The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-27 00:00:00

HEALTH OF LONDON .DURING TEE

WEEK.

(From the Registrar-General's Weekly Return.)
The deaths in London now exhibit that increase which is
usually seen in the bills of mortality at this season, when
diarrhea or summer cholera is a prevailing complaint. In
the week that ended last Saturday they rose to 1,254. If
the deaths from epidemic cholera in the 34th week of the
year 1854 are excluded from the returns on which a corn-1
parison is based, it may be shown that the mortality of last
week exceeded by 60 the average mortality of corresponding
weeks in 1862-61, after correction of the latter is made for
increase of population.

In the first week of the current month the deaths from
diarrhcea were 89; in the second, 116; last week they were
123. A large proportion of these 123 cases occurred to in-
fants, for only 15 deaths from diarrhcea were returnel as
having occurred to persons above three years of age. The
disease was fatal in 6 cases in the sub-district of St. John,
Marylebone, in 6 in the West sub-district of Islington, in 5
in Mile-end Old Town West, in Bin Popar, and in sin the
second sub-district, Waterloo-road. Besides the deaths re-
ferred to diarrhcea, 7 from cholera or choleraic diarrhcea
were returned, and these also were chiefly amongst children.
A man, aged 36 years, died at 374, Caledonian-road, of
English cholera, after seven days' illness. A child, aged
four months, died of " scurvy ; hydrocephalus since birth."
There were 9 deaths in the week from smallpox, two of
which were those of adults. Typhus and scarlatina were
fatal in nearly equal numbers of cases, the former in 69,
the latter in 68 ; diphtheria numbered 16 deaths ; measles
declined to 39.

Last week the births of 942 boys and 908 girls, in all
1850 children, were registered in London. In the ten cor-
responding weeks of the years 1852.61 the average number
(corrected) was 1772.

At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height
of the barometer in the week was 29,803 in. The reading
rose from 29.65 in. on Sunday to 33.04 in. on Saturday.
The mean temperature of the air in the week was 59.6 deg.,
which is 1.1 deg. below the average of the same week in 43
years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher). The highest day
temperature was 74.8 deg. on Tuesday ; the lowest night
temperature was 46.8 dog. on Saturday. The range of the
thermometer in the week was 28 deg. The mean dailyrange
was 17.1 deg. The range on Sunday was 5.4 deg. ; on Tues-
day it was 25.4 deg. The difference between the mean dew-
point temperature and air temperature was 3.5 deg, The
mean degree of humidity of the air was 89, complete satura-
tion being represented by 100—the point attained on Sunday.
The wind was in the north en the first two days ; afterwards
in the south-west and west. Rain fell to the amount of
1.57 in., of which no less than 1.27 in. fell on Sunday (the
17th). On that day there was rain almost without inter-
mission till midnight. The thermometer in the sun rose
to 122.7 deg. on Tuesday. The mean of the highest tem-
perature of the water of the Thames was 91 deg. ; the
mean of the lowest was 61.8 deg.:

FRANCE TO HALY.

(From Punch.)

Italians, you but waste your breath,
The right you cry for stands no chance;
You raise the shout of " Rome or Death I "
And " Death!" is the reply of France.
Yes, death, my friends, for I an: strong;
France is resolved to have her way;
Her will is law which, right or wrong,
The weak must perish or obey.
Your claim of Rome I must refuse
For I don't want you to become
Tco independent. and I choose

To keep you underneath your thumb.
But death's a boon I wont deny,
If you desire to bite the dust,
Brave, then, the might of France, and die;
If die you will, then die you must.
11413ourbons I dethroned, 'tis true;

But therefore cherish not the hope
That I shalt ever suffer you
To do the like, and doff the Pope.
His power it suits me to maintain,
My cannons guard the Papal chair;
You pray for liberty in vain :
Attempt to win it if you dare.
The Eldest Daughter of the Church
Must needs defend her parent's Head,
And keep the Pontiff on his perch,

Although upon your necks he tread.
Creeds may by her be turned to sport,
Or dogmas carelessly ignored,
But France must Popery support
As an Idea, with the sword.

