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make these railways were made with a cost and risk
that deterred all bona fide capitalists from taking
part in the work, and in the next place subjecting
those who from motives of speculation did find the
money to the powers of the great companies. The
public had such interest in the maintenance of an
independent route between South Wales and Lan-
cashire that Parliament might be expected to pro-
tect that route, and thus realise the expectations
that the Act of Parliament held out ; but as to
whether this would be done or even attempted,
either on behalf of the shareholders or the public,
it was not for him to express an opinion or offer any
advice. The Mid-Wales Company, during the last
two years, had acted upon this policy.
After a short conversational discussion the report
was adopted, and a special vote of thanks having
been passed to Mr. Whalley, M.P., for his able and
courteous services in connection with the company,
the proceedings closed.

Meeting of the Constitutional Association.

A meeting of the Constitutional Association was
held on Tuesday night in the Corn Exchange, to
consider resolutions expressing confidence in the
Government of Lord Derby.
Mr. B. SOWLER, Q.C., was called upon to pre-
side ; and he asked the meeting to give a fair hear-
ing to the distinguished gentlemen who would ad-
dress them.

The lion. A. EGERTON, M.P., who was received
with protracted cheering, moved the first resolution,

as follows :—" That this meeting is of opinion that
the policy of the Government on the subject of re-

form, as stated by the Chancellor of the Exchequer,

is satisfactory, as indicating clearly and definitely
the true principles upon which the Legislature
ought to proceed in the settlement of the ques-
tion, and as being best calculated to result in
an efficient measure." (Cheers.) He said that, as
this was the first public meeting of the Con-

stitutional Association, it was right that some
one should explain the necessity for such an Asso-
ciation. It was the opinion of the Conservative
party and of the moderate Liberals throughout the
country that it would be unwise to let the question

of Reform fall into the hands of the extreme Radi-

cal party. The extreme Radicals professed a great
belief in the virtues of the being they were pleased
to call the working man. They ignored the fact
that it was not only those who toiled with their
hands that should be called working men. The
object of a Reform Bill should be to embrace

all who did service to the State, whether by
their heads or their hands. The Constitutional
Association were in favour of such a measure ; and
they desired also to defend themselves, as Conser-
vatives, from malignant assaults that had been
made upon them. (Hear, hear.) The only Re-

form Bill that had had a chance of passing of late
years was that introduced by Lord Derby in
1859. (Cheers.) There was no ground for the
charge that the Conservatives were unfitted, as
a party, for dealing with reform. They wished to
improve the constitution, not to destroy it—(cheers)

—and the work of reform could not be in safer
hands. He must confess that the bill of the present
Government did not go far enough. (Hear, hear.)
He was content, however, to give a general support
to the Government, because he believed they were
admirers of the constitution as at present estab-
lished, and of the balance of interests, and might,
therefore, be trusted to deal with the question.
(Cheers.) He believed they would accept amend-
ments that would not destroy the constitution, and
reject those which would bring the country to the
verge of Republicanism. (Cheers.) The Govern-
ment had claims upon the country irrespective of
the reform question. The administrative coach was
well horsed, as had been shown by the improvement
in the Indian Government, the army, and the pro-
posal of Mr. Hardy to reform the poor laws. As a
whole, the Ministry was a better Ministry than its
predecessor. He should be prepared to go lower than
a£6 franchise in the boroughs. (Hear, hear.) He
could nut see any objection• to the municipal fran-
chise, and he thought we should eventually come to
that in boroughs. He believed that that opinion was
shared by many of the Conservative party. In re-
gard to the county franchise, he wished to secure a
due representation of the lauded interest, which was
extremely influential, and ought not to be swamped.
(Cheers.) At this point the confusion rose to such
a pitch that the speaker was compelle 1 to pause, and
the Chairman directed that the doors should be
closed. The room was, he said, as full as it could
hold. Those persons who had obtained admission
by means of forged orders could remain, on the con-
dition that they remained quiet. Several persons
were removed by the police, and comparative quiet
was obtained for a very brief period. Mr. Egerton
proceeding with his address, commended the pro-
posals of the Government for the re-distribution of
seats as being preferable to those of the Russell-
Gladstone bill. (Hear, hear.) He said the time
was come when Conservatives ought to sink all
minor differences of opinion and give a cordial sup-
port to the Conservative Government. The Radical
party was very strong, but very ill led, both in
Manchester and elsewhere. (Cheers.) He hoped he
should always be spared the pain of listening to the
trash which Mr. Beales—(groans)—was in the habit
of uttering to theassembliesof his admirers. (Cheers
and laughter.) In conclusion, he called upon all
Conservatives to band together for the purpose of re-
sisting radical assaults upon the constitution. (Loud
cheers.)—Mr. W. Ambrose, in seconding the resolu-
tion, said that the House of Commons was at pre-
sent a fair representative of the country at large.
(Cheers and hisses.) Mr. Ambrose referred, in
the course of his speech, to Mr. Lowe and Mr.
Bright. The name of the member for Calne was
received with partial hooting ; but the name of
Mr. Bright was received with an explosion of
groans and counter cheers that rendered it im-
possible for the speaker to proceed for a few
minutes.—The Chairman put the resolution, and
there was a large show of hands in its favour. H 3

