The Sun. — London, England, 1866-08-22 00:00:00

THE PUBLIC HEALTH. (From the Registrar-General's Return.) General Register-office, Somerset-house, Aug. 20. In the week that ended on Saturday, Aug. 18, the births registered in London and 12 other large towns of the United Kingdom were 3,968 ; the deaths registered 3,510. The annual rate of mor tality was 30 per 1,000 persons living. In London the births of 944 boys and 927 girls, in all 1,871 children, were registered in the week. In the corresponding weeks of ten years, 1856-65, the average number, corrected for increase of popu lation, was 1,922. The deaths registered in London during the week were 1,799. It was the 33d week of the year, and the average number of deaths for that week is, with a correction for increase of population, was 1,332. The deaths in the present return exceed the esti mated number by 467. The deaths are less by 500 than the numbers re corded in the previous week. The deaths by cholera have fallen from 1,053 and 781 in the two previous weeks to 455. The decrease of deaths by the two forms of cholera and diarrhoea is absolutely greatest in childhood, but relatively greatest in man hood. Thus the deaths under the age of 20 have fallen in the week from 538 to 373, at the age of 20-40 from 175 to 121, at 40 and upwards from M to 155. Thus this epidemic explosion, which has slain in a few weeks so many people in the East, and has threatened the whole population of London, is sub siding. It has been felt in every district, but its great ravages have not yet extended beyond the original limits. The annual rate of mortality last week was 31 per 1,000 in London, 24 in Edinburgh, and 22 in Dublin; 20 in Bristol, 19 in Birmingham, 56 in Liverpool, 27 in Manchester, 27 in Salford, 25 in Sheffield, 25 in Leeds, 29 in Hull, 32 in Newcastletupon-Tyne, and 25 in Glasgow. In the borough of Liverpool, of the 518 deaths registered during last week, 157 were referred to cholera and 63 to diarrhoea. The cases of cholera showed an increase of 31 upon those returned in the previous week, while diarrhoea had declined 12. The deaths from cholera in Liverpool during the past seven weeks had been respectively 4, 19, 45, 87, 101, 126, and last week 157. The decrease in the fatality of this disease, which has been in the last fortnight so rapid in Loudon, has not yet commenced in Liverpool. Epidemic cholera does not exist in any of the other larger towns.is At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29.680 in. The barometrical reading decreased from 29.90 in. at the beginning of the week to 29.51 in. on Thursday. The mean temperature of the air in the week was 58 deg., - which is 3.5 deg. below the average of the same week in 50 years (as de termined by Mr. Glaisher). The highest day tem perature was 72.2 deg., on Saturday. The lowest night temperature was 46.9 deg., also on Saturday. The entire range of temperature in the week was, therefore, 25.3 deg. The mean of the highest tem perature of the water of the Thames was 61.4 deg. ; that of the lowest was 60.4 deg. The difference be tween the mean dew-point temperature and air tem perature was 7.3 deg. The mean degree of humidity of the air was 77, complete saturation being repre sented by 100. Rain fell to the amount of 0.62 in. The direction of the wind was variable. The blue mist was observed daily, but it was less dense than in the preceding week. MORTALITY OF TIIE SEVERAL LONDON DISTRICTS FROM CHOLERA. We may now venture to look back and draw some deductions from the facts as they are recorded in the tables for the five weeks ending Aug. 11, during which 4,454 men, women, and children died of cho lera and diarrhoea. The mortality in the five weeks has been at the rate of 37 per 1,000 living annually ; but in both the south and west districts, covered by 1,400,000 people, the mortality has scarcely exceeded the ave rage by 1 per 1,000. The annual rate of mortality by cholera was 1 in Kensington and Paddington, 0.3 in Chelsea, 0.1 in St. George's, Hanover-square, 1 in Westminster, 0.5 in St. Martin's-in-the-fields, 1.5 in St. James's, Westminster. The mortality from cholera and diarrhcea was highest in Kensington (6), and lowest (2) in St. James, Westminster, the scene formerly of the Broad-street pump mortality. The west districts are supplied chiefly by the Thames water companies, the New River supplying portions of St. James, Westminister, and St. Martin's. The mortality in the southern districts by cholera was 3 in 1,000 in St. Saviour, Southwark, 2 in St. Olave, 2 in Bermondsey, 2 in St. George, South wark, 0.3 in Newington, 1 in Lambeth, 2in Wands worth, 3 in Camberwell, 3 in Rotherhithe, 3 in Greenwich, where Mr. Glaisher has observed the fa mous "blue mist," and 0.2 in Lewisham. The mor tality by cholera and diarrhoea was highest in St. Saviour, Southwark (8), and lowest in Lewisham (1). These southern districts are generally poor, they lie low, and were decimated by cholera in the epidemics of 1849 and 1854, where the impure water of the tidal Thames was distributed. Their water is now drawn above Teddington lock from the Thames. The five north districts fared nearly as the central districts ; the mortality by cholera wazo.s in Mary lebone, 0.4 in Hampstead, 1.2 in Pancras, 1.9 in Islington, and 4.9 in Hackney ; the mortality by cholera and diarrhcea was lowest in Hampstead (3) and highest in Hackney (8). These districts are chiefly supplied bythe New River, one of the Thames companies, and a portion of Hackney, it is believed, from the Lea-bridge reservoir of the East London Company. The dense Central Districts are, some of them, such as St. Luke's, remarkable for poverty ; others, such as the City of London within the walls, for their wealth. The mortality by cholera was at the rate of 1 per 1,000 in St. Giles's, 2 in the Strand, 0 in Holbo rn ( w hi c h appears to return all its cases as diarrhcea), 1 in Clerkenwell, 1 in St. Luke, 7 in East London, 7 in W es t London, and 2 in the City district ; from c h o l era and diarrhoea the mortality was highest in the City without the walls 10 • and St. Giles,. 9 ; lowest in th e C i ty within ' the ' walls 3. The whole of the Cent ra l Di stricts are supplied by the New River, which draws part of its supply from the Lea river and part from springs. The East London Company enters the city sub-district in pt. Botolph, where a few deaths from cholera have been registered. There are seven districts in the east ; the mortality by cholera in the poor district of Shoreditch was at the annual rate of 4, by cholera and diarrhozsa 8 in 1,000 ; five of its sub-districts are supplied by the New River, one partially, and one wholly by the East London, probably from Lea-bridge. In the restof the East Districts the mortality by cholera was at very different rates ; it was at the rate of 39 per 1,000 in Bethnal-green, 50 in Mile-end Old Towii, 60 in St. George-in-the-East, 70 in White chapel, including deaths in the Londo n Hospital from other eastern districts, 70 in Poplar and Bow, and 80 in Stepney. Bethnal-green is one of the P 3() rest districts of London, if we may judge ud e by the • a a n u n d latt a eo r f e the houses ; but the people of Bow notconspicuous for poverty. Th e whole of th ese districts, where the mortality from cholera wa s from 30 either in th e to 40 fold hi g h er th an it was west wereor the central, in the north or the south of London, Losupplied with water