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      S § 0 J& £ iVQ $ Gli $ . Health of lo . vBOXBFfliXG the "Week . —The present return of 971 deaths exhibits an increase ot aearly thirty on each of tiie two preceding weeks , and also a small increase of ei ght on the average of five Springs . The mortality '" from diseases ot the respiratory organs contiuues * to decrease , for the numbers in this class in the last three weeks were successively 139 , 127 , and 102 , while the average is 131 . The iucrease is principally in the zymotic or cpidimic class of diseases ; for , whereas the average is 198 , the deaths in this group in the same three weeks were successively 233 , 209 , and 251 . The deaths in the last week from diarrhoea and dysentry were twenty-five , or eleven above the average , but are not more numerous than in the same week of

      1 S 4 S ; those from cholera , in two preceding weeks were respectively five and nine , but in last week were twenty-two , tlson-jh the weekly average m former years was only one . Hooping-COUgh Shows an excess on the average of twenty-two , the number in this return being fifty-eight . The deaths from scarlatina were forty , or eightinore than the average ; those from typhus thirty-eight , or four less than the average . In the TVest London Union Worklouse a man of thirty-sis years died of " low lever , accompanied with diarrhoea , apparently produced by extreme destitution . " Another man , of the same a » e , died of " delirium tremens , brought on by

      excessive drinking . " In University College Hospital the death of a juggler , twenty-two years of age , occurred , according to the return , from " tremendous perecarditis , caused by passing an iron sword , down the sesophagus and thence to theperecardium , after exhibition . Inquests were held on the above three cases . The meau reading of the barometer was above thirtv inches on Sunday and Wednesday : the mean reading of the week was 29 , 90 S . The tempe-Kiture was high in the early part of the week , especially on " Tuesday , when the mean was 6 S-6 , and higher than the average of the same day in seven previous years by 9-1 . The mean of the week was 59-7 . —Reghtrar-General's Return .

      INQUESTS . Suicide of a Xuxatic . —On Monday an inquest ¦ was held before Mr . W . Baker , at the Queen ' s Bead , High-street , l ' oplar , on view of the body of James Keer , aged thirty-one years , who destroyed himself under the following distressing circumstances . The deceased was a hammer-manat Messrs . . Miller and Co . ' s , engineers , ilill-wall , and about four months Since be met with an accident by the falling of some machinery : he received some internal injury which affected his mind , and he became a raviiuj maniac . The parish officers of Poplar took charge of the deceased , and he was removed to 3 Ir . Armstrong ' s Lunatic Asylum , Peckham . The

      deceased remained thereuntil Thursday last , when le was released from custody by the intercession of Ms friends as cured . On the following morning ( Friday ) he appeared low and desponding , and frequently ejaculated that the keepers were after him . About an hour afterwards he was found hanging in the Joft of ashed belonging- to the cooperage of Air . Gordon , Orcliard-place , Blackball . In consequence of the deceased being out of his mind , his wife was thrown into great distress , and almost reduced to a starving condition . She has been left with three young children totally unprovided for , and she is now far advanced in pregnancy . The jury returned a verdict , " That the deceased destroyed himself while in a state of unsound mind . "

      Sixgplak Death . —A Mrs . Johnson , wife of Mr . Johnson , limc-4 > urner , of Mile-end , died suddenly on 3 fondny on the Eastern Counties Baihray Pier at 2 forth Woohvich , under the following singular circumstances . The deceased had appointed to meet ler husband on the pier , as he was about to return from Gravesend by one of the steam-vessels ; and , being a stout woman , her effort to reach the train at Shoreditch , for which she was rather late , caused ncr to experience a great difficulty of breathing . She had partially recovered from this , when , on passing along the line , the foul gas escaping from a gas-work ( which was described as being dreadfully offensive ) entered the carriage , and the difficulty " of breathing again returned . Thedcceased never rallied , and expired on being lifted out of the train . A coroner ' s inquest has since been held , and a verdict of "Death from natural causes" returned .

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      at the public expense , there was not one Welsh . They were nearly all Irish . —/ W > k *«« # - . . Tie WRExnAit Bank FAn . rM .-Ij flw 0 « nK s ? = 2 s ^ £ s £ 2 £ SSsffiisSa ^ a : his brother , Sir William Xoyd .-MrEvans . solicitor appeared for the assignees and objected to d , e capital amount on July I , 1 S 24 , which was stated by the amended balance-sheet to be £ 1 , 950 . He contended it was incorrectly made out , as it was founded on a statement of afiairs which appeared in the deed of dissolution in which the bankrupt himself was entered as a debtor to the firm in the sum of £ 9000 whereas by the books he only

      ,, appeared to be indebted in the sum of £ 5 , 000 . Mr . Evans stated that there were further objections . The bankrupt then underwent an examination , in the course of which it appeared that , at the time of the dissolution , there were certain debts to the partnership concern , amounting to £ 10 , 235 , and estimated at £ 5 , 6 S 5 , which yielded to the bankrupt upwards of £ 7 , 500 . Mr . Evans objected that the difference between the estimated amount of £ 5 , GS 5 and £ 7 , 500 actually received had not been accounted for by the bankrupt ; and , as he did not seem able to explain these discrepancies , he ( Mr . Evans ) suggested that a further adjournment should take place . The bankrupt said he could . explain all the transactions if he had further time given him , but the lapse of time was so great that he could not do so at present . Mr . Evans then proceeded to examine the to ale

      bankrupt in reference to a mortgage Lady W for £ 2 , 000 , which did not appear in the balancesheet ; also as to monie 3 received by the bankrupt on the joint account of his brother and ldmself , which did not appear in the accounts ; and further , in referrenco to his wife ' s marriage settlement , under which he had received upwards of £ 300 a year from 1832 to ISM . —The bankrupt said he had applied this mo ney towards the maintenance of his family . Mr . Evans then again addressed the court , stating that he did not consider it nscessary to pursue the examination further at present , seeing that the balance-sheet was so unsatisfactory . Mr . Badham ( the bankrupt ' s accountant ) said the £ 4 , 000 referred to would , he believed , never be cleared up . The further hearing of the case was then adjourned to Monday , the 23 rd of July , a further amended balance sheet to be made read } in the

      . Colliery Explosion . —Another explosion of fire damp occurred on Friday week last , at the North Elswick Colliery , near Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; but fortunately , hi this instance , no lives were lost . It appears , that about noon on that day , the " overman" ( Mr . WhiUakcr ) and his assistant were proceeding down the shaft in a cage , with some wood to repair a " brattice" and they imprudently took a naked candle , lighted , with them . When about halfway down the shaft the gas exploded at the caudle with a tremendous report , which was heard at the surface , and for some distance from the pit . The engineman instantly reversed the gear and drew the cage and men up ; and on reaching the bank , the men were found to be severely burnt . They < rotout of the case , however , and walked home

      without assistance . Davy lamps were used in the mine , which is comparatively a small one ; and it shows how reckless of human life the pitmen gene ^ rally ixe , when an " overman , " who ought to have known better than to run such a risk , ventured into the mine with an open candle , and with the catastrophe at Hepburn still fresh on his mind . The funerals of those killed at Hepburn took place on Thursday week , and a melancholy spectacle it was . long rows of black coffins , prepared at the expense of the colliery , were followed by hundreds of distressed and " bereaved friends ; and the solemnity of the occasion was greatly enhanced by the mournful dirge which is usually sung on sucli occasions in the pit districts . An examination of the mine has , as yet , thrown no further light on the cause of the explosion . The mine was ventilated on the furnace system .

