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_IInvLTn of _Loxdox borixg the "Week . —The present _rofnrii of 071 deaths exhibits au increase of -nearly thirty on each of the two preceding weeks , and --is- * a small increase of eight on thc average of five _t * prings . The mortality from diseases of the respir-atory organs continues to decrease , for the miusi ' c-R- in this class in the last three weeKs were sii ' - _<*< _.-s " -ively 139 , 127 , and 102 , while the average is _131 . The increase is principally in the zymotic or _epi . iimic class of diseases ; for , whereas the average is 108 , ihe deaths in this group in the same three weeks were successively 233 , 209 , and 251 . The death " - in the last week from dian _* ho _2-i and dyscntry were _i _wciity-five , or eleven above the average , but aie « . jt nioreuumerous than in the same week of IS ** ; ; _ihose from cholera in two preceding weeks were _respectively five and nine _, but in last week
were twenty-two , though the weekly average in former rfv-ira was only one . Hooping-coug h shows an c . w . ' _^ on the average of twenty-two , the number i : i i his return bemgHfty-eig lit . The deaths from _ecirkiiua -were forty , or eight more than thc average ; those from typhus thirty-eight , or four less than the avcra _«* _-c . In the "West Loudon Union Workhouse n man of thirty-six years died of " low fever , acc- > i » _ji . - < iiicd with diarrhoea , apparently produced by extreme destitution . " Another man , ofthe same age . died of "delirium tremens , brought on by excessive drinking . " In University College Hospital thc _^ _earli of a juggler , twenty-two years of age , _occurred , according to the return , from "tremendous perccurditis , caused by passing an iron sword down flic _-lisoiibagus and thence to the perecardium , after exhibition . ' Inquests were held on the above three cases . The mean _readins of the barometer -was
aborc uiirty inches on Sunday and Wednesday : the mean reading ofthe week was 29 , 908 . The temperature w : is _iugh in thc early part of the week , _esjj-H'iaJjy on Tuesday , when the mean was 6 S-6 , and higher than the average of the same day in seven previous years hy 9-1 . The mean ofthe week was 5 'J-7 . — _-Registrar-GeneraTs Return . inquests . Sricir _. E of a LvsATic . —On Monday an inquest was held before Mr . "W . Baker , at the Queen ' s He-id . 1 sigh-street , Poplar ,, on view of thc body of _Jauio = ' _« r _, aged thirty-one years , who destroyed _MiuM-i _* " under the following distressing circumstance ? . The deceased was a hammer-man at Messrs . _Aliiicr-ui _. i _< _Jo . _' s , engineers , Mill-wall , and about four Mouths since hc met with an accident by the falling of _^ me machinery : he received some intersal ziijurr -rhich affected his mind , and hc became
a raving maniac . The parish officers of Poplar tooi _cli-a--je ofthe deceased , and he was removed to Mr . _Armstrong ' s Lunatic Asylum , Peckham . The dcc-. -a 5-.-d - vmauied there until Thursday last , when he _-a-as ns _' _eused from custody by the intercession of his _Jrie-iJa as cured . On the following morning ( Friday ) he appeared low and desponding , and frequently ejaculated that the keepers were after him . About a : > hour afterwards he was found hanging in the k _* i : of a shed belonging to thc cooperage of Mr . Gordon , Orchard-place , Black-Tall . In consequence of lhe " let-eased being out of his mind , his wife was throw > i " - am great distress , and almost reduced to a stai-vhtg condition . She has been left with three young children "totally unprovided for , and she is now far _advanced in pregnancy . The jury returned aver-Hot , ** That the deceased destroyed himself ¦ whi le iu a H-ite of unsound mind . "
S " _- _**« _--2 ji- Death . —A Mrs . Johnson , wife of Mr . _Johii-nm . _ii-uo-burner , of Mile-end , died suddenly on Jloim- iy ob the Eastern Counties Hallway Pier at North _Woojwscb , under the following singular circusi _^ . u . _vs . The deceased had appointed to meet her _i-tibbaii-l on the pier , as hc was about to return iron : ' _-frxveseud by one of the steam-vessels ; and , _beiiii _n sf _. _jjit woman , her effort- to reach tbe train at _Shori--r .: i-i _» , : o _** whieh she was rather late , caused ler is » * _-s =.---r : ence a great difficulty of breathing . _Sheiii-J _i-: i ? iially recovered from this , when , on passing _al-mg the line , the foul gas escaping from a gas-work ( which was described as being _dreadi ' _i-liy offensive ) entered the carriage , and the _diffii--.--ty - « i" breathing again returned . The deceased neve : ns !; :-- ; , - ami expired on _bciug lifted out ofthe train . A cv .- _' _-ner ' s _Inquest has since been held , and a _vcr-Uci- ef - Death from natural causes" returned .
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"Mv :: * - . _-Sst ; --cijxG at _Portsmouth . —Another _import-- _* .: _si-iz-ireof brandy and g in was made a few day .-- _^ - _ -. > -u _^ osport . It appears that a sentinel , in the iva ' i * of ihe Koyal Marine Barracks , at Porton , who .- * - j _* _i---i was close to thc water ' s edge , heard aboi- ; * iV *! i _* _iiiiit persons moving near his post and cnali _cji- _i _-.-d i '* _'* m , not receiving any answer he _procce-3 =--i to _t-rf - < i # ot and found a large wherry , which Las i < _-:- _" » _iwli-i ? captured prior to this event , and a small ' --j * - - " _'t ibe _cdire of the water . On examination T- _.:- > - _- ! fIi ! el * 3 ! iJui' * -106 tubs in the large boat ,
hc _divst ; _ie = 3 ihe man and boy , by whom hc was offere
lias Ii . " --i : * V . r a long time looked after , but , as he was _jf-jii-. -s- _i * - lie seen ia such transactions , it was diffie-iK ! - ¦ i'Thi _^ anything home to hini . A notorious Wi' ! - house , in _"NYhiteVrow , Povtsca , was sear . ' . i- 'i -: _•*> . _* _« days age for smuggled goods , and _l-y . 'lh- - _•* ' Ouoadisk tobacco were " found concealed _"beiitv _*;! -- _vii ' - _f .- _~ _:. rziiif . JL very h < _zixy j _* e _; _saitT « ii : iy bo sued _i-5 * iii his case . A _i-i-.-i _l-t-. _a-T liASKKcn . —At the ilanchestcr _Koro _* _- _^ - _* . '"urt , on Saturday List , a plumber and paliiu- * - V »" :: i :., ni . hibez Davies , formerly carrying on " _uuM-i- - - - > - -si 3 I : inchestcr , and also at Patricroft , was loiaghi before the magistral as on a charge of _defiaii-Iin-i his creditors , _bysecreunghis goods prc-- yiou _< *•> hi * h-uikruptcy . Trom the siatement of
com * - - -1 ( Mr . - > iiscph Pollock ) it appeared that the prisouvr w . - _is made a bankrupt on his own petition in l- _^ T , but that on his examination before tbe Coun ¦ - _f _lla- _' kruptcy , the learned Commissioner was iiiin . il dissatisfied with his accounts , and that tosu < -ii ; _tr : c . _vy-nt was thc suspicion of his dishonesty _incrc-i * ; _** ' : - ; a _H < e last hearing , that the proceedings v » -- v _---IjVinrncd sine dieT Certain _diseiosur-js La-re - -: _* ¦ - - - - i ; _=---n made to the assignees , whieh had led tv ;"— } - ¦ -- _? nt steps . The _kvirncd counsel then called ' 3-id _..- - _-..-i-iihied at great len . -rth Mr . John Simpson . _1-i-w - _- . .. .. liter plumber and g lazier in Manchc .-j-.-3- . i : n . _i _* _i operative in the employ ofthe _prisoi- _' .-r -: _; * t :-- time of his bankruptcy , and subsequent _^ *"" . " _:: ' - _prisoner ' s son . The substance of this - \ _-u--. '> .-wi . _'iiee was , that _iimii-dinrj-iv prior to
