Glasgow Courier. — 1847-03-16 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

ENGLAND.  Mortality in the East Indies.—Returns showing the sickness, mortality, and invaliding of the East India Company's armies in the Presidencies of Bengal, Madras and Bombay, have been obtained by Mr. Hume. In the Bengal Presidency, in 1844, the ratio of ordinary deaths to the strength of the corps was,—as regards Europeans, 5.76 per cent., and, as regards natives, 1.17 per cent. ;the ratio of deaths by cholera, 1.721 per cent., and 0.27 per cent., respectively; the ratio of deaths general to the strength, 7.48 i and 1.44 percent.; and the ratio of the number invalided to the strength, 3 and 1.2 , per cent. In the Madras presidency the ratio of ordinary ' deaths was 1.971 and 1 456 per cent, respectively; the ratio of deaths by cholera, 0.628 and 0.804 per cent.; the ratio of deaths generally, 2.600 and 2.261 per cent, respectively; and and the ratio of invalided, 1.529 and 1.184 per cent respectively. In the Bombay Presidency the ratio of ordinary deaths was 5.344 and 1.193 per cent, respectively; the ratio I of deaths by cholera, 1.309 and 0.158 per cent.: the ratio of deaths generally, 6.653, and 1.351 per cent.; and the ratio of the number invalided, 2.181 and 1.788 per cent. respectively. No returns from Scinde have been received. French Walnuts —The importations of this description of nut have continued throughout the winter to an extent quite unusual during former seasons. This may be attributed to the plentiful state of the crops of the article on the Continent last autumn, more especially in France and Belgium, and the unusual scantiness of the crops in this country. Although the nut is now necessarily: somewhat dry and devoid of its original freshness, yet it is much esteemed in this state by many. persons for dessert purposes. The importation of chesnuts from the Continent, especially Spain, and also from the Channel Islands, have also been very numerous and extensive throughout the winter. They were in unusual abundance this season, and they are of very large size and excellent quality. Extraordinary Case—Attempted Suicide.—Outhe 4th inst., a young woman named Hannah Dawson, cut her throat at her own house in Queen Street. A young surgeon was called in immediately afterwards, and on examining her pro. flounced her dead, and left her. She was then laid upon a bed up stairs uncovered in readiness for a coroner's jury to view her body. After the lapse of about an hour, one of the Leeds policemen, who was passing, asked, out of mere curiosity, to see the "deceased." His wish was complied with by her friends, and the policeman proceeded up stairs, and found her actually breathing! Another surgeon was called in, she was then removed to the infirmary, and was latterly very satisfactorily recovering! Had the policeman's curiosity not led him to desire to see the unfortunate female, she would, no doubt, in her exposed state, have been I starved to death, if she had not expired from loss of blood. —Leeds Mercury. Boiler Accident at West Bromwich, Stafordshia—On Wednesday a dreadful explosion took place on the iron , works of Messrs. Davis & Bloomer, by which the lives of I four persons have been sacrificed. 'the accident is attributed to the grossest negligence on the part of the fireman who was literally burned to a cinder. fireman, Death at Bradford.—On the 4th inst., as two boys were wheeling each other in a barrow near the edge of one of the blasts at Bowling Iron-works, one of them, named Levi Watson, eleven years old, was turned over out of the barrow into the flaming blast, seven feet deep. Althbugh the damper was up at the time, yet the place was red hot. Immediately on his falling in the other boy made an alarm, and a man who worked at an adjoining stack ran to the blast and saw the lad alive at the bottom. He held down to him a long coal rake, and with which he pulled the lad up nearly to the top, when, unfortunately, the poor fellow let go his bold, and he fell down again! He lay there nearly half an hour, until he was burned literally to a cinder. The small remains of the body were pulled up, and presented a shocking spectacle. An inquest was held, and a verdict of Accidental Death returned. The name of the deceased's father is James Watson, an ironstone burner. —Halifax Guardian.