The Express.
London, England, 1862-10-08 00:00:00

THE CONOBEGATIOZIAL HMOS.

The twenty-third autumnal meeting of the Con-
gregations' Mika of Regiatid and Wales commenced
yesterday is the Weittiwo
mum Chapel, under the presidency
al the Rev. &non
The CliontalrAlt delivered an elaborate addrem, of which
the special topic was the intended relation of the churches
of Christ to midst, le general, br. to national society, the
oomaidesey of Rehash nonconformity with those rtgations,
and some of the cool eiaatical social lemon' taught by the
eject sent of 1662. Churches were not substitutes
for, suppler, .ers of, nor rivals of families or nations ;
. they tended to perfect society, and could exist under say
term of government. A true &arch was intended tole s
perfect sad model society, sustaining whatever wee spied;
sad its inflames mast always be on the ride el arrerament,
sad sever on the sided anarchy. To sheertine elmilseee-
to Ood rather than man was universal commas mese as well
xl scriptural doctrine, he quoted Plato, sad
leer*, and he added that poets, philosophers, ass
teachers united to point out a limit to the cif
man to man. Nonconformists took their Mond that
line of limitation so naturally, philosophies*, y,
and universally moognisedL In answer to the
=lit aphid them by Arehdesoon essalleetaT
say that no pr iaci* of their ohm& polity
would account for their - alleged disloyalty, whilst
the patriotic, loyal, and religiose works of naneentormiste
all over the country were sallaiset to put to Abase the
of 'foolish maw There was nottileg is that
i
E)tc.Prelverel them ihoutieg "Cod save die Qom.*
They believed they were n a batter poultice to
serve their emustry became they were nonoosfeendets ; and
the events of 1662 celled open them for their isramtry's make.
teas lailnpfanaids stal. One of the meet patbset les-
sor taught tam bribe eiesesteni wee till alkyl Audi
lag profound conviction upon all matters nauseated with
church life, and of scan in harmony with those movictions
at whatever social cost or hazard. There was heard
to nonconforMiste still. Children risked the tamer
of their parents and their future patrimony ; go-
vernesses, Mechem, and servants risked their situations;
labourers risked their daily bred; even now, Meador
risked the holding of booms and Luke —(haer, hear)—
tradesmaw risked endow sad professional ma malign
and is many Mies there was risk of social intereassm,-
Dimikboarly kindome, friendship, patronage, social it
and reputation. These rinks could be emenshiredsZ,
cheerfully sustained only by the force of profaned religious
conviction. All who came short of such conviction were
impedimenta. One evil they had to guard against wm that
ot 3aotmg too musk upon nonmeentisle, which
as unfavourable impreenea, just as the &mile Mau&
Rephaelite picture, whilst true to the objects, produced
the impression of inaccuracy, becamee they were
not true to the objects in their relative vodkas.
Let them not, by making too prominent such points as mode
of worship, divert attention frau their fundamental prin-
ciples of pastiest responsibility in matters of religion and
theocratic ea Christocratierubi.

The Rev.3:llli.i.i,iiiLiverpool, moved a vote of thanks
to the Rev. R. Martin, for his valuable services as president
during the past year.
The motion was seconded by the Rev. H. ()LIAM, of Jar-
, assyrkzgatiod carried.
from other bodies were then introduced and
welcomed. The Rev. A. Woodruff. from New York, repre-
muted the Amities& ' union ; the Revs. Dr.
Macfarlane and R. A., represented the London
Presbytery of the byterian church ; the Rey.
Mr. Forbes, of Gleam', thecongregational union of Scot-
land ; sad the Rev. Mr. Aspmer of Sligo, and Mr. Tate,
of Limerick, the Irish congregational union.
A repeat from the Bicentenary Committee was sett read
by the Rev. G. Corbin. It Mated that the biosatenary
celebration bad caused the prayer-buok to be more studied
thee ever even by churchmen, sod described that book se
being more Popish now than it was in the time of Edward VI.
The exact amount of the fund was 122,304 i., and would have
bees ansi more but for the distress in Inimashire„
whither isms ef the milleMions made on the 24th at
August was sent. The amount named did not include
16,1E101. raised in Wales, and some country and local efforts
which iced bees reported. It the appropriation
of the money the aniders relieving fund had received
ninny favour& limey chapels and schools had been emoted
and many chapel dab bed been paid off. A report on
behalf of the mantralahall committee was made by the
Rev. Themes Jams. The hall is intended for the use of
the entire denomination. It is proposed to concentrate alt
its aloes, besides providing 'nesting places, library. and
deed depository. The contributions promised exceed 8,0001.0
or ooe.thini of what is required.
The reports were adopted, being first spoken to by the
Rev. T. Dale, of Birmingham ; the Rev. S. Hebditch, the
Rev. Dr. Vaughan, Mr. S. Morley. and others.
It the evening there wa a *oink in the Freemen's'.
hell, Great Quesnotreet, at which Mr. S. Morley presided.
and welcomed for whom Mr. Wiliam. of Hod-
..elsedield. We. J. Easettes delivered all
addren ea biesuissary.

