The Sun.
London, England, 1865-08-09 00:00:00

WHITECHAPEL.

The supply of meat on sale is moderate. The trade is
slow, as follows :
Beef, from 3s 4d to 4s 10d ; mutton, 4s 4d to 5s 10d ;
lamb, 5s 4d to 6s Od; veal, Be 103 to 4e 10d; and pork,
3s 8d to 5s Od per 81bs by the carcase.

The Nottingham Election Riots.—A Scene
in the Town Council.

At the quarterly meeting of the Council on Monday,
Mr. Patchitt, chairman of the Finance Committee, said
there was an item in the accounts of the last quarter of
£l,OOO for the services of special constables, extra police,
and military during the late election. Mr. Barber—Does
that sum include the damages done by the rioters ? Mr.
Patchitt—No. Mr. Cox said the Council had no right to
pay money away to the magistrates in this way, and it
appeared that £l,OOO was only the first item. Notting-
ham had been distinguished for scenes of electoral dis-
order and riot, but nothing like the proceedings at the
late election had ever disgraced her annals. He then
alluded to the case of Mr. Hedington, the late chief con-
stable, and to the letter he had published in the news-
papers, and said he doubted whether Mr. Hedington had
received justice, though he would not say on which side.
He (Mr. Cox) was the first to call attention to the irregu-
larities of the late chief constable, and he thought there
ought to be a thorough inquiry. Mr. Hedington told him
(Mr. Cox) that if he came into the town on the 26th of
Juno his life would bo in danger, but he was unable to say
who gave him the information. Mr. Bradshaw rose to
order, declaring it to be unfair to attack a person who had
no opportunity to reply. Mr. Cox—l have been put down
by bullyism out of doors, but I am not going to be put
down here by Tory interruptions. (" Order," and confu-
sion.) Mr. Annibal said Mr. Cox was doing an injustice to
the chief constable. Mr. F. W. Parsons said the proceed-
ings were so irregular that he should leave the hall
in disgust. He then put on his hat, Mr. Cox exclaiming,
" The respectability of the company will be improved
when you are gone." (Confusion.) The Mayor—l must
have order, gentlemen. We cannot inquire into all the
circumstances attending the late riots. The magistrates
made an order on the town treasurer for the £l,OOO, and
we have no control over them. Mr. Patchitt protested
against Mr. Cox's irregular proceedings. Mr. Cox said
if Mr. Hedington was present ho could take no part in
the discussion. He argued that a great number of
sufferers through the late riots had a right to have a
government inquiry. He (Mr. Cox) had serious charges
to bring against a magistrate, but where was he to pre-
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fer them. Other councillors rose to order, and Mr.
Cox at length gave way, but before doing so gave notice
of a motion for a Government inquiry to be asked for rela-
tiye to the late riots. Mr. Dickinson—l hope Mr. Cox will
withdraw the blackguardly expression he made use of to
Mr. Parsons. ("Order," and confusion.) Mr. Cox—Don't
use any of your pot-house language here, Mr. Dickinson.
Go into Coatpit-lane with it. (Renewed uproar.) Mr.

Dickinson—l am not ashamed of keeping an inn. I may
tell Mr. Cox that the young lady who keeps that house for
me would not allow Mr. Cox to use the language which he
is in the habit of using in other public-houses in the town.
(Cries of "Oh," and confusion.) Mr. Cox—Mr. Parsons'
conduct to me was offensive, and I will not withdraw the
remark. A motion was then brought forward recommend-
ing the appointment of a stipendiary magistrate for the
borough, allusion being made to the conduct of the magi-
strates .during the late election. The subject was ad-
journed to a future meeting.

