The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-08-03 00:00:00

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THE BISHOP OF NORWICH AND JENNY LIND.—
Mdlle. Lind has been invited by the Bishop of Norwich
to stay at his palace during the approaching concorts.
The number of married couples above sixty years of age,
who are inmates of the various workhouses in England
and Wales, is 574.
On Wednesday, the Rev. Samuel Jackson was elected
president of the Wesleyan Methodist Society for the
ensuing year. The Rev. Mr. Beecham was second on
the list.
At the Stafford Assizes, a postmaster, named Robert
Ingle, was convicted of robbery, having embezzled a
security of £2 Os. 3d., the property of the Postmaster
General. He was sentenced to ten years' transportation.
On Saturday last, Hannalißoys' the wife of a labourer,
at Alaston, Surrey, who had been haymaking, was struck
dead by lightning whilst seeking shelter from a thunder
storm.

A movement is being made for the formation of a com-
pany to promote the cultivation of cotton on the Pacific
coast of Australia, from the 30th parallel of latitude to the
tropic of Capricoen. •
LAUNCH.—Wednesday, Messrs. Robert Steel & Co., of
Glasgow, launched a magnificent steamer of 700 tons,
named ie Niagara, being the second of the addition to
the Halifax line.
It is stated that Jenny Lind was offered £4OO to sing
at Sheffield, but she declined under £l,OOO, as she has
only one night disengaged during her stay in England,
which she quits in September.
A playful whirlwind, says the Gateshead Observer,
betook itself to haymaking the other day, in a field be-
longing to Mrs. Backhouse, of Norton. It ran off with
a quantity of the crop, twohundrcd feet in the air, and
then sportively scattered it over its fellow haymakers.
FRENCH FRUIT.—The steam-ship Columbine arrived
at the St. Katharine's Steam Whart, from Havre, has
brought the immense quantity of 2,528" baskets of the
various kinds of fruit in season, the production of France.
This is the largest importation of the kind.
The present restricted weight of letters by post, of six-
teen ounces, will be removed on the Ist of August, and
from that day the Treasury are empowered to fix the
maximum weight of letters to be sent by the post, in or-
der to prevent packets of an unwieldy bulk, or an incon-
venient size, being transmitted.
THE CHESTERFIELD MURDER.—The grand jury, at
the Derby Assises, ignored the bill against Robert
Statham, charged with having, at the borough of Ches-
terfield, in the year 1845, aided John Platts to murder
George Collis, on the 7th day of December, 1845.
Anthony Lant was tried on a similar indictment on Tues-
day, and was acquitted.
REMARKABLE HORTICULTURAL FEAT.—The gardener
of Lady Rolle has succeeded in ripening pine-apples in
the open air in Devonshire. After the fruit was set in
May last, the pots containinc, the plants were placed in a
trench sheltered from cold° winds, and covered with
charred hay, and the result has been ripe pines of excel-
lent flavour.
A company, formed out of the late Drury-lane com-
pany, have been lately performing operas at the Surrey,
and have migrated from the far south to the far north,
their whereabouts being now Sadler's Wells. The prin-
cipal soprano and tenor are Miss Rainforth and Allen.
They have produced the " Sonnambula " with consider-
able success. _ _

