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appreciate how large an agent in projects and develop-
ment railways were.
The Minister of the Interior, Mr. BRETTIVILLE, said
that it had already been remarked how fortunate they.
were that Mr. Robt. Stephenson, a man whose talents
are so renowned through Europe, took so lively an inte-
rest in constructing a railway in their country, and how
fortunate they were to meet with honourable men, who,
having the means of providing the capital, were inclined
to extend their business even to that remote country.
It was no less their good fortune that the man who was
chosen to manage the execution of this great enterprise
was a man who possessed extraordinary ability and ac-
knowledged experience. It was needless to say that
gentleman was Mr. Bidder, and in proposing his health
he had to thank him on the part of himself and country-
men for the interest he had evinced in bringing the en-
terprise to so successful an issue.
Mr. BIDDER, in return, took the opportunity to pro-
pose "The Commissioners of Control," whose kindness,
combined with perspicacity, exactitude, and decision
where it was required, he fully praised. He admitted that
there had been, indeed, a difference of opinion between
him and them—a difference of opinion being unavoida-
ble between men of independent ideas ; but the earnest-
ness and decision with which they had maintained their
opinion had only contributed to increase his respect for
them. It had been said that the railway was not yet
complete ; he granted it, inasmuch as a railway can
never be complete so long as the traffic was actively de-
veloping itself ; under these circumstances he sincerely
trusted the Norwegian Trunk Railway may be con-
tinually requiring increase of accommodation to meet
increasing demands—to meet augmenting revenue. lie
could not wish anything better than that the railway
could never be said to be complete.
Several other toasts were given and responded to, and
the meeting separated.

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.

LONDON AND OITTH-EASTERN RAlLWAY.—Traffic re-
turn for the week ending Sept. 23, 1854 £19,492 10 2
Corresponding week last year 20,137 13 6

Decrease in 1854

£645 3 4

GLASGOW AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAlLWA.T.—Traffic re-
turn for the week ending Sept. 23, 1854 £5,600 0 11
Corresponding week last year 5,400 3 10
Increase in 1854

£199 17 1

BEALTB OP LONDON DURING THE WEEK.

(Front the Report of the Registrar-General. )
FURTHER DECREASE OF CHOLERA.

The cholera is slowly retreating from London ; but it
destroyed last week 1,284 lives, and 19 persons died
from the allied disease, diarrhoea.
The deaths from all causes in the three weeks ending
Sept. 23 have been 3,413, 2,836, and 2,504, including
the 2,050, 1,549, and 1,284 deaths from cholera.
The deaths by cholera in the ten weeks of this eruption
have been 8,953 ; the eruption of 1849 broke out earlier,
and by the same date nearly had destroyed 12,664 of the
inhabitants of London.

The Board of Health fights under the same disadvan-
tages in London as a war minister would if he could only
oppose the invasion of an active enemy by the force
which every parish and public company would vote and
consent to bring into the field ; yet we may hope, now
that the local machinery is, under due supervision, set in
motion, and judicious precautions are issued, to see the
mortality decline at an accelerated rate.
The following list exhibits the deaths from cholera in
London during last week, showing the elevation in feet
above Trinity high-water mark, the population in 1851,
and the number of deaths from cholera registered in each
sub-district

West districts, elevation above Trinity high-water
mark, 23 feet ; population in 1552, 376,527 ; deaths,
216. North districts, elevation 135 feet ; population,
490,396 ; deaths, 70. Central districts, elevation, 49
feet ; population, 393,256 ; deaths, 77. East districts,
elevation, 26 feet ; population, 485,522 ; deaths, 197.
South districts, elevation, 6 feet ; population, 616,635 ;
deaths, 724.

Sub-districts of Kensington—Paddington, St. Mary,
elevation, 82 feet ; population, 17,252 ; deaths, 3. Path
dington, St. John, elevation, 76 feet; population, 29,053;
deaths, 3. Kensington town, elevation, 28 feet ; popu-
lation, 29,133 ; deaths, 14. Brompton, elevation, 12
feet; population, 14,870 ; deaths, 5. Hammersmith,
St. Peter, elevation, 4 feet ; population, 4,467 ; deaths,
6. Hammersmith, St. Paul, elevation, 8 feet ; popula-
tion, 13,293 ; deaths, 10. Fulham, elevation, 6 feet;
population, 11,886 ; deaths, 31.
Sub-districts of Chelsea.—Chelsea, south, elevation,
10 feet • population' 19,050 ; deaths, 17. Chelsea, north-
west, elevation, 12 feet ; population, 17,669 ; deaths, 14.
Chelsea, north-east, elevation, 13 feet ; population,
19,819 ; deaths, 12.

