The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-09 00:00:00

CELEBRATION of the TERCENTENARY of
the BIRTH of SHAKSPE ARE, at Stratford-upon-
Avon. The Tercentenary Committee (of which Sir Robert
N. C. Hamilton, Bart., K.C.8., is Chairman) are now receiv-
ing SUBSCRIPTIONS, and they may also be paid to the
account of the Tercentenary Committee, at the Stourbridge
and Kidderminster or Warwick and Leamington Banks,
Stratford-upon-Avon ; Messrs. Greenway, Smith, and
Greenway, Warwick ; or their London agents, Messrs.
Smith, Payne, and co ,11reaars lianburys and Co., or Messrs.
Glyn and Co., bankers, London.
The Tercentenary Committee, in submitting the subscrip-
tion list to the nation, most earnestly appeal to the admirers
of Shakspeare for their aid and assistance. The Committee
rest their claims upon the ground that Stratford is not only
the birthplace of Shakspeare, but the centre of attraction to
all admirers of the great Poet's works, and that it was his
home, the town he loved, and where he lived and died.

ROYAL NATIONAL LIF E-B OAT
INSTITUTION
(Incorporated by Royal Charter).
PATRONESS—Ber Most Gracious Majesty the Queen.
l'nEsirtENT—Vice-Admiral the Duke of Northumberland,
K.G., F.R.S.
CHAIRMAN—Thos. Baring, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., V.P.
DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN—Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S.,
APPEAL.
The Committee of Management have to state that, since
he beginning* of the year 1860, the Royal. National Lifeboat
Institution has expended £32,000 on various Lifeboat Estab-
lishments on the Coasts of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
The number of lives saved by the Life-boats of the
Society, and other means, since its formation, is 12,800;
for which services 82 Gold Medals, 718 Silver Medals, and
£16,480 in cash have been paid in rewards. The Institu-
tion has also expended £67,000 on Life-boats, Life-boat
Transporting-cari cages, and Boat-houses.
The Committee desire to express their grateful sense of
the generous support which they have received from the
British public during the past few years, a support which
has enabled them to establish their present magnificent fleet
of 123 Lifeboats on the shores of the United Kingdom
Deeply sensible, however, of the great responsibility that
rests on them to maintain their fleet in a thoroughly efficient
state, and its Crews practised in the management of their
boats, which can only be effected by a large and permanent
annual income, they earnestlyor.
to aid them in upholding and perpetuating so
appeal to all classes of their
acknowledge the following cony
countrymen
greTheat
tand
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_ll'll Committeea gfiroant ea fl ual LI;

£ s. d
Her Majesty the Queen G, ••• • • • • annual 50 C 0
Campbell, the Hon..rs. • • • .. annual 50 0
Clerk, Colonel, R. A• • Bankers • • • .. annual 1 1 0
Currie,Ceutt annual 10 0 0
• • • • .. 4th don.lo 0 0
aviril dmC. Oli. ,
Erie, Lord Chiefl Justice • • ••• • • don. 10 10 0
TilfeCb.ol3a.t
:crsrs.,.. •
.. • •
Fenwick, G. J., Esq , co,
Panshawe, Vice-AdmiralatSiorfAa.,L
sporting Carriag,e • • • • • • • • .. 250 0 0
Harvey, Rev. G. G. and Mrs. .• •
•• don. 30 0
*ail d 'II, Tran-
sporting 25 0 0
Martin, Sir Henry, Bart. . • • . • .. 7th don. 10 0 0
Moore, Rev. G. B. .. .. don, 15 15 0
.• • •
Smith, Mrs. George, Greenwich • • • • • • 30 0
Stirling, Col. Sir Anthony, 1c...C.13. • • • - annual 20 0
Thom.s, Lady, Weston-super-Mare, collected by her
Ladyship .• •• • • 16 16 0
Willoughby d'Eresby, Lord .. • • • • annual 50 0
Donations and Annual SOscriptions will be thankfully re-
•eived by the Bankers of the Institution, Messrs. Willis,
Percival, and Co., 76, Lombard-street; 'Messrs. Coutts and
Co., 59, Strand; Messrs. Herries, Farouhar, and Co., 16, St.
,iames's-street, London ; by at the collectors of Customs
and Bankers in the United Kingdom; and by the Secretary
Richard Lewis, Esq., at the Office of the Institution, /I,
Johu-atreet, Adelphi. London, W.C.

