The Sun.
London, England, 1851-07-31 00:00:00

MAJORITY-AYES, 40.
Dunne, Colonel Pechell, Sir G.

Blandford, Marquis Edwards,
.11.

Booth, Sir R. G:

Evans, John

Salwey, Colonel

Sanders, George

Bramston, T. W. Gould, Wyndham Scobell, Captain
Brocklehurst, John Hall, Sir B. Tennent, It. J.
Burrell, Sir C. Hallewell, E. G. Tollemache, F. J.
Buxton, Sir E. N. Hamilton, G. A. Wakley, T.
Carter, J. B. Ilardcastle, J. A. Walmsley, Sir J.
Chatterton, Colonel Hayes, Sir E. Westhead ,J. P.
Child, Smith Heald, James Williams, John
Christy, S. Lacy, Henry C.
Conolly, Thomas Matheson, Colonel TELLERS.

Dawes, 'Edward Mußings, J. It. Frewen, C.
Dodd, George Naas, Lord Spooner, E.
Duncan, George• O'Brien, Sir Lucius

MINORITY-NOES, 37.
Adderley, C. B. Collins, T. Rich, Henry
Armstrong, Sir A. Cowper, W. F. Russell, Lord J.
Armstrong, It. 13. Drummond, Henry Seymour, H. D.
Bagshaw, John Duckworth, Sir J. Somerville, Sir W.
Baines, M. T. Estcourt, J. B. B. Thompson, Colonel
Barrow, W. H. Ferguson, Sir 11. Watkins," Colonel
Bellew, B. At. Forster, Matthew Wood, Sir C.
Berkeley, 11. F. Gladstone, W. H. Wood, Sir W. P.
Bouverie, E. P. Goulburn, Henry Wrightson, W. B.
Boyle, Colonel Hatchell, John
Buller, Sir J. T. Henley, J. W. TELLERS.
Carew, W. P. Jones, Captain Hayter, IV. G.
Clements, Charles Norreys, Sir D. Bill, Lord M.
Cockburn, Sir A. Pusey, I'.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS..--Last night this
distinguished body held a conversazione at their rooms in
Pall-mall, which was attended by a large number of eminent
persons, native and foreign. Such meetings are very un-
usual with them, but they have yielded with appropriate
grace to the spirit of social intercourse which is prevalent
in this remarkable year, and the apartments of the college
were yesterday evening decorated with as near an approach
to festive and convivial effects as is reconcilable with the
profession of physic. The attractions of the occasion were
evenly divided between flowers and fossils, between refresh-
ments and the study of microscopic phenomena. A Persian,
airayed in magnificent eastern attire, helped by his presence
to break down the monotony of our English full• dress cos-
tume, which, especially when the wearers of it are chiefly
medical men, produces by no means an agreeable or re-
assuring impression. For the rest the occasion appeared
to pass off very pleasantly, the variety of curious and
scientific objects arranged on the tables supplying ready
sources of conversation. Among those present we observed 1
the Duke of Newcastle, Lord Colborne, Lieutenant-Colonel
North, Captain Sibthorpe, the Bishop of Sodor and Man,
Archdeacons Hale and Burney ; Sirs Henry Ellis, Richard
Westmacott, William Newton, Benjamin Brodie, Charles
Fellow, James South, John Herschel', and Charles Young;
Rev. Doctors Russell, Croker, and Plumptre ; Revs. Richard
Foyle, Russell, Williams, Edwin Foyle, Babington, end Row-
lett ; Judge Patteson, Sir F. Thesiger, Sergeant Stokes;
Sheriffs Carden and Hodgkinson ; Drs. Paris (President),
Monro, Thomson, Alison, Dunlop, Cohen, Goodfellow, Potter,
Manson, Humby, Scholefield, Roberts, Toogood, Griffith,
Moore, Beattie, Scott, Come, Lee, Diraf, Bondi, Silvester, J.
Ogle, Burslem, Henley, Reid, Meryon, and Fincham ; Seyd
Abdoollah, Baron Holmfeldt, Don Josh de Odriozola, Don
Miguel de Odriozola, Don Cubi y Solis, Father Gavazai, Pro-
fessor Pattison, Mr. Pusey, M.P., Mr. Gladstone, M.P., Mr.
Hastie, M P., Mr. Goulburn, M.P., Mr. Pickersgili, Mr'
Copley Fielding, Mr. David Roberts.
DEMOCRATIC LOGIC AND ELEGANCE OF DICTION.
--At the meeting last night of the democrats, in the •L 7
tional Hall, Holborn, held for the purpose of instructing the
ar.
Legislature in its duties, one of the orators emphaitsicsalelit
in
pied, that " if a Jew was not entitled to
take his
And
Parliament, he ought to be illegible to be
another Demosthenes, rejoicing in a huge caonrdauroy jacket as
of burning in-
a substitute for the tog:, exclaimed in tonesand destine.
dignation, violently turning his wholehheosdpy,
oke—" Are the
the unoffending air with his hands, as
great voice of the people to be drownded by the decision of
Parliament ?"—Advertiscr.
FROM THE FRENCH
PRESENT TO THE ADMIRALTYoIarts and books which have
ofca 1 Admiralty b:ii.'
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necessaryna gc French
GOVERNMENT.—The box
been presented y steamer from Boulogne, ad -
to the podarbd
Government has arrive
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free delivery dressed t® Sir F. Beaufort,fo
orders hare been given _ _ rthe)
AT A CRICK-ET MATCH.--At the conclu-
sionA JUDGE Winchester,
Mr. Justice of the trials at . Coleridge, having
of all the cases of the assizes, afterward
disposed
between the Bar of the s presided at
a cricket match Western Circuit and
Club; and his
Ithe North Hants
learned gentlemen were as eminent in the field as in the
court, for they beat their adversaries by eighteen runs, the
number being—For
..., western Luminary.
the Bar, 14;.i i for the North Rants, 127.

