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Registrar-General's
of London has c 4
during the last six weeks, and in
ended last. Saturday, the total number -6401eak
was 938. In the ten years 1849-1858 the I'lerat,
number of deaths in the weeks corresponding with
last week was 984 ; but as the' deaths included in
the present retain occurred in a population that has
increased, they should be compared With.the aver-
age raised in proportion to the increase, namely,
with 1,082. The ' comparison presents a highly
favourable result, for it appears that the deaths
that occurred last week were less by 144 than the
number that would have occurred if the average
rate of mortality as ascertained for the early part
of June had prevailed.
The births registered last week exceeded the_
deaths in the same period by .730.
Scarlatina, which was fatal in 50 and 42 cases
respectively in the two previous weeks, was fatal
last week in 43. Eleven deaths were cansed by
diphtheria, and occurred as follows :—One at 3,
Windsor-place, Paddington, two in a family at 46,
William-street, Kensington, where a third child
died from scarlatina,. one at 4, Cumberland-court,
St. Pancras, one at 14, Harrington-square, one at -
2, Wellington-road, Hackney, one at 35, Great
Tower-street, two in the same fame family at 10,
Hungerford-street, St. George-in-the-East, one at
46, Tiverton-street, Newington, and one at 4, York-
place, Greenwich.
Fifteen children and two adults died last week
from the small-pox, two infants from eryiipelas,
two persons from carbuncle, seven from syphilis,
two by murder or manslaughter. A- man-died-at-
the age of 92 years, and a woman at 95. TIWo
infants and two adults died from cholera ; they are
registered as 'follows :—" At 2, BlOornsbury-place a
girl. aged seven months, 'es June' 9, infantine
cholera (20 hours), ethaustion." "On the 11th
June, at 2, Brother's-roW, Lambeth, a boy, aged five
months, cholera infantmn (three days)."
."On sth
June, at 24, North-street, Marylebone, a woman,
aged 73 Years, diarrhoea (three aays), cholera (two
days) ;" and " On 9th June, at .15, Little George-
street, Bermondsey, a man, aged 55 years, choleraic
diarrhcea (three days)."
A boy aged six mouths, died at 5, Emma-place,
Kensington, from " spasmodic croup (seven days)"
Mr. Cooper Willis adds on his certificate, that the
child was poisoned by the exhalations from the road
in front of the house, which he states to be " in an
infamous condition." Two ciiildren died at 6,
Austin-street, Hackney-road, from scarlatina fol-
lowed by dropsy. The air of till house is impure
in consequence of the bad state of the drainage. A
silk winder, aged 74 years, died at 11, Winchester-
street, Bethnal-green, from eating fish that was
unfit for food.

PRIM_ 4D. STAMPED; SD.

In 1854 he assisted to organise the Imperial Guard,
and was appbinted to the command of it. ' He
accompanied it to the Crimea. His conduct at
Magenth was so distinguished as to procure for him
the high honour of being named marshal."

THE NEW ATLANTIC TELEGB.4.PH.

