The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-29 00:00:00

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The Sanatory Condition of the City of

London.

At the weekly meeting of the Commissioners of
Sewers, held yesterday at 3luildhall, Mr Deputy
De Jersey presiding, Dr. Letheby, the medical
officer for the City, presented his quarterly report,
which was as follows ;

In the course of the winter quarter which ended in March
and 810 deaths registered in the
city of London. The first of these numbers is greatly below
the average (887) for the corres)oriding quarter of the last
last there were 759 births,
ten years, but the second is in ez,,oisis of it (831).
The distribution of the births has been as follows :-321
in the East London Union, 195 6 the West, and 243 in the
City proper. These are in the wind proportions of 3PI
per 1,000 of the population in the irst-named district, 29.2
of the second, and 20.9 of the tt'a ; making an average of
26.5 for the entire city. In the is lola of England the annual
average birth-rate in the winter (inarter is 36.0 per 1,000 of
the population, but during the last quarter it was singularly
high, namely, 374 per 1,000. ,i(l,pting therefore in one or
two of the sub-districts of the .kile%ern and Western unions,
the birth-rate in the City has beSn remarkably small.
Of the 870 deaths in the quarto, 317 have been in the
Eastern Union, 234 in the Western, and 319 in the City of
London Union. These numbers are in the annual propor-
tion of 301 per 1,000 of the inhaVtants of the first-named
district, 35 of the second, and 274 of the third ; making a
general average of 30.4 for the whole City. In all England
the usual mortality in the winter quarter is at the annual
rate of 24 9 per 1,000; and in the districts of the chief
towns at 26.8; but in the quarter which has just expired,
the death-rate of the whole country has been greatly
in excess of the average, for it has been 29.7 in the
chief towns, and 27.7 in the whole of England. ,4 Seldom,
indeed," says the Registrar-General "has a winter been
more
e metropolis,fatal;'n d
has the city,
h
suffered to an extraordinary extent.
the
The average annual death-rate of London in the winter
quarter is 25.8 per 1,000, but last winter it was 30.9,
and as regards the City, there have been but three occasions
during the last ten years when the mortality has been
higher than in the last season. Those were the winters of
1854, 1855, and 1861, when the deaths were 895, 929, and
876. The time was when the highest death-rates were in
the summer and autumn months, when the soil and air
were full of putrescent matter, but now the most fatal period
is the winter with its cold and wet; and these are influences
over which the sanitarian has but tittle control.
From the table which shows the ages at death, it appears
that 28 per cent., or rather more than a fourth of all the
deaths are among children of less than five years of age,
and 33 per cent, or just a third, at 60 and upwards. The
whose deaths have risen from 207 in the
quarter to 286.
chiefAs inrecgraeradsse in
the tchaeumseosra
of
t beendlietaythh,alsooamong old persons,
Persons have died from
phthisis, 41 from tabes and scrofula, 14 from hydrocephalus
51 from pneumonia, 183 from bronchitis, 20 from continued
fever, 23 from scarlet fever, 18 from 'whooping cough, 19
from croup and diphtheria, 15 from Measles, 5 from erysi-
pelas, 3 from small-pea, and 10 from alvine ; making
together 161 deaths from tubercular diseases,
234 from in-
flammatory affections of the lungs, and 113 from diseases
of a zymotic character, the averagep for the corre-
sponding periods of the last nine years being 151, 196, and
140 respectively. While therefore the number of deaths
from phthisis, and from inflammatory affections of the lungs
have been largely increased, those from the zymotic class
of diseases have been greatly reduced.

The rasge of the thermometer during the quarter has been
from 22.2 degrees to 55.7, the mean temperature having
been 39 9, which is nearly two degrees below the average
for the season. The coldest weather was in the second
week of January, when the average temperature was 30 2
degrees, and then the deaths rose from
.
72 in the week to
102. Towards the end of tile quarter, when the mean
temperature was about 42 degrees, the average number of
deaths in the week was only 4V. Lastly, I may state that
there have bean 37 wet days daring the quarter, and the
total rain fall has been 3.94 itches. Both of these are
below the average for the season, and therefore the moisture
of the air has been somewhat has than usual, in the mean
proportion of 83 degrees of saturation instead of 84.
As regards the sanatory work of the quarter, altogether
there have been 1,598 inspections of houses, and 876 visits
to the common lodging-houses. These have resulted.in the
issuing of 434 orders for sanatory improvement.
The markets and slaughter-houses have also been duly

Dear Sir,—l am in due receipt of your esteemed favour
of the 21st inst., and am gratified to find that the timely
aid we rendered with the yacht Deerhound to the gallant
captain and officers and crew of the Alabama has met with
your approval. I shall always look back to that event with
satisfaction, however much we may regret the result which
necessitated my interference,—Yours very respectfully,

The Hon. J. M. Mason.

