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LITERATURE. •_ CHOLERA AND lIIARRHCEA.. PRICES OF SHARES
or, THE BRITISH QUARTERLY. No. XX. ____.........0,-._ IN BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER COM-
RETURN OF CASES, SEPT. 27. PANIES' STOCK.
the To oil- thinking., the last number of the British
all. Qu irterly is, without one exceptien, the most attract- THE METROPOLIS. From the Official List.
SUPERINTENDING REGISTRAR'S DISTRICT.
ate ive and inteldgent that has yet appeared. I;ee'eies a ' Deaths. PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FIrTDA.Y EVENING.
ff's very graceful article on the '` .2E,thetics of Gothi_i Cholera. Diarrh LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25.
Kensington ... WEST
... DISTRICTS.... go.--
ot- Architecture ;" a very clever essay on "Religion and
yet Ethnology ;" an excellent review of the "Poetry of
Chelsea... ... ... ... - 2 2 JOINT-STOCE. ISAMRS.
of Legr n iary Art ;" and a half-biographical, half-his- , 3 1
Dividend Amount
St. George, Hanover-square ... - 2 0
ltd torical criticism relating to " Milton and the wes,m", t 3 1 Name of Company. per _of Paid. Price.
ted Commonwealth ; " there is a controversial paper • •-sber ••• ••• •• • '-''.
St. Alartin-in-the-Fields . - 2 Annum. Share.
O ---....---•_ --__ -.-- -- -.
er, on " Philosophy and Religion " referring to St. James, Westminster ::. - 0 0 As.d..i s. d.
iastralasia .• .• ••• • • • 3/. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 0 -
re- Me-'srs. Morrell, Newman, and Froude ; a corn- NORTH DISTRICTS. Britsh.North American Si. percent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 -
Of parison Letvveen the epistolary writings of " Ches- Marylebone ... ... ... - *2 •0 Ceylon ...... •... •• •.1 7/. per cent. 25 0025 0 0 -
Ire terfield, Junius, and Cowper;" together with an intelli- Hampstead _ ~, ~, - 0 0 Commercial of London Si. per cent. 100 0020 0 0 -
,k; , C denial.. •• • • -
ale gent contrast of the various "Historians of the French St. Pancras _ _ ~, *2
'' Gloucestershire .. •• -115 l per cent. - - -
the Revolution,"-Mignet, Thiers, Michelet, Blanc, Islington
Hackney ••• ••• ••• - 2 1 lonian - ,
of Carlyle, and Lamartine. In addition to all these 2 1 Londn and Westminstr 6/. per cent. 100 0020 0 0 2ri's
- - 13 0 0 -
CENTRAL DISTRICTS.
~, London Joint-Stock . -6/. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0
interesting contributions there are three others not
-•
Sr.St Giles 1 Provincial of Ireland .• 8/. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 -
BS' et y particularized, being estimates of the writings Struid ..
ten and capacities of three of the most conspicuous men Holborn Union .-
- - .-
0
2 Otto, New......... El. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 -
O sLitional of Ireland •.51. per cent. 50 0 0 22 10 0 -
of our generatien -Thomas Carlyle, - 0
----Bevilm--,1 Clerkenwell ... ..... ••• - 2 1 Nat. Provnelal of Eng. Si.
per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 -
Ditto, New. ..• - -5/. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 -
are Disraeli, and Douglas Jerrold-the Wit, the Le is Sr. Luke 2 0 South Australia - 22 10 0 -
••• ••• ••• --
red later, and the Thinker. OF Mr. Carlyle it is said East Louden ... ••• ... - 0 0 Union of Australia • . Cl. per cent. 25 0025 0 0 -112, very justly, that in his genius may be recog- West London t 1 1 Ditto •• ...... - - 61. per cent -210 0 -
Union of London. •• - 61. per cent 50 0 0 10 0 0 -
ith nised "a more remarkable combination both of City of London ••• ••• - 1 0 Union
of Madrid .....
- lO 0 0 40 0 0 -
ant the stronger and we aker elements of our EAST DISTRICTS.
ur. age than in any other man among us." Of Mr. sfhoreditch ... ... ..• -
11i:thrial-green. 5 0 INSURANCE COMPANIES.
the Disraeli the Reviewer can find no' hing whatever to
k.% hitechapel ... ... ... - 4 2 Dividend Amount
O Name of Company.
Annum.
share.of Paid. ['rite.
the assert but what is most depreciatory, whether in po•
Stepney
George-in-the-East 3
red litics or letters. The entire paper is couched in 1 0 - -
1 1 x s. d. A s. 41•
inn terms of the most undi•qui,ed rilicu'e-and this too
poplar ... ..„ ~.. „„. - 1 1 Albion •••••••• • • • • •• 3/. 10s. 500 0050 0 0 75
use in reference to the "Revolutionary Epick," to the Alliance Brit. and For. 7114 s 6d &bs 100 0 0 11 0 0 19X
SOUTH DISTRICTS. Ditto Marine.•• •• •• Si. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 - ,
tragedy of "Count Alarcos," and to those nine novels, St. Saviour, Southwark 1 0 Atlas ••• -
not " Alrey," " Contarini Fleming," " Henrietta St. Olave ••• -
5 2 British Commercial .. 7s. per share 50 0 0 5 0 0 -
2 Clericl,Med.&Gen.Life spr ct.& bs. 100 0 0 10 0 0 19
Temple," " Venetia," " Vivian Grey," the " Young Bermondsey „,, „, „, - 0
ere Duke," " Coningsbv," " Sybil," and " Tancred." St. George, Southwark ••• -- 1 2 County .....• •••••• ••
Crown •••••••• • • • • •• 31.
14s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 60
50 0 0 5 0 0 -
,est The conclusion at which the writer arrives is that Newington ... ... ... - 3 0 Eagle • •
•• • -
lief Benjamin Disraeli is not a genius, but only the -
Lambeth ••• • • ••• ---- 7 2 Eng.& Seot•Law -
:be Prospectus of a Genius. We shall not trouble our- Wandsworth ... ... ... -
Camberwell 0 0 European Life •••.•• 4% per cent. 20 0 0 All paid. 15
FamilyEndowract Soc. 4/. & bs. 100 0 0 4 0 0
ere••• ••• ••• .".... 2 0 Freemasons' .• ••••• • • 6/. per cent. 20 0 0 30 0 -
selves by entering into such a discussion. Douglas Rotherhithe -
sve Jerrold, on the contrary, is pronounced to be one ofl 0 Gybe •. •• •• • • 61. per cent. Stook. - 120
Grardian --•••• • • .• 51. 100 0 0 36 10 0 49%
Greenwich •••
- - 1 1
rse, imperial Fire .. •••• •• 121. per cent. 500 0 0 50 0 0 220
the most sterling and brilliant of our humorous Lewisham
... ••• ••• - 0 ,' imperial Life •••• •• • • 12s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 15
mi.. writers. And we are satisfied that no one will deny - - Indemnity Marine.... 11. sh. & bs. 100 0 0 513 1 25
old him to be witty, after reading the following speci- Total ••• ••• ••• .".. 65 24 Law Fire •••••• • • • • • • - 100 002 10 0 218
WO Law Life•• •• •• •• - -1/. 16s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 414
=tens of his style :- Total deaths from cholera, registered from Legal and General Life - 50 0 0 20 0 4%
hat " The ostrich is libelled for his gluttony. Believe Sept. 17, 1848, to Sept. 27, 1849 ... 13,991 Lor.dcn Fire .. •.• • •• 10s. 25 0012 10 0 161-A
Landon Ship • .... •• •• 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 161,4
re- what is said of him, and you would not trust him Total deaths from cholera, registered from marine.. ••• •• ...... 12s.per share 100 0015 0 0 9
of even in the royal stables, lest he should devour the very June 17, 1849, to Sept. 27, 1849 ... 12,900 Sled. Invlid&Gen.Life 45 1. per ct. 50 0 0 20 0 21,E
rse shoes from the feet of the horses. Why, the ostrich National Lean Fund.. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 -
he ought to be taken as the one emblem of temperance. • Returns for Thursday have not been received frora National Life.... -
Palladium Lite sl.per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 21 Os.
the He lives and fl nirishes on the desert, his choicest food a the registrars of Kentish-town, sub-district of Pancras;
or, little spikey shrub, with a few stone=,-for how rarely and Christchurch, sub-district of Marylebone. Pelican •• ••••.•• • .. •• - - - -
Phcenix - - 141
Pi otector Life.... ... 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 -
IRS can he find iron, how few the white days in which the t Three of the above deaths in the north sub-district
in poor ostrich can, in Arabia Peti ma, have the luxury of a of West London, on which inquests were held, occurred Provident Life- -- .. 11. ss. & bs. 100 0 0 10 0 0 26
• tenpenny nail-to season, as with salt, his vegetable between the 25th of July and the 2d of August, but were Rock Life.. • ......... ss. 5000 10 0 5%
er- not registered till the 27th inst. [loyal Exchange 6/. per ceat. Stock. 200
diet.-Stary of a Feather, p. 3. Sun Fire.. -6/. 10s. - - 203
ird $ Two deaths, on which inquests were held, in St. Ditto Life ..
We know the common story runs that nature haslt. Gs. - - 44
!Of Peter's Walworth, sub-district of Newington, occurred ljxiversal Life........ to% pr cut. 100 0 0 9 0 0 -
peculiar visages for poets, philosophers, statesmen, war-
-5e d between the 18th of August and the Bth of September, Victoria Life .... 5/. per cut. - 40 0 4%
riors, and so forth: we do not believe it: we have seen a
eir slack•wire dancer with the face of a great pious bard, but were nut registered till the 27th inst. DOCKS.
ess an u-urer with the legendary features of a Socrates, a THE COUNTRY. Dividend Amount
for passer of bad money very like a Chancellor of the Ex- The following is the Return of Deaths from Cholera and Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
el chequer, and a carcase-butcher at Whitechepel so re- Diarrhoea reported to the General Board of Health Annum. Share.
the sembling Napoleon, that Prince Talleyrund, suddenly the 28th day of September, 1849 t- -- --- -
d. A s. d.
,no beholding him, burst into tears at the similitude. - Cakes Deaths. East and West India... 6/. pr cent. Stock.
k. c- 136
and Ale, vol. i., pp. 269, 2 70. Cholera. Diarrh. East Country .. 20s. per sh. 100 0 0 - 21
" Yet, for alt this, Jericho was ordinarily a dull, Abergavenny ... ... ... - 3 0 London • • . 5/. pr cent. Stock. - -
matter-of-fact man. Talk to him of Jacob's ladder, and Alnwick 1 0 Ditto Bonds •••• •• .. 4/. per cent. - - -
••• ••• ••• --
Ashton-under-Lyne •... •
... -
ee, SLR atharine .. • • .... 4 per cent. Stock. - -
he would ask the number of the steps. -A Man made of 1 2
by Ditto, Scrip..... • . - - - _
Money, p. S. Aston ••• „, „, „, 0 2 Ditto Bonds.. -- - NI. pr cent. - - -
the "At that hour when sparrows look down reproach- Barnstaple ... ... ... - 0 1 Southampton •• -.• . . 21. per cent. 50 0050 0 0 -
w 0 1 0
fully from their eaves at the flushed man trying the Basford- ... ... ... -
ere street-door,-Ibid., p. 12. Bedford ••• ••• ..• "-... 1 0 BRIDGES
em "'Pon my life, you are so good, you'd pour rose- Bedminster ... ... ... - 1 o Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
001 Water over a tcad.--Ibid., p. 113. Biggleswade ... ... ..• - 2 ' 0 Annum. Share.
rag " I'll tell you %hat, Jenny, the noblest sight on earth Birmingham ... ... ... - 0 2
Charing-cross ••• • •• - -
nl' is a man talking reason, and his wife titian' at the file- Bolton 2 0 --
A. s. d. .C. a. d.
001 side listening to hirn.-Ibid ,p. 114. Bradford and North Bierley .. - 5 4 Southwrk,NivSub.Av. - -
- 632 12 8 25 0 0 -
- -
" Comment itors-the worthy folks that too often Brecknock ... ... ... - 1 0 Ditto Nw of 754 p.c. 355. per cent. 50 0 0 - -
;htihe Write on books, as men with diamonds write on glass, Brentford ... ... ... - 4 2 Waterloo .... •• -.. •• - 100 0 0 -3%
obscuring light with scratches.-Ibid., p. 195. Bridgwater •• • •
••• ••• '''' 2 0 Ditto Old Ann. of 8/. 11. 4s. 0-1. - 60 0 0 27
ly Ditto Nw ditto of 71. 11. Is. Od. - 40 0 0 24
" Earth is here (in Australia) so kind, that just Brighton •.• ••• ••• - 1 0 Vauxhall .... ... Ay. 11. ,7010 3 - 18
Of Bristol
tickle her with a hoe, and she laughs with a harvest.'- ••• ••• ••• ---- 5 1 WELTER.-13TORIES.
Aid, p. 212. Bromley ••• ••• ••• - 1 o
:ng " ' Hubert, my dear,' said Jenny, with the deferential Bury ... ••.... ... - 2 1 Dividend Amount
air of a scholar ; ' Robert, what did Mr. Carraways Cardiff ... ... ... ... - 1 ,z, Name of Company. per of raid. Price.
w- mean when he said he hated dog-dogmatism?' Topps Carmarthen - ... ... - 1 0
--,
--
,nd was puzzled. ' Robert, my dear, Jenny urged, ' what- Chesterfield ... ... ... - 0 1 Xs.d.X s• d.
,nd what in the world is dogmatism?' Now it was the Chippenham ... ... ... - 1 0 East London••• •..•• •• 81. 100 0 0 - 179
,11(1 weakness of Topps never to confess ignorance of any- Chorlton ••• ••• ••• - 6 2 Grand Junction •••• •• 41. per cut. 50 0 0
Kent.. -••• • • • ...... 31. 10s. 100 0 0 -
- Si
75
n(I thing same- to his wife. ' A man should never do it,' Clifton ••• ••• ••• - 6 2 Lambeth - 99
aid Topps had been known in convivial season to declare; 'it Clutton 1 0 New Rivr Lndn Brdge 21.105. - - -
Makes 'um conceited: Whereupon Topps prepared him- Coekermouth ... ... ... - 3 o Vauxhall .• .• - ...... 61. per cnt. 100 0 0 - _
nd West Middlesex . . . !61.05. pr mt.; - 123%
self, as was his wont, to make solemn, satisfying answer. Coventry ••• ••• ••• 1 o -
,nd Taking off his hat, and smoothing the wrinkles of his Darlington ... ... ... ---- 0 . 1 GAS-MIGHT ELND CONE COMPANIES.
brow, Topps said-'Humph! what is dogmatism? Why Derby ... ... ... ... - 1 1
Jg 3 it is this-of course. Dogmatism is puppyism come to Dewsbury ... ... ... - 2 1 Name of Company. Dividend Amount I
per of Paid. Price.
Of its full growth.'-Ibid., p. 252. Doncaster ... ••• ••• - 1 0 Annum. :...are.
" I declare, Mr. Goldthumb, it seems you have reed Droitwich ... - „, - 1 0 -
Z. s. 0. A. s. d.
everything.' Why, ma'am, after working thirty years Dudley ••• ••• ••• - 3 1 British ••••••• • •• •• • • 1/.
40 0 0 18 0 0 14
10- as a trunk-maker, 'twould be to my shame if I didn't Edmonton ... ... ... - 2 1 Ditto frovincial.• •• 11. Bs. 20 0 0 19 0 0 18
,be know something of the literature of my country.'-Time Ely ..• ... ... ... - 1 0 Bristol .. -.• • • ...... 101. per cent. 20 0 0 - -
in Works Wonders." Exeter ... ... ... ... - 0 1 Brighton -••..•• • • •
.• 51. per cent. 20 0 0
0 City of London .. •• •• - 16
101. ,100 0 0 100 0 0 250
;en . We close the British Quarterly, after making these Gainsborough ... ... ... - 1 ':ontinentalConsolidat. 925. pr share' 50 00395 41 30
for excerpts, in the height of good humour. 0 Gateshead ... ... .. - 1 1 I.:quitable.. •• • • ...... 50s. pr share 50 00500 0 26
Gloucester ... ..„ ... - 1 imperial ............ 31. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 67
independent ... .... • • 61. per cent. '4O 0 0 40 0 0 62%
eir
TIIE PARLOUR LIBRARY. Hemel Hempstead ... ... - 1 1 London.• .. _•.•• • • • • - 50 0050 0 0 -
ct- Elitchin 1
Among the fictions reprinted in this excellent and
1=1,01,y. well ••• ••• ••• .... - 50 0050 0 -
W- 1 0 Phoenix .-„ •• _ ~,
.. 4%1. per ct. 50 0 0 46 0 0 27%
popular serial, must be noticed the Irish tale of ••• ••• •s• ...".
:en Ratcliff .... .-•• • • • • 5/. 100 0090 0 0 '75
"Father O'Connell," and the French story of " An- will ••• ••• ••• ••• - 16 4
1 United General •• •• •• 7s. Gd. 50 0 0 50 0 0 13
DSO tlunslet 16 lVestminster Chartered 31. 50 0 0 45
-
Led drew the Savoyard." Both of them are admirable Ipswich 0 1 Ditto, New •• •• -.. 12s. 50 0010 0 0 8
specimens of two very different species of romance.
st • Isle of Thanet (Ramsgate) ... - 1 0
Another volume contains a series of most enthralling Kidderminster 1 0 CANALS.
as••• ••• -
tad "Tales of the First French Revolution," collected by Kingsbridge (Modbur3) .•• - 1 0 1 ,•; 1 I
the gifted author of "Emilia Wyndham." King's Lynn ... ... ... - 0 e Names of i '., Dividend Price. Names of r; "Dividend
ea Companies. 21 1 per 's 1 per
• Leeds ... ... - - - 20 7 Companies. A 1 Ann uri. Price.
me --
THE RAILWAY LIBRARY. Lewes ... ... ... ... - 0 2 --. re \ Annum.
.4
ii--
;he A periodical of •somewhat similar character with the Liver I poo_ ••• ••.• ••• - 6 2 I , A \
--- 1 0 .ishtn& Oldh 97 71. 113 Macelesiaelt . 'OO 21. 10s. -
foregoing has been recently commenced, entitled the Llaudillo Fawr ••• ••• - aarnsiey• •.• 160, 121. 180 Neatly •••• • • 'OO 161. 340
or,Llanelly 1
"Hallway Lib: and among the most interesting ••• ••• ••• - 0 urknk&Abrg 150: 51. 85 0xf0rd...... C 3 20/. 185
tat Liskeard 9 0 Birmingham , 35, 41. 81 Peak Forest. 78 31. 18s. 10
of the reprints for a single shilling, complete, are the ••• ••• ••• ----
,he Maidstone (Loose) ... ... - 10 1 Coventry....lloo, 251. 2re Regent's •• ••33 i I/. 2s. 17%
works of Miss Austin and of Mr. Cooper. The 3 Derby ••• - 1100 61. 63 Rochdale..• • 851 41. 50%
toManchester ••• ••• ••• - 23
"Pilot" with "Sense and Sensibility," are the spe- Elismre&Chs' 133, 565. 41 Somrset Coal so' 71.105. 130
e a Market Drayton (from Sept. 23) - 5 0 E-ewash -.1100, 321. - Do.LkFdSt 12 Gl.p. c. -
21. 03. -
cimens now lying upon our table. Considering the
iss Medway ••• ••• ••• - 0 1 GrandJunctnlloo 51. 86% Strfril &Wore '4O 281. 210
merit of the works, and the cheapness with which , .trandSurrey 1100 21. 30 Shrewsbury.. 125 131. _
Da laeath - „, „„ „, - 1 0
0 Grand Union' 100 11. 10s. 24 Stourbridge- 201. 300
they are here reproduced, they cannot fail to corn-145
2 Grantham - 150: - - Severn andl
he Newcastle-upon-Tyne ••• -
0 Kennt & Avn 39, 7s. 6d.
mend a large circulation.
Newcastle-under-Lyoe 2
••• - 1 Leeds& Livrp 100,
the
241. 63
Lid ELEMENTS OF ELECTRO BIOLOGY; Newton Abbott
Norwich ••• •••
- ••• ••• - 1 3 Leicester.... 141:f it. 63% Rirming. j 100
301.
3255%
wWayrwe Rail.ik 26
Leicstr &Nth 83 41. 45 Warwick&} 100 31. 43
!r- or, The Voltaic Mechanism of Man; of Electra. O. m4kirk ••• ••• --
1 0 Loughborogh 142 701. 650 Napton..
ts Pathology, especially of the Nervous System; and Pembroke 4,. •••
e ••• ••• ••• ••• 0 2 Nionmouthsh 100, 81. - Worcstr &1 78 21. 41
Mntgemrysh 100 - - Binning. j
ut of Electra Therapeutics. By Alfred Smee, Peterborough ... •• ••• 0
- 0 Her eltnMbry, 100 - - Wilts & Brks -14 s. 10
y; .F.R S, Surgeon to the Bank of England, 6-c. 6-c. Pontefract ... ... ... - 1 o
id It has been the opinion of scientific men for many Prescot ••• ••• ••• - 2 0 LEST OP SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICER
3r, years past that life and electricity were identical, and Redruth ••• ••• •.• - 6 1
1 Dividend I Amount '
v 1 0
~ • . •_ .c... A. - Name of Company. s
per
Share. of Paid. Price
n ~ ,-, ~ ....

Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per _ of Paid. Prii e.
Annum. Share.
----- --_. -- - -
£ s. d. £ IN d.
Australasia .• .• ••• • • • 3/. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 0 -
Britsh.North American Si. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 -
Ceylon ...... • ....... 1 7/. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 -
Commercial of London 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 -
C denial.. •• • • -
Gloucestershire .. •• - 1151 cent. - - -
lonian -••-. . - - - 161. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 -
Londn and Westminstr : 6/. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 24%
Ditto ' - - 13 0 0 -
London Joint-Stock ... 6/. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 -•
Provincial of Ireland.. 8/. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 --
Ditto, New... -. . - SI. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 -
Nxtioual of Ireland .. Si. per cent. 50 0 0 22 10 0 -
Nat. Provncial of Eng. GE. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 -
Ditto, New. ..• - - 151. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 -
South Australia •. - - 51 per cent. - 22 10 0 -
Union 01 Australia.... I Cl. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 -
Ditto •• ........ - - 61. per cent - 210 0 -
Union of London. •-• , 61. per cent 50 0 0 10 0 0 -
.....
Union of Madrid I - 10 0 0 40 0 0 -
INSURANCE COMPANIES.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
£ s. d. £ s. 41.
Albion ••••••• • • • • • -3/. 10s. 500 0 0 50 0 0 '75
Alliance Brit. and For. 7114 s 6d &bs 100 0 0 11 0 0 19X
Ditto Marine. •• •• •• 61. per cent. 100 0 0 5 0 0 -
Atlas .. -
British Commercial .. 7s. per share 50 0 0 5 0 0 -
Clericl,Med.&Gen•Life spr ct.& bs. 100 0 0 10 0 0 19
County --.••••• •• •• 31. 100 0 0 10 0 0 60
148. 50 0 0 5 0 0 -
Eagle •••• • • -
Eng.& Scot. Law -•• bl.per cent. 50 0 0 212 6 -
European Life •••• •• 4% per cent. 20 0 0 All paid. 15
FamilyEndowmet Soc. 4/. & bs. 100 0 0 4 0 0 -
Freemasons' .• ••••• .• 61. per cent. 20 0 0 3 0 0 -
Globe •• •• •• .• 61. per cent. Stook. - 120
Guardian • ... ••••• • .• 51. 100 0 0 36 10 0 49%
imperial Fire .. •••• - 121. per cent. 500 0 0 50 0 0 220
Imperial Life •••• •• • • 12s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 15
Indemnity Marine •• • . 11. sh. & bs. 100 0 0 513 1 35
Law Fire •• •••••• •• •• - 100 0 0 210 0 2%
Law Life•• •• •• •• .... 1/. 16s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 41%
Legal and General Life - 50 0 0 20 0 434
Lorelen Fire .. •.• • •• 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 161 A
London Ship • .... - -10 s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 161 A
Marine - ••• • • ...... 12s.per share 100 0 0 15 0 0 9
Red. Invlid&Gen.Life 4%1. per ct . 50 0 0 20 0 21%
National Lean Fund.. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 -
National Lite• • -
Palladium Lite 5l. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 210 s.
Pelican •• • • • • .• • • .. •• - - - -
Pheenix - - 141
Pi otector Life.... ... 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 -
Provident Life- •..... 11. ss. & bs. 100 0 0 10 0 0 26
Rock Life.. • ......... Is. 5 0 0 010 0 5%
[loyal Exchange 6l. per cent. Stock. - 200
Sun Fire.. -6/. 10s. - - 203
Ditto Life ..... - - 44
tlxiversal Life.. - -
Victoria Life ... - 4 0 0 44
DOCKS.
Dividend Amount
Name of Coraptuiy. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
-- - -
£ s. d. £ s. d.
East and West India... 6/. pr cent. Stock. - 136
East Country .. 20s. per sh. 100 0 0 - 21
London • • - -
Ditto Bonds •••• •• -4/. per cent. - - -
SALK atharine .. • • .... 4 per cent. Stock. - -
Ditto, Scrip - - - -
Ditto Bonds.. -- - NI. pr cent. - - -
Southampton •• •• -
BRIDGES
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
A. 8. d. X. a. d.
Charing-cross •• • • •• - - 25 0 0 -
Southwrk,NivSub.Av. - G 32 12 6 -
Ditto Nw of 7% p.c. 355. per cent. 50 0 0 - -
Waterloo .... •. - - 100 0 0 -3%
Ditto Old Ann. of 8/. 11. 4s. Oil. - 60 0 0 27
Ditto Nw ditto of 71. 11. Is. Od. - 40 0 0 24
Vauxhall .... ... Ay. 11. i 70 10 3 - 18
WATER-13TORIES
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of raid. Price.
Annum. Share.
------' - -- -
£ 8. d. £ s. d.
East London..• •.••• •• al. 100 0 0 - 179
Grand Junction •••• •• 41. per cut. 50 0 0 - 81
Kent.. -•••• •• ...... 31. 10s. 100 0 0 - 75
Lambeth ...... -- - 51. per cnt. 100 0 0 - 99
New ltivr Lndn Brdge 21. 10s. - - -
Vauxhall .• .• ........ 51. per cut. 100 0 0 - -
West Middlesex . . .
,61. Os. pr cut.; - - 123%

