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London, England, 1863-09-09 00:00:00

ARMY CONTRACTS.
Cemmiss ariat Office
Aldershot, 2d September,, 1863.
TENDERS will be received at this office, until
noon, on WEDNESDAY, the 30th September, 1863,
from persons who may be willing to enter into Contract for
the supply of

FORAGE,
in such quantities as may be required, from Ist November,
1563, to 31st October, 1861, for the use of Her Majesty's
Forces stationed at Aldershot Camp, and within the com-
mand.
Forms of Tender and Conditions of Contract may be ob-
tained on application at this office, by letter or in person,
between the hours of ten and four o'clock.

The Tenders must be properly filled up and signed, and
delivered at this office (under closed envelope, marked on the
outside " Tender for Forage"), and no Tender will be noticed
unless made on forms obtained from this office, and delivered
by the hour appointed.

HENRY B. MORSE,
Deputy Commissary-General.

CELEBRATION of the TERCENTENARY of
the BIRTH of SHAKSPEARE, 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,
Stratiord-upon-Avon ; Messrs. Greenway, Smith, and
Greenway, Warwick ; or their London agents, Messrs.
Smith, Payne, and Co , Messrs. Hanburys 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 LIFE-BOAT
INSTITUTION
(Incorporated by Royal Charter).
PATRONESS—Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen.
PRESIDENT—Vice-Admiral the Duke of Northumberland,
K.G., F.R.S.
CnAIRMAN—Thos. Baring, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., V.P.
DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN—Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., V.P.
APPEAL.
The Committee of Management have to state that, since
he beginning* of the year 1860, the Royai National Lifeboat
Institution has eended £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;
lor which services 82 Gold Medals, 718 Silver Medals, and
06,480 in cash have been paid in rewards. The Institu-
tion has also expended £67,ee00 on Life-boats, Life-boat
Transporting-cartiages 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, tahiedytehaernmeisntlyupahpopledaini
gtoanadllpcelrpasesteussotfintghlor
countrymen
OW edge the fellowino.
tributions:—
grrerahteacnodnitraruiltyteneautioanteafluahviyoarckkn.
con-
X s . d
annual 50 0
Tier Male_stY. G. ..
the
,Queenriir s G

Campbell, the lion. -
25
Clerk, Colonel, R.A. . annual 1 1 0
A. • • • .. annual 50 0
Coutts and Co. Messrs., Bankers
annual 10 0 0
Currie, Win. l%sq, • • • • • • • • 4th don.lo 0 0
Erie Lord Cilia Justice • •
.• don. 10 10 0
Fanshawe, Vice-Admiral Sir A., K.C.B. 2d don.
0 0
Fenwick, U. J., Esq., cost of a Lifeboat and Tran-__

,
sporting Carriage . • • • • • • • • • 250 0 0
3la rt Harvey,in, Sir Rev.ll Ge
n. 4 , • • • • don. 30 0
• • • • 7th don. 10 0 0
Moore, Rev. G. 13. • • • • •• • . don. 15 15 0
Smith, Mrs. George, Greenwich • • • • • • 30 0
ratiltl.lrs...
Stirling, Col. Sir Anthony, 1C.C.8. .. .. 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 Su',seriptions will be thankfully re-
dyed by the Bankers of the Institution, Messrs. Willis,
Percival, and Co., 76, Lombard-street; Messrs. Coutts and
& rd Bankers Lewis in.
Co., 50, Strand; Messrs. Berries, Farquhar. and Co., 16, St.
James's-street, London; by a'.l the Collectors of Customs
;
tEhseqU nitedKlngdom; and by the Secretary
aßni
London,
don thes 0171E2 of the Institution, ii,
John-street, Adelohi

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HEALTH OF LONDON.

(From the Registrar-General's Weekly Return.)
In the week that ended last Saturday (Sept. 5), the deaths
in London exhibited a considerable decrease; they fell to
1,232, which is a lower number than any that has been re•

turned since the first week of July.
The chief decrease in the mortality arose from diarrhoea
which fell from 181 to 120; whilst the deaths from small-
pox, scarlatina, diphtheria, whooping-cough, and typhus
were about the same as the previous week. More than one-
half of the mortality during the week occurred to the
younger portion of the population, v;z., to 704, who were
under 20 years of age ; 326 wero between 20 and 60, and
201 at 60 years and upwards. A gardener is recorded as
having died at the advanced age of 97 years.
Last week the births of 925 boys and 933 girls, in all 1863
children, were registered in London. In the ten correspond-
ing weeks of the years 1853-62 the average number (cor-
rected was 1,830.

METROPOLITAN WATERS IN AUGUST, 1863.

