The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-25 00:00:00

CHOLERA AND DIARRHCEA

ENGLAND AND WALES.
The following is the Return of Deaths from Cholera and
Diarrhoea reported to the General Board of Health
October 24. 1849 :
SUPERINTENDING REGISTRAR'S DISTRICT.
Deaths.
Cholera. Diarrh.
2 0

Basford (Bulwell) ... ...
Bedminster (Stoke Abbott) ._
Berwick- upon-Tweed.... ...
Birmingham ... ... ...
Blackburn (Great Harwood dis.)
Blofield (South Wslsham dis.)
Bolton (rouge with Haulgh)
Bradford ... ... ... ...
Bridgewater ... ... ...
Bristol
Burnley (Padiham district) ...
Chapel-en-k-Frith ... ...
Clifton Union (St. Philip and
Jacob) . . ... ...
Cockermouth (Mary port dis) 2 0
Darlington ... ..• ••• --0 1
Del by ... ... ••• ••• 0 1
Dewsbury (Batley) ... ... 2 0
Dudley (Rowley Regis district) 0 2
Forehoe (Colton) ... ... 1 0
Halifax (Ovenden) ... ... 0 1
Bunslet (Rothwell and Kirk-
stall districts) ... ... 2 0
Knaresborough 5 0
Leeds ... ... , ••• 2 4
Liverpool ... ••• 0 2
Llanelly 1 0
Loughborough ••• ••• 1 0
Malmesbury . . ••• ••• 0 1
Manchester ... ••• ••• —* 5 2
Midhurst 0 1
Newark
••• 2 0
••• ••• • •
Newton Abbott (Torquay) ... 3 0
Northwich 1 0
Norwich (East Wymer district) 2 0
Peterborough ... ..
.. _ 1 1
Pontefract (Knottingley dis.) .—. 2 0
Portsea (Kingston and Land-
port districts) ... ... 1 0
Portsea (Southsea) ... ... 0 1
Preston (Walton-le-dale) ... o 1
Richmond (Surrey) ... ... 0 1
South Shields ... ... ... 1 1
Stockport and Hydo ... ... 0 2
Stourbridge ... ... ... --• 2 0
Upton-upon-Severn ... ... 1 0
Walsall (Borough district) ... 2 0
West Bromwich (Oldbury) ... 0 1
Wigan —.—. —.—. 11 0
Witham •• 0 1
Wolverhampton .... ... 2 0
Wrexham ... ... ... 0 1
Yeovil (Coker) ••• ••• 0 1

Total ... ... ... ---

SCOTLAND.

Haddington ... ...
Hawick ••• ...

... - 1 0
... - 1 0

Total ... ... ... ...

GENERAL TOTAL.
England and Wales ... 63 34
Scotland ... ... 2 0

Total ... ---

NOTE.—The deaths are returned according to the
superintendent registrars' districts, as it is found icn
practicable to distinguish every place separately.

THE FOOD OF A LIFETIME.

Take seventy years of the life of an epicure, beyond
which age many of that class of bon vivants arrive,
and even above eighty, still in the full enjoyment of
degustation, &c. (For example, Talleyrand, Camba-
ceres,;Lord Septon, &c.) If the first of the said epicures,
when entering on the tenth spring of his extraordinary
career, had been placed on an eminence—say, the top
of Primrose-hill, and had had exhibited before his
infantine eyes the enormous quantity of food his
then insignificant person would destroy before he
attained his seventy-first year—first, he would
believe it must be a delusion; then, secondly, he
would inquire where the money could come from
to purchase so much luxurious extravagance ? But
here I shall leave the pecuniary expenses on one side,
which a man of wealth can easily surmount when
required. So now, dearest, for the extraordinary fact;
imagine on the top of the above-mentioned hill a
rush-light of a boy just entering his tenth-year,
surrounded with the recherche provision and deli-
cacies claimed by his rank and wealth, taking
merely the medium consumption of his daily meals.
By closely calculating he would be surrounded
and gazed at by the following number of quad-
rupeds, birds, fishes, &c.—by no less than 30 oxen,
200 sheep, 100 calves, 200 lambs, 50 pigs; in poultry,
1,200 fowls, 300 turkeys, 150 geese, 400 ducklings,
263 pigeons, 1,400 partridges,-pheasants, and grouse ;
600 woodcocks and snipes ; 600 wild ducks, widgeon
and teal ; 450 plovers, ruffes, and reeves ; 800
quails, ortolans, and dotterels, and a few guillemots
and other foreign birds ; also 500 hares and rabbits,
43 deer, 120 Guinea fowl, 10 peacocks, and 360
wild fowl. In the way of fish, 120 turbot, 140
salmon, 120 cod, 260 trout, 400 mackerel, 300
whitings, 800 soles and slips, 400 flounders, 400 red
mullet, 200 eels, 150 haddocks, 400 herrings, 5,000
smelts, and some hundred thousand of those delicious
silvery white- bait, besides a few hundred species of
fresh-water fishes. In shell- fish, 20 turtle, 30,000
oysters,l,soo lobsters or crabs, 300,000 prawns, shrimps,
sardines, and anchovies. In the way of fruit, about
5001bs. of grapes, 3501b5. of pineapples, GOO peaches,
1,400 apricots, 240 melons, and some hundred thou•
sand plums, greengages, apples, pears; and some
millions of cherries, strawberries, raspberries, cur-
rants, mulberries, and an abundance of other small
fruit, viz., walnuts, chestnuts, dry figs, and plums. In
vegetables of all kind 5,5,475 pounds weight, and about
2,4344 pounds of butter, 684 pounds of cheese,
21,000 eggs, 180 ditto plovers. Of bread, 4f tons,
half a ton of ealt and pepper, near 2} tons of sugar;
and, if he had happened to be a covetous boy, he
could have formed a fortification or moat round
the said hill with the liquids he would have to par-
take of to facilitate the digestion of the above named
provisions, which would amount to no less than
11,8784 gallons, which may be taken as follows :-
49 hogsheads of wine, 1,3681 gallons of beer, 584
gallons of spirits, 342 liquor, 2,3941 gallons of coffee,
cocoa, tea, &c., and 304 gallons of milk, 2,736 gallons
of water, all of which would actually protect him and
his anticipated property from any young thief or
fellow -schoolboy, like Alexandre Dumas had protected
Dante and his immense treasure from the pirates in
his island of Monte Christo. You now, dearest,
fancy I am exaggerating in every way ; but, to
convince you, and to prevent you puzzling your
brain to no purpose, I also: enclose you a medium
scale of the regular meals of the day, from which
I have taken my basis, and in sixty years it amounts
to no less than 334 tons weight of meat, farinaceous
food and vegetables, &c., out of which I have named
in detail the probable delicacies that would be
selected by an epicure through life.—Soyer's Modern
Housewife

