The Sun.
London, England, 1854-03-30 00:00:00

3IENT BILL.

INCOME TAX.

In reply to Colonel BLAIR,
Mr. BERKELEY said the debate on the income tax
would have precedence to-morrow of the other business.
The house then adjourned at half-past 5 o'clock.

STATE OF TRADE.

(From the Manchester Guardian of yesterday.

MANCHESTICR, March 28.—The state of the market
is soon described. Buyers are holding back from busi-
ness with a more marked caution than before. In seve-
kinds of yarns there is as yet but. little accumulation—
in some there are still orders in hand ; and, in these,
but little giving way is as yet perceptible. The growth
of stocks is much the greatest in 7-8 and 9-8 cloths for
printing or bleaching ; and these show the greatest rela-
tive decline of value. After-all, however, although pro-
ducers manifest an increased anxiety to sell, they do not
attempt to force &ales, and there is nothing like panic in
the market. The Liverpool cotton market is becoming
weaker and more irregular.
HALIFAX, March 25.—Our piece hall has been very
slenderly attended to-day, both by merchants and manu-
facturers, and few goods of any description have found
purchasers. The manufacturers are greatly curtailing
production. The demand for yarns is diminished, and
prices consequently drooping. The spinners are very
generally running short time. Wools are very inactive,
and the quotations some what lower.
ROCHDALE, March 27.—The flannel market con-
tinues bad, with little or nothing doing. In fact there
is no demand for goods of any kind. Wool is a shade
lower in price, with a limited amount of business doing.
HUDDERSFIELD, Ma►:ch 28.—There has been rather
more doing to-day than last Tuesday, although the
market may be reported flat. Goods for summer wear
are now being introduced and command a few sales,
but they are more of a retail than a wholesale character,
merchants evidently intending to buy as near as pos-
sible from "hand to month." The wool trade, like the
other branches, is quiet, the sales effected being very
light weights in most instances.
BIRMINGHAM, March 27.—The buoy4ncy of the iron
trade has at present suffered no diminution. The pre-
liminary meeting of the trade will be held at Dudley on
Thnrsday next, but excites less interest than usual ; the
position of most of the dealers and manufacturers being
out of the reach of any resolution that may ba aimed at
them. Good qualities of pig-iron are unprocurable to
any extent, and pig-makers are obtaining almost any
price they please to name for the few they have to dis-
pose of, irrespective entirely of any relative value of
manufactured iron, while they are necessitated to be
equally submissive to the mine-owners from whom their
ore is procured.

HEALTH OF LOiVDON DURING THE WEEK.

(Front the Report of the Registrar-General. )

Twelve hundred deaths were registered in London in
the week that ended on Saturday, showing a small in-
crease on those of the previous week, when the number
was 1,188. In the corresponding weeks of ten previous
years the average number was 1,124, which, if raised in
proportion to increase of population, becomes 1,236.
The rate of mortality that has prevailed daring the last
fortnight, is below the corrected average, but does not
differ from it to any material extent.
Two hundred and forty-six deaths are enumerated in
this return, as caused by zymotic or epidemic diseases.
Of these 14 are referred to small-pox, 34 to meazles, 33
to scarlatina, 63 to hooping•cough, 12 to croup, 4 to
thrush, 22 to •diarrhoea, 3 to dysentery, 2 to influenza,
one to purpura, sto remittent and infantile fever, 41 to
typhus, one to metria (puerperal fever), besides 4 to
other diseases incidental to childbearing, 2 to rheumatic
fever, 3 to erysipelas, 5 to syphilis, and one to noma.
No death is attributed to cholera in the week.
Diseases of the respiratory organs produced 242 fatal
cases. The corrected average of deaths in correspond-
ing weeks is 255. Bronchitis gradually declines ;it was
fatal last week in 100 cases ; pneumonia in 95 ; laryn-
gitis and laryngismus stridulus in 10.
At 17, John's-mews, Bedford-row, on 23d March, the
daughter of a coachman, aged 5 years, died of " scar-
latina maligna (6 days), suffocation from putrid sore
throat." -Mr. Goodhugh, the registrar, observes :
"This is the third death in the same family this week
from scarlatina. One of the deaths was not registered j
by me, having occurred in Middlesex Hospital. The
medical attendant attributes this mortality to the very
bad state of the drainage. The cellar in this house is
covered with stagnant water to the depth of one or two
feet. lam informed that scarlatina has of late been
very prevalent in the immediate neighbourhood of the
mews."

In the sub•district of St. Paul, Hammersmith, in
King-street, on 17th March, the son of an ostler, aged
6 years, died of " small-pox (5 days), vaccinated ; inflam-
mation of larynx, and great want of power." On the
certificate of the medical attendant it is stated that " this
is the second death in this house, which is situated in a
yard always in a dangerous condition from putrifying
bones, rags, &c. There have been 5 cases of small-pox
in this house."

The son and daughter of a labourer, aged respectively
4 weeks and 2 years, died in Normand's-place, Furham,
on 16th and 20th March, of variola.
In the sub-district of Woolwich Arsenal, at 17, Hog-
lane, on 21st March, the daughter of a field labourer,
aged one year, died of "consumption (2 months), hoop.
ing cough (6 weeks)." No medical attendant. Mr.
Rixon, the registrar, adds :—" This is the seventh death
that has occurred in this house within the last six
months, and the parochial surgeon expects others shortly.
It is occupied by the Irish, as many as 65 of whom have
been known to inhabit it at one time. The are twelve
rooms in the house. This child died in a small garret
in which the father, mother, and three children are still

At 17, Lower Marsh-street, Lambeth, on 19th March,
a domestic servant, aged 15 years, died of " disease of
the heart, accelerated by tight lacing ; sudden."—ln-
quest.

- In Clerkenwell Workhouse, Coppice-row, on 16th
March, a painter, aged 70 years, died of "carbuncle on
the head ; decay of nature." In the Workhouse, White-
chapel North, on 17th March, a cabinetmaker, aged 60
years, died of "anthrax, debility." At Nunhead, an
inspector of sewers, aged 73 years, died of " rheumatic
neuralgia (6 weeks), paralysis (2 days)."
Last week the births of 912 boys and 893 girls, in all
1,805 children, were registered in London. In the nine
corresponding weeks of the years 1845-53 the average
number was 1,505.

MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.
NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSAS REGISTERED
IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, MARCH 25.

Zymotic Diseases
Diseases of Uncertain Seat
Tubercular Diseases
Diseases of the Brain. Nerves and Senses
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 45
Diseases of the Lungs and other Organs of
Respiration ..
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs
of Digestion
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c.
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c.
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles
Diseases of the Skin, &c.
Malformations 4
Premature Birth and Debility 37
Atrophy 34
Old Age
Sudden 25
Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 29
Causes not specified
DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES .

1,200

Population Deaths in corre-
Enumerated. aponding week

Deaths
in the

1851. - of 18. Week.
West Districts
North Districts 490,396
Central Districts 393,256
East Districts 485,522 „,, 288
South Districts
- -- -
Totals

Males
Females..

On the motion for the second reading of the above
bill, it was postponed to this day week.