The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-08-07 00:00:00

District P.rluo.

A Lancaster boat-builder has completed a new wager
wherry, which is hollowed out of a single piece of timber,
instead of being built in the usual manner.
Mr. N. Stephenson, for many years a file cutter at
Warrington, dropped down dead on Sunday week in a
fit of apoplexy.
There have been crowded me, tings of operatives at Stock-
port, Bury, and Altrincham within the last few days, at
which resolutions in favour of the Ten Hours' Bill, in its
full integrity, have been unanimously agreed to.
THE SAMPLES OF TNDIAN COTTON.—The shipment of
cottons recently received by the Commercial Association,
from the Coimbatore district, and which was forwarded
to them by direction of the East India Company, con-
tinues to excite much interest among the spinners in this
district. The quality of the different kinds is in general
highly approved ; and we understand that fully one-half
of the shipment of 871 bales has already been sold, at
prices quite equal to those at which the different samples
were valued by Mr. John Brown, and which we recently
published. The shipment expected from Tinnivellv has
not yet been received.—Manchester Guardian.
THE PUBLIC HEALTH. Again the Registrar-Gene-
ral's return indicates an increase on the excessive morta-
lity of the previous week. The deaths from all causes,
which in the three previous weeks were respectivelyl,o7o,
1,369, and 1,741, rose in the last to 1,931. a number which
is almost double the weekly average, and exceeds that of
the former week by nearly
.200. The general result of the
return is favourable ; marriages continue at a steady ave-
rage ; births are increasing, and so are deaths. 56,540
persons were married in the quarter in the same quarter
of last year, 56,602. " The steadiness of the rate of
marriage indicates the prudence of the people, and proves
that they are as far from the depression of 1842 as from
the elation of 1845." " The marriages at Liverpool,
Manchester, and Leeds, were nearly stationary in the
three winters, 1847-8-9 ; the numbers at Manchester had
been excessive in the winters of 1845-6." The registered
births in the quarter were 153,822 (a greater number than
in any previous quarter); deaths, 102,143 ; " 51,679 is
the addition to the population of England in the 91 days.

This natural increase of the population is, however, dis-
turbed by the immigration of the Irish and the emigration
of the English peopre." The mortality is above the ave-
rage of the last five springs,• though lower than that of
1848, and considerably lower than that of 1847,—North-
Western Division : The mortality of Cheshire and Lan-
cashire, higher than in the spring of 1848, was much
lower than in 1847. The deaths in the three quarters
were 20,585, 15,553, 16,637. In the spring quarters
1848-9, the deaths in Wirral were 172,263 ; Liverpool,
1,907, 2,602 ; Ormskirk, 187, 252 ; Mancheste?, 1,746,
1,810. The deaths mentioned in Liverpool from cholera
amounted to 570. Cholera also prevailed in West Derby,
adjoining Liverpool ; and a few cases are noticed at Man-
chester, and in many of the Lancashire districts. 14
persons died of cholera in Mottram (Woodhead tunnel).
—Yorkshire : The mortality was lower than in the pre-
vious spring quarters ; the deaths were 10,140, 10,852,
10,749, 10,350, in 1846-7-8-9. The deaths in Bradford
were 1,207, 1,108, 1,054, 1,157 ; in Leeds, 653, 879, 680,
636 ; in Sheffield, 852, 634, 808, 691 ; in York, 293, 370,
327, 309 ; in Hull, 336, 300, 348, 331. Cholera invaded
Bradford ; principally in the east part of the town, near a
" filthy" canal. Isolated cases appeared at Leeds, Shef-
field, and Hull. A sea captain from London died of
cholera at Scarborough.