from the Old Ford re servoir nd r ou is divided into 37 dis tricts ; six districts are sllppebd from Old Ford, and every one has been ravagedsix wee ?: cholera ; the other 31 districts have for suffered slightly. The 37 districts are s ubdivided t s he into aa 135 sub-dis tricts; 21 are .supplied with the water, and have all suffered six weeks in succession sub districts have suffered inconsiderabl y, Botolph and a few other districts, where th t e inSt. water has crept in, and the mortality is same. partially swollen. - - - By the doctrine of chances it is impossible that the coincidence between this particular water and the high mortality should be fortuitous, in 135 cases, during six weeks in succession. The induction extends over all the area of obser vation in previous epidemics, where sewage water has so often led to cholera outbreaks. The persistence of the epidemic in the East Londcn districts is no proof that the supply of the company is now worse than that of other companies, as its effects on the place and on the population only sub side slowly. This great lesson should be takento h art by every water company and every community in the king dom. Unclean water cannot be consumed with impunity ; its consumption is the sin of which cholera is the punishment. THE CHOLERA. MANSION HOUSE RELIEF COMMITTEE. Up to last evening the Mansion-house Committee had made grants amounting in all to £4,050 in the last fortnight to local committees towards relieving the distress in the various districts in the metropolis infected with the prevailing epidemic, and they have reason to believe that the money has been, and is still being, judiciously dispensed in mitigating the suffering among hundreds of the poorest poor who have been, in one shape or other, its victims, and that the disease has thereby been sensibly arrested. They continue to devote themselves to the work, meeting for that purpose from day to day. At 1 o'clock a meeting of the Working Commit tee was held at the Mansion-house, the Lord Mayor in the chair, there being also present Sir Mordaunt Wells, the Rev. William Rogers, the Rev. F. G. Blomfield, Mr. Charles Hutton, Mr. H. W. Ripley, Mr. A. Johnston, Mr. Alderman Cotton, Mr. R. N. Fowler, Mr. Samuel Hoare, and Mr. W. J. Maxwell. The LORD MAYOR took occasion to say that when the fund was set on foot they did notknow the extent to which it might go. They had thought it would be best administered through the agency of local committees, and such committees had on the sugges tion of the Mansion-house Committee been formed in various parts of the infected districts, and were doing a great deal of practical good. To these committees that at the Mansion-house had made preliminary grants of money, telling them at the same time to come again if more should be wanted to relieve the prevailing distress, and many of them had availed themselves of that invitation, and had received additional grants, proportionate to the apparent need. He wished it to be generally known to the local committees that if they wanted more money, the Mansion-house Committee were prepared to make further grants from week to week so long as there was any distress to relieve. He thought it desirable that should be publicly known, because he observed that the Rev. Mr. Driffield, the rector of Bow, in a letter written in a temperate, gentlemanly spirit to the news papers, while acknowledging the assistance given by the Mansion-house Committee to the local com mittee for that district, of which he is chairman, had called attention to an advertisement soliciting public subscriptions towards a fund they were raising in that locality. He (the Lord Mayor) thought there was hardly any necessity for such a step, seeing that the Mansion-house Committee were prepared to give, to the extent it might appear to them to be wanted, more money to the local committee of that or any other district for distri bution among cholera patients and their families. The treasurer, chairman, and members of the committee of the Great Northern Hospital applied for a grant. The hospital, they said, had a large and energetic medical staff, and a devoted band of trained nurses who night and day cheerfully attend to the cholera cases. Separate wards are set aside, and special arrangements have been made from the moment the sad epidemic appeared. The hospital is in the centre of a poor and populous district, teeming with men, women, and children employed in the numerous railway works and factories, also in canal and manufacturing occupations. Im mediate relief is granted to every poor person with out ticket or recommendation, and since the out break of cholera the indoor and outdoor depart ments are never without a large succession of poor creatures begging relief. The Committee made a grant to the hospital of £lOO. A deputation from Bishopsgate, at the head of which was Mr. Stapleton, a Common Councilman, attended before the Committee. Although they said the cholera had not visited the parish as heavily as some parts of London further east, it had not been free from its attacks, and there had been also a vast amount of diarrhoea, among the poor. It was there fore in precautioaary measures that their chief ex penses had been incurred. At the very first appre hension of the epidemic their society threw open, on its own responsibility, the doctors' shops, and arranged with the chief medical men among them for the visitation of the sick. All the cases had in that way been promptly attended to. Nourishment had also been distributed under medical direction to all those threatened by or recovering from choleraic disease who were too poor to procure necessary sup port for themselves. The committee voted them £75 and ten gallons of port wine. From a communication made yesterday to thecom mittee it appears that great distress has prevailed among the Roman Catholic people in Spitalfields and the neighbourhood since the outbreak of cholera. No less than 125 cases had come under the notice of the Rev. J. Rocher, the Catholic clergyman of St. Anne, in that district, during the last foul. weeks, many of which had proved fatal, and numbers of families had been thrown into a state of complete destitution, some of them being deprived even of the common necessaries of life. The committee granted Mr. Rocher, who attended with the mem bers of a local committee he had formed, £5O and 10 gallons of port wine, to be distributed among his own people suffering from cholera. The Rev. W. RODGERS, Rector of Bishopsgate, and a member of the committee, called attention to the necessity of establishing places temporarily where poor convalescents from cholera could be housed and treated in fresh air, if possible, away from their miserable homes, until they had completely re covered. He had reason to know that Mr. John Abel Smith was prepared to take a leading part in such a movement, and an offer had been made to the committee by a benevolent gentleman of a large .unoccupied brewery in Whitechapel or the Com mercial-road for a given time, for such a purpose, or as an auxiliary cholera hospital. The difficulty in carrying out a project of that kind lay in the repugnance which some people had to the esta blishment, even for a time, of cholera hospitals or houses for convalescents near their abodes. In Bishopsgate they had a very good refuge for cholera patients, but the local authorities wanted a place for the treatment of convalescents in