The Sun.
London, England, 1858-02-17 00:00:00

MILITIA.

The result of the late ♦olunteering from the Royal Elthorne
and Leicester Regiments, stationed at Cork, is as follows :
The Royal Elthorne gave t. the line 140 men, and the Leices-
ter 29.
The Roscommon Militia will proceed from Aldershot to
Portsmouth this morning.

HEALTH OP LONDON DURING THE WEEK.

(Prom the Report of the Registrar General.)

In the two weeks of February the mortality of Loud. n
has shown a slight tendency to decline. The deaths re-
gistered were in the last week of the previous month 1,363,
in the following week 1,314, and in the week that ended
last Saturday (February 13th) 1,195. In the ten years
1848-57 the average number of deaths in the weeks cor-
responding with last week was 1,193; but as the deaths in
the present return occurred in an increased population,
they should be compared with the average, after the latter is
raised in proportion to the increase, in which case it will be
seen that the number of persons who died last week was less
by 117 than ‘would have died if the average rate of mortality
had prevailed.
Of the 1,195 deaths of last week, 575 (or ne trly half) oc-
curred under 20 years of age, 137 in the period 20.40 years,
185 at 40-50, 246 at 60-80, and only 40 at the age of 80 years
and upwards. Of thee 40, five were deaths of nonagenarians,
of whom one, a pensioner in Greenwich Hospital, was 94
years old, and two had attained the age of 95.
Of 1,172 deaths, 244 are referred in the returns to the
zymotic class of diseases, 201 to the constitutional, 533 to
the local, 145 to the developmental class, and 45 to violence.
Of the 45 under the last head, 39 were accidental, one was by
homicide, four by suicide, and one by public execution. A
sailor on board a ship in the West India Dock was suffocate 1
by sulphurous vapour from a stove. In the return made by
the coroner's jury the suffocation is described as accidental.
The deaths from bronchitis, which in the previous week
were 221, decreased last week to 193 (the corrected average
being 147). From pneumonia (inflammation of the lungs
con-
),
104 Fersons died (the average 98) ; from phthisis or
sumption 130 (the average being 152). Measles continue to
be the most fatal complaint in the zymotic class ; it carried.
off 57 children, the same number as in the previous week
,
four children died of it in the sub-district of St. John (St.
George-in-the-East), and it appears to be the most fatal in
the East districts generally-. Next to measles is whooping-
cough, which was fatal to 53 children. 35 persons died of
typhus and common fever (3 in Plumstead), and 27 of scarla-
tina. " Diphtheiia," is returned in four cases, in two of
which measles was the primary disease. A man don, from
want of food ; a child from erysipelas after vaccination.
Last week the births of 943 boys and 893 girls' in all
I,636;children, were registered in London. In the 10corre-
spending weeks of the Team 180-57, the average number was
1,675,

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ARItiVAL OF THE LUCKNO II( HBEOINfES

AT CALCUTTA.

CALCUTTA, JAN. 9.
A Gazet'e Extraordinary, published on WeduesdaYlast,
informed the people of Calcutta of the arrangements which
Government had ordered for the reception of the illus-
trious heroines and their children, who, after undergoing
unprecedented hardships during a siege of four months,
have finally been relieved by Sir Colin Campbell, and sent
down to Calcutta in the steamer Madras. On Friday, the
Bth, at 6 p.m., two guns from the ramparts of Fort Wil-
liam announced-that the Madras was passing Acheepore,
and almost everybody that, had horse or catriage
rode down to Prins-ep's Ghat, where it was jati-
mated the passengers would laud. The Madras
having, however, a heavy up-country boat in tow,
made, notwithstanding the tide in her favour, but
slow progress, and as it soon became evident that she could
not come up ere the night set in, a telegraphic message wits
despatched to the commander of the steamer to anchor
below Garden-reach, and to coma up next morning. At 6
o'clock on Saturday morning a crowd of people aseemblod
at Priasep's Ghat, but a dense fog delayed the arrival of
the madras, and it was not until a quarter to eight that age
cenhl be sighted. A royal Write of 21 guns from the ram-
parts of Fort-William announced her arrival, and other
salutes followed from the men-of-war in the river. All
vessels in the river, with the exception of the Arnericen.
ships close to Prinsep's Ghat, were dressed out with all
their flags and presented a very imposing sight. Along the
!steps from the Ghat down to the water's edge "was formed
a sort oF gangway, guarded by policemen, and along the
whole red carpeting was laid out, such as it is cuiterinary
to use on state occasions. • At last the. Madre* arrived off
the Ghat, but owing to some cause or other considerable
delay took place before the ;passengers could -be landed ;
'the public in the meantime looking on in stern' silence, as
if afraid lest even now some accident might iihppen to those,
whose escape from the hands of a barbarous and blood-
thirsty enemy was decreed by a merciful Providence. The
whole scene partook of a solenmity rarely witnessed, and
in-teed the expression on the faces of the bystanders be
tokened universal sympathy for those they were about to
welcome to the hospitable City of Palaces. M. Betsslon, the
secretary. of the home department, on behalf of goverp-
meat ; the Hon. Talbot, private secretary to the Go-
.4eeenor-General, on behalf. of Lord ganniuge ..and Dr,
Leckie, as secretary to tLe Belief Committee, went-down
to the water's edge to receive the ladies. A sudden raid/
towards the river, a thronging towards the gangway, and
a slight whisper of voices, indicated that the landing had
begun. Cheers were given at first, but only slowly re-
sponded to, people evidently being too much occupied with
their own reflections to think of cheering ; but as the ladies
and children proceeded up, people doffed their hats almost
mechanically, silently looking on as the heroines passed
up. At this moment another ship in the harbour fired a
salute, but it did not sound joyfully ; it appeared rather
like minute gnus in remembrance of those whose widows
and orphans were now passing in solemn review before us.
The black dresses of most o the ladies told the tale of
their bereavement, whilst the palid facoa, the downcast
looks, and the slow walk, bora evidence of the great suffer-
ings they must have uudergene both in teiri and body.
And yet how thankful must, wo be that they been spared
other trials, in comparison to which death itself would be
relief. As they passed, a chaos of sal recollections forced
itself upon our mind, and we asked—where are those who,
for the sake of saving English women and children from dis-
honour and death, have willingly sacrificed their own lives?
Where is the illustrious Havelock? where the heroic Niell ?
where so many others that have stretched forth the arm
for the rescue of helpless women and innocent chil-
dren? Alas ! they aro no more ; but their names will
live for ever in the heart of every true Briton. And,
though there is no monument to mark the place where
they sleep the everlasting sleep, their blood has marked in
indelible ink in the bosom of their surviving brethren the
word "retribution." The solemn procession thus passed
onAand was handed into carriages which conveyed them to
their temporary home. Home, did we say? It sounds
almost like mockery to call the solitary room of the widow
and her orphan by that name. Though the government
Gazette intimated that the Governor-General's state barges
and carriages would be in attendance, by some oversight
none of them came up to the Ghat, and we confess that in
our humble opinion the presence of Lord and Lady Can-
ning on such an occasion would have been as desirable as
gratifying to all.