said it was quite clear he need not put the contrary.
(About a hundred hands were held up against the
motion amidst loud hooting.) The Chairman de-
clared the resolution carried. (Cheers.)—Mr. R.
Stanfield, who said he was a working man, moved
the second resolution. lie said he would expose

one of the most dastardly, mean, and infamous ac-
tions that could be committed. Their opponents
had tried to upset the meeting, but he thanked God
they had been foiled. (Cheers.) The interruption
was renewed, and lasted for several minutes. More
men were ejected amidst a terrible uproar. The
Chairman vainly called order, but the attention of a
great part of the meeting was breathlessly fixed upon
a struggle between the police and a number of per-
sons who were resisting their ejection. In the midst
of the struggle a bench gave way, but nobody was
hurt. Comparative order was then restored, and
the mover of the resolution proceeded with his speech.
He said that he had worked night and day to esta-
blish this association. It had been sail that no
Conservative ever wore clogs, but if the meeting
could see him in his daily avocations they would be
able to say that they had seen a Conservative with
a soot-bag on his back. (Much laughter and ap-
plause.) Talk about the bloated aristocracy ! He
only wished he was one. (Roars of laughter,) He
moved " That the thanks of the meeting be given to
Lord Derby—(loud chee,rs) —Mr. Disraeli—(chee rs)
and the other members of the Cabinet, for the prompt
and efficient manner in which they had undertaken
the settlement of the reform question, and that the
general policy of the Government entitles it to the
entire eon fiddnee of the people at large."
Mr. B. FERRAND seconded the resolution.
The CHAIRMAN read a telegram from London an-
nouncing the course which the Government had
taken, and the withdrawal of the notice of motion
which Mr. Gladstone had given. He said he ac-
cepted
this resolution as a proof that the sincerity
and honesty of the Government were triumphant.
(Cheers.) The resolution was put, and carried in
the same manner as the preceding, amidst cheers
and counter demonstrations.
Mr. J. W. MAct,unE moved, " That in order to
support the Government as against the factious op-
position of those who seek reform merely for the
purpose of increasing their own political power,
withoutregard to the fair representation of the whole
. of the people, this meeting recommends that peti-

tions to Parliament be prepared and submitted to
the people generally for signature earnestly recom-
mending the adoption of the measures of the Govern-
ment, and deprecating the factious opposition with
which they are threatened." (Cheers.) The reso-
lution was carried. The Hon. Mr. Egerton said the
association had been asked if they would publish a
balance sheet, and so shame the Reform League into
doing likewise. He assured the meeting that a bal-
ance sheet would be published. (Hear, hear.) He
added that it had been clearly ascertained that num-
bers of tickets of admission to that meeting had
been forged. He moved a vote of thanks to the
Chairman, which was seconded by Mr. Touchstone
and passed; and a brief response from the Chairman
brought the meeting to a close at 10 o'clock.

The Chinese in the Pacific States.