„,_
At last the long pending question as to the pro-
bability of telegraphic communication being
established between this country and America
seems in a fair way of being settled. While the old
.Atiantic Telegraph Company has been wasting the
moriepof the shareholders and seeking preposterous
Conditions from the Government, to guarantee
them from the evils of their own scientific mis-
management, a new- company has been quietly
formed -under :the -.best auspices, and, without
troubling the Government about subsidies, .or
anything else, have carefully matured their plans
with such foresight and deliberation as to lead the
electrical world to look fox ward confidently to a
successful solution of this great. submarine 'enter-
prise. The British Transatlantic Telegraph 'Com-
pany propose, within this year if possible, to lay
their cable from the Land's-end, in Cornwall, to
Blanc Sablon, an island in the Straits of Belle Isle,
at one of the entrances of the Gulf of St. Law-
rence, and a little.to the north of Newfoundland.
A short wire, to be laid by a separate company,
takes. the cable in from 'Blanc Sablon to the Island
of Anticosti, where it meets lines already open com-
municating with Quebec, Montreal, and, indeed, all
parts of Canada. Another short line from Anticosti
will be submerged to Cape Breton, where it will join
the network of lines which communicate with Hali-
fax, Nova Stotia, Boston, New York, &c. The advan-
tages which such a route presents over one starting
from the west coast of Ireland are immense, both in
point of economy and freedom from the submarine
dangers which beset- the track frein Valentia to
Newfoundland. In the first place, the average depth
of the entire route is supposed'to be less, while by
starting from Land's-end the steep range of subma-
rine mountains on the west coast of Ireland, on
which the Atlantic telegraph was so carelessly lost,
is entirely avoided. On the Atlantic side, the lines.'
not being hamperedwith such preposterousconditions
for messages as those which would check their trans-
mission over Newfoundland, the tariff for their re-
transmission would be less than one-half of what
would be charged if sent by the American Company '
from St. John's, while the line, being all submerged,
is of course less exposed to injury than in crossing
the almost unexplored wilds of Newfoundland. On
this side of the water the advantages of having the
terminus at Land'S-end are almost greater. The
increased distance is very little over 150 miles ;
but a message arriving at Land's-end is
transmitted direct to its destination at a
small cost, while the cost from Valentia is
much greater, and the message itself has to be re-
transmitted always four times, and sometimes
oftener. If it merely avoided the necessity of mes-
sages cominc, from America to London being first
known at'llverpool, where by the Irish route they
must be transmitted, the gain to merchants by a
Land's-end terminus would be most important.
From the hour that the scheme for spannine. the
Atlantic with a telegraph wire was first mooted we
have again and again advocated, in the strongest
terms, the necessity for using a light cable, and,
above all, for doing away with the outer covering
of spiral wire. How the old Atlantic Company pro.
ceeded all the world now knows. They math- a cable
which it was publicly known could not answer its
purpose, and, as if to take away even the theoretical
chances of its success, the two halves, by the neglect
of their engineer, were spirally coated with wire,
with the twist of each coil running in a different
direction. These wires, which were really only
additional weight, were supposed to give.strength,
mad necessitated the costly and destructive appara.•
tus of paying out machines, which were designed by
Sir C. Bright, and which, under that engineer's
management, eventually proved the ruin of the
whole plan. However, we must do the old company
the justice to say that, ha"ing now lost all their
money, they at last see their error, and that there
is as little chance of another wire-covered rope
going to sea under their auspices as there is of its
submergence being again entrusted to any but regu-
lar contractors. The British Transatlantic Tele-
graph Company propose to use a cable of the very
tightest description. Its lightness, in fact, is made
its strength, and the outer covering of wire is en-
tirely done away with.' The conductor is to he com-
posed of seven copper wires having about twice the
sectional area of that used by the old Atlantic
Company. It will be coated with a combination of
gutta percha, with manifold insulators, the outer
portion being wound round with a textile fabric in
a peculiar manner, so as to perfect and strengthen
the rope and its insulation to the utmost. The outer
covering of all will be hemp, interwoven longitudi-
nally, so as to be without either turn or stretch.
This outer covering before being used will no doubt
be passed through a solution of either indiarubber
or gutta percha ; the rope afterwards being com-
pressed under a steel die will insure a uniform gauge
and the solution penetrating to the very utmost.
The diameter of the gutta percha insulator will be ,
about double that used in the rope of the old com-
pany, and the diameter of the whole cable about
two-thirds of an inch. The weight is less than 8
cwt. per mile, the breaking strain about two tons,
or equal to supporting nearly six miles of its own
weight in air, and no less than 25 miles of its own
weight in sea water. The cost of the whole cable
will be about half of that which was lately lost by
the old company.
The cable is to be contracted for under a special
arrangement which guarantees the shareholders
against any risk of loss. The contract will not be
at so much per mile, but for a certain sum under
£350,000 the contractors undertake to make tho
wire, insrse it, submerge it, and deliver it over
to the company in working order. During the
time of its manufacture the company are to
advance certain sums to the contractors not exceed-
ing in all 50 per cent. of the entire contract price.
For these advances, which bear interest to the com-
pany at the rate of 5 per cent. till the completion
of the contract, security is given by the contractors,
who, in case of the failure of the cable, are bound
to repay them within a certain time. When the
cable is completed and shipped the contractors are
further bound to insure it, and deliver the policy
to the company as a collateral security. Only
when the cable is laid in working order, and pos-
session formally given to the company, will the
contractors become entitled to receive the money
for it. It is not often that shareholders meet with.
such a favourable arrangement, or one which so
completely guarantees them against loss of any
kind, and, of course, it is owing to this that a large
portion of the capital has already been subscribed
for. In order to prevent the overcrowding of
messages the tariff of charges will be arranged
according to three scales—viz., one for ordinary
messages, one for express messages, and one for
special messages. The prices of these, it is sup-
posed, will be £l, £5, and £lO respectively. No
ordinary message will be sent while an express
message is on the list, and no express message will
be despatched while a special message is on the
list, a regular printed return of the number (if any)
of both being kept at the station for the informa-
tion of all persons wishing to send messages. By
means of such a tariff each message will be trans-
mitted, according to the scale which the sender
thinks its interest or importance to himself re-
quires. Any chance, also, of the wire being two
or three days in arrear of its business will
be entirely obviated. Altogether, the whole
scheme of the British Transatlantic Company bas
apparently been well. and carefully planned, and
with the advantages which it possesses and the
facilities which it offers we have little doubt that it
will surmount in the most satisfactory manner the
few difficulties that yet remain in the way of elec-
trical communication between the New World and
I the Old.

