The Sun.
London, England, 1858-04-07 00:00:00

BIR,TIIS AND DEATHS IN LONDON.

Tile total number of deaths registered in London
in he week that ended on Sat ID day, April 3, was
1,374. In the t-n years, 1848 57, the average
number of deaths in the weeks corresponding with
last, week was 1,392, hut as the deaths of last week
occurred in an lucre 'Bed population, they should
be compare :I with the av2rage, after the latter has
been raised proportionally to the increase, a correc-
tion which will make it 1,531. The deaths now
retut nod are, the, efore, less by 157 .112. n. the num-
ber which the average rate of mortality would have
produced.

- The registration of last week exceeds that of the
previous week to the extent of 106 deaths ; but the
excess arises from deaths, on which inquests had
been held, having been enter, d in the registers in
more than their due proportion, at the end of the
quarter, and not from an increased rate of mortality.
This will he evident when it is stated that cases in
which roue itis, pneumenia, and asthma were
fatal, declined in the two weeks from 271 to 258 ;
where's deaths produced by mechanical or chemical
injuries increased frum 50 to 113. The same ex-
planation applies to au increaseof "sudden" deaths,
of which the cause is un Ascertained or not defined,
from 1.4 to 27. The more from hooping-cough
has declined in the last three weeks according to
the fol owirig numbers-83, 72, and 66. The mean
temperature rose in the third week of March to •
48 deg. (Nhich is higher by 15 deg. than it had
been in the earlier part of the month) ; but in the
last two weeks the air has not been so warm, the
means having been 47 deg. and 45 deg.
Measles, fr,m whica 59 children died, of whom
31 were under two years of age, is exceedingly fatal
in the Royal Military Asylum, Chelsea, where six ,
boys, whose ages varied from six to ten years, died .
from the complaint, 2on the 26th ult., 2 on the ,*
27th, lon toe 28th, and lon the 29th. A young
man oied in the same institution, on the 25th, of '
rheumatic fever. Three children died of measles
in the sub-d,strict of Christchurch, Marylebone, 3
in Bow, and 3 in St. James, Bermondsey.
Two p• rsons die.l of destitution on the same day,
March 31: a seaman, aged 56 years, in St. Bar
tholomew's Hespital, and the wife of a labourer,
aged 40, in the workhouse, St. Margaret, West-
minster. Of 113 violent deaths included in the
present return, 100 occurred accidentally, 3 were
by murder or manslaughter, and 10 by suicide.
The three oldemt individuals who paid the debt of
nature, were aged respectively 93, 94, and 96 '
years.

Last week the births of 872 boys and 863 girls,
in all 1,735 children, were registered in London.
In the ten cerreipondiug weeks of the years 1848-57
the average number was 1,801.

a ountr y Markets

LIVERPOOL APRIA 6.

During the week our imports have been moderate of el
articles, still the trade continues very inactive, and prices
remain unaltered, tk,ugh the tendency is downwards.
There was a fair attendance at our market this morning,
with a better general demand for wheat at prices of this
day se'nnight. Flour was rather neglected, but cannot be
quoted cheaper. Oats the turn dearer, and meal steady.
Barley, beans, and peas firm without change in price.
Indi to corn in poor demand, and the turn in favour of
buyers. Black Sea, ;As to 34s 6d; American new, mixed
and yellow, 33s 6d; old, 33s 9d to 345; white, 335 6d.