The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-02 00:00:00

MORTALITY in the METROPOL

The following are the results of " A Table of Mortalit)
in the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths from
all Causes registered in the Week ending Saturday, the
28th of December, 1844." I%e Table is issued from the Office
of the Registrar-General :

Weekly
Total. Average of
ars Y e e
Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases 223 Five
178
Diseases of variable or uncertain seat ll2 111
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses lBO 157
Diseases of the Lungs, and (itaier Organs of
Respiration 415 285
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 33 21
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other
Organs of Digestion
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c ll 5
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. l7 10
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles lO 6
Diseases of the Skin, &c. ....... ...
Old Age, or Natural Decay 9O 71
By Violence, Privation, or Intemperance
51 26
Causes specified. ............................1249 942
Deaths from all Causes ...... . .................. 1239 946
DEATHS FROM TILE PRINCIPAL DISEASES INCLUDED UNDER
THE ABOVE HEADS.

CAUSES OF DEATH.

Total. Weekly Average
Consumption l6O of Five Years,
147
Scarlatina
Pneumonia .
Dropsy .. ... .. ..
••• 20 35
Hooping Cough 34 33
Typhus 3 31
Small Pox 5O 15
Disease of the Heart
Measles ... 29 28
Apoplexy .......... ... ....
Diseases of the Brain ......
Diarrhea.. ........ 9 12
Sudden Deaths 3O 15
DISTRICTS.

West
North 234 171
Centrall 224 188
East 250 207
South 371 242

Total ...
..».......1249

HEALTH OF LORD WARD.—It is not true, as stated
by a Saturday Contemporary last week, that Lord Ward
is seriously indisposed at Paris with a tertian ague. A
few weeks ago his Lordship had a slight attack of an
endemic fever, from which, we are happy to say, he has
Perfectly recovered, and has been for some time in the
enjoyment of health. It is probable the report may have
arisen from an accident having recently befallen one of
his Lordship' trustees, Mr. Benbow, M.P. for Dudley,
by a fall from his horse, which at one time promised to
be serious, on account of the Hon. Gentleman's ad-
vancing age, but from which, we are glad to hear, he has
recovered, in proof of which, 1) • may state OW, he is
now amongst his constituents at butney, and is taking
an active part in the Worcester and Tring Railway, for
which his son is one of the solicitors. To this we may
add—and we do not speak without authority—that Lord
Ward's interest is not, and never has been given to the
Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton line of railway.
His Lordship, at present, suspends his judgment, which
he will form strictly for himself, though, it is probable,
the scale will turn in favour of the Tring Company.—
Worcestershire Chronicle.
DAY MAIL TO WORCESTER.—We are glad to find
that the question of a day mail to Worcester has been
re-opened with the Post-office authorities, and that John
Dent, Esq., President of the Chamber of Commerce,
having, at the suggestion of General Lygon, made a re-
newed application to the Postmaster-General on the
subject, has received a letter from Colonel Maberly, ac-
knowledging the receipt of such application, and pro-
mising that it shall have " immediate attention." As
the Railway Act of last session gives increased facilities
for the conveyance of mails, we think there is at length
some chance of Worcester having a day mail.— Worces.
tershire Chronicle.
We understand that a marriage is on the tapis
between the Lady Louisa l'itsmaurice, only daughter of
the Marquis of Lansdowne, and the Hon. James Howard,
brother to Lord Andover.
The Rev. the Earl of Guildford, during last week,
ordered to be distributed to the necessitous poor of Wal-
dershire, and the surrounding parishes of Whitfield,
Eythorne, Shepherdswell, and Coldred, a most abundant
supply of good meat and warm clothing. The Noble
Earl has above two hundred children from the above
parishes educated at his Lordship's own expense.
The children of the Free Grammar School, at Dalton,
amounting to 175, were treated last week to a dinner of
excellent beef and plum pudding, by Mr. and Mrs. Bald-
win, who, with their servants and a few others, cut up
the viands, and waited upon the youthful but grateful
recipients of their bounty._Cumberland Parquet.
Earl Fitzwilliam is at present entertaining a large
family party at Milton Park, Northamptonshire. Viscount
and Viscountess Milton, the Hoe. George Wentworth
Fitzwilliam, and Mr. and Lady Mary Thompson, are
among the guests assembled at :he mansion.
TRANSFER OF THE GREENWICH RAILWAY TO THE
DOVER RAILWAY CODlPANY.—Yesterday niornit g the
Directors of the Dover Railway Company took posses-
sion of the whole of the Greenwich Railway, and pro-
perty appertaining to it. Extensive alterations will be
made at the London bridge terminus; the present station
will he razed to the ground, and a handsome building
erected, in the same 51)10 of architecture with the Briv-
ton, Dover, and Croy-den station. The whole of the lit e
will undergo a thorough repair, as some parts are In a
very oilapidated state. The servants employed at the
station and on
.the line will be retained for a short
period.

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On Moo(lay the lint; of tli, 1% each presided at a
Council of Ministers h.-ld at the Twieries.
On Tuesday M. Sauzet; took his seat as President of
the Chamber of Deputies, when the Finance Minister
brought forward the budget.
The receptions at Court on the occasion of the new
year will be as usual. The diplomatic corps will ta",
re-
ceived at four o'clock. The grand receptions for ladle°
and gentlemen will be on Friday and Sunday evenings,
at half-past eight o'clock.
Several of the journals announce the arrival of Admi-
ral Dupetit-Thouars in Paris. Two or three of the OP:
position journals, however, say he is at Versailles, and
remains there en charte privee (in seclusion) by order of
the Ministry.
The Constitutionnel says:—" The nomination of Cardi-
nal de Latour d'Auvergne, as head of the Chapter of St;
Denis, is given as positive. It is added that he is Daniell
Grand Almoner, and that the ordonnances wijl appear
on Jan. 2."
The sale of the splendid collection of paintings belong-
ing to the late Cardinal Fesch is to commence at Rome
on the 17th of March.
There are at present 1,430 medical men practising in
Paris, being 340 more than in 1833.
A Constantinople letter, of the 13th inst., says—" For
very many years we have not had so hang a continlfee
of bad weather in the Mediterranean or Black Seas.-The
wind has blown with such violence for a whole fortnight
from the north-west, that nearly all the numerous steam'
packets that traverse them have been delayed, some four
some five days.
A letter from Barcelona states that the excessive
cold which reigned for some time in that neighbourhood
was put an end to on the evening of the 21st by a violent
tempest, which caused considerable damage. So much
rain fell that some quarters of the city were completely
inundated. The gardens between Barcelona and Mont'
juich were covered with water of several moStres' depth,
and the inhabitants of San-Beltran were taken off in the
middle of the night in boats. All the parts of the forti-
fications, which had been undermined last year, fell
down with great noise. The lost sustained is estimated
at several hundred thousand francs.
On Wednesday the tragedy of Werner was to be per-
formed by the English Company at Paris, Macready of
course playing the part of Werner.
31.11‘11 AND 70 0L1C7311.
Sir John Dodson sat in the Admiralty Court, and die-
posed of assignations. This was the default day after
last term.
Dr. Dauheney sat in the Consistory Court, and heard
assignations, this being an extra Court day.
At the Surrey sessions Ann ‘k inter and Ann Wright
were indicted with having unlawfully uttered and put off,
at Croydon, two counterfeit half-crowns, well knowing
the same to be false and counterfct. TLe prisoners,
who belong to a well-known gang of c, residing is
the low haunts of Westminster, offs-rej nothing in their
defence, and the jury, without i,,sitution, rt-t,:rned
verdict of guilty. Sentence twelve months' imprisonment
each and hard labour at Brixton Ilmtte of Correction.
Sir James Duke presided at tl.e Cioiikihall, and re'
manded for further examination Charl.;s Richard Au'
stead, late a collecting clerk at Mr. Hubbard's, a tobac-
conist in Barbican, charged with embezzling moneys
received on account of his employer ; andj James
Dixey, the overlooker of the porters at Measly.
Meeking and Co.'s, drapers, Holborn-hill, charged with
embezzling various sums, amounting to 301.
A young man, named Ashford, respectably dressed,
was brought up at Bow-street, charged with breaking
into the house of Mr. John Henry Jewell, solicitor's '
clerk, of Alfred-street, Tottenham court-road. The
prisoner alleged in his defence that he found the door
open, and could not resist the temptation to walk in and
help himself. Mr. Twyfurd committed him for triaL
Jame, Horne, charged by Mr. John Cox, of No. 9,
Gibson-square, Islington, with having burglariously
entered his dwelling-house, and stealing various articles
of silver plate, was fully committed from Clerkenwell.
Robert Pratt was placed at the bar at the Lambeth PO'
lice Court before Mr. Henry, on a charge of grossly ill-
treating his son, Richard Pratt, a child five years and to
half old. The prisoner had for many months been ie
the habit of ill-treating the child, and at length the
neighbours determined to interfere. On one oc-
casion the child was hanging from the hauls'
ters by a rope which was tied round his neck, and
would have been strangled had not a neighbour cut Mal
down. The poor child was in a shocking state from the
barbarous usage he had received. Mr. Henry, address'
ing Dunn, one of the beadles of Lambeth, said the case
was one which should be prosecuted by the parish, and
he should therefore request that the vestry-clerk should
be informed of the particulars, with a view of prosecute
ing the prisoner at the sessions. To afford the necessary
time for this, he should remand the prisoner until Mon-
day next. The prisoner was accordingly remanded.
At Marlborough-street Mr. Hardwick received the fol-
lowing letter. It relates to an individual who was under
examination at this Court about six weeks ago, charged
with having given cheques to various parties in payment
of goods, well knowing there were no funds at the
bankers to meet them with:—
14, Chester-square, Dec. 30, 1844.
" Dear Sir,—ln" conformity with orders received from
my Government, I take the liberty to request your
obliging assistance in giving publicity to the fact, that
by royal ordinance, dated Dresden, December 12, and
published in the Leipsic Gazette of the 20th December,
the name of M. Moritz Dam Van der Pforte (see police
reports of the 11th and 13th December), has ceased from
that day to be un the list of the Gentilhommes de le
Chanabro of his Majesty the King of Saxony.—I have
the honour to be, dear Sir, your most obedient humble
servant, " DE GERSDORFF.,
" Minister Resident of his Majesty the Ring of
Saxony.
" To J. Hardwick, Esq."
At the Thames Police-court two men, named William
Smith and Edward Smith, brothers, were brought before
Mr. Broderip, charged with keeping a private still, in an
unentered place, where the apparatus for conducting dis-
til:ation on a large scale was discovered. The evidence
having been gone into, Mr. Broderip said it had been his
lot to hear a good many cases of this description, but he
never knew one clearer than this, and he convicted the
prisoners under the 7th and Bth Geo. IV., cap. 53, and
sentenced them to pay a fine of 301. ear-h, and in de-
fault to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for three
calendar months. Thit prisoners were committed.

Ci.-/VlVar •-• I'4-Jo nxow.A..-tsAlk,
The Earl and Countess of Limerick are daily expected
to arrive in this country from New South Wales, Intel-
ligence having been sent to his Lordship some time since
of the demise of his brother, the late Lord C lentworth, by
which he became heir apparent to the Earldom.
The Dowager Lady Holland is passing the Christmas
recess in town.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Donegal have
arrived at the British lintel, Brighton, from Bath.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Sligo and the Ladies
Browne have arrived in Mansfirld-street.
The Earl and Countess of Warwick have left Patter-
son's Hotel for Warwick Castle.
The Marquis of Lansdowne has been entertaining
e.
large part• at Bowuod this Christmas, Mr. Moore, the
poet, and Mr. Albany Fonblunque have been among the
visitors.

The Earl of Auckland and Lord Alvanley have been
among the distinguished guests at Bretby Park during
the Christmas festivities, where a large family circle have
been partaking the hospitality of the Earl and Countess
of Chesterfield.
The Duke of Devonshire has left Devonshire House
for Chatsworth. The superb presents recently sent to
his Grace by the Emperor of Russia have been removed
to Chiswick.

The Count and Countess de Jarnac will not leave for
Paris so soon as was expected. It is probable they will
prolong their sojourn at Mivart's Hotel three weeks
longer.

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The Duke of Wellington has already sent out the invita-
tions for the opening dinner of the session of Parliament,
which it is expected r. ill be very fully attended.
The Rev. R. B. Paul, M.A., formerly Fellow of
Exeter College, Oxford, has been presented to the per-
petual curacy of Kentish-town, St. Pancras, Middlesex.
Value 2604 Patron, the Vicar of St. Pancras.
The thick !fog which overspread the metropolis on
on Sunday appears to have extended over most of the
country. In Manchester the darkness on that day and
on Monday rendered artificial light necessary, and in
Scotland also the fog was equally dense.
It will be recollected that a short time since a meeting
of the leading counsel practising at the Chancery, Rolls,
and Vice-Chancellors' Courts was held for the purpose
of devising some plan to lessen the evil and inconveni-
ence of the separation of the Vice-Chancellors' Courts
from the other equity judges, in Westminster-hall., which
has taken place since the creation of the two nr.Ar Vice-
Chancellors. A communication was made to the Lord
Chancellor on the subject ; the consequence is, that two.
temporary Courts are being erected in Pakee-yard, close
to the entrance of Westminster-hall, which are in a Yell
forward state, and will probably be finished by next
term. This arrangement will get rid of a great deal of
the evil, though it can hardly be a permanent one, es
there will be means of communication to the other Courts
from these.

Application having been made to the Commissioners
of Customs, from Cowes, complaining of the delay and
inconvenience occasioned in ascertaining the weight and
charging duty upon samples of coffee landed froth
vessels arriving at that port, and waiting for orders as
to their ultimate destination, the Board has decided that
samples imported in pelages as such, not exceeding
half a pound weight each, may be passed duty free, pro-
vided that the officers shall be satisfied that they are in.
tended for samples only.
An order has been issued by the CotamiAsioners of
Police, for the better regulation of the tarts and wag
guns wing to Covent-garden market ; and the police-
constabh- s are appointed to see that they draw tip in the
centre of the streets, so as to alltei‘ a free
each side, and a clear space over the crossinzs. MY;
person offending is liable to be taken into custody,
subject to a fine of 40s. for each offence. passage oil

Lord Eglinton's game old horse, the Potentate*
the ‘lctor of many well-contested races, has been turned
out to roam in a park for life. This is good treatment
to a faithful servant. tal4 doniaa Mercury.
AMSTERDAM, DEC. 27.—The weather is not 6°
cold as it has been ; the thermometer yesterday (the
26th) was, at seven in the evening, at 25 ; and to-del
(the 27th), at one o'clock, it was at 33.