COMMON ASSAULTS.
TO THE. EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Strt,—lf a defendant refuses (or is not able) to pay
penalty and costs in a case of common assault, he
cannot be committed to hard labour. This is a defect
which ought to be remedied. There are other cases
wherein hard labour cannot be ordered.

It would, in my humble opinion, be well to pass a
short Act of Parliament (and it would necessarily be
short) giving magistrates a discretionary power, in
all cases, to commit to hard labour or not.

Yours obediently,
25th Oct., 1849. A JUSTIeET CLERK;

` FOREIGN FUNDS.
BELGIAN FUN DS.—BaUBIELB, Oct 22.
Actual Debt, 24 per Cent .......... .
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent
Loan of Thirty Millions, FourperCent ....
Ditto Three per Cent ..........
Ditto Thirty-seven Malions,dltto
Ditt0,ditt0,1848.............• •••• • • • • 95
1842................95••••••• •• • • 95.4
Ditto, 1844..• ••••••••..• • • • • • • • • • •• • 87%
Ditto, 1836... ••..• • • • •••••• • • • • • • 8314
Ditto, 1836, Three per Cent. ••••• • .. • • 65
Ditto, 1848 .• .. • • 94
Ditto of the City, 1832 ............
Ditto,lB43 • • •.• • • .................. 93
Bank of 8e1gium......
Issue of 1841 ............ • • .......... 102%
Exchange on London, 25.5 b.
DUTCH FUNDS.—Amsrszpxx. Om 22.
Bills. Money.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent ••• • • • 52 15-16 534,E
Ditto, 3 per Cent • • •. • •..••• • • • • • 62% 63
Ditto, 4 per Cent.— ••••••••• • • • •• •• 82% 82%
Amort Syndic, 3% per Cent • • • .
East India Loan, 4 per Cent • • • • —
Spanish New 5 per Cents. .....•
Austrian';s per Cents... • • ...... 84 84%
Ditto 3 per Cent., Inland • .
Exchangeon London, at sight ••• • • • 12 5
Two months.• ••••••• • • • • • • 12
On llamburgh, at sight .• • • 34 15-16
Two m0nth5........• • •• 34 111-16
On Paris, at sight.... • • ....
Twomonths. • 563,i
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, OCT. 16.
5 pet Conts. .. ••••..••••••• • • • • • . • • • • • 94% 7.16
4 per Cent.....•• ••••••.••••••• •• •• •• •• 84% hi
Ditto, 1839.. ••• • • • •• .............. 112% %
Esterlmy's Loan ••.• • • .. . ..........
Bank Shares • • • • • • • • 1,203 1,210

INTERESTING DISCOVERY AT DUNFERMLINE.—
During the relaying of the floor of the Abbey Church,
the workmen a few days ago came upon two massive
stone coffins lying side by side, and very
near the spot
where " the rude awtare" of the original abbey stood.
The coffins were hollowed out of ono single block each,
with a circular space for the head. In one was found a
body completely cased in leather, the other was full of
dust. The leather casing was in excellent preservation,
but the body within was completely gone, scarcely a
little bone left. It was taken out carefully and cleaned,
and was found to have been laced like a pair of stays all
down the back and round the soles of the feet with much
oire,—Scottish Press.