fresh air, and with that vices sent a man to see a place near Ho merton, which they thought might suit. On his errand being known, however, he was received with a kind of howl, and the aborigines or native savages there positively pelted him, (Laughter.) He now asked Dr. Clark, a member of the Committee, whe ther it would do to have a convalescent home in the building in Commercial-road, which had been offered the Committee. Dr. A NDREW CLARK, physician to the London Hospital, replied that any convalescent hospital would be better than none ; but if they could have it in a rural district, it would be infinitely better. if the building in Commercial-road could be adapted to the purpose, and proper attention were given to diet, and especially to the space allotted to each patient, that would be a far preferable arrangement to returning patients recovering from the disease, on leaving the London Hospital, to their own homes. It was a fact that for a certain time after convales cence the discharges of a person who had been afflicted with cholera were still capable of propagat ing the disease. That being so, it was important not to send such persons to their own homes; where they might become foci for disseminating the poison ; but to a convalescent hospital, where the discharges might be easily disinfected. It was a pity it should not be publicly known that it was quite possible, provided all the requisite hospital precautions were taken, to send 100 cholera patients into a particular district and not do any harm to the neighbourhood. The sum received at the Mansion-house yesterday towards the fund amounted to upwards of £4OO, and among the subscriptions were Mr. Peter Maze, per Barnett, Hoare, and Co. Daniel and C o. , £100; Messrs. Thomas Madame Z , per M r . H . W. Ripley, £5O ; arifi, £5O ; Mr. Leonidas Zarifi, £1010s.; Messrs. Goad, Rigg, and Co. Montagu, and C o . , £ 5 O; Messrs. S amue l, , £2O ; M. N., Dalgety, Ducroz, and C o ., £2l ; collection at St. 120 ; Messrs. Peter's, Pimlico, through the Rev. Thomas Fuller, THE • SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 22, 1866. £29 18s. 3d. ; Mr. George Smith, per Child and Co., £2l; the assistants of Messrs. W. Tarn and Co., Newington-causeway, £8 18s. 6d ; the cadets of the trg Lining ship Worcester, through Mr. G. Whitby, if; 14s. 6d. Messrs. E. Robins and Son, of Brighton Distillery, have placed at the disposal of the com mittee a pipe of port wine ; Messrs. Atkinson, of Westminster-bridge-road, 12 complete sets of bed ding ; and Mr. A. M'Dougall, a laxge assortment of disinfectants. The following is the return of deaths from cholera and diarrhoea registered on Monday, Aug. 20 : Cholera. Diarrhcea. West districts 5 North districts ... 3 ... 6 Central districts—. ... 7 ... 2 East districts ... 52 7 South districts ... 8 ......9 Total ... ... 70 ... 29 Tho return for the sub-district of Eltham was not re ceived in time for publication. STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER, Aug. 21.—The market for shipping yarns has been very quiet to-day, and to make sales rather lower prices would have to be taken. Spinners hold rather firmly to their quotations for most de scriptions of these yarns, and the market closes de cidedly tame. Sellers of home-trade yarns describe all kinds as quieter, and rather lower in' price. The yarn-market generally may be described as flat. In cloth the lower rates for money appear to haw had little influence, and have failed entirely to produce the improvement that was expected to have attended the change. We have had a very languid inquiry for all makes of cloth this week, and purchases have been small. Prices have gradually weakened, and to-day sellers quote some reduction on the rates of last Tuesday. Some low offers are made by buyers, but mostly involving too great a reduction to meet with acceptance. A rather limited business only has been done, and sellers mostly find prices against them. Messrs. John Slagg and Co., in reporting the cloth-market of to-day, observe :—" The recent reduction of the Bank rate has somewhat disap pointed general expectation in its influence on this market, and neither prices nor demand seem to have received any stimulus from this cause. The busi ness of the week has been most limited, and though the very low offers of to-day have not found general acceptance, we close with decidedly weaker prices." CARDIFF, 20th.—There is no change to note in the steam coal trade of the district. It continues to be characterised by much briskness, and opera tions both at the collieries and at the docks were carried on with a great deal of spirit. The require ments on home account for steam coal are increas ing, and an extensive trade is being done with Bir kenhead and the London and Midland markets. The coalfields in the neighbourhood of Caerphilly are being opened up, and at Llantisrant fresh collieries are in operation. The house coal trade has moved a little, and there is a tolerably good business doing coastwise. In the iron trade things are looking more cheerful. The reduction in therate of discount has instilled a greater feeling of confidence, and parties begin to consider that the worst is past. There was an improvement in the receipt of orders during last week, but not to any great extent. The importa tion of iron ore has been large, but the exports of iron were under the average. LEEDS, 21st.—For a Tuesday's market there has been a satisfactory amount of business done to-day in the cloth-halls. The attendance of both buyers and sellers was rather more than on this day se'night, and the tone of the market more cheerful. The goods purchased were such as have for some time been the most saleable, including various kinds of Meltons, Whitneys, beavers, and broad tweeds, with ordinary all-wool black cloths. In the white cloth-hall a moderate amount of busi ness was done in hair lists, and a fair quantity of winter goods changed hands. Prices of both wools and goods are firm. The flax trade is rather dull, but manufacturers keep tolerably well employed. The stocks of yarns are in a moderate compass, not being beyond an average amount. Prices are steady, both for the raw material and for yarn. NOTTINGHAM, 21st.—At our Exchange-hall to day there was only a moderate attendance, and the demand for lace yarns was slow at about the rates of last week. For hosiery yarns the inquiry con tinues steady at fully late prices. For brown nets the demand was slow, and prices were similar- to those of last week. ROCHDALE, 20th.