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The vast importance which is beginning to be at-
tached to the mining States and Territories of the
West will receive a fresh impetus from their proxi-
mity to the oldest and most populous of civilised
countries—China. The danger is that the Pacific
States may be overrun by the Celestials—not that
there will be any lack of good sturdy labourers.
Mr. FUNG-TANG stated at the banquet in honour of
the opening of the Steam-line between San Fran-
cisco and China, given on the departure of the
first vessel, that there were 60,000 Chinese en the
Pacific coast engaged in mining, or in trade and
commerce. This he said in good English, adding
that " we of China are very fond of trade and corn-
" coerce." He was followed by Mr. CHOY-
CIIUM-CIIEW, who commented on the rea-
sons of the friendly feeling entertained by the
Chinese Government towards the United States,
which he considered the result of the intimate
commercial relations between the two countries.
The feeling in Chiva towards Americans is very
strong and marked. A Chinaman admires an
American as the highest development of the " bar-
barian" element. This is passing strange
to British officials, who consider that the British
display of power ought to have had the effect of
establishing them, in this estimation. A Chinaman
is a shrewd trader, but he believes that he meets
more than his match when he comes across a
Yankee. The Chinese possess a vein of energy ;
and although they do not show it outwardly, still
inwardly they keenly
,appreciate the brains and in-
telligence the American brings to bear on his work.
They are, in short, good judges of human character,
and pure materialists, so the compliment they thus
convey may be considered a high cne. If this
feeling was established when no intimate relation
existed between the two countries, what will it be-
come when the young giant can put his heavy
hand upon the feeble old empire and crumple it all
up ? The first effect of the growing intercourse
will be to give America a paramount influence in
that part of the world. Indeed we believe it would be
a wise policy in England to hand over to America the
Imperial colony of Hongkong. The United States
will now be in a position to insure the object
for which that station is held—that is, the security
of trade, and the due enforcement of treaties by the
Government of China. They cau do this with com-
parative ease from their proximity, and the strength
of such a basis of operation as that given
by California. The Chinese will benefit much
by their contact with such a people as those of the
United States. CHOY-CHUM-CHEW noticed the
great advantage which has been derived from the
establishment in San Francisco of a free school for
teaching the Chinese the .English language. Many
of the young Chinamen are now able to do the work
of interpreters, and several Chinese stores and mer-
cantile offices regularly take the American daily
papers, so that the Chinese become well informed in
the news of the world. The help this gives to-
wards elevating Chinese character will be felt in
time, as the numbers who have thus been educated
increase and return to their native country. That
the Chinamen will freely use the line opened, is seen
from the fact that the Colorado carried 700 steer-
age passengers, all of whom, probably, were
Chinese. The vessels will be crowded on the

trip back to California—the El Dorado of the
Celestial Empire. The future of the Pacific States
is very bright. Under the head of our Mining
Intelligence will be found an extract from the
San Francisco Mining and Scientific Press, giving
the returns of three mines—the Yellow Jacket, the
Savage, and the Imperial. These dividends are
almost fabulous, and cannot readily be credited ;
360, 912, and 780 per cent, per annum upon the
subscribed capital are the figures given by that
journal, and for this statement it is responsible.
But we know that the wealth of the precious
metals, almost at the miner's hands, is great beyond
the belief of Europeans. Chinamen will nut be
slow to avail themselves of such advantages.
Nor has the policy of exclusion obtained force in
these States as in Australia. All the Chinese who
spoke at this banquet expressed warmly their sense
of the kindness with which they had been treated
in San Francisco. Tnus, then, the Flowery
Kingdom is within easy communication with
the richest country in the world. In that country
labour and energy are best rewarded, and every man
starts fair in the race. Numbers of their own peo-
ple have formed successful settlements, and reaped
large rewards even as common labourers ; and the
testimony of the most enlightened of their country-
men will establish the knowledge in China that they
are welcomed in the new land with kindness, are
free to come and go, and to reap and hold unmo-
lested the fruits of their own labour.—Anglo-Anie-
rican Times.

redeem the pledges of self-reform which it has so
often given. The country is fairly sick of the agi-
tation and obstruction of public business incident

to the introduction of Reform Bills destined to be

stifled, and is beginning to suspect the sincerity of
those who always find some good reason for stifling
them. Were this impatience confined to extreme
Radicals, it would be of less importance, but it is
shared by sensible men of all classes and opinions.

