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(From the OthiN
In the week that ended on Saturday (Siignst 14) the
number of deaths regiFterod in London was 1,147, ant ex-
hibit a deereaee en those returned for the two previous
%leeks. In the ten years 18-IS-57 the corrected average
number of deaths, allowing. for increase of Population, in the
weeks corresponding with last week was 1,355; the number
now returned is therefore less by 208 than the average rate.,
of mortality:would have produced.

PRICE 4D, STAMPED, SD.

Great Northern Railway if they had power to connect i
with another strong line.

Eight deaths are returned as occasioned from "English
cholera," infantile cholera, and choleraic diaTacea; of this
number 7 were assigned to infants under one year of age;
the other a coachman, aged 40 years, English cholera (14
dnys).

Mr. PEARSON, lest be might be misunderstood, relocated
that he proposed a committee to investigate his calculations
with regard to the line, which should be open to the press,
and he proposed to give a bun4red guineas to a professional
gentleman to assist the committee in their labours.
After a few further (Nervations from the Chairman and
another proprietor, the resolution wascarriedunanitnously.

Diarriux appears to decline, for whereas during the
month cf July the weekly number of dept's from that dis.
ease rose by degree's from 94 to 168, it fell last week to 121,
and was fatal to 105 children under the age cf 2 years. The
deaths referred to mens!es were 25, scarlatina 85, whoop.
fog-cough 38, and to typhus 32. Scarlatina and diphtheria
prevail to a cludderable extent, at double the avetage rate -
of mortality, and affect more particularly the east and
south Cistriet!;..

Votes of thanks to the chairman and Mr. Charles Pearson
closed the proceedings.

SOUTH YORKSHIRE.

The half-yearly meetirg cf this company was held at
Shc ffield yesterday, Dr. Dymond in the chair.
The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report,
expressed his regret at the small amount of the dividend,
which he attributed-entirely to the general commercial dis-
tress. In the passenger traffic there was, as compared with
the corresponding half--year of 1857, a decreasc,of £245, in
merchandise a decrease of £6lB, in the receipts from the
navigation a decrease of £43,311. The item of debenture
interest had been increased by £1,600. The gross receipts
from mineral traffic had been £6,632 more than in the cor-
responding half-year of 1857, and this would have afforded
an additional 1 per cent. dividend, but for the loSs in other
items of traffic, owing to the depression in trade and the
increase indebenture interest, amounting together to £5954.
The direc;ors had appointed Mr. English, from the Great
Western, as traffic manager of this company, and they hoped
that from ,his experience they would obtain an increase of
their traffic.

I !The deaths of six nonagenarians are returned, namely of
two men and four women. Two were respectively 97 and •
98 years of age.
Last week the births of 787 boys and 709 girls, in all •
1,49 G children, were registered in London. In the 10 cor-
responding weeks of the years 1848-57 the average number
was 1,484.

At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height
of the barometer in the week was 29.921 in., it increased
from 30.251 n. at the beginning of the week to 30.26 in. by
9h. 30m. am. on the Bth; decreased with slight exceptions
to 29,721 n. by 3h. _p.m. on the 14th, and then turned to
increase slowly. The mean temperature of the week was
65.4 deg., which is 3.7 deg. above the average of the same
week in 43 years, but corresponds very nearly with
.the
temperature in the same week of last year. The highest
point of the thermometer in the shade was 86.9 deg. on
Thursday; the lowest 46.5.1eg. on Sunday ; the extreme
range was therefore 40 4,leg. The highest pint in
the sun was 108.5 deg. on Thursday, the lowest on
the grass was 35 Odeg. on Friday ; to these ex-
treme differences vegetation was exposed. The mean
temperature of the Thames was 66.4 deg. The water on an
average was 1 deg. warmer than the air. The mean dew
point temperature was 56.3 deg., and corresponds with the
same week of last year. The mean degree of humidity
wanted 27 cf saturation, complete satora:ion king reps_sewed b:.- 10q; ?Le pz evious week was drier, wanting 36
of se.turation, with the air rather cooler. Excepting some
rain on Tuesday morning the weather was flue up to Satur-
day, which was cloudy throughout the day. Rain felt
occasionally after noon. A great and unusual darkness was
prevalent a little before 4h. p.m., during which the direction
of the wind changed from E. by N. to W. by N. Shortly
afterwards rain fell heavily to the depth of 0.5 in. within 40
!Amite& Several flashes of lightning were seen and thunder
was frequently heard.

Mr. BARTOLOMEW, in reply to Mr. Ironside, explained
that the reduction in the rates of their navigation was only
upon a smal portion of the traffic. Its effect during the
last four weeks bed been that their total receipts from that
source were £3,750, as against £4,300 for the same period
of last year.
Mr. fßorsiri saidierad Coalet-o his knowledge that a
firm in Huh had undertaken to convey goods from Hull to
Sheffield for nothing. One Sheffield house who previously
paid the same firm Is. per t,n, amounting to £5OO a-year,
now bad their goods conveyed for nothing. How- was this
done? The answer was that it was understood that this
company were cheated out of their river dues and the boat-
men out of their freight by false weights.
The CHAIRUAN said that upon certain goods a reduction
had hePrl madP. lmho Aid not st‘e how it was pa,sibie fur
Lu to cut rect.

Mr. IRONSIDE said it might not be possible, but it way,
nevertheless, a fact, that goods were forwarded from Hull
to Sheffield by the navigation for nothing. He went on to
complain of the bad management of the railway, the trains
beingg frequently, an hour behind time.
The CHAIRMAN said this was only the case when they
had to wait for other companies' trains meeting theirs.
The adoption of the report was then carried.
The CHAIRMAN moved the declaration of 4 per cent.
dividend on the guaranteed, and 21 per cent. on ungua-
ran teed stock.

Mr. IRONSIDE asked whether this dividend had been
bona fide and honestly earned. He put the question
because the Manchester and Sheffield Company had declared
a dividend on their preference stock without making known
to the shareholders that 25,0001. which went towards paying
it was not esrnings, but a loan from the Great Northern.
The CHAIRMAN could assure Mr. Ironside most faithfully
that this dividend had been fairly earned by the company;
and the motion was duly seconded and carried.
The CHAIRMAN next moved a resolution authorising the
directors to raise capital for an extension of the company's
line from Thorne to Keadby. He explained that the pro-
posed extension would be made on their own land, along the
side of their navigation, and would not cost more than
£3,000 a-mile. The project was laid before the shareholders
at a special meeting in July. The extension of the line
from Doncaster to Thorne had already yielded 5 per cent.
upon the outlay, and the rich district of the Isle of Axholme,
which this further extension wculd traverse, would, he had
no doubt, be still further remunerative.
Mr. P. E. FISHER hoped the judgment of the directors
on this point was sounder than that exercised when they
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invested £25,000 in the Angle-French Packet Company.
The CHAIRMAN said the expenditure of the £23,000 had
produced this company a net revenue of £3,000 to £4,000
erYeexdptloat6tartlion:, the
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resolution 1,113 agreed
to unanimously.
A vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the proceed-
ings.