The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-30 00:00:00

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS

The following are the results of " A Table of Mortality in
the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths from all Causes
Registered in the week ending July 23, 1842." The Table is
issued from the OfEce of the Registrar-General:—
Weekly
Average
1638-9-40-1

Total.
Pour Four
Summers Years
Epidemic, Endemic, Contagious Diseases 122 191 190
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses 166 150 149
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration
x.:seases of the Ilea-t and Blood-vessels
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other
Organs of Digestion
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c............ 4 4 4
Childbed, Diseases of the Uterus, itc 8 8 10
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Aluseles 3 5 6

CAUSES OF DEATH.

Diseases of the Skin, &c 1 1 1
Diseases of Uncertain. Seat 7O 95 104
Old Age, or Natural Decay
Deaths by Violence, Privation, or Intem-
perance
Causes not specified
Deaths from all causes - ---

19 23 25
2 6 7

Average Weekly Deaths B4B 912
Population: Average Dc.stb
eau- \Veetsly in
merated Deaths the
1641. 15-V-41'-1. Week.
Wed—Kensington, St. George r --"-----1
( Hanover-square), Westmin- Four 1 Four
ster, St. Martin in the Fields, Ye: re.lSummers.
St. James
North— St. Mary-le-bone, St.
Pancras, Islington, Hackney 368,660 162 149 144
Central—Saint Giles and Saint
George, Strand, Clerkenwell,
Holborn, St. Luke, East Lon-
don, SYtst London, City of
Londoni,i... ...... .. ........ ...373,806 168 174
EalMhOtditch,Whitechapel,

Itar reen, St. Georg e
, t, Stepney, P0p1ar392,49'; 206 193 164
rf
11:rtg '(asvoiouttthr,vcSatr..ko),lrere.,
Tv, Newington, Lam-
niberwell, Rother-
reenwich .............438,060 221 203 175

Total 1,870,727 912

It is ted that under the term Metropolis are comprised the
32 dist; s herein mentioned, which include the City of Lon-
don w and without the walls, the City and Liberties of
Westmi ,er, the out-parishes within the Bills of Mortality--•
and the arishes of St. Marylebone, St. Pancras, Kensington,
Fulham, Cammersmith Chapelry), St. Luke (Chelsea), Pad-
dington, St. Mary (Stoke Newington), St. Leonard (Brom-
ley), St. Mary-le-bow, Camberwell, Greenwich, St. Nicholas
and St. Paul (Deptford), end Woolwich. The population, as
enumerated in 1831, wa, 1,594,890, and in June 1841, was
1,870,727. The weekly average for 1838, 1839, 1840, and
1841, was obtained by. ?tividing the deaths in the four years by
208, and the deaths ' i the four winters by 52.
rh,MI'EF . 'CURE IN THE WEEKS ENDING
July 16. July 23.
Highest
Lowest
Daily ?Jean . ... £t hsGeneral F,eg,ister Office, July 28, 1842.

SHIPPING
NOTI i E TO MATIVI'IIS.—DANGEROUS ROCK IN
COOK'S STRAITS.
Sviixriy, NEW SOUTH WALES, MARCH ‘29.—The Alier•
croulie, arrived at New Zealand, reports there being a dor-
gerJus half-tide rock in Cook's Straits, hitherto not generall).
if'at all, known ; Cape Turiwittee bore by compass S.L. by
(gape Koemanoo S.S.W. half W., the south end of Kapati
Island N. E. by E. Some of the charts are incorrect, as the
Brothers is at least 6 miles tco far in shore ; and vessels shaping
a course from Cope Stephens would come very near them, and
alight strike on the rock here mentioned, as it lies a good four
miles, in a north by east direction, from the Western Brothersi
The rock when seen was about. two feet above the surfaced ap-
parently about the size
iof a tun butt ; the tide was about two-
thirds, and no doubt t would be three feet under water at
high tide.

On Monday last, a heart-rending scene of degrada-
tion and distress was again seen at Arnold, viz. the drawing of
a wagon laden with coals by the unemployed operatives. It ap-
pears that these poor fellows, to the number of thirty, have,
with many others, been nut of employment for a length of time,
and, in order to obtain the means of subsistence, they procured
a wagon laden with coals, and harnessed to it in ropes, like co
many horses, they traverse about, obtaining from the charity of
the benevolent a scanty subsistence for themselves and families.
—Nottinglianz Becks .
A very extraordinary wasps' nest was discovered
the other day in a hedge; belonging to Mr. John Forth, at
Castle Donington. It measured seven fret six inches. in cir-
cumference, and two feet in depth.—Nottingham Review.
FROM THE D A:Sri:E.—Prince Metternteh will
certainly go to the Rhine towards the end of August, but make
a very lon stay ; he will not be accompanied lay the Princess.