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and: conscientiousness, they could only become
general by the equal generality of conspicuous
heroism. We feel sure that to hold out to brave.
men of both services some reward. of a higher kind
than pay and prize-money is a proposal that the
nation would not fail to sanction, nor our soldiers
and sailors to aPpreciate. But, before such an ex-
tension of honours can be graceful or advantageous,
they must he cleared from all that recalls the clays
when, if not actually purchased, they were seldom
beStowed but on those who could afford to pm-
-chase them. With the three. Orders to which com-
moners may not aspire the•publie will concern it-
self but little ; but, if the only one which is open
to genius and courage is to preserve its influence
in the present day, the abuses to which we have
called attention must cease to exist.—Times.

HEALTH Ok' LONDON DURING THE WERE.

( From the Report of the Registar-General. )

The mortality of London, as shown by the returns for
last Week, differs little from the average for the second
week of September, or from the mortality that has pre-
railed
,in the previous three weeks. The number of
persons who died in the week that ended on Saturday
is 1,033, of whom 523 are males, and 510 females.
About it half of the entire number died under. 20 years
of age; 40 had lived 80 years; or had attained a greater
ago ; and one person, a female, is reported to have
reached the age of 101.
Diarrhoea or summer cholera continues to show a sle-
creaee, a circumstance which is probably due to the
coldness of the season. The fatal cases of diarrhoea have
been in the last five weeks 154, 127, 134, 107, and 96.
Only 4 deaths are returned as caused by cholera, two of
which- are those of infants ; of the other cases one oc-
curred to a sailor on board ship in the New Crane Dock,
and one described as " A.siatie cholera " to a plumber in
Marketeitreet, London-road, who died after 24 hours'
illness. The season which is most favourable to an
outbreak of cholera has nearly passed, and it seems not
premature to hope that London will for this year escape
a scourge with .which other parts of Europe are afflicted.
Besides 38 deaths from scarlatina, 60 occurred last
week from typhus and other fever ; and in Bailey's-
court, Liberty of the Rolls, a house is reported where
three cases of typhus occurred lately, one of whiCh
proved fatal. The house is defective in drainage, and
in other respects is said to be in bad sanitary condition.
Last week the births of 816 boys and 734 girls, in all
1,550 children, were registered in London. In the ten
corresponding weeks of the years 1845-54 the average
number was 1,379.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29.943 in. The
mean temperature of the week was 56 deg., nearly the
same as in the preceding week, and 1 deg. below the
average of the same week in 38 years, The mean tem-
perature of Saturday was only 52'5 deg., which is 4 deg.
below the average of the same day. The highest tem-
perature occurred on Wednesday, and was 72 deg. ; the
lowest on Monday, and was 42.5 deg. The mean new-
point temperature was 51.6 deg., and the difference be-
tween this and the mean temperature of the air was 4'4
deg. The temperature of the water of the Thames was
60.1 deg. The wind was generally in the north-east.
Rain to the amount of 0.46 in. fell on Thursday and
Friday.

MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS,
NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED
IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, SEPT. 15.
Zymotic Diseases
Diseases of Uncertain Seat
Tubercular Diseases
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves and Senses
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 43
Diseases of the Lungs and other Organs of
Respiration
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, Bones, and Mutates
Diseases of the Skin, &c. • 3
Malformations 1
Premature Birth and Debility 27
Atrophy 4O
Old Age .
Sudden 7
Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 52
Causes not specified

DEAD 711011 ALL CAUSES
Population Deaths in cone- Deaths
Enumerated. sponding week in the

1851. - of 1854, A iVeek,
West Districts
North Districts 490,396
Central Districts 393,256
East Districts 485,522
South Districts

Totals
Males 623
Females MO