The Sun.
London, England, 1839-12-28 00:00:00

CHRISTENINGS AND BURIALS.

The " General Bill of the Christenings and Burials
within the City of London and bills of mortality, from
Dec. 11, 1838, in Dec. 10, 1839," presents the follow
ing results
In the 97 parishes within the walls :—Christened,
673 ; buried, 629.
In the 17 parishes without the walls :—Christened,
3,801 ; buried, 2,727.
In the 24 out parishes in Middlesex and Surrey
Christened, 12,774 ; buried, 11,360.

In the 10 parishes in the city and liberties of West-
minster :—Christened, 1,771 ; buried, 1,969.

Christened Buriod ii Ma1e5...9,455 . .
Males.. . 8,406
Females 9,564 1 Females 8,279
Tota , 19,019 Total, 16,685

Of the number buried were :—Under two years of
age, 4,371 ; two and under five years, 2,035 ; five and
under ten, 893 ; ten and under twenty, 657 ; twenty
and under thirty, 1,170 ; thirty and under forty, 1,486 ;
forty and under fifty, 1,660 ; fifty and under sixty,
1,434 ; sixty and under seventy, 1,475 ; seventy and
and under eighty, 1,089 ; eighty and under ninety,
377 ; ninety and under one hundred, 37 ; one hundred
and four, 1.
Buried 832 still-born children, not included in the
above.

The clerks of the following large parishes have ne-
glected to make any report of their christenings and
burials this year: St. Botolph, Aldersgate-street ; St.
Botolph, Aldgate ; All Saints, Poplar ; St. Ann, in
Middlesex ; St. John, Wapping ; St. Mary, Lambeth ;
St. Mark, Kennington ; St. Matthew, Brixton ; St.
Ann, Westminster ; St. George, Hanover-square ; St.
James, Westminster ; St. Martin-in-the• Fields ; and
the precinct of the Savoy.
In some parishes the office of searcher has been discon-
tinued : the clerks of such parishes have therefore not
the means of ascertaining the diseases of which the per-
sons reported by them have died, and have thereier,2 in-
cluded them with the unknown causes.

Among the diseasus and casualties are enumerated
the following :

DlSELSE;.—Abscess, 65 ; age and debility, 1,518 ;
apoplexy, 192 ; asthma, 335 ; cancer, 45 ;
105 ; cholera, 3 ; consumption, 1,974 ; constipation of
the bowels, 6 ; convulsions, 1,218 ; croup, 55 ; dentition
or teething, 278 ; diabetes, 6 ; diarrhcea, 29 ; dropsy,
451 ; dropsy on the brain, 229 ; dropsy on the chest,
38 ; dysentery, 4 ; epilepsy, 25 ; erysipelas, 37 ; fever,
530 ; fever, intermittent or ague, 6 ; fever (scarlet), 471 ;
fever (typhus), 132 ; fistula, 3 ; gout, 9 ; haemorrhage,
28 ; heart, diseased, 79 ; hernia, 2 ; hooping-cough,
252 ; hydrophobia, 1 ; inflammation, 677 ; inflamma-
tion of the bowels and stomach, 160 ; inflammation of
the brain, 134 ; inflammation of the lungs and pleura,
315 ; influenza, 12 ; insanity, 119 ; jaundice, 8 ; liver
diseased, 54 ; locked-jaw, 2 ; measles, 478 ; miscarriage,
4 ; mortification, 69 ; paralysis, 99 ; rheumatism, 16 ;
scrofula, 4 ; small-pox, 239 ; sore throat and quinsey.
23 ; spasm, 18 ; stone and gravel, 3 ; stricture, 10 ;
thrush, 47 ; tumour, 18 ; worms, 2 ; unknown causes,
5,673 ; casualties, as under, 375 : 16,685.
CASUALTIRS —Drowned, 76 ; died by visitation of
God, 67 ; excessive drinking, 13 ; found dead, 12 ;
killed by various accidents, 171 ; murdered 1; poisoned,
6 ; suicides, 29 : 375.

A TROUBLESOME CUSTOMER.—The Court
of Assizes at Marseilles has been engaged for five days
on the trial of a band of seven robbers, who, last spring.
repeatedly stopped the diiigences in the ncighbourhoood
of that city and Toulon, of which we gave accounts
at the time. The facts were clearly proved ; one only
was acquitted from some defect in the evidence ;
five were sentenced to hard labour at the hulks for
life, and the last to the same punishment for five
years. When the criminals were brought into Court
to hear judgment, some acts of violence being ap-
prehended from them, they were all manacled, and at_
tended by Is Gendarmes, while a guard of 36 men were
stationed in the court outside. Oa the verdict hein,,
announced to them, Dor, one of the five condemned le
life, rose, and with a stentorian voice exclaimed, that it
was an act of injustice, adding " Coquins de jures !'
" Coquins de juges !" Striking the bar in front of the
dock with his irons on his hands, he broke it down with
a single blow. Eight gendarmes attempted to secure
him, but he overthrew thtm all, and, seizing the sword
of one drew it half out of its scabbard before it could
be wrested from him. A long and desperate struggle
ensued to remove the violent man from the Court.
This, however, could not be accomplished without the
united strength of twelve gendarmes, who at last got
Lim back into prison, where it was found impossible to
put additional chains on his limbs until the keeper
threatened to let loose a savage dog at him. Upon this
Dor submitted. Laval, another of the five, made a
similar attempt, but was soon subdued, and listened pa-
tiently to his sentence. The Sud, of Marseilles, states
that on the very day after the above scene, the diligence
to Avignon was stopped at the same spot as that chosen
by the men now under condemnation.
TILE KELFIELD PROPHETESS. Hannah
White, formerly Hannah &edam, the fanatic whose
prophecy of her own death a few years ago created such
a sensation in this city and its vicinity, and Hl,, 1 so
many to make a pilgrimage to Kelfield, in order to wit-
ness its accomplishment, in reality paid the debt of
nature, in Bedern, in this city, on Monday last, without
making rclsnostication of her departure. Shortly
aftertheanfiy Ptilure of her strange prediction, she got mar-
ried, and has left two young children. Her closing days
have been passed in distress and poverty.—York Cou-
rant.

TETE KING GE HOLLAND'S MARRIAGE.—
A letter from the Hague says, " A report which has
for some time past been gaining ground, that the King
has been secretly married at Rome, by proxy, to
Mademoiselle d'Oultremont, has had great influence
upon the Dutch deputies in the rejectionr of the Go-
vernment measure for the loan. This reputed mar-
riage does incalculable injury to the Orange dynasty_"