The Express.
London, England, 1862-12-10 00:00:00

TEE GAS CARBURETTERS.

A petition was read, signed by several inhabitants, com-
plaining of the defective light given from the lamps in that
neighbourhood, in consequence of the carburetters, and pray-
ing the court to take same steps in the matter.
Some dismission ensued, in which some of the members
advocated the use of the carburettero, and others condemned
them as a complete failure, and the matter was ultimately
referred to the general purposes committee.

MR SANITARY CONDITION OF THE CITY.
Dr. Lantern, the medical officer of the City, presented
his quarterly paper on the sanitary condition of the City of
London, which stated that 642 births have been registered
during the quarter, and 606 deaths. In the corresponding
quarter of last year there were 839 births and 640 deaths ;
and the average numbers for the summer quarters of the
last ten years are 80fi births and 780 deaths. The falling
off, therefore, in the proportion of births has been at the
rate of nearly 20 per cent.. and of the deaths about 23 per
cent. As usual the largest mortality has been among
children of less than 5 years of age, and next to these the
largest mortality has been at the ages of from 60 to 70.
The infant mortality, although large, has not been excel.
sive, for in the whole of England it is about 41 per cent. of
the total deaths ; and the average number for the corres-
ponding period of the last seven years in the City is 44. It
is only in the Eastern Union that the proportions have been
largo ; there it has amounted t 045 per cent. of all the deaths.
Tubercular diseases have declined from a general average of
156 in the quarter to 138, alvine flux from 66 to 33, and
chimrie maladies from 187 to 164. laCatamatory atieiitions
of the lungs, exclusive of phthiais, have, however, ad-
vanced from 56 in the quarter to 64, and zvrootic dimmer'
from 114 to 132. The chief increase in the latter has been
from continued fever and measles the former has
advanced from an average of 28 deaths in the
quarter to 38, and the latter from 15 to 42. The
exact causes of this are nut apparent. Fever
of a low typhoid character has been very generally
prevalent throughout the country, and the City had not
been exempt from it. The markets and slaughter-bonsea
have been duly inspected, and the officers have seized
30,8521 be., and 1,357 bead of game and poultry, as unfit
far human food. 19,338 lbs. of the meat were diseased,
7,935 lbs. were putrid, end 3.586 lbs. were from animals
that had died from accident or disease. It consisted of 100
sheep, 33 pigs, 5 calves, 207 quarters of beef, and 162 joints of
meet. Lastly Amy be mentioned that 20,:r34 lbs. of the meat
were seized in Newgste and Tyler's Markets. 6,250 Ice.
at Leadenball, and 3,515 lbs. of it at Aldgate. All of it was
at once sprinkled with carbolic acid—the creosote of coal
tar—and then sent to the boilers. During the quarter,
three persons have been brought to justice, and convicted
' for having sent diseased meat to the City markets. They
are William Seminal Speller, of Woodford, in Faux, who
' was mantel:mei to six muntll3' imprisonment; William
Neville, of Kingston, in Surrey. who was sentenced to
three months imprisonment and penalty • and William
I Crust, of Ashfurd, iu Kent, who was fined 10i. and coda

THE LATE MURDER ix BIRMINORASL—Henry
Carter, egad 19, a brasecaster, was brought before hir.
Kyonenley, the stipendiary magistrate at the Birmingham
Police-court, yesterday fruiteday). charged with the murder
of • young woman, named Alice Hinkley, on Thuredny last,
by shooting her. The court and its approaches were densely
crowded by a large number of poisons anxious to °Maio a
at the prisoner. The evidence which bad been given
eaf= tbe coroner and jury an the previous evening, when •
verdict of " Wilful murder' was returned, was again ten-
dered, and the prisoner was committed to the next amass
on the capita charge.
Importing Tea without colour on the leaf pre-
mt. the Chimee pining off inferior brown leaves as to the
usual kinds. Hondanois lea Is usseolourol, therefore always
good alike. Bold in packets by trim aputa.—iAtivertisementj