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LTH OF LONDON
DURING THE WEEK.
(From the Registrar-General's Return.)
The bills of mortality were commenced in the
reign of Queen Elizabeth, and ever since the year
1603 have been published by authority in London. In
this respect the English metropolis stands alone ; no
weekly tables of the causes of the death of every in-
habitant are published in the :capital of any other
European state. Various motives for the measure
have been assigned ; but the fact of continuous publi-
cation from a period anterior to the appearance of
newspapers and gazettes is remarkable and charac-
teristic. It may be fairly referred to the natural
inclination of the English people when they are in
trouble to know the truth, and to see in figures the
precise extent of their losses, although at times the
sight might well make the courage of the bravest
quail. On the continent "precautions have been
used " in publishing the mortality from cholera in
1849, and the deaths from all causes have not yet
been made known. The parish clerks of London in
the 17th century, when the plague was at its height,
counted the deaths and recorded their supposed
causes; and the citizen, when the death-cart tra•
versed the streets, anxiously studied the bill, sur-
rounded by its gloomy symbolical border, announcing
8,297 deaths in a week out of a population of 600,000.
In the ha,ds of Price, Ileberden, Willis, Bateman,
and other statists, these records have disclosed the
laws of mortality, and the causes of the insalubrity
of the present cities.
thie of their immediate advantages, however, is the
vidence which they furnish that the most fatal and
threatening plagues go through, with some perturba-
tions, certain prescribed orbits ; and, after raging for a
given number of weeks, disappear. Plague,in-
fluenza, and cholera have been vanquished before;
and to despair now would be as unreasonable as it
was in the beginning of the year to deny that the
cholera epidemic was impending. Those officers who
are struggling with the triumphant enemy under
every disadvatitage will yet be victors ; for, if they
have art, they have also nature on their side.
The mortality in the week ending Saturday, Sep•
tember Bth, declined in the west and east districts of
London, and increased slightly in the north and
central districts, the deaths registered (1,741) on the
north side of the Thames being 19 less than in the
previous week. It was otherwise on the south side of
the river, where the deaths in the week were 1,442 I
The total deaths registered in London were 3,183: of
males, 1,460 ; females, 1,723. The deaths of females
exceeded the deaths of males by 263, the reverse of the
usual proportions. The deaths from cholera were
2,026 ; the numbers decreased in the districts of
'horeditch, Bethnal-green, Whitechapel, Stepney,
Westminster; increased in Bermondsey, St. George,
Southwark, Newington, Lambeth, Wandsworth, Cam-
berwell, and Rotherhithe. The epidemic, which had
been partially subdued, broke out again with terrible
violence in Lambeth, where 279 persons died of
cholera in the week.

Mr. Dawes, oRe of the registrars of Lambeth, who
has made careful inquiries on the subject, says, "At
least half the cases I have registered were allowed
to proceed unchecked until the most alarming and
dangerous symptoms had manifested themselves;
but lately more circumspection seems to have been
used. Nevertheless, the cases are still numerous in
which persons seem (from the painless nature of the
attack) to be unconscious how highly necessary it is
that immediate attention should be paid to it." People
are so much accustomed to associate danger exclu-
sively with pain that the most fatal symptom, unac-
companied by pain, is neglected. They must, how-
ever, be taught to look upon painless diarrhaa with
the anxiety that people in the plague looked upon the
swellings called " tokens"—which were also painless
—but with less fear ; for the premonitory symptom
now seems to be sent, not so much to announce death
as to give timely warning, and to call attention to that
stage of the malady in which medicine can heal.

As medical skill is of most avail at the beginning
and end of a fever, as the effect of the engines is most
conspicuous at the outbreak and end of a conflagra-
tion, and as most energy is demanded when the wreck
nears the shore, so it is in an epidemic, which, if it
has not been checked at first, may yet be cut short,
and combated with effect, as it declines. None of the
mea,ures of relief in any district should therefore be
discontinued, but be prosecuted with redoubled vigour,
until it has been completely subdued ; and the districts
which have not yet suffered greatly should imme-
diately complete their preparations, for the time is
short, and the evils of delay irreparable.
The deaths from cholera in the last twelve weeks
respectively have been-49, 124, 152, 339, 678, 763,
926, 823, 1,229, 1,272, 1,663, and 2,026.