Yesterday this Commission held a meeting at Guildhall,
after a recess of six weeks—Mr. De Jersey, the chairman,
presiding. A design of the proposed railway viaduct across
Ludgate-hill was submitted for their approval by Messrs.
Freshfield and Newman, the solicitors to the London,
Dover, and Chatham Railway Company, who had engaged
to make the structure after a plan to be sanctioned by the
Commissioners. The company propose to widen Ludgate-
hill to the extent of 16 feet, by setting back the houses that
far on the south side of the hill, from about the Old Bailey
to Bridge-street. The present width of the hill is 44 feet.
It will thenceforward be 60ft., with a carriage way 30ft.
broad. The proposed viaduct will allow a clear headway of
surfacefoo ornamenta-
tion passengers of
about ftt
18ft. for the carriage traffic, and have sides Bft. high. It will
be an iron structure, with a span of 60ft., and with orna-
mental brackets at each end, placed against the sides of the
abutm
groathe ad
dealway forof
tion on the sides, which will give it the appearance at first
sight of an open, perforated bridge, but it will in fact hive
9en.a, Thereand leaving
willbe a a
an interior lining to prevent the fall of burning cinders from
passing trains. Tho design, as represented on paper, elicited
some expressions of admiration from the Commissioners, but
their engineer, Mr. Heywood, took occasion to warn them
that the thing itself, when put up, would probably tall short
of the expectations which the drawing was calculated to pro-
duce. They eventually passed a resolution to the effect
that they saw no objection to the adoption of the design.
A conversation took place on a memorial from inhabitants
of the Ward of Cheap urging the widening of the thorough-
fare at the east end of the Poultry, in anticipation of the
projected new street from Blackfriars to the Mansion-house.
The old banking premises of Sir John Lubbock and Co.,
at the north-east corner of the Poultry, have recently
been pulled down, to make way for a more commodious
structure for the purposes of the bank, and it is urged
upon the Commissioners that the opportunity should not
be lost of setting back the new building some 25 or 30
feet, and buying so much of the ground from the banking
firm, with a view to the eventual widening of the Poultry
at the point of junction with the new street. The
ground there, as in other of the central parts of the city,
has a value which some people would regard as fabulous,
the little patch which it is proposed to rescue in this
case for purposes of public improvement being yesterday
estimated by the surveyor to the Commission as probably
worth tens of thousands of pounds ; and the Commissioners,
convinced of the necessity for the suggested improvement,
have invited the Metropolitan Board of Works to join them
in bearing the cost. The matter is still under negotiation.
Dr. Letheby, the Medical Officer of Health, reported on
the state of 722 houses that had been inspected since the last
meeting of the Court in July, and he submitted a list of 90
1 places for sanitary improvement. He also submitted a list
of places that required further proceedings on account of
orders already issued but not yet complied with. He re-
ported that the markets and slaughterhouses had been duly
inspected, and that the officers had condemned in the course
of the last six weeks 43,5231 b, or rather more than 19 tons
of meat, as unfit for human food. It consisted of 166 sheep,
34 calves, 53 pigs, 193 quarters of beef, and 804 joints of
meat-29,5161b, or more than half of the whole quantity
was putrid, the putridity having been caused by the unusu-
ally warm weather in the early part of last month ; but
9,8661 b were diseased, and 3,2111 b were from animals that
had died from accident or disease. In two cases proceed-
ings were taken against the persons who sent the meat to
market, and in one instance the penalty was £5 and costs,
and in the other a month's imprisonment with hard labour.
The mortality returns were above the average for the sea-
son. During the last six weeks there had been 317 deaths
in the city, whereas the average number for the correspond-
ing period of the last seven years was but 286 ; 129 of the
deaths were among children of less than five years of age,
and .55 among persons of 60 and upwards. The chief causes
of death were as follow :—Phthisis and other tubercular
diseases, 48—pneumonia and bronchitis, 24—continued
fever, 11—scarlet fever, 28—smallpox, 7 croup, 7
whooping cough, 7—diphtheria, 4—measles, 6—erysipelas,
2—infantile diarrhoea, 23—and the diarrhoea, of adults, 5.
The number of births in the city during the six weeks was
340—namely, 163 boys and 177 girls. Touching the qua-
lity of gas supplied to the city, Dr. Letheby sub-
mitted the weekly returns of the testing of the gas sup-
piled by the three gas companies, from which it appeared
that during the last seven weeks the average illuminating
power of the Great Central Gas was 14'09 standard sperm
candles, of the chartered 12.64, and of the City Company
14.21. The total number of observations was 381, or 127
for each
ree:la company. The gas of the Great Central had not
nce under the standard, that of the Chartered had
be enlB times under it, and
that
of the City Company only
twice. The illuminating power of the gas, therefore, had
been generally very• a sas
.trfaetory. As regarded the amount
of sulphur in the
27 in the 100 cubic feet t had ranged from 13 grains to nearly
i
,
n the gas supplied by the Great
Central Company from
of the City Company, ld i 3 7to nearly 31' grains in the gas
an
from 14.4 to 25 in that of the
Chartered. In each case 35
observations
these 13 were in excess of the
Parliamentary
were made, and ofrliamentary
the case of the Great Central, 29 a standard in
in
Company, and 17 in that of the case of the City
the Chartered.
the three cases was as follows The mean in
:-19.09 •
in 100 cubic feet of Great Centralgrains of sulphur
City gas, and 20.29 of the Chartered.
gas,The 23•8 grains of the
of the gas in the supply pipe had been average pressure
one inch of water. in each ease above
Mr. Daw, clerk to the Commissioners, called their atten-
tion to an act passed in the last Session ofParliament in
reference to the scale of diseased meat, and
a single magistrate to impose a penalty of giving
ng
the power to
of each piece of meat exposed for sale and unfit for
owner
food, or, without the infliction of a fine, to order hi
r human
imprisoned in a common gaol for a term not exceedingto be
three months, with hard labour. It amends in these re-
spects the Nuisances Removal Act of 1853. He also aa-
verted to a Statute passed last Session and containing very
stringent enactments for regulating the trade of baking.
At his suggestion, the Commissioners authorised Mr. Daw
-.
to prepare an abstrct of the provisions of the Act and cir-
culate it widely among persons engaged in the trade within
the city, with the view to give effect to the intentions of
the Legislature. After the transaction of some routine
business, the Commissioners adjourned.

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4s. " High Standard "at 4s. 4d. (formerly 41. Bd.), is the
strongest and most delicious imported. Agents in every
town supply it in packets.