The Sun.
London, England, 1850-04-25 00:00:00

MAJORITY-NOES, 148.

Acland, Sir T. D. Fitzroy, Henry Manners, Lord C.
Alexander, N. Forbes, Wm. Manners, Lord G.
Arkwright, George Forester, G. C. Manners, Lord J.
Bagge, W. Frewen, C. 11. March, Earl of
Bagot, William Fuller, A. E. Meux, Sir H.
Baillie, H. J. Galway, Viscount Miles, P. W. S.
Baldock, E. H. Gaskell, J.M.". Miles,;W.:
Bateson, T. Goddard, A. L. Morgan, 0.
Bennet, P. Gore, W. It. 0. Mundy, William
Beresford, William Graham, Sir James Naas, Lord
Berkeley, Henry F. Greenall, Gilbert Newport, Viscount
Bernard, Viscount Greene, Thomas Packe, C. W.
Blackstone, W. Grogan, Edward Pakington, Sir J.
Blair, Stephen Guest, Sir J. Palmer, Robert
Booth, Sir R. G. Gwyn' Howel Patten, J. W.
Bremridge, Richard Hale, It. B. Peel, Colonel
Bromley, Robert llalford, Sir Henry Peel, Frederick
Brooke, Sir A. Hall, Colonel Pennant, Colonel
Buck, Lewis W. Halsey, T. I'. Perfect, R.
Bu:ler, Sir Y. Hamilton, Hord C. Plowden, W. H.
Carew, W. P. Harris, Captain Plumptre, J. I'.
Chichester, Lord J. Hayes, Sir E. Portal, Melvllle
Cholmeley, Sir M. Henley, J. W. Powell, Cel.
Christopher, R. Herbert, Sidney Prime, Richard
Clive, Henry B.: Hildyard, it. C. Richards. Richard
Cocks, T. S. iiildyard, T. B. Seymer, H. K.
Codrington, Sir W. Hill, Lord E. ' Sibthorp, Colonel
Cole, lion. H. A. Hodgson, W. N. Smyth, John G.
Coles, 11. B. Hood, Sir A. Somerset, Captain
Colvile, C. R. Hernby, John Sotheron, T.
Compton, H. C. Hotham, Lord Stafford, Augustus
Coliolly, Thomas liouldsworth, T. Stanford, J. F.
Corry, 11. Hudson, George Stanley, Edward
Cubits, William Jerilyn, Earl Stanley, E. 11.
Deedes, W. Jolliffe, Sir W. G. Stuart, H.

Denison, Edmund Jones, Captain Stuart, J.
Dod, J. W. Kerrison, Sir E. Tollemache, John
Dodd, G.' Knox, Colonel Trollope, Sir J.
Duckworth,' Sir J. Lacy, H. C. Turner, George
Duncombe, A. Lascelles, E. Tyrell, Sir J.
Duncembe, 0. Legh, G. C. Verner, Sir W.
Duncuft, John Lennox, Lord A. Vyse, H.
Dunne, Colonel Lindsay, Colonel Waddington, 11. S.
Du Pre, C. G. Lockhart, A. E. Walsh, Sir J.
East, Sir J. Lockhart, W. I Walter, John
Edwards, Henry Lopes, Sir Ralph West, F. It.
Egerton, W. T. Lowther, Colonel
Estcourt, J. B. B. Lygon, General TELLERS.
Evelyn, W. J. Mackenzie, W. F. Goulburn, Henry
Farnham, E. B. M'Naghten, Sir E. Newdegate, N.
Fellowes, E. Mahon, Viscount

HEALTH of LONDON during the WE,EIC.
(From the Return of the Registrar-General.)
It is gratifying to observe that the return for the
week ending last Saturday exhibits a further decrease
in the mortality. During the two previous weeks the
deaths registered in the metropolitan districts were in
succession, 1,124 and 893; they have now declined
to 866. In the corresponding week of 10 previous
years (1840-9) the average number was 937, which
being raised in the ratio of probableincrease of popu-
lation becomes 1,022 ; compared with which the num-
ber now returned shows a decrease of 156. In the
same week of last year, before cholera became predo-
minant, the deaths were 1,089 ; the mean temperature,
which;was then unusually depressed, was lower than in
last week by 12 deg. Last week the deaths of nine
children and two adults were registered from smallpox
(of which three occurred in the Smallpox Hospital,
Camden-town), indicating
rather an increase in the
disease though it has not not yet quite attained the aver-
age ; 17 children died of measles, which is exactly
the average; 37 died of hooping cough, and 18 chil-
dren and one adult of scarlatina, both complaints
being less fatal than usual; 8 children died of croup,
about the usual number; 35 persons died of typhus;
and 8 of erysipelas, both of which are near the average.
Ten women died after childbirth, to 7 of whom " pu-
erperal fever" is assigned as the cause of death ; 22
persons, of whom about half were childen, died of
diarrhoea and dysentery ; this number is double the
average, and also exhibits an increase on each of .the
three weeks immediately preceding. A woman died
of " purpura hwmorrhagica ;" and again, two persons
of chorea. The two cases in which the latter disease,
so seldom fatal, occurred, are thus recorded—" At 8,
Jeff's-place, St. John, Marylebone, on the 13th April,
the daughter of a coachmaker, aged 16 years,
" chorea;' on the 17th April, at the London Hospital,
to which she had been brought from Stepney, a
female servant, aged 19, died of "chorea." It is
worthy of remark that nine deaths have he en regis-
tered in London from this cause during the last 10
week., which is nearly double the number that usually
occur in a year. Amongst diseases of the respiratory
organs pneumonia and asthma now show a decrease ;
bronchitis has also declined, if compared with the
amount of corresponding weeks in the last three years,
but is still in excess, in comparison with the mortality
of the seven previous years.

CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic for
the Week ended April 21. 1850:—C. and H. Main Line,
1,9591. 88. 9d.; Mold, 971. 138. 3d.; Steam-boats, 2891
12s. Bd.—Total, 2,3461. 14s. Bd.

Lieutenant John B. Branch (1841), son of the,
late gallant and distinguished Captain A. B. Branch, 4
of Greenwich Hospital, has been appointed to super-
sede Commander S. L. Crofton, on promotion, -in
command of the screw-schooner Rifleman, cruising
against the slave-trade on the coast of Brazil. Out of
the twenty-four years Lieutenant Branch has been,
in the navy, he has served afloat about twenty years.
He was tight years a mate. As a lieutenant he:
served in the Lily, 12, on the coast of AlLica, and,
has recently been invalided from that station, from the
Cyclops, steam-friga:e, on board of which ship he
wa,

Toe Sharpshoo:er, 4, s•erew-schooner, Lieutenant-)
Cominand,rley, rtfitting at Di.voopoit, has had
her destine ion alt(red.- returning to the
Mtatterraufan, she is orderEd to procecql to the co:ist
tin.t. this slave trade.
of Brazil sta!ion, to cruise ag

The Dauntlesi,, screw-s:eaili-frigate h coaling,
and completing her stores with ail dispatch at Port:.,,
mouth. •

The Peterel, 6, Lieutenant•Commr:nder Cruel.;
will be wild wages on P.-i(Lay ; .:fcer which she will
sail from Devonp,rt for Pa!mouth, to be in readiness.
to take out the next mail to Brazils.
Tne Sprightly, steam-tender, Master-Commandef
Allen, that sailed from Portsmouth with CO superrin»
meraries for the Superb, 80, and Archer, screw-hoop,
and some Plymouth men recently paid off from the
Bulldog, steam-slog, returned to Portsmouth on
Tuesday evening. She passed the Birkenhead, out-,
side the Wight ; she also passed a large English deep-
laden ship, with the loss of foremast and maintopmast'
to the westward of the Needles. Two Cowes pilot.,
smacks were in attendance on her; the Sprightly'
could not make out her name. The Superb was
completed by the men the Sprightly took down, and
she was towed into the Sound by the Confiance on
Monday, was paid down on Tuesday, and sails for the
Mediterranean to-day.
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PLYMOUTH, TUESDAY.-Her Majesty's ship Superb,
80, was yesterday towed from Hamottie by the Con-
fiance and Avon steam-vessels, and continues in %tiff
Sound waiting a fair wind kr the Mediterranean.
- .

