The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-17 00:00:00

SUPPLY OF WATER TO TEN METROPOLIS.

" That it be referred to a committee to inquire into
the present supply of water in the metropolis, and to
ascertain the best means of obtaining an adequate pro-
vision of that indispensable requisite, with power to
consult scientific and other persons who may be qualified
to give advice and information upon the subject, and to
report thereon to the Court."
Mr. WIRE seconded the motion.

Mr. R. TAYLOR opposed it. If they agreed to refer
the subject to a committee, it would look as if they
ere holding out a hope of the exercise of a power
which they did not possess.—(Hear, hear.) The
subject was a metropolitan one, and he was astonished
that the Government did not bring forward some
measure for the general supply of so necessary an
article. He believed the City was better supplied
than any other part of the metropolis.
Mr. R. L. JONES said the question had been fre-
quently before the Court since 1822, and it had
grown too large for the corporation to cope with, with
any chance of a good result. To co-operate with the
Government in the endeavour to obtain a copious supply
should be their object. As for the idea of obtaining
more information upon the subject, there were in-
numerable works which contained the most accurate
details and statistics, to which they could, if necessary,
refer.

Mr. Low proposed an amendment, limiting the
inquiry as to the supply of water to the city of
London, and altering some of the words of the original
motion.

The amendment was carried, and the question was
referred to the City Lands Committee.
Adjourned.

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, TUESDAY.
The Queen and Prince Albert took their accus-
tomed early morning walk.
The Royal Family walked and rode this morning
in the Slopes and Eastern Terrace.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert went out shoot-
ing this forenoon. his Royal Highness was attended
by Lord Camoys, Major-General thwles, and Lieut.-
Colcnel F. H. Seymour.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, at-
tended by her Lady in Waiting and the Baroness de
Speth, arrived atFrogmore House this afternoon from
town.

Colonel the Honourable A. N. Hood arrived at the
Castle today, and has relieved Sir Edward Bo-
water in his duties as Groom in Waiting to the
Queen.
The Royal dinner party this evening will include
her Royal Highress the Duchess of Kent, Lady Anna
Maria Dawson (in Waiting on her Royal Highness),
and Baroness de Speth.
'I he Queen's private band will attend after dinner.
Her Alljesty's private band was in attendance in
the Castle on Monday evening, and performed the
following pieces :
Overture, Le Val d'Andorre Halevy.

Morceau Ensemble, Le I
Preche .... .... .. ..... }Le Proph4te—Meyerbeer.
Pastorale
Trio .. .
Romance

Beethoven.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended
by Lady Anna Maria Dawson and Baroness de Speth,
left her residence, Clarence House, St. James's, at
eleven o'clock yesterday morning, for Frogmore
House.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester re-
ceived their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess
of Cambridge at dinner on Monday, at her residence
in Richmond Park.

The Earl of Carlisle has returned to town from
Ampthill-park, Bedfordshire.
Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening, from
the Colonial-office, for the Governors of the West
India colonies.

HEALTH of LONDON during the WEEK.
(From the return of the Registrar- General )
In the week ending last Saturday, the total
number of deaths registered was 1,075; the weekly
average derived from deaths in the autumnal quarter
(which commences with the present month) of fire
previous years is 1,162 ; the weekly return, there•
fore, now exhibits a decrease on the average, after a
period of more than three months, during which it
has shown a considerable, and in eleven consecutive
weeks an enormous excess above the usual rate of
mortality. The decrease is observed in the west,
north, and central divisions ; the mortality in the east
and south, where the deaths from cholera are still the
most numerous, is about the average. The deaths
from cholera in the last week were 110 ; in five
previous weeks they were 2,026 (the highest number
which, exclusive of those from diarrhoea, the epi-
demic attained), 1,682, 839, 434, 288. In last week
the deaths from diarrhoea and dysentery (the mor-
tality of which is more steadily maintained) were
10.5, almost as numerous as deaths from cholera, and
considerably more than usual at this advanced season
of the year. The aggregate deaths from these three
kindred diseases were therefore 215 ; while the
weekly average is only 35. During last week the
daily number of deaths from cholera averaged 16 ;
on Wednesday there were only 11. In the districts
of St. James (Westminster), Islington, St. Giles
(Holborn), Camberwell, and Rotherhithe, no deaths
trotn cholera were registered during the week. In
Kensington there were 6 ; in Hackney, 5 ; in
Bethnal-green, 7 ; in Shoreditch, 12 ; in Poplar, 5 ;
in St. Saviour, 6; in Bermondsey, 6 ; in St. George
(Southwark), Lambeth, Wandsworth, 7 each; and in
Greenwich, 8. In all other districts the mortality
from the epidemic did not range higher than four
deaths. All other epidemics are at present under the
average ; smallpox and measles remarkably low ; but
scarlatina becomes more fatal, the deaths having risen
from 39 in the previous week to 56 in the last (the
average being 64). Typhus was fatal in 47 cases.
The mean height of the barometer in the week was
29.540 in. ; the mean temperature was 46 deg. 7
min., which is 4 deg. 7 min. less than the average of
the same week in seven years ; it also shows a decrease
on the mean of the previous week of 5.

THE GREAT SOUTHERN AND WESTERN RAILWAY.
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—lt is positively arranged that the ceremony of opening
the above railway to this city will take place on Thurs-
day next. A special train will proceed from the Black-
pool station to Mallow, at half-past twelve o'clock on
that day, to receive the Lord-Lieutenant and the direc-
tors, when all parties will return to Cork. In the even-
ing a dinner will be given at the Imperial Hotel, at
which his Excellency has expressed his intention of
being present. In whatever point of view we contem-
plate au event that will inaugurate the approach to our
city of the great agency of modern civilization, it must
be regarded with feelings of the highest satisfaction.
Whether we consider the benefit that will flow from the
undertaking, in pouring a tide of traffic through the
couniry, or the proud testimony which it bears to the
capacity of Irishmen for the most arduous enterprises of
human Skill, it equally inspires exultation. No under-
taking of «pal vastness was ever carried out with a
more faithful adherence to engagements, developed in a
greater degree the highest qualities that deserve and
insure prosperity, or has been conducted to a more sue-
cessful and glorious issue. In the abundant realization
of the promise with which the work was commenced,
and in the repute of integrity, economy, and ability
which has attended them to its consummation, the di-
rectors have just cause for the strongest and worthiest
sentiments of pride and congratulation that men can
entertain.—Cork Examiner.
Politi .s is a science which no one believes those
' who differ with him to loadorotand.—..Elisa Coorf
Journal.