The Sun.
London, England, 1855-01-17 00:00:00

THE LONDON COAL TRADE.

Our readers whe follow is through 'the long array of
figures which lead the van of our periodical remarks on
the London coal trade, will have noticed the prominent
position and the effect we have frequently ascribed to
the large and increasing importations into the metro-
polis by railway, and it is now some years since we
ventured to prophesy that the total quantity of inland
coals sent to London would, in the year 1854, be very
little short of a million tons. We subjoin a statement
of the quantities imported by rail, canal, and roads, in
the past three years : •
1852. 1853. 1854.

Great Northern 195,865 358,775 398,562

North-Western
Eastern Counties
Great Western 4,596 16,589 84,592
South-Eastern
Grand Junction Canal 33,800 21,602 32,153
Thames
Common loads

411,820 653,729 979,170
It will taus be sews that 979,170 tons were sent to
London otherwise than by sea—this is nearly one-fourth
of the entire consumption, and equal to what was sup-
plied from Sunderland and Seaham put together. The
great addition has been in the supply by the North-
Western, Great Western, and Eastern Counties lines ;
and we expect to see the agf.rregate quantity considerably
increased by the end of 1856. The quantity of Durham
coals carried by rail, including of course all the South-
Eastern, reached 165,000 tons ; Lord Durham and the
Adelaide Company each sending about 38,000 tons.
The comparatively small increase in the quantity of the
Great Northern Company is almost entirely made up of
Durham teals.

It is a matter of wonder how the enormous increase
of supply-630,000 tons in two years—can have been
absorbed. We look for a further increase this year,
chiefly by the Great Western and North-Western lines,
but it is difficult to estimate what is likely to bo the
rate of supply when the stimulus of high prices is
withdrawn, From the conviction that a large pro-
portion of last year's supply is in stock, and will con-
tinue to have a depressing effect on the market for
many months, we anticipate a much lower scale of
prices in 1555 than those which ruled last year.—
Newcastle Chronicle.

HEALTH OP LONDON DURING THE WEEK.

(Front the Report of the Registrar-General.)

The population of Loudon now suffers, as appears
from the last returns, a high rate of mortality. Last
week the deaths of 1,466 persons (743 males and 723
females) were registered, showing an increase on the
previous week, in which the number was 1,404. In the
ten corresponding weeks of the years 1845.54 the ave-
rage number was 1,203, with which, after it is raised by
a tenth part as an allowance for increase of population,
the present return may be compared. The deaths of
last week were 143 in excess of the corrected average.
Out of 300 deaths from zytnetic diseases, 19 are re-
ferred to small pox, 25 to measles, 63 to scarlatina, and
65 to hooping cough. Influenza is on the increase, and
18 persons died of it in the week. Bronchitis is also
fatal, and numbers 178 cases, which are thus distributed
over different periods of life :-35 occurred under 20
years, 21 in the period 20.40, 31 in 40-60 years, 78 in
the next twenty years, and 13 at SO years of ate and up-
wards. Pneumonia carried off 139 persons, 91 of whom
were less than 20 years old ; while consumption carried
off 150, of whom nearly half were 20 years of age and
under 40.

The annual mortality of London, except in periods of
great epidemics, is at the rate of 31 in 1,000 among the
children and young persons under 20 years of age ; 10
in 1,000 among men and women of the 'second age
(20-40) ; 23 in 1,000 among persons of the third age
(40-60) ; 72 in 1,000 among persons of the fourth age
(60-80) ; and 224 in 1,000 among persons of the age of
80 and upwards. At these rates the deaths at the five
periods of life in London would be 621, 179, 197, 201,
and 42, and the numbers returned last week were 680
(in the period 0— 20) : 193 (20-40) ; 226 (40-60) ; 288
(60-80) ; and 63 (at the age of 80 and upwards.) It is
found as the result of comparison that the mortality is
in excess at the present time, that this excess runs
through all periods of life, but is chiefly remarkable at
the more advanced ages. The rates of mortality which
form the standard of comparison are derived from the
whole year ; but the season at which we are now ar-
rived is usually the most fatal in the year, and as the
increase of mortality is chiefly owing to this circum-
stance, these figures serve to show the influence of win-
ter on the population at different ages.
Last week the births of 881 boys, and 825 girls, in all
1,706 children, were registered in London. In the 10
corresponding weeks of the years 1845-54 the average
number was 1,446.

