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London, England, 1849-10-02 00:00:00

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SOUTH DISTRICTS.
St. Saviour, Southwark
St. Olave
Bermondsey ...
St. George, Southwark
Newington ...
Lambeth ...
Wandsworth ...
Camberwell
Rotherhithe
Greenwich ...
Lewisham

•• We regret that circumstances should have arisen in
the late Assembly to cause the suspension of the ordinary
parochial revenue ; we cannot, however, agree with your
Excellency that it would be wise to conter on the jus- Alderbury
tices tied vestry, or the freehold, rs of each parish, the Alnwick •
power of levying a discretionary tax on the parishioners Alverstoke ...
for parochial purposes. We are strongly of opinion, that Anglesey •••
the distinction which has hitherto been recognised he- Ashton-under-Lyne ...
men public and parochial taxation, except for the pur • Askrigg ••• •
poses of providing for the wants of the Church and poor Aston ... ...
should be abolished ; and we hope that we shall be A therstono ...
affurded an early opportunity of considering by what Barnstaple ...
means this salutary change can be most advantage- Bedford ••• •••
ously and economically carried out, Berwick upon-Tweed...
" fhe loss in the revenue of the present year, from Birmingham ...
the rejection of the ruin law during a late session of a Blackburn
former Assembly, while it is to b e regretted by this Mean
House, cannot be charged on the late Assembly. The ••• ••• ••• Bolton
records of this House show that the representatives of Bradford and North Bierley ..
the people were willing to grant to her Majesty the Bridgwater
usual revenue derived from rum consumed in this Brieport
Wand, but that they resolved at the same time to Bristol
maintain their constitutional right to appropriate the Bury ...
revenue which they raised to such purposes as they. con- Cardiff ...
sidered most conducive to the public welfare. From that Carmarthen ...
position we are bound to confess to your Excellency we Carnarvon ... ...
cannot swerve. Whilst we yield to nono in that good Caxton (Sept. 22 to 28)
feeling and loyalty for which your. Excellency has given Chesterfield ...
us credit, and although, in a new Parliament, unfettered Chester-le-Street
by resolutions, we feel that we should ill discharge the Chichester
duty we owe to our constituents at this important Chorley
juncture, were we to hesitate for one moment to declare Chorlton ••• ••• ...
to your Excellency the pressing necessity which exists Clifton (St. Philip and Jacob
for searching economy in every department of the public and Ashley)... ...
service. In this disposition we are prepared to proceed Cockermouth ... ...
to the business of the country, and to give due consider- Cookhans ... ..
ation to all such measures of legislation as are necessary Coventry ...
to the public good, for the protection of life and pro- Darlington ...
perty, and the support of public credit, and we shall be Derby ...
ready to grant such supplies as may be necessary for Devizes
these purposes, so far as the diminished resources of the Devonport .
colony will warrant. ' But we feel called upon to main.. Dewsbury ,
tarn the duty we owe to our constituents and to posterity, Doncaster .
which compels us, at all hazards, to preserve undimi- Dover ... ' ,
nished and unimpaired our sole and exclusive right to Droitwich
direct, limit, and appoint the disposal and appropriation Dudley ...
of the public money. ' Eccleshall Bierlow ...
The feeling of the House is very clear from the Edmonton E... .
answer to the address, and a general opinion prevails Faxveetresrh.;m. ...
that another dissolution must take place immediately, Gateshead ...
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as it will be impossible to carry on the Government Gloucester .:.
with such a House of Assembly. Goole ... ... ...
Hayti was quite quiet. The Haytians had pro- Gravesend and Milton
claimed an empire, and their President Solouque Great Boughton • •
was called to the Imperal Throne. It is said he is to Haltwhistle ... ...
be crowned Garibaldi Robespierre Napoleon So- Hadington ... ...
louque, Emperor of Hayti. Hemel Hempstead ...
Between Porto Rico and St. Thomas the Medway
HHendon itchin ••• •
spoke the royal mail steamer Tay, on passage to Hollingbourne...
Jamaica, and transferred surgeon to her, in conse- Holywell •••
quence of her surgeon having destroyed himself on Howden •••
passage to Barbadoes. The former vessel arrived at Huddersfield •••
St. Thomas on the 12th, and sailed on the 14th for Hull
Fayal and England. The Larne, with the mails from Hunslet .........
Porto Cabello and La Guayra, and the Conway, with Isle of Thanet (Ramsgate) ...
the Demerara and Northern Island mails, arrived on Isle of Wight (Nesiport)
the 12th. By the former information was brought that i, (Cowes)
the insurrection in Venezuela had been quelled, and Kidderminster ...
...
that General Paez and his followers (about 18) had Kingsbridge ~
Kingston (Surrey) ,
been taken prisoners by General Silva in the city of
Laeendcsaster ...
Monagas, and were now in prison at Caraccas. The
. president Monagas had issued a proclamation stating Leighton Buzzard
that Paez's life would be spared and his property re- Lexden...
spected on condition of perpetual banishment to any Lichfield
country he may choose in Europe ; his followers were Lincoln
also to be banished, but both he and they were to be Liskeard
kept close prisoners until tranquillity was thoroughly Liverpool
re-established at Venezuela. At La Guayra there Llanelly
were ships of war from America, Spain, and France, Macclesfield ...
deley
but no English ship, at which great complaints were Ma
Maidstone
made by the British residents. Manchester ...
By the Conway information was received that at Mansfield
Demerara the government had obtained a majority in Market Drayton.
the Combined Court, in favour of the imposition of the Medway
old taxes, and there was every probability of things Monmouth ...
going on more smoothly. The stoppage of immigra. Neath ...
tion has been severely felt, and great hopes were en- Newbury
tertained that it would be re-opened, the want of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Newton Abbott _
labour being universally felt, and its supply considered
the only thing that can give prosperity to the colony. liTorrtthhwleyhlestord
The Medway arrived at Fayal on the 25th, and left Nottingham,°"
on the same day for Southampton. The Americans Oldham
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had been very successful in the sperm whale fishing, ormskirk
having up to the 25th made 3,200 barrels of oil, Orsett ... ...
which had sold at 8/. the barrel. The fish all taken Pembroke ... ... ..
within one hundred miles of the Azores. At Sf. Penkridge ... ... ...
Thomas it was confidently stated that the American Plympton St. Mary (Decor)...
government had determined upon making St. Thomas Pontefract ...
the head quarters of what is termed their home Preston
squadron, instead of Pe nsicola, where it now is, and Radford
the reason assigned is the central position of that Redruth
island; which will enable them so much better to RRochfforl
watch over and protect those extensive mercantile Rotherham
interests not only in the West Indies but on the Runcorn_
Spanish
Spanish Main and South America. St. Austle
The state of the weather and the crops in the West St. Germans ~.
Indies is encouraging. The sugar making at Bar. -St. Neots ,
badoes, Trinidad, and the neighbouring islands is Salford
finished, and has turned out well. The prospects for Sculooates ...
the next year are promising with the exception of Sevenoaks ...
Antigua and St. Kitts; these islands have suffered Sheffield .•.
much from dry weather. At Demerara the weather gi1t:9°434311" •
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Bethnal-green ... ... 4 1
Whitechapel ... ... ... 1 2
St. George•in-the-East ••• 1 0
Steprey ... ... ... —. 3 1
Poplar ... ... ... ... - 2 1

