The Sun.
London, England, 1857-12-16 00:00:00

HEALTH OP LONDON DURING Till WEEK.

(Prom, the Report of the Registrar General.)
The public health of the metropolitan districts
appears to be returning to a more satisfactory state.
In the previous week the deaths registered were
1,428 ; in the week that ended on Saturday (Dec.
12) they fell to 1,240. In the ten years 1847-56 the
average number of deaths in the weeks correspond-
ing with last week was 1,297. But, as population
has increased, it is necessary for comparison that
the average should be raised proportionally to the
increase, in which case it will become 1,427. In
consequence of the unusual prevalence of influenza
in the second week of Dec., 1847, the deaths from
all causes rose to 2,416 ; and if the average is cor-
' rected with reference to this circumstance, it will
be found that the rate of mortality now prevailing
differs not much from that which may be expected
at this season when no epidemic is present.
The births of last week exceed the deaths in the
same period by 563.
The deaths caused by diseases of the respiratory
organs, which in the preceding week were 415, de-
clined last week to 336, which is still, however, a
rather high mortality. Fatal cases of bronchitis
declined in the two weeks from 242 to 185 ; those
of pneumonia were 129 and 119 ; those of asthma.
20 and 17. The deatlig from Fl-61,:aca iur consump-
tion) which in the previous week ware 168, were last
week only 114. Influenza was probably more fatal
far the cases returned
than the tables indicate
uesignatiou in the two weeks
were respectively only 22 and 19.
Scarlatina is at present more fatal than any other
disc Ise in the zymotic &ass ; it was fatal last week
in 55 cases ; 4 of these occurred is the sub-district
of Latnbeth church (first part). 36 children died of
measles, and 14 of those in the east districts. Of 47
deaths from whooping-cough, the 'neatest num-
ber (15) occurred in the north districts, and so many
as 5 of these in the Regent's-park sub-district,
while only 5 occurred in the south districts. A.
man died of cholera in Lambeth, after 4 days' ill-
ness. Two deaths are recorded as the result of in-
sufficient nourishment, while three persons were
the victims of intemperance. :Seven persons had
attained the age of 90 years or upwards ; one of
these was a man ; the rest were widows, three of
whom had reached the age of 94.
Last week the births of 961 boys and 842 girls—
in all 1,803 children—were registered in London.
In the 10 corresponding weeks of the years 1847-56
the average number was 1,507.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 30.369 in.
The meaa daily barometrical rending was above 20
on Saturday, the sth inst., and continued above
that point during the whole of last week. The
highest reading was 30.57 in. at the end of the
week. The mean temperature of the week was 45
deg., which is 4.5 deg. ab ive the average of the
same week in 43 years (as determined by Mr.
Glaisher). On Monday the exc*s of mean tempe-
rature above the average was so great as 10.2 deg.
The highest temperature was 55.3 deg. on Sunday,
the 6th ; the lowest was 35.3, deg., and Occurred en
Tuesday. The mean daily range of the week was
10.8 deg. On Saturday the range was only 5.6
dog. The me in dew point temperature was 43.3
deg., and the difference between this and the mean
air temperature was 11 dog. The mean tempera-
ture of the water of the Thames was 45 9 deg. The
mean degree of humidity of the air was 93, com-
plete saturation being represented by 100. A dense
fog prevailed on Tuesday. The mean temperature
of the air ou that day was 41.7 deg. ; that of the
Thames considerab'y higher—viz., 46.2 deg. The
wind was iu the south-west throughout the week.
There was no rain.

MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.
NUMBER OF DEA.TLIS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED

IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, DEC. 12
Zymotic Diseases
Diseases of Uncertain Seat
Tubercular Diseases
•. 162
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves and Senses
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 46
Diseases of the Lungs and other Organs of
Respiration 336
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs
of Digestion
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c.
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c.
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles
Diseases of the Skin, &c.
Malformations
Premature Birth and Debility
Atrophy
Old Age
udder:
Violence, Privation' Cold, and Intemperance 4O
Causes not specified

34
36
58
21

DEATHS PEON ALL CAUSES
Population Deaths in corre- Deaths
Enumerated. eponding week in the
1851. of 1856. Week.
West Districts
North Districts 490,396
Central Districts 393,256
East Districts 485,522
South Districts

1,243

Totals
Males
Females
BIRTHS IN THE WEEK.

Males ....
Females..

1,240
623
617

()GI.
842

Total

From the London Gazette of Last Night.

CROWN-OFFICE, DEC. 12.
MEMBERS RETURNED TO BERATE IN THE PRESENT
PARLIAMENT.

