The Sun.
London, England, 1866-01-10 00:00:00

WHITECHAPEL.

prices.

The supply of meat on sale is moderate, The trade is
steady, as follows :
Beef, from 2s 10d to 4s 6d; mutton, 3s 10d to 5s 4d;
veal, 3s 10d to 4s 10d ; and pork, as 10d to 5s 6d per 81bs.
by the carcase.

HEALTH OF THE METROPOLIS•

(From the Registrar-General's Weekly Report.)

Weekly returns are now published of the births,
deaths, rate of mortality, and meteorology in 12
large towns of the United Kingdom, besides London,
Sheffield and Newcastle-upon-Tyne being now added
for the first time. The population of the 13 towns
in the middle of the present year is estimated at
6,122,894, and they stand upon an area of 177,817
acres, nearly equal to 278 square miles. In the
week that ended on Saturday, Jan. 6, the births re-
gistered in London and 12 other large towns of the
United Kingdom were 4,353 ; the deathsregistered,
3,490. The annual rate of mortality was 30 per
1,000 persons living. In London the births of
1,127 boys and 1,125 girls, in all 2,252 chil-
dren, were registered in the week. In the cor-
responding week of 10 years, 1856-65, the average
number, corrected for increase of population, was
2,085. The deaths registered in London during the
week were 1,520. It was the first week of the year,
and the average number for that week is, with a cor-
rection for increase of population, 1,585. The deaths
in the present return are less by 65 than the esti-
mated amount, and less by 83 than the number re-
gistered in the preceding week. Eighty-four deaths
occurred from fever, 57 from whooping-cough, 34
from scarlatina, 15 from small-pox, and 49 from
measles.
,The registrar of the sub-district of St.
Giles North reports that measles is very prevalent ;
6 deaths from this disease were registered by him
during the week. An attendant at the British Mu-
seum, aged 22 years, died on Dec. 30, at 145, Sey-
mour-street, Pancras, of cholera. A female servant,
aged 25 years, died on Dec. 27, at the workhouse,
Marylebone, of consumption, accelerated by want
and exposure. One hundred and sixty-three persons
died from phthisis, 219 from bronchitis, 104 from
pneumonia, and 73 from diseases of the heart.

The following deaths were reported as resulting
from carriage accidents :—A cab proprietor, aged
49 years, died on Dec. 25, at St. Mary's Hospital.
Run over by an omnibus. A coachman, aged 37
years, died on Dec. 26, at Middlesex Hospital. Run
over by a cab. A cowkeeper, aged 29 years, died
Dec. 29, at 16, Elizabeth-place, Kennington.
Thrown from a cart by collizion with a brougham.
A carman, aged 31, died Dec. 26, at Guy's Hospital.
Run over by a van in Bermondsey. The son of a
labourer, aged 3 years, was killed on Dec. 27, in
Bermondsey, by a an passing over him.
The annual rate of mortality last week was 26 per
1,000 in Loudon, 25 in Edinburgh, and 29 in Dublin ;
45 in Liverpool, 35 in Manchester, 36 in Salford, 29
in Birmingham, 33 in Leeds, 34 in Sheffield, 32 in
Bristol, 36 in Newcastle-on-Tyne, 30 in Hull, and
31 in Glasgow. The rate in Vienna was 32 per 1,000
during the week ending the 30th ult., when the tem-
perature was 24.0 deg. Fahrenheit lower than in the
same week in London, where the rate was 28 per
1,000.

The highest rate of mortality during the week
occurred in Liverpool ; during last quarter the
annual rate of mortality in this town was 33 per
1,000, and the deaths from typhus averaged 47
weekly ; during last week, of the 417 deaths (at the
annual rate of 45 per 1,000) 48 were referred to
typhus, 26 to measles, 12 to scarlatina, and 19 were
inquest cases. Whooping-cough was very fatal last
week in some parts of Manchester and Birmingham.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29.685 in.
The barometrical reading increased from 29.31 in.
on Wednesday to 29.95 in. on Saturday. The mean
temperature of the air in the week was 43.2 deg.,
which is 6.5 deg. above the average of the same
week in 50 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher).
The highest day temperature was 51.8 deg. on
Thursday. The lowest night temperature was 32.2
deg. on Saturday.. The entire range of temperature
in the week was, therefore, 19.6 deg. The mean of
the highest temperatures of the water of the Thames
was 42.7 deg. ; that of the lowest was 41.6 deg.
The mean degree of humidity of the air was 84,
complete saturation being represented by 100. Rain
fell to the amount of 0.52 in. The general direc-
tion of the wind was south-west.

Charles Christopher Robinson was hung yester-
day at Stafford. He was convicted at the recent assizes of
the murder of a young girl named Seager, whose throat he
cut. He was in the 19th year of his age, and had, it seems,
led a dissipated life. There was a dense crowd to see the
poor wretch executed. Before his death ho professed
penitence.

An inquest was held yesterday in the gaol at
Leeds on the body of Eli Sykes, the Batley murderer. It
will be remembered that Sion after his conviction ho threw
himself over the rails of some stairs in the prison, and
from the injuries he received he died last Saturday. The
jury returned a verdict of felo de se, and Sykes' body was
interred within the precincts of the gaol last evening.
MURDER OF A BISHOP IN CHlNA.—Recent ac-
counts from Shanghae state that a Christian village
north-west of Pekin had been burned down, and that the
Catholic bishop who resided there had been assassinated.
On learning this melancholy intelligence, the representa-
tive of France at Pekin addressed an energetic note to the
Chinese Government, which promised that measures
should be immediately taken to punish the authors of
those crimes,