The Sun.
London, England, 1869-04-07 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 7, 1869,

embracing the last chance of calling the Govern-
ment to account for its stewardship. The Budget is
never very inviting; this year it is of no great
importance, and figures are cast aside in the presence
of far more important facts. The Budget has been
made the pretext for bringing into court a far wider
subject—the State of the Nation. What has the
Empire done for France since the last election
in 1803 ? What does it propose for the
future ? Do the French, in short, enjoy that
ilsibesroty
ratpoidlwyhihhceeemthineyg
tahree
iennhteirtld,
andietaiweef which
every
European ?
These are the questions which the small minority in
the French Parliament discontentedly puts, and which
the large majority vainly strives to answer. The case,
as set forth by M. TRIERS in one of his best speeches,
is very plain. It is matter of history that after the
coup d'etat of 18.1 France went through the farce
of a plebiscitum which elected Louis NAPOLEON
Emperor, and accepted a Constitution of his making.
This Constitution was admirably adapted for the pur-
poses of the EMPEROR, but by no means favourable
to the liberties of the people. Under it the French
have, indeed, a Parliament. But the Upper House,
the Senate, is simply nominated by the EMPEROR,
whilst the power of the Corps L6gislatif is
reduced to a shadow by the sovereign's
prerogatives. No measure, not even money
bills, can be brought before the Chamber, and
no law can be passed, save only by consent of the
sovereign. He appoints and discharges his Ministers
at pleasure, makes peace and war, and nomi-
nates to every office in the realm. It was
not to be expected that a great nation would tolerate
such a Constitution, accompanied as it was by strin-
gent laws against the press and public meetings,
and most insufficient guarantees for the liberty
of the subject. The French people have cease-
lessly struggled to throw off the yoke which
they so rashly accepted. Scant success, however, has
hitherto attended their efforts on behalf of liberty.
Up to 1807, indeed, no changes of any great moment
were made, and the reforms which were then wrung
from the EMPEROR were far from " crowning the
edifice." The Bill of Eights is still of most formid-
able dimensions, For the reforms of January, as they
are called, the Opposition, as represented by M.
THEIRS, gives the E3IPEROR full credit. The debates
in the Corps L6gislatif are conducted with greater
freedom than formerly. All the Ministers are pre-
sent, whereas there was formerly but one.
The right of public meeting has been con-
ceded. This privilege is hampered by endless
restrictions, it is true ; but the privilege now exists,
and there is always hope that the progress of the
wedge may not be confined to the thin end. Lastly,
the press has been conceded some small measure of
liberty.
But allow the widest interpretations to these
reforms, and how much remains to be accomplished !
The EMPEROR'S Ministers are not responsible, but
the EMPEROR, takes care, whenever a blunder is
made, to throw the odium of it upon some unlucky
official. An irresponsible Ministry is the source of
numerous evils. Then the people are not allowed to elect
the Corps L6gislatif, miserable as are its powers, after
their own fashion. Every species of device is used
to convert Universal Suffrage and the Ballot into a
machine for the manufacture of Imperial adherents.
The influence of the clergy is enlisted. Offices,
small and great, are temptingly held out to voters.
Public money is granted to the communes on the
tacit stipulation that votes shall be given in
return. In short, the upshot of the Constitution is
that the Parliament can do nothing, and that few
but Imperial adherents are chosen to do it. Once
elected the Corps L6gislatif cannot, as we have seen,
make any laws, nor freely criticise the acts of the
Government. Even a question cannot be put in with-
out authorisation. The measure of liberty granted by
the press partakes so little of the nature of true
liberty that press prosecutions take place almost
every week. The right of public meeting is turned
to the profit of the Government. Even the liberty
of the subject may scarcely be said to exist. Under
the pretence of providing for the public safety,
the Government can imprison at pleasure ; for who
but the Government can decide what is, or is not,
necessary for the public safety ? Such are the
principal conditions under which Fiance exists
on the eve of a general election. Never
w as the nation more dissatisfied with its lot, but the
EMPEROR cannot or dare not promise further con-
cessions. There seems to be a general awaken-
ing on the part of the people. The clamour
for reform is stronger than at any previous
time. So strong, indeed, is it that the Govern-
ment unmistakeably expresses, by its acts, its
grave concern for the result of the contest. But
it will not make the promises which would secure it
the support of the nation; and, meanwhile,the people
which of all others in Europe has sacrificed most for
liberty, is reaping the smallest reward.

