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London, England, 1855-04-18 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS—(YESTERDAY.)
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at five o'clock.

PETITIONS.

Lord MONTEAGLE presented a petition from the
Chamber of Commerce of Waterford, complaining of the
irregularity of the conveyance of the mails in the south
of Ireland.
The Earl of SHAFTESBURY presented a petition
item a place in Bent, praying for the abolition of Church
rates ; also a petition from a Belfast congregation against
the grant to Maynooth ; and also a petition from a
place in Wales, praying that public-houses might be
closed on Sunday.

PIIDSEY GAS BILL.
On the motion of Lord REDESDALE this bill was
a third time and passed.
WOOL WICH CONSUMERS GAS BILL.

This bill was also read a third time.
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY BILL.
Lord LYNDHURST remarked that as every member
of the Government was absent except the Lord Privy
Seal, he suggested that the -discussion upon the above
bill should be postponed. He had no objection to the
measure being read a second time, and that the discus-
sion be taken upon the motion for going into committee.
The LORD CHANCELLOR said he was entirely in
the bands of the house, and he would have no objection
to the course proposed.
CHURCH RATES.
Earl GREY presented two petitions against the ex-
isting system of church rates, and expressed his dissent
from the views taken by the petitioners.
A desultory conversation took place, in wliich the
Bi-hop of Exeter and the Lord Chancellor took part, at
the termination of which Earl Grey withdrew the
petitions.
Oa the order of the day being read for the second
reading of the Cambridge University Bill,
The LORD CHANCELLOR moved the second read-
ing of the bill.
The bill was read a second time pro form; and or-
dered to be committed on Tuesday next.
DEAN FORESTS, &c., BILL.
This bill was then read a third time and passed,
Their lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS-YESTERDAY.
The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock.
THIRD READINGS.
The Heywood Water Bill, and the Medical, Invalid,
and General Life Assurance Society Bill, were read a
third time and passed.
BILLS ORDERED TO BE CONSIDERED.
The Abingdon Railway, the Bangor Markets and
Public Institutions, and the Lancaster Water and Gas
Bills, were ordered to be considered.
PETITIONS.
Petitions were presented by Mr. Horsfall from the
proprietor of the Liverpool Standard, praying for the
substitution of a halfpenny stamp on newspapers ; by
Mr. Mowbray, from the proprietor of a Durham paper,
with the same prayer ; by Mr. Wilson, from the con-
gregation of Camberwell-green chapel, praying for the
abolition of church rates ; by Mr. Hadfield, from the
proprietors of newspapers in Yorkshire, praying for a
halfpenny stamp on newspapers ; also from Rotherham,
praying for the abolition of church rates ; by Mr.
Pellatt, from Bridgnorth and other places, with a
similar prayer ; by Lord Ebrington, from Kentish-
town, against the Metropolis Local Management Bill ;
by the Solicitor-General, from a place in Buckingham-
shire, for the abolition of church rates ; by Sir J.
Pakington, from three newspapers published in Wor-
cester, in favour of a halfpenny stamp on newspapers ;
by Sir G. Pechell, several petitions from Brighton for
the abolition of church rates ; by Mr. Phinn, four peti-
tions from various parts of the metropolis, praying for
the re-establishment of the kingdom of Poland.
(Laughter.)
DISCOVERY OF THE SCREW PROPELLER.

Captain SCOBELL gave notice that on 15th May
be should bring under the notice of the house the ap-
propriation of a sum of 28,0001. for the discovery of the
screw propeller.