Last week the births of 834 boys and the same
number of girls, in all 1,668 children, were regis-
tered in London. In the ten corresponding weeks
of the years 1849-58, the average number was 1,533.

THE TOBERMORI SEQUESTRATION

CASE.

On Friday judgment was given by the Second
Division of the Court of Session (Scotland), in the
case of " Gill v. Joel," on the question of jurisdic-
tion in the matter of the sequestration of 'William
Gill, who, being an Englishman and his creditors
all in England, claimed the jurisdiction of .the
Scotch courts after 40 days' residence in the island
of Mull. The sequestration was duly effected
under the Act 19th and 20th Victoria, cap. 79, but
me of his creditors, Mr. Joel, subsequently peti-
lolled the Court of Session to recal the sequestra-
ion granted in the Sheriff Court, and Lord Ordi-
Kinloch last session issued an interlocutor
sustaining the petition and recalling the sequestra-
tion. The case was taken by reclaiming note to
the Second Division, and on Friday their lordship's
reversed Lord Kinloch's decision, on the grounds"
stated by the Lord Justice Cleric in delivering -the:
unanimous judgment of the Court, which was
limited to the question of jurisdiction. The
Lord Justice Clerk said,--The Court hold that
the question for them to determine is whether
this case falls within the statute, and if
such be the case that they are bound to ad-
minister the law in disregard of all considerations
of alleged equity or expediency. The bankrupt in
the present case is not a trader. He is an English-
man and an English barrister. All his creditors,
with one exception, are in England. His sole con-
nexion with Scotland is a residence for 40 days
continuously at Tobermory, in the Island of Mull,
previous to the date of presenting his petition ; and.
he admits that this residence was assumed for the
expreis purpose of qualifying him for sequestration.
It may seem, on general principles, very startling
and inexpedient that an insolvent person should be
entitled to make choice of a country for sequestra-
tion, and thus alter the rights of his creditors and
obtain immunities for himself. The Court must,
however, decide the case according to the statute,
no matter whether or not such a decision is in
opposition to the principles of international juris-
prudence. A decision if opposed to these principles
would not receive effect in foreign countries but
must receive effect in England, as it proceeds upon
a statute of the Imperial Parliament. The only
question is what, in the sense of the Act, renders a
person subject to the jurisdiction of the supreme
courts. According to the former principles of
hatkruptcy law, sequestration was confined to
traders. The great peculiarity of the statute pre-
sently in force is that it extends sequestration to all
parties who are debtors, without reference to their
being traders. It must, therefore, be construed
with regard to this fundamental alteration on the
law—its professed object. To satisfy the require-
ments of the clause of the Act it neems to me to be
sufficient if the debtor be at the time of presenting
his petition subject to the jurisdiction. The foun-
dations of general jurisdiction are domicile in refer-
ence to jurisdictiop in personam, and property in
reference to jurisdiction in rem. The bankrupt
here having no property, the only question is—
Was he subject to the jurisdiction of the
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to found jurisdiction ratione dotnicilii. It is here
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his application, and that this was his only house
and residence for that time, he then occupying or
If such a period and kind of residence is not suffi-
cient
be held to be so, except that which constitutes
judgment as now pronounced ; if so, they spring
solely from the Act and the innovations introduced
by it. The Court therefore altered the interlocutor
of the Lord Ordinary, and found that the bankrupt
was subject to the jurisdiction of the Supreme
Courts of Scotland, and remitted to the Lord
Ordinary to hear parties on the other grounds
alleged for recal of sequestration.

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