the b . _i ! - -- - _*!*' - ; ey , lie was emj ) k > yed by the prisoner torei . _-i-v . ' _nv ; it quantities of goods to tlie houses and : > : ;• - - -- - ; " Miner parties ; that a quantity were _coiiccal-.-ii in : ni attic of the premises in Manchester , tiled' - ' * - -if—hich opened with a slide , and was _eort-r » -A _*>*« t « _- " _ith _paper-Iiangiugs _, so as to _i-seape _detccii- - " - -- . * - ** _stranger io tbe place ; ihat a quantity more _'V _.- ; v _h :- _; = _k-n in a pit sunk in thc garden at _PairL-i _:-ii '< - - - * the pui _* _--ose ; that another portion ¦ were --- . _¦ . - . . - -a ' _e-I in a large box round one of thc room * ' _*» f H _* house at Patricroft , this box being fitted r < -- * : > -- ! d-e room so as to resemble a form or seat _mi-n-iy , snd being so painted that no suspicion _-wouhi 5 « - _fii : _< _-rtained of its _beinj- used for any other _jtiirpt * - _" _-- . Thv witness said large portions of these gowk - -f---r _thebaiikruptcv had ibund tlieir war ¦
auto tin- - - _-o _« _it '« the bankrupt s son , wno was carrying ok th .: ti - j _~* ness for tlie father . He was of opinion i * :--ii -ii * r vjdue of the goods which came back into s ; ---k in tiiis way was at least £ 100 . After a long « _-:--ii _5 ii-. 'arion Mr . Pollock asked to . nave , the _priso---- * - _v-.-J ! _i = oided . —Mr . Cobbett , the barrister , -asked ifw _' . _i ! -vould betaken for the prisoner ' s _appe-irairct : --i- Tuesday ?—? . Ir . _Mande , the magistrate , said the pvi _?'«* u _* r might he admitted to hail , but the amount ins- - , "itc such as to secure his appearance ; did th- ' _' _.-i-sc-ution think two sureties in £ 50 would Le _sulSev :: ! f Mr . Pollock said that must rest with tho _iHst-i _-. _'rion with the court ; _sorxU io the -value _* h - * _£ !"• •"* . he was told , had b- . cn . discovered
_lieaidi-s what mi g ht yet" be oat of the way , Mr . idaiidv said tin bail must , of course , be sufficient to insure _\ I « c t _* l'jk * ct in view , and in the meantime , until _ri-nic li-tter Idea could bo -formed of what that -vuuM I * -, the prisoner must he removed in custody . _ i further examination ol tlie bankrupt was made o *» Vc'dnesday , when the . evidence previously zi : -. -.-:=, "i'at thc prisoner Lad seeroted _sroods in a hole i « bis -r-. _tden , and . an attic which he had partitioned vlffi-ni the rest ofhis premises and in thc house of _iK-i _^ i . bonrs _, was fully _corroborated , and he ¦ was _cummiti-d for trial at tlie next Liverpool assizes . Tim- _-:-a gistmies however ofiered io admit him to bail in two sureties of £ 100 each .
Yxim . _A- ; a » E _>* T . —On Saturday night last ayoung man , _inim-d John Cawthray , a workman employed in the _Ta-cJs and Thirsk Railway Tunnel , at _Bramhojte , - ; -.-, r * _L-eds , -unfortunatel y lost his life hy _h-An _^ _ili-u _.-A _n-ith a splinter of rock , which had been _driveii _hyan rsplosiye blast to an unwonted _distance . Ti « - occurrence took phice between nine _sina _t- _*; _t rt _' _olaefc , and the imfortunato _voimg- m < _ui--was-M . * - . _** _^ la -a _istat _i-c c of about 110 " vnrds from wher-- tin- -j- . n . stl"g / was going on—a d _' istance far srcaus * ! i ;» -a it is . usually " . considered necessary for the _imn-rs to retreat for * _safcfv-Lvvhcii he" was _tlrac * ; n _ri . e face , bv the _Syhig stone , and was so _sevci-.-Sj _niHulnte . i that lie died .. A Iii _« - ¦ _Tiis-lrELSJiM ' Ex : —At the board of guard a- si « ' mint ) en . Saturday ,. "Mr . John , the relieviiig _1-ffi -: _:- . . . . _t-ited , in answer , to a question from - •• Ir . Bo .. } ..--- . - hit of sll the cases " of cholera that came u-i . js .-i- . as _H v . ii > _e , aad were relieved or buried
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at the public expense , there was not one Welsh . They were nearly all Irish . —Principality . The Wrexham Bank Failure . —In the' bankruptcy court , Liverpool , on Monday , the case of It-MAddfeton Lloyd came on for -heaving . This was an adjourned examination for the production of an amended balance-sheet , extending back to the year 1824 , when tbe bankrupt dissolved partnership witli his brother , Sir William L ! oyd .-Mr . Evans solicitor , appeared for the assignees , and o _^ l _thecal amount on July I , 18 _^„^ _™ stated bv the amended oalaiice-shect to be -fcl , 9 oO . He contended it was incorrectly made out ,, as it was founded on a statement of affairs which appeared in the deed of dissolution in which the bankrupt himself was entered as a debtor to the firm m A _ _<••> r \ r \ r \ t l . _ _. lh > hnnl . ii list _st-n lir whereas the books he onl
the sum of £ 9 , 000 , by y appeared to be indebted in the sum of ± 0 , 000 . All-. 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 thc dissolution , there were certain debts to the partnership concern , amounting to £ 10 , 255 , and estimated at £ 5 , 685 , which yielded to the bankrupt upwards of £ 7 , 500 . Mr . Evans objected that the difference between the estimated amount of £ 5 , 685 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 tliat 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 tune was so great that he could not do so at present . Mr . Evans then proceeded to examine the
bankrupt in reference to a mortgage to Lady Wale for £ 2 , 000 , which did not appear in the balancesheet ; also as to monies received by the bankrupt on the joint account of his brother and himself , wbich did not . appear in the accounts ; aud further , in referrence to his wife ' s marriage settlement , under wldch he had received upwards of £ 300 a vear from 1832 to 1844 . The bankrupt said he had applied this money towards the maintenance of his family . Mr . Evans then again addressed the court , stating that he did not consider it necessary 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 i ! 3 rd of July , a further amended halancc sheet to be inade ready in the
meantime . _Collieuv Explosion . —Another explosion of fire damp occurred on Friday week last , at the North Elswiek Colliery , near 2 fewcastIe-upon-Tyne ; but fortunately , in thi 9 instance , no lives were _losi :. It appears , that about noon on that day , the " overman" ( Mr . Whittaker ) and his assistant ' were _proceedina down the shaft in a cage , with some wood to repair a " brattice" and tliey imprudently took a naked candle , lighted , with them . When about halfway down the shaft the gas exploded at the candle with a tremendous report , which was heard at the surface , and for some distance from the pit . The enginemau instantly reversed tbe gear and drew the cage and men up ; and on reaching the bank , the men were found to be severely burnt . They got out of the cage , however , and walked home
without assistance . Davy lamps were used in the mine , wliich is comparatively a small one ; and it shows how reckless of human life the pitmen generally _tre , 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 . stil l 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 ofthe occasion was greatly enhanced by the mournful dirge which is usually sung on such occasions in the p it districts . An examination of the mine has , as yet , thrown no further light on the cause of thc explosion . The mine was ventilated on the furnace svstem .
