The Sun.
London, England, 1865-02-16 00:00:00

effects of which are alternately hm:tfuteithe3ioitittO
consumer or the producer. The more bar! menta'n-14 1
litilve moafrtinraenifs3port, extended,ecauseless grea
wterw:ill
thereb*e t h e
be fa ctio-
complain of those abrupt changes in the price of
articles of the first necessity. Thus, we shall be
able to meet the partial inconvenience suffered by
agriculture. Some attribute the momentary suffer-
ing to the suppression of the sliding scale ; they
forget that in 1851, when it was in existence, the
depreciation in the price of cereals was far more
considerable, and that this very year the export of
wheat far exceeds the import. (Applause.)
It is, on the contrary, due to a liberal legislation,
to the impulse given to all the elements of national
wealth, that our foreign commerce, which amounted
in 1851 to two milliards 614 million francs, has now
risen to the prodigious sum of upwards of seven
milliards. (Loud cheers.)
New Bills will be laid before you in another direc-
tion, with the object of increasing the guarantees
of individual liberty. The first authorizes the pro-
visional release, with or without bail, even in crimi-
nal cases ; the second suppresses personal arrest in
civil and commercial matters—an innovation, how-
ever, nothing but the re-enactment of a very
ancient principle. From the earliest ages of Rome
it had been determined that the property, and not
debt.th
us therefore the person, of the debtor, was responsible for the
(Applause.)
Let continue to follow the course
marked out. Let us live abroad in peace with the
different Powers, and let us not cause the voice of =
France to be heard save for law and justice. At
home let us protect religious ideas, without ceding
aught of the civil power;, us spread education
throughout all classes of it3+st ; -let 'us simplify,
without destroying, our admirable administrative
system ; let us give the commune and the depart-
ment a more independent existence ; let us arouse
individual initiative, and the spirit of association.
Lastly, let us elevate the soul and strengthen the
body of the nation. (Cheers.) But while making
ourselves the ardent promoters of useful reforms, let
us firmly maintain the basis of the constitution ; let
us oppose the exaggerated tendencies of those who
provoke changes, with the sole object of sapping that
which we have founded. Utopia is to welfare that
which illusion is to truth; and progress is not the
realisation of a more or less ingenious theory, but
the application of the results of experience, conse-
crated by time, and aecepted by public opinion.
(Long-continued cheering.)
When the applause had subsided, the Grand
Master of the Ceremonies, having taken the orders
of his Majesty, intimated to M. Rouher, Minister
of State, that the oath should be administered to
such senators as had been nominated since last ses-
sion. Afterwards the new members of the Legi-
slative Body took the oath. The hon. Minister
then declared that the session for 1865 was open,
and he requested the members of the two Cham-
bers to assemble next day at their respective places
of sitting for the despatch of business. Their Ma-
jesties then withdrew in the same order as had
marked their coming, and another salvo of artillery
intimated that the ceremony had terminated.

HEALTH OF LONDON.

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

The deaths in London in the week that ended
last Saturday were 1,589, and showed a decrease on
those of the two previous weeks, when they were
considerably above 1,700. In ten cities of the king-
dom the births were 4,428 ; the deaths were 3,299
in the week ; and the annual rate of mortality was
31 per 1,000 ; it was less than it had been in pre-
vious weeks.

In London the average number of deaths in the
sixth week of ten previous years 1855-64 was, with
an increase of population, 1,504. The actual num-
ber last week, therefore, exceeded the estimated
number by 85.

The deaths from bronchitis, which had been 339
in the previous week, declined to 226 ; from phthisis
they were 167, from pneumonia 75, and from heart
disease 78. Whooping-cough, of which 82 cases
were recorded, was the most fatal in the hyinotic
class of diseases.

