The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-26 00:00:00

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS.

The fallowing are the results of " A Table of Mortality is
the Metropolis, slowing the Number of Deaths from all Causes
Registered in the week ending Dec. 17, 1842." The Table As
issued from the Office of the Registrar-General:—

Weekly
Average
1838-9-40-1

Total.
our Four
Autumns IYears
Epidemic, Endemic, & Contagious Diseases 163 190 190
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses 164 140 149
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration
i.)seases of the Heart and Blood-vessels
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other
Organs of Digestion
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c
'
Childbed, Diseases of the Uterus, &c l2 15 10
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles 6 6 6
Diseases of the Skin, &c 1 1 1
Diseases of Uncertain Seat llO 106 104
01. d Age, or Natural Decay
Deaths by Violence, Privation, or Intem-
perance
Causes not specified 3 8 '
Deaths from all causes -
Average Weekly Deaths 912 912
Population Average Deatl:s
enu- Weekly in
merated Deaths the
1641. 18:3s-9-40-1. Wee'
West—Kensington, St. George r----"-----1
( Hanover-square), Westmin- Four I Four
ster, St. Martin in the Fields, Ye rs.lAuttimus.
St. James 300,705 135 131 147
North—St. Mary-le•bone, St 190
Pancras, Islington, Hackney 365,660 162 161
Central—Saint Giles and Saint

CAUSES OF DEATH.

DISTRILTS.

George, Strand, Clerkenwell,
Holborn, St. Luke, East Lon-
don, West London, City of
London
373,806
188
185
182
East—Shoreditch,Whitechape ,
Bethnal Green, St. George
_24
in the East, Stepney, Poplar 392;49; 206 207 --
South—St Saviour, St. Olave,
St. George( Southwark ),Ber-
mondsey, Newington, Lam-
beth, Camberwell, Bother-
hitlae, Greenwich .........„ 438,060 221 228 223
It is slated thatT Total
ler the tel;Bm7osl7e2tr7 19 2
op
32 districts herein mentioned, which include the City ofez,..
don with and without the walls, the City and Libertlfs "
Westminster, the out-parishes within the Bills of Ille'rt.ahtl-"'
and the parishes of St. Marylebone, St. Pancras, Ket
olis are
Fulham, Hammersmith Chapelry), St. Luke (Chelsea,
C09,113;62.02
_9610
din ton, St. Mary (Stoke Newington), St. LeoliardaZi
ley), St. Mary-le-bow, Camberwell, Greenwich,
and St. Paul (Deptford), and Woolwich. The poloulnc:,
„,i
enumerated in 1831, was 1,594,890; and in June d
1,870,727. The weekly average for'lB3B, 1838* 18-w .-1-
1841, was obtained by dividing the deaths in the four rar-
-208, and the deaths in the four winters by 52.

TEMPERATURE IN THE WEEKS ENDING
Dec. 10. Dee. 17.
b5O by"
36 37
43 0
22, 1842.

Highest

Lowest .

Daily Mean ....
General Register Office, Dec

On the 16th inst. a man named Bourdin
at the Assizes of La Bourbon-Vendee for the murder
of his wife, by whom she had a family of four
__ACT
dren. He had been living for some time unhaTs4
with her, and had criminal relations with their fe
servant. The evidence was so strong that it West;
• possible for the criminal to escape punishment, 1112,"bii
had also confessed his crime. From the day "'
to
arrest to his trial, he had simulated insanity, but wiz.,
before the Tribunal be abandoned this course, as
fended himself with great coolness. He was •
guilty and condemned to death. was tried
The Rhone, a Lyons journal, relates that a rich
and avaricious widow, named Gayet, living in a house
of
of her own, at the Guillotiere, and who was a tad
coquette, although of the ripe age of 55, enaleby
suicide a few days ago, in consequence of having .l
her lover, and, at the same time, from disa
at not receiving a large inheritance which she,
long been expecting. She had destroyed herself
suffocation, and was not discovered for severs ,day"
Her cat also lay dead by her side, but had previels I
devoured a part of her mistress's face. ppoiatinehad
LEEDS SAVINGS BANK.—We have much pleasure
in requesting public attention to the continued Pres.
parity of the Leeds, Skyrac' and Morley Saving of
Bank. At the forty-ninth half-yearly
the Trustees and Directors, held on the 19th jests!'"
it was ascertained by the accounts that since the eon;
mencement of that valuable Institution 19,534 per 3d•,
have paid into the bank the sum of 743,9181. Os' '4.1;0
and have, as their occasions required, withdraw"
sum of 622,8451. 3s. The interest money withdraw
bears a very small proportion to the interest scce#
mulated, and, including such accumulation, there rf
mains the sum of 232,2681: I ls. 10d. at the dispos-
meeting
of the present depositors.—Leeds Mercury.
ca
• CHRISTMAS „pi
GAIETY. The gaiety that
wLpo
supreme at thii jocund period of the yeat,
friends and lovers congregate at the social board, °
whirl in the giddy mazes of the dance, renders at
strict attention to the toilet more desirable fiial,
.other periods. It- is, then, at this gay time that ","."
.virtues and singularly happy properties of Rowland
.Kalydor and Rowland's 'Macassar Oil shine
li
eminent in their powers, and the white and swan-
neck, no less than the richluxuriant tress, forth hal)N
trophies of their inestimable* powers. As appropriate
. presents, therefore, to the ladies, they claim peculiar
attention.
ST. JAMES'S, WESTMINSTER.--- Mr. - Peter Le
Quainter, formerly of
,Piccadilly, who died in the
year. 1783, left the residue of his personal estate, sine_
invested in.the purchase of 8,785/. ss. 9d. Old Souti!.
Sea Annuities, to the 'Rector 'and Churchwardens. South
this ,parish fOr the time being, upon trust that
terest, dividends, and proceeds thereof be yearly I!.esdj.
every year for ever at Christmas equally divided, di
tributed, and- given 'unto and amongst 20 peerl'efi
sons, who were or had been housekeepers in the say
parish of St. James, Westminster, and such as t"
• Rector and Churchwardens, and the other gentleine;l
for the time being composing the vestry of the Om.
parish, should deem to be proper objects, and the wo.
deserving to partake of the same. According to snot!:
the in:
custom, the distribution of this munificent beque7
amounting to 2631. 1 ls. 2d., was made by the Reet°nt:
instant:
Churchwardens, and Vestrymen, on the 21st
when twenty persons coming within the terms
,?,,f rit
testator's will, some of whom were once in amth
circumstances and possessed large houses in the
received their shares of the bounty, being 13/. 3s•
each. be
THE GREAT ANTI-CORN-LAW PAYILION.""-T.Av
walls of this great building are now up, the
to to receive the roof. A little accident occurreu_4o.
other day, which we should not have deemed wok of
of notice, but we see by the London Stan 4.
Thursday, that it is to be made to convey the iiare.it,
sion, that, " from the slight manner in which it is
2it
the remaining part is far from safe." It seems u“arti.
piece of stone, forming the cornice, had been left p
jecting too far over the wall, and some brick work ill%
this overweighted it, and caused it to fall, with alitof
of the brickwork ; which, falling upon the putlocks.,
the scaffolding, which were inserted in the wallbehi'o7
forced them out, in doing which they split a 11°.irtj„t ;
of the wall. This was the extent of the aeclutra
which will doubtless be magnified by the Tory Pay to
of this day. It is one which might have occurre_nd
the strongest wall ever erected. The wall la of jti-k~
bricks, very substantially built, and 18 inches in Plias
ness ; and there is no upper floor to support' two
merely the roof. which wilt also be supported by itir,
ranges of iron columns, 16 in number, cast by
Fairburn, there need be no apprehension on this score-
We learn, however, that a 3 some industrious attempts
have been Italie to misrepresent the nature of the
jilt,.
eident, and to cast doubts on the stability of the I),u the
ing, competent parties are-engaged to superintenul it
safety of the structure ; and that, when completeu.'eo
will be surveyed by a practical engineer, with a,vl„,,
to have his report to its stability .---Manchester

dian. eat
We hear that it is in contemplation by the Priles ke
Admitalty Board, in the ensuing spring, t° "-jab--
some considerable alteration in the present establisp,
ment`of the different ordinary Guard Ships, bY,,„enge
deavouring, if possible, to do away with the exile of
of one of the ships at each port—allowing the nag
the' Rear-Admiral-Superintendent , to be hoisted ifer
the Sheers in the Dockyard, as is the case with etiu
nations; If this arrangement is acted on, we 2jay
begin to think the Tories have some ideas of econetni.

-Hampshire Independent.

BIR TB S
On the 22d inst., at Chester-place,. the lady of Thomas Web-
ster, Esq., of a son.
On the 22d inst., at Cheltenham, the lady of the Bel;2111;
Gascoyne, Mickleton Vicarage, Gloucestershire, of I.- s°ll'
born. of
EA" On the 24th inst., the lady of John. Greenwood,
Beaufoy-terrace, Maida-vale, of a son. of
On the 24th inst., the wife of Thomas C. Renshaw, Esq.'
Lincoln's Inn, of a laughter. ' '

MARIED.
.„, oreetf
On the 10,h inst., Mr. Frederick Cowell, Of tug"-;„,/, of
Southwark, to Mary, widow of the late Mr. John liens'—
Bouverie. street, Fleet-street.
On the 22d inst., at All Saints' Church, Uper:tnotelf.t.
Mr. William Dunkley, to Lady Rossey Cox, of "1— •
road.

DIED. of
On the 21st bet., at Bath, Joseph Lovell Lovell,
Wells, Somerset, aged 62. gentio
On the 13th ult., at San Luis, Island of Cuba. Je ~d 12.
eldest eon of the late J. H. Brune, Esq., of the city a niwe°,,vift,
On the I Ith inst. et Mount Coete, Limerick, Anne, ""
of Chidley Coete, inst.,
On the 14th bet., at Boughton Malberbe, the Rev. Sitnpp°
Clayton, Rector of that parish, and Prebendary of Licbfiedow of
On the 23d inst., in Ilrompton-row, Mary Anne. itiunt.
the late Rev. Thomas Clare, Vicar of Great Naughton,
r“..00j,
On the 23d inst., at Lichfield, the Rev. Thomas w
D.D., F.S. A. aged 76. Mr'
On the 23dinst., at•lslington, Caroline, relict et the late
B. Angell, of Nelson-square. Anne'
On the 24th inst., in Alfretl-street, Bow-road, Maria
the wife of Frederick Kerchevall.

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the County of Middlesex, &fondly, December 26s 1{"""