Ever sinco it has been admitted that Reform can-

not be staved off or conjured away, it has been the

earnest wish of such !Lien to " settle" it, and this
wish has been reflected with rare unanimity by the

most influential organs of the Press. At last the
House of Commons has realised this, and its Liberal

members are giving the best proof of their public
spirit by postponing all other considerations to the

cause of Reform. —Much, however, is due to the
temper and forbearance of Mr. Gladstone, who has
never shown himself to such advantage while in

office as in rallying his party under adversity. Ilis
moderation has not only won the confidence of all

whom be led to defeat last session, as well as the
general respect of the house, but has also made it
easy for stragglers and deserters to rejoin his stan-

lord.

We observe that several of this class were

present at the meeting on Tuesday, and no one ex-
pressed more unreserved loyalty than Lord Grosve-
nor. Like Mr. Laing, Lord Grosvenor justified his

separation from the Liberals on the last Reform
Bill upon the ground that it contained no element of
finality, and offered no sure resting-place for the
future. Perhaps the attempt to find any such rest-
ing-place may be chimerical ; at all events, as Lord

Gioiveuor perceives, the present Government have
failed to propose one. He, therefore, re-enlists

under the old banner ; and Prudence, no less than

charity, suggests that he arid others'in a like posi-
tion should be welcomed back. Mr. Bright stands

almost alone among the Liberals who have as yet
declared their views on the bill in avowing himself
unable to see any hope of making it worth passing.
Even he disclaims any intention of rejecting it
simply because it proceeds from a Conservative Go-

vernm-ent, but we cannot affect to feel any regret
that a certain divergence of opinion should exist
between him and Mr. Gladstone upon the duty of
the Opposition. Whatever may have been Mr.
Bright's services. to Reform, it was certainly the

imp—utation, just or unjust, of subserviency to his
advice which lost Mr. Gladstone last session the

.allegiance of many valuable supporters. It is essen-
tial to the power, if not to the character, of a States-
man dealing with a great Constitutional question
that he should act with perfect and manifest inde-
pendence. Mr. Bright assures us now that he did
not exercise the influence ascribed to him last ses-

sion. If he can only convince the house that he
exercises no influence this session other than that

which his ability must always command for him, the
hands of Mr. Gladstone will be vastly strengthened
for the advancement of Reform.
THE WESTMINSTER GAZETTE ON " THE FOREIGN
POLICY OF THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON."—TO make
war on Austria, as was done on the most frivil-
ous pretext by Napoleon 111., was to league with
the Revolution. For Austria, with all her faults,
was the great conservative power of Europe, the
most determined, most persevering foe, whom the
Revolution had encountered. And how could a
prince, possessed of the smallest Catholic instincts
—one, too, who called himself the protector of the
Church, the restorer of order—find the heart to
make war on the only other great Catholic State in
Europe? Had her disastrous policy in the thirty
years' war, when she allied herself with the enemies
of her creed, taught France no lesson ? Had she,
who had just herself recovered from a tremendous
social crisis no sympathy for one involved in
perils nearly similar, and who needed all her efforts
to staunch her bleeding wounds ? Did not every
motive of self-interest, as well as of justice and
humanity, dictate to Napoleon 111. a policy of for-
bearance towards such an Empire ? But it will
be said, the state of Italy demanded the interven-
tion of France, and that for that country there was
no repose, as well as no progress, as long as Austria
there retained her dominion. Let us impartially
examine facts. Austria had, since the treaty of
Utrecht, possessed Lombardy ; and in 1797 the
Venetian territory was ceded to her by the First
Napoleon ; a cession which was ratified by the Con-
gress of Vienna in 1815. This was a part of that
fatal system of agglomerations so much lauded in
the recent speech of the French Emperor, and
which is there attributed to the genius of Napo-
leon I. Now, what was the general character of
the Austrian rule in Italy ? There can -be no
doubt that for the first years of ter the general
peace the incessant plots and revolutionary man-
ceuvres of the Carbonari had led to very severe
measures of repression on the part of the Austrian
Government. The Emperor Francis 11. had
suffered so much from revolutions, that he pun-
ished rebellion with greater severity than any other
crime. But, at all events, since the accession of
the Emperor Ferdinand in 1837, the Austrian
rule had been remarkable for its mildness. No
Italian Government, aid scarcely any Govern-
ment in Europe, did so much for agriculture,
commerce, and manufactures, and for education,
whether popular or liberal. In these respects no
country was more blessed than Lombardy by the
munificence of Nature and the industry of man.
In 1838 Venice was declared a free port, and its
commerce for the ten years preceding 1848 was
extremely flourishing. On this subject an elegant
and accomplished Catholic traveller has recently
written as follows :

