The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-01 00:00:00

SECOND EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 o'CLoCX.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE,—This Day,

STOCKTON RACES-THIS DAY.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH,)
CLARET STAKES.

Old Orange Girl 1
Erin-go-Bragh
2
Lord in Waiting
3
Four ran.
GARBUTT NURSERY HANDICAP.
Brown Bread
Catalogue
Lady Sykcs
...... 3
Twelve ran.

DERBY RACES—Tms DAY.

BRETBY STAKES.

Lady Egidia ..
DONNINGTON PLATE.
Belle of the Ball
Warrior
2
Only these two ruff—the added money was given.

The Explosion on the North London
Railway.

Dr Lunkester resumed the adjourned inquest on thobody
of the stoker, whose death was occasional by the exp►tosiou
of the locomotive engine on the North London Itailvvay.
The jury having inspected the wreck of the locomotive
at the company's works, at Bow,

Captain Tyler, of the Board of Trade, was examined at
great length, the effect of his evidJace being that the ex-
plosion was owing to a weakening in the bolts and stays of
the engine.

The inquiry was proceeding when we went to press.

HEALTH OF LONDON.

(From the Ilcgistrar•General's Report.)

The mortality in London has FhOWII no great fluctuation
in the last three weeks. The number of deaths registered
in the week that ended on Saturday was 1413, The health
of that part of the population to which bummer cholera is
chiefly fatal has improved ; for the deaths of young persons
(under 20 years of age) declined from 9SI in the first week
of August, to 803 in the last.

The average number of deaths in the thirty-fourth week
of ten previous years, 1854, 63, is, with a correction for
increase of population, 1359. The mortality of last week
therefore exceeds the estimated amount by 54 deaths.
Diarriara was returned in 190 cares in the vieck, tbo
number in the previous week having been 242. Out of the
190 cases, 168 occurred to children under two years of age.
Also 18 deaths (10 of children, 8 of adults) were returned
as caused by "cholera." Twenty deaths from diarrheaa
occurred in Mile-ond Old Town and Poplar ; and 17 in the
Greenwich district, which includes Deptford and Woolwich.
There were 74 deaths from measles in the week, which
complaint was very fatal in the East districts, where 43
deaths were caused by it. Six deaths occurred from it in
the St. Paul sub-district of St. George-in-the-East: 5 in
the subdistrict of Poplar.

On the 19th instant, at 39, Hanover-street (Se. George,
Hanover-square), a widow died, whose age as recorded in
the register was 100 years. Another widow died at the
age of 93.

Last week the births of 992 boys and 923 girls, in all

1,915 children, were registered in London. In the ten cor-
responding weeks of the years 1854-63 the average number
(corrected) was 1,844.

At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height
of the barometer in the week was 29.910 inches. The mean
daily reading was above 30in. on the last three days. The
reading fell to 29.56 in. on Tuesday, and rose to 311.21 in. on
Saturday. The mean temperature of the air in the week
was 52 2 degrees, which is eight degrees below the average
of the same week in forty-three years (as determined by Mr
Glaisher). The mean daily temperature was much below
the average on every day, and on Tuesday th,e defect was
nearly 11 degrees. The highest day temperature was 68.4
degrees on Sunday; the lowest night temperature was
38.1 deg. on Saturday. The range in the week was there-
fore 30,3 deg. The mean daily range was 21 6 deg. The
difference between the mean dew point temperature and air
temperature was 8.6 deg. The mean degree of humidity of
the air was 73, complete saturation being represented by
100. The wind blew chiefly from the north, Rain fell in
the week to the amount of 0.65 inch. More than half an
inch fell on Tuesday. There were showers of hail and rain,
accompanied with thunder, on Suuday. The mean of the
highest temperature of the water of the Thames was G 3.4
deg; that of the lowest was 61.3 deg.
The births registered in Dublin during the week ending
27th August were 119, and the deaths were 106, in a popu-
lation of 251,808 (iu 1861), spread over an area of 3,808
statute acres. The numbers are kindly furnished by the
Registrar General of Ireland.

The deaths in Vienna, as returned by Dr. Glatter, were
291. in the week ending. 29th August, when the mean tem-
perature was 59.0 deg., that at Cireenv.ieh having been.
59.6 deg,