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tr.; is found necessary to erect new works ; he sent for
Si; • C. Fox, who gave a satisfactory assurance, awl the
wt .1-ks were commenced. The factory had been in ope-
rat ion now for some time, and it was found satisfactory.
T'lbe building was working well, and seemed to be on the
whc le satisfactory.
REMOVAL OF WOUNDED.

report was made in 1352.. It was a great satisfaction that
the Legislature had withnin this instance to dea with an
unwilling body, but a body which asked to have
the privilege of legislation conferred on them. That the
university had been most anxious to fulfil the maim ob-
jects for which it was instituted was plain from the
report of the commissioners. Formerly the great uni-
versity studies were confined to mathematics. He did
not complain that Cambridge should have made mathe-
matics the keystore of its education ; but, feeling that
this was too confined a view, the university somewhat
more than 30 years ago, diverging from its old habit,
introduced into the cylcle of its studies classical studies;
and not confusing its honours with mathematical tripos,
instituted examinations and honours for those proficient
in classical merit. This was in 1824 ; and as society,
and knowledge, and the appetite for information pro-
gressed, other studies were introduced, and in the last 5
or 6 years other high honours were conferred, and a
moral science tripos and a physical science tripos were
introduced. In legislating upon this question it was the
bounden duty of their lordships to recollect the sort of
body for whom they proposed to legislate, and to bear
in mind that it consisted of persons who for the dis-
charge of their duties could be safely trusted. It was
obviously impossible for the Government by any course
of legislation to carry out the recommendations of the
commissioners with respect to matters of discipline, or
internal regulations—those must be left in the hands of
the governing body to be constituted by an act of the
Legislature. All that the Government proposed to do,
or could safely attempt to accomplish, was to put the
governing body of the university in such a position as
that they could do for themselves all that their conduct
showed they had been anxious to do, and if obstructions
in the statutes hal not prevented their doing. There
appeared at first sight no part cular reason why an act
of a precisely similar character to that passed last year
for Oxford should not be applied to the University of
Cambridge. But while the mode of reformation intro-
duced at Oxford should, he thought, be the same, still
there were many circumstances which rendered some
modification in the details necessary. The bill proposed,
as in the case of the Oxford act, to appoint certain Coln-
mißsioners, and to give them power to carry out those
reforms which by statute they were now prohibited from
effecting. The board of commissioners he proposed
should consist of the Earl of Burlington, Lord Moot-
eagle, the Bishop of Chester, Baron Alderson, Professor
Sedgwick, and Mr. John Lefevre. There would be one
other, but he had not yet received the consent of that
nobleman to act upon the commission, and he had also
thought since the bill had been printed that it would be
desirable to add two others, in order to avoid difficulties
which he understood had already arisen at Oxford in con-
sequence of the limited number of the members of the
board. At Cambridge the senate was at present most
inconveniently constituted for any practical result. lii
Cambridge the governing body was called the "caput
sanctum," but as now formed it was an eminently ob-
structive body. The Vice-Chancellor now named three
doctors, one of each faculty—law, physic, and divinity,
and also one master of arts of more than five years, and
one of under five years' standing. Each proctor also
named the same number, and the heads of houses made
a similar selection. To leave the council as now con-
stituted would be most discreditable, and the question
arose how was the new council to be formed ? He
did not propose that the new council should be formed
in the same mode as that of the council at Oxford. The
convocation at Oxford answered to the senate at Cam-
.biedge, and consisted of all masters of arts or doctors who
retained their names on the books of the colleges. But
at Oxford there existed a select body of convocation
known as the "congregation," which body was to some
extant remodelled by the act of last year, and the council
as appointed by that body consisted of six heads of houses,
six professors, six masters of art of five years' standing, and
six of under that standing. With respect to Cambridge.
there were many reasons which induce I him to think that
this would not be the best mode of constituents- the council
for that university. There was at Cambridge no such body
as a congregation distinguished from the senate, and it
would be necessary to create, in fact, a constituency, in
order to elect a body similar to the congregation atOxford.
Again,the preponderance of the two colleges of SLJ'hn's
and Trinity, at Cambri Ige,would serioeslyaffect, the work-
ing of a system similar to that of Oxford. Before the
commission was issued by the Government, in 1850, the
university constituted a syndicate, or committee, for the
purpose of inquiring into the best mode ot improving the
constitution of the caput and the me ins of its election.
The whole subject was most maturely considered by that
body, and they finally recommended that the capur
should consist of three beads of houses, three do :tors,
three professere three masters "f arts absive five and three
under five years' standing, to be named by the coffeees
in turn, according to the cycle of proctors fixed by the Act
of Elizabeth. This recornmeadation the bill proposed to
a great extent to adopt. One alteration which he proposed
to make was to set aside the appointment of doctors as
such, as he thought it an absurd thing to give votes to the
doctors as a class ; doctors would, ot course, be eligible
as members, but they could not be elected as doctors.
He also proposed that instead of three there should be
four heads of houses, four professor, four senior and four
junior masters of arts, with the Vice-Chancellor as