THE HEALTH OP LONDON.

Pe report etateethat in the

week that Jaded last Saturday the deaths in London were
1,129. If the deaths from epidemic cholera in the fortieth
week of 1851 are excluded from the facts on which the
ealcalation is based, it will appear that the ae• number
of deaths (with comedies for mamas* of ptioe) for
corresponding weeks of ten years 1852-61 is 1,132. The
deaths in last week were therefore in exam of the estimated
number by 97.
There wen 12 deaths in the week from small-pox. Three
of these oocurred in the sub-district of St. John (St.
Georp-iii-thonist). The deaths from measles rose to 59,
of which 30 occurred in the east districts, chiefly Heaton,
Hsgges ne, and Bethnal-green. There ware hair in the
aubdistrct of Wandsworth. Scarlatina was fatal in 88
eases. There were 4 deaths from murder or manslaughter.
Loa week the births of 832 boys and 855 gitfs, is all
1,687 children, were registered in London. In the ten cor-
responding weeks of the years 1832-61 the average number
(corrected) was 1,6991
In the thirteen weeks that ended on Saturday, 27th Sep-
tember, 15,133 deaths were registered in London. Of the
persons enrolled on the list, 8,184, being considerably more
than half, had not entered their twenty-first year and a
large proportion of the latter number died in infancy.
413 persons were 80 years old and upwards.
The mortality of the summer gages much governed
by the temperature. In the two seasons, embracing cor-
responding months, of 1861-2 the mean temperature of the
air was 60.4 deg. and 58.7 deg. respectively, and the deaths
is either wets about 15,000. is the warm summer of 1859,
when the temperature rose to 629 deg., the deaths roes to
16,030 ; in that of 1860, when the temperature fell to 5611
deg., they declined to 12,916. Observations on summer heat,
sonordieg to its effects in various situation., as these may
differ in elevation, in water supply, in drainage, in the moral
and physical condition of their inhabitants, might be under-
takes with much advantage by the medical officers of health
in their several districts.

The total deaths iu the quarter from zymotic diseases
wen 4,721, or not mock less than • third part of the deaths
from all tames. Diarrhois. to which 956 deaths were re-
ferred, was the moat fatal diorama in this class • chalera, to
which head cane of choleraic diarrbona are assigned, was this
cause of 89 deaths. The deaths from diarrhoea were IMMO
numerous in St. John, Westminster, than in any other me-
tropolitan subdistrict; 28 were returned thaw whilst
in other localities of nearly equal population, viz, St. Mary
Paddington, Christchurch Marylebale, Regent's-park, So-
mers-town, Mile-end Old Town East, the numbers
were respectively 13, 17, 8, 12, and 15. In Bow, with
a population of 36,000,36,000,the deaths from diarrhoea were 21 ;
while in Kentath-tows which contains 44,00 D, there were
oely eight. There wee 14 in Plumetead (were there were
also 19 from scarlatina). Is Heaney, with • population of
83,000, the fatal cases of diarrhea did not exceed 18. In
the district of St. Saviour, Southwark, the number was 20 ;
In that of St. Olive, with more than half the population
of the former, the number was only two. The moss that
produce such a diversity of regain; should be ascertained.
Scarlatina and typhus caused nearly equal amounts of mor-
tality ; the former 841 deaths, the latter 1r33. The..
numbers, but especially the latter, are high relatively to
three of the same quarter in 1880-61. Diphtheria was re-
turned in 144 cases. _ . .

-BruneTiiiissad pOeumouis were decidedly more fatal than
in the warm quarter of
Twenty. six persons died by murder or manslaughter; 79
by said& ; 449 by accident or negligence.

Crrr Swats COXNENNON. —At the weekly meet-
ing of the Couseiseloems cif Savers held yesterday, at
Guildhall. Mr. Do Jenny in the chair, Dr. Letheby, the
medical officer, reported oe the Mate of 178 hooves that bad
been impacted durum the week, and be submitted a bat of
77 plains for sanitary improvement. lie likewise reported
that the markets and alaughterboasee bad been duly in-
spected during the week, and that the officers had seised
7,263 lbs. of meat, and 1,217 head of game and poultry an
nofit for foal; 1,378 lbs. of the meat were diseased. and the
rest, es wail as the pme mid poultry, were para. 52 births
and 43' deaths wersaaginered during the week. The
somber of deaths is y below the averap NY= for the
(52) ; 17 of the were among children of lees than five
years age, sod seven &mon old persona of 60 and upwards.
Tb• eked moms of death were as follows :—Phtliiisis, 6 ;
mesenteric disease sod orrofula, 4 ; hydrocephalus, 2 ; Iwon-
°bide, 2 ; continued fever, 2 ; scarlet fever, 4 ; measles, 3 ;
eltpliWeie, 1; dysentery, 1 ; and infantile diarrhoea, 2 ;
meldng together 12 deaths from tubercular disuse • 2
from indeasmatory affections of the lune ; sai 11 from
dfooms clematis oborootor.
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