" To Austria be the. glory of having raised Venice to
the state in which she now leaves her. If her streets and
canals show evident marks of a steadily-increasing
trade, and of the prosperity which naturally attends it, to
Austria is she indebted for that hopeful sign ; if her
palaces on the Grand Canal no longer exhibit the marks
of violence and ruin which once characterised them so
painfully, to Austrian care and Austrian liberality is it
entirely owing; and if those of her churches which
escaped the destructive rapacity of the French plunderers
are yet rich in monuments which record her ancient
grandeurs, and in shrines that testify to the piety of her
children, to Austrian reverence and to Austrian Catho-
licity must the praise be given."
With the accession of the Emperor Francis Joseph
a new era dawned on the Austrian Empire. The
Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom began to reap the
blessings proffered by the new regime. A Con-
cordat with the Holy See guaranteed the freedom
of the Church, and emancipated her from the
fetters of the Leopoldine laws, which had been
gradually relaxed. More extended powers were
granted to the municipal corporations ; and in
proportion as order were consolidated in the re-
cently distracted empire, solid liberties would have
been established in which Italy would have had a
full share. Nov, in regard to a country, the
cradle of his family, and which naturally called
forth his liveliest interest and sympathy, what,
under the circumstances stated, was the policy
which justice and prudence alike dictated to the
Emperor Napoleon 111. ? Was it not to endeavour
by his counsels to bring about a Confederation of
the Italian States, under the Presidency of the
Sovereign Pontiff—a Confederation which, like the
Germanic Diet, would have secured Italy against
foreign aggression, and left to each State its auto-
nomy ? Was it not his true policy to form a
league with the Italian Governments to resist the
efforts of the revolutionary party—to advise them
to establish on a solid basis the freedom of the
Church—to reform all abuses in the administra-
tion and in courts of law, and to renovate the
old systems of representation, adapted to the tra-
ditions, the circumstances, the wants, the interests
of the various classes in the various States of the
Italian Peninsula ? What an impulse would such
a Confederation have given to Italian industry ?
What a field would it not have opened to Italian
commerce, stretching from the southern shores of
Sicily to the farthest extremities of Hungary ?
If Austria had entered on a better system of
government in Italy, as elsewhere, had not an-
other Italian Power set a noble example of legi-
timate reforms? Had not the venerable Pontiff,
who now rules the Church, introduced from the
very commencement of his pontificate, a series of
beneficial measures, calculated to confer freedom
and happiness on his people ? Had he not consid-
erably augmented the lay element in the adminis-
tration, alleviated the public burdens, improved
the collection of the taxes, established a Council of
Finance and a Council of State, extended the
powers of the Provincial Administrative Bodies,
encouraged agriculture, commerce, and manufac-
tures, and lastly, opened a central Parliament in
Rome itself ? Was it not the fatal French Revol-
ution of 1848 that first thwarted, and the Red
Republicans and Socialists of Italy that utterly
prevented the Pontiff's wise and generous mea-
sures? His was no rash, innovating policy; for
Pius IX. had, with a few exceptions, but returned
to the political system of his predecessors. The
Protestant historian, Niebuhr, remarks that prior
to the invasion of the French Jacobins, in 1796,
the provinces of the Papal States enjoyed a va-
riety of free constitutions, adapted to their wants,
and that it was the French who introduced into
those States the system of bureaucratic centralisa-
tion. And it was the retention of that system by
Cardinal Consalvi, after the peace of 1814, that
was one of the causes of the embarrassments of
the Papal Government prior to the Italian Revolu-
tion. The system of Confederation here suggested
approved itself to the judgment of the French Em-
peror himself. But the moment he selected for
proposing such a scheme was most inopportune.
After he had been the means of expelling not only
the Austrian Emperor, but all the other legitimate
Sovereigns from the orth of Italy, he proposed to
the Pope and to the King of Naples to enter into
a Confederation with the new King of Italy, who
had already seized a portion of the Papal do-
minions, 023,(1 wilco counsels were guided by meu

most hostile to religion and to social order. This
would, forsooth, have been strange society for the
Pontiff and the King of Naples. It is, however,
such a prince—the miserable tool of the infidel
and revolutionary party—Napoleon 111. succours
by his arms, and, without the least provocation
from the Emperor of Austria or the Italian princes,
helps to establish on the ruins of their thrones.
The victories of the French in Italy are dearly
bought ; the armies of Austria display their
valour and skill ; and it is only by recent improve-
ments in their artillery the French gain the ad-
vantage over foes in every respect worthy of
themselves. The battles of Solferino and Magenta
will ever be memorable for the obstinate bravery
displayed by all the troops engaged, whether
on the side of the victors or of the vanquished.
That young, chivalrous descendant of the House
of Hapsburg, who, from the hour he has ascended
the Imperial throne; has known so much sorrow,
who has had so bitterly to expiate the faults of
his ancestors, was here denied the garland of vic-
tory. During this very campaign, the Emperor
of the French, in despite of his solemn promise to
the Pope, suffers his Piedmontese ally to occupy the
Romagna, and take permanent possession of it.
This was the first act of spoliation perpetrated on
the territory of the Church. In the treaty of
Zurich, indeed, which followed on the conclusion
of the peace with Austria, the integrity of the
Papal dominions was guaranteed. But this, like
other good resolutions, remained a dead letter.
On the other hand, the disinterested services of
the French Emperor were not to go unrewarded,
and Nice and Savoy were by this treaty annexed
to his empire. He had gone, he alleged, into
Italy to combat for "an idea." But this was
evidently not the pure, spiritual idea spoken of
by metaphysicians ; but one which they call a
notion, that is, an idea deduced from the senses.
What shall I say of the treacherous, buccaneering
expedition against Sicily and Naples, conducted
with the secret connivance of the Sardinian Go-
vernment, by desperate revolutionary bandits ?
Scarcely had the Revolution despoiled the King of
Naples of his territory, when as the small but cour-
ageous army of the Pope, headed by the heroic

L'amoriciere' and Pin:KAan were waiting to com-
bat the buccaneers from the south, they were,
without any declaration of hostilities, assailed by
the Piedmontese marauders from the north. In
despite of its acts of valour, the noble little army
succumbed, of course, to superior numbers. But
all this while the great Imperial defender of the
Church, who had again given the Pope solemn
assurances that his dominions should be preserved
inviolate to him, looked with folded arms on
this sacrilegious robbery. Words of vain pro-
test could deceive neither friend nor foe. Since
the treacherous enticing away of King Ferdinand
VII. and of the royal family of Spain to Bayonne
by the First Napoleon, had an act of more flagi-
tious perfidy been ever perpetrated than the one
here spoken of ? Had not Pope Pius IX. reason
to say to the French Ambassador, "Your Emperor
has cheated me. He guaranteed to me the in-
tegrity of my States." Could not a word, a ges-
ture, a wink of the eye from this puissant Em-
peror have stayed the march of the Piedmontese
troops into the Roman territory ? This sad his-
tory will be brought to a close in the next number.

HEALTH OF LONDON.

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(From the Registrar-General's Report.)
The following is the weekly return of the Regis-
trar-General of births and deaths in London and in
12 other large towns of the United Kingdom :
General Register-office, Somerset-house, Feb. 25.
In the week that ended on Saturday, Feb. 23,
the births registered in London and 12 other large
towns of the United Kingdom were 4,707 ; the
deaths registered, 2,987. The annual rate of mor-
tality was 25 per 1,000 persons living.
In London the births of 1,178 boys and 1,164
girls, in all 2,342 children, were registered in the
week. In the corresponding week of ten years 1857-
66 the average number, corrected for increase of
population, is 2,193.
The deaths registered in London during the week
were 1,337. It was the eighth week of the year, and
the average number of deaths for the week is, with
a correction for increase of population, 1,566. The
deaths in the present return are less by 229 than the
estimated number.

