The Sun.
London, England, 1856-11-19 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

We have received advices fenn Malta to the 12th
inst., but the movementi there are confined to the ar
rival and departure of mail steam packets and merchant
screw steamers, which latter trade is visibly increas-
ing in the Mediterranean. The following were the
latest arrivals and departures :
"The Beyrout screw steamer, from Alexandria, ar-
rived on the 911, with 102 Mahometan pilgrims, and left
oft the following day for Gibraltar acd Liverpool, whence
the lonia screw steamer arrived on the 9th, and left on
the following day for Syra. and Constantinople.
"The Aleppo screw steamer arrived from Liverpool
and Gibraltar on the 10th, and left on the same day fur
Alexandretta and Beyrout.
"The Minna screw steamer arrived from Odessa, Con•
stantinople, and Smyrna on the 10th. This vessel left
for London on the lltb, conveying Captain and Mrs.
Henzel, and Captain Smith, from the Levant.
" The Brandon screw steamer left for Constantinople
and Odessa on the 9th.
"The Alps screw steamer arrived from Liverpool on
the 10th.
"The Sultan screw steamer, belonging to the Penin-
sular and Oriental Company, an ext..a ship from Alex-
andria, arrived on the 10th, and left on the same day for
Gibraltar and Southampton, conveying Captain Hen-
derson, 1 non-commissioned officer and private, and 11
invalided seamen.
" The Melita screw steamer arrived en the 9th from
Alexandria, and left for Tunis, Gibraltar, and Liverpool
on the following day, after landing Captain Mahon, car-
r3ing on Captain Townsend.
" The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamers
Vectis, with the overland, and the Indus, with the heavy
Indian mails, arrived from Alexandria, with general
Cargoes', on the evening of the 90. The latter brought for
Malta Major Mitford, and for Southampton Captain and
Mrs. Farquhar, Captains Booth, Borne, and Hall, and
Lieutenants Burts on, Holland and Holmes. The Vectis
left early on the morning of the 10th for Marseilles, con-
veying, in addition to the passengers from Alexandria,
Major Fraser, returning from a mi sion to Kars, Majar
Blaukeney, and Lieutenant Castle ; and the Indus,
later in the forenoon, for Gibraltar and S )uthattapton,
conveying from Malta Captains Bythesea, Grey, and
Hotham, Lieutenants Cumming and Menzies, 1 non:
commissioned officer, and 2 privates.
"Her Majesty's steam sloop Wye arrived from Corfu
and Zante on the 10th with the mails.
" Her Majesty's screw steata corvette Malacca left on
the 11th wi h sealed orders.
" The French postal steampacket Thabor, from the
Levant, has arrived.
"The sum of 751. has been subscribed within a few
Jays towards the erection cf a monument on the works
of Valt t a to the memory of the late Captain Graves,
R.N., who died by the hand of an assassin. The sub-
scription list comprises the names of General Sir John
Pennefather, commanding the forces, the officers of the
28th and 47th Regiments, Commissariat and War De-
partments, Admirals Sir R.. S. Dundas and Sir Montagu
Stopford, and many naval officers, and all the officers of
the dockyard, the Protestant clergy, and the principal
British and Maltese merchants.

"On the 19th inst. Captain Hadley, late paymaster
of the 68th Regiment of Light Infantry, died at Malta ;
also, on 10th Nor., at Palazzo Carbone, Floriana, Malta,
Major J. P. Nelly, formerly in the 77th Regiment."
Her Majesty's ship Raleigh, 50, Commodore the Hon.
H. Keppel, C. 8., and the Actm in surveying vessel, Com-
mander B:tteg, were inspected by Vice-Admiral Sir Geo.
Seymour,. K.C.8., yesterday mcrning at Spithead, prior
to receiving sailing orders.
Her Majesty's ship Shannon, 51, Capt. W. Peel, C.B ,
made another trial of her speed yesterday at the mea-
sured mile in Stoke's Bay, which yielded a better result
by upwards of half a knot than that last rep,,rted.
The steam troop-ship Vulcan, Commander Furneaux,
went to Spithead yesterday to await sailing orders.
The gun-boat flotilla at Portsmouth are now in course
of being hauled up and berthed under the slip sheds at
Has tar.