At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 30.362 in. The
mean daily reading was above 30in. on every day of the
week, and on Friday it rose to 30.459 in. By 9h. p.m.
on the same day the reading had increased to 30.4 Sin.
The mean temperature of the air in the week was 39.3
deg., which is 4.1 deg. above the average of the same
week in 38 years. On the first three days the mean
temperatures were about 12 deg., 10 deg., and 9 deg.
above the averages. The highest temperature in the
week occurred on Sunday, and was 49.3 deg. ; the
lowest on Thursday, and was 52 5 deg. The mean tem-
perature of the Thames was 43.9 deg. The mean dew-
point temperature was 36.5 deg. between which and the
mean temperature of the air the difference is 2.8 deg.
The wind blew from the south-west on the first three
days, and afterwards was mostly calm. The rain-fall
was only 0.09 in.

MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.
NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED
IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JAN. 13
Zymotic Diseases
Diseases of Uncertain Seat
Tubercular Diseases
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves and Senses

Diseases of the Heart and Biood-vessels 64
Diseases of the Lungs and other Organs of
Respiration 373
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs
of Digestion
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c.
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c.
Diseases of the Joints, Bores, and Muscles
Diseases of the Skin, &c.
Malformations 7
Premature Birth and Debility 37
Atrophy 47
Old Age .
Sudden 3
Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 29
Causes not specified

DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES
Population Deaths in corre- Deaths
Enumerated. / spondiug week in the
1851. of 1853. Week.
West Districts
North Districts...... 490,396
Central Districts..... 393,256
East Districts 485,522
South Districts ...... 616,635
Totals

Ma1e5.....................
Females ..................

743
723

THE LONDON GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT,

WAR DEPARTMENT, JAN. 15.
His Grace the Duke of Newcastle has received a de-
spatch, of which the following is a copy, addressed to his
Grace by Field-Marshal the Lord Baglan, G.C.B.
Before Sebastopol, Dec. 13, 1861.
My Lord Duke,—ln my despatch of the 18th of Octo-
ber, reporting the opening of our fire upon the enemy's
works, I omitted to mention the name of a highly merito-
rious Naval Officer, who had charge of a battery in the
trenches, and rendered himself conspicuous by the man-
ner in which he performed the important duty confided in
him.

The officer I allude to is Captain Moorsom, whom I beg
leave now to recommend to the notice of your Grace. I
did not know until some time afterwards that he was em-
ployed in the trenches on the occasion in question ; but
having now been apprised of it, I avail myself of the pre•
rent opportunity to rectify an error, which might other-
wise be prejudicial to a most deserving officer.—l have, &c.
His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, &c., &c., &c.
DOWNING-STLLEET, JAN. 15.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint Hampden King,
Esq., to be one of the judges of the Assistant Court of
Appeal for the Island of Barbadoes, and T. H. Bartley,
Esq., to boa member of the Legislative Council of New
Zealan d.

CROWN-OFFICE, JAN. 13.

MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT

PARLIAMENT.

County of Fermanagh—The Honourable Henry Arthur
Cole, in the room of Sir Arthur Brooke, Bart., deceased.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, JAN. 15.

The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received,
through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy
of a despatch from her Majesty's Charge d'Affaires at Paris,
forwarding a French decree, dated the 6th ipstaut, provid-
ing that foreign vessels shall pay a fixed tonnage duty of
50 centimes per ton (without the additional tenth) in the
Port of Goree.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, JAN. 15.

