The Express.
London, England, 1860-06-06 00:00:00

THE ATLANTIC CABLE.

TO TEM EDITOR OF TIM ZIPET99.

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sm,—lt may possibly interest your readers to
know that devpatches have been received from Newfound.
land in respect to the progress made in the preparation. for
attempting to restere the Atlantic cable to working ceder.
At the time Oaptain Rell's letter left St. Johns all the
arrangements required for the expedition were completed,
and he was about to sail within a day or twn for Trinity
Bay to commence the preliminary work of picking up the
forty-six miles of cable that are intended to be cut off in
order to bring the end into New Portions for the purpose of
making a complete examination into its electrical condition.
Th. electrical examination of the cable will be made by
Mr. C. F. Varley whose valuable scientific knowledge and
experience have, by the kind permission of the directors of
the Electric sad International Telegraph Company, been
placed at the disponi of this corayszy for the necorary
Mr. Verify sailed in the Niagara on Saturday, the
lost. —I am, ate., GEORGE SAWARD, Secretary.
22, Old Itroad4trest, JUDO 5.

Corm or ALDIRtIEN.—A Court of Aldermen
wee held yesterday at Guildhall ; the Lord Mayor presiding.
Mr. Alderman Lawrence moved that copies of certain bills
sow before parliament for taking the census should be sent
to each member of the court. He did so because the Eng-
lish bills would throw upon magistrates the duty of inflict-
ing penalties upon persons who may refuse to make returns
of their religious opinions. He considered the attempt to
introduce that new principle into the country in reference
to matters of religious belief to be most objectionable, and
one which, if made in France, Russia, or Austria, would
have been stigmatised as an act of despotism. Considerable
discussion took place on the subject, in the course of which
various opinions were expressed in reference to the clause
in question, the result being that the motion was agreed
to. After the transaction of some formal buskins the court
adjourned.
CITY SEWERS CONNISSION.—At a meeting of the
City Sewers Commission yesterday, at Guildhall, Mr. De-
puty Christie presiding. Dr. Letheby, the medical officer
of health, reported that the mortality returns are below the
average fur the season, and show a satisfactory state of the
public health. In the course of the lad fortnight there
have been but 76 deaths in the City. The average for the
corresponding period of the last four yearn being 81. Only
25 were among children of less than five years of age, and
20 among persons of 60 and upwards. The chief causes of
death were diseases of a chronic character. There were but
20 deaths from affections of the respiratory organs, namely,
5 from consumption, 5 from pneumonia, and 10 from broo-
chitin. Of the zymotic class of disease there were 12 deaths,
namely, 3 from fever, 3 from small-pox, 2 from whooping
cough, and 1 from each of the following : Erysipelas, mea-
sles, scarlet fever, and dysentery. 97 birth, have been re-
gistered in the fortnight ; namely, 54 boys and 43 girls.
Hr.txrii or LONDON.—The weekly return, issued
by authority of the Registrar• General, states that for the
week ended on Saturday the London returns of deaths ex-
hibit a considerable decrease. The weekly number, which
was about 1,200 at the beginning of May and aftrwards
1,100, was at the end of the month 1,004. For the ten
years, 11350-9, the average number of deaths, in the weeks
corresponding with last week, is, with a correction for in-
crease of population, found to be LOSS. The mortality of
last week was therefore less by $4 deaths than the average
rate as obtained for the end of May would have produced.
The births of last week exceeded the deaths in the same
time by Ma The deaths referred to &emetic diseases
were 2'24, the corrected average being 259. There
were 17 from smallpox, 5 of which occurred
in the Smallpox Hospital. Measles, which has lately
shown an increase, was fatal in 51 cases ; but
this number is not greater than that of the previous week.
Five occurred in Islington, 5 in Stepney, 4 in Rother-
hithe, 5 in the two sub-districts of Lambeth Church.
There were 27 deaths from scarlatina, sad 7 from diph-
theria. Three persons died by murder, 2 of whom were in-
fanta ; 3 children by suffocation, 2of these in the bed-
clothes. Six children received fatal injury from being
burnt • the daughter of a spectacle-maker, aged tour
years, by her be ern taking fire • the daughter of a
porter, aged four months, by the bedclothes taking fire ;
and two children of labourers, aged respectively three soil
four years, by their clothes taking tire from limiter matches.
Two other children were burnt by means not stated in the
registers. A bov aced three years died in two hours from
drinking about four ounces of rum and gin. A girl aged
four months dial from erisypelas after vaccination. lad
week the births of 766 boys and 751 girls-in all, 1,517
children-were registered in London. In the tea corre-
sponding weeks of the years 1850.59 the average number
wasil,s69.
Cm Cur RCHES. —The inspectors of burial
grounds-Messrs Grainger and Holland lave sent in a
report to the Home Secretary relating to City churches.
They state that the proposal fur removing some of them,
which boa been made be the Rev. Charles Hume. is not to
disturb any of the burl grounds, but simply to take down
such of the least wed of the City churches as may he de-
termined upon. Messrs. Grainger and Holland are of oprr.
nice, if it be proposed to take down any church, and build
warehouses, dwellings, or schools upon is rite, that the
most satisfactory plan would be to remove the human re-
mains beneath the churches to be taken clown entirely, and
re-inter them in some appropriate place of sepulture. This
comae, they say, is not free from objection, and great can
and expense would be seeded to prevent darer and annoy-
anoe to the public and just cause of complaint to the frjm&
of the dead. But with very careful management they be-
lieve that it would be possible tojtuard against this.
FUNERAL PrJr.QUDOTES AT WLSTMINtiTER A BEET.—
With reference to the funeral of Sir C. Barry, it is stated
that not fewer than eighty persons connected with the
Abbey claimed and received hatbands, kn.- costly items
in the nadertakee. bill. The whole system of conducting
funerals requires revision and alteration.-Beadrr.
A Sate SUNK IN THE THAMFA.—Yesterday morn-
ing a collier brig, whilst ordown the river, came
in contact with an anchor, the . portion of which
pierced her keel, and she rapidly 611 with water to such
an extent that the ppaammpa were useless. The vessel, DOW
remaining off Charltea, her masts only being visible at
hi pils tide.
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