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with such nourishment, bedding, clothing, Medicines,
and medical appliances, and other necessaries, as may
be necessary for the due care and treatment of the
poor persons admitted into every such hospital, " and
also such a number of competent nurses and attend-
ants as the Commissioners of Health may think ne-
cessary for each hospital, and also to rent, hire, or
procure a house, building, or room, to be used as
dispensary, or office, for the medical officer of such
union,' and- to provide such other medicines and
medical appliances, including nutriment, if necessary,
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or other epidemic disease, to
be admitted under the
Luthority of the committee, or by their officers, duly
authorised ; and the medical officers a • ppomted under
the provisions of the existing Act shall be continued
for the purposes of the new Act.
The sixth clause, which, with the two succeeding
clauses, has been taken from the 58th Geo. 111., cap.
47, empowers the relief committees to give such d;rec-
tions as they consider necessary and expedient for
preventing the communication of fever or other
epidemic diseases within their respective electoral
districts or divisions; and for that purpose to order
that all streets, lanes, courts, gardens, &c., shall be
cleansed and purified; and that all manures prejudi-
cial to health shall be removed therefrom; and that
all houses in which any sick persons were residing
shall be ventilated, fumigated, white-washed—the
building and furniture to be exposed to the air,
washed, cleansed, and, if absolutely necessary, burned
an& destroyed.
The seventh clause tests the relief committees of
those districts where fever hospitals have been esta-
blished with power to remove infected persons (not
under proper medical care, and not placed in such
circumstances and under such precautions as may
most probably tend to prevent the communication of
disease) to hospital, upon the certificate of the medical
officer, after due inquiry into the circumstances of the
case. This power is, however, accompanied with the
following proviso :—" That the said relief committee
shall in all cases of such compulsory removal of any
persJh into such fever hospital, make a special report
thereof to the, said commissioners within two days
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51., or one month's imprisonment, upon conviction
before two magistrates, on any person who shall
resist or oppose the execution of the powers of the
relief committees under this Act, such conviction not
to be quashed for informality, nor to be subject to
any certiorari proceeding or appeal whatever.
The ninth clause declares that the general issue
be pleaded in any action brought against relief com-
mittees, collectively or individually, or their officers,
and that, in the event of the plaintiff in the suit fail-
ing to establish his case, the tribunal before whom the
case underwent adjudication shall award costs to the
defendant.

The tenth clause enacts that the necessary ex-
penses incurred by any relief committee, in carrying
any order of the relief commissioners into effect, and
in the execution of the other purposes of this Act, shall
be defrayed out of the funds from time to time placed
at the disposal of such relief committee, under the
provisions of the Destitute Poor Act of the present
session.

The eleventh clause enacts that, notwithstanding
the 10th Victoria, cap. 7, sec. 3, which declares that
no relief committee shall be continued after the first
day of November in this year, unless for the purpose i
of settling or closing their accounts, " n any case in
which previously to the first day of November any
relief committee shall have received instructions from
the relief commissioners, for executing the provi-
sions of the Act of last session, in any electoral dis-
trict or division, such relief committee, and also, the
finance committee for the union, shall continue for
the purposes of the Act of last session, and of this Act,
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The twelfth clause declares that in the case of
certificates issued by the Board of Health, after the
Ist of November in this year, the provisions of the
10th Victoria, cap. 7 (under which the relief com-
mittees are appointed) shall be extended and applied
to such cases ; and the costs and expenses of carrying
the same into execution, after the disbursement of
the funds in the hands of the
_finance committee and
relief committee on the Ist day of October in this
year, shall be paid and provided by the board of
guardians of the union, in like manner as in the Act
of last session.
The thirteenth clause provides for the decent in
terment of de,titute persons dying of fever, by em-
powering relief committees to defray the expenses of
the same out of the funt% placed at their disposal.
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Act, namely, until the end of last session ; and the
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FUNERAL OF THE LATE BARON

'DE BODE.

Yesterday morning the rtirrains of this nobleman,
whose name has already enlisted universal sympathy in
connexion with his legal claims, were deposited in their
final resting place, a vault subjacent to the Catholic
Church, St. John's-wood.
It is necessary to state, that family arrangements pre-
vented his numerous friends from paying until now the
final tribute of respect to his menv)ry and his virtues.
l'he present Biron enjoined on his brother to waive the
rites of sepulture till his return from Russia, and, con-
sequ-ntly, the name of (It-ceased, who has been dead
since Oct. 2d, 1846, is again introduced to a sympa-
thising public. Just as some prospect of success began
to cheer his gloom of disquiet and disappointment, he
passed away, leaving to his successor the pending doubts
and dangers of the law.

On Tuesday, S P.m., the corpse was privately removed
from the family residence, IS, Grove-end-road, to the
church, and at 12 o'clock yesterday, after a solemn high
mass, the crimson•velvet cushion, ornamented with the
insignia of six orders, the baronial coronet, the dark
plumes, awl the gloomy pall, were removed. The
heaving hearts and tender tears of the mourners, among
whom we observed Mr. Sergeant Manning and Matthew
Davenport Hill, Esq., were in perfect keeping with the
gloomy drapery of the edifice. The slow and plaintive
notes of the organ during divine service, accompanied
by the solemn hymn of the choristers in the Dies irce
dies illte thrilled the hearts of all present. The coffin
was then borne on the shoulders of six bearers, pre-
c2ded by the officiating clergyman, the acolytes, and
sacristans. The mourners, seventeen in number, fol-
lowed, and the Dc Profundis having been chaunted in
the vault, they returned from the " narrow house,"
where the late Baron de Bode rests free from pangs and
pains.
The universal sympathy for this victim to legal tech-
nicalities induces us to hope that his successor will reap
the harvest for which the departed so long and justly
laboured, and that English justice and English inde-
pendence will be ever prompt to repudiate any decision
which may interfere with the honour and integrity of
our national glory.

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EASTER TERM.—Yesterday, on the opening of the
offices of the Common Law Courts after the holidays, the
lists of the arrears for Easter Term, commencing on
Thursday next, were exhibited. As the first of the
three Courts, the Court of Queen's Bench requires par-
ticular notice on the present occasion. Hitherto the
new trial paper of that Court contained many causes ;
and, on reference to the time the rules were obtained, it
was ascertained that 18 months or two years had elapsed;
and it was found that, to obtain a rule nisi, was in effect
to delay justice for no inconsiderable period. The
Learned Judges, by their exertions, have made great
progress in diminishing the arrears, and the list for the
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tr.: alaand' since Michaelmas Term ; there are 5 rules for
judgment.i In the demurrer paper there are 23 rules ap-
pointed to be heard on the 21st inst. The peremptory
paper of the Court of Exchequer has 5 rules for argu-
ment. Of cases in the special paper there are 22 for
argument and 1 for judgment; whilst of demurrers there
are three for judgment and 26 for argument. In the
new trial paper there are 6 rules for judgment and 36
for argument, all of which, with the exception of 6, were
moved in Hilary Term. It is not too much to say, that
the lists of the three Courts present, on the whole, a very
healthy appearance; and that, by renewed exertions, the
Court of Queen's Bench will shortly reach the two other
Courts in the number of rules for new trials.
MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.—The deaths re-
gistered in the London districts during the past week
(the first of the spring quarter in the Registrar-General's
returns) were 1,004, being a decrease of 25 on the mor-
tality of the previous week. The weekly average de-
rived from the deaths of the last five springs, and
corrected for increase of population, is 914, but as many
of the deaths occurred before the expiration of the
winter quarter, the mortality of the week may be com-
pared with the winter average, which is 1,068. Deaths
from diseases of the epidemic class continued to decrease,
being only 107, of which 33 were from pooping-cough.
Diseases of the lungs ranged• between the spring and
winter averages, and bronchitis was still more than
usually fatal, especially to persons advanced in years.
The week was remarkable for the lowness of temperature
which prevailed throughout; the thermometer on three
days registered below the freezing point,and on Saturday
last was 8i degrees below the temperature of the
ersat?
day on an average of 25 years. As compared with the_
previous week, the atmosphere was colder by_e_ff
10 degree--a circumstances which will told to
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any increase observable in the Itur,ber of
tered in the present week.