The Sun.
London, England, 1866-03-07 00:00:00

WITITECIIAPEL.

The supply of meat on sale is somewhat extensive. Most
descriptions aro in fair demand, at the annexed rates :
Beef, from 2s lOd to 4s 6d; mutton, 4s Od to 5s 4d; veal,
4s Od to 5s 4d ; and pork, 3s 8d to 5s 2d per 81bs by the
carcase.

BOROUGH HOP.

The market for all kinds of hops rules quiet. In prices,
as compared with Monday, very little change has taken

place,

Soon after midnight on Monday a special train
left Euston station upon a strangely exceptional
errand. More than a hundred skilled workmen and
labourers, marshalled by gangers, contractors, and
agents, took their seats in it, in ordered fashion, but
with a mysterious and determined air, as if some
more than usually weighty business were on hand.
One carriage was devoted to stout tools and imple-
ments, and the train, thus freighted, reached Tring
at 1.30 yesterday morning. A procession was formed
at the station—each man shouldering a crowbar or
other implement—and a compact phalanx, 120
strong, marched out, two and two, into the moon-
light. A walk of three miles brought them to the
side of Berkh arn pstead Common,nearest to Ashridge-
park, the seat of Earl Brownlow ; and the objects
of the expedition were then first made known to the
rank and file. The greater portion of this common,
occupying a space some two miles in length and
from three-quarters of a mile to a mile and a half
broad, was enclosed a fortnight ago by Earl
Brownlow ; and we learn that Mr. Augustus Smith,
of the Scilly Islands, as the owner of an estate neer,
and therefore as a commoner acting in concert with
his neighbours, had determined to test his lordship's
right to this course in a very practical way. The
whole of the iron railings, consisting of stout
" uprights," five feet high, and with broad metal
bands at close intervals between each, were to be
thrown down before daylight, Mr. Smith and the
commoners taking all responsibility, chartering the
train, and engaging the men. These last were told
off in detachments a dozen strong ; the substantial
joints of the railings were first loosened by hammers
and chisels, and the crowbars did the rest. Before
6 o'clock yesterday morning the whole of the enclo-
sure was levelled to the ground ; each stout upright
having the metal bands, its tributaries, first neatly
folded round it, and then being laid upon the turf
it had recently served to close in.
It was 7 o'clock before the alarm was given,
and by the time Mr. Paxton, the late Sir Joseph
Paxton's brother, and Earl Brownlow's steward,
appeared upon the scene Berkhamptead Common
was enclosed no longer. It was too late to do more
than prote3t against the alleged trespass, and this
was energetically done. Meanwhile the news spread,
and the inhabitants of the adjacent village and dis-
trict flocked, upon the scene. In carriages, gigs,
dog-carts, and on foot, gentry, shopkeepers, hus-
bandmen, women, and children, at once tested the
reality of what they saw by strolling over and
squatting on the common, and cutting and taking
away morsels of gorse, to prove as they said, "the
place was their own again." The cost of the three
miles of iron railing removed is said to have been
more than a thousand pounds ; and that of its re-
moval must have been c3nsiderable. Whatever
may be the result of this daring return to what is
called " old constitutional form," and however it
may be viewed by the legal authorities before whom
it will be speedily brought, it must be regardel as
one of the moss decided and vigorous protests
against alleged usurpation which have occurred in
our own prosaic, peaceful, and order-loving times.
—Daily News.

HEALTH OF THE METROPOLIS.

(From the Registrar-General's Weekly Report.)

In the week that ended on Saturday, March 3,
the births registered in London and 12 other large
towns of the United Kingdom were 4,409 ; the
deaths registered 3,620. The annual rate of mor-
tality was 31 per 1,000 persons living.
In London the births of 1,026 boys and 1,061
girls, in all 2,087 children, were registered in the
week. In the corresponding weeks of 10 years,
1856-65, the average number, corrected for increase
of population, was 2,172.
The deaths registered in London during the week
were 1,545. It was the ninth week of the year;
and the average number of deaths for that week is,
with correction for increase of population, 1,481
The actual number returned for the week is in ex-
cess of the calculated number by 64.

