The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-28 00:00:00

THE PUBLIC HEALTH.

The following is an abstract of the weekly return by
the Registrar-General of births and deaths in London and
in thirteen other large towns of the United Kingdom.
In the week that ended on Saturday, October 24, 4,251
births and 3,169 deaths were registered in London and in
13 other large towns of the United Kingdom. The
annual rate of mortality was 26 per 1,000 persons living. The
annual rate of mortality last week was 24 per 1,000
in London, 28 in Edinburgh, and 22 in Dublin ;
19 in Bristol, 21 in Birmingham, 30 in Liverpool, 32 in
Manchester, 38 in Salford, 25 in Sheffield, 28 in Bradford,
29 in Leeds, 28 in Hull, 25 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and
31 in Glasgow. The rate in Vienna was 26 per 1,000 during
the week ending the 17th instant, and in Berlin 34 per
1,000 during the seven days ending the 22nd instant. In
London the births of 1,012 boys and I,o22girls, in all 2,034
children, were registered in the week. In the correspond-
ing weeks of ten years, 1858-67, the average number, cor-
rected for increase of population, is 2,160. The deaths regis-
tered in London during the week were 1,421. It was the
43rd week of the year, and the average number of deaths
for that week is, with a correction for increase of popula-
tion, 1,340. The deaths in the present return exceed by 81
the estimated amount. 105 deaths occurred from scarlatina.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of
the barometer in the week was 29.627 in. The barometrical
reading decreased from 29'88in. on Thursday, October
22, to 29.14 in. on Saturday, October 24. The mean tem-
perature of the air in the week was 42'6 deg., which is 6.3
deg. below the average of the same week in fifty years (as
determined by Mr. Glaisher). The highest day tempera-
ture was 59'6 deg., on Saturday, October 24. The lowest
night temperature was 29'3 deg., on Tuesday, October 20.
The entire range of temperature in the week was, there-
fore, 30'3 deg.

THE DOIVAGE.R DUCHESS OF

SUTHERLAND.

The death is announced of one of the most widely-known
and most widely-popular members of the aristocracy, the
Dowager Duchess of Sutherland. She died at one o'clock
on Tuesday morning, at Stafford House, St. James's. Her
Grace wl.o had recently completed the 62nd year of
her age, was the third daughter of Genre—. sixth
Earl of Carlisle, K.G., Sze., by Lady • eorgiana
Dorothy Cavendish, eldest daughter:of William .fth Duke
of Devonshire, and was born on the 21st of May, 1806. In
1823, at the age of 17, shortly after her presentation at the
Court of George IV., she married Earl Gower, eldest son
of the Marquis of Stafford, by his marriage with the
Countess of Sutherland, a peeress in her own right, and
the heiress, or rather the owner of the largest landed pro-
perty to the north of the Tweed. Earl Gower's father was
afterwards created Duke of Sutherland ; and in 1833 the
husband of the lady just deceased succeeded to the ducal
title and its magnificent estates in Scotland and Stafford-
shire, to which he afterwards added by purchase the noble
estate of Cliefden, in Buckinghamshire. From a very
early period her Grace became an intimate and personal
friend of her Majesty, who chose her as her Mistress of
the Robes soon after her accession. This post her Grace
occupied under all the Liberal Administrations which have
been in power since that time down to the death Of her
husband in 1861. It is not only, says the Times,
as a leader of the world of taste and fashion,
but also as a philanthropist, that her name will be long
remembered, for many a project for relief of distress
among the poorer classes of thometropolis and the country
at large, and more especially among her own sex, has
been initiated at meetings held under her auspices at
Stafford House. Few, indeed, will have forgotten the
meeting held there in 1853, and the manifesto signed
and issued thence by English ladies, addressed to
their American sisters, in deprecation of American slavery.
Constantly about the person of her Majesty in the
most confidential and exalted relation in which a lady
can well stand to Royalty, her Grace was admitted by
her sovereign to a friendship so close and personal that
on the death of the Prince Consort she was the one
guest at Windsor Castle in whose company the
Queen spent the first weeks of her sorrow and seclu-
sion. By her late husband the Dowager Duchess of
Sutherland became the mother of the present duke,
and also of ten other children. Her second son is
an officer of the Life Guards ; her third son represents
the county of Sutherland. Of her daughters, one is
Duchess of Argyll, another is married to the eldest son
of the Duke of Leinster, and will one clay, therefore,
wear the coronet of a duchess ; and a third, Lady Con-
stance, is married to Earl Grosvenor, the heir of the
wealthy marquisate of Westminster. Shortly before
her death the Duchess had the pleasure of seeing
her granddaughter, Lady Edith Campbell, affianced
to Lord Percy, the heir of the Duke of Northumberland.