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      STATE OF TRADE . MAKtrFAcTUBES . — The reports from tbe manufacturing towns of the state of trade during the week ending last Saturday , are all satisfactory . At Manchester there has been an increased "business , advancing prices constituting the only- check to- the extent of operations . M Birmingham , the iron-market show ' s continued steadiness ; and the general occupations of theplace havebeen fairly-sustained . The- -Nottingham ; advices describe a largei e ± port ; demand for 1 hosiery , -which has ^ caused a further reduction of the already moderate stocks , although- purchases on home account have been limited . In la « ej the transactions have not been numerous , ; but prices are high and firm . In the Woollen' districts there has ^ ibdefla good average business , and the- market' at the-i . Gldse' presented : an encouraging appearance . The Irish ; linen ; trade-gives continued signs of animation , the home consumption and therorders' firoin America being alike active at full qii 6 tations . !— -2 M » es :

      . A strike of great magnitude , and of , a very" alarming character , has oecni * ed among the Scotch colliers . The wagea of the men ( says a communicationfrpnr Glasgow ) were advanced from 4 a . to 5 s . per day last autumn . Keceutly ^ tflie employers , or at least the great majority of thettt ^ intimated theirintention to bring back the -wages toMbh « -oId-standardi aid this the colliers have resisted ¦ with-almost equal unanimity .:. The men state that coal and i ^ oarmaintain : their former rate of price , while the ' masters aver , on- the other hand , that at the wagesi of Ssi per day they were producing : coal and , iron at a loss . This state of matters has led to a- strike ovfcr all the western counties of Scotland , and it ia thought that nearly 30 $ . 0 O -men are now idle from this ; cause . The inaftt ^ , are meeting the resistance by blowing out their furnaces . Already , about twenty per cent , are out © $ < blast , ; and they threaten to extinguish the whole of

      them . A 'few hundreds are working here and theresome ; at the , reduced-jrate qf 4 b ., and others ' at the old Kite . oSj ^ , s , per . day . ; but in the aggregate these numbers ar ^ trifling compared with those who are on strike . Hitherto thei men have , generally speaking , conducted themselves in a quiet manner ; but the authorities are taking measures to meet any disorder that may be threatened . Meanwhile , a detachment of 250 men of the 1 st Lanarkshire Regiment of Militia was marched on Saturday from Hamilton , to Airdrie , the centre of tbe strike ; and the Commissioners of Lieutenancy for the county of Lanark have served , an order , upon the yeomanry cavalry , both of the upper and lower -wards , to hold , themselves in readiness to support the civil authorities . These two regiments muster 500 sabres . A similar order has been sent to the members of the Glasgow Queen ' s" Own .

      The operative , stonemasons of York have struck for an advance of wages , demanding 27 s . per week instead of 2 $ Sk Th 4 master masons are determined to resist the advance .

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      dren . Two boys died of choleraic diarrhoea , one , •„ Brook-street , Holborai , the other in Clement Dane ., £ both cases after illness of short duration . Only e } l £ t cases of " diarrhoea " are returned . One person died of intemperance , another of destitution , and three from carbuncle . Last week , the births , of 923 boys and 9 fi 4 girls , in all 1 , 887 children , were registered in London In the ten corresponding weeks * of the years 1846-65 * the average number was 1 , 519 . —From the Registrar . General ' s Weekly Return . The Spirit-Rappers and the Missing Pacific — An absurd ; statement appears in an American paiier called the Spiritual Telegraph , to the effect that a spirit ' rapping medium foretold the loss of the Pacific ; and that the same person has since given a detailed account of the event , which is said to have been caused by an iceberg in latitude 46 deg . north , on the night of January 29 th The catastrophe , it is added , resulted from the captain . endeavouring to outstrip the Persia .

