311istri1anutts.

The Board of Health has issued a general circular to the public and to Boards of Guardians, giving some useful information on the alibied of the removal of nuisances, and some equally useful advice. Persona suffering from nuisances ,removeable by, cleansing are directed t,o send in a preeise complaint of the setae to the Board 'of Guardians of their parish, whose duty it will be to investigate the complaint ; and if they find it well- founded, to direct the proper parties to remove the nuisance,- under s,

penalty of In getting rid of nuisances removeable -by constructing works, complaints must be made by two householders,. and certified to the Guardians by the medical or relieving-officer of the union.- The Guardians are bound to complain before a Magistrate ; who, on a hearing -after silm- mons, may direct the remOval or the abatement of the nuisance. Com- plaints of this kind may also be made to a Town-Council, and to Paving, Lighting, Cleansing, or Police Commissioners. The following reeom- mendations are made to Guardians— '

"1. Divide your' union among committees • of the Guardians. 2.: Give your medical officers assistance, if you find they require it. 3. Direct-your chief attention-to places where epidemic diseases most prevail, Your medi- cal and relieving-officers know these places. 4. Look to the 'cleansing of roads, streets,, and courts ;. and see that Surveyors, Eating and Improvement Commissioners, and others having by law power to cleanse, carry out their powers. 6. In their default, or when they have no power, yoerselves see to- time cleansing of such streets, roads, and courts. q. Appoint a committed for the receipt of complaints of nuisances, and see that the proper officer attends to such coniplaints, and reports what hi-does therein. 7. In all cleatlaing operations, where foul smells may arise, let disinfectants, such as fresh earth, quick-lime, peat, charcoal, chloride of lime, or zinc, be used. 8. Oithy houses should be lime, washed. 9. Hired your medical offiedis to -report to you any unusual prevalence of bowel complaint or diarrlicoa,.nnd any otta of cholera- in their respective districts. 10.' On. the earliest appearance/ of choleraic disease, assemble your medical officers, and carry out, as far as may seem necessary, the minutes of instruction of the General Board of Health as to preventive measures, dispensaries, and medical aid, which minutes have already been supplied to you by that Board. 11. Make known your arraugements,for relief by plain handbills, freely circulated. 12..Give warn- ing, by handbills, of the importance of applying, on the first-Symptonts of diarrhoea, to your :medical officers, for advice and medicine, and that the same will be given gratuitously."

According to the Begistrar-General's report, the health of the Metro- polis last week, so far as the aggregate number of deaths is concerned, was not worse than it was in the week preceding. The number of deaths was 1803 persons,—an excess of 609 over 1224, the calculated amount : in the *eels before last the .number of deaths was,1832. " ChOlera-was fatal last week to 729 persons ; of whom 214 were children under fifteen years of age, 426 were fifteen years and under sixty, cud, 88

were sixty years old and upwards. During the clialerliT eOf 1,849; Lthe

total detithis registered in the week that ended AV- 2280; and

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those from cholera were 1230. In the six weeks of its present appearance, the deaths from cholera hare been duceestiVely 6, 26;133, 399, 644, and 729. The deaths from diarrhcea last week were 192." The Begistrar-General publishes a table showing" that cholera has pre- vailed with great irregularity ever London, and that-in several sub-dietriets the ravages:of-the epidemic are inconsiderable. Imperfect drainage, proxi- mity to the dirtiest parts of the Thames ,,bad water, and poverty, are still, as they were ill P1849, the chief-circumstances that make cholera fatal. It is on the banks cd the 'polluted Thames, in the lower parts of the Londcat basin, that the people die in large numbers ; for on ground not on an average tea feet above the Trinity high-water marks 1212 of the deaths from •cholera have happened, -out of 695,119 people, while on the neat terrace of- ten feet end under forty 'feet of elevation, 493 in 648,619 have -died ; and on the higher grounds above St. James's Square and the Strand only. 213 have died of cholera, out of 1,070,372 inhabitants. The mortality at the three elevations commencing at. the lowest has been at the rate of 204, 76, and 20 to every 100,000 inhabitants. The people on the low grounds have suffered ten times as mach as- the people living on the grounds of a moderate eleva-

tion." , Cholera e.entinnes its visitation in the North of Ireland—at Belfast, Antrim, Lisburn, and Larne. At Belfast, unfortunately, it shows a dis- position to increase. Diarrhcea is also prevalent.