The new post-office act provides "that it shall be law-
ful to allow any printed words, writing, or marks (in addi-
tion to the direction), to be put on any newspapers, or
other papers sent by post, or on the covers thereof, and
any such newspapers, or other papers, shall from hence-
forth be forwarded either free of postage or subject to such
rates of postage as the Postmaster-General with the Com-
missioners of the Treasury, shall from time to time direct."
To PROTECT GRAIN FROM RATS.—An individual of
much practical experience informs us that green elder,
deposited in and about the mows of hay and grain, will
prove an effectual preventive against the depredation of
mice and rats. We have long known that the leaves of
common mullen will drive rats from their haunts. There
is something in the odour of this plant that is disgusting
to the rats—they " cannot abide it."—Scotch Gazette.
At the Beaumaris assizes, Mr. Davis, surgeon, New-
burgh, and medical officer or the union, and Mr. Williams,
a schoolmaster, were convicted on an indictment of libel
against Mr. John Lloyd, surgeon of Llangefni, in the
shape of a printed handbill, describing the prosecutor as
an ignoramus. They were sentenced, Davis to imprison-
ment for two months, with a fine of £lOO, and Williams
to two months' imprisonment.
INCREASE OF THE PROPERTP-TAX. —The following
rather startling announcement was given as the first
article in Thursday's Standard:—" It is designed at the
meeting of the new parliament to propose an augmenta-
tion of the property and income-tax to five per cent. Of
this the public may be assured, and the design will explain
what has been hinted in some of the hustings speeches of
the ministerial candidates."
At the Worship-street police-court on Monday, Wil-
liam Sheene, the man who acquired so much notoriety
some years since by cutting off the head of his child,
from which charge he was liberated by the judges on a
technical informality, was placed at the bar charged with
cutting and wounding a woman, named Mary Anne Sulli-
van, with whom he bad cohabited, with intent to murder
her. He was fully committed on the capital charge.
A YOUNG LADY SHOT BY HER BROTHER.—On Wed-
nesday, a young lady, daughter of Mr. Lesourer, of Sloane-
street, Chelsea, was joking with her brother in the garden,
when the latter brought a fowling-piece with him to clean,
presented it at her, and touching the trigger, the discharge
entered the young lady's neck and face. Medical assist-
ance being obtained, it was found that the charge was
chiefly small shot. Though the injuries are serious, fatal
consequences are not anticipated..
SINGULAR PHENOMENON.--A SHOWER OF BLACK
GNATS.—On Sunday evening, the good people of Mer-
thyr were very much astonished by being visited by a
shower of these small insects. So dense were they for
about an hour, that people coming from chapel could
hardly see their way along the streets, and were obliged to
cover their faces for protection. They were of a larger,
size than the common gnats, and their sting like that of
the musquito.
CURIOUS INCREASE OF CHURCHES AND SECTS.—Ten
years ago the town of Girvan had only two churches, in
which public worship was regularly performed, with two
chapels, in which there was occasional service. Since
then three new churches have been built, and there are

CHARGE OF FORGERY AGAINST A CLERK IN SO M E
SET HOUSE.—On Wednesday, William Yates, chief clerk
in the Income-tax Office, Somerset House, was brought
up in the custody of Constable Kerr, F, division, and
placed at the bar of the Bow Street Police Office, before
Mr. Jardine, charged with forging a receipt for the sum
of £137, with intent to defraud the Drapers' Company,
and also with stealing that amount, being the property of
the Receiver-General. The prisoner was in the receipt
of £4OO a-year. and was said to be tha son-in-law of
Lord Robertson. He was remanded for a week.
At the Exeter assizes, all the men indicted for con-
spiracy and mutiny on board the Thomas Campbell were
acquitted. In the course of the evidence for the prose-
cution, it was elicited; on cross exaMination, that the
captain was a man of a violent and brutal nature, and
that lie had just been liberated from New.zate. where he
had been confined for a most violent attack on one of the
crew of the ship he had formerly commanded. The
captain himself admitted, on cross-examination, that he
had been thirteen times before different tribunals, at
home and abroad, on charges of cruelty to his men.
THE SECRET SERVICE MONEY AND TEIE ELECTIONS.