      Cows in the City —Dr . Letheby , the City officer of health , calls attention in a recent report to the impropriety of keeping cows in the City . Pent up in narrow ill-ventilated sheds , where the only change of position possible to them is to lie down or stand up , and surrounded by filth and ordure , they become affected with a species of consumption , " and the milk is more or less charged with diseased products . " As a consequence , disease is engendered in those who drink the milkespecially in children . [ We may add , from what -we have ourselves observed , that some cow ^ -sheds in the suburbs are not a whit better . ]

      ; The Tickbt-op-Leave Systems—The Parliamentary Committee for inquixinginto the operations of this system , and of the * previous plan of transportation , met on Tuesday * when Mr . FrederickT . Elliott , Assistant-Secretary for the ( DolonieSj gaVe it as his opinion that at the present time i , t would be impossible to establish a new penal settlement-tp' receive convicts--from England . He said he had no definite ; plan to offer- as to how we should dispose of our convicts ; tbafc-was & ¦ question for the committee . Kerr -SrAtroiGE . aso UIabamb Heinefetter ' . ' The Journal de . Frankfort says that StaudigL * the celebrated bass singer , has gone out of his mitmV His'intellect had been failing for a long time , and he has lately been removed to a lunatic asylum . The same journal says that Madame Heinefetter ( who- sang in the > German operas

      with Staudigl in- London ) has' died itf a state of insanity , brought on'by-the losd of her fortune . . The Alliance Bazaar . —Such a line-suggests that the two nations are about to turn a penny by keeping stalls to pay off the wardebta-jtt ^ feinctirred . It relates to a-body calling itself-a- Maine-law Alliance , whichgets into some ' sort of combat with a certain Alcoholic " Russ . " OriiMondjay lasfcthey opened the Exchangerooms , Manchester , to sho-flr and to . sell sundry crockerywares and' calicoes * collected by zealous friends to aid the-funds of the said Aliiance . By far the most attractive part of the Bazaar were' the ladies who 1 presided at the stalls . The other articles mostly consisted ( if we except some matchless marmalade from 1 Glasgow ) of appeals to fashionable vanity for funds with which to put . down- " vice ;"

      Saturday Hamt ^ HoIiday . —A meeting'presided over by the Earl of Shaftesbuiry , and convened by the Early Closing- Association ^ was held at Exeter-liiall on Thursday , eveningj foi * the sake of advocating-a half-holiday on Saturdays for the operative classes generally , and the payment of wages on- Fridays . Among the speakers , over and above the chairman 1 , were the Bishop of Oxford , Sir S . M . Peto . Mr . Roundel ! 'Palmer ; Mr . Cowan , MR , the Rev . William Arthur , ' &o ; A resolution 1 in favour of the objects of the meeting , moved 1 by the Bishop of Oxfordy and another moved by Mr . Roundel ! Palmer , were carried by : acclamation ! . v

      It appears from thfacorrespondence that a determined effort has been madfc by the Church party in Canada to acquire andL' exercise- tier right of synodical action , since " the passing of the Clergy Reserves Act , by which , as the Bishop of Toronto asserts , the Church has been deprived' of all her property , her clergy merely retaining their stipends and allowances during their natural lives and incumbencies . A subdivision of the diocese of Toronto was also strongly urged upon the attention of

      the Home Government . A reply has been received from Mr . Labouchere , recommending the Caniadian legislature to empower the members of the Church of England in the colony to meet and form representative bodies , with the power to frame rules which shall have so much of legal force as may be necessary . At the same time , the Colonial Secretary carefully disclaimed , on the part of the Home'Government , any intention or desire of placing the Church of England in a privileged or exclusive position in Canada .

      Quack Poisons . —An action has been brought against Messrs . Startup and Brown , quack medicine dealers at Manchester . They had undertaken to cure a man named Holmes of some complaint , and had given him mercury in such large quantities that salivation ensued to an alarming extent , and the sufferer ' s mouth was in an incipient state'of mortification . He obtained a verdict—damages , 801 . Pokoneto of Three Cjaau > SENi— Death has resulted to three children at Longbenton , near Newcastleoir-Tyiiei ap £ a ) fetitly owing toa Mt 3 . Short , the wife of a- labourer , " administering to them , for the cute of a cutaneous disorder , a quantity of flour of sulphur . Sewage bJp Great Cities : —A scheme is now tinder thxe considLeratibn' of'Goyfermoient , on the suggestion of a geiitleniiarl' ^ f ' Bristol ; for the ^^ deodofiSa ^ on and conversion' of the sewage of large ' cities , by ' means of convibt labour .

