The Sun.
London, England, 1859-09-28 00:00:00

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WEEK.

(Prom the Registrar-General's Report)
At the close of the period in which summer
cholera is prevalent and fatal, the weekly returns
of mortality wear a more favourable aspect, and
the deaths have declined to the point from which
they rose at the end of June. The total number in
London in the week thai ended last Saturday was
1,058. If the deaths from cholera in the corre-
sponding weeks of the two years 1849 and 1854 are
excluded from the calculation, it will be found thP',,
the totni deaths as returned for last week P less
than the number which the average
tality in the third week of Sept- r
in the
10
-
years 1849-58 would have pr- -
-.amber
of mor-
The decrease in fatal - -oduced.
by the numbers of'
148, 82 eases of diarrhoea is shown
and - last three weeks, which were
01101,-71 u'.. Of those returned as cholera or
.
"alarrhcea, last week gives only 3, and these
°e..,urred. to infants. Scarlatina, which destroyed
83 lives, prevails much, but chiefly in the East dis-
tricts ; 8 deaths from it are recorded in St. Leonar,'
Shoreditch ; 5 in St. Paul, St. George--
East ; 5 in Islington West. Small po—
last week in 23 cases, syphilis in "
mens in 4, intemperance in 4,
died, all women, the olden"
and died at the Femo
Of bricklayers
children 7; ^^
wives 7 •

in-the
was fatal
delirium tre-
e ve nonagenarians
of whom was 96 years,
.0 Almshouses, Whitechapei.
J died last week ; of bricklayers'
carpenters 6 died ; of carpenters'
. ; of carpenters' children 25; of painters 3
; of painters' children 12 ; of plasterers' chil-
dren 2 died. At the census of 1851 there were in
London 13,919 bricklayers, 23,458 carpenters, 15,369
painters, 4,378 plasterers.
Last week the births of 886 boys and 866 girls,
in all 1,752 children, were registered in London.
In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1849-
58 the average number was 1,572.
METROPOLITAN WATERS IN AUG., 1859.
The waters used in London have been analysed
during the month of August by Dr. Robt. Dunda*
Thomson, F.It.S., of St. Thomas's Hospital. The
analyses are recorded in the following table. For
the sake of comparison the composition of Loch
Katrine water is added, and likewise that of one of
the shallow wells of the metropoliP,, which are all
contaminated by sewage matter, and have been
proved in many instances to 'Je injurious to health t
Total impurity Organielm-
per gallon. purity.
grs. or deg. grs. or deg,.
01) 0.0

Distil/eel Water
Gip..e water, new supply
Wei_,
in Camberwell
THAMES COMPAN I Es.
Southwark
Chelsea

Grand Junction .

West Middlesex.

2.1-f 0.8
G 2.67 10.69

16'40 110
17.20 1.52
16.08 0.84
5'40 0.72
17.28 1.20

Lambeth
OTHER COMPANIES. -
New River
East London .
1728 0-80
Kent
The table is read thus—Loch Katrine water contains in the
gallon 2'14 degrees or grains of foreign matter in solution, of
which '8 degrees or grains are of vegetable or animal origin.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29.652 in.
The highest and lowest readings were respectively
29.91 in. on Sunday, and 29.25 in. on Wednesday.
The mean temperature of the week was 56.5 deg.,
which is 1 deg. above the average of the same week
in 43 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher): The
mean temperatUre was below the average on every
day till-Friday, and having been 52.6 deg. on Weri_
nesday, it rose to. 67.4 deg. on Saturday, which_ iat-
ter is 12.4 deg. above the average. The the-anome_
ter fell to 41.5 deg. on Tuesday, the lowr,st point in
the week, and rose to 76 deg. the l'
turday. The range in the week Iv - '....;,hest, on Sa-
as therefore 34.5.
The mean daily range was 1.,-:j. deg. The lowest
temperature on Saturday *was so much as 62 deg.
The mean temperature -„f the water of the Thames
was 59.2 deg. Tb",, difference between the mean
temperature ef f'Aie air and dew-point temperature
was 6.3 des..
The
mean humidity of the air was 78.
The w
irul. blew during a considerable part of the
Week from the south-west ; on Wednesday it moved
at die rate of 200 miles in the day. There was rain
in the week to the amount of 0.64 'in. Auroral
streamers were seen in the evening of Saturday.

FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT

ST. JAMES'S PALACE, SEPT. 24.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Rear-Admiral
the Hon. Sir Henry Keppe], 1i.C.8., to be one of the
Grooms in Waiting in Ordinary to her Majesty, ir, the room
of Lieutenant-General Berkeley Drummond, resigned.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Lieutenant-
General. Berkeley Drummond to he an Extra Groom in
Waiting in Ordinary to her Majesty.,

FOREIGN-OFFICE, SEPT. 24,

The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Thomas
M. Persse as Consul at Galway for fhe United
.States of
America.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, SEPT. 27.
The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy
Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through
the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a
Despatch from her Majesty's Consul-General at Port-au-
Prince, enclosing a copy of a law recently passed by the
Government of Hayti, repealing the tax in kind hitherto
levied upon coffee exported, and substituting an export duty
of one piastre and. three-quarters per 100 lbs. net, the duty
to be payable at the option of the Government, either in
drafts on Paris or in Haytian currency,
The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy
Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through
the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs a copy of a de-
spatch from her Majesty's Consul at Lisbon, reporting that
the Board of Health at that capital, has declared the ports
of Alicante and Carthagena and the ports of the kingdom
of Hanover to be suspected of cholera morbus. The same
board has also declared the port of Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil,
to be considered' as suspected of yellow "fever since the 2d
March last.
The Right lion. the Lords of the Committee of Privy
Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through
the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a de-
spatch from her Majesty's Minister at Naples, enclosing
copy of a .lreapolitan. Royal Decree, prolonging until the
30th June, 1860, the decree authorizing the freo admission
into the kingdom of Naples of wheat, barley, oats, maize
pulse and rice, and flour of same.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, SEPT. 27.
The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy
Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through
the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a de-
spatch from her 'Majesty's Charg6 d'Affaires at Florence,
enclosing a copy of a Tuscan decree, reducing the export
duty on rough hewn and chiselled alabaster from 3 liras per
1001bs. to 10 soldi, and the duty upon works of alabaster
from 1 lira per 1001bs. to 10 soldi. The same decree also
reduces the export duties on vegetables from 6 soldi per
1001bs. to 2 soldi.

ADMIRALTY, SEPT. 22.
First Lieutenant George Dare Dowell to be Captain, vice
Wood, placed on half-pay.
Second Lieutenant, Wm. Bentham Morris to be First
Lieutenant, Vice Dowell, promoted. '
ADMIRALTY, SEPT. 24.
First Lieutenant Frederick Augustus Foster to be Lieu-
tenant and Quartermaster.
COMMISSIONS BY LORDS-LIEUTENANT.

