The Sun.
London, England, 1855-06-20 00:00:00

THE MILITIA.

• The 2d Somerset is to join the Curragh Camp at Cork
on the Ist of July. ,
The South Down Militia leave Newry on the 25th for
Dublin to replace the 60th Rifles.

The North Cork Rifles; in Limerick, have received a
letter of readiness to proceed to the Curragh encamp-
ment on the Ist of July.

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK.

(Prone the Report of the Registrar-General. )
In the week that ended on Saturday the deaths of 999
persons—viz., 529 males and 470 females—were regis-
tered in London. In the corresponding weeks of ten
years 1845-54 the average number was 915, and if for
purpose of comparison this is raised in proportion to in-
crease of population it becomes 1,006. The number of
deaths returned last week is therefore rather less than
the estimated number, a more favourable result than
the bills of mortality have for some time disclosed.
Last week the deaths caused by disease of the respira-
tory organs (exclusive of phthisis and hooping-cough)
declined to 132, which is nearly the same as thecorrected
average of corresponding weeks. During the first quar-
ter of this year the deaths from this class of diseases were,
on an average, to those from all causes, in the propor-
tion of Ito 4. Last week they were as Ito 7. During
the same quarter the deaths from the zymotic class of dis-
eases were to the whole number as 1 to 5 ; last week,
when 207 died from zymotic complaints they were in the
proportion nearly of 1 to 4. Of those 207 deaths 27 are
due to small-pox, 18 to mea les, 45 to scarlatina, 26 to
hooping-cough, 10 to croup, 1 to thrush, 17 to diarr-
hce I, 1 to dysentery, 2 to cholera, 2 to influenza, 1 to
purpura, 1 to infantile fever, 33 to typhus, 5 to puerpe-
ral fever, 1 to rheumatic fever, 12 to erysipelas, and 5 to
syphilis. Four deaths from fever occurred in the sub•
district of Hoxton New Town ; 6 from scarlatina in
Woolwich. One person died of disease caused by intem-
perance, besides two were suffocated in a state of intoxi-
cation. One person died from want.

Last week the births of 718 boys and 756 girls, in all
1,474 children, were registered in London. In the ten
corresponding weeks of the years 1545-54 the average
number was 1,345.

‘f, At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height
of the barometer in the week was 29.619 in. On Sunday
and Monday it was above 30 in. The highest reading in
the week was 30.11 in., and occurred on the former day.
The mean temperature of the week was 55.5 deg., which
is 3.4 deg. below the average of the.same week in 38
years. The mean temperature fell on Saturday to 49.5,
which is about 10 deg. below the average. The tempe-
rature rose to 72.5 deg. on Monday, the highest in the
week, awl it was near the Caine point on Sunday and
Wednesday. The lowest temperature occurred on Sa-
turday, and was 44.8 deg. The mean dew point tempe-
rature was 48.9 deg., and the difference between this and
the mean air temperature was 6.6 deg. The tempera-
ture of the water on the Thames on the last five days
was 61.4 deg. The wind blew generally from the south.
west. Rain to the amount of 0.55 in. fell on the last
four days. Hail fell towards the end of the week.

MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.
NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED
IN THE WEER ENDING SATU:%DAY, TUNE 16.
Zymotic Diseases
Diseases of Uncertain Seat
Tubercular Diseases
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves and Senses
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-ve3sels 33
Diseases of the Lungs and other Organs of
Respiration..
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, aad 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
Premature Birth and Debility 33
Atrophy
Old Age
Sudden
Violence, Privation,l Cold, and Intemperance 59
Causes not specified

DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES 999
Population Deaths in corre- Deaths
Enumerated. sponding week In the
1851. of 1854. Week.
West Districts
North Districts 490,396
Central Districts 393,256
East Districts 485,522
South Districts

Totals ......... 2,362,236

1,085

Males
Females .......

AUSTRIA AND THE WESTERN POWERS.

