The Sun.
London, England, 1865-12-14 00:00:00

THE LOSS OF THE SAMPHIRE.

[REUTER'S TELEGRAM.]
THREE LIVES LOST.
DOVER, DEC. 14, AFTERNOON.

The dead bodies of a gentleman and two ladies
have just been taken from the fore cabin of the

Sainphire.

TAT rERSALLS'—This Evening

There was no alteration in the quotations we publishe d
on Monday. An attempt was made to bet upon the Liver
pool Great National Steeplechase, but no quotation ca me
under our notice.

Bank of England Returns,•—This Evening.

An Account, pursuant to ti
cap. 32, for the week ending
ISSUE DEP

he Act 7th and Bth Victoria,
"Wednesday, Dec. 13, 1865.
PA.IITMENT.

Notes issued ........X27,887,6901

Government Debt .E11,015,1C0
Other Seouritici 3.634.900
Gold Coin & Bullion 13,237,890
Silver Bullion ....

.£27,857,090'

£27,887,690

BAN KING D.
Proprietors' Capi-
tal £14.553.000
Rest b.. 3,921,196
Public Deposits (in-
cluding Exche-
quer, aavinge
Banks, Commis-
mis sioners of Na-
tional Debt, and
Dividend Ao-

,EPARTMENT.
Government Secu-
rities Aincluding
Dead Weight A-
nnuity)
Other Securities
Notes
Gold and Silver 70,713
Coln •

counts) 7,081,316
Other Deposits 14,259,b82
Seven Day and
other Bills 458,9G9

£39,574,653

39,574,68 3
r. MILLER, Chief Cashier.

Dec. 14, 1865.

Free Trade in Letters•

France: entered with heart and soul into the in-
ternational free trade policy, of which Richard
Cobden was the leader, and of which he became
England's arbitrator. France has had no reason to
regret the change for the better—which took
place the moment the formidable barriers of re-
striction to international commerce were thrown
down—and every day's experience since has
shown the wisdom of that measure, more
especially as regards the interests of France,
deriving as that nation did so large a share
of its advantages. One most important clog, how-
ever, was perhaps inadvertently, or from necessity,
as the case may be, left on the chariot wheels of
progress, and which it is high time for international
interests should be done away with at once and for
ever—namely, the exorbitant postal rates between
the two countries. Why should this high rate of
postage be continued between France and England,
the distancefrom one capital to the other occupying
only:eleven hours ? We can send our letters to
Jersey, Guernsey, Dublin, and Scotland, with ad-
vantage to the revenue for one penny, and yet to
Paris we must pay the exorbitant fee of 4d. per
loz.; we feel sure that in the interests of inter-
national commerce, and in these days of free trade
convictions, it is only necessary to call the attention
of the French executive to this matter—as also to
the fact of the wonderful influence of a cheap
postage in the development of the home trade of
England—to convince them that to allow this ab-
surd restriction to fetter the development of the
industrial resources of the nation is a great mistake.
Let it then be swept away as an incubus on the
commercial energies of the two great powers of
Europe.—The Stationer and Fancy Trades' Register.

Health of the Metropolis.

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

In the week that ended on Saturday, December
9, the births registered in London and ten other
large towns of the United Kingdom were 4,044;
the deaths registered 3,123. The annual rate of
mortality was 29 per 1,000 persons living.
In London the births of 1,047 boys and 1,088
girls, in all 2,162 children, were registered in the
week. In the corresponding weeks of ten years
1855-64 the average number, corrected for increase
of population, was 1,932.
The deaths registered in London during the week
were 1,433. It was the 49th week of the year, and
the average number of deaths for that week is, with
a correction for increase of population, 1,488. The
present return gives a number less by 55 than the
estimated amount.

No case of cholera was registered in the week ;
the number of deaths from diarrhoea fell so low as
17, which is about the usual number that occurs in
London in the first week of December. Eighty-
five deaths were returned as caused by typhus,
typhoid fever, &c., eight of which were in the
Hackney sub-district. Measles was fatal in 49
cases, and 11 of these occurred in the district of
Chelsea. There were four from the same complaint;
in the Westminster Workhouse. There were 63
deaths from scarlatina, seven of which were in the
east sub-district of Islington.

Out of 14 deaths from all causes in Haggerton
East, 10 were from zymotic diseases—viz., one from
measles, one from scarlatina, three from whooping-
cough, three from typhus, one from diptheria, and
one from diarrhoea.

At 1, Nursery-place, Upper Clapton, a brick-
layer's labourer, aged 27, died of " typhus, accele-
rated by inhaling noxious vapours while unloading
bricks in the Regent's Canal." A boy, aged four
Years) in Newington-green, died of hydrophobia,
after the bite of a dog. At 14, Featherstone-street,
Finsbury, on the 7th of December, a single woman,
aged 77 years, died from paralysis, accelerated by
want of warm clothing and common necessaries of
life.

The following four deaths by carriage accidents
were registered in the week :—The wife of a dock
labourer, aged 55 years, run over. Died on the 2d of
December in the London Hospital. At Paddington,
the wife of a wood sawyer, aged 56 years, fell from
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16th of November at 6, Chapel-street, Curtain-
road, Shoreditch. In Tower-street, Westminster-
road, the daughter of a shop-fitter, aged nine years,
run over by a cab. Died on Dec. 4. Since the be-
ginning of the present year 215 persons of various
ages have been killed by horse conveyances in the
dirty, neglected, and ill-regulated streets of London.
The annual rate pf mortality last week was 25
per 1,000 in London, '2B in Edinburgh, and 27 in
Dublin ; 45 in Liverpool, 37 in Manchester, 36 in
Salford, 25 in Birmingham, 29 in Leeds, 23 in Bris-
tol, 31 in Hull, and 34 in Glasgow. The rate in
Vienna was 25 per 1,000 during the week ending
the 2d inst., when the temperature was 0.9 degrees
Fahrenheit higher than in the same week in London,
where the rate was 24 per 1,000.
In Liverpool the births in the week were 372, the
deaths 411 ; in Manchester, births 265, deaths 250;
Salford, births 74, deaths 76 ; Birmingham, births
270, deaths 158 ; Leeds, births 165, deaths 125 ;
Bristol, births 104, deaths 71 ; Hull, births, 86,
deaths 62 ; Edinburgh, births 103, deaths 93 ; Glas-
gow, births 315, deaths 280 ; Dublin, births 125,
deaths,. 164. There were 268 deaths in Vienna
during the week ending 2d inst.

borough (estimated to the middle of the
Southampton. —Among the population of this
present
yeax at 53,001) 30 deaths were registered during
the -week ending last Saturday ; of these nine were
again referred to scarlatina, and 2 to whooping-
cough. The annual rate of mortality during the
wee.k was 30 per 1,000 person3living.

A battue, which produced brilliant results, was
organised three days back by M. Chazaux, a mer-
chant at Sedan (Ardennes), in the forest of Mouzay.
In two days there were brought down 60 head of
game, weighing 1,9801b5., including 4 wild boars,
11 deer, 7 foxes, 2 wolves, 36 hares, and a wild cat.
On of the boars killed by a shot from M. Mathis,
of 33elval, weighed 3851b5.