The Sun.
London, England, 1865-11-01 00:00:00

TEE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVENUIPAI 1, 180,

ceipts accruing to this company from July 1 to Oct.
22 amounted to £12,989, as against £12,606 for the
corresponding period of 1864, and the expenses to
£6,176, as against £6,450.

Naval and Military Intelligence.
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A War-office circular, signed by Lieut.-Gen. Sir
E. Lugard, K.C.8., Under-Secretary of State for
War, has been received at Chatham, promulgating
new and amended regulations for the government
and employment of prisoners confined in military
prisons. The order directs that " hard labour" in
all military prisons shall consist of drill, gun, or
shot exercise, carrying, piling, and cleaning shot,
breaking stones, cleaning the prison, picking oakum,
and such other modes of employment as may from
time to time be introduced under the sanction of
the Secretary of State for War.

The autumnal inspections of the infantry and
other troops at Chatham garrison having been
brought to a termination by Major-Gen. Sir
Robert Walpole, K.C.8., a large number of officers
belonging to the various corps have been granted
leave of absence for more or less lengthened periods,
under the provisions of the general order recently
issued from the Horse Guards on the subject.
The military sanitary committee appointed at
Chatham garrison by Major-Gen. Sir Robert
Walpole, commanding the forces, of which Colonel
J. W. S. Smith, C. 8., commanding the Ist tat. of
Infantry, is the president, have called upon the
Local Board of Health for the plans, reports, and
other official documents in the possession of that
body relating to the drainage of the town,
which is, generally, in an unsatisfactory condi-
tion. The whole of the required documents have
been placed at the disposal of the military sani-
tary committee by the Local Board, who have also
appointed a committee of their body to co-operate
for the improvement of the town with the military
commission, one of the leading members 'at the
recent meeting of the Board having intimated that
unless something were speedily done to improve the
defective drainage and sanitary condition of Chat-
ham, the interference of Government would un-
doubtedly be invoked. Only a short time since the
Local Board of Health rejected a scheme for the
general drainage of the town on the score of the
expense it would entail on the ratepayers.

The contract for the construction of the formid-
able ironclad frigate of war for the Turkish Govern-
ment, to which allusion was made in The Sun a few
days since, has been taken by the Thames Iron Ship-
building Company. According to the announce-
ment made at Chatham yesterday, the building of
the vessel will be forthwith commenced, the order
for her construction stipulating that she shall be
built with the least possible delay. As already stated,
the new, Turkish war ship is intended to surpass in
offensive and defensive powers, as well as in speed,
all other ironclad ships, not only including those
also which, like the Hercules, are little more, at pre-
sent, than mere names. The new Turkish frigate,
which is to be named the Turkistan, will not differ
materially in size from several of the ironclads
already existing in this country, her proposed dimen-
sions being 365 ft. long, 60ft. in breadth, mean
draught of water 26ift., and 1,150 nominal and
6,000 indicated horse power. It is, however, in the
character and arrangement of her armour and arma-
ment that she will be widely different from every-
thing else afloat, rendering her, in this respect, the
most formidable vessel of war the world has yet seen.
At the express request of the Sultan, she has
been designed by our Chief Constructor of the
Navy, and consequently she will embody in a strik-
ing degree all the improvements suggested during
the construction of the latest of the iron frigates
composing our ironclad squadron. The Turkistan
will be protected from stem to stern at the water-
line, and over a battery containing 16 of the largest
guns in each broadside, the armour-plates every-
where being Bin. in thickness, fu addition to which
the " skin" of the ship will be double throughout,
as is the case with the Bellerophon. Two of the
protected 300-pounder or other larger broadside
guns will, at the same time, be placed at a heigh t
of about 20ft. above the water, and will thus have
a range of fire all round the bow and stern, so that
guns of the most powerful kind may be brought to
bear upon the enemy in all directions and in all
weathers. The engines of the frigate are to work
up to a great power, in order to produce a speed i 3
excess of that of the fastest ironclad ships. It is
understood that the Sultan himself transmitted to
the Turkish Ambassador the outlines of the kind of
vessel he wished to be constructed.

The following appointments have been made at
the Admiralty :—Commander W. H. Curving and
Commander H. A. Clavering to be Inspecting Com-
manders in the Coastguard ; Lieut. Christopher
Hassell to the Pembroke, for service in the Coast-
guard ; Sub-Lieut. W. F. E. Freeland, Sub-Lieut.
George H. R. Willis, Sub-Lieut. James A. T. Bruce,
and Sub-Lieut. Grosvenor Stopford to the Bristol ;
Reginald Custance, midshipman, to the Achilles ;
W. G. Eden, midshipman, to the Narcissus ; J. G.
Bremer, nominated to a naval cadetship; Dr. Horace
W. Smith, surgeon (additional), to the Saturn ; Dr.
A. Duckett, surgeon, to the Niger ; A. C. Jeffreys,
assistant paymaster, supernumerary, to the Victory;
Charles P. A. Broadway, clerk, supernumerary, to
the Fisgard ; and Edward Mathews, promoted to
the rank of engineer of her Majesty's fleet.