—The £30,000 a-year,.secret service, at the disposal of a
Minister of the Crown, and especially at the period of a
general election, is a sum capable of being " spread"

portion's of this £30,000 will be sunk in certain election-
Bering contests, which we have heard named, there is not
the shadow of a doubt. Whether any share of the ex-

penses of the City of London election will be paid from
out of this sum. it is, of course, impossible for Ili to say.
We have, however, an opinion about this matter—and

in which, no doubt, our readers entirely coincide
would be rather "hard" upon the Jew, say "

people " of Houndsditch and bevis Marks, 'to call upon

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the great Hebrew capitalist to pay all the expenses, while
Lord John has got so large a sum of money at the quiet

disposal of the governmeit.—John Bull.
THE FACTORY ACT.—We have been looking forward
with no small degree of anxiety to witness the spirit in
which this important measure would be acted upon by

those manufa-cturers who anticipated its results with the

most gloomy anticipations

The factory workers of this

district are now in u position to rejoice at the result of its

introductiori thus far

The noble and benevolent-►ninded

Fieldens, of Waterside, have again come forward with an
example worthy of imitation, and which, we are glad to

report, is not without its pleasing effects on many 'Others,
who have honourably followed the example of Messrs.
Fielden, and are now working their mills 11 hours per
day, and paying the day hands with 12' hours' wages.
We rejoice to find that the result of the new bill has cre-
ated a spirit of inquiry among the factory workers (espe-
cially the young men), who are considering the best means
of appropriating to advantage the extra time that is already
and will hereafter be afforded them. And we are informed
of several applications that are now being made to rent
small plots of land, for the purpose of making cottage
gardens. This is a step in the right direction.—Halifax
Guardian.

RIOT AFTER THE NORWICH ELECTION.—During the
after part of the day of polling at the Norwich election,
on Thursday, about 200 " navvies," wishing probably to
give an'extra cheer to their master, Mr. Peto, one of the
successful candidates, came into the city, and regaled
themselves rather too plentifully with strong drink, and
perambulated the streets, uttering the most vociferous
cheers for Mr. Peto, till the closing of the poll. Mr.
Peto had beaten the popular candidate, Mr. Parry, and
that was enough to stir up the ill-feeling of the Norwich,
mob, hundreds of whom had nearly all day filled the
Church-mall of St. Andrew's. When these jolly fellows,
unarmed and waving their hats, came past, an attack was
commenced upon them. The Norwich men were chiefly
armed with sticks and bludgeons, and chased the navvies.
The half-inebriated men turned round, and, having no
other weapons, the stones fell thick as hail amongst the
crowd. A fight followed, and the " navvies" were driven
through the market-place, along Davy-place, across the
Cattle-hill, taking refuge in the Cattle-market Inn. Here
the windows were dashed in, and in the fight nearly forty.
of the men were severely injured, chiefly about the head.
The police force was called out, and drove back the mob,
taking the wounded'men to the police station, from whence
they were afterwards removed to the railway station to be
sent home, followed by the infuriated mob, who were with
difficulty prevented making another attack upon them.
The rest got off safe.

Aug. 8,1847.

this morning have never had ocular demonstration that
such a craft floated on the great waters. This nondescript
of vessels is now anchored at quarantine, Staten Island,
where she arrived last night, and cast her wooden anchor.
All the seventy-fours and frigates in the British or Ameri-
can navy, if moored below*, would not attract half that
notice. Every person on the land and on the water is
astonished at her unique appearance. She is unlike a
ship, brig, schooner, sloop, steamer, canal boat, or any
other craft. Her stern appears like two or three poop
decks, piled one above another, nearly fifty feet above the
water, and her rudder, which is latticed, weighs eight tons,
and is in shape something like, only much larger, than a
canal boats. It takes forty men to steer her in a gale of
wind. Her prow is nearly square, and open in front, with
a large wooden anchor projecting out like a figure-head.
She has galleries or walks outside, extending from the stern
to midship s. Her stern is nearly squire, and she is gaudily
painted with figures. We learn from her commander
that it is 212 days sin ce she left China, She has floated,
drifted, and sailed along, stopping at the nape of Good
Hope and St. Helena. She was bound to England, her
captain being an Englishman and the speculation English,
but in consequence of the long passage her course was
altered, and she put into this port, where she will be
exhibited for several weeks, and then proceed to her port
of destination in Britain. Her bottom is very foul, which