GASINIGLIT AND COKE COMPANIES.
i Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of I Paid. Price.
Annum. :.rare.
Z. s. d. A. a. d.
British ••••••• • • • • • • • 11. 40 0 0 18 0 0 14
Ditto froTincial.• • • 11. Bs. 20 0 0 19 0 0 18
Bristol ••••••• • • . • • • • 101. per cent. 20 0 0
Brighton .. •• .. •..... 51. per cent. l 20 0 0 16
City of London .. •• • • 101. 100 0 0 100 0 0 250
':ontinental Consolidat. 925. pr share 50 0 0 39 5 11 30
r2quitable —•• • • ...... 50s. pr share 50 0 0 50 0 0 26
imperial •. .. .. •• .. .. 31. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 67
independent ....... • • 61. per cent. '4O 0 0 40 0 0 62%
London.• .... •.•• • • • • 50 0 0 50 0 0
Ditto
50 0 0 50 0
i'hcenix . ............ 4%1. per ct. 50 0 0 46 0 0 27%
Ratcliff ..... .. •.• • • • 5/. 100 0 0 90 0 0 75
United General •• •• 7s. CIL 50 0 0 50 0 0 13
Westminster Chartered 31. 50 0 0 45
Ditto, New ••- • .. 12s. 50 0 0 10 0 0

ELEJLENTS OF ELECTRO BIOLOGY;
or, The Voltaic illechanisni of Man; of Electro•
Pathology, especially of the Nervous System; and
of Electro Therapeutics. By Alfred Smee,
F.R S, Surgeon to the Bank of England, 6-c. 6-c.
It has been the opinion of scientific men for many
years past that life and electricity were identical, and
although when first propounded the opinion, like all
new opinions, was scoffed at, and then denounced
as tending to infidelity, yet from the time of the
experiments of Dr. Wilson Philip, from which it
appeared that the process of digestion was carried on
in the stomach of a recently killed rabbit by placing
the nerve which went to the stomach into contact with
a galvanic battery, this opinion has been gradually
gaining ground. No experiments, however, had
been undertaken to test the accuracy of this opinion
until Mr. Alfred Smee, to vi hom electrical science
has long been under deep obligations, de-
voted his attention to the investigation of
this most interesting and important subject. The
results of his observations and experiments he has
given to the world in the work now under review,
which sets the question at rest. Mr. Smee proves
that not the brain and nerves merely, but the whole
mechanism of man is essentially voltaic, that life is
the supremacy of electrical over chemical action in
the human system, that when electrical action loses
its supremacy disease ensues, that when it ceases
death is the immediate consequence. He satisfactorily
shows that life and all vital phenomena are merely
so many modifications of electricity. Mr. Alfred
Smee has conferred a great benefit upon the cause of
true science by the publication of this excellent
work.