!INCOME TAX OF WOUNDED OFFICERS.
Mr. PEEL, in reply to Colonel North, said it was
not intended .hat any deductions should be made for
income tax from the amount awarded as gratuity for
wounded officers who have returned home mutilated
from the Crimea. (Hear.) •
COMMITTEE OF COUNCIL FOR EDUCATION.
Sir G. GREY, in reply to Sir J. Pakington, said he
was not prepared to introduce during the present ses-
sion a measure for altering the constitution of the Com-
mittee of Council on Education.
THE COLONIAL OFFICE.
Sir G. GREY, in reply to Sir J. Pakington, said he
believed he might state that the Secretary of State for
the Colonial Department would be in London by the
27th or 28th of this month. (Hear.)
EXPENDITURE BY THE INDIA GOVERN-
MENT ON ACCOUNT OF THE EXPEDITION
TO CHINA.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, in re-
ply
to Sir J. Hogg, said no provision had been made
for payment to the East India Company of 806,5351.,
balance of the expenditure by the Government of
India on account of the Expedition to China.
Sir J. HOGG then gave notice that when the Presi-
dent of the Board of Control made his financial state-
ment, if not before, he should call the attention of the
house to the claims of tha Indian Government.
ARMY AND NAVY MEDICAL DEPART-
MENTS.

Colonel BOLDERO, in moving for a select committee
to inquire into the state of the medical departments of
the army and navy, recapitulated a portion of the
evidence already given before the Sebastopol Com-
mittee on this subject. He complained that men
unfit for active service were sent out from this
country to be placed at the head of most important
branches of the public service, and the consequences
had been most disastrous. He maintained that Dr. A.
Smith, the head of the medical department in England,
had urged various improvements in the medical arrange-
ments when war became imminent, but his sug-
gestions were disregarded ; and he thought the
blame rested not with Dr. A. Smith, but upon
other shoulders. With regard to the navy he considered
the system of promotions was very bad, and such as was
calculated to deter young men to enter it until that
system was modified.
Sir J. TROLLOPE seconded the motion. He hoped
they would not be told by the Government that
the committee now sitting to inquire into the state of
the Army before Sebastopol would be sufficient. A
committee to inquire into the general management
of the war was a very different thing from the direc-
tion of the medical department. He (Sir J. Trol-
lops) had a letter in his hand from Dr. John Davy,
brother of the illustrious Sir Humphry Davy, a
gentleman well acquainted with the climate and
habits of the East. That letter was addressed in
March last to the right hon. gentleman the member for
Wiltshire, offering his services for the East, but no
notice whatever was taken of his letter, nor any an-
swer sent. After the Duke of Newcastle succeeded
to the War Department, Dr. Davy renewed his offer
of his services, and the only answer he got to that was a
letter from Dr. A. Smith, stating that he did not feel
himself perfectly justified in recommending that he (Dr.
Davy) should be placed upon full pay. Now, Dr. Davy
did not want this ; he was a gentleman of independent
means, residing in a happy retirement amid the
lakes of Cumberland ; he offered his services gra-
tuitously, and that was the way he was treated.
(Hear, hear.) He believed if we had had medical
officers of experience as regarded camp diseases we
never should have taken the barrack at Scutari. He
wished to see our system assimilated to the French, who
were not tied down by routine, but who selected and
promoted men for their genius and abilities. (Hear.)
Mr. PEEL said he saw no reason whatever why the
medical service of the army should not have prizes suffi-
cient to induce gentlemen to enter that service, and
that they were fully entitled to be treated with every
consideration by the Government. As far as the service
was said to be tied down by routine, that had in a great
measure given way under actual service. But there were
reasons why such r committee as that now asked for
would be impolitic and was uncalled for, for the Sebas-
topol committee was at the present moment Inquiring
into that very subject,.t
and one-half of the blue-book
already published by 1
was taken up with the state of
eur medical services. The Government were taking steps
to re-organicie and reconstitute that very service ; and,
with regard to the contrast drawn between our medical
department of the armydandbetehnatseenftthbeyForuerneGh
oavremrynl
a commission had already
meat to Paris to inquire inttobetirhe
report,
ansyds,temno;
that committee had made
doubt, much useful information would be dneorivefroin
tout report. The Government were besides w making
important changest in the., organisation of the medical
most unnatural he
with n and the constitution of the medical board.
should regard to Dr. A. Smith, it was
medics the to retire after a service of 40 years, and also
medicald he had held as Director-General of the
be divided by ""‘ment solely by himself was now about to
another
rea.3,:at,, he
h irangements and that was a!so
itttheeerefere
the service. le:-7 -""•• Smithwished' to retire from
to show that thitstgulit
Sebastopol expedient; it wo 1
he trusted nthderelaf he had said enough
would at present be in-
andastopol committee,
judgment till the labourse-n"fe tharse would suspend its
nod
elicited then't'
eluded, and that
gaclolarrinalttee were con-
rest satisfied with having member would
jesty's Government (Min&
Mr. BRADY said he thoeuilgbhietetth. jlthlritr:a,lef haaer Ma-
when it was imperatively
tion. At this moment tiellepceb"arYtati° pktxl e co
the necessity of a full and seirechliee-e-ne- ;wa: aroused of all our public depaene- ibitTory inatreo:thryedl;;a°
it was the bounden duty of the house and theo rnz
-
lay towards the investigation of those e
they be true or not. The real questiOneatal:gees' whether
_whether our public service was conducteleduien
cient and proper manner, so as to carry out the
which were intended, and to promote the safety
and
dependence of this great country. The hon. gentleman
the Under Secretary for the War Department had stndi
"abr avoided alluding to the medical department of the
navy. Now, it was notorious that this department was
roost imperfectly officered, and that the nation, suffered
in proportion. There was nothing that could injure the
public service so much as a report going abroad that
the health and the lives of our brave soldiers or sailors
were not cared nor provided for by the authorities that
presided over the
respective services. The authorities
of the Admiralfy were
at this moment compelled to
employ more than one hundredunqualified young men
to act as 6urgeon4 to one
of the greatest beta that