The Comet steam tag embarked yesterday from the

depot ship Britannia, in Portsmouth Harbour,a number
of the British German Legion, and put them on board
the Mersey freight-ship, which left the harbour at 4 p.m.
and anchored at Spithead.
board of officers belonging to the Royal Engineers

has been ordered to assemble at the head-quarters of
that establishment at Chatham, for the purpose of exa-
mining the proper amount of claim that each man be-
longing to that branch of the service has to make for
loss of necessaries on board ship, or while on duty sery
ing in the Crimea. The claims are very numerous, and
as eoon as the whole have been completed they will be
forwarded to the War Department to enable the autho-
rities to settle them.
The whole of the troops who were invalided home from
regiments which served in the Crimea, and who were
stationed at the supplemental hospital, Drompton Bar-
racks, Chatham, having left that establishment, the
building has been banded over to the barrack master,
and will be immediately occupied by troops.

HEALTH Ole LONDON DURING TH
MK.
(From the Report of the Registrar-General.)

The deaths registered In London, which in the two
preceding weeks were 969 and 1,005, rose in the week
that ended last Saturday to I,o9o—an increase which is
usual in this mouth, proverbially known for bringing
with it cold weather and fogs. In the 10 weeks corre-
sponding to last week of the years 1346-55 the average
number of deaths wa-i 1,051, which, if raised in pro-
portion to increase of population, becomes 1,156. The
rate of mortality which now rules is considerably below
the average. _

In eomparing the results of the last two weeks the in-
crease shown above will be found to arise chiefly from
diseases of the organs of respiration, for the deaths refer-
red to this class have increased from 200 to 258 ; those
placed to diseases of the nervous system from 90 to 113
(the special head under which the increase occurs being
convulsions of infants) ; while in 'deaths caused by die
eases of the zymotic class there is a decrease from 238 to
212. The corrected average of the diseases of the respira-
tory organs is 194 ; the mortality (258) from this class
last week was therefore high ; 113 persons, of whom 58
were 40 years old and upwards, died of bronchitis ; 114
pervons, Of whom 100 were children, died of pneumonia,
or inflammation of the Wags. In the zymotic class typhua-
or common fever was fatal in 45 cases, scarlatina in 41,
whooping-cough is 40, measles in 25, diarrbcea, in 25,.
croup in 9, small-pox in only 3. Ten women died of dis-
eases incidental to child•bearinn, four persons from car-
buncle, one from neuralgia, one from intemperance. Of
the whole number of deaths 552, or rather more than
half, occurred under 20 years of age ; and of 42 which
occurred at 80 years or upwards 6 were those of nona-
genarians, of whom the two oldest were £6 and 97 years
old, and both widows. Of these six persons only two
were men.

Last week the- births of 816 boys, and 733 girls, in all
1,555 children, were registered-in London. In the ten
corresponding weeks of the years 1816-55 the average
number was 1,433.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in tke week was 29.642 in. The
mean temperature of the week was 38`3 deg., which is
5.4 deg. below the average of the carne week m 33 years
(as determined by Mr. Glaisher). The mean tempera-
ture was below the average on every day ; and on batur-
day, 'when the thermometer fell to 29 deg., the lowest
point in the week, the mean temperature was 36.2 deg.,
or 7 deg. below the average.. The mean dew-point tem-
perature of the week was 33.2 de..., and the difference
between this and the mean air temperature was s'l deg.
The mean temperature of the water of the Thames was
45.1 deg.
.The temperature of the river fell from 48 deg.
at the begmning of the week to 42 g. at the end.
The wind blew generaily from the north. The amount
of horizontal movement of the air in miles was on Mon-
day 215. Rain fell on four days, but the whole amount
was not more than 0.12 in.

MORTALITY IN TUE METROPOLIS.
Is UMBER OF .HEATHS FROM A.II. CAUSES REGISTERED
IN THE TEES. ENDING &km. %DAY, NOV. 15.
Zymotic Di6eases ..........
Diseases of Uncertain 5eat...............-- 212
Tubercular Diseases
.........
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves ;;;;(1
-vot seerls
184
Diseases of the Heart and Baionod,
Diseases of the Lungs
: ..... 258
Respiration. _. .....
.c.L......h. Organs of
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other
Organs
of Digestion
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. ...................... 47
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. ...
: ..-... ...... •••• 14
Diseases a the Joints, Bones, and Museles.... ..... --• 11
Diseases of the Skin, ttc. ............................ 5
Malformations ................................................ 6
Premature Birth and. Debility ......................... • 2
Atr0phy................... . ........................... ........ 22
Old Age ................. ' ....... 28
.............. . 38
Mudders
Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance.....,,,
Causes not specified •.••.._..............

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DEATHS TBON ALL CALTRES Lon
Population Deaths in corre- - 8
Enumerated. sponding week in the
1851. of 1355. Weel, ,
West Districts
North Districts 490,396 ...... 204
Central Districts ' "'393,2541 .. : ... 151
East Districts 485,522
South Districts

Totals
Males
Fat:ll3les.

975

1,090

Males..,
Females....

Total