Zymotic diseases in the aggregate destroyed the

lives 'of 233 persons, 193 of whom were under 20
years of age. Whooping-cough is the most fatal
disease in the zymotic class, and caused the deaths
of 73 children and one adult ; 19 of these cases
occurred in the north, 20 in the east, and 17 in the
south districts; 34 deaths occurred from typhus-7
in the west, 4 in the north, 6 in the central, 8 in the
east, and 9 in the south districts. Two deaths in
the London Fever Hospital, Islington, are referred
to the districts from which the patients had been
brought. 'rho ravages of fever, especially in the
poorer districts of the metropolis, are great, and
demand urgent attention. Unlike cholera,, which
visits us at long intervals, fever is always more or
less prevalent, and its baneful effects are seen in the
numbers which swell the weekly bills of mortality.
Thirty-three deaths from smallpox, 7 froth measles,
20 from scarlatina, and 9 from diarrhoea were re-
gistered last week ; one death from choleraic diar-
rhoea was also recorded.

Westminister, St. Margaret —At Dartmouth-
street, on Feb. 19, the son of a tailor, aged 3 years,
" choleraic diarrhoea." Greenwich, West. —At the
Dreadnought Hospital ship, on the 18th of Feb., a
seaman, aged 27 years, " scurvy, scorbutic dysen-
tery, phthisis." Marylebone, All Souls. Found dead
at CleVeland-street, on the 12th of Feb., a tailuress,
aged 40 years, " rupture of aorta by needle passing
through its walls ;" post mortem ; inquest.
The deaths of six persons who were killed by
horses or carriages in the streets were registered

The son of a bricklayer, aged 9 years, crushed by
a cartwheel ; post porter" ; died on the 11th of Feb.,
near to the Royal Free Hospital. The son of a coal
porter, aged 14 years, run over ; inquest ; found
dead on the 16th of Feb., in the Harrow-road, Pad-
dington. A typefounder, aged 22 years, run over by
a cart ; post mortem ; inquest ; died on the 19th of
Feb., in St. Bartholomew's Hospital. A widow of a
clerk, aged 64, run over ; inquest, died on the 9th
of Feb., in the New North-road. A ginger-beer
manufacturer, aged 45 years, run over ; inquest ;
died on the 20th of Feb., in the London Hospital.
The sun of a gunsmith, aged 7 years, run over by a
cart ; manslaughter ; inquest died on the 16th of
Feb., at Nine-elms, Wandsworth.
The annual rate of mortality last week was 22 per
1,000 in London, 22 in Edinburgh, and 34 in
Dublin; 22 in Bristol, 22 in Birmingham, 28 in
Liverpool, 29 in Manchester, 27 in Salford, 25 in
Sheffield, 26 in Leeds, 23 in Hull, 43 in Newcastle-
upon-Tyne, and 30 in Glasgow. The rate in Vienna
was 36 per 1,000 during the weekending the 16th
inst., when the mean temperature was 6.6 deg.
Fahrenheit lower than in the same week in London,
where the rate was 24.

At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich , the mein
height of the barometer in the week was 30.237 in.
The barometrical reading decreased from 29.69 in.
at the beginning of the week to 30.39 on Wednes-
day. The mean temperature of the air in the week
was 46.5 deg., which is 7.8 deg. above the average
of the same week in 50 years (as determined by Mr.
Glaisher.) The highest day temperature was 56.9
deg. on Wednesday'. The lowest night temperature
was 39.9 deg. on Saturday. The entire range of
temperature in the week was, therefore, 17.9 deg.
The mean of the highest temperatures of the water
of the Thames was 47.8 deg. ; that of the lowest was
45.3 deg. The difference between the mean dew-
point temperature and air temperature was 3.6 deg.
The mean degree of humidity of the air was 88,
complete saturation being represented by 100.
Rain fell to the amount of 0.23 in., of which 0.22 in.
fell on Sunday. The general direction of the wind
was S.W. According to a return furnished by the
engineer of the Metropolitan Board of Works, the
average daily quantity of sewage pumped into the
river Thames at ale Southern Outfall Works, Cross-
ness, was 52,214,162 gallons, or 237,233 cubic
metres, equivalent to about as many tons by weight.

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