—The flannel trade is rather im proving. There is more doing than of late for the Continent. Fancy flannels and middle-priced goods are most in request, and the manufacturers aro well employed. Heavy goods, and a:so the very finest qualities, are rather slow of sale. To-day's mar kets have been steady as to prices, and a moderate business has been done, but the day being a partial holiday, being known as " Wakes Monday," there was less than the usual attendance of both buyers and sellers. The Yorkshire goods trade is not very active, but it is quite as good as we have lately had to report it. Not much wool has changed hands to-day, but prices are firm. The Fatal Collision off the Suffolk Coast. The returns of the missing on Monday numbered 11 passengers, besides the loss of three of the crew, but from what has since transpired it is feared the number must have been about 24 or 26. The body of one of the saloon cabin passengers, aged 14, son of the Rev. Mr. Bird, of near Hull, was washed ashore on the coast near Aldborough. He was put on board along with his younger brother at Hull by his father, and a female relative was travelling with them to see them to their school n ear Chatham. The latter were both saved. They were picked up after the steamer had sunk, along with another passenger, by the boat of the schooner Perseverance, which landed them at Yarmouth. The steward of the Bruiser recollects laying hold of the little fellow as belay in the saloon, and placing him with his brother on the bridge. He concluded that they had been dragged up on board the Haswell, but it is now clear that they must have gone down with the vessel. His brother and his female companion when hauled out of the sea were insensible, and it was with dif ficulty the youth was restored to consciousness. A woman named Sarah Bell, the wife of a sailor, is among those lost. She had her daughter with her, seven years old. They were on their way to Lon dan to meet the father, whose vessel was expected home every day. The child was saved ; but how, uo one could tell. The two boys, fore cabin pas sengers, known to have sunk in the steamer, were at the time of the collision asleep under one of the boats, which was crushed in two by the Haswell's bows. One of the little fellows had with him an accordion, which he played to the passengers the previous evening, and afforded them some amuse ment. Their names, or where they belonged to, are unknown. The same remark applies to the woman who was crushed to death in the starboard bow. It has been ascertained that the ill-fated steamer was sunk in 14 or 16 fathoms of water, about four miles north of Sizewell-bank. Off Aldborough se veral boats have brought in from the spot a quan tity of her wreckage, one of her lifeboats, together with a quantity of passengers' luggage and ladies' bonnets, capes, dresses, parasols, children's wearing apparel, toys, &c., which were found floating for miles off the coast. The directors of the General Steam Navigation Company were engaged many hours yesterday mak ing a searching investigation into the circumstances attending the collision and the sinking of the Bruiser. Capt. Harty, the chief mate, and the whole of her crew, were called before them and examined at con siderable length. Their statements, we understand, fully bore out the details which have been published in reference to the accident. Every precaution was l taken on board in attending to their lights during the night and seeing that they were properly trimmed and burnt brightly, and this is admitted by the se cond mate of the Haswell, whose watch it was on deck, as he admits that he saw the Bruiser's lights , full 20 minutes before the collision. From the mo ment the Haswell was first seen from the Bruiser she was supposed to be a sailing vessel at anchor, with her mast-head exhibited. All the crew of the Bruiser who were on deck at the time assert posi tively that no other light was visible from the Has well until they were close on to her, when they could just discern a dim green light. The Bruiser had already starboarded her helm to go northward of her, and almost instantly afterwards the collision took place. The company yesterday forwarded a report to the Marine Department of the Board of Trade. The number of lives lost are given as 14, but it states that some others may have gone down in the vessel. The following are the names of the passengers who were rescued on board the Haswell :—Mr. Dewhurst (wife lost), Alfred Rust, John Bellings by, William Liston, Mrs. Gorbold and son, George Rook, Sergeant Glinton, John Webber, Alfred Moseley, Robert Neal, Thomas Cooper, Frank Buchanan, James Cousins, Robert Green, Thomas Seagrave, George Blackburn, D. Holmes, George Young, William Dickinson and wife, M. Bomijos, John Thompson, Benjamin Bennett, William Jack, G. Jose, J. Romoin, J. Menwell, William Hill, C. Appell, G. Appell, J. Mountain, William Jennin, Thomas Johnson, Abraham Wilkie, Alfred Godson, W. Nephore, Mr. Toft, Henry Plesset, E. Finch, Mr. Crannis and wife, William Ash, F. Booty, J. Fisher, John Harrison, G. Leeson, John Cliff, John Halliday and sister, John Weatherhead, John Watson, Joseph Fry, John Dolmard, James Gris son, E. Ellis and wife, J. Middleton (boy), C. Chapman, H. C. Sun, Mrs. Tremblin, Miss Lavinia Welch, Mary Ann Watson, Mrs. Cradick, Mrs Knox (husband drowned), Catherine Hodges, George Honsett, staff-sergeant, with five recruits, Owen Italy, John Milton, Michael M'Mahin, William Pritchard, and Peter Hannin. Miss Bell, a little girl, and her mother, Mrs. Sarah Bell, were drowned. This amounts, in all, to 73 passengers who were saved by the Haswell, exclusive of one man, one lady, and a child picked up by the Per severance. We are informed that the owners of the screw stgamer Haswell are Messrs. Hugh Taylor and others, and not, as before stated, the General Steam Iron Screw Collier Company. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST. The half-yearly general meeting of this company was held yesterday at the International Hotel, Lon don-bridge ; Mr. P. N. Laurie, the chairman, pre sided. The report, an abstract of which has appeared in The Sun, was taken as read. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said that in making remarks on it he would follow the example of his highly-esteemed predeces sor, Mr. L. Schuster. The capital account had been increased by a considerable amount during the half year to carry on the new works in course of con struction, which amount had brought an additional 1 charge on the revenue. They were proceeding as I gradually as they could with the works in conse quence of the astringency of the money-market. The revenue account for the past half-year showed an increase in the receipts of £32,844 as compared with the corresponding half of 1865. They had carried 545,946 more passengers, and an increased quantity of goods of 98,000 tons.. But from the unfavourable weather, the stringency of the money market, and the sensitiveness of their passenger traffic the receipts had not been so large as they might have been under more favourable circum stances. A wet day generally had a depressing effect on the traffic to the Crystal Palace, and also in re spect of families going to Brighton. Inclement weather always affected their traffic more or less ; the recent state of the money-market had also an unfavourable effect in preventing pleasure traffic on their line to a certain extent. He regretted that the increase in the receipts had been more than swal lowed up by the increase in the working expenses. The trains had run an additional mileage of 308,000 miles during the past half-year as compared with ' the same half of 1865, which, of course, had in volved considerable expense. That extra mileage did not arise from an extension of their system, but from a desire for excessive speed and extra train accommodation. The next item of increased expen diture arose from the question of wages. The rate of wages had increased all over the country, and it was impossible for them to contend against the addi tional payment that had taken place, not only on 1 railways, but in all commercial establishments. When he told them that the ' number of persons employed by the company was 7,500, at various rates of wages, they would readily perceive that any increase of pay must amount in the