The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-11 00:00:00

PEMBROKE AND TENBY.

The line was opened for traffic on Tuesday, thus com-
pleting the communication between Tenby and Pembroke
Dock and between Tenby and the Great western system,
with the exception of the ferry at New Milford. The event
was celebrated with great rejoicings in the neighbourhood,
and a public breakfast was given at tho Victoria Hotel.

CORK AND BANDON.
The directors state in their report that the increase in the
traffic receipts amounted to £749, as compared with the cor-
responding half of 1863. The working expenses exceeded
by £933 those of the corresponding half-year this included
the haulage of the Kinsale Junction Railway, timber for
renewing bridges, painting the Chetwynd viaduct which
was now finished, and materials for building and renewing
rolling stock. The balance showed a profit of £2,609 for
the half-year applicable for dividend:, which the directors
recommended to be paid on the No. 1 preference shares, at

The patent compositions to prevent fouling, with which
the Recruit, 6, iron paddle-wheel, 160 horse power, now in
No. 2 dock, Sheerness, was recently coated, have been
scraped off for the purpose of testing the relative merits and
deciding the superiority of the patents. In The Sun of the
sth inst. it was reported in the naval intelligence that the
port side of the vessel was coated with Mr Hay's composi-
tion, the starboard aft with Mr Crispin's, while the star-
board forward had a coating of Mr Wilson's; that it aas
found on inspection that the port and starboard aft parts o
the vessel, to which Messrs. Hay's and Crispin's paten'a
had been applied, exhibited a considerably greater amount
of fouling than the starboard forward part, which had b aen
coated with Mr. Wilson's patent ; but that Mr Wilson's
composition showed mare corrosion of the bottom of the
vessel, which is of iron, than the other patents. The com-
positions having now been removed, it is evident that there
has also been considerable corrosive action going on. under
both Mr Hay's and Mr Crispin's coating, and that the bar-
nacles have eaten through the composition, and have be-
come so closely fixed to the bottom of the vessel that on re-
moving them the part to which they were attached, and
which had become corroded, was also removed. The result
is that if any there is less corrosion on the part covered by
Wilson's composition than on the parts coated with Messrs
Hay's and Crispin's compositions, and most decidedly con-
siderably less fouling.

HEALTH OF LONDON.

(From the Registrar-General's Report.)

The deaths in London were 1,607 in the last week of July,
and the same rate of mortality continued to prevail in ate
week that ended last Saturday, in which the number w
as
1,525. The average number of deaths for the 31st week, of
the 10 years 1854-63 is, with a cor. ection for increase of
population, 1,342; and there is an excess of 253 in the eztual
amount over the number estimated for the first vraek of
August.

The increase of deaths was principally among yon.n g per-
sons, as is shown by the numbers under 30 years, of age,
returned in the last three weeks, namely, S4O, 978, and 981
—whi!e those of persons aged 60 years and upwards were
198, 214, and 236.

The cause of the increase is the summer diarrhesa, which
carried c if 286 persons, of whom 239 were infants less than
a year old. Besides these, 28 deaths were returnaii as caused
by cholera. The mean temperature of the air ruse above 60
deg. in the second week of July ; and when thi: increase of
heat Occurs an increase of diarrhma is commonly the result.
The deaths from diarrhoea in the last four weeks were
successively, (37, 145, 974, and 286. The mean temperature
has been in the same periods 60.8 deg., GG'5 deg., 63.6 deg.,
and 65 deg.

In the 31st week of 1857, when the mean tamperatnre was
G 5.2 deg„ the deaths from diarrhoea were 258; in that of
1859 they were 312, with a mean temperature of 63.8 deg.;
and in that of last year, when it was 59 9 de;;., ohs deaths
were 201. In the 31st week of 1562 the dea,tha from
diarrheas were only 77, when the mean temperature was
61'3 deg. The duration of the heat and other physical con-
ditions affect the result.

