The Sun.
London, England, 1855-08-16 00:00:00

MILITIA.

A general order has been issued from the Horse
Guards, dated Aug. 9, which states that the large in-
crease of the Militia having rendered it necessary to de-
terrnine.the precedence of the new regiments recently
enrolled, a board of Militia officers was ordered to
assemble at the camp at Aldershott to arrange the pre-
cedence of the Militia Artillery, which, in virtue of its
organisation, will take the right of the infantry, and of
determining the numbers of the new regiments of in-
fantry, as well as those of three old regiments which ap-
peared to claim the same numbers. A' list is annexed to
the order, showing the regimental numbers fixed for the
whole Militia of the United Kingdom now borne on the
establishment. The order of precedence is as fullows

MILITIA ARTILLERY.

1. Antrim
2. Armagh
3. Berwick
4. Cork
5. Cork City
6. Corn wall and Devon
Miners
7. De•?on
8. Donegal
9. Dublin City
10. Durham
11. Edinburgh City
12. Fife
13. Forfar and Kincardine
14. Galway

13. Glamorgan
16. Hampshire
17. Isle of Wight
18. Kent
19. Lancashire
29. Limerick City
21. Londonderry
22. Norfolk
23. Northumberland
24. Royal Pembroke
75. Suffolk
26. Sussex
27. Ist Tipperary
28. Tyrone
29. Waterford

1. 3d West York
2. Huntingdon
3. Ist Durham
4. sth West York
5. Ist West York
6. Ist Royal Cheshire
7. Royal Berks
8. Royal North Lincoln
9. Royal Cumberland
10. West Suffolk
11. 2(1 Royal Surrey
12. East York
13. Essex Rifles
14. Rutland
15. South Mayo
16. Ist Somerset
17. Royal Westmoreland
18. Bedford
19. West Essex
20. Ist Royal Surrey
21. 24 West York
22. North York
23. Royal South Glocester
24. Royal Carmarthen
25. South Devon
26. Leicester
27. Northumberland
28. sth Middlesex
29. Royal South Lincoln
30. Hertford
31. Royal Monmouth
32. Royal Flint
33. Royal Wiltshire
34. 2cl Derby
15. Royal Berks
36. Ist Warwick
3T. West Bent
38. Cornwall Rangers
39. West Norfolk
40. East Norfolk
41. Ist Devon
42. Dorset
43. 24 Durham
44. Royal Glamorgan
45. Ist Royal Lancashire
46. R yal Denbigh
47. 2,1 Somerset
43. Northampton
49. East Kent
50. Royal Radnor
51. Oxford
52. Royal Sussex
53. 24 Warwick
54. Shropshire
55. 3(11...R0yal Westminster,

[NFANTRY.
69. Royal North Glocester
70. Carlow
71. Fermanagh
72. Galloway
73. 3d Stafford
74. Ist Royal Lanark
75. Armagh
76. Inverness
77. Royal North Down
78. 2d Lanark
79. Antrim
80. Royal Tyrone
81. Dumfries, &c:
82. 6th Lancashire
83. Queen's Own Light In-
fantry
84. 4th Lancashire
85. Longford
86. Royal Perth
87. South Cork
83. Kildare
89. Royal Aberdeen
90. Stirling, &c.
91. Galway
92. Wicklow
93. Roscommon
94. Clare
95. Londonderry
96. Ross, &c.
97. king's Own 'Light In-
fantry
98. King's County
99. Wexford
IFO. Royal Dublin City
101. Cavan
102. Donegal
103. 2d Cheshire
104. Queen's County
105. 2d Tipperary
106. Royal'London
107. Kerry
108. Louth
109. Dublin County
110. Hereford
111. Leitrim
111. Royal South Down
113 2,1 Royal Lancashire
114. Westmeath
11',. Royal Ayrshire
116. North Colic
117. Argyll and Bute
'lB. 3d Surrey
119. Royal Meath
120. North Mayo
121. Monaghan
122. Hampshire
123. Limerick County
124. Sligo
125. 3,1 Royal Lancashire
126. Edinburgh
127. Kilkenny
128. 4th Middlesex
129. Renfrew
130. 7th Lancashire
131. 2d Cornwall
132. Royal Brecon
133. 4th West York
134. 6th West York
135. sth Lancashire

Middlesex
56. Royal Carnarvon
57. Royal Montgomery
53. 2d Stafford
59. Nottinghamshire
60. Royal :►terioneth
61. Royal Atglesea
62. Ist Derby
63. 2,1 Royal Middlesex
(14. Royal Cardigan
65. 13t or Royal East Mid-

ill ,ex
63. 10. Stafford
67. W.,reester
-£:3. Cambridge

HEALTH OP LONDON DURING THE WEEi?.

