The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-18 00:00:00

maintaining its independence, and he trusted when
the fitting occasion should arrive, this country
would be enabled to recognise their independence
without involving ourselves in any quarrel with the
Northern States, with whom it was our desire, as
well as our interest, to remain on terms of friend-
ship.

The health of the Duke of Buckingham as high
steward of the borough having been given and duly
honoured,

His GRACE returned thanks, expressing the greet
gratification he felt at being present and bearing
testimony to the great benefit associations such as
that conferred upon agriculturists of all classes.
Having watched the progress of agriculture for
many years, he was satisfied that in no trade or
manufacture in the country was progress more
needed, or in which so much progress remained to
be made. He spoke of the importance of adapting
machinery more extensively to agricultural pur-
poses, and pointed out the advantages the manu-
facturers had obtained from improvements in
mechanical appliances.

HEALTH OF LONDON .DURING THE
WEEK.

(From the .Regzstrar-General's Weekly Reim).ll.)

The deaths in London from all causes in the
week that ended last Saturday were 1,138. If the
deaths from epidemic cholera in the thirty-seventh
week of 1854 are excluded from the returns on
which the calculation is based, it will be found that
the average rate of mortality for the weeks corre-
sponding with last week in the ten years 1852-61,
gives 1,133 deaths, a result with which the actual
number very closely agrees.

Diarrhoea continues to decrease. The fatal cases
of this complaint declined from 123 in the third
week of August to 64 last week. Of this number,
59 occurred to children. A man died in Westmin-
ster Hospital of sporadic cholera, after 27 hours'
illness. The widow of a blacksimith died in West-
minster, at the age of 72 years, of cholera. A
tailor, aged 63 years, died at 4, Cartwright-street,
Alcigate, of Asiatic cholera, after an illness of three
days and a half. A labourer died at 3, Rich-street,
Limehouse, of cholera (9 days), consecutive fever
(6 days). Five deaths from diarrhoea occurred in

the sub-district of Christchurch, Marylebone.
There were 85 deaths from scarlatina, and 10 of
these occurred in the district of Pancras. There
were 4 from the same disease in the sub-district of
London-road, and the same number in Lambeth
Church, second sub-district.
The oldest person whose death was recorded in

the week was a female, aged 95 years.
Last week the births of 913 boys and 859 girls,
in a 111,772 children, were registered in London.
In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1852-
61 the average number (corrected) is 1,765.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29.891 in.
The reading rose to 30.03 in. on Friday, and fell to
29.70 in. at the end of the week. The mean tem-
perature of the air in the week was 58 deg., which
is 0.5 deg. above the average of the same week in
43 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher). The
highest day temperature was 73.4 deg. on Tuesday;
the lowest night temperature was 40.4 deg, on

Thursday. The range of temperature in the week
was, therefore, 33 deg. The mean daily range
was 19 deg. The range on Friday was 27.3 deg.
The difference between the mean dew-point tem-
perature and air temperature was 4.9 deg. The
mean degree of humidity of the air was 85, com-
plete saturation being represented by 100. The
wind blew almost constantly from the south-west.
Rain was measured to the amount of 0.36 in., all
of which fell on Wednesday. The mean of the
highest temperatures of the water of the Thames
was 62.1 deg. ; that of the lowest was 59.9 deg. In
the day the temperature of the Thames was 6.3
below, in the night 10.5 deg. above, the tempera-
ture of the air.

THE RECENT FIRE AT THE LIVERPOOL

WORKHOUSE.

LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY.
Mr. Driffield, the Liverpool deputy-coroner, re-
sumed the inquiry into this catastrophe at 11 o'clock
this morning.
Mr. Curwood, deputy town clerk, appeared to
watch the case on behalf of the Corporation, and
Mr. Bremner, solicitor, on behalf of the parish
authorities.

Mr. Carr, the governor of the workhouse, was
again examined. He stated that he was alarmed at
about ten minutes past two in the morning, and
immediately set to work in getting out the water-
hose. In less than 15 minutes the first hydrant was
turned, and the water began to play at the south
end of the building. Had no opportunity of seeing
to what height the water was forced in this instance.
Almost immediately afterwards another hose was
brought round, and the water was poured upon
the supposed seat of the fire, the male infants' school-
room. Two other hydrants were afterwards turned
on, and the hose was carried on to a point west of
the burning building. A very short time elapsed
before all the hose was in operation. No time was
lost, and two sets of men were working. At the
time of the fire there was a pile of clothes lying in
the infants' school-room not far from the passage
leading to the dormitories, and in the school-room
also was a cupboard (containing books, bonnets,
&c.), and a wooden gallery where the children sat.
When he first noticed the fire it appeared to be
coming from the direction of the cupboard and
the pile of clothes. Witness ran up the ladders
before the hose was brought round, and looked
through the dormitory windows. The fire had not
then reached the children, and they were lying in
their beds as if asleep; they were asleep in death,
for witness believed they must have been suffocated
before this time, as the smoke was so dense. The
dispensary and drug stores were under the dormi-
tories, and fearing the most disastrous consequences
if the fire extended to them, witness directed the
• efforts of the firemen against this portion of the
. building rather than against the church, conse-
quently the drug store was saved and the church
destroyed.

Miss Kennan, schoolmistress, was next examined

—She slept near the children's dormitory, and was
awakened on the morning of the fire by a strong
smell of smoke in her room. She told some of the
children to run through the establishment and
shout " Fire !" From the first sho thought the fire
a very serious one, and gave the alarm to the go-
vernor. As she crossed the iron grid covering the
passage between the church and the dormitory she

felt it was warm, and when she returned from the
governor's house she found the heat had greatly

increased, and that dense volumes of smoke were
rising through it. On going upstairs again she
heard cries, but was not able to advance far into
the room in consequence of the densityof the smoke.
Creeping on her hands and knees into the room,
and feeling a child's foot, she took hold of it and
Succeeded in rescuing the child—Jane Mitchell.
In endeavouring to go into the room again, to some
one who called her, she became insensible, and
Knew nothing more of what had occurred until she
found herself lying at the front door below.
Major Greig, head constable of Liverpool, who
was next examined,
said that when he arrived at
the scene of the fire, about three a.m., he found that
of water from the hydrants was weak,
then
dsthat
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situated on very high ground) the water
consequence of the low pressure (the
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could not be thrown direct from the hose as high as
the windows of the dormitory.
Mr. J. Hewitt, superintendent of the Liverpool
Fire Brigade, corroborated this evidence.
The Coroner having summed up,
The jury returned a verdict that the deceased
werercse n accidentally suffocated, accompanied with a
p
the inglifficient preEsare and defi-
ciency of the carter filipply,
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