The Sun.
London, England, 1867-02-21 00:00:00

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Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton Mar. 22.
Ditto, via Marseilles
Brazil and Cape Verde, by British packet 6.
Ditto, by French packet
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Feb. 27
China, Penang. and Singapore, via Southampton—Mar. 6
Ditto, via Marseilles
Faikland Islands
Gibraltar, via Southampton Feb. 28.
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Ftb 12.
Ditto, via Marseilles
India (Bombay), via Southampton. nab. 22
Ditto, via Marseilles .. Feb 2
Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Feb. 28.
Ditto, via Marseilles Feb 22.
lauritius, via Southampton
Ditto, via Marseilles Mar. 16

Newfoundland .... ..... Mar. 13.

Portugal ..

Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon
United States and British North America, by Bri-
tish packet. .. Feb. t. 7.
Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp-
ton

Ditto, via Cork
Ditto, oy Canadian packet, via Londonderry „Feb 21
Xeat Indies and l'aeifra (exoept Bahamas and

Iloadurai)

.Fob 23

tiaham..J. via New York.

Mar 7.

Cuba aqd M xico

..Feb. 23

liermuda, via Ila Wax Dian 13.

iVe it Coat.t of Africa, Hadeira, and Ty ncr iffe Mar. 6

The use of horse-flesh as food is becoming more and

more general, says a Paris paper. The observatair
d'Avesne says that the horse butchery of Ilautmout
becomes daily of greater extension. Three horses
are killed there weekly, a fact which has cheapened
the price of meat. The horse-flesh for food is sold
so cheap as from 2d. to 3d. English per pound, ac-
cording to quality and cut. •

INFLUENCE OF MARRIAGE ON THE DEATH-RATE.
—ln his report for 1863, just published, the Itegistrar-
General for Scotland says :—" In the seventh and eigilth
detailed reports attention was directed to the: influence of
marriage on the death-rate of the female, and tables were
published showing the death-rates whilth prevailed at
each quinquennial period of life among the women who
were married and those who were unmarried. These tables
proved that the influence of marriage on-female life was
quite appreciable. They showed that the 'Married women
died at a slightly higher ratio than the unmarried
during the three quinquennial periods of life extending
from 15 to 30 years of age ; but that during the latter
half of the child-bearing periods of life, viz., from 30 to 40
years, the married women died at a lower rate than the
unmarried. At the time when the usual change of life
occurs in the female—viz., from 40 to 50 years of age, the
mortality of the married female was found slightly to
exceed that of the unmarried ; but from 45 to 75 years
of age the married women died in a lower propor-
tion than the unmarried. Desiring to complete the
inquiry, the influence of marriage on the death rate Of
the male sex has been examined into for 1863, and the
results are so startling that they merit the greatest atten-
tion. Table 18 (which is appended) shows the number of
married and unmarried men in Scotland at each quin-
quennial age, the deaths at the same ages, and the pro-
portion of deaths to the living at each age. By that
table it appears that of every age from 20 to 86
years, the death-rate of the married men is very much
smaller than that of the unmarried ; in fact, it proves
that the influence of marriage on the male sex
is much more potent than it is on the female
—potent to an extent never previously imagined'
Thus, reading the table without the decimals, so ag
to make it more easily intelligible, and reckoning that
100,000 persons of each class were livingat each quinquen-
nial age, it is seen that, while between 20 and 25 years of
age, 1,174 unmarried men died during the year in that
number, only 597 married men, or half the number, died et
the same age. In other words, between the ages of 20 and
25 years, the death rate of the bachelors was exactly double
that of the married men!

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Births.
FORBES—On tho 14th Dec., at Nelson, Nov Zealand, the)
Lady of Sir Wm. S. Forbes, of Pitsligo and Fettereiiirll,

Bari:, of a daughter.
HAWES—On the 17th inst., at Woolwich-common, the Ivile

of Captain Arthur B. Hawes, of a son.
LIGHTFOOT—On the 6th inst., at Malta, the wifo of Colonel
Lightfoot, C. 8., 84th Regiment, of a daughter.
WOMBWELL -On the 19th inst., at Nowliurgh Park, -

shire, the Lady Julia Wontlarell, of a soil.
Marriages
MORRIS —WEIGHT— On the 19th inst., at St. Mary's Clirto
Bridport, Mr. W. Morris, of The Avenue, Blacicbeat'''„s,
Sarah, second daughter of Mr. 11. Weight, of 31°11°-

bury.
MUNI:O—CUNCLIFFE—On the 19th inst., atMilyerte -14ittii°0r,
A. Munro, MM.'s Bengal Staff Corps, to Janet Nicut°,ll;t.,
daughter of the late Gen. Sir Robert li. Cunliffet
C. 8., of Acton Park, Denbighshire.

Deaths.
BATES—On the 19th inst., at 129, Whitechapel-road,
W. D. Bates.
CAMPBELL—On the 18th iust ,at St. Peter's, Thanet,l"3.
Campbell, Es q., aged 79.
HusoN On th e 20th inst., at Blackheath, Miss liary 11'15°°1
aged 79.
JONES—OR the 16th inst., Francis Jones, Esq., of
LeaaeD
hall-buildings, Gracechurch-street, aged 54.
MILLS—On the 18th inst., Mr. Walter Mills, of 28,
gate-street, aged 87.
WEBSTER—On the 19th inst., at Rose-hill, near galici'°r
ter, John Webster, Esq., aged 61.

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