has prevented somewhat her sailing. She will have to be
placed on the Sectional Dock to be cleaned. She has a:
crew of about fifteen English and fifty Chinese. It is a,
singular sight to see many of the crew at work nearly
naked, and others in the Chinese garb. She is an ex-
cellent sea-boat, lies too and drifts with great ease and
safety, is about 700 tons burthen, and has a large supply
of provisions and water on board. The commander states
that he has experienced very severe weather, particularly
off this coast. The passage has been nearly 100 days less
than he anticipated. Her accommodations within are
handsome and commodious, and she is filled with cu-
riosities descriptive of the country she came from. We
do not know her name, and if we did, probably could not
give it to our readers. The ferry-boats from Whitehall
to the island pass so near her that persons can have a line
view of her. She will come to the city in a few days."

QUARTERLY RETURN OF HEALTH AND

MORTALITY

This official and authentic document confirms the appre-
hensions that were entertained respecting the high amount
of mortality during the epring•quarter.^: = •-- • .
It is important to state, in the first instance, that the
quarterly returns are obtained from 117 districts, subdivided
into 582 sub-districts. 36 districts are in the metropolis,
and the remaining 81• comprise, with some agricultural
districts, the principal towns and cities of England. The
population was 6,612,800 in 1841. The deaths registered
in the June quarters of the five years were as follows :-
1843, 40,343 ; 1844, 38,977 ; 1845, 40,847 ; 1846, 43:734 ;
1847, 51,585. Thus the mortality, during the last spring
quarter, ending June 30, greatly exceeds the average mor-

t.ality of the Preceding Corresponding periods. )-tad the
mortality been uniform, and the population increased from
1839 at the rate of 1.75. per cent. annually, the deaths dur-
ing the last quarter would only have amounted to 44;849
instead of 51,585, the actual number, which is an excess
of 6,745 above the corrected average. The deaths regis-
tered during the four quarters of the five years ending
June 30, 1847, were :-1843, 163,162 ' 1844, 164;673 ;
1845, 173,810 ; 1846, 163,05 R; 1847, 212,210. The average
of 7 years is 165,831. Add 7.19 per cent. for increase of
population, and the average applicable to 1847 is 177,700.
The excess on the year ending June 30,1847, was thus no.
less than 34,000 deaths. The districts under review are,
however, stated by the registrar-general to include nearly
all the towns of England, and are always unhealthy in•
their natural state. The mortality is not more than 18 in.
1,000 in many districts, and entire counties, where the•
population is far from being. in a favourable condition ;
and after every allowance has made, if the ages of the
inhabitants bad been taken into account, the mortality
should certainly not exceed 2 per cent. ; at which rate, as
the population was about 7,274;900, the deaths in the year
ending June, 1846-7, would have been 145,498, or less by
31,200 than the average 177,700: The excess of mortality
tried by this standard during the year ending June, 1847,
was 66,712, and that in only one-fourth part of the popu-
lation of the United Kingdom.
These facts prepare us for the information that sickness