Town of Paisley--Hunapbray Ewing Crum Ewing,
Esq., of Strathleven' merchant, in Glasgow, in the room
of Archibald nestle, Esq., dccoased.
DECEMBER 15.

Borough of Scarborou,gb—John Dent Dent, of Ribston
Hall, in the county of York, Esq., in the room of the
Right Hon. George Augustus Constantino Phipps, com-
monly called Earl of Mulgravo, who has accepted the office
of Steward of her Majesty's Manor of Hempholme, in the
county of York.

BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, DEC. 12.
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade Knd Plantations have received,
from the Imperial Austrian Consulate General at London,
a copy of a Notification issued by the Central Government
at Trieste, modifying as follows, from the 7th Nor. last,
the Quarantine Regulations hitherto in force.

A.—REGULATIONS AGAINST THE PLAGUE.
(a.)—Vessels, from whatever part, arriving with foul

bills of holth

The ship and crew, after the disembarkation of merchan-
dise and suspected articles, 15 days.
Suspected merchandise, after being opened in the laza-
retto 22 days. , . . . _.

Passengers, not including the captain and clerks, when
they go straight into lazaretto, 14 days.
Ditto, if their effects are fumigated, from the commence-
ment of the quarantine, 12 days.
Ditto, if they are fumigated towards the close of the
quarantine, 13 days.
Vessels of war, from the period of disembarkation of
suspected goods and articles, 12 days.
(b.)—Vessels with clean bills of health.
I.—Arriving from any Turkish port of Europe, Asia,
and Africa, including Egypt and Syria•—
Vessels, orews, and cargoes, when the latter comprise
no goods especially suspected, and when the bill of health
is given up or confirmed by the Consul of any European
Power, free pratique.
Ditto, in the absence of a consular certificate, 21 hours.
Ditto, if furnished with a consular certificate, whenever
there may be on board suspected goods, after the latter are
landed, free pratique.
Ditto, in the absence of the above certificate, 24 hours.
Suspected articles (rags and left off wearing apparel),
from the period of their being opened in the lazaretto, 5
days.

IL—Arriving from any Christian port of the Black Sea
or the Sea of Azof, or from the mouth of the Danube,
without having touched at any intermediate Ottoman
port :

- Vessels, crews, and cargoes, having cleared in free pra-
tique, free pratique.
Ditto, having cleared in suspected pratique, but with a
clean bill of health, free pratique.
Vessels having cleared in suspected pratique with a foul
bill of health :
I.—Vessels anti crews, immediately after discharging
into the lazaretto the suspected merchandise and articles,
14 days.

2.—Suspected merchandise, from the period of its being
opened in the lazaretto, 20 days.
lll.—Arriving from the coast of Africa and Asia, not
including those ports comprised under Section 1., &ad from
Australasia

Vessels, crews, and cargoes, whenever furnished with a
clean bill of health accorded by an authority of any Euro-
pean Power, free pratigne.
Ditto, without a bill of health as above, 24 hours.
B.—REGULATIONS AGAINST YELLOW FEVER.
(30—Vessels with foul bill of health, whencesoever

arriving.
Vessels, crows, and cargoes, 10 days.
(b.)—With a clean bill of health, whencesoever arriving.
Vessels, crews, and cargoes, free pratique.
The maximum amount of quarantine against the plague
is fixed at 40 days.
Ditto, ditto, yellow fever, 15 days.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, DE°. 14.
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received,
through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy
of a Despatch from her Majesty's Ambassador at Paris,
enclosing copy of a French Imperial Decree, repealing the
export duties upon all articles except the following, and
modifying as undermentioned the export duties on walnut
wood, millstones, and grindstones and raw skins :
List of Articles still Charged with Export Duty.—
Almonds and nuts, weapons for war, rams and sheep,
oxen, wood for burning, oak for construction exported by
sea ; walnut wood gunstocks, rough or finished ; fibs silk ;
bottles, crystal or glass, empty or full ; millboard, cereals,
hats, felt or silk, wood and hemp charcoal, thistles, dogs of
a powerful breed, pirated works of literature, horns of
animals except in leaves, • rags, brandy (eau de vie), bark
for tanning, manure, spirit of turpentine, artificial flowers,
pianofortes, fodder, dessert fruit, seed grain, pink and
colewort seed, coal, fixed oils, pure from oleaginous seeds :
dried vegetables and meal of dried vegetables, green vege-
tables, liqueurs, marl, merceries' furniture, iron ore, lead
ore, mules, bone blacks fowl and game eggs, gold and ail-
ver (coined or otherwise), oreillons, works in iron, fashions,
bread and sea biscuit, white or lined paper, coloured
paper for hangings, perfumery, skins (tanned), poles, pota-
toes, porcelain, pigs, pottery, powder, projectiles of war,
silk in cocoon, silk dyed (pure or mixed), sulphate of iron,
oilcake, cows, glass and crystal (not specified), and ordinary
wines.

