The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-30 00:00:00

-.IIE.ALTII OF LONDON DURING TIIE
WEEK._

(Prom the Report of the Registrar-General.
The total number of deaths registered in London
in the week that ended on Saturday, Sept. 24, is
1,002, and exhibits an increase on that of the pre-
vious week, which was 946. In the 10 years 1847-
56 the average number of deaths in the weeks cor-
responding with last week was 1,239. But the
deaths of last week occurred in an increased popu-
lation, and if for the purpose of comparison the ave-
rage is raised in proportion to the increase, it will
become 1,363. The difference between tne deaths
now returned and the corrected average is 361,
which, though it arises in part from the high rate of
mortality at two periods when cholera was epidemic
is to be attributed in a much greater degree to the
improved state of health which London enjoys at
the present time, and to that reduction of the mor-
tality which is its necessary result.
Under the influence of a falling temperature the
mortality from diarrhoea is now fast subsiding to
its ordinary weekly amount. In the two previous
weeks•the deaths from it were 144 and 111 ; last
week they were 83. Its rise and fall have been ex-
tended over a period of 13 weeks ; and in that time
the mean weekly temperature has declined from, 68
deg. to 59 deg. In addition to the 83 deaths from
diarrhoea, dysentery was fatal to 7 persons, and
cholera to 3 persons (all the latter being adults).
Amongst the cholera cases a seaman is reported,
who died at Horselydown of " cholera Asiatica,"
after 19 hours' illness, on board of a ship which in
its voyage to London had touched for nearly a day
at Giuckstadt (on the Elbe, 30 miles below Ham-
burg), where the disease has lately prevailed. Next
to diarrhcea, the most fatal in the zymotic clue of
diseases is typhus (with common fever), which car-
ried off 52 persons ; then scarlatina, of which. 34
children died; 4 of these in Belgrave sub-district.,
and 4 in Mile-end Old Town Upper. Thirteen chil-
dren died cf inanition and want of breast-milk e 2
persons of intemperance ; 5 widows had attained
the age of 90 years and npwards, viz., 3 who were
90 years old, one 93, and one who died near Tot-
tenham-court-road, at the age of 94 years.
Last week the births of 886 boys and 820 girls,
in all 1,706 children, were registered in London.
In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1847-56
the average number was 1,524.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29 935 in.
On the first three days the mean daily reading was
above 30 in. The highest barometrical pressure
occurred on Sunday (the 20th), and was 30.24 in.
The mean temperature of the week was 59.1 deg.,
which is 3.9 deg. aboue the average of the same
week in 43 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher.)
The mean daily temperature was above the average
throughout, except on Monday. The highest tem-
perature in the shade cccurred on Thursday, and
was 73.6 deg. ; the lowest occurred on Monday,
and was 41.5 deg. The entire thermometrical
range of the week w s therefore 321 deg. The
mean dew-point temperature was 53.4 deg., and the
difference between this and the mean air tempera-
ture was 5.7 deg. The wind was generally in the
north-east till Tuesday afternoon, it then changed
to south-east, and on the last two days was for. the
most part in the south went. Rain fell to the
depth of 0.46 in., of which 0.28 in. fell on Friday.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, TUESDAY MORNING.
THE IRISH SEPOYS.

The provincial Sepoys are at their dirty work
again. Accounts from Cork state that on Satur-
day night copies of a printed address, headed
" What news?" were widely distributed in several
parts of the town by being ingeniously thrust
under the doors, and so forth. As the Reporter
observes, this fal'e and shameless document has
received its inspiration fro.a the metropolitan
organ of the Eastern savages—the journal to which
"is due the credit of glossing over the fiendish
atrocities of Nana Sahib." The dastardly placard
is worded as fellows
WHAT NEWS ? WHAT NEWS ? •

" This is the question that is asked of you ty all ;
this is the question you ask of others. Aye, and we ray,
well may you ask, for there is news, and it concerns you
much.

" When we say this, we presume that we are address-
ing men who still retain some, at least, of that feelin
which God originally implants in the breasts of all,tvz.,
a love of freedom and justice, aed a consequent hatred
of all oppression and injustice.
"The news, therefore, concerns you much, for it tel's
you that at length the just wrath of Heaven is being
poured upon those who for centuries held by the right of
the strong hand what was and is justly yours. It tells
you that hand is becoming palsied—aye, palsied with the
curse of blood, the weight of crime. It toils you that
the wail of buffering, the cry for vengeance has at length
been heard, and that when least expectel the sword of
the destroying angel has fallen on the guilty.
•' Yes, a portion of the English empire, the richest
and largest of 1 her ill-gotten possessions, has risen
against her, and is avenging with a terrible vengeance
the slaughtered millions of her children, whose blood has
been poured out as a river since England first set foot on
her soil.

"It tells you of Sepoy barbarities of women
and children murderecl. Yet, the chained tiger
of Bengal has broken loose, and Scattered ruin
in his path. But, goaded as the Hindoos have
been un-Christianised as they are —we have
yet to hear that they have exceeded Cromwell at Drog-
heda and Wexford, or the Thank Horse in '9B ; or that,
like the English Government i❑ '47, they condemned a
million of human beings to die the lingering death of
starvation.

"Perhaps you will al,k, " What of all this ! we knew
it all before. What would you have us to do I ' Real
of it—think of it ! again and again ; you veil be
the better prepared to act when the time comes ;
make others (and they ars many) read and think
who at present do neither. Thus will you keep
alive the faith in God's justice ! the faith in
Ireland's liberty ! and England's downfall ! Die.
courage drunkenness, and thus prevent many a mie.
guided fool from swelling the 'auks of your oppressors
and becoming the victim of India❑ cholera or the sabre
of the sepoy ; and further, you nay sometimes even
teach those whom they have already ensnared that a day
may soon come when a❑ Irish soldier, with arms in his
hands, might write a new and glorious page of Irish
history.
"He who reads and understands this will neither
burn nor destroy it, but read it again, and give it to be
read to him who does not ; it is idle to speak."