The Press. — 1856-10-18 (London, England)

THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE DEATH OF MR. CHAS. ROWCROFT, Ex Consul at Cincinnati, while on his passage home in August last, has excited some remark. Previously in good health, he died seven days after he came on board the New York liner Cherubim, and with every appearance of having been poisoned. There appears to have been no burgeon on board the ship, the master acting if °cession required. On this occasion the master dosed hls patient with blue pits, laudanum, and quinine, and, after detailing his death, concludes . During the whole illness his pulse was not above 70, nor, upon frequent inquiries, did he express the slightest pain. Twenty-four hours previous to his death the skin and eyes were extremely yellow, and a few hours before the tongue became black and a black mucous substance issued from the mouth. Having no means at hand of preserving the body, which was becoming exceedingly putrid and offensive, he was this day, August 25, in latitude 42 deg. N. and longitude 54 deg. W., buried with the usual ceremonies. His death was certainly mysterious and sudden, and I cannot easily persuade myself that it was natural.  Ausincix NAxs, says an American paper, offer some queer specimens of nomenclature : We heard of a family in Detroit whose sons were named One Stickuey, Two Stickney, Three Stiekney, and whose daughters were named First Stickney, Second Stickney, &c. The three elder children of a family near home were named Joseph, And, Another; and it has been supposed that, should they have any more, they might have named them Also, Moreover, Nevertheless, and Notwithstanding. Another family actually named their child Finis, supposing it was their last; but they happened afterwards to have a daughter and two sons, whom they called Addenda, Appendix, and Supplement.  FELICE ORSINI has this week been delivering lectures upon " The Austrian and Papal Tyranny in Italy " to crowded audiences in Brighton. A NEW SERIES OF REPORTS on the trade of various places from English Ministers, Cunsuls, and others, has just been issued by the Board of Trade. Those which relate to Turkey are from Aleppo and Broussa, and, as the projected Euphrates Railway is to pass the former city in its route of eighty miles from the Mediterranean to the river, the facts in connection with the commerce of that district are likely to attract much attention. The progress of the place during the past five years and the magnitude of its capacities appear to be extraordinary. As far back as 1851, according to statements from Mr. Acting-Consul Barker, there were signs of a considerable development of trade, and the tendency was rapidly stimulated by the war. In imports, British manufactured goods amount in quantity to about two-thirds of the whole trade of Aleppo. In value they are about one-third. Five years back this value was 146,4051. Last year it was estimated at 471,2531., exclusive of specie, which has been largely absorbed in the interior of Mesopotamia. As regards exports, the return for 1854 shows a total of 993,6301., which had risen in 1835 to 1,251,1801., of which about 450,0001. consisted of wheat flour and grain, while cotton and wool were also important items.  Mr. Haag, the pantomimist and ballet-master, jumped overboard from a Hamburg steamer last Sunday, on her voyage to Hull. A threat of some person at Hamburg, who bad sworn to revenge himself on Mr. Harvey for having taken him before the police, appetite from various letters left by the unfortunate suicide to have been the singular CARIPAI of his death.  MR. GRANTLEY BERKELEY is at present eti4oying the field sports of Fiance. He has stated his intention of writing a work in French upon the present French system of field sports, with tne view of inducing certain reforms in the care of horses and hounds by French huntsmen.  .f