At 15, West-street, Somers-town, on the 29th of
January, the son of a labourer, aged two years, died
of " pneumonia, accelerated by want." (Inquest.)
Fourteen infants died from being overlaid or other-
wise suffocated in bed. A man was killed by a cart.
Three women, whose ages were returned as 95,
96, and 97 years, were registered in the week.
Mr. Yardley, registrar of St. George's, Blooms-
bury, who records 18 deaths in the week, of which
eight were in the Infant Home, 35, Great Coram-
street, an institution for illegitimate children, states
that the mortality in this house continues to be very
great, and that Dr. Buchanan, the resident medical
officer of St. Giles's district, having visited it, made
suggestions to the principal of the establishment
which have been carried out, and among others that
the resident medical officer of the Sick Children's
Hospital should visit it daily, in addition to the visits
of the regular surgeon of the Home, which are made
three times a week ; but the children are generally so
weak and emaciated from want of nourishment and
attention previously to admission that the mortality
of the inmates is inevitably high, and it is only by
the greatest care that any considerable number of
them can be saved.

The rate of mortality was 27 per 1,000 in London,
28 in Edinburgh, and 34 inDublin ; 45 in Liverpool,
35 in Manchester, 35 in Salford, 26 in Birmingham,
34 in Leeds, 28 in Bristol, and 41 in Glasgow.

In Liverpool the births were 406, the deaths 411;
in Manchester the births 282, the deaths 241; in
Salford the births 102, the deaths 74 ; in Birming-
ham the births 292, the deaths 163 ; in Leeds the
births 250, the deaths 144 ; in Bristol the births 120,
the deaths 88 ; in Edinburgh the births 120, the
deaths 94; in Glasgow the births 366, the deaths
329; in Dublin the births 154, the deaths 156; and
in Vienna the deaths were 357 in the week ending
the 28th of January, when the temperature was 1.4
deg. higher than in London.

Last week the births of 1,171 boys
i nen
a12,d106n5
girls, in all 2,336 children, were registered
In the 10 corresponding weeks of the years 1855-64
the average number (corrected) was 2,138.
A t the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29.982 in.
The daily mean was above 30in. on the last three
days. The reading was 29.51 in. at the beginning of
the week, and rose to 30.43 in. on Friday. The mean
temperature of the air in the week was 35.3 deg.,
which is 3.4 deg. below the average of the same week
in 50 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher). The
mean daily temperature was below the average on
six days, and on Sattoday the defect was equal to
IFB deg. The highest day temperature was 50.2 deg.,
The thermometer was below the
water on four nights.
Monday The mean
on Tuesday. The lowest night temperature was 241
fdreege.zi,
nogn
point
dofay.
daily range was 8.5 deg. On Saturday the range
of the
was only 5.5 deg. ; on Sunday and
represented by
more than 6 deg. The mean degree of humidityrei3
air was 81, complete saturation being
wind was generally
inloao.nortOnh_teliasetelasrityfdiroureetidaeyns then .
point
of water,
thaerinmfoemil etrthneevameroruonset
freezing
aboveof 03 Btiiiiie. On Saturday the.
eter
fwellathter2,2%nddesgn.oawt,
sfaellfferd
fre-
quently. The thermometer

BREAKFAST BEYEEIAGE.—iioutce Ta'hic practitioners,
and the medical profession generally, recommend cocoa
as belt, the most healthful of all beverages. When the doc-
trine
of
h°lllce°pathy was first introduced into this country,
the re were to b;;obt fined no ireparattms of cocos either at-
tractive to the taste or acceptable to the stomach ; the nut
was either suiplied i A the crude state, or so nest:Malty
Manufactured as to obtain little notice. J. Ep ••s, of London,
Homceopathic Chemist, was iwiuced in the year IS 4 to turn
his attention to this subject, and at ien,;th succeeded, with
the assistance of elaborate machinery, in being the first
to produce an article pure in its composition, and so refined
by the perfect trituration it receives in the process it passes
through, as to be most acceptable to the delicate stomach.
For general use Epps's Cocoa is distinguished as an invigo-
rating, grateful breakfast beverage, possessing a most deli-
cious aroma. Dr. Hassall, in his work, "Food and its
Adulterations," says —" Cocoa contains a great variety of im-
portant nutritive principles—every ingredißut necessary to
the growth and sustenance of the body." Again: "Asffeea
nutritive, cocoa stands very much higher than either coffee
coin a
sold Secured
b y
or tea." Directions—Two teaspoonfuls of the powder
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