The RobberyixPark-square , _Leebs . —On Wednesday , li . AVooller and "VV . Barns , who were remanded from the previous Wednesday , wereagaiu bronghtbefore 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 that , upon 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 200 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 tbe borough and _ne-ii- 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 cloth Taglioni coat , was unknown . A small sum of money ( Is . 2 jd . ) was found in liis pocket , and the causes which led to the rash act have not been discovered .
Attack of a Liox ox a Woman ix a Mexaor . ni ** —An accident , very foolishly and incautiously brought about , took place at WombweH ' 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 cars , and not _ndheriiig very strictly to the rules of temperance . The woman and her friend paid Womb well ' s _estab lishment a visit , aid while tliere , she began to stroke the paw ofa remarkably fine but ill-tempered lion . Thc 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 ot the woman _wit'i his claws , aud drew her towards the bars ofthe den . A fearful scream immediately startled every one hf the place , and the greatest confusion prevailed . Some , supposing that the lion had broken loose , fled to the doors : others shrieked iu 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 blcedin <* profusely under the } = " * w of the enraged animal . ' She was speedily released from the position in wliich she had so _foolishlv placed herself , but not before the lion
had lacerated the arm , and torn the skin and integuments from the back part with its claws . Th ' c injured female was conveyed fo thc hospital . There it was discovered that tha wounds she had sustained were of a more serious _ii _.-iiurc than wasat first suspected , and , that it would be necessary to amputate lhe arm . The operation was accordingly p-Tlo-T . icd , and borne with much fortitude by the poor woman . She is going on favourably , anil expresses a resolution to " hit sleeping lions lie ;" which may be followed with advantage by many _othi-rs who have occasion to visit menageries in future .
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THE SKIBBEREEN UNION . The folio- " ing deplorable picture of this localit _** _, already celebrated in thc anna _l s vf Irish destitution , is drawn bv the Vh _* ar of the parish , iu a _lettc * to tiie editor » f Saunders ' s News Letter . _W-e give it in an abrid-H i ' _-irm . The communication is dated 28 th _M-it :-** Wa n I tell you that last year my poor rates for _iliksritbe and bou * e came o about £ 1 Is . 7 d . an acrt-, M » _iiit- idea may be formed of the pressure upon us . _Nevi't'ihckss , our workho-se is reduced to such a _ciindix ' _iOit for want of sufficient cr proper clothing , thai mil _cas-able in some cases of being washed («* _it-i < r iVoiii the pres _> ure for clothing or its worn
star * -,. t : i othe _* are ha * tde- { to the incoming paupers to lake 'lie _ji ' j-c- of their own , with this salutary result to thtir _persons that being thus _iucapable of being t _iesm-d , aud occupied by others previously infected bv i :- ; ttH-eun _» _diseases , all these effects of filth spr < ad iik .= v . - " : _dlii-e through the house , until the _accuum-IttU-d Yir « v > becomes of such a nature , as well from Hit homing as from the day clothes , tha * . I never s-. w such an object as one poor creature presented a few d-iys ago from imbibing the _conceutra'ed powers ot * ] _-ei _iiaps many of these diseases together . This , . - . hile it h ; . s the effect of rendering the workhouse oi ( -o-is from its unhappy results in many ways to the preservation and tbe peace of families , prevents numbers from going into it , and seud _* out those who ,
dissatisfied with their _nvserable condition , leave it in thi-J state , to spread further misery amongst those who have the _misfottune to liave anything to do wifc'i them . 'Ihey would , mauy of them , rather allow themselves to _starve and rot in their ea ' _-ins than go in there , to the certain loss , as has been the case to my own knowledge , of those they hold dear to them ; for certain it is , whatever may be the cause , our workhouses are a leady and effectual enuine for ttie _destruction of infant life . One poor creature of' this description was found drowned on the seashore only a fortnight or three weeks ago , _havi-. ; g , as
was _supposed , slipped off the rock , when gathering a _sea-sresd they . call *' dhoolamown , " a parcel ' . of which she had on her back to take home for the fo _. d of herself an 1 family , and since I began to write , ; a ' a woman who has got a ticket to cur _dispensary for another- ( who was washed ( iff a rock by a wave while engaged " hi like occupation , bu'was -escuedby a boat , whose crew saw her beaten by the surf against the rock ) , that her wounds and _bra-ses an i broken bones may be _aueudeu / to . An th « r reason is , that il they le :: v ** their _huis to gi into this den of _ueaary _. ne * er more can they expect to leave but with _< ihi certdin pros _n - _Oreing obliged , to take up their -residence
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by the'difch-side : for the moment they lave to go into the workhouse the hut is unroofed by the owner , forthe straw in the thatch , to make : manure , or to ensure thei ** 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 lift e capital ; and to others so large an amount of their acrount 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 meul for the paupers' dinner , Tiie state of our gentry may be just guessed at from this one fact : I kno > v a landlord in this neighbourhood , who in the day of our prosperity could put readily d-wn £ 1 , 000 a year for his . expenditure i . _t will-doing ( a most useful country gentleman ,
and what a good landlord ought to be ) , obliged to borrow within this week between £ 2 and 423 in order to makeup a half year ' s premium ( not quite £ 12 ) , to s- cure policy of insurance of long standing ; he _thought lie should have to let it drop _altogether . I protest the conduct of the government in inexp'ieable . 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 th _« ir cruel and hard-hearted policy . A union in a bankrupt stite , 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 ofa 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 firct , < . f 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 efiectuai corrective —I mean as to a separate place for the patient , or sufficient medical _assistance—pcnnyless and forlorn —discarded and scorned by ralers-our sufferings despised by them , and disregarded—weare a doomed people ' . ' J _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 ls . 9 d ., a week for night and day work !) was kept , the lad
himself had on a shirt , and was in bed-cloihes that , forwantofachmge , weie ihe very essence of filth . As to the-cholera , it bas put on the worst feituivs of the complaint , and seizes to its death its victim without a moment ' s notice ; and to assist its ravages , we have bus _< _-ne van for conveyance of the sick from the auxiliary workhouse in the town to the hospital or plac !* appointed to receive them . The consequence of this is , that one lady , living opposite oue of these abodes of misery , lost her life by seeing the paupers _bringing out another in the disease on a I fridbarrow all but dead , and exposed to the gaze of the _inhabitants ofthe streets they passed through to the sick houses . The mysterious poison seized her on the instant and she died in a few hours .
