The Sun.
London, England, 1861-02-02 00:00:00

THE PROGRESS OF THE MAIN DRAINAGE WORKS.

Mr. Bazalgette, the chief engineer, presented a
report on the progress of the main drainage works,
which stated that they had, with trilling exceptions,
continued locked up by the frost until within the
last 10 days, and the large body of workmen and
artisans who wore thus thrown out of employment
were suffering severely from so long a period of idle-
ness. The contractors had, however, evinced very
great consideration towards them, and in addition
to the private pecuniary aid afforded by them, they
readily co-operated with them in making arrange-
ments for the partial employment of the men by
carting materials upon the works, and extending
their excavations, wherever this could be done
without inconvenience to the public, and by engag-
ing both bricklayers and navvies as labourers indis-
criminately, changing them in alternate gangs for
three days a week each. A quantity of materials
were:deposited'.upon the unfinished portion of the
line of the northern high level sewer, and although
the works had not yet been fairly recommenced
there was every reason to expect that they would
be speedily completed, The contract with Messrs.
Brassey and Co. for the middle level sewer
was not signed, but those gentlemen were making
arrangements for the supply of materials. The
northern outfall sewer is marked out and nearly
fenced from end to end, and the contractor had
received instructions to commence the work on
Monday next. The Ranelagh storm overflow sewer
across Ifyde-park progressed satisfactorily ; works
to the amount of £5,850 had been completed, in
addition to the completion of the underpinning of
the old sewer, to the value of about £2,800. On the
south side of the river the southern high level sewer
is now in progress at four different places, three on
the main line, and one on the Dulwich or Effra
branch. On No. 1, at the Clapham-road, along Bed-
ford-lane, Stockwell-green, and Robert-street, to
the Effra sewer, in the Brixton-road, about 6,100
feet, varying from 4ft. Gin. by 3ft. to Oft. Sin. in
diameter, have been completed. On No. 2 line
3,400 feet have been completed, and on No. 3 line
5,005 feet completed. The value of the work done
was about £60,000, and the total length completed
31 mikes. The southern outfall sewer works pro-
gressed in a satisfactory manner. The tunnel under
Woolwich was about one mile in length, and varied
from 45ft. to 75ft. in depth. Four shafts had been
sunk, and 2,820 feet of tunnel completed, th© head-
ings being lighted with gas, and the miners work-
ing day and night. The rest of the work was, with
trifling exceptions, being constructed in open cut-
ting, and about 6,950 feet had been completed,
making 9,770 feet of tunnel and open cutting.
The value of the work done was about £90,000.
The works for the low level hewer, under the Sur-
rey Consumers' Gas Company's property, progress
satisfactorily, the water having been subdued, the
excavations nearly completed, and the lower por-
tions of the brickwork got in for nearly the entire
length. The work is carried on night and day, and
will probably soon be completed. The old Earl
outlet, now being reconstructed, progresses slowly,
owing to the work being uncovered by the tide for
a short period at and near to low water, and it had
also sustained serious injury from the ship Zebra,
which, having fouled another vessel in the river, be-
came a wreck and stranded upon the work. The
total value of the main drainage works now com-
pleted was estimated at about £340,000.
The report was received, and ordered to be en-
tered on the minutes.

After some routine business had been disposed of,
the board adjourned.