INFANT MORTALITY.—SHOCKING DEATHS FROM
SUFFOCATION AND STARVATION.—TWO inquests
were held upon the bodied of children in the City-road. In
the first case Eliza Jarvis, aged seven weeks, was found
dead by her mother's side in bed on Sunday morning, two
other persons sleeping in the bed, a small one, at the same
time. The second case was that of Eliza Cull, aged one
year and four months, the daughter of very poor people,
who died at St. Luke's Workhouse on Saturday from pre-
vious Etarvation. In the first case the jury returned a
verdict of death from suffocation ; in the second, that the
deceased died from effusion of serum on the brain.
SERIOUS CARRIAGE ACCIDENT.—On the after-
noon of Sunday, the wife of the Rev. Dr. Hannah,
warden, Trinity College, Glenalmond, and Miss Cole, of
London, were being driven in a phaeton from Inchbraikie
to attend service in the Episcopalian place of worship here.
When opposite the Crown Inn the horse, a spirited animal,
became restive, and immediately ran off along the High-
street, at full speed. The vehicle capsized near James's..
square, and the ladies were thrown on the ground with
great force. Mrs. Hannah by the fall had one of her legs
broken, and was sadly cut and disfigured about the face,
besides sustaining other injuries. Miss Cole fell above
Mrs. Hannah, and escaped with a few slight bruises. The
driver was dragged after the machine fully 20 yards,
owing to his coat being entangled with the vehicle, but his
injuries are not serious. The shaft of the phaeton
snapped, and Mrs. Hannah's watch was smashed to pieces.
Dr. Gairclner immediately attended to the injured lady,
and she was removed back to Inchbraikie in the evening.
—Scotsman.

.THE BOILER EXPLOSION AT MILLWALL.--Yes-
terday Mr. John Humphreys, the coroner for the county of
Middlesex, received notice of the death of Charles Hayes,
aged 21 years, a stoker, one of the unfortunate sufferers at
the late boiler explosion on the premises of the Great Iron
Steam Shipbuilding Company's Works at Millwall,
whereby he sustained severe scalds over the body and
limbs. He also had a long iron bolt forced through his
leg by the violence of the shock. The poor fellow expired
in great agony. John Wood, aged 30, a boiler makes, also
died in the same ward of the institution from severe scalds
and contusions on the body.
THE EXPORTATION OF GUNPOWDER.—The de-
olared value of gunpowder exported in six months ending
the 30th June last, as appears from accounts rendered to
rtirliament, waq 4226,860.

HEALTH OF LONDON.

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

In the week that ended on Saturday, August 5,
the births registered in London and ten other large
towoB of the United Kingdom were 3,688 ; the
deaths _registered 2,903. The annual rate of mor-
tality was. 27 per 1,000 persons living.
In London the births of 885 boys and 943 girls,
in all 1,828 children, were registered in the week.
In the corresponding weeks of ten years 1855-64
the average number, corrected for increase of popu-
lation, was 1,897.
The deaths registered London during the week
were 1,311. It was the 31si: week of the year, and
the average number for that week was, with a cor-
rection for increase of population, 1,357. The
actual return for the week exhibits a decrease of 46
on the estimated mortality.
pjarrhcea shows a decided decrease ; the deaths
from it reached their maximum in the first week of
July, when tLeY
were 301. _ In the three followinc,
weeks they
i,97, 280, and 261 successively, and
thedeathsfrom diarrhoea
last year they were 207.
in the present return °mitred to young children,
except 21, which occurred to persons aged 20 years
and upwards.
Of 19 deaths from cholera in the week six were
those of adults.
Eight deaths were from smallpox. A boy died
on the 2d inst. of that disease. He had not been
vaccinated. When the mother registered the death
she stated as her reason for not having had her child
vaccinated that her husband did not approve it, and
had beaten her on a previous occasion when she had
frot her eldest children vaccinated. The medical 0
at-
tendant adds on his certificate :—" Not seen until in
a dying condition. Five other children in the house
have had the disease, and all without medical at-
tendance."