LEST OP SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
-..........-. -.-.-.- -- -.
X s. d. X s. d
Bank of Scotland
.Iritish Linen Company 81. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 204
Jaledonian Bank
City of Glasgow Bank . 61. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 1134
;Iydesdale Bank •• •• •• 6% per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 12%
;ommercial Bank - - 71. per cent. 500 0 0 100 0 0 165
Eastern Bank .••• •• •• 61. percent. 25 u 0 10 0 C 91. Is
Edinb.fiGlasgow Bank Si. per cent. 5 0 0 5 0 0 5%
Exehangeßnk of Scot.. 41. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 21%
Isle of Man. Company 71. per cent. 10 0 0 7 0 0 -
N'ational Bank 6% per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 14%
gorth of Scotlandßank 41. percent. 20 0 0 5 0 0 31.0 s
North British Bank .• • - - - -
Royal Bank of Scotland 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 128%
Union Bank of Scotland 8/. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 84
Western Bank •• •• •• •• 71. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 731
Aberdeen Fire and Life 7%1.pr cent. 12 10 0 2 0 8 2
B. Accord. Lifeaud Fire - 20 0 0 010 0 -
British Guarantee Ins. V. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 9s 6d
Caledonian Fire Incur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 21
Church of England Ins. - 50 0 0 2 0 0 -
City of Glasgow Life.. 61. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 0 21. Is
:dinburgh Life Incur. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 12 10 0 18%
East of Scotland Life.. - 10 0 0 015 0 9s.Od.
Eng. & Scot. Law Life 51. per cent. 50 0 0 217 6 -
aercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 -
Incur. Co. of Scetlnd.• 51. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 -
Life Assoc. of Scotland 6/. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 ll. 6s
Sfercantile Life ...• .. 4/. per cent. 10 0 0 010 0 35. Gd.
National Fire and Life 5/. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 205.6 d
North British Incur... 5%1.pr cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 231
North & West of Scot. 61. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 ' -
Scottish Life and Guar. - 20 0 0 011
,cot. M as. and Gen.Llfe - 0 0 015 0 -
Scottish Union Insrnee. 6UI. pr cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 11. 2s
itandard Life •••• •. • • 51. per cent. 50 0 0 4 5 0 , 95i
United Dep. Assurance 4. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 114s.ed
..,
MISCELLANEOUS.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
---
X. a. d. X. a. d.
Australian Agriculturl 11. 100 0 0 30 0 0 16
Anglo-Mexican Mint.. 11. 4s. 10 0 0 10 0 0 -
Ditto, Bali Shares.. - - 2 10 0
Canada -. ••..•• - - Gl. per cent. 100 0 0 32 10 0 -
Uppr Canada Bonds Si. per_cent. - - 89
City Navigation .... - - - 90
Comp.Cppr Mnrs Eng. 51. per cent. 100 0 0 70 0 0 -
i Gen. Revers. & Invest. sp. c.k, bs, 2/ 100 0 0 100 0 0 -
Equitable Reversionry 51. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 104
1 Gen.SteamNavigation 11.8 s. 15 0 0 14 0 0 -
1 London Institution .• • - - 78 15 0 -
) Russell Institution.. • . - - 26 5 0 -
Peninslr& Orient.Stm. 8/. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 78%
Reversionary Int. Soc. 4%1. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 90
) Royal Mail Steam.... 61 18..4. p. c. 100 0 0 160 0 0 -
) South Australian ... -1/. per share. 25 0 0 25 0 0 18
_ Van Diemen's Land., - 100 00,23 0 0 -

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Salford ...
Stamford ...
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Sheffield
South Shields ...
Staines ...
Stockport ...
Stockton ...
Stoke Damarel
Stoke-upon-Trent
Stourbridge • ...
Stroud
Sudbury ...
Sunderland
Swansea ...
Tavistock ...
Teesdals (Barnard Caul')
Totnes ...
Truro ...
Tynemouth
Ulverston
Wakefield ...
Walsall ...
Warrington ...
Watford ...
Wells ...
West Ashford...
West Bromwich
West Derby ...
Weymouth ...
Whitehaven
Wigan
Windsor
Wirral
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MITCHELL'S SHILLING VOLITME.
Yet another shilling serial has been commenced by
another enterprising publisher. Volume One of this
new adventure is an agreeable tale of truth, called
" Charlotte Temple," by ➢lrs. Rowton. The spe-
culation of Messrs. Mitchell is deserving of en-
couragement.

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TINTS FROM AN AMATEUR'S PALETTE.
A pleasant little volume, dedicated to Charles
Dickens, and evidently conceived throughout under
his genial inspiration. Some of the sketches are
really very felicitous, as for example the one descrip-
tive of mail coach travelling. None of the Amateur's
Tints are neutral tints—half of them are sad-coloured,
the other moiety gay and hilarious. Taken from his
palette as they have been with such a skilful hand,
we doubt not they will be found satisfactory to the
palates of the generality.