"How our medical man stands the labours of two hospitals , _abo-it a mile and half from each other , with the infinnary and four auxiliary workhouses , and his private p actice , 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 ras to-day he must retire from _sucii 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 tearful plague lie came to me more dead than alive , exhausted by jibe f-itigiie he had undergone , being occupied at ! tbe workhouse for the pevions twelve _hou-s . He ! had just arrived at home to rest , aa he thought , for the night , when he received my message , j
" When I consider the thorough change tliat bas taken place ! ' " n this unfortunate district and town since 1815 , ( in which the first bodihgsof the present ruin of us occurred in the partial blight of the potato ) , s : _i entirely opposite to its then rapidly increasing alvance and prosperity—all our storehouses along the river ' s edge then groaning with abundance of corn , butter , _potatoes , < fcc , f-r exports , * and now see them all , with one or two solitary exceptions , _filhd . with paupers , iu _^ _fcad ofthe produce their industry and active bustling energy gave us once , and insteai of earning by means of salutary employment , as afor .-tirae , their own and their family'ssubsiste- ce through the medium of thtir own exertions , _tatinu
out by thousands in unproductive _listliness tlie very vitals of our existence , my heart groans _>* ithin me , and the tearstirts to my eye as I so-row ! o think upon the wondrous and sudden change ; but more affecting still , the well- _uspecte-l cau e of stroke after stroke in "a fruitful laud being made thus barren for the wickedness of them that dwell therein " Shops with a face trying to force a trade , but without lusincss , that used in other days to be crowded with purchasers , and a multitude of wil ing hands ready for occupation , but no one to hire them ; _a'l , nil _obliged to rest on a country for elc _.-mosynary support , not producing , but sending out its life bio id- exhausing 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 , _wli'i are still enabling me ti pursue my little plans of usefulness for my poor neighbours . By their unweiricd liberality , I am able t > provide rations for seventy , and latterly eighty , children daily at my _sclv- 'ols _, and through industrial an * _i-ther " Falutary employments assist them to help tlieir families at home . I give nothing but in the way of industry , except to the sick . It is melancholy thc stite of destitution to which the poor creatures are reduced . One of the po . r little children whom I li _.-id admitted died the _utliei-f _& y ' roin his _previ-. ms stat - of want , as I am credibly informed . Ue used to set siiieejiis
_adnrsston his _i-iition ot bread with the rest , but ths po _•! thing was too far gone before he came to us . I regret him the mor because his poor family was _S'i p rticularly neat ; his sister has been some time at the Female _School , and even in rugs was always specially clean , and her two lictlc _brotlii-rs , whom she broiighrat the time I ment on . Another ,. , with the little fellow that died , were , evi'iiin tho ' r _ik-e : > _distress , pictures of neatness . The still continued desire on the part of English friends to assist ine in clothing the-naked has enabled me to give a change of under garments to almost every one pf them besides thc rations—these are d spens--d as rewards . Uy these they learn the double lesson of washing and cleanliness .
Dublin, Saturday.—The Cholera Ix Dublin*...
Dublin , Saturday . —The Cholera ix Dublin * . — The cholera has now taken its range through most parts of thc coun _t ry , 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 arc numerous—much more so , indeed , than in any other part ofthe country—amongst the middle classes . The local boards of healtii do not publish lists of cases or deaths , probably from the judicious motive of ¦ preventing needless and dangerous alarm . Amongst thc military , so far , the deaths in proportion to esses arc very large in number . "Up to yesterday afternoon the number of cases in the Military Hospital adjoining the l- _'lucitix Park was
oilthe deaths were 35 . The 2 nd 1 loyal Infantry , in wliich thc epidemic first appeared in the close and dingy barrack in Ship-street , tire still uudcr 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 out of the military prison near the Royal Barracks belonged to the 2 nd lloyals , whilst the prisoners belonging to other regiments escaped . Thero lias not yet been a single case in the 40 th regiment , stationed in this city . Thc epidemic has assumed a peculiarly malignant type in Dublin , especially amongst the military , and till the results of experience are often found valueless in its treatment . This morning the accounts of cholera in tho city are more favourable , and fortunately there is little or no alarm .
The Harvest . —New Potato Crop . —Tlio same gratifying intelligence is recorded in all the provincial journals , The healthy and promising appearance of all the crops , especially thc potato , which is defended" from the imputation of disease with peculiar - earnestness and ' , vigour . _Nothing could have been more seasonable than the weather foi every description of produce ; and so far is confidence already restored , that the next harvest is spoken ot _' with hope as likely to compensate in some degree for the successive and most disastrous failures since 1845 .