Last week the deaths from diarrhcoa were numerous in
the north districts, and also in the east. Eleven occurred
in the Kensington Town sub-district, 7 in that of Christ-
church, Marylebone, Bin Kentish-town, 24 in the district
of Islington, 8 in the sub-district of St. James, Clerkenwell.

The deaths from measles rose to 102, no less than 50 of
which occurred in the east districts, only 5 in the south
districts, The disease appears to be very prevalent in
Limehouse, Bethnal-green, and part of the Shoreditch dis-
trict. Seven cases of measles were fatal in Whitecross..
street sub—district.

A child died at 29, Baldwin-street, City-road, from want
of sufficient food ; and a widow at 6, Knottisford-street,
Bethnal-green, from the same cause.

Last week the births of 974 boys and girls, in all
1,906 children, were registered in London. In the ten
corresponding weeks of the years 1854-63 the average
number (corrected) was 1,852.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height
of the barometer in the week was 29.936 in. The reading
rose 30.06 in on Sunday, and fell to 29.936 in on Saturday.
The mean temperature of the air in the week was 65 deg,
which is 2.8 deg above the average of the same week in 43
years (as determined by Mr Glaisher). The excess of mean
temperature on Friday was 9•G deg. Tho lowest night
temperature was 43.4 deg, which occurred on Wednesday.
The highest day temperature was 83.6 deg on Friday, on
which day the thermometer in the sun rose to 1251 deg.
The range in the week was 45.2 deg. The mean daily
range was 26.2 deg. The difference between the mean
dew-point temperature and air temperature was 14.8 deg.
The mean degree of humidity of the air in the
week was 59, complete saturation being represented
by 100. The air was remarkable for its great
dryness en Thursday and Friday, when the humidity
fell to 51 and 54. The wind was generally W.S.W. There
was no rain in the week. The mean of the highest tempera-
tures of the water of the Thames was 67.2 deg, ; that of
the lowest was 65.1 deg. The highest temperature on Fri-
day—viz., 88'G deg.—was higher than that of any day since
the 12th of August, 1861, when it was 89.3 deg. ; and its
mean temperature, 71'6 deg., was also higher than on any
day since the same date, when it was 72'9 deg.
The deaths in Vienna, as returned by Dr Glatter, were
291 in the week ending the 30th of July, when the mean
temperature was 68.0 deg., that at Greenwich having been
63.6 deg.

The births registered in Dublin during the week ending
the 6th of August were 137, and tho deaths were 81, in a
population of 254,808 (in 1861) spread over an area of 3,808
statute acres. The numbers are kindly furnished by the
Registrar-General of Ireland.

EXTRAORDINARY STATEMENT.—Some few days
since a naval officer made the following communi-
cation regarding the late Confederate ship of war Alabama.
"We tell the tale as 'twastold to us" :—Referring to the
last engagement, this gentleman's account of the loss of life
in the action with the liearsarge differs very much from
that which has been hitherto published. Two men only
were killed, and two only drowned—F. Stevenson, of Bre-
men, received a fatal blow on the head from a splinter
knocked off the bulwarks by a shot ; J. Anderson, a Nor-
wegian, was cut in two by a splinter detached by a shell.
gunner's
Dublin,ners
mate, and W
Martin, All
tThhe twoe
st o(dtf h"tehw nee olemdapewhoemfr eeWnjti Williams,g acting, including 44 officers,
engineers, and stewards) were picked up by the Kearearge, the gem yacht Deerhound, and the five French fibhino.
lugger& The one which saved our informant was ecom-
manded by Captain Cheverea, who rescued eleven. In the
action he was stationed at the pivot gun forward, which
was spiked when the colours were struck. Aa the ship was
going down he picked up a gun handspike, and with its
aid sustained himself three-quarters of an hour in the water
until rescued. According to this marvellous story, Mr.
Llewellyn, the surgeon of the Alabama, is alive, and con-
cealed somewhere in France ; he is said to be suffering from
his immersion, and is under medical treatment.—Court
Journal.

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