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39

BANK OF ENGLAND.
(From last night's Gazette.)
An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Victoria, cap. 32, fa]
the Week ending on Saturday, the 22d day of September, 1849.
Isms MAIMS-ENT.

HAYMARKET `THEATRE.—On Monday next this
house will open for the season with Mrs. Nisbett and
Miss Jane Mordaunt in the Love Chase. The rest of
the week will be occupied by comedies, in which Mrs.
Nisbett plays some of her best characters. On the fol-
lowing Monday Mr. Macready will appear, and act on
alternate nights, the intervals being filled by Mrs. Nis-
bett. Mr. Macready will be succeeded by Mr. and Mrs.
Kern, with whom Mrs. Warner, who
appear pith
Mr. Macready, will remain. Afterwards 11.1 r. Macready
will return, and complete the round of his characters,
prior to his final retirement from the stage, which will,
we believe, take place next summer. Several new
play s, serious and comic, will, it is said, be produced at
the Haymarket in the course of the approaching season,
Lord and Lady Brougham have been receiving
a succession of visitors at Brougham Hall this month;
amongst the guests have been the Marquis of Dour?,
Lord Wharncliffe, Mr. and Mrs. Towneley, the Marquis
and Marchioness of Lansdowne, the Duke and Duchess
of BLautort and Lady Henrietta Somerset, Earl and
Countess of Glengall and Lady Margaret Butler, Colonel
and Miss Darner, Captain Moore, Lord and Lady Win.
Yowlett, lion. Edward Stanley, Mr. Howard, &e.
DAY or FASTING AND HUMILIATION AT WINDSOR
AND ETON.—At Windsor, on Wednesday last, all secular
business was entirely suspended, and the whole of the
shops closed during the day, agreeably to the recom-
mendation of the bishop of the diocese, supported by the
mayor, and the vicar and clergy, in order that the day
might be observoi as one " of solemn fasting and humi-
anon, in consequence of the grievous disease with which
it has pleased Almighty God to afflict many portions of
this lima." It is most gratifying to be enabled to state
that the c' *a has been extremely mild in its effects in
the nei of windser and Eton.

Notes issuQll•• 28,246,500

Government debt •• 11,015,100
Other securities •• •• '2,984,900
Gold coin and bullion 13,839,423
Silver bullion • • • . • . 407,077

£ 28,246,500
L MARSHALL, Mei Cashier.

OEPARTMEN T.

Government securi-
ties (including Dead
Weight Annuity) • • 14,354,859
Other securities •• •• 10,721,590
Notes ••••••• • • • • • • • 10,813,735
Gold and silver coin•• 868,376

£36,758,560
M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.

65

T la 111 U ON 143 SAS ril URI" A Y EVEIRING, ORPTEmrinn go, 164&

very serious, that we were not to judge,
.or to
know of their Tricks and Cczerv,ge, and that it was
no matter to us if they did cheat their Creditors,
provided we could buy their 117;,rEs at a Bargain,
and besides, if we did not, others would. So
going by Rogge, Rip, and Co., their Establi.bment,
as they do call their shop, she would needs stop in
front of it to look in, and, I knew, consider what
among the Things there she could find to want :
which did trouble me. Ito read the Posters in the
Window, which were the worst and most pitiful of
any, and by their showing Mr. Ragge, and Mr. Rip,
and their Co. were going altogether to the Dogs. My
Wife did presently, as I expected, find somewhat she
had a mind to : a Muslin she did say was Dirt cheep,
and I knew was Dirt-worth. I plainly refused to
let her buy it, or anything else at angle and Rip's,
who have been, to my Knowledge, making a Tremen-
dous Sacrifice any Time the last two Years ; but the
Simpletons their Cu,tomers the only Victims. But I
do nut pity such Gudgeons a Whit as are caught by
these Tricks of the Drapery Trade; and methinks
they are rightly served by being cheated in seeking
to profit, as they think, by Fraud and dishonest Bank-
ruptcy. I told my WVe that ltagg,. and Rip do
sell off at a loss to none but those that deal with
them, and were like at that mo:nent, in::-tend of being
Bankrupts, to be making merry at the expense of their
Dupes. But she being sullen at my Denial of her
Muslin, I did quiet her by the Promise of a better
Piece at Faireloth and Pryce'e, who do carry on
Bu,iness without roguish Puffery, and after the old
Fashion of English Traders, according to the Maxim
that " Good Wine needs no Bush," which my Wife,
poor silly Wretch, not understanding, I explained to
her did mean, that Stuffs worth the buying to find a
sale do stand in no imecl of Haberdashers' trickish
Advertisements. —Punch.

