The Sun.
London, England, 1857-03-18 00:00:00

REALM OF LONDON DURING THE

WEEK.

(From, the Report of the Registrar-General.)
The total number of deaths registered in London,
which in the previous week was 1,175, was in the
week that ended last Saturday 1,156, showing again
a decrease. which has been maintained during the
last five weeks, and which in circumstances as fa-
vourable as those of the present time is to be ex-
pected towards the end of the first quarter of the
year: In the ten years 1847-56 the average num-
ber of deaths in the weeks corresponding with last
week was 1,199. If this is raised in proportion to
increase of population it becomes 1,319, and repre-
sents the number of di.aths which the average rate
of mortality would produce at the present time ;
and it is shown by a reduction in the actual num-
ber to the extent of 163 that the public health is at
present decidedly better than usual.
The number of births exceeded the number of
deaths by 488. Of the 1,156 persons who died 573
were males and 583 females.

The deaths from zymotic diseases were last week
214 ; the corrected average of corresponding
weeks is 245. Five children and a person of mid-
dle age died of smallpox, 11 children of croup, 24
of scarlatina, 27 of measles, 28 of typhus and com-
mon fever, 72 of whooping-cough. The deaths
from diarrhoea declined to 9. The southern divi-
sion, namely, all that part of London which lies on
the south side of the river, is at present unusually
free from epidemics. No deaths occurred in it last
week from smallpox, only 1 from measles, 4 from
scarlatina, 10 from whooping-cough, 2 from diar-
rhoea. and 8 from typhus; the twat number on the
south side from these six diseases was 25, being the
seventh part of the total number in the metropolis.
though the populAtion of the former is to that of
the latter nearly as one to four. The Regierer of
Somers-town states that there are some cases of
smallpox in the neighbourhood of Pancras-square.
Bronchitis was fatal last week in 135 cases ; pneu-
monia iu 100 ; the mortality from the latter disease
now becoming greater relatively to that of the for-
mer. A woman died in the Greenwich Workhouse
from mortification, the effect of frost two months
ago. Only one nonagenarian died last week—viz.,
the widow of a coachman in Clerkenwell, who had
att lined the age of 96 years.
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Last week The births of 858 boys aril 786 girls,
in all 1,644 children, were registered in London.
In- the 10 corresponding weeks of the years 1847 56
the average number was 1,606.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29.607 in.
The highest reading in the week was 29.92 in. on
Thursday. The mean temperature of the week was
37.2 deg., which is 3.3 deg. below the average of
the same week in 43 years, as determined by Mr.
Glaisher. On Wednesday the mean temperature
was only 33.3 deg., which is 7 dog. below the ave-
rage. The lowest temperature occurred on Tuesday,
and was 28 deo-. • the highest was 56.6 deg., and
occurred on Saturday, the only clay on which the
mean temperature was above the average. The
entire range of the week was 28.7 deg. The mean
dew-point temperature was 31.9 deg., and the dif-
ference between this and the mean temperature of
the air was 5.3 deg. The wind, which was generally
in the N. and N.N.E. at the beginning of the week,
blew afterwards from the S. W. Rain or hail fell to
the amount of 0.33 in. Heavy hail storms occurred
on Sunday, the Bth inst. During one storm the
temperature fell 9 deg. in five minutes, and in ano-
ther the balls were unusually large, and measured
in some instances 3 inches round at their base.
MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS

NUMBER OF DEATHS FEOM AIL CAUSES REOISTERPD

IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, MARCH 14.

Zymotic Diseases

Diseases of Uncertain Seat
Tubercular Diseases
Diseases of the Brain; Nerves and Senses
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 53
Diseases of the Lungs and other Organs of

Respiration _
263
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs
of Digestion
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c.
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c.
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles
Diseases of the Skin, &c.
Malformations 8

Premature Birth and Debility 26
Atrophy 34
Old Age
Sudden ll
Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 29
Causes not specified

DEATHS PROM ALL CAUSIS 1,15G
Population Deaths in corre- Deat►,s
Enumerated. sponding week in the

1851. of 1856: Wool.
West Districts
North Districts 490,396
Central Districts 393,256
East Districts 485,522
South Districts 616,635

Totals
Males 573
Fomales 583
BIRTHS IN THE WEEK.

Males
Females..