ever left the shores of England. He believed that
many of those young men were wholly unable to tie an
artery, and would not be allowed to perform an opera-
tion in any of our workhouses. This fact was a crying
shame, and the Government were most culpable in mak-
ing such appointments. Unless they changed their whole
system they would not be able to get proper men to enter
the service, because it was felt that if they did so they
would become degraded in their social position. Under
such circumstances he shuddered at the idea of a serious
engagement taking place. He had the honour of presiding
over one of the most important meetings, in a medical
sense, lately held. There were more than 4,000 medical
students present, and there %ere deputations from every
school of surgeons and medical college in the United King-
dom. Those young men all came forward and pledged
themselves never to enter the service of the navy as long
as those degrading regulations existed. When the ar►ny
estimates were brought forward in 1853, the hoe. and
gallant colonel who made the present proposition stated
his apprehensions upon this subject in the event of war,
and he said that the Aimiralty had deteriorated the
article, and had taken medical officers of an inferior de-

scription into the service, who acted solely under a
warrant similar to that of a boatswain. The right hon.
baronet the member for Carlisle (Sir J. Graham), in
reply, said that at that moment there was no deficiency
in that branch of the service—that the Government had

no complaint to make of a want of a sufficient number of

surgeons in the navy, and he added that if he had the
slightest apprehension that the crews of her Majesty's
ship's would be exposed to the treatment of ignorant

practitioners, there was no sacrifice which he would not

be willi.ig to make in order to remedy so great an evil
Now, after such a declaration from the right hon. hart ,
be (Hr. Brady) was stn.., if he were present, that he
would support the proposition before the house. He

