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THE PUBLIC HEALTH , ( From the Registrar-GeneraVs Report , ) ' he population of London-now ; suffers , as appears fitom ie last returns , a high , rate of mortality . Last week le deaths of 1466 persons ( 743 males and 723 females ) ere registered , showiag an increase on the previous eek , in which the . tiuttoWdr was ' 1404 .. In the ten cor * spending -weeks of the years 1845 ^ -54 the average umber was 1203 , with , which , after it is raised : by a ; nth part as an allowance for increase of , population . te present return may be compared . The deaths of st week were 143 in excess of the corrected average . Out of 300 deaths from zymdtic diseases , 19 are re- > tared , to small-pbx , 25 to measles , 63 toscari&fciha , add i toTiooping-cough . Influenza is on the increase , and ! persons died of it in the week . Bronchitis is also tal , and numbers 178 Cases , which are thus distributed '&e different periods of life- ^ 85 oceurred tin&Sr 20 are ; 21 in the period of r 20—4 ©;; 31 in ' 40—40 sars ; 78 on the next 20 years ; and 13 at 80 : years of ; e-and upwards . Pneumonia- carried of ? 139 , persons , . ot whom were less than 20 years old , while conmpiion carried off 150 , of whom nearly half wfere " 20 sars of age and under 40 . The-annual-mortality of London , except in periods of eafc epidemics , is at the rate of 31 * in 1000 among the ildren and young persons under 20 years of age , 10 in 100 among men and women of the second age ( 20—40 ) , : in 1000 among persons of the third age ( 40- —60 ) , ! in 1000 among persons of the fourth age ( 60—80 ) , d 224 in 1000 among persons of the age of 80 and wards . At these rates , the deaths at the five periods life in London wbuld be 621 , 179 , 197 , 201 , and 42 ;; d the numbers as returned last week were 680 ( in the riodO—20 ) , 193 ( 20—40 ) , 226 ( 40—60 ) , 288 ( 60—) , and 63 ( at the age of 80 and upwards ) . It is md , as the result of comparison , that the mortality is excess at the present time , that this excess runs rough all periods of life , but is chiefly remaTkable at eJmore-advanced ages . The rates of mortality which m the standard of comparison are derived from the loleyear , but the season at which we are now arrived usually the most fatal in the year , and , as the increase mortality is chiefly owing to this circumstance , these ures serve to show the influence of winter on the potation at different ages . - ¦ . ¦ — Last week the births of 881 boys and 825 girls , in all 06 children , were registered in London . In the ten responding weeks of the years 1845-54 the average raber was 1446 . " _ . ¦
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VARIETIES . QUEEN POMAItE . During the two or three ' years that Admiral Bruat nmanded on the station of Octfanie , Madame Brunt quired a certain authority over the Queen by her elligence , her education , and her knowledge of the rid , but nevertheless could never prevail on the itastic sovereign to adopt the use of shoes and stockjs . She wore the dresses sent from Paris and the adsome" head-dresses given -her by Madame-Bruat f t she walked about the salon bare-footed .
a touching appeal . ! h a recent case , Serjeant Wilkins called on the jury , most touching terms , by their verdict to restore a 3 on « r to the bosom of his wife and family , and dwelt , h great pathos on the . effect the result of the trial lild have for happiness or misery on " those who are so tr to him . When the learned serjeant sat down , > ing his forehead after his great effort , he was a little prised to learn this touching allusion to wife and ldren had been made on behalf of a bachelor . —JSIierne Mercuru .
IHK HEHAOLBA COAL MINKS . \ . correspondent of the Times says : —These mines re been since 1850 worked under the superintendence English mining engineers and with a staff of English rkmeh . The sup'inencss df the Turks and Turkish vornment has thrown great difficulties in the way , ; considerable progress hasiboen made , and , wo may - , a nucleus formed , around which we may hope that ropcan enterprise will rally , It is but too true that cupidity and chicanery of the Turkish Government sent almost insupernbito difficulties to obtaining consions ; but Lord Stratford has accomplished much . "
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M 1 SCELLANEO US . k CounT . —The Court has boon at Windsor during i week . The list of visitors includes the French Am-9 Sfldor mid the Countess of Walowski , the Earl of rdigan , Prince Erncwt of Loiningcn , Lord Ilardingo , i Duke of NowcosUe , &o .
