The Sun.
London, England, 1861-11-06 00:00:00

FRANCE.

The Moniteur has the following :—The conven-
tion by which France, England, and Spain engage
to unite their forces, with a view to a common
action in order to obtain from Mexico the satisfac-
tion duo to their respective complaints, was signed
in London on the 31st ult.

BOURSE, Nov. s.—The market has been rather
more buoyant, and the business done, though still
limited in amount, has been transacted at a slight
improvement on the closing rates of yesterday.
Threes, for the account, are now at 68f 30c. Rail-
ways firm.
The following were the last quotations :-
4t per per Cents ... 95 50 Credit Fonder 1165
Do. end month.... 95 55 Belgian 41 99
3 per Cents
Do. end month 6B 321 I Roman
Bank Shares 2910 Austrian
Credit Mobilier.... 710 Spanish Threes 4825
Do. Account 712 50; home Debt

ItAILWAYS.
Cash. Account.
Orleans
Northern ....
New ditto
Lyons and Mediterranean 1027 50 .. 1028 75
Geneva
Southern 632 50 .. 633 75
Western .. 522 50 .. 523 75
Eastern
Sardinian 345 .. 343 75
Austrian
Lou 'bard
.. 530

The London, Malta and Alexandria Telegraph
(via Tripoli and Ilengazi) being now in successful opera-
tion, the rates at which messages are to be transmitted
have been published. For a message of 2il words from
London to Alexandria the charge will be £2 6s. Pd. The
communication between Malta and Alexandria does not
occupy more than five minutes. 'Should the English clerks
who are being placed at the principal Italian telegraph
offices, under a convention signed by the Italian Govern-
ment, experience no impediment in the prosecution of their
labours, it is believed that the period required for sending
a despatch through from London to Alexandria will not
exceed fly e or six hours.
A PUBLIC PLAYGROUND FOR KIRKDALE.--,The
Earl of Derby has most generously granted the loan of
.a
spacious piece of land in the central part of the township
for the term of five years for the above-named object, and
Mr, C. P. Melly, with his usual liberality and patriotism,
has undertaken to fit it up at his sole expense as a
public
gYaillasium.—.Liverpooi

THE LATE GALE.-LOSS OF TWENTY

MORE LIVES.

During the latter part of the past week the wea-
ther has been very stormy at Great Yarmouth
(writes a correspondent), with heavy rains. On
Saturday it came on to blow with great violence
from the W.N.W., and at noon it increased to a
perfect hurricane, such as has not been equalled on
this coast since the disastrous gale of May 28, 1860,
when nine vessels went down in sight of land, and
fourteen fishing luggers, with all hands, were lost
outside. Great apprehensions were entertained for
the boats now at sea, a large fleet of which were
prosecdting the herring voyage, and some of those
which came in on Sunday gave sad confirmation to
forebodings on the beach by reporting the loss of
two luggers and their crews. One boat reports
that on Saturday afternoon, while scudding before
the gale, about forty miles outside, she saw within •
a quarter of a mile ahead of her a lugger marked
" Y.l-1." (Yarmouth) go down with all hands, and
on passing over the spot one of the crew of the un-
fortunate vessel was seen clinging to the wreck, but
owing to the tremendous sea running, which was
expected momentarily to overwhelm the lugger, no t. 7.
assistance could be rendered to the poor fellow.
Another boat reports the loss of a Sherringham lug-
ger, which was seen to disappear with all hands in
a terrific sea. As these vessels are manned by
nine men and a boy, twenty souls must have
perished. The storm raged on Sunday,
but with partially abated violence, and
the wind having shifted to the north, a large fleet
of vessels were driven back into these roads for
shelter ; on Sunday night there must have been
some thousands, extending from Caistor to Lowes-
toft, a distance of 13 miles. Many have been obliged
to put into harbour with masts gone, sails split,
rigging carried away, or damage of some sort.
During the night the smack Adventurer, of Har-
wich, parted her anchors, and was carried on to
the North Sand, where they were rescued by the
lifeboat from a position of the utmost peril, and
were taken to the Sailors' Home. It is feared that
the shipping reports on this coast will contain a
long list of casualties.

THE RECENT GALE AT LIVERPOOL.--0110 of the
incidents of the recent gale has brought to light
con siderable gallantry on the part of four boatmen,
who, at the imminent risk of their lives, took a
small gig to the rescue of the crew of a schooner
which had sunk near to the entrance of the Queen's
Channel, at the mouth of the Mersey. The schooner
was th e Widnes, of Ulverstone, from Barrow, bound
to Liverpool with a cargo of iron ore. In connec-
tion with this subject it may also be of interest to
notice ghat a numerous and influential meeting
was held at New Brighton, near Liverpool, on
Monday evening, in order to take steps for the
establishment of a lifeboat at that place. During
the meeting the services rendered on a recent
occasion by Mr. Henry Norton, of Liverpool, in
rescuing a number of excursionists who had
been stranded not far from Hoylaka, were pro-
minently alluded to, and it was proposed that the
New Brighton lifeboat should be named the Henry
Norton. It was also proposed that a communica-
tion should be made to the Mersey Dock Board,
with a view to see if they would support the life-
boat establishment, and if they were unwilling to
do so, that the residents should maintain it them-
selves.