JOHN LANCASTER.

Society for the Improvement of the
Labouring Classes,

The 20th annual meeting of the friends and sup.
perters of this society was held yesterday at Willis's
Rooms, King.street, St. James's. The Earl of
Shaftesbury, the president of the society, presided.
The noble CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceed•

ings, remarked that although the society and the
subject entertained by it had been before them for
20 years, it had lost none of its importance. It was
as important now as when it was first mooted, for
what with the growing increase of the population
within, and with immigration from without, there
was still as much necessity for their exertions as
there ever was. They had no doubt done consider-
able good, but there was one thing which they had
not done, but which it was most important they
should do. They had not as yet reached the lower
classes of the population. The model houses they
had hitherto built bad all been taken up by
mechanics and labourers—people in employment,
and who were able to pay the rent of them ; but
there was a class below that who were not in a
position to take advantage of these dwellings, and
that class they hAil not vet rpanhrd, though he hoped
some means would be devised which would enable
them to do so.

From the report, which was read by Mr. PAYNE,
the svcretary, it appeared that the sum of £5OB 12s
6d had been received from the tenants of the Thanks-
giving Model Buildings, Poitpool-lane, Gray's Ina-
lane, during the year ending 31st Deceix.her last,
a'Ad deducting therefrom for current expenses £154

16s 7d, there remained a balance of £353 153 11d.
In the family houses there had been two deaths out
of an average population cf 78, one a female
adult, aged :59, and the other a child, aged two
years. From the tenants in Streatham-street
family houses, the sum of £738 4s 9d had been
received, while the expenses bad been £309 2s 6d,
leaving a balance of £429 2s 3d. The renovated
dwellings in Clark's-buildings, S t. Giles's,h ad yielded
£575 83, and the expenses having been £496 9s 6d,
there remain a balance of £7B 18s 6d. There had
been four deaths in these buildings out of a popula-
tion of 236. From the buildings iu Wild-court,
Drury-lane, £627 8s ld had been received, the
current expenses having been £444 158 6d, and the
balance £lB2 12s 7d. Tyndal-buildings, for forty
single men, had yielded £647 4s Id, the expenditure
being £4BB 17s 6d, and the balance £l5B 6s Bd.
The sum of £694 14s 6d had been received from the
tenants at the George-street men's lodging-houses,
and deducting therefrom the expenditure, £360
7s lld, there remained a balance of £334 6s 6d.
The Charles-street dwellings had yielding £403 9s,
and deducting the expenditure, £256 16s 4d,
there remained a balance of £146 12s 7d. There
had been received on account of the Hat-
ton-garden houses £324, and after deduct-
ing the expenditure there was a profit of £BB
5s ld. The mortality in the entire of the sooiety's
houses had been, during the past year, 25 out
of an average population of 1,509. Seventeen of the
deaths were of children under ten years of age, and
the average rate of mortality in the society's houses
had been therefore 16.339 per thousand. The net
returns from all the society's houses for the year
exceeded that of the previous year by £196 Os. ld.
The number of washings at the Portpool-lane pub-
lie washhouses during the year had been 21,367,
the receipts had been £451 10s., ld., and deducting
therefrom £448 6s. 10d. for current expenses, in.
eluding repairs, there remained a small balance in
favour of the establishment of £3 3s. 2d.

From the balance sheet it appeared that the funds
actually received during the year from all sources
for the general purposes of the society, had been
£5,561 15s. 5d., and the balance in hand at the
commencement of the year being £285 ss. 11d.,
made the total amount to be accounted for £5,847
Os. 9d. The total current expenses of all the lodging
houses, including repairs of the dwellings, &c., had
amounted to £3,195 7s. 7d., while the other items
of outlay made up the total expenditure to £5,552
10s. 5d., and left a balance in hand of £294 105.4 d.
The real property of the society valued at a cost was
stated to be £44,545 12s. 7d., and the general
liabilities to £22,269 9s. 11d., leaving assets valued
at cost to the amount of £22,266 2s, Bd.
Mr. GREOSON, M.P., moved the adoption of the
report, and in doing so congratulated the friends
of the society on the success which was attending
the society's efforts, and the good which it was
effecting. He was gratified to hear from the secre-
tary of the order and regularity which prevailQd in
all their dwellings, and the good conduct of their
inhabitants. It would also be see❑ from the report
that the society had been the means of saving
life to a considerable extent, and these and many
other advantages conferred by it gave it an un-
doubted claim on the sympathy and support of the
public.

