The Sun.
London, England, 1845-02-22 00:00:00

THE ABOVE HEADS.

Total. Weekly Average
of Five Years.
Consumption 153 147
Scarlatina
Pneumonia, ...........
Dropsy ..... .. ... ......
Looping Cough 29 33
Typhus 25 30
Small Pox 33 20
Disease of the Heart
Measles l9 24
Apoplexy
Diseases of the 8rain.......... 10 10
Diarrhoea.. .. 9 13
Sudden Deaths ....... .......... 16 15
DISTRICTS.

Deaths Weekly Births
in Average of in
the Week. Five Years. the Week.
West
North .,
225 176 • 244
Central -
East 219 209 293
South

Total ...... ..... 1112 963 1256

RACE BETTING.—In the Palace Court, yesterday
morning, an action, Cooke v. Freeman, was brought to re-
cover the sum of 251, being a bet lost on the issue of the
race fur the Derby. It appeared that the plaintiff is a painter,
and the defendant a butcher in Titchlield-street, and he
betted the field against Running Rein, Orlando, and Ratan,
and in consequence of the dispute as to which was the win-
ning horse, he refused to pay the bet. Counsel for plaintiff
said the difficulty which had arisen was,whether the plaintiff
ought to claim on Running Rein as being the first horse in,
or on Orlando, who, it had been decided, was the winner.
The whole of the facts were stated in the declaration. The
Judge said there was no necessity for them to try that point ;
they had claimed on Orlando; the only point to prove was
the making of the bet. A witness gave evidence of this fact,
and that Running Rein and Orlando were thefirst two horses
in. The jury found a verdict for the amount claimed.
' FALL OF PART OF AN IRON ROOF.—Considerable
alarm was excited in Salford, on Saturday morning last, by the fall
of the greatest portion of the roof of one of the buildings of the Man-
chester Bonding Warehousing Company, Chapel-street, which for
many years was used as the cotton warehouse, in connexion with the
mill of Messrs. Philips, Lee, and Co. The gable-end of this building
fronts Chapel-street. The building is about one hundred and twenty
feet in length and forty feet wide. The roof was an old cast-iron
one, much decayed, and was supported by two ranges of iron columns
(the building belt g fire-proof ), dividing the building longitudinally
into three bays. These columns were very slight, and from iron
cups, let into the top of these pillars, very light principals of cast-
iron were carried, :at a shallow spring, to support the roof, or
rather roofs, for it was in three divisions. Several workmen
and others were upon the roofing, which was undergoing re-
pairs, when about twenty minutes before eleven o'clock, the
whole of the division next the yard of the premises :fell at
once, with a loud crash, and this dragging the tie-rods down,
dislodged the pillars on one side of the centre bay, about a third of the
roof of which next fell, followed by a rather larger proportion of that of
the other outer bay ; so that, in all, about two-thirds of the roofing
fell. Fortunately, no ono was in the uppermost room, which was
quite empty. It was also fortunate Clint, a short time since, this
room had been celled with plaster, the ceiling supported by beams,
&c., wholly independent of the roofing, so that this broke the fall, and
rendered it less destructive to the floor than so great a weight of iron
must otherwise have proved. One man, named James Liptrot, a
hired porter, was much hurt, receiving several cuts, wounds, and
bruises, about the head and face. Amongst the individuals on. the
roof was a clerk of Mr. A. Mills, architect, who escaped without
injury. Upon inspection, yesterday, it was found that nearly the
castir one ups in one range of pillars had been cracked or torn, o
,ttyptt
l
rentlytir a long time, by some severe shock or strain, and ono theg_y
prindipais was also broken. The cast iron beams were
ce
slender; and being only an inch and three-quarters deep, halt'
inch thick, and nine feet hi length.--Jfaidiester Guardian.
MILLWORK AND MAcumEnv.—A
motion of Mr. Cardwell, the Secretary Treasury, has been laid
return, on the
of theedeelared value of all
before Parliament, giving ft I 1 account f
4t317 naLtl Iltes United teTdhlie
declared
dine
valuec k
qmullaleweorr millwork
tnhdanyiettaeil isileBr4yl, exportedls42 18
the year to the sth of
sth of January, 1842, was , . , the year
the year ended the
of millwork and machinery exp,orted from
,thessUl United
.liingdom in
January, 1844, , ,ended the sth of January
showing an increase on every year in the value of
and Li 5151 it 65
year3l. 4 in
ended the sthof7lJ3a4n7u4alr3:,
exported.
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chinery