The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-26 00:00:00

time had at length arrived for him to come forward
with a formal request and a formal promise on
behalf of his unhappy country. It is a sad thing
that he should now have to repent that for an hour
he reposed confidence in the representative of
the Russian Crown. It is only DOW that the full
effect of the unwise, unjust, and cruel punishment
inflicted on Count Zamoyski will be felt, and felt it
will be throughout the length and breadth of Poland.
It is remarkable how, in the absence of a represen-
tative system and of all public life, the head of the
Zamoyski family has become recognised everywhere
as the chosen spokesman of his country. There is
no system of suffrage under which this choice would
not be confirmed, and we may be sure that the in-
jury which he has received at the hands of the Rus-
sian Emperor will be resented wherever the Polish
language is spoken.

THE HEALTH OF LONDON.

(From the Registrar- General's Report.)

The return that was published last week showed
a great increase of the mortality; the present return
discloses a further and very considerable increase.
In the last week of October the deaths in London
were 1184 ; in the first two weeks of the present
month they rose successively to 1307 and :429 ; in
the week that ended last Saturday they were 1559.
In those four weeks the mean temperature of the air
was 46.8 deg., 44.9 deg., 37.3 deg,, and 38.3 deg.
In the corresponding week of 1858 the deaths rose
to 1802 subsequently to and duiing a very cold
period.
The average ntimberef-deeitheiriitio oorie-apcma.---
ing weeks of 10 years (1852-61) becomes, after cor-
rection for increase of population, 1436 ; and the
deaths in last week were, therefore, 123 in excess of
the number that would have been returned if the
average rate of mortality had ruled.
The deaths from pulmonary diseases, exclusive of
phthisis, in the last four weeks Were, respectively,
183, 197, 283, and 350. Those from phthigis in the
same times were 119, 152, 166,and 177. Those from
whooping-cough and scarlatina, which was returned
in 106, also exhibit an increased mortality.
Pneumonia was not quite so fatal last week as it
was in that which preceded it; but the deaths by
bronchitis rose from 130 to 186.

Measles was recorded in 7 cases in the district of
St. Saviour, Southwark, in 8 in Bermondsey. Scar-
latina was fatal in 5 casesin the Kensington Town
subdistrict. A man, aged 72 years, died at 8, Prim-
rose-street, Bishopsgate. A coroner's jury considered
that the cause of death was probably want of suffi-
cient nourishment.

Last week the births of I,oooboys and 885 girls,
in all 1,885 children, were regisered in London. In
the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1852-61
the average number (corrected) was 1838.

At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 30029
in. The mean daily reading Was above 30 in. on
the first five days. The reading rose to 30.25 in.
on Monday, and it fall to 2916 in, on Saturday.
The me& temperature of the air in the week was
38.3 deg., which is 4 deg. below the average of
the same week in 43 years (as determined by Mr.
Glaisherj. The mean daily temperature was below
the average throughout the week. The highest day
temperature was 47.3 deg. on Tuesday ; the lowest
night temperature was 30.6 deg. on Saturday. On
Thursday also, the thermometer fell below the freez-
ing point of water. The range of temperature in the
week was 16.7 deg. The mean daily range was
10.3 deg. On Wednesday the range was only 3,9
deg. The difference between the mean dew-point
temperature and air temperature was 3.3 deg. The
mean degree of humidity of the air was 88, complete
saturation being represented by 100. The wind was
in the north-east till Saturday, when it changed to
north-west. The rain mei- sured was only the hun-
dredth part of an inch. The mean of the highest
temperatures of the water of the Thames was 43.1
deg. ; that of the lowest was 41 deg.

(11-T1 -SEWERS COMMISSION.


.

The Commissioners of Sewers held their weekly
meeting yesterday at Guildhall—Mr. De Jersey in
the chair.

A report was brought up from the General Pur-
poses Committee, stating that they had arranged
with the Carburetting Company that at the end of
the present contract the commission should take the
carburetting on their own account and supply them-
selves with the naphtha, paying a royalty to the
company for the use of the invention, and that they
agreed with the Great Central Gas Company to
allow them to retain the use of the fittings to the
public lamps, upon terms to be agreed upon between
the engineers of the commission and the Great Cen-
tral Gas Company, and they recommended that ad-
vertisements be issued for the supply
metres at once for the lamps lighted by the Centra
Gas Company. of 1,771

Some discussion ensued 118 to the propriety of de-
ferring the consideration of the report, so that in
the meanwhile it could be printed, but the report
was ultimately agreed to.
Mr. DAW, the chief clerk, read a letter addressed
to him from Mr. Shepard, the secretary of the Car-
buretting Company, in which he stated that he was
called
directed by the board to inform the Court of Sewers,
in reference to a report of Dr. Letheby on the qua-
lity of the naphtha supplied to the carburetters of
othueslycompany,
t othat
the
e theirsu b
jattention h
as t had o
the been
qualitypre i-
and quantity ; that instructions had been •
given to
the persons in their employ to use the utmost vigi-
lance to discover by whom the naphtha in the car-
buretters was tampered with; but there was the
utmost difficulty in catching any one in the act.
One such case was, however, discovered, and came
to their knowledge, and he enclosed, for the perusal
of the court, a declaration of a witness who saw the
contents of one of their carburetters thrown away,
and the apparatus afterwards filled with water.
There was still another grievance of which they had
to complain. When that court contracted with the
Great Central Gas Company for the supply of three
feet of gas per hour instead of five, the latter had
affixed burners having two small holes instead of
one large one, so that they were continually liable
to get choked, and so prevent a fair trial of the car-
buretting process. To meet this difficulty they had
affixed, at their own expense, 1,771 brass caps to
the burners, which attained the object in view, but
the lamplighters and lampcleaners had been in the
habit from time to time of removing the caps, under
some pretence or other, and the company had al-
ready had to replace a large number of additional
caps to the burners. In several instances the lamp-
lighters had admitted having removed them, and
had stated their intention of doing so.
The letter was referred to the General Purposes
Committee.