The Sun.
London, England, 1847-11-15 00:00:00

unjust and unequal and obnoxious tax which places a
heavy penalty on the formation of a.
1l openings for the
admission of light and air, the fi ge 'admission of
which is indispensible to the mainten of health.
So long as the window tax continues render the
habitations of all classes, and of the
ial
:pccse especially,
gloomy, fetid, and impure, no attempts ai.
Art
paith
remedy of minor evils can be attendea'
success. The remedy of this crying grievance .'g .8°
simple, and so completely within the power of th,.4
Legislature, that its continuance can only be regarded
as a convincing proof of indifference to the most ob-
vious and practical means of carrying out real mea-
sures of sanitary reform.
" Interment in towns has engaged the serious at-
tention of your, committee, and they have come to
the conclusion, notwithstanding all that may be urged
in its behalf, in connexion chiefly with the wishes and
feelings of surviving relatives, that the health of the
living must be considered in conjunction with the in-
violability and sacred duty of the interment of the
dead, and that the present practice is too highly detri-
mental to the health of the surrounding neighbour-
hood to be permitted to continue under a prudent
system of sanitary regulations. They trust that
means may be devised of putting an end to the prac-
tice, and of gradually closing the present graveyards,
without outrage to the feelings of those whose rela-
tives have been deposited within them ; and of con-
ducting funerals at a distance from the metropolis,
decently and respectably, with little or no addition to
the present cost.
" There is also another, and in the case of this
parish in particular, a most important element
in the . calculation, which it is impossible for those
who have taken a part in the administration of the
poor-laws to overlook, viz., the immigration of pau-
pers from Ireland and from the country districts,
bringing with them the seeds of disease and death,
already sown by the misery and want which drive
them, frequently almost in multitudes, to seek refuge
in the metropolis, and whose deaths make a grievous
addition to the due and proper average, which it
cannot, be pretended that any sanitary regulations in
Marylebane would prevent.
"In making these observations your committee
have no wish to deny or to abate the value of proper
sanitary regulations ; on the contrary; they are most
anxious to recommend and to adopt them in every
possible way. They only wish to guard against the
error of enthusiasm or of design, which would sup-
pose it possible that such regulations can obviate the
effects of crowded cities, of unhealthy labour, of dis •
sipation, and of want, in the propagation of disease
and in the hastening of death.
"In the meantime they are firmly of opinion that
representative and freely-elected bodies, properly con-
stituted under the sanction of Acts of Parliament,
and armed by the Legislature with sufficient power,
are capable, not only of carrying out, but of per-
forming in the most efficient and constitutional man-
ner everything possible, and which ought to be done,
in the way of sanitary regulation, as a means, and a
most important one, of improving the condition of the
town population ; and it is with the view of contri-
buting to that very important end that they submit
this report to the serious consideration of the vestry
of Marylebone.
(Signed) " GEORGE DANIELL, Chairman,
" And by the whole of the Committee."
Mr., G. DANIELL said he was requested as the
organ of the committee, to move the adoption of this
report forthwith, consequent on the close approach of
the meeting of Parliament, by which, in all proba-
bility, at an early period, the question of sanitary re-
form would be discussed. He thought the report
would clearly prove the fact that so far as the local
authorities had control, sanitary improvement had
been efficiently carried out, and it also showed that
if extended powers, were given .to representative
boards, like that vestry, there would be no complaints
of mismanagement in that respect.—(Hear.) With
regard to the question of sewage a startling fact had
come out in the inquiry of the committee, namely,
that there were nearly 300" street in blarylebone
which had no sewers at all.—(Shame, shame.) This
had been the effect of placing the power in the hands
of an:irresponsible and self-elected body of commis •
sioners, whereas if the matter had been placed in the
hands of a representative body elected by the rate-
payers, there would have been as much improvement
with respect to sewage as there had been in paving,
lighting, and cleansing. 'Another most important
fact had come out in the inquiry of the committee,
namely, they had proved that the statement which
emanated from Lord Morpeth, that Marylebone was
the most unhealthy parish in the metropolis—that it
was worse even than Whitechapel—was erroneous.
Mr. HAKES seconded the resolution.
Mr. H. C. WILSON supported the motion for adopt-
ing the report forthwith.
Mr. W.,WILLiAms hardly thought that the vestry
should be called upon to adopt so important a report-
from a mere reading. lie thought it desirable that
it should be printed.
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Mr. JOSEPH also thought this course necessary, and
that there would be plenty of time, as it was not at
all probable that the sanitary question would be
touched by Parliament before the Christmas recess.
He could, as a medical man, bear his testimony to the
healthy condition of Marylehone, and particularly of
the workhouse.—(Hear.) As a proof of this, only
that morning an, old woman had died in the work-
house, after being there upWards of thirty years, at
the age of 103.—(Hear.)
Several other gentlemen expressed their earnest de-
sire that the report be printed, and ultimately
Mr. G. DANIELL withdrew his motion for the adop-
tion of the report, and moved—
" That the report be received and printed."
This resolution was seconded and carried nem. con.

