The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-02 00:00:00

THE POPULATION

(From the Quarterly B -turn of Marriages, Births,

and Deaths.)
This return comprises the births and deaths regis-
the spricg quarter ending June 30th,
tered by 2,190 registrars in all the districts of Eng-
landabout 3,328 registered places of wor&hip
unconnected with the Established Church, and 623
18r5c2h dining
;and3pei
the marriages in more than 12 000 churches
superintendent registrars' offices, in the quarter that
ended March 31, 1852.
The return of marriages is not complete; but the
defects are inconsiderable, and approxitnative, num-
bers have been supplied from the records of previous
years.
The general results of the return are not unsatis-
factory; the marriages exceed the average number,
the births are above, the deaths are but slightly above
the average of the seasons.

MARRIAGES.
The marriages in the quarter ending March 31st
were 32,933, consequently,
in the three months
65,866 persons were married : this slightly exceeds
the numbers in the corresponding quarter of 1851,
and is 10,906, or one-fifth part, more than the num-
bers married in the winter quarter of 1847.
The rate of marriages, is after allowing for increase
of population, is found to exceed the average of the
season, and is only less than it was in the winter
quarters of 1846 and 1851. The excess is distri-
buted over nearly all the divisions of the country,
but is most conspicuous in London, where the mar-
riages in the winter quarter increased from 4,377 in
1849 to 5,576 in 1852. Marriages increased in St.
George's, Hanover-
square, and in Hastings, Brighton,
Bath, Clifton, and other watering-places. The mar-
riages in the south-eastern division also increased in
Surrey, Sussex,
and liampshire ; decreased in Berk-
shire. There was an increase in Oxford and Cam-
bridge, in Colchester and in Norwich, in Malmesbury
and in Bradford
(Wilts), also in Exeter, in Redruth,
Cornwall, and in Bristol ; in Hereford, Shrews-
bury, and Stafford ; in Wolstanten and Burslern,
among the Staffordshire Potteries. The marriages
in Birmingham were 390, or 44 less than in the pre-
vious winter.
In Leicester and Nottingham the
number of ma ages has, for the last two yearn, ex-
ceeded the average. The marriages in the last quarter
were also over the average in the districts of Der-
byshire, in
Warrington, and Manchester. In Sheffield marriages
Stockport, Liverpool, Prescot, Wigan,
were numerous; in several districts of Yorkshire
below the average. In the northern counties the
marriages exceeded the average ; in Wales they
declined from 1,930 in 1851 to 1,804 in the winter
quarter of 1852.

BIRTHS.
The, births 'of 159,136 children, born alive, were
registered in the quarter ending June 30, 1852. The
same number, within two, was registered in the
spring quarter of last year. The proportion of births
to the population since 1849 has greatly exceeded the
average of previous years.

INCREASE OF POPULATION.
As the births in the quarter were 159,136, the
deaths 100,813,
the increase of population by natural
i
cause s 58,323. The increase in the previous quar-
ter was 55.094 ; in the corresponding quarter of
1851, 69,499. In the quarter ending June 30, 1852,
125,112 emigrants sailed from the ports of the united
kingdom at which their are emigration agents ;
21,890 sailed from Irish ports, 8,687 from the Scotch
ports of Glasgow and Greenock, and 94,535 from:
English ports, namely, 3 224 from Plymouth, 15,304
from London, and 76,007 from Liverpool. It is
known that a large but unknown proportion of the
emigrants from Liverpool are of Irish origin; but the
birtoplace ii
not distinguished in the abstracts.
Lie price of provisions has varied little during the
quaver; mutton and beef have, however, been a little
eneaper than they were in the previous quarter; the
price of- wheat remains 40s. 101 a quarter.