      The Robbertin Park-square , Leeds . —On Wedriesdav , B . Woollcr and W . Barns , who were remanded from the previous Wednesday , wereagain broughtbefore the magistrates at Leeds , charged with having committed the robbery in the house of Mrs . Musgrave , in Park-square , on Sunday , May 27 , of money and plate ; but after some trifling additional evidence had been given , the bench stated thaVupon the best consideration they had been able to give to the subject , they were of opinion that there was not sufficient evidence to convict the prisoners of the robbery , and in consequence they were liberated .

      Fearful Suicide . —On Wednesday morning , about eight o ' clock , an elderly man ( probably sixty years of age ) was seen deliberately to approach a coal pit at Bradford , near Manchester , and commit self-destruction by leaping down it . The depth was between 203 and 300 feet , and of course immediate death would be the consequence of such an act of insanity . A man named John Anderton , who witnessed the fact , informed the Manchester police ( the pit being within the borough and near to one of the public parks ) , and means were immediately taken , and with success , to recover the body . The deceased , who was about five feet six inches high , with grey hair , bald at the top of the head , and wore black waistcoat and trowsers with a brown Clotll Taglioni coat , was unknown . A small sum of money ( Is . 2 fd . ) was found in his pocket , and the causes which led to the rash act have not been discovered .

      Attack of a Lion on a woman in a Menagerie . —An accident , very foolishly and incautiously brought about , took place at Wombwell ' s collection , at present exhibiting in Birmingham , on Saturday evening last . Amongst the crowds of holiday folks that the fair had attracted was a woman named Grummage , who , with a male friend , was making merry , feasting eyes and ears , and not adhering very strictly to the rules of temperance . The woman and her friend paid Wombwell ' s establishment a visit , aid while there , she began to stroke the paw of a remarkably fine but ill-tempered lion . The keepers remonstrated with her , but she continued to pat . the paw of the quiescent and apparently sleeping animal , when the lion suddenly

      started up , seized hold of the woman with , las claws , and drew her towards the bars of the den . A fearful scream immediately startled every one in the place , and the greatest confusion prevailed . Some , supposing that the lion had broken loose , fled to the doors ; others shrieked in concert , and others again stood still in terror . The keepers , however , immediately ran to the spot , and found the incautious woman ' s hand and arm bleedin" profusely under the paw of the enraged animal . She was speedily released from the position in which she had so foolishly placed herself , but not before the lion

      had lacerated the arm , and torn the skin and integuments from the back part with its claws . The injured female was conveyed to the hospital . There it was discovered that the wounds she had sustained were of a more serious nature than wasat first suspected , and , that it would be necessary to amputate the arm . The operation was accordingly performed , and borne with much fortitude by the poor woman . § he is going on favourably , and expresses a resolution to " let sleeping lions lie ;" which may be followed with advantage by many others who have occasion to visit menageries in future .

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      Dcbhn , Saturday . —The Cholera ix Dublin . — The cholera has now taken its range through most parts of the country , passing with comparative mildness over some places , but in others leaving behind terrible traces of its devastating power . The epidemic has at length taken hold in the metropolis ; and there is this peculiarity , that the deaths are numerous—much more so , indeed , than in any : other part of the country—amongst the middle classes . The local boards of health do not publish lists of cases or deaths , probably from the judicious motive of preventing needless and dangerous alarm . Amongst the military , so far , the deaths in proportion to cases are very large in number . Up to yesterday afternoon the number of cases in the

      Military Hospital adjoining the Phoanix Park was 59—the deaths were 85 . The 2 nd Royal Infantry , in which the epidemic first appeared in the close and dingy barrack in Ship-street , are still under canvass in the Park , and it is from this regiment that most of the cases have been sent into the hospital . It is remarkable that all the cases of cholera oufc of the military prison near the Royal Barracks belonged to the 2 nd Royals , whilst the prisoners belonging to other regiments escaped . There has not yet been a single case in the 40 th regiment , stationed in this city . The epidemic has assumed a peculiarly malignant type in Dublin , especially amongst the military , and all the results of experience are often found valueless in its treatment .

      This morning the accounts of cholera , in the city are more favourable , and fortunately there is little or no alarm . The Harvest . —New Potato Crop . —The same gratifying intelligence is recorded in all the provincial journals , The healthy and promising appearance of all the crops , especially the potato , which is " defended" from the imputation of disease with peculiar earnestness and vigour . Nothing could have been more seasonable than the weather for every description , of produce ; and so far is confidence already restored ; that "the next harvest is spoken of with hope as likely to compensate in some degree for the successive and most disastrous failures since 1845 .

      Tiie Clearance System . —Tedious as must be the constant iteration of the statements respecting the progress of clearances , which seems to constitute the staple news of the Tipperarypapers , there is no escaping the task of recording them , as pregnant evidences of the strides , of the social revolution which is hourly hastening to a crisis the destinies of this ill-fated portion of the British empire . Whether landlords or tenants are to blame is quite beside the question . The broad fact of a wholesale cpurse of depopulation being carried out is not disputed , and time only can tell what will be the consequences of the enormous increase of taxation ' rendered inevitable by the unhappy state of relationship subsisting between the owners and cultivators

      oi tiie soil . That all classes will be dragged down into one common gulf of win appears to be the almost foregone conclusion . —Times . The following is extracted from . the Tippcrary Vindicator , of yesterday : — " We have heard that no less than 450 notices of ejectment have been-served on one or two properties not many miles from Bornsokane ; and we learn that 300 miserable beings were sent on the world from a property near Clonimel—that five houses were levelled and forty persons were turned on on the lands of Knoekna ' ckra —thirty six persons off the lands of Knoekakclly , near SHevehamon—106 off the lands of Asligibve , hear Caher , under the Court of Chancery!—fertyfour off the lands of Barnclough , twenty-three off another property , sevenfcy . ei gM off another , . and twenty - pit another ! Good God , where is this sweep-

