The Sun.
London, England, 1855-02-07 00:00:00

POLICE iNTELLIGENGE.—Feb. 6.

BOW-STREET.—Frede,:ick Dress, a solicitor's clerk,
Wha brought before Mr. Henry under a warrant issued
for his apprehension on a charge of having feloniously
fixed and used certain stamps upon a document, such
stamps having been previously used on, and afterwards
removed from, another document.
Mr, Earwaker, of the solicitor's department of the
Stamp-office, who appeared for the prosecution (which
was at the instance of the Commissioners of Inland
Revenue), stated the case, by which it appeared that, by
an act passed in 182, the tees payable on certain pre-
ceedinge in the Court of Chancery are directed to be col-
lected by means of adhesive stamps to be affixed to the
various documents issued from that court, in lieu of the
former practice of receiving such fees by payments in
money—the adhesive stamps so affixed being cancelled
by the officer of the court on the document being passed
by him. On the Ist instant the prisoner presented at
the office of the Record and Writ Clerks, in Chancery-
lane, a copy of an affidavit made by himself in a suit
" Drew v. Drew," for the purpose of having such copy
marked as an office copy ; the document so presented
had affixed them eon the usual stamps intended to denote
the amount of the fees payable in respect of it, but the.
attention of the officer being directed to the appearance
of some of the stamps he detained the document, and
the result of a further examination of the stamps led to
the apprehension of the prisoner.
Evidence having -been adduced in support of the
charge, the prisoner was remanded for a week to com-
plete the further evidence against irk:.

HEALTH OF LONDON DURTNG THE

WEEK.

(Pr•orrm the RegiBtrur-Ge.nerars Return.)

The mortality of London is still excessive, and the
number of deaths, as now returned, exhibits but a small
decrease on that of the previous week. In the last five
weeks the deaths were-1,404, 1,466, 1,54.9, 1,630, and
1,604. The mean t:miperattire in each of the same weeks
was 45.5 deg., 39'3 deg., 28.9 deg., 29.3 deg., and 29.3
deg. Throughout December the temperature was about
41 deg. ; and the deaths in a week were about 1,300.
The weather became colder by 12 deg., and produced an
increase of 300 in the deaths. _

In the 10 corresponding weeks of the years 1845-54
the average number of deaths was 1,103, which may
be compared with the last week's return, after raising
the former by a tenth part for increase of population.
Last week the birth of 845 boys and 803 girls, i■ all,
1,643 children were registered in London. In the 10
corresponding weeks of the years 1845.54 the average
number was 1,489.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer i❑ the week was 29.619 in. The
highest reading was 29.92 in. on the morning of Friday.
The mean temperature of the week was 29'3 deg., which
'is the same as in the previous week, and less by 8.3 deg.
than the average of the same week in 38 years. The
mean daily temperature was below the average by about
7 deg. on the first three days, about 10 deg. below it on
Wednesiay and Thursday, 111 deg. below it on Fri-
day, and 5 deg. below it on Saturday, and was 39.6 deg. ;
the lowest was 22.2 deg., and occurred on Friday. The
mean dew-point temperature was 26.6 deg., an the dif-
ference between this and the moan air temperature was
21 der. The temperature of the water of the Thames
was 36.4 deg. The wind blew generally from the north-
east till Saturday, when it changed to east and south-
east.

MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.
NUMBER ON DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED
IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, FEB. 3.
Zymotic Diseases
Diseases of Ur...!ertain Seat
Tubercular DiS'eases
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves and Senses
Diseases of tho Heart and Blood-vessels 49
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 Muscles
Diseases of the Skin, &c.
Malformations
Premature Birth and Debility 4;
Atrophy 4C
Old Age
Sudden ll
Violence, Privation, Cold, and In:,empera,nce 72
Causes not specified

317
78
95

419

DEATHS PROM ALL CAUSES
Population Deaths in corre- Deaths
Enumerated. sponding week in the
1851. of 1853. Week.
West Districts • 376,527
North Districts 400,396
Central Districts 393,256
East Districts 485,522
South Districts

Totals
Males
Females

1,204

1,604
803
801