The Sun.
London, England, 1867-05-29 00:00:00

SPAIN.

MADRID, May 29.

Several newspapers discuss to-day the position in
which Spain is placed by the recent decree of the
Emperor of the Brazils in reference to slavery, and
announce that Senator Pastor will bring in a bill
proposing the abolition of slavery in the Spanish
colonies.

AMERICA.

NEW Yorac, May 28.

The steamers Aleppo, from Liverpool, Arago,
from Falmouth, have arrived here, and the Nova
Scotian, at Quebec.

SOUTHAMPTON, May 29.

The North German Lloyd steamer Union, from
New York, passed the Needles at 10 a.m. to-day.

FRANCE.

• PARIS, May 29.
The fete last night at the Austrian Embassy was
splendid. The Emperor, the Empress, the Crown
Prince and Crown Princess of Prussia, and the
Duke of Leuchtenberg were present.
BOURSE, May 28, Two o'clock.—The English tele-
gram announces a rise of in Consols. The market
here is also firm, and quotations higher, but with
little business doing. Threes are quoted with an
advance of 15c., at G9f. 75c. Italian Fives have a
similar advance, at 52f. 15c. Among Credit com-
panies, Mobilier have gained if. 25c., at 395 f.
Spanish Mobilier 2f. 50c., at 255 f., whilst Credit
Foncier and Compoir d'Escompte are unvaried.
Railway Shares likewise show a slight improvement,
more particularly Lyons shares, which have advanced
6f. 25c., to 931 f. 25f. ; Northern, 2f. 50f., to 1,202 f.
50c. ; and Orleans, if. 25c., to 885 f.
Three o'clock.—The market cloud as follows :

por Cents 9B 10
Do. end month —
3 per Cents. 69 75
Do. end month 69 77i
Credit Mobilier
Do. end month
Credit Foncier —
Do. end month 1460 -
RAIL'

Bank Shares 3500
Italian Loan 52 30
Do. and mouth 52 30
Moxican Loan —
Do. Bonds
Spanish Throes
Homo Debt
Deferred
'&Yfl.

For Account.
Orleans
Northern 1205
Lyons and nediterranean 902 50
Southern 572 50
Western —
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard 3BG 25
North of Spain B.
SaragosEa
Ditto to Barcelona
Roman.

7G -

Wreck of a Large Ship.

Carnsore, Ireland, May 27.

Mr. Barrett, the officer of coastguard, reports,
that the lifeboat Gertrude, of the National Lifeboat
Institution, on this station, was the means yesterday
of saving the lives of the whole of the crew, con-
sisting of 36 men, of the ship Blanche Moore, of
Liverpool, bound from that port to Calcutta. The
vessel was observed to be in distress on the Long
Bank, off Wexford, about 5 p.m. The lifeboat was
immediately launched, and proceeded across the
bank, on which the sea was running very high. She
anchored on the lee side of the ship, and at once
commenced to rescue her crew, but while thus en-
gaged the ship surged on the anchor of the boat,
and the lifeboat men were ,forced to cut the cable
however they succeeded in taking into the boat as
many of the crew as possible, and the remainder
went in the two boats belonging to the ship. The
lifeboat then took the lead, and acted as guide to
those boats across the shoal, and finally the whole
of the shipwrecked men were safely landed in Bally-
geary Bay. had it not been for the prompt ser-
vices of the lifeboat many of the poor fellows must
have perished, as at daylight the vessel was seen to
be full of water, and had settled down on the
sands. The sea is still running heavily.

THE PUBLIC HEALTH.

(From the Registrar-General's Return.)

In the week that ended on Saturday, May 25,
the births registered in London and 12 other large
town 3 of the United Kingdom were 4,309 ; the
deaths registered, 2,580. Tho annual rate of mor-
tality was 22 per 1,000 persons living. .
In London the births of 1,016 boys and 980
girls, in all 1,996 children, were registered in the
week. In the corresponding weeks of 10 years 1857-
66, the average number, corrected for increase of
population, 2,026.
The deaths registered in London during the week
were 1,118. It was the twenty-first week of the
year, and the average number of deaths for the
week is, with a correction for increase of population,
1,304. The deaths in the present return arc less by
186 than the estimated number.

The deaths registered from zymotic diseases were
197 ; from diseases of the brain an I nervous system,
155 ; from disease of the respiratory organs, 158 ;
from diseases of the organs of circulation, 53.
Thirty-two deaths from smallpox, 14 from measles,
16 from scarlatina, 41 from whooping-cough, 28
from typhus, 16 from diarrhoea, and 2 from choleraic
diarrhoea were recorded.

Two hundred and six persons died from phthisis,
SO from bronchitis, and 51 from pneumonia.
Bethnal-green ; llackney-road.—At 11, Grove-
row, on the 15th of May, the son of a shoemaker,
aged six years, " sudden, choleraic diarrho3a.'
Post mortem. (Inquest.)
Bemondsey ; St. James's.—At 11, Mill-street, on
the 19th of May, the daughter of a wood-sawyer,
aged one year and ten months, " whooping-cough
(three months), choleraic diarrhce 1 (22 hours)."

A carman, aged 45 years, was thrown from a
waggon. Died on the 18th of May in the London
Hospital. (Inquest.)
The annual rate of mortality last week was 19 per
1,000 in London,• 29 in Edinburgh, and 23
in Dublin ; 20 in Bristol, 20 in Birmingham,
25 in Liverpool, 26 in Manchester, 22 in Sal-
ford, 16 in Sheffield, 25 in Leeds, 23 in Bull, 26
in _Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and 33 in Glasgow. The
rate in Vienna was 36 per 1,000 during the week
ending the 18th inst , wlyn the mean temperature
was 14.7 deg. Fahrenheit higher than in the same
week in London, where the rate was 19.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29.745 in.
The barometrical reading increased from 29.41 in.
on Monday, May 20, to 30.00 in. on Friday, May
21. The mean temperature of the air in the
week was 45.7 deg., which is 84 deg. below
the average of the same week in 50 years (as de-
termined by Mr. Glaisher). The highest day
temperature was 68 deg. on Sunday, May 19.
The lowest night temperature was 31.9. deg., on
Friday, May 24. The entire range of temperature
in the week was, therefore, 36.1 deg. The mean of
the highest temperature of the water of the Thames
was 53.5 deg. ; that of the lowest was 51.4 deg.
The difference between the mean-dew point tempe-
rature and air temperature was 5.8 deg. The
mean degree of humidity of the air w.►s 80, com-
plete saturation being represented by 100. Rain
fell to the amount of 1.13 in., of which 0.73 in. fel
on Monday, and 0.30 on Tuesday. On Wednesday,
May 22, frequent showers of rain fell during ,the
morning, and at 10h. a.m. a few flakes of snow
fell ; after noon, rain, snow in very large flakes,
and hail fell frequently. The mean temperature
for this day was 28.3 deg. lower than that for
the 7th of May. The general direction of the wind
N. and E.N.E. According to a return furnished
by the engineer of the Metropolitan Board of
Works, the average daily quantity of sewage
pumped into the river Thames at the Southern
Outfall Works, Crossness, was 52,969,818 gallons,
or 240,606 cubic metres, equivalent to about ae
wavy tons by weight.