The Sun.
London, England, 1861-01-02 00:00:00

SEPTEMBER.

3. Volunteer review at Knowsley Park, nearly 11,000
volunteers present.
7. Wilson, death of the Right Hon. James, at Calcutta.
8. Mecklenburgh Strelitz, death of the Grand Duke of.
10. Naples, Garibaldi's occupation, &c., of.
Destruction of a large cliff, near Chatham, by the
Royal Engineers.
20. Papal army, under Lamoriciere, defeated, near Cas-
tetfidardo.

Locke, Joseph, M.P., the celebrated engineer, died.
25. Lady Elgin steamer, loss of the, on Lake Michigan,
with loss of between 300 and 400 persons, amongst whom
was Mr. Herbert Ingram, M.P.
26. Ancona, siege of.
OCTOBER.

1. Lord J. Russell's manifesto on tho state of Italy, &c.

5. Neapolitan army routed by Garibaldi's troops.
10. Victor Emmanuel, manifesto of. Entry of the Sar-
dinians into Naples.
12. Metropolitan street railways, important vestry meet-
ing in Marylebone on proposals for.
19. Italian frontier, concentration of Austrian troops on
the

22. Danube and Black Sea Railway, opening of the (on
sth inst.)
Duko of Richmond, K.G., death of the
-- Connaught, Galway steamer, loss of, 150 miles east of
Boston.

27. Stepney murder. James Mullins found guilty, and
sentenced to death.
30. Earl Manvers, death of.
NOVEMBER.
1. Dundonald, G.C.8., the Right Hon. the Earl of, died,
5. Italian policy of England. Lord John Russell's letter
to the British Minister at Turin.

Italy. King Victor Emmanuel proclaimed "King of
Italy" at Naples, Garibaldi seated in the same carriage by
the side of his Majesty.
12. China. Advance of the allied troops on Pekin.

Garibaldi, retirement of, after taking leaving of King
Victor Emmanuel at Naples.
14. Garibaldi's farewell proclamation.
15. Dundonald, the Earl of, buried in Westminster
Abbey.
26. China. Defeat of the Tartars eight miles from
Pekin.; a party of Englishmen made prisoners.
30. Chevalier Bunsen died.
DECEMBER.

3. New copper coinage. Correspondence as to alleged in-
correctness in the inscription of Britt. instead of Brit., &c.
5. Empress Eugenie's visit to her Majesty at Windsor.
G. Death of the Count of Syracuse.
10. Pekin. Capture of the gates of; flight of the Ent.-
peror, &c.
14. Aberdeen, death of the Earl of, at the ago of 77 years.
15. China, war in; Pekin given up to the allied English
and French forces; the Emperor's summer palace plun-
dered, &c.
17. China, peace with, concluded : ratifications ex,
changed. Dreadful deaths of several officers, &c., who
were taken prisoners.
France. Abolition of the French passport system in
favour of Englishmen, by the Emperor, to take effect from
January next.
Sweden, death of the Dowager Queen of; the widow
of Bernadotte.

21. Lord Clyde and Sir James Outram, presentation of
the freedom of the City to, and grand civic entertainment
to them at the Mansion-house.

China. Massacre of many officers, etc., confirmed by
official telegram.
22. Dalhousie, the Marquis of, died.
Alfred Bunn, the dramatic author, &0., died at Bou-
logne. •
25. China. Tho conditions of the new treaty.

29. China, peace with, the Park and Tower guns fired in
honour of the.
31. Launch of her Majesty's armour-clad frigate War-
rior (50 guns), over 6,000 tons, from the works of the
Thames Iron Ship Company.
France, abolition of passports for British subjects in,
officially communicated.

AN AtmAcious SOLDIER.—On Monday, at the
Colchester Police-court, John M'Selly, a discharged soldier,
was charged with conspiring to defraud Adolphus Powell
and others of considerable sums of money. The prisoner, it
appeared, lately announced that by the termination of a
Chancery suit he had become possessed of a large fortune,
and on the strength of his statement, which is quite untrue,
he has been duping several unfortunate tradespeople, &o.
Mr. Powell advanced him money at different times to the
amount of £4OO, and the prisoner, who gave a promissory
note for the amount, agreed to settle £l5O a year upon Mr.
Powell, with the understanding that he gave up his busi-
ness and accompanied him on his travels. Ho purchased
gold rings and watches of tradesmen, and then absconded
to Ireland, where his fortune, which in England had been
returned at the comparatively moderate sum of £B,OOO, rose
to £46,000. The place first visited by M'Selly was Bally-
bay, county Monaghan, where orders were given unspar-
ingly to the local tradespeople, and the Catholic priest was
promised a donation of £5OO for his chapel, &c.. The same
game was next played out at Dundalk, but an application
to a gentleman for a loan of £5 rather dimmed his reputa-
tion, and he found it advisable to pass on to:Drogheda, and
from thence to Dublin. Finally he turned up penniless at
Colchester, where he first succeeded in palming off his
and acious ruse. The particular charge gone into on Mon-
day was ono of defrauding Mr. Powell in regard to a
pawnbroker's duplicate for a watch and chain, and after
hearing evidence the magistrates remanded the prisoner.
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ILE4LTH OF .LONDON DU1?,1.117G THE IVEEK.

(From the Registrar-General's Weekly Return.)
The late severe weather has not failed to pro-
duce its usual effect, in an augmented rate of mor-
tality, though the increase shown es yet by the
returns is not of formidable amount. The deaths
!ci London, which were 1.208 and 1,269 respectively
in the two previous weeks, rose in the last week
of the year to 1,407. The average number of
deaths as obtained from returns of the fifty-second
week in each of the last ten years 1850-59, and
corrected for increase of population, is 1525. The
death of last week sere therefore more than 100
below the estimated amount.
In December of 1859 there were two cola weeks,
the second and third ; in the fourth week, when the
mean temperature of the air was as high as 45.3
deg., the deaths rose to 1677. In the December of
1860 the last two weeks have been distinguished
by the coldness of the weather, which hes now re-
laxed, but may still be followed, as in 1859, by an
increased number of deaths. In December, 1859,
the lowest point attained by the thermometer at
Greenwich was 14 deg, on the 19th ; the lowest
point in the period that has now elapsed was 8 deg.
on Christmas day ; the next lowest was 10 deg. on.
Saturday, the 29th:
The deaths from pulmonary diseases, exclusive
of phthisis, were in the previous week 270 ; last
week they were 348. For the ten weeks (of 1850-59)
corresponding with last week, the average number
after correction for increase of population is 326.
In The last two weeks the deaths by bronchitis rose
f7eom 146 to 217 ; those by pneumonia from 89 to
95 ; those by phthisis from 136 to 1-71. Scarlatina
was fatal last weer in 45 eases, 4 of which occurred
in the west sub district of Islington. Measles was
fatal in 49 cases, of which 4 occr-red in the sou+h
sub-district of St. Giles, 3 in the Goswell-street
sub-district. There were 7 deaths from syphilis, 4
from intemperance. 13 persons, of 12 were children,
died by burns and scalds ; of these, two children, one
the son of a lamplighter, the other that of a railway
labourer, were burnt by their clothes taking fire. The
son of a shoemaker, aged 3 years, was scalded fatally
by drinking water from a kettle. A Chelsea pen-
sioner, aged 70 years, was suffocated by the im-
paction of meat in the trachea. Seven nonagena-
rians died in the week, of whom 5 were women.
Last week the births of 754 boys and 754 girls,
in all 1488 children, were registered in London. In
the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1850-59
the average number was 1,655.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29.540 in.
The readings rose from 29.18 in. on' Tuesday to
30.23 in. on Saturday. The mean temperature of
the air in the week was 25.9 deg., which is'll deg.
below the average of the same week in 43 years
(as determined by Mr. Glaisher. The mean daily
temperature was below the average throughout the
week, and on four days it was from 11 deg. to 16 deg.
below the average. The highest point attained in
the week by a thermometer in the shade was 35 deg.
on Wednesday and Friday. The lowest points
were 8 deg. and 10 deg. on Tuesday and Saturday
respectively. The range of temperature in the
week was therefore 27 deg. The mean daily range
was 12.9 deg. A thermometer on the grass fell to
2 deg. on Tuesday. The difference between the
mean dew-point temperature and air temperature
was 6.9 deg. The mean degree of humidity was
74,:complete saturation being represented by 100.
On Saturday the humidity was only 61. Melted
snow in the week measured 028 in. The minimum
temperature, 8 deg., took place at 7 h. on the morn-
ing of Christmas. After twelve o'clock p.m. on
Saturday a rapid thaw set in.