The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-03 00:00:00

DETERMINED SUICIDE.

On Tuesday Mr. IL M. Wakley held an inquest at the re-
sidence of Dr. Smedley, 8, Torrington-square, on Captain
Edward Harris Butterfield, H N., aged 44. Jane Bradley,
the housemaid, deposed that deceased was her master's
brother-inslaw, and that he had resided in her master's
house six months. Last Saturday:she last saw deceased alive
as he retired to his bed-room. Instead of eating his supper as
usual in the parlour, he bad it in his bed-room. For the last
month he was very melancholy, but why she could not say,
as he was on the best possible terms with all his family. He
never sat down without falling asleep. At tea on Saturday he
complained of pains in his head, and went to bed earlier than
usual. At half-past eight on Sunday morning she knocked at
his door to call him, but not getting an answer, her suspicions
were aroused, and she called her sister (the cook), with whom
she entered his bed-room, when they found him quite dead
In bed with his throat cut. She immediately informed her
master of the dreadful occurrence, and he sent for Drs.
Cooper and `Browne. Deceased never threatened to destroy
himself. Dr. Robert Hunter Smedley, brother-in-law of
deceased, said that he suffered from liver disease and conges-
tion of the brain, and had been such a martyr to illness for
the last two years that nothing could soothe him. Some
years ago, while capturing a prize, ha sustained a severe in-
jury of the head by the boom of the prize vess4 failing on
him. In witness's opinion, the disease of his brain and liver
was caused by his long residence on the coast of Africa. Al-
though deceased was eccentric he was not so insane as to re-
quire being watched. Sir E. Parry, RN., said he had known
the deceased upwards of 30 years, and saw him last alive ten
weeks ago, when he appeared so melancholy and altered in
his general manner since November that he scarcely knew
him. His face was shrunk, his body was attenuated, and he
looked twice his real age. He had seen great service, and
had been on the African coast longer than any other officer.
On one occasion he served there twelve successive years, and
when he first was there he was witness's first lieutenant.
Since his return home he complained of pains in his side and
head—the usual symptoms of tropical disease. While on the
African coast he had fever. Officers who had been on that
trying service frequently committed suicide. Two of wit-
ness's friends, after leaving that station, did so. Deceased
was one of the best officers in her Majesty's service. Some
further evidence was given ; after which the jury returned a
verdict of Temporary insanity.

The Glasgow Daily Arad announces the demise of
Lord Mozcrieff, and states that the vacancy thus created on
the Scotch Bench will be Ailed by Mr. Cowan.

