The Sun.
London, England, 1830-01-21 00:00:00

AUSTRIAN FUNDS.

JAN. 7.—Metalliques, 103 i; Four per Cent. 94i ;
Bank Shares, 1,287.

JAN. B.—Metallique., 104 i; Four per Cent., 95i-;
Bank Shares, 1,295.
JAN. 9.—Metalliques, 105; Four per Cent., 95k;
Bank Shares, 1,304.

ST. PETERSBURGI!, JAN. G.

On the 31st Dec. his Majesty the Emperor was
pleased, for the first time since the recovery of his
health, to which the interests of so many millions of
men are attached, to be present at the parade of the
battalion of the Ismailow regiment of the Guards in
the drill hour. His Majesty was welcomed with
loud huzzas, which his Majesty, greatly affected,
in vain endeavoured to check by waving his hand.
On the 27th Nov., by the carelessness of an ar-
tilleryman, an explosion took place in the great
powder magazine at Shumla, which not only de-
stroyed the whole of the stone-building, in which
there were 6,81)0 cartridges, and 2,000 barrels
of gunpowder, but also 40 field-pieces, that were
ready to be sent to Adrianople, were broken to
pieces and totally spoiled ; nay, the latter were for
the most part melted, and 48 artillery men were
killed. In the same building there was a magazine
of provisions, in which it is said 10,000 sacks of
corn and a great quantity of other provisions were
destroyed. The fire in this magazine continued the
whole day, and as the bombs, grenades, &c. were
flying about in all directions, nobody ventured to
• attempt to extinguish it, though the Grand Vizier
was present the whole time. On the first explo-
sion, the bombs flying over the town in every direc-
tion, a great agitation prevailed among the inhabi-
tants and the troops ; and, till the real cause was
known, there was a general cry that the Russians
were storming the town. This false alarm caused
great confusion, which the Grand Vizier himself
found it very difficult to put astop to.

BRUSSELS, JAN. 16.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Brunswick nr-
rived here yesterday, on his way to Paris.
JAN. 17.—We learn from the States Courant
that the first sitting of the Second Chamber of the
States General will be on the 18th.
JAN. 19.—The Duke of Brunswick left this city
on the 8111. M. Preble, Ambassador from the
United States, arrived yesterday.

The following is from our Paris Correspon-
dent

" PARIS, JAN, 17.

" A Board of Health has been long esta-
blished in Paris, whose duty it is to watch over
every circumstance which can at all affect the
salubrity of the supplies of water, the cleanliness
of streets and thoroughfares, and in general
whatever relates to the wholesomeness of food
and the health of the inhabitants at large. A
report has just been published by this Board,
which contains a variety of details of an irate-
' resting nature a. 3 to the amount of mortality in
Paris, and the diseases by which it is produced.

In the year 1828 the number of deaths in this
capital amounted to 24,299, showing an excess
over the previous year 1827, during which there
were only 23,241 deaths, of 1,058. In the
total of 24,299,' there were 11,430 males and
11,859 females.
" In the classification of diseases, adopting
the order in which they produce the greatest
number of deaths, it is found that consumption
(phthisis pubnonaris) always occupies the first
rank. During the year 1828 this disease de-
stroyed in Paris 1,133 men and 1,526 women.
The periods of life when it makes the greatest
number of victims are, in women from 15 to
45, and in men from 20 to 35 years of age.
This is a result confirmed by long and frequent
observation. The next disease in the order of
mortality is the chronic or pulmonary cough,
which, in many respects, is similar to consump-
tion, but which attacks its victims of both sexes
from the age of 50 and upwards. In 1828 the
number of deaths from this disease amounted to
688 men, and 851 women. Of the diseases
which commit such extensive ravages in the first
years of life, inflammation of the stomach has
caused the death of 922 males and 1,124
females ; and inflammation of the bowels, 1,018
males and 1,122 females. Inflammation of the
peritoneum has proved fatal in the same year to
141 males and 407 females. It is in the first
year of life, and in males from the age of 15 and
upwards, that this last disease proves chiefly
fatal ; among females it attacks its victims also
from the age of 15 to 45. Inflammation of the
brain and its membranes, in the year in ques-
tion, produced the death of 254 males and 206
females ; the greatest number of whom were at-
tacked in the three first months of life, and from
the age of 15 to 70. Inflammation of the lungs
destroyed 1,042 men and 1,169 women, the
deaths taking place in the greatest number from
the age of 15 and upwards; but partly also in
the three first months, and a considerable pro-
portion in the three first years of life. During
the same period 477 men and 430 women have
died of apoplexy. Schirrosities, cancers, and
cancerous ulcers have, in the same year, de-
stroyed 174 men and 541 women ; these ma-
ladies being chiefly fatal from the age of 30 and
upwards. Of aneurism of the heart there have
died 223 men and 286 women, the fatal period
beginning in both sexes at the age of 20, and
extending over the whole term of existence.

