The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-04 00:00:00

the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1853-62
the average number (corrected) was 1,882.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29.521
inches. The reading was 29.99 inches on the morn-
ing:of Sunday ; it fell to 28.80 inches on Friday. The
mean temperature of the air in the week was 45.7
deg., which is 1.3 deg. below the average of the
same week in 43 years (as determined by Mr.
Glaisher). The mean temperature was below the
average on five days. The lowest night tempera-
ture was 34.7 deg. on Tuesday. The highest day
temperature was 562 deg. on Wednesday. The
range of temperature in the week was therefore
21.5 deg. The mean daily range was 14.8 deg. The
difference between the mean dew-joint temperature
and air temperature was 3.5 dei. The mean degree
of humidity of the air was 88, complete saturation
being represented by 100. The air was very moist
nearly all the week, and on three days the humidity
was not much short of saturation. The wind was
in the south-west on the last four days. Rain fell
frequently on Friday ; and at half-past 3 o'clock
on the afternoon of that day there was a heavy
squall of wind, which recorded a pressure of 29,11 b.
on the square foot, which is greater than any other
recorded within the last 20 years. The temperature
fell 10 deg. at that time;' and the wind suddenly
changed from south by west to west by north. The
amount of rain in the week was 0.47 in., of which
0.32 in. fell en Friday. The mean of the highest
temperatures of the water of the Thames was 54.8
deg. ; that of the loiltest was 52.6 deg.

The members of this commission met yesterday
at Guildhall under the presidency of Deputy De
Jersey.
The CHAIRMAN laid before the Court a communi-
cation which had been received from the Metropo-
litan Board of Works relative to the carrying out
of an improvement in Mansion-house-street, by
setting back certain premises for the purpose of
widening the thoroughfare. The new street to be
carried out by that board from Blackfriars-bridge
to the Mansion-house would require that Mansion-
honse-street should be widened, and the Metropoli-
tan Board had agreed at their last meeting to con-
tribute one half of the cost of an improvement at
that spot, the cost being estimated, approximately,
at £5,200. The board further resolved that the
amount of the contribution, £2,600, should be paid
on a certificate from the architect of the board of the
completion and cost of the work. The chairman
added that the Improvement Committee had met
that morning, and had referred it to the engineer
to negotiate with the owners of the property re-
quired for the purpose of carrying out the improve-
ment.

The Court approved of the steps taken by the
committee relative to this matter.
Mr. HENRY MATTILEW made a few remarks
as to the proposed widening of Gracechurch-
street, and said that as it was now decided that
the church of St. Benet Gracechurch should be
removed, he thought some steps should be taken
by the Commission for carrying out this most de-
sirable improvement.

The CHAIRMAN explained that the subject was at
the present time before the Improvement Commit-
tee, and:that they had instructed the engineer to in-
quire and report to them in reference to the proposed
improvement.
Deputy PEWTRESS thought that, application
should be made to the Metropolitan Board of
Works and to the Common Council for contribu-
tions before the Commissioners decided to carry out
the improvement. (Hear, hear.)
The matter then dropped.
The ENGINEER (Mr. Hayward) stated that he
and Dover Railway Company, intimating
had received a communication from the London,
Chatham,
a they
would be ready to pull down the property
on Ludgate-hill next week, and asking the Court
to assist them in the removal of the old materials.
The engineer was instructed to confer with the
City architect upon the matter.
SANATORY CONDITION OP TILE CITY.
Dr. LETFIEBY, the medical officer of health, laid
before the Court the following weekly report on the
sanatory state of the City
thata t hnl;

To the Honourable Commissioners of Sewers of the City

of London.
Gentlemen,—The inspectors' returns which are before
thyou relate to 208 houses that have been inspected during
e week, and I submit a list of 60 places for sanatory im-
provement. I likewise submit a list of places requiring
further proceedings on account of orders already issued but
not yet complied with.
The markets and slaughter-houses have been duly in-
spected, and the officers have condemned 3,5891b5, of meat
as unfit for
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and 4291b5. were from animals that had died.
The mortality returns indicate a satisfactory state of the
P2ulbolifewhleilh aclth;4 were among children of less than five years of
age. The chief causes of death were as follows :—Phthisis
and other tubercular diseases, 13 ; bronchitis and pneu-
monia, 4; continued fever, 2; scarlet fever, 8 ; measles, 1;
whooping cough, 1; and erisepalis, I—making together 18
deaths from tubercular diseases, 4 from pneumonia and
bronchitis, and 13 from diseases of a zymotic character.—l
have the honour to be, gentlemen, your obedient servant,
(Signed)
HENRT LETILEBY,

DISEASED MEAT.

The solicitor to the Commission (Mr. A. J. Bay-
lis) brought up a report in reference t 9 the seizure
of a quantity of diseased meat sent up to London
from Perthshire, in Scotland. He expressed his
opinion that the case was one of the worst the Com-
mission had to deal with for a long time, and he
advised
that legal proceedings should be taken
against
the person who had sent up the meat to
London, The
solicitor called attention to the neces-
sary large expenses that would be incurred in pro-
secuting the parties, and asked for the instructions
of the court in the matter.
Deputy JONES, Deputy CooK, and other mem-
bers large expense necessarily
ratepayers in respect of these dis-
was expressed that the Commission, acting
tbellaesrroesdwrmnemeuaapt prosecutions rokpnerdtohseeu ; but an almost unanimous
of the public, ought to do all in their
opf loe wl en behalfrg t to put a stop to the practice of sending dis-
eased meat to the London markets.
It was decided to instruct the solicitor to prose-
cute in the case.