The Sun.
London, England, 1852-01-16 00:00:00

EGYPT.

His Highness the Pasha returned to his Palace of
Abbassia, from his residence in the Desert, on the
25th ult., for the purpose, chiefly, it is said, of re-
ceiving publicly Mr. Anderson, M.P., and Mr.
Samuel Briggs, the deputation appointed by the
public meeting held in London on the 14th of October
last, to present the resolution thereat adopted, and
which was to the following effect:—
"That this meeting desire to convey to his High-
ness the Pasha of Egypt the assurance of their sympa-
thy and their support, by every legitimate means, in the
present position of affairs—a sympathy and support
which they consider he has fully earned by the liberal,
active, and judicious manner in which he has devoted,
and purposes to devote, his resources to the security of
the transit of the British mails, travellers, and property
to and from the East. That a copy of this resolution
be transmitted or presented to his Highness in such
manner as the committee before-named may think
proper."
On the 27th the deputation waited on him by ap-
pointment, and were received with much honour and
cordiality. The resolution having been formally read
and delivered,
Mr. Anderson, on behalf of the deputation, ad-
dressed the Pasha to the following effect :
" In presenting to you this resolution, we feel it to be
our duty to explain tolyou that the sentiments therein
expressed are not limited to the great and influential
assembly of British merchants and others in London
from whom it emanates; but that the feeling and
opinion demonstrated at that meeting now pervade the
whole British nation. The questions which have re-
cently been raised by the Sublime Porte in reference to
the internal administration of Egypt have been publicly
discussed, and are now well understood in England.
"It is the general feeling there that to deprive
your Highness of any part of that authority which
was guaranteed, to the Viceroys of Egypt by the
treaty of 1841, and which your Highness's pre-
decessors have exercised without question since that
time, would be tantamount to a great public calamity;
inasmuch as such interference would be incom-
patible with the efficient government of this country.
" That the consequences would be to endanger that
order and tranquillity which have hitherto been so hap-
Hpirgohntecetsisons
tuasb Ipi
predecessor
ehde eas
snodr maintainedand
yourself;
lillui t rei
and security to person and property in Egypt could no
longer be depended upon; that the social and industrial
improvement of Egypt, so energetically and judi-
ciously promoted by your Highness, would be
greatly impaired, if not altogether destroyed;
that Egypt would soon fall into that state of
political and social disorganization now so unhappily ex-
hibited in other provinces of the Ottoman Empire, where
neither person nor property is secure; and that the great
highway to India, China, &c., so vitally essential to the
political, commercial, and social interests of our country,
and of Europe in general, would be jeopardised by any re-
laxation of the powers possessed by your Highness for en-
forcing due subordination among the Arab population in
Egypt, more especially for controlling the Bedouin tribes
who inhabit the desert between Cairo and Suez. The
former predatory habits of these tribes are well known,
and still remembered; and their present obedience, and
the security of travel now enjoyed, are attributable to the
vigorous measures of your illustrious grandsire, Mehemet
Ali, and yourself.
" Such being the feeling of the British people upon
the questions now understood to be pending (since the
settlement of the railway question) between the Sublime
Porte and your Highness, we respectfully venture to
suggest to you that the maintenance intact of the powers
of administration hitherto exercised by your Highness
would be a course of policy highly satisfactory to the
British nation, arid best calculated to insure to your
Highness that moral support which so powerful a com-
munity can so efficaciously AT."
His Highness received the deputation standing,
and continued so during the delivery of Mr. Ander-
son's observations, which he listened to with marked
attention. To the address he returned a reply, of
which the following is a translation :
" Gentlemen,—•l have read with great satisfaction
the resolution passed at a public meeting in the city of
London, which you have this day presented to me. I
feel highly flattered by the sympathy expressed on that
occasion in favour of the measures I have adopted fur
improving the social condition of the people intrusted
to my governmee t.
" It is also gratifying to me to find that the steps I have
taken for facilitating the transit of the mails and pas-
sengers through Egypt have met with the approbation of
so distinguished and influential a body as the merchants
of the city of London. Those facilities will, I trust, in
a short time be greatly improved by the construction of
a railroad betweec. Alexandria and Cairo.

" Some delay has taken place in the commencement of
this great work, consequent on the unfortunate and
much to be /amen ted differences which have arisen be-
tween the Sablittv3 Porte and myself as to the inter-
pretation of certain articles of the firman of inves-
titure. These, however, I trust in God, will soon bo
removed.

First, because I have every confidence in the justice
of the Sultan; secondly, because I claim nothing be-
yond those powers; which it must have been the inten-
tion of the frame rs of the firnian to grant when the
heriditary govern went of Egypt was ceded to my
grandfather, MelLemet Ali, and his successors, and
deprived of which good government becomes impossible.
"Tell the gentkimen who have so kindly and so ener-
getically express,ad the interest they take in the welfare
of Egypt that, LI t resisting all encroachments on the.
rights of myself and family, I have but one object i'33i
view—to maintain public order as the only means of di 3..
veloping the reams rces and promoting the happiness 17f
the people it has /leased God to place under my rule.
"Acting upon t his principle, I feel strong in the sup-
port of the British nation, confident that the commnnit y
of interests which exists between England and Egypt,
when properly u n derstood, must inevitably tend to OA,
advantage of bott I countries."