THERE is mutiny in the Conservative camp. The
Record tells us that a meeting has been held at the
Carlton Club, at which " great and just dissatisfac-
tion was expressed at Mr. DISRAELI'S speech, and at
the more pronounced levelling-up avowals of his
pro-Maynooth lieutenant, Dr. BALL." The Record
might have added the still more open avowal of Sir
JOHN PAKINGTON. Our contemporary goes on to say,
"a strong intimation has been conveyed to their chief
that they do not intend to submit themselves to the dis-
cipline of the new course of education for the purpose
of meeting the Irish difficulty, and that in this matter
they are not prepared to take another leap in the
dark.' " This statement has an interest apart from
the subject to which it immediately refers. It solves
the questions asked a good deal of late, " Can educa-
tion be carried on without rewards and punish-
ments ? Can our schoolmasters give up the
cane and the prize, and trust solely to the thirst
for knowledge ?" The answer is clear; they cannot.
You cannot expect men to take a leap in
thedark without at least a fair prospect that
they will fall on something soft. Mr. DISRAELI
must first of all throw out the Irish Church Bill of
the Liberals before he can persuade the Conserva-
tives to pass one of their own. lie has a difficult
task to teach his pupils theirs. We are inclined to
think that, clever master though he is, he will find
it too hard for him.

EXACTLY a dozen years ago this country was in
the turmoil of a sudden and unexpected general
election. The question before the country was not
Parliamentary Reform, not the Irish Church, not
any great measure of justice either in secular or
ecclesiastical politics, but whether our representa-
tive in China had done right in bombarding
one of the chief cities in that kingdom
with red-hot cannon shot, in order to punish the
Chinese authorities for hauling down the British flag
from a pirate ship which had no right to hoist it.
Parliament had condemned our representative ; but
Lord PALMERSTON, acting upon the principle that
Great Britain must never admit herself in the
wrong, however wrong she may be, inflicted the
penalty of dissolution upon the Parliament, and
appealed to the country. The country supported
him, and declared, not that Sir JOHN BOWRING had
done right, but that his action must be upheld.
The chief advocates of the policy of justice
to all nations, whether Occidental or Oriental,
whether strong or weak, were rejected by their con-
stituents ; and men who loved their country, but
loved righteousness more, mourned over this
national endorsement of an atrocious wrong. Twelve
years have passed since then. The same Minister
holds the Foreign Seal as held it then ; but a change
has come over the nation. The voices that then
cried in the desert have since then been heard in
the Senate. Mr. GLADSTONE, who voted against Lord
PAL3IERSTON then, is Lord PALMERSTON'S successor
now; Mr.BRIGHT, who was rejected by the third city in
England then, is, next to Mr. GLADSTONE, the most
influential member of the Administration. Lord
CLARENDON, as we have said, is Foreign Minister
now as he was then; but he has different colleagues,

a different Parliament, a different nation, we
might almost say, to deal with. So, instead of
defending the -latest outrage of a British
official against the Chinese, he announces that
the author of it has been recalled, and he
expresses his hope that this measure will be an effec-
tual warning to the whole consular body. And yet
the outrage at Formosa is not to be named in the
same day as the outrage at Canton. There was no
bombarding with red-hot cannon balls, no wholesale
slaughter of innocent victims, no refusal to accept an
apology when it was offered, no attempt to maintain
by force a wholly illegal act. Lord PALMERSTON
would have resigned twenty times over rather than
have consented to this course of his former colleague.
But, happily, the lesson taught amid jeers and scoffs
and personal sacrifice a dozen years ago—the lesson
that righteousness, and righteousness alone, exalteth
a nation, has been learnt at last. Lord CLARE DON'S
short speech is enough to arouse from his undis-
tinguished grave in the Sussex village. churchyard
the great man who, through good and evil report,
mainly through evil report, protested against the
substitution of might for right. It is enough to
kindle to new life the warm heart and the clear brain
of RICHARD COBDEN.

CORRESPONDENCE PROM PARIS.

