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London, England, 1864-03-17 00:00:00

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of last month, the day somewhat dissokus Whet)
Danes of the attack on Dybbol village, when, be- -
sides the dead and wounded, they had above 200
men taken by the enemy. Since that day all has
been comparatively quiet at the Dybbol outposts ;
but the vile trick the Prussians have of firing at the
men out on picket duty seldom fails to add at least
four or five daily to the list of casualties. Several
outpost encounters in Jatland, and the late recon-
naissance by the Austrians, must have caused to the
Danes n lon of at least 400 men, half of them
prisoners.
From the Ist of February to the 20th the British
and foreign press were represented at the Danish
headquarters by your own correspondent alone. I
and two of the gentlemen belonging to the Copen-
hagen journals made up the whole of the reporters'
staff at Schleswig, and all along the disastrous
march from that place to this: Since the last-named
date correspondents have come in in great force, not
only representatives of the London Frees, but aleca
lively essayists and feuilletonids from Paris men
who come hero wild with the expectation to Fee a
fight, but who soon find it is themselves who have
to fight with bad accommodation, worso fare, and
the unconquerable weariness and unprofitabless of
existence. Not a few are those who turn tail against
such formidable antagonists, and quit Sonderborg
only two or three days after their arrival. A man
must have no common luck if he finds as much as a
bed or a sofa at any of the hotels or private houses
about town. And even when a room is to be had
twenty to one the hapless wight is driven out of it
by noise and discomfort, and, above all things, by
the all-pervading, all-smothering, abominable dirt.
Some of these strangers, of a more adventurous, or,
as they believed, more practical turn of mind,
thought that they had hit on a capital expedient by
repairing to wooden walls—ie., taking up their
quarters in some of the steamers, several of which
are always moored alongside the wharves, as con-
venient for all purposes of business in Sonderborg
as any of the best houses in the centre of the town;
but since it happened to one of them, on his return
from a jolly party late at night, to find that his
abode had put up steam and was off hours before,
taking away with her his dear bags and portman-
teaus, and leaving him to spend the night in the
muddy streets as he best could, a steamer has been
voted a very poor makeshift, and only to be valued
on the principle which determined Dr. Johnson's
preference for " the best thing in Scotland"—i.o,, as
a means of getting out of this.

Were there no better chance of active warfare
than we have had for the last month, or than we
have at present, this distressingly dull place would
wear out the most heroic powers of endurance, and
I greatly doubt whether devotion to their duty on
the part of the non-Danish press, or even the sense
of patriotism on the part of the Danish, would give
any of us patience to abide here another week. It
is perfectly killing work, and the reading public we
humbly suppose would be no gainers by our utter
extinction.

HEALTH OP THE METROPOLIS.

(From the Registrar-General's Weekly Return.)

The number of deaths in London in the week
that ended on Saturday was 1,604, which is less by
100 than that of the previous week. The deaths
under 20 years of age declined from 778 to 759 ;
those at 20 and under 60 years decreased from 561
to 474 ; while the deaths at a more advanced age
were of nearly the same amount in the two weeks.
The average number of deaths for the tenth week
of the years 1854.63 is, with a correction for in•
crease of population, 1,449. The present return
exhibits an excess of 215 over the number estimated
for a week in the early part of March.

The deaths from scarlatina were fewer then they
had been in many previeus weeks—they declined to
; these from typhus to 53. Of 39 fatal cases of
measles 5 occurred in the east sub-district of Isling-
ton, 4 in Saffron-hill, 8 in Green sub-district of
Bethnai-green.

Bronchitis numbered 280 deaths in the week, the
corrected average being 109; plathisis, or consump-
tion, 192 deaths against 170. It will be observed
that both these diseases, but particularly bronchitis,
aro fatal at the present time. Pneumonia, which
caused 100 deaths, is not more fatal than usual.
An infant, aged 2 weeks, died, from being bandaged
too tightly.

