The Dewsbury Chronicle, and West Riding Advertiser. — 1872-07-27 (Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England)

LIVERPOOL SHIP BY FIRE—SUFFERINGS OF THE CREW.—lntelligence was received in Liverpool on Monday afternoon, to the effect that the fine iron barque Arequipa, had been burned at sea, and that the crew, after enduring a good deal of suffering, were rescued by the barque Bloomer, which had arrived at Queenstown on Monday. From the brief telegram which was received in Liverpool in the course of the afternoon, it appears that the Arequipa, under the command of Captain Hetherington, left Valparaiso for Liverpool on the 20th of March, and was therefore one of the June ships, with a valuable cargo of nitre, &c., and that all went well until the beginning of July, when the vessel was found to be on fire. Every effort was made to keep the fire down, but without effect, as it continued to gain upon the vessel, and on the 4th inst. the vessel was abandoned, the captain and crew taking to the boats. At the time the ship was left the flames had got full possession of her, and she could not possibly keep afloat much longer. The crew saved very little of their effects, and after knocking about for over three days exposed to almost tropical weather, they were sighted by the barque 13loomer, bound from Porto Rico, and rescued and taken into Queenstown. Th 3 Arequipa was a well-known trader on the Smith American coast, having been constructed specially for that trade. She was built of iron, in Liverpool, by Messrs. Miller, in 1862, was 490 tons register, and belonged to Messrs. W. and J. Fryer. THE LATE CENSUS IN PARlS.—Although the result of the late census in Paris has not yet been made known officially, the papers, as usual, anticipating matters, give some particulars, no doubt on sufficient authority to wake them as trustworthy as they are interesting. In the first place, as may readily be imagined, never in the annals of Paris have so many deaths occurred as in the years 1870 and 1871. In the former year they amounted to 73,581; in the latter to about 88,000. From the let of January to the 18th of March in the year 1871, as many deaths occurred as in an ordinary year—namely. 42,738: nor, owing to the sufferings of the siege, did the number of births, in the slightest degree, compensate for this frightful mortality. During the month of June they amounted only to 2,965, whereas the average number is 4.410. In fact, from these causes, Paris lost a t wentiethpart of her inhabitants in six months. The startling fact is disclosed that the legitimate births are very little above half of the illegitimate and of the total number only half are under a year old,. The reason of this is, that from 26,000 to 28,000 nurse-children are sent every year either into the environs of Paris or into the country, whence few ever return. In ordinary years the chief sources of death amongst the population are, on an average—smallpox. 649; typhus fever, 1,028; inflammation of the chest, 3,465; consumption, 8,301; and suicides 1,100. Altogether, since the last census, in 1866, it is reckoned that, in spite of 88,000 deaths in 1871, the executions in May, 1872, the flight of a certain number of workmen connected with the Commune, and the diminution of the foreign population, Paris has only lost 5,000 inhabitants.