The Sun.
London, England, 1862-07-16 00:00:00

ATLANTIC AND ST. LAWRENCE.

A committee of bond and share holders in this
company, consisting of Sir J. Paxton, Mr. T. S.
Catbill, and Mr. C. a Hale, state in their report
that the Grand Trunk of Canada Arrangements
Act just passed provides for very considerable con-
cessions on the part of the preference and other
bondholders ; and that it is perhaps too much to
expect that they will agree to those concessions
unless the lessors of the Atlantic and St. Lawrence
and Detroit and Port Huron Railways (the only
leased lines of the company) agree also to meet the
necessities of the case. The rent payableunder lease
to the Atlantic.and St. Lawrence is as follows: First
mortgage bonds, £410,950, annual rent, £24,657 ;
second mortgage bonds, £203,000, annual rent
£12,180; third sterling bonds, £lOO,OOO, annual
rent £6,000 ; fourth shares, £512,600, annual rent
£30,756—t0tal bonds and shares, £1,226,550;
total rent, £73,593. As it may be impossible to
obtain a reduction of classes one and two, which
have absolute mortgage rights of the most strin-
gent character, some additional burden must fall
for the time being upon the shareholders whose
claims rank after the bondholders. The com-
mittee recommend the following modification
of the terms of the lease of the Atlantic and St.
Lawrence Railroad to the Grand Trunk Company;
1. That the interest on the £lOO,OOO sterling
bonds be reduced to 5 per cent. for a period of 10
years, with any surplus profits earned on the Atlan-
tic and St. Lawrence Railroad up to 6 per cent. per
annum. 2. That failing to obtain any concession
from the statutory bondholdholders, the interest
upon the Atlantic and St. Lawrence shares be
reduced to a minimum of 4 per cent. per annum, for
a period of 10 years, with any surplus profits
earned on the Atlantic and St. Lawrence Railroad
up to 6 per cent. per annum. 3. That any amount
save from the proposed reduced rental, by the re-
demption of any portion of the mortgage bonds
through the operation of the sinking funds now
amounting to £70,000, or by any other means, shall
be applied to increase the reduced rates up to the
amount of 6 per cent., and also in the repayment of
all arrears of interest or dividend calculated at the
original rate of o per cent. 4. That the arrears of
interest on the shares now due be capitalised by
the issue of a like amount of stock bearing interest
at the same rate as the Atlantic and St. Lawrence
Ordinary stock, but ranking after such stock, such
sum to be a further charge upon the Grand Trunk
Railway Company.

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE

WEEK.

(From the Registrar-General's Weekly Return.)

The returns exhibit a very favourable state of
the public health. The total number of deaths re-
turned for the last week was 1,065. If a rate of
mortality equal to the average as deduced from the
deaths in the 28th week of each of the years 1852
61 had prevailed last week the deaths would have
been 1,155. But the actual number of deaths was
less by 90 than that which is obtained by calcula-
tion.

The births of last week exceeded the deaths in
the same period by 642.
Measles was less fatal than it had been in some
previous weeks. It declined from about 60 to 38
last week. Of this latter number more than half
occurred in the East districts. The chief propor-
tion of the deaths from measles was returned by
Hoxton, Haggerstone, the sub-district of Hackney-
road, and that of St. Paul, St. George-in-the-East.

Scarlatina was returned is 48 cases_ It carried
off 4 children in Kensington-town sub-district, 3
in Somers-town, 4 in the two sub-districts of Wa-
terloo-road, and 4 in Lambeth Church second sub-
district. There were 51 deaths from typhus", and
30 from diarrhoea. The latter disease appears to be
now en the increase. Three infants died of summer
cholera.

A man in Long-alley, Shoreditch, aged 99 years,
died from want of nourishment and uncleanliness.

Two children and an adult died by murder or
manslaughter.

Embolism (from the Greek for "a putting in" or
" plugging") was returned as the cause of a death.
This term appears in the returns for 'the first time.
A long tubular clot of blood, detached from some
vein, filled the right ventricle of the heart, stopped
the circulation, and was fatal in six hours.

Last week the births of 882 boys and 825 girls,
in all 1.707 children, were registered in London.
In the ten corresponding weeks of the years
1852-61 the average number (corrected) was 1,747.
METROPOLITAN WATERS IN JUNE, 1862.

The waters used in London, according to the
analyses of Dr. Robert Dundas Thomson, F.R.S.,
exhibit less organic matter than in the previous
month. The waters which yield the smallest
amount of organic contamination, in the order of
their purity, are the Grand Junction, the New
River, and the Kent Company. For the sake of
comparison the composition of a surface well at
Camber well-green is given, which contains sewage.
It should be closed and its place supplied by a
fountain.

Total impurity Org,anicim-
per gallon. purit-
grs. or deg. grs. or deg.
Distilled Water
Loch Katrine water, new supply
to Glasgow 2.35 .605
Manchester water supply
Camberwell Green Pump . 113.52 23'84
TuAmES COMPANIES.
Chelsea
Southwark
Lambeth
West Middlesex 16.96 1.20
Grand Junction 17.80 •60
OTHER COMpANIES.
East London
New River
gallon 2 3'.
Kent
The table is read thus—Loch Katrine water contains in the
degree ,4
or grains of foreign matter in solution,
which '605 degrees •are of vegetable or animal
origin.
or grains

A t the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29.600
in. The reading rose to 29.94 in. on Tuesday,
and fell to 29.29 in. on Saturday. The mean
temperature of the air in the week was 58.2
deg., which is 3.4 deg. below the average of the
same week in 43 years (as determined by Mr.
Glaisher). The mean daily temperature WPS below
the avenge throughout the week, and on Friday
the deficiency
was 8 3 deg. The highest day tem-
perature occurred on Tuesday, and was 75.5 deg.
The lowest night temperature was 44.7 deg. on Fri-
day. The range of the thermometer in the week
was therefore 30 8 deg. The mean daily range was
17.2 deg. The difference between the mean dew-
point temperature and air temperature was 5.1 deg.
The mean degree of humidity of the air was 85,
complete saturation being represented by 100. The
wind blew from the S.W. The rain-fall was 0.73
in., of which more or less was measured en 5 days.
The mean of the highest readings of the water of
the Thames wl,s 60.8 deg.; the mean of the lowest
was 59 deg. The thermometer in the sun rose to
116 deg. on Tuesday.

THE WESTERN FISHERIES.—Some large catches
of mackerel have taken place during the past week on the
Devonshire Coast. The pilchard fishery at Looe (Corn.
wall), has commenced. Ono day last week the drift boats
brought in from 500 to 4,000 fish, which sold at Is. 6d. per
100. At Mevagissey the drift boats are preparing their nets
for the approaching pilchard season.