The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-24 00:00:00

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.

David Graham, commission merchant, Glasgow.
James 11141tostice, sen., writer, Crieff, deceased.
David Stewart, shoemaker, Coupar-Angus.
William Wallace, mason, Forfar.
Archibald Campbell, coal and commission agent and
house factor, Glasgow.
Campbell, Yuji', and Co., bleachers and finishers,
Glasgow.
John Fraser, baker, Inverness.

lI.E.i.LTH OF LONDON DURING TIE
WEEK.

(From the Report of the Registrar-General.)

♦fter a sudden increase of mortality the weekly return
again exhibits results of a very favourable character.
In the week that ended on Saturday the deaths registered
in London decreased to 1,060. In the ten corresponding
weeks of the years 1846.55 the average number of deaths
was 1,269 ; but if the excess of deaths in the fifty-first
week of 1847, when influenza nearly doubled the mor-
tality, be excluded from the calculation, and the average
thus reduced be corrected for the increased population
of the present time, it will be found that the ordinary
rate of mortality at this season would have produced
1300 deaths last week, and therefore more by 240 than
the number actually returned.
The number of deaths referred to the aymotic class of
diseases is 187, whilst the corrected uverage of corre-
sponding weeks is 317. It may be remarked that none
of the diseases of this de-cription show a tendency to
prevail to an excessive degree. The mortality from
small-pox, which numbered 6 deaths last week (all,
except one, in the Small pox Hospital), is low ; and the
greatest number of deaths in the zymo'ic class is re-
ferred to scarlatina, which was fatal in 42 cases, the
corrected average being 63. Forty children died from
hooping cough, and 23 from measles. The deaths from
typhus or common fever were 37, exhibiting a decrease
on previous weeks. On reference to the table which ex
hibits the topographical distribution of six principal epi
demics, it will be seen that the eastern division of the
metropolis contributes more than its just contingent to
the total mortality from scarlatina and typhus ; and, to
whatever cause it is to be attributed, the same fact has
been frequently observed in the current year. Diseases
of the organs of respiration were fatal last week in 230
cases, showing a considerable decrease on the numbers
in two preceding weeks, which were successively 368
and 287. Bronchitis was the fatal disease in 110, or
nearly half of the whole number ; whilst pneumonia
carried off 93 persons, of whom 71 were children. In
the last three weeks phthisis, or consumption, which
stands in the tubercular class, caused 164, 130, and 119
deaths. The deaths of 3 persons are returned as caused
by intemperance.

- Last week the births of 868 boys and 823 girls, in all
1,691 children, were registered in London. In the ten
corresponding weeks of the years 1846.55 the average
number was 1466.

At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height; of the barometer in the week was 30.128 in. The
mean daily reading was above 30 in. on five days. The
barometer rose from 2S 98 io. on Sunday to 30.46 in. on
Tuesday, the highest reading attained in the week. The
mean temperature of the week was 38.8 deg., which is
rather below the average of the same week in 38 years
(as determined by Mr. Glaisher). The mean daily tem-
perature was below the average on four days, and the
extent of depression on Tuesday was 9 deg. The lowest
reading in the week occurred on Wednesday, and was
24 deg. ; the highest reading occurred on the following
day, and was 48 deg. The range of temperature in the
week was, therefore, 24 deg. The mean dew-point tem-
perature was 36.5 deg., and the difference between this
and the mean air temperature was 2.3 deg. The mean
temperature of the water of the Thames was 43.7 deg.
The highest temperature of the river was 48.3 deg. on
Sunday ;it declined till near the end of the week, and
on Friday the lowest temperature was 41.1 deg. The
wind, which blew from the north at the beginning of
the week, changed to south-west, and again veered to
north.north-east. On Saturday it was in
rainthe west.feli; The
t
air was frequently calm. Scarcely an
fog or haze prevailed on several days.

MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.
NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERto
IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, DEC. 20.
Zymotic Diseases l7
Diseases of Uncertain Seat
40
Tubercular Diseases ...................
Diseases of the Brain,.Nerves and Senses
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 4O
Diseases of the Lungs and other Organs of
Respiration
230
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs
of Digestion
......
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c.
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c.
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles
Diseases of the Skins &c.
Malformations 3
Premature Birth and Debility 23
Atrophy 32
Old Age
sudden l7
Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 57
Causes not specified

DEATHS PROM ALL CAUSES
Population Deaths in cone- Deaths
Enumerated. eponding week in the
1851. of 1855. Week .
West Districts
North Districts 490,396
Central Districts 393,256
East Districts 485,522
South Districts
Totals