The Sun.
London, England, 1865-11-29 00:00:00

THAMES.

TEAR-UPS AND CANVAS SUlTS.—Three persons were
brought up before Mr. Paget in new canvas suits fastened
with white tape, charged with destroying their clothes in
the Rateliff workhouse belonging to the Stepney Union
this morning. One, an adult, gave the name of Thomas
Clark and said he came front Bristol to London in search
of work as a bricklayer's labourer a month ago, and could
not obtain any employment in consequence of the filthy
and ragged condition of his clothes which he tore up this
morning. Tho second boy, named William Wright, said
he was at work twelve mouths ago as a labourer in
Now Park-street, Southwark, and had done nothing
since. His clothes were so very bad that no one
would or could look at him. The third prisoner, Edward
Laurie, a lad, stated that he had been at work for Mr,
White, a coal-dealer, in T.Juieu-street, near Redcross-

Mr. Paget said that Mr. Bowdler, the second clerk, was
engaged in copying the minutes of evidence taken yester-
day, and the case could not be heard until they were
finished. Inquiries must be made as to the sufficiency
of the bail. He should require two substantial house-
holders in £250 each, to become surety for the prisoners
appearance at the sessions.

Mr. Gomm handed to the magistrate the names of the
proposed sureties, and Howland, 89 H, an officer of the
court, was deputed to make inquiries.

HEALTH OF LONDON,

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

In the week that ended on Saturday, Nov. 25, the
births registered in London and ten other large
towns of the United Kingdom were 3,839 ; the
deaths registered,. 3,149_ The annual rate of mor-
tality was 29 per 1,000 persons living.
In London the births of 957 boys and 969 girls,
in all 1,926 children, were registered in the week.
In the corresponding weeks of ten years, 1855-64,
the average number, corrected for increase of popu-
lation, was 1,958.

The deaths registered iu London during the week
were 1,471. It was the 47th week of the year, and
the average number of deaths for that week is, with
a correction for increase of population, 1,564. The
actual number is less than the estimated mortality
by 93.

There were 13 deaths from small-pox. The regis-
trar of Spite,Melds returns two deaths from that dis-
ease; and the medical attendant of one of these cases,
which occurred at 10, King-street, reports that the
disease prevails exceedingly in the neighbourhood.
The mortality from diairhoaa continues slowly to
decrease. The deaths from it in the last three weeks
were 37, 32, and 28. No deaths were referred to
cholera. Typhus has increased, and the deaths from
it last weekrose to 81.
The widow of a farmer is stated to have died on
the 19th inst. in Plough-lane, Battersea, at the age
of 100 years.
The following five fatal cases of horse and car-
riage accidents were registered in the week :—At
Hyde-park a medical practitioner, aged 69, knocked
down by a Hansom cab ; died on Nov. 14 in St.
George's Hospital. On Holborn-hill, the wife of a
wood sawyer, aged 38, injured by a van wheel; died
on Nov. 14 in St. Bartholomew's Hospital. The son
of a foreman at iron works, aged 13, run over ; died
on Nov. 13 at 15, Ferry-street, Poplar. A shoe -
maker, aged 85, run over by an omnibus ; died on
Nov. 16 in University College Hospital. A cab-
man, aged 33, rupture of liver by a fall from a cab
whilst drunk ; died on Nov. 20 in University Col-
lege Hospital.
The annual rate of mortality last week was 25
per 1,000 in London, 35 in Edinburgh, and 25 in
Dublin ; 41 in Liverpool, 41 in Manchester, 40 in
Salford, 22 in Birmingham, 28 in Leeds, 28 in Bris-
tol, 28 in Hull, and 33 in Glasgow. The rate in
Vienna was 25 per 1,000 during the week ending
the 18th inst., when the temperature was 10.3 deg.
Fahrenheit lower than in the same week in London,
where the rate was 26 per 1,000.

In Liverpool the births in the week were 353, the
dca,hb 371 ;in Manchester the- births 204,-the deittllT
278 ; in Salford the births 88, the deaths 84 ; in
Birmingham the births 235, the deaths 139; in
Leeds the births 250, the deaths 121 ; in Bristol
the births 101, the deaths 87 ; in Hull the births
69, the deaths 56 ; in Edinburgh the births 127,
the deaths 118 ; in Glasgow the births 333, the
deaths 267 ; and in Dublin the births 153, the
deaths 154. There were 268 deaths in Vienna dur-

ing the week ending the 18th inst.
SOUTHAMPTON.—Among the population of this
borough (estimated to the middle of the present
year at 53,001) 27 deaths were registered during
the week ending last Saturday ; of these 4 were
again referred to scarlatina; no death resulted from
cholera. The annual rate of mortality during the
week was 27 per 1,000 persons living.
MANCHESTER.--The high rates of mortality which
have occurred in the city of Manchester and borough
of Salford during the las` few weeks have been
caused by an epidemic of typhus and typhoid fever,
which has been fatal there, especially in the work-
houses.

At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29.257 in
The barometer pressure was 29.99 in. on the morn-
ing of Sunday, and fell to 28.82 in. on Wednesday.
The mean temperature of the air in the week was
50.6 deg., which is 9.3 deg. above the average of the
same week in 50 years (as determined by Mr.
Glaisher). The mean daily temperature was above
the average every day, and the excess was always
9 deg., or near that amount. The diurnal range was
also remarkably uniform, but it differed little from
10 deg. throughout the week. The difference be-
tween the mean dew-point temperature and air
temperature was 3.8 deg. The mean degree of
humidity of the air was 87, complete saturation
being represented by 100. The wind blew from
S.W. and S.S.W. ; on Saturday it changed to S.S.E.
It blew occasionally in heavy squalls. The amount
of rain was 0.98 in., most of which fell on the first
four days. The barometer at Liverpool fell to 28.31
in. at 11h. 30m. a.m. on Wednesday.
With the exception of the water supplied by the
Lambeth Company all the waters exhibited this
month a marked increase in the total amount of
solid impurity. The organic and other volatile
matters and the amount of oxygen required for the
oxidation of the organic matter have increased in a
still more striking manner in the case of the waters
of the East London and of those companies which
draw their supplies from the Thames. The quantity
of oxygen required to oxidise the organic matter
varies from twice up to four times the amount re-
quired in October. The waters of the Chelsea,
Lambeth, Southwark, and East London Companies
were turbid when drawn from the companies'
mains.