The Sun.
London, England, 1852-04-01 00:00:00

THE UNITED STATES.

The accounts from New York by the America show
increasing activity and confidence. The fresh arrivals
of gold from California, together with moderate impor-
tations of European goods and the temporary suspension
of specie remittances, were producing a powerful in-
fluence on the market, unchecked by counteracting circum-
stances of any kind. Under these circumstances, if, in addi-
tion to the largo amount of United States' stocks lately
purchased on this side, there had also been an incautious
disposition to take all the railway and other bonds that
have been offered, there would have been considerable
danger of inflation. At present, however, there is no reason
to apprehend any such result. In addition to the accounts
from California, the papers contain renewed particulars of
gold to be obtained elsewhere. In New Mexico a person,
who has had two years' experience in California, is said
to have formed a party of 38 to proceed to some deposits
which he alleges he has discovered on a branch of the
river Gila, about 350 miles from Santa Fe. Accounts
from Oregon also revive the rumours as to the existence
of rich quartz on Queen Charlotte's Island. The speci-
mens
shown were brought by one of the crew of the Una,
a vessel lately wrecked there. Another statement has ap-
peared that a mine ot auriferous quartz has been found
in Virginia, about 80 miles west ot Richmond. " The
vein," it is said, " is exceedingly rich in threads, thickly
sprinkled with the metal, while the rock itself, in which
none is visible, contains eleven dollars to the ton."
The tract comprises about 1,300 acrss, but it is a sus-
picious circumstance that the parties proposing to work
it were endeavouring to raise capital in New York
instead of in their own State. It appears that the
engineers sent out by the Nouveau Monde Company
had arrived at San Francisco on the 11th of February.
They were twenty-four in number, but one of them
died of fever shortly after leaving Panama. Three
others had also been attacked, but were now re-
covering. The superintendent reports that he wee
about to proceed at once to the mines. The de-
mand at New York for passage to San Francisco
was unabated. The vessels by both routes were full
up to tho end of May, and through tickets, via
Nicaragua, were sought at 100 dolls. premium. It was
announced that a portion of the Panama Railway would
open on the 15th March. There had been one or two
small failures at New York, and another of larger amount
at Savannah. The merchants' Exchange in Wall-street
was to be sold on the 16th March. It was built after
the great fire, but the rctitrns have not been sufficient
to pay the interest on its bonds, and the mort-
gagees had at length resolved to foreclose. An applica-
tion for postponement, with the hope that the requisite
sum of 850,000 dollars, or the greater part of it, might be
raised by loan in London, had been made and refused.
At Philadelphia an adjourned meeting of the stockholders
of the United States' Bank had been appointed for the
17th March. A report from a committee on the best mode
for speedily closing all its affairs would then be sub-
mitted. The struggle in Congress on the question of an
increased subsidy to the ins line of Liverpool
steamers was still unfinished. Among the public grants
awarded by the
,House of Representatives was one of
100,000 dollars to Dr. Morton for his discovery of the
armsthetic properties of ether. A Bill authorising an
organization for the construction of a crystal palace
had been passed by the Legislature of New York.—
Times.

HEALTHOF LONDON DURING THE WEEK.

(From the Registrar-General's Report.)
The mortality has been great is the London districts
during the whole of March. In the first week of the
month the deaths registered were 1,128, in the two fol-
lowing they rose to 1,232 and 1,208, and in the last
week, as shown by the present return, they were 1,219.
It must be observed, however, that the small increase
which now appears over the preceding week arises from
more than an average number of coroners' cases. Ex-
chiding from the returns deaths from poison, injury, and
other external causes, of which inquest cases principally
consist, the numbers in the last three weeks stand thus:
—1,160, 1,183, and 1,161.

In the ten corresponding weeks of 1842-51 the aver-
age number of deaths was 1,126, which, if raised in a
certain proportion according to increase of population,
is 1,239. The deaths registered last week differ, there-
fore, little from the calculated amount; but this as a
comparative test of the actual mortality is disturbed at
the end of the quarter, when cases on which inquests
have been held, and many of which occurred at previous
dates, are entered in more than a fair proportion in the
register books.
The effect of the coldness of the season is still very
apparent in the mortality produced by diseases of the
respiratory organs. This class, which comprises bronchi-
tis, pneumonia, asthma, and a few less fatal maladies, num-
bers this week 243, while the average is only 193, or with
a correction for increase of population, 212. Li the re-
turn for the week preceding the number was 269; there
has, therefore, been a reduction in the interval,
but it will be noticed that while pneumonia and asthma
have decreased from 83 and 29 to 72 and 22, bronchitis
continues quite as fatal, the numbers being 126 and 128.
Consumption (in the tubercular class) is also fatal at
present, 151 lives having been destroyed by this disease
in the previous week, and 160 in the last, which is more
than in any corresponding week, with ono exception.
There were 3 from laryngitis, 5 from laryugismus
stridalus.