their head. Since the bi'l had been printed he had
received numerous suggesstions and proposed alterations
with respect to the working of the measure, some of
which he proposed to adopt, and asked the house to
allow the bill to go into committee in order that• their
lordships might discuss and consider these various de-
tails. Among the alterations which he proposed to make
was one in section 5 of the bill, which would have the
effect of removing from the Vice-Chancellor the power
of veto on the decision of the council of the senate pro-
posed to be established by the bill. The noble and
learned lord also explained in detail the constitution of
the cycle of proctors, the functions of the syndicate, and
the mode of election. One of the maVn propositions of
the bill was to abolish, as in the case of the Oxford act,
the necessity for taking that lane number of oaths which
were no v required to be taken. The bill also proposed, in
a similar manner to that of Oxford, to establish private
halls. Many persons, he believed, were of opinion that,
owing to the constitution of the colleges at Cambridge.
these private halls were not necessary ; there were, how-
ever, various reasons which induced him to think that
their establishment would be attended with beneficial
results. (Hear.) The next class of enactments relating to
the constitution of the council formed the substance of
the bill. They were similar to those in the Oxford bill
in which power was given to the colleges, and in cases
of trustees, to the university, to alter and modify the
trusts, so as to interfere with the intention of the testa-
tor or donors. Then came clauses, also taken from the
Oxford bill, which rendered it unnecessary on admission
to the university to take any oath or make any declara-
tion whatever. He believed that the mode of cons itut-
ing the council was the best that could have been adopted
for the university, and with these observations he asked
the house to resolv itself into committee on the bill.
Lord LYNDHURST very much regretted that it had
been expedient, and he might add necessary, to nitro-
duce the bill now on their lordships' table. For seve-
ral years past the University of Cambridge had been ac-
tively and industriously employed in endeavouring to
amend its statutes and to render them as extensively
useful as possible. (Hear.) The university had been
checked from carrying their intentions into effect by a
want of sufficient authority for that purpose ; and it
would have been much better if it bad been practicable
to introduce a bill merely to give effect to their amend-
ments than to introduce a bill like the present ; but he
admitted that after the passing of the Oxford bill it
would have been difficult, and perhaps improper, to have
pursued such a course, because it might have created
some unpleasant feeling between the two universiies
which had hitherto been unitedin friendship. He regretted
to find that the universities did not possess so much hold
on the public opinion a-, they bad heretofore done. When
' he first entered public life the majority of the members
of Parliament had been educated at the universities,
but he understood from good authority that no more
than one-sixth or almost one-fifth of the present mem-
bers hal been so educated. It has been repeatedly said
that the system of instruction pursued at the universities
was becoming obsolete, and that a great and radical alte-
ration ought to be made in that system, and in the mode
of mode of carrying it on. Now he did notbelieve there
was the slightest foundation for such an opinion. (Hear.)
He should very much regret the
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profitably employed. The object was to form the character
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the taste, to the formation of the judgment,
reasoningtheposwtuerdsent the principles
of to
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Fma aenrnd classicalit
ffmoeortrerara,l
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educationtsyvvi
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atse the
elaotofeecNiwove
course
consisted
passages
onft merely tno
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ingsn3
. all
studyi n classical
pursued
at Cambridge. The student wee instructed to
.read the
most eminent authors, poets, philosophers, orators, and
historians among the ancients, and to compare them,
under the direction of his tutors, with modern writers of
the best character writing on the same subject. As con-
nected with ancient history, the student was instructed
in the laws and institutions of the ancients, and not only
composition in ancient language but in his own tongue.
He submitted to their lordships that no system of study
was better calculated to form the character of a gentle-
man in its most comprehensive sense. (Hear.) The atten-
tion of the student was directed also to mathematical
science. Let it not be supposed for a moment that
his instruction in this respect was confined to a few
problems of "Euclid." On the contrary, that branch
of science was cultivated to an immense extent in
the University of Cambridge, and every one must
admit that the faculty of attention
,was cultivated by
that course of study. It was not to pure mathematics,
whether geometrical or analytical, that his study was
confined. It extended to all the branches of physical
science and which mathematical knowledge was con-
nected. That science, added to the cultivation of classical
literature, bad a most powerful effect in forming the
character of an individual. (dear.) Perhaps the most
the medicine
connection
between
or
lrioptuonldrttotjaent matter of all was to inculcate deeply the prin-
ciples of religion. (Hear.) Whatever opinion might
entertained persons unacquainted with the uni-
c_l"n'ee be believed that no better system I t instruction
formed for the pureose of enabling a young
enter into his career in life, whether in the
learned pEof
R° bad thOssmnA• in
vpinosdicedatiZt uo;ht it his duty to say thus much in
political science, or literature.
vershy c
atratbl;systwehmichesTthhaeberleielsohed in the Uei-
footrhetiirng.ste..cieneßeust
witeremusetegnleoettedb7 sup-
aseoohnthe different branchesqw eloquently
ti
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couragmg, illustrating.; and

