The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-28 00:00:00

POST-OFFICE NOTICE.

'ESTABLISHMENT OF CONTRACT MAIL PACKETS TO CEY-
LON, MAURITIUS AND INDIA, VIA THE CAPE OF GOOD

HOPE.
On and after the 15th Jane next, the mail packets of
the general Screw•steam Shipping Company, conveying
mails to the Cape of Good Hope, will call at Ascension,
and will proceed from the Cape to Mauritius, Point de
Galle (Ceylon) and Calcutta.
All letters and newspapers for Ascension or for
Mauritius will hereafter be forwarded by these packets,
unless specially addressed to be otherwise sent, but
letters for Ceylon or India intended to be sent by this
route must be specially addressed " /id the Cape of
Good Hope."
Letters for all these British possessions will bo liable
to the uniform rate of one shilling, when not ex-
ceeding half an ounce in weight, two shillings when not
excecdine. an ounce, and so on in proportion, but news-
papers will be convoyed free from charge.
The postage chargeable upon letters for Ascension and
Mauritius must be paid in advance, but letters for
Ceylon and India forwarded by these packets may be
posted unpaid.

COURT OF CHAIsiCERY.
NEW ORDERS OF COURT.

INVESTMENT OF DIVIDENDS AND ACCUMULATIONS.
Tuesday, May 4.
Whereas under and by virtue of an Act passed in the
36,h year of the reign of his Majesty King George the
Third, chap. 52, intituled " An Act for repealing cer-
tain duties on legacies and shares of personal estates,
and for granting other duties thereon in certain
cases;" and of an Act passed in the 37th year of
the reign of his said Majesty, chap. 135, to explain
and amend the said Acts, it is enacted that monies
paid in under the first-recited Act into the Bank of
E.,gland, with the privity of the Accountant •General of
the High Court of Chancery when paid in, be laid out
by the said Accauntane Gen,ral without any formal
request for that purpose in the purchase of Bank 31.
per Cent. Annuities. By virtue or the powers contained
in the last-mentioned of the said Acts, and of all other
powers enabling him in that behalf, the Right lion. Ed-
ward Burtensinaw, Lord St. Leonard's, Lord High Chan-
cater of Great Britain, doll hereby order and direct
that the Accountant-General be at liberty, unless he
shaq have received, on behalf of some party claiming to
be entitled, notice in writing of an intended application
to the Court for otherwise disposing of the fund,
from time to time to lay out and invest the dividends
on such stock when so purchased, and all accurnula•
tions thereon as the same shall accrue due, in the
puTebase of like Bank 31. per Cent. Annuities,
without any formal request for that purpose, and
place the stock purchased with such dividends to
the said several matters and accounts to which the
original sums of stock respectively stand, and the
Accountant-General is to declare the trust thereof when
purchased, subject to the further order of this Court,
and for the purposes aforesaid the Accountant-General
is to draw on the Bank according to the forms prescribed
by the Act of Parliament and the general rules and orders
of the Court in that case made and provided.
ST. LEONARD'S, C.
Friday, May 7.
The Right Hon. Edward Burtensbaw, Lord St.
Leonard's, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, with
the assistance of the Right Honourable Sir John
Romilly, Knight, Master of the Rolls, doth hereby, in
pursuance of an Act of Parliament passed in the 10th
and 11th year of the reign of her present Majesty, in-
tituled " An Act for better securing trust funds, and for
the relief of trustees," and in pursuance and execution
of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, order
941,1 direct in manner following, that is to say:—
Where any trustee desiring to pay money or transfer
meek or securities into the name of the Accountant-Ge-
neral of the Court of Chancery, under the said Act, is
underi a general order of the said Court, dated the 10th
1,%y of Jane, 1845, directed to file an affidavit entitled
llonruki certain
matter of the Act and of the trust, setting
matters and things in the said order
of Court specified and declared, in future, such affi-
davit in every case, where the parties deem it unne-
cesssary to have the money, or the dividends, or interest
of aleck or securities invested in the meantime, shall
further contain a statement to that effect; and if the
affidavit shall contain no such statement, the Accountant-
General shall be at liberty to invest as soon as conve-
niently may
be the said eash in Bank 31. per Cent. An-
nuities in the matter of the particular trust; or in case of
dividends or interest on stock
or securities transferred,
such dividends or interest is the like-stock, and all ac-
cumulations of the dividends of the stuck in which
such cash shall be invested, and of the dividends or in-
the like matter, without any special
teyest on such stock or securities aforesaid, from
Vale to time in
fotrhatthabtehappaosned.
i
Court
request i n
'order made by the
without any formal
And the Accountant-General s to declare the
trust thereof when purchased, subject to the order of
this Court. And for the purposes aforesaid, the Ac-
countant-General is to draw on the Bank, according to
the form prescribed by the Act of Parliament and the
general rules and orders of the Court in that case made
and provided.
Provided always, that if at any time a request in
writing, by or on behalf of any party claiming to be en.
titled, that such investment be discontinuedshall be left
with the Accountant-General, ho shall be at liberty to
cease making any further investment in the matter of
the particular trust until the Court shall have made some
order in that behalf.

