The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-15 00:00:00

ELECTION PETITIONER'S BILL.

The adjourned debate on the amendment on going into
committee on this bill was resumed, and occupied the house
up to a quarter to six, when it closed according to the mho
of the house.

The County Constabulary Superannuation Bill passed
,hrough committee.

The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and
the house adjourned.

HEALTH OF LONDON.

(From the Register-Generats Report.)

The deaths in London were 1,213 in the week
that ended on the 4th inst.; they rose to 1,285, in
the week that ended last Saturday. In the last
four weeks the mean temperature of the air was
successively 61 deg. 8 min., 52 deg., 50 deg, 4 min.,
and 59 deg. 6 min., showing great fluctuation.
The increase of deaths last week was entirely
amongst persons of middle age (20-60 years), the
numbers in that period having been in two weeks
328 and 388.

The average number of deaths in the twenty.
third week of ten years 1851-63 is, with a correction
for increase of population, 1,155. The excess in the
present return above the estimated number ia, there-
fore, very considerable, and amounts to 130 deaths.
At the present time the most fatal complaint in
the epidemic class is measles, to which 82 deaths
are referred. Typhus was fatal in 51 cases, whoop-
ing-cough in 50, scarlatina in 47, diarrhoea in 19,
diphtheria in 11, smallpox in 5.
Nearly half of the deaths from measles occur red
to children one year old and less than two years.
Five deaths from this disease were recorded in the
sub-district of Gray's-inn-lane, 6 in Islington, 5 in
South Hackney, 9 in the district of Shoreditch, 7
in Bethnal-green, 9 in St. George's-in-the• East (6
of which were in the sub-district of St. Mary), and
Bin St. Luke's. Measles prevails chiefly in the
East districts.
Typhus was returned in five cases in the subdis-
trict of Mile•end New Town.
Last week the births of 985 boys and 938 girls,
in all 1,923 children, were registered in London.
In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1854-
63 the average number (corrected) was 1,887.

QUESTIONABLE AUTHORSHIP OF AN OLD JOKE.
—lt is in vain to inquire whence came such a man as ho
who said to a friend, " I heard you were dead I" and,when
the friend denied the truth of the report, replied, " Sure.
he who told me was more worthy of belief than you are 1"
The story is Irish, Greek, Hindoo, Chinese; but its age is
not to be determined.
GREAT INDIAN PENINSULA RAILWAY,—The
audited accounts of this company show that the
traffic receipts for the half-year ending the 31st of Dec.,
1863, amounted to £207,871, and the expenses to £149,173
or 71 76 per cent including £23,734 or 11.42 per cent, for
compensation ascertained and estimated :for cotton, &c.,
damaged and lost, leaving a balance of £58,697. The amount
of interest paid and payable by the Government of India on
capital deposited with them to the 31st of December, 1863,
was £2,570,811; the profit paid and payable to the Govern-
ment out of revenue amounted to £614,947, leaving a
balance chargeable against half surplus profits over 6 per
cent of £1,955,864. The capital acoc:unt showed that
£10,783,690 had been received, and £10,456,877 expended
leaving,. balance of £326,813,
THE FEDERAL NATIONAL DEBT.--All American
has measured and weighed the Federal national debt,
which is 4,000,000,000 dole. Estimated in silver dollars,
he says that if they were placed edge to edge they would
stretch nearly 90,000 miles, Their weight would be 125,000
Since the day," says
tons, which would lead 62,500 railway trucks, the aggregate
length of which would be 355 miles.--
THE Star.
when the last of the
THE PARIS CALCRAFT.--"
the Figaro Programme,
Sansone was able, as he o philosophically expresses it, to
give himself the satisfaction of really washing his hands
and writing his memoirs, the executioner in Pails has been
M. Hendereich, who resides in a handsome house on the
Boulevard Beaumarchais. The person who lives on the
same floor with him is the actor Laferriere, who salutes hia
hlse'lwadhcoamllsheMis.
neighbour on the stairs, thinking him a private citizen. M.
dliving
ewiththe him a youth
colleges. ofT
,ich his uncle, and is not aware that the latter •
Haider. Theyouth is also ignorant is an
executiorm,
the son of a' ondemned prifoner, and that he was taken
hi,:vienudlegreeideaheahtacs
care of from chkrity by the man who had been charged to
execute his father."

THE NAVIES OP I:HE Won') —The navy of great
Britain carries 14,050 tune, of France 8,876, United
States 4,184, Russia 2,013, Holland 1,220, Denmark 958,
Sweden 920, Spain 904, Austria 852, Italy 789, Portugal
362, Norway 340, Turkey 297, I;razil 276, Prussia 265,
Greece 119, Peru 104, Chili 66, aid Belgium 28. The
navies c,f the world consist of 1,684 steamers, and 1,296
sailing ships carrying 36,653 guns.-4worcan Paper.
" M. Emile 011ivier," says the Independanee,
" has forwarded to the electors at Toulon, who have
some idea of supporting him as a candidate for the
Council-General, a circular drawn up in terms
almost similar to the reply recently made by him
to one of his electors, and published in the journals.
A pamphlet intended to explain M. 011ivier's cone
duct is about to appear. The rupture which has
taken place between him and all the other members
of the Left is nevertheless still more marked, espe-
cially 6iIICO the presence has been remarked of M.
011ivier, as well as 1111, Darimon, in the commission
charged by the Government to examine the quel-
-1 tion of cheques."