STATE OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH.
The deaths in the spring quarter were 100,813, and
the mortality was at the rate of 2.227 per cent. per
annum, which is slightly above the average of the
districts, comprising chiefly small towns and country
season. The excess of deaths was chiefly in the
town districts, which still maintain their fatal pre-
eminence over the country in destroying the lives of
the population. The rate of mortality in the 506
parisoes, was 2.052; in the 117 town districts, 2.436 ;
so that out of the same population, for every four
deaths in the districts where the air and water are
comparatively pure, there are nearly five deaths in
London and our other towns, where all the sanitary
arrangements are still left so imperfect that no im-
provement sensibly affecting the rate of mortality has
hitherto been effected. In the three months that
have elapsed, 48,357 deaths have been registered in
the town districts in the place of 40,000, who would
have died if the mortality had not exceeded two per
cent. ; a standard of salubrity by no means high or
unattainable. The season has been unusually cold,
but find has been abundant, and from the notes of the
registrars generally it may be inferred that the people
are actively employed.
In London 13,173 deaths were registered in 13
weeks; 2,828 were ascribed to zymotic diseases, 443
to violence, privation, ecold, or intemperance. 19
deaths were caused by poisons, 5 by laudanum, 3 by
oxalic acid, 3 by essential oil of almonds, and 2 by
prussic acid. Two of the deaths were ascribed to
overdoses of laudanum; the others were cases of
suicide, and included 7 males, 4 females, of ages
rangingott's from 18 to 70. One death was referred to
Cu oil, one to improper medicine, one to lead (a
age 36), and three to poisoning by accident.
It is gratifying to observe that no case of death by
arsenic has been registered in London. Of intem-
perance
39 of delirium tremens ; of privation
&cation 78, drowning 59, fractures and contu
sions 121, wounds, gunshot and others, 19, other
violence 15.
and su
geared,
childeasiaa tireee l
dy,
Smallpox, scarlatina, pooping-cough, and typhus
pBio ledr,s, 20 died,
have prevailed to some extent, not only in London
many parts of the country; and persons, with
about to visit strange districts in
obtain information from the
notes of the registrar or by local inquiries, which
years old,
may prevent their exposure to local epidemics.
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The following is one example, among many, of the
seinffi'aelialle:°otxolifwe'sV:ll33inEatitieokina:—Btleigh—A case
introduced
in March last into aof virulent
have suffered, and its fatality has been
thickly-
populated pert of this town from Plymouth (where
gre numbersby . clothes brought hither, and worn by a
aboutpassed ll tfilivreough the diqeese. No other case ap•
Rookery
vs who took the infection, but
ethacecjiunvaeteedileto the number of 400, or nearly a
population having been imme-
diately
has already been effected by the en-
fifth of the whole."
sanitary regulations in the lodging-
country. The registrar Of North St.
-fGh°oiral:celseseunissceaho3,ls—tohf?, There is a decrease of one-fifth in the
compared with those of the corresponding
quarter of last Year, which I attribute-to the sanitary
arrangements enferced by the police, in making the
of the houses in Church-lane and the
deaths as
whitewash and cleanse them, and not allow-
inga certain number of persons to sleep in the
The registrars of St. Anne's, Nottingham, and
of Cardiff, in South Wales, have recorded similar
good effects from the supervision of the low I d i ..0...g.ng.
houses.
lodgainlagov.heoses.
Public attention has been before called in these
the large towns of the country, and more
particularly
periodical reports to the neglect and il'-usage of
children in
Lancashire, where the mortality of
in
five years of e '
healthiest counties, and much higher than it
age is twice as high ae it
is in Loud°n•
icgh
ii children rt el2ne under

.6E:eeßn success ally passed off on
ANK UP' ENGLAND,
During the past v.rek or two several forged 51. notes
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different tradesmen of the city of Bristol. The police,
on being informed of this fact, instituted in-'
quirks, and the result was tho apprehension of --
man nsmed James Fle-tcher, of very gentlemanly
appea„nee and plausible manners. Ile has bean
brought before the Bristol bench of magistrates
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BankG E
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have l' l
charged with uttering. forged 5/. Bank of England note;
tt._
the
shops
of miss Rill, haberdasher, St. Augustine's
ptuacie; Znd Mr., Morgan, linendraper, Clifton. From -
the official investigation there can be little doubt that he
is one of a gang of utterers of forged Bank of England
notes who have for many mouths past successfully
" carried on business in the counties of Somerset
and Devon, South Wales. &c. Till within the last
week or two the mode of operation of the gang was
to attend various fairs held in the rural districts'
disguised as horse dealers. They would then purchase
horses of the country farmers, and pay for them
partly in genuine sovereigns, and partly in forged
notes, and, of course, almost immediately after-
wards they would wake off with their purchases.
Many of these frauds came to the knowledge of the
police, but the perpetrators contrived to elude their
vigilance. No doubt encourage by their success they
determined to try their luck at Bristol, and it is known
to the detective force of that city that on Thursday
and Frictoy there were no less Wan four of them "at
work" among the tradespeople of 8ri...c., and
the
fashionable vicinil of Clifton. The prisoner Fletcher
is shown -to have made triflirg purchases in va.
rious planes, and to have tendered forged notes.
in payment thereof. After his departure from one shop
the a te was dicovered to be a forgery. Information
was given to a police. eoneablo 15 ho wa.s passing, who
pursued, and attar a chat@ of about a mile succeeded in
capturing him. During the chase he managed to throw
away a pocket-book, in which it is supposed he kept the
forged rotes. }le stands remanded fur further inquiritss
to be made. and it is hoped that the whole of his corn.
panious will shortly he; in the custody of the police.
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A CASE FOR COUNSEL. —An eminent barrister bad
a case sent to him for an opinion. 'The case stated was the
most preposterous and improbable that ever occurred to the
mind of man, and concluded by as king, whether under such
circumstances an action would lie? He took his pen and
wrote, " Xes, if the witneaaea will lie too; mot otherwise."