The Sun.
London, England, 1862-03-12 00:00:00

COUR2 OF ALDERMEN.

Yesterday at 1 o'clock the aldermen of the City
of London held a meeting at the Guildhall, the Lord
Mayor presiding. Sheriffs Cockerel] and Twenty-
man reported that the number of prisoners now in
the gaol of Newgatc is 97 ; in the debtors' prison,
Whitecross-street, 92 ; and in the prison at Hollo-
way, 395 ; in all 584, of whom 17 ire in tho Mr.;
maries. The return in each case was accompanied
by the certificate of the surgeon as to the fit condi-
tion of the prison. At the request of the Lord
Mayor, Mr. Woodthorpe, the town clerk, read a
letter which had been addressed to his lordship on
Tuesday last by Sir Henry Muggeridge, resigning
the office and dignity of an alderman. Sir Henry
therein stated that failing health prevented him
adequately performing the duties incident to the
office, and he sincerely thanked the members of the
Court, in taking leave of them, for the uniform
kindness and courtesy he had received at their
hands during the several years he had been asso-
ciated with them. On the motion of Alderman
Copeland, the Court, taking the matter into consi-
deration, passed a resolution accepting Sir Henry's
surrender of the office, . and desiring the Lord
Mayor to hold a wardmote for the Ward of Castle
Baynard for the election of a " a fit and able person"
as an Alderman in his stead. The Lord Mayor said
he desired to state that a numerous deputation of the
inhabitants of the Ward had that morning waited
on him and represented that ever since the resigna-
tion the ward had been kept in a state of agitation
by the canvassing for the vacant gown, that busi-
ness was to a great extent paralysed in consequence,
and they earnestly requested that the earliest pos-
sible day might be fixed for the nomination and
election. Feeling the importance of the application
he had told the deputation that as soon as he ob-
tained the sanction of the Court to his issuing a
precept for holding an election, he should do so, fix-
ing Thursday next, at 4 o'clock, for the nomination.
Mr. Woodthorpe read a letter which Sir George
Grey, the Home Secretary, had addressed to the
Lord Mayor, stating that there appeared reason to
believe, after inquiry into the subject, that the
debtors' prison in Whitecross•street would, under
the altered state of the law of bankruptcy, afford
ample accommodation for the confinement of all
debtors in London and Middlesex ; it was therefore
proposed by Government to bring a bill into Parlia-
ment for the abolition of the Queen's Prison • but
that before any proceedings were taken for that
pur-
pose he would invite the Corporation of London to
state what claims, if any, upon the Government it
is conceived the Corporation would be entitled to
make in case of the abolition of the Queen's Prison.
Sir George, therefore, requested to be favoured with
an early communication on the subject. On the
motion of Alderman Challis, who spoke in terms of
approval of the proposed arrangement, the letter
was referred to the Gaol Committee. Alderman
Copeland, M.P., the senior member of the Court,
was unanimously elected a trustee of Sir J. Soane's
Museum, Library, and Works of Art in Lincoln's-
inn-fields, in the room of the late Sir Peter Laurie,
at the instance of Alderman Humphery, seconded
by Alderman Finnis. A report was presented by
the General Purposes Committee, to whom it had
been referred to consider the powers of the
justices of the city of London, with respect
to committing boys to reformatories and in-
dustrial schools, and as to the best way of exercis-
ing such powers. They stated, on the authority of
Mr. Martin, clerk to the magistrates at Guildhall,
that the aldermen as justices had no power to com-
mit juvenile offenders to any reformatory schools,
or to commit destitute and neglected children to in;
dustrial schools, unless the managers of those insti-
tutions were willing to receive them.. They hoe
ascertained committee
ivoefbtohyes
ascertained that the
Redhill Reformatory were willing
committed from the justice-rooms of the Mansion-
house and Guildhall upon an arrangement similar
in its conditions to that now pending in respect of
boys convicted and sentenced by the Central Crimi-
nal Court for offences committed in the city. The
committee recommended the Cuurt to agree to that
arrangement. A motion by Alderman Copeland for
the adoption of their report led to a discussion as to
the propriety, or otherwise, of investing a single
magistrate with the power of committing children
to reformatories and industrial schools. Alderman
Lawrence deprecated a power being given to one
magistrate to send children to such institutions, to
be =merged there, it might be, for years. A 8

