The Express.
London, England, 1850-04-03 00:00:00

PARIS AND ST. GERMAIN.

At the annual general meeting held by the share-
holders of the St. Germain Railway Compar.y a few days
since, the report stated that the whole arnoun'. cf the damage
done to the line after the revolution of February reaches the
sum of 578,079 f. 52e. No dr tioitive answer has yet been
mails by the government ts the demand made by the board
of directors for the reimbursement of that amount. The
receipts for 1849 are superior to those of 1949, hut inferior to
those of 1947. A dividend of 28f. per share for the past year
was declared : end u a sum of 12f. 50c. per share has been
already distributed, a further sum of 121. 5Ue. is now payable
to the shareholders.

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK.

(From the Registrar-General's Report',

In the week ending last Saturday, 1,167 deaths
were registered in the metropolis. In the 10 corresponding
weeks, namely, the thirteenth in each of the years 18409,
the average number of deaths was 1,051, or corrected for in-
crease of population, was 1,150; there is, therefore, an
apparent excess of mortality in last week above the ay.rage,
but it amounts only to 17. Ihe weekly number of deaths
has continuously increased during the last mw.tb, as the
returns which follow, commencing with the first wet k of
March, will show: the deaths were succ.sevely 1,75,
967, 1,026, and 1367. Part of the great increase in last
return is due to the augmented mortality of diseases
that affect the omens of respiration, for in this class the deaths
reentered last wet k are 252 (namely, from bronchitis,
113 ; from pneumonia, 88 ; fromasthma, 29 ; from laryn-
gitis, pleurisy, and other diseases of the respiratory organs,
22). This class numbered in the previous w, ek 231 ; and
in both weeks the numbers are much above the average,
which is not more than 184. Tbe extraordinary coldness
of the weather serves to explain this result. From con-
sumption there were is the previous week 135, in the last
115 ; in both there were considerably less than the corrected
ge, which is about 150. In the epidemic clue, small.
In: and scarlatina are still less fatal than usual, especially
the latter ; meas:es, hooping-coluth, and typhus, from which
there were last week 19, 44, and 39 respective:y, • .ow about
the ordinary amount of fatality ; 7 p.rtous died of
influents, being an ircreue ; 18 of diarrt or and
dysentery, which is less than In the previous week,
but more than the Re. Bat the excess in
last return over the weeks immediately preceding is only
to u small extent caused by an increased rate o: mortality;
coroners' cases, many of which were not du'y registered
during the quarter as they recurred, but were kept in reserve
till the end of it, swell the account. These chi fly consist of
deaths from fractures, wounds, burns, and scalds, hanging,
drowning, and poison, amounting in the present case to :91,
of which only 10 occurred in the week, and of .52 sudden"
deaths, of which the causes have not been sufficiently ascer-
tained, or are irmraperly returned, and of which only six
occurred in the week. Amongst others are five children
suffocated in bed or on the mother's breast, three persons
who died of intemperance, and a man from exposure to cold.

GREAT EXHIBITION OF 1831. MARTLEBONE
MMITINO.—A meeting of the veemles took place at the
Court-house on Saturday, U. C. Plowden, Esq.' M.P.,
in the chair, when a form of address to the borough mem-
bers, Sir B. Hell, M.P., and Lord D. C. Stuart, M.P., wu

prepared, affirming the expediency of the exhibition, and
requesing them to call a public meeting of the borough
of Muj lebone at en early date.
THE Goruitxt CASE.—AU address from the great
body of the evangelical clergy is about to be presented to the
Archbishop of Canterbury, expressive of the gratitude they
feel towards his grace fur the firm rand he has made in
defeace of what they d.siunate the pure principles of the
Established Churil of England. The high church, or trac-
tarian party, have, on the other hand, agreed to an address
to the Bishop of Exeter (which is to be presented in the
course of a taw days) in which they convey to his 1 irdship
their thanks f,r the firmness with which he has resisted
" errors respecting the sacrament of the holy baptism, which
they concise with the bishop in regarding as subversive of
the na'urs of a sacrament, errors which, in their humble
station, they will erer reel it their bounden dwy to oppose."
The following resolutions were agreed upon by the clergy
assembled at the rural deanery of Wakefield last week:
Resolved, 1. " That it is a riaLt inherent in the church of
Christ, by the commit sion of her divine founder, to define
in matters of doctrine." 2. That, in accordance with the
above-named right, no court ought to wises. the power
of judicially and finally declaring the doctrines of the
church, except such as shall be constituted in agree-
ment with the princtplis of the church, and have
received its jurisdiction by formal ecclesiastical slnction."
3. " That the power which is at present vested by act
of parliament, without the formal concurrence of the church
in the judicial committee of the privy council to interpret
the formularies of the church by a final judicial sentence,
and thus practically to det.ne and declare the doctrines of the
church, is en infringement of the fundamental right of the
church to be judge in matters affecting the faith, and at
variance with the law of Christ."—t. " That the existence
of this state of things is a grievance in conscience; and
that this grievance is rendered more burdensome by the
bet that the members of the judicial committee
ei council are not necessarily members of the
church of England."-5 That tar the redress of the
said grievance, the following steps are necessary:"—l.
"That the church in convocation or synod hove license to
deliberate for the special purpose of devising a proper appel-
late tribunal for determ Ling all questions of doctrine, and
other matters purely spiritual." 11. "That an act of par-
liament he passed (or the purpose of making the judgments
of such tribunal binding on the temporal courts of this
realm." 111. " That the acts of parliament relating to the
privy council be so amended as to exempt questions of
doctrine, and other matters purely spiritual, from the cogni-
zance of the privy council." Thes3 resolutions were subse-
quently made the basis of an address to the Lord Bishop of
Ries.
THE WATER SUPPLY TO LITERPOOL.—RAntrt
Stephenson, Esq., M.P., to whom it was referred to deter-
mine with respect to the various plans of supplying water to
Liverpool, has reported, as was supposed yesterday, against
the local supply, end recommends that the Rivington Pike
scheme should be carried out. This has created quite a fer-
ment in Liverpool. Mr. Stephenson enters most minutely
tato the various questions submitted to him. lie contends,
that Liverpool cannot prudently rely upon a sufaciert supply
by deepening the existing wells—that the reservoir of water
cruder Liverpool has become, to some extent, deteriorated by
continued and extensive pumping, and that so mach has
been expended on the Itivingten project, that scheme should
be completed. Mr. Stephenson says, the water from the
saadstone is preferred for drinking, whilst that from Riving-
tee, from its softness, is the better for almost every other
purpose; the former may be said to be the most palatable,
mad the latter the most useful.
CASTLEBAR FARMERS' FUND.—We are happy to
mutes that the clergymen who have created this fund are
hourly engaged in distsibuting oats, farm seeds, and p.itatoes
to several hundred poor (*pun in this neighbourhood, b
which these persons are -ambled to till their lands, which
°therm(/' they would not be able to accomplish. We regret
that the fonds of the society have been considerably di-
minished by the non-paymeat of persons receiving loans last
year, and that there has been no increase by public contri-
butions to this useful institution.—Mayo Conatilution.