The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-13 00:00:00

MORTAL LTY tikc

The following are the results of " A Tab" e of Mortality
in the Metropolis, showing the Number o f Deaths from
all Causes Registered, in the week endin p Saturday, the
6th March, 1841." The Table is issued from the Office
of the Registrar-General :

_
Weekly
CAUSES OF DEATH. Total. Average
1838-9-40.
Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases. 179 204
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses lBO 151
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs or
Respiration
Diseases of the Heat and Bloodvessels . 19 18
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other
Organs of Di,crestion..
Diseases of the Kidn3ys, &c.
Childbed, Diseases of the Uterus, Ste. . 16 9
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and _Muscles .... 11 6
Diseases of the Skin, &c
Diseases of Uncertain Seat - 125 103
Old Age, or Natural Decay .. 106 71
Deaths by Violence, Privation, or Intemperance 25 25
Causes not specified
Deaths from all causes 1079
Average Weekly Deaths .. 926
Deaths in the Average Weekly
Week. Deaths, 1838-9-40.
Western Districts ... 145 ...... 139
North Districts
Central. Districts 219 ..... 190
East Districts 219 ...... 211
South Districts ...

Total 1079

It is 5tat,....3 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 avers use ens
1838, 1839, 1840, was obtained by dividing the deaths in
the three years by 156.
General Register-office, March 11. 1841.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.

The Rev. W. H. Brookfield, curate of St. James's,
Piccadilly, bas been appointed, by the trustees, morning
preacher at Archbishop Tenison's Chapel, Regent-street,
London.

The Rev. C. H. Bromby, of Hull, to the Head Master-
ship of the Si.epney Prop'. ;etary SLheol.
The Rev. Daniel Moore, B. A., curate of Sr. Bride's,
Fleet-strcer, to the living of Christ's Chapel, St. Juhu's
Wood, Rogcues-park.
The Rev. C. M. Arnold, incumbent of Lower Durwen
Lancashire, to the Mastership of Lord Weymouth's En-
dowed School at Warminster, Wilts. Patrons, the guar.
diens of the Marquis of Bath.
The Rev. George Fyler Townsend, B. A., late sub-
curate of St. Margaret's, Durham, to the curacy of Syien-
ham, Kent.
The Rev. Frederick Custanee, M. A., to the rectory of
Cornwell, in the county of Hereford, on the presentation
of the Lord Bishop of Hereford.
The Rev. Charles Eboral Rodgers, M. A., of Trinity
College, Cambridge, to the living of Harworth, Notting-
hamshire, vacant by the death of the Rev. Wm. Downes-
Patron, Duke of Norfolk.
Ile Rev. W. Cassidi, incumbent of St. Giles's, Dur-
ham, to the vicarage of Grindon, near Swekton.
The Rev. Robert Pedder Buddicom, M. A., late of
Queen's College, Cambridge, to be principal of St. Bee's
College.
The Rev. G. L. Cartwright, to be curate of Brisling,
Somerset.

The Rev. G. Newnham, to be curate of Shaw Melk.
sham.
The Rev. F. Russell Nixon, Perpetual Curate of Ash,
Kelt', to be one of the six preachers of the Cathedral of
Caote..-bury.

,Rev. T. Reynolds, to the Curacy of Stamford,
Essex.
The Rev. G. Harries, to the Vicarage of Maenclochog,
Pembrokeshit e, vacant by the death of the Rev. J. P.
Williams.

The Rev. J.
.17,itton, to the Incumbency of the district
church of HoughtoL:. near Carlisle.
OBITUARY.—At tbC vicarage, Harwortb, in the 90th
year of 'his age, the h ev. William Downes, sixty-seven
years Governor of the Ho,.:pital chapel, Sheffield, and up.
wards of sixty years Vicar Harworth, Notts.
The Rev. T. Quin, TreasOrer of the cathedral church
of St. Mary, Limerick.
At Nenah, the Rev. Thomas ;lawkesworth, Rector of
Kiluran, and formerly Vicar-Genecal of the archdiocese
of Tuam.

THE MARKETS-YESTERDAY.

CORN EXCLIANGE.

This week's arrivals have been moderate of .most kinds of
Grain. The Wheat trade was firm at Monday's pn:^es. Barley
dull. There was a fair demand for Oats at previi,,us terms.
In the Flour trade prices were maintained, but sales were not
brisk.