Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-11-27


Do in Scotland. Observation-Disclosures. l05,179
Do in Ireland. ............,. 1895, 942
Do in the United Kingdom. ......... 4,45o, 27s
The specie in the Bank of England has diminished du-
ring the year. .97, 323, sl4
That held by the Scotch and Irish banks has d.
ninshed.dunng the year. Observation-Disclosures. 726 670
The price of Consols has huctuated during the
month OF October from $50 to 7s5 per cent pre-
sent price 81 That of Exchequer bills has varied
from IS. premium to 35S. discount; present price
los. discount. The railway calls in November
amount to 9hs47,2Is, exceeding by about mil
lion the calls made in February last. As compared
with the other months of the year, they show a
considerable reduction, the average being about
43,590,000
The hope expressed in my former letter that
the improvement IN the money market would pre-
vent the discharge of laborers from the railways has
not been realized. More than one thousand have
been discharged in Lancashire alone; the whole
number thrown out Of wSek up to this time is about
900, and that number will be doubled before the
end of the month
The Registrar Generals returns for the last three
months, like all other authentic sanitary records,
acquire additional interest from the threatened APP
proach of cholera. These documents should be
studied carefully a very hasty survey reveals the
following facts: The number Of deaths in Lanca-
shire alone, from causes which might and ought to
be prevented, amounts to upwards of 10000 annu-
ay The state of London causes the resident therein
to throw away on average eight gears of life,
whilst that Of Liverpool ded,tcts nineteen from its
inhabitant. In square mile Of a rural district,
the annual mortality is l in 50, whilst in some
f0,on districts of the same area it is in 81. For
death in Sc in Hackney there is l in l 9 in St.
Oaves. The preventble sicknesses average yearly
I,6S0,000 the unnecessary widows, q, 900; the
unnecessary orphans, 100000! But what is all
this fearful array of figures 1t does not represent
a 1.-THE of the loss sustained by the dimnution Of
productive labor, the unnecessary charges on the
poor rates, and the thousand forms Of public and
private charity, and the frightul addition made
thereby to the crimnality of the country.
A very interesting report has just been received
by the Hudson Bay Company, from DR.. John
Rae, who commanded an expedition which was dis
patched from Fort Churchill in July, 1885, for the
purpose of surveying the unexplored portion OF the
arctic coast at the northeastern angle of the Amer
lean continent. The expedition has returned, after
having traced the coast all the way from the Lord
Mayors Bay of Sir John Ross to within few
miles of the straits Of the Fury and the Hecla--
thus proving Boothia Felix to be peninsula. 1t
does not appear that DR.. Rae heard or saw any
that there were tidings Of that gallant navigator
Among the rumors Of the day is one that il is
highly probable Mr.. MAsTERMAN will be unseated
as member of Parliament for London, on the Pc
tton about TO be presented against his return; and
that Sir GEORGE LvRPENT being ineligible to sue
coed him, in consequence of the bankruptcy of his
house, Mr.. MAcAULEY will be elected in his place.
Sir JONI HoBHoUsE has, it is said refused peer
age, which would be of little value to him, having
no heir, and will accept foreign mission. Mr.
FoNBLASoUE, the very talented editor of the Ex-
aminer, has been appointed TO very good post in
the Board of Trade.
There is nothing Of much importance to CON-
municate respecting affairs the continent of Eu-
rope. Spain has undergone. another Ministerial
crisis, or, rather, has turned complete political
SummerSet, in the dismissal Of the Salamanca adj
mnistration, and the appointment Of that Of Mar
but this latter had very near been sent to the
right about few days ago, through the operation
of similar cause TO that which once dismissed
Wellington and Peel from the administration Of
Victoria--,he appointment of ladies of the bed
chamber. The young Queen of Spain was deter
mined to hold on to hers, and NAKvAEz conceded
the point rather than lose his latey-acqured posi-
ton. One apparently good result has, however,
been brought about: Queen ISABELLA is reconciled