At Liverpool, last week, there were 21 deaths, the same number as in the preceding week ; but generally the town was healthy.

Edinburgh and Leith visited by now be included in the list of towns vited by cholera. Up to Wednesday, there had been 1-2 cases in each. Three were fatal at Edinburgh. The victim were strangers.

- Result of the'Registrar-Generans return of mortality in the Metropolis for

the week ending on-Saturday last. ' •

Ten Weeks 441844-'33. 'Week Of 1834.

Zymotle Diseases 4,402

1,112 Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain Or variable scot 432

12 Tuberenlar Diseases 1,703

203 Dtleillteli of the Brain, SpinalMarrovr, Nerves, and Senses 1,112

119 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 286

28 Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration 772

83 Diseases of Osailtomach, Liver, and other Organs-of Digestion 708 .... .72 Diseosestof the, Kidneys, &e. 105

Childbirth, diseases of the Worms, ite. 76

8 Rheamatikei;direatei of the Bonei,foints, ace. 72 , „,.

ii

Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, 8m.

14

2

Malformations

26

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Premature Birth

28

Ati-Ophy

40

• itga':d 375

39

Sudden

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Violence, Pris-atien, Cold, andIntetaperince

296

2T

Totat(iactaaing unspecified causes)

11,130

The Wir Courts-martial have called forth a great deal of corre- spondeece'O the subject of Army discipline,—on the fitness of courts martial for, p :work intrusted to them, and especially on the treatment of Lieutenant, erry. ' Wellington Guernsey " writing to the Times, stir, geets t ,o precedent set by-the Duke of Yoik in 1810 should be fol- lowed in,18i54i The,Duke compelled the whole of the officers of the Eighty-fifthsto exchange into other regiments shin one day ; a sum- mary- and effective process. "An Old Soldier" states that he has just fitted his son out for the Army at a cost of 100/. "It'! he asks, "his barrack-room is burglariously entered by any one, his furniture destroyed, hititibthes spoiled, can I, -as his parent, lay my charge against the de- predators in a court of law ?"

The following intimation, in the Globe of the 19th, appeared only in part of our impression last week—" We have authority to state that Mr. Lawley's duties as private secretttryies thet gnancellor of the Exchequer were only temporarily continued, and that they have now ceased."

The bite King of Saxony was buried with regal pomp, at Dresden, on the 17th Instant.

By direct advises from Brennbuliel, in the Tyrol, it appears that the King of 'Saxony's death occurred- in this way. His' postillion was loading his hotees-down deolivity, where there was a sharp turning, and the road had been washoclaway by the heavy rains. When the carriage went over, the King, who-was-sitting on the right side, fell forwards, and would probably Mtve escaped 'without any injury if a trace had not got between the legs of thao-heraeandmadehimkiok.

effsettersirmailiceeow announce the death at that place of the Czarewiteh Elite Georgteseitch, son of the last legitimate Sovereign of Georgia, Czar ' siThe King/of Portugal entered Vienna on the 17th instant : he was received at the railway terminus by the Archduke Ferdinand.

General Eritas Count de Rens, is on his way back W Spain from Bulgaria, 'whence he started at the first news of the late insurrection.

M. de Persiseny has gone to Madrid, after a conference with the Emperor Napoleon at Biarritz.

Mademoiselle Sophie Soul, -sister of the late Marshal Sault, died at St. Amain on the 13th instant, at the age of eighty-one.

The race of Bonaparte appears not likely to die out,. The Princess Zenaide Charlotte Julie Bonaparte, who died recently at Naples has left eight children. She was the eldest daughter of Joseph, once "'King of Spain," and married to her cousin, Charles, the eldest son of Lucien Bonaparte.