GAS-LIGET AND COILEI COMPANIES.
-----
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
- , , --
X. s. d. £. s. d.
British ••••••- • • • • •• 11. 40 0 0 16 0 0 13
Ditto Provincial. ••• 11. its. 120 0 0 20 0 0 18%
Brighten •• ••.••• • • • • 51. 20 0 0 - -
City of London .. •• • • 6/. 160 0 0 150 0 0 -
Continental Consolidat. 925. i 75 0 0 31 5 0 -
Equitable .• ••••• • • • • • 50s. 50 0 0 50 0 0 27
Imperial .• -•••• • • • • 3/. 50 0 0 50 0 0 70
Independent ... ••• • • • 61. 40 0 0 40 0 0 46
London• ••••••• • • • • • • - 50 0 0 50 0 0 -
- 50 0 0 50 0 0 -
Do., Parl. Preference 61. 25 0 0 710 0 -
Pheenix .•••••• • • • • • • 41. 50 0 0 49 0 0 2838
Ratoliff •••••••• • • • • • 61. 100 0 0 90 0 0 -
United General .• •• •• 11. 50 0 0 60 0 0 15
Westminster Chartered 31. so 0 0 - 45%
Ditto, NOW •••• - • .. 12s. 50 0 0 10 0 0 9%
LIST Or SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES
Dividend Amount
Name of Company.
An per
Share. ef Paid. Price.
um.
---- -----
£ a. d. £ s. d
Bank of Scotland
British Linen Company Si. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 1993(
Caledonian Bank •• .•• 01. per sent. 10 0 0 2 1 0 31. 5 .
City of Glasgow Bank 61. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 11%
Clydesdale Bank •• . •
Commercial Bank .. • • 71. per cont. ,500 0 0 100 0 173
Eastern Bank ••• • - - 61. per cent.' 25 0 0 10 al. 4s
Edinb.kGlasgow Hank 61. per cent. 50 0 6 0 4%
Exchangeßnk of Scot.. 4/. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 15%
National Bank 6% per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 15
North of Scotland Bank 51. percent. 20 0 0 2 1 0 21.175.
Royal Bank of Scotland 51. per cent. 100 0 0 ,100 0 130
Union Bank of Scotland 81. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 89
Western Bank •• • •
Alliance Fire and Life 4%1.pr cent. 10 0 0 10 0 21
British Guarantee
Caledonian Fire Incur. 101. per cont. 100 0 0 10 0 23
City of Glasgow Life 6l. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 31. as
Colonial Lifb ... •• • • - 50 0 0 1 0 21. Os.
Edinburgh Life Insnr. 61. percent. 100 0 0 15 0 21
Eng.& Scot, Law Life 51. percent. 50 0 0 2 1 6 23G
Life Assoc. of Scotland 61. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 131. Os
National Fire and Life 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 1245. 65
North British Incur. - 61. per cent. 200 0 0 20 0 1 27
ScottishUnionlnsrnce. i%,1. pr cent, 20 0 0 1 0 241.65
standard Life
United Dep•Assuranee 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 17e 6d
MISCELLANEOUS.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
---.....--- -
X. e. d. Z. a. d.
Armin Tea ••.••• • • • • - 20 0 0 20 0 0 6
Auction Mart.• ••• • • • 21. ss. 50 0 0 - 28
instrallan Agricultarl 11. 100 0 0 20 0 0 14
Australian Trust • • ..61. per cent. - '35 0 0 20
6nglo4fealcan Mint.. 11. 10s. 10 0 0 10 0 0 20%
Ditto, Half Shares.. - - i 10 0 6
British American Laad - -- 38 10 0 -
Canada ... - ••' ....' 61. per cent. 100 0 0 32 10 0 4634
Uppr Canada Bonds 61. per'eent.
Ditto ditto .... 61. per cent. - - 107
City Navigation Bonds 3a per cent. - - 96
Gen. Rovers. & Invest. 5 p.c.& bs, 2/ 100 0 0 100 0 0 91
Equitable Reversienry 5 p.c.&bs.st 100 0 0 100 0 0 109%
Ditto New ........ I - 50 0 0 210 0 234
Gea.SteamNavigation ,10 p.ct.& be. 15 0 0 14 0 0 2834
Hudson's Bay .......• - Stock. - -
Hungerford ...... •• .. 21. be. - 100 0 0 47
London Institution .• • - - 78 15 0 7
New Zealand Company - 25 0 0 25 0 0 -
Ditto. New ........ - 25 0 0 12 10 0 -
Ruseell Institution •• •• - - 26 5 0 -
Peninslr&Orient.Stm. 81. per cant. 50 0 0 50 0 0 -
Reversionary Int. 800. 1361. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 99%
Royal Mail Steam •• •• 41. p. share. 100 0 0 60 0 0 78
South Australian... •• 11. per share. 25 0 0 25 0 0 24
Van Dleman's Land.. 1 - 100 0 0 29 0 0 2

COMMITTAL OF A WIFE FOR MURDEILING HEE
HUSBAND.—IPswicir, T MOAT. —Yesterday afternoon the
coroner's inquiry concerning the death of James Cage, an
agricultural labourer, living at Stonham Aspal, near here,
was resumed and concluded, at the Ten Bells public-house,
of that village, before the jury previously empanelled. To-
wards the latfer end of the week before last the deceased was
taken seriously ill, and in the course of the Saturday night he
expired. The funeral was arranged to take place on the
following Thursday, and the corpse was on the way to the
churchyard for interment, when the clergyman, in conse-
quence of what he had just been informed of, caused the
ceremony to. be delayed and the present inquiry instituted.
Some additional evidence having been received, the coroner,
proceed to sum up, and the jury, after a brief deliberation,
returned a verdict of wilful murder against the wife of the
deceased, and the coroner accordingly made out his war-
rant for her trial at the assizes.
We understand that on and after the lath instant
the evening French mail for London will leave Paris at half-
past seven P.M., and arrive at Calais at two in the morning,
instead of, as hitherto, leaving at night and reaching Calais
at three.
SCULPTURE ROOM AT HYDE-PARS PALACE.—
We are informed that a well-proportioned room for sculpture
has been set apart in the Exhibition building, 70 feet by 48,
and 30 feet high. The following arrangement of colours has
been suggested by a sculptor :—The floor stained park-oak,
the pedestals of the statues dark crimson, the walls a warm
grey of an atmospheric retreating quality, the ceiling light
grey, and a centre concentrated light of 36 feet by 12, with
a thin white linen spread beneath. The arrangement of
colours is different from that hitherto received as appropriate
for sculpture rooms, but would, we have no doubt, be effec-
tive. The neutral' tint of the walls would afford a dis-
tinct yet soft fleshy outline to-the marble and plaster, and•
the dark floor preserve the works from the upward reflective
gleam so injurious—in the British Museum for instance—
Builder.