(Prom. the Report of the Registrar-General.)
The returns of the Metropolitan Registrars are still of
a satisfactory character, and show that if the public
health is not so good in London as in districts that are
subject to more favourable conditions, it is in a better
state than is usual at this season of the year. In the
week that ended last Saturday the total number of deaths
registered was 993, of which 482 were those of males,
and 511 of females. In the carresponding weeks of 1849
and 1854, when so many lives were attacked by cholera,
the deaths rose to nearly double that number, to 1,909
in the former year, and to 1832 in the latter ; and in the
other corresponding weeks of the aeries of years 1845-54
the number in four instances considerably exceeded
1,000. The deaths of last week occurred in an increased
population, and the present rate of mortality is therefore
comparatively low.
The returns announce only five cases of cholera for
last week, three of which were "choleraic diarrhcea," or
cholera infantum. Two of the crises, apparently of a
worse type, occurred, one in Streatham, the other in
Spitalfields. The diarrhcea so prevalent in August and
September, and fatal principally to infants, was shown
in last report to be increasing. According to the, pre-
sent returns, 146 persons died of diarrhcea, of wirtn no
less than 125 were under two years of age ; 1 was two
years old, 1 three, 1 four ; 12 were sixty year; of age
and upwards ; and only 6 of ages within the long inter-
vening period of life suffered fatally from the disease.
The deaths from diarrhcea last week are not, however,
more than the average in corresponding weeks of the
last 10 years. Of the five divisions of London, the
greatest number of deaths from diarrhoea occurred in the
north and east districts, and it deserves to be remarked
that of 37 registered in the north division 14 occurred
in the district of Islington. Only two occurred .in
Wandsworth, and none in Camberwell, though their
united population is greater than that of Islington.
Last week the births of 833 boys and 750 girls, in all
1,583 children, were registered in London. In the ten
corresponding weeks of the. years 1845-54 the average
number was 1,387.

At the Royal Observatory; Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29.825 in. The
mean temperature of the week was 61 deg , which is 0.7
deg. below the average of the same week in 38 years.
The highest temperature occurred on Tues,l,-iv, and was
75 deg.; the lowest, which ~cciirred on Fliday, was
47.6 deg. The highest reading of a thermometfT in the
sun was 97 deg. on Tuesday. The mean dem p,,int tem-
perature of the week waQ 53.8 deg., and OP difference
between this and the mean temperature of the air was
7.2 deg. The mean teroneratore of the water of the
Thames was 66.1 deg. The wind blew generally from
the soutif-west. Rhin fell to the amount or 079 in.,

nearly all of which fall on Tuesday and Wednesday.
There were thunder and heavy showers on both those
days.

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MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS
NUMBER OF .DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGTSTEP.ED
IX THE WEEK ENDING SATIIRD,IY, AUG. 11.
Zrnotic Diseases
Diseases of Uncertain Seat • 5O
Tubercular Diseases
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves and Senses
Diseases of the Reait and Blood-vessels - ' - 34
Diseases of the' tongs and other Organs of
Respiration!.: ~..„ • •
Diseases of. the Stonuel,3l
of Digestion .„:
...
t.,.....
Liver, and other Orgau 4
Diseases of the Kidne
ys, Ste;
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uteus, &
DiseaseS of the Join t% BoneS, and Muss. I - 6
Diseases of the Skin,- ace.
.... '. c GS
................... ' .. 1
Mal farmati on 5.:..: .. . : ................ - .
Premature Birth and Debility
Atr0phy..................... .... . ......
Old
Age
Sudden .. ......................... - :
Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance .. :.,... 31
Causes not specified ....................................... . 3
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DEATHS FEOU ALI