinds,
limes, oranges, lemons, and many other articles which
are brought from tropical countries to this, might be
added to the list. Indeed there is nothing in the fer-
tile countries of the East or West Indies which may
not be produced in Western Africa.—Colonization
Herald.

HIGHWAY ROBBERY byMISTAKE
The following singular adventure is related in the
French journals :—A party of gentlemen met a few
days since for a day's shooting in the neighbourhood
of Montereau. The house in which the sportsmen
spent the night was situate half-way up a declivity
overlooking the high road. At about two o'clock in
the morning one of the inmates hearing a noise, raised
a cry that their vehicle was being stolen. The party
were soon astir, and hearing a noise of wheels as
of a coach going off; seized their weapons and rushed
out in pursuit of the thieves, whom they soon suc-
ceeded in coming up with, thanks to a cross cut.
The first of the party on the spot immediately seizad
the horses' heads and stopped the carriage short. The
people inside the carriage upon this immediately be-
gan to cry " Thieves !"—adegreeof audacity at which
our sportsmen grew exasperated, end cocking their
guns they levelled them at the driver. The latter per-
sonage, together with the individuals inside the car-
riage, were seized with terror at this demonstration,
and precipitating themselves from their seats,
rushed off into a neighbouring coppice; where they
were presently lost sight of. Congratulating them-
selves on the recovery of their carriage, the sports.
men returned with it in triumph dead beaten, but
swelling with pride at their exploit. It was now
determined the carriage should be safely secured in
the coachhouse, but what was their surprise at finding
the place already occupied by their own carriage,
which the servant had placed there the night before
without their knowledge. The cry of " thieves,"
which they bad considered as the height of audacity
on the part of the travellers, was new accounted for,
and the gentlemen thus interrupted in their journey
were the bone; fide owners of the carriage which they
h,id been but too glad to abandon, in order to save
their lives threatened by a band of armed ruffians.
The affair was serious, and in order to avoid the accu-
sation of robbery on the Republic's highway, accom-
panied with violence and other aggravating circum-
stances, it was deemed expedient before retiring to
rest to knock up the authorities and apprise them of
the circumstances on which they relied for their
defence.

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS.
NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN
THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, SEPT. 21, 1550.
Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases ...*196
Diseases of Uncertain Seat ... 40
Tubercular Diseases ... ••• ••• ••• ••• 162
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... ... 118
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 28
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration ... ..• 88
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs
of Digestion... •••
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c.
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c.
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 ...

DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES
Population Deaths in corre-
Enumeraled, spondiniz week
1841.. of 1849.
West Districts... 301,189 . . 215
North Districts.. 376,568 .. 277
Central Districts 374,199 ... 271
East Districts 393,067 ... 449
youth Districts.. 503,346 ... 769
Totals... ..... 1,948,369 ... 1,981

Males
Females

BIRTi itth WEEK.

Males ...
Females ...

Total ...

... 44

... 30
... 24
... 43

... 36

858
Deaths
in the
Week.
119
167
132
213
227

... 858
... 460
... 398

... 702
... 672

... 1,374

*ln this number are included 30 by Scarlatina, 38
by Typhus Fever, sti by Diarrhoea, and 2 by Cholera.