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      ing system of wholesale extermination to end ? Hero arc 047 human beings sent on the bleak ocean ot a cheerless world , to swell the the tide of misery which swallows up the substance of every struggling man in the community . " ., . „ , ,. ¦ Tiis State Pribonkbs . —The Mountstuart Blphinstone has arrived at Cove , for the conveyance to New South Wales of the state convicts . She has five berths fitted up separately for their use . Death of Surgeon Cabmichaei ,, by Drowning . — The -Freeman ' s Journal contains the following : — " We deeply regret that it has become our paintul duty to announce the death of this most estimable citizen , and distinguished member of the medical profession , which melancholy event occurred yesterday evening about nine o'clock . From the particulars communicated to us at a late hour lastnight , we learn that Doctor Carmichael was proceeding on

      horseback to his country residence at Sutton , near Howth , and on arriving at the strand where a stream or inlet of the sea flowed in over the sandy beach , he asked some persons who were at hand ii it would be safe to cross there , and being answered in { the affirmative he ventured across , but when more than half way the horse got out of his depth , and after swimming a little leaned over and fell on his side , when the rider lost his seat , and became submerged in the tide . No further particulars have reached us . At the time our informant left the spot the coast guards on that station were preparing their boat to search for the body . " Doctor Carmichacl was much respected and was a very eminent member of the faculty . On medical reform his name is well known , and he discussed m his miscellaneous writings a variety of subjects with eminent ability and research .

      Monday . —Countermand of the Order for tiie Removal op tub State Prisoners . —As I apprised you in my last the Stato prisoners were to have been removed by the Trident war steamer from Dublin to Cove , there to be p ' aced on board the convict ship for Australia . The commander of the Trident had received orders to proceed from Kingstown to the entrance of the harbour at the North Wall , in order to take Mr . Smith O'Brien and his fellow prisoners on board on Saturday night , and have all in readiness for sailing at daylight on Sunday morning . The prisoners had received the necessary official intimation respecting their intended removal , and they had , in consequence , made all needful preparations on Saturday evening . A hmrobodv of mounted police was ordered to be

      in attendance at Richmond Bridewell ; but about nine o ' clock counter-orders were issued to the commander of the Trident , as well as to the police , and the State prisoners have since remained in their old quarters . It appears that Mr . Smith O'Brien took steps to protest against the commutation of his sentence to transportation for life . A copy Of the order for his detention m Richmond Bridewell was required from the government , and his counsel , Sir dolman O'Loghlen , was referred to the Crown-office of the Queen's Bench , where a copy of the order of that court was obtained , to the effect that Mr . Smith O'Brien and his fellow prisoners should be kept in safe custody until removed by due course of law . Subsequently notices were served , on behalf of Mr . Smith O'Brien , 1

      upon the Under-Secretary , theHigh Sheriff of Dublin , and the Governor of Richmond Bridewell , warning them to hold their prisoner in safe keeping until he should be removed " by due course of law . It seems that none of the other stato prisoners adopted this course ; but . Mr . Smith O'Brien , it is stated , has obtained high legal opinion that no commutation of the sentence for high treason can take place unless the prisoner should be a consenting iarty . At all events , there has been , a suspension of the order for the removal of the state priaoners to the convict ship ; and it is now difficult to speculate upon the course that may be adopted regarding them . —Morning Chronicle . Mr . Meagher , M . P ., father of one of the state prisoners , sailed from Kingstown yesterday afternoon for London .

      The Harvest . —All the reports received since Saturday morning continue to be of the most favourable nature , nor is there a solitary allusion to the appearance of blight in the potato crop . The weather here , though fine and dry , has become for the season intensely cold , the wind for the last few days being at north-east . State of the Western District . —Nothing can be worse than the state of the western districts , even though the Rev . Mr . Anderson may have misstated a Single case brought forward by him . There is in the Freeman another letter from the protestant rector of Ballinrobe , with some more horrible details . The description which was given by Dr . Plielan last March of the state of the people of Clifdon may now be applied to many portions of the west .

      Tuesday . —The State Prisoners . —The Freeman ' s Journal of this day contains the following statement with respect to the stato prisoners : — We have received the following letters from Mr . 0 'Donohno :

      " TO THE EMTOR OF THE FREEMAN . " Richmond Gao ' , Monday , June , 11 , 1 S 40 . * ' Dear Sin , —I have addressed the letter , of which the following is a copy , to the government officials therein named , on this evening , and have earnestly to request your insertion of it in your paper tomorrow . —I am , dear sir , yours very 'faithfully and very gratefully , " Patrick O'Doxouue . " i'ho enclosed letter is as follows ;—" Richmond Gaol , Dublin , June 11 , 1849 , " To his Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant , the

      Attorney-General for Ireland , T . N . Redington , and Wm . Kcmmis , Esqrs . "My Lord " ' and Sirs , —Lest my silence should be construed into an acquiescence in the sentence of transportation for life , communicated to me by your Excellency , I respectfully beg to inform you that I am not a consenting party to such sentence being carried into execution ; the same being , as I have becfi advised by eminent counsel , unconstitutional and contrary to law . " I am , my Lord and Sirs , your obedient servant , " Patrick O'Doxohue . "

      We have also received a letter from Mr . Mfeagher , informing us that ho also has forwarded letters to the same effect to the same quarters ; so that . it is not " some , " but all the " traitors" who have refused to be transported . Up . to last night no orders had boon received at Richmond Bridewell in reference to the removal of the State prisoners . The Evening Herald thus notices the subject : — " We-are informed , upon what would appear sufficient authority , that Mr . S . O'Brien , contrary to the expectation which had latterly prevailed , lias actually served a notice upon the authorities to the effect that ho disputes their right to remove him from the custody of the sheriff , and will not accept

      the conditional pardon offered on the part ot the Crown . A nice point is likely to be raised in connexion with this procedure . It is argued that the Queen , having actually signed the warrant commuting his sentence , cannot now recede ; tint the prisoner is actually pardoned ; and that the condition of banishment cannot be legally enforced . The effect of these positions , if established , would be of course to entitle Mr . S . O'Brien to his discharge . " The Times says there is no longer any doubt as to the step taken by Mr . Smith O'Brien and his associates ; and it is now clear that some further delay must take place before the sentence of transportation can be carried into effect . In brief , Mr . O'Brien has raised a point , claiming a common law right , either to be hanged , or , the authorities failing to yield that right , set at full liberty to go whither he chooses . This piece of information was communicated to Mr . Redington on Saturday evening

      last by Mr . Butt and Sir Colman O'Loghlen , in consequence of which all the preparations for the removal of the prisoners that night to Spike Island were suspended , and a troop of Lancers , actually in the saddle to act as an escort from Richmond Bridewell to the quays , dismissed to their quarters . After giving the letter of Mr . O'Donohue it proceeds : —Mr . Meagher lias also forwarded a letter to the same effect to the same quarter ; so that not only Mr . O'Brien , but all the prisoners insist upon their right either to be hanged or let free . Unanimously they eschew transportation and separate berths on board the Mountstuart Elphinstone . Harvest Prospects . —The Potato . — -Upon an extensive property in the county of Kildare , and where a large breadth of ground has been laid down in potatoes , unmis ' takeablc symptoms of the prevalonco of the blight were discovered to exist so late as Saturday last .

