The Sun.
London, England, 1862-02-26 00:00:00

THE AR mr.

The Simoom, screw troopship, arrived at Spit-
head yesterday morning from China with the 2d
battalion 60th Rifles on board, Lieut.-Col. Muter in
command, with the following officers and men on
board :—Capts. Farquharson, Archer, Gore, and
Black ; Lieuts. Vereker, Algar, Tilford, Brereton,
Pauri, Campbell, Cox, Treeve, Meade, and Butler ;
Ensigns Butler and Cramer ; Adjt. Murrall, Pay-
master Fitzpatrick, Quartermaster Storey, Assist.-
Surg. Young, Staff Assist., Surg. Nicholson, at-
tached to the battalion ; 42 sergeants, 16 buglers,
and 639 rank and file. She has also brought home
10 military convicts of sundry corps. The Simoom
steamed into Portsmouth harbour from Spithead at
high water, and will disembark her freight at the
dockyard to-morrow, the 60th marching at 2 p.m.
into quarters in the Cambridge barracks, which
will be vacated this morning by the 2d (Queen's)
Regiment, which leaves Portsmouth at an early
hour by the South-Western Railway for Aldershott
Camp. The Simoom left the anchorage off the Peiho
on the fith of October, 1861, with the present
troops on board. She experienced very heavy wea-
ther in the Formosa Channel, on the evening of the
15th of October. About 100 miles from Hongkong
she picked up two boats with the crew of the W.
H. Chandler, bark, which vessel had foundered at
3 p.m. on that day. She sailed from Hongkong on
the 2d of November, 1861, arrived at Singapore on
the 12th, and left on the 16th of November for
Mauritius, where she arrived on December 13, sailed
again on the 16th, arriving in Simon's Bay January
2,1862, at which time the Narcissus, Brisk, Cossack,
Orestes, and Penguin were there. The Simoom left
Simon's Bay on the 9th of January, and arrived at
St. Helena on the 19th, sailing again the next day,
calling in at Ascension and St. Vincent's, at the
latter place on February 5, where her Majesty's
ship Stromboli and gunboat Spider were at anchor.
The Simoom sailed from St. Vincent's for Spithead
on the Bth.

Lieuts. Anson, Bush, and Webb, and about 230
supernumeraries having embarked on Monday
on bard the Himalaya, 6, Capt. Johu Seccombe,
in Plymouth Sound, she left in the afternoon for
Gibraltar and Malta, after which she will proceed
to Alexandria to embark the Japanese Ambassadors
for conveyance to England.
A pensioner named Brooks, formerly a colour-
sergeant in the Royal Marines, having been con-
victed by the magistrates for illegally having in his
possession articles of marine clothing, the Lords of
the Admiralty have directed that his name be struck
off the roll of pensioners, the ex-sergeant thus for-
feiting £36 per annum.

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK.

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

The deaths in London, which had fallen since the
end of January, again exhibited an increase in the
week that ended last Saturday, when they were
1,415. The mean temperature of the air was 45.4
deg. last week, but in the week that preceded it
the mean had fallen as low as 36.2 deg.
The average number of deaths for the correspond-
ing weeks in 10 years, 185261, corrected for in-
crease of population, is 1,426. Though the rate
of mortality that prevailed last week was high, as
compared with that which rules in many parts of
England, it was not high relatively to that which
the London registers have sometimes disclosed at

year.ears to be on the decline ; it
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town, all of them in the workhouse of St. Luke.
Six children died from whooping-cough in the sub-
district of Belgrave.
A man, aged 67 years, died of " gastritis, after an
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—Last week the births of 973 boys and 992 girls,
in all 1,965 children, were registered in London.
In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1852-61
the average number (corrected) was 1,994.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29.507 in.
The barometrical reading at the beginning of the
week was 29.96 in., and fell to 29.20 in. on Tues-
day. The mean temperature of the air in the week
was 45.4 deg,, which is 7 deg. above the average of
the same week in 43 years (as determined by
Mr. Glaisher). The mean daily temperature was
above the average on every day after Sunday, and
on the last five days this excess was from 9 dcg. to
11 deg. The lowest night temperature occurred on
Sunday, and was 32.3 deg. The highest day tem-
perature was 56.3 deg. on Thursday. The range 0
the thermometer in the week was therefore 24 oeg.
The mean daily range was 13.8 deg. The difference
between the mean dew-point temperature and air
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MR. and MRS: CHARLES KEAN will RE-
APPEAR at the Theatre-Royal Drury-lane, THIS
EVENING (WEDNESDAY), Feb. 26, in HAMLET.
On Thursday, 27th, Louis XI. ; Friday, 2tth, Hamlet ; and
on Saturday, March 1, The Wile's Secret.
With the PANTOMIME for the last four nights.

E NGLISH OPERA,
COVENT GARDEN.