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THE DEPT OF INDIA.

under orders to sail to-morrow for Keyham tejoin
the Agamemnon.
Her Majesty's Coastguard cruiser Seamew yes-
terday anchored at Woolwich, and commenced
shipping stores, &c., for service.
The following freightships have been appointed
by the War Department, and yesterday commenced
shipping stores and ammunition from Woolwich—
namely, the steamship Peninsula, for Gibraltar ;
the Crimea, for Melbourne ; the Sir F. Williams,
for Hobart Town ; the Accra, for Cape Coast
Castle; the Brisk, for Gambia; the Buenos Ayres,
for Demerara; the Cragievar, for Cape Town ; the
Investigatos, for Hobart Town ; and the Cordelia,
for Halifax.
The Ordnance Department at Portsmouth are
issuing munitions of war to the line-of-battle ships
Victor Emmanuel, 91, Algiers, 91, and Ccesar, 91,
in readiness for commission. The Caesar, being
fully rigged, is expected to be the first commissioned
to form one of the Channel fleet. The Marlborough,
131, Captain Lord F. H. Kerr, flag of Vice-Admi-
ral Arthur Fanshawe, C. 8., fitting out for the Me-
diterranean, has entered •about 50 hands since the
squadron left Spithead—a score or so joined her on
Monday from the Thames depots. The receiving
hulk Bellerophon, 78, which has been doing duty
awshiberthingle he at
lstrheip
has undergone
for the Victor ya' scooffimcpe
lrest ae refit eiwt,
dock at Portsmouth, was yesterday removed from
the Vibtory's moorings to make room for her return,
which will take place on Saturday. The Admiralty
steam yacht Osborne, Master Commander Bower,
is replenishing her bunkers with coal for further
particular service."' The St. Vincent sailing three
rts
-
decker was taken from the upper part of Po,
mouth harbour yesterday under the shears to have-
her meets taken out. The Imperieuse, 51, is found
to be in want of new boilers, with which she will
be immediately supplied, and prepared without de-
lay for commission. The Arr gaut, 44, Captain
Heath, C. 8., wlllbseriveung at harbout moorings for
the adjustment of her compasses, preparatory .tai
being reported ready to proceed to her cruising
ground, from Folkestone to Southampton. It is
reported that the Hannibal, 91, depot ship of the
st am reserve at Portsmouth, Captain the Hon. G.
F. Hastings, C. 8., will shortly go to Spithead for
a short time. At present the re is no man-of-war at
that anchorage.
Her Majesty's screw guardsbip La Hogue, 60,
Captain Moore, with the gunboats Snap and Gos-
hawk in charge, and bound to Greenock from
Devonport, bore up with strong contrary wind and
put into Falmouth on Sunday, whence they again
took their departure on Monday, the weather
having abated.
Admiral John Surman Carden died at the close
of the past week at Ballycastle, Antrim. He was
born in 1771, and entered the navy at a very early
age. As midshipman in the Marlborough he took
part in Lord Howe's memorable action, in -which
he sustained severe injury, and gained his commis-
sion as Lieutenant in the July following. When
First Lieutenartt,of the Fisgard, Captain T. Byam
Martin, he obtained great praise for his steady good
conduct at the capture (Oct., 1798), after a close
and obAtinate conflict, of the French frigate L'lm-
.mortalite, 42 guns. He aeiompanled the expmit'on
to the Helder, and commanded a division of boats
at the debarkation of the troops, and subsequently
co-operated with the French Royalists in La Ven-
dee, and with the British army in Egypt.
The gallant Admiral was appointed to the
command of the Moselle brig, and assisted at the
blockade of Cadiz. In 1808 he was appointed
to the Ville de Paris, 110, one of the ships em-.
ployed in embarking the troops after the battle
of Corunna, his unremitting exertions on that
occasion gaining him honourable mention in the
despatches of the Admiral of the station. He was
afterwards tOct., 1812) appointed to the Macedonia,
48, and while in command, after a gallant resistance
which brought his ship to a helpless wreck, was
compelled to surrender to the American ship United
States, 56. Captain Carden was honourably,
acquitted by a court-martial, and his conduct ex-
tolled " for his firm and most determined courage,
resolution, and coolness in every instance through-
out the action." The gallant defence he made of
his ship was much praised in Parliament, and after
his return the freedom of Gloucester, Worcester, and
other cities was conferred on him. In 1825 he was
appointed to command the ordinary at Sheerness.
His commissions bore date as follows :—Lieute-
nant, July 24, 1794 ; Commander, Oct. 23, 1798 ;
Captain, Jan. 22, 1806 ; Rear-Admiral, Aug. 17,
1840 ; Vice-Admiral, March 23, 1848 ; and Admi-
ral, July 4, 1855. Owing to the deceased Admiral
and Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas Mansell, K.C.H.
(who died on Monday last), being on the reserved
list, no promotions follow. Admiral Carden's
father, Major Carden, of Templetnore, died of
wounds received in the first American war.
Mr. H. D. Sarratt has been appointed master to
he Haetie

