The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-17 00:00:00

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of lest Month, the daq Nomewhat digstlfiCtOtclot, v. il'at,
Danes of the attack on Dybbol villa ' •Aiiiin;fra:::. ' -'4
sides the dead nd wounded, they h • - IA;
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men taken by the enemy. Since that ' 4t-11:41:1a ''''
been comparatively quiet at the Dybbol otnWstsli s
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bat the vile trick the Prussians have of firingitt 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 Jutland, and the late recon-
naissance by the Austrians, must have caused to the
Danes a loss of at least 400 men, hale of them
prisoners.
Prom 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 j.-Jurnals 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 press, but also
lively essayists and feuilletonists from Paris, men
who come here wild with the expectation to see a
fight, but who soon find it is themselves who have
to fight with bad accommodation, worse 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 " a
bed or a sofa at any of the hotels or private houses
about town. And eten 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 ikey had hit on a capital expedient by
repairing to liodes walls—i.e., taking up their
quarters in some of the steamers, several of which
are always moored alongside the wharves, as con-
venient for ail 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 kis 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.e., 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 tke Registrar-General's Weekly Return.)

The number of deaths in London in the week
that ended on Saturday was 1,664, 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 564
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 than they
had been in many previous weeks—they declined to
44; those from typhus to 53. Of 39 fatal cases of
measles 5 occurred in the east sub-district of Isling.
ton, 4iu Saffron-hill, Bin Green sub-district of
Bethnal-green.

Bronchitis numbered 280 deaths in the week, the
corrected average being 169 ; plithisis, or consump-
tion, 192 deaths against 170. It will be observed
that both these diseases, but particularly bronchitis,
are fatal at the p7esent 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
sth inst., and one on the Crystal Palace line on the
7th inst.

A woman, aged GO years, died from want of
nourishment and clothing on the 21st of February
at 1, King'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 months, 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, 7
of smallpox, 3 of scarlatina, 7 of measles, none of
whooping•cough, 6 of croup, 1 of diphtheria, 93 of
cdnsumption, 34 of tubercular meningitis (called
hydrocephalus often in the London returns), 50 if
pulmonary inflammation, 23 of diarrhoea, 5 of dy.
ssntery, 1 of accident; 5 woman died of childbirth
to 6 in London, The mean temperature was 39 deg,
in Vienna, and 33 deg. in London,

At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
week was 29.252 in.
w 29in. on the first
2881. on Monday,
heightfour Themd
3eyea
days.
daily
ihbyea rhroeemiagtelhti
ding
barometer
was
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and rose to 30.06 in. on Saturday. The mean tem..
perature of the air in the 'week was 41.5 deg., which. is 1.3 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 ten- perature 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, blew on the last three days
from a south-westerly point. Rain fell to the amount
of 1.51 in., of which as much as 0 62in., including
melted snow, fell on Wednesday. The mean of the
Tha
mes
was temperatures of the water of the
was 43.7 deg.; that of the lowest was 41'6 deg.

FEDERALISM ON EITIIER SIDE OF THE ATL INTIC.

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-Mr. George Thompson (who, as Mrs. Lincoln would say,
"keeps his health,") has been lecturing recently in America,
and telling some wonderful thinge as a traveller, lie 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.

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