M. Leon Pallet, one of the editors of the Petrie, has died of cholera. A daughter of AL kroudhon has also been carried off by the same disease.

Dr. Kitto, the eminent Biblical scholar, who left England on the 9th, has arrivectsafely at Stutgardt, whither he has gone for the benefit of his health.

Mr. Smith O'Brien is reported to have arrived in Belgium, from Van Die- men's Land.

Prince Paskie.witch has arrived at Warsaw from Hommel, and has re- sumed his viceregal functions Prince Napoleon left Varna on the 9th instant for Constantinople, for change of air, in consequence of an intermittent fever : probably he will have to return to France. He was very unwilling to withdraw.

-General de WecleL Governor of the fortress of Luxembourg' has arrived

at Paris on a mission the King of Prussia, Instructed to congratulate the Emperor Napoleon, when he returns from Biarritz at the end of the month, and to accompany him to the camp at Boulogne. ' The Arab Bou-Maza, who some time since obtained leave from the French Government to serve in the Turkish army, arrived at Constantinople on the 4th instant.

Lan Government has declined to grant a passport to General Lefl6,

0.49 Generals ; allegmgA et the present is an inopportune mo- ment or "the honodrable gentleman" to visit that country.

The other day, says the Moniteur, the Belgian Minister at Constantinople

was presented to Abd-el-Ltder at Broussa. The Minister asked the van- quished chief whether his heart did not beat to take part in the war for the cause of the Sultan ? "My heart sleeps in peace since I became acquainted with the Emperor Napoleon," replied the Emir ; "and it now desires no- thing 'except it be the oontinuation of the glory of its benefactor."

The marriage of the Sultan's eldest daughter with- the son of Redsehid Pasha took place on the 9th instant. The young lady, Fatima, is fourteen years of age, and is said to be of fair complexion and light hair, and "more resembles an English girl than one of Turco-Circassian race."

An important boon has been granted to the Royal Marines : the daily de- duction irons their pay for rations when serving afloat—about 4id. a day— is discontinued.

Many complaints having been made by the officers and crew of the steam- sloop Salaniandet against the Commander and First Lieutenant, at the recent visit of the Lords of the Admiralty to Portsmouth, Admirals Berkeley and Martin inquired into the matter. The upshot has been that the Commander and all the gun-room officers have been superseded.

An order has been issued to several gun-manufacturers at Birmingham to make a quantity of carbines for the "intended army of Bashi-bazouks."

A copyright convention between Great Britain and Belgium was signed at London on the 12th instant. The convention also regulates the tariff on books, engravings, and music, imported from one country into the other.

The subscriptions for the monument to Professor Wilson amount to 900/.; the total required is 14001.

As an instance of the influence of the Great Exhibition on the iron trade, it is remarked, that landowners seem inclined to abandon the old fashion of having ' cheap cast-iron gates and palings; and a taste for wrought-iron or- namental work is decidedly coming into fashion.

The new Beer Act is exciting considerable opposition. The Metropolitan complainants united with those of the adjacent towns have formed a Pro- tection Society. At Manchester, a meeting of 300 delegates, licensed vic- tuallers from _Lancashire towns, came to resolutions expressing their intet- Lion to bring about a repeal of the act,.

The Mayors of Stafford and Bradford entertained the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress of London, last week, on their way to the Lakes.

Two clergymen of Worcester have commenced open-air preaching on the Sunday.

Some of the soldiers of the Eightieth Regiment have been so careful of their gains during an eighteen-years service in India, that they have brought home from 500/. to 10001. each.