with the Inverness and Aberdeen 'Junction Com-
pany is working satisfactorily. The capital shows
that 100,6051. had been received and 120,3331.
expended, from which is,deducted 13,0091 for plant
delivered to the Inverness and Aberdeen Junction
Railway Company in terms of the agreement, leav-
ing a b dance against-the company of 6,71.91.

and unaffected by the tiansfer
the direct government of her Majesty's Indian pos-
sessions. . • 4;

HEALTH OF LONDON

Some Parliamentary papers on the debt of India,
moved for by Mr.,Crawtord, were published yester-
day, which showed the total liabilities of the terri-
torial Government up to the beginning of the pre-
sent year. All the various notices issued by the
authorities during the last 24 years in connection
with the opening of new loans or the redemption or
conversion of old ones are likewise included in the
return. Among these the most important is the no-
tification put forth for the reduction of the Five
per Cents. into Four per Cents. in April, 1854, to
which the holders were led to assent by Certain
flourishing representations of the condition and
prospects of the Treasury, and which was followed
in less than 12 months (March, 1855) by a new pro-
posal from he Government to borrow 2,750,0001.
at the old rate of 5 per cent. This fresh loan was
called the Public Works Loan, and is not rederm-
able until 1870. It excited great indignation, since
the fact of the Governm nt again coming into the
msrket to borrow on such terms of courso caused a
terrible depreciation in the property of those who
had believed any such prospect to be far distant,
and who, under that impression, bad expected the
Four per Cents. to be maintained at or above par.
This transaction has been shown to have had a
serious effect in damaging the financial prestige of
the Company, and although an attempt was made
to repair the mischief in July 'DA by au announce-
ment that the 4 per cent. paper would be received
to the extent of one-half in all subscriptions to a 5
per cent. loar, -which was then and is still open,
the recollection of it even at this time is thought to
exert a prejudicial influence. Annexed is an abstract
of the aggregate debt :--
Loan bearing 10 per cent. interest .
Do. 8 per cent. interest
Do. 6 per cent. interest
" 6.4e!Pc.asst.-!attres4P--
Do. 4 per cent. Interest
Do. 31 per cent. interest

WEEK.

REPORTS OF COMMITTEES ON RAILWAY
BILLS.
• EAST SUFFOLIt.
Mr. BAXTER reported from the Committee on
Group 3 of Railway Bills that the additional et-
pital proposer:l' to be - raised by the company
i 9 i
360,0001., whereof 350,0001. is required for making
the East Suffolk L.rie a double line, and for oth r
purposes connected with the undertaking, and
10,0001. for the new branch, and the amount of
loan which they are empowered to raise is 120,000/.
The leng-h of the branch railway is six furlongs,
and the steepest gradient on it is 1 in 297. It is
intended to cross one road on the level. The esti-
fimßt eae rntek? bsisll ecl i
'lecsnyost of the proposed branch is 10,000/. and G.
gwintity of land required four acres. Mr. .
and
awna was
thet he engineercoengineeringt"committee
tpt
,oeei xn
wereat
of rn inve dewi
satisfiedn
ofsupporttthe
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h 0
o f
pro-
posed railway.
INVERURY AND OLD MELDRITAI JUNCTION.

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Mr. FITZROY reported from the committee on
this bill that the only obj,cts of it are to grant a
lease in perpetuity of the railway to the Great
North of Scotland Railway Company, and to en-
able the Inverury and Old Meldrurn Company to
raise moneys. to pay off their existing debts and
liabilities.