aggregate to a very large sum. They had also gone to a great ex pense for an improved mode of signalling on the main line. They had, therefor e , b ot h i n t h e i r own interest and those of the public, which were iden tical, largely extended the block system of ;working trains over their lines; so that no train should be allowed to leave one station until a train before it on the same line of rails had left the next station ahead of it. The additional expenses of working during the half-year amounted to £43,000 more than for the corresponding half of 1865. Probably the increased expenditure resolved itself into three heads. One might be considered a permanent in crease, including wages and the price of materials. The second was not permanent, as it related to the occasional repairs of machinery and the interest of money. He trusted they should be soon enabled to borrow money or renew debentures at much easier rates than had prevailed for sometime past. He did not look at this matter as permanent, but subject to fluctuation. As to the direct expenses, there was a considerable opening for very useful improvements and economy. During the six months ending the 30th of June, 1865, the receipts per train mile amounted to ss. 2id., while in the past half-year they amounted to 4s. 9id. per train mile. The working expenses were 2s. 7id. for the former period, against 2s. Bd. per train mile for the past half-year. Deducting the expenses from the re ceipts in the corresponding half of 1865, there re mained a profit on the working of 2s. 7d. per train mile, while for the past half-year there remained only 2s. lid. per train mile, showing a falling off in the net receipts of 54d. per train mile. The result of a consultation with his colleagues on this matter showed that the company were running a number of trains far in excess of the legitimate requirements of the traffic. This was a proper sub ject for consideration and the exercise of economy. They found that the present train service would ac commodate double the amount of the traffic they had. They were perfectly satisfied that the require ments of the public might be fully met by running a less number of trains. They had, to save five or ten minutes, put on additional local trains, in order to facilitate through traffic between London and Brighton. They were, no doubt, a great company, but, after all, they were only carriers, and must therefore deal with their business as commercial men. The public interest and their own were iden tical, but they found that the luxurious train ser vices they had indulged in were far in excess of the requirements of the public. On Sept. 1 they would commence a service that no doubt would meet with all the public requirements, and at the same time considerably reduce the company's expenses. He then alluded to the Parliamentary proceedings in sanction given to the London, Lewes, and Brighton the past Session, particularly that relating to thei scheme, after having been rejected by three previous decisions in Parliament. All the sacrifices the com pany had heretofore made by the adoption of low rates had been ignored ; and the uncertainty of Par liamentary decisions on railway bills was thus ren dered still more perplexing. In his early days he had attended before Parliamentary committees profes sionally, and found that they often decided questions on railway bills without any reference to the evi dence before the m , b u t mere ly from political, econo mical, or other views. In the last Session it would have saved the company a great deal of money if the committee had given their decision in the first instance when the Bill came before them. He then adverted to the financial and other positions of the principal p romoters of the L on d on , L ewes , an d Brighton R a il way, w h ich ha d b een rec e n tly sane toned. H e th oug h t it very doubtful whether it would ever be made. He did not believe that the public would sub scr ib e any mone y to carry out such a scheme. Th e l ength of the pro p ose d li ne , w ith gradients of 1 i n 1 00, was 56 miles, against their line, 50i mile s , w i t h grad i ents o f 1 i n 264. Th e proposed line would have 10 miles of tunnels against the company's present line of 4 or 5 miles of tunnels. They could, therefore, never compete with them successfully either as to speed or comfort. The Committee on the bill had, however, decided that the Brighton and South Coast Company should have the right to use the Cannon-street and Charing cross stations of the South-Eastern Company, but he thought the present authorised metropolitan ter mini of the company were amply sufficient. They had greatly improved the London-bridge station ; the Victoria at Pimlico would soon have three lines of way completed to it, and be everything they could desire to facilitate the company's traffic ; and they would also have the use of the Ludgate station. He then adverted to the various lines they had in course of construction. Their South London line had re cently been opened for traffic, and when completed it would yield a considerable return on the outlay. The first week they carried 25,000 passengers over it, and in a short time it would carry tenfold that amount of traffic. The bills promoted by the com pany in last Session of Parliament were for defen sive purposes to repel the aggression of other com panies, and, on the whole, they had succeeded very well, with the exception of the London, Lewes, and Brighton scheme. The company would have by the end of the year three lines to Brighton by as many routes in their system, so he left the proprietors to imagine what chance the fourth line to Brighton would stand for traffic. He regretted that the dividend had been temporarily reduced ; but he could assure the meeting that no effort on the part of the directors would be wanting to develope the resources of the company, and of the new lines now in course of construction, some of which would soon be ready for traffic. He hoped when they met at the next half-yearly meeting they would have a satisfactory result placed before them. Many of the lines constructed by the company were cheaply made, and would pay a fair return on the outlay, and those they had purchased were worth what they had given for them. They had now in hand all the projects they had contemplated, and they had no idea of any more new lines. Ile thought it must be a very tempting scheme, indeed, that would induce them to go any further, except with a view to defend the property of the company. (11th, hear.) He concluded by moving the adop tion of the report. Colonel BARTTELOT, M.P., a director, seconded the motion. A long and rather personal discussion en sued, in which Mr. Burton, Mr. Schuster, the Rev. Mr. Langdale, Mr. Cohen, Mr. Wright, Mr. Adams, and other shareholders took part, respect ing the large increase in the capital account, the probable effect the operation of so many new lines coming into play would have on the future divi dends of the company, and as to the practicability of reducing the working expenses. The CHAIRMAN replied to the various observa tions. He said that the law and Parliamentary expenses of last session would go to capital account, and not be charged against revenue. The officers and servants of the company were not allowed to carry on coal or any other business on the com pany's lines, to interfere with the regular traders in the towns or places served by the