The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-01 00:00:00

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE

WEEK.

(From the .Regtstrar-General's Weekly, Return.)
In the week that ended on Saturday the deaths
of 1,140 persons, of whom 575 were males and 565
females, were registered in London. If the deaths
from epidemic cholera in the thirty-ninth week of
1854 are withdrawn from the calculation it will be
found that the average number of deaths in corres-
ponding weeks of ten years (1852-61) was 1,138,
and if this result is corrected for increase of popu-
lation it becomes 1,251. The comparison shows
that the deaths of last week were less by 111 than
they would have been if the average rate of morta- 1
lity had prevailed. Of the 1,140 persons who died,
651 were under 20 years of age, 141 were 20 and
under 40, 162 were 40 to 60, 154 were 60 to 80, and
30 were 80 years of age and upwards.
Three hundred and fifty .nine persons died of
zymotic diseases, including 2 by cholera, 72 by
diarrhoea, 38 by measles, 84 by scarlatina, 63 by
typhus. Of 172 deaths assigned to diseases of the
respiratory organs 72 were caused by bronchitis,
71 by pneumonia, 9by asthma. Phthisis was fatal
in 121 cases.

The son of a clerk, aged one year, died at 5, Un-
derwood-street, Shoreditch, of cholera infantum
(n hours). The son of a plasterer, aged two years,
died at 41, Cumberland-street, Chelsea, of choleraic
diarrbce (three days). A cab-driver, aged 25
years, died at the Westminster Hospital from what
appears to have been glanders.

Last week the births of 899 boys and 843 girls,
in all 1,742 children were registered in London. In
the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1852-61
the average number (corrected) was 1865.
METROPOLITAN WATERS TN AUGUST, 1862.
The waters used in London, according to the
analysis of Dr. Robert Dundas Thomson, F.R.S.,
are characterised by a less amount of impurity than
in the preceding month—a result depending on the
absence of rain. The Thames waters are, it will
be observed, more free, with one exceptions, from
organic
matter than those of the other companies.
Total impurity Organic im-
per gallon. purity.
Distilled Water ........... 0.0
gra. or deg,• grs. or deg.
Loch Latrine water, new snPply

-TOGlasgoW '''''''''''''''''''' 2
Manchester Water supply ...... 35 *605
*6BO
Well, North Audley-street ....... 7nl
TTIA3IE9 COMPANIES. 8138
Chelsea .......................... 17.68
Southwark ....................... 17.80 '6B
Grand Junction .................. 1616 'BO
West Middlesex . : ................ 15.92 -64
Lambeth ........................ 17'08 'lB
1.01

--
OTHER COMPANIES. --
Kent ... , ....................... 2320 2.00
East London .................... 21'60 1.84
New River ...................... 1840
1.41
The table is read thus—Loch Katrine water contains in the
gallon 2.35 degrees or grains of foreign matter in solution,
of which .605 degrees or grains arc of vegetable or animal
origin.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29.871 in.
The barometrical reading was 30.08 in. at the be-
ginning of the week, and it fell to 29.69 in. on
Wednesday. The mean temperature of the air in
the week was 56M deg., which is 1.6 deg. above
the average of the same week in 43 years (as
determined by Mr. 'Glaisher). The highest day
1 temperature was 69.8 deg. on Friday. The lowest
night temperature was 39.2
tween
fore deg. on Tuesday,. The
entire range of temperature in the week was, there-
, 30.6 deg. The mean temperature of the water
of the Thames was 58.6 deg. The difference be-
tare War
Was
aewpoint temperature and air tempera-
the airs
s 4.0 deg.trl 0 e The mean degree of humidity of
sented at 100, Rl:am:lsta saturation being repre-
sented
Was fell occasionally during the
week. Lightning Wind Seen on Saturday. The
direction of the
.-..........-,...variaus•