adorning each other. He should regret extremely any
interference with the branches of learning to which he
had alluded. No university bad ever produced more dis-
tinguished men than the University of Cambridge. It
produced that father of inductive reasoning, Newton ; it
Dry-
den, produced
liSelyi,ltßoynr,otnhe; siutbplrimodet of poets
usced,nmon;
gSsptenocthseerr,
great Dry
-
lights of English jurisprudence, Coke, and a long train
of jurists, including Thurlow ; it produced, amongst
other statemen, Walpole, William Pitt, the great orator
and statesmen, and the noble lord opposite (the Marquis
of Lansdowne), who, as leader of their lordships' house,
had shown so much tact and eloquence, and such an
abundance of good sense. (Hear, hear.) It had also
produced most eminent men for the right reverend
bench, such as Barrow and Jeremy Taylor. But he
must leave their lordships to fill up the long catalogue of
worthies who had issued from that university. Such
was the system of instruction which had prevailed at
Cambridge in olden times, and such was the felit which
it had produced. (Hear, hear.) He trusted their lord
ships would be careful not to impair the efficacy of such
a system by the introduction of new devices likely to in-
terfere with it. He would new call the attention of their
lordships to the mode in which the system of instruction
was earned on. He did not find in the bill any specific
clause making any aeteration in this respect, but he found
certain provisions which, connected with other things he
had heard, led him to suppose teat very extensive alte-
rations were in prospect. The mode of instruction was
very diversified. It consisted of instruction by tutors
of colleges, private tutors, menters. professors, and
others. He believed that private tuition was almost the
exception and not the rule, and that persons who bad the
assistance of private tutors id not come out the most dis-
tinguished. Persons seeking medical honours were obliged
to have private tutors, but he con-idered the system
of private tuition a great evil, for it led to the system of
cramming, weakened the faculties of the student, and
was unjust towards those who were not in a pecuniary
situation to obtain such, and he believed the most dis-
tinguished members of the university were anxious to
limit, if not put an end to the system. He believed also
there were some defects in the system of education by
college tutors, which it was desirable to remedy. With
respect to the residence of students in the town, he be-
lieved the clauses were taken from the Oxford Bill. Ad-
verting to the subject of private halls, the noble and
learned lord said he was satisfied they would not have the
effect of reducing the expenses incidental to a university
education, while, as for their encouraging the entrance of
Dissenters, it was hardly likely that a Dissenter would be
willing to send his son to one of these establishments,
where he would be under the direct control of a mem-
ber of the E-tablished Church. With respect to the re-
commendations of the Royal Commissioners, they were
principally founded upon the report of a syndicate which
the University itself had appointed to inquire into its
constitution ; and therefore it
,was more than possible
that many of the reforms which they suggested would
have been carried out even in the absence of any legisla-
tive enactment on the subject. Some objection had been
taken to this measure, because it did not include the
system of open voting in the Senate, now applied to Ox-
ford ; but the fact was, if that system was introduced at
Cambridge, all the power of regulating the University
would be thrown into the hands of the members of Tri-
nity and St. John's colleges, who decidedly formed the
majority of the University. The noble and learned
lord (who had become so hoarse towards the ter-
mination of his address as to be scarcely audible
in the gallery), concluded by apologising to their
lordships for having detained them so long, but
the bill was one of considerable importance as well
to the public as the university, and since he took a deep
interest in the continued success of the university, it was
his wish as it was his duty to do all that iu him lay to
make the measure as p -rfect as possible. (Cheers )
The Earl of POWIS said he bad listened with much
delight to the eloquent and ins,ructive speech of the
noble lord, which he thought ought to cenviiice every
one that he past and present i ondition of the University
of Cambridge was highly satisfactory. Those who bad
declared that the university bad failed to produce men