THE NATIONAL REFORM CLUB.
(From the Cork Southern Reporter.)
There is a considerable stir among such of the
Reformers as are in town, consequent on the dissolu-
tion of the Free Trade Club, in St. James's-square,
and respecting which you will have seen several pa-
ragraphs in the 'papers, many altogether erroneous,
especially in the Tory journals. The versions from
the latter ',sources would lead you to infer that the
dissolution waa effected amidst a storm of recrimina-
tory vindictiveness, insolvency„-and disaster of all
sorts. That such was not the case, and that the cause
of reform is not likely to suffer by the future move-
ments of those who have just brought about the
break up of the late establishment, you will see from
the following circular issued by the president of the
Progressive Association to whose proceedings at their
central office in the Poultry, City, your attention has
been sere ral times drawn of late, viz :
" ProvisionallCommittee of the National Reform
Club, 14, St. James's Square, Sept. 22,1849.
Sir,—The Free Trade Club having been dissolved
by the unanimous decision of a general meeting, held
for that purpose on the 20th inst., and it being con•
sidered desirable by many members of the National Par-
liamentary and Financial Reform Asscciation, that a
new club, based upon their principles, and assisting
that great movement, should be established in the
house of the late club, I have to request you will be
so good as to intimate whether, in the event of a suf-
ficient number of gentlemen agreeing to constitute
such a club, the provisional committee may have the
honour of your support and membership.
" I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant,
" JOSHUA WALMESLEY."
There is no doubt that this is a wise and judicious
proceeding on the part of those who have the wel-
fare of the popular cause at heart, which many of the
so-called free- traders had and have not, merely using
the now comparatively antiquated cloak of com-
mercial liberality as a blind to this retrogression
from their early professions of anxiety for political
justice, properly so called. Free trade is now as
much part and parcel of the :constitution as the lion
and unicorn; and it would ba just as reasonable for
people to associate for the conservation of the domes-
tic comfort of these respectable maminamli I as to
unite against the re-imposition of the sliding scale,
navigation laws, differential duties, and so on. The
full completion of the measure of free-trade is in the
natural course of fulfilment. Not so the Reform
Bill. Progression there is essentially crab-like. The
tendency of our rulers and of the dominant classes is
notoriously anti-popular, in the widest sense of the
term ; and we are at this moment further from the
realization of the governmental ameliorations contem-
plated by Lord John Russell, and proposed by Lord
Durham in the first draft of the Act of 1832, than
during any period that has elapsed from that hour to
this, even when the Court, the Cabinet, the United
Services, the Church, a large majority of both houses
and the principal organs of the press were
ostentatiously Tory. Hence the necessity of
stripping quasi reformers of the guise in
which this Free-Trade Club permitted, them
to envelope themselves. It was exceedingly con-
venient to a thorough ministerial hack or expectant,
to point to his enrolment with Cobden, Bright, and
the rest of the free-traders as a proof that he kept
pace with the spirit of the times, as if the veriest
Peelite were not equally entitled to claim the same
merit. That juggle now no longer possible. A
secession from the free-trade club under its new or-
ganisation means a secession from the cause of further
reform, and will be taken by the public as a recogni-
tion of the wisdom of the wh,les ...me old motto,
" these that are not with us are against us."
The new agitation is being commenced with the
younger blood of the late club :—Mr. Tindal Atkinson,
the barrister, whose conduct in respect to the unfor-
tunate Chartist prisoners swept off by cholera brought
on by the barbarous regimen of the gaol, is as rare as
it is noble ; Mr. Charles Wordsworth, the eminent
writer on election law and joint-stock companies;
Mr. M'Enteer, one of your countrymen whose
practical efficiency is commensurate with his
zeal ; George Thompson, the Member for
the Tower Hamlets; and numerous others
—all under the wary and vigilant guardianship of
Sir Joshua Walmesley, who aspires much more to
be a guide than a leader, being well content that
others should openly " share the triumph and par-
take the gale " if he can be useful, (and no man is
more so), in maturing that consumption. A club,
of whom these gentlemen are the working committee,
is indeed calculated to accomplish the uses for which
the Reform Club was originally instituted, the ad-
vancement of the reform cause. But those uses are
now burlesqued by that association. The working
committee of the Reform Club are as conservative as
the working committee of the Carlton. Whig offi-
cials, their relations, parasites, and jackals control
the whole affair to their own ends, and make it a sort
of inner Clerk's Office to Downing-street, and with
the usual financial embarrasment—debt—w hose mag-
nitude is disguised by the same species of legerdemain
that characterised Sir Charles Wood's five budgets
the first year he was Chancellor, and characterised
Trevelyan's squandering of millions of Irish works,
that only deepened the poverty and augmented the
idleness of the people mocked with the phantasm of
relief."
The National Reform Club expects to open next
month with fully five hundred members, and it is
more than probable that a considerable number of
these will be Irishmen, of whom neither their coun-
try nor this need be ashamed. It is understood that
several Irish M.P.'s will join forthwith, and among
them, it is to be presumed, will be your excellent re-
presentative, Mr. Fagan, who was one of the most
energetic, consistent, and constant of all the Liberal
opposition throughout last session, being scarcely
ever absent from a division wherein his vote could
mark his approbation of sound principle in theory, or
honest conduct in practice. The provisional com-
mittee are most anxious to avail themselves of all
Irishmen of character, conduct, and discernment; and
the occasion does indeed seem most auspicious for a
junction of the working intellect of the two countries
for the mutual acquirement of reforms of which each
stands respectively so much in need. It is obvious
enough that there is a most serious apprehension in
interested quarters here lest any such fusion should be
brought about.
The prospects of the National Reform Club, dis-
encumbered of the heterogeneous elements that have
neutralized the Reform body of late years, are far
more encouraging than could have been looked fur
even three months ago ; and lend to the contempla-
tion of the coming session an aspect whose hopeful-
ness is calculated to inspire with energetic zeal those
who had begun to despair of progress. The stake
that Ireland has in the new movement is immense,
and there is reason to believe that she will not forfeit
it through a criminal apathy, to the advice of her best
n adviser to join her friends here.

SUNDAY DUTIES AT THE POST- OFFICE.
General Po*t•office, September, 1849.
I. With a view to affording postmasters and their
assistants proper rest on the Sunday, the Postmaster-
General has been pleased to direct-
1. That on and after the 14th of October next, all
provincial offices in England and Wales shall be closed
on the Sunday from 10 A M. to 5 P.M , except for the
necessary receipt and dispatch of mails; the box
merely being left open for the receipt of stamped and
unpaid letters.
2. That the deliveries at such places on the Sunday
shall be restricted in all cases to one.
11. Further, that to facilitate the above arrange-
ments, and at the same time to promote the public
convenience, letters posted at provincial offices on the
blank post day for towns beyond London, shall, if
stamped and paying full letter rates, be forwarded, as
on other days, so as to be delivered, except in remote
places, en the Monday morning. No change, how-
ever, will be made as regards letters addressed to or
posted in London.

A very interesting series of Letters by his Majesty
George the Third and the Royal Family to Bishop
Hurd, and that Prelate's replies, are published in the
new number of Bentley's Miscellany, issued this day.

