The Sun.
London, England, 1867-01-18 00:00:00

BREVET.

Lieutenant-Colonel Pearson Scott Thompson, 14th
Hussars, having completed the qualifying service in the
rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, to be Colonel, under the pro-
visions of the Royal Warrant of 3d February, 1866.
Captain Thomas Quin Meade, upon half-pay, Royal
Marino Artillery, having completed seven years' service
as Barrack Master on the 31st October, 1866, to have the
honoary rank of Major, i accordance with the pr
sionsr of her Majesty's Ordern in Council of the 16th April,
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COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—This Evening.

Amsterdam Short. 11 13
Ditto 3 Months. 11 18
Rotterdam — 118
Antwerp — 25 37+
Brussels — 25 37+
Hamburg — 13 81,
Paris ..................... Short 25 10`
Ditto 3 Months. 25 32i
Marseilles
Fraukfor; on the Maine 119+
Vienna — 13 45
Trieste — 13 45
Petersburga -
63013
Berlin
Madrid . 47f
Cadiz
Leghorn'
Milan

11 16}
11 19
11 19
25 42k
25 42f
13 8i
25 20
25 40
25 40
119
13 5
13 55

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27 0;

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During the severe frost of the first few days of the year it
was apparent that, despite the tendency in comfortable
and healthy people to regard cold at this time as the
right thing, the community generally were feeling
that there was an enemy to life in the air, or, to
speak more accurately, perhaps, the fatal absence of a
friend—a certain amount of heat. Even the young
and the strong saw the first signs of the frost yield-
ing with a feeling of thankfulness. Those who
have appointments involving the seeing of large numbers
of the sick poor doubtless got the most vivid impression of
the weak resistance that humanity in the condition of
poverty can offer to such cold as that of the 31 and 4th of
January. The pale, cold, pinched, stony look of out-
patients of dispensaiios and hospitals, and the but little
better look of those who are confined to such beds as they
have in fireless., rooms, made hospital and dispensary
duties at once more urgent and more painful than usual.
How terrible the delusion is that weather like this is
beneficial. It is dangerous to the brain, and lets paralysed
patients in for second attacks. It is still more deadly
to the chest, and he is a healthy man who does not feel
touched by it in some part of the respiratory apparatus. It
drives the poor into their overcrowded houses in increased
numbers, and so favours fever and other epidemic dis-
ease. And, in a word, apart from its more specific,
effects, it is generally and through the whole body devi-
talising. It takes the life out of the body and reduces it
by so much to the condition of surrounding things. The
Registrar-General show s us that we have in frost a cause
of death to severity more like plague than anything else.
Cold can run a sharp race with cholera. In one week
it has raised the number of deaths by 445 in London alone.
Last week 1,891 deaths were registered. In Glasgow the
mortality in last week was at the rate of 73 per 1,000!
Can nothing more be done to enable medical men who
have to see the sick poor in this season to relieve them
more efficiently and more directly than by present arrange-
ments is possible ? It would bo a most reliable and efficient
charitable investment to form a fund to be used by medical
men, who aro in the very best position for seeing where a
blanket, or a
.shilling, or a soup ticket is most urgently
modocl, and mid bolll9§t Q9l4lOQly LanifG,