The recent coldness of the weather accounts for
the increase of the mortality. The deaths had been
less than 1,400 in the first and second weeks of
February, but they rose to 1,630 in the third week,
and now there is a decrease of nearly 100 deaths on
the last number. In the last three weeks the deaths
from bronchitis were successively 131, 210, and 230;
thoee from pneumonia in the same time 59, 95, and
60; from phthisis 170, 214, and 201. The mean
temperature in each of the last four weeks was 45.8
deg., 38.9 deg., 36.2 deg., and (last week) 34.4
deg. In the first six weeks of the year the mean
weekly temperature was only in one instance below
43 deg. The air became decidedly colder in the se-
cond week of February. Small-pox was fatal in
16 cases ; measles in 43 ; scarlatina in 35 ; typhus
in 51; diarrhoea in 24. _

At 20, Sidney-grove, Islington, on2oth February,
the widow of a blacksmith, aged 69 years, died of
" embolism of pulmonary artery, accelerated by
destitution." (Inquest.)
The following 7 deaths by carriage accidents were
registered in the week :—The son of a carman, aged
17 years, killed by the upsetting of a van ; died on
the 26th February in the East India-road, Poplar.
A carman, aged 42 years, run over ; died on the
24th February in the West London Hospital. A
pauper, aged 75 years, run over; died on 26th
February in the Broadway, Hammersmith. A cab-
driver, aged 21 years, thrown from a cab in the
City-road by collision with another cab ; lived 20
hours; died 19th February in St. Bartholomew's
Hospital. A fishmonger, aged 47 years, fell from
a cart in the Strand ; lived 32 hours ; died on 23d
February in St. Bartholomew's Hospital. A car-
man, aged 34 years, injured from the blow of a
waggon wheel ; died on the 25th February in the
London Hospital. The daughter of a cabinet-
maker, aged 5 years, knocked down by a cart ; died
on 27th February in the London Hospital.
The annual rate mortality last week was 26 per
1,000 in London, 27 in Edinburgh, and 32 in
; 29 in Bristol, 33 in Birmingham, 45 in Liver-
pool, 37 in Mancheater, 37 in Salford, 35 in
Sheffield, 39 in Leeds,26 in Hull, 36 in Newcastle-
upon-Tyne, and 33 in Glasgow.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29.331 in.
The barometric pressure was 29.71 in. on Sunday,
and it fell to 29.01 in. on Wednesday. The mean
temperature of the air in the week was 34.4 deg.,
which is 5.6 deg. below the average of the same
week in 50 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher).
The mean daily temperature was below the average
on every day after Sunday; and on Wednesday
the amount of defect was 8.6 deg., on Thurs-
day as much as 11.9 deg. On the last five
nights the thermometer fell below the freezing
point of water; on Thursday the temperature
was as low as 22.5 deg. The difference between
the mean dew-point temperature and air temperature
was 5.5 deg. The mean degree of humidity of the
air was 80, complete saturation being represented
by 100. The wind blew on Sunday and Monday
from the south-west; afterwards generally from
the north-east. The rainfall was 0.74 in., most of
it on Sunday and Tuesday. Snow fell on three
days.

FROGMORE HOUSE.—The improvements and al-
terations at Frogmore House, consequent upon the conver-
sion of that royal abode into a future residence for Prince
Christian and her Royal Highness Princess Helena, aro to
be commenced forthwith. The Queen and Princess have
just paid a visit to Frogmore in order to suggest the ne-
cessary alterations.
CLERICAL APPOINTMENTS.—The Lord Chancellor
has presented the Rev. Thomas C. Prickard, M.A., late
curate of Wilby, near Wickham Market, Suffolk, to the
rectory of New Radnor, South Wales, rendered vacant by
the resignation of the Rev. George Richard Turner, M.A.,
who had accepted the Crown living of Kelsbell, near
Royston, Hertfordshire.
SEIZURE OF A FENIAN COUNCIL—DUBLIN,
Tuesday Night.—Another Fenian council was broken up
to-night in a public-house on Cork Hill. The brother of
the proprietor and 27 others were arrested. There was no
resistance.
Numerous clergy in South Devon have agreed to
accept the certificate of the registrar instead of banns in
church, and to celebrate the marriage ceremony on the pro-
duction of such certificate. They have further agreed that
no fees either for banns or certificate be charged in the
parish where the marriage is not celebrated,

HOUSE OF COMMONS—TiIIs DAY.
The SPEAKER took the chair at twelve o'clock.
CHURLS RATES BILL.
Mr. HARDCASTLE rose to move the second reading of
this bill, and was left speaking.

HOUSE OF LORDS-LAST EVENING.
ROYAL COMMISSION.

Tho Royal Assent was given by Commission to tho
following bills :—The Telegraph Act Amendment Bill
and the Cattle Disease (Ireland) Bill.
The Royal Commissioners were—The Lord Chancellor,
the Earl of Bessborough, and Viscount Sydney.
The sitting was then suspended until five o'clock, when
the LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack.

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wanted was the abolition, not tile, Concealment, of tho
gallows.