()MOIL OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, TUESDAY, April 6.
Lord Stanley's speech at Glasgow, or at least that part
of it which relates to foreign affairs, has attracted some
little notice here. Lord Stanley, it will be remembered,
said the only serious risk of England being involved in a
European complication must arise from those pledges of
protection, in the form of guarantees, which you have given
to minor European States. " Well, it is obvious to remark
that those small States are protected by international
jealousy quite as much as by international morality. No
great Power willingly sees any other great Power aggran-
dised in its own neighbourhood. The only real danger to
those minor communities would arise out of anything like
a general understanding or concert, or combination
among all the greater Powers for the absorption of the
smaller ones." Such a combination, Lord Stanley
added, is very improbable, but should it be made, it could
hardly be expected that England would oppose
it single-handed. On this the Temps remarks that
Lord Stanley made similar remarks two years ago,
in order to disarm criticism on his intervention iu the
Luxembiurg affair. As the Liberal and Conservative
parties are pretty much at one on foreign intervention,
and differ only in detail, the Temps thinks that these
statements, which, it observes, represent the nation
generally, are not very reassuring for the small States in
these times of "general agglomeration." The small States
are being swallowed up wholesale by their neighbours,
and England decides to remain an indifferent spectator.
The Budget, or rather the Things in General debate, is
still going on. The Right is intensely anxious to get
rid of the political part of the discussion and to land on the
comparatively tcrra firma of the Budget itself, but the
Left is not less anxious to keep up its attack. Yesterday
M. Buffet vigorously assailed the system of official candi-
datures, and 'again M. de Forcade la Roquette defended
them. Then M.M. Louvet and Magnin carried
the discussion into the territory of finance proper,
to the great delight of the majority, who a'ce
the denunciations of the Left with a very bad
grace, and are anxious to end the debate, in order
to get off to electioneering occupations. But even the
fiscal proclivities of MM. Louvet awl Magnin did not
keep them to £s. d. considerations solely. Politics were
continually cropping up in the speech of the former. To-
day the.Budgetis again forgotten, and Disarmament takes
its place.

The incident of Saturday, M. Rouher's polite invitation
to M. Girot-Pouzol to " hold his tongue," is nut,
I hear, likely to be forgotten very readily. The
insulted deputy means to bring the Minister to
account for the expression, and is collecting evidence
that his version of the scene in the Clermont Court is
correct. A great number of persons have signed a
memorial affirming that the words which M. Router
denied were actually made use of.

The Paris branch of the We3leyan Missionary Scc't ty
has just held its anniversary at the Church in the Rue
Raquepine. Addresses were delivered by several English
clergymen, and over £6O collected.

Lyons does not seem disposed to give up the project of
an international exhibition for 1871. The scheme has
been revived on modified terms. The projectors do rot
this time ask for a subvention of £60,000. All they
want is the exact sum which the octroi duties may produca
during the time the exhibition is open. All suc-
cess to the scheme ; but it would appear from past ex-
perience that no exhibition can command very great
success unless held in a great capital. The International
Art Exhibition at Munich is definitively determined en for
this year, and will be opened on the Ist of August.
Munich is at all times an art exhibition, and doubtless
would command a much larger number of tourists if the
sanitary arrangements were not so wretched. They have
however, greatly improved of late years.

ITALY.

(FRO3I our. OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
FLORENCE, MAncu 31.