Sir W. STIRLING, in eulogistic terms; proposed—
" That the thanks of the vestry be presented to
Mr. G. Daniell and the gentlemen of the committee,
for the immense service they have rendered to the
parish in the performance of their laborious duties,
and in furnishing so excellent a report.
Mr. NICHOLAY seconded the resolution, which was
put and carried unanimously ; and
Mr. G. DANIELL, on the part of himself and the
committee, acknowledged the compliment.
The report of the committee, with reference to the
question of the suppression of mendicancy in the me-
tropolis, was brought up and read, but its considera-
tion was deferred till Saturday next.
The vestry, after some unimportant routine busi-
ness, separated.

HAMBURGH and FLANDERS MAIL

BRUSSELS, Nov. 10.—The average price of corn
during the week ending Nov. 6 was—NV-:eat 21f. 45c.,
Rye 13f. 98c., being a rise on Wheat of 57c., and a
fall on Rye of 3c.
VIENNA, Nov. 4.—ln the Bourse to-day the al-
ready depressed railway shares had a still greater
downward tendency, and prices were given which we
have not known for years. Towards the close
they recovered a little, but there was almost imme-
diately a reaction, and at the close of the Bourse
the exchange could be scarcely maintained. Added
to the unfavourable accounts from London yesterday,
the report was spread today, propagated in the first
instance by the Ober Post Aniptr Zeitung, and
which was of course false, that the Queen of Spain
had been poisoned.
Musica, Nov. 6.—Our corn market to day was
well supplied, viz., 11,291 sheffels. The demand was
great, and the sale rapid, so that only 30 sheffels of
wheat and 84 sheffels of rye remained unsold.
Hops were rather higher than last week.
MATENCE.—. Both our export and import trade is
increasing. The imports come from the Maine
and go up the Rhine. The consumption of this
place and the environs is supplied by our increas-
ing large Friday's markets. The average price of 1
wheat is 13fl. 18kr.; oats, 4fh 35kr. About three
millions were actually paid here and in 'Worms on the
28th of October. We do not yet know what sum was
paid in at Frankfort, Cologne, and Berlin. At all
events, not more than a fourth part of the share-
holders have declined their payments and have left
the company, forfeiting their already paid 20 per
cent. It is therefore clear that the opposition will
not triumph, and that the railway will be carried.
The returned shares will, according to the statutes,
be annulled, and will be put up to auction, or sold to
new subscribers at 80 per cent. The vintage has
commenced under unfavourable auspices.
BRUSSELS, NOV. 10.—CFIAMBER. or REPREiENTA-,
TIVES.—M. Zoude, President, in opening the Chem--
ber, said that he was called to fill. that chair by the
privilege of seniority. He had the honour to be
President of the Chamber by a title which, according,
to modern ideas, would be repudiated ; for an age some-
what advanced was a motive for exclusion from the
Legislative Chambers. Such, however, had not been
the idea of the Congress when it doereed the institu-
tion of the Senate. He, however, congratulated
the youngest among them, that they 'Night one day.
enjoy the same privilege. The Chamber then pro-
ceeded to the nomination of the Committee for veri-
fying
Committees,r the
powers..vibißci the terms
. of the regulation
areb six in number, are each;
composed occnsemveitatemeehm members, who are chosen by lot.
t'flkbhleoertfi,:secitoknredd,enatrQde, verifyFzetiooooi. the elections of
the third, those of Mons,
Atli, and Charleroy, and. San Nicolas
'Tournaayr; the fourth those of
Ghent, Termonde,
Soignies, Thuin, and
Hug Liege, Yirviers, and W
meet to.
of liasselt, Tongres, MaeseyciZniaralle fifth those
the sixth those of Bastogne, B Antwerp and
Ypres, and Dinant. The Chambers are io
morrow at two o'clock.
IlimnuaG tr, Nov. 9. COMNIRECIAL INTELLI••'
GENCE.—The tone of the Bourse to-day Was Very;
favourable, and money more abundant. Funds calm,;
railway as the rail-;
IsNh,aNreosvfirmB. wTi thhe itt lle
funds,b sa
si n ewellss
way shares, maintain their former prices, though there;
is not much business doing.