The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-24 00:00:00

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MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.—The number of
deaths, for the week ending Saturday Oct. 18, was 771, be-
ing 15 less than during the previous week. The fatality
caused by measles is on the increase—the numberiamounting to
71, exceeding the last century 10, and not less than 40 above
the average of five autumns. Most of the diseases under the
other heads exhibit a very mild character. The violent
deaths were only 16, of which 7 were fractures and from con-
tusions, 7 from drowning, and two from burns and scalds, and
not one suicide.

SUDDEN DEATH OF COLONEL ADEY, LATE OF THE
3D Gmtans.—On Wednesday an inquest was held before William
Esq., aged 69, late of
Carter, Esq., the Coroner for Surrey, at the Lord Nelson, Old
tKheen3t-droad,
Guards,on twhheobdoi celdy
uonfdTerhovmeryasAey' melancholy circumstances. Mr.
W.. G. Adey,of No. 2, Claremont-place, Old Kent.road, stated that
the deceased was his father, and resided in the same house. On
Friday last be dined with his family at three o'clock, and ate very
sparingly of fish. He had been subject to paralytic attacks, and
at five o'clock said he would go and lie down. He got up from his
seat and went to the bedroom, when he took off his
coat and waistcoat. He thee requested his wife to unbuckle his
stock, but before she could get to him he fell down on the floor in
a powerless state, and upon witness geing to him discovered he
was black in the face. A medical friend was sent for, but before
his arrival the deceased was dead, having lived tut five minutes
after the first attack, and witness had no doubt it was caused by
apoplexy, and not by anything he had taken. Verdict—" Died
from natural causes." Previous to the commencement of this in-
quiry the coroner fined a Mr. Harrison, who had been summoned
on the jury, 40s. for not attending, and said that in all cases •
would Le necessary to adopt a similar course; persons so fined
must also be aware that having once inflicted the fine he had no
power to remit it, and it would certainly be enforced.
SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE REGISTR ATIoN.—The re-
vision of the list of voters for the Southern Division of the
county of Stafford is now completed, and the results are such
as the most sanguine Free Traders were nc t prepared to anti-
cipate—such, in fact, as to justify the opinion that should an
election take place on the present register, two Free Traders
would be returned to Parliament by a considerable majority.
The total Free-trade gains 936. For these results the Libe-
ral party are indebted to the Anti-Corn-law League.— Wor-
cestershire Chronicle.

DUNSTER CASTLE.—We understand that a new
historical romance is about to appear, which it is expected
will take a higher rank than most of the publications of its
cl.:ss that have seen the light since the days of Scott. It is
entitled " Dunster Castle," and is from the pen of J. T.
Hewlett, M.A., of Worcester College, Oxford, a writer who
has already won no small degree of fame by his productions
in other departments of literature. The period of the ro-
mance is that of the great Robellion, and amongst the other
historical characti rs composing the dramatis persona,
Charles 1., the Prince of Wales, Prince Rupert, and Queen
Henrietta are said to form a distinguished group. The
republican, Pym, however, is the personage in whom the
principal interest of the story is supposed to centre, and the
merit of the work is understood to be owing more to the
vivid picture it presents of the actual life and manners of this
stirring time, than the sketches of individual character
which too often encumber, instead of illustrate, the pages of
modern historical novels.