To suppliants what I did not grant
Claimants from me shall never wring;
To stern demand of course I can't
Think of conceding such a thing.
Honour forbids me to concede,
To menace, what is justly due;
Then how you strike for Rome, take heed :
Death is your portion if you do.
A generous nation am I not ?
Of progress don't I lead the van ?
Befriend the struggling patriot?
And vindicate the Rights of Man?
Ah I yes, but I must domineer,
So cannot call my forces home.
Then death to every Volunteer
So bold as to advance on Rome I

THE YANKEE NAME AND SURNAME.—What
;hall we say of Jonathan vow ing vengeance and breathing
fire and fury against his Southern kinsfolk ? May we not
say that Jonathan is exhibiting laimscif iii the aunt" of
Jonatbw

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, Aug. 26.—For yarns we have had
a more excited market even than that of last week,
and at a considerable advance in prices. In an ex-
ceptional state of the market like the present of
course prices are irregular and vary considerably.
Even the reports are widely at variance with each
other as to the extent of advance in prices, but
mostly agree as to a state of great excitement pre-
vailing. Some reports fix the rise in prices since
Friday at Id. to ld. and upwards per lb., and others
at rather more. One of the leading agents says the
advance has ranged at 2d. to 3d. per lb., compared
with last Tuesday's quotations. All classes of buyers
have eagerly sought after yarns to-day. Whether
made of Surat or American cotton it has been all the
same to buyers apparently, so that they could get
kold of desirable parcels. The feeling among nearly
all classes of buyers has been to have yarns at some
Price, without appearing to care very much what
they had to give. The advance upon cloth has been
less marked, but the high prices and continued .ex.
citement in the Liverpool cotton market have had
an effect here upon the small stocks of cloth in first
hands, and they have readily found purchasers at
6d. per piece higher than could be obtained last
week. Available lots of all kinds of cloth were in
request, and prices are nominally quoted at a much
greater advance than that above stated. It is un-
derstood that most of the business is speculative .
The low price of cloth, as compared with that of
cotton, has latterly induced a more active spirit of
speculation in this market, though hitherto we have
had but little of it as eompared with Liverpool. The
speculation in Liverpool approaches in recklessness
the mania for which 1845 was so remarkable in
railway shares. At Liverpool people of both sexes, •
quite unconnected with the trade (and many of
whom perhaps never saw a bale of cotton, have
placed their money at the disposal of brokers, from
£lOO upwards, and no doubt many have reaped
large profits on these ventures. The increased risk
is shown in the fact that while some of the brokers
in the first instance were content with £1 per bale
to cover possible losses (or as they are called in Caa
share market, "differences"), they now require a
deposit of £lO per bale and upwards. Outsiders
were early in the field as speculators in yarn and
cloth, but the chief operators recently, from the
magnitude of their purchases, are mostly large ca-•
pitalists, and one holder of cloth was spoken of last
week who was in a position at the then market price
to realise a profit of £lBO,OOO. In the early part
of last week the market was almost wild with the
spirit of speculation. Old stocks of cloth, of 6,000
to 10,000 pieces, which had lain unsaleable in ware-
houses for a number of years, were fished up and
found purchasers. Some of them were the worse in
colour—almost yellow, it is said ; but the salesmen
had dexterously slipped out the fact at the right
moment that they were made entirely of American
cotton, and now that goods of this description are
becoming exceedingly scarce it was found to be a
talisman that was irresistible.

Captain Palin's report of the state of employment
again shows unfavourably, the number in full em-
ployment this week being only (in Manchester)
21,817 against 22,1211a5t week. The number partly
employed is 13,794 this week against 13,980 last
week. The number totally out of employ is 12,345
against 11,883 last week.

FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST EVENING.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, AuG. 25.
A despatch, dated Potsdam, Aug. 14, 1862, of which the
following is a copy, has been received by Earl Russell from
Lord Augustus Loftus, her Majesty's Envoy Extrurdi-
nary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of Prussia:
" I have the honour to transmit to your Lordship here-
with a protocol signed by his Excellency Baron Schleinitz,
Minister of the Royal House, and myself, certifying that
her Royal Highness the Crown Princess of Prussia was
delivered this day of a Prince."
NOTIFICATION OF BLOCKADE.
It is hereby notified that, on the 23d inst., Earl Russell,
her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs, received from the Italian Charge d'Affaires at this
Court, the announcement that the Government of the King
of Italy had instituted a blockade of the Island of Sicily
and the neighbouring islands. The following is the tran-
slation of the official communication received by Earl
Russell :

The undersigned, Charge d'Affaires of his Majesty the
King of Italy, has been charged by his Government to
announce to that of her Britannic Majesty that the Govern-
ment of the King, in consequence of recent events, has de-
clared the blockade of the Island of Sicily and the islands
adjoining to

The undersigned has in consequence the honour to notify
this fact to Earl Russell, her Britannic Majesty's Princi-
pal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and takes this
opportunity to renew to hiss the assurance of his most dis-
tinguished consideration.
(Signed) L. CORTI.
49, Grosvenor-street, London, Aug. 23, 1862.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, Aug. 25.
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade have received, from the Secretary
of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a note addressed to
her Majesty's Minister at Madrid by Marshal O'Donnell,.
stating that the obligation contained in the instruction of
the 18th July, 1817, requiring all vessels to hoist a yellow
flag at the fore on entering Spanish ports, and to keep it so
hoisted until the vessel is admitted to pratique, is still
in force.