      The Meath Herald , while admitting that there is every prospect of an abundant harvest , says : — " But cheering as the prospects generally'arc , the produce of the harvest must fall far short of meeting the demands of rents and rates , exclusive of affording support to the owners and their dependents ; more especially as one-half , or we might say one-thirdof the usual stock of black cattle is not in the com > try , and all those several items must be realised out of the grain . There was a deficiency of stock last year , ' - but now there is aii alarming decrease , ' and the grass lands must be cut up and manufactured into hay ; but will this pay labour , rent , and taxes ? We doubt not . They must then be procured from the crops , which will hardly suffice for the purpose , in consequence of the low price to which breadstuff' s are reducedFarmers would require to get 20 s . a % 4 4 Ab

      . II £ ^ A ^ V *» XJ ^^ B - ^ *** AA U V ***** X **— w w q -w , barrel for . oatsand Ms . for wheat , to enable them to sustain their position'and- pay tho landlord ; but oats at 6 s . ' , and wheat at 20 s . —the prices likely to be realised ¦ ' next harvest- ^ will never accomplish this . The sooner / therefore , that men make . up their minds to this fricb ; tlic better foi ^ all parties ; it is folly , and thc ' height -of'folly , to conceive that the present contracts can be fulfilled . ¦'• The law may take its ' course ; but the results will come , nay , they are already , visible , for the country begins to wear an aspect of loneliness—the'men are not in the land —the bpnearid sinew of the country are leaving it , and the progress of the law will create a vacancy amongst the tillers of the soil not- easily' filled up . Pauperisation and sickness , emigration and death , have already made such fearfuriia . « se in ouutoI

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      population , that we beheve the day wil come when the labourer shall be looked for m vain . " . The lateMu O'CoKNBMi .-The town residency of thJhte "Liberator , " in' Merrion-square , whidh his been for sometime « in the market , " has been JurcEcd by M , MonaMn , the Attoi ^ hngk . l = Tns late Surgeon OAMiC ( UEL .--Tho Freeman of this morning , says :- " Up to alate hour ° n Monday evening no trace whatever had been found or the remains of this deeply regretted . gentleman . The utmost activity and perseverance were evmcca by the coast-guards in searching for the body . JNot a moment was lost , whilst the state of the tide permitted , in making every possible exertion to procure for the bereaved lady and family of the lamented deceased the sad consolation of havinsr his remains === — ; ., , : ^ 7 T . . _ l—„

      rescued from their watery tomb , and tho last sorrowing duties paid them by his'fellow citizens .. The riding whip which the lamented gentleman carried was washed on shore yesterday . We are concerned to hear that the very delicate health of thewidowed lady of the estimable citizen thus suddenly snatched away , has sustained an alarming shock . Repeated intervals of insensibility , followed by ^ sufferings most intense o f mental agony , are said to have left but slender hopes of this poor lady ' s recovery . The whole neighbourhood around Howth seems to participate in the affliction of the deceased's family , whilst the incessant ' inquiries at the town mansion as to the discovery of the body , indicate the deep rcret of the public for the loss of this amicable and

      distinguished citizen . Wedxesdat , —The State Prisoners . —The Freeman ' s Journal of this morning states that " no further orders had been received at the Bridewell last night in reference to the removal of the state prisoners . " , ' Emplotment of the Pooit . —It appears from the Mayo Constitution that ; government have directed their attention towards the necessity of providing employment by reproductive labour for the peasantry of that wretched county , and for that purpose a sum of £ 100 , 000 is to be placed at the disposal of the Board of Works , under whose auspices operations are to be commenced forthwith . The following appears in the Cork Examiner of

      Monday : — " On Saturday last thirty-five in milch and in calf cows , the property of a noble earl not living 100 miles from Mitchelstown , were auctioned off on the lands of Claunkilla , for rent and arrears of rent , amounting to £ 400 , due to Mr . Mandavill , of Clonmel . , It is a true sign of tho times to see the cattle of a noble earl , the rent roll of whose property amounts to £ 40 . 000 per annum , " cante ' d" for the paltry sum of £ 400 . The amount of sale was only about £ 150 , as the cattle were a very great sacrifice . " ' .... . -.. The body of Surgeon Carmichael has not been found yet ; " but brie of the Holyhead steamers observed a body floating out at soa ; it did not stop , as tho mail packets are not permitted to do so except under particular circumstances .

      The Courtown Estates . —On Tuesday , Mr . Littledale put up a second time for public competition the estates of the Earl of Courtown , situate in the counties of Kilkenny and Kerry . These estates had been offered bjr auction on the 10 th of May , but were bought in for want of sufficient offers being made at the time . The attendance on Tuesday at the sale-moms , Commercial-buildings , was large and respectable , but not a single offer was made for any portion of the property , and the auctioneer then adjourned the sale sine die , stating that Captain Owen , the Earl ' s agent , would receive any private offer that raixht be made for any portion , or the whole of the estates . Thk Potato Blight . —The Banner of Ulster , of Tuesday , states that " the two or three cases of blight reported last week , in the neighbourhood of Belfast , have been satisfactorily proved to have been caused by frost . "

      Although the accounts which are given in the provincial papers represent the potato crop as exhibiting tho most healthy appearance generally , still the disease has once more manifested itself in some localities . The mntter is placed beyond doubt by a letter frum Mr . Hagan , one of the practical instructors , which appears in the Evening Post of Tuesday . State of the Countky . —The indignation of the House of Commons at the proceedings in Kilrush , and other unions , will be much less influential in Ireland than Sir li . Peel supposes . Society here has lost its tone , and become callous and apathetic . People have cea « ed to wonder at anything . The cholera is not regarded with terror , and ths . most melancholy casualties—such as thac of the death by

      drovnung of the eminent Surgeon Carmichaelhardly excites any attention . All families have been visited by afflictions consequent on the famine ; and the numbers that have been reduced to lower ranks of society , cause a feeling of extraordinary gloom to prevail through our Irish community . Of the provincial journals none is ' so free from exaggerating the distresses of the country , as the Cork Constitution . And its testimony , as given in its number of the 9 th inst ., may be accepted as the truthful evidence of a candid witness : — " As to the peoplefor them , we fear , the _ prospects have little cheer . Before the golden grain canglartdcn their eyes , multitudes of them will be in the s-rave . In the south

      and west the description applies almost universally . We are no alarmists . We have never paraded the poverty of the country for the purpose ot ' aggravating the misconduct of a minister , but woefully are that minister ' s ears closed to the truth if he supposes that from one inadvertent error of a gentleman ( Kcv , Mr-Anderson ) desirous of drawing hh attention to the condition of the poor , he is warranted in inferring th-re is any sensible exaggeration in the statements of the public journals . Exaggeration , in fact , there cannot be . The difficulty is to depict the scenes that pass before our eyes—to make the stranger , or even the native who does not sha-e as well as witness it , comprehend the intensity of the misery under which the people are wasting and withering away . "

      A great reduction of rents is taking place throughout the country . The provincial j own sis of all parties cite numerous instances of rents reduced twentylive per cent ., and in some cases even fifty per cent . The average reductions are about thirty per cent . In the county of Cork , the Duke of Devonshire has taken fifty per cent , off his rents . Mr . Warren Hastings Judeson , in the same county , has done the same .