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riiB HniAT ^ ATA . —Tho master of the Hompstend rithouso calls attention to tho fact that thcro is a
clause in the general consolidated orders of ihd Poor Law Commissioners , issued in . 1847 , by which masters of workhouses are required to admit such cases as that of the unfortunate seaman , John Williams , who died of neglect ih the Himalaya , without an order from the relieving officer . 9 ? hb Was ! DBPS&tawaarr .--iAJft <( English Officer " "writing torflte Tvnes r st * ys : "On . the 9 th of January , I went to the Duke of Newcastle ' s office in ^ Whitehallgardens , to ascertain for . an officer of a Swiss regiment the particulars Under whidh hfe application must be made for ^ n * y Into the British servfcfc tmdefr € he Foreign Enlistment Act . I . explained ray business to . tne very respectable h ^ l'ie ^ pec , , and requested to be shown to
the clerk in whose department my business lay . The answer 1 received was in so many words : — * There have " been manyappftcatidns ; but nothing is ¦ settled yet . Ht is not yet decided whether this office © t the -Secretatya , i >^ War will << ake the ^ business ; 'but , if you will write the particulars you want , and address the letter to this office , it will " be received , and answered rwhen the question is settled . ' $ TbW , sir , this act passed about the 23 rd of December , under a -statement from the Duke of Nefweastle that it was a matter of urgent necessity , and to be aeted on at Once ; so much-s © that the country was not consulted about it . Yet ,, on the 9 th of January , sixteen days after authority had been obtained for action , it is not even decided which branch of the Government shall acton it , and . no details are Settled !"
- Emote PAMPHiiKTS . —The firiequeHteia of the ^ readingrooms of the British Museum were gratified * at the reopening of the library this week , by the -appearance 6 f nine huge folio volumes labelled " King ' s Pamphlets . " This is not a catalogue , however , of the splendid collection of pamphlets , about 40 , 000 in number , which generally pass under this name , " the most valuable-set of documents , " says Thomas Carlyle , " connected with English history . " The collection contains all the most important pamphlets written during < he reign of George III . on trade , commerce , finance , ¦ ¦ administration , and politics generally . It embraces also wn immense number of tracts , placards , statutes , &c , in Dutch and French , having reference to Spanish rule in the Netherlands . To Sir . Pantezi ' s energy the public is indebted for the banquet thus set before it .
General de IiAcft EvAKS .- —A . meeting of the inhabitants of Westminster has been held , to consider what steps should be . taken for doing some honour to Sir de Lacy Evans on his return from the Crimea , A congratulatory address , will , most probably , be moved . The Blue-Uiband . — We understand that it is the intention of her Majesty to confer the vacant Blue Riband upon the Earl- of Aberdeen . —Globe . LrrmRAr , Offer . —The Governors of the Middlesex Hospital have tnade an offer to the Government to receive into that establishment forty of the sick and wounded from the seat of war . Diiudeens for the Crimea . —Mr . Leonard Sedgwick , pipemaker , of Barnsley , despatched , a day or two ago , 5000 pipes of his own manufacture to the Crimea , for the British forces there .
Djeath of General Sir Andrew Barnarix—The colonelcy of a battalion of the Rifle Brigade has become vacant by the death of General Sir Andrew Barnard , G . C . B ., and G . C . H . The gallant colonel was also lieutenant-governor of Chelsea Hospital , where he expired on Wednesday morning . Sir Andrew Barnard was one of the most gallant soldiers in the British arniy , and a noble personification of " an officer and a gentleman . " Military Arranoements . —It is stated in military circles that immediately on the reassembling of Parliament , the strength of all regiments serving in the Crimea , Greece , the Ionian Islands , Malta , and Gibraltar , is to be further increased in tho following manner , viz ., Cavalry regiments to have eight troops of ^ 100
men each , exclusive of trumpeters and farriers . Infantry regiments to muster 1600 , instead of 1400 , as previously arranged . The Rifle Brigade , and the 1 st Regiment of Foot , will hnvo a ' 8 rd battalion , consisting of 1000 mon each . A 3 rd battalion is now being raised for tho 60 th Rifles , which , as soon as it is organised and disciplined , will proceed to tho scat of war . Four more infantry regiments will proceed to the Crimea early in the spring , as noon as the militia now embodied take garrison duty . Tho cavalry regiments spoken of as about to bo sent to the seat of war , are tho 2 nd , 6 th , and 7 th Dragoon Guards , and tho 7 th Hussars and 16 th Lancers . Tho 15 th Hussars , which have recently returned from India are not to bo sent . The 10 th Hussars are on thoiT way from India to tho Crimea .
Tiik Black SkaAdmikalh . —Roar-Admiral Houston Stewart becomes second in command of Sir Edmund Lyons' fleet in tho Black Sea , and Roar-Admiral Montagu Stopford will succeod him as ndmiral-suporintondent at Malta . Death of Miss Mrrponn . —After a long period of decline and helpless suffering , cheerfully borno , tho author of " Our Village" died at Swallowflold Cottage , noar Reading , last -wook , aged , as a memorandum furnished by herself some years ago assures ti « , 07 years .. Mb . Ulaokett , M . P . —We nro glad to be able to state that Mr . J . B . Hlackett , Mil ., who has been for some time in precarious health , ia uow convalescent .