" Fevers are classed in the following order:—
Cerebral or brain fever, 339 males and 340
females, the fatal period extending from the age
of six months to that of six years ; malignant
fever, 97 males and 95 females ; putrid fever,
90 males and 91 females ; bilious fever, 65
males and 54 females ; this whole class of
diseases attacking its victims from the age of 15
and upwards.
" Among the diseases which more particu-
larly affect the period of infancy, it is found that
889 boys and 852 girls have died of convul-
sions, the greater number in the three first
months of life, and from the first to the fourth
year. In teething 154 boys and 161 girls have
died ; in measles, 120 boys and 202 girls ; in
small-pox, 85 boys and 35 girls; in hooping-
cough, 78 boys and 82 girls ; and in croup, 77
boys and 75 girls. Premature births and still-
born children amount to 682 boys and 564
girls ; and those who, from weakness at birth,
have sunk during the three first months of life
to 215 boys and 298 girls.
" On inquiring into the principal causes of
mortality, it is to be observed that consumption,
chronic or catarrhal cough, inflammation of sto-
mach, bowels, and the lungs, have caused nearly
four-fifths of the total number of deaths. Cough
and consumption, as in former years, and nearly
in the same ratio, have made more victims among
women than among men ; the same observation
applies to cancerous affections and the diseases
of the peritoneum.
" Among children convulsions and measles
are the two disorders which have caused the
greatest number of deaths. It is observable that
small-pox has cut off more than double the num-
ber of boys than of girls, which may probably
arise from a greater degree of carelessness in
parents, in having their sons vaccinated, from
their not being so anxious about their personal
appearance as about that of their daughters.
The benefit of the great discovery of vaccination,
however, as a preservative from the ravages of
small-pox, is now very generally acknowledged
in this country, and the prejudices which were
for some time spread against it begin to yield
before the mass of evidence by which its efficacy
is daily attested.
" It appears that the population of France is
annually increased in the ratio of one in 58 ;
the number of boys which are born, as com-
pared with that of girls, being in the proportion
of 16 to 15, although it has been ascertained
that among natural children the number of females
is greater than that of males. The average
number of marriages is 201,998 per annum ;
and the average period of the duration of human
life, which in the time of Voltaire, as stated in
his Man of Forty Crowns,' was only 21 years,
is now ascertained to be 31 ; an improvement
which is perfectly analogous to what has been
observed on this subject in England, where the
tables of mortality, which were used for the pur-
pose of calculating the value of life annuities,
have of late years been found to be totally inap-
plicable to the duration of human life at the pre-
sent day. In the whole of France a centenarian
is found among every 66,670 of the population ;
in 1827 there died of the age of 100 and up-
wards 153 ; of these fifteen were in the depart-
ment of the Lower Pyrenees, ten in the Gi-
-1 ronde, seven in Cantal, six in Aveyron, and seven
in Gers.

By a census of Paris and of the depart-
ment of the Seine, which has just been com-
pleted for the purpose of determining the annual
contingent to he furnished by
the capital and
the metropolitan department to the army, the
municipal authorities have succeeded in reducing
their numbers for the city to 633,615, and for
the department to 756,557. These numbers

exclude of course all foreigners, and even native
strangers who have not a fixed domicile in the
capital or the department respectively."

The present winter is likely to be memorable
with stage-coachmen and travellers generally.
The late severe frost has been succeeded by
heavy falls of snow all over the country—then a
gentle thaw for about twenty-four hours—frost
again—and now a thaw. We are informed by the

General Post-office, that the roads are in such
a state from the accumulation of snow, that the
mail coaches have been more obstructed than for
many years past. One half of the mail coaches
only had reached the General Post-office by nine
o'clock, this morning, and letter carriers were
despatched with such letters as had arrived up to
half-past ten, at which hour none of the western
mails had come in.

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, T WEL Y 1 O'CLOCK

The Washington Papers state that despatches
have been received from Mr. Moore, American Mi-
nister at Colombia, stating that he has succeeded in
procuring the admission of the justice and validity
of most of the American claims on the Colombian
Government.

Accounts from Porto Rico of the 9th Nov. state,
that seven young men were executed there, con-
demned as pirates.
Quebec Papers to the sth Dec., Montreal to the
9th Dec., and New Orleans to the 25th Nov., have
been received at the North and South American
Coffee-house. The Quebec Papers state that the
Legislature of New Brunswick has been called for
the despatch of business by the President, on Tues-
day, Jan. 12.
The Montreal Papers say, we understand that in
consequence of the Hudson Bay Company refusing
to pay any part of the funds belonging to the late
North-West Company, Mr. Ermatenger, as agent,
is going to England, and intends to prosecute those
creditors' claims.

The number of emigrants, says the Quebec Paper
of the 3d December, who have landed at this port
during the summer has been unusually great, and
may be estimated at 17,000 or 18,000. There are
upwards of 10,000 from Ireland, 3,500 from Eng-
land, and 2,500 from Scotland.
The New Orleans Papers state, by accounts from
the Havannah of the Bth November, that an extra-
ordinary duty has been put on flour coming from
Spain in foreign bottoms of five dollars per barrel.
Another fire has taken place in the ill-fated city
of Augustine; the damages done are calculated at
20,000 dollars.