HEALTHOF L-ONDON DURING THE WEEK.
(From the' Registrar-General's Report.)
The official reps ,rt states that in the week ending last
Saturday, the null fiber of deaths registered in the metro, •
politan districts vas 1,111. In the ten correspondit 4 ;
weeks of 1842.51:., the average number of deaths w a s
1,138, and if thus be raised by a certain amount, ;LI i
proportion to ins rease of population, it becomes 1,25 2 .
Compared with th i corrected average, last week's retui n i
of mortality show:, a decrease of 141.
Diseases of the epidemic class exhibit on the whc Ile
nearly the same 11l umber of deaths in the present retu ni
as in that of the p .eceding week; and under particular
heads no importer% t difference is observed, with the e: c -
ception of scarlat tna, which has declined from 41 to
26. Last week tne number of fatal cases caused 11: y
small-pox was 32, ,of which 27 occurred among childre• a ;
23 by measles, 4.2 by hooping-cough, 8 by croup, 2 1) y
thrush, 18 by diain hose, 1 by dysentery, 2 by cholera, 3
by influenza, 2 by infantile fever, 45 by typhus, 4 I a: y
puerperal fever (b esides 4 other cases of women dyli 1 g
after childbirth), :3 by rheumatic fever, 2 of infants 0 y
syphilis. The nua nber of deaths ascribed to erysipel i a
rose from 7 in the previous week to 15 in the last. :It
appears from the :returns of previous weeks that mu c .h
of the mortality 'l7i,y scarlatina occurred in the distr i at
of Stepney, where. it seems to have prevailed more th a n
in other parts of r., radon; in the week ending Decemt e ,r
27, it was fatal tins] 'e in 5 cases, and the week followi, 1 g
in 10. In Shored itch the same epidemic and typhil a
have committed col isiderable ravages, while Whitechape 1
also has been visiti,d by typhus and other fever.
Last week the deaths ascribed to diseases of th a
respiratory organs, -amounted to 249, while the corrects I,
average is 294. In ten corresponding weeks o f
1842-51 the mortiOity from this class ranged from 18: 3
to 429. Three pert ions died last week of laryngitis, 12: 1
of bronchitis, 7 of :pleurisy, 86 of pneumonia, and 25 o f
asthma. Of the 37.2 cases in which small-pox was fate 1
it is stated in six ti hat vaccination had been previouslj
performed. The following deaths were registered at thi )
Small-pox Hospittil :—A female servant, aged 24, fron l
Upper George- stn sl 3 t, Edgeware-road, died on 29th De •
cember of""small) 3x, confluent (15 days), unmodified.' '
She was vaccinate i when young at Upper Slaughter ,
Gloucestershire; can 0 very small cicatrix scarcely per •
ceptible. A. female servant, aged 18 years, from Bar, •
rington-road, Brixia m, died on 2nd January of " small •
pox, confluent (1;3 days), unprotected." A female
servant, aged 25 yfii ire, from Barrington Villas, Brixton I
died on sth Januarze of " small-pox, confluent (16 days) •
unprotected."
Mr. Watts, the :re gistrar, observes that " small-pox ii /
prevailing at this tin ie in almost every part of London. •
During the month of December exactly 100 patients
were admitted to the - Small•pox Hospital." In Lambeth,
Waterloo-road (first part), at 1, Webber-street, the son
of a labourer, agoil 5 years, died on 4th January of
,4 small-pox ( tO da3l), not vaccinated." Mr. Mears
mentioned that the mother of the child declared to him
her want of faith :in vaccination, as she had known
several instances of :death after it. In Lambeth, Water-
loo-road (second pt ,rt), at 24, Pear-tree-street, on 7th
January, the son of a painter and glazier, aged 5 years, 1

died of "small pox." Mr. Daws states that "two other
childred in the family caught the disease. Their mother
believed that all three had been effectually vaccinated,
but the medical attendant, a much better authority, was
of a different opinion.
Two deaths occurred from cholera in the week, of
which the following aro the particulars:—On the Bth of
January, at 34, Frances-street, Westminster-road, the
son of a labourer, aged three years, died of " cholera
(21 hours)." The informant stated that the deceased
had suffered from diarrhoea and vomiting, with disco-
loration of the body, but unaccompanied with cramp,
and that the house was well drained and ventilated in
other respects. Mr. Daws adds, " Frances-street is
inhabitedtlie time of cholera."
chiefly by the Irish, and suffered
mosveryt
thickly
severely during
Wapping, on the 6th January, the
painter, aged four months, died of
daughter In the"cholera workhouse,
ionffsan
Frenchtum
( 5 d
ys).,,

