The Sun.
London, England, 1849-02-12 00:00:00

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1 quarter of 1846, and 7,974 in the autumnlirzi test, s-
of 1848.
On a comparative view of the mortalit
large towns, as contrasted with the rural • - A
small towns of England, during the nine ii_s)ttiar-
ters of each of the last nine years, ikappearsltikOhe r
returns that " after every allowance has been: 'nide
100,000 deaths have taken place which muvft 0 "•ebrf
V. S.
chiefly referred to the want of pure air and
house room, and drainage, which good laws and in-
stitutions might supply." With reference to cholera
the Registrar-General remarks, "that when it appeared
in England in 1831 it was at the close of the year,
and that it caused nearly all the mortality in 1832.
Its advances were slow, but sanitary precautions ad-
` vanced still more slowly. A Health of Towns' Act,
however," he observes, " exists ; a map of London is in
progress, on which the fatality of epidemics may be
traced, and which will facilitate the drainage; a new
Commission of Smers has been issued ; a Board of
Health has been congituted ; innumerable reports
have been printed ; and if no ti ;at, is lost much may
yet be done behire the great epidenic is in a condition
to put forth its strength in summer. The establish-
ment at Tooting has shown us haw cholera is made
fatal; it is still easier to show hnw it may be made
comparatively innoxious. And the lesson will pro-
bably not be so soon forgotten as it was in 1832."
The returns contain a very elaborate description of
the meteorological condition of the atmosphere, drawn
up by Mr. Glaisher, of the Royal Observatory, Green-
wich. " The weather," he observes, " during the past
quarter has been variable. The changes of tempera-
ture have been frequent and great ; there has heen an
unusually large number of exhibitions of the Aurora
Borealis and the magnetic instruments have been
greatly disturbed. The amount of electricity in the
atmosphere has been small, many days together having
passed without the instruments at Greenwich being
affected."

From the Ist of October to the 10th the excess of
temperature above the average of seven years was
6.6 deg. ; the greatest daily excess was 12.3 deg. on
the 7th. Between the 11th and the 21st the tempe-
rature was 4.5 deg. below the average. On the 18th
it was 10 deg. in defect. From October 22 to Oc-
tober 30 it was 5.3 deg. in excess ; the greatest was
7.7 deg. on the 27th. From October 31 to November
16 the temperature was mostly below the average ;
its mean defect was 4.2 deg., its greatest within the
period was 10.2 deg. on the 4th. From November 17 to
December 19 the temperature exceeded the average
by 4.8 deg. ; on December 7 the excess was 12.4 deg.;
on the Bth was 151 deg.; on the 9th was 14.4 deg.;
and on the 10th was 10.1 deg. From December 20
to December 24 the defect was 6.2 deg.; from
December 25 to December 29 the excess was 5.8 deg.,
and it was 2.3 deg. below the average on December 30
and 31.

UNIVERSIT Y IN TELLIGENCE.
OXFORD, FEB. 10.—There will be an election at Jesus
College on the 22d inst. to a scholarship in that college.
The Vice-Chancellor has appointed the Rev. L. E.
Judge, of New College, to be a proctor in the Vice-
Chancellor's Court in the room of the Rev. H. Cary.
The first meeting of the Ashmolean Society this term
will be on Monday next, in the Museum, at eight
o'clock, when Professor Powell will read a paper on the
Chronology of Comets, and Mr. Stackpool will exhibit
some saurian remains found at Radley, Berkshire.
The Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's have presented
the Rev. John E. Cox, of All Soul's College, to the vicar-
age of St. Helen's, Bishopagate, London, value 209/. per
annum.

The Bishop of Salisbury has presented the Rev. John
Newton Hinxman, of Trinity College, to the vicarage of
Durnford, Wiltshire, value 1311. per annum.
The Lord Chancellor has presented the Rev. Charles J.
Plumer, of Oriel College, to the rectory of Elstree, Herts,
value 304/. per annum.

On Thursday next there will be a Congregation for
conferring degrees.

THE LENGTH OF SPEECHES IN

THE HOUSE OF CO MMONS.
The following is an account of the length of time oc-
cupied by each speaker in the debate on the Habeas
Corpus Suspension Bill. It will be seen that the Minis-
ters who spoke occupied only one hour and nine minutes
of the whole time cunsumed:—

Began at Lasted

N.M. S. X.
... 4 55 45
5 40 1 40
▪ 7 20 35
... 7 55 25
▪ 8 20 17
... 8 37 53
... 9 30 43
... 10 13 13
... 10 26 29
... 10 55 21
... 11 16 5
... 11 21 24
... 11 45 10

Sir George Grey ...
Mr. John O'Connell
Mr. Feargus O'Connor
Mr. E. B. Roche ...
Mr. W. Fagan ...
Mr. Grattan
Mr. Anstey
Mr. Bourke ..
Sir Henry Barron ...
Mr. Moore ...
Mr. Muntz
Lord John Russell
Mr. George Thompson
Motion for adjournment
Mr. Scully ... .
Mr. Sharman Crawford
The question put ...
The division
The numbers reported at... 12 25
H. M.
45
24

... 11 58 12
... 12 10 1
... 12 11

Sir G. Grey
Lord J. Russell

-69 minutes.