The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received,
through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy
of a despatch from her Majesty's Minister at Stockholm,
inclosing copy of a decree published by the Cellege of
Commerce at Stockholm, a translation of which is sub-
joined, respectinc, the direction across the Sound of the
Submarine Cable connecting the Electric Telegraph at
Stockholm with that at Copenhagen.
(Translation.)
The College of Commerce makes known that, according
to his Majesty's gracious letter of the 21st ult., a subma•
rine telegraphic cable has been put down in iheSound`
south of the island of Hoen, from Hillesborg, on the
Swedish side, to Vedbeck, on the coast of Seeland ; that,
in ordor to point out the position of the line, the follow-
in.' small buoys have been put up, viz., two at Vedbeck,
showing the direction of the line from there to the S. of
Hoen, being E.N.i and ; and two at Hillesborg, in
the direction of the south point of Hoen, being E. by
N.4N. and N. by 5..; also at the south end of Hoen,
where the line forms an angle, is situated a larger buoy,
smaller buoys with flags indicating the line at this part.
This the Royal College has been graciously commanded
hereby to proclaim, and" to give notice that any one who
injures the telegraph apparatus in any way is to be answer-
able for the same, as, in consequence thereof, no vessels or
boats in the Sound are allowed to cast anchor in the above-
mentioned direction.

Stockholm, Dec. 12.
WAR-OFFICE, JAN. IG.

7th Regiment of Foot—Ensign Charles Errol Hope, from
the 10th Foot, to be Ensign, without purchase, Jan. 16.

TO BE ENSIGNS, BY PURCHASI.
9th Foot—Richard Charles Henry Germon, Gent., Jan

14th Foot—Henry Theodore Vernede, Gent., Jan. 16.
18th Foot—Alfred Cottee, Gent., Jan. 16.
21st Foot—Arthur Grey Hazlerigg, Gent., Jan. 16.

42d Foot—William Gr;en, Gent., Jan. 14.
44th Foot=-111ward. Charles Pemberton Pigott, Gent.,
Jan. 16. _ _

46th Foot—Charles John Burgess, Gent., Jan. 16.
Oth Foot—Christopher Michell, Gent., Jan. 16.
50th Foot— Robert Charles Goff, Gent., Jan. 16.
55th Foot—Percy Lytton Bellamy, Gent., Jan. 16.
57th Foot—Hickman Rose Russell, Gent., Jan. 16.
68th Foot Henry John Richard Villiors Stuart,
Jan. 16.

71st Foot—Robert Lewis, Gent., Jan. 16.
77th Foot William Marmaduke Dixwell Alderson,
Gent., Jan. 16.

79th Foot--Edward Gawne, Gent., Jan. 16t
88th Feot—Lucas Clements Scott, Gent., Jan. 16.

89th Foot—Montagu Charles Browning, Gent., Jan. 14;
William Darge, Gent., Jan. 15 ; Robert Johnston, Gent.,
Jan. 16.

MI Foot Andrew FitzJ'ames Cunningham Rollo,
Gant., Jan. 15 ; William Gordon Alexander, Gent.,
Jan. 16.

97th Foot—Edward Mott Alderson, Gent., Jan. 15
Maurice George Beaufoy Fitz Gerald, Gent., Jan. 16.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, JAN. 15.

Royal Regiment of Artillery.—Second Captain Arthur
Colima Pigou to be Captain, vice Hamilton, retired upon
fall pay ; First Lieutenant Francis Cornwallis Maude, to
be Second Captain, vice Pigou ; Second Lieutenant Fran-
cis Arthur Whinyates to be First Lieutenant, rice Maude,
Dec. 27 ; Second Captain the Honourable David McDowall
Fraser to be Captain, ♦ice Brettingham, retired upon half-
pay ; First Lieutenant 2Eneas Clarke to be Second Captain,
vice the Honourable D. M. Fraser ; Second Lieutenant
Frederick Coulthurst Elton to be First Lieutenant, rico
Clarke, Jan. I.
Corps of Royal Engineers.--Lieutenant-General Sir
Johu Fox Burgoyne, G.C.B. to be Colonel-Commandant,
vice Sir Henry Goldfinch, deceased, Nov. 22.
COMMISSION SIGNED BT THE QUEEN.

Shropshiro Regiment of Militia—Francis .7kostyn Owen,
Esq., late Captain in the 44th Regiment, to be Paymaster,
Doc. 12.

COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD LIEUTENANTS]

County of Essex—Cardinal Brewster, Esq., to be De-
puty-Lieutenant, Jan. 10; Arthur Tawke, Esq., to be
Deputy-Lieutenant, Jan. 10 ; James Edward Boggis,
Esq., to be Depnty-Lieutenant, Jan. 11.
West Essex Militia—John Thos. Eustace, Esq., late of
the 60th Rifles, to be Captain, vice Jervis, resigned,
Jan. 10.
West Suffolk Regiment of Militia—Win. Hall, Gent.,
to be Lieutenant, Jan. 11.
let or South Durham Regiment of Militia of the County
of Durham—George Webb, Gent., to bo Ensign ; William
Winn, Gent., to be Ensign, Jan. 10.
Ist Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia
.Edward Sumner Colpoys, Gent.' to be Lieutenant, vice
Atkinson, promoted, Jan. 11; Edward Russell Daunt,
Gent., to be Lieutenant ; Edward Ffraser Ward, Gent.,
to be Ensign, Jan. 12.
2d Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia
Ensign Francis Wright to be Lieutenant, vice Preston,
resigned, Jan. 12 ; Ensign Henry Morewood to be Lieu-
tenant, vice Pilkington, resigned; Samuel Johnston,
Gent., to be Ensign, vice Wright, promoted, Jan. 13 ;
George Malcolm, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Morewood,
promoted; William Bourne, Gent., to be Assistant-Sur-
geon, vice Desmond; resigned, Jan. 15.
3d Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia—
Robert Buckley Baldwin, Gent., to be Ensign, Jan. 11.
sth Regiment of Royal Lancashire Militia—Richard H.
Thursby, Gent., to be-Lieutenant, Jan. 10.
let Battalion of the Artillery Corps of the Royal Lanca-
shire Militia—Frederick Augustine Lynam, Gent., to be
Second Lieutenant, Jan. 12.
Aberdeenshire Regiment of Militia—John Gordon Cum-
min Esq., to be Captain; Wm. Hutchison, Gent.,
to be Lieutenant, Jan. 1.
Ist or Royal East Middlesex Regiment of Militia—
Lieutenant George Carnaby to be Captain, vice Granville,
resigned, Jan. 8.
3d or Royal Westminster Light Infantry Regiment of
Middlesex Militia—Herbert Hale Forbes Gifford, Gent.,
to be Lieutenant, Dec. 26 ; Frank William Dundee, Gent.,
to be Lieutenant ; George Chapman, Gent., late Lieutenant
West Essex Militia, to be Lieutenant, Jan. 8.
North York Rifle Regiment of Militia—Lieutenant
Thomas Light Elwon to be Captain, vice Milbank, retired ;
Second Lieutenant George Richard Withington to bo
Lieutenant, vice Elwon, promoted, Jan. 12.
lit Devon Regiment of Militia—Heath Haviland
Chanter to be Ensign, Dec. 5 ; Hon. Dudley Francis
Fortescue to be Captain, vice Elton resigned, Dec. 16 ;
Serjeant-Major John Macdonald to be Lieutenant and
Quartermaster, Dec. 16 ; Ferdinand Yates to be Ensign,
Dec. 16 ; Frederick Wright to be Ensign, Dec. 18.
2sl Devonshire Regiment of Militia.—Robert Bent Far-
well to be Ensign, Dee. 29; Arthur Parsons to be Ensign,
Dec. 30 •, John Gore Hawkins to be Lieutenant, Rec. 29;
Jolt* Pitt Briggs to be Lieutenant, Dec. 23 ; Matthew
Henry Stewart to be Ensign, Dec. 31; John Thomas
Soltan to be Ensign, Deo 28 ; Augustan Willoughby Rodd
to be Ensign, Jan. 1.
Royal North Lincoln Militia.--Charles Deane, Gent., to
be Lieatenant, Jan. 2'; Douglas Wimberley, Gent., to be
Lieutenant, Jan. 3 ; Edward Snow Mason, Gent., .to be
Ensign, Dec. 25; Walter Stewart Brown, Gent., to be
Ensign, Jan. 2.
Queen's Own Light Infantry Regiment of Tower Ham-
lets Militia.—Neil Ogilvy Drummond, Esq., to be Lieute-
nant.

