The Sun.
London, England, 1855-02-14 00:00:00

STREET CLEANSING,

Several contractors for cleansing the streets were fined
for negligence ; and one contractor was fined 51. for
suffering his men to sweep mud down a gully-hole.

LONDON NECROPOLIS AND NATIONAL
MAUSOLEUM COMPANY.

Yesterday the annual general meeting of the share- i
holders in this company was held at their offices, Lan-
caster-place, Strand. Thomas Dakin, Esq., the chair-
man of the board of directors, presided. The meeting
was numerously attended.
The SECRETARY read the report, which stated that
the share capital of the company now consists of 15,000
shares, which are sufficient to carry out the objects of
the company without any mortgage debt. The accounts
show that up to the end of 1854 the expenditure of the
company had amounted to 112,7091. 9s. 10d., and that
the liabilities incurred at that time amounted to
12,0981. 17s. 6d., and it was estimated that in ad-
dition to these sums a further expenditure of about
7,0001. would be necessary to carry out the objects
of the company, and that it would be necessary to
make a call of 11. on each of the shareholders of the
company, making 91. paid up, which they coneidered
would be sufficient for all the requirements of the com-
pany. The cemetery was opened for public interments on
the 13th of November last, and up to the end of January
325 funerals had taken place in the company's ground.
Estimating the total expenditure of the company on ac-
count of capital at 135,0001., it would only require a
weekly receipt of 2001. to defray working and current
expenses, and to pay five per cent. on the amount paid
up on the share capital.
The report having been adopted, the meeting
separated.

We regret to have to announce that Lady Henley is
suffering severely from small-pox at Hatford-court,
Northamptonshire. Her ladyship is expected to be
coufined shortly.
THE LATE Loss OF LIFE AT ISLINGTON.—This morn-
ing Mr. Wakley proceeded with a lengthened inquiry at
the Carved Red Lion, Lower-road, Islington, touching
the deaths of the seven unfortunate persons who were
crushed to death by the fall of the house No. 2, Lower-
street, on Sunday evening last, under circumstances al-
ready detailed. After hearing some evidence, the inquiry
was adjourned for a week, in order to obtaia the opinion
of two competent surveyors, strangers to the neighbour-
hood, as to the cause ef the eal.mity_
TESTIMONIAL TO MB. LILWALL, &c.—On Saturoay
last a committee of the warehousemen and clerks con-
nected with the wholesale drapery trade of the city of
London gave a dinner at the George Hotel, Alder-
manbury, to Messrs. J. Lilwall and E. Kennedy, the
honorary and assistant secretaries of the Early Closing
Association, in celebration of the success attending
the recent efforts to close the warehouses of London
at an earlier hour on Saturdays. Mr. S. Westbrook
(Messrs. J. and R. Morley's) occupied the chair,
and Mr. J. S. Norman (Messrs. Bradbury and Co.'s)
the vice chair. In the course of the evening a su-
perb silver tea service (manufactured by Messrs.
Brook and Son, Poultry) was presented to Mr. Lilwal,
and a morocco case, containing a purse of twenty-five
guineas, to Mr. Kennedy, with appropriate inscriptions,
as an expression of the esteem entertained for these gen-
tlemen, and as an acknowledgment of the services ren-
dered by them in furtherance of the above movement.
The committee have further shown their interest in the
general operations of the Early Closing Association, by
voting a sum of money to that society.
A letter from Mexico, in the Hamburg Corre-
spondent, states that a German physician, who has
several years resided in that country, has discovered
that the venom of a certain species of serpent is,
when inoculated, a preservative against the yellow
fever and the black vomit. The inocula,tioa is effected
in the same manner as for the small-pox ; it causes
a fever, which has all the symptoms of yellow fever,
but with very feeble effects. It produces no effect on
persons who have already had the yellow fever or the
black vomit, and this is considered a proof of the value
of the discovery. Several high functionaries and 500
soldiers have been inoculated at Mexico, but the effect
of the operation on them.will not be known until the
spring and summer. The species of serpent from which
I the venom is taken is not named.

DECIMAL COINAGE.—At the ordinary weekly meeting
of the society this everting, the subject to be discussed
will be the basis for a decimal system of money for the
United Kingdom. Those who have thought of this
subject at all are well nigh unanimous that the decimali-
sation of our coins and accounts, as well as, subsequently,
of our weights and measures, is a most desirable object ;
but there still exists much diversity of opinion as to the
unit or basis of the system. Papers will be read by--
1, Mr. J. A. Franklin, advocating the pound ;
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Mr. F. J. Minasi, in favour of the penny; andlll4
Mr. Hugo Reid, in favour of the florin, or two-shilling
piece.