The Sun.
London, England, 1865-05-03 00:00:00

The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty :—G-eorge Patterson, master,
additional, to the Cumberland for the Star ; Philip
W. G. Canning, Charles E. Gouldsbury, and Ho-
ratio Howell, assist.-clerks, to the Victory, as super-
numeraries ; J. Rollingon, chief engineer to the
Terrible ; William Lewis, chief engineer to
the Sphinx ; Lawrence Moreton, engineer, to the
Indus, for the Clinker ; John Marsh, engineer, to
the Terrible ; Edward Newman, engineer, to the
Sphinx; Thomas Rose, of the Gladiator, promoted,
to be engineer ; J. T. Robinson, first-class assist.-
engineer, to the Terrible ; John B. Gibson and John
Bannatyne, first-class assist.-engineers, to the
Sphinx ; William M'lntyre and Randall Pearce,
second-class assist.-engineers, to the Terrible; and
James Cameron, second-class assist.-engineer, to
the Sphinx.

HEALTH OF LONDON,

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

In the week that ended on Saturday, April 29,
the births in London and nine other large towns of
the United Kingdom were 4,162, the deaths 2,687.
The annual rate of mortality in the week in those
10 towns was 25 per 1,000 persons living, and was
lower than in the two previous weeks, in each of
which it was 27.

In London the births of 1,149 boys and 1,065
girls, in all 2,205 children, were registered in the
week. In the corresponding weeks of the 10 years
1855-64 the average number, corrected for increase
of population, was 2,013.
The deaths in London in the same period were
1,344. The average number for the 17th week in
10 years (corrected) is 1,332. The deaths in the
present returns slightly exceed the estimated number.

From zymotic diseases in the aggregate, the deaths
were 270 ; 79 children died from whooping-cough ;
55 deaths occurred from typhus, 9 from smallpox,
21 from scarlatina, 4 from diphtheria, and 11 from
measles.

In the sub-district of St. Paul, St. George-in-the
East, 16 deaths were registered. Of this number,
4 deaths occurred from fever, 4 from whooping-
cough, 1 from diarrhoea, and 1 from scarlatina. An
inquest was held on the daughter of a gunmaker,
aged 7 years, who died at 59, Sutton-street, of
effusion into pericardium, resultiiig from malignant
fever ; there was no medical attendance, and the
room was filthy and unwholesome.
Two hundred and thirty-nine deaths occurred

from disease of respiratory organs (exclusive of
phthisis) ; in the previous week the number was
338. One hundred and nineteen persons died from.
bronchitis, 86 from pneumonia, 181 from phthisis,
161 from diseases of the brain and nervous system,
and 50 from diseases of the heart.

The following fatal carriage accidents occurred :
—A wholesale tea dealer, aged 60 years, was run
over by a cab in Lombard-street. A corn chandler,
aged 50 years, fell from a cart at Plumstead. The
son of a potman, aged 5 years, was run over by a
brewer's dray in Martha-street, Camberwell. The
son of a cork-cutter, aged 7 years, was run over by
a brewer's dray. The son of a labourer, aged 2
years, was run over by an omnibus.

The rate of mortality last week was 23 per 1,000
in London, 28 in Edinburgh, and 28 in Dublin ; 30
in Liverpool, 27 in Manchester, 22 in Salford, 22 in
Birmingham, 29 in Leeds, 21 in Bristol, and 31 in
Glasgow. The rate in Vienna was 38 per 1,000 dur-
ing the week ending the 15th ult., when the tempe-
rature was 2.1 deg. Fahrenheit higher than in tho
same week in Londen, where the rate was 27 per
1,000.
I In Liverpool the births were 432, the deaths 274 ;
in Manchester the births 266, the deaths 185 ; in
Salford the births 83, the deaths 46 ;
in Birmingham
the births 224, the deaths 136 ; in Leeds the births
170, the deaths 126 ; in Bristol the births 92, the
deaths 64 ; in Glasgow the births 389, the deaths
249 ; and in Dublin the births 197, the deaths 169.
There were 412 deaths in Vienna during the week
ending the 15th ult.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29.997 in.
The barometrical reading decreased from 30.12 in.
on Monday to 29.79 in. on Friday. The mean tem-
perature of the air in the week was 54.2 deg., which.
is 6.2 deg. above the average of the same week in
60 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher). The
highest day temperature was 81.5 deg. on Thursday.
The lowest night temperature was ',36.1 deg., on
Tuesday. The entire range of temperature in the week
was, therefore, 45.4 deg. The mean highest tempe-
rature of the water of the Thames was 58.9 deg. ;
that of the lowest was 57.8 deg. The difference
between the mean dew point temperature and air
temperature was 10.2 deg. The mean degree of
humidity of the air was 69, complete saturation
being represented by 100. The direction of the
wind was variable.

The high temperature on Thursday, 81.5 deg., is
very Temarkable ; it is higher than any on record in
the month of April. In April, 1859, the tempera-
ture was as high as 79 deg., the highest up to the
present time observed. This high temperature was
not experienced at places whose latitudes exceeded
53 deg. ; for instance, at Birmingham .it was 73
deg., at Wakefield, 63 deg., at Manchester 56 deg.,
and at Liverpool 55 deg. only. The range of tem-
perature in southern places on this day was from 30
deg. to 40 deg., while at Manchester it was 13 deg.
only, and at Liverpool 10 deg. only.

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