The Sun.
London, England, 1860-04-18 00:00:00

whom its places of authority are adorned. (Mr.
Gladstone resumed his scat amid loud and prolonged
applause.)
The meeting was closed by the Rev. Dr. Craw-
ford pronouncing the benediction.
The Vice-Chancellor and Rector, with the other
occupants of the platform, then retired in profes-
sional order to the Assembly Room to disrobe, most
of them being loudly cheered by the students as
they descended the steps leading from the platform,
while the three or four representatives of the Town
Council present were greeted with manifestations
of an opposite character.

TILE REFORM B EP UT TION TO

LORD ,TOILN

Yesterday afternoon a deputation from the cor-
poration of Bristol, consisting of the Mayor (J.
Bates, Esq.), Alderman Barrow, and Messrs. Cooke,
Jose, Castle, Bush, Robinson, King, Warren, and
Mr. Ilurges (town clerk), had an interview with
Lord John Russell, at the Foreign-office, Down-
ing-street, for tie purpose of pressing the claims
of Bristol for additional representation,
The deputation was accompanied by the Hon.
F. H. F. Berkeley, M.P. and W. H. Gore Lang-
ton, M.P. (the member for the city of Bristol) ;
and the former having briefly introduced the depu-
tation,
The Mayor of
_BRISTOL addressed his lordship.
He said Bristol justly complained that it had been
overlooked in the bill which his lordship had intro-
duced into the House of Commons, and the princi-
pal ground of complaint was that Leeds was to have
an additional member while Bristol was in that re-
spect to remain as it was at present. This was con-
sidered unjust, because of the importance in many
ways of Bristol over Leeds. He had in his hands
a paper in which a comparison was drawn between
the two places. Now it appeared that in 1851, the
population of Bristol was 137,328,and that of Leeds
172,270; and the number of houses inhabited was,
Bristol, 20,873, and Leeds, 36,165; but while in
1857 the property assessed for property and income
tax in Bristol amounted to £118,396, that in Leeds
only reached £96,936, being about £22,000 in
favour of Bristol. There were other things, how-
ever, which showed Bristol to be in advance of
Leeds. Take, for instance, the number of letters
delivered.. At the date of the last return Bristol
showed 8,334,000 as against 5,075,000 in Leeds, or
at millions in favour of Bristol. For postal ser-
vices, therefore, Bristol paid £31,947, while Leeds
only paid • £24,206. The voters at present were
Bristol, 12,929, and Leeds, 5,945; and the proposed
addition was Bristol, 4,956, and Leeds, 5,979, so
that the new constituencies would be Bristol, with
17,885 voters, only two members; Leeds, 11,924,
three members. The deputation considered those
the strong points in their case; but there were
others. Bristol paid about a million and a quarter
of the customs revenue, while nothing under the
same head was derived from Leeds. Then of the
25 members to be taken from the present constitu-
encies 13 were to be taken from the west of Eng-
land, while only three were to be given to the west
of England. The hon. gentleman also submitted
that Bristol was worthy of consideration, on the
ground that it was the principal port in the west
of England; and as far as education was concerned
it ranked amongst the highest, if indeed not the
highest, in England.
Other members of the deputation having ad-
dressed his lordship,
Lord JoIIN RUSSELL could only say that the
different cases that had been represented to him,'
to Sir George Lewis, and Sir George Grey should
be carefully considered by the Cabinet. But he
might add this observation, that it was very diffi-
cult to take any test but one, and that the rather
simple one of population, in framing any measure
for the improved representation of the people. He
had received several deputations on similar grounds
as the present from various portions of the country,
all of whom, with a plentiful flow of statistics,
wished to show its right to additional representa-
tion. He could only promise that all the statements
should receive due attention.
The deputation then withdrew.

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING TILE

WEEK.

(From the.l2eport of the Registrar-General.)
The weather was last week unusually cola for
April, and the mortality of London was nigh,
though, as in the previous week, it was considerably
lower than it had been in the last three weeks of
March. The deaths in the week that ended last
Saturday were 1,407. In the ten years 1850.59
the average number of deaths in the weeks corre-
sponding with last week was 1,119, which, if cor-
rected for increase of popul Ilion, becomes 1,231.
The deaths of last week, therefore, exceeded, by 176
the number which the average rate of mortality in
the second week of April would have produced.
The mean temperature of the air in last week was
about 5 deg. lower than in either of the two pre-
ceding weeks.
The deaths referred to bronchitis in the week are
208, the corrected average being only 118 ; in the
corresponding week of 1851, when the mean tem-
perature of the air was remarkably low, and
nearly the same as that of last week, the deaths
from bronchitis were not more than 89. Pneumonia
was fatal in 116 cases, the corrected average being
90. Phthisis also continues fatal, for this disease
• numbered 179 last week, white the estimated
number is 164. • But the two zymotic diseases,
smallpox and scarlatina, do not appear to gain
force, as, the weekly mortality from them. has lately
been less than it was in the first three months of
the year. Three deaths from smallpox occurred,
in the week in the sub district of Trinity, Newing-
ton. Five persons died from burns, one man
from his clothes taking fire, two others from the
burning of the houses in which they dwelt; two
persons were burnt by means not recorded. Ten
infants were suffocated in the bed clothes. Four
infants were murdered. A porter, aged 66 years,
died from want on the 27th of March, at 19, Phipp-
street, Shoreditch. Three persons died from in-
temperance, besides two from delirium tremens.
Last week the births of 932 boys and 934 girls,
in all 1,866 children, were registered in London.
In the ten corresponding weeks- of the years
1850.59 the average number was 1,684.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29-805
The mean height on Wednesday and Saturday was
above 30 in. The lowest reading of the barometer
in the week was 29.38 in. on Sunday ; the highest
30.08 in. on Sattirday. The mean temperature of
the air in the week was 40.7 deg., which is 4.5 deg.
below the average of the same week in 43 years (as
determined by Mr. Glaisherl. The mean daily tem-
perature was below the average on every day ex-
cept Sunday; and the extent of depression was
nearly 8 deg. on Wednesday and Saturday. The
thermometer:in the shade rose to 57.2 deg. on Sun-
day, the highest point in the week, and fell to 28.2
deg. on Wednesday, the lowest point, or 3.8 deg.,
below the freezing point of water. The range of
temperature in the week was, therefore, 29 deg.
The mean daily range was 15.8 deg. The
difference between the mean dew -point tem.
perature and air temperature was 5.3 deg., show-
ing the dryness of the air. The mean degree of
humidity was 82 ; the humidity on Friday and
Saturday was respectiVely 95 and 97, approach-
ing nearly to the point of complete saturation,
which is represented by 100. The mean
temperature of the water of the Thames was 46.4
deg. The direction of the wind was-variable ; on
Sunday it was south-west, on the next three days
it was west and north-west, and again south-
west and south, and at the end of the week
north-east. Rain fell to the" amount of 0.21 in.,
half of which fell on Saturday. On Monday
showers of hail and rain were frequent, and in
the evening, there was thunder and lightning ;
and on Tuesday there were showers of • snow,
hail, and rain..

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