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by Rothery. At the same moment t.
broken into, and possession taken of thc niset— A S
search having been instituted, nothing was found
in the place except a bed, which was laid on the
floor, and several minor articles of furniture. The
occupant of the house turned out to be a man
named Denis Downey Mulcahy, who described him-
self as a medical student, and who, it appeared, had
been secreted there since Sunday, the 17th inst.
Mulcahy had been employed as " reader" of the Irish
People, and on the day the police seized the staff
and materials of that journal he abandoned his own
lodgings in Merrion-cottages, and took up his resi-
dence in the lonely house referred to, where lie
remained up to the time of his arrest. On being
searched a number of documents were found on his
person, the nature of which has not transpired. He
was conveyed to College-street Station, and will be
brought before Mr. Stronge, senior divisional magi-
strate, to-day.
By a telegram received in town last night I learn
that in Limerick yesterday, in consequence of infor-
mation made before a magistrate in the Doonass dis-
trict,couuty of Clare, nearly adjoining this city,
four men were arrested by the constabulary charged
with Fenianism and high treason. Their names are
Thomas-IPD onnell, Arthur Stretch, Thomas Houla-
han,- and Martin Burns. Books of drill instruction
and some seditious documents are said to have been
found in their possession. They Were brought
before Mr. Bell, who committed them to gaol
until the 6th of October, when they will be brought
up for examination. Another telegram states that
further arrests have been made in Derry, and that,
in addition to the persons in custody at Killarney
for alleged Fenian practices, as
.already announced,
five others were arrested last night in that town
and two this morning, all charged with a similar
offence.

-Sanatory State of St.

Southwark.

The sanatory state of this parish has recently been
very much discussed in the vestry of the parish and
out of do9rs, consequently the medical officer, . .
Dr. BATESON, submitted his report to a meeting
of the vestry held fast evening, in the Vestry-hall,
Borough-road, which was presided over by the Rev.
Dr. Hugh Allen, the rector of the parish. He entered
.into a long and elaborate statement to show that the
parish in respect of sanatory.matters was not worse
than its neighbours, and that in some respects it had
(the adVantage of - them. After alluding to several
Iplades such as Maypole-alley, Westcott-street, and
St. George's New Town, the sanatory state of which
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was being attended to as much as circumstances
would•admit of, he stated in his report that -during
the four weekscending the 16th of the present month
the deaths in the parish had been 125, being at the
rate of -25 per week, and that only one death had
taken pla.pejrcga fever. The district was in fact at
the present time healthy, and as so much had of late
been said as to the bad sanatory arrangements con-
nected with it, he compared the number of cases of
fever which had occurred, in it from the year 1861-
up to the-present time as compared with the num-
.ber which had occurred inLondou. From this state-
menc-it appeared that the number of deaths from.
.fever in London was 1,794, whiie in St. George's the
,numberViai 33'.; in 1862 the number of deaths from
fever in London was 3,634, while in St. George's
they were.‘lo7 ; in 1863 in London they were 2,892,
.in St. Gebrge's 89 ; in 1864 in London they were
3,689, in St. George's 135 ; for the first two quar-
ters in 18.65;they were in London 1,666, and in St.
George's.4o;. while for the five weeks ending the 16th
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ofthemonth the deaths from fever in London were
241, and in St. George's one death. From these
figures it would seem that St. Seorge's was not de-
serving of the castigation which hadbeen cast upon
it, It was; no doubt, peculiarly situated. It was
, densely populated, and the population*was crammed
very much together. There was a population of
125,980 to the square mile, while 24+ yards only
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standing all these drawbacks the deaths among
these 125,98©: sons allocated to the 'square- mile
It Ta -dellltit-,o'oll living. The levirt srz--
tered into a detail of the steps taken, and being
taken, to improve the sanatory state of the parish,
arguing that they were all that could have, under
the circumstances, been desired. Sanatory like po-
litical reform was of gradual and sometimes of slow
progress. They were now doing their best to sow
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the seeds of it, but it would be their children and
their children's children who would reap the full
fruits of it.

Mr. ELLIOTT moved the adoption of the report,
and that it be referred to the Sewers' Committee,
with instructions that 500 copies of it be printed
and circulated among the ratepayers, and that the
thanks of the meeting be awarded to Dr. Bateson
for the able manner in which it was drawn up.
Mr. ARCHER having seconded the 'notion, a long
and animated discussion ensued upon it, and it was
agreed to.