ST. LEONARD'S, C
OHN ROYILLT, M.B..uuAv

RAILWAY LOANS.

The following railway companies are in the money
market for loans upon mortgage and debenture
bonds:—

SOUTH WALES.—On mortgage, bearing interest at
4 per cent. per annnum, for periods of not less than
three and not exceeding seven years.
LEEDS NORTHERN.—At 34 per cent. per annum, for
three or five years, in sums of 100/. or upwards.
GLASGOW AND SOUTEI-WESTERN.—LI sums of 5001.
and upwards, for terms not less than three years.
MANCHESTER, BUXTON, AND MATLOCL—Not exceed-
i-og on the whole 100,0001. The money is respired
'for the purchase of the Cromford Canal and works,
and the mortgages constitute a first charge on both un-
dertakings.
SHREWSBURY AND CHESTER —Fur a limited amount,
to replace mortgages as they fall in.
BRISTOL AND EXETER—Are ready to either pay off
immediately, in cash, any debentures of this company
which bear interest at 5 or 4-1 per cent., or to grant per-
petual preference 4 per cent, stock in exchange for them,
allowitig forthwith, in either case, to the holders, the
difference of interest.

CORE AND BANDO N.—On debentures, in sums of not
1/.as than 1001., for five or seven years, bearing interest
'at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum, payable half-
yearly.
CALEDONLAN.—On debentures, in sums of 2001. and
upwards, at 4 per cent. per annum, for terms of years.
VALE OF NEATH,—On debentures, in sums of not
less than 1001. and upwards, at 3i per cent, per annul:Pl
kr terms of three, five, or seven years.

ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY.
The anniversary meeting of the Royal Geographical
Society and presentation of the royal medals, took place
on Tuesday, in the rooms of the society, Waterloo-place,
Pall-mall; Sir Roderick Murchison, president, in the
chair. The President announced that the council had
this year awarded the founder's gold medal to Dr. John
Rae, of the Hudson's Bay Company, for his survey of
Boothia, under most severe privations, in 1848, and for
his recent explorations on foot and in boats of the coasts
of Wollaston and Victoria Lands, by which very im-
portant additions have been made to the geography of
the Arctic Regions. The patron's gold medal was con-
ferred upon Captain Henry Strachey, of the Hon. East
India Company's service, for his extensive explorations
and surveys in Western Thibet. The President then
proceeded to deliver his usual annual address, which was
of extreme length, and was a complete retrospect of all
the subjects of interest that had been brought under the
attention of the society during the past year. The most
prominent was a notice of the different expeditions that
had been dispatched from this country to the Arctic
Regions in search of Sir John Franklin. With such
men as Sir Edward Belcher, Captain Kellet, Lieutenant
Osborne, Captain Pim, and a host of others engaged in
this work, there was no doubt whatever on his mind
that all that was possible would be done to throw light
on the fate of their long-lost countrymen. Ho alluded
to the two abandoned ships seen by the Renovation, and
expressed his opinion that they were the ships of the
Franklin expedil ion, and that being seen in that latitude
might be accounted for in the strong currents that ran
in that direction. Tlie President also referred to the
discoveries of gold in Australia, the existence of which
he had indieated in a letter to Earl Grey in 1846, a pe-
riod long antecedent to the finding of the ore in Cali-
fornia. After touching upon other topics, he concluded
an address of upwards of two hours' duration by con-
gratulating the members en the great accession to the
stores of knowledge that had taken place through the
means and energy of the members of the Royal Geo-
graphical Society. The Earl of Rosse moved the thanks
of the society to the president for his able address, with
a request that he would allow it to be printed for the
benefit of the members. Lord De Manley seconded the
resolution, which was put and agreed to unanimously.
The President acknowledged the compliment in a brief
speech. Sir B. Oatram moved a vote of thanks to the
retiring members of the council, which was agreed to,
and the meeting dissolved.

