The Express.
London, England, 1850-03-13 00:00:00

TI GMAT MISTRAL OAS

I' BILL.

Itnamoiately after the minutes of the last court were reed,
Mr. H. L. TAYLOR said he understood there wu a very
general impression abroad that Messrs. Peto and Betts,
who.. names stood oonspicuouely as contractors to a large
amount in the Great Central Gas Company speculation, had
thrown up their contract and retired altogether from the
coemptny. He wished to know whether that report was not
correct ?

The CHAIRMAN—What is that to us? (Hear, hear )
Mr. H. L TAYLOR—ft is necusary that we, as the
Court of flewm, should be informed dude bi the fart. We
have to do with the pennants, and la the 'seat of the giving
up of the contract by these gentlemen, there will be no °Dog-
gies for disturbs' ag the pavements of the City at ill. I wish
to be informed whether the contract hat ben thrown up?
Mr. Deputy Harrison, wham am answer the question.
Mr. BLASE-11 it have, others have taken it up. (Loud
cries of " liter.")
Mr. Deputy HARRISON—Yee. Ac Mr. Blake rays; sodthe eentnet Me been taken exactly upon thr lame tarns as
those upon which Menu. Peto and Betts held it. (Chan.)
Mr. HOLT said an adveitiseniest from the solicitor to the
commissionen had appeared upon the subject.
The chairman and several of the members opposed the in-
troduction of the subject, which accordingly dropped.
SAG afterwards tee Remembrances brought before the
court s_ petition to parliament for the insertion of the 4auess
is tho bill oa behalf of the Commissioners of Sewers.
Mr. WHITESIDE moved that the petition be adopted
and signed.
Mr. Deputy HARRISON raid the petition was a more
formal adoption of the principle to which the court had some
time given its sanction, and seconded the motion.
The petition, to which was then eopesde4 the following
Meatuses, was agreed t t :—W. A. Peacock, T. L. Pinata,
T. Watkins, T. J. Holt, Thomas Hall, H. L. Taylor, J. T.
Bedford, Usury Blake, &turd Harrison, R. B. Whiteside,
William Rathbun, and Joseph Monis.

HEALTH OF LONDON DURLNO THE WEEK.

Wren the

Report.)

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The weekly mortality continues to decline : in the
week ending last Saturday the deaths registered In London
were 876, being a small dengue en the previous week. '1 he
steady decrease is exhibited in the following series of num-
bers, being the deaths returned in each week since January,
sm▪ me 2, 1,094. 057,938, 911, 896, and 876. To ampere the
ty of last return with that of the same week is
teener years (1840.9), it appears that only in 1842 and 1846
were the deaths less than 900 ; with three receptions they
were always abv. 1,000, and in 1846 rose to 1,141. The
average of ten corresponding weeks, corrected for increase
of population, is 1,095, computd with which the
deaths in last week show a decrease of 220. Amman
epidemic,, email-poi, scarlatina, hoopingtough,
Hof r t, sod typhus, show emoiderably Its. than
the usual fatality; measles and disrrbcoa have now
fallen to theteve rage, the letter numbering only 9; and in
the whole epidemic class are enumerated 133 deaths, whereas
the corrected average is 196. Sixty•five persons died of
bronchitis, 74 of pneumonia, 17 of asthma ; the first being
rather above the ge, the hut two below it. In the
class of diseases of the respiratory organs (e:elusive of
pthiris and hv.pieg-ecugh) 171 deaths are included, whilst
the corrected average is 207. From pthisis, or consumploo,
107 ; ersons died in the week; the average ir 162. An
Infant in Pheasant-court, Grars-ina.lane, is canned to
have died of the impure air of an apartment. At Hue-
menmith, in Giwnt's yard, King street, the widow of a '
labourer sunk ander the infirmity of age, having lived 101
years. Mr. Roy, the registrar, twee that sbe had been twice
married, and alterwards lived as a widow about 30 years.
A certificate shows that she was biptised 99 years ago,
at which time she was upwards of two years of age.
She had been in the neeipt of pariah relief for many ears,
and her general health, tin recently, was tolerably .In
the last week 101 pencil were registered) who died in
workhouses, 67 who had died in hospitals, 8 in prison and
Millbank Penitenticry. Of the 67 in hospitals, 12 occurred
in naval and military establishments and 11 in lunatic asy-
lums. The mean oarly reading of the barometer at the
Royal Observatory, Greenwich, was above 30 in. on *eery
day except Sunday; the mean of the week was 30 179 in.
The mean temperature of the week was 42 deg. 4 min., ex-
ceeding the mean of the same week, on an avenge of seven
years, by 2 dig. 7 min. On Sandy, Monday, Wednesday,
and Toursday the mean was from 4 deg. to 8 deg. above
the average dikes@ days.
The births registered last week were 1,476.