ABRACADABRA.—SimiIar to the Abraxas charm
idsto be Persian,
is that called Abracadabra. The word said
anLoirgod. and to to be the equivalent of Mithra,
cording to the directions of Serenus S
you are
to write the letters several times over on a plec::i
such a manner as to form a triangle, which ter in
read more than one way. The paper must then Ybe
folded so as to conceal the writing ; stitched into the
shape of a cross with white thread ; warn in the bosom for
nine days suspended by a linen ribbon; and finally thrown
in dead silence, before sunrise, into a stream that flows
eastward.. It must be flung backward over the shoulder ; and
you must on no account open and read it, "or all the charm
is fled." It; however, you observe alt the required con-
ditions, you need never suffer long from a fever, or from a
quartan or semi-tertian ague. The Abracadabra is a cer-
tain cure.—Lichns's All me %or Aowia,„

POLICE IN7ELLIGENCE.—Sept. 30.

MANSION-HOUSE.—A CLEVER IMPOSTOR.—
Touching the statement respecting the young
woman Annette De Ros made from the bench by
Sir R. Carden a few days ago, the alderman has
since received letters from various parts of the
country which go far to confirm his apprehensions
that she is carrying on a systematic course of im-
posture. The first is from an English gentleman
in Paris, He states that ho had read Sir Robert's
account of a certain Annette De Ros, and he had
little doubt but that she is the same person who,
under the name of Annette Hilton, imposed upon
Lord Cowley, at Paris, last spring. He had forgot
the exact particulars of the story she then told, but
as far as he could remember it was a tale very
cleverly and plausibly related of having been in-
duced to leave India under a promise of marriage.
The ambassador was indu2ed to advance her a small
sum for her immediate wants, and to pay her bill
at the hotel, which the writer thought amounted
to over £5 for two days. In July last she again
came to Paris and then applied to Mr. Dayton, the
American minister, who, however, made inquiries,
and, finding some discrepancies in her story, declined
to relieve her, The writer had since learnt that she
was known at Marseilles, where she imposed upon
her Majesty's consul by a story similar to that she
told Lord Cowley ; and he was also informed that
orders were given to the agents for the boats
conveying the Indian mail from Marseilles to
refuse her a passage back to India for reasons
assigned. Again, Mr. C. W. Howell, of the Penin-
sular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, has
written to Sir Robert, stating his conviction that
Ann atte de Ros is identical with Lola Fernandez,
who was before the alderman in Jan., 1860, in con-
nection with a passage to Hongkong in a govern-
ment transport, Her predilection for travel, he
says, has brought her under his notice at different
time, and about three months ago she favoured him
with a visit, during which he was entirely deceived
by her manner. His suspicion, however, was aroused
by circumstances she referred to, and having fol-
lowed her to the Oriental Bank he found she had
a deep-laid scheme on foot based on a letter she had
managed to obtain from Cardinal Wiseman. He lost
no time in seeing a detective officer, who knew her
history, and her proceedings were stopped as she
was stepping into the Dover mail train. Mr. Howell
adds that the career of this young woman is per-
fectly marvellous, and he believed the detective offi-
cer to whom he had alluded had, at the request of
Sir R. Mayne, reduced it to a consecutive form. A
third letter had been received from Guildford thank-
ing the alderman for having called public attention
to the matter, for the woman in question, the writer
said, had imposed upon two Catholic priests at the
camp at Aldershot, and also upon a Roman Catholic
priest at Guildford, by telling a story to the effect
that she was a poor Catholic, who had just arrived
from India in a state of distress.

BOW-STREET.—How TO SETTLE A DISPUTED
BET.—James Pickford, an elderly man, of respect-
able appearance, was charged with assaulting Ed-
ward Stanley, of Arlington-street, Sadler's Wells,
spur maker.
Mr. Abrams appeared for the defence.
The complainant, whose face was smeared with
blood from a small wound at the side of the nose,
said—Defendant has owed me some money for a
considerable time, and upon my applying for it to.
day he struck me with something which made a
puncture in the side of my nose. I was knocked
down.