MISCELLANEOUS.

Colonist, Volume III, Issue 286, 17 July 1860, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

India.—ln Bengal, fever and cholera have been making frightful havoc. In the district around Buxar alone 3000 have died within the past two months. According to the Cochin paper, cholera had broken out in the gaol at Calicut, and in five days carried off 100 out of 400 prisoners. Free Negroes.-t-A vast and noble plan has been proposed for conveying the free negroes ofthe United States to the British West Indies. This would be a prodigious benefit to the Negroes themselves, and it would at once raise the West Indies from their present languid condition. The lot of the free Negroes in the United States is almost more deplorable than that of the slaves. They are despised, harassed, insulted, in one shape or another persecuted. London—The health of London is at present far from being in a satisfactory state. The first week of April the mortality was exceedingly high. The deaths, which were in the first week of March 1397, have during the rest of the month shown a constant increase; for they were 1563 and 1611 in the two following weeks, and they further rose in the fourth week to 1708. In the first week of April the births of 1018 boys and 941 girls, in all 1959, were registered in London. In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1850-59 the average number was 1828. V ■ Happy England.—-Mr. Vickers, Secretary of the Weavers' Association in Spitalfields, in evidence before a Committee of the House of Commons, gave some interesting particulars respecting the state of that trade, from which it appeared that there are about 8000 looms employed, and that the average wages amount to 9s. or 10s. a week, and that it was only by an excessive amount of toil that they were able to live at all. '.-A Pleasant Position.—Captain Gorde, the man who turned French bayonets against the people: of Rome at the beginning of the late fray, in which the Papal troop s acted with such ferocious brutality, has been challenged by twenty-six ef his fellow-officers; he has likewise been expelled from the club and mess.