The Sun.
London, England, 1868-01-22 00:00:00

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5,, 1 In the week that ended on Saturday, J aryil, 4,
births and 3,436 deaths were registered in London and in
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,t thirteen other large towns of the United Kingdom. The
annual rate of mortality was 28 per 1,000 persons living.
__...,..,.....„,,..„,„......,. the annual rate of mortality last week was 27 per 1,000
in London, 28 in Edinburgh, and 31 in Dublin, 27 in
Bristol, 24 in Birmingham, 36 in Liverpool, 32 in Man-
chester, 30 in Salford, 26 in Sheffield, 25 in Bradford, 24
in Leeds, 27 in Hull, 28 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and 32
in Glasgow. The rate in Vienna was 31 per 1,000 during
the week ending the 11th inst., when the mean temperature
was 1•7 deg. Fah. lower than in the same week in London,
where the rate was 26.
The Marchese de Cinque, by desire of the Chancelier
G4n4ral of home, has supplied a return, shewing that in
the first eleven days of this year, ending Saturday,
January 11, the births were 214, the deaths 304, out of a
population of 215,573.

PILICE.... 4d.
STAMPED sd.

sales of goods. The demand for tweeds was
moderate, but chiefly for the lower qualities of
those with cotton warps. Small selections of other
fabrics were made, but the markets in both the
white and the coloured halls were devoid of anything
like animation. Wools, both colonial and British,
maintain last week's prices ; but there is no great
demand, buyers in the woollen and in the worsted
trades being alike cautious in their purchases, and
devoid of speculation. The flax trade is rather im-
proving, and prices of both the raw material and of
threads and yarns are rather firmer, if not higher,
than they were a short time ago.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

An order has been received at Chatham directing
GO non-commissioned officers and gunners, with ten
soldiers' wives and ten children of the 16th Brigade
Royal Artillery, and 53 non-commissioned officers
and gunners, with one soldier's wife and child, of
the 25th Brigade, to be held in readiness for em-
barkation at Liverpool on board the West India and
Pacific Steam Navigation Company's screw steamer
Australasia, 2,498 tons, 350 horse-power, for Cal-
cutta. The troops are ordered to be in readiness to
leave Chatham about the 30th inst. Detachments
of one sergeant and 80 privates of the Ist battalion
of the Ist (the King's) Royal Regiment, one ser-
geant and 150 men of the 2d battalion of the Ist
Royals, One sergeant and 100 privates of the Ist
battalion of the 2d Queen's Royals, and 50 men of
the 82d (Prince of Wales's Volunteers) Regiment
have also been placed under orders to proceed from
the depots of their respective corps at Chatham for
embarkation for India, to join. the service com-
panies of their regiments in the Bengal, Bombay,
and Madras Presidencies.

In London the births of 1,129 boys and 1,073 girls, in
all 2,202 children, were registered in the week. In the
corresponding weeks of ten years, 1858-67, the average
number, corrected for increase of population, is 2,192.
The deaths registered in London during the week wore
1,596. It was the third week of the year; and the average
number of deaths for that week is, with a correction for
increase of population, 1,745. The deaths in the present
return are less by 149 than the estimated number. Threo
hundred and seventeen deaths were caused by zymotio
diseases, the corrected average number being 355. Thirty-
three deaths occurred from small-pox, 37 from measles,
36 from scarlatina, 9 from diphtheria, 73 from whooping-
cough, 50 from typhus, and 14 from diarrhoea. One death
from small-pox occurred in the west, 14 fatal cases were
registered in the north (where the Small-pox Hospital is
situated), 8 in the central, 4 in the east, and 6 in the south
districts. Measles were least fatal in the east districts.
Ten deaths from scarlatina were recorded in the west,
13 in the north, 2 in the eentral, 4 in the east, and 7
in the south districts. Ten deaths from whooping-cough
were registered in the west, 15 in the north, 8 in the cen-
tral, 14 in the east, and 26 in the south districts. Three
fatal cases of fever were recorded in the west, 12 in the
north (where the London Fever Hospital is situated), 8 in
the central, 12 in the east, and 15 in the south districts.
Phthisis proved fatal to 186 persons ; 235 deaths occurred
from bronchitis, 92 from pneumonia, and 91 from diseases
of the heart. The deaths of 9 children and 2 adults from
burns or scalds, of 14 children and three adults who were
suffocated, and of 2 persons who were killed by horses or
vehicles in the streets, were registered.
In. East London, comprising the districts of Shoreditch,
Bethnal-green, Whitechapel, St. George-in-the-East,
Stepney, Mile-end Old-town, and Poplar, the deaths in
the week were 321. This is less by 7 than the average
deaths of the correspondirg weeks of the ten years
1858-67 ; the average being 328, which, if corrected in the
usual way for increase of population, becomes 356. The
actual deaths were 321. The annual rate of mortality
was 27 per 1,000 in East London, 27 in West London,
27 in North London, 26 in South London, and 29 in
Central London. Allowing for any possible decrease of
population in East London, it is evident that the mortality
there is not higher than it is in the rest of the metropolis.

The following officers at Chatham have been
placed under orders for embarkation to join their
respective regiments in the East and West Indies :
—Capt. J. L. Preston, 45th (Sherwood Foresters)
Regiment; Lieut. A. Glen, 2d battalion of the 10th
Regiment; Ensign E. H. Singer, 2d battalion of
the 10th Regiment ; Lieut. G. Roe, 2d West India
Regiment ; and Ensign W. H. Gordon, Ist West
India Regiment. Staff-Surg. B. A. Al‘Dermott,
late doing duty with the 2d Depot Battalion at
Chatham, has been placed under orders for embar-
kation to join the 95th Regiment iu India.
The company of the 9th Regiment, commanded
by Capt. Harvey, which has for some time been
doing duty at Simon's Town, arrived by rail, on the
117th of December, 'at Cape Town. They were
' escorted from the station to the barracks by the
baud of the 99th Regiment.

A court-martial assembled yesterday morning at
Mount Wise, Dstvonport, for the purpose of trying
1,122, Gunner J. Reid, belonging to No. 8 Battery,
Royal Artillery, recently stationed at Plymouth
Citadel, on two charges—First, for having uttered
mutinou3 language on the evening of the sth of
January inst. ; and, secondly, for being drunk. The
court consisted of 14 officers, chiefly belonging to
the 12th Regiment, the Lieut.-Col. of which, Henry
Meade Hamilton, presided. Brevet-Colonel T. H.
Laye (who came from London expressly) was the
Judge-Advocate; and Capt. and Adjt. F. Duncan
prosecuted. The prisoner pleaded "guilty" to the
charge of drunkenness, and " not guilty" to the
Other. Three civilians, Messrs. Butler,-Dyer, and
Dickers, stated that on the evening in question
they were at Phillips' Salham Inn, in the Citadel-
road, Plymouth. The prisoner was there drunk
and excited. He said his Battery was on the point
of departure in the Himalaya for Ireland, and if
called on he would not fire at the mob, but iu the
air, and would reserve a bullet for the captain. Al-
though he had taken the oath of allegiance to his
Queen and country, it was only as an Englishman,
which he was not, but an Irishman. Bowbadier
M'Gorary, who was on duty in the guard-room.
proved that Reid was intoxicated when he came
to barracks on the evening of the sth. In defence
the prisoner stated that ever since he was 15, when
he entered the service, no one ever heard him utter
a disloyal expression. He had an affliction in his
head, and when he had drunk two pints of beer, as
he did on the sth, he lost his reason. At Phillips'
they were always talking about Fenianism. To tell
the truth, he did not understand the meaning of the
term. As to his having said he was an Irishman, that
he could not account for; he was born and bred an
Englishman, and had never been out of the coun-
try. He had no antipathy against Captain Orr,
who never had any dispute with him but on one
occasion, some years since. To sustain this state-
ment the prisoner called Serg.-Major George, who
had known him nine years ; Staff-Sergeant Dem-
ster, ten years ; and Trumpeter Tole, three years.
They never knew him to be other than a loyal sol-
dier, but two pints of beer were sufficient to make
him drunk. The finding of the Court will, as usual,
be first transmitted to the Horse Guards.

At Chelsea Hospital Capt. Robert Grier, aged
75 years, died on Sunday. He entered the army in
February, 1810, as Ensign in the 44th Regiment,
and shortly after went on service to the Peninsula.
At the battle of Fuentes d'Onor he was wounded in
the right shoulder ; at the siege of Badajoz he led
the advance of the feigned attack which ultimately
became the successful one, and commanded the
" forlorn hope" when the place was carried. He
was in the campaign of 1815, and severely wounded
in the ankle at Quatre Bras. Capt. Grier had the
war medal with three clasps, and the 'Waterloo
medal. He was placed on half-pay in March, 1817,
as Lieutenant, and was appointed a Captain of In-
valids in September last. Capt. Grier had for many
years resided at Auchgrea, county of Longford.
ller Majesty's 4-gun steam sloop Shearwater,
Commander T. E. Smith, now in basin at Woolwich,
preparing to be dismantled and paid out of commis-
sion from service in the South Pacific, brought home
a couple of men picked up in the Straits of Ma-
gellan on the 11th of October last, and who had
subsisted during the preceding six weeks on mussels
and other precarious food which they were able to
gather from the rocks. The men when discovered
were scarcely recognisable as Europeans, having
been so thoroughly metamorphosed by their mode
of existence and exposure to the severity of the
weather as to be taken for the native aborigines, if
any were in existence. Their names are David
Riddles, second captain of the foretop, and Samuel
J. llenley, able seaman, both belonging to her
Majesty's 17 gun sloop Chanticleer, cast away in
the ship's dingy in a gale of wind while in attend-
ance on a shooting party of the officers of that
ship, and reported to the Admiralty as dead. They
were discovered by a similar party of excursionists
from the Shearwater, and were thusrescuedmairad-
culously from a miserable death by starvation n
cold, which they were certain could
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by frost-bite. They have been transferred to the
flagship Fisgard, and, from the kind and humane
treatment which they received on board the Shear-
water, they are rapidly recovering and gaining
strength.
The screw steamship Nelson, 72, Capt. Charles
B. Payne, which left Portsmouth on the 29th Oct.
for Melbourne, put into Table Bay for coal on the
19th December.

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