THE LOIsIDON GAZETTE, April 1.
INSOLVENT PETITIONERS.
Charles Joseph Acut, cabinet maker, Goswell-road,
Clei kenwell.
James Watts Knight, commercial traveller, Salutation
Tavern, Nevigate-street.
Elizabeth Freeman, baker, Lombard-street, Chelsea.
John Frederick Hulls, ostler, Susannah-street, Poplar
New Town.
Charles Alexander Sinclair, Bedford-square.
John Stanley, attorney, Western-street, New-road, Pen-
tonvillo.
Gustavus William Blanch, consulting surgeon, White-
head's-grove. Chelsea.
John George Fuller, club-house proprietor, Lorn-road,
North Brixton.
Henry William How, carpenter, Leipsic-road, Camber-
well New-road.
David Downing, commission agent, LiAle Albion-street,
nothernitho.
James Sanson, cooper, Brentford.

Daniel Catlin, foreman to a greengrocer, Broadway,

Westminster.
David Dunne Kyle, civil engineer, Albany-street, Re-
gent's-park.
Robert Remmott, barrister, Stanley-street, Chelsea.
Alexander Warrand, attorney, Castle-street, Holborn.
George Machell, journeyman carpenter, Dann's•cottagcs,
Lower-road, RAherhithe.
John Roberts Fitch, wholesale jeweller, Hatton-garden.
Edward Saville, stonemason, Hulme, Manchester.
William White, bookbinder, Reading.

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Thompson Wainewright, town traveller, Birmingham.
John Augustine Jackson, screw maker, Manchester.
William Coulthirit, joiner, Crumpsall, near Manchester.
Robert Dean, farmer, near Chester.

John Hoyle, woollen card-•r, Cage-mill, near Rochdale.
Samuel Irciand, grocer, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Edward Devonshire, clerk, Prospect place, Peckham-rye.
John Jeffreys, barrister, Brecon.
Thomas (lath way, saddler, Frampton, Gloucestershire.
William Harris, victualler, Cardiff.
Richard John, farmer, Aburthin, Glamorganshire.
Richardson Webster, safety-lamp maker, Dudley-hill,

near Bradford.
John Tilley, grocer, Tredegar Iron Works, Moc-

mouthshire.
John Myers, attorney, Manchester.
David Jones, labourer, Cerrigydruidion, Denbighshire.
Richard Holgate, greengrocer, Dewsbury, Yorkshire.
William Hopkins, farmer, Bristol.

John Green; linen draper,' Halifax, Yorkshire.

DIVIDENDS.
At the Court, Basinghall-street.
J. Rumsey, Dean-street, Shadwell, glue piece maker,
April 24, at eleven.
In the Country.
T. Kington, East Stonehouse, Devonshire, furniture
broker, April 24, at eleven, at the Hall of Commerce,
Plymouth—W. Richards, Devonport, printer, April 24,
at eleven, at the Hall of Commerce, Plymouth.
PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS.