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      exertions of the authorities , to ; stay its progress by whitewashing the dwellings of" the poor , and other precautions . No less than thirty-two funerals took place on . Monday , June 11 th . The bodies of the poor are drawn to the burying-gronnd unattended , their friends being unwilling to attend their obsequies , and pauper corpses are buried three in one grave . From the firsfi outbr eak of this disease up to this date , the number of fatal cases amount to 120 . Several new cases . were reported on Tuesday . Our correspondent adds , that there is no doubt but that a great number of cases have arisen through the insufficiohcy of food , as there are thousands of worki "" men here who have not a quarter sufficient f , o subsist on . Intemperance is also given as ; anothor ... - """ " . ~ . ~ .. * ;«« 0 /\ f flin nnfh / wiMns in stav its Dl'OSTess hw

      cause . •• -T . Cholera amongst thb Railway Navvies . — Alarm has been occasioned by the appearance of Asiatic cholera amongst the navvies ernpjoyed in cuttnv - the second tu-mel on the Manchester and Sheffield Railway , at Woodhead , nearly halt way between Manchester and Sheffield . The locality is a wild and barren moor , near to the junction ot the four counties of Chester , Lancaster , Derby , and York . The workmen , ' amongst whom it has made its appearance , are exceedingly intemperate in their mode of living . Many of the navvies had saved up the ir earnings , and indulged in great drunkenness at Win'tsuntitle , one man alon * having spent £ / it is said in intoxicating drinks during the week . He had eaten immoderately at dinner time on Saturday , and

      soon afterwards was seized with symptoms of cholera , which increased very rapidly , and he died withm about fourteen hours from the first attack . The disease spread very rapidly amongst the other workmen , sixteen were seized , with the dreaded symptoms within a few ( lays , of whom seven had died up to Monday night . ' The directors of the railway having been informed of these circumstances , were anxious to ascertain what ground there was for believing the epidemic was the well-known fatal disease > t was supposed to be , and at their suggestion the attendance of Dr . Bell , of Manch ester , and Mr . Furnival , surgeon , of the same town , was obtained . These gentlemen went over to Woodhead oh Monday , and from an examination of the cases report that there can be no doubt of the disease being

      Asiatic cholera . Woolwich . —The cholera has ajain broken out on board the convict hospital ship Unite , at Woolwieh . On Wednesday , Mr . C . J . Carttar held three inquests at the Salutation Tavern , Woolwich , on the bodies of John Fulliiove , John Williams , and James Rawlinson , three invalid prisoners confined in that vessels The deceased were infirm men , ssnt to the hospital for medical treatment . The evidence showed that death arose in one case from diarrhoea —in another from English cholera , and in the third from Asiatic cholera , and the jury returned a verdict accordingly . No case has yet nppeared either in the convict vessels themselves or in the town .

      Two Deaths from Asiatic Cholera . —An inquest was held on Wednesday , by Mr . Baker , at the Angel , Broad-street , llatcliff , on the body of Mr . William Hodgson , aged fifty years , captain" of the brig Jane and Agnes , from Newcastle . It appeared froni the evidence that the Jane and Agnes arrived in the river , and was moored off stone stairs , Ratcliff . The crew appeared perfectly healthy , and on Saturday morning last the deceased complained of pains in his bowels , and in tfa evening he became much worse , and was attacked with other symptoms . Mr . Cleland , surgeon » was called to him on the following Monday morning , but the deceased died in the afternoon . — -Mr . Cleland said when he attended he found the deceased in a state of collap .-e , and his appearance indicated a decided case of Asiatic cholera . Witness was now attending the carpenter of the ship , who was suffering from the same diseass .

      The rest of the crew were all healthy . The Coroner said , if the deceased had applied to Mr . Cleland when first attacked , it was probable he might have been still Lvlng . Verdict , " Death from Asiatic cholera . " —Mr . Baker held a second inquest at the Royal Oak , Stepney-green , on the body of Ann Connelcn , the wife of a sailor , who died from the effects of cholera . Verdict accordingly . —A third case was taken by the same coroner , at the Horn of Plenty , Mile-end , on the body of a labourer named William Raugan , aged twenty-five years , who was found in a state of insensibility in some fields near Mile-end workhouse . He was removed to the Union , where he died shortly afterwards . The Coroner said , from the appearance of the bode , he had no doubt that death had been caused by cholera . Verdict , " Natural death . " The Coroner remarked that these inquests mads six which he had held in cases of chAeia during the List week .

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      TIIE CHOLERA IN PARIS . The Paris papers of Monday inform us that on the Sth inst . there were 44-5 deaths from cholera in private , houses , and 178 hi tho hospitals , making a total of 623 . In tho morning of the same day there remained 1 , 360 cases on hand , to which 410 were added during the day , making a total of 1 , 770 . Ot these cases 173 proved fatal , and there remained in the evenins : 1 , 542 eases on hand . On the 7 th there were 350 cfeaths from cholera in the hospitals and private houses , and on the Oth 502 deaths . The Minister of Public Works has addressed a circular to the engineers and architects employed

      by the government , commanding the execution ol certain sanitary measures recommended by the Boards of Health , and a course of lectures was w be commenced on Monday , at the College of France , in the Place de Cambrai , with a view of giving popular instructions on the means of preventing the disease . The Archbishop of Paris has addressed a circular to his clergy , advising various services to bo performed as a '" means of averting the wrath of God , amongst which an appeal for the intercession of the Virgin Mary and another holy virgin , a patron saint of France , is especially recommended .