Sub-districts of St. George, Hanover-square.—Han-
over-square, elevation, 64 feet ; population, 20,216 ;
death, 1. May-fair, elevation, 56 feet ; population,
12,980 ; deaths, 7. Belgrave, elevation, 12 feet ; popu-
lation, 40,031 ; deaths, 23.
Sub-districts of Westminster.—St. John, elevation, 2
feet ; population, 34,295 ; deaths, 9. St. Margaret,
elevation, 4 feet ; population, 31,314 ; deaths, 35.
Sub-districts of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields.—Charing-
cross, elevation 17 feet ; population, 12,587 ; deaths, 4.
Long-acre, elevation, 60 feet ; population, 12,053 ;
deaths, 3.

Sub-districts of St. James's, Westminster.—Berwick-
street, elevation, 65 feet ; population, 10,793 ; deaths,
7. St. James's-square, elevation, 40 feet ; population,
11.469 ; deaths, 2. Golden-square; elevation, 63 feet ;
population, 14,139 ; deaths, 10.
Sub•districts of Marylebone.—All Souls, elevation, 76
feet ; population, 23,811 ; deaths, 9. Cavendish-
square, elevation, 73 feet ; population, 14,687 ; deaths,
1. Rectory, elevation, 63 feet ; population, 27,633 ;
deaths, 9. St. Mary, elevation, 79 feet ; population,
22,814 ; death, 1. Christchurch, elevation, 92 feet ;
population, 33,595 ; deaths, 4. St. John, elevation,
124 feet ; population, 29,826 ; deaths, 3.

Sub-district of Hampstead.—Hampstead, elevation,
350 feet; population, 11,986; deaths, 3.
Sub-districts of St. Pancras.—Regent's-park, eleva-
tion, 87 feet ; population, 31,918 ; deaths, 3. Totten-
ham-court, elevation, 73 feet ; population, 28,433 ;
deaths, 5. Gray's-inn-lane, elevation, 52 feet ; popu-
lation, 20,523 ; deaths, 7. Somers-town, elevation, 60
feet ; population, 35,641 ; deaths, 1. Camden-town,
elevation, 52 feet ; population, 21,115 ; deaths, 4.
Kentish-town, elevation, 110 feet ; population, 23,326 ;
death, 1.

Sub districts of Islington.—lslington; West, eleva-
tion, 100 feet ; population, 47,881 ; deaths, 12 ; Isling-
ton, East, elevation, 83 feet; population, 47,448 ;
deaths, 4

Sub districts of Hackney.—Stoke Newington, eleva-
tion, 72 feet ; population, 4,840 ; deaths, 0. Stamford-
hill, elevation, 76 feet ; population, 5,549 ; death, 1.
'West Hackney, elevation, 55 feet ; population, 18,732 ;
death, 1. Hackney, elevation, 44 feet ; population,
20,850 ; death, 1. South Hackney, elevation, 44 feet ;
population, 8,45 S ; deaths, 0.
Sub-districts of St. Giles.—St. George, Bloomsbury,
elevation, 71 feet ; population, 16,807 ; deaths, 0. St.
Giles, South, elevation, 64 feet; population, 19,951 ;
deaths, 3. St. Giles', North elevation, 63 feet ; popu-
lation, 17,456 ; deathe, 3.
Sub-districts of Strand.—St. Anne, Soho, elevation,
64 feet ; population, 17,335 ; deaths, 3. St. Mary-
le-Strand, elevation, 48 feet ; population, 11,615 ; death
1. St. Clement Danes, elevation, 36 feet ; population,
15,510 ; deaths, 4.

Sub-districts -of Holborn.—St. George the 'Martyr,
elevation, 66 feet ; population, 18,813 ; death, 1. St.
Andrew, Eastern, elevation, 50 feet; population, 13,971;
deaths, 0. Saffron-hill, elevation, 40 feet ; population,
13,837 ; death, 1.

