The Sun.
London, England, 1852-04-07 00:00:00

GERMANY.

The Wurtemburg Moniteur contains the following
Royal ordinance concerniog the fundamental laws :
" In ord..:r to avoid all doubt and uncertainty which
might arise from the differences of opinion relative to the
validity of th,3 fundamental laws of the German people,
we ordain. as follows, after having advised with our
Council of Mate and with the approval of our faithful
States:—
" The fundamental laws of the German people, which
the Germa.n Diet, by a resolution of the 23d August last,
declared to be non-obligatory as the law of the Empire,
ehall have no force in the kingdom of Wurtemburg,
unless special laws shall bo passed adopting their pro-

-
visions.
Our Ministers are charged with the execution of the
present law.
Given at Stuttgardt the 2d of April, 1852.
Signed)
'6 WILLIAM."
Two commissions have just been appointed at
Hanover, one to inquire into the laws for the admi-
nistration of justice in their relation to the provisions
of the Constitution, and to report as to any changes
necessary to be effected by them; and the other to
examine the communal and municipal ordinances.
Both these commissions have been appointed in a very
arbitrary manner, and most of the members have no
seats in the Council of State.

HEAL
e-iii- (1
V"% ETfIWEEK.
TfloFo(Fromthe
1 tNe Dg i
sOt
rN DU
Registrar-General's
r .Gneral Report.)
The total number of deaths registered in the me-
tropolis in the wear that ended last Saturday was
1,324. This number exhibits a
further increase on
the high rate of mortality in previous
weeks, but to a
considerable extent it is augmented by cases on which
inquests have been held, and which are now entered
in the registers iu undue proportion. The following
are the weekly numbers returnedl
since the end of
February, after a deduction ' made of " sudden
deaths," and those caused byIS
and other violent means, which
drowning, fractures,
. constitute nearly the
whole of the cases returned 13
1,146, 1,182, 1,146, and 1,181. Y coroners :-1,093,
In the ten corresponding we
51 the average number of eks of the year 1842-
deaths was 974, which,
if raised in proportion to the i
during that period and up
to the
of population
the present time, be-
comes 1,071. The present return,
an excess above the average of
2dr3,
therefore, exhibits
Last week the deaths of 561 children under 15
years, of 471 persons of 15
Years and under 60, and
of 291 persons aged 60 year
gistered. Of the last-mentioned and upwards, were re-
and 165 were women. of t class 126 were men
e men only one was a
nonagenarian, but no fewer :than 10 of the women
had reached 90 years, and
attained 100. two of these had nearly
The mortality produced by diseases of the respi-
ratory organs is still of unusual amount ; the deaths,
which were in the previous week 243, having been
249 in the last, while the
responding weeks is onlycorrected average of cor-
responding
weeks bronchitis Nve 193. In each of the last
much in excess of the s fatal to 128 persons, being
fatal at the same time average, while pneumonia was
the usual number. is, to 72 and 80, which is about
est Week phthisis (or consump-
tion) carried off 15 children under 15 years, 139 per-
sons of 15 years, and
under 60, and 7 of 60 years and
upwards, altogether
sponding weeks of 18161 persons, whilst in corre-
-42.51 the lowest number was
115, and the greatest 149, and the average 129.
Amongst epidonli
as much as it has do
a small-pox continues to prevail
for a long period, and scarla-
tina shows a dipoeireri
to increase. Last week the
m forer was fatal in 12 7 cases (in 5 of which it is stated
that vaccination h
and the latter in 3 Bad been previously performed),
. The following death was also
registered—the daughter of a stonemason, aged 2
March,
years, on 30th i at 9, Eccleston-place, Belgrave
subdistrict, from 'cholera (98 hours)."

STATE OF THE
MoNDAY.—ThreWe.
SUNDAY.— n
rh-
amountcloud was variable until night,
when the sky bee
covered till night, and of ,
became overcast ; Lumulostratus and cirro-
stratus.
TFRuisADAT.-oTrieli.ethi:Al:llEß DURING THE PAST WEEK.
cirrocumulus and eirru ths of the sky were generally
cirrostratus. Rain fell - it.the evening, chiefly after
THUl:ADAY.—ThielleskSky
9h. P.M. during
cirrocumulus and cirrostratus.
I', became
gain
fe l overcast
duringver c ast i
he stratus
morning.and
skyrd pliarst.
wEDNizsDAy......,... s ratus.
cirrostratus.overcast throughout the day ;
noon, and generally
clear wdiatring the remainder of the day;
wass co
ovve
er
rc
eads t
with
r;
Of the sky was covered till lh,
P.m., and it was clear the remainder of the day;
during
cirrocumulus.
SArmipAy.—rri,
..e sky was one-half covered with cloud
till lh. P.M., and generally clear during the remainder of the
day ; cirrocumulus and strg
atus-
ELECTRICITY.—Nothin was shown during the week.
The mean reading of a- thermometer placed on the main-
reading and read each da at 9b. A.M. was 46.5°the mean
rat 911. p.j&L Zas ', -3° ; the mean readings at the
Royal Observatory for thesame times were 45.55 and 41.2°
respectively.
The reading of the barometer increased from 29,19 in.
at the beginning of the week to 29'53 in. by lob. A as, on
the 28th; decreased to 23•10 in. by 9h. A.m. on the 30th; in-
creased to 30'21 in. by noon on April 3d; and decreased to
30'14 in, by the end of the Week'