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Probat

the most efficient course would be to ap-

of Ireland,

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,n bill of healtli, or al-

could be ready to pay for the expense
,ction. We may add, that the deten
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lUGiI MWEILE, D.D., ON

day that, on
n important lec-
ture on Protestantism, in which he will devote himself to
the illustration of the subject of the above picture. So
noble a subject could scarcely have been selected by him ;
and, from the eloquence and learning which the rev.

by the advertisetnen
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CONDITION OF THE MANUFACTURING DIS-

TRICTS OF LANCASHIRE

The continuance of short-time working by a large por-
tion of the cotton-factories in this district, and the total
stoppage of others, together with the high price of every
article of food, are producing most distressing effects
amongst the operative population ; and these effects will
be aggravated by the cessation of labour which usually
takes place in this (Whitsun) week. A perambulation
which we have just made through some of the streets of
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`,TI he fact-

Manchester, usua, _ne most ftequented by t
hands, suggests the conviction that some calamity has

workers hurrying to andfrom the mill, meet the passen-
ger; no thronged shops present themselves; no groups of
laughing, careless people are to be seen gossiping at street

ren romping you may. see

mark their troubled-and emaciated looks. Here and
there a woman may be seen creeping to the chandler's

kerlias already got hold of all that is tangible as security

money

.y uestnateu homes,
relaxation or consolation out of (loon
weak and'ashamed to make their distresses visible to their
neighbours or to the world. Those even who are in full
work have their share of the prevailing suffering. The
spinners, and other operatives thus in work, contribute
largely, and to their infinite credit, towards the assistP-
of those who are not working ; and they
cramped, in addition, by the high prices of food.
Another class are severe sufferers, viz., the small shop-
keepers who supply bread, groceries, &c., fo the working
classes on weekly credit. Their •

nbaclC in their payment

ce
severely

they have kone on

nd as their only chance of at last being re

them are either ruine

supplied, are

f rawal wed

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nd the

or are in a struggling con-

offering from their ruin, and from the with-

y from circulation of so

privations with exemplary

Portion o:

• .
. Lions for parochial aid have been comparatively few, the
sufferers preferring to endure to the last rather than sub-
mit themselves to the dreaded ordeal of the relieving-
officer and the workhouse. Where we hear of largely
increased pauperism throughout the district, it is generally
found attributable to the increase of casual and immigrant
It is to be feared, however, that this forbearance

culated ; and such rumours, in

periods like the present

are generally realized ; not, however, by the real sufferers
hut by those of whom plunder and mischief are the

As yet fever amongst the workneople generally has not
shown itself in a greatly increased degree, the bulk of that

which is existing being confined to the immigrant Irish,
who swarm through the whole manufacturing districts,
locating themselves in the low lodging-houses, and the
filthy Irish streets and courts which, in every manufac-
turing town and_ village, that portion of the population

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have set apart for themselves. The rate of mortality,
however, is fearfully high, and is weekly getting higher,
principally from dysentery, diarrhea, &e., and from ex-
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bly assured, might be found amongst the families of

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the poor spiriners and weavers of this county ; and
should epidemic visit the district, its ravages amongst a
population, many of whom are reduced to the extreme of

result, us our own inquiries on the spot, the following
passage, from a letter addressed to the authorities of
Manchester, by Dr. Howard. one of the physicians of
the Royal Infirmary in that town, contains some very
startling facts :

intimately _
ac-
quainted ivith.the condition of a large mass of the poor, per-
haps an exaggerated statement for me 'to make, but neverthe-
less I will not shrink from expressing my firm conviction, that
a great number of the inhabitants of this town are at the pre-
sent moment daily perishing from the effects of deficiency of
food—absolutely dying from want. I do not make this state-

opinion of a novice or an -enthusist. The condition of the pool
is not a subject which I have only recent'y investigated
atten

ents I hear inmy Intel
uired from hearsay

I witness, or the stat
My information is not acc

must be .
extremely gratified to f
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INbIA AND CHINA.
THE OVERLAND MAIL

We have received by express from Marseilles our de-
spatches in anticipation of the Overland Calcutta Mail.
The dates are from Calcutta to the ith, and from Bombay
to the 15th April.
The hot season was beginning, and the usual result of
general quiet at that period was anticipated. The death
of Akhbar Khan, who is allowed to have died from sud-
den sickness (poison), had paralyzed all the schemes of his
partisans. Nothing of his plans had transpired, but it
seems evident that be contemplated up to the time of his
death to have a conflict (religious war), with the English
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is father was averse to his-acts, and, according to Aff-
ghan morality, the notorious son was sacrificed in order
to remove his father from difficulties. Strange to say,
Akbbar Khan ordered his body to be interred in Balk,
whither it had been removed with ceremony. His father,
Dost Alahommed, bad since gone from Cabul to Jellabald,
to settle all that Akhbar Khan had left there in a disturbed
state.

In Lahore tranquility prevailed ; there were not even
.s of disturbances. Gholab Singh is described
its new states, extracting money as fast as he

. .
can from his subjects. _
At Lucknow there was a commotion, arising from the
new sovereign having ordered that a temple, which was
said to have been polluted by the Mahometans, should be
pulled down. The various religious sects got quarrelling
on the subject, and they had got to blows.

In the ?-.Tizam. 's dominions the state of the government

was far from being satisfactory. The new minister and
the Nizam were not on good terms, and the result was
that the affairs of the government were far from being im-
proved. On the contrary, they were deteriorating daily,

so that an outbreak may be expected ere long: It is
feared that some foreign intrigues are at work in the ca-

Etajwarra c

causec

head of about 4.000 men sometimes sholvs in one place

ages, took black mail from

a several dwellings, and started off towards
The latest news is that he has gone in the

direction of the Sirsa jungles. The British troilps had
then to pursue him, for otherwise the native chiefs would
make no exertions. The inhabitants around Almere-and
Nusserabad were terrified with the ferocious proceedings
of this band, which must be put down to prevent much
greater confusion. • The results of the plundering were
felt in the markets at Bombay, for the native merchants
which

The disturbances in the Rajpoot districts are ca

to augment the trathe on the Indus; but the monsoon,
which sets in at the mouth of that river in May, will
prevent all communications until the beginning of Sept.
Scinde was tranquil and healthy. Sir Charles Napier,
who had been slightly indisposed, was at Kurrachee.
Nothing woo 'd of t' of ' Seebee

sai, __le late .nvasion
country by the troops from Candahar. The camel corps,
and other corps, were ordered to be put in an efficient
state. Rumour alluded to the probable resignation of
S'r Charles Napier ; but nothing positive was known on
the subject.

The subscriptigns for the Irish and Scotch poor were
considerable at Calcutta and Bombay. Madras was about

here was some disappointmene felt at the manner in

ground ; tor many persons were sangnme as to th
likely to arise to India from them.
Lords Hardinge and Gough were at Simla, wl

tend to remain during the hot season

Some of his acts proved his determination to carry On his
government with resolution and independence.
The Commander-in-Chief, Sir Willoughby Cotton,

The commercial advices by this arrivai are not cal-
culated to raise materially the spirits or the activity of
our manufaeturinc, interests, oir of exporters to that coun-
try generally. The Ca(Culla Overland Price Current of
April 7th, states of the market for imports

throughout the past tortnight, the somewhat unsettled position
of the home markets, by the last advices, for one or two staples

hitherto in brisk demand here having checked operations, not-
withstanding the decline in exchange and rather more numerous

Our import trade continues in a most unsatisfactory state,
s having been almost. entirely confined to manufac-

money-
Arent