of learning and distinction in former centuries, would
find a sufficient answer to their charee in the names
which the noble and learned lord had recalled to me-
mory ; while as for the notice, that the existing sys-
tem of the university was inadequate for the wants
of the age, he thought that assertion was refuted by
the brilliant reputation of the noble and learned lord
himself, who, whether in Westminster-hall or in the
chambers of Parli tment, bad always displayed the highest
order of intellect. (Cheers.) With regard to the
measure before their lordshipe, the noble and learned lord
who ha 1 charge of it had wisely taken warning from the
fate of the Oxford Bill, and had avoided a 1 those useless
changes which cave rise to so much contrev,rsy last
year. He felt, therefore, that them was some c :ance of
this bill passing without undergoing any very material
emendation, though at the same time that he made that
admission he must be allowed to observe that when he
contrasted what the university had gained from private
bounty with the little the State had done for it, he could
not help thinking that the State was somewhat arrogant
in the pretensions it put forth to deal with the founda-
tions, the scholarships, and the fellowships of the uni-
versity. It appeared to him also that much of this
legislation was dictated by a bigoted and narrow-minded
spirit ; but much would depend upon the discretion of
those to whom these legislative powers were to be
entrusted, and he, therefore, regretted to find that
with one single exception all the commissioners to be
named in the bill belonged to one political party. The
noble earl then proceeded to usenet the details of the bill,
and in doing so, he said lie ciinotirred with most of what
had fallen from the noble and learned lord who had pre-
coled hint ; but be could not agree with him in thinking
that any fetters ought to be put upon the free choice of
the student by selecting his own private tutor. It would
very often happen that one part of the lectures delivered
in a college would not supply all that a student need de-
sire in order to enable burn to take honours. Private tui-
tion was therefore a. good test of the efficiency or non-
efficiency of the system pursued in the colleges. He
hoped, however, that there would be no diminution of
liberty on the part of a student to have recourse to'pri-
vate tuition if he desired to avail himself of that conve-
nience.
Lord REDESDA.LE must congratulate the Univer-
sity of Cambridge on the discussions that took place last
year on the bill for the reform of the University of Ox-
ford. He confessed, however, that he did not see that
the same measure had been meted out to the two
universities. A much larger measure of alteration
had been operated on Oxford than Cambridge re-
ceived by the bill before their lordships. Similar
provisions, for instance, had not been made to
meet the case of a fretful rejection of a new mea-
sure by cent tin bodies in the university, and there was
a difference in the constituency through which part of
the council was to be elected. He (Lord Redesdale) bad
ventured to propose with reference to Oxford that,
where cengregarion rejected a measure sent down to
them by the Hebdomadal Board, that board should have
the right of taking the sense of the uni ersity at large
on the question. That proposal was rejected, and yet
he found that in the Cambridge bill the noble and learned
lord had proposed something of the same kind. How-
ever, he had no real objection to the bill ; but it'was
possible not to come to the satisfactory and gratifying
conclusion that it contained modifications and improve-
ments which they had not been fortunate enough in pro-
curing for Oxford.
Viscount CANNING said that, with reference to the
difference of the constituency through which part of the
council was to be elected, he must ask the noble lord to
bear in mind that such a cm stituency as had been cre-
ated in the case of the University of Oxford would be
liable to be overridden by the comparatively overgrown
establishments of Trinity and St. John's. He thought
that the present bill was much less stringent and grasp-
ing than the measure which passed their lordships' house
last year.
Lord LYNDHURST said he had a number of amend-
ments to propose, but he should like first to have an
opportunity of seeing the amendments which he under-
stood the noble and learned lord bad to propose.
The bill then passed through committee.
CONVENTION WITEI SARDINIA. BILL.
this bill was read a third time and passed.
Their lordships then adjouried at twenty minutes past
eight.