company. A saving had been effected on the suggestion of Mr. Cohen by the more extensive use of coal in working the engines ; the directors had no desire whatever to extend the company's system ; they only wished to repel aggression and protect the company's property. The traffic receipts on the line for the past year amounted to £1,082,000, of which £228,000 consisted of traffic between London and Brighton; 273,000 suburban traffic. The Brighton traffic for the past half-year amounted to £lOO,OOO, and the London suburban traffic to £142,000. The directors, being unwilling to call upon the shareholders for additional capital during the late panic, had borrowed on temporary loans £645,000, by the deposit of £616,000 of 5 per cent. preference stock. They wished to complete their works and to live in peace with their neighbours. Resolutions were unanimously passed adopting the report, declaring a dividend of 2 per cent. on the ordinary stock of the company for the past half year ; authorizing the conversion of certain paid-up £5 shares into ordinary stock, and of certain other -£.5 preference shares into preference stock ; Mr. W. Cash was elected an auditor in the room of Mr. J. Filcher, deceased. The meeting was then made special, and the di rectors were authorized to issue £90,000 4 per cent. stock for the purchase of the Mid-Sussex and Mid hurst Railway ; to subscribe £500,000 towards the construction of the Surrey and Sussex Railway ; and also to raise £442,500 for other undertakings, making together £1,166,000 of additional capital ; also power to raise money on debenture stock. The proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks to the chairman and directors. NORTHERN AND EASTERN. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held yesterday at the offices, Bishopsgate Station ; Mr. Kennard, M.P., in the chair. The report was taken as read. It recommended the payment of the following dividends :—£l ss. on each £5O share guaranteed by 5 per cent. per an num, and £1 10s. on each £5O share guaranteed 6 per cent. per annum, less property-tax. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of those dividends, said the warrants were all signed, and would be issued when they became due. The motion for the adoption of the dividends was carried unanimously. Mr. Kennard, M.P., was re-elected a director, and a vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the proceedings. BLYIII AND TYNE The half-yearly general meeting of this company was held in Newcastle-on-Tyne, on Monday; Mr. J. Laycock in the chair. The report was read by Mr. Armstrong, the secre tary, in which the directors congratulated the com pany on the steady increase in all branches of traffic. The permanent way, as also the rolling stock and other plant of the company, had been maintained in a state of efficiency. The Tynemouth station and new goods warehouse at North Shields had been completed, and a commencement had been made with the new station and goods warehouse at Blyth The gross revenue for the half-year was £60,257, and the expenditure, including way leaves and in terest, £39,805, leaving a balance of £20,452 ap plicable to dividend, out of which the directors re commended the payment of dividends at the rate of 10 per cent, on the 10 per cent, preference stock and the ordinary stock and shares of the company, and 5 per cent, on the 5 per cent, preference stock and shares, which would leave a small balance. The CHAIRMAN moved the adoption of the report. He said that the earnings of the company had con siderably exceeded those of the preceding half-year. But there was one thing to counterbalance this statement —wages and the price of material bad greatly increased ; and he explained the difficulty there would be in bringing the expenditure down again, even supposing there should be a decrease of traffic. Mr. J. GREY seconded the motion, which was carried. The dividend recommended in the report was agreed to, and the proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks to the chairman and directors. RIIYMNEY. The report of the directors of this company states that the expenditure on capital account during the past half-year ending the 30th of June last amounted to £12,091. The increase in the traffic receipts amounted to £5,344 as compared with the corre sponding half of 1865. The directors recommended a dividend at the rate of 3 per cent. per annum on the ordinary stock, leaving a balance of £96. The most difficult portions of the Cardiff and Caerphilly Railway were in progress, and no delay would be allowed to occur in carrying on the works. By the company's Act passed in the late Session of Parlia ment authority had been given to construct the junction line, near Caerphilly, between their rail way and the Brecon and Merthyr Railway ; also power to deviate and improve portions of other lines. Clauses had been introduced giving running powers to other railway companies over the low-level line of the company's Bute Dock branch at Cardiff, on pay ment of the tolls therein mentioned.. The capital account showed that .£544,098 had been expended, leasing a balance of £16,684 against the company. The revenue account for the half year ending the 30th of June showed that £33,863 had been received and £14,621 expended, leaving a balance of £19,239. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Tl3lEs.—The evidence adduced at the inquest upon the people who were killed by the fall of a house near Holborn has abundantly explained the cause of the disaster. In the first place, notwithstanding the assertion of the landlords in a letter addressed to us, it was proved that an important beam had really been removed as much as 16 months ago. The house was very old, and there was a support between it and an opposite house in Hatton-garden. This had rotted away, and had never been replaced. But it was further proved that the house was in an utterly dilapidated condition from top to bottom. According to the occupier of the opposite house in Hatton-garden the walls were "completely rotten." " The water used to come down from the gutters and bring the mortar down, and there were cracks in the wall." Some of the bricks were bulging out and others bulging in ; the parapet was overhang ing, and " the whole looked dangerous." A man who had once lodged in the house, although not summoned, requested to be sworn, and it is signifi cant that one of the landlords endeavoured to pre vent his giving evidence. He had once taken a room in the house while on a job in the neighbourhood, and lie suffered for it by his wife becoming injured for life. His room was a " parlour," and there was a large hole in the floor, through which his wife fell as well as the woman who was killed the other day. There was " a constant rattling like of mortar be tween the wainscoting ; and the deceased woman re marked more than once that if they did not get out they should be buried alive." In short, it is won derful that the house remained standing so long. Such being the facts, the public will inquire what possible excuse can be offered for the landlords to whom the house belonged, or for the surveyor whose duty it was to have seen that a house in such a dangerous position was repaired. As for the landlords, one can only wonder at the effrontery they have ventured to display. They cannot even urge the miserable plea that they were not acquainted with the condition of their property. The