The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-10-22

The News.


The News.
DEATH OF MR.. EDWIN WILLIAMS.
II becomes our painful task to announce the de
cease of Mr.. Edwin Williams, an sGttaciE Of the
HERALD Office. He died at his lodgings at the
Union Place Hotel at ten o'cloekast evening, after
suffering acuely from an attack Of cholera in It's
most aggravated form. Up to eleven o'clock on
Friday, when he retired for the night, he appa
rently in posses sion Of his usual excellent health.
Mr.. Williams was fluent writer, and an industrious
compiler of statistical and other works, which have
made for HIM an enduring reputation. His demise
win be regretted by large circle Of warmly at
tache friends.
TIE FATE OF SIR JOIN FRANKLIN.
The brief Geographic despatch we yesterday pub
hshed, relative to the discovery of the remains Of
the unfortunate Sir John Franklin and his crew. is
corroborated by the details of the sad event which
we give to-day In an editorial article we have
given cur views at length OF this sad but not unex
pected termination of an expedition despatched to
solve problem pronounced by one Of the EARLIEST
Arctic voyagers to be the only notable achievement
that remained to be accomplished.
TEMPERANCE AND POLITICS.
We have still another ticket in the field for city
md county officers The temperance men have
split, and last evening the delegates of the dis
affected met in convention, and nominated the fol-
n wing ticket For Mayor-Wi son G. Hunt, nomi-
nee of the Municipal Reform Committee Recorder
John H. White, nominee of the wings City Judge
Sidney Fl. Stuart, noElines Of the wings Register
II. ID. johnson Surrogate Alexander W. Bradford,
nominee Of the wings and municipal reformers
DistIi-t Attorney-A. Oakley Hall, ditto dit,
Almshouse Govern or-James r. Wood nominee Of
the wings Commissioner Of Streets and Lamps.
Joseph F. EbiDg, independent candidate and nom
nee of the Know Nothings.
MORTALITY OF THE CITY.
Ths official report of the City Inspector gives but
447 deaths for the past week. bang 35 less than tn
week previous. There were of cholera %, diarrhGs
2s,dyseGtsry Il, apoplexy ., atrophia I, consump
ton 4S, bronchitis 6, dropsy in the head 49, typhus
fevtr9 inflammation Of the brain s, infamm alton
OF bowels 9, and nhammat ion Of lungs l6. The
deaths among children amounted to 2GO. OF these SO
die ID OF commissions, Of Group, 10 Of h1lera in
fantum, 6 Of hopping cough,25 of marasmus, Z Of
debility, and of arlet fever. There were % cases
ofstillborn ard three premature births. We notice
five cases of death from old age. The deaths from
external causes were--casuaties elk, drowned one,
killed or murdered one, and suicide one. There
were fttyfve deaths in the public institutions. 25l
were natives Of the United States 81 of Ireland 46
Of Germany, IL Of England, and the remainder of
various countries in Europe.
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH DISPUTE IN KENTUCKY.
The difficulty between the trustees Of the Catho-
bic Church In Newport. KY, and their bishop has
been adjudicated by the Judicial authorities decid.
ing that the bishop had right to appoin. the trus-
tees ard use the land in dispute for church pur-
poses only. The trouble grew out OF an attemp.
on the part Of the bishop to build q schoolhouse
without first obtaining the consent of the trustees
to use the ground on which it was erected.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The investigation before Judge Ingraham into the
charges preferred against Mr.. Dyckman, Register
OF this city, was continued yesterday.
The act of the Massachusetts, Legislature autho-
rizing the annexation Of Cbarestown to Boston, and
which has been accepted by the votes of both Cities
bias been declared unconstitutional by tie Supreme
Court of that State.
The steamship Osprey reached Philadelphia yes
tsrday, with the passengers of the steamship City
Of Philadelphia. The propeller Osprey also arrived
with portion OF the cargo of the wrecked We ssel
II is gratifying to learn that the yellow fever
which has ragged SO vrulen.y at the South for seve.
raj wee ks past is gradually disappearing before the
advance OF cool weather and the frost.
STATISTICS OF EMIGRATION.
The absti act of the report Of the English Emigra
tion commissioners, which we publish elsewhere, is
exceed ingly interesting The average emigration
from Great Britain for the last seven years has been
300, 033 annually, 2l2l ,23l; while for the pre-
vous thirty two years 1t amounted to only l672 ,292
There has been decrease In emigration to this
country during the past two years, but there has
been an increase in that to the British North Ameri
can provinces, owing perhaps to the fact that the
price OF passage to the latter ia at all times some
what less thai to the former. The emigrants to the
provinces usually at first make their way to the
United States, especially those Of the laborng class
which OF course is by far the most numerous bat
many OF them etrace their steps and eventually be-
come permanent settlers in Canada, the upper pro
vince generally having the preference over the lower
On account ofthe large aimxture ofnatiye Cana dian
French In the latter, and for other reasons of NOR
nature IL Is to be regretted that we have
means of ascertainiDg the precise number of Euro
peaDs that return to the Old Country from the /
United States, and we trust measures will shortly /
" adopted by cur government which will put ths /
,ublc in possession Of information regar ling this
'eculiar drift Of the worlds floating populate on
The report alluded to also gives the asc srtained |
mount Of money remit ed from North America to
treat Britain By emigrants. From 1S4s to 1853 |
sese remittances reached the enormous sum OF l
$4,000, or nearly twenty nine million dollars;
I'd this is only the amount sent through the Drin-
ipal banking ard mercantile houses, leaving en-.
rely out of the account the equally enormous sum
9rtmitted by private calansls. The rep ,rt like
j includes interesting statistical statsmsnts re-
,setins sbe mortality on board passenger ships Z