Sub-districts of Clerkenwell.—St. James, elevation, 44
feet ; population, 21,529 ; deaths, 8. Amwell, elevation,
68 feet ; population, 15,720 ; deaths, 0. Pentonville,
elevation, 84 feet ; population, 11,904; deaths 4. Goe-
well-street, elevation, 78 feet; population, 15,625 ;
death, 1.

Sub-districts of . St. Luke.—Old-street, elevation, 60
feet ; population, 10,617 ; deaths, 0. City-road, eleva-
tion, 52 feet ; population, 16,840 ; deaths, 0. White-
crass-street, elevation, 62 feet ; population, 13,657 ;
death, 1. Finsbury, elevation, 43 feet ; population,
12,941 ; deaths, 3.

Sub-districts of East London.—St. Botolph, elevation,
36 feet ; population, 23,824 ; deaths, 10. Cripplegato,
elevation, 44 feet; population, 20,582 ; deaths, 5.
Sub-districts of WestLondon.—WestLondon (North),
elevation, 36 feet ; population, 12,946 ; deaths, 18.
West London (South), elevation, 24 feet ; population,
15,844 ; death, 1.

Sub-districts of City of London—City of London, south
west, elevation, 21 feet ; population, 9,204 ; deaths, 2.
City of London, north-west, elevation, 44 feet ; popula-
tion, 11,847 ; deaths, 0. City of London, south, eleva-
tion 21 feet ; population, 11,461 ; death, 1. City of
London, south-east, elevation, 21 feet • population,
10,594 ; deaths, 4. City of London, north-east, eleva-
tion, 44 feet ; population, 12,826 ; deaths, 3.
Sub-districts of Shoreditch—Holywell, elevation, 36
feet ; population, 17,245 ; deaths, 6. St. Leonard, ele-
vation, 41 feet ; population, 19,449; deaths, 10. Hoz-
ton New Town, elevation, 52 feet ; population, 23,505;
deaths, 4. Hoxton Old Town, elevation, 52 feet ; popu-
lation, 17,431 ; deaths, 2. Haggerstone, west, eleva-
tion, 52 feet ; population, 20,276 ; deaths, 9. Hagger-
stone, east, elevation, 52 feet ; population, 11,351 ;
deaths, 2.
Sub-districts of Bethnal-green—Hackney-read, eleva-
tion, 44 feet ; population, 23,910 ; deaths, 13. Green,
elevation, 36 feet ; population, 23,555 ; deaths, 9.
Church, elevation, 36 feet ; population, 21,787 ; deaths,
4. Town, elevation, 36 ; population, 20,941 ; deaths, 6.
_ Sub-districts of Whitechapel— Artillery, elevation,
36 feet ; population, 6,769 ; deaths, 0. Spitalfields,
elevation, 36 feet ; population, 15,336 ; deaths, 9. Mile-
end New Town, elevation, 36feet; population, 14,543 ;
deaths, 9.
,
WhitechaP el North, elevation, 30 feet ;
population, 12 530 ;
deaths 4. Whitechapel Church,
elevation, 32 feet; population, " 818 ; deaths, 11
elevation,2Bfeet ;I'population, 12069 ;
Gloodman':,fields,
deaths, G. Aldgate, elevation, 19 feet ; population,
10,094 ; deaths, 11.
Sub-districts of St. George's-in-the-East.—St. Mary,
elevation, 26 feet ; population, 18,007 ; deaths, 9. St.
Paul, elevation, 27 feet ; population, 20,319; deaths,
10. St. John, elevation, 2 feet ; population, 9,990 ;
deaths, 7.
Sub-districts of Stepney.--Shadwell, elevation, 7 feet -
population,
/6,179 ; deaths, 6. Rateliff, elevation, 18
feet ; popu,
lation 15,212 ; deaths,
9. Mile-end Old
Town, upper, feet;
elevation, 32 population, 29,582 ;
deaths, 4. bile-end Old Town, lower, elevation, 28 ;
feet ; population, 27, e
000 deaths, 8. Limehouse, clo-
9
vation, 10 ; population, 22,78.. ; deaths, 11.
elevation, 12 feet ; po-
pulation, of Poplar.—Bow,
l t. n 18 778 • deaths, 7. Poplar, elevation, 3 feet ;
pu a io , , p
population, 2%384 ' deats, IL
Sub-districts of 'St, Saviour, Southwark. --. Christ: