The Sun.
London, England, 1850-10-02 00:00:00

ROYAL ARTILLERY.

WOOLWICH, OCT. I.—The twol companies from
Canada and Newfoundland disembarked from the
Resistance troop-sbip at 5 o'clock P.M. yesterday, and
were played up from the dockyard to the garrison
by the 'band of the regiment. Lieutenant-Colonel
Dalton, having joined from Canada, has assumed the
command of the 3d battalion, and Lieutenant Colonel
Tomkyns has taken the command of the Ist battalion.
Lieutenant-Colonel Evans, who went out in May
last to relieve Lieutenant-Colonel Grantham in the
command of the Royal Artillery at Ceylon, died at
the Royal Hotel, Colombo, on the 15th of July, and
Captain Bingham, the next senior officer, takes
the command until the arrival of Lieutenant-Colonel
Wilson, who has been appointed to proceed from
head-quarters here to take the command at Ceylon.
" GENERAL ORDER.

" Deputy-Adjutant-General's-office, Woolwich,
Sept. 24.
" llis Lordship the Master-General has been pleased
to E au: Lion an exchange of companies between Second
Cq)tains J. M. Adye, of Major Desbrisay's company,
3 i b .ttalion, and C. S. L'ingden, of Captain Filzgerald,s
company, sth battalion.
" J. E. JONES, Colonel, Assistant Adjutant-General.
" GENERAL ORDER.
"Deputy-Adjutant General's-offic?, Woolwich,
Sept. 28.
" ills Lordship the Master-General has been pleased
to ((wove of the following ( ffi ers exchanging compa-
nies, via.:—Captain T. A. Shone, Bth battalion, with
en ptain.G. Gambier,
_2 d b **lion

Fast Li utenant F. H. is. Phillips, of Captain A.
Bet.n's •company, 21 battalt6n, with First Lieutenant
C. E. Walcotr, of Major lilwan's company, 12th
61ttalion.

J. E. JONES, Colonel, Assistant-Adjutant-General."
PtLijor Mee succeeds to the rank of Lieutenant-
Col,nel by the decease of Lieutenant-Colonel Evans,
and Major C. C. Young, at present on the staff, to
the command of the 4th company of the Bth bat-
talion, under orders for fort ign service at Gibraltar.

SIR DENIS LE MARCHANT, THE
NEW CLERK OF THE HOUSE OF COM-
-MONS.

The Gazette of last night contains the official an-
nounceinent of the appointment of Sir Dennis Le
Marchant to the important office of clerk of the
House of Commons, vacant by the demise of the late
Nr. L9y.

Sir Denis Le Merchant brings to the office some
experiertee as a member of the House and a long
practical acquaintance with subordinate duties both
in furls anent and in administration. With respect
to his &frilly, it may be gtated that it has claims to
con itlerable antiquity, as one of his lineal ancestors
was chief magistrate and lieutenant-governor of the
island of Guernsey in 1204. The family has main-
tained its consideration in the Channel Islands
througli the series of intermediate centuries,
but without achieving any prominent distinc-
tion, fianishii g magistrates and office bearers who
worthily discharged their several functions. About
1765 tire father of Sir Denis was born. He entered
the army, in whyi his .promotion was rapid, as might
expected durang the..ioag destructive wars that
followedithe French revolution, and he became a dis•
tilguished commandcr. Some improvements in the
swort exercise, the establishment of the Royal Mili-
tary College, and varioi3lfilitary reforms, are due to
his sug4estive mind • and no doubt he would have
achieved the highest distinction, but he fell at Sala-

manca whilst in command of the heavy brigade of
cavalry. He married a Miss Carey, of Guernsey.
and left two sons, the eldest of whom, born in 1795,
is the subject of thi: notice, and the second Sir John
Gaspard Le Merchant, born 1803, is the present
Governor of Newfoundland. He is also a Brigadier-
General in the service of the Queen of Spain.
The civil service of his country was the lot of the
elder brother. He, therefore, studied for the bar, to
which he was called at Lincoln's Inn in 1822. Eight
years afterwards he became principal secretary to
Lord Brougham, then Lord Chancellor. In 1834 he
succeeded Lord Bathurst as clerk of the Crown in
Chancery, but resigned that office in the course of the
same year in consequence of a change in the Ministry.
He resumed office in 1836, as Secretary to the Board
of Trade—an appointment which he held till June,
1841, when be was promoted to a secretaryship of
the Treasury. In 1847, soon after the accession of
Lord J. Russell to office, he was appointed Under-
Secretary to the Home Department, and in 1848 he
returned to the Board of Trade as secretary, an office
which he has only just left for the chief seat at the
table of the House of Commons.
It appears, therefore, that in various stations Sir
Denis has had nearly sixteen years' official experience;
but in addition he has been a Member of the Legis-
lature, for he represented the faithful city of Wor-
cester from July, 1846, to July, 1847, when he made
way for the present Lord Chancellor, who was then
Attorney-General. During his brief career in the
House, Sir Denis supported his Ministerial friends
much more effectually by his votes than by his
speeches, for, so far as we remember, his voice was
never heard within its walls. He was, however, a
good working Member, very useful in committees, a
man of business, and always safe.
Such is a brief abstract of the public life of Sir
Denis Le Merchant, from which it may reasonably
be inferred that the duties of his new appointment,
the salary of which is to be 2,0001., with considerable
patronage, will be discharged to the satisfaction of the
House and the public. He married in 1835 a sister of
the late Sir C. J. Smith, Bart., of Suttons, Essex, and
has a family.— Chronicle.

HEALTH of LONDON DURING the WEEK

(From the RegistTar-General's Return.)

In the week ending last Saturday the deaths regis-
tered
in the metropolitan districts amounted to 981.
Taking, for comparison, the deaths of ten correspond-
ing weeks in the years 1840-9, the weekly average
is 1,023, and this, with a certain proportion added
for increase of population, becomes 1,116; the return
of last week is therefore favourable, showing a de-
crease of 135. The present account is for the last
week of the quarter, and it exhibits a
larger contingent than usual of violent and
sudden deaths, in consequence of a number of
coroners' cases in arrear being now entered in the re-
gister-books. Of 71 deaths by " violence:' 7 are
ascribed to poison, 5 to burns and scalds, 13 to bang-
ing and suffocation, 20 to drowning, 26 to fractures,
wounds, and other injury. Six children were suf-
focated in bed, by overlaying or other accident ; a
man was suffocated on a lime-kiln ; another by food
in a ravenous attempt to swallow it. A young man
of 18 years committed suicide by loading an Italian
iron and discharging it over his stomach. On the
12th of September, at 4, Goulston-conrt, Whitechapel,
the daughter of a labourer, aged 4 years, died, ac-
cording to the return of the jury, a " natural death,"
which, however, is further described in the verdict as
" brought on by want and privation of necessaries."
On the 27th of September, at the Almshouses, Clap-
too, the widow of a gardener died from " age
and decay," after a life of 103 years. It is mentioned
by Mr. Steib, the registrar, that she had been an in.
mate of one of Bishop Wood's almshouses for thirty-
four years, and enjoyed good health till within a fort-
night previous to her death. She also retained her
mental faculties to the last.

Last week the deaths enumerated in the zymotic
or epidemic class of diseases were 198. This is a
lower number than in any corresponding week since
that of 1846, when there were only 157. In the same
weeks of the three subsequent years the deaths in this
class were 330, 395, and (in 1849) 782. The epi-
demics incident to childhood prevail less fatally than
usual, with the exception of hooping-cough, the mor-
tality from which amounted to 28 deaths, and is about
the average. Diarrhoea was fatal in 57 cases, hut it
does not exceed the average of this period. From
cholera 4 deaths were registered, and the particulars
are as follow :

In Marylebone, Rectory subdistrict, at 7, Barrett's-
court, on the 25th of September, a stableman, aged
50 years, died of "cholera." Mr. Joseph, the regis-
trar, adds that " the deceased had not been in sound
health, having broken a bloodvessel a short time pre-
viously. He was ill four days with diarrhea,' and
cramp, but had no vomiting. The houses in the
court are densely occupied, and anything but well
cleansed."

In Marylebone, St. John's, at 36, Henry•street
East, on the 25th of September, the wife of a labourer,
aged 65, died of " cholera (7 days), fever (5 days)."
In Mile-end New Town, in the Metropolitan Lodg-
ing-house, Buxton-street, on
.the 23d of September,
the widow of a farmer, aged 66, died_. of "English
cholera (3 days)."
In Rateliff, at 1, Garden .place, Bere-street, on
the 17th of September, the son of a gas-work stoker,
aged 1 year, died of " diarrhoea (3 days), cholera (24
hours)."
The births of 750 boys and 723 girls, in all 1,473
children, were registered in the week.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29.680
inches. The mean daily temperature varied little
during the week. The mean of the 7 days was 56 7
deg., which is three degrees higher than the average
of the same week in 7 years. The temperature of
the Thames was about 57 degrees.

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS.
NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN
THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, SEPT. 28, 1850.
Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases —4'198
Diseases of Uncertain Seat ... ... 47
Tubercular Diseases 176
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... ... 126
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels .. 44
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration ... ... ... ••• ... ... 99
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs
of Digestion... ••• ... -•• ...
Diseases of the Kidneys, &e. •• • ...
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c.
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles
Diseases of the Skin, &c.
Malformations...

... 18
... 6
... 10

~. 20
... 26

Premature Birth
Atrophy ...
Old Age ...
Sudden .'. ... ... ... ... ... ... 29
Violence. Privation, Cold, and Intemperance ... 80
Jauses not specified ...

... ...

DEATHS PROM AU. CAUSES 981
Populathin Deaths in corre- Deaths
Enumerated, sponding week in the
1841. . of 1849. - Week.
West Districts... 301,189. .. 223 127
North Districts.. 376,568 .. 258 ... 212
Central Districts 374,199 ... 260 ... 170.
East Districts ... 393,067 ... 375 ... 171
South Districts.. 503,346 ... 495 ... 301

Totals... ..... 1,948,369
Males
Females ... ...

". 1,611

... 981
... 525
... 456

BIRTHS IN THE WEEK.

Males ...
Females ...

723

Total ... ...1,473
*ln this number are included 15 by Scarlatina, 43
by Typhus Fever, 57 by Diarrhoea, and 4 by Cholera.

FOREIGN FUNDS.
DUTCH FtiNDS.—AKSTEEDAM, SErr. 27.
Active Debt, 2% per Cent.. .• •• ..-.- .47 57 1-16
Ditto, 3 per Cent 6814 68%
Ditto, 4 per Cent............. 89 89%
Amort Syndic, 3% per
East India Loan, 4 per Cent."... •• •• 118%
Fraakfort, 3 per Cents. .......
Russian 4:per Cents., Hope & Co. ....
Ditto, ditto, Steiglitz) ..............
Spanish New 5 per Cents.:-. •• • .....
Ditto, 3 per Cents. ..
Austrian 5 per Cents., Metallics
Ditto 2% per Cent.
Commercial Company, 4% per Cent
Exchangeon London, at sight 11 95
Two months. • • •• •• • • 11 93
On llamburgh, at sight •• 35 75
Two months.. • • •• •• • • 33 12
On Paris, at sight."... • 56 68
Twotnonths.•• 56 43
HAMBUROH FUNDS, SErT. 26.
nanoverian New Loan,s per Cent lO5
Ditto, 3% per Cent.
Bank Shares • . • • • .. •
Prussian 5 per Cent. • • • . •
Anglo-Russian Loan
Ditto 5 per Cents.
New 4 per Cent., Hope and C 0.......—
Ditto Stieglitz, 4 per Cent. ••••• •• • • 89
llamburgh, 3y. per Cent. • • .... • 89%
Lubeck Loan (1850) .... • • .... • ... !di
Hamburgh Certificates, 5 per Cent.....
Belgian Loan, 23 per Cent. • --
.Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent 74 4
Ditto, in 1001. Shares:— •• • • 74%
Ditto,s per cent. •• • • .... 97%
Anglo-Swedish Loan
Ditto, Transport L0an.............
Ditto, Hyp., 4 per Cents •• • • 96%
; Norwegian 4 per Cents. • .. 100
Spanish New 5 per Cent .• • • ...... 10%
Ditto, 3 per Cents.... • ••••• • • • •• 32%
Ditto, 1816...... ................
Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 2% per Cent ..
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent
Ditto 3 per Cent.................
National Bank Shares ..
American, 6 per Cent. .. • • • • 1051,4
RAILWAYS.

Hamb. Bergd. •............, ~ 93
Ditto, Priority Shares ... ........ 105
Berlin and Hamburg ................ 903(,
Ditto, Priority Shares:, ......... 101%
Ditto, second emission „
Magdeberg-Wittenburg ........ • ..... 564
Ditto, 5 per Cents. ...... • ......... 9934
Cologne and Minden . 97%
Ditto, Priority Shares .
Ditto, 5 per Cents!,i
Frederick-,William, Northern; ........ 38
Mecklenberg .. • ................... 34

106 34

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