City Sewers Commission

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Yesterday, at 12 o'clock, the Commissioners of
Sewers of the City of London met at the Guildhall
for the despatch of public business. The chairman,
Henry De Jersey, Esq., Deputy, presided.
The Commissioners were occupied for some time
in disposing of a number of applications for shop-
fronts, cellar-flaps, area fittings, and other projec-
tions over the public ways of the City.

THE CITY CONTRIBUTION TOWARDS THE EXPENSES OF

THE METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS.

Mr. J. DAW, the . clerk to the Commissioners,
read a report from the General Purposes Com-
mittee, to whom it was referred to examine the pre-
cept of the Metropolitan Board of Works served on
the Chamberlain, requiring him to pay to the trea-
surer of that board, on the 25th March next, the
sum of £17,638 17s. 6d. for the main drainage rate
in the City for the year ending the Ist August. The
committee stated that they had carefully examined
into the matter, and found that the amount named
was correctly charged at 3d. in the pound on the
rating in the City. They added, that in the accus-
tomed way it would only have been for them to re-
port thus much, and to recommend that a main-
drainage rate should be made as usual at 3d. in the
pound; but they found that since the metropolis
main-drainage rate was first made under the
authority of the act of Parliament for that
purpose, the Metropolitan Board of Works
had habitually based their charge on the full
rental of the districts assessed, making no de-
duction for deficiencies in the collection caused by
empty houses, &c., or for the cost of making or
of collecting the rate. Hence a continually accumu-
lating deficiency had been caused in their accounts,
which now amounted to the sum of £1,500. The
committee found that in various districts of the me-
tropolis thelocal authoritieshad made such rate at a
sum exceeding 3d. in the pound, so as to meet such
deficiency. In order to be certified in a matter of
so much importance, they (the committee) had di-
rected a case to be prepared and submitted to coun-
sel, on the question whether the Court could make
such assessment at a sum exceeding 3d. in the pound,
and having been advised that they had such power,
and should exercise it, they now recommended that
a main-drainage rate should be made at 31d. in the
pound, so as to meet the requirements of the precept.
The report was adopted.

The CLERK laid before the Commission a
letter from the guardians of the West Lon-
don Union, enclosing communications from
two of the district medical officers of that union,
objecting to furnish the information to the medical
officer of health of the city (Dr. Letheby), as sug-
gested at a previous meeting, relative to the giving
notice to him in cases which came under their no-
tice of premises in their districts, and especially of
the houses inhabited by the poor, requiring orders
to be given for their sanitary improvement.
It was stated that the guardians of the East Lon-
don Union have acquiesced in the suggestion thrown
out by the medical officer, and directed communi-
cations to be addressed to the district medical
officers of that union, requesting them to furnish
Dr. Letheby with the information asked for.

HEALTH OF LONDON•

(Prom the Registrar•-General's Weekly Report.)

Tn the week that ended on Saturday, October the
28th, the births registered in London and ten other
large towns of the United Kingdom were 4,054 ;
the deaths registered 2,992. The annual rate of
mortality was 27 per 1,000 persons living. The
last four weeks show an increase, the rates having
been successively 24, 26, 26, and 27.

In London the births of 1,137 boys and 1,090 girls,
in all 2,227 children, were registered in the week.
In the correponding weeks of ten years-1855-64
—the average number, corrected for increase of popu-
lation, was 1,990.

The deaths registered in London during the week
were 1,377. It was the 43d week of the year, and
the average number of deaths for that week is, with
a correction for increase of population, 1,219. The
present return exhibits an excess over the estimated
number of 158.

Thirty-seven deaths were caused by measles, five
of which occurred in the sub-district of Cripplegate.
There were 60 from scarlatina, and 57 from typhus.
Forty-eight fatal cases of diarrhoea were returned,
the corrected average for the 43d week in ten pre-
vious years being 30. In the ten corresponding
weeks the number varied from 16 to 39. From
these facts it is evident that there is at the present
time in London a greater amount of fatal diarrhoea
than has been usually found to prevail at the end of
October.

Four deaths registered in the week are referred to
cholera, of which cases the following are the parti-
culars :—At 57, Frith-street, Soho, on the 22d of
October, the widow of a courier, aged 48 years,
" diarrhoea (5 days), partly in Paris and partly in
London ; Asiatic cholera (24 hours), exhaustion."
The medical attendant of this case adds on his
certificate, that " the patient never passed into
complete collapse ; the secretions became na-
tural, but having been previously out of health,
rslin rank from exhau:tion." At 8, Lower Pelli-
par-road, Woolwich, on the 21st of October, a pri-
vate of the Royal Marines, aged 41 years, " albu-
minuria (seven weeks), choleraic diarrhoea (36
hours)." At Buckingham-street, Marylebone, on
the 21st of October, the son of a plaster moulder,
aged five months, " choleraic diarrhoea (two days)."
At 1, Queen's-road East, Chelsea, on the 27th of
October, a widow, aged 68 years, " choleraic diarr-
hoea (14 hours)."
The wife of a journeyman plasterer died at 3,
Henry-street, Mile-end Old Town, from typhus ;
her child, three weeks old, died of bronchitis three
days previously; and three other children of the
same family were taken to the workhouse ill with
fever.