occupier of the house in Hatton-garden, whose evidence we have quoted, had called attention to the house"more than two or three times," and had told one of the land lords, 15 months ago, " that it would most likely fall down and somebody be killed." The landlord on this occasion had himself looked at it, and had walked away without giving an answer. The poor man whose wife was injured had repeatedly appealed to the agent to mend the hole in his room, but it was neglected from November until Whitsun Saturday, and the repair was then only done after the injury had been inflicted on his wife. "The landlords," he said, " would not do anything to the place ;" and they appear to have added insult to their neglect. The letter, indeed, which they addressed to us was itself sufficiently unfeeling. It did - not contain a single expression of regret, and the writers seemed rather to feel as if they were the persons injured, and that it was very hard on them that a house on which they had spent three years ago an eighth part of £BOO should have occasioned them so much incon venience. It is, no doubt, provoking that their en deavours to spend as little money as they possibly could should have been so signally defeated; but the public will reflect that it is the duty of landlords to regard some other interests besides that of their own pockets, and that humanity and decency would have prompted a very different feeling at such a time. But, negligent as the landlords have shown them selves, a still more severe censure must be passed upon the surveyor. This person displays a perfect unconsciousness that he has any responsibility in the matter, although he had no other office but to pre vent the occurrence of such an accident. He does not betray the least sense that the calamity itself convicts him of a failure in his duty. The mere fact of the house having fallen reflects the strongest cen sure on him. Either he could not see the dangerous condition of the house, in which case he is unfit for his office ; or he saw it, and paid no attention to it, in which case he has been guilty of culpable neglect. From a remark which he made that " a house might fall down from sonic latent defect," we might be disposed to adopt the former alternative ; but in the fact of the evidence which was offered we are astonished at the audacity of such an excuse. It was shown that the walls were cracking and bulging, that the parapet was overhanging, and that an im portant beam had been removed, while it was only necessary to go inside in order to see that the house was perfectly rotten, and these are what this sur veyor calls " latent defects !" He, too, had not been left to his apparently natural indifference, but had been frequently appealed to respecting the house. One witness had " complained to the clerk of the district surveyor two or three times that the house would be sure to fall down, but nothing was done in consequence of those complaints." Ile him self acknowledged that a witness had appealed to him more than three years ago. That landlords should be blinded by their own greed, and should " do nothing except take the rent," is, unhappily, not unnatural; but surveyors are expressly appointed for no other purpose than to prevent dangerous con structions, and to see that dilapidated houses are rendered at least safe. After such evidence, and in the face of such considerations, the verdict of the jury must appear strangely inadequate. The verdict - was " accidental death," and " the jury are of opinion that there was a want of proper attention on the part of the landlords, in not replacing the beam, or strut, which had fallen down 16 months ago, and which had evidently supported the walls at the side of the house." The Coroner had directed the jury that the evidence " was not such as to make the landlords criminally responsible ;" but we must, nevertheless, observe that the deaths, properly speaking, were not " accidental " at all. They are due, indeed, to what is commonly called "an accident," but to au accident which was foreseen three ye ars ago, w hi c h m i g ht h ave been easily prevented, and which it was the duty of three persons to prevent. We have nothing to say upon the legal aspect of the case, but the deaths were directly due to perverse neglect on the part of the landlords and the surveyor, and these persons must be considered morally responsible. Yet 'the jury have not a word to say to the surveyor, and are content to charge the landlords with a want of proper attention in one particular. There was, in reality, an absolute want of any attention to the condition of the house, and, moreover, an absolute want of proper feeling towards the persons who had suffered by such neglect. The least the land lords could now do would be to compensate the poor people whom they have thus deprived of their mise rable shelter and of those few sticks of furniture which form what they call their "home." The case furnishes an excellent instance of the sort of conduct on the part of landlords and surveyors which frus trates every effort of the Legislature to improve the houses of the poor. The persons who, for the most part, hold this miserable property have no other thought than that of getting as much and spending as little as they possibly can, and the surveyors are apt to shirk the unpleasantness and the difficulty of compelling such landlords to do their duty. In time, moreover, the surveyor becomes hardened to the wretchedness and neglect he everywhere observes, and consoles himself, like the survey or at this in quest, by reflecting that " half-a-million houses in London" are in the same condition. It is to this also that we owe the grievous sanitary defects to which the cholera has recently attracted our atten tion, and we may hope that the stringent Act of the last Session will have a general effect in improv ing the condition of such houses. But no law can be effectual if every one shirks its provisions, and if no one willsee that it is properly carried out. It is of the utmost importance, therefore, that such cases of neglect as the one upon which we have been com menting should meet with fitting animadversion, not only at the hands of the press, but of juries. The responsibility of landlords and surveyors must not be shuffled off upon the vague excuse of "accident." HERALD.