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Total ... 67 22
Total deaths from cholera, registered from
Sept.l7, 1848, to Sept. 29, 1849 ... 14,110
Total deaths from cholera, registered from
June 17, 1849, to Sept. 29, 1849 ... 13,019

• Returns for Saturday have not been received from
the registrars of Tottenham court, sub-district of St.
Pancras; and Wandsworth, sub-district of Wandsworth.
Deaths on which inquests have been held are not
legally registered before the coroner affixes his signature
to the entries. In the above return 14 inquests, one-
half of which were on deaths in Millbank Prison, the
rest in various districts, swell the account above the due
number for the day, as many properly belong to earlier
dates.

NOTE.—The district of Kensington comprises the
parishes of Kensington, Hammersmith, Fulham, and
Paddington. Westminster district comprises the
parishes of St. Margaret and St. John the Evan-
gelist, with Privy Gardens and Whitehall, and the
close of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter. St. Giles's
district comprises the parishes of St. Giles-in- the. Fields
and St. George, Bloomsbury. The following are co-
extensive with the unions of the same name:—Hackney,
Strand, Holborn, East London, West London, City of
London, Whitechapel, Stepney, Poplar, St. Saviour, St.
Olave, Wandsworth (Wandsworth and Clapham),
Greenwich, and Lewisham. The remaining districts
are co •extensive with the respective parishes of the same
name.

THE COUNTRY.
The following is the Return of Deaths from Cholera and
Diarrhoea reported to the General Board of Health
the Ist day of October, 1849 :
Deaths.
Cholera. Diarrh.
0 1
4 0
3 1
5 0
4 0
.. ... 0 1
•• ... 0 1
.. • • 0 1
... ••• 0 2
... 3 0
... 1 0
••• ... 0 2

••• ... ... - 1 0
... ... ... - 2 0
5 8
6 5
... --- 4 2

1 0

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••• ••• .•• - 0 1
.•• ••• ••• --- 2 0

••• ••• - 1 0
- 3 0
- 11 0
- 0 1
•••
3 1
..• ---
••• ••• - 0 1
••• ••• ••• - 2 0

3 4

- 18 1
- 12 0
- 0 1
•••••• 3 0
- 0 4

••• ••• ••• -- 1 I
••• ••• ••• - 2 0
..• ••• 0 . 2
••• ••• ••• -. 5 0

1 0 ••• ••• --
..• ••• - 2 - 0
••• ••• - 4 0
28 3
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- 1 0
- 1 1
- 2 0
- 0 1
6 0
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... ... ••• - C
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... •,• ... --- 33
... ••• ... - 3
... ... --- 2
... ••• ... - 2

... ... ... - 12
... ... - 47

... ••• - 2
... ... ..• - 2
... ... - 0
••• ... ... - 2

... 6
••• ••• 6
••• ... 2
... ... ... 0

... ... - 0
... ... •:• -- 2

••• ••• ....... 0

... ... --- 2
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... .»• ..• ---- 0
... ... •,• -- 3

... ••• ... 2
••• ... ••• 1

... ... - 1.
••• ... ... - 1

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... ... ..... 1

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