The Sun.
London, England, 1862-01-08 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

We have just received news of the safe arrival at
Quebec of the troops which embarked in the Persia,
and at Halifax of those which embarked in the
Australasian. The Australasian took out from
Liverpool the Ist Battalion of the Rifle Brigade,
numbering 40 officers and 833 non-commissioned
officers and rank and file, including an hospital
corps of 20 men. She had also on board seven
officers and 254 men of the Royal Artillery, toge-
ther with a battery of six Armstrong guns, with
their whole train, consisting of 16 carriages. The
Australasian also carried 6,000 stand of arms, in
addition to those borne by the troops, together
with 400,000 rounds of ball cartridge. The Rifle
battalion went out under command of Lord Alex-
ander Russell, brother of Earl Russell, and among
the officers of the corps were Major the Hon. J.
Stuart, whose brother is already with Lord Lyons
at Washington, as one of his Attaches ; Capt. Lord
A. Clinton, brother of the Duke of Newcastle;
Lieut. Lord Edward Cavendish, son of the Duke of
Devonshire; Lieut. the Hon. F. Somerville, Lieut.
the Hon. A. Pennington, and Ensign Lord Albert
Cecil. The Persia embarked the Ist Battalion of
the 16th Regiment of Foot, from Sheffield and
Weedon, and a detachment consisting of four
officers and 118 men of the Royal Engineers, under
the command of Capt. Magnay. The 16th con-
sisted of 36 officers and 823 men, besides an hospi-
tal corps of 46 men belonging to the battalion,
under command of Col. Peacock. Besides those
above enumerated there were also 70 men of the
Commissariat Staff Corps. Gen. Russell, with two
aides-de-camp, was also on board, together with
Deputy-Assistant-Commissary-Gen. Festing, and
Mr. Thorn, of the Military Store Staff.
The first division of the depot battalion, Royal
Artillery, stationed at Sheerness, has been aug-
mented by the arrival at head-quarters of 200 non-
commissioned officers and men from the division at
Warley, who have been distributed among the five
batteries composing the division. In accordance
with an order to that effect,
received at the garri-
son from the office of the Del)uty-Assist ant- G ene-
ral, Capt. Hughes, Lieut. Spragge, Lieut. Stedman,
and 150 non-commissioned officers and gunners have
proceeded to Shoeburyness to go through a regular
course of gunnery instruction with the Armstrong
ordnance, preparatory to embarking for colonial
service. The recent augmentations which have
taken place in the corps of Royal Artillery have
materially strengthened the first division at Sheer-
ness, which now numbers nearly 1,200 men of all
ranks, with a proportionate number of officers.
Excepting under very urgent circumstances, all
leave
been discontinued,
of absence to officers at Chatham garrison has
bdiscontinued, and most of the officers who have
ee
been granted leave of absence have joined their re-
spective battalions at the garrison. The following
officers have joined their several depots at Chatham
during the last few days, in accordance with orders
to that effect :—Capt. A. Goren, 19th Regiment;
Capt. W. H. Ballingall, 35th Regiment ; Capt. S.
T. Sargeant, 43d Light Infantry ; Capt. C. H. Ma-
lan, 75th Regiment; Capt. G. Betts, 81st Regiment;
Capt. J. Sprot, 83d ,Regiment; Capt. W. Squirl,

91st Regiment; Lituts. C. L. B. Hamilton and E.
D. Oliver, 51st Light Infantry ; Lieut. D. Hammili,
75th Regiment ; Lieut. E A. Fuller, 83d Regiment ;
Ensign T, Stainer, Ensign R. H. Townsend, and.
Ensign R. It. C. Hill, 31st Regiment ; Ensign W.
B. B. Barwell, 52d Light Infantry; Ensign R. J.
F. Day, and Ensign J. O. M. Vandeleur, 75th Re-
giment ; Ensign F. Ford and Ensign C. L. Smith,
83d Regiment ; Ensign R. B. Wesley and Ensign
A. P. Maurice, 91st Regiment. Leave of abEence
from their respective depots has been granted to
Major H. E. Jerome, V.C., 19th Regiment; Capt.
L. H. Thomas, 91st Regiment ; Lieut. G. D. Wahab,
20th Regiment ; and Ensign E. O. Foisyth and
Ensign W. C. Braddon, 75th Regiment.

HEALTH OF LOA DOA DURING THE WEEK.

(From the Registrar-General's Weekly Return.)

In the first week of the year the deaths registered
in London rose to 1,367. The average number in
the first week of the teu previous yeats (18-52-61),
corrected for increase of population, is 1,425. The
rate of mortality that prevailed last week, there-
tore, was not so high as the average. If it had been
as high, each day would have witnessed eight deaths
:nom than the number that actually occurred.
Next to scarlatina, which is returned in 77 cases,
and which is not now so fatal as it was in Novem-
ber, whooping-cough is conspicuous in the list of
zvmotic diseases. It rose last week to 73, of which
5 deaths occurred in the north-west sub-district of
Chelsea, 4 in the first sub district of Kennington.
Of the five recorded by the Registrar of Chelsea
north-west, all except one occurred in one family,
that of a journeyman bricklayer, who lived at
16, Wellesley grove. The subjects of so great a
mortality were children, the youngest aged five
months, the oldest four years. Typhus also exhi-
bited an increase; it was fatal in 58 cases, 30 of
which were registered as " typhoid fever," and
among these is the death of a boy, 13 months old,
at 4, Cottage-court, Holborn, from " typhoid fever,
caused by bad drainage.'
There were 158 deaths from bronchitis, 7t from
pneumonia. Both diseases, but especially the latter,
are below the average as regards their mortality.
A pensioner, aged 42, who bad been a soldier,
died in the workhouse, Holborn, in consequence of
exhaustion and exposure. The wife of a shoe-
maker, aged 30 years, died in the workhouse,
Borough-road, from " privation."
Last week the births of 1,104 boys and 1,069
girls, in all 2,173 children, were registered in Lon-
-lon. In the ten corresponding weeks of the years
1852 61 the average number (corrected) was 1,848.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 30.126 in.
The mean daily reading was about 30 in. on the
first five days. The barometer rose to 30.37 in. on
Sunday, and fell to 29 68 in. on Saturday. The
mean temperature of the air in the week was 34.1
degs., which is 2 7 degs. below the average of the
same week in 43 years (as determined by Mr.
Glaisher). The weather was cold in the earlier
part of the week, and the mean daily temperature
was below the average till Thursday. The thermo-
meter fell below, or was but slightly above the
freezing point of water on five nights of the week;
it fell to its lowest point, 23.5 degs., on Monday.
l'he highest day temperature was 41 8 degs. on
Saturday. The range in the week was therefore
IS•3 degs. The mean daily range was 8.6 degs.
l'he difference between the mean dew-point tem-
perature and air temperature was 3 6 degs. The
mean degree of humidity of the air was 88, com-
plete saturation being represented by 100. The
wind blew from the north-east till Friday, when it
turned to W. and N.W., but there was little move-
ment of the air. The whole amonnt of rain was
5 hundredths of an inch. Fogs were frequent. No
ozone.

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