DIABOLICAL ATTEMPT TO BURN A WHOLE FAMILY:— prevailed to a fearful extent throughout the country dur-
One of the most cold-blooded attempts to destroy a whole ing the hist spring quarter. Common cholera, says the
family that has probably ever been made was tried on registrar-general, was fatal; scurvy prevailed more or less
Wednesday morning, shortly after twelve o'clock, and all over the country, from the want of vegetable food, the•
there is no doubt if it had not been for the providential potato having failed ; all food became scarce and dear ;
discovery that was made every person in the house would typhus broke out, is still epidemic, and shows no sign of
have been burned to death. It appeais that a waterman. decline. To add to the calamities of the country, the
named Maxwell, with his wife and family, have resided poor of Ireland dying from starvation, and consumed by
for some time past in Love-lane, Rotherbithe. The fa- fever, even cast on the coast of England, are now lodged
roily retired to bed at their usual hour on Tuesday night, in the crowded, filthiest parts of the most unsalubrious
but at the time before stated Maxwell was aroused from cities, or in workhouses and hospitals provided by English
his slumbers by a strange noise in the lower part of the parishes. In London, we are told, small-pox has been
building. He immediately got up, and on getting about latterly prevalent ; the deaths, which were from to 3to 7.
half-way down stairs he smelt fire very strongly. He went weekly in the beginning of the year, amounted at :he close
back and informed his wife that he thought the house of June, to 26 in the week. Typhus, which always pre- •
was wrapt in flames, at the same telling her to get up and veils more or less, killed 58 persons in the last week of
arouse the other inmates, whilst he went below to ascer- June; and was on the increase. Diarrhoea, too, was be-
tain if what he imagined was correct or not. The mo- coming more fatal as the temperature advanced. Pur-
ment Maxwell got to the foot of the stairs, he was met by Pura and hiematemesis have both been unusually com-
a young man, who, armed with a heavy hatchet, struck mon. They are probably of the nature of scurvy. '1 he
him on the back of the head with such violence as to knock following remarks on diet are particularly deserving of at-
him on to the floor, after which lie inflicted another blow tention, emanating as they do from the high medical an-
on the head of the poor man. The family, hearing the thorities in communication with the registrar-general !
man fall, ran down to learn the cause, and the villain, The metropolitan returns do not present a much more
seeing the people moving, rushed through one of the back favourable aspect than those of the large towns. In all'
doors, and succeeded in effecting a safe escape. In the the districts the mortality during the last spring quarter-
confusion of the moment the residents forgot that their 1
exceeded the average of previous quarters. The deaths
first cause of alarm was the outbreak of fire, and it was during the last five spring quarters were—in 1843, 11,748;
not until a dense body et smoke issued from one of the 1844, 11,597 ; 1845, 11,424 ; 1846, 11,423 ; 1847, 12,361.
A very large proportion of this mortality was occasioned
lower rooms, that they became aware that the place had I
been fired. WEen they entered the apartment in clues_ by epidemic diseases consequent on the want of ventila-
tion they found that a bottle of spirits of turpentine had tion, water, and the absence of sanitary measures. On
been set on fire in the cupboard, and that the flames were this subject the registrar-general says,—" That insalubrity
extending. By the timely assistance afforded, the fire exists is incontestable; the causes of it are known;. and
was happily soon put out. Everything has been done for that they admit of removal to a considerable extent is al-
Mrr Maxwell, but he lies in a very precarious state. ! lowed by all who have paid attention to-the subject.. But
it is a long time before the plainest principles can be car-
ELECTRICITY AND THE POTATO DISEASE.—In a letter
ried out. Whenbeere
theyte works are commdeneed, it will be-
addressed by Sir R. Meyrick to the Hereford Times, we can be completed
aads yet
find the following interesting statement :—"A. valuable
no-
piece of information was communicated to me yesterday, thing beenyheaaars begun. After
strafed that the health of the navyp counld be demon
by the Dean of Westminster. He had been a day or two 1 improved, thousands of the best seamen immeasurablyhadtoprish,.
before informed of the following interesting fact:—On my ; expditions to be defeated, millions of pounds expended,
stating my disbelief in the injury having been effected by 1 thirty years to elapse, before anything whatever effectual
a fly, he said that I was right, and that the conclusion i was done to place the health of the British navy on a sa-
come to by the various committees of savans abroad was,tisfactory. footing.
! So it is to be feared that, through the
that we knew nothing about the matter, and that it must •
natural obstacles in. the way, and the pertinacious opposi-
therefore have been caused by the peculiar state of the 1
I nof arish vestries of cor orations and com anies and
atmosphere. This assertion induced a scientific gentle-
th tioe
enemies of public'health,Pmany times the I:Timber' who