NAV Y PAY.

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The following is a Bill prepared and brought in by
Mr. Secretary Stafford and the Hon. Captain Dun-
combe, to amend an Act of the eleventh year of King
George IV., for amending and consolidating the laws
relating to the pay of the Royal Navy :
" Whereas by the 18th section of the Act 11th George
IV., chap. 20, provisions are made for the payment of
wages and pay of the officers and seamen of the Roy al navy,
and by such section it is, among other things, enacted that
there shall always be left six months' wages in arrear and
unpaid over and above the wages accruing to the time
during which the ship's books shall have ueen prepar-
ing and examining, but that whenever any ship shall
return home in order to be laid up, all the wages due
for such ship shall be entirely paid off as soon after-
wards as may be: and whereas it is expedient to
repeal the said 18th section of the said Act, and
to make other provisions in lien of those thereby
enacted, and also other provisions in regard to naval
remittances. Be it, therefore, enacted by the Queen's
Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and
consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Com-
mons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the
authority of the same, as follows:
" 1. That from and after the Ist day of October, 1852,
the 18th section of the Act of 11th George IV., chap.
20, shall be and the same is hereby repealed.
"2. That out of all supplies to be granted by Par-
liament for naval services, the necessary sums of
money shall be first appropriated, issued, and applied
for the regular and punctual payment of the pay and
wages of the officers and men of the Royal
Marines; and when any of her Majesty's ships
in commission shall be or arrive at any
port of the United Kingdom, or on the coast thereof, on
or after th© Ist day of October, 1852, such officers and
men shall be paid their pay and wages according to such
regulations and subject to such restrictions as the Lord
High Admiral of the United Kingdom, or the Commis-
sioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral
of the United Kingdom, shall at any time or times,
or from time to time, order, direct, or appoint,
with power for such Lord High Admiral or
Commissioners to alter or revoke at any time or times
such regulations and restrictions, or any of them, or
to make the same or any of them applicable, if he or
they think fit, both to sea-going and stationary ships, or
to make some applicable to sea-going ships and others
to stationary ships; and to order, at any time
or times, which ship or ships shall be deemed sea-
going and which shall be deemed stationary: provided
always, that under such regulations and restrictions there
shall not at any time be due to any of such officers and
men, when borne on the books of any of her Majesty's
ships in commission which may be at any such port or on
such coast, more than the gross amount of three calendar
months' pay and wages, except when any such officers
or men shall cease to have full pay or be discharged from
the service, when all the pay and wages which may be
due to them or to which they may be entitled as having
belonged to any ship in commission shall be entirely
paid to them as soon as may be.
"3. That, notwithstanding anything in the said Act
of the 11th of George IV., chap. 20, or anything in any
other Act or Acts contained, all naval remittances what-
soever when made by any person belonging to one of
her Majesty's ships not oeing in any port of the United
Kingdom or on the coast thereot may extend to and
include all such wages and pay which may be due to thy,
persons respectively making any such remittances, as
the Lord High Admiral or the said Commissioners may
at any time or times, or from time to time, order or
direct, with power for him or them, at any time or times,
to order or revoke any such order or direction."

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK

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(From the Registrar-General's Report.)
The total deaths registered in the metropolitan dis-
tricts, which in the first week of May were 972, aad in
thu second rose to 1,070, declined in the week that
ended last Saturday to 943. The mean weekly tem-
perature rose in the three weeks from 48.1° to 55.6°.
In the ten weeks corresponding to the last, of the years
1842-51, the average number was 889, which if raised
in proportion to increase of population, becomes 978.
The mortality of last week is, therefore, less than the
estimated amount by 35.
Of the 943 persons whose deaths are enumerated in
the present return, 449 were males, 494 females.
It appears that the present reduction of mortality is
among the old and the middle aged, and with regard to
young persons that the number who died last week is
near the amount usually observable at this period.
In comparing the results of the last two weeks there
is a difference, greater or less, in favour of last week in
all the principal classes of fatal diseases. Although
smallpox is gaining ground, and there seems to be a
good deal of scarlatina, the mortality of epidemics in
the aggregate declined from 234 to 228; of tubercular
diseases, trom 200 to 189; of diseases of the heart, from
45 to 33; but the principal redaction occurs in diseases
of the organs of respiration, which in the previous week
were fatal in 169 eases, in the last in 131. Bronchitis,
belonging to the last class, has declined in the two weeks
from 79 to 50. Phthisis, of the tubercular order, has
fallen from 142 to 129.