The Rev. J. IL OWEN having seconded the mo-
tion, it was unanimously adopted.
On the motion of the Rev. R. M. Fellows,
seconded by Mr. Dimsdale, the committee and the
other officers of the society was elected for the cur-
rent year, the last-named gentleman pointing out
the propriety of the society using their efforts in the
repairing and renovating old buildings, rather than
in expending their means in the erection of new and
showy ones.
A cordial vote of thanks to the noble chairman
concluded the proceedings.

Sir,—lt is so difficult to comprise in one letter the
arguments which are necessary to enlighten the
public respecting the alleged deterioration of nu.
horses, owing to the modern system of light weights
and short courses, that I am induced to trespass on
your columns to place the subject in a point of view
consistent with common sense.
There can be but one opinion among all persons
who are interested in the turf, that the grand object
in breeding is to combine good size, great strength,
and power of endurance with superior speed. This
has never been lost sight of. Oar motto is, Fortes
ereangur fortibus et bonis, We have succ?eded in
establishing a breed with one-fifth more speed and
more strength than theoriginal stock---an increased
average stature from 14 hands to 151 __in 13 gene-
rations from the first imported stallions. Darley
Arabian, Byerly Turk, without a drop of mixed
blood, and we have a firm conviction, with ready
proof, that no horses in the world can be compared
to them.
On the authority of Abd-el-Kader and my Indian
friends, the race of Zad-el-Rakeb, the gift of Solo-
mon to the tribe of Azed, has not degenerated since
1720, when the calibre of the English racehorse was
probably on a par with the barbs which now adorn
the Gibraltar meeting. Admit this fact, and it is
patent to every racing man that the best of these
" divine horses" which according to Eastern histoff
descended as a heavenly gift from Adam to Ishmael,
Ishmael to Solomon, from Solomon to Mahomet, and
from Mahomet to our own times, cannot compete
with the Anglo-Arabian at a difference of five stone.
A thoroughbred butcher's hack will beat the Flower
of the Desert any distance under a hundred miles.
If there is a depreciation, why ascribe it to the
abolition of heavy weights,or to the substitution of
shorter courses? The natural solution would be
that it is owing to the sale of oar most valuable
stock to every country in Europe, to China, to Ana.
tralia, New Zealand. But we have enough left to
challenge all the world. The Emperor and the
French Government are liberal in their racing prizes
and promote the improvement of the Anglo-Arabian
on national grounds. They well deserve success.
In Great Britain, under the cold shadow of the
Crown and the Government, doling out a miserable
donation in the shape of encouragement, we not only
hold our ground, but we advance with rapid strides.
In 1843 the total amount of stakes, plates, and
matches was £l99,ooo—in 1863 it was above
£250,000, without including the Royal plates.
The deterioration of horses is a pure fiction.
Stockwell, King Tom, Young Melbourne (Nabob,
sold to France), and many other stallions are framed
to gallop under 20st ; the first charges £lOO, King
Tom £75 next season for the chance of a foal. You
may see in Lord Glasgow's and Baron Rothschild's
stables 20 horses up to 18st ; 60 years ago you could
not have found five thoroughbred horses of this de-
scription in the United Kingdom. Fine yearling
colts fetch at auction from 450 to 800 guineas, if
they appear likely to stay a distance and to oarry
heavy weights. That ought to be a sufficient answer
to those persons who imagine that light weights
and short courses are detrimental to the breed and
encourage " leggy weeds." How can we improve
our system ?
The 2,700 brood mares produce about the same
number of " leggy weeds" as other domestic animals
in proportion to the first class. In the human race
there is a difference much greater to their discredit.
As there is a national prejudice against converting
horses into beef, some are kept on in training to
take their chance in short races for the amuse-
ment of their owners. If "those who pay the

i1.i.11,r hno.4 n right to. oon th. ton." why nri; tha y
to be abused by certain amateurs, who rarely sub-
scribe to a racing prize, and who aro never troubled
with a trainer's bill ? These gentlemen profess a
horror for short courses, and a predilection for the
old four-mile Queen's Plates, which broke down so
many horses that they were revised in 1833, 1847,
and 1861. Aithough I deprecate a return to the
birbarous system, I am a strenuous advocate for
two national prizes to test the capabilities of en-
durance—small sweepstakes, added to plates of
£2,000, to be run for at Newmarket, one the Round
Course for four years and upwards, in the Ist
October; the other in the Houghton Meeting, the
Beacon Course, for any horse carrying I Ist., the
winner of the first plate 71b. extra.

It is an axiom in racing, both with man and horse,
that the constant habit of carrying heavy weights
destroys quick action. The speed of the fastest man
would be a nullity if he were employed for a year
as a heavy porter.

Tailors, from the life they lead, and from never
wearing heavy boots, preserve their speed. They
can give 10 yards in 100 to any of the industrious
classes who carry heavy burdens, as weight on the
shoulders deadens the elasticity of the sinews, and
stiffens the muscles of the legs.
It is equally destructive to the speed of horses.
Train the fastest horse at Newmarket under llst.,
and in six months he will entirely lose his racing
form. Emblem and Emblematic, the winners of the
Liverpool Steeplechases, cannot beat a moderate
three-year-old at even weights for two miles,

When horses lose their speed without any apparent
cause, the trainers ascribe it to the decay of nature
or to the effects of age. In 99 cases out of 100 it is
owing to exercising them under heavy lads, who

have been retained in their service from charitable

motives.

I admit that horses famed for running long die.
ances are scarce, because the game is so seldom

played. The heroes of old were generally small
horses. The celebrated Gimcrack, in 1765, stood

3 hands 31 inches. Latterly we have bred more

for size and strength. From the days of Rubens,
Castrel, and Selim (1810), we have looked for speed
to win the valuable one-mile sweepstakes ; but size

and strength will be served when great weights are
to be carried. In 1824 the speedy and magnificent
Sultan beat the stout Centaur on the Round Course

at 12it. and list. 91b. ; but the same year Centaur
turned the tables on him at 9dt. 31b. and 9st. on the

Beacon Course,and had tho big ono extended at the

,urn of the lands.

Mahratta, a large, powerful horse, which could
not get six furlongs at light weights in good com-
pany, could carry me, riding 17st., tour miles under
11 minutes. He afterwards turned out a very stout
hunter. This convinces me that a great framed

racehorse which would be beaten 500 yards in four
miles by a elear•winded small horse, carrying 78t,
71b. each, would reverse the case to the same amount
at 16st,, when the little one could not act under the
weight. Therefore, by gaining great size and
strength we have adapted the Anglo-Arabian to
carry heavy men across the country, and at the head
of their regiments ; this is the national view of the
subject. It may be difficult to procure such horses,
because foreign agents will give £6OO for any tho-

roughbred horse up to 14st. which can bend his
knees, to supply Royal and Imperial stables on the

Continent.

As the price of young stock depends in great
measure on the amount of prizes in prospectu, every
withdrawal of public money affects their value.

The present Royal plates (insignificant as They ap-

pear) are boons to the breeder, and afford amusement

,o our country friends. Their abolition would be a

drop of water to the Revenue, which derives a

great income from the turf. Calculate the sum of
money which the Treasury receives in eight days
from the dense crowds at Ascot and Epsom.

Nobody imagines that in an assembly of sensible
and thoroughbred gentlemen Mr. Percy Wyndham's
motion wili find support.*

I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
3, Berkeley-square, June 27. J. Roes.

* Our correspondent has shown only his customary fore-
sight in all matters, relating, however remotely, to the
Turf. Mr Percy Wyndham's motion, as will be seen by
our Parliamentary Report, found no support.

The Edinburgh, 60, 200 horse power, late Coastguard
ship at Queensferry, has been entirely dismantled, and had
her stores returned into the dockyard. She has been dis-
masted prior to being placed in the third division of the
Chatham steam reserve.

The Assurance, 4, 300 horse power, Commander Wool-
combe, screw despatch vessel, having sprung her foremast
during her run round from the westward to the Nore, has
had her defects made good at Sheerness dockyard, and is
now moored in the Medway awaiting orders from the Ad-
miralty.

In order to complete the screw corvette Cadmus, 21, 400
horse power, which is ordered for immediate commission,
instructions have been receivel at Chatham dockyard from
the Admiralty, directing the joiners employed on that
vessel to be paid exertion money. :An Admiralty order was
likewise received at Chatham dockyard yesterday, directing
the workmen in the sawing department to be employed for
three months on task and job work.
An order has been received at Chatham from the Admi-
ralty, directing a list to be immediately forwarded to their
lordships of those shipwright apprentices and engineer stu-
dents who are considered eligible, and who may be desirous
of competing for admission into the newly-established
School of Naval Architecture, South Kensington.
The ships of war on the Australian station at the date of
the last advises were the Harrier, 17, Capt. Sullivan (ordered
home)—the Miranda, 14, Capt. Jenkins—the Eclipse, 4,
Capt. Mayne—the Curagoa, 23, Commodore Wiseman—
the Esk, 21, Capt. Hamilton—and the Falcon, 17, Capt,
Parkin. All these vessels were at New Zealand.
Mr Slade, private secretary to Captain W. H. Stewart,
C. 8., superintendent of Chatham dockyard,has been super-
annuated on a pension of £515 per annum, after upwards
of 50 years' service.

