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

Total .

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

Total ...

NOTE.—The deaths are returned according to the
superintendent registrars' districts, as it is found im•
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,jLord 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 bill a
rush-light of a boy just entering his tenth-year,
surrounded with the recherché 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 thou3and 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 lobstera or crabs, 300,000 prawns, shrimps,
sardines, and anchovies. In the way of fruit, about
5001bs. of grapes, isolbs. of pineapples, 600 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 kinds, 5,475 pounds weight, and about
2,4341 pounds of butter, 684 pounds of cheese,
21,000 eggs, 180 ditto plovers. Of bread, 4f tons,
half a ton of salt and pepper, near 2f 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
11,6781 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 o 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 33:1 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 SUR'.

Sra,—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 bumble 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 bard labour or not.

Yours obediently,
25th Oct., 1849. A JUSTICES' CLERK:

FOREIGN FUNDS.
BELGIAN FUN DS.—Barisns, OcT. 22.
Actual Debt, 2 per Cent • —
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent ........
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent •• ••
Ditto Three per Cent „
Ditto Thirty-seven Millione, ditto ••• • ••
Ditt0,ditt0,1846............ • 95U
Dittooditto,lB42 ...................... 95q
Ditto, ... 87%
Ditto, 1836......... .................. 8314
Ditto, 1836, Three per Cent. ..
Ditto, 1848 .....• ............... 64
Ditto of the City, 1832
Ditto, 1843 „ ........ 93
Bank of Belgium•.....
Isaue of 1841
Exchange on London, 25 36.
DITTC/1 FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, OCT. 22.

Bills. Money.
Actual Debt, *4 per Cent •••• • . • • 52 15-16 b 314
Ditto, 3 per Cent 62% 63
Ditto, 4 per 82% 82%
Amort Syndic, 354 per Cent ••••.• • • • •
East India Loan, 4 per Cent.. • ... •• • •
Spanish New 5 per Cents...... ..... 10 3-16 10
Austriants per Cents... ............ .. 841 84%
Ditto 3 per Cent., Inland ..........
Exchangeon London, at sight ...... 12 5
Two m0nth5............• • • 12
On llamburgh, at sight ...• 34 15-16
Two m0nth5......... •• • • 34 13-16
On Paris, at sight...... •. • •
Tw0m0uth5............... 56
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, OCT. 16.
5 per Cents. .. ...................... 95% 7-16
4 per 843
2y,z per Cent. ..... • ... • • ...• • •
Ditto, 1839 11214
Esterhazy's Loan ............
Bank Shares 1,203 1,210

INTERESTING DISCOVERY AT DUNFERMLINE.— 1
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 one 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
care.—Scottish Press.