--Odd things as emperors and kings do nowadays, it was very difficult to believe that the Emperor of the French had written to the King of the Belgians the " autograph letter of a reassuring character" attributed to him by an omniscient tele graphic agent. Napoleon the Third is not weak enough to accept the reputation which people may, choose to give him, and because they credit him with an intention to appropriate a portion of Bel gium, hasten to assure the Belgian Government that he meditates no such dishonest act. The only ground for such a letter would have been some ap peal from the King of "the Belgians ; and his Bel gian Majesty, although a young sovereign, must be taken to have common sense enough of his own, o r to have enough at his command in his Cabinet, no t to anticipate such an evil, and invite France to despoil him by entreating her not to do it until she manifests sonic intention of the kind. It is the policy of Belgium to assume the good faith and friendliness of France. Distrust and suspicion would do her no good, and up to the present time she has had no reason for giving way to them. The Mold teur now tell us that our incredulity was perfectly justified. The Emperor has not written to the King of the Belgians, and declared " his desire to pro mote on every occasion the interests of the Bel g i an dynasty"—a declaration which, being perfectly un called for, would have been of a disquieting and not a reassuring character. .But the F renc h Go vernment has declared that asks no rectifica tion of the frontier on the side of Belgium. M. Drouyn de Lhuys has , informed the British Go vernment—whether in answer to an inquiry made through Lord Cowley or not is not stated—that P. ....... France will not demand .the fortresses of rhi: lippeville and Marienburg—that is to say, does no ask any comp ensa ti on f or P russ i an aggrandise ment at the cost of Belgium. These resolv es of the French Governme n t are conformable with all our anticipations. The material power of France would be increased in no appreciable degree by the acquisiti on o f th ese f or t re sses and the smal l slips of territory which she lost with then!. al 1814 ; and the amour propre of the nation, wounded by the triumphs of Prussia and the re settlement of Europe without French intervention, would not be consoled by acquisitions made at the expense of Belgium. If ever a French Governnten: proposes a rectification o f it s f ron ti er s on the side of Belgium, that rectification will not consist in tne paltry acquisition of a fortress or two, and a few square leagues of territory. The neutrality and in• - dependence of Belgium will be assailed, the treaties which bind France will be broken, for no such O t) : prize. When Fra nce see k s compensa tion on t'"' side of Belgium she w ill see k it by th e absorptio • n of the whole of Belgium the , and the extension of territory of France to its so called natural frontier,. the Rhine. She may d o so some d a y. At presen t we have the assurance of th e F renc h Governmen t that it proposes no violation of Belgian territory, and even those who may not give that assurance th e implicit credit which we do may find in the circum stances of Europe sufficient reasons to reass ure them. So far, therefore, as the E ng li s h Governmen t and the English people are concerned, this questioa of frontier rectificati on h as l os t a ll i m p o rtance. W e are only concerned in the i n d e p en d ence of Beigte v !i We are assured by the F r e nc h G overnm ent that it will not meddle with B e l g i um . Th e rectification of the French frontier on the s ide o f Germany Is a matter with which we have nothing to do, except so far as the attempt to effect it is likely to product? 3 quarrel between France and Prussia. The 0 0° of the districts upon the Saar and in the Palatinate, which France asked, would not in the slightest de gree affect the balance of power, and the interests of justice and treaty faith a r e not involved at a • Indeed, one can hardly help regretting—assum in g that these cessions would have satisfied France' ; that they were not made. The loss to Prussia an d Germany would have been nothing, and the refusa l has added to a mortification and anger which ar e likely, for all the check which the good sense of the Emperor of the French puts upon them, to lead, be fore very long, to a sanguinary war. Of cours e no one can blame Count Von Bismarck for de clining dining to do that which, in the present temper the Germans, would have been perilous in the.o - the more especially that his refusal has given him an immediate success ; but it may hereafter be deeply regretted both in Germany and in the rest of Europe that the feeling of irritation which pre vails in France was not appeased by concessions which, although Germany was quite warranted ta, refusing to make them, would have cost her n°- thing, and saved her the necessity of a contin ua, ; readiness for war, and, too probably, a tremend ous struggle, in which all the achievements of the Eito mer of 1866 will be imperilled. COUNTRY MARKETS. LEEDS—TUESDAY. tvre The arrivals this week have been moderate. We r experienced a slow sale in old wheat at is per qr to Na than on Tuesday last. The trade in barley nominal' quotable change in other articles. MARKET HARBOROUGH.—T UESDAY. At this day's market there was a fair attendance of the trade, and a slow business was done in wheat, at declinil prices. There was a limited supply of barley, which Ol d at previous rates. Oats a moderate show, and the dews° dull. Beans as before. 36 Old white wheat, 52s to 56s ; new red, 48s to 54s Pm:, t. stone. Barley, fine, —s ; other kinds, 28s to 38s per 3 1 - I ci Oats, new, 26s to 32s ; old, 30s to 34s per qr. Beans, 52s to 545; new, 48s to 50s per qr. LIVERPOOL—TUESDAY. of At to-day's market there was a moderate attendance the town and country trade, but only a limited husine ° done. Wheat met with a moderate demand for consneir t tion Friday's prices, and flour was in slow request et rather easier rates. Oats were in mod e rate request, at lt,, s week's rates. Beans quiet, and is cheaper. Indian C ° " --- firm. MELTON MOWBRAY.—TUESDAY. A moderato supply of wheat on offer, and sales 11 slowly effected, but prices were not much altered. - 11 .„ much barley, and last week's rates were firm. Oats W e " - steady. White wheat, 54s to 59s ; red, qr; to 53s per 36 stoner' Barley for malting, 36s to 39s per 30 stone. Oats old, 2Gs to 345; new, 228 to 305 pe r Beans, old, 48s to 525; new, 45s to 48s per qr. SHEFFIELD—TUESDAY. Them was a tolerable show of wheat to-day, and the tone of the trade was dull, with no material change in 11, vious currencies. A slow trade in beaus, at last wee t prices. A small show of barley, which may be quoted A about into rates ; grinding sorts in demand. Oats We ll not plentiful, and at former prices._ Red wheat, per load of 3 imp. bushels....l9s Oil 215 04 White do do ....21s Od to 2iiii 0.1 New red do do ....—s Od _. 5 Od New white do do .... -s Od —0 I X I beans do do ....:Os Od 205 0.1 Peas, per qr .. 38s Od 408 Oil Grinding - Ow ley, per qr 34s Od 378 od S 8 Malting barley, 4 o :-Es sOd 425 0A Oats, do 2Od 32 s (h. F10ur....1s lod 10 2, :A per 141 h. Foreign Mail Packet List. ,_ MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southamptm„...„Aug. Ditto, via Marseilles Sept. t Brazil and Cape Verde, by British packet ...... Sep , Ditto, by French packet Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena SeP— „ China, Penang. and Sing. pore, via Southampton Aug 1 % . Ditto, via Marseilles Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton Aug. 19. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Aug. Ditto, via Marseilles India (Bombay), via Southampton. • Ditto, via Marseilles . 2 2 :7i: . Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Aug. 1 7 Ditto, via Marseilles Auk 2 ', i ; 61auritius, via Southampton 1• Ditto, via Marscille3, . Sep t , 3 0 Newfoundland Portugal Sept' "' Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon... United States and British North America, by Bri tish packet .. Aug. 29 ' Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp- ton Ditto, via Cork O • • 2l. Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry ..Atlig. West Coaat of Africa , Madeira, and Teneriffe .„ _ Sept. I U. West Indies and -Pacific (except Bahamas and tB. Honduras) ••••.•• Aar,. Cuba and Mexico - Aug. 2.s n „ Bermuda. via Halifax Aug. Bahamas, via New Y ork. Auo. 2. ... 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