The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-07 00:00:00

BIRTHS, DEATHS, AND MAR

RIAGES.

The " Third Report of the Registrar. G:neral of
Births, Deaths, and Marriages' has just been published,
of which the folliwing is an abstract.
The Following table will show the numbers registered
in the year ending June 30, 1810, comparei with those
of the preceding years :-
1839-40. 1838-39. 1837-38.
Births.... 501,589 480,540 399,712

Deaths ... 350,101 331,007 335,956

Marriages 124,329 111,083 111,481
Thus showing an increase in the number of births re-
gistered in the year ending June 30, 1840, over those
in 1838-39 of 21,049 ; ever those in 1837-38, of
101,877 ; in the number of deaths registered in the
year ending June 30, 1840, over thos. in 183 S 39, of
19,094 ; over those in 1837-38, of 14,145 ; in th! num-
ber of marriages registered in the year ending June 30,
1840, over those in 1838-39, of 3,246 ; over those in
1837-38, of 12,848.
The increase in the number of registered births is
said to be the result of the successful operation of the
new law. The increase in the number of regis ered
births has not b-en confined to a few localities, but has
been generally diffused.
During the last three years the proportion of male
and female children has been nearly the same. There
appears, from the Report, to have been An apparent in-
crease in the number of deaths compared with the two
preceding years. The first year's registration did not
comprise the deaths of the whole year, which, including
those registered eubsequently, amounted to 338,660.
The real increase, therefore, over the registered deaths
which occurred in the year 1837-8 is 11,441. In con-
sidering this subject, we should recollect that the popu-
lation of England and Wales has increased from 1821
to 1831 at the rate of 16 per cent. ; and if it be
assumed (as is probable) that this rate of inc►ease has
continued to the present time, the population in the
years 1838.9 and 1839-40 will probably have increased
to the amount of from 220,000 to 240,000 annually.

The proportion of male and female deaths in each of
the three years has been nearly the same.
Males. Females.
Year ending June 30th, 1838... 170,965 164.991
Ditto ditto 1839... 169,112 161,895
Ditto ditto 1840... 177,929 172,172
More than half of the excess over the deaths of 1838.9,
and more than three-fourths of the excess over those of
1837.8, consist of deaths of children under five years
of age. This increase in the rate of mortality, we are
happy to say, has not been general throu;hout
the kingdom. but has been confined to a few unhealthy
localities. From a tabular statement attached to the
report it appears that there has been a progressive
decrease of mortality from 1837-8 in the Mttropolis,
and in Devonshire ; and of progressive increase from
1837-8 in the counties of Derby, Leicester, Northamp-
ton, Nottingham, Rutland, and the northern parts of
Lincolnshire ; the counties of Chester, Salop, Stafford,
except the mining part of the two latter; Lancaster, south
of Morecombe-bay, except Liverpool and Manchester ;
the West Riding of Yorkshire. except the northern
parts thereof ; and Leeds ; the City, Ainsty, and Eest
Riding of York. Monmouthshire, Herefordshire, and
Wales. The greatest increase of mortality has been in
the following counties :—Lancashire, Nottinghamshire,
West Riding of Yorkshire, Leicestershire, Cheshire,
Gloucestershire, Northumberland, Durham, Derbyshire,
and North Wales, the combined increase of which
alone amounts to 15,231 out of the total increase of
19,097. It will be noticed that this increase of mor-
tality has occurred among the manufacturing portion of
the population. A great number of deaths in these
districts is to be traced to the prevalence of epidemic
diseases, particularly typhus and scarlet fever ; and,
besides these, other circumstances to which those living
in the manufacturing parts of England are exposed,
which will always be operating prejudicially to health,
and cause an increase in the rate of mortality.
The Report shows a gre it variation in the mortality
in dif erent districts, especially in childhood and old
age. The deaths of children under one year of age,
constituting a fourth portion of the whole mortality,
appear to have been comparatively most numerous in
the mining districts of Staffordshire and Shropshire, the
south of Lincolnshire, Huntingdonshire, and Cam-
bridgshire ; the manufacturing parts of Lancashire
and Yorkshire ; in Manchester, Liverpool, and Leeds,
&c. The proportion of deaths at advanced ages has
been greatest in Devonshire, Dersetshire, Wiltshire,
Cornwall, in the counties north of Yorkshire, and in
Norfolk and Suffolk. It has been least in Liverpool,
Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, and the mining dis-
trica of Staffordshire and Shropshire.
In the number of marriages there has been an in-
crease to the amount of 12,848, as compared with
those registered in 1837.8, and an increase of 3,246
over those of the year 1838-9. The number married
under the age of 21 was as follows :—Men 6,101,
women 17,909, being in proportion to the whole number
married 4.90 per cent. and 14.40 per e t. respectively.
This proportion is in a slight degree leght r than in the
preceding year, when the numbers were 5,628 men and
16,414 women, and the proportions 4.64 and 13.55.
It appears front the Report that in 13 English coun-
ties, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, and in Wales,
more than 40 per cent. of the men =riled could not
writs their names ; and that in 19 English counties, in
the West Riding of Yorkshire, and in Wa'es, the seine
fact ex'sted with respect to more than half the women.
It appears from th.e abstract of marriages contained in
the report, that in the whole of England and Wales,
out of 124,329 couples, their were 41,812 men, and
62,523 women, who it is presumed either could not
write, or wrote very imperfectly.
With reference to the ages of those married, it ap-
pears that in the years 1838-9 the average age of rn tr-
riages was, for men, about 27 years ; for women, 25
years and a few months. It now appears, from an ana-
lysis of the recorded ages in 10,019 marriages which
occurred in June 30, 1840, that the average age for
men is 27.4 year!, for women 25.5 years.
The places registered during 1840 for the solemniza-
tion of marriages unconnected with the Church of Eng-
land amount to 188 The number registered the pre-
ceding year was 246.

WHIG AND TORY PATRONAGE IN SCOT.
LAND.—AS proofs of the different manner in which
Whigs and Tories exercised their patronage,: pray ob-
serve that during the ten or twelve years preceding the
reign of.the Whigs the Tory Administrations promoted
to the bench in Scotland the following Whigs—namely,
David Cathcart, John Clerk, George Cranstoun, Sir J.
Moncrieff, John Fullerton—five Whigs. Nark the per
contra ! During the ten years of Whig administration
the Whigs promoted Henry Cockburn, Francis Jeffrey,
John Cunningham, J. A. Murray, James Ivory—
all Whigs, and not one Tory. Very good people,
I dare say ; but so stands the fact as to the diffe-
rent manner in which the two parties acted towards
their opponents. Correspondent of the Times.
(Why does not this correspondent state the cause of the
difference ? These Whigs were promoted during the
Tory reign, because the stock of Tory advocates was
absolutely exhausted of men fit to sit on the Bench, and
President Hope, afraid that he might come in for a share
of the public ridicule directed against his colleagues,
prayed Sidmouth, and afterwards Peel, to improve the
stock by a new race. It was a matter of necessity, not
of choice.)
THE WAY TO PREVENT A PIG FROM BEING
IMPOUNDED.—The owner of a pig, enraged at being a
second time called upon to pay the penalty for its break-
in.- bounds, went to the pound with a large whip, and
shutting the door, to prevent piggy's egress, whipped
the poor animal until it squeaked for mercy. He
then told the hayward, that if he ever got the pig
within the pound again " he would forgive him.'
Within a day or two the pig again broke loose,
and the hayward was at his post, but all at-
tempts to get it anywhere near the pound were fruitless.
The hayward pushed forward—piggy pushed backward,
and beat the hayward by chalks. The Irish method was
tried ; and an attempt made to persuade piggy that it
was required to go a different route, by putting his head
towards the pound and pulling his tail from it ; but piggy
was not to be done. Neither strength nor stratagem
had the least effect. At length the owner came, and
amidst much laughter took the animal home.—Hamp-
shire Advertiser.
PARLIAMENTARY VOTES OF THE WIGAN
MEMBERS.—Great consternation has this week been
created in the Tory camp at Wigan, in consequence of
its being announced in the London journals that I'.
Greenall, Esq., was one of the majority on the division
fur the grant to Maynooth, and that T. B. Crosse, Esq.,
tearful of giving offence either to the Premier or to his
constituency, had absented himself from the house alto-
gether on that occasion. Benjamin, the prophet, is
in a perfect rage ; and he and his party declare that
they have been woefully deceived in their men.
Mr. T. B. Crosse has also voted, contrary to his elec-
tioneering promise, in favour of the continuance of the
New Poor-law, and on the same question his worthy col-
!ewe absented himself. Thus, on two important ques-
tions, have the honourable Members for Wigan voted and
acted in • direct opposition to their former professions.
Several of the leading manufacturers—and we have this
on good authority—who voted for these gentlemen at the
late election, have publicly declared, in consequence of
the Ministerial refusal to examine into the distressed
state of the country, that in the event of another appeal
to the electors, the free-traders shall have their support.
This looks like re-action in good earnest.—Manchester
Times.

A white hare was killed at Offronville, near
Dieppe, a few days ago, a circumstance uncommonly
rare in France, though white hares are often found in
the north of Europe.
ALARMING FIRE,—On Monday mining, at
half-past four o'clock, a fire broke out in the lower part
of the premises of Mr. • Roynolds, landlord of the Black
horse public-housc, Kent-street, Borough, which entirely
consumed the house, stock, and furniture. The inmates
were all in bed, and effected their escape in their night-
dresses. It is unknown in what manner the fire originated.
YANKEE IDEAS OF THE " AWFUL. --A
recent New York paper heads an artic:e " Awful" that
states that, during the present summer, about 1.500 dogs
have been killed, under the provisions of the dog law
HUNTING BY STEAM.—On Monday, as the
Shoreham branch of the London and Brighton Railway
was, proceeding to Shoreham, a harp r=an-on the fgr
Some distance, but eventually poor puss was overtAeu
and cut in half by the train.