County of Merioneth—Edmund Buckley, Esq., to be
Deputy Lieutenant.
let Company of Perobrokshire Rifle Volunteers—George
Noel Clarice, Esq., to be Lieutenant,
7th Conipany of Lancashire Volunteer Rifles—Robert
Ellis Green, Gent., to be Lieutenant ; Walter Watson,
Gent., to be-Ensign.
Oxfordshire Regiment of Militia—Charles Frederick
Ping, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Ramsay promoted.
Ist Company of Cornwall Rifle Vblunteers—Major-
General George torlase Tremenhere to be Captain; Henry
Dobree, Esq., to be Lieutenant ; Thomas Cornish, Esq., to
be Ensign.
Ist Company of Cornwall Artillery Volunteers—Charles
Glynn Prideaux Brune, Esq., to be Captain; John Tred-
wen, Gent:, to be First Lieutenant.
Princ4 of Wales Royal Regiment of Renfrew Militia—
Lieutenant Charles Bisset Thomson to be Captain, vice
Latham, resigned ; Ensign Arthur Woolfrey Bridge to be
Lieutenant, vice Thomson, promoted ; Ensign Henry Bar-
clay Dunlop to be Lieutenant,. vice Cameron, removed in
consequence of long absence without leave.
Renfrewshiro Volunteer -Rifles-3cl Company—Alexan-
der Fullerton, Gent., to be Captain; William Carlile, Gent.,
to be Lieutenant ; James Anderson Mach ean, Gent., to be
Ensign. 4th Company—Alexander Cruin, Gent., to be
Captain ; Robert Gullies Lowndes, Gent., to be Lieutenant.
Edinburgh City Artillery Militia—First Lieutenant Geo.
Charles Finlay to be C,aptain, from.S,ept. 8, 1859, vice Nicol,
resigned; Second Lieutenant John Gordon Davidson to be
First Lieutenant, from Sept. 8, 1859, vice Finlay, promoted.
Northumberland Regiment of Militia Artillery—Alex.
Leslie Gracey, Esq., A.M., M.D., late Senior Surgeon to
the Artillery of the Turkish Contingent, to be Surgeon,
vice Nettlefold, resigned.
County of Middlesex.— Sir John Gibbons, Bart., to be
Deputy Lieutenant.

sth -or Royal Elthorne Light Infantry Regiment of
Middlesex Militia—Robert Henry Bolton, Gent., to be
Assistant-Surgeon, vice Gibson, resigned.
MEMORANDI:M.-3d or Royal Westminster Light" fn•
fantry Regiment of Middlesex Militia—The Queen has been
graciously pleased to accept the resignation of the Commis-
sion in this Regiment held by Lieutenant William John
Ralfs.

sth or Royal Elthorne Regiment of Middlesex Militia—
The Queen has been graciously pleased to accept the resig-
nation of the Commission in this Regiment held by Assis-
tant-Surgeon James Edward Gibson.
Wooten or 2d Surrey Subdivision Volunteer Rifle Corps
—Henry Walker KetTich, Esq., to be Lieutenant; Robert
Barclay, Esq., to be Ensign.
Brixton or 4th Surrey Company Volunteer Rifle Corps—
Thomas Eman, Esq., to be Captain; Edward Griffiths
ym.s, Esq., to be Lieutenant.
Prince Albert's Own Leicestershire Yeomanry Cavalry
—Lieutenant WilliaYn Erie Welby to be Captain, vice
Hon. H. D. Curzon, resigned; Cornet George Henry Little-
dale to be Lieutenant, vice Sir F. Heygate, resigned ;, Cor-
net George Henry Finch to bo Lieutenant, vice Welby,
promoted ; Charles Phillips, Gent., to be Cornet; vice
Finch, promoted.
[The following appointments are substituted for tilos() which

appeareirin Ihe Gazett-e of the 13th inst.]
Reigate or sth (and not the 4th) Surrey Company of Vo-
hinter Rifle Corps—The Hon. William John Vonson to be
Captain; Francis Henry Beaumont, Esq., to be Lieute-
nant; Henry Lainsen, Esq., to bo Lieutenant.
Ist Company of Northamptonshire Rifle Volunteers—
The Right Hon. John Poyntz, Earl Spencer, to be Captain.
3d Coinpany of Essz,x Rifle Volunteers--JOhn Coope
Davis, to be Captain ; William Henry Clifton, Esq., to be
to ee Ensign.
Lieutenant; Henry Martin Harvey, Esq.,

NAVAL PRIZE MONEY.

Department of the Accountant-General of the Navy,
Admiralty, Somerset-house, Sept. 26, 1859.
Notice is hereby given to all persons interested therein,
that preparations are now being made for the intended