The Sun.
London, England, 1858-11-03 00:00:00

THAMES.

SAVAGE ASSAULT UPON A SAILOR.--Jeremiah Comp-
ton, aged 20, a rough and unruly fellow, who has been
frequently in custody for drunkenness and disorderly con-
duct, was brought before Mr. Selfe charged with assaulting
Robert Hunter, a seamen.
The complainant, a north countryman, said he left Ports-
mouth yesterday afternoon, and upon his arrival in Lon-
don, proceeded in a cab with a shipmate to Hoare's-wharf,
Wapping, for the purpose of proceeding to Newcastle in a
steamer. The cab had no sooner arrived at the wharf than
the prisoner and others surrounded :it, and asked him to
allow them to carry their'chests and luggage on board ship.
He told them that he and his shipmate could carry their
own luggage, and did not want their services. The pri-
soner then asked for a pot ()Meer, and on his refusal to give
him any, said, " I must have twopence from each of you.
He refused to comply with the demand, and the prisoner
said, "Then d—n you, I will have it out of your skin,"
and struck him and knocked him down. While he was
down the prisoner fell upon him, and hammered his head
against the stones. He was severely injured, and in great
pain.
The prisoner—He employed me, and refused to pay me.
Mr. Selfe—No, he did not. I mean to stop these outrages
upon sailors, if possible. I fine you 405., and in default 14
days' imprisonment.
The prisoner was committed to prison.

A new native journal has been started at Bombay,
called the Bambad or Dawn. Amongst other articles that
ho have
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England. The conclusion of the article is as follows :
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" Granted, say others *lour readers; but we may endanger
our religion, and lose it altogether, by travel. Pray, oh
objectors, what kind of religion is that which you cannot
carry with you to the ends of the earth—which you cannot
carry with you even to the other world ? We leave you to
meditate for the present on this .simple question."
THE MARQUIS OF LOTHIAN'S ESTATES.—The
farms on the estates of the Marquii of Lothian are under-
going a regular laud valuation as leases expire. Old tenants
are expected to be prepared to offer an advance of rent
proportionate to the land rents now current. The farming
conditions remain much the same, but a greater strigency
in smaller matters, such as getting fence wood from the
plantations, &c., ix to be acted on, and this provokes un-
faymble rowarkg =met the toueztry,

We learn from the report of the Registrar-Gene-
ral that the deaths from all causes registered in
London in the week ending Saturday, October
30th, were 1,133, and they exhibit an increase,
though it is not considerable, on those of the pre-
vious week. In the ten years 1848-57 the average
number of deaths in the weeks corresponding with
last week was 1,020 ; but as the deaths of last week
occurred in a population which has increased, they
can only be compared with the average when the
latter has been raised proportionally to the increase,
a correction by which it will become 1,122. Hence
it appears that the rate of mortality now prevail-
ing is but slightly in excess of that which is de-
duced from former experience at the end of Oct.
The Greenwich meteorology for the week shows
that, though the mean temperature of the air fell
considerably on the last two days, it was altoge-
ther neither higher nor lower than the average of
a long series of corresponding weeks.
If the mortality shown in the present return had
been according to the rate which has been obtained
`for the autumnal months in certain selected districts
of England, the deaths would not have exceeded
770 ; and the actual excess, or 363, must be referred,
as the result of a week, to those conditions of in-
salubrity that still exist in large town populations.
Scarlatina has maintained a high mortality
throughout October. The deaths from it last week
were the same in number as those of the previous
week, namely, 156 ; the corrected average of ten
corresponding weeks is 77; and the only week
within this series in which scarlatina was more
fatal was that of 1848, when the deaths rose to 182.
Last week it was fatal in 11 cases in Westminster,
a like number in Marylebone, 16 in Pancras, 12 in
Islington, 8 in Poplar, 9 in Newington, 11 in Lam-
beth. It may be added that no cases are recorded
in the districts of St. George (Hanover-square), St.
Martin-in-the-Fields' St. James, Westminster, St.
Giles, St. Luke, or London City.
Mr. Goodhugh, the registrar of St. George the
Martyr, Holborn, remarks that scarlatina has
been very prevalent among children in his sub-
district lately, and the mortality has been higher
than it was for some time previously. Last week he
registered 19 deaths from all causes (nearly one to
1,000 of the population) ; and 17 of these were
deaths of children, six of whom died of scarlatina

It will be seen in the tables that five persons died
from delirium tremens, and the deaths of six others
are expressly referred to intemperance. The weekly
average of deaths under these two heads is not so
formidable—it is 3 ; and no cases occurred in the
previous week.

Last week the births of 909 boys and 871 girls, in
all 1,780 children, were registered in London. In
the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1848-
1857, the average number was 1,527.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 30.118 in.
The mean daily reading was above 30in. on five
days ; the highest reading was 30.45 in. on Satur-
day. The mean temperature of the week was 47.2
deg., which is the same as the average for the same
week in 43 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher).
The highest reading of the thermometer in the shade
was 57.8 deg. on Monday ; the lowest 33 deg. on
Saturday. The whole range of the week was there-
fore 24.8 deg. The mean daily range was 12.5 deg.
The range on Sunday was only 5.2 deg. The dif-
ference between the mean dew-point temperature
and air temperature was 3.9 deg. The mean degree
of humidity of the air was 88. The mean tempera-
ture of the water of the Thames was 55.3 deg., or
8 deg. higher than that of the air. The direction
of the wind was almost :always north-east. The
rain-fall was 0.24 in.

COLLISION IN THE CHANNEL.

PLYMOUTH, TUESDAY EVENING.

The ship Palmyra, reported in The Sun of Satur-
day as being off this port with tallow and wool,
from Sydney, put back to the Sound this afternoon
damaged in her bows, having been in collision at
seven o'clock on Monday evening off Portland. She
was under single reefed topsail, fore-course, main-
course with a reef, spanker, jib, and maintopsail,
steering north by east, the wind blowing strong
from east by north. At the same moment the
bark Ellen Morrison, Captain Irving, 373 tons
register, was under double-reefed topsails, with
whole courses, fore and main jib, foretopmast stay-
sail, and main staysail, lying to the east by south.
It was the captain's watch, and the light on the
bowsprit end having been blown out by the wind,
the lantern was taken in, trimmed, an then exhi-
bited over the bows by the look-out man, who saw
a strange sail, and called the captain, who went
forward and said it was all right.
The first stroke carried away the bark's bowsprit,
and the second time the Palmyra's stem ran into
the bark's starboard bow. Captain Irving ordered
all hands on board the ship. While calling for the
carpenter the vessel separated, and he hailed for a
boat, but the weather was too boisterous and the
night too dark to risk it.
The bark, which belongs to Mr. Morrison, of
South Shields, has a valuable cargo, consisting of
512 measurement tons of tea, and 50 cases of pre-
serves. Being ballasted with 200 tons of shingle, it
is feared she has gone down, especially as her cut-
water was carried away, and she -lead her anchor
hanging to the stopper at the cathead, it having
been knocked off the rail. There was on board
Captain William Thomas Irving, of South Shields;
Robert Gavie, carpenter, of Montrose ; and Henry
Waldew, ordinary seaman, of London ; the mate
and remainder of the crew are in the Plymouth
Sailors' Home.