Export Daties on Walnut Wood, Millstones and Grind-
stones, and Raw Skins—Walnut wood, sawn or rough, of
all dimensions, 30fr. per 100 kilos. ; millstones. 4f. each
per 100 kilos ; Grindstones, 200. do. 010. ; Raw skins, large,
wet, or dried (cows'), 101. do. do. ; do. do. (bullocks', kc.),
2f. do. do. ; do. small, (horses'), 201. do. do. ; do. do.
(all others), 2f. do. do.
No skin will be considered as a cow skin should its
weight exceed 35 kilos, when in a wet state, or 15 kilos if
dry.
BOARD OF TRADE WHITEHALL, Dxc. 14
The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy
Council for Trade and Plantations have received through
the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a De-
spatch from her Majesty's Vice-Consul at Lubeck, report-
ing that the Government of Lubeck has established qua-
rantine regulations at the port of Trasemunde, as regards
the plague, for all vessels arriving from ports in the
Black Sea and Turkey, with the exception of Turkish
ports in the Adriatic, from Asia Minor, Syria, Egypt, Tri-
poli, and Tunis ; and, as regards yellow fever, from all
ports on the west coast of Africa, between the Cape of
Good Hope and the Straits of Gibraltar.
WAR-OFFICE, DEO. 15.

12th Regiment of Light Dragoons --Arthur L'Estrange
Hamilton Holmes, Gent., to be Cornet, without pur-
chase, vice Gower, proinoted ; David Roche Vandeleur,
Gent., to be Cornet, without purohase, 'moo Stoddart,

promoted.
an. TT V-”mnria William Henry
M'Cleland to be Captain, without purchase; Lieutenant
Thomas John Grant, from the 58th Foot. to be Captain,
without purchase ; Ensign John Hunt to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice M‘Cleland.
9th Foot—Ensign William J. Massy, to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Taylor, promoted; Richard Roberts,
Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Massy.
58th Foot--Ensign Chas. Stapp to be Lieutenant, without
purchase, vice Grant, promoted in the 6th Foot ; Ser-
geant-Major Wm. Bolton to be Ensign, without pur-
chase, vice Stapp.
89th Foot—Major Leslie Skynner to be Lieut.-Colonel,
without purchase; Brevet-Major William Boyle to be
Major, without purchase, vice Skynner ; Lieutenant
Francis Knatchbull to be Captain, without purchase,
vice Boyle; Ensign Henry Latham Brownrigg to be
Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Knatchbull.
91st Foot—Henry Hamilton, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Perkins, promoted.
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORDS-LIEUTENANT.
Royal Berks Militia—Ensign Henry Bayntun to be
Lieutenant, vice Barker, resigned.
County of Norfolk —Robert Chamberlin, Esq., to be
Deputy Lieutenant.
Norfolk Militia Artillery—John Storer Brown, Gent.,
to be Second Lieutenant, vice Shovell Henry Broraton,
promoted.

2d. Regiment of Royal Cheshire Militia—Francis Lloyd,
late Lieutenant in the Ayrshire Rifles, to be Captain, vice
Newton, resigned.

Shrop'shire- Regiment of Militia—Frederick Henry
Mainwaring, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Thomas Wood-
ward, resigned.

Warwickshire Militia-Ist Regiment —Henry Charles
Palmer, Gent., to be Captain, vice A. T. H. Shaw, re-
signed. _

Oxfordshire Regiment of Militia—Jolin Lynch Fletcher,
Gent., to be Ensign, vice Bertie, retired.
Worcestershire Regiment of Militia—Christopher Henry
Hooke, Gent., to he Ensign, vice Payne, resigned
Forfar and Kincardine Regiment of Militia Artillery—
Second Lieutenant John Clervaux Chaytor to be First
Lieutenant, vice William. Henry Smart, whose Commis-
sion has been cancelled; Serjeant-Major William Wilson,
from the Royal Artillery, to be First Lieutenant, vice
Alexander Leighton, resigned.

BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED.
Robert Bradley, paper stainer, Trafalgar-road, Old
Kent-road.

BANKRUPTS.

Frederick Stone, hotel keeper, Oxford, to 'surrender,
Dec. 22 and Jan. 28, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
James Chapman, grocer, Sevenoaks Dec. 22, at half-
past eleven, and Jan. 21, at two, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy.
Henry Bedford Lemero, draper, High-street, Notting-
hill, Dee. 29, at half-past two, and Jan. 22, at one, at the
Court of Bankruptcy.
Henry Tyzack, tool manufacturer, Old-street-road, Dec.
29, at two, and Jan. 22, at twelve, at the Court of Eank-
ruptcy.
Robert Falk, merchant, Little Tower-street, Dec. 23, at
twelve, and Feb. 1, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
John M`Bean, shoemaker, Pillgwenlly, near Newport,
Dec. 29 and Jan. 26, at eleven, at the Bristol District
Court.
William Swain Roberts, music seller, Leicester, Jan. 5,
and 13, at half-past ten, at the Shirehall, Nottingham,
Joseph Freeman, wool top maker, Bradford, Dec. 31,
and Jan. 29 at eleven, at the Commercial-buildings, Leeds.
Thomas Hill, timber, merchant, Areley Wood, near
Stourport, Warwickshire, Dec. 23 and Jan. 20, at half-
past ten, at the Birmingham District Court.
Ann Hayward, innkeeper, ,Shrewsbury, Dec. 31 and
Jan. 22, at half-past eleven, at the Birmingham District
Court.
. .

William Bates, licensed victualler, Surbiton, Kingston-
upon-Thames, Jan. 6, at two, and Jan 26, at twelve, at
the Court of Bankruptcy.
Charles Wheals, tailor, late of Lowestoft, Jan. 6, at
half-past one, and Jan. 29, at twelve, at the Court of
Bankruptcy.

Edward -Haigh, cotton spinner, Hipperholmecum-Brig-
house, Yorkshire, Jan. 11, at half-past eleven, and Feb. 1,
at eleven, at the Leeds District Court.
Charles Pilkington and Thomas Pilkington, joiners' tool
makers, Sheffield, Jan. 2 and 30, at ten, at the Leeds Dis-
trict Court.
Samuel Huline, cotton spinner, Heaton. Norris, Lancas-
ter, Deo. 29, and Jau. 18, at twelve, at the Manchester
District Court.
Thomas Ellis, steel manufacturer, Ileeley Tilt, Shef-
field, Jan. 2 and 30, at ten, at the Council-hall, Sheffield.
Thomas Diver Roach, merchant, Kingston-upon-Hull,
Jan. 6, and Feb. 3, at twelve, at the Town-hall, Kingston-
upon-Hull.

David Hill
cattle dealer, Edenhall, Camberland, Dec.
23, at eleven, and Jan. 26, at twelve, at the Newcastle-
upon-Tyne District Court.
Agop Beshiktaslian, merchant, Manchester, Dec. 2P, and
Jan. 27, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court.
Thomas M`Cartan, linen draper, Kingston-upon-1101,,
Jai,. 6 and Feb. 3, at twelve, at the Leeds District Court,
Town-hall, Kingston-upon-Hull.
Jamos Crabtree and John Crabtree, cotton manufac-
turers, liabergharn Eaves, Lancashire, Dec. 30 and Feb.
1, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court.
Notice is hereby given, that all parties claiming to b a

creditors of the Householders' Genuine Bread and Flour
Company (Limited), are requested to present their claims
at the Court of Bankruptcy on Tuesday, Dec. 29.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
James Cruickshank, baker, Glasgow.
Hugh Nair, boot and shoe maker, Glasgow.
Grant, Douglas, and Company, engineers, Glasgow.
Charles Crotchie, jeweller, Inverness.
James Anderson, grocer, Dundee.

Country Markets.

LIVERPOOL-DEC. 15.

There was a good attendance of the town and country
trade to-day, and several buyers from Ireland and the in-
terior. Wheat met with a good consumptive demand, and
a considerable business resulted at an advance of 3d per
7011e4 on this day week. Flour more inquired for, and may
be quoted Gd dearer. Oats unchanged, but oatmeal 6d per
load more money. Barley, beans, and pease met buyers
to a fair extent, but at Gd per qr and 2d per 6016 s decline.
Indian corn more inquired for, and slightly dearer; Prim"
yellow and mixed American 33s Gd to 31s, and prime GI"
latz and Odessa at 33s 6d per qr.

HULL- DE S. 15.

Wheat, English red, 48s to 51s ; white Ms to 6Cs; oats,
29s to 32s ; barley, 42s to 463 ; Indian corn, 39s ; linseed
cakes, Hull, 11/ Os to —1 —s Od; ditto, foreign, 8/ 15s to. ,
10/ lOs ; rape cakes, 61 5s Od to 6/ lOs ; guano, 81. to 151.
bones, 140 s Od.; flour, —s to —s; tares, —s to —s•