A carman of Port Glasgow has returned home after a ten-years sojourn in Australia with no less than 14,000/. lie intends to return to the land of gold with a venture of merchandise; and he has presented a free passage to some poor relatives. , The Electric Telegraph Company have opened a new market far female labour : they employ in London mnumber of girls under a anatron, to for- ward and receive messages by the telegraph—a kind of work well fitted for *Gauen. , . ,

There are now at Woolwich, readrfor embarkation, two large waggons at present in the carriage department of the Royal -faunal, fitted with large reels of telegraphic wire-coveeed with gutta percha, and intended as a means of communication between the camps of the army in Turkey. There is a small two-wheeled carriage for each waggon, and a small hand-plough for opening the ground, in which the telegraphic wire is inserted as it is rolled off one of the large reels, which revolves horisontally, and contains about a mile in length of the wire. The plough is so constructed, that on the wire being deposited on the ground it is immediately covered over' and requires no other labour. On the camps changing their positions, the wire can be rolled on the reels again, and be made available on the new ground.

Lillywhite,- the famous cricketer, surnamed "the Nonpareil" by-his ad- miring brethren of the hat, has fallen a victim to the cholera, lie died, at Islington, on Tuesday.

, The Judge of the Bloomsbury County Court has decided that cabmen are not liable tor the loss of luggage when no negligence on their part can be proved.

The other day, a large stone was found to obstruct the plough in a field at Monkton, near Devizes. Oa removing it, a chamber was found, containing five skeletons, supposed to have been buried hundreds of years ago. . . A whale of the "Beak" species, supposed to be an inhabitant of the South Seas, has been caught on the Norfolk coast. It was twenty-nine feet long, and weighed nearly nine tons.

The reports of the grouse-shooting are much more favourable than was anti- cipated. '1.1e 12th was in mostparts of the country a very indifferent day; the returns of the sport on that day are, therefore, nothing very remarkable, and form no criterion of the character of the moors. But the severe winter had driven the birds lower'down than usual ; and many of the lower moors, which are in general not very well supplied, arc this year fully stocked. The birds+ are everywhere very wild, though by no means scarce,' and are already pack- ing in many.quarters. The heaviest bag which I see reported is that of Mr. Stirling Crawford and party, who got 150 brace on the 12th, and 340 brace on the 14th, at Dalwaspidal ; the number of guns not being mentioned. lord Paumure bagged 70 brace on the 12th; the Duke of Beaufort and party, at Glenlyon, 50 brace. Black game, hares, and partridges are said to promise very tavourably.—.Edinburgh Correvondent of the Morning Chronicle.

The English moors are well stored with birds; and the sportsmen who broke ground before-the game on the 12th made some very good bags.

"Tam Samson," the namesake and son of the hero of Burns's poem, was on the moors on Saturday last, for the fifty-fifth season. The patriarchal sportsman, we believe, proved himself as good a shot as of yore. Mr. Sam- son, who is a seedsmau in Kilmarnock, is probably the oldest man on the Scottish moors in 1854.—Glasgow Chronicle

The following states have expressed their intention of taking part in the Universal Exhibition to be held in Paris next year--Austria, Bavaria, Bel-

gium, Bremen, Denmark, Frankfort, Great Britain, reece, Hamburg, Hanover, Hesse Darmstadt, Holland, Lubeck, Morocco, Mecklenburg- Schiverin, Mexico, Naples, Peru, Portugal, Rome, Sardinia, Saxony, Saxe- Coburg-Gotha, Sexe-Weimar, Spain, Sweden and Norway, Switzerland, Tunis, Turkey, Tuscany, United States. The only states of any imports since which do not appear on the -list are Russia and Prussia.

Among the novelties at the Paris Exhibition will be an ivory carpet, from India. It made of long strips of ivory, plaited like matting.

The following " mot " is attributed to. a "high personage" in France. Some one said, if a republic were established in Spain, there would be danger of the infection of Liberalism spreading to Fiance "No," replied the high personage, "there is nothing to fear—France often gives the plague, but imeer catches it

The news of the capture of the Bonaarsund was greeted in Paris with a salute of 101 guns from the Invalides. At first the people did not know what to make of the cannonading; but they soon guessed that a " victory " bad been gained somewhere, and the evening papers did the rest.

The Napoleon fête on the 15th was celebrated at Marseilles only by re- ligious observances and sets of charity : festivities would have been ill-timed in a city where nearly every family had lost some member by the cholera.