      In consequence of the unexpected increase of cholera cases in Paris , the Municipal Commission has voted from the City funds 50 , U 00 f . to tho Prefect of Police , and loO . OOOf . to the Prefect of the Seine , to defray the extraordinary expenses created by the occasion . The Credit announces tho death of General llupatcl in Par . s of cholera . On the 9 th ( Saturday ) there were 401 deaths from cholera in private houses , and 148 in the hospital ? , making a total of C 12 . The same morning there

      were 1 , 542 cases on hand , ' to which 377 were added during the day . Sixty-six patients loft the hospitals , and 148 had died , so tliafc there remained in the evening-1 , 705 cases on kind . The cholera is Still raging with great virulence in the provinces , but the recent change in the temperature has materially contributed to check its ravages . M , Audraud has found , by repeated experiments , that the prevalence of the cholera is to be attributed in a degree to the deficiency of electricity in tlio atmosphere : and that when that electricity is restored in a sufficient quantity , tho epidemic declines .

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      Laxd Wateksi-outs . — During the late heavy weather , the neighbouring counties were visited by several of those phenomena , attended , in some instances , with very serious damage to property . One which visited the city of Wells , in Somersetshire , is thus described . Between one and two o ' clock , p . m ., the people of Wells were not a little alarmed by a mass of water flowing through the streets , and insinuating itself into their dwellings . An immense body of water , fourteen or fifteen inches in depth , flowed down the lanes and avenues leading from Mendip ; and all this time without a ]> narent cause for such a flood : thoro had ' certainly been a , smart shower , but not at all sufficient to produce it . After the water had somewhat subsided ,

      another body deluged the streets ; but at length it passed off , and the people began to inquire wlmt injury had been done , and how the phenomenon was caused . On the road loading to Bristol , the road stones , sand , and rubbish were piled up knee-deep ; immense ruts wcro ploughed , and it was with difficulty that horses and vehicles could pass . In tho lowlands several lambs wore drowned , and at the sides of the hills whole gardens , with potatoes and vegetables , were washed away . It appears that the overflow was caused by a waterspout , which was seen by some farm labourers to descend first on Pcwn-hill and traverse the Mencip district for some miles , lie appearance was a dense black cloud , which suddenl y descended ,. and . formed a circular column , whirling round .. with immense rapidity .

      itio water - Had a . disagreeable , brackish fcUtc .-AWrat tho same tune a waterspout fell on -Breedon-1 U 11 , Worcestershire , and rushed down upon Kemev-; oii , destroying much property on its route . At Kemerton-priory , the residence of the Rev . Mr . Uelliai'S , tho gardens were terribly damaged n ' oww-) eds swept away , and even the soil removed The furniture was . washed out of the drawing-room windows . Half tlio houses in the , village oTKemerton yew flooded , and all the stone walls inits . eouvso trom the lull were carried away .-- ] 3 y marks on the trees it appears that the torrent must have been sixteen feet deep . The railway in the neighbourhood was so deeply flooded as to delay the express tram , .. by , extinguishing the fire of the engine .-Uteuenham Examiner

      During tlio . last twelve , months , there have been seized ai Manchester iweniu-two thousand pounds weight of . unsound meat , which ' would most probably have been otherwise sold to the public for food . Strange . . . Weather . —On- " Sunday , cveiiing . last : i foil of snow took , place at ' Littlcborou'fii , ' about fourteen mjles from Manchester , which lasted from fivo tfeloek till seven . On Monday , some tods oi " hay , which hud been newly made , were seen in " field capped with snow . , On , Tuesday night the temperature was exceedingly low , and on Wednesday morning the hedges were covered . with' hoar fi'ObO » i the . neighbourhood of Manchester ' ... " . : " . ; ., The plate and furiiitur ' e ' of an . Irish county mem ber ^ O 1 'e last ; we ' ok , seized ; under execution for debts tJ a . long ' , standing , and transferred to Dublin , w !' - ^ - they havp : been sold by . auctioi ) . ' ' Strawberries , pca ' ciies " , andgrapos , grown in ^( J . - - land , were exhibited iu Glasgow lust week .

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      & § z iJroiunn ^ . jITohb Sxuggltsg At PoBTSMOBTff . —Another important seizure of brandy and gin was made a few days ago at Gosport . It appears that a sentinel , in the rear of the lfoyal Marine Barracks , at Forton , whose post was close to the water ' s edge , heard about midnight persons moving near his post and challenged them , not receiving any answer he proceeded to the spot and found a large wherry , which las been twice captured prior to this event , and a small boat at the ed ^ e of the water . On examination the sentinel finding 106 tubs in the large boat , lie detained the man and boy , by whom he was offered £ 10 to let them depart . This offer was declined , and assistance being called , the whole were detained , and soon after delivered over to _ the Portsmouth harbour coast-guard . The spirits amount to nearly 500 gallons proof , and arc

      supposed to have been landed from the Ariel yacht which came into harbour on the previous day ; the yacht is wider detention . The owner of ihe yacht did not arrive at this port in her ; and there is little doubt but that the improper use made of his vessel lias been without his . knowledge . -The capture of the m : ui is important ; he is known as "Billy Mitchell , " and is believed to be the mainspring of the snvusgling transactions go ' ng on in Hants . He lias becTs for a long time looked after , but , as he was seldom to be seen In such transactions , it was difficult to bring anything home to him . A notorious beer house , in White ' s-row , Portsea , was searched some days ago for smuggled goods , and 14 'Jlbs . of Cavendish tobacco were found concealed beneath the flooring . A very heavy penalty may be sued for in this case .

      A rnACDULEST Bankrupt . —At the Manchester Borough Court , on Saturday last , a plumber and painter , William Jabez Davies , formerly carrying on business at Manchester , and also at Patricroft , ¦ was brought before the magistrates on a charge of defrauding his creditors , by secreting his goods pre"vious to his bankruptcy . From the statement of counsel ( Mr . Joseph Pollock ) it appeared that the prisoner was made a bankrupt on his own petition in 15 i 7 , but that on his examination before the Court of Bankruptcy , the learned Commissioner was much dissatisfied with his accounts , and that ± o such nn extent was the suspicion of his dishonesty increased on the last hearing , that tho proceedings were adjourned sine dicT Certain disclosures Lave since been made to the assignees , which had led to the present steps . The learned counsel then

      called and examined at great length Mr . John Simpson , now a master plumber and glazier in Manchester , but an operative in the employ of the prisoner at the time of his bankruptcy , and subsequently of the prisoner ' s son . The substance of this man ' s evidence was , that immediately prior to the bankruptcy , he was employed by the prisoner to remove great quantities of goods to the houses and shops of other parties ; that a quantity Avcre concealed in an attic of the premises in Manchester , the door of which opened with a slide , and was covered over with pnper-hangings , so as to escape detection by a stranger to the place ; that a quantity more were hidden in a pit sunk in the garden at Patricroft for the purpose ; that another portion ¦ were concealed in a large box round one of the rooms of bis house at Patricroft , this box being fitted round the room so as to resemble a form or

      seat merely , and being so painted that no suspicion "would be entertained of its being used for any other purpose . The witness said large portions of these goods after the bankruptcy had found their way into the stock of the bankrupt ' s son , who was carrying on the business for tho father . He was of opinion that the value of the goods which came back into stock in this way was at least £ 100 . After a long examination Mr . Pollock asked to have the prisoner remanded . —Mr . Cobbett , the barrister , asked if bail would be taken for the prisoner ' s appearance on Tuesday ?—Mi' . Maude , the magistrate , said the prisoner might be admitted to bail , but the amount must be such as to secure his appearance ; did the prosecution think two sureties in £ 50 would tt