man, living at Kensington, to inqure what had occasioned I
have perished this year will fall a sacrifice ere the towns
any such state in the air. On examining the meteorologi-
there of England enjoy, by the intervention of science, a mode-
years
cal tables, he found that during the last two years
rate share of the health which nature confers on the coun-
had been a much greater quantity of lightning than pre-
viously. Then came the question, would that injure the try around them."
potato plant ? Lightning being electricity, to ascertain the There are two striking and most important facts, so
aptly illustrative of the advantages arising from sanitary
point he enclosed some atmospheric air in a receiver, and
measures based on science, that we add them to the fore-
having insulated it, applied the electrifying machine. The
going remarks. In 1750, the condition of Newgate and
tato plant being then introduced into the receiver was
po other prisons was such that a fever, called the " gaol
immediately affected in the same way as those diseased -
ones of last season. The potato was removed, and corn fever, broke
to out, and in the above ear killed the Lord
of various kinds, mangold wurtzel, and such like vegetable Mayor,
were
tryingof the judges, and an aldecman on the bench,
prisoners at the Old Bailey Sessions.
who
substances, subjected to similar treatment. They were
The assistance of the Royal Society was requested by the
unsullied. A fresh potato plant city was then put in and the authorities, to ventilate the prisons ; and accordingly,
effect was the same as before. Thus was established the I Sir John Pringle and other distinguished fellows of the
fact that the potato disease was occasioned by lightning. Isociety, took such steps as effectually banished the fever.
This is the first record of systematic sanatory measures
Now to prevent it. The first thing necessary was to as-
certain how the lightning acted. Mr. Adams found that
being adopted in our prisons. Now, these are carried to
it separated the air into its component parts, oxygen, by
such a state of perfection that it was only a few weeks ago
drogen, and nitrogen, the first so requisite for animal life,
and the last for that of vegetation; but this was not all, that we had the pleasure of recording, under the head of
for it did the injury to the potato by converting the nitro- " Provincial Intelligence," that, in Glasgow, when fever
gen into nitrous acid. Mr. Adams knew that quit lime was raging around, the prisons, containing about six hun-
was an antidote to nitrous acid; he therefore took a fresh dred inmates, had not one fever patient. Surely these
potato plant, sprinkled it over with quick lime, and intro- facts render all comment unnecessary. The meteorological
duced it into atmospheric air electrified as before—the po- tables whiffch accompany the return enable us to dednce
tato plant remained uninjured." the lng results. The mean temperature of the quer-
THE MONEY MARKET.—There is very little to notice toefr
tteGreenwichwas 53 deg. 2,0 which iase2ddeg.below that
quartercorresponding
fer
Thef 184 0.2 above that
in our weekly summary of money and commercial affairs,temperature of the dew
almost universal attention being directed to the prepare- •
of the
point was 44 deg.,being IYe so'wer than in the spring of 1844,
tions for elections now at hand and in progress. The ac- 5, or 6, by 3 deg. 1; 2 deg. 4 ; and 4 deg. 2 respectively,
counts relative to the probable yield of the harvest con- The mean height of the barometer was 29.793.; the quan-
tinue to be of a most satisfactory nature, and this circum- tity of rain 4.59 inches. The horizontal movement of the
stance has inspired a considerable degree of confidence in air 849 miles weekly, being about the average amount.
all banking and trading circles. The amount of business We observe that some valuable instructions for making,
doing, nevertheless remains limited, and will doubtless and registering meteorological observations are appendedi.
continue so until after the first week in August at least has to the report. •
passed. The amount of mercantile paper coming to ma- " The groundless prejudice against fruit, and the abso-,
turity on the 4th instant proves to be larger than was ex- lute necessity in diet of vegetables containing an acid, as
pected. Every effort is being made to prepare for such the potato does, were dwelt on before scurvy and its kin-
payments, and, though difficulty is experienced, and will dred diseases made their appearance. It is true. that-
still be felt, until the event has been arranged, it is never- fruit, when taken to excess, produces symptoms which
theless expected that, on the whole, the matter will be may be mistaken, by persons unacquainted with medicine,,
brought to a satisfactory conclusion. The foreign ex- for common cholera. But beef or mutton in excess will.
changes were quoted for three months bills as follows :--- do the same ; and the experience of this year has shown.
Paris, 25.65 to 70 ; Antwerp, 25.70 to 25.75 ; Amsterdam, more clearly than had ever been shown before, that bread
12.41 to 5 ; Hamburgh, 13.112 to 12 ; Frankfort, 121 ; and meat alone are not sufficient to sustain the system in
and Trieste 10 to 10.1. These rates exhibit a small ad- health. Fruit and acid vegetables are an essential part, of
vance upon Holland and Germany, and more firmness the food of man ; but it appears that the body when d