858
786

Total 000000000 “....................•.., 1,644

The Ga,..,ette d' Ausbourg publishes the following
authentic text of the above treaty
" H. M. the Enver ir of Austria, H.M. the King
of the Belgians, and H.M. Vie Queen of Spain, on
the one part, and H.M. the King of Denmark on
the other part, being animated by an equal desire
to facilitate and increase the commercial and mari-
time relations which at present exist between their
respective States, as much for the object of the
complete and final suppression of all duties levied
on foreign ships and cargoes in their passage
through the Sound and Belts, as for the relief of
merchandise passing by the ways which connect the
North Sea and the Elbe with the Baltic, have re-
solved to negotiate to this end a special treaty, and
have provided with full powers, viz., H.M. the
Emperor M., kc., who, having exchanged their
powers, &c., &c., have agreed to the following
articles :
"Article 1. H's Majesty the King of Denmark
undertakes, ktr.o., not to levy any duty on custom,
lights' lighthouses, buoys, or any other
charge on the hull or cargo of ships passing from
the North Sea to the Baltic, or vice versa, through
the Belts or the Sour-1, whether they purpose to
cross the Danish waters or from accidents of the
sea, or commercial necessities, they are obliged
there to anchor or lie. No ship whatever will in
future be subject, under any pretext, in its passage
through the Sounds or Belts, to any
nd of &ten-
tion or hinderance ; but his Majesty the King of
Denmark expressly reserves to himself the right of
kr
regu'ating, by special agreements, not implying
either visit or detention, the fiscal or customs firms
with respect to ships belonging to Powers who are
not parties to the present treaty. 2. Not to levy
on any of these said ships on entering or leaving
Danish ports, either with cargoes or in ballast, or
engaged or not in commercial operations, Iv r
upon their cargoes, any tax whatever from which
these ships would be free in passing through the
Sound or Belts according to the terms of the
treaties of 1841 between Great Britain and Sweden
on the one part and Denmark on the other, or
according to ancient treaties between Den-
mark and the other high contracting Powers
or the other States of Europe ; and it is well under-
stood that these dues, which will be so abolished as
not to be levied in the Sound, Belts, or Danish
ports, cannot be indirectly re-establishei by in-
creasing for this object the existing port or customs
dues, or by the introduction, for the same object,
of new navigation or customs dues, or in any way
whatever.

" Article IL His Majesty the King of Denmark
engages in addition-1. To preserve and maintain
in the best condition all the lights, lighthouses,
buoys, and landmarks actually existing, either at
the entrance or the approaches of his ports, bar-
bmrs, roads, and rivers or channels along his
coasts ; that the buoys, landmarks, &c., actually
existing may serve to facilitate navigation in the
Cattegut, Sound, and Belts. 2. To take, as before
mentioned, in very serious consideration in the
general interest of navigation, the utility or pro-
priety either of altering the position or the form of
these said beacons, lighthouses, buoys, and land-
: marks, or of augmenting their number, all without
charge of any sort to the foreign mariner. 3. To
cause, as before mentioned, to be supervised the
pilot service, the employment of which will at all
times be at the disposal of captains of vessels in the
Cattegut, Sound, and Bolts. It is understood that
the pilot dues will be moderate, and that the exist-
ing dues will not be augmented, but, in the interest
of navigation itself, that the tariff will be the same
for Danish as for foreign ships, and the pilot dues
will be exacted only from those ships who voluntarily
employ pilots. 4. To permit, without any restric-
tion, all private entrepreneurs, Danish or foreign,
to establish or station freely, and on the Fame con-
ditions, whatever be their nation, in the Sound and
Belts, tug-boats for th,)se ships that wish to employ
them. 5. To extend to all the ways or channels
which at present connect, or may hereafter connect,
the North Sea and the Elbe to the Baltic, exemp-
tion from dues which are at present levied on
foreign and national merchandise, in some of these
ways and channels, and known as follows. (Fiat
Wei-60.) It is unders',ood that if, at a future
period, merchandise in any of these channels enjoys
an analogous exemption, this same exemption ft-on)
the transit tax will be extended by right to all the
channels above specified. Z. To lower upon all
these same chanue:s to a uniform tariff, and pro-
portional to 16 skillings (Danish) for more than
500 Danish pounds, the transit dues upon mer-
chandise which is at present liable to them, with-
out that the tariff be augmented by any other tax
of whatever denotninati,in. In the event of the
lowering of the transit dues below the tariff ab3ve
specified, his Majesty the King of Denmark engages
to place all the ways or channels which unite or
shall unite the North Sea and the Elbe to the Baltic
or its tributaries, on a footing of perfect equality
with the ways the most favoured which actually
exist, or which will hereafter be established in his
territory. 7. To extend definitively with his Ma-
jesty the King of Sweden and Norway for the
maintenance, as before mentioned, of beacons on
the Swedish and Norwegian coasts, to facilitate
and light the passage of the Sound at the entrance
of the Cattegut.
" Article 111. The engagements contained in the
two preceding articles to come into effect after
April 1, 1857.

Article IY. As indemnification and compen-
sation for the sacrifices which the above stipulations
must impose on his Majesty the King of Denmark,
their Majesties the Emperor, the King and the
Queen, &c., engage on their side to pay his Ma-
jesty the King t.f.Denmark, who accepts it, the
sum totil of 30,570,698 dollars, divided as follows:
29,4'21 rix dollars ; Be!gitun, fix
dollars ; Spain, -- rik dollars. It is understood
that the high contracting parties are each of them
responsible only for his own portion.