£715
14,437

345 725
3,744,141
30,391544
530,730

44,028,592
219,656
967,711

Temporary loans
Treasury notes •
Deposits, including the Carnate and other
funds

5,267,410

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(Prom. the Reportof tht Regi4trar General.) -
The deaths registered in London were 1,144. in
the week ending Saturday, April 24 h • they show
a decrease on those of the previous week, when the
number was 1,207. In the ten years 1848-57 the
average number of deaths in the weeks correspond-
jog with last week was 1,054; but the deaths of
last week occurred in an increased population, and
they sbould be compare,: ~ " -•'-- -- *age, when
the latter has been raised in iireporttoti to the in-
crease, a correction which will make it 1.159. The
late of mortality that now prevails, 'therefore,
agrees very closely with that which is obtained t)y
calcuStion from former experienco in the third

£50,483,369

In addition to the above there have been loans
opened since the Ist of Mar, 1856. One at 4i per
cent., which was opened on the 30th of August,
1856, and closed the 16th of January, 1857, to
which
The subscriptions were ........................
And one at 5 per cent., opened
January 16,
1857, to which, up to the 20th of Feb-
ruary last, there had bees subscribed in
cash
And in paper of the 34, 4, and
4i per ten'. loans

£368,13

45,666,747

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oosrf,roett:oihta:etlee:t
-Week of April.
;ireod2isthlreiblu;tle44a 'adme_oantligsstrte;luerfineveel
cliasistse 7, eikn,
which
ing numbers :-262 are referral to zymotic
diseases, the corrected average of which, in corres-
ponding weeks 13 260 ; 237 are referredito the class
all.the causes of death are arranged, in the follow-
Of " constitutional.diseases,"
in also 260 ; 477 to "local disease=;" of Which the
Average is 466 ; 139 to " deyelopmentivl (s.ases,"
the average being 131 ; and 23 to mechameal and
the aver Age of which
Chemical injuries, the average being 18. Of the
23 viaent deaths, 22 are accidental of these 9 are
Caused by fractures and wounds, 3 by. burns, one
by poison, 3 by dr mning, 6 (all of which, except
One, are deaths of infants) by sUff(ication.-The only
death not accidental is a c tse of suicide by banging.
The -deithS arising from bronchitis and pneumonic,
and
in the previous week wee respectively 130
en.
bi
corresponding
House-
nerE r,nei i
pgc
isohi;ntot,rlgn.)sa:-)ibcodtoitninyinleuelaiginthicogweholir,iseoel,d,uar.
fkrtmespna
and 103, declined last week to 120 and 62.
s
1 4854, when thf- deaths from this complaint were 83.
mote-i's-hill.
clle. i asn
somefatalTh e
Registrara apr e eithervi o u
s
naeasles or scarlatina. Tim deaths from measles
tiwo ks. Fo:tj, deaths are r, ferred to scarlatina ;
no less than 4 of these occurred in one family in a
they
itY,
weresy:t)ehf
years,
1 ins : o°lx,
except
unergyr -tee a°
thatuj
ng 1,
,1.,a
uoy:

fates that to ,he casual observer there is nothing
i that elevated situation which "would be n ot:ced
I
a the probable cause of so great a mortality ; but
i is understood that medical men attribute it to trk
pen ditch in the neighbourhood. Oue child died
n the 12th inst., one on the; 4th, and two ethers
in the
following day.
Six persons died last week at the age of 90 years
and upwards • the two oldest were a worran in
Newington 'Ciorkhouse, 98 years old, and the
4vidow of a dock labourer in Redman's-row, Mile-
Od 01.,1 Town, who is said 0 have died at the age
all 1810 children were registered in London. In
he ten c)rr, sponding weeks of the years 1848-57
? f
Las 10 1t years.iN,
ek
the birihs of 894 boys and 916 girls,
he average number was 1,591.
At the Royal Observatory Greenwich, the read-
ogs of the barometer were high. The mean read-
ng of the week was 30.054 in. The highest
heading was 30.27 in. on Thursday. The mean
temperature of the week was 52 8 deg., which is
1
5.8 deg. above the average of the same week in 43
fears (as determined by Mr. Glaisher). The mean
daily temperate was above the average throughout
he week. The range of temperature was above
he average throughout the week. The range of
emperaturewas great on every day, and its mean
vas 29.2 deg. On Wednesday the thermometer in
the shade rose to 71.1 deg., and fell to 38.1 deg.
The highest point attained in the week was 721
deg. ou Thursday ; the lowest point was 34.3 deg
on Monday. The extreme range was therefore
38.9 deg. The difference between the mean • dew
point temperature and air temperature was 10 deg.
The mean temperature of the water of the Thames
was 53 deg. The mean degree of humidity of the
atino There was only 65 ; on Saturday it was
only 59, complete saturation being represented by
100. The wind blew from au easterly point, No
rain fell.

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