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upon other cities. The fluctuations in the funds have -s4plied with the principles it derives from these sources,
been but limited since this day week, but the tendency of husbands them up, and can do without the acid diet for
the week has been rather downwards. There has been some time. The appetite for fruit and pickles is not them
some demand for cash both in the stock exchange and without its use, although the chemists have not hitherto
disconnt markets, and the rates rule high, considering explained how vegetable acid subserves nutrition. With-
that there is little or no export of bullion going on, and out these aliments the blood loses some of its essential
that the capitalists and brokers are very full of cash. The properties, and escapes from the vessels in purple spots
fluctuations in the English stocks since our last, have been under the skin, or with more fatal effect into the struc-
in Consols for immediate transfer 884- to 88i and for the ture of internal organs."
account 88 to 891. Exchequer Bills have realized Bs. to Our readers are probebly aware, that a great number of
lls. premium, and East India Bonds 10. s. to ss. premium. medical men have fallen victims to their indefatigable

Bank Stock has been at iuna- to ion ana.
have been marked mast num MOCK attention to the sick in the poor districts of Liverpool
at 246 to 2431. The New 31 per cents and Manchester. The returns before us allude feelingly
911 to 901, the Reduced 3 per cents. 892- to 88k, and Con- to these philanthropic individuals ; and the registrar-
sols Scrip 4to 1 premium. The foreign stock market has general very properly expresses a hope, that the heroic
been very quiet on the whole, but the quotations keep up conduct of those now alive and of those who have perished
as well as can be expected. The state of money matters will not be forgotten by their country. But clergymen
both at Madrid and Lisbon is certainly very discouraging, as well as medical men have died. The registrar of Great
and, as to Mexico, we have no later news thence. The Howard-street, Liverpool, says:—
Peruvian bondholders have decided to push their claims . Eight Roman Catholic priests have fallen victims to
upon the government at Lima, and not to be at the ex- their indefatigable attention to the poor of their church,
pense of sending an agent there, but to solicit the inter- and one clergyman of the Church of England. Another
ference of Lord Palmerston. The range of prices for the (curate of St. Martin's) nearly fell a sacrifice to the same
leading Foreign Securities, since our last, has been in disease. Indeed, their exemplary conduct in visiting and
Spanish Active Bonds from 211 to 22/, the Three per relieving the sick has been the theme of praise with all.
Cents. 32 to 31, Portuguese Four per Cents. 308 to 314, From ten to fifteen persons connected with the relieving
Mexican 191 to 19/, Brazilian 84 to 841, Russian 1121 to department in the parish offices have also died of fever,
1114, Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 574 to 571. taken by them in discharge of their duties."
THE CHINESE JUNK GONE TO NEW YORK.—The We observe that instructions were given to the regis-
Chinese seem well qualified to realise the old nursery tale trars throughout the country to state in their returns
of a respectable elderly gentleman, who shot at a pigeon whether any epidemic disease, such as measles, typhus,
and killed a jackdaw. There was one of them, during the &c., has been prevailing in their districts. The number
late skirmishes, let off his clumsy gun at one of our men, of registrars is 447. 111 have made returns to the effect
and contrived to kill a pig which was grunting twenty that typhus, scarlatina, and other epic
yards off. The crew of the Chinese junk so long expected been raging to a calamitous extent
in London have, in their search for the metropolis of Liverpool and Manchester state tha
England, contrived to arrive at New York. The following has prevailed amongst the lov;er class
description of her is given in the New York Express : degree. Indeed, we havt
"We have read in books a description and have seen pie- ing account of Raul
, tures and models of these wonderful vessels, but until , genteel to us,

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