The following has been published in a Berlin
journal of high ehu as the text of the "confi-
dential despatch" mentioned in Count Buol's cir-
cular of the 31st ult. It is dated May 24, was ad-
dressed to the Austrian Minister at the Prussian
Court, and points out the attitude which Austria
would take if her propositions should be rejected
by the Western Powers.
As a commentary upon the article in the Oesterreich-
ische Correspondenz of 22d inst., I can communicate to
you, in the strictest confidence, the following further in-
formation. The Imperial Austrian cabinet had drasn.
up an ultimatum to be presented in St. Petersburg, in
which a direct limitation of Russia's sovereignty was
avoided. The ministers, Drouyn de Lhuys and Rus-
sell had undertaken to back this Austrian' protocUl
with all their influence with their own governments.
This draft of an ultimatum, the rejection of which
by Russia the Austrian Government declared its de-
termination to look on as a cases belli consisted of
two different propositions, the alternative of which was
offered to the Russian Cabinet. The first of them,
groundel on the principle of a neutral limitation of pews r
to be agreed upon and settled by treaty between Russia
and Turkey, originated in France. The second alternas
tive put forward by Austria consisted in a progressive
scale of securities against the development of the Rus-
sian power in the Black Sea, which were to have been
introduced into the public law of Europe partly by
a treaty between Austria, France, England, and Tur-
key. Lord John Russell, previous to his departure
from Vienna, was made acquainted orally with these
propositions. The French Minister for Foreign Affairs,
Drouyn de Lhuys, who left Vienna a few days later,
undertook to lay before the proper quarter in Paris
and London the text of the draft which the Imperial
Minister, Count Buol, had handed him. The rejec-
tion soon ensued on the part of France and Eng-
land, and also the resignation of M. Drouyn de
Lhuys. The communications made on this topic by
Lord Clarendon and Count Walewski are strictly cox-
fidential, and therefore the Austrian Cabinet does not
feel itself at liberty to instruct them further ; they are
of that tenor that the Imperial Ministry foun itseif in-
duced to call upon the Cabinets of Paris and London to
enter upon a fresh examination of its proposals, and to
weigh well the consequences to which their unexpected
rejection would expose Europe ; it at the same time ex-
plained its proposals in fullest details, adduced arguments
in their support, and entirely refuted all the objections
they had raised against them. It this step obtained the
desired success, Austria could not, it is true, dispute the
right of the belligerent powers, but would be obliged to
leave it to them to procure for themselves that title
which the Protoe,d of December 2 explicitly recognises,
by making the details of the ulterior bases depen-
dent on the progress of the incidents of the ss ar.
The Austrian Government would abide simply
by the basis involved in the obligations she
has already entered into. She would remain
constant to the principles acknowledged by her in
the Conferences, and continue to protect the integrity of
the Turkish empire against any new attack. In this
attitude it would wait for the moment when at a resump-
tion of the Peace Conferences she could carry her resolu-
tion so as to make prevail the four points of guarantee
as understood by her.
If, on the contrary, her propositions to address an zlti-
maturn to Russia was approved by the Cabinets of Paris
and London, the success of the wcrk of peace would
I only depend upon a last resolution of the Imperial Court
of Russia.

It is only when it shall have received from Paris and
London the replies to the propositions, accompanied by
the necessary explanations, which left Vienna on the 21st
of this month, that the Austrian Cabinet can be able to
address to the German Governments determined propo-
sitions upon the attitude to be assumed by the confede-
ration. Meantime it thinks it may-flatter itself that the
policy it has invariably followed since the moment the
basis of the four points was put, deserves the full confi-
dence of the German governments. It cherishes the
hope that they will readily approve the overtures it w}ll
have to make to them shortly, in either case, and that
the moment for assuming the common action of Ger-
many will not be lost.

The manner in which the step recently taken by the
cabinet of St. Petersburg at Frankfort was appreciated
by the majority of the German governments is well
suited to strengthen the conviction of the imperial court
of Austria that all its confederates will enter into a close
union with it.—l am, &c., Buor,

COMMITTEE ON METROPOLITAN COM

MUNICATIONS.

The committee on metropolitan communications again
assembled yesterday at the usual hour, Mr. W. Jackson
in the chair. The members present were Lord Robert
Grosvenor, Lord Ebrington, Mr. W. Williams, Mr. Pil-
kington, Mr. L. Hayworth, and Mr. Biggs.
• A model on a large scale was exhibited in the room
illustrative of the City terminus and improvements pro-
proposed by Mr. C. Pearson.

IClr. J. Hargreaves Stevens, engineer to the City im-
provement commissioners, was examined, and he stated
that his attention hart been called to the traffic of the City
generally, and particularly to that going east and west.
He had proposed a remedy to relieve it. In 1837 his at-
tention had been called to it by the passing of a bill for
making a railway from Camden-town to Skinner-street,
Snow-bill. In 1844, when the Direct Manchester Rail-
way was proposed, he received a communication from
the chairman of that company, requesting him to survey
the line, for the purpose of forming a terminus in the
City of London, such site being proposed to be made in
Smithfield. Having surveyed the line, the result was that,
instead of recommending it to be in Smithfield, he reported
in favour of a terminus in Farringdon• street, passing aim g
the valley of the Fleet. The bill went to Parliament, but
it broke down on the standing orders. Since then his at-
tention had been turned to the want of metropolitan coin-
munication, and he found that while the population within
the walls of the City was getting smaller, in con4equence
of those engaged in business there living at a distance
from it, the population of those living out -ide the City
walls was increasing. The space within the City walls
was touch larger than that without, and yet in those dis-
tricts without the walls the population averaged 10 to
each house, while within the walls they only averaged
71 to each house, which was the average beyond the
City, and, indeed, of the entire metropolis. The Direct
Manchester Railway proposed to come to Farringdon-
street on the south side, and much about the same time
the London and North-Western Railway Company pro-
posed to extend their line also to Farringdon-street on
the Old Bailey side. The plan embraced in the
scheme of the Metropolitan Railway for an exten-
sion to the Eastern Counties Railway was proposed
by Mr. Charles Pearson so long back as 1850; hav-
ing the central terminus in the City, with branches
to the Landon and North-Western and Great-West-
ern Railways. In addition to connecting the
North-Western, Great Western, and Great Northern
Railways, Mr. Pearson proposed a new roadway, 100
feet wide, to the north, and under this roadway to be
laid down four lines of railway to relieve the traffic pass-
ing between the north and south, and also that passing
along the Fleet Valley. Putting aide the railway, he
considered the roadway proposed by Mr. Pearson from
north to south, would not only. relieve the crowded
streets, but would be of great advantage to those driven
out of London, and considered that short lines of rail-
way would be highly remunerative. He adverted to
the line originally intended for goods traffic between
Camden Town and the East and West India Docks,
but it was now greatly used as a passenger line.
The Blackwell Railway was another instance in
which, by two pair of lines, one up and one down
they carried annually about 8,000,000 persons. They
took the London and Blackwell, the North London, the
Southend and Tilbury, North Woolwich, Greenwich,
and other traffic, and growing neighbourhoods derived
great improvements from railways. Schne other railway
accommodation was required to London for goods and
coal traffic, as the Great Northern sent out about 350
tons of coal daily, and that coal traffic in the streets of
London led to great inconvenience. The Metropolitan
Railway adopted some parts of Mr. Pearson's plan, but
it did not provide so much accommodation for goods and
warehouses. He generally recommended the plan pro-
posed by Mr. Charles Pearson, to meet the wants of the
City of London.

lilt. FRANCIS BENNOCN said he considered that great
obstruction in the public streets was occasioned by the
large number of public conveyances, which number might
be considerably reduced if a• proper organisation were
carried out. They had omnibuses moving in-all direc-
tions meeting together at the Bank or Mansion House,
and these vehicles were of themselves sufficient to occupy
the whole space of the Poultry, without a cab or other
conveyance. The consequence was that in the middle
of the day the Poultry and Cheapside were almost im-
passable. He considered this state of things might be
obviated by the establishment of a central depot, from
which the passengers arriving east, west, north, and
south should be exchanged or transferred from one line
of omnibuses to another, by which means they should
dispense with at least half the.present number of omni-
buses going along Cheapside. At present there was no
law in the City to remedy that particular defect. He
considered an underground railway to a station either in
Smithfield or Fore-street, or to any place within half a
mile of the centre of the City, would prevent what was
now a great nuisance in sending goods to a large collect-
ing warehouse, like Pickford's, situate in narrow streets,
with hundreds of waggons in a day, if they had a central
railway depot. He was of opinion that all bridges should
be toil free, and mentioned that the abolition of the City
toll had been of great alva.utage in setting free the City
to the commercial classes.
Shortly before four o'clock the committee adjourned.

COUNT.R7 MARKETS.

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LIVERPOOL— JUNE 22.
Good dry wheats supported the price of Tuesday last,
b,ut. Baltic red, being in softer condition could not recover
uday's decline of 2d per bushel. There'
was a fair sale
for flour to consumers at full prices. Altogether the whesV
and flour trade had more character in it than of late. Cats,
barly, beans, ad peas witou alteration in price. Won
coree was 2s pern qr. lower ont the week, and in slack de'
viand.

IPSWICH—JuNE 19.
The supply of wheat is small ; the growers hold firm
to
their prices, and an advance of 2s per qr. had to be V.
nutted to by the purchasers. No barley on salt
he
is much impreved in its appearance by
rains.
the late

PER QVAaIIS.
run QUARTER. __-9 to ---g
M oat, red (old) 74s to 76s Barley, grinding ..• ° 454
—s to —s Beans ......... Ditto (now)
...
Ditto, white (new) 80s to 82s Peas ............•••••. oos to 00.
Ditto (old)
Barley, malting
...... 00s to 00.
AVERAGES FOR THE WEEK ENDING JUNE 16, 1855'
927 quarters,
Wheat
..._.g
_Od
Oats

Peas

Bears
Barley