The Sun. — 1858-04-28 (London, England)

INVERURY AND OLD MELDRITAI JUNCTION.  rqR .1"  Mr. FITZROY reported from the committee on this bill that the only obj,cts of it are to grant a lease in perpetuity of the railway to the Great North of Scotland Railway Company, and to enable the Inverury and Old Meldrurn Company to raise moneys. to pay off their existing debts and liabilities.  £715 14,437  345 725 3,744,141 30,391544 530,730  44,028,592 219,656 967,711  Temporary loans Treasury notes • Deposits, including the Carnate and other funds  5,267,410  . . .. , . (Prom. the Reportof tht Regi4trar General.) The deaths registered in London were 1,144. in the week ending Saturday, April 24 h • they show a decrease on those of the previous week, when the number was 1,207. In the ten years 1848-57 the average number of deaths in the weeks correspondjog with last week was 1,054; but the deaths of last week occurred in an increased population, and they sbould be compare,: ~ " -•'-- -- *age, when the latter has been raised in iireporttoti to the increase, a correction which will make it 1.159. The late of mortality that now prevails, 'therefore, agrees very closely with that which is obtained t)y calcuStion from former experienco in the third  £50,483,369  In addition to the above there have been loans opened since the Ist of Mar, 1856. One at 4i per cent., which was opened on the 30th of August, 1856, and closed the 16th of January, 1857, to which The subscriptions were ........................ And one at 5 per cent., opened January 16, 1857, to which, up to the 20th of February last, there had bees subscribed in cash And in paper of the 34, 4, and 4i per ten'. loans  £368,13  45,666,747  oosrf,roett:oihta:etlee:t -Week of April. ;ireod2isthlreiblu;tle44a 'adme_oantligsstrte;luerfineveel cliasistse 7, eikn, which ing numbers :-262 are referral to zymotic diseases, the corrected average of which, in corresponding weeks 13 260 ; 237 are referredito the class all.the causes of death are arranged, in the followOf " constitutional.diseases," in also 260 ; 477 to "local disease=;" of Which the Average is 466 ; 139 to " deyelopmentivl (s.ases," the average being 131 ; and 23 to mechameal and the aver Age of which Chemical injuries, the average being 18. Of the 23 viaent deaths, 22 are accidental of these 9 are Caused by fractures and wounds, 3 by. burns, one by poison, 3 by dr mning, 6 (all of which, except One, are deaths of infants) by sUff(ication.-The only death not accidental is a c tse of suicide by banging. The -deithS arising from bronchitis and pneumonic, and in the previous week wee respectively 130 en. bi corresponding HousenerE r,nei i pgc isohi;ntot,rlgn.)sa:-)ibcodtoitninyinleuelaiginthicogweholir,iseoel,d,uar. fkrtmespna and 103, declined last week to 120 and 62. s 1 4854, when thf- deaths from this complaint were 83. mote-i's-hill. clle. i asn somefatalTh e Registrara apr e eithervi o u s naeasles or scarlatina. Tim deaths from measles tiwo ks. Fo:tj, deaths are r, ferred to scarlatina ; no less than 4 of these occurred in one family in a they itY, weresy:t)ehf years, 1 ins : o°lx, except unergyr -tee a° thatuj ng 1, ,1.,a uoy:  fates that to ,he casual observer there is nothing i that elevated situation which "would be n ot:ced I a the probable cause of so great a mortality ; but i is understood that medical men attribute it to trk pen ditch in the neighbourhood. Oue child died n the 12th inst., one on the; 4th, and two ethers in the following day. Six persons died last week at the age of 90 years and upwards • the two oldest were a worran in Newington 'Ciorkhouse, 98 years old, and the 4vidow of a dock labourer in Redman's-row, MileOd 01.,1 Town, who is said 0 have died at the age all 1810 children were registered in London. In he ten c)rr, sponding weeks of the years 1848-57 ? f Las 10 1t years.iN, ek the birihs of 894 boys and 916 girls, he average number was 1,591. At the Royal Observatory Greenwich, the readogs of the barometer were high. The mean readng of the week was 30.054 in. The highest heading was 30.27 in. on Thursday. The mean temperature of the week was 52 8 deg., which is 1 5.8 deg. above the average of the same week in 43 fears (as determined by Mr. Glaisher). The mean daily temperate was above the average throughout he week. The range of temperature was above he average throughout the week. The range of emperaturewas great on every day, and its mean vas 29.2 deg. On Wednesday the thermometer in the shade rose to 71.1 deg., and fell to 38.1 deg. The highest point attained in the week was 721 deg. ou Thursday ; the lowest point was 34.3 deg on Monday. The extreme range was therefore 38.9 deg. The difference between the mean • dew point temperature and air temperature was 10 deg. The mean temperature of the water of the Thames was 53 deg. The mean degree of humidity of the atino There was only 65 ; on Saturday it was only 59, complete saturation being represented by 100. The wind blew from au easterly point, No rain fell.