Mr,. BRADY asked the Secretary for War if (in the
event .of another battle taking place before Sebastopol)
any means had been recommended by the Medical Di-
reCtor.General for the removal of the wounded from the
battle-tield other than those usually employed (namely,
banner' nen and drummers); and, if so, why were not
those m,ians resorted to atter the battles of Alma and
Inkerma n?

Mr. P. EEL said be knew of no plan recommended by
Dr. A. St pith, except what he stated before the Sebasto-
pol Committee ; but the removal of wounded was espe-
cially provided for.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—YESTERDAY.
The SPEAKER took the chair at 4 o'clock.
THIRD READINGS.

The Jedburgh Railway Bill and the Llynni Valley
and Bridgend Railways Bill were read a third time and
paased. _ _

The Bombay, Baroda, and Central India Railway
(No. 2) Bill was read a second time.

PETITIONS.

' Petitions were presented by Mr. Kirk, from Dan-
bridge, against the Poor Removal Bill ; by Mr. Had-
field, from Sheffield, signed by the Mayor and Corpo-
ration and 12,000 inhabitants, in favour of the bill for
legalising marriage with a deceased wife's sister ; also a
petition with the same prayer from married women of
Sheffield ; by Mr. Muntz, from West Bromwich,
against the Nuisances Removal Bill ; by Sir Joshua
Walmsley, from Leicester. praying for tlae abolition
of church rates ; also a petition from the same place
against the Maynooth grant ; by Mr. Bright, several
petitions from Lancashire and Gloucestershire, against
church rates, and in favour of closing public-houses on
Sundays; by Mr. Ker Seymer from Shaftesbury, against
the proposed alteration in the law of marriage ; by Mr.
Bowyer from Exeter (signed by the mayor and coric.ra-
tion and other inhabitants), in favour of marriage with a
deceased wife's sister ; by Mr. Scholefield (signed by
45,000 inhabitants of plymonth), in favour of legalising
marriage with a deceased wife's sister.
PACKET SERVICE BETWEEN HOLYHEAD
AND ENGLAND.
Mr. CAIRNS asked the First Lord of the Admiralty
whether any tender for the packet service between Holy-
head and Kingstown had been made by the London and
Nerth-We,tern Railway Company, and whether such
tender had been accepted ; Mid whether the Government
would lay the particulars of the tender on the table of
the house before ;;be second reading of Improved Coin-
inunication between England and Ireland Bill, which
stlnds for the 27th instant?

Sir C. WOOD said all the Admiralty knew of •it wag
that the arranerßents were still pending,
a
Captain L. °VERNON a,ked the Clerk of the Ord-
nance whether the building for the Lancaster shot manu-
factory at Woolwich was erected by Messrs. Fox and
Henderson witheut the supervision of an officer of the
Royal Engineer Department ; and, if so, what was the
reason for adopting such a course ? Also, whether that
work bad been performed in respect to construction and
materials to the entire satisfaction of the Ordnance, and
whether an officer of the Royal Engineer Department
had been directed to examine and report upon the same !
Mr. MONSELL said he applied to Mr. Nasmyth on
the.sublect, and, it being. found impossible- to carry on
the manufacture at the existing works at Woolwich, it

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lowed, he could detect the same animus he had already
pointed out; while if the informatirn required by others
were furnished, it he excee,ii,gly volummous
and altogether useless, especially as the very iWornia-
tion hail, in many cases, been already furnished to the
house. If the hon. gentleman thou!4ht there was any-
thing wrong in the office of the Attorney-General, be
ought not to ask for useiess ay.ti expensive returns, but
to move for a select committee. (fie, r.)
Mr. G. VERNONdepre,at d the printing of slch
mass of trash as the returns moved for by the hon.
member for Southwark.

Mr. PELLA.TT, after a few observations in reply,
terminated the discussion by withdrawing his motion.
THE POST-OFFICE

Mr. H. BAILLIE rose to call the attention of the
house to the system under which the Post-.,ice was ad-
mnistered, and to move that, in the opinionuf this house,
the orders given by the Treasury to the Postmaster-Gene-
ral, in the year 1848, to establish a post office communi-
cation, at the expense of his dep trtment, between the
islands of North and South Uist, Harris, and Barra, should
be carried into effect without delay. He complained of
the numerous and important defects in the management
of the Post-office. The country were not aware of the sys-
tem under which that estahli-bouont was admiListered.
It was a fact that the Postmaster-General, though noun-
t.ally at the head of the institution, was completely !leder
the control of the Secretary to the Treasury ; and when
c ,mplaints were made of errors or irregularities in his
department, he had not the pow r to ioquire into them
himself, and provide a remedy if iiecessary. Why should
the Postmaster-General not hare the entire control and
management of his own department ? No wonder that
great calamit:es had occurred at Balak!ava, whet. such a
system was allowed to continue m tile admisas.ration of
the Post-office at home. He Maintained that the &tore-

tart' of the Treasury should have nothing to do with the
Post-office, but should be ,trictly confined to his own de-
partment. The effects of the present system were ad-
mirably illustrated by the ba;e referred to in his rem'u-
tion. So lung ago as 1848 orders were given by tie Trea-
sury to the Postmaster General to establish a post-office
communication between the Wands of North and S,Hith
13-ISt, Harris, and Sarr,i ; but up to the present
time, in consequence of the want of orgmisation in the
department, those orders had not been carried into effect.
He now asked that the post-office communication sane-
ti,inod by the Treasury in 1848 should be established
without delay. The inhabitants of the islands, though
very poor, were at present obliged to send their corre-
spondence in boats to the mainland at their own expense,
and it was but fair that they should be put up )n the
same footing as other parts of the country--
_ _

An Hog. MEMBER here ruf.ved that' the house be
counted, and there being only 38 members present,
The house adjourned at men o'clock.

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK.
( From the Report of the Registrar-General. )

The present return exhibits a decided improvenient in
the health of London. The deaths, which bad been re-
spectively 1,226 and 1,347 in the first two weeks of April
fell in the week that ended on Saturday to 1,037. The
temperature of the last fortnight was little higher than
it is expected to be in April, but it was 10 degrees higher
than in March, and human life reaps the benefit of the
change. In the la'st four weeks the mean temperature
has been 36.5 deg., 41.9 deg., 47.2 deg., and 49 1 deg.
In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 184554,
the average numb-r of deaths re2,istered was 1,035, which,
if raised in proportion to increase of population, becomes
1,138. The number of persons who died last week is
51 less than the estimated number.

Diseases of the respiratory organs, exclusive of phthi4s
and hooping-'cough, destroyed about a fourth part of the
persons who died in the first three months of this year.
The deaths from that class of diseases were reduce .I last
week to 222, about a fifty of the total mortality of the
week. From phthisis 139 persons died ; in the winter
months the mean weekly number was 165. Small-pox
was fatal in 19 cases, of which 14 occurred under ten
years of age ; scarlatina was fatal in 46 cases, hopping-
cough in 50, typhus in 33, measles only in 12, diarrhoea
inll. Six cases of scarlatina were fatal in Ilaintnersinith
and Fulham ; 3 cases of small-pox in St. James's, Ber-
mondsey.
Last week the births of 916 boys and 872 girls, in all
1,788 children, were registered in London. In the ten
corresponding weeks of the years 1845-54 the average
number was 1,472.

At the Royal Ob-servatory,Greetiwich,the mean height
of the barometer in the week was 30'148 in. The mean
daily reading was above 30 in. on six days of the- week.
At the end of the week the barometer rose tq 30'40 in.
The meam temperature of the week was 49 1 dege.,
waich is higher by 2'6 degs. than the aver .ge of the
same week in 33 years. The mean temperature was 56'9
degs. on Monday, which is 10'9 degs. higher than the
average ; and it fell to 41 9 degs. on Saturilay, which is
5'4 degs. below the average. The. wind had been in the
south-vest on the first two days, and blew during the re-
mainder of the week from the north-east. The highest
temperature occurred on Monday, and was 72 8 degs.;
the lowest occurred on Thursday, and was 29'2 degs.
Tire mean dew-point temperature was 40.9 degs,, and
the difference between this and the temperature of the
air was 8.2 degs. No rain fell, and London enjoyed a
clear sky
The registrars, in compliance with instructions given,
to them, make occasional communications in their re-
turns with reference to•the deaths they have regist.red,
and to particular circusis'ances in which these have oc-
curred. The correcteees of such opinions and s• ate-
rnents most he held exclusively on the testimony of the
registrar', of the medical or other infornaets.
ST. JAMES'S WESTMINSTER ; St. Jmnes's square.—
At 50, Brewer-street, on 14th and 18111 April, the
daughter and son of a leather breeches maker, aged re-
spectively 20 months an 19 years, "scarlatina." Mr
Keith, the registrar, observes :--" This is the only house
in the sub-district where I have fe-ard that scarlatina
prevails. The mother was first attacked and afterwards
the three children, of whom itwo have died during the
last week. The other child remains seriously un,,e11."
WANDSWORTH ; Putney.—At 33, Gay-street. On 16th
April, the son of a blacksmith, aged 17 years, " small
pox, confluent and petechial (5 days), congestion of the
brain (3 days)." Mr. Whiteman, the medical officer,
says :—" This patient was imprudently removed frOm
Tooting to Putney in an ()pen cart, and died shortlyafter.
Vaccinated in his infancy, but no visinle cicatrix."
ST. GEORGE-IN-THE-EAST ; St. John.—At the w irk-
holier), on 15th April, a New Zealander, aged 32, "natu-
ral death, acceler tted by want, privations, and exposure."
ISLINGTON ; East.—At 1, Montague-place, on 24th
March, the son of a mariner, aged 14 days, "atrophy (14
dave)." Mr. Butterfield, the registrar, states that " the
child was buried the day after death, without certificate
or notice to registrar, and without religious ceremony."

MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.
NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED

IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, APRIL 2L
Zymotic Diseases
Diseases of Uncertain Seat
Tubercular Diseases
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves and Senses
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 4l
Diseases of the Lungs and other Organs of
222
Dißseeasseisraor tnhe Stomach, Liver, and other Organs
of Digestion
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c.
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c.
Diseases of the Joints, Bores, and Muscles
Diseases of the Skin, &c.
Malformations 0
Premature Birth and Debility 36
Atrophy 44
Old Age
Sudden 8
Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance . 26
Causes not specified

DEATHS FROM ALL CA.lISES
Population Deaths in corre- Deaths
Enumerated.. sponding week in the

Ittfl. of Iti'4. %Neel:.
West Districts
North Districts 490.396
Central Districts 393,256
East Districts 485,522
South Districts

Totals
Males
Females.

1,193

1,087
545
542