The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-03 00:00:00

Early in April will be published, Volume I. of a New
Edition of

THE HISTORY of SCOTLAND.
By PATRICK FRASER TYTLER, Esq.
This New Edition of " The History of Scotland " will be
handsomely printed in post Bvo., and will consist of the same
number of volumes as the First Edition. But the price of
each volume will be only 65., half the price of the other ed.tion.
A volume will be published on the last day of every alternate
month until the completion of the new issue.
Of the First Edition, seven volumes have already been
published ; ar d it is confidently expected that the eighth vo-
lume will be published within ten months from this date, and
will completo the history down to the union of the Crowns in
1603. Both the First :Edition, therefore, and this Cheap Edi-
tion will be completed, should health be granted to the author,
in the course of the summer of next year (1842).
" It is with great satisfaction that we hail the appearance of
Mr. Tytler's seventh volume. One more will complete the
work ; which we venture to predict will then become, and long
remain, the standard History of Scotland."—Quarterly Review,
March 1841.
" See Sir Walter Scott's Review (in the Quarterly) of Vols.
I. and 11. of Mr. Tytler's elaborate work ' • a work which he
meant to criticise throughout in similar detail, for he con-
sidered it as avert' impor,ant work."—Lockhart's Life of Scott.
William Tait, Edinburgh ; Longman and Co. ; Simpkin,
Marshall, and Co. ; Duncan and Malcolm ; Hamilton, Adams,
and Co. ; and Whitaker and Co. London. Of any of whom
Prospectuses may be had by any Retail Booksellers who will
apply for them early next week.

COTTLE'S GRANULES, or grains de
sante. Angular particles for mixing in the food of
children and adults, and insuring a daily action on the bowels
by an operation totally mechanical and not medicinal. They
form for all an effectual substitute for physic, of an agree-
able spicy taste. In Is. lid. packets, with practical data show-
ing that by their use in food infants may be reared safely with-
out the natural milk. By a Surgeon.
Hannay and Deitrichsen, 63. Oxford-street, and all Chemists.

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS.

The following are the results of " A Table of Mortality
in the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths from
all Causes Registered. in the week ending Saturday, the
27th March, 1841." The Table is issued from the Office
of the Registrar-General:—

Weekly
Total. Average
183 S-9-40.
Epide xnic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases l6O 204
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses 147 151
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respirat:on
Diseases of tlse Heat and Bloodvessels
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other
Organs of Digestion
Diseases of the Kidrisls, Bcc. ... ........ ... 5 4
Childbed, Diseases of the Uterus, &c.
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Museles
Diseases of the Skin, &c 2 1
Diseases of Uncertain Seat
Old Age, er Natural Decay B2 71
Deaths by Violence, Privation, or Intemperance 22 25
Causes not specitied
Deaths from all causes 865 —.
Average Weekly Deaths
Deaths in the Average Weekly
Week. Deaths, 1838-9-4.0.
Western Districts ... 110 ...... 139
North Districts
Central. Districts lB2 ..... 190
East Districts lB3 ...... 211
South Districts ...

CAUSES OF DEATH.

Total 865

It is stated that under the term Metropolis are com-
prised the 32 districts herein mentioned, which include the
City of London within and without the walls, the City and
Liberties of Westminster, the out parishes within the
bills of mortality—and the parishes of St. Marylebone ;
St. Pancras ; Kensington; Fulham ; Hammersmith
(Chapelry) ; St. Luke, Chelsea; Paddington; St. Mary,
Stoke Newington ; St. Leonard, Bromley ; St. Mary-le-
bow ; Camberwell ; Greenwich ; St. Nicholas and St.
Paul, Deptford; and Woolwich. The population as enu-
merated in 1831 was 1,594,890. The weekly average for
1838, 1839, 1840, was obtained by dividing the deaths in
the three years by 156.
THE NUMBER OF DEATHS IN 12 WEEKS FROM EPIDEMIC
DISEASES AND OTHER CAUSES.
Small Pox .... • 5BB Asthma 706
Measles
Scarlatina 155 Childbirth 122
Il'ioping Cough . ...... 601 Consumption
Influenza

All Causes 12,829

Pneumonia, Pleurisy, &
Bronchitis 1,528 ,
Diarrhoea and Dysentery have been more fatal than is usual
in the season ; Puerperal Fever has prevailed ; Small Pax,
Measles and Scarlatina have gone on declining ; Hooping
Cough and Influenza are the reigning epidemics. The influence
of the cold weather was most remarkable in Inflammation of
the Lungs, Asthma, and Paralysis. The deaths of persons
above 60 amounted to 266 wrelly through the season, ot 56
per cent. above the average of the three years 1838-40.
TEMPERATURE IN THE WEEKS ENDING MARCH 13 AND 20.
March 20. March 27.
62' 64'
38 43
50 52
it 1, 1841.

Highest

Lowest

Daily Mean .... ......... ... I
General Register-office, Ape

LIVING AND ORNAMENTAL FENCES.-.At
a recent meeting of the Botanical Society of London, Mr.
D. Cooper gave an account of a new living fence, formed
of planting young trees in a slanting position, every other
tree leaning the opposite way, so that they will cross each
other, and then, at the parts which come into contact, take
off from each a piece of bark, and tie close together,
covering the part with clay. This grafts each tree into its
neighbour, and forms in a few years a living fence, with
diamond-shaped openings. The plan is an excellent one
for ornamental fences.
As a pair of carriage horses, belonging to Capt.
Bulkeley, of the Ist Life Guards, were being exercised
near the Cavalry Barracks at Windsor, on Wednesday
last, a valuable white mare was kicked by the other on the
stifle, which broke its thigh. It started off at full speed
on three legs, and ran upwards of 400 yards in this state,
when it fell, and was immediately shot. A private in the
60th Rifles, who was jumping over a hedge into the road
at the time, fell and broke hisl,g.