The following seven deaths by horses and con-
veyances were registered in the week :—ln Fins-
bury-square, on the 21st of October, a carman,
aged 45 years, run over by a cab ; died at St. Bar-
tholomew's Hospital. On the 29th of September a
carman, aged 35 years, run over ; died in Cross-
street, Shoreditch. On the 17th of October, son of
a 'tailor, aged 13 years, run over by a cart ; died in
High-street, Shadwell. On the 20th of October, a
farrier's labourer, aged 17 years, run over by a
cart; died in London Hospital. On the 23rd of
October, a carpenter, aged 63 years, run over ; died
in London Hospital. At Bermondsey, on the 13th
of October, the son of a carman, aged two years,
crushed by a waggon wheel ; died at Guy's llos-
pital. On the 17th of October a carman, aged 27
years, run over ; died in St. Mary's Hospital.
The annual rate of mortality last week was 24
per 1,000 in London, 28 in Edinburgh, and 27 in
Dublin ; 37 in Liverpool, 36 in Manchester, 24 in
Salford, 29 in Birmingham, 35 in Leeds, 23 in
Bristol, 30 in Hull, and 33 in Glasgow. The rate
in Vienna was 24 per 1,000 during the week ending
the 21st inst., when the temperature was 4.1 deg.
Fahrenheit higher than in the same week in London,
where the rate was 22 per 1,000.
In Liverpool the births in the week were 390, the
deaths 337 ; in Manchester, births 215, deaths 243 ;
Salfortl, birtls; ripatha 50 y llirmingliain, births
258, deaths 181; Leeds, births 134, deaths 152 ;
Bristol, births 101, deaths 70 ; Hull, births 61,
deaths 60; Edinburgh; births 121, deaths 93 ; Glas-
gow, births 315, deaths 261; and in Dublin, births
160, deaths 165. There were 261 deaths in Vienna
during the week ending the 21st inst.
Southampton.—Among the population of this
borough (estimated to the middle of the present year
at 53,001) 34 deaths were registered during the
week ending last Saturday; of these 3 were referred
to cholera, and 9to scarlatina. The annual rate of
mortality during the week was 33 per 1,000 persons
living.

At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29.322.
The barometrical pressure increased to 29.72 in. on
Wednesday, and fell to 28.85 in. on Friday. The
mean temperature of the air in the week was 46.9
deg., which is 1 deg. below the average of the same
week in 50 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher).
Saturday was cold, and the defect of mean tempera-
ture was 59.8 deg. on Tuesday ; the lowest night
temperature was 33.9 on Saturday. The range in
the week was, therefore, 25.9 deg. The mean daily
range was 12.8 deg. The difference between the
mean dew-point temperature and air temperature
was 3.3 deg. The mean degree of humidity of the
air was 89, complete saturation being represented by
100, which point was actually attained on Sunday,
and almost attained on Thursday. On Monday the
humidity was 94. The wind was very variable.
Rain fell to the great amount of 2.20 in. There was
rain on every day except Wednesday. On Sunday
(the 22d) it measured I.llin. ; on Thursday 0.72 in.
Friday was fine and partially cloudy till 2 p.m.
when the sky was overcast suddenly, and a heavy
squall of wind and rain occurred, accompanied by a
sudden change in the barometer, and a decrease of
7 deg. of temperature. At 2.45 p.m. the rain ceased.
At Clifton there fell on Sunday 1-22 in., but there
was none on that day at places north of Birming-
ham. The total fall during the week at Clifton
was so great as 3.19 inches.

Twenty-five planters are said to be under arrest
at Vicksburg, all charged with either maltreating or kill-
ing their former slaves.
TM P ORT ANT ADMIRALTY S [MTS. --The Chicago
Republican reports that there are now pending in the
United States district Court at Springfield4ll., forty suits
in Admiralty, involving property to the amount of one
million seven hundred thousand dollars. The most of
these grow out of cotton seizures in the rebel States during
the war, chiefly during the Red River expedition. The
property having been seized by the navy was sent
to Cairo and sold by order of court when cotton
averaged over a dollar per pound, and the pro-
ceeds deposited in the United States Treasury at
St. Louis, subject to order of court. The question is
whether this property belongs to the Government, to the
navy, or to the claimants who have appealed since the
seizure. Those claimants are both Northern and Southern
men, both loyal and disloyal. Tho points involved are
many and intricate. Questions of loyalty, citizenship,
agencies, and international law, are mingled together till
a labyrinth exists in which only lawyers could delight to
wander.

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