Of epidemic disorders, smallpox carried off 38 children
and 6 adults. The corrected average is 18. It is only
reported in three cases—those of a boy, aged 1 year, and
a boy and girl severally 4 years—that vaccination had i
been previously performed. Next n fatality are scarla-
tina and hooping cough, each of which destroyed 42
lives. Typhus, synocha, &c., number 41 cases, and
rheumatic fever 3. Croup carried off ten children,
measles 12, thrush 2, noma 1. Diarrhosa was fatal in
14 cases, dysentery in 2, purpura in 2, erysipelas in. 7,
syphilis in 1. The diseases incidental to childbearing
were fatal to 10 women, 5 of whom sank under puerperal

fever.
Three deaths occurred in the Smallpox Hospital, of
which the following are the particulars:—
On the 16th May a glasspainter from Priory-street,
Camden-town, aged 22 years," smallpox, confluent, un-
protected (15 days)."
On the 16th May a labourer from Jennings'-build-
ings, Kensington, aged 24 years, " smallpox, confluent,
unprotected (15 days)."
On the 22d May a female servant from Little Camden-
street, St. Pancras, aged 31 years, " smallpox, confluent,
unprotected (7 days)."
At 17, George-yard, Islington, on the 21st May, the
son of a labourer, aged , 6 years, died of " variola con-
fluens ; exhaustion." Mr. Butterfield states that " within
a month there have been 20 cases of smallpox in this
court, which has no supply of water, is entirely without
aceommodation, and wretchedly drained."
At 70, Shoe-lane, St. Andrew's, on the 17th May, the
daughter of a tailor, 4 years, died of " variola con-
fluees." Mr. Nason, the registrar, adds that " the whole
gamily, consisting of four, have been attacked with
smallpox. Two have not been vaccinated. and of these
aenti„.‘ die_d; the others are going on favourably. On the
Zil.,a.
.I.Meay, at 3, Gas-court, in the sub district of
af-"selslaite.t, the daughter of a labourer, aged 9 years, died
mentioasll°x
de-
layed, and
and thereafterQueen's-
son of a smith,
fluent (1.0 days), not vaccinated." Mr. Austin
that in this case " vaccination had been
the child at the age of 2 years hact'smallpox,
pia, was considered to be quite sate." At 9,
.New-street, Lambeth, on 17th May, the
(Bda
saged 4 years, died of " smallpox, con-
m i
wholy ,
inumberings
about asays:—"
1)
), without previous vaccination."
Mr. Wheatley Y
-fONone of the children in
ur, have been vaccinated; the
complaint when I calk'. '
obfeAr:cetatir3tittina years old, was inoculated some
s ago. The two
sickening from the
younger were
yethlediasersfta, .
Th© mothercae
convinced did not w approvehe
when
the
,reßstiroltEninpgtofrno-calretsheeen?p,
of vaccination, but I think
operation were pointed out."
girl,mr aged 5 years, died
maligna ($ dayter
the . Stone
familyobserves:—
within eight
An open drain at the back
"diaTyah.is is the second death in
part of the crescent
and adjacent houses has been frequently complained f
fool ltohwe ende i
but hitherto without effect. There can be no doub of,
neighbourhood."
ocuormh oaotd.(7,t,
In Somers-town, on 19th May, a .-,
its being prejudicial to the health
, t 11, Grafton-place,
the son of a stonemason, aged one year, - = ,
died of " per-
tussia (6 weeks), convulsions,
hours)." " The drains," says Mr. Matthews, " are re-
ported to be very bad."
At the Royal Hospital, Greenwich, 8 pensioners died
between the 13th and 20th May inclusive, the
of whom was 64 years, and the oldest 81 years, ngewhileyoust
their average age at death was 74 years.
In the district of St. Mary, Marylobono, at 5, Sey-
mour-yard, on the 14th of May, a groom, aged 33 years
and his son, aged 5 months, died of phthisis. The'
father and his child died within a few hours of each
other, The son of a mariner, aged 10 weeks, was auffo.