The Sun.
London, England, 1850-05-02 00:00:00

THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 2, 1850.

between 35 years of age and 80. Seven boys au
8 girls died after premature birth. Three childt ea
were suffocate' accidentally in bed. Two cased
cf intoxication are thus recorded: —" A chimney
sweep, of 45 y.a.73, was killed by fracture of
the yertehrm of the neck frcm a fall while intoxicated
(post. meet.), having lived eight hours after the accident."
The widow of a tailor, aged 66, was `• found in a ditch in
a state of derangement and iutoxication, was removed to
the police-station, and attervvards to the workhouse,
where she died from congestion and effusion on the brain."
Inquests were held on both cases. The classification of
deaths in public institutions shows that 86 occurred in
workhouses and 64 in hospitals; and of the latter, that
39 took place in general hospitals, 5 in lunatic asylums,
7 at the Royal Hospital, Gte:•uwich, and 4 in other mili-
tary and naval esta
At the Roy al Observatory. Greenwich, the daily mean
reading of the bacometer aas :they., 30 in. on Saturday;
the mean t f the we: k ass 20'863. The mean tempera-
ture of the w.ek was 46'8 deg., which is less by 2.4 deg.,
than the ave' age of the ;amt+ week in 7 years. The
mean temperature was, on Sunday, 3 deg. above the
average ( f the same clsy, and on each of the other six
days was below it. On every day but Thursday the
wind generally blew from the north or north-east.

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS

NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN

THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, APRIL 27, Itkso.
Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diset.ses ... *l5O
Diseases of Uncertain Seat 39
Tubercular Diseases . ... 147
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... ... 10.1
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels ... 31
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration ...
.. 112
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs
of Digestion...
-•• ~,
Diseases of the Kidney s, &c. •• ...
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c.
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and hustles
Diseases of the Skin, &c.
Malformations...
Premature Birth
Atrophy ... ... ... ... ...
Old Age ... ~, ~, ••• •••
Sudden ...
Violence. Privation, Cold, and Intemperance
Causes not specified

... 28
... 23
... 28

803
Deaths
in the
Week.
14L
186
120
157
199

davit, negatived all tha slatemdats n;w:ie in this libel,
aid he ad,:e.l that he wrote to the Morning Would :.;n
the 26.11 of Ap,il invitititz 7!(.Pr‘P was
given, and that he bud bekqe been treattit in t'lli tr,att-
Lr by the Morning 'Herald, and had hi-en, to
bring an action ag4inst thew, and they bad then tub-
tnitted, and paid the costs.
Rule grantA.

livered a good many loiters directed from America to the
party named lo the :itiverti,.entenr.
"../.t, Loan Mai OR :ori be bad rtccv,:t-i save-ral letr•urs
from ,ra‘re,rir,o iii dritZte:o p.O ts ~f the courrr),
ciosin4 taruLed rurculars uirt-ct ri to :hart trout the
I,,llLthtl. Those circulars stared that the
b.,JI in hand imin(4ise amounts
servic,, of thr,tr cortesirond,uts, and that tier} were ready
to turn g. ILO ready money iinirßdiately arr,-r
transmission, as we .1; as to get the best pric.s for parcels
of goods. Men of experience would, r,ferrurse, detect at
once the swindle in the precious composition he alluded
to; but there visa no disguising the fact, that in many
instance. g, ods and bills had been obtained through their
instrumentality; and not only great distress, but ruin,
had b, err the eons( quence.
Une cf the circulars alluded to by the Lord Mayor
eas as follows: it was addressed to a t,Adesnian at
Ludlow, who dticlart:tl that he hal carried on business
for fituy yesrs in that place, lord rover had borrowed,
ur uto.urpred to burrow, of any person during tl:at

leave to ii,fortn you that your letter
has be ,n handed to u, in confidence, by the gentleman
you wro7e to a short tine had a consicierab e
sum of money to lend, but who has for the pr, scut di:-
posed of the whole in Exchequer bilk &nit,itock, send
Indi.-bonds; trim the very respectable manner in which
your natn, was hti.ted to us by him we .h-uld have no
objection to semi. you the amount you request in bills
of exchange, if they will answer your purpose. If you
decide upon this meth :d, in making a rounitince for our
commission at any time, please to send only halt' Bank
of England notes, or country ours payable in London in
the first fibtance, and the other halves when you receive
the bills of exchange, as also a copy of the undertaking,
when you will be remitted such bills as wiil not fail of
meeting your approval."

His LORDSHIP expressed an earnest hope that Sir
Pt ter Laurie's and tits own object in making these mat-
ters public would have the desired effect throughout the
country.