      Imj sufficient ? Mr . Pollock said hamust rest ¦ with the discretion with the court * goods to the value of £ 150 , he was told , had been discovered , besides what might yet be out of the way . Mr . Maude said the bail must , of course , be sufficient to insure the object in -view , and in the meantime , ¦ nnt il some better idea could be formed of what that would be , the prisoner must be removed in custody . A further examination of the br « nkrupt was made on Wednesday , when the evidence previ ously given , that the prisoner had secreted goods in a hole in his garden , and an attic which he had pai - titioned off from the rest of his premises and in the house of neighbours , was fully corroborated , and he ¦ was committed for trial at the next Liverpool assizes . The magistrates however offered to admit him to bail in two sureties of £ 100 each . Fatxl Accident . —On Saturday night last ayonng

      man , named John Cawtbray , a workman employed in the Leeds and Thirsk Railway Tunnel , at Bramhope , near Leeds , unfortunately lost his life by being struck with a splinter of rock , which had been driven by anexplosive blast-to an unwonted distance . The occurrence took place between sine and ten o clock , and the unfortunate young man Z ^ J iT ti ^ *?*« w of about 110 jard ° from - ^ L \ ^" ^ Soing on-a distance far - greater than it is . usually considered necessarv for the miners to retreat for safety-when he ' was struck in the face by theflying stone and w-is so severely mutilated that he ^ iel . ' ™ " A Tjs ds ihi' Welshjies . —At the board- of ^ rdianHC ^ difi ) on Saturday , Mr . John , the re-- lieYingofficeiYstated , in answer to a question from Mr . Booker , that of all the cases of cholera that came udder his notice , and were relieved or buried

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      grtfiino . THE SKIBBEREEN UNION . The following deplorable picture of this locality , already celebrated in the annals of Irish destitution , is drawn by the Vicar of the parish , in a letter to the editor ef Saunders ' s News Letter . We give it in an abridged form . The communication is dated 28 tli May . — " When I tell you thnt last year my poor rates foi this glebe and house came-o about £ 1 Is . 7 d . an acre , some idea may be formed of the pressure upon us . Nevertheless , our workhorse is reduced to such a condition for want of sufficient or proper clothing that not capable in some cases of being washed

      ( either from the pressure for clothing or its worn state ) , clothes are handed to the incoming paupers to take the p ! ace of their ow ; i , with tSis salutary resultto their persons that being thus incapable of being cleaned , and occupied by others previously infected by cutaneous diseases , all these effects of filth spread like wildfire through tiie house , until the accumu lated virus becomes of such a nature , as well from the bedding as from the day clothes , that I never saw such an objectas one poor creature presented a few davs ago from imbibing the concentrated powers of perhaps many of these diseases together . This , while it has the effect of rendering the workhouse odious , from its unhappy results in many ways to the preservation and the peace of families , prevents

      numbers from going into it , and sends out those who , dissatisfied with their miserable condition , leave it in this state , to spread further misery amongst those who have the misfortune to have anything to do with them . They would , many of them , rather allow themselves to starve ; and rot in their cabins than go in there , to the certain loss , as has been the case to my own knowledge , of tht ; se they hold dear to them ; for certain it is , whatever may be the cause , our workhouses are a ready and : effectual engine for the destruction of infant life . One poor creature of this description was found drowned on the seashore only a fortnight or three weeks ago , having , as

      was supposed , slipped off the rock , when gathering a sea-weed they call ' dhoolamown , " a parcel of which she had on her back to take home for the food of herself anvl family , and since I began to write , a a woman who has got a ticket to bur dispensary for another ( who was washed off a rock by a wave while engaged in like occupation , but was-rescued by a boat , whose crew saw her beaten by the surf against the rock ) , that her wounds and bruises and broken bones may bei attended to- Another reason is , thatif they leavs their hutsto go into this ^ en bfpenury nev er more can they expect - to leave but with the certain pros ttfjeing obliged to take up their residence

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      BBWMWWBMHraiail ^^ W 1 "" " ! TTOIBBBWItBPgtt" * by the ditch-side : for the moment they leave to go into the workhouse the hut is unroofed by the owner , for the straw in the thatch , to make manure , or to ensure their absence ! But , to crown all , its creditis gone with the provision merchants , to some of whom it is so deep in debt as nearly to owe them their litt ' e capital ; and to others so large an amount of their account as to be balanced only by thousands -1 believe five or six . I heard the master say , a day or two ago he was refused meal for the paupers' dinner . The state of our gentry may be just guessed at from this one fact : I know a landlord in i his neighbourhood , who in the diyof our prosperity could put readily down £ 1 000 a year for his expenditure in well-doing ( a most useful country gentleman ,

      and what a good landlord ought to be ) , obliged to borrow within this week between £ 2 and < £ 3 in order to make up a h-4 f year ' s premium ( not quite £ 12 ) , to ' s ? curo policy of insurance of long standing ; he thought he should have to let it drop altogether . I protest the conduct of the government in inexp licable . If responsibility for a people ' s well-being was in a healthy state , they would be impeached for every life that is lost in circumstances like ours for their cruel and hard-hearted policy . A union in a bankrupt state , treated as this has been by the repeated refusal , no * - of a gift alone out of the sum , the paltry sum of £ 50 , 000 , lately granted by parliament , but of a loan , and not only so , but the forced loan occasioned by the calamity of ' 46 , required of us in our state of insolvency . '

