The Sun.
London, England, 1852-03-19 00:00:00

FRAN CE.

According to the last accounts from Algeria the
number of soldiers who perished in the terrible snow
storm at Djemaa el Taouint, or who have not since
appeared, is 144, viz., 97 of the Bth Regiment of the
line, 24 of the 204 7 of the 31 bataillon d'Afrique,
16 of the chasseurs spahis and waggon train. Amongst
them is only one officer. The tents, provisions,,
&c., were destroyed, and an entire flock of sheep
perished from the cold. The sufferings which the
column endured were very terrible, and the obstacles
they overcome would, under other circumstances,
have almost been censidered insurmountable.
Some of the soldiers got intoxicated, and
they were frozen to death as they staggered along
others perished from want of sufficient food. The
conduct of the officers is spoken of in the highest
terms ; the general (31. 13 kluet) placed himself the
very la..t of the column, and prevented men from
lagging behind ; and the other officers not only ex-
horted the troops to have courage, and set them the
example, but actually carried some of the victims in
their arms.

ITALY.
A letter from Florence of the 10th, in the Opinion
of Turin, states that the Austrian troops in that
country are about to be diminished by 2,000 men.
A letter from Rome of the 4th, in the Augs.
burg Gazette, says that Dr. Fussell, a ph) si.
c►an, who is settled at Paris, but has been some
time at Rome, had been arrested, but Fet et
liberty again is a few days after. The cause was
said to be, his having been found in possession of a
slip of paper, containing a passage from Proudhoe's
last work upon French affairs, which slip had been
given him but a few minutes before by a person who
had entered into conversation with him while enjoy.
ing, from a balcony on the Corso, the spectacle of the
Carnival.

THE POWDER MAGAZINE in HYDE-PARK.
A correspondent of the Builder says---As your publi-
cation presents several matters of interest to ladies, and
proposes a folio or part of a sheet for them, it occurs to
me to say that many of our sex living even more remote
from the dread mint, of danger called the powder maga tine
in Hyde-park, may, at moments of nervous excitement,
feel as poignantly the terrors of a dreadful explosion as
myself, who am but 300 paces distant from the fulmi-
nating deposit. In the American explosion at Boston, it
is said that only 150 barrels of gunpowder caused an
eruption like Heels. It awes me to reflect whether
there be not ten times that quantity sleeping in the mine,
under the guard of two sentinels, at the corner of Ken-
sington.gardens, 500 paces from the Crystal Palace. If
in America 150 barrels spread devastation three miles,
how awful is it to contemplate the ruin effeeted by such
a calamity in a population compacted within that radius
from such a centre! Hyde-park-gardens, and the con-
comitant squares—Grosvenor, Belgravia May fair, and
even Kensington, with her palace—are there no nervous
spirits amongst you to sympathise with me in quailing
under so dread a prognostic? Liverpool, with calcu-
lating precaution for the soul of commerce (her teeming
stores, warehouses, and ships), has devised and insisted
on the removal of powder-mdgazines from her precincts.

DISTRESSING ACCIDENT TO A
GRENADIER GUARD.

A melancholy accideut occurred shortly after mid-
night on Tuesday to Frederick Parkes, of the Ist Gre-
nadier Guards, stationed at St. John's-wood Barracks.
It appears that Mr. Howel Morgan, a member of the
Royal College of Surgeons, and lately connected with
Uiv College Hospital, was passing along Baker-
street, Pertman-:quare, a little after twelve o'clock on
Tuesday night, when his attention was attracted by a
gentleman's carriage, which was approaching him at a
furious rate. Au the carriage passed him he turned for
a moment or two to watch its progress, and then pro-
ceeded on his way. He had not advanced many steps
before he saw a man lying in the middle of the road,
and on approaching him found that he had been run
over by the carriage which had just passed, and
.was
perfectly insensible. Mr. M irgan removed him on to
pavement, and on examining him found that he was
suff,-ring frem a dislocation of the foot, that his leg was
tractured in two places, and that he had received other
serious injuries. Mr. Morgan reduced the dislocation,
and immediately afterwards removed the poor fellow to
University College Hospital, where, in conjunction with
Mr. Turle, the house surgeon, he proceeded with the
ties-scary treatment. When Parkes regained his COO-
seiousnr ss he requested Mr. Morgan to acquaint Cap-
tain Ellison, or the regiment to which he bc-lunged, with
the circumstances, as he had been by permission to
le) Thea.re, and was to be at the barracks by titie
o'cl•pck. With this request Mr. Morgan at once com-
plied, end aided that ,he unfortunate man was perfectly
sober at the time the accident bapp:ned. Hsd it not
been fur Mr. Morgan'e humane iuterpsition. Parkes
might have remained in the road, as the night was very
cloudy, and other vehicles might have passed over him.
He remains at present at University College. where be
has received every attention from Mr. Erichsen, and the
other medical gentlemen connected with the institution,
but there appears same doubts whether he will ever
again be fit for active service.

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS.
NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN
TUE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 1552.
Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases ...*197
Diseases of Uncertain Seat ... ... 63

Tubercular Diseases ... ••• ••• ••• ••• 237
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... ... 129
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels ... 59
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration ... ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• 25
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 Age ••• ••• ••• ••• •••
Sudden ... •••
Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance
Causes not specified ...

... 14

... 2

... 26

•.• 58

83

DEATDS FROM ALL CAUSES ... ... 1,232
Population Deaths in corre- Deaths
Enumerated, sponding week in the
1851. of 1851. Week.
West Districts... 376,427 . . 220 ... 222
North Districts.. 490,396 ... 293 ... 222
Central Districts 393,256 ... 251 ... 237
East Districts ... 485,522 ... 281 ... 255
South Districts .. 616,635 ... 336 ... 296

Totals... 2,362,236
Males ... ...

... 1,401 ... 1,232
... ... ... 636

Females ...

... 596