_Thk Cleaiiaxce Svstrm . —Tedious as must be the constant iteration of the statements _respectinir the progress of clearances , whicli seems to constitute the staple news of the Tipperary papers , there is . no escaping the task of recording them , as pregnant evidences of the strides of the social revolution wliich is hourly . hastening to a crisis the destinies of _tlus ill-fated portion of the British empire . Whetlic ' r landlords or tenants are to blame is quite beside the question . The broad fact ofa wholesale course of depopulation . being carried out is not disputed , and" time onl y can tell what will be the consequences of the enormous increase of taxation rendered inevitable b y the unhappy ' state of relationship subsisting between the _owiters and ' cultivators
of the soil . That all classes - will be _di-air-rcd down into one common '' gulf " of ruin appears'to be thc almost foregone conclusion . —Times . The following is extracted from the Ttpperarn Vindicator , of yesterday - . — "Wo have -heard that no less than 460 notices of t-iectment havo been served on one . or"two properties not many ' - miles from lldrrisokane ; and wc learn that 300 miserable beings were sent on the world from ' a prbpertv " ucai ' ' Clo ' rinicl—tha ' _t'fivc houses \ vevc . levelled aiid forty , persons _-wcre'tunied off on the lands of . _iCiioekiiauini-a —thirty-six persons off tbfc lands'' of _.. _ltA-Jcksikoily , near _Slicvenauion--10 G oft' the'l ' an'd s of - ; _Asligrovu , near Oiilier , uudor the Court of Qlnincevy _•—fdri-yfour off the lands of _Sarnclough , . twenty-three ' ofl another property , seventy-eight " oil" _aiibthi _- _'i-, _jtiid i twenty oil' _imotUer' . Good God , wUeve is this ; sweep-
Dublin, Saturday.—The Cholera Ix Dublin*...
in ir system of wholesale extermination to end ? Ileie are 647 human beings sen * on the bleak ocean ot a cheerless world , to swell 4 hc the tide of misery Sh swallows up the substance of every struggling _'"KSte _^ stone has arrived at Cove , for tlio conveyance to New South Wales of the state convicts . She has five berths fitted up separately for their use . DMTII of Surgeon * Oakmiciiabl , by _Dkowmng . — The Freeman ' s Journal contains the -following > - '' We deeply regret that it has become our painful dutv to announce the death of this most estimable S n and distinguished member of the medical profession , which melancholy event occurred yesterry evening about nine o ' clock . . From the partioula / s communicated to us at a late hour last night , we learn that Doctor Carmichael was proceeding on _horseback to his country residence at Sutton , near
Ilowth . and on arriving at the strand where a stream or inlet of the sea flowed m over the sandy beach he asked some-persons who were at hand it it would be safe to cross thero , and being answered in 'the affirmative he ventured across , but when indro than half way the horse got out of lu ' s depth , and after swimming a little leaned over and fell on his side , -when the rider lost his seat , and became submor « cA in the tide . No further particulars have re . iched iis . At the time our informant left the spot the coast guards on that station were preparing tlieir boat to search for . the body . " Doctor Carmichael was much respected and was a very eminent member of the faculty . On medical reform his name is well known , and he discussed in his miscellaneous writings a variety of subjects with eminent ability and research .
Monday . —Couxtermand or the _Orber for the _Rkmoval of tub State _Piiison-eks . —As I apprised you in my last the State prisoners wore to have heen 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 t he 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 large body 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 thc police , and the : State prisoners have since remained in their old quarters . It appears that Mr . Smith O'Brien took stops to protest against the commutation of his sentence to transportation for life . A copy of the order for his detention in Richmond Bridewell was required from the government , and his counsel , Sir Colman _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 . Smitii O'Brien , upon the Under-Secretary , the High Sheriff of Dublin , and the Governor of Richmond Bridewell , warning ; them to hold their prisoner in safe koepiug until he should be removed " by due course of law . " It seems that none of the other state prisoners adopted this course ; but Mr . Smith O'Brien , itis stated , has obtained high legal opinion that no commutation of thc sentence for high treason can take place unless the prisoner should be a consenting party . At all events , thero has been a suspension of the order for the removal of the state prisoners tothe convict ship ; and itis 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 tho most favourable nature , nor is there a solitary allusion to the appearance of blight in the potato crop . Tlio weather here , though line and dry , has become for tho . 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 , oven though the Rev . Mr . Anderson may havo misstated a single case brought forward by him . There is in the Freeman another letter from the protcstant rector of Ballinrobe , with some more horrible details . The description which was given by Dr . 1 _'hclan last March of the state of the people of Clifdcn may now he applied to many portions ol the west .
Tuesday . —The State Prisoners . —The Freeman ' s Journal of this day contains the following statement with respect to the state prisoners ;—Wo have received the following letters from Mr . O'Donohiic :
" to the editor of the freeman . ' Richmond Gao ' , Moudav , June , 11 , 1349 . " Dear Sir , —I have _luldrosseil tlio letter , ot" 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 0 ' Donohue . " Tho enclosed letter is as follows : — " Richmond Gaol , Dublin , June 11 , 1 S 40 . * ' To his Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant , the Attorney-General for Ireland , T . K . Rcdington , and Win . lvcinmis , Esqrs .
"My Loru and Sirs , —Lest my silence should he construed into an ' acquiescence in the sentence of transportation for life , communicated to me by your E . vcolloney , I respectfully beg to inform you that 1 am not a consenting party to such sentence being carried into execution ; the same bci _» : g , as I have been advised hy eminent counsel , unconstitutional and contrary to law . " "lam , mv _' Lord aud Sirs , Your obedient-servant , " ' Patkick _O'Donohui _* . " We havo also received a letter from Mr . Meagher , informing ns that lie also has forwarded letters to the same cltect to thc same quarters ; so that it is not "some , " but all the "traitors" who have refused to be transported . Up to last _nigiit no orders had been received at Richmond Bridewell in reference to the removal of the State prisoner ! -.
The Evening Herald thus notices the subject : — " AVe tire informed , upon what would appear sufficient authority , that Mr . S . O'Brien , contrary to tlie expectation which had latterly prevailed , lias actually served a notice upon thc authorities to the effect that he disputes their right to remove hini from the custody of tho sheriff , and will not accept the conditional pardon ofiered on the part of the Crown . A nice point is likely to-be raised in connexion with this _pi-ocoduvc . It is argued that the Queen , having actually signed thc warrant commuting his sentence , cannot now recede ; that the prisoner is actually pardoned ; aud ' tiiat the condition of banishment cannot be legally enforced . The effect of these positions , if established , would be oi ' course topntitleMr , S . o'lhicn to Ji'is discharge . "
The ' Times says there is no longer any doubt its to thestep takenby 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 he carried into c'iect . In brief , Mr . O'Brien has raised : i point , claiming a common law right , either to be hanged , ' or , thc authorities failing to _*" y ield ' that right , set at full liberty to go whither ho chooses . This piece of information was communicated to Mr . licdington on Saturday evening last by Mr . Butt and Sir Colman O ' Loghlen , in con "
sequence of wliich till the preparations for the ' removal of thc 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'Douphue it proceeds : —Mr . Meagher has also forwarded a letter to tho same effect to tho same quarter ; so tliat not only Mr . O'Brien , but all the prisoners insist upon their right either to be hanged or let free . _Unnmniously they eschew transportation and separate berths on board the Mountstuart _Klpliinstoue .
