The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-04 00:00:00

THE NA Vi.

The Vesuvius, 6, paddle, Commander R. G.
Douglas, sailed from Spithead yesterday morning
for North America and the West Indies, by the
Needles passage.

The Rhadamanthus, paddle, Master Commander
Sturdee, sailed from Portsmouth yesterday for
Woolwich after discharging machinery for the ves-
sels fitting in the port.
The Curacoa, screw frigate, Captain Augustus
Phillimore, took out her lower masts in the old
fitting basin at Portsmouth yesterday, and will be
paid out of commission to-day.
Orders have been received at Portsmouth to
mount the large smooth-bore gun, known as the
Horsfall gun, now lying just above high water
mark, on the beach near Sonthsea, half buried in
sand and shingle, for the purpose of testing its
powers upon iron plates.

Commander Lysaght, R,N., her Majesty's ship
Fisgard, flag ship of Woolwich dockyard, yesterday
made arrangements at the Royal Arsenal pier for
Ora mooring of the yacht belonging to his Highness
Said Pasha, Viceroy of Egypt, who is hourly ex-
pected. The Pasha and the principal personages
of his 'suite will sleep on board during the three
nights the yacht will be moored at Woolwich.
The work of rigging and fitting the Racoon, 21,
400-horse power, is being hurried forward at Chat-
ham dockyard by all the available hands that can
be spared from the Royal Oak, 51, and the other
vessels building and fitting, and every exertion is
used to have her in readiness to be commissioned
within a month or six weeks, in order to convey
his Royal Highness Prince Alfred on a cruise to
the principal ports of Europe. By direction of the
Admiralty the Racoon is to be fitted with two of
the newly-invented machines for firing 24-pounder
rockets.

The 40-pounder Artnstrong'gun employed for some
time past in Woolwich Arsenal in testing a new
species of vent pieces, and loaded with a double
proof charge of powder and shot, has at length
yielded to the tremendous concussion and burst, the
whole of the coils behind the trunnions having
been shattered into fragments.

The Black Prince iron frigate is filling up her
coal bunkers alongside Poresmouth dockyard, and
has a large number of hands still employed upon
her completing her fitment and rig. Her pennant
of commission has not yet been hoisted. Her re-
duced bowsprit is in its position and fitted. With
the bowsprit-cap scarcely reaching to the lower
edge of the Prince's tunic, it becomes mere burlesque
to call such a stick a "bowsprit." This reduction
of the spar was intended to ease the ship in a sea-
way, but it has been carried out to the extreme. A
removal of the foremast further aft would have
been a far more effectual measure for easing the
a pitch" of the ship, and would have improved her
general appearance.

CITY SEWERS

At the weekly meeting of the Commisioners of
Sewers, held yesterday at Guildhall, Mr, De Jersey
in the chair, Dr. Letheby, the Medical Officer, re-
ported on the state of 176 houses that had been in-
spected during the week, and he submitted a list of
53 places for sanitory improvement. He likewise
reported that the officers had seized 2,1171b5. of
meat as unfit for human food. It consisted of 4
sheep, 4 pigs, 19 quarters of beef, and 14 joints of
meat; 1,8021b5. of it were diseased, 1791b5. in a
patrid state, and 1361b5. from animals that had
died from natural causes. He advised that proceed-
ings should be taken in one of the cases with a
view of prosecution on a point of law.
The mortality returns, he reported, were 65
during the week, which was much above the ave •
rage (42) for the corresponding period of the last
six years. About one-third of the deaths had been
among young persons and another third among
old persons of 60 and upwards. The chief causes
of death were as follows t—phthisis 3, scrofula
and mesenteric disease 6, pneumonia 3, bronchitis
6, continued fever 4, scarlet fever 1, whooping
cough 2, croup 2, and measles 4, making together
9 deaths from tubercular diseases, 9 from inflamma-
tory disease of the lungs, and 13 from diseases of
the zymot.ic class.

Sixty•three births were registered during the
week, 40 boys and 23 girls.

HEALTH OF LONDON .UVRING THE WEEK.

(From the Reytstrar-General's Weekly Return.)
The deaths in London in the week that ended
last Saturday were 1,119. This number is con-
siderably less than that of the previous week. The
mean temperature) of the air in May was 55.7 deg.
The average number of deaths derived from the
returns of corresponding weeks in 1852-61, and
corrected for increase of population, is 1,126.
Therefore the actual result, as stated above, agrees
very closely with the mortality calculated on the
basis of returns which have been made at the end
of May in previous years.
There were 41 fatal cases or scarlatina and 10 of
diphtheria. Seven of the former complaint occurred
in the two sub-districts of Lambeth Church. There
were 73 of typhus, which is at presett decidedly
the most fatal of zymotic diseases.

There were 47 deaths from measles. Three chil-
dren, the sons of an excavator, aged respectively 1,
3, and 8 years, died of measles at 7, Parman-cot-
tages, Deptford; and three children of a wood-
carver, viz., two boys, aged 1 and 2 years, and a
girl, aged 1 year, died at 30, Fellows-street North,
Haggerstone West, of the same disease. Twenty-
eight children died of whooping-cough, five of these
in the sub-district of Battersea.
Five cases of murder or manslaughter were regis-
tered in the week.
A waiter, aged 49 years, died in Woolwich "from
the effects of ardent spirits." In this case conges-
tion of the brain was produced by drinking in about
10 minutes three quarterns of rum at the bar of a
public-house.

Last week the births of 1,010 boys and 976 girls,
in all 1,986 children, were registered in London.
In ten corresponding weeks of the years 1852-61
the average number (corrected) was 1,723,