Seventeen children and six persons of 15 years and
upwards died of email-pox; in three cases, at the ages of
14, 19, and 29 years, vaccination is reported to have
been previously pertormed. Thirty-eight children died
of hooping•cough, which is less than the average, and
eight of croup. From scarlatina thirty-one deaths oc-
curred, and from typhus, remittent fever, &c., forty-seven.
The unusual number of nine persons, eight of whom
were children under 1 year, are recorded as the victims
of syphilis.

STATE OF TIIE WEATHER DURING THE PAST WEEK.

SUNDAY.—One-fourth ;rt of the sky was generally
covered with cloud during the morning and afternoon, at
night the sky was clear; cirri and fleecy clouds. Electricity
—Positive, and tension moderate generally throughout the
day.
MONDAY.—The sky was clear till lh. r.m., three-fourths
were generally covered with thin stratus till sh. rm., and the
whole was clear afterwards. Electricity—Positive, and ten-
sion strong throughout the day.
TUESDAY.—The sky was for the most part one-half covered
with stratus. Thick haze prevailed during the morning.
Electricity—Positive, and tension moderate throughout the
day.
WEDNESDAY.—The sky was free from cloud until noon,
and overcast during the remainder of the day ; cirrostratus.
Thick haze prevailed during the earlier portion of the
morning. Electricity—Positive, and tension moderate at
noon.
THURSDAY.—The sky, with slight exceptions, was free
from cloud till llh. A.M., and generally covered during the
remainder of the day; cumuli, cirrocumuli, and cirrostrati.
Electricity—Positive, and tension moderate during the
morning and afternoon.
PP,IDAY.—The sky for the most part was covered with
cloud throughout the day; cumuli, cumulostrati, and cirro-
strati. Electricity—Positive, and tension weak during the
afternoon.
SATURDAY.—The sky was covered with cloud throughout
the day ; Gumulostratus and cirrostratus. Electricity—
Nothing was shown throughout the day.
The mean reading of a thermometer placed on the main-
mast, and read each day at Oh. A.M. was 45.3 Q ; and the mean
reading at 9h. r.m. was 41.7° ; the mean readings at the
Royal Observatory for the same times were 46.0 q and 40.8 Q
respectively.
The reading of the barometer increased from 29.99 in.
at the beginning of the week to 3003 in. by 9h. AM. on
the 22d; decreased to 29.74 in. by noon on the 24th; in-
creased to 29.90 in. by 9h A.M. on the 25th; and decreased
to 29.49 in. by the end of the week.

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS.
NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED 1N
THE WEEK ENDLNG SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 1852.
Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases ...*204
Diseases of Uncertain Seat ... . 47
Tubercular Diseases ... •.. ... ... 224
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... ... 118
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels ... 53
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration ... ...
.•„ ... 243
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, &o.
Malformations... ...
Premature Birth ...
Atrophy ... ••• ... ...
Old Ago ... ... ... ...
Sudden ... .• • • • • •• • ...
Violence. Privation, Cold, and Intemperance
Causes not specified

••• 80
••• 19
••• 15
••• 8
••• 6
•.• 28
••• 30
••• 55
••• 15
••• 62

DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES
Population Deaths in corre-
Entuneraled, spondlng week
1851. of 1851.
West Districts... 376,427 . . 202
North Districts.. 490,396 .. 289
Central Districts 393,256 ... 231
East Districts ... 485,522 ... 299
South Districts.. 616,635 ... 397 .

1,219
Deaths
in the
Week.
191
221
204
273
330

Totals... 9,362,236
... 1,418 ... 1,219
Males
Females 6 46015

BIRTHS IN THE WEEK.
Males ••• ••• ••• ••• 814
Females ... ••• ••• ••• ... 793

Total... ...1,607
*ln this number are included 31 by Scarlatina, 42
by Typhus Fever, and 13 by Diarrhoea.

GIILLIBILITY.—We were shown a circular, which
has been very extensively disseminated in the provinces.
It explains (with patterns of the article produced) a pre-
tended patent for the manufacture of a fabric in universal
demand. It promises to each subscriber for one share,
price ss. (to be sent, of course, per money-order), not a
paltry return of 300 or 400 per cent., but a good round
income. "Subscribers," we quote the precise words of the
printed bait, "will, for every ss. they invest, realize from
75/. to 3001. sterling per annum !"—to be paid, it is politely
stated in another part of the prospectus, quarterly, Now,3
derationalfeat peopleT he
said willrational s ay that
people,the
however,
ex t v
r a ofs suche
a promise, exceeding all possible gullibility, would be its own
ill bo
sometimes are) in error. Credulity has no bounds.( It is a
fact that since the issue of that golden circular, the Post (Alice
a th
authorities have paid to its concoctor—not hundreds, but
thousands of pounds. Post office orders have poured in from
believers in impossible profit at such a rate that 3001. were
handed over to the successful sch
eater in the course of one
single week.—Dickens's Household Words.
Two fires oermrrtd in London vEstprrlay, one at a
lucifer-match inanurutory in .13tlint.1-g,' c•-• wu.chN,,• te-
stroyed ; and the other at a floor-cloth factory in Lambeth,
which was considerably damaged, The origin of both fires
wag accidental,