Hampshire Regiment of Militia Infantry—Bertie Shiff-
ner, Gent., to be Lieutenant; Thomas Edward Pinkett,
Gent., to be Ensign, Jan. 6.
Rifle Regiment of King's Own Staffordshire Militia—
John Fox Fitz-Giffard Mytton, Esq., late 59th Regiment,
to be Captain, Jan. 12 ; William Thomas Gresley, Gent.,
to be Lieutenant, vice Knight, resigned, Jan. 11.
Edinburgh or Mid-Lothian Regiment of Militia—George
Andrew Coventry, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Lang,
deceased ; Archibald Scott, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice
Watson, deceased ; Charles William Cowan, Gent , to be
Lieutenant, vice Mills, deceased ; William Hunter, Gent.,
to be Lieutenant, vice Paterson, deceased; John Fowler
Kemp, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Shaw, promoted, Jan. 5.
MEMORANDUIL-City of Edinburgh Artillery Regiment
of Militia—Thomas Alexander Hill, Gent. ; Francis
Montague Smith, Gent. ; John- Macdougall, Gent.—now
rank as Second Lieutenants in this regiment, instead of
Ensigns, as formerly stated.

- BANKRUPTS.
John Gardiner Hodges, warehouseman, Bull's-head-
court, Newgato-street, to surrender, Jan. 25 at one, and
March 2, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Carman,
official assignee, Aldermanbury ; Ashuret, Son, and
Morris, Old Jewry.
Thomas Sturges, licensed victualler, Stockwell, Surrey,
-Jan. 25, at twelve, and March 2, at one, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-
street ; Robinson, ironmonger-lane, City.
Joseph North, grocer, Town Gate, Northowram, York-
shire, Jan. 30 and Feb. 27, at eleven, at the Leeds District
Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds; Holroyde, Son,
and Cronhelin, Halifax ; Bond and Barwick, Leeds.
James Aldred, innkeeper, Manchester, Jan. 31 and Feb.
21, at'twelve, t the Manchester District Court. Herna-
man, official assignee, Manchester; Chow, Manchester.
Robert ..Smith, licensed victualler, Newcastle-street,
Strand, Jan. 29, at two, and Feb. 27, at one, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Sambrook-
court ; Pagdon and Hodgkinson, Mark-lane.
Elizabeth Taylor, Rose and Crown public-house, Green-
wich, Jan. 29 at half-past two, and March 5 at twelve, at
the Court of Bankruptcy. Lee, official assignee, Alder -
mattbury ; Martineau and Reid, Gray's-inn.
George Bumpetead, grocer, Great Yarmouth, Jan. 23 at
two, and Feb. 20 at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Blake, Fleet-
street.
Samuel Dennis, carpenter, Rayleigh, Essex, Jan. 24 and
March 3, at half-past one, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Pennell, official assignee, Guildhall-chambers; Chidley,
Gresham-street, City.
Richard Allcock, wine and spirit merchant, Nottingham,
Jan. 30, and Feb. 20, at tea, at the Birmingham District
Court. Harris, official assignee, Nottingham; Bowlty,
Nottingham ; rikodgsen, Birmingham.
Samuel Ryder, flour factor, Flymoath, Jan, 2; Ajaci

March 5, at one, at the Exeter District Court. Hirtzel,
official assignee, Exeter; Edmonds and Sons, Plymouth ;
Stogdon, Exeter.

Matthias Edward Bowra, india rubber manufacturer,
Old Ford, Middlesex, Jan. 26 and March 2, at ono, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee,
Basinghall-street ; Lefroy, Piccadilly.
Robert Norman, grocer and baker, Histon, Cambridge,
Jan. 30, at half-past eleven, and Feb. 27, at half-past
twelve, at the Court; of Bankruptcy. Graham, official
assignee ; J. and C. Cole, Essex-street, Strand ;Christmas,
Cambridge.

Isaac Ray, linen draper, Ipswich, Jan. 26, at eleven,
and Feb. 27, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Stansfeld, official assignee, Basinghall-street ;
Reed, Langford, and Marsden, Friday-street.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION.
William Harvie, cattle dealer, Auchingree.