A Article V. -The sums specified in the preceding
article will, under the reasons expressed in sec. 3 of
article 6, be paid in 20 years by 40 six monthly and
equal instalments, which will comprehend the capi-
tal and decreasing interest of the amounts not due.
" Article VI. Each one of the high contracting
Powers engages to arrange and determine with his
Majesty the King of Denmark, by a special and se-
parate convention :-1. The mode and place of
payment of the 40 six monthly instalments ; 2.
The mode and rate of conversion into foreign mo-
ney of the aforesaid Danish money ; 3. The mode
and conditions of integral or partial amortisation to
which is expressly reserved the right of always re-
curring for the anticipated extinction of each share
of the indemnity.
" Article VII. The execution of the reciprocal
engagements contained in the present treaty is ex-
pressly subordinate to the fulfilment of the rules
and formalities established by the constitutional
laws of the high contracting parties, who engage
to have them applied with as brief a delay as pos-
sible.

" Article VIII. The present treaty will be rati-
fied and exchanged at Copenhagen."

POISONING CASE.

At the Cork assizes a singular case of poisoning
by arsenic was tried yesterday. Mary Murphy was
indicted for administering poison to Margaret Casey,
with intent to cause her death. It appeared that
the prisoner, about two years and a half ago, be-
came intimately acquainted with a man named
Cornelius Casey, the result of which was, that in
something less than two years since she was de-
livered of a child, of which be was the father.
Before her delivery, however, be got married, and
it was his wife that the prisoner was charged with
attempting to poison. Cornelius Casey, it further
appeared, took the prisoner's child from her, and
was keeping it in his own house, and the prisoner
having sought to be allowed to support it, a quarrel
ensued, in the course of which the prisoner assaulted
Margaret Casey, and accused her of improper con-
duct before her marriage, for which assault the pri-
soner was brought before the local magistrates and
sentenced to seven days' imprisonment. After
this occurred the prisoner said to
somAofthae
not
of Cornelius Casey's family,voui it be well to give her (meaning Margaret Case o
dose 1" and also said that "a fairy woman ho.adrl y
vt)oel.d:
her that Margaret Casey had not long t
Subsequent to these conversations a reconciliation
e
was effected, and it was ased that the prisoner
should get her child, and sign a release to Cornelius
liability
Casey, releasing him from all further
as to
the support of the child. She signed the document,
and after doing so said she had a b tileo fwhisky,
and proposed that the prosecutor's family should
drink it "on the head" of the * reconciliation.
Accordingly she brought the whisky to the
prosecutor's house, and with it seven cakes'
one for each member of the family. She then
distributed the cakes • herself ;
Margaret
Casey had only partaken of a very small portion of
hers when she became exceeding sick, which sick-
ness was afterwards proved to have been caused
by the introduction of a considerable quantity of
arsenic into her latomacht A portion of the re-

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, MARCH il.

There is not much business doing, but there is a
healthy tone in the market, and principally owing
to the good accounts from Calcutta and Bombay.
Prices are very firm. The advices from Liverpool
speak of an active business in cotton, with prices in
favour _of sellers, and this has helped to support the
yarn and cloth markets. There would probably
have been more business in yarns this morning had
the German letters come to hand ; they were not
received till this afternoon. From their tone it is
not improbable that some engagements will be en-
tered into this evening for twists suitable to that
market.__l_lllle. yarn market is verz firm generally,
with an upward tendency, and spinners decline to
enter into contracts at present rates.
Messrs. John Slagg and Co. report :—" There is
little change to notice in the market since our last
report. We continue to have a good demand for
low sbirting,s, Madapolam., and jaconets fur India,
especially since the report of the improved accounts
to hand this morning by the overland mail, and
prices still tend upwards. Longcloths, T-cloths,
and good printers also continue in far request at
last week's quotations. With these exceptions the
market is quiet, but without change in prices.
NOTTINGHAM, MARCH 17.
There is a decided improvement in the home de-
-1 mend for lace, the fine weather having operated
favourably. In addition to an improvement in the
home trade, there are numerous orders in the mar-
-1 ket for export both for the Continental and .Anat-
rican markets. For the finer descriptions of plain
nets there is more inquiry, and in coarser qualities,
notwithstanding the high price demanded, there is
a good businessdoing. In silk and fancy laces the
trade is quiet.
In hosiery there is a fair amount of business
doing, and the favourable change in the weather
will create a still further improvement. Manufac-
turers are anticipating both a good home and fo-
reign trade. The framework-knitting branch has
for some time being in a healthy state, the opera-
t'yes being well employed at good wages.
Silks and yarns continue firm.
LEICESTER, MARCH 17.
There is very little alteration to in trade,
although there is no doubt that the fineness of the
weather will influence business for the better. Cot:-
ton goods are sold readily, and this branch is de-
cidedly brisk. In worsted articles very little is
doing. Materials, both worsted and wool, con-
tinue very high. _ _

LEEDS, 111A.Rcu 17.
The cloth-halls have been visited by a good
number of buyers to-day; but stocks being low,
not a very large busineis was done, and the mar-
ket, upon the whole, was of a quiet character.
The light Rinds of fabrics for summer wear are in
chief request.

HUDDERSFIELD, MARCH 17.
The cloth-market to-day has not been quite so
brisk as last Monday, the agitation about. the im-
pending election rather checking business. Low
goods, unions, steel mixtures, &c., meet with
tolerably good sale. Wool continues high and firm
in price.