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CftWnot Councils wore liold on Tuesday and Thursy . Lord John Russell has returned from Paris .
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Leadee Gtfigb , Saturday , January 20 . THE BRITISH ARMY IKT 'THE GRTME& , The Paris correspondent ' of the IndepenMnce Beige makes the following extraordinary statement , which we give under all reserve , and with no disposition to consider it authentic . Unfbetnnately , % is too I like truth : it confirms the tenbur tit too many private letters from the camp , received within tie last few days , to be dismissed as altogether tinwordiy of notice . After mentioning the arrival in ^ aris df M . Faubert de GenBs , Aide-de-camp of General Canrdbert , with despatches for the Emperor , the correspondent adds : — " The following version of the contents of these despatches has transpired . THis Aide-de-camp was entrusted with a long memoir justifying General Canrobert against the frequent charges of indecision , SF not of incapacity . The General explains , it is said , all the difficulties which have prevented the fall of Sebastopol , and adds that if the city wereours , or at least that part of it which can betaken , our position-would be worse than it is , since it would be more difficult to maintain an exposed position in the midst of the ruins of the city than in our present encampment . Qn the other hand , the want of cavalry atid other horses . ( t 3 ir « ie thousand are required for the artillery , ere rase cattiepifgne ) has made it impossible tooffar battle to . ^ Prince Meoschikoff as soon as had been desired . General Canrobert proceeds to report that he finds himself compelled to throw part of the responsibility of these difficulties upon the British army , whose courage is above all doubt , but which , badly provisioned , wanting in vigilance , slow in its manoeuvres , unskilful in its siege works , ias Jbeen often rather an embarrassment than an assistance to the French , troops . " Private letters from Vienna say that Prince Gortschakoff has instructions to accept everything , and accede to all the Allies may demand , except the reduction -qftiie Russian fleet and the occupation of the Russian , territory . A letter from Bucharest , in the Presse of Vienna , Bays : — - " The English Consul Has remitted to Prince jStirbey a note , calling upon him to repudiate the Russian protectorate by a public act . The French Consul will send the Hospodar a similar note . " A letter from Berlin says that the gossips of the place hope for ^ peace because their-excellencies the ladies of the British and Muscovite Ministers were seen , or said to have been seen , embracing each other " with it&aswti , " in the ante-room at Baron von Manteuffel ' s last Tuesday ' s party . The wounded soldiers at Liverpool tell some amusing stories , and , moreover , give much information . Whenever the Duke of Cambridge is mentioned they , say , " Plucky fellow that . " Here is a very humourous hit : ¦—" It was hard bayonet work at Inkerman , " was remarked to a corporal of the Grenadier Guards , who had received a bayonet thrust in the chest . "No , we didn't use the bayonets so much as you thiirk . We knocked the Russians down with the butt-end of the muBket . The little fellows wouldn't . stand the bayonet , charge at all , and we were forced to humour them and keep them , from running away by knocking them about with our muskets . " A private of the 7 th Light Dragoons , whose arm has been amputated , was one of the gallant survivors of the cavalry charge at JBaloklava . " How did you feel when you got the order to advance ? " inquired a gentleman sitting on tho bed beside him . " Why , Sir , I felt as if I could jump from the saddle with ecstacy . We dashed on at a beautiful pace down the hill , and left not a moment for a countermand of orders . It was one splendidJlonrisJi of sabres . " Lord Raglan . —It is due to the Commander-in-Chief to mention that very mnny of the wounded soldiers testify to his good qualities , his undaunted bravery , and close attention to his work and to his men . " The treaty to which Sardinia has just given its adhesion , " says a letter from Turin , " is not that of tho 2 nd of December , but tho treaty concluded on tho 10 th of April between France , England , and Turkey . Tho 15 , 000 Sardinian soldiers to bo sent to tho Crimea will form part of the army of Lord Raglan . The expense of conveying them to tho scene of war will bo defrayed by tho Western Powers , but from tho moment of their lnnding in the Crimea they will bo at the charge of Sardinia . A loan of fifty millions of franc « , ii n Three per Canto ., « s guaranteed by England . Tho embarkation of these lft , oou men will take plneo very nhortly from Genoa , llua corps will form three division * , of 5000 men each , composed of cavalry , infantry , and artillery ,, and 1 wil ^ bo under tho command of ( ienon . la Durando , > ° " a m **~ movix , « nd Trotti . Colonels J ' otito and Pottinengo will ' ^^ XI ^ states that General IJJg . mldn , after having resigned tho portfolio * /«* & Affair ,, has beon appointed Licutenant-Generf ofAttillory . Many rumours are afloat ft 8 to the d « partwro of riwiiiiontcao troops for tho East ; it is believed by 1 . that ^ will take place on tho 28 th of Fobruary . M . Cibrario is spokeu of as the future Minister or Finance .
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 20, 1855, page 59, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2074/page/11/
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