The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-07-16

The United States mail steamer Baltic, Captain
Comstock, from Liverpool, reached her dock at
NewYork at a little after O'clock after a passage
of less than days, having discharged her pilot
at Liverpool at half.past o'clock on the evening
June 25. The Baltic brought ninety -four pas
sengers.
Correspondence of the Commercial Advertiser.
LONDON, June "a. 1851.
The latest dates from London were by the Africa
on the 2lst Of June. The Canada has since ar
rived with advices from NewYork (by telegraph to
Halifax to the 18th of June.
in Parliament there has been nothing new, and
all tie interest Of domestic occurrences still turns
upon the weather and the Exhibition.
Yesterday afternoon, one Of the most severe fires
that has occurred in London for several years took
place at costly pile of warehouses near London
Bridge. and property WAS destroyed to The extent
of tl50 900 or E200,O00. Ii is remarkable that
there is scarcely spot in that ghhorhood which
has not, within the last fifteen years, been the
scene of similar destruction but no amount of ex-
perience induces trial of any new methods of
safety. For long time past an invention called
fire annihilator has been before the public which,
from The tests 10 which it has been subjected, seems
capable OF afordi0g protection to buildings under
ali ordinary circumstances; yet although the ex-
pense is little more than nominal the thing is never
heard of either in houses ships.
Another illustration of criminal neglect of simple
precautions was furnished on Saturday last when
C,
and three other persons, had a narrow escape from
beina burned to death on the London and North
Western Railway. In our trains the carriages are
all separate, and there are means such as exist
in your cars of communicating from one end to the
other. The compartment in which these parties
Were caught fire from some accidental cause, and
but for the boldness of one of them, who got out
and clambered along the board on the side of the
tram until he reached the guard and gave an
alarm, they must all have been destroyed. As it
rUag tlpir rln has ar,I thair mn
was question of moment. Numerous accidents of
a like kin have been reported, from time to time,
in which the position of passengers has been
equally critical, but although they invariably
followed by an indignant demand on the part Of
the public for the adoption of some one of the
many cheap and simple conirivnncss by which a
communication between the guard and each pas
senger might be rendered at all times easy, the
mater soon drops and nothing is done. In all
these cases the actual life of some eminent person
is the essential price that must be paid forthe
qured Improvement,
The weather during the past week has been sin.
gularly changeabls with regard 10 temperature,
but not upon the whole unfdyorable. The Exhibi.
ton, therefore, has been steadily throneed and the
number of visitors Yesterday was 61 ,555, which is
within 600 of the highest total reached on any one
day. From statement Just issued, and which
has been made up to the 2ls inst, it appears that
the total number of visits to the building since its
opening has been l,5l2, ,3l3. OF course, however,
the number OF individuals who have entered has
been less than this, the majority having gone in
more than once. The largest number on any day
was the l7th of Jun-, when the total admission.
were 6S,l5i; and the greatest total under the roof
at one time was at O'Clock upon that day, when
the number OF persons present was 81 422. From
the following account of the weekly aggregate of
visitors it will be seen that with the exception Of
the week ending June II, (Which included the
Whitsuntde holidays, and was consequently ex-
peeled to be the most crowded time of ALL there
ha.rl lar tha
mencement to the present time:
M,