(From the Registrar-Genere Weekly Return.)
The London returns for last week show a high
rate of mortality. In the last week of February the
deaths were 1,322 ; in the week that ended last Sa-
turday they rose to 1,505.
Last week, to which the present returns relate,
was preceded by a week of low temperature. The
air continued very cold till Thursday, the 6th, when
it became remarkably warm.
The tables show a sudden increase in the death
from typhus. They were 61 in the previous week ;
they rose last week to 123, or double the number.
On the other hand, scarlatina declined from 61 to
41; but there were 17 deaths from diptheria. Bron-
chitis increased only from 151 to 166, the corrected
average being 175 ; but phthisis was fatal, for the
number of cases referred to it rose from 148 to 184,
the corrected average being 172.
In the sub-district of All Souls, IVlarylebre, at
1, Suffolk-mews, three children of a warehouseman
died of scarlatina. The registrar states that "
in
the same family another child had died previously
of diarrhoea; and a fifth, the sole surviving child,
is dangerously ill in Middlesex Hospital." A girl
died in that hospital of
;nandscarlatia, who had been
brought from 13, Gresse-street
died of diptheria at 3, Little Portland-street. The
registrar adds that throat disease appears to be pre-
valent in some parts of his sub-district.
Four deaths from typhoid find one from continued
fever were registered in the sub-district of Borough-
road. Of these 6 there were 4 in the workhouse.
Five deaths from "fever" occurred in the workhouse
at Greenwich. There were no fewer than 14 deaths
from typhus in the London Fever Hospital. There
were 6 deaths from typhus in Chelsea ; 4 in the
sub district of Mile-end New-town ;4 in that of
Poplar; 4 in that of St. Olave, Southwark.
The deaths of two nonagenarians are reeorded--
a man,..aged 92; a widow, aged 96.
Last week the Willis' if 1;016 boys- and- 14-1--
girls, in all 2,027 childreit, were registeredit in Lon-
don. In the ten corresponding weeks of the years •
1852-61 the average number (corrected) was 2,033.
METROPOLITAN WATERS IN FEBULTARY,OB62.
The London waters, as analyzed by Dr. Robert
Dundas Thompson, F.R.S., are all more impure
than last month, with the exception of the South-
wark, West Middlesex, Lambeth, and East Lon-
don. The New River water contained an unusual
amount of organic matter. The organic constituent
of the Kent Company was almost entirely in a
state of oxidation, and therefore comparatively in a
harmless condition. It may be expected that some
of these waters will become purer in winter when
more storage space is supplied, and the waters are
pumped in a less impure state. For comparison, the
water of a well is given supplying a new house
where typhoid fever occurred ; the composition of
the same water as taken from the house tank was
published in the report of last month.
Total impurity Organicim;
per gallon. purity.
grs. or deg. grs. or deg,
0.0 0.0

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Distilled Water
Loch Katrine water, new supply
to Glasgow (March) 215
Manchester Water Supply (March) 3.33
Well, Ravensbournerark 106.32

TmukiES COMPANIES.
Chelsea ••• •••• 0000000000 ••••••••••• 22.64
Grand Junction 22'64
Southwark
West Middlesex 21.36
Lambeth

.605
4380
1511

1'43
1136
1.88
.84
1'76

__~-OTHER COMPANIES. 1.92
Kent ........................... g? 2•32
1•36
The table is read thus—Loch
NEaewst
C... trin22eu3W2fiS 68 1.36
contains in the
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At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29'404
inches. The readings fell to 29.10 inches on Mon-
day, and rose to 29.80 inches on Wednesday. The
mean temperature of the air in the week was 40.1
deg., which is 0.1 deg. above the mean temperature
of the same week in 43 years (as determined by
Mr. Glaisher). The temperature underwent a great
and sudden change. The mean daily
temperature
was much below the average on the first fourdaysof;
on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday the extent
depression was 9 deg. and
great
fdoergt.heOseneetohne,
and
three days the heat was
ap e rt atu
the excess above the
re
was from 8 deg. to 13 deg.
averageThfemloewanesttenmih
tem-
perature oceurredonpTeuroetsurdaey,oaenedurrwedas
02n2.5sadtuegr:
The highest day temperature
Satur-
day, and was 60.6 deg. The range of thermometer
in the week was therefore no less than 38 deg. The
mean daily range was 14.4 deg. The minimum
temperature of Tuesday was lower than any tem-
perature in March, since the 25th of that month in.
1853. The difference between the mean dew•point
temperature and air temperature was 6.6 deg. The
mean deg, of humidity was 81, complete saturation
being represented by 100. The humidity increased
from 72 on Tuesday and Wednesday to 97 on
Thursday. The wind, which had generally blown
from a northerly point in the early part of the
week, changed to south-west on Tuesday afternoon,
in which direction it continued with little varia-
tion till the end of the week. Rain fell on the
last four days, and the whole amount was 0.26
inches. The mean of the highest temperatures
of the water of the Thames was 41 deg.; the mean
of the lowest was 38.5 deg. A little snow fell in
the forenoon of Monday. The night of Wedn(o•
day was very stormy, with heavy squalls of wind
and rain. There was very
vivid lightning on the
evening of Saturday.

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