WRECK OF A SCHOONER AND SUPPOSED Loss
OF ALL ON BOARD.—lntelligence has been received
at Liverpool to the effect that early yesterday
morning a schooner went down when off Taylor's
Bank, at the entrance to the Mersey. During the
day a seaman's chest was washed ashore at Water-
loo. On opening it, in addition to clothes and
other articles, was found a Manx almanac, in which.
was written, " John Gibson, Saltney ; John Davies,
Greenfield, Holywell." No tidings have yet been
heard of the crew of the wrecked schooner, and the
general opinion is that they have all perished.
The chest washed on shore at Waterloo is supposed
to have belonged to some one on board the ill-fated
schooner.

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK.

(From the Registrar-General's Weekly Return.)
The deaths in London in the week that ended.
last Saturday were 1,078 ; the last three returns
have shown very slight fluctuation. The deaths
returned for last week were less by more than a
hundred than they would have been if the average
rate of mortality in the same week of ten previous
years had prevailei.

The mortality from scarlatina continues high.
The number of fatal cases of this complaint was 94,
and of diphtheria 18 ; while the corrected average
in corresponding weeks of the two diseases com-
bined isg3. There were 4 deaths from scarlatina in
the north-west sub-district of Chelsea, 4 in May-
fair, 7 in Somers-town and Camden-town, 8 in
Islington, and 7 in the Waterloo-road sub-districts
of Lambeth. Mr. Mears, registrar of the first
Waterloo-road sub district, who recorded five deaths
from this disease, mentions a house (70,King-street)
in which it prevails, and where each room contains
a family, and the kitchen holds eight persons who •
" live and sleep" in it.

The mortality by smallpox and measles is low, 8
deaths having been registered from the former, and
7 from the latter. There were 16 from croup, 35
from whooping•cough, 47 from typhus. Six in-
fants died from syphilitic disease. There were five
deaths by murder or manslaughter, three of which
occurred to infants.

Last week the births of 947 boys and 889 girls, in
all 1,836 children, were registered in London. In
the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1851-4 0
the average number was 1,652.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the men n
height of the barometer in the week was 29.64.4
inches. On Sunday the barometer was 29.99
inches ; it fell to 29.12 inches on Saturday. Tb e
mean temperature of the air in the week was 45' 5
deg., which is 1.2 deg. below the average of the
same week in 43 years (as determined by Mr.
Glaisher.) The mean daily temperaturo was 5
deg. and 8 deg. below the averages on Friday and
Saturday. The highest day temperature was ob-
tained on Sunday, and was 58.6 deg. ; the lowest
night temperature was 32.4 deg. on Saturday.
The range of tempsrature was 26.2 degreet?.
The mean daily range was 13'9 deg. The differenc:e
between the mean dew-point temperature and air
temperature was 5 deg. The mean degree of
81,T mheeomepalenteternsaptuerraattuior'ae
ob feit humiditynhge represented
water of eotnfhtetehaea Tryhwrmaose. s was 54 deg. The win d
blew on the first four days from the north-east; it
was afterwards in the south-west and north west.
Rain fell to the amount of 0.36 inch on Friday and
Saturday ; the amount on the latter day, consisting
inww with
ye;
very
rayys ft
large
flakes, from 7 a.m. till 9.30 aanton

METROPOLITAN WATERS IN OCTOBER, 1861.
The water supplied to London in the past month, according
to the analyses of Dr. Robert Dundas Thomson, F.R.S., ex-
hibits a tendency to an increase in its amount of impurity as
the season advances. The smallest amount of organic im-
purity is found in the Grand Junction, East London, and
West Middlesex ; the maximum of organic impurity existing
in the Lambeth, Kent, and Chelsea. For the sake of com-
parison, the composition of the water of the Broad-street
pump in St. James's„-so notorious for its propagation of
cholera in 1854, is added. It was proved to contain much
sewage in an oxidised form, and therefore to be in free com-
munication with such sources of impurity.
Total impurity Organic im-
per gallon. purity.
gro. or deg. grs. or deg.
Distilled Water O.O 0.0
Loch Katrine water, new supply
to Glasgow (Marco) 2.31 .605
.680
Manchester Water Supply (March) 3•33
6'oB
Broad-street Pump . 8012
THAMES COMPANIES.
West Middlesex 16.96 016
Southwark
37.20 1•12
Grand Junction )7%42 01217/2 1•2
Chelsea
Lambeth
OTHER COMPANIES•
tttttttttttttttt water t contains in the
23'04 1•44
read thus-Loch
Kent
t
New East
iLltiaovbneldreein.s.
.... t 0.75
0•92
The
gallon 2.3; degrees or grains of foreign matter in solution, of
uhich .605 degrees or grains are of vegetable or animal

One of the finest peurls in the world has recently
been found in the Bay of Panama, It is of a perfect pear
shape, and of the hust wfkter.

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