Accounts from Paris show that the retail trade, one most important to Viet gay city, and the trade in articles de Paris, are reviving. The price of corn maintains ; but m the harvest has been very abundant, it cannot long continue ta do so.

The Spanish Government has instituted a " decoration " for the com- batants of "the Three Days of July "—the 17th, 18th, and 19th. The riband is to be red and green, and suspended from it a civic crown, with a band of gold around it, on which is to be inscribed, in black letters, "The grateful country to the defenders of liberty in July—Madrid, 1854:

Large sums have been subscribed for the wounded, the widows, and the orphans, of the late rising in Spain. At the office of the Clamor Public*, 1.7Q0l. had been collected ; Lord Bowden gave 501, • Don Francisco Murrieta, a well-known Spanish merchant in London, forwarded 2001.

The Spanish revolution has prevented the inauguration of the Ebro canal. All the directors are hors de combat. The Conde de Quinto and the Conde de San Lues are under impeachment ; the Duque de Returnees baa " emi- grated" • the Duque de Osuna and the Duque de San Carloa have fled ; and Queen Christina, who has "a great stake in the company," is "placed in jeopardy."

The Grand Vizier, at the suggestion of Lord Stratford, is actively engaged in effecting the emancipation of the Rayahs throughout the Turkish domi- nions, and in placing them on a complete equality with the Mussulman popu- lation.—Paris Correspondent of the Times.

Omar Pasha has an artist in his suite to paint the battles of the East: he is now engaged on a large picture of Silistria.

A boy of twelve years old, who fought at Silistria by the side of his father when the father was killed, has been presented to Omar Pasha, by some English officers who witnessed his bravery and filial devotion. Omar has sent him to the Seraskier, and recommended him to the Sultan.

The Sultan has authorized the construction of a line of electric telegraph between Constantinople and Belgrade, there to join the German lines. There will be a branch from Adrianople to Schumla.

Two noncommissioned officers of the Artillery of the Prussian Guard have left Berlin for Egypt, for the purpose of acting as instructors there, at the request of the Viceroy. They are to receive very handsome salaries, and be entitled to a pension after six years. If this idea is further carried out, Egypt may, after a time, have as excellent an artillery as Turkey, and from the same source.

A rich inhabitant of Cologne has presented the city with 15,2001. to build a gallery for works of art.

Throughout the Austrian empire—in Germany, Hungary, Bohemia and Lombardy—there are abundant crops. The reports from Hungary, Austria's granary, have caused quite a stagnation in the corn-trade.

The export of flax, hemp, linseed, and wood from Russia, by way of Memel, both by land and river conveyance, continues on the same increased scale as hitherto. The extent of increase since the reopening of trade this spring under the liberal auspices of the English and French concessions to neutral powers, may be estimated by stating that the turnpikes in the neighbourhood of Memel take ten times as much toll now as is usual at this time of the year. One of the Prussian customhouses on the Rdssian frontier sometimes takes as much as 1000 thalers a-day for import-duties.

There was a potato emeute at Geneva on the 12th. The buyers marched about the market-place, offering a fixed price, and upset the stalls of all who refused to deal at the set rate. The police looked on, and the local au- thorities deliberated at the Town-hall.

The port of Odessa is by Imperial ukase permitted to enjoy the privileges of a free port for three years longer. A worthless boon at present.

A number of Jews of Frankfort-on-the-Oder and several municipal au- thorities in the surrounding districts have been arrested by the Berlin Police for defrauding London life-insurance companies. The Jews insured the lives of aged peeple, sending false statements certified by the authorities ; and when the old folks died more false papers obtained the insurance-money from London, which the Jews and the officials divided.

Grebe, right-hand man of the King's company, First Foot Guards, died at Potsdam last week. He was the tallest soldier in Europe, taller almost than any of King Frederick William the First's gigantic "blue children." He stood 7 feet); inch, and his coffin was 8 feet 7 inches long.