_Hauvkst '' _I'Rosi'ects . —The Potato . — Upon an extensive property in the county of Kildare , and where a large breadth of ground has heen laid down in potatoes , ' un mistakcable symptoms of-tlio provalenco of the blig _lit v . _-uro discovered to exist so late 'is _Satiii'day _I'li-t . Tho Meath Herald , while admitting that there is every prospect of tin abundant harvest , says : — " But cheering as the prospects generally are , the produce of the ' harvest , must fall far short of meeting the demands of rents aiid rates , exclusive- .-of . _''ifordiiig support to the _^ owners and thei r dependents ; more especially as one-half , or wo mi ht say . one-third , ot the' usual stock of black cuttle is not in the ; country , and all those several _iti-sns must be realised out of thc grain . There was n deficiency of stock last year , but now , there is mi alarming decrease , ami the grass lands must be cut up and _nianufiictureS into hay ; but will this par labour , _reni , _andtaxes I
Wo doubt not . ' Thoy . must then be procured from the crops , which will hardly _i-uffiee for the _purpose , in consequence ofthe low price to which breadstulls are reduced . ' 'Farmers would require to got . 20 < . a barrel for oats and 40 s . for wheat , to ' enable them to sustain their position and . pay the _landlord ; but oats at 0 s ,, and wheat at 20 s . — the prices likely to be realised next harvest—will novel * . lecompVis ' i thin . _TUo sooner , therefore , that men make up their minds to this fact , tho bettor for _^ all pwties ; it is folly , and tlie height of felly , to conoosvo Mat . the pi ' _cs ' _.-njt contracts can bo fulfilled ... The law inay tai . _-J it _' s ' . c ' oiirsc , but the results will come , nay , they : ¦ ire already , visible , for the country , . - ' begins to wear sm aspect oflonclinoss— -fcho men are not in the land —lhe bone " and sinew of the ; country arc leaving it , ' and the progress of . ' the , lav * _willm-utoft _Vi-cav . cy amongst the tillers of thb aoil not easil y filled up * . Pauperisation _aiul sickness , omigration and death , _havealroiidymndc . _suoh _"teaiiwl : bav ' oo in ouvnival
Dublin, Saturday.—The Cholera Ix Dublin*...
population , tluc t we believe the day will come when the labourer _sluu'i he looked for in vain . .. The lateMb ¦' O'Connell . —The town residence of the late "Liberator , " in Merrion-square , which has boon for somo time " in the market , has been purchased bv Mr . Monalian , the Attorney-General . Tub late ' Scrgeox _Caumichaei .. —The Freeman of this morning , says : — " Up to alate hour on Monday evening no trace whatever had . been found of the remains of this _deoply regretted gentleman . The utmost activity find perseverance were evinced by tlie coast-guards in searching for the body . Not a moment was lost , whilst the state of the tide permitted , in making every possible exertion to procure forthe bereaved lady and family ofthe lamented _,,- ....,..., _ .. ... „„„ ,
deceased the sad consolation of having his remains rescued from their watery tomb , and the last sorrowing duties paid them by hi 3 fellow citizens . The riding whip which the lamented gentleman carri ed was washed on shore yesterday . We are concerned to hear that the very delicate health of tho widowed lady of the estimable citizen thus suddenly snatched away , has sustained an alarming shock . Repeated intervals of insensibility , followed by sufferings most intense of mental agony , are said to havo left but slender hopes of this poor lady ' s recovery . The whole neighbourhood around Ilowth 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
regret of the public for the loss of this amiable and distinguished citizen . " Wednesday , —The State Prisoners . —The rrccman ' s Journal of this morning . states that "no further orders had been received at the Bridewell hist night in reference to the removal of the state prisoners . " Employment op the Poor . —It appears from the ; _1 % o 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 , duo to Mr . Mandavill , of Clonmel . It is a true sign of the times to see the cattle ofa noble earl , the rent roll of whose property amounts to £ 40 . 000 per annum , canted" 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 one of the Holyhead steamers observed a body floating out at sea ; 'it did not stop , as thc mail packets are not permitted to do so except under particular circumstances .
The _Counri'W !* 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 by . ' auction ; on the 10 th of May , but were bought in for want _i-f sufficient offers being made at the time . The attendance on Tuesday at the sale-r ; oms , Commercial-buildings , wan 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 midit be made for any portion , or thc whole o ! " the estates . . . Th ft 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 , liave been satisfactorily proved to have been caused by frost . "
Although the accounts which are -riven in the provincial papers represent the potato crop as exhibiting the most healthy appearance generally , still the disease has once more manifested itself insomcloca-1 ties . The matter is placed beyond doubt by a letter from Air . Ilagan , one ofthe practical instructors , which appear * in the Evening Post of Tuesday . State op the Countrv . —The irdi _^ nation of the House of Commons at the proceedings in Kilrush , and other unions , will be much less _influenzal in
Ireland than Sir 11 . Peel supposes . Society here has lost its tone , and become callous and apathetic . People have _ceased to wonder at anything . The cholera is uot regarded with tcror , and the iv . ost melancholy _casualties—such as that of the death by drowning of the eminent Surgeon _CarnuVhaelhardly 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 o ' 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 _ba _accepted as thc truthful evidence of a candid witn ss : — " As to the peoplefor them , _wefe--r , the prospects have little cheer . Uef > re the golden _sriain _canglaiden their eyes , raulti lulus of thorn will he in tin ** rave . In the south and west tne _description applies almost universally . We are no alarmists . We liave never paraded the poverty ofthe country for the purpose of aggravating
the misconduct ofa minister , but woefully are that minister ' s ears closed to the truth if he supposes that from < me inadvertent error of a gentleman ( Kev . Mr . And Tion ) desirous of drawing bi < atention to the _couditi'in of the poor , he is warranted in inferring th re is any sensible _exaggeration in tho _s-aements of the public journals . Exaggeration , in fact , tin re cannot be . The difficulty is to depict the scenes that pass _l-efore our eyes—to make the _stranger , or even the native who dots not _sha-e . is well as witness it , _comjirclirnd the intensity ofthe misery under which the people are wasiim _; and withering awav . "
A' great _i \ duction of rents is taking ( 'lace throughout the country . The pMvinc ' al _joii-n-ds of all parties cite numerous _inshiiifie-s ( if rents reduced t . vt . ntyliv . _r per cent ., and in some cases even fifty per cent . The average _ivdiicihins arc about thirty per _crnt in tlie county of Cork , the Duke of Devonshire has taken fifty per cent , off his _reii ' s . Mr . Warren Hastings Judeson , in the same county , has done the same .
The ' Cholera. A Notification From The B...