J. Bates, Leeds, sharebroker, 5d., on Tuesday, April
1, or any subsequent Monday or Tuesday, between
eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Hope, Leeds.
B. Tebbitt, Ventnor, Southampton, draper, 3s. 9d., on
Thursday, April 4, and three following Thursdays, be-
tween eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Stansfeld,
Basing hall- s treet.
W. F. Harris, Friday-street, Cheapside, City, Man-
chester warehouseman, is. 6d., on Thursday, April 4,
and three following Thursdays, between eleven and two,
at the office of Mr. Stansfeld, Basinghall-street.
C. O'Neil, Golden-square, picture dealer, 6:1d., on
Thursday, April 4, and three following Thursdays, be-
tween eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Stansfeld,
Basinghall-street.
J. Robinson, High Holborn, bookseller, ls. 3d., on
Thursday, April 4, and three following Thursdays, be-
tween eleven and to o, at the office of Mr. Stansfeld,
Basinghall• street.
R. Rowlett, West Smithfield, licensed victualler, id.,
on Thursday, April 4, and three following Thursdays,
between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Stansfeld,
Basinghall- street.

M. b. Robinson, Dudley, Worcestershire, confectioner,
3s. I Id., any Thursday. between eleven and three, at the
office of Mr. Christie, Birmingham.
E. Round, Tipton, Staffordshire, timber merchant,
175., on any Thursday, between eleven and three, at the
office of Mr. Whitmore, Birmingham.
E. Round and W. Round, Tipton, Staffordshire, tim-
ber merchants, 45., on any Thursday, between eleven
and three, at the office of Mr. Whitmore, Birmingham.
R. Lewis, Wootton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire,
woollen manufacturer, 3341., on any Wednesday, be-
tween eleven and one, at the office of Mr. Hutton,
Bristol.

J. Atkinson, Newcastle-upon-Tyno, tavern keeper,
3s. 4d., on any Thursday, between ten and three, at the
office of Mr. Baker, Newcastle-upon-Ty no.
NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES.
In the Country.
J. D. Harewood, Liverpool, ironmonger, April 24, at
eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—R.. Boyle, jun., Kings-
ton-upon-Hull, merchant, Feb. 14, at half-past twelve, at
the Town-hall, Kingston-upon-Hull—J. Barker, New-
castle-upon-Tyne, merchant, April 24, at twelve, at the
Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—J. Manning. Birming-
ham, draper, April 26, at ten, at the Court, Birmingham
S. Lee, Loughborough, Leicestershire, bookseller, April
25, at twelve, at the Court, Birmingham—J. Wilson,
St. Helen's, Lancashire, manufacturing chemist, April
23, at eleven, at the Court. Liverpool.
CERTIFICATES GRANTED.