The following appointments have been made at the Ad-
mir J. Starr, paymaster, additional, to the Irre-
sistible—Edwin A. Smith, paymaster, additional, to the
Blenheim—George P. Eickcord and W. Pinhorn, paymas-
ters, additional, to the St. George—Wm. C. F. Grant, pay-
master, to the Trafalgar—Patrick O'Connor, paymaster, to
the Impregnable__-lienry N. Scaife, paymaster, tJ the St.
George—W. 11, J. Brown, paymaster, to the President—
anl Thomas Forder, clerk, to the Victory, as supernume-
rary—Cornelius Fox, master, edditional to the Fisgard—J.
W. I\l'Kenzie, promoted to engineer, supernumerary, to
the Asia—E. H. Hewing, master's assistant, supernume-
rary, to the Edgar—James W,Valanee, clerk to the Royal
Adelaide, as supernumerary—William H. Kay, assistant•
clerk, to the Canopus —and A. Ward, nominated to a naval
cadetship.

The Grand Duke of Oldenburg and the

Duchies,

FRANKFORT-ON.THE-;MAINE, June 26.
The following is the text of the declaration made
at the Federal Diet by the representative of Olden.
burg, embodying tee Grand Duke's claim to the
Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein :
"The high Federal Assembly has already been
officially made acquainted through the representae
tive of the Germanic Diet at the London Conference
with the declaration delivered by the Russian repre-
sentative at the sitting of the Conference upon the
2d inst. This statement was that his Majesty the
Emperor of Russia, to facilitate as greatly, as pos.
Bible the restoration of peace, had ceded to his Royal
Highness the Grand Duke of Oldenburg the right of
succession falling to his Majesty as the chief of the
elder Gottorp line, by the abrogation of the London
Treaty of 1852, and specially reserved in such event
by the Warsaw protocol of 1851, His Majesty the
Emperor Alexander has recently confirmed this decla-
ration in an autograph letter addressed to the Grand
Duke from Kissengen on the 19th inst., a copy of
which the Government of the Grand Duke has the
honour to hand herewith to the high Federal Diet.
"After mature consideration of the present state
of the Schleswig-Holstein question and of the true
interests of the entire German Fatherland, his
Royal Highness the Grand Duke thoroughly ap-
preciates the lofty motives of his Majesty the
Emperor of Russia with regard to the obstacles to
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lasting
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of
the
o nof peace, and thankfully nog
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rights of succession to the
Duchies of Holstein and Schleswig, accruing to the
chief of the elder Gottorp line after the abandon-
atsstitnhge cessionr
abandon-
ment of the London Treaty.
" The Government of the Grand Duke, while
hastening to make this notification to the high
Federal Assembly, intends to neglect nothing tend-
ing to establish the rights of succession thus ceded
of his Royal Highness, as first representative of a
younger Gottorp line, descended from Duke Peter
Frederick Lous of Oldenburg, to the Duchy of
Holstein and the Duchy of Schleswig, inseparably
connected by hereditary right with the same,
"It has hitherto been unnecessary for the Go-
vernment of the Grand Duke to enter protest
against the claims to succession laid before the
Federal Diet by another branch of the Schleswig-
Holstein House immediately after the death of King
Frederick VII. of Denmark, and the entire extinc-
tion thereby of the male branch of the Danish line.
It has abstained from so doing
solely in the interests
of Germany and of the Duchies themselves. Equally
in the lame interests the Government of the Grand
Duke will in future considor it its duty to defend
the right of the various breeches of the Gottorp line
to the succession in preference to any other, since
this right, freed from the obligations of the Warsaw
protocol and London treaty is no longer opposed to a
separation of the Duchies from Denmark, but passing
to his Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Oldenburg
by the Imperial Act of cession is called on to render
possible the complete independence of the Duchies,
under a German Federal Prince and a restoration
of peace with Denmark.
" The Government of the Grand Duke reserves an
explanation of the relations to the succession in
Schleswig-Holstein for the establishment of tho
rights of succession ceded to his Royal Highness
the Grand Duke, and herewith enters its protest
against any result being decided upon by the high
Federal Assembly with regard to the claims to the
succession submitted to it by his Highness Duke
Frederick of Schleswig-Holetein-S on der burg,
Augustenburg."