      Reprieve . —The sentence of death passed at the late Devon atta Suffolk assizes" upon Mary Weeks and Emma Muss ' ett / both' of whom were convicted of murdering tneir ehU'dteii , has"been commuted to transportation for life ; The sentences- of death on Mary Ann Harris ; found guilty of drowning her children at Uxbridge , " and on Celestina Sommer , convicted of the murder of her daughter ; have been respited during her Majesty ' s ple&surei Suffocate !* m A- CESSi > doi ,.- -Two labouring men at Brighton -have Tjeeri- snfFocated in a cesspool , a drain cphnectSig with which they were cleansing . A man ¦ who ' went to ' their rescue was overcome by the foul air ; but he wag'drawn out alive . Another man , who was also working in the drain , was nearly poisoned ; but he too survives .

      Lord Ciarendou arrived in London oil . Monday afterriooj * . Metropobitait Bate for Hampstead-heatii . —It lias been proposed at some public meetings , held during the ; present week in various parts of the northern suburbs , to levy a rate of twopence in the pound on the whole of the metropolis , ia order to secure Hampsteadheath . St . James ' s Park . —The controversy with regard to St . James s Park has' at length been brought to a conclusion . There is to be a road from the end df St . James's-street to Buckingham-gate . This road willbe

      cut between Marlborough House and'St . James-i-i Palace . It will be carried along the paved road into the Mall , and so in' f ronti of the 1 Palace to Buckrnghanv-gate . Tli ' e expense off making this' road , including fhe renroval of the German ChapeL , will be 21 , 900 ? ., the chief portion of which sum will be expended in the removal of the building . The idea of bisecting the gardens with a oarriage-road' is definitively given up . * f hpre i ? ,, indeed ^ to be a bridge across the Ornamental Water ; but for foot-passengers only . A road is-to be opened from Waterloo-place to the Mali ; but the Duke of York ' s column 1 is to remain .

      Health of London . —The rate of mortality declines as the temperature rises with the'beginning of thosprihg months ' ; The deaths in London , Vhich had been in'the two previous weeks 1 , 284 = « nd 1 , 115 respectively , fell laBt week to 1 , 043 . ' In the corresponding 1 weeks of the ten previous yeaxs , 1846 ^ 55 , . the average number' yf&a 1 , 061 . The same fate' of mortality in- the present increased ' population' would produce 1 , 156 and a comparison' of tljo . real , wiflh- the . estimated result , shoes' a difference * in favour of . last weofc to' the « xtcnt of 118 . Thedeathaofi 56 B males- and 480 females were registered . TyphuB . is . more fatal at present than any other disease in the epidemic qlaes . It numbem fi 6 ensoa in the / weclo . Elevon deaths occurred in ; tho London to bo

      MI 8 O E B Ii A N E O TJ S . Tttte' NATiONAii GAtitiimR'V .- ^ A picture by Matltegnai « deiitly' artived from'the' Coiltineritl , is now added' to th ^ national 1 collecWofti' It tejiresents the Tirgin and OBiEidi ^ St-John the Baptist , arid thb Magdaldn , and ' ia Sup ^ pb ^ d' to' hayo formed ' part of the pictorial r 8 p' 6 ils which w . ore aigpersed after the sacli ! of Mantua in'lBSdi 11 iA ^« 'OB 8 tptfRis > rSxoK 1 5 r' .- ^ Th 6 Titties' Becohd column ' jrecently contained . tho annexed advertiaemonfc :- «— That promised onithe 7 th- and dated 10 th : Jannaty , reached # our brother , oniy on tlie 17 tli Marolu . Hi » soepenso wna . great , 1 but faith 1 steadfast . A 1 U are safe ^ o the JLOtK January , Bythe time you eeothia , thorbwillbo some "

      tm ^ gf'arwaitinffyouiaa'before * Now safer than over- Be ViS ^ lo ^? ftll <\ look wcH within , for tho meahaa-aro -woav ^ inffl ^ nn ^ , ypn ^ Qipy uKAj " y ^ JWrnfiHTtoix-M * Soorio ow WebkrTb " Obbbon . "—It JfW Sn PPPwAitfta > , nhia ? valnablo original perished in tho flW / atpgoVen tf GaJr ^ nfi'TBtoatrq ; i butnthoireport now turn s ont , tQ , " hfl , vo boeu | , » n ^ ttror . fjho « acore waa presented , W « , T / J « 3 t' Wn » OK 0 »> hyv % bb only surviving son of tho mmioian y . fK * t , hti ICinpetoB ofi ; Russia . ' . < 5 flW | WW . iAWAn < a W eANA » A .- ^ Co lea of extracts of rflOPAfccorr ^ spqndenoe - on ' , colonial church 'toffaire k in tho dtooeswofiCksiad fKand Yictorin , hftVo been- published on tho . motion , o £ ithoi Bight . JHon , WwE- Gladatono , M . P .