The following deaths by horse conveyances were
registered in the week :—ln London Hospital, from
Boar's Head-yard, Whitechapel, on the 30th July,

the daughter of a general dealer, aged 1 year, run
over by a sugar van ; in London Hospital, from
Acorn-street, Bishopsgate, a dyer, aged 46, fell
from a van ; in Middlesex Hospital, from Totten-
ham-street, on the 25th of July, a sawyer, aged 45
years, fell from a van; at Dalston, on the 28th.of
July, the daughter of a shoemaker, aged 7 years, run
over by a cart, died in the German Hospital ; at Dal-
ston, on the 20th July, a carman, aged 60 years, run
over by a hearse, died in the German Hospital ; in
St. Mary's Hospital, on the 19th of July, the
daughter of a shoemaker, aged 2 years, run over by
a carriage ; in Edgware-road, on the 18th of July,
an ostler, aged 42 years, was run over by a cart ; in
St. Mary's Hospital on the 22d July, a musician, aged
21 years, run over by a cab ; in St. Mary's Hospital,
on the 29th July, the daughter of a shoemaker, aged
1 year, run over by a van ; in Guy's Hospital, on
the 24th July, a carter, aged 40 years, run over by
a cart ; in Guy's Hospital, on the 30th July, a
baker, aged 74 years, by a waggon ; in London
Hospital, on July 28, the daughter of a labourer,
aged 11 years, run over by a dray.
The rate of mortality last week was 23 per 1,000
in London, 30 in Edinburgh, and 23 in Dublin, 39
in Liverpool, 33 in Manchester, 29 in Salford, 26 in
Birmingham, 34 in Leeds, 22 in Bristol, and 32 in
Glasgow. The rate in Vienna was 38 per 1,000
during the week ending the 22d ult., when the tem-
perature was 14.1 deg. Fahrenheit higher than in
the same week in London, where the rate was 25
per 1,000.
In Liverpool the births were 340, the deaths 354;
in Manchester the births 253, the deaths 224 ; in
Salford the births 63, the deaths 62 ; in Birming-
ham the births 190, the deaths 162 ; in Leeds the
births 210, the deaths 145 ; in Bristol the births
100, the deaths 67 ; in Hull the births 93, the deaths
75 ; in Edinburgh, the births 123, the deaths, 100;
in Glasgow the births 337, the deaths 262 ; and in

Dublin the births 151, the deaths 141. There were
406 deaths in Vienna during the week ending the
22d ult.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29.695 in.
The reading fell to 29.44 in. on Monday, and rose
to 29.95 on Saturday. The mean temperature of
the air in the week was 55.9 deg., which is 6.5 deg.
below the average of the same week in 50 years, as
determined by Mr. Glaisher. The mean daily tem-
perature was below the average on every dAy ex-
cept Sunday ; and on Tuesday and the three fol-
lowing days the amount of depression was from 8
to 13 deg. The highest day temperature occurred
on Sunday, -and was 75.8 deg ; the lowest night
temperature occurred on Thursday, and was 43.2
deg. The range of the thermometer in the week
was therefore 32.6 deg. The mean daily range was
19.5 deg. The mean degree of humidity of the
air was 78, complete saturation being represented
by 100. The most frequent directions of the wind
were west and north-west. The rainfall' was great;
it amounted to 1.70 in., of which 0.78 in. fell on
Monday, and 0.62 on Thursday ; the rest on Tues-
day, Wednesday, and Friday. While the mean of
the lowest temperature of the air was 47.9 deg.,
the mean of the highest temperature of the water
of the Thames was 65 deg.; that of the lowest was
64.5 deg. Very heavy rain fell throughout the after-
noon and evening of Monday, to the amount, as
has been stated, of 0.78 in.; and large amounts
were collected on that day throughout the country:-
1.33 in. at Liverpool, 0.75 in. at Wakefield, 0.61 in.
at Manchester, and 0.37 in. at Clifton, near Bristol.
Very active magnetic disturbance was observed at
Greenwich ; .it commenced about 6 o'clock on the
afternoon of Wednesday, and continued through
that and the following days till 4h. p.m. on Satur-
day. In the meteorological notes is described a re-
' markable aurora, observed by Mr. Burder at Clifton