The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-07 00:00:00

MASTERS.

FIRST CLASS CERTIFICATES.—Timothy Thornhill,
Neil McEarcharn, Washington Pirrie, Alexander Hall,
Charters Simonds, George 'Turnbull Brown, George
Duncan, John Lyall, James King, Francis Ritson,James
Hamlin, Donald Macintyre, George Scott, Richard
Trannack, John Stewart, John Knox Thomson, John
Pook.

SECOND Corston, George Alexander
Surfien, Robert Hartshorne Brown, Charles Stewart,
Pobert Breckenridge, William Dugdale, Robert
Kavannagh, William Robert Stephenson, John Pc-
terkin, Frederick Reddish Stevens, Arthur Caleb Apted,
George Clark, Jaffrey Sceales, Edward Stabb, Robert
Inglis, James Roche, Joseph Arnold Wallinger,
Thomas Bippon, Benjamin Stacey, Philip Bennett,
James S. Robertson, John Grey, Jolla Adams, Henry
Augustus Bell, Robert Croal Steel..., Davey Waterson,
John Crutwell, Thomas Power, Frederick Halpin.
THIRD CLASS .—Henry Nelson Clarke, John William
Watts (for steam navigation only), Philip Edmund
Wadley, Thomas Castle, John Butcher, John Roskell,
John Easson, David Lindsay, John Thorning, Alfred
James Tuson, John Thompson, John Fairbairn, Jasper
Creagh Bannerman, John George Parker, Richard John
Wynn, Henry Frederick Bell.
MATES.

SECOND CLASS CERTIFICATES.—Robert Phillips,
Henry Shuttleworth, William Cowan, Richard Henry
Lewis, Henry Fagel May, George Green.
THIRD CLASS.—Henry Fox, Frederick Dunch Frost,
William John Woodgates, J obnMacdougall.

DENIS LE MARCHANT.
Board of Trade, Whitehall, Nov. 5.

lIEALTII of LONDON during the WEEK.
(From the Registrar-General's Report.)
The mortality of London, which fell below the
weekly average of five autumns in the second week
of October, has steadily continued to decline during
the three subsequent weeks. The present return
shows that only 837 deaths were registered in the
week ending last Saturday, while the average is 1,162
(allowance being made for increase of population on
previous years); the decrease is therefore 325. A
comparison of returns made for the same week in the
last 10 years shows that in any of the nine weeks the
mortality has not been so low as at the present time ;
in the corresponding week of 1841 the deaths were
840; in that of 1848 they were 1,115, after cholera
had given warning of its presence. Only 11 deaths
from cholera were registered in last week ; in the
three preceding weeks they were successively 110,
41, and 25, declining by nearly a geometrical pro-
gression. Of the 11, one occurred in Lower North-
street, Chelsea; two in the workhouse of St. Martin-
in-the-Fields (one having been that of a girl brought
from a house in Bedfordbury, the condition of which
is minutely described by the registrar) ; one in Clare-
mont place, Gray's Inn-lane; one in George yard,
Saffron-hill ; two at No. 12, Sevenstep-alley, Gravel-
lane; one in the Lunatic Asylum, Hoxton-house ;
one in Maidstone-place, " a very low and ill drained
spot" in Haggerstone (East) ; one at 4, Paternoster-
row, Spitalfields, where the mother of the deemed
died five days afterwards of " diarthea ;" and one in
Wycombe place, Kent-road. In the last week 40
deaths were registered from diarrhoea and dysentery
(the average is 27); in the three previous weeka they
were 105, 63, and 51. Two of these in the present
return occurred at Jenning's-buildings, Kensington,
a locality which has frequently obtained unfavourable
notice in the records of the late epidemic. Typhus
was fatal to 37 persons ; the average is 56. Other
epidemics are still under the average. The mortality
from smallpox and measles continues unusually low.
A woman of 57 years died of "inflammation from a
plum-stone lodging, 33 days before death, in the
colon, and producing thickening and complete ob-
struction."—Post mortem. In two cases intemperance
is stated to have been the cause of death.

The mean reading of the barometer at Greenwich
was upwards of 30 inches on the first three days of
the week. The mean of the week was 29 807. The
mean temperature of the week was 50.3 deg., which
is 4 deg. above of the same week in seven years.

The Robert Burns Masonic Ball was held at the
Freemasons' Hall on Monday evening last, the sth inst.,
and was very numerously and fashionably attended.
Adams's band was in attendance, and performed a new
selection of quadrilles, waltzes, schottischeF, polkas, Sze.,
of his own composition, which were rapturously ap-
plauded, and several of them re•demanded. Dancing
commenced at nine o'clock, and did not terminate until
five in the morning, when the National Anthem, " God
save the Queen," was performed by the band, and the
company separated, highly delighted vilh the evening's
entertainment,