      Fevor Hospital ,, « fy except two ^ dtated from that disease . Foursemnenhavo died' of typhus since theflth insti , irn thoi Dreadnought hospital ship . Hooping-| cough carUied ^ oiF 80 ohildren ( flitanoat halfl of whom were , on tho south side of the rivor ) i croup 14 . Moasios was fatal in 88 cases , scarlatinal in 27 , small-pox in . 18 . Pour of tho doatha . from measles occurred in St . George's Infant PooMiouae , Lowl ^ hnm . Two children died of scarlatina ad 75 , ButtOBland'Streot ,- Hoxton New ^ town ; : and anothor child is suffering from it . Tlie attention' of tho meaical oflftcor of tho > driBtriot m » y bo directed to tho BtatQ of this house , tho occupier of which' complains of " the awful stench" arieing from bad drains , to which caueo h « attributes tho diaooso that dost roved his

      chil-PEBskA . ^ -Tlie 1 Telieran Gazette" announces that the Persian Government , in ordep to maintain friendly relations wnth England , ^ haa reserved to Mr . Stivens , English Consul at Teheran , the ' right to direct , as hitherto ^ the > commercial > affairs-of English subjects in our'capital , ahd ^ hasTecognised ' at- the same time the right of the British Consula at' Tauris and liender-Abouchiri' ' CiVpb ¦ Seryighs SupimtA « n * ii ) iA , TiON-.---ThiB' committee met yesteifday at'ono o'clock , tho Chancellor of tho Exoheqtiofr in" the * ' chain Tho Actuary of th « Guatoms > Assurances- 'Fundwas ' examined' at cbnsiderablo longtli , and entered into a-statement of the rules laid down for

      insurances ; - TiiBATfticAr ^ s at Aloershott . ^ —Tho oflicors of tho ; difforont regiments have < subscribed'a day ' s pay towards getting up theatrical ^) and , Lord Pnnmuro has placed a building wtithoir disposal for that purpose , and has givon th . e > handaomo donation of 100 / . towards a fund . Tho project' has boon taken , up with much spirit by tho officers , and it is expected to be . moat successful . Thofirst porfonnanco was appointed to take piaco a niffl't or two ago , and was announced to be under tho oapccinl patronngw of Lieutenaub-Genoral lCnollye . . Tho eJitcrtftinmontarvvoi-e to bo tho muflicnl burlottix of The Sentinel , and tho farco of Ta Paris and Bach fur Fiva Pounds . A oplondid ball is in preparation for tho Dtli of May , which tho Mite of tho country arc expected to attend . Chargus ow Muuintt anx > BIuudmk . —Tl > o pncltctslup Uudorwritov recently arrived- from Liverpool nt

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      waB * taken to tneihospital , wherethe ^ stomach-punap'was useH ^ and 1 he was' cuppedr and electrified , but alt to-no efiectj « for ^ he continued ' in a- comatose condition , and his life- is placed in imminent danger . CJHXED- 'STRiippETGi- ^ -Alfred ^ Modr , a mendicant youth of sixteen , who'has been once before convicted of chDdstrip' ^ ing-, is" under remand at Lambeth , charged with the' same offence , He stripped two children of their coats and boots . One of them , in consequence , caught a eevere coldy which resulted in-an abscess in the ear ^ and thersaother , through fright at the prolonged absence of her childY wasattacked with a dangerous diseases Robbery . —George King , a police-constable , Alfred Brackley ; William Castles * David Thomas , and Joseph Seeley—the latter four in the service * of Messrs . Pickford and Go ., the well-known * carriers ;—have been committed for trial , charged with having been concerned in stealing-property'to the value of nearly 4007 ., consisting of'gold watches , plate , &c .

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  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), April 26, 1856, page 394, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2138/page/10/