The Sun.
London, England, 1865-01-23 00:00:00

Richmond .

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Northallerton
Newmarket 2d Oct 9

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THE CONVICT KOHL.—This convict, awaiting
sentence of death in Springfield Gaol, Chelmsford,
continues to protest his innocence. The convict had an
interview, in the course of last week, with his wife and
sister-in law. The wife, a respectable young woman, was
deeply affected, indeed she fainted twice during the painful
meeting.: The conversation which passed related chiefly to
family matters. The convict expressed himself highly
pleased at seeing his wife, and offered up an earnest prayer
for her future well-being. The sentence of the law will be
carried out on Thursday.
THE NAPOLEONS IN THE IRISH COURTS.—The
Lord Chancellor pronounced a decree yesterday on
the petition of Mr. Napoleon A. Bonaparte Wyse, eldest
son of the late Sir Thomas Wyse, praying for a specific
performance of certain marriage articles on the occasion of
the marriage of the deceased, at Paris, with Madame
Letitia Bonaparte. The object of the petitioner was to esta-
blish his right to the estates of his father in the Queen's
county and the county of Waterford. There is another
suit pending as to the amount of jointure to which Madame
Wyse is entitled, but that is not affected by the decree.
THE RECENT GALE.—The Royal National Life-
boat Institution, having had its attention drawn to
the want of a liteboat station somewhere on the embayed
line of coast between Selsea, Bill and Portsmouth harbour
by the account of the wreck of the schooner Ocean on the
dangerous shoals off Hayling Island, which appeared in
The Sun of the 16th inst., has already taken the prelimi-
nary steps for the establishment of a lifeboat station on
the island, and has commenced for that purpose, through
the secretary of the institution, Mr. Richard Lewes, a
correspondence with the Rev. Charles Hardy, vicar of
Hayling. Mr. Hardy has been resident 30 years on the
island, and his long experience will therefore necessarily
render him a valuable coadjutor in the good work taken in
hand by the National Lifeboat Institution. Previous to the
communication from the institution having been received,
Mr. Hardy had appealed through the local press for aid to
assist in the establishment of a lifeboat on the island, and
the offer of aid from the National Lifeboat Institution
came, therefore, very opportunely for the perfection and
completion of a scheme for the saving of human life
which has been a well-known matter of necessity since
lifeboat stations were first established on our coasts. The
close vicinity of the harbour and dockyard of Portsmouth
has, perhaps, by the false feeling of " help always at
hand " which their near neighbourhood has somewhat
naturally inspired, prevented the placing of a lifeboat at
any previous time on this part of the coast ; but the recent
wreck of the Ocean, and the proved inability of the dock-
yard authorities to render any aid, even with the smallest
of their tug steamers, have at length brought action as well
as conviction, and a certain means of help will now always
be at the service of shipwrecked seamen, and provided from
a legitimate and never-failing source. There appears to be
an excellent site for the boathouse on the beach, which
there will not be much difficulty in obtaining for the pur-
pose ; there are a sufficient number of fishermen within
hail always to man the boat ; and last, but not the least
important fact, a very unanimous and excellent spirit is
prevailing among the resident inhabitants on the subject.
DESERTIONS.—A correspondent of the New York
Times writes in an article at the close of the year as
follows :—" We hear of the President calling for a force of
several hundred thousand men. The papers tell us gleefully
of the rapidity with which enrolments are taking place.
Presently we hear every town and village boasting that it
has filled up its quota ; but where are the soldiers ? As an
illustration of how some disappear, here is therecord of one

single regiment among those that have come to my notice.
Of three detachments of substitutes sent from Concord,
New Hampshire, to join the sth New Hampshire Volunteers,
amounting to 625 men, 137 deserted on the passage, leaving
only 488 to arrive at the regiment. Of the 488 who gottothe
regiment and were consigned to companies, 82 deserted to
the enemy from picket line, 36 deserted to the rear, fourhave
been discharged as utterly worthless, their physical incapa-
city being so glaring and of such long standing that it
must have been known at the time of enlistment; five have
been sent back to Concord to have their cases of enlist-
ment investigated by order of the War Department ;
and two have been discharged by order of the War Depart-
ment. Thus, out of 625 of these bounty-tempted warriors
sent to one regiment only since August last, there are only
359 left, and, as these have come to the army through the
same venal influences, and probably gone through theusamb 0
loose or fraudulent examination, it is impose=
many more may follow suit, in spite of the death
Penalty
f r out of
leto t ow
be-
fore them. I use the term fraudulent advisedly ;n
for
one
the four discharged as utterly worthless, onoenenhaxl hernia,
leg several inches shorter than the othere;ars ;
and the two
that Lad made him a cripple for many Yea
ll that any imbecile
others were such impracticablel
imiro
without one incapable of any duty
ge must have seen
at a glance t These are shameful revela,
whatever, mental or p-I"Plea•lblic are made acquainted with
lzhatrtit/leeyofwmer.eediuci
tions, but the sooner the p,s-trouL,
abuses the sooner do we
the existence of such mon
them
met
stand a chance of seeing
unnisthe month of
f
HEALTH OF SCOTLAN
here were registered 'tithe eight principal
Dec., 1864, t
Scotland the births of 3,139 childreVi of whom
towns of
rattles and 1,510 females.
atterl;wied
Of th 2V6 were
1,599 were ese.
legitimate and 283 illegitimate, indicating a proportioD of
one illegitimate in every 11.0 births. The proportion of
illegitimate births was lowest in Greenock, where it was 413
per cent., while in Aberdeen 18.3 per cent. of the births were
illegitimate. Eight hundred and eighty
four marriages were
registered in the eight towns during the month, being by.
far the highest number registered in December during Al°
nine previous years. The deaths of 2,411 persons were
registered. Allowing for increase of population, the deaths
would be the exact average of the corresponding period
during the nine preceding years. Forty-four per cent. of.
the deaths were of children under five years of age. In Aber-'
deen the proportion was 10 per cent. below this average
and in Dundee the average was exceeded by seven per cent
The zymotic class of diseases proved fatal to 756 person; (34
31 per cent. of the deaths. Typhus fever was the most fatal
epidemic; it caused 244 death; or 10.1 per cent. of the,
whole deaths. In Glasgow the proportion of deaths fret!!
typhus was 11.7 per cent.; in Paisley, 12.5; and in Greenock,
20.1 per cent. This is the most severe epidemic of typhull
fever experienced in Scotland for many years. Scarlatina
caused 153 deaths ; measles, 102 ; hooping-cough, 89 ;
pox, 15 ; diarrhoea and dysentery, 31; diphtheria, 30 ;
croup, 47 ; metria, 9 ; erysipelas, 13 ; apoplexy, 23 ; para-,
lysis, 52 ; diseases of the heart, 92 ; inflammatory affectiontt
of the respiratory organs, 202 ; bronchitis, 276 ; consump-
tion, 222. Seven of the persons who died (one male and
six females) had exceeded the age of 95 years; the two
eldest (females) were aged 95 years respectively.