Washington sentinel., 1853-11-12

| week that ended on SATURDAY, the I'D In the ten
corresponding weeks of the years lS43-'52, the
average number was nine hundred and ninety
i eight which, with a correction for increase of
| population, becomes one thousand and fifty -four.
Ii happens that the actual mortality of last week,
i and calculation founded on the average Of the
| same week in former years, present IN this case
| identical results.
/ Il will be seen with regret that the deaths from
cholera, which had declined in the two previous
weeks from sixty-six 10 forty-fve, again last
week to eighty-three. Forty males and forty-three
females pershed by this disease The districts on
the south side OF the river still assert their fatal
pre-eminence forty-nine out of the whole number
Of cases having occurred there. Rotherhthe, Bat
tersca, ST. Saviour, ST. George, are the parts of
1 that division which suffered most. The deaths
from cholera in London in the corresponding week
| of 1913 were thirty-four.
News from India I'm ten days--P Passengers
I'm Three Weeks.-Within a twelvemonth OF the
present date railway will be completed from Os-
tend 10 Trieste, distance of 1900 miles, in which
| there are even now only two considerable breaks.
Letters, passengers and parcels will then occupy
| little more than two days from the shores OF the
4 Channel 10 those of the Adriatc; four days more
will take them to Egypt and by the aid of the rail-
way from Alexandria TO Cairo, now rapidly ad-
| vancing, they may within 36 hours be afoat on the
Red Sea, and in twelve days thereafter be safe in
Bombay, or within three weeks of their leaving
London Within this date the electric telegraph,
/ now preparing to be laid across the Mediterranean,
will have reached Suez, and the 1000 miles of
wire which have already reached Calcutta, will
connect every great town in India with the port
of Bombay; SO that before the year 1856 expires
we shall have communication by electric telegraph
in eleven days. time with every part of India,
| and by steamer and railroad from Bombay in 81.
/ London Morning Chronicle.
/ Commercial IntelIigence.--The corn mar
ket at Mark Lane, on the 24th ult., was only mod
erately supplied with English wheat, and the i'm
provement noticed in the previous Fridays mar
ket was fully sustained. The factors commenced
by asking very considerable advance upon the
prices OF the nth ult., and eventually clearance
/ was effected at rise of2 TO per quarter on the
rates of that day. In foreign wheat large busi-
ness was done at like enhancement of value.
/ Flour was Is. TO Is. barrel dearer. Barley and
oats Is to 2s. higher. The millers had raised the
top price of English -four SIS. per sack.
i The taow market was firm, the advices from
| st. Petersburg being very important, reporting
j degrees of frost and ship room disengaged The
large public sales OF sugar in umang Lane were
going off heavily; coffee fiat; rice frmer; tea
| higher, owing to the news from China.
| At Manchester business was quiet, but prices
1 remained steady, being assisted by the frmness OF
/ the Liverpool cotton market. The mills at Pres
ton and Wigan remain closed, and many thou
| sands of operatives were consequently out of
work. AT Birmingham there was continued firm
ness in iron, with an advance Of los. per ton for
nails and rods. Many Of the golfers had returned
| to work. In Nottingham there was much less
dullness than in the preceding week. In the wool
| len districts the war question caused manufactur-
| ers to act with caution
4 Accounts from Oddessa state that the supplies
| of grain arriving were enormous, and although
private houses had been converted into granaries,
! numbers of carts laden were forced 10 remain in
| the streets. Freghts were rather lower and a
numerous fleet of merchant vessels was reported
| as approaching.
AT the Liverpool cotton market, on the 9th ut,
a fair amount of business was transacted. Sales,
| 6000 bales-prices firm. Sales on the 2sth 5000
| bales
Reception of the Franklin Fire Company.
The Franklin Fire Company of Washington, d.
| c., arrived in Philadelphia on Thursday, about
noon, on their way home from New York. Some
two hours previous to the starting of the process
sion, Dock street, from Third to the wharf, was
crowded with fremen and spectators.
AT halfpast two the procession was formed, the
i escort consisting of twenty fire companies and
thirteen fine bands of music
The crowd on the streets through which the
procession passed was densely crowded.
While one of the companies were proceeding to
the wharf, to join the escort, and when in Front
| street, above Market, two horses attached to
wagon, in which were two men, became frghtcn-
| ed and started Off at full speed, scattering the
crowd in all directions The carts and drays We're
so numerous in the street, however, that the
horses were brought to sudden halt by being
thrown down, and the men were thrown out in the
street and somewhat injured One of the horses
| was badly cut and bruised.
Terrible Accidental Cincinnati on the sth
instant, as some Germans, in the employ Of Mes
sick & Co., on the corner Of Second aud Sycamore
streets, We're piling up barrels of vinegar in the
third story, the floor gave way and the heavy
weight it contained fell through, burying the Ger
mans beneath. Both are considered dangerously
injured One, named F. Brockmeyer, had his jaw
broken, one ear torn of, his head crushed, and is
thought to be injured internally. Both were taken
to their homes in dying condition.
Death Of a Member of the Ravel Troupe
M. Louis Farrin, member of the Ravel Troupe,
now performing at the National theatre, died sud
denly yesterday morning al his room at the Wood
ruff. He retired TO bed the evening previous, com
planning of being unwell, and when his room was
| entered about breakfast time, he was discovered
in the last agones of death. A physician was i'm
| mediatey sent for, but before he arrived the un-
fortunate man was dead. NJ Farrin was much be-
i loved by the members of the troupe, and died la
mented.-CinciaRah Columbian, SM inst.
Murderer Caught.--Fowler, who recently
murdered Wyse Holly in Barnwell district, South
Carolina and for whom reward OF $3.50 was Of
fered, has been arrested and lodged in Barnwell
Jail. He was caught about two miles from where
the murder was committed.
Mrs. Gaines contradcts the statement Of the
Delaware Gazette in relation to the discovery of
evidence by which she had induced those who
hold the large estates in New Orleans, to which
1 she Land claim, 10 compromise with her on lib
eral terms. She says there is not word of truth
in il.
Ms-A rich vein of tin ore is said TO have been
discovered lately in Clearfed county, Pa.
i M1>The ST. Charles theatre at New Orleans
was opened on the evening of the 9Th.
54a-K -Kunkles Nightingale Opera Troupe are TO
be at Mobile on the 18th.
GOMETHING NEW.--Now open, the new
/ - Billiard Saloon northwest corner of Pennsy-
yania avenue and 18th street.