Knowing that the long-expected Green-book would be
in the hands of members yesterday, I have delayed my
letter until this morning for the sake of being able to give
some account of the impression which it has produced.
You will recollect that after the publication of the French
Yellow-book an interpellation was made by Deputy
Guerzoni with regard to the attitude of the Government
here vis-a-vis to that of France on the Roman question.
The reply was, that a more complete collection of
despatches, down to a later date, would be laid before
Parliament. This has been looked for with groat impa-
tience. You will have been informed by telegram of the
substance of its contents, and I will only add that since
the 31st of October last (date of the last French despatch
already published at Paris) the present issue contains only
one despatch of General Menabrea (dated 23rd November),
in reply to the above, and reiterating the arguments al-
- for the recall of the French troops from Civita
Vecchia. To this, owing to the absence of M. de Monsticr,
there was no reply, and no despatches are publis' eel
bearing date subsequently to 'the accession to (Ace of Al.
de Lavalette. There is, consequently, no ground fo:
assuming any change in the reciprocal attitude of the
respective Governments, beyond what may be inferred
from the antecedents of the last-named Minister, and the
general impression appears to be one of considerable dis-
appointment at the meagreness of the additional informa-
tion supplied by the document which has been waited for
so long. At the same time, the publication of the whole
series of the Italian despatches proves the policy of the
Menabrea Ministry to have been such as to furnish a suc-
cessful answer to any hostile interpellation from the Left.
The curious ceremony of the " Colorabina " took place
as usual on Easter Eve, and at this dead season, in the
absolute dearth of political intelligence, your readers may
possibly not be averse to hearing something about it. At
the time when preparations were being made for the second
crusade, a considerable body of Florentines assemble 1 to
join it at the spot which is now the villa of rrince Devi
doff at Saint Donato, but which then was a monad' ers
under the abbot of that name, who became the leader of
the expedition. The fact, by the way, is commemorated
by a painting, executed by Liverati, to the order of the
wealthy owner of the place. Among these Florentines
was to be found one of the celebrated family of the Pazzi.
This knight, after bearing his part in the furious escalade
which placed Jerusalem in the possession of the Crusaders,
was so astonished at having effected his entrance without
receiving a wound, that he betook himself on the following •
day to the spot at which be had climbed the ramp:..rts.
There he found that his ascent had been facilitated by a
flint, which projected from the wall. This flint he took
possession of, and deposited it at Florence in the Church
of the SS. Apostoli, where, according to the tradition, it
still remains. A condition attached to the possession of
certain property now belonging to the municipality
ensures the continued observance of the ceremony con-
nected with it, which is quite peculiar to Florence. On
the morning of Holy Saturday a procession leaves the
cathedral for the SS. Apostoli, and the fire which is to
serve for the lamps and tapers during the ensuing year is
struck from the flint in question and brought back to the
Duomo. But this is only a prologue to the " Colombina."
In front of the high altar and the canon's choir is erected
a lofty wooden pillar, from the summit of which a cord is
stretched along the church, and, passing out of the great
doors, is affixed at its other extremity to a monumental
structure of fireworks placed upon a car drawn by the
large oxen of the country. At the moment when the first
words of the Easter " Gloria in Excelsis " awaken the
organs and all the bells of Florence, a light from the new
fire is applied to the pillar, and a fiery dove or carrier-
pigeon bursts into life at the summit, and, scattering a
sheaf of sparks like a comet's tail, rushes over the heads
of the crowd along the nave and out of the doors, ignites
the car of fireworks in the middle of the piazza, and
returns with equal rapidity to die out before the altar,
while the explosion of the mortars outside forms an ac-
companiment to the booming cf the bells, the crash of the
music, and the singing of the choir. Any one who is
acquainted with the gloomy magnificence of the interior
of the cathedral of Florence, and the wonderful effect of
sound under the dome of Brunelleschi, will be able to
imagine that the tout ensemble is not otherwise than
striking. The car, some of the fireworks on which are
arranged so as not to explode at once, is then drawn by
the oxen in front of the old palace of the Pazzi family,
where the rest are let off. This curious observance dates
from between three and four centuries ago.

Mr. Chapman's action against Mr. Price, Q.C.,
came to an abrupt termination, so far as the public hearing
is concerned, on the opening of the Assize Court at Leeds
on Monday morning. Counsel on each side had a con-
ference with the judge in private, and after that it
was agreed to refer the points at issue unreservedly
to an arbitrator. His lordship expressed a strong opinion
that topics would have to be gone into unsuited for a court
of justice, and the troublesome investigation could be very
much better conducted by a referee. The referee is to have
full powers, everything being left to his discretion.

A- mysterious tragedy is at this moment causing a
great sensation in the neighbourhood of the Rue do Tour--
non, Paris. A loud detonation was heard a few morn'ngs
back proceeding from the apartment of Commandant
Thevet, at the barracks of the Garde de Paris. On the
door being forced open, that officer was found ing on
his bed lifeless, baying discharged a pistol into the rogios of
his heart. Near him was standing a lady dressed in her
under clothing only, and who proved to be the wife of a
person of high family residing in the neighbourhood. The
deceased officer was between forty and fifty years of age,
and possessed of considerable property. An investigation
is going on, but this affair is still enveloped in great obsCu-
rity. The lady, who is aged about 30, had been Acouaimted
with Ali commadiat fa about to watts.

PARLIAMENTARY AND MUNICIPAL
ELECTIOII'S.

