The Sun.
London, England, 1859-07-06 00:00:00

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LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, LATE PASSENGERS IN
THE PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL COMPANY'S
STEAMER, ALMA.
H.M.S. Cyclops, Aden, June 18, 1859.
I am in receipt of your letter, conveying to my-
self, officers, and crew of H.M.S. Cyclops your
grateful sense of the services we have lately ren-
dered and in behalf of all beg to thank you, and
say that it has come in the course of our duties ;
and we feel happy in having, under Providence,
been the means of rescuing so many of our fellow
creatures from such extreme hardships and suffer-
ings.--I have the honour to be, ladies and gentle-
men, your very obedient servant,
(Signed) W. J. L. PULLEN.

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE

WEEK.

(From the Registrar-General's Report)
The mortality in London begins to increase, as is
usual at this period of the year. The deaths, which
were 913 and 970 in the two previous weeks, rose
to 1,024 in the week that ended last Saturday. In
the ten years 1849-58 the average number of deaths
in the weeks corresponding with last week was
1,126 ; but, as the deaths returned for last week
occurred in an increased population, they can only
be compared with the average raised in proportion
to the increase, namely, with 1,238. It appears,
therefore, that the deaths registered last week were
less by 214 than the number as obtained by calcu-
lation ; but it should be observed that deaths on
which inquests have
.been held are now registered
with greater uniformity than they were previously,
when they were permitted to accumulate till the
end of the quarter, a circumstance which, to a con-
siderable extent, affects the comparison. The aver-
age number of deaths from violence registered in
last week of the spring quarter in previous years
was 107, whereas last week the number was 48.
The diarrhoea of summer is now makino,. per-
ceptible progress. In the last three weeks the
deaths caused by it have been successively 20, 34,
and 58. Of these 58, all except two occurred to
children, and a very large proportion to infants in
their first year. It is remarkable, that while 16
deaths from diarrhoea occurred last week in the
west districts, 13 in the north, 17 in the east, and
11 in the south, only one. occurred in the central
group, which besides other districts, comprises St.
Giles, Holborn, Clerkenwell, and the City. A child
died at
.6, Austin-street, Hackney-road, from diar-
rhoea, a family where two other deaths have
occurred within a month, in consequence, it is
stated, of deficient drainage, which is now reme-
died. A boy died of cholera after six days' illness,
at 79, High-street, Shadwell ; and another of
" choleraic diarrhoea (four days)," at 36, Charles-
street, Saffron-hill. A sailor was drowned in the
London docks, and the coroner's jury were of opi-
nion, that though he had been immersed only three
minutes, recovery was rendered impossible by the
foul condition of the water. There were 42 deaths
from scarlatina; also 21 from diptheria, three of
these in the sub-district of Belgrave, three in Long-
acre. A child was choked by a cherry-stone ;
another by a nutshell. A girl, aged three years,
died June 22d from sunstroke. Six persons died
from intemperance, besides five whose deaths are
recorded as caused by " delirium tremens."
Last week the births of 883 boys and 907 girls,
in all 1,790 children, were registered in London. In
the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1849-58
the average number was 1,610.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29.907 in.
The barometer increased from 29.73 in. on Sunday
to 30.02 in. on Saturday, being the lowest and
highest readings in the week. The mean tempe-
rature of the week was 63.5 degs., which is 2.2
degs. above the average of the same week in 43
years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher.) The mean
daily temperature was about 8 degs. above the
average on Sunday and Monday ; it fell below the
average on Wednesday and two following days.
The thermometer in the shade rose to its highest
point on Sunday, when it was 81.3 degs. ; it fell to
its lowest on Thursday, when it was 48.5 degs.
The extreme range of the week was therefore 32.8
degs. ; the mean daily range was 21.1 degs. The
difference between the mean dew-point temperature
and air temperature was 7.7 degs. The mean de-
gree of humidity of the air was 77. The mean
temperature of the water of the Thames was 65.6
degs., or 2.1 degs. higher than that of the air. On
Sunday the wind blew from the south-east ; on the
last three days from the north and northeast.
Rain fell in the week to the amount of P 24 in.,
chiefly on Saturday. The lightning, which con-
tinued during four hours almost without intermis-
sion, was unusually vivid, and illuminated the
whole sky. Rain fell to the depth of 0.8 in. ; but
the storm did not approach very near the Observa-
tory, and no damage was done in that neighbour-
hood.

Loss OF A SCREW STEAMER.—IIAMBURG, TUES-
DAy.--The Leith steamer Dunedin, bound for this port,
with passengers and a general cargo, was in collision _last
night with the Lady Alice Lambton screw steamer, out-
ward bound, and the Dunedin immediately went down in
six fathoms water. The accident occurred off Osti. The
crew and passengers were saved.
FATAL GUN ACClDENT.—lnformation has been
received by Charles R. Carttar, Esq., coroner for Rent, of
the death of Abraham Nelson Sampson, a young man only
22 ye.ars of age, from a gun-shot wound indicted accidentally
to Mr.
by himself on Monday. He was in a field belonging
May, farmer, of St. Paul's Cray, whitherhe had gone accom-
panied by his brother and another person for the purpose,of
shooting rats, and at the moment of the accident was k.neel-
ing down holding his gun by the muzzle, !and pushing
.it
from him•on the ground. In so doing the trigger caught in
gull were lodged in the
some way, and the contents of the
poor fellow's bowels. He was immediately attended by a
medical man, but the injuries were mortal, and he expired
about an hour and a half after the accident.