THE BERMONDSEY MURDER.
FURTHER PARTICULARS.
The police are still actively employed in tracing
out further evidence respecting the murder of O'Con-
nor, and the disposal of the property in his possession
when he was murdered. It has been ascertained that
when he left his lodgings on the morning of the oth
of August, he had a nearly new suit of clothes on, a
valuable Is atch end chain, and a considerable sum in
his possession. Although every search has been made
for the murdered man's clothing by the police in the
house, 3, Minver-place, and in the prisoner's boxes,
DO portion of them could be discovered. It was
clear that they had not been burnt, as no ashes of
the in or of cloth were seen among the dirt ; con-
sequently the police have made active inquiries among
the clothes-dealers, and yesterday they ascertained that
a man, fully answering the description of Nan-
ning, offered several articles of clothing of a superior
description fur sale to several dealers in Petticoat-
lane on the Monday after the murder. The police
are now making very active inquiries about the
clothes, and from information received last night
there is every reason to believe that they will be
found, and that the purchaser will come forward and
identify Manning as the party who sold them. It
was stated yesterday morning that Mr. Hammond,
one of the stock-brokers'clerks who purchased O'Con
nor's stock, was suffering severely from cholera, and
that all hopes of recovery were given over. Bassett,
his fellow clerk, who died on Saturday, has left a
wife and a large family entirely penniless, and she
attributes his death to the excitement attending his
witnessing the disinterment of the murdered man and
his subsequent attendance at the police-court to give
evidence against Alarming. He was perfectly well
on Friday, and died on Saturday morning, the day
after the last examination.

HARLOW HORSE, CATTLE, SHEEP, AND PIG FAIR,
SEPT. 10.—This fair, which is next in importance, and
immediately succe€ds that of Barnet, commenced yester-
day. The fresh arrivals of store beasts from Norfolk,
Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, &c., together with the unsold
stock from Barnet, caused this fair to be well supplied.
For store beasts the trade was exceedingly flat until
twelve o'clock, when an influx of buyers arriving by the
Eastern Counties Railway, business was more lively,
some of the choicest beasts being selected, but sales could
only be effected by the sellers submitting to a reduction
of from 103 to I/. per head from the prices obtained at
Bernet fair, when a great clearance was made. The
horse fair was most abundantly supplied, the very prime
cart-horses fully supporting their prices, making from
.50 even up to 75 guineas; middling else, 40 to 50 guineas
each; carriage horses and bunters sold at high prices,
70 to 100 guineas each being given in many instances
for young and sound animals; for old and inferior horses
there were but few buyers, at very low prices. To the
credit of the great breeders of cart colts from Norfolk
and Suffolk, the droves they exhibited at this fair were
of a splendid description, two years old making from 25
to 35 guineas each; three years old, 40 to 50 guineas
each—Messrs. Hoy, from Kent, Hills, from Sussex, and
Kettle, from Surrey, being very extensive buyers; poneys
under 13 hands high sold freely at from 101. to 151. each.
Sheep went off slowly, although offered at very reduced
prices—four and six-tooth wethers, to go on turnips,
made from 28s. to 345.; hoggets, 245. to 275. each; ewes,
225. to 265. each; lambs, 12s. to !Ss. each. Piga plenti-
ful, from the bacon hog to the little suckler, large hogs
making from 4s. to 4s. 4d. per atone of Blb ; quarter old
stores, 16s. to 225.; little suckers, Bs. to 12s. each, very
few being left unsold.
between precept and practice wa
THE SLEEPERS OP GWYDYR HOESsEp.--erhTahpediffer-
encesneve;
better exemplified than in the last report from the
General Board of Health. The Board rort
complains bitterly
authorities, of the conduct of certain local who, when re_
quested to take measures of precaution against a threa-
tenedc oedoof udtobiroega kaof
anything b
present;" and such conduct,
we admit, deserves to be m resolved that there was " no
a
roost bitterly complained of; but
the complaint proceeds ochuy enough from a Board that
of the selfsame dereliction of duty. When an
is guiltycreates a Board for the purpose of
ein
Act of Parliament
protecting large towns, by sanitary regulations, from the
inroads of disease—when large towns ask the said Board
to come to their relief according to the Act—and when
such applications for relief are not only unattended to,
but are allowed to reniali unnoticed on the table of the
Board—when all these things happen, we think we noes
well say, with our able contemporary the Economist, that
the Board of Health " seems to exhibit quite us much
zeal to increase its authority and make itself implicitly
obeyed, Es t,-) ensure measures of precaution to check the
cholera." Zeal, indeed! Why, the cholera might have
made twenty visits—and pretty long ones, too—to this
borough, since application was made by our Town
Council for relief from Gwydyr House; and still the
sleepers there are not to bo wakened. If such conduct,
however, be persevered in, it will be well if they be not
called upon, some day or other, by wore towns than
one, to

" Shake off this downy sleep, Death's counterfeit,
Anil look on Death itself!"
—Gateshead Übserver.
NEW SCHOOLS BOA THE I'OOR.—ST. MARTIN-IN-
THE FlELDS.—Yesterday the interesting ceremony of
laying the foundation-stone of now schools, for the
education of the children of the poor of the parish of St.
Martin in-the-Field=, took place on a plot of ground
granted by the Mercers Company for that purpose, in
Castle-street, Long-acre. The schools are to be built in
the Elisabethan style of architecture, and will accom-
modate 300 children.
The brother of the Hon. T. B. Macaulay has been
appointed to the rectory of Aldinghaw, in Low Furness,
LancliShire, The living is worth 1,0001, per annum.