THE CHOLERA . A notification from the Board of Health appears ill Tuesday night ' s Gazette , announcing the re-appearance of the cholera "in various and distanl places in England , "W ales , and Scotland . " From returns which accompany _tlsis notificatioi ; it appears that since tbo latter end of March , cholera has broken out in 12 different localities in tho metropolis , in 27 towns in England and Wales , and in 17 towns in Scotland ; anil" that in several of these places , as in Sunderland , Liverpool , Durham , Hitchin , Gloucester , Keynsham , Bath , Mcrthy Tydvil , Cardiff , Kilbirnio , Galashiels , Kch _* o _, and Dundee , the disease has continued to spread . Another fact is declared hy those returns of great significance , which calls for the earnest attention of the local authorities charged with the execution oi the " _Xuisi-mcos Ken-oval and Diseases I ' rcvention Act ; namely , that the attacks within the last twelve days have exceeded those which have occurred duru _\' X the preceding two months .
Thus in the two months irom tue 29 th of- March to the 29 th of May both inclusive , the total number of cases is 425 ; hut within the last tirolvo davs _, that is , from thc 30 th of May to tho 11 th of June , both inclusive , there havo been no less than 07 * 3 cases , and at . the same time the disease has manifested a decided tendency to speak epidemically , tis iii shown in the numbers attacked on board " thc American emigrant ship at Plymouth , and- in tlie extent to which the disease has prevailed in Glover llall-court , Beoch-stroct , Barbican , in thc city , aud also in Bermondsey .
The total number of deaths , up to the time of the renewal of the order in council , were 0 ,-319 out of 14 , 3 * 52 attacks , or in the proportion of three deaths to seven attacks ; whereas , the returns now made give G 3 S deaths , out of J . 203 attacks ; : or a proportion of more than ono half—a proportion _oxhibitiu . « 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 may be impending , the General Board of Health deem it hi ghly satisfactory to he enabled to report the uniform success . -which has followed prompt and continued attention to tlio premonitory symptoms which generally _preeed-o-an-attack oi' this disease . -....
The _Cuousiuis still very prevalent at Cardiff .. Altogether ( says the . Principality ) the seizures have been . 137 , of which . seventy-one have bee »; fatal . Premises have been taken near St . Mary ' s , Church to bo , used ns a temporary asylum , for the reception ot * cholera patients , ami a . medical _genUcssaan from Bartholomew ' s Hospital : has boon _oiisjagcti to attend them . The town has been-divided - . into seven districts , and a medical man is appointed taeach . Directions have- been given to cleanse . iho streets , courts , and alleys , aiid . _to whitewash , those , houses reported to require it . Lime has bean _m'etty : _o- ' _e-sic rally and liberally distributed over ihe - streets - and in tho _irBtters . ,
, _llEl'OHTED _Apv-kaiuxcb op _Choiera . is * \ lA *« cni-Stek . —A case , of _cbsiiera . was reported by ttto police to . have occurred _ijv . Manchester . ou , _Similiw , which proved fatal . ' TUe deceased _v- _» s a man of colour , of pugilistic _famo , and was known bv tbe . name of _Joiiuny Kohin & _oii , _oi-. _'V " _Noi-lcv _* s Vet ' " and hc was Widc-r training lit . tho timo , at a beer-house in _liedfern-streetv A ease is also reported to have , occurred ; ui ; i . _c-i ? ie 8 , . tive , , ntilos from-: Manchester , last week- ; -but- in _both-these instances ( if tliev ' were real . cascs . ot Asiatic cholera , ) the parties appear to havo . premsposed- ¦¦ -themselves .: to such attacks bv i great irregularity lUKl imprudence . ;* - their , manner _ofhvir . g . _-..,- . _'* ., ' ¦ ¦ ¦ : _,- ¦ : : ¦ ¦ . ¦¦ ..
MKHtiiYn I tDa-il .-a comsspondeiit informs us _thaUssatlo cholera is making _di-eadfui _ravagos in the ultlucst ; parts of this town , no _twithstradin _^ tho
Exertions Of The Authorities To 'Stay It...
exertions of the authorities to ' stay its progress by whitewashing tho dwellings of tlio poor , and other precautions . No less than thirtv-two funerals took p lace on * Monday , June IIth . The booJes of the poor are drawn to thc burying-gronnd unattended , their friends being unwilling to attend their obsequies , and pauper corpses are buried three in oris _irrave . Prom the first outbreak of this disease up to this date , tlie 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 insufficiency of food , as there are thousands of working men here who have not a quarter sufficient to subsist on . Intemperance is also given as another ¦ _„„„„* : „„„ _„<• _*] , „ n , ifiim . it . iM f /» ' stav its _nroirress bv
cause . AT _CHOtKBA AMONGST THE R . ULWA . Y _NAyVIEB .--Alarm has been occasioned by the appearance of Asiatic cholera amongst the navvies employed in cutting the second tunnel on the Manchester and Sheffield Railway , at Woodhead , nearly half way between Manchester and Sheffield . The locality is a wild and barren moor , near to the junction of the four counties of Chester , Lancaster , Derby , and _Yck . The w » rkmen , amongst whom it has made its _appea"ance , are exceedingly intemperate in their mode of _living . Many of the navvies had saved up the r earnings , and indulged in great drunkenness at Whitsuntide , one man _aloms having spent £ 7 it is said in intoxicating drinks during the week . He baa eaten _immoderatefv at dinner time on Saturday , and
soon afterward '* was seized with symptoms of cholera , which increased very rapidly , and he died within about fourteen hours from the first attack . The disease spread very rapidly amongst tlie other workmen , sixteen were seized with the dreaded symptoms within a few days , of whom seven had died up to Monday night . The directors of the railway having been informed of these circumstances , were anxious to ascer ' ain what ground tliere was for believing the . epidemic was the well-known fatal disease U was supposed to be , and at their suggestion the _n'tendance of Dr . Bell , of _Manch-ster , and Mr . Furnival , surgeon , of the same town , was obtained . These gent ' emen went over to Woodhead on _i \ londay , and from an examination of . ths cases report that there can be no doubt of the disease being Asiatic cholera .
Woolwich . —The cholera has _ar-ain broken out onboard the convict hospital sh ' p Unite , at Woolwich . On "Wednesday , Mr . C . J . Carttar held three inquests at the Salutation Tavern , Woolwich , on the bodies of John _Fulli ' ove , John Williams , and James Rawlinson , three invalid prisoners confined in that vessel . The deceased were infirm men , s ? nt to the h'spital 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 a cordhigly . No case has yet _--ppeared either in the convict vesse s _tlr-mselves or in the town .
Iwo DEA . THS _Fif-M Asiatic Choi . kra . —An inquest was held on Wednesday , bv Mr . Baker , at the Angel , Broad-street , Ratcliff , on the body of Mr . William Hodgson , aged fi ty years , captain of the brig Jane and Agnes , from Newcastle . It appeared from 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 th cvo- ing he became much wore , and was attacked with other symptoms . Mr . Cleland , surgeon , was called to him on the following Monday morning , hut the _decrased died in the afternoon . —Mr . Cleland paid when he attended lie found the deceased in a state of coilap e , and his appearance indicated a decided case of Asiatic cholera . Witness was now attending the carpenter of the ship , who was suffering from _thesa-ne _disease .
