The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-02 00:00:00

BIP.TIIS.
The number of births in the quarter that ended
31st March was 186,653. In the same period of
1861 it was about 173,000; in that of last year it
was 182,000. The annual birth-rate to the quarter
(births to population) was 3.698 per cent., being
higher: than the average, which is 3.594. It was
higher than it had been in any quarter during the
' course of ten years, 1853.62, except the spring
quarter of 1851 and the winter quarter of 1860.
If the last two winter quarters are compared in
respect to births, it will be found that those of 1863
were more numerous than those of 1862 in all the
eleven divisions, except that which is the seat of
the cotton manufacture; unless the northern coun-
ties, where there was a trifling decrease, constitute
another exception. Not only have the marriages
been comparatively few in Lancashire, but the re-
moval of families from that county in quest of un-
ployment has been of sufficient importance to
reduce the registration of births in the parts which
they have forsaken. The births of last quarter
were in excess of the deaths in the same tithe by
58,129.

The number of English emigrants to all parts
was about 10,075.
DEATHS, AND THE STATE OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH,
A winter remarkably " mild" has also been re-
markably unhealthy. The deaths in England in
the three months ended 31st of March were 128,534,
against 122,192 in the same period of last year,
which supplies an example of average health in
winter, and may be taken as a means of comparison.
It will be an approximation to the truth to state
that people died in the quarter at the rate of 20,000
in a year, whose lives would have been saved if
epidemics or atmospheric causes of a nature unfavour.
able to health had not been in greater force than
usual. The rate of mortality was 2.546 per cent.,
the average being 2'498. The mortality of small
towns and rural districts was 2'343 per cent.
(against an average of 2'287). That of the chief
towns was 2.705 per cent. (against an average of
2688). The country appears to have suffered from
the effects of the winter more than the town. In
London a sudden interruption of early epring
weather, by a fall of the temperature, occurred in
March, and was followed by an extraordinary in-
crease of mortality, which continued many weeks
after the apparent cause had ceased, and warm
weather had resumed its sway.

ALLEGED OUTRAGE BY A FEDERAL OFFICER.
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up. My arms were lashed firmly behind me, and then
fastened to a ring bolt. Commander Hooker then said he
gave Lieutenant Everson authority to either hang or
shoot me, or all of us, if he thought proper ; also, if any-
one showed the slightest signs of insubordination, to blow
our brains out on the spot. I was kept tied up for about
one hour, and then taka.n on board the Victoria. The fire-
man, O'Niel, was sent on shore at Fort Monroe." Tins ,x;
traordinary statement is said to be corroborated by be!re.,roi..
of the crew of the Nicolai T. who are at present in Liver-

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BIRTHS, DEATHS, AND MAiIIaAGES.
(From Me Registrar-General's
Quarterly _Return)
This return comprises the births and deathsfregis-
tered by 2,201 registrars in all the districts
land during the Winter quarter that endedoMardcgh-
-31, 1863; and the marriages in 12,620 churches or
chapels, about 4,754 registered places of worship
unconnected with the Established Church, and 640
superinteneent Registrars' offices, in the quarter
that ended Dcc. 31, 1862.
The birth rate was unusually well maintrinecl
last quarter, and it has been high during eight suc-
cessive quarters. In respect to marriages the gene-
ral result is unfavourable; the returns now extend
to the end of last year, and it is ascertained that
during the whole of two years, 1861-2, the mar-
riage rate has been low. In the last quarterly re-
port it was shown that the mortality was high,
and the returns since obtained furnish equal
evidence that in the first quarter of the present
year the public health has not improved. The cold
weather of November was fatal to many persons,
and the effects of that month were probably not
unfelt after the year had closed, and also causes
that were proper to last quarter rendered it more
unfavourable to health than many seasons that were
less remarkable for their mildness.
MARRIAGES.

There were 48,659 marriages in the last quarter
of 1862; a number nearly the saino as that of the
corresponding period of 1861, but less than in that
of 1860, when it was 50,688. The circumstances
that have operated to depress marriages in England
have not prevented an increase of them in certain
parts. In the three March quarters of 1860-62 the
marriages in London were respectively 7,265, 7,333,
and 7,821. A few districts in the south-eastern
division that furnish examples of increase may be
noted--viz., Thanet, Faversham, Eastbourne, Hail-
sham, Ticehurst, Uckfield, and East Grinstead.
There is in England as much diversity in the social
condition of the populations of different localities as
in the nature of their respective soils ; they have
their various times and opportunities to win or lose,
to marry or abstain from marriage. Circumstances
of an exceptional nature are also constantly at work
to cause fluctuations in the marriage lists; as, for
example, the attraction of labourers to a spot for
the construction of a new line of railway, or the
partial interruption of operations in an iron mine.
In five of the eleven divisions an increase of mar-
riages is found in comparing those of the December
quarter of 1862 with the mean of the two corres-
ponding quarters. Those five divisions are Lon-
don, north-midland counties, Wales, south-eastern
counties, and northern counties. The increase in
the northern counties is hardly appreciable. In the
remaining six divisions there is a decrease which
varies from about 1 per cent. in the south-midland
and eastern counties to 4 and 5 per cent. in the
west midland counties and Yorkshire, and to no
less than 15 per cent. in the north-western division,
in which the cotton manufacturing industry has
been so long in a state of prostration.
The annual marriage-rate in England (persons
married to the population) in the quarter was 1.890
per cent,, against an average of 1'975. In London
it was 2.15; and in Lancashire it was 1.70 per cent.