The Diligence transport sailed on Sunday with
stores fur Sheerness.

A policeman has been mulcted two weeks' pay
(2/.) for taking fees from visitors inspecting the.
Arsenal.
Wind, south-west.
THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION.
WOOLWICH, APRIL 24.—The Resolute, Captain'
H. T. Austin, C. 8., will leave Woolwich to-morrow,
at about 11 o'clock A.M., and will be towed to Green-
hithe by the Jasper steam-vessel to have her corn-
passes adjusted by Captain Johnson. The Assistance,
Captain Eramus Ommanney, and the Pioneer, Lieu-
tenant-Commander Sherard Osborn, will leave to-
morrow afternoon or on Friday, and the Intrepid,
Lieutenant-Commander John Bertie Cator, will be
taken out of dock on Friday afternoon, and leave on
Saturday for Greenhithe. The Lords of the Admiralty
intend visiting the whole of the vessels now fitted for
the Arctic expedition at Greenhithe on Monday next,
and they expect to leave the river on the following day
for the northern regions. The Stromboli steam-vessel,
Commander Lord Amelius Beauclerk, has been detained
longer at the Clyde than was expected ; and the
Lightning steam-vessel, Master- Commander Petlay,
having been made ready for sea, she will proceed up
the river to-morrow, to tow the Emma Eugenia from
Deptford, laden with stores, to the edge of the ice.
The welcome given to the gallant officers of the Arctic
expedition when thiT dined with the Royal Artillery
in their mess-room was most enthusiastic, and their
healths and success in the enterprise in which they
were about to proceed were drunk with the greatest
earnestness. The officers of the Royal Marines of the
Woolwich division entertained the officers of the ex-
pedition yesterday evening in their mess-room, and
all the wealthy inhabitants of the town have vied with
each other in having the honour of their company
previous to their departure. A very great number of
visitors have been ou board the vessels to-day, amongst
others Captain Sir George Back, R.N., ; Captain
Greville, of the Ocean, 80, at Sheerness ; Captain
lieechy, Captain Butterfield, Captain Charles Ed-
munds, Captain Forbes, Captain Cuppage, Captain
Darley, Captain Kelly, and Coptain Young, all
officers of the Royal Navy ; Mr. John Barrow, of the
Arlmiralty ; and a number of the officers of the Royal
Artillery and Royal Marines.
The Locust steam- vta.sel, Lieutenant-Commander
Nowell, is to be paid off at this port on Saturday, the
27th inst.

The Undine, Dover mail-steam packet, having had
her defects made good, hic Woolwich this morning
to resume her duties on the Dover station.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, Amu. lii a Convecatiou holden this
(14y, tin, following de.2rets were conl.rred:—
Mast-frs of Arts—Christapher ei,okson, Fellow cf St.
John's; Rev. Henry Joryinish Dyson. Fell iw of All
Souls; Rev. 'l'. Bovtle, Queen's; Rev. Frederick Henry
Hotham, Clinsichuieb.

Bachelors or Arts—Edward James Billing, tniver-
sity; Reginald William Okay, , Exeter; Ferdinand
Wm. Beck“r, Exeter; James Allgood. Brasenose;
Thomas Stedman Polehatnpron, scholar of Pembroke;
Arthur Knox, St. Mary Hall; Frederick John Coleridge,
St. Mary Hall; George Poillipps, New Inn Hall.