The two following cases occurred at Shorediteh work-
house:—
On 30th of December, a female unknown, aged about
80 years, died of " natural decay." She was found
wandering in the streets near the City-road by the
police on the 27th of December, when she was unable
to give any account of herself, and on being asked her
name the sounds she attempted to utter were almost in-
articulate. _ _ _

?n allesptsy January, a printer, aged 21 years, died of
" c
Mr. Bowring states that " deceased was
brought in from the House of Correction on 26th t'
No-
vember last, on which day his term of 14 days' solitary
confinement expired. When received into the work-
house his appearance was that of a statue. It seems
proper to ask whether it is probable that solitary con-
finement acting on the nervous system could produce so
great a change in so short a period."
Mr. Butterfield, registrar of the subdistrict, Islington
East, states that 213 deaths, the whole number registered
by him since October, 1851, occurred at the following
ages:--100 under 5 years, 88 above that age and not
exceeding 70 years, 16 at 70 and not exceeding 80, and
nine at more advanced ages. The analysis shows the
great waste of infantine life.
Amongst the deaths recorded last week it particularly
deserves notice that four are returned as caused by car-
buncle. A master shoemaker, aged 69 years, died in
Little George-street, Somers-town, on 31st December,
of "carbuncle steer an illness of two months;" a man,
aged 68 years, died at 10, Queen's-terrace, Marylebone,
on 6th January, of "carbuncle (two weeks);" in the
Lunatic Asylum, Camberwell-house, a man, aged 62
years, died on the 9th January of " carbuncle (10 days),
epilepsy‘acreLuncle (3 and on 9th January, at 10, Chapel-
Bermondsey, a gentleman, aged 68 years, of
Weeks), valvular disease of the heart
(some months)." It will be observed that the above
persons were all males, and nearly. of the same age.
The death of a boy, aged 10 years, is ascribed to REM-
rides. Three persons are numbered as victims of ?lca (6 days);"
in-
temperance. Four children died from want of breast-
milk. The deaths of 8 persons, all children except one,
are registered as the result of malformation. In two
instances it was malformation of the palate.

STATE OF THE WEATHER DURING THE PAST WEEK.
SUNDAY.7-The sky was generally one-fourth part covered
with cloud till sh. P.M., and clear afterwards.
MoNDAY.—The sky was three-fourths covered with cloud
during the morning and afternoon, and one-half covered at
night.
TUESDAY.—The sky was for the most part free from
cloud during the morning and afternoon, and overcast at
night ; cirrostratus and scud. A lunar halo was visible during
the evening.
WEDNISDAY.--The sky was generally covered with cloud
till near noon, and clear during the remainder of the day ;
cirrostratus and scud.
THURSDAY.—The sky, with slight exceptions, was covered
with cloud throughout the day ; stratus and scud.
FRIDAY.—The sky was free from cloud until 10h. a.m.,
overcast from this time till 4h. r.m., and the amount of
cloud was variable afterwards ; cumulostratus, cirrostratus,
and scud. A shower of sleet and rain fell during the afternoon.
SATURDAY.—The sky was mostly free from cloud till
evening, and overcast afterwards.
ELECTRICITy.—.No electricity has been shown during the
week.
The mean reading of a thermometer placed on the main-
mast,. and read each day at 9h. A.M. was 39.30 ; and the mean
reading at 9h. p.m. was 41.2° ; the mean readings at the
Royal Observatory for the same times were 34.64 and 40.1°
respectively.
The reading of the barometer increased from 29 48 in.
at the beginning of the week to 30.10 in. by 9h. A St. on
Monday the sth; decreased to 29.19 in. by 9h. AM. on
Friday the 9th ; increased to 29.61 in. by 3h. A.M. on the
10th ; and decreased to 29.45 in. by the end of the week.
the afternoon. This was the only electricity shown during
the evening.

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS.
NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN
THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JAN. 10, 152.
Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases ...*228
Diseases of Uncertain Seat ... 45
Tubercular Diseases ... ••• ... 163
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... ... 131
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 45
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration ... ... 249
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs

of Digestion... ...
Diseases of the Kidneys, &e.
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &a. ...
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles
Diseases of the Skin, &o.

Malformations...
Premature Birth

... 73
... 18

Atrophy ••• ••• ••• ••• •••
Old Age ••• ••• ••• ••• •••
Sudden ... .•• ••• •• ••• •••
Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance
Causes not specified ... ••• ••• •••

12
... 10

... 27

... 53
... 2
... 22

DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES ... ... 1,111
Population Deaths in cone- Deaths
Enumerated, spending week in the
1851.
of 1850. Week.
West Districts... 376,332 . . 166 ... 183
Central Districts 392,986 ... 170 ... 185 223 ... 201
East Districts ... 485,336 ...... 221
South Districts .. 616,545 ... 269
... 321
North Districts.. 490,441 ..
195

Totals... ....• 2,361,640
Males .•• •••
Fernslas ... •••

...•••••
... 1,023

... 1,111
... 593

... 51S