Four persons are returned as killed by street
vehicles; two persons were run over and killed by
locomotive engines—namely, one at Putney on the
.s:h inst., and one on the Crystal PahiCo line on the
7th inst.

A woman, aged 60 years, died from want of
nourishment and clothing on the 21st of February
at 1, Sing's-head-court, Shoreditch ; another, aged
46, on the day following, from the same cause, at
6, Royston-street, Bethnal-green. On the 4th of
March a child, aged 13 monthe, died in the House
of Correction, Wandsworth, from "erysipelas
arising from the want of proper nutrition."
Ten nonagenarians died in the week; also a lady,
who is registered as having died on the 7th of
March, at the extraordinary age of 106 years, at
her house in Lee-road.

Last week the births of 1,013 boys and 949 girls
—in all 1,962 children—were registered in London.
In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1854-
63 the average number (corrected) is 2,076.
The Registrar-Genneral has recently brought
under the notice of the authorities of the great cities
of Europe a plan for securing returns of diseases
and of the weather simultaneous with those of Lon-
don. Vienna, which is the seat of one of the greatest
medical schools of Europe, has already responded to
his application, and he expects to receive from that
city a regular series of returns, which cannot
fail to afford interesting comparisons with those of
London. Vienna is about to adopt many of the
sanitary improvements which have proved efficacious
in England; and Dr. Glatter, a most zealous officer
of the City Council, will be able to measure their
effects on the reigning disease and the rate of mor-
tality.

The deaths in Vienna during the week that ended
on Saturday, February 27, were 387—namely, 253
at home, and 134 in the hospitals ; 10 of typhus,
of smallpox, 3 of scarlatina, 7 of measles, none of
meningitis (called
whooping-cough, 6 of croup, 1 of diphtheria, 93 of
itnubtherecular London
returns), 50 of
consumption,hydrocephalus
4 often of
pulmonary inflammation, 23 of cliarrhme, 5 of dy-
sentery, 1 of accident; 5 woman died of childbirth
3
to 6 in London. The mean temperature was 39 deg,
in Vienna, and 33 deg. in London.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29.252 in.
The mean daily height was below 29' :n. on the first four days. The reading fell to 28.81. on Monday,
and rose to 30.06 in. on Saturday. The mean tem-
perature of the air in the week was 41.5 deg.,
which
is I'3 deg. above the average of the same week in
43 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher). The mean
daily temperature was 6 deg. above the average on
Monday, and as much below it on Wednesday. The
highest day temperature was 53.6 deg. on Sunday.
The lowest night temperature occurred on Thursday,
and was 27.9 deg. The range of temperature in the
week was therefore 25.7 deg. The mean daily range
was 12.4 deg. The difference between the mean
dew-point temperature and air temperature was 4.7
deg. The mean degree of humidity of the air was
84, complete saturation being represented by 100.
The Wind, which had been previously in the south-
west and north-east, blow on the last three days
from a south-westerly point. Rain fell to the amount
of 1.54 in., of which as much as 0 62in.. including
melted snow, fell on Wednesday. The mean of the
highest temperatures of the water of the Thames
was 43.7 deg.; that of the lowest was 41.6 deg.

FEDERALISM ON EITHER SIDE OF THE ATLANTIC.
—Mr. George Thompson (who, as Mrs. Lincoln would say,
" keeps his health,") has been lecturing recently in America,
and telling some wonderful things as a traveller. Ire has
made the Federals believe that we aro all for them. The
mention of Mr. Bright's name,
it is worth noticing, drew
forth immense applause.

Persons in debt may obtain instant protection against
imprisonment or6~iyureof their goods, and an entire release
from all debts and liabilities without publicity. by application
to Messrs. Marshall, solic!tors of the Conrt of Bankruptcy.
Charges under £5 payable by easy instalments. Offices—
(established 1830), 12, Hatton-garden. City branch-6, Moor.
gate-ttrevt,

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