      We are now visited by the Asiatic cholera , the first , or amongst the first , of the victims to which I attended in the workhouse on the 18 th . It has come upon us wholly unprovided ; not only in bedding and clothing , but unprepared by any effectual corrective —I mean as to a separate place for the patient , or sufficient medical assistance—pennyless and forlorn —discarded and scorned by rulers—our sufferings despised by them , and disregarded—we are a doomed people ! I attended a person yesterday in malignant dysentery in one of our hospitals , and whi ' e the hospital itself bespoke the care with which all that depended on the nurse ( who is only paid Is . 9 d ., a week for night and day work !) was kept , the lad himself had on a , shirt , and was in bed-clothes that ,

      for want of a clmnge , were the very essence of filth . As to the cholera , it has put on the worst features of the complaint , and seizes to its death its victim without a moment ' s notice ; and to assist its ravages , we have but one van for conveyance of the sick from the auxiliary workhouse in the town to the'hospital or place appointed to receive them . The consequence Of this is , that one lady , living opposite one of these abodes of misery , Io 6 t her life by ( seeing the paupers brin-jing out another in the disease on a 1 » idbarrow all but dead , and exposed tothe gaze of the inhabitants of the streets they passed through to ths sick houses . The mysterious poison seized her on the instant and she died in a few hours . " Bow our medical man stands the labours of two hospitals , about a mile and half from each other , with

      the infirmary and four auxiliary workhouses , and his private practice , I am utterly at a loss to conceive . Within the last few days , indeed , another physician has been employed ; but where his salary is to come from is a question not easily solved . But even he told me to-day he must retire from such a scene of misery , where , for want of room or bedding , his cholera patients are laid on boards that form the floor of the hospital . At ten o ' clock p . m . a few nights ago I had occasion to send for the former supposing one of my family was being seized with this fearful plague . lie came to me mwe dead than alive , exhausted by the fatigue he had undergone , being occupied at the workhouse for the previous twelve hours . He had just arrived at home to rest , as he thought , for the night , when he received my

      message . " When I consider the thorough change that has taken place in this unfortunate district and town since 1815 , ( in which the first b p dings of the present ruin of us occurred in the partial blight of the potato ) , so entirely opposite to its then rapidly increasing advance and prosperity—all our storehouses along the river ' s edge then groaning with abundance of corn , butter , potatoes , < fec , for exports ; and now see them all , with . one or two solitary exceptions , filled with paupers , instead of the produce their industry and active bustling energy gave us once , and instearl of earning by means of salutary employment , as aforetime , their own and theirfamily ' ssnbsistence through the medium of their own exertions , eating

      out by thousands in unproductive listliness the very vitals of our existence , my heart groans within me , and the tear starts to my eye . as I sorrow to think upon the wondrous and sudden change ; but more affecting still , the well-suspected cau-e of stroke after stroke in " a fruitful land being made thus barren for the wickedness of them that dwell therein " Shops with a face trying to force a trade , but without business , that used in other days to be crowded with purchasers , and a multitude of willing hands ready for occupation , but no one to hire them ; all , all obliged to rest on a country for eleemosynary support , not producing , but sending out its life bload- exhausting its last remaining mite for foreign food . Alas ! alas for our deplorable reverse !

      God forbid I should be ungrateful to those most benevolent individuals , in private , who avo still enabling me to pursue my little plans of usefulness for my poor neighbours . By their unwearied liberality , I am able t- > provide rations for seventy , and latterly eighty , chikken daily at my schools , and through industrial an < other salutary employments assist them to help their families at home . I give nothing but in the way of industry , except to the sick . It is melancholy the state of destitution to which the poor creatures are reduced . One of the po"r little children , whom I had admitted died tho cither day from his previous state of want , as I am credibly informed , lie used to get since his

      admission his ration of bread with the rest , but the poor thing w . is too far gone before he came to us . I regret him the mor- 'because his poor family was so particularly neat ; his sister has been some time at the Female School , and even in rags was always specially clean , and her two little brothers , whom she brought , at the time I mention . Another , with the lictle fellow that died , were , even in their deep distress , pictures of neatness . The still continued desire on the part of English friends to assist me in clothing the naked has enabled me to give a change of under garments to almost every one of them besides the rations—these are dispensed as rewards . By these they learn the double lesson of washing and cleanliness .

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      THE CHOLERA ?"" A notification from the Board of Health appears in Tuesday ni g ht's Gazette , announcing the re-appearaiieo of the cholera "in various and distant places in England , Wales , and Scotland . " From returns which accompany this notification it appears that , since the latter end of March , cholera has broken out in 12 different localities in the metropolis , in 27 towns in England and Wales , and in 17 towns in Scotland ; ami that in several of these places , as in Sunderland ,. Liverpool , Durham , llitchin , Gloucester , Kcynsham , Bath , Merthy Tydvil , Cardiff , Rilbirnie , Calashiels , Kelso , and Dundee , the disease has continued to spread . Another fact is declared by these returns of great significance , which calls for the earnest attention of the local authorities charged with the execution of the Nuisances Removal and Diseases Prevention Act ; namely , that the attacks within the last twelve days have exceeded those which have occurred during the preceding two months .

      Thus in tho two months from tho 29 th of March to tho 29 th of May both inclusive , tho total number of cases is 428 ; but within the last twelve days , that is , from the 30 th of May to the 11 th of June , both inclusive , there haye been no less than 673 casesi , and at the same titno tho disease has manifested a decided tendency to spoak epidemically , as is shown in the numbers attacked on board the American emigrant ship at Plymouth , and in the extent to which the disease has prevailed in Glover Hall-court , Boech-strect , Barbican in the city , and also in Bcrmondsey . The total number of deaths , up to the time of the renewal of the order in council , wore 6 , 319 out of

      14 , 332 attacks , or in the proportion of three deatlts to seven attacks ; whereas , the returns now made give C 38 deaths , out of 1 , 203 attacks ; or a proportion of more than one half—a proportion exhibiting the severity that usually marks the commencement of a general outbreak . Under circumstances which thus afford ground for apprehension that another visitation of the scourge niay be impending , the General Board of Health deem it highly satisfactory to be enabled to report tho uniform " success ' which has followed prompt and continued attention to the premonitory symptoms which generally precede an attack of this disease .

      Ihe CnoLKiuis still very prevalent at Cardiff . Altogether , ( says the ' Mneipttliiy ) the seizures have jcen 137 , of which seventy-one have been fatal . Premises have been taken near St . Mary ' s Church to be used as a temporary asylum for the reception of cholera patients , and a medical gentleman from Bartholomew s Hospital has been eruKio-od to attend them . The town has been divided into seven districts , and a medical man is appointed to each .: Directions have been given to clcn . nso the streets ' courts , and alleys , and to whitewash those houses reported to require it . Lime has been pretty generally and liberall y distributed over the streets and m the gutters . ¦

      Reported Appearance of Cholera in Manchester . —A case of cholera was reported by the police to nave occurred in 'Manchester on Sunday , ' which proved fatal The deceased was a , man of cobir oi pugilistic fame , and was known bv the name of Jemmy Robinson , or" Norloy ' s ret ? ' and ^ Hva w « der training au ttetime , at aboor-Iiouso'in Red ? fein-strect . A case is also reported to have occurvll * 1 ? 1 r M n ' ^ Manchester , last veclv ; bunn both , these instances '( if they ¦ wbi-o cal cases of Asiaticcholcra , ) the parties appear' to have predisposed . themselves to such attacks by g 5 j ^ . ^ regularity and iinm'udonce in their manner ^• MKnTUTR TTDviL . -A correspondent informs us that Asiatic cholera is making dreadfufravages ' in tho filthiest parts of this town , notwithstanding the

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), June 16, 1849, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1526/page/6/