GRIMSTONR'S HERR TOBACCO.--THE "SMOKE CON-
TROVERSY" SETTLED.—Much difference of opinion exists
as to whether smoking is injurious or not. Upon this point
doctors have "disagreed," as they have done upon most
others—but one thing is certain that smoking Grimstone's
herb tobacco is beneficial rather than the contrary, and most
astonishing cures of asthma, and ether pulmonary diseases
have resulted from its use. To those who are troubled with
phlegm in the throat on rising in the morning we recom-
mend a few whiffs of Grimstone's tobacco before breakfast,
To those who are troubled with a hacking cough on laying
down to rest, we say take a pipe of Grimstone's after supper,
—and to those who require a pipe during the hours of
labour or study we recommend Grunstone as possessing all
the best qualities of Virginia tobacco with none of its dis-
advantages. The absence of the essential oils precludes the
danger arising from the narcotic weed—whilst the fragrant
herbs and flowers of which Grimstone's herb tobacco is coin-
posei render it not only a valuable medicine agent, but a
universal favourite with the fair sex, who have settled the
"tobacco controversy" by declaring their admiration of the
fragrance of Grimstone's as being far preferable to the
smell of "that horrid nasty tobacco."
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(From the Quarterly Return • of the Registrar General.)
The return of births and deaths and marriages
registered in the divisions, counties, and districts
of England, by authority of the Registrar-General,
comprises the births and deaths registered by 2,197
registrars in all the districts of England during the
autumn quarter that ended Dec. 31, 1860 ; and the
marriages in 12,449 churches or chapels, about.
4,342 registered places of worship unconnected
with the established church, and 631 superinten •
tendent registrar's offices,in the quarter that ended
Sept. 30, 1860.
The quarterly returns are favourable, and imply
that the population was not only more prosperous
but healthier than usual. Births slightly decreased,
but marriages became more frequent, and the mor-
tality fell below the average: The improvement in
health was greatest in the town districts.
The accounts of births and deaths for the year
18(10 show an increase of the birth and a decrease
of the death rate. 81,144 persons married in the
quarter that ended on Sept. 30; and the marriage
rate was 1,608, or higher than in any correspond-
ing quarter since 1856, but slightly below the ave-
rage of ten summer quarters. The increase of mar-
riages was most striking in London and in Lanca-
shire. 162,248 children were born and registered
in the last quarter of the year 1860; or more by
4,286 than were registered in the last quarter of
1858, and 7,843 less than the number in the last
quarter of 1859. The birth rato of the quarter was
3.203 ; the average of the quarter 3.232. 683,430
children were registered in the year 1860; and the
annual birth-rate-was 3.418, making .014 Above the
annual average. Taking one day with enother
through the year, 1,867 children were tam
The births exceeded the deaths in the ouarter
by 59,691, and that was the natural increase
of the population. In the year the natural increase
of England and Wales was 260,930 souls-713
daily. If Scotland and Ireland increase at the same
rate the natural increase of the population of the
United Kingdom must have been at the rate of
1,069 daily. Emigration carried off a part of the
increase. In the quarter about 7,047 English emi-
grants sailed from the ports at which there are
Government emigration offices; nearly in equal
proportions to the United States and the Australian
colonies.
The scarcity or the abundance of the principal
articles of food is shown by their prices. Wheat
was 56s 9d a quarter, or 31 per cent higher than it
was in the corresponding quarter of 1859. Beef at
the Leadenhall and Newgate markets was sold by
the carcase at4l:l a pound, or nearly Id less. Mut-
ton was on an average 51d a pound, and remained
the same as in the lafit months of 1859. The potato
crop partially failed, and York Regents, at the
waterside market, sold at 122 s 6d a ton, or at the
rate of 111 b. for a penny. The price of this uni-
versal article of food rose progressively in the last
three months of the three years 1858-59-60 from
87s 6d to 102 s 6d and 122 s 6d a ton. To supply its
deficiency other antiscorbatic vegetables, fruit, or
herbs are required.
The meteorology of the season was peculiar.
Pauperism gradually declined; and the paupers
fell from 826,655 to 793,391, and 788,838 receiving
relief on an average during the last quarters of the
years 1858-59-60. 102,557 deaths were registered
in the last quarter of the year 1860, and the annual
rate of mortality during the season was 2.024. The
mortality was 0.158 below the average. Upon mak-
ing up the account for the year the deaths are
found to be 422,500; and the annual rate of morta-
lity 2.113, or a little more than 21 in 1,000. The
average of the preceding 10 years is 22. So one
life in every 1,000 living was saved. Yet the mor-
tality of England and Wales is still greatly in
excess of the rate experienced in the least unhealthy
districts. The deaths instead of 102,557 would
at that rate have been 79,283 ; so during the 92
days, 23,274 persons died unnatural deaths in
the least unhealthy country in Europe. Upon
looking at the country generally, epidemic
diphtheria still prevails in parts of the kingdom ;
measles, whooping-cough, small-pox, scarlatina,
fever, also so frequently mentioned in the regis-
trar's notes that they may be considered prevailing
epidemics. It is the characteristic of these zymotie
diseases that they do not depend upon general
atmospheric conditions, but are often very fatal in
one community, while they are entirely absent from
another in the same climate.
In London the mortality was below the average ;
the deaths were 15,197.
The severe weather occurred late in December,
and its effects on the mortality will only be fully
apparent in the next return.

A MOTHER AND DAUGHTER RIVAL

WOOERS.

The tender susceptibilities of many a fair damsel
residing at Risco, were lately shocked by the occur-
rence of a matrimonial monstrosity and atrocity
that has seldom been equalled in those virtuous
vales. The question has been seriously discussed
in all its aspects, by not only the maidens and
widows of the district, who are the parties princi-
pally interested, but also by the married folks, the
even tenor of whose course has been disturbed by'. a
gross desecration of the laws of propriety, if not of
nature. Some 12 months ago a lad of the village
wooed, and it was supposed won, the budding affec-
tions of a lass who resided with her father and
mother. After the usual preliminaries of wooing
and cooing had been exhausted, the young couple
panted for the novelty to be found in the honeymoon.
But a difficulty presented itself. The.intended bride
had a little of the becoming pride of her sex, and
she demurred to marry her swain until he had
equipped himself with a now suit of clothes, in
which to exhibit to advantage on his wedding day
the well knit and muscular limbs and whipcord
.sinews that would make the bride the envy of the
lasses around. Joskin, not being well up in this
world's wealth, was somewhat disconcerted at this
condition, which it was not easy to comply with.
Now it so happened that six months previously the
mother of the gentle maid had become a widow, and
the first bitter pang of grief having subsided, the
baxom widow commenced to look out for a helpmate,
and after vainly scanning the horizon in search of
a mate she at length fixed her fascinating glance
on no other than her daughter's betrothed, pro-
mising to take him with or without a suit
as it best suited himself, inasmuch as she
only wished to secure his person and not his clothes.
This adroit proposition was, will it be believed,
readily assented to, and the daughter's affections
were duly transferred to the mother, to the horror
of all the maