The Sun. — 1866-01-10 (London, England)

WHITECHAPEL.  prices.  The supply of meat on sale is moderate, The trade is steady, as follows : Beef, from 2s 10d to 4s 6d; mutton, 3s 10d to 5s 4d; veal, 3s 10d to 4s 10d ; and pork, as 10d to 5s 6d per 81bs. by the carcase.  HEALTH OF THE METROPOLIS•  (From the Registrar-General's Weekly Report.)  Weekly returns are now published of the births, deaths, rate of mortality, and meteorology in 12 large towns of the United Kingdom, besides London, Sheffield and Newcastle-upon-Tyne being now added for the first time. The population of the 13 towns in the middle of the present year is estimated at 6,122,894, and they stand upon an area of 177,817 acres, nearly equal to 278 square miles. In the week that ended on Saturday, Jan. 6, the births registered in London and 12 other large towns of the United Kingdom were 4,353 ; the deathsregistered, 3,490. The annual rate of mortality was 30 per 1,000 persons living. In London the births of 1,127 boys and 1,125 girls, in all 2,252 children, were registered in the week. In the corresponding week of 10 years, 1856-65, the average number, corrected for increase of population, was 2,085. The deaths registered in London during the week were 1,520. It was the first week of the year, and the average number for that week is, with a correction for increase of population, 1,585. The deaths in the present return are less by 65 than the estimated amount, and less by 83 than the number registered in the preceding week. Eighty-four deaths occurred from fever, 57 from whooping-cough, 34 from scarlatina, 15 from small-pox, and 49 from measles. ,The registrar of the sub-district of St. Giles North reports that measles is very prevalent ; 6 deaths from this disease were registered by him during the week. An attendant at the British Museum, aged 22 years, died on Dec. 30, at 145, Seymour-street, Pancras, of cholera. A female servant, aged 25 years, died on Dec. 27, at the workhouse, Marylebone, of consumption, accelerated by want and exposure. One hundred and sixty-three persons died from phthisis, 219 from bronchitis, 104 from pneumonia, and 73 from diseases of the heart.  The following deaths were reported as resulting from carriage accidents :—A cab proprietor, aged 49 years, died on Dec. 25, at St. Mary's Hospital. Run over by an omnibus. A coachman, aged 37 years, died on Dec. 26, at Middlesex Hospital. Run over by a cab. A cowkeeper, aged 29 years, died Dec. 29, at 16, Elizabeth-place, Kennington. Thrown from a cart by collizion with a brougham. A carman, aged 31, died Dec. 26, at Guy's Hospital. Run over by a van in Bermondsey. The son of a labourer, aged 3 years, was killed on Dec. 27, in Bermondsey, by a an passing over him. The annual rate of mortality last week was 26 per 1,000 in Loudon, 25 in Edinburgh, and 29 in Dublin ; 45 in Liverpool, 35 in Manchester, 36 in Salford, 29 in Birmingham, 33 in Leeds, 34 in Sheffield, 32 in Bristol, 36 in Newcastle-on-Tyne, 30 in Hull, and 31 in Glasgow. The rate in Vienna was 32 per 1,000 during the week ending the 30th ult., when the temperature was 24.0 deg. Fahrenheit lower than in the same week in London, where the rate was 28 per 1,000.  The highest rate of mortality during the week occurred in Liverpool ; during last quarter the annual rate of mortality in this town was 33 per 1,000, and the deaths from typhus averaged 47 weekly ; during last week, of the 417 deaths (at the annual rate of 45 per 1,000) 48 were referred to typhus, 26 to measles, 12 to scarlatina, and 19 were inquest cases. Whooping-cough was very fatal last week in some parts of Manchester and Birmingham. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29.685 in. The barometrical reading increased from 29.31 in. on Wednesday to 29.95 in. on Saturday. The mean temperature of the air in the week was 43.2 deg., which is 6.5 deg. above the average of the same week in 50 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher). The highest day temperature was 51.8 deg. on Thursday. The lowest night temperature was 32.2 deg. on Saturday.. The entire range of temperature in the week was, therefore, 19.6 deg. The mean of the highest temperatures of the water of the Thames was 42.7 deg. ; that of the lowest was 41.6 deg. The mean degree of humidity of the air was 84, complete saturation being represented by 100. Rain fell to the amount of 0.52 in. The general direction of the wind was south-west.  Charles Christopher Robinson was hung yesterday at Stafford. He was convicted at the recent assizes of the murder of a young girl named Seager, whose throat he cut. He was in the 19th year of his age, and had, it seems, led a dissipated life. There was a dense crowd to see the poor wretch executed. Before his death ho professed penitence.  An inquest was held yesterday in the gaol at Leeds on the body of Eli Sykes, the Batley murderer. It will be remembered that Sion after his conviction ho threw himself over the rails of some stairs in the prison, and from the injuries he received he died last Saturday. The jury returned a verdict of felo de se, and Sykes' body was interred within the precincts of the gaol last evening. MURDER OF A BISHOP IN CHlNA.—Recent accounts from Shanghae state that a Christian village north-west of Pekin had been burned down, and that the Catholic bishop who resided there had been assassinated. On learning this melancholy intelligence, the representative of France at Pekin addressed an energetic note to the Chinese Government, which promised that measures should be immediately taken to punish the authors of those crimes,