The Sun.
London, England, 1847-10-07 00:00:00

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS

NUMBER or DEATIIS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN
TILE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, OCT. 2, 1547.
Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases ... 317
Diseases of Uncertain Seat ... 150
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... ... 169
Diseases of thu Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration 227
Diseases of the heart and Blood-vessels ... 29
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs

of Digestion... ... 80
Diseases of the Kidney s, &c.
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. ... 9
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles ... 4
Diseases of the Skin, &c. ... 2
Old Age, or Natural Decay ... 35
Deaths by Violence, Privation, or Intemperance ... 110
Causes not specified ... 3

DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES ... ... 1,143

Palliation
Enumerated,
1841.
West Districts... 301,326
North Districts.. 376.396
Central Districts 374,759
East Districts ... 393,247
South Districts .. 502,483

Average weekly Deaths
Deaths, 1842-6. in the
Five Summers. Week.

. . 137 ... 153
... 175 ... 194
... 173 ... 207
... 212 ... 273
... 244 ... 316

Totals... ..... 1,948,211 ... 940 ... 1,143

Aisles ...
Females ~. ...

BIRTHS IN TIIE WEEK.

Males ... ...
Females ...

... ... 721
... ... 733

Total

... 1,454

MONKLAND AND KIRKINTILLOCII, BALLOCIIN EY
AND SLAMANNAN RAILWAY COMPANY. The bait.

yearly meeting of this company was held at Glasgow,
on Monday; T. Hill, Esq., in the chair. The report
stated that there was a balance over the expenditure for
the half year, ending the 31st of July last, of 10,4401.
10s. 3d. An increased expense of working had been
caused by the increased wages and cost of fuel, and the
large amount of interest. The free balance was equal to
a dividend at the rate of nearly seven per cent. on the
capital of the companies, as fixed for the amalgamation
with the Edinburgh and Glasgow Company. The di-
rectors much regretted that the continued withholding
of funds by the Edinburgh and Glasgow Company, and
the non-arrangement of various matters, rendered it
impracticable for them to declare the payment of a divi-
dend. The directors had felt called upon to institute
proceedings for the recovery of the first instalment of
the Slamannan and Borrowstowness Extension line. The
dispute with the Edinburgh and Glasgow could not be
settled until the sitting of the courts on the 2d of
November.
WHO'S GOT ALL THE MONEY ?—lt is very evident
that some avaricious fools are playing the same game
with the gold that was played a little while ago with the
corn, and that people are holding, and holding, and
holding their cash, even at its present high value, in the
hope that it will become more valuable still by the in-
crease of the panic. We give them notice that they
will but n their fingers ; for, some fine morning, the
panic will begin to subside, and money will become as
plentiful as it now is scarce, when they will turn round
and say what fools they have been not to part with their
money at a pod profit when they had the opportunity.
The tact is, that people are frightening each other out
of their wits by a mutual want of confidence, and the
shock rebounds to the quarter in which it originates.
Punch is disgusted at seeing all the people shaking,
trembling, and screaming round him because there
happens to be a little bit of a pressure, which only re-
quires a little steadiness and nerve to go through it all
very smoothly; as they say at a rush to the pit
.of a
theatre, " Take your time, gentlemen, take your tune;
you won't get on any better for trying to squeeze each
other to death, so 7ou may as well all go on together
firmly and quietly. —Punch.
A CHILD ATTACKED BY A LION.—On Monday
last, a little before ten o'clock, a very fierce attack was
made by the lion Nero, in Mr. Hilton's menagerie, at
Nottingham fair, upon a chill, three years of age, the
daughter of Mr. Chittock, the owner of a car avan, attend-
ing the fair. The aunt of the child, Miss M'Pherson,
the lion's queen, was in the act of walking in fr, nt of the
when the den of the animal, carrying her niece,t the lo
yer lion sent
forth forth his paws through an opening at
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the caravan,
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ear literally torn off, as it only hung by a little skin. A
cry was raised that the lion had got at liberty, and the
women shrieked and ran over each other towards the door
for safety. At length the keepers succeeded in calming
all apprehension on this head, and the real cause of
alarm became understood. The child was conveyed to
its mother in the caravan, and surgical aid was obtained.
While in London, Mr. Hylton removed the lion from his
own caravan. and there were no locking bars on the den
in which Nero was exhibited, which was, in fact, the
cause of this mischief. The lion's queen and a man who
assisted her to drag the child from the lion's claws, both
had wounds inflicted upon their hands by the animal, as
he struck at everything within his reach. The child lies
with little hope of recover',