New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-03-26

sess bet reeB Greenland and Nova Zemo 8 rescn y
Which Mr. PeterniGLn hss 80 often drawn ai's1t q.
Later in the year the steamers Fond tt IF lasarn
Sound. TO arrive there before August Taey Jli
there remain uEtl The ice forms ia November, wnan
they would with the produce OF the shing up
ihs time Leaving the setilcrs 10 proseclte he nh1re
fsheTy, and store Up the produce until ae q N
steamers ia the f,llowing year This scheme Drun-ei
web Energetic measures are indeed much needed 70
raise the Brtsh whale fisheries 20 their former mpo-
taDee and 20 the same importance in which they maze
teen carried on by the Americans Tor some tine. We
hope yet 70 sec the ss Il tbs company mo- IN me
Greet Polar Sea 20 the north Of Ass, ant right uoder
the Pole itsef IT, as II generally believed me sea OK
ten0s to that poin: Literary "sze''e
STATISTICS OF DRUyKESsEss IN ENGLAND
parliamentary paper has been "a YET I'm % q
molten made by Mr.. Hume showing IN. ~ =.
into custody fr drunk enness AID 2r dsoIdefy
conduct by the metropolitan police oFce; WIN nilA re-
Turn, relating % The CITY q ,,a fa nsI tro,
yortbe hslt on the protss Of obei and good conduct
in The various ei'tets OF LONDON IN i1i ~ ns tne m =
topojtan population amounted to l7io5S2 there were
m IA perps arresed for drunkenness and 1879 for dis
orderly CONDUCTS Of the drunkads lo5 we're women and
10 5l3 among the persons who conducted them
.elves In disorderly mabDer there were ~ women and
36 men In l64l when the population bad incr ased -
90fg I07 the numbers OF the 0Senses still
Mons the total for drunk being l5O and for ds
orderly conduct, l5a0; there were among these totals
Sis finale drunkards and so3 male, snd among the ds
the city police took 233 persons for drunken
and so2 persons for disorderly conduct among popu
lstion 81 BY tie returns OF 6j persons
Iu 1851 when the population Of the metropolitan districts
had increased ia 2a9S CO.. the total number Of persons
rested for drunkenness had decreased 10 1868 627 OF
whom men and g. 1G2 women. In the city the nnm
b,rs were, in s5 drunkards arrested 2S0 disodery per
SONS arrested 6sl Edinburgh with l4o 600 inhabitants IN
IS4l shows 1874 for drunkenness and disodery
conduct in that year. and in 1851 when The population
166Ne, the arrests only 2793 while GLASGOW with
3 5l inhabitants in 1851 had in that year 10 22 arrests
for the reasons eniioned above.
The PRIcE OF DIAMoxDs-Rough diamonds,
81 for cutting, sold at 81 Is to &c the carat
carat rather more than three grains and 56 carafs
equal 70 ounce Troy. But If the stones above
one carat the square Of the weight multiplied by the
price of single carat; that, for example rough
stone OF three carats costs 3X3x 90 or SIS. IL is SINH
lar with cut damondF and at present s50) the puret
brilants Of fetch than 49 brilliant of
two carats 2x2x 96 or 932 When stones are over
eight ten carats however THE is altered that they
are often valued still highly Diamonds Of quar-
ter Of an ounce weight are extraordinarily costly but
still larger met with and of the largest knswn
Is that of the raah of Mattun in Borneo which weighs
nearly two and half; that of the Sultan of
Turkey weighs two ounces; one in the Russian scepter
more than an ounce and quarter The greatest diam
eter Of the last inch the thickness lines The
Empress Catherine H. purchased it in the year l772
from Amsterdam, and for il was paid G7j 600 and
annuity Of $3.50 Diamonds weighing ounce exist
also in the French and Austrian regaa. One of the
most perfect the French known the Pitt Regent
diamond. 1t was bought for Louis XIV, from an Eng.
lishman named Pitt for the sum of sl35 900 sterling,
but has been valued at half a million. One of the
stones most renowned in the East IL the Kohl moor or
Mountain Of Light in possession of the Queen of
England. 1t came from GOlconda to Persia and while
uncut weighed more than five ounces but now polished.
only about two IL IL valued Al &c 900 900
sterling. II we look only n the common mode If es.
timaiiDg the value, perfect brilliant weighing half
pound, would be worth a20,000000. Some have stated
that such diamond exists among the royal treasures Of
Portugal large hens egg; according 10 others
this is only topaz.
Sketches from the Mineral Kingdom.