THE SEWERS COMMISSION.
Of late, whilst pestilence has been abroad—when
all general considerations ought to have merged in
the performance of immediate and importent duties of
wealleviation, believe that many members of the
Metropolitan Commission of Sewers have been greatly
annoyed at the intrusion of angry personal questions
and disputes, which they have made large sacrifices
to avoid. We believe that the facts out of which
these opprobrious scenes have arisen are as follow :
On the formation of tha Consolidated Metropolitan
Commission of Sewers, several gentlemen were in-
cluded who had been members of the superseded
commissions, but who were understood to be favour.
able to the new measures recommended by the Sani-
tary Commissioners, as essential to the improvement
of the metropolis. It turned out, however, in no great
length of time, that these gentlemen considered the
change to be merely one of men, and not the entire
change contemplated of works, as well as of the
modes of working, that they had been formerly ac-
customed to. Some of them ccnsidered it as a waste
of the ratepayers' money and a misapplication of the
officers' time to institute such operations as the
gauging of sewers to ascertain the flow of water,
and determine accurately the sizes of the new works
for its complete removal. Others declared the applica-
tion of sewer water as manure, and the trial works for
its disposal, to be matters foreign to the business of a
sewers commission. The Metropolitan Sanitary Com-
missioners had strongly urged the drainage of the
suburban marshes, and the extension of facilities to
private land drainage as a means of removing damp
and insalubrity, as well as of preparing the land for
the reception of manures, which otherwise must be
piled up in putrid laystalls, or cause the pollution of
the river. Some of these commissioners were put
upon committees under the consolidated commission
of 1847, and the earlier courts of that commission
were engrossed with the re-discussion of schemes and
principles of works, which although fully expounded
and supported by adequate evidence in published re-
ports, were neither admitted nor understood by these
gentlemen. On the issue of the second consolidated
commission under the new Sewers Act, a division of
labour was introduced, and one very large depart-
ment was handed over (at least as far as regarded the
preparation of matter for the decision of the court) to
a committee of works, consisting of engineers and
others possessing special qualifications for that de-
partment. Not to stultify the committee by includ-
ing members who had been concerned in the approval
of works totally the reverse of what had now to be
constructed, the names of these members of previous
commissions were omitted. But one consequence of
this omission was the constant raising of ques-
tions as to the legality of transacting any portion of
the business of the commission in committees, al-
though expressly sanctioned by the new Act. To
satisfy the complainants, the matter was referred to
the Jaw cfficers of the Crown, who gave their opinion
in accordance with the plain words of the statute ;
but notwithstanding this, the time of the courts con-
tinued to be occupied by the dissentient members
whom nothing could apparently reconcile to a proce-
dure that excluded them from a full share in all the
discussions relaing to the works of the commission.
They insisted upon every matter, however technical,
and every detail, however trifling, being debated in
open court; and this not being allowed, they quar-
relled with almost everything that had been prepared
apart from them. The time of the court was occu-
pied by the setting forth of their qualifications to
carry out works which they had no part in originating,
and were not inclined to agree to. Very great delays
in the operations of the commission—operations of life
and death—were incurred by this unfortunate state
of things, which it was at one time hoped would have
been terminated by the resignation of one or two of
the commissioners—gentlemen in the highest degree
respectable, and of the most sincere good intentions,
and in many respects men of ability, whose misfor-
tune it is that they cannot in this instance see the
peculiarities of an altered state of things. As Har-
vey declared that he could never get a man above
rixty years of age to admit the doctrine of the cir-
culation of the blood, so these gentlemen could not
be brought to see the necessity of an entire change
of the liquid circulation of this great metropolis.
Besides these personal bickerings on the part of the
old commissioners, there were several of the old
officers, who were considered to fall short, and did not
gain entire confidence in the performance of their
new duties. The appointment of Mr. Henry Austin,
as the consulting engineer, and of several new officers,
opened additional mines of jealousy, which had of late
broken out publicly. No pains have been spared to
excite external agitation in aid of the internal oppo-
sition. The local boards who had charge of gully
shoots, and whose paving is likely to be interfered
with, have been incited against the commission. The
chief point of opposition recently raised was actually
an extensive cleansing operation, the flushing of the
sewers, which had of late been carried on to a con-
siderable extent. On this operation was charged the
infection of the air. The operation of flushing, it
may be briefly stated, is effected by penning back the
sewer water, with the addition of such other water as
can be obtained, to add to the force of the operation.
The decomposing matter which had even accumulated
in the sewer is then stirred up beneath the water, so
that no smell escapes ; the floodgate is opened, and the
whole discharged.
It was stated in one of the sewers courts the se::her
day, that the operation, instead of occasioning an
emission of effluvia, carries down with it air from the
street. The parties who complained were asked to
point out the times when they could aver that there
had been, instead of a dimunition, an increase of offen-
sive effluvia, because, if there had been much increase,
the operation had been very improperly conducted,
and the parties employed would be held responsible
for it ; but the complainants failed to make good a
single instance. The following extracts from a re-
port, presented to the court by Assistant-Surveyor
Lovick, displays the nature of the opposition raised :
" Believing that it would be satisfactory to the -com-
missioners, as a test of the efficacy of these operations, I
have collected the opinions of between 800 and 900 of
the inhabitants, including many medical men, in the
Surrey and Kent district, who speak very decidedly of
the benefits experienced by them from the late more
frequent flushing of the sewers, many very favourably
contrasting their present condition under this commission
with their condition under the old commission. Some
have stated that the increased cleansing is equivalent to
the increased sewers' rate, and they hare expressed their
gratitude for the comparative freedom from smell and
annoyance resulting from the works of this commission.
(See Appendix A. and C.)
" To the individual opinions which I have appended to
this report I beg to draw the attention of the com-
missioners.
" Your chief surveyors, Messrs. Roe and Phillips,
appended to their report on flushing in August. 1848, a
list of the opinions of upwards of 1,000 persons, medical
men, and others, very expressive of satisfaction with the
operation of this system. These, as they appear very
pertinent to the subject, I also append; and as I believe
them to express, as well as those before alluded to, the
public opinion on this matter; and as the expressions of
the opinions of a few appear to have been mistaken for a
public expression, and the necessary results of natural
for artificial causes. (See Appendix A. and B.)
"At an adjourned inquest held on the 14th Ult., OU a
death which had occurred in Staple-street, Borough, and
which was stated to have been caused by the open ditch
in the vicinity, upon which, at the coroner's (Mr. Payne)
request, I attended the clerk to the board of guardians,
amongst other very strong expressions of opinion, stated
that they had never experienced smells before the new
commission interfered with them; that the new com-
mission had done everything wrong ; that everything
they touched had gone wrong; that they were all right
under the old commission, but that they were now an-
noyed by nuisances which they never felt before.
" He fetched two witnesses from Staple-street, who
resided on the banks of the open ditch, who proved, in
answer to questions which I put to them, that the
ditch was greatly improved since this commission bad
taken to it, and kept much better than it ever was before;
that they wore greatly benefited by the flushing, 'the
ditch being much sweeter and cleaner after it;' and that
they did not experience near so bad smells from it' as
those to which they were accustomed under the old com-
mission; and that they greatly preferred the frequent
cleansing of the ditch, and seemed much surprised at
being asked the question, as they had been benefited in
proportion to the frequent cleansing.
" This ditch had been cleansed at mote frequent inter-
vals during the two months prior to the inquest, and the
coroner, in summing up. laid great and particular stress
upon this fact as saving the commissioners from the
charge of neglect.
"And the coroner and jury, upon my explaining to
them that this was the only practical remedy, pending
permanent works which the circumstances of the case
wou!d not warrant, agreed that the commissioners had,
to the extent of their power, afforded relief to this
locality.
" I adduce this as an example of the kind of statements
made, and which, coming, uncontradicted, from the re-
presentative of a local body, would no doubt have been
mistaken for an ( xpression of the opinion of a district;
and of the statements of the inhabitants, supposed, in
this case, adverse witnesses, who most unequivocally
express that which may, from the circumstances, be
taken to be the public opinion. Mr. Grant, the assistant-
surveyor, in his report on the evils complained of in
Blackfriars-road and neighbourhood, thus corrects the
erroneous views of a gentleman, who was loud in his
complaints of the works of the commission in this lo-
cality, when it appeared that these had not for many
months been in operation :
" In describing the cause of the unhealthy condition
of this neighbourhood it would be improper to omit re-
ference to two which were supposed by a gentleman
who has interested himself in this matter to bo the
chief, and into which I inquired. These were, first, the
flushing of the sewers, and secondly, the substitution of
450 feet of 9-inch pipe for a wide and offensive ditch in
Boundary-row.
'ln reference to the first alleged cause, the foreman
of flashers stated to me that the sewers in Blackfriars-
road and Charlotte-street have not bEen flushed for some
months, simply because the men cannot remain in the
sewers. There is a cross wall built about three feet high,
at the upper end of the sewer in Blackfriars-road, which
turns the water down the Westminster-road and Water-