SUBURBAN VILLAGES.—A correspondent of the
Builder says—Being a working man, and moving amongst
that class continually, I hear a great deal about the desira-
bility of early trains on some of the lines of railway, that for
a small sum would set a man down in London a few minutes
before six in the morning, and in like manner remove him
from this Babylon in the evening. I feel assure 1 that were
this the case, suburban villages would grow up of themselves;
and a great deal of the hard -earned money of our artizans,
instead of finding its way into the doctor's pocket, would, if
not "saved," at any rate serve a more satisfactory purpose in
providing for increased appetites, and rearing a more healthy
population. The speculation (as far as the railway is con-
cerned) would probably not succeed at once, as it would take
s.,me little time for a sufficient number of mechanics to
" move," to ensure full trains: but depend upon it an arrange-
ment of this kind would soon be taken advantage of. Pro-
bably a better "spec." would be for a few of our capitalists
to secure a piece of land ten or a dozen miles out, and build,
says 800 or 1,000 houses, and lay down a single line of rails
for the use of the new town only, with trains every hour
from five in the morning to ten at night. The sum paid for
rent to include a ticket for a free passage on the said railway;
and, by the way, a town laid out at once in this way would
form a rare opportunity for what is now so much needed—
perfect sanitary arrangements, water supply, &c.
ONE OF ALADDIN'S JEWELS .FOUND.—Sacra-
mento (California) Transcript notices a discovery in the
Auburn dry diggings of a beautiful quartz crystal, as clear
as amber, and about three inches long and five inches in cir-
cumference, of which the following description is afforded :
In the centre appear the most beautiful variety of forms
and shapes ever presented to the eye. A cluster of green
metallic moss—an enclosed formation like an amethyst—
streaks of varigated hues and colours, perfectly transparent;
and from the centre to the circumference of the crystal innu-
merable shoots jut out of some metallic substance, bearing
an exact resemblance to the shining blue steel hair-spring of
a watch.

THE COUNTRY MARKETS.
IPSWICH, SEPT. 24.
We had an increased supply of all corn at market this
day. Wheats sold on same terms as last week. Barley
did not find ready buyers. Beans and peas dearer.
PER QUARTER. PER QUARTER.
Wheat, red 4os to 44s Beans 3os to 32s
Da., new oos to 00s Peas 3os to 31s
Do., white 4ss to 49s Oats
Do., new Oos to 00s Rye.. ....... . 00s to 00s
Barley, malting 22s to 27. Malt oos to 00s
Do., grinding... 00s to 00s Flour, per sack oos to 00a
AVERAGES FOR THE WEEK ENDING SEPT. 21.
Wheat 1,314 quarters at 44s Od.
Barley
Oats
Beans l, 003 Od.
Peas 2B „ 29s 7d.
HULL, SEPT. 24.
Messrs. Taylor and Bright's Circular states:—The
weather has been rather broken since our last, but the
rain would be very acceptable to the farmers, who have
lately complained much of so long a continuance of dry
weather. There has been a fair business passing in all
articles of the trade, and at full prices. To-day we had
only a moderate supply of wheat from the farmers, con-
dition not quite so good as last week: the millers were
only slow buyers at last week's currency. More inquiry
for red foreign; some of the present import goes to
granary. A continued good sale for barley, of which
the arrivals are now more moderate. Beans and feeding
peas find a consumptive demand. Arrivals of linseed
increase, but the market is well supported, as is also the
advance in cakes noted last week. The bulk of the
rapeseed goes direct to the crushers ; only one parcel of
cake on the market, and held at 92s 6d per ton.
The following are the present prices of grain
B.
Wheat, English, red 41 to 44 Peas, white and yel. 27 32
Do. white 44 46 Do. grey
Dantzic and Ko- Linseed, Black Sea 46 48
nigsberg 42 47 Do. Petersburgh ... 40 44
Pomeranian and Do. Riga& Archngl. 38 42
Hamburgh . 4O 44 Do. Konigsberg .... 38 40
Danish, Holstein, & Per ton.
Friesland 36 40 Lins. c,Hull 7/10s Od tooosod
Russian and Odessa 35 42 Do. fine foreign ..... 61 lOs
Oats, English
Do. Danish... l6 18 Rapeseed
Do. Friesland l6 19 Rape cakes...92s 61 to 00s Od
Do. Russ. & Odessa 16 —181 Tares, English ......403 —00 s
Barley, malting 24 261 Do. foreign 20s —26 s
Do. grinding........ 21 —22 Guano 6/ to 1010;
Beans 26 —301 Bones, do 90s Od to 00s Od
Do. foreign ...... 26 28iltye meal
LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 24.—At this day's market there
was a good attendance of the town and country trade,
who, however, bought very sparingly of wheat at about
the prices of this day week for old granaried parcels, and
a reduction of H per 701bs on fresh arrived foreign and
Irish new. Oats were in moderate demand at 2s 5d per
451bs for the best new mealers. New oatmeal was
mther 'ewer, and 22s 6d per load wan the eatrerae price

obtainable. Barley, beans, and peas, met with a slow
sale at late rates. Flour was in improved demand at the
full prices of Tuesday last for American, but rather
lower terms were taken for French. Yellow Indian corn
was neglected, but there was some inquiry for white at
27s to 27s 6d per quarter.
CORK, SEPT. 23.--Flour—.First 12s 6d to 13s; extra 14s 6d;
seconds, 12s Od to 12s 6d; households 9s to lOs 6d; thirds, 6s to 84
per cwt. Oatmeal lOs to 10s 6d; Indian meal 6s 9d to 7sod; wheat-
meal, 10, to 10s 6d per cwt. Indian corn 6110 a Od to 6115 s Od per
um. Bran 41 to 4/286:1 per ton. Hay—Farmers 25s to 335; average
308; dealers 32s to 40s Od; average 36s per ton. Straw—Farmers
11 s Od to 2 s Od ; average 18s ; dealers 25s Ott to 005 Od;
average 00s Od per ton. Bread—Wheaten loaf 6d to bid;
household loaf 5d to s}d per 41b. Fresh butter, Bd, to
9d per lb. Eggs—is 10d to 58 Od per hundred. Coale""
Newport 14s; Lydney 15s Od; Smiths' 14s Od; Culm
13s Cd per ton. Tallow 38s Od to 00s per cwt.
Whisky, 25 o. p., 5s tid per imperial gallon. Meat
—Beef 4d to 4id ; mutton 41d to 6d; veal 4d to
5d ; pork 4d to Oo ; bacon 6d to 7d ;
sausages 5d per lb.
Hops 710 s to 0/ Os per cwt. Bangor slates 312 s 6d to 3/ 5s per
ton. Bark—Barbary 71 5s to 8/ ss; Valonia 15/ to 0/; French
6/; Spanish 9/ to 10/ per ton. Fleece Wool 15s to 00s per stone.
Hemp 32/ to 34/ per ton. Fish— Scotch herrings 13s to 148; red
ditto 15s to 20s per barrel ; Newfoundland 8/ 10s to 9,10 s ;er
ton. Timber—Memel, 80s per ton; red pine, 31 les ; fellow
ditto, 21 15s per ton; deals, 131 to 181 per 100. Hides,—
Market 20s to 325; sated 21s to 32s per cwt ; calf skins
3d to 31d per lb. Potatoes, white sil to 9d; AlinieLs
Cd to Od ; Guano— Peruvian, 111; Ichaboe, 8' 105 per ton;
Tar—Archangel, 19s per l;arreL

G 1 T Y COIIIMISSIONERS OF SEWERS.
Yesterday a Court was held; Mr. Deputy Peacock
in the chair.
THE GREAT CENTRAL GAS CONSUMERS' COMPANY.
Some of the members having complained that the
contractor for the works had not taken care to replace
the large stones which had been removed in the pro-
gress of the works, and that much danger and incon-
venience to the public had been the consequence, Mr.
Chadwick, the contractor, was called in and ques-
tioned upon the subject.
The contractor stated that the most laborious ex-
ertions were being made to finish the extensive works,
and that he had had to encounter the greatest dal-
culties ; that in several places it had been necessary
to take up the pavement four or five times ; that it
was impossible, at times, to get the men to work ; and
that the masters complained of the conduct of the con-
tractor in monopolizing the employment of labourers
all over the City. He said, however, that he expected
the whole of the enormous works would be completed
by Saturday next.—(Hear, bear.) He believed it
would then be acknowledged that the greatest pave'
went operations ever undertaken were finished to the
satisfaction of the public.—(Cheers.)
Mr. Heywood, the surveyor of the Court, presented
a report to the following effect:—
"It has recently been reported to me, that within the
last few months several loads of fish-shells and other
refuse have been thrust down the gully gratings in the
f Billingsgate-market, by which not only has
a serious impediment at times arisen to the proper action
of the sewers, but expense has become chargeable upon
this Commission for the removal of the:obstruction. In
certain courts, in which sewers of small diameter have
been laid, the gullies have been constructed in such a
manner as to intercept solid substances thrust down the
gratings, and prevent any thing but liquids passing into
the sewers. In one instance, a gully so constructed has
been obliged to be cleansed twice.a week, such has been
the quantity of rubbish thrown down it, and the whole
of such gullies in the poorer neighbourhoods are fre-
quently choked up, and require constant attention. I
have before mentioned to your Hon. Court, that the
practice which exists in the poorer neighbourhoodst ,0f
throwing shells of fisb, cinders, and every imaginable
refuse down the gullies, is fraught with great evil to the
sewage, and consequent expense to this Commission, and
I am induced to bring the subject again before you, es,
after the best and constant attention fur the last two
years, it is found almost impossible to keep the sewers,e
;
in certain districts clear, the inhabitants appearing
consider each street gully as a proper and legitimat
dust-bin. By the 69th clause of the City of London
Sewers Act, the act of throwing improper substanei.cs
.
down gullies is consituted an offence, and made punish-
able able by fine, and prolably the detection and conviction ot
one or two offenders would do more towards its pre.;
ventiou than anything else, and it appears to me that l
is by the agency of the police that this detection can be
best accomplished; for, as the police are at all hours on
duty in the public thoroughfares, the offence must frs
quently come under their observation, and I beg to sub-
mit for your consideration the question as to the exPe
diency of calling the attention of the Commissioner of
Police to this nuisance."—(Hear, hear.)
ordered
The report was agreed to, and a copy was d.
to be sent to the Commissioner of Police.—Adjourae

HEALTH of LONDON DURING the WEEK*
(From the Registrar-General's Return.)
In the week ending last Saturday, the deaths rego'
tered in the London districts were 858—a result
which, comparatively, must be considered as a favour-
able indication of the state of the public health. 111
the same week of 1846, there were 863 deaths; in
that of 1847, 1,169 ; in 1848, 1,038; and in the
same week of 1849 there were 1,981. The average
of ten corresponding weeks, corrected for increase o,
population, is 1105 ; and the present return shoo a
decrease of 247 on the estimated weekly mortality'
In last week seven deaths were registered from Oa.
pox, and four were persons of 25 years and
wards. Of these, a seaman brought from the pre%
nought hospital ship, aged 28 years, died in the Snoi,
pox Hospital (which is now removed to the west sue
district of Islington) of "small-pox, confluent, tlePro°;
tected (11 days' illnes) ;" and a mail driver, aged 2d
years, brought from the Marylebone workhouse, di:,
also in the hospital of " small-pox, confluent, unnieehl.
fled (12 days)." He had been vaccinated in rut:"
but had no cicatrix. A man died of the same disease
in Henry-street, Marylebone, at the age of '269 sc-ps
is stated to have been vaccinated. Two fatal cages
also occurred in the sub district of Cripplegate, le
not bee,
of which a woman of 28 years, who had
vaccinated, died in child-bearing, after an
small-pox. Measles was fatal to 10 children, searia‘
tine to 30, hooping-cough to 29. Of these three coal:
plaints the two former exhibit less than the overall'
mortality. Typhus was fatal to 38 persons; intend
mittent fever, remittent fever, infantile fever, an
rheumatic fever, were each fatal in one case- 1,(1 the
corresponding weeks of four years (1846-9 .„a
deaths fkom typhus were respectively 34, 111,5°, in
73. Diarrhoea and dysentery continue to decline;
6.
attack of
the last four weeks the numbers have been f. ucce.
sively 128, 85, 85, and (in last week) 61. Cholera lat
returned in two cases ; on the 13th of Septeinberl;
6, Tarlington-street, Paddington, an omnibus ev,',,o
ductor, aged 30, died of " spasmodic cholera
hours)." On the 19th of September, at 35, Queers,
square, the (laughter of a drum maker, aged 3 Yekto
died of " cholera (2 days)." The deceased had `";0-os
ill for nine months, suffering frequently from 112
headaches and disordered bowels. Last week
persons died of phthi-is or consumption, whicha sela
proaches very near the weekly average number' artbs
other diseases of the respiratory organs the -eof
were 88—about the usual amount. The widnhvvses
law-clerk died in the Metropolitan Alms-"„-d 11
Ball's-pond, at the advanced age of 100 year"-
months. Mean
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the; Ales
daily reading of the barometer was above 30 aolithe
on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday; the mean
whole week was 29 851 inches. The daily temp"As
ture varied little during the week; it rose toilers
the end; the mean was 58.4 degrees, which ales of
not much from the average of corresponding w"st
seven years. The wind blew from the north stn the
the first four days ; afterwards, generally from
south-east.

Bo's"

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Strand, London. • heti
The Carlsruhe Gazette of the 19th publis
decree, prolonging for one month more the state of siege dated
se.
martial law proclaimed in October last.

BIRTHS.
OF A SOH.
On the 22d inst., at Horncastle, the wife of S uts el
it
Sketchley, Esq. wife
On the 22d inst., at King- the
street, Finsbury-square,
of D. Hutchins, Esq., of Upper Tulse-hill, Briatou.
OF A DAUHTER.
On the 23d inst., at Brighton, G
the Lady Louisa lgencriefroei
On the 23d inst., the-wife of Alfred Keyser, Esq'
Norf lk-crescent, Hyde-park

AMBRIED T MSS
On the 21st inst., at Lewisham *Church, henry -11°er t
Moore, Commander of the Emerald steam-ship, to 44111-::f
youngest daughter of the late William Wybourn, Esq„
Greenwich. Willie,
On the 21st inst., at Bishop's Castle, Mr. Alfred %
eldest son of Roger Williams, Esq., of Brentford,
to Mary Ann, second daughter of Samuel Bright, Esl7l'' °
Bishop's Castle, Shropshire. Siliard
On the 21st inst. at Llanhada Cardigan, - 1
TM vawr, liter
J. Dickins, Esq.; of Croydon, Surrey, to Caroline, clang
of J. Maitland. Esq .of the East India-house. Middlese i

DIED. a. glater
On the 21st inst., an Louisa Sus Thorp, aides' ,:i the
of the late Sir William Plomer, Knight, and wife - k.
late Alfred Thorp. Esq., of Cambridge-terrace, Bar
YdeLga„tain
On the 14th inst.. William Donaldson, only son of ' r
William Cruickshank, H.E.1.C.5., aged 19.
()Oen
tthhee 1177ttlht iihnsts-t..,,aattMcohnezpisgetoC7astle, Robert Findlay, 1:544
of Batturich, Dumbartonshire.
Eda, wife of 'Thomas W. Kou h E-vsiql.las'
On the 18th inst., at Brighton, Henry Trcwhitt,
Sunbury, Middlesex. relict of
On the 21st inst., at Worfield, Salop, Elizabeth,
Bayswa.ter,Eby:oe;
the late Rev. E. S. Davonport, of Davenport, aged 73. wife
On the 22d inst., at Rosenthal, Lewisham, Elizabeth,
of Alexander Rowland, Esq., aged 72. got*
On the 21st inst., at Frogmore-house, Blackwater,
Ann, the wife of Jonathan Miles, Esq.

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