The select committee appointed by the Muse of Com-
mons to inquire into the general question of parliamentary
and municipal elections held their first sitting on Tues-
day. The members elected to sit on this committee are
Sir M. H. Beach, Mr. Brand, Mr. Bright, Mr. Cross,
Mr. Dalglish, Mr. Edward Egerton, Mr. Fawcett, Mr.
Graves, Sir George Grey, Mr. Gathorne Hardy, the
Marquis of Hartington, Sir F. Heygate, Mr. Staveley
Hill, Mr. Howes, Mr. Hunt, Mr. James, Mr.
Leatham, Mr. Locke, The O'Connor Don, Mr. Eaikes,
Mr. Henry Smith, Mr. Villiers, and Mr.,Whitbread. The
Marquis of Hartington took the chair, and the first
witness called was Mr. Barber, the Mayor of Nottingham,
who said that in that borough, in connection with the
municipal elections, he believed one-third of the voters
were corrupt. A number of statistics which he
a•lduced went to spew tl at in one of the wards of the
borough, cut of 1,067 voters, 600 were open to bribes ;
in another ward, 500 out of 1,330 were susceptible to the
same influence ; in a third, 250 out of 630 ; in a fourth,
300 out of 1,008; in a fifth, 170 out of 678; in a sixth,
100 out of 582; and in a seventh, 582 out of 1,475. The
amounts paid were usually 3s. 6d. and 55., though some-
times they were much larger, and the bribery was a
matter of public notoriety; so much so, indeed, that
many respectable persons refused to have anything to do
with the elections at all. The reception of bribes was not
confined to the lower classes, but if the amount offered
was deemed sufficiently large, the shopkeepers were quite
ready to take it. This system of bribery had been in
existence as long as the witness remembered. He did not
think that the bribery at municipal elections was intended
to have, or did have, any considerable effect upon the
parliamentary elections. In answer to Mr. Villiers, the
witness said that attempts had been made to stop the
system of bribery that existed, but they had generally
broken down before the elections were over. The money
for the bribes was paid by the candidates generally,
though, when the amount was large, it was sometimes
raised by subscription. The corruption in the borough
was on the increase, and, in the opinion of the
witness, money would carry any election, parliamentary
or municipal, in Nottingham. Replying to Mr. Hardy,
Mr. Barber stated that there were many instances in
which small shopkeepers had been content to receive 10s.
for their votes. One remedy for the present evil
would be secret voting, if a system of secret
voting could be adopted, though probably more
would be done in the way of remedy if the
law could easily be put into operation to punish the
bribers and the bribed. To Mr. Fawcett the witness said
that a public prosecutor would be necessary to put the
law into motion against offenders. The remainder of the
sitting was occupied with the examination of other wit-
nesses from Nottingham, who confirmed the views
expressed by Mr. Barber. The committee will take
evidence from various boroughs and towns in England,

CENTRAL CHAMBER OF AGRICULTURE,

A meeting of the council of the Central Chamber of
Agriculture was held on Tuesday at the Salisbury Hotel,
Salisbury-square.
Amongst the gentlemen present were Lord Berners,
Earl Grosvenor, M.P., Sir Massey Lopes, M.P., Sir
George Jenkinson, M.P., Sir Wilfred Lawson, M.P.,
Major Parker, M.P., Mr. G. Backhouse, M.P., Mr. T.
Dyke Acland, M.P., Mr. Christopher Sykes, M.P.,
Colonel Brise, Mr. G. H. Gregory, M.P., Captain
P. G. Craigie (North Riding), Mr. R. C. Wade (Devon-
shire), and others.
After the transaction of some formal business,
The CHAIRMAN called upon Mr. R. Jasper More to
bring forward his proposal for a deputation to the Presi-
dent of the Board of Trade on the subject of a separate
Government Department of Agriculture.
Mr. JASPER MORE said at the last meeting there was
an adjourned discussion on this subject, and on
the night of that day Mr. T. Dyke Acland
brought forward his motion on the same subject
in the House of Commons. Mr. Acland fairly repre-
sented to the House the remarks made in the council.
In making his motion Mr. Bright stated that the Home
Secretary was considering whether some adjustment of
departments could not be made which would to some
extent attain the object of the chamber. He would, there-
fore, propose that they should not at present send a depu-
tation to the President of the Board of Trade, but should,
at the same time, keep the matter in mind, so that if an
arrangement of departments did not take place to their
satisfaction, they would be able to place their views before
Bright in a definite form.