E. Trent, Sherboree, Dorsctshh e, and Yeovil, Semer-
setshire, draper, certificate of the second class—S. Jef.
fryer, Eithain. Kent. maltster, certificate of the second
class—C. G. Jones, Elizabetheltrete, Cholera, certificate
of the second crass---J. Yeller, Laudport, Southampton,
builder, certificate of the third class—W. C. Cranwell,
Ely, Cambridgeshire, potato merchant, certificate of the
second class—J. B Pillin, Featherstone-buildings, Hol-
born. sword cutler, certificate of the second class—T.
Matthew s, Kenil worth, Welt wiekshire, licensed victualler,
certificate of the first class—R. Bruin, Blithe., Leicester-
shire, baker, certificate of the first class—R. J. Wallis,
Loughborough, Leicestershire, wino and epirit mer-
chant, certificate of the first class—J. Letts, Leamington
Priors, Warwickshire, miller, certificate of the first
c'ass—J. Firth, Leeds, linendraper, certificate of the
third claw, subject to a suspension of one month, from
March 27—J. D. Woodcock, Leeds, caleuderer, certifie
cite of the second class.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
E. Macleur and W. Roberts, Kidderminster, Worces-
tershire, coach-builders—E. Smith and 11. Cooper, Ca.
momile-street, London, leather merchants—H. Potter,
G. W. Potter, and C. Duff, Crane-cAirt, Fleet-street,
printers (so far as regards 11. Potter)—T. F. Savory and
A. J. Moore, Cheltenham, chemists—W. Blunden and
G. Callaway, Putney, Surrey, cabriolet proprietors—M.
Hudson and J. F. Bottom, Sneinton, Nottinghamshire,
lace-dressers—P. .Ludgate and C. Birt, Aldersgate-street,
London, linendrapers—J. Surshatn and S. Woodcock,
Norwich, corn chandlers—J. Barker and J. Barker,
Coleshill, Warwickshire, surgeons—J. Osborn and J. S.
Osborn, Reading, Berkshire, linendrepers—F. Burnup,
T. Spei.cer, and J. W. Ackroyd, Bradford, Yorkshire,
worsted-spinners (so far as regards T. Spencer) —J. N.
Mourilyan and N. H. Rewsell, Verulam-buildiege,
Gruy's- inn, attorneys—J. Agate and J. Agate, Hors-
ham, Sussex, drapers—J. Stokes, I. Stokes, and W.
Stokes, Hall-green, Staffordshire, iron-founders—D
Antrobus and A. Heron, Manchester, sharebrokers—J.
Hall, J. Boyd, and J. D. Mac Vicar, Breezer's-hill, Lou-
don, sugar refiners (so far as regards J. D. MacVicer)—
J. Shaw, S. Shaw, J. Shaw, and T. Shaw, Stainlaud,
Yorkshire, woollen manufacturers (so far as regards J.
Shaw)—R. Hardy and R. Padmure, Worcester, iron-
founders—C. Eady and J. Body, Little Dean street,
Soho, Westminster, silversmiths—J. Emery, jun., and
G. Avery. Hastings, Sussex, riding masters—A. S. Si-
chel and T. C. W. Pierce, Mancnester, American con -
mission agents—A. Morison, J. Morison, and C. W.
Moat, Hamilton-place, New-road, hygeists—W. Gre-
gory and W. Sykes, Burn, Yorkshire, bricklayers—J.
L. Warren and G. Burd, Market Drayton, Shropshire,
attorneys—R. E. Pixley, W. Drayner, and S. Redman,
Mill-wall, Poplar, Middlesex, rope manufacturers (so
far ns regards R. E. Pixley)—W. Williamson, son.,
and W. Williainsoriejun., Stockport, Lancashire, cotton-
dealers.
INSOLVENT PETITIONERS.
William Burvill, jun.;Folkestone, Kent, beer shopkeeper.
Thomas Williams, Cwmbrane, Monmouthshire, boatman
Matthew Little, Newcastle upon-Tyne, builder.
M`Kay, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, beer. house-keeper.
Robert Ferguson, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, hatter.
Robert Johnson, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, schoolmaster.
John Fryer, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, baker.
Robert Gilmore Watt, Barton-upon-Humber, Lincoln-
shire, innkeeper.
John Mason, Oxford, upholsterer.
John Wilson, Burton, Yorkshire, slater.
Patton Hutchinson, Houghton-le-Spring. potato dealer.
Whitfield Burnett, Sunderland, coulfitter.
John Cooper, Grilling, Yorkshire, blacksmith.
Samuel York, Street, Somersetshire, baker.
J. Bagg, Stoke-under-Hamdon, Somersetshire, cooper.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
J. Dixon, Paisley, iron-founder, to meet April 7 and
28, at one, within the Saracen's Head lan, Paisley.
N. Stewart and 'J. M. Mitchell, Perth, wine mer-
chants, to meet, April 4 and 25, at two, within the Royal
George Hotel, Perth.
A. Macleure, Glasgow, musieseller, to meet, April 5
and 26, at twelve, within the Globe Hotel, Glasgow.

IIEAL7H of LONDON during the WEEK.
(From the Report of the Registrar-General.)
The deaths registered iu the metropolitan districts in
the first three weeks of M•trch were successively 1,247,
1,401, and 1,412; and in the last week they were 1,418.
If the ten weeks of 1841-50 corresponding to last week
are taken for comparison, it appears that the lowest
number occurred in the corresponding week of 1842,
and was 832; and that the highest occurred in that of
1848, and was 1,294. The average of the ten weeks was
1,073, which, if corrected according to the same rate of
increase in the population, namely,l.ss per cent annually,
becomes 1,171. Last week's return, therefore, exhibits
an excess on the estimated amount of 247.
But it is satisfactory to observe that this apparent in-
crow() is not due entirely to the complaints which have
recently swelled the weekly contributions of mortality.
A number of Cases, on which coroners' ir quests had
been hell. have bean allowed to aemmulate for some
weeks, and now, et the end of the quarter, appear for
the first time in the register-books. It will be seen, on
inspecting the table, that the class of casualties on
which the coroner's function is chiefly exercised—
namely, hanging
wounds, and poiz on—comprises 129 cases, though in the
and drowning, fatal burns, fractures,
previous week the number was only 25, and the average
falls short by at least two-thirds of the number now re-
turned. Intemperance is recorded as the cause of death
in four cases, besides three in-which fatal injury was
received in a state of intoxication; 4 persons died of pri-
vation, 7 children from want of breast-milk, 3 persons
from cold (2 of these being cases of eapoure in travel-

ling), 7 from poison, 26 from burns and scalds, 23 front
hanging and euff,catiou, 14 from drowning, 42 from
fractures, and 17 from wounds and other injury. Sixty-
Liz ceses elso fell under the coroner's observation, 11,1,
which persons are reported as having been "found dead,"
or having died " from the visitation of God," the fatal
cause not being described in more sufficient terms, pro.
bahly because it could not be ascertained.
The class of diseases affecting the respiratory organs,
including laryngitis, bronchitis, pleurisy, pneumonia,
asthma, and others less accurately defined, numbers
this week 272, whilst the corrected average does not ex-
ceed 195. Thole is, however, a marked decline on the
previous week, when the deaths in this class were 350.
Broechitis has fallen from 156 in the former week to
109 in the last; pneumonia, from 126 to 117. 'looping-
cough hes deelmed from 81 to 63; influenza, from 65 10
37. Phtbisis (or consumption), which was fatal in the
previous week to 166, numbered last week only 129,
which is rather less than the average amount.
. Smallpox continues to grow less fatal, and only 12
ewes were registered last week from this disease. With
the exception of hoopiug-cougb, measles now appears
most prevalent amongst, the complaints peculiar to
children, though it has not risen to any considerable
amount.

The births of 947 boys and 833 girls, in all 1,780
ehildrea, were registereit iu the week, 'rho average of
six corrozpouding weeks iu the years 1845.50 was 1,510,

STATE OF THE WEATIIEIt DURING THE LAST WEEK.
SUNDAY.—The sky was overcast throughout the day.
felt frequently.
111,NDA.Y.—The sky was overcast throughout the day.
ltain fel during the afternoon.
TUESDAY.—The sky was overcast throughout the day.
1Z gin fell occasionally.
WEDNESDAY.—The sky was overcast during the
morning and afternoon; it was generally clear at night.
IlAin fell during the morning and afternoon.
THUBSDAY.—The amount of cloud was small till near
noon; the sky WEIR overcast from this time till near
Bh. r iii., and mostly clear afterwards. Rain fell occs-

FRlDAY.—nrce-fourths of the sky were covered
(luring the morning and afternoon; the sky was clear at
night.

SATURDAY.—The sky was for the most part covered
with cloud eiroughout the day. There were occasional
showers of hail and rain.

ELEcraicurY.—March 29d. Oh. 30m. negative and
active, sparks were abundant for a short time, and gel'
vtaric currents were shown. This was the only time
electricity, was shown during the week.
The mean reading of a thermometer placed on the
mainmast, and read each day at 9b. A.M., was 50•0';
and the mean reading at 9h. P.M. was 46.2 Q; the mean
rsadings at the Royal Observatory for the same tinge
were 48.8° and 41.9° respectively.
The reading of the barometer increased from 28,19 in.
at lh. AM. on the 23d to 29.66 in. by 2h. rag.
on the 28th, decreased to 2933 in. by 3h. P.M. on the
29th, and increased to 29.41 in. by the end of the week.

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS.
NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED
THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, MARCEL 29, 1851.
Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases ...*245
Diseases of Uncertain Seat 42
Tubercular Diseases 195
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... 167
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 5$
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration ...
... 272
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs
of ...
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c.
Childbiith, Diseases of the Uterus, &c.
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles
Diseases of the Skin, &c.
M a Iform ations...
Premature Birth
Atrophy
Old Age ... ... ... ... ...
Violeece, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance
Oausos not specified ...

13

... 42
... 25

DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES ...
Population Deaths In cone-
Enumerated, sponding week
1841. of 1850.
West Districts... 301,189 . . 150
North Districts.. 376,568 .. 216 .
Central Districts 374,199 ••• 225 .
East Districts ... 393,067 ..• 256 .
south Districts .. 503,346 ..• 320 .

66
::: 141

..... 1,948,369
Males ... ...
Females

--,
1,418
Death'
in the
Weed.
202
289
231
299
397

... 1,167 ... 1,418
•••
... ... 754
•••
... ... 664