The Sun.
London, England, 1857-03-25 00:00:00

fizrvi, 4 INAUGURATION OF THE PRESIDENT _HEALTH OF LONDON DURING TBZ
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OF THE UNITED STATES. j WEEK.

SUN OFIICE, o'Ctock.

NORTHAMPTON RACES.—(This Day.,

(BY ALEOTRIC TELEURAPB.)

TRIAL STAKES.

Flacrow
Huntington
Odd Trick
Lord Nelson came in without his rider
Five lan.
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES.
St. Giles
Skirmisher
A ssayer

Sixteen ran.
QUEEN'S GUINEAS.

Fisherman ... .

Malacca►
Greyling

- Four ran. Won very easy.
Will TTLEBUR Y. STAKES.
Gamma di Vergy
Volatore
Shepperdess

Seven ran. Won easily,
STAND ',LATE.

Huntington
Jack the Giant Kil!er

On the 4th cf March the Administration of Mr.
Pierce ceased to exist, and Mr. Buchanan, the new
President, entered on his term of office. The.cere-
monie3 thrt transfer the Government from the out-
going to the in-coming chief of the State are of the
very simplest kind. The Constitution only pie-
scribes that the new President shall on that dty
b 3 sworn in by the Chief Judge of the Supreme
Court, the term of his przdecessor. and the exist-
ence of COngress ending at noon.
The inauguration of Mr. Buchanan was singu-
larly favoured by the elements. The day was beau-
tiful, though before it the weather bad for some
time been detestable, and relapsed into the seine
state immediately afterwards. During' fullr or aye
hours there was a- glimpse of spring,-,--a bright sun
and soft airs. The next day came a piercing winter's
wind and clouds of dust. The city was crowded
with guests and visitors ; on the 2d and 3d, when
the special trains fr,sina Baltimore mid Philadelphia
began to pour in thousands in addition, Vie crowd
became a crush, and the late comers found gr, at
difficulty in finding shelter ; but by close packing,
ten and foutt-en in a room, and the seizure
of bars and biiliard-tables, the influx was shaken
down somewhere. The short-distance trains did
their work very well, but pilgr;ms from New York
and more distant points went through all sorts of
dimster3 ; a vio'ent storm s opped the ferry across
the Susquehanna ; the different lines did not " con-
nect," and there was a great accumulation of way-
farers at various points, to the profit of the loc3l
hotel-keepers. These ho left New York at oue
particul my unfortunate juncture were four days
on the road to Washington, though the d stance
ought to be accomplished in 12 hours. Much
baggage went astray, and many ladies who came to
attend the Inauguration Ball fully provided with
dresses by the best New York artistes, heard at the
last moment that the swims had "gone south" in
the confu-ion. These mishaps were, luckily, the
worst. There was• much vexatious delay with the
railroad trains, but, though the traffic was so im-
mensely increased on the first three days of the
month, no serious accident is reported on any of
the lines.

The -portion of the proceedings of the day that
comes under the head of " spectacle" scarcely re-
paid the thousands who flocked inta the city, if
they merely came to see a dhow. The point of
simplicity has been passed, but grandeur is not yet
attained. As a sight it was not, equal in effect to
a general parade of the New York fire companies.
The, military past of the procession is nearly all
voluntary, and consists of companies and detach-
ments of the countless Guards, Fencibles, Rifles,
Highlanders, and Jagers, in all kinds of uniforms
in which the citizens of the Union delight to enroll
themselves. They came in in delegations from 40 to
SO strong from every State of the Federation ; some
of the companies were in excellent order—their uni-
forms clean and bright, and their drill good ; the
pecuniary condition of the ctizen very much affects
the outward appearance of the soldier. These
brilliant companies were evidently well to do, and
could affordto expend something for the credit of the
corps. But there were other detachments so oddly
threadbare and dilapidated, that if their patriotism
had not exceeded their vanity they would surely
have remained at home. The most striking of all
the military companies was one in the uniform of
the " Continentals" of 1776—bluewith buff facings.
The colours still linger as a party badge in the cover
of the Edinburgh Itiview—the three-cornered hat
and topboots. It is very nearly the dress military,
artists give Napoleon in his early campaigns. Com-
pared with more modern military tailoring it loses
very little. The hat would certainly catch rain
like a dish, but would pour it off clear of the collar ;
the shako conducts it down the neck. The boots
look better than any form of the trouser. On the
whole, as a fighting and marching dress, it was quite
as good as most of our present uniforms. The
officers add an elaborate lace shirt frill, which
throws in a touch of the drawing-room ; the
" 76th'sa" were quite' a feature of the day. Another
relic of the past turned up among the crowd ; an
old gentleman wore a real queue, a veritable pig-
tail, carefully trimmed and tied ; in the New
World one ancient fashion still survives.