would ask the gallant admiral (Admiral Berkeley) on
the Treasury bench whether he was now ready to
remedy the evil of which they complained t He
(Mr. Brady) charged the hon. and gallant admiral with
being the great cause of the pre,ent wretched state of
the medical department of the navy, by removing all
inducement to good medical officers to remain in the
service. He hoped, however, that this evil would soon
be remedied, and that the navy would be ouce more
great and glorious as it should be.
Admiral BERKELEY would not have risen but for
the unwarrantable personal attack that had been made
upon him by the hon. member. The hon. gentleman
had stated things of him which be (Admiral Berkeley)
hal no hesitation in saying were totally foreign to his
nature. As. regarded the qualification of surgeons in
the navy, a higher qualification was demanded in the
navy than in the army, except in the case of the as-
sistant surgeons, whose qualifications were required
to be at least equal. The honourable gentleman said
that the navy was obliged to employ dressers, because
they could not get assistant surgeons. That was not
the fact. If the hon. gentleman looked to Sebastopol
he would find the health of the seamen better attended
to than that of any others in the service. There were
only 12 sick out of 1,000 that had landed in the naval
brigade, as was stated the other night in the house.
During the last year alone 49 assistant surgeons had
entered the navy. The ships in the Baltic had not, in
fact, a single vacancy for an assistant-surgeon at this
moment, neither bad those in the Black Sea ; and there
was, in fact, now one-third more medical assistants in
each ship in the navy than there was in the last war.

Colonel NORTH said it was impossible to give the
medical officers too great praise for their attention
to their duties ; but as regarded the committee up-
stairs he did not see how they could investigate the
subject fully with all the other claims on their

time. The enormous and most unfair amount called
hospital deductions from the private soldier, for in-
stance, were so onerous that a soldier long sick
could not possibly come out of hospital otherwise
than in debt. He (Colonel North) also agreed that the
amount of correspondence imposed upon medical officers
was too great. He did not think the officers were any
batter treated. In the West Indies some years since
ensigns on ss. 3d. a day had to pay for leeches them-
selves, when in yellow fever, when leeches were very
dear. He did not consider the removable position of the
medical officer a satisfactory one. He would vote for the
motion, because he thought every regiment should have
a regular and complete medical establishment, tho-
roughly trained in all its parts, from the hospital sur-
geons upward. He thought a system of providing linen
and other similar conveniences for the military hospitals
should be adopted the same as in the naval hospitals.
And he finally called the attention of the Government
to the serious condition of officers returned invalided
from the Crimea ; and suggested that as they had no
allowance, an hospital should be established for their use,
or hones should be hired for the same purpose. IL-
would vote for the motion because he thought the corn
mittee up stairs could not investigate all these points, or
inquire into the whole question.

Mr. E. ELLICE could cohfirm a great part of what
had fallen from the gallant officer ; but he was at a to
to advise the house what course to take in the matter
EL- a.,:.,reed that nothing could be worse than the medical