WAR-OFFICE, AUGUST 26.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders
for the appointment of Captain Roderick Dew, of the
Royal Navy, to be an Ordinary Member of the Military
Division of the Third Class, or Companions, of the Most
Honourable Order of the Bath.
WHITEHALL, Aro. 25.
The Queen has been pleased to give and grant unto John
Bush, Esq., a British subject, who is actually and entirely
employed in the service of the King of Siam, as Harbour
Master, at Bangkok, her Majesty's Royal licence and per-
mission that he may accept and wear the Insignia of the
Order of the White Elephant, which the King of Siam has
been pleased to confer upon him.

WAR OFFICE, PALL-MALL, AuGusT 26.
COMMISSARIAT DEPARTMENT—Deputy-Assistant Com-
missary-General William Clare Ball to be Assistant Com-
missary-General, vice George Alexander Skinner, placed
on the Retired List. The undermentioned Acting Deputy-
Assistant Commissaries General having completed the pl-e-
-scribed period cf probation, to be Deputy-Assistant Com-
missaries General :—Henry William Ravenscr oft; Robert
Squarey—Commissions to bear date Ist August, 1862.
MILITARY STORE DEPARTMENT.—Deputy-Superintend-
ent of Stores F. M. Cromartie to be Superintendent of
Stores, vice Pellatt, placed on the Retired List; Assist.-
Superintendent of Stores C. H. Cooper to be Deputy-
Superintendent of Stores, vice Cromartie; Deputy
Assistant • Superintendent of Stores A. C. Macduff to be
Assistant .Superintendent of Stores.
ADMIRALTY, Al:G.' 1862.
Royal Marine Light Infantry—Lieutenant and Quarter-
master Thomas Herbert Alexander Brenan to be Cap-
tain, vice Walton, placed en half-pay ; Second Lieute-
nant William Taylor Miller to be First Lieutenant,
vice Brenan ; First Lieutenant Charles Bulkeley Nurse
to be Lieutenant and Quartermaster, vice Brenan.

BANKRUPTS.
The fjllowing are the only bankrupts of commercial irca
portance which appeared in the Gazette
Frederick Northam, licensed victualler, lioxton
Samuel Stevens, baker, Horsleydown, Southwark
William Grice, publican, Warrington
Thomas Price, Innkeeper, n
:esama-super-Mare
Lee Rider, farmer, Higher Nabbs, Lancashire
George Suttle, inkeeper, Bury St. Edmunds
George Patching, licensed victualler, Brunswick-street,
B 1 baker, Golden-lane, St. Luke's
R3c°okhbferriCatroarliawrell, farmer Claygatc, Thames Fitton
Thomas Hardy, slate enameller, Belvedere. wharf
Sidney Coopey, licensed victualler, Upper Warren, near
Broomsgrove, Worcestershire
William Cole, brick maker, Mount Pleasan, Staffordshire
William Lowbridge, snaffle bit manufacturer, Walsall
-sheet, Islington
James Al. Price, co;chbuilder, Weobley, Herefordshire
Birmingham
John Yonge, attorney-at-law, Strand
I‘ji‘fvo' II:
hHwTehnaarpti t
imc keor, deb,ruajipledewre,er, Aldershotller,
Thos. J. Price, iron master! Newport
T, Hellawell and A. A. Irvin, cotton spinners, Halifax
SCOTCH BANKRUPTS.
William Robertson, brewer, Dundee
William Gellatly, draper, Dundee
William Currie and Son, wrights, Larkhall, Lanarkshire

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—YESTERDAY.
Amsterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam — 11 ISt 11 1,,f
Antwerp • 25 4 25 4if
Brussels — 25 42421 ±
25 47
Hamburgh — 13 8 13 8f
Paris
Ditto
Marseilles
Frankfort on Maine — 1191 119 t
Vienna—
-13 0 13 5
Trieste
Petersburgh
Berlin
Madrid
Cadiz
Leghorn
Milan
Genoa
Naples
Palermo ..
Messina
Lisbon

49 49;
49 49$
25 60 25
39 62i
25 571 25 62i
25a 571 25
3962 i
119 1191
119 1191
52/ 53
Oporto .............. 521 531
Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard), per oz £3 17 9
Mexican Dollars
Silver in Bars (Standard)
South American Doubloons

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ANOTHER MEMBER'S REVENGE 6, khould
always provide against a rainy day,"' as the mem
* * * * Club said when he stole the umbrella out of
the hall.—Pu?ch.
"Prevention is better than cure," as the pig said
when it ran away with all its might to escape tho
atteuttela 91 the pork-hutclar, Iwid"