The rest , of the crew wi re all healthy . The Coroner said , if the de _:-e » scd had applied to Mr . Cleland when first attacked , it _wa- * probable he might liave been still 1 vinar . Verdict , " Death from Asiatic cholera . "—Mr . Baker held a second inquest tit the Koyal Oak , Stepney-green , on the body of Ann _Conn- _' . ' en , the wife of a _s-. ilor , who died from thc effects of cholera . Verdict accordingly . —A thi dcase was taken by the _sama coroner , at the Horn of Plenty , Mile-.-nd , on the body of a labourer named William Racgan , 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 ho died shortly afterwards . The Coroner . ¦ -aid . from the appearance if the body , he had no doubt that death had been < : aitS"d ' hy cholera . Verdiitt , " Natural death . " The Coroner remarked that these _inqucs's mad * s < x which he had held in cases of ck- leia 'during the l-. st week .
Tub Cholera In Paris. The Paris Papers O...
TUB CHOLERA IN PARIS . The Paris papers of . Monday inform us that on th ;* Sth inst . there were 445 deaths from cholera in private houses , and 173 in thc hospitals , making a total of C 23 . In the morning of the same day thero remained 5 , 360 cases on hand , to which 410 were added during thc day , making a total of 1 , 770 . Of these cases 173 proved fatal , and there remained in the ovoninjj 1 ,. _5-i : * _enses on hniitl . On the 7 th there wore "• " _!) deaths from cholera in the hospitals and private houses , and on the fith 502 deaths . Thc Minister of Public Works has addressed a circular to the engineers and architects employed
by the government , commanding the execution of certain sanitary measures recommended , by the Boards of ileaith , an ! a course of lectures was to be commenced on Alonday , atthe College of France , in the Place de Cambrai , with a view of g iving popular instructions on the means of preventing cho disease . The Archbishop of Paris lias addressed a circular to his clergy , advising various services to be performed as a " means of a _d verting the wrath of God , _amongst wliich an appeal for the intercession of the Virgin Mary and another holy virgin , a patron saint of France , is _cspeciallv recommended .
In consequence ol _titc _unexpected increase of cholera cases , in Pari *; , the Municipal Commission has voted from the- Oity funds 5 : > , i : 00 f . to the l _' _rofi'ft of Police , aud LOO _. OOOf . to the Prefect of the Seine , to defray tlie extraordinary expenses created by the occasion . Tiie Credit- announces the death of General Rupatel iu Par ' s of cholera . On the $ ) th ( Saturday ) there were 401 deaths from cholera in private houses , ami MS in the _Iiospital _*? , making a total of 01 * 2 . The same morning there
were 1 , 5-12 cases ou hand , to which * 377 were added during the day . Sixty-six patients left thc hospitals , and 1-18 had died , so that there remained in the evening 1 , 705 cases on hand . The cholera is still raging with great virulence in tho provinces , but the recent ciinugo iii tlie temperature ha ¦ materially contributed to check its lavages . M , Andraud has found , by repeated experiments , that the prevalence ofthe cholera is to he attributed in a degree to the deficiency of electricity in the atmosphere : and that when that electricity is restored in a sufficient quantity , the epidemic declines .
L.I.Vn Wateusi-Olts. — During The Late, ...
L . i . vn _Wateusi-olts . — During the late , heavy weather , the neighbouring counties wore visited by several of thoso phenomena , attended , in some instances , with vovy serious damage to property . One which visited the city oi' Wells , in _Somersreishire , is thus described . * lietwecn one and two o ' clock , p . m ., the people of Wells were not a little alarmed by a mass of water _ilowimj _tlirousjh 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 _JNloudi p ; and all this time without apparent cause for such a flood : there had certainly been a smart shower , but not at all sufficient to produce it . After tho water had somewhat subsided , another body deluged the streets ; but at _length it passed olf , and the people began to inquire what injury had been done , and how the phenomenon was caused . On the road leadiu- _*; to Bristol , _tUci-oad
stones , sand , and rubbish were piled up knee-deep ; immense ruts wero _pleushed , and it wr . s with difficulty that horses and vehicles could pass . In the lowlands several lambs , were drowned , and at thesides of the hills whole gardens with potatoes and vegetables , wero washed away . It appears that the overflow was ' caused by a waterspout , which . was seen by _ some farm labourers to ' _desCCDll first Oil Pe-vn-hill : ind _ti-averse . the MeiKup district _fos-some miles . The appearance was a dense black cloud , which suddenly descended , aad formed a circular column , _whirling round with immense rapidity The water had a dis . igrcc-i . bl e , brackish taste . — About the same time _a-iv-itcrapotit'fcll on _Breedonhill , Worcestershire , and rushed down upon , Kemerton , destroying , much _pre-jertv . on its _se-ute . At _Kemcrton-pBMii'y , , the resitlciiee of tho- ' -Kev . Mr . _ItoHiiirs , th ® gardens _weva-terriblv damassd , flowerbeds- hwept , away , a ud _ovs _** the soil removed . The
lwniiture-utas washed qui of the drawing-room windows . Half tho houses , in the village of Kenicr ' ton . were tioede'V and aU biie stone wnlls . m its coursefrom tlit > hill were _caiii-ied away _..-: 'Bv marks on the * trees i 4 appears tha * the torrent aiust have bee _* i sixteen feet deep . The railw ay _ia-tho _neisrhboiurhood was so deeply Moodod as to slolav the _oxpi-.- » ss train , by _extiuguislimg the fire , of : the endn . ' -, _— _Chiite-nhaai _Avam-Mpr . - ' ¦ " ' ' _Buy ing tho last twelve montJu * there have been seized ap Mancjiestcr twcnii _& vo tlums ' aud wmmh
wetg / it ot ' _uiiso-nitd meat , whicli would most i \* obabIy have boon _ottowise sold to tho public for Wl . - ¦ _° _^ . _^ VEATiran _^ _Oif _, Sumlav oveniag last a . tall ot siia-s - took- pUoo- at _LitUeborafigh , about fourteen _iv , iles fVonvMauehoster , which lasted from fivoo c \ o » fc im seven . On Monday some , cobs of bay , which had been newly made , wore _scoh in a held capped with snow . " , On Tiwsilnv nieht tho temperature was exceedingly low , and on Wednesday morning the -hedges-. -were covered " with hoar frosc lu / tiic neighbourhood of Manchester ..
• _lliopl'itoiind furniture of dn irisli _' couiity member were last week seized under execution for debts of a long standing , and transferred to "Dublin , where thoy have been sold by auction . Strawberries , poaches , - . mi grapes , grown in K gol * land , wore exhibited in Glasgow lust week ,
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Northern Star (1837-1852), June 16, 1849, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_16061849/page/6/
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