The proposal for the adjournment of the question met with
general approval, and the chairman proposed that the
matter should be referred to a committee of the council on
the subject. Sir Massey Lopes, in seconding the motion, said
they might congratulate themselves on the fact that the
Prime Minister had to some extent given his promise that
something should be done ; and that, statesmen on both
sides of the House had admitted that the grievance as it
stood at present was indefensible. He was quite satisfied
that the urban population were not at all aware
of the extent of the grievance to which they were subjected.
People in 'the rural districts, and, he believed, all
county members, were alive to it ; but they wanted the
assistance of the borough members, and the only way to
obtain that was to create some agitation in the towns.
He did not think that it would be desirable for the com-
mittee to propose any particular remedy ; the more they
dealt in generalities the better.
Mr. R. C. WADE asked whether it was intended that
information should be collected, or that advocates should
be sent about the country. If the latter course were
pursued, he believed that it would be anything but bene-
ficial.

Sir GEORGE JENKINSON, M.P., said he had a motion on
the paper of the House of Commons, for the 16th instant,
asking for an inquiry, but since he put that motion on the
paper, Mr. Rathbone, the Liberal member for Liverpool,
had asked him to postpone it for the purpose
of giving him an opportunity, as the representa-
tiye of one of the largest mercantile towns in England,
of taking the initative in the matter, and of
chewing the feeling of the towns on this subject. When
once the towns saw that it would be to their interest to
support the counties on this question, the case would be
greatly strengthened.

The motion was agreed to, the following committee being
appointed :—Mr. Andrews, Captain Craigie, Mr. Jasper
More, Mr. D. Long, Mr. F. S. Corrance, M.P., Sir
Massey Lopes, M.P., Sir George Jenkinson, M.P., and
Mr. Varden.

The third subject on the paper was, "What steps should
be taken with regard to the Government Contagious
Diseases (Animals) Bill." Mr. Hawley proposed a series
of resolutions on the subject. He asked the Council to
resolve that there should be added to the bill compulsory
regulations for the proper accommodation of animals in
transit by ship or rail; provisions that owners of animals
suffering from contagious or infections disease should be
required to give immediate notice of the existence of such
disease ; that less arbitrary powers should be given to inspec-
tors; that the slaughter of cattle which have been in contact
with plague-stricken cattle should; be made compulsory ;
that sheep-pox should be dealt with in the same way;
that the slaughter quarantine, or sufficient inspection of
imported animals at the places of debarkation should be
made compulsory ; that separate markets should be
established by statutory enactment at all places where
foreign animals are landed ; and that a deputation be
appointed to lay these views before the Vice-President of
the Privy Council.

This series was in substance carried (with some altera-
tions) after some little discussion.

On the motion of Sir GEORGE JENKINSON, an additional
resolution was adopted to the effect that every encourage-
ment ought to be given to the carrying on and the de-
velopement of the dead meat trade.
On the motion of Mr. WHITAKER (Worcester) seconded
by Mr. RIGBY (Cheshire), the following resolution was
agreed to : " That compensation for slaughtered animals
should be defrayed, as in Ireland, from the general taxa-
tion, or, at least, a moiety of that compensation should be
defrayed from Imperial revenue." -
The deputation to attend on the President of the Board
of Trade that afternoon was then appointed, Mr. T.
Rigby (Cheshire), Mr. Randall (Lincolnshire), Captain
Craigie (North Riding), and Mr. Duckham (Hereford),
being selected as speakers.
The next subject on the paper was "To consider the
best substitute for the malt tax," but in consequence of
the lateness of the hour, ned
and the council adjourned' the discussion was postponed
and

THE COLLIERY EXPLOSION NEAR WIGAN.-
ANOTIIER DEATII.—The list of the victims by the explo-
sion at the Ifighbrooks Colliery, belonging to Messrs.
Mercer and Evans has been further increased to thirty.
four by the death of the lad Wilcock, whose name has
been heretofore included in the list of those most seriously
injured.

THE PUBLIC HEALTH. —Last week the annual
rate of mortality in London was 27 per 1,000, while 30
was the rate in 13 other large towns of the United King.
dom. In the metropolis, 2,319 births and 1,670 deaths
were registered, the latter exceeding by 40 the estimated
number. It is remarked that the mortality in London
has gradually increased during the last six weeks, the
deaths in the seven days ending 27th February having
been 1,419, or 251 less than they were last week. Four
persons were killed by vehicles in the streets, The mean
temperature (1 the,LveAls Ta,l3oicitto or La jliat
tho mum. •