The Sun.
London, England, 1860-05-30 00:00:00

perly trai.ned he would never have been seen here.
lie appears- -.to have been brought to this by inat-
tention and -want of care on your part. As a parent
you owe a u'uty to him which I cannot believe you
have proper.)y discharged. I am not sure whether I
shall not oro ,er the child a, whipping; if I do, it
shall be a so and one; but I would rather leave it to
you to inflic t that punishment. Can't you send him
to some school where he would be educated for £lB
or £2O a-rear, rather than have him running an
outcast about the streets ?

The father said be had been tinned out of two or
three scho/ )Is.

The Lord Mayor—l am sorry to hear so bad an
ace.-mut at' him.

Tic father said he wished to save the child from
ruin.

The Lord. Mayor (emphatically)—So do I.
The faths.r said the boy had deceived him times
out of numb. r; nobody could believe a word he said.
Eventually the prisoner was remanded until Fri-
day, Mr. G oodtnan suggesting for consideration in
the meantiriae that he should be sent to the indus-
trial school rn the Euston-road.

TJ?J?J PUBLIC.' DEALTII.

(Frog,; the Registrar-General's Weekly Return.)
The total nu tuber of deaths registered in London
in the week th .at ended last Saturday was 1,087,
and nearly the same as that of the previous week.
For the 10 yet .rs 1850-59 the average number of
deaths in th a weeks corresponding with last
week is blind after correction for increase of popu-
lation to be .1,133. The present return is, there-
fore,
ifactory, that it gives a number less
46 than stah tci: , average rate of mortality at this sea-
son would have produced.
Twenty-four
deaths were recorded in the week as
caused by
smallpox, of which 7 occurred in the
Smallpox Hospital. From measles 51 children died ;
from scarlatina 20 ; and there were also 8 deaths
from diphtheria. Seven of the fatal oases of measles
occurred in Isling ton, wad 4 in Chelsea; but the com-
plaint seems chief ly to prevail in the south districts,
where 21 are retui7ne(l, 6 of which occurred in Ber-
mondsey, 4 in Dreivington, 3 in Rotherhithe.
Phthisis carried off. :171 persons, the corrected ave-
rage for corresponding weeks being 157. Three
persons died from pm -pura, 2 children from noma ;
a girl, aged :one yea r, from tgenia solium. Four
children were suffoca,ted in bed. The son of a tin-
man, aged 3 years, way burnt fatally by his clothes
taking fire; the son o.f a carpenter, aged 2 years,
also by his clothes takiLig fire. Two children, one
aged 2 years, the other o.nly 7 days, were burnt by
,means not stated. The daughter of a porter, aged
2 years, was scalded by falling into a pan of hot
water ; and a man who had been a butcher, 62 years
old, was scalded at the workhouse in Bethnal-green
by being put into a bath of boiling water "through
great negligence." A remarkable and also a lament-
able fact contained in this return is that eight in-
fants were found murdered. A boy, aged 5 years,
died by manslaughter ; a man from the bite of a dog.
Last week the births of 842 boys and 838 girls,
in all 1,680 children, were registered in London.
In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1850-59
the average number was 1,606.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29-850 in. ;
on each of the first three days the mean reading
was above 30 in. Tho highest barometrical read-
ing was 30.22 in., and occurred on Monday ; the
lowest was 29.21 in., on Saturday. The mean tem-
perature of the air in the week was 59 deg., which
is 4.8 deg. above the average of the same week
in 43 years (as determined by Mr, Glaisher.) The
mean daily temperature was above the average
throughout the week; but this excess was the
greatest on the first four days. The thermometer
in the shade fell to its lowest point, 45.3 deg., on
Monday ; it rose to its highest, 76.5 deg., on. Wed-
nesday. The range of temperature in the week
was therefore 31.2 deg. ; but the range attained on
Wednesday alone was 31 deg. The mean daily
range was 24.7 deg. The difference between the
mean dew-point temperature and air temperature
was 10.4 deg. That difference on Tuesday was 14
deg., showing great dryness of the air. The
greatest difference ors the same day was 23.9 deg.
The degree of humidity of the air was 57 on Tues-
day, complete saturation being represented by 100.
The mean humidity of the air in the week was 67.
The mean temperature of the water of the Thames
was 60.2. The thermometer in the sun rose to 130-8
deg. on Wednesday. On. the last five days the
wind was chiefly in the south-west. The whole
amount of rain in the week was 0.20 in., nearly all
of which fell on Saturday. A thunder-storm cc-
, curred on the afternoon of that day.
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COUNTRY MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL-111,r 29.
We had only a small attendance at to-day's market, and -
the consumptive demand for wheat quite in retail, at last
Friday's currencies. Flour was a slow sale, but no altera-
tion in price. Indian corn in better, request for fine sorts,
which being scarce, brought extreme rates. Oats and oat-
meal difficult of sale. Egyptian beans steady, peas 6d to
is per qr, and barley ld per bushel lower. The market was
quiet throughout.