The procession was formed in front of the city-
hall ; the President and President elect joined it at
Willard's Hotel ; they rode in the same carriage to
the Capitil, making the centre point of the caval-
cade. In front of their carriage was a decorated
car with a pole of liberty, and immediately behind
it the model of a ship rather overmanned with an
oversized crew. The rest of the procession con-
sisted of the different Democratic clubs and a‘zso-
ciations from the chief cities of the Union, the
Washington firemen, and one fire company and its
engine from New York.

Within the Capitol, on the arrival of the Presi-
dent, a smaller procession was formed in the Senate
Chamber, including the Judges of the Supreme
Court, the foreign diplomatists, officers of the army
and navy and heads of departments. It crossed
the Rotunda to the great eastern portico, in front
of which a platform, with a few seats, had been
constructed. Mr: Buchanan, preceded by the
United States' Marshals of the district, descended
the steps, tho other authoritie., and those who had
formed the procession, occupying the marble ascent
behind him. The lofty columns of the porch made
a very good frainework of the picture the whold
group presented. In front an immense crowd
had gathered in the.grounds of the capitol ; a sort
of flooring had been constructed about four feet
from the earth for their accommodation. Looking
across this mass of people, Mr. Buchanan exactly
faced the statue of Washington at the end of the
long walk. In a few minutes after he had taken
his place, Mr. Buchanan advanced to the front of
the platform and read the address, which appeared
in The Men of Saturday last.

?he oath of office was then administered to Mr.
Buchanan by the Chief Judge of the Supreme
Court, and the ceremony of the day terminated.

(Irma the Report of the Registrar-General.)
The tote! number of deaths registered in Loii-'_
dolt, which in the previous week was 1,156, waif;
in the week that ended last Saturday, 1,195,,0f
which 627 were deaths of males, and 568 those of
females. In the ten years 1847-56 the average num.-
, ber of deaths in the weeks corresponding with last'
week was 1,198, which almost entirely agrees with'
the number now returned ; but, as last wer4es.
deaths occurrel in an increased population, the
average must be raised for the purpose of compari-:
son proportionally to the increase, in which case it
will b:come 1,318. Hence it appears that 123 per-
sons am vived last week, whose navies would have
been inscribed on the registers if the average rats
of mortality had prevailed.
As it has Lean shown in recent returns, the
eases classed under the general term ",eyhtotic,r
and the most important of which, with the excel
ton of typhus, are fatal principally to children, exi
hibit in the aggregate a considerably reduced rate
of mortality. The deaths referred to th's clays ars
in the pre eut return 197 ; the corrected average of
con espmding weeks is 254. The decrease appears
under smal:pux and typhus (or common fever) ; the
former was fatal in four cases, the average 15 ; the
latt-r in 24 cises, the average being 51. Scarlatina,
which carried off 27 children, and whooping-cough,
which carried off 58, both make a close approxima-
tion to their averages. Tweuty-six children died of
measles, a number which very slightly exceeds the
average. Seventeen persons died of diarrhoea. On
reference to the Tab:e of Epidemics it will be scan
that the deaths from the six diseases which have
just been specified occurred in proportions not very
dissimilar throughout the different parts of the
metropolis ; but that the four sub-districts which
compose East and West London contributed only 4
out of the 157, and the city none, which is in part
to be explained by the fact that this portion of the
metropolis is in a less degree than others occupied
by the younger members of families. The deaths
from bronchitis rose last week to 164.

Eight nonagenarians died in the week; the olde3t
were a nurse who died in Walworth at the age of
94 years, a gentleman who died at the same age in
Upper Charlotte-street, Tottenham-court-road, and
a widow in the German Jews' Hospital at Mile-
eud, who had reached the age of 99 years.
A man died in the sub-district of Finsbury, St.
Luke, from privation ; a horse-hair drawer from
glanders ; a person from intemperance ; 4 persons
from carkincle.

Last week the births of 939 boys and 916 girls,
in all 1,855 children, were registered in London.
In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1847-56
the average number was 1,603.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29.719 in.
The higlir-sr reading in the week was 29.90 in. on
Saturday. The mean temperature of the week was
45.1 deg., which is 3.3 deg.-above the average of
the same week in 43 years (as determined by Mr.
Glaisher). The mean daily temperature was above
the average till Saturday, when it was 6.2 below it.
The air was warmest on Wednesday, on which day
the highest temperature of the week occurred, and
was 66.2 deg., and the mean temperature was 53.2
deg., which is 11.4 deg. above the average. The
lowest temperature of the week occurred on Tues-
day and Saturday (the latter a bitterly cold day),
and was 33.0 deg. ; and the entire range of tem-
perature in the week was therdere 33.2 deg. The
mean dewpoint temperature was 39.7 deg., and the
difference between this and the mean temperature
of the air was 5.4 deg. The wind blew first from
the south-west, afterwards from the south-east, then
from the east, and on Saturday afternoon changel
to north-east. Rain fell to the amount of 0.33 in.,
nearly all of which was melted hail that fell on
Sunday (the 15th) ; on which day the horizontal
movement of the air was 310 miles. On Thursday
the motion of the air was only five miles.

MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS
NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED
IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, MARCH 21.
Zymotic Diseases
Diseases of Uncertain Seat
Tubercular Diseases
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves and Senses
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 49
Diseases of the Lungs and other Organs of
Respiration 292
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.
Malformation;
Premature Birth and Debility
Atrophy
Old Age
sudden
Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 3-2
Causes not specified

73

21
27
45
11

DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES 1,195
Population Deaths in corre- Deal i s
Enumerated. sport:ling week in the
11551. of 1856. Week.
West Districts
North Districts 490,396
Central Districts 393,256
East Districts 485,522
South Districts

Totals
Mals 627
Fvmales 563
BIRTHS IN THE WEEK.

Males
Females..

Total .

939
916

1,855

THE TWO BRANCHES OF THE
BOURBONS.

It was mentionedsome time since that differences
had arisen between the representatives of the two
branches of the Bourbons about the non-recogti-
tion of the tricolor flag by the Count de Cham-
bord. In the month of August last a letter
was addressed by the Duke of Nemours to :one
of the leading members of the Fusionist party
in Pari9, in which he announced that, as an
understanding could not be come to, the Princes
of Or:eans considered themselves as released from
every obligation that they might have contracted.
The Fusionist leader kept the contents of the letter
to himself till the month of November last, when
he communicated them to a well-known Legitimist, _
and requested him to bring them to the knowledge
of the Count de Chambord. Two sentences only
were extracted and sent to the head of the hours
of Bourbon. The Count was hurt at a communi-
cation being made to him in such a form ; he re-
plied that he regarded it as non avenue, and that he
should still consider that matters remained: un-
changed. In the meantime occurred the death of
M. de Salvandy. which gave occasion for the letter
of the Count de Chambord to M. Pageot, in which,
it may ho remembered, the assurance was repeated
of the political reconciliation remaining eztablished
between the elder and younger branch of the Bour-
bon family. The Orleanists were thrown into great
confusion at the protest of the Duke of Nemours,
and they insisted that a categorical explanation
should be demanded. The Duke of Nemours,con-
sequently addressed a letter to the Count de Cham-
bord, to which the Count replied,
"My Cowin;—l have read your letter with deep
regret and sorrow. I was pleased to think that we had
,undtratood in the same manner the reconciliation
efft cted between us now four years ago. That re-
establishment of our political and family relations,
while it was gratifying to my heart, seemed to my
judgment a pledge of salvation for France, and one of
the firmest guarantees of her future. In order to
justify my hope, in.order to render our union at the
same time efficacious and worthy, there were want-
ing only two things which yet were very easy—to re-
main, on your part as on tame, equally convinced of
the necessity of our union, and to maintain a confidence
equally solid in our mutual sentiments. I have not
doubted your devotedness to the principle of Mo-
narchy ; and no one can calk in question my attachment
to France, my respect for her gli.ry,
for her greatness and her liberty ; and my aruP'-
thetio gratitude is given to those who have
my good wishes
at every period done for her what is good, useful, and
great.' I have never ceased to think, I have always said I
have always believed, and I still believe in the
impropriety of regulating, before the moment
comes when Providence shall impose "t' that
e
duty, questions which the interests and
wishes of our country shall reool!It is not
%
(I'
in the union of our house,
while we are far from France, andtwthitehloests Fprreasnecrev,ethmayt
people can dispose of her.
profound conviction that
it
ifs the defenders of monar-
chical in the common effot; o France
will be one day
chical institution+, that
not weakened my faith.
saved ;
HENRI."
and her saddest trials have n

Pares ofGoLD.—The quotation of gold at Parii is
aLboonudto6n per
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nclg t. h e short
On comparing exchange on
these
ese
rates with the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 10d. per
otince for standard gold, it appears that gold is nearly
3-10ths per cent. dearer in Paris than in London. By
advises from Hamb-rg the price of gold is 424 per mark,
and the short exchange on London is 13.4 i per 1/. ster-
ling. Standard gold, at the English Mint price, is there-
fore rather more than 1-10th per cent. dearer in Hamburg
than in London. The course of exchange at New York
on Loudon for bills at 60 days' sight is 108 k per cent.,
which, when compared with the Mint par between the
two countries, shows that the exchange is nominally
against England ; but, after making allowance for
charges of transport and difference of interest, the present
rate leaves no profit on the transmission of gold either
way between the two countries.

COURT OF ALDER,VEN.

AD- ,
Yesterday a Court was held for the despatch o:
public business.
THE "MAGISTERIAL SYNOPSIS" AND THE " MA-

GISTERIAL FORMULIST."

Mr. Alderman WILSON moved that copies of the
" Magisterial Synopsis" (fifth edition), and the
dc magisterial Formulist," published by Mr. Oke,
assistant-clerk to the Lord Mayor, whioh he said
contained most useful information for the guidance
of himself and his brother aldermen in their ma-
gisterial duties, be sent to, each member of the
Court.—Agreed to.