The gossips and even the philosophers of Berlin have been thrown into great excitement by the extraordinary and well-verified (?) fact of a married woman having given birth to no less a creature than a merman, or mer- maid. The following is the official report of the case. " On the 15th, the wife of a painter in Old Schonhaus Street brought into the world a most won- derful abortion : this was a child born only a few weeks before the regular time, which had the regular human form down to the loins, and thence downwards that of a fish, but without scales. Its fingers were webbed, but otherwise perfectly well formed. It died half an hour after birth, in the presence of the midwife, Dr. Hoffman."—Berlin Correspondent of the Chro- mate.

During a recent ascent of Mont Blanc, a Mr. Blackwell observed a rather singular phenomenon. In the night of the 10th, after eleven o'clock, a guide having come out from the cabin of the Grande Mulets, saw the ridges of this mountain cluster all on fire. He communicated what he had ob- served to his companions, who all wished to assure themselves of the fact ; and they then saw, that, through the electricity generated by the tempest, all the rocks of the Grands Mulets were illuminated. They found the same phenomenon on their own persons. When they raised their arms, their fingers became phosphorescent.

They are very go-ahead people in Australia. A person saw a man lying on the beach at St. Kilda, forthwith he informed the Coroner that a dead body had been washed ashore ; a jury was summoned, and they went to examine the corpse. On turning it over, the defunct awoke, and complained that it was bards fellow could n't have a little sleep in peace.

A drunken man in the land of liberty has pelted President Pierce with a hard-boiled egg, after the President had declined to take "a drink" with him.

Some amenities are reported in the American Congress. Colonel Benton called Senator Pettit "a liar and a dirty dog" ; Mr. Pettit retaliated by styling.' the Colonel "an imbecile dotard," "a thief," "a beast," and so on. In the House of Representatives, Mr. Walsh and Mr. Seward applied the terms "vagabond" and "liar" to each other; and then had a bent at fisticuffs, till they were stopped by other legislators.

Mr. Robert Schuyler was not a mere mtishrdorn "railwaY king," but was well descended, had a very high social standing, and personakqualities of the first order ; •so that when his villainy was discovered the, shuck • to men's minds was all the greater.

The American territories of Nebraska and anaailarla great prizes fox _which North and South will .eagerly contend; for when selhciently. peopled, the in- habitants will decide whether slavery shall be permitted or not. The South- ern men are preparing to take their, human goods and chattels thither, and associations are forming in the North to colonize the lands on a large scale

with freemen. • -

The foundry,. at the United States Navy-yard in Washington city has been totally destroyed-by tire; occasioned by an explosion while the workmen were engagedats casting a cylinder.

Judge Norris, Of Ohio; has decided that a slave brought into the State by or with the consent of his owner, and afterwardieescemng into a free State, is free,-and caimet be remanded to slavery.

The revenue receipts of the United States for the year ending 30th June 1854, were 14,710,0004 ; an increase of 2,440,0001: over the year 1853.

The fast clipper Grapeshot, heavily armed, and laden with 35,000 muskets, left New Orleans on tbe. 1st August, In a suddernanct mysterious manner." Speculation is rife as to her destination, and oscillates betvreerr a Cuban invasion and a privateering expedition under the flag of Russia. The Spanish Consul at New Orleans sent a fast schooner to Havanneh with the intelligence of the departure.af the.Oranesliots Thane hta fresh budget of great fires ;from the United States. At New Or- leans, property worth amillion dollarahs been burnt: much of it was in- sured,m.Engluh.officea. There has been a large fire. at St. Louis. In Cali- fornia fires are reported at San' Franceico,Sacramento Columbia, and litive- meta ; 'total lose, 1,140,000 dollars.

An American paper states that a Mr. Bingham, of St. Johnsbury, lived two hours after his neck had beelabroken by an enraged horse. The whole frame except the bead was paralyzed, but respiration was continued for two

hours, the diaphragm alone moving. '

Two bodies have been exhumed and burnt at Jewett city in the 'United States, on the superstitions idea that'the-cernsett were." feeding' on sur- viving relatives ishO Were 'afflicted With consumption, the disease whielfcar- ried off the deceased.