!epartment of the army, and the committee up stairs were
doing all they could to obtain information w•th the view
to its amendment. It would be, therefore, a question
whether two committees were necessary under the circiun
stances. The medical condition of the navy, he was bound
to say, presented a very strong contrast to that of the army,
and the condition of the sailors in the hospital ships was
satisfactory as compared with that of the soldiers at
Scutari. He was afraid, however, it would be found to
resolve itself into a question of expense. The salary of
the chief medical officer in the service was reduced to
1,2001. a year which was muoh less than he might have
obtained by his private practice. Again, the medical
superintendent at Scutari, who had the charge of 5,000
patients, only got 255. per day. But be had to receive
the patients and to class them—to make a variety of re-
ports—to perform some of the most difficult surgical ope
rations, and to attend at every board held for the pur-
pose of invaliding soluiers. What was wanting was a
military officer possessing full control over the whole ar-
rangements of the hospital, with powers to deal summa-
rily with such medical officers as did not fully perform
their duty. In all the colonies the commanding officer
of the garrison was the supreme authority in respect to
the military hospitals ; such was what was wanting in
the East. He (Mr. Ellice) was somewhat doubtful if
it would be for the advantage of the service that the
house should adopt the motion under all the circum-
stances; or whether it would not be the preferable course
to leave the pursuit of the inquiry to the committee now
sitting in connection with the subject. He was for in-
quiry as much as any man, but he thought it would be
better, on the whole, not to have two committees sitting
on the same inquiry.
Mr. MUNTZ could not understand how the Government
could oppose the motion now that all Government ac-
tion was suspected. Neither could he see why two com-
mittees might not sit ; more especially as one was en-
gaged in a general inquiry, while the other would only
be engaged in a special one.
Mr. M. CHAMBERS would vote for the motion, be-
cause the army was perishing from delay. The commit-
tee up stairs was investigating the whole conduct of the
war ; the motion before the house was for a committee
to inquire into the medical departments of the army and
navy. The two subjects might be investigated without
clashing with one another. The navy was stated to be
well off in regard of its medical department ; but as yet
there bad been no great war to test its resources in that
respect. It would be desirable, therefore, to look to the
mischief before it occurred, and to provide the remedy
in anticipation of the evil. Already there had been 100
young men sent-out to the Baltic fleet who were not com-
petent to act as surgeons, having been only in the position
of hospital dressers. It was because the subject was
large enough for a committee in itself that he should
vote for the motion.
Sir G. GREY said the Government were not opposed
to inquiry ; but his hon. friend had stated the reason
why it was inexpedient to agree to the motion. The
house would decide if the proposal of the Government
were a reasonable proposal or not. The committee up stairs
had been appointed not to inquire into the conduct
of the war, but into the administration of the various
departments of the army, and it had already devoted
much time and attention to the medical department.
He (Sir G. Grey) consi iered the proposal of the Govern-
ment as the proper one under the circumstances, and he
hoped the novae therefore woutd not agree to the motion.
All the Government desired was, that the committee up
stairs should have time to report on the subject; end
then the house might appoint a second committee it it
was deemed necessary. As regarded the statement of
the hon. and learned member for Greeuwich, all the
young men sent out to the Baltic fleet had gone as
medical supernumeraries alone, and not as practising
surgeons.
Admiral PECHELL could not refuse to give his vote
for inquiry. He regretted the tone of asperity used to-
wards his hon. friend the member for Gloucester, who
bad used almost superhuman exertions in his ofice, a
fact that would come broadly out on inquiry.
Colonel BOLDER() in reply said the whole of the
members of Government had spoken strongly in favour
of his motion. He could not conceive that it was neces-
sary to postpone the inquiry until the committee on
Sebastopol had terminated its labours. There was no
time like the time present for inquiry, . and he trusted
therefore the house would agree to his motion.
The house divided—
For the motion 69
Against it 73
Majority against the motion
The numbers were received With cheers.
SUNDAY TRADING.

at ried on required legislative conside-
day trading was c
had before occupied the attention
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something being done
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and all
had agreed on the necessityi
The efforts which had previously
failed ; but he thought the
Sunday trading had hithertol
did not anticipate any decidedobjheecetaionintaodheisto
check motion.
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but be certainly should wish to hear something of it
details before he pledged himself to support it.
Mr. L. HEYWORTH said a few words that did net
reach the gallery.
The bill was brought in and read a first time.
EDUCATION OF PAUPER CHILDREN.

Mr. E. DENISON rose to move for leave to intro-
duce a bill to provide for the education of the children of
poor persons in the receipt of in-door relief. His bill
was not so much a new measure as a supplementary
measure to other bills which bad already been proposed
to the house. He had been urged to persevere with his
bill by the introducers of the other bills ; and the object
of his bill was to enable education to be given to poor
children, but not as a condition of relief to the parents,
and not making it compulsory on children to attend any
particular kind of school. He should have been glad to
introduce a clause to make a portion of the expense fall
upon the Consolidated Fund, but on a communication
with the Chancellor of the Exchequer he was informed
that the state of the public funds prevented such a clause
from receiving countenance. He trusted at a more
favourable time this part of his plan would receive con-
sideration. He believed there would be no opposition
to the introduction of the bill, and he would conclude
by asking leave to introduce it.

The bill was then read a first time, and ordered to be
printed.

LAND AND ASSESSED TAXES DIVISIONS.

Mr. FREWEN moved for leave to bring in a hill to
facilitate the formation of divisions within and for which
meetings of commissioners of land or assessed taxes may
be held in that part of the United Kingdom called Great
Britain.
The bill was read a first time.
SUPPLY.

On bringing up the report, and on the vote of
100,0001. ter education being broueht forward,
Mr. HADFIELD objected to the vote f'r educational
purposes. He objected to Government interfering with
education at all, because it checked those efforts which
were being made by private enterprise. It had been
said that vie voluntary system had failed, but he denied
this ; the voluntary system had not tailed, it had worked
and was working wonders. The compulsory principle—
the taxation principle—had failed, and had done the ad-
mitted mischief. The voluntary system bad produced
this result, that one in every eight persons was now re-
ceiving education, whereas, before this period, the pro
portion was only one in eighteen. The education given
by the system of Sunday-school training was a strictly
religious education, and Government with all its power,
and at whatever cost, would fail to equal such a result.
He should move that this particular vote be disallowed.
Compulsory education would fail as it had failed—and
as Government had failed in becoming manufacturers,
so they would fail in their educational scheme.
Sir G. GREY said an opportunity would be given to
every hon. gentleman at a future stage to state his ob-
jections to any vote that had been arrived at last night.
He hoped the hon. gentleman would not persevere in
his objections.
The vote was then agreed to, and the report was re-
ceived.
The Convention with Sardinia Bill was then read a
third time and passed.
The house then adjourned at five minutes past eight
o'clock.

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-APRIL 17.
MEDICAL DEPARTMENTS.

Motion made, and question put, "That a Select Committee
be appointed to inquire into the state of the Medical De-
partments of each of the two services, Army and Navy."
The house divided—Ayes 69, Nobs, 73.

Pakenhsm, T. H.
Fechell, Sir G.
Pellatt, A.
Percy, T.
Reed, J.
Robertson, P.
Scobell, Capt. U.
Shelley, Sir J.
Smith, W.
Spooner, R.
Stafford, A.
Stanhope, J.
Stirling, W.
Strutt, E.
Tancred, H.
Vernon, L.
Waddington, D.
Waddington, 11.
Walmsley, Sir J.
Williams, W.
Wise. A.

AYES-69.
Bailey, Sir J. Hadfield, G.
Batlite, H. Hayes, Sir E.
Baird, J. Herbert, Sir T.
Ball, E. Hindley, C.
Bateson, Capt T. Holford, R.
Bell, J. Hudson, G.
Biggs, W. Jones, Capt. T.
Blandford, Marquis of Kennedy, T.
Brady, J. Rinnaird. A.
hrarnley-Moore, J. Liddell, H. G.
Challis, T. Lowe, R.
Chambers, M. Lushington, C.
Child, Smith Maearniey, G.
Cholmondeley, Lord Macgregor, Jas.
Christopher, Robt. A. Malins, R.
Christie, Samuel Massey, W.
Davies, J. L. Michell, W.
Duff. , C. G. Mowbray, J.
buncombe, T. Nuntz, G.
Farnham, E. Murrough, J.
Ferguson, J. North, Col. J.
Goderich, Via. O'Brien' P.
Graham, Lord W. Otway, A.
Greene, John Packs. 4'.
NOES-711.
Acton, J Fitz Gerald, J. Perry, Cir T.
Antrobus, E. Gordon, A. Phillimore, J. G.
R 11, J Greene, Thomas Pilkington, J
Baring, Sir F. Grey. Sir 0 P..llard-Urquhart, W.
Bass, I. Grosvenor. Ld. R. Power, N.
I,erkeley. Admiral Gurney, J. Ricardo, 0.
Bland, L. H. Heyworth, L. Ricardo, S.
-.,.uverie, Hon. E. P. Ho. arnan, E. Bey mer, H.
Brand. H. B. W. Johns'one, '` i r J. Smith, R.
sro, herton, J. Kershaw, J. Steel, J.
Browne, W. Lee, W. Thornely, T.
Cavendish, G. Lindsay, W. Vivian, H. H.
Chambers, T. Lockhart, A. E. Water park, Lord
ha, tham, J. Luce, T. Wells, W.
Cowper, W. F. Matheson, Sir J. Whatman, J.
Craunird, E. 11.3. Milligan, R. Whitbread, S.
i ..-ni.on, J. E. Mille, T. Wickham. H. W.
Da Tees, B. Molesworth„ Sir W. Wilkinson, W.
Duncan. Viscount Monet, Viscount Wilson, J
Duncan, G. IT on crei ff, J. Wilmington. Sir T.
Dungm van, Viscount Mousell, W. Wyvlll. M.
ittnington, Viscount Me.tyn, T.
Hulot, J. O'Brien, J.
Ewan, W. 0- borne, R.
Ewalt, J. Peel, F.

TELLERS
Boldero, Col H. G.
Trollops, J.

T‘LLZAS
Hayter. W.
Alulgraye, Earl of

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK,

(From the Report of the Registrar-General. )

In the week that en!ed last Saturday, the deaths of
1,347 persons (715 males and 632 females) were regis-
tered in London. In the ten corresponding weeks of
the years 1845-54, the average number was 1,035,
which, if raised by a tenth part for increase of popula-
tion, becomes 1,138. Hence it appears that a high rate
of mortality still prevails, the excess of deaths in the
present return over the estimated number being 209.
The weekly number of deaths from bronchitis ob-
serves a remarkable uniformity ; in the last five weeks
it has been successively 163. 146, 155, and 153. Pneu-
monia is less regular in its effect, the cases in which it
was fatal in the same weeks having been 135, 96, 113,
98, and 92. There is now a decrease in the mortality of
hooping-ceugh. From six zymotic disease, small-pox,
measles, scarlatina, hooping-cough, diarrhoea, and
typhus, there were altogether 191 deaths last week.
Last week, the births of 912 boys and 806 girls, in
all 1,718 children, were registered in London. In the
ten corresponding weeks of the years 1845-54, the
average number was 1,411.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29.519 in. The
highest readings occurred at the beginning and end of
the week, when they were respectively 29.94 in. and
29.92 in. The mean temperature of the week was 47.2
deg., which is 2.1 deg. higher than the average of the
same week in 38 years. The air became warmer towards
the end of the week, and on Saturday the mean tempera-
ture rose to 50.4 deg. ; and the highest temperature in
the week occurred on that day, and was 63 deg. The
lowest temperature was 36.2 deg., and occurred on Sun-
day, on which day snow fell in the north of Scotland.
The mean dew-point temperature of the week was 39.9
deg., and the difference between this and the mean air
temperature was 7.3 deg. The wind blew generally
from the south-west and west. On Tuesday there was
very active positive electricity, with strong galvanic cur-
rents, and abundance of sparks, and positive electricity
was generally shown the rest of the week.

MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.
NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED
IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, APRIL 14.
Zymotic Diseases —. 238
Diseases of Cfne,ertain Seat .4. 54
Tubercular Diseases
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves and Senses
Diseases of the Heart and Btood-vessels 7O
Diseases of the Lungs and other Organs of
Respiration
Diseases of the 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 4
Premature Birth and Debility 43
Atrophy 34
Old Age
111,11, 55
Sudden 5
Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 39
Causes not specified

DUMB 'ROM km CAusafit
Population Deaths in cone- Deatua
Enumerated. sponding week in th,
1851. 184. Week.
West Districts ...... 376,427
187
North Districts....., 490.396
Central Districts..... 393,256
East Districts 485,522
South Districts

Totals
Males
Females.

1,087

1,347
715
632

Males
Females..