The domestic waters of London, according to the analyses
of Dr. Robert Dundas Thompson, F.R.S., contain rather
more organic and total impurity, than in the preceding
month, the most striking examples being illustrated by the
Kent and Lambeth companies. Tho Thames water at
London-bridge at high water has been highly charged with
impurities and sea water, three experiments having yielded
a mean of 232.67 deg. of total, and 26'38 deg. per gallon of
organic impurity, while the amount of ammonia from the
sewage was '748 grains per gallon. Ono of the wells in St.
Matylebono contained as much as 212 grains ammonia per
gallon, an evidence of the large admixture of sewage with
which it is contaminated .

Total Impurity Organioim-
per gallon. purity.
gra. or deg. grs. or deg.
0.0 0.0

Distilled Water
Loch Latrine water, new supply
to Glasgow 2'35 •605
Manchester water supply
Upper Marylebone-street Well 10640 7'60
Tnames at London-bridge..,. 232157 26.38
THAMES COMPANIES.

Chelsea
Southwark
West Middlesex l6/2 1'36
Grand Junction 16.61 1.60
Lambeth
OTHER COMPANIES.
East London
New River
Kent

The table is read thus—Loch Katrine water contains in the
gallon 2'35 degrees or grains of foreign matter in solution,
of which 1105 degrees or grains are of vegetable or animal
origin.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height
of the barometer in the week was 29.700 in. The mean
temperature of the air in the week was 57'8 deg., which is
0.9 deg. below the average of the same week in 43 years (as
determined by Mr. Glaisher). The highest day temperature
occurred on Sunday, and was 72.1 deg. The lowest night
temperature was 45.2 deg. on Tuesday. The range of tem-
perature in the week was therefore 26.9 deg. The mean
daily range was 17.1 deg. The difference between the mean
dew-point temperature and air temperature was 7.8 deg.
The mean degree of humidity of the air was 76, complete
saturation being represented by 100. The wind was chiefly
from the south-west, and rain fell 'wavily on Friday and
Saturday.

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CITY COMMISSION OF SEWERS.

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 tho 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
18ft. for the carriage traffic, and have aides 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
abutments, and leaving a headway for foot passengers of
about 9ft. There will be a groat deal of surface ornamenta-
tion on the sides, which will give it tho appearance at first
sight of an open, perforated bridge, but it will in fact have
an interior lining to prevent the fall of burning cinders from
passing trains. The design, as represented on paper, elicited
some expressions of admiration from the Commissioners, but
their engineer, Mr. Heywood, took occasion to warn then
that the thing itself, when put up, would probably fall 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
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 ono 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-
-1 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, 3—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
beenf been
18 e
timesom undere
punany de.
twice.
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
each
illuminating
idgea:otds
aoettrfh tooahfft et
the feGreat
gas,et
City Company
Charterede
therefore,nt ra 1
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hhaddt
freeetat i,nl3
been generally very satisfactory. As regarded the amount
27 in the 100 eubic
of the City Company, of sulphur gasf it had ranged from 13 grains to nearly
Cchomarptearneyd:
and
dn t7hetegnaesetslyup3plliegdrabinye tihnethGergeaast
tthheesethlr3eewceasreesinwe:cesass
Central Company,
y,casan'od3from 14.4 to 25 in that of the
the case of the Great Centrstahl
17 in that of the
Central,
in observationsthe ewerease oof made,
thoancdi
city
of
follows .
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ennadaeradn in
n
lbeen
inof
the
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in :sot
the
supply
p p 1
y Greatp p Central e
had
at rd
City gas, and 20.20 of the Chartered. gas,
T grains of
ass
eu sulphur
23.8 grains of the
The average
called
ther pressureatteatten-
tion to the Commissioner
passed in the last Sessioanundof Parliament in
otinolveniirnt.ocDholowaf,cwet
clerk to
of Lg2oivoinnfgepow
the
owner
rnetor
raesfeinregnleceinteogtihsteresctealteeoLdpieseeeaseedvemneealtty,
of each piece of meat exposed for sale and unfit
food, or, without the infliction of a fine, to order hirt human
imprisoned in a common gaol for a term not exceedingebe
three months, with hard labour. It amends in these
re-
spects the Nuisances Removal Act of 1853. He also ad-
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
to prepare an abstrct of the provisions of the Act and w
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 Commisssioners adjourned.

reduced Full benefit of duty obtained gay pur-
chasing Horniman's pure Tea; very choke at P,s. 4d. and
4s. "High Standard "at 4s. 4d. (formerly 48. '81), is the
strongest and most delicious imported. Amts in every
town supply it in packets.