HEALTH OFLONDON DURING THE WEEK
1
(From the Report of the Registrar-General.)
The officia report sags:—The deaths in the metro-
politan,ardly exceeded 870, again show an increase ;
eistricte, which in either of the two previous
weeks n
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If onr in
the
thesa weak
week
and swelled the amount to 1,931; but setting aside that
year, and taking tee corresponding weeks of other years
in the series 1841-50, it appears that the lowest number
was 749 in 1843, and the highest 1,201 in 1848, and
within the weeks subject to comparison the amount did
not in general exceed 900.
Of the 956 deaths of last week, 282 aro attributed to
diseases of the zymotic or epidemic order, showing a
sudden and remarkable increase se. the 224 and 209
cases of the same description registered respectively in
the two previous weeks. On the other band, persons
who died from diseases of the respiratory organs (e„,,
clueive of hooping-cough and consumption), in the pre-
vious week were 112, in the last week only 85; but
within the same period phthisis has risen from 110
to 141.
Among epidemics which have become more fatal may
be mentioned scarlatina, which numbered 6 in the. pre•
ceding return, and 18 in the present; typhus, which has
risen from 32 to 59, and diarrhoea, almost exclusively
confined to children not older than one year, whose pro-
gress is marked by the numbers of four successive weeks;
viz., 23, 53, e 4, and in last week 83.
In snb-district of Sydenham, in Jew's-walk, a gentle-
man died after suffering 24 hours from diarrhoea. The
medical attendant states that "within one hundred yards
of the residence of deceased, and on his own property,
there is, and has been for a considerable period, upwards
of 20 square yards of surface overflowed with sewage,
emptying itself into a ditch of about 30 yards long,
which has no outlet, and is constantly stirred up with
rains and exposed to the rays of the sun, emitting at all
times the most pestilential effluvia. The immediate
neighbourhood is thickly populated, and the health of
the inhabitants much endangered. Cholerotic and
Fastro-typhoid cases are constantly occurring. The evilis
referribl© to the adjacent property; it does not come
under local jurisdiction, and the deceased had no redress."
Two cases of diarrhoea, one of which has been fatal,
are
reported,
in
the drainage is bad, a circumstance to which the medical
manattributes
thPeaorie-gisntine
of
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The following are the particulars of twelve cases of
cholera registered during the week:—ln Kensington, at
5, Queen's-road, on 15th July, the son of a cab proprie-
tor, aged 3 months,. died of " cholera infant= (3 days).
In Fulham &strict, at Parsons-green, on 25th July, the
son of a gardener, aged 5 weeks, died of "English cho-
lera." The cottage (says Mr. Knight, the registrar) is
small and badly ventilated. Iu Parsons-green-lane the
daughter of an Irish labourer,, aged 9 mouths, died of
" English cholera (4 days). " The cottages are small
and over-crowded. The medical attendant mentions
that English cholera is very prevalent in Parsons-green-
lane, and likely to prove fatal in several cases; he attri-
butes it to over-crowding of the houses, and the dirty
habits of the cottagers." In Gray's Inn-lane sub-
district, at 8, North-place, on 21st July, the daughter of
an artificial flower maker, aged 15 months, " diarrbeea
(2 months), English cholera (3 days)." Mr. Worrell
describes the dwelling as " confined and unwholesome,"
In St. Clement Danes, at 10, Craven-buildings, on 17th
July, a waiter, aged 62 years, " cholera (4 days).", At
88, Holborn, on 19th July, the daughter of a confec-
tioner, aged 11 months, "diarrhoea (21 days), cholera
infantum (48 hours)." At Saffron-hill, 16, Charles-
street, on July 19, the son of an optician, 16 months,
"diarrheas (3 days), English cholera." In Clerkenwell,
at 11, Lamb.court, on July 15, the daughter of a
labourer, aged 1 year, " cholera (40 hours)." In Hex-
ton New Town, at 7, Craven-street, on July 20, the
daughter of a gasfitter. aged 9 months, " cholera (3
days)." In the sub-district of Hackney-road, at 8,
Vincent-street, on July 17, the son of a labourer, aged
10 weeks, "English cholera (1 week)." Mr. Murray
states that" the street is close, crowded, and undraincd."
He adds, that "up to Saturday, the 2 6 th, the child had
not been buried, and lay during the hot weather in at
close room, containing six persons who had only a single
apartment for all the purposes of life. The decomposi-
tion of the body rendered the place very offensive, and
cannot be otherwise than injurious to health. Old
Nichol-street, where a child died of diarrhea, and
Mead street, a continuation of Vincent-street, where
another died of scarlatina maligna, are also described as
close and undreined streets. In St. George-in-the-East,
at 24, James-street, on 22d July, the son of a cabinet-
maker, aged S menthe, "English cholera (3 days)." In
Kenningtoe, at 3a, Henry. street, Vassal-road, on 21st
July, the daughter of a commercial traveller, aged 4
months, " diarrhoea ; cholera infantum (6 days)."
i
" This its a new house; there s no drainage, and the
water, which stagnates in the garden, is at times very
offensive."
In the above list the disorder is designated in nearly
all the cases " English cholera," or " cholera infantum,"
and, with one exception, the patients were still at that
early ago in which so many at this time of the year fall
under " diarrhces," a shorter term, and applied to a
milder form of the same complaint. The duration of
the disease, as stated in most of the 12 cases, is also
characteristic of the ordinary form of cholera, for dur-
ing the severe visitations of the epidemic ono half of
the cases terminate in less than 24 hours.

STATE OF THE WEATHER DURING THE PAST WEEK'
SUNDAT.—The sky was covered with cloud throughout the
day ; cirrostratus and scud ; rain fell generally. Electricity
—Nothing was shown at any examination.

MONDAY.— he sky was free from cloud till noon, one-half
covered till th. P.M., and clear during the remainder of the
day ; cirrostratus and fleecy clouds. Electricity—Positive,
and tension strong during the evening.
TUESDAY.— The sky was clear during the morning, during
the afternoon one-half was covered, and overcast at night ;
cumuli, cirrostrati, and fleecy.clouds. Electricity—Positive,
and tension weak at noon.

ITEnNEsnay.—The sky was covered with cirrostratus and
scud throughout the day; rain fell heavily till Oh. 30m.
p.m., and again from 4h. 30m. r.m. till midnight ; distant
thunder was heard during the afternoon. Electricity—
Nothing was shown throughout the day.
THURSDAY.—The sky was overcast throughout the day;
cirrostratus and scud. Rain was falling throughout the day.
Electricity—Nothing was shown throughout the day.
FRIDAY.—The sky, with slight exceptions, was covered
with cloud throughout the day; cumulostratus, cirrostratus,
and fleecy clouds. Electricity—Positive, and tension strong
during the afternoon.
SATURDAY.—The sky was covered with cloud till near 10h.
r.se., and clear afterwards; a shower of rain fell at 4h. 30m.
P.M. Electricity—Nothing was shown throughout the day.
The mean reading of a thermometer placed on the main-
mast, and read each day at 9h. A.m. was 59.5 ; and the mean
reading at 9h. r.m. was 59.3° ; the mean readings at the
Royal Observatory, for the same times were 6P4Q and .57.5(4
respectively.
The reading of the barometer decreased from 29.71 in. at
the beginning of the week to 29*61 in. on the 20th at 10h.
A.m.; increased to 29'92 in. by 9h. A.m. on the 21st; de-
creased to 2935 in. by 9h. A.m. on the 24th ; increased to
29,13 in. by 9h. P.M. on the same day ; decreased to 29.35 in.
by 9h. A.M. on the 25th; increased after 3h. r.x. on the same
day to 29*65 in. by the end of the week.

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS.
NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN
THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1851.
Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases ...*282
Diseases of Uncertain Seat 31
Tubercular Diseases ... 186
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... ... 121
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vesseLs 26
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Ruspiration 85
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs
of Digestion...
Diseases of the Kidneys, &e. .• •••
Childbirth, Diseases of the uterus,
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles
Diseases of the Skin, &e.
Malformations...
••• ••• •••
Premature Birth ••• ••• 22
Atrophy
••• ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• 35
Old Age
••• ••• 46
•••
Sudden 5
Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 28
Causes not specified o

... 54
... 16
... 10
... 6

DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES ... ... 956
Population Deaths in corre- Deaths
Enumerated, sponding week in the
1851. of 1850. Week*
West Districts... 376,332 .. 130 ... "96'
'
North Districts.. 490,441 Ala 177 ••• 2v
152
Central Districts 392,386 ... 158 ... 198
East Districts ... 485,336 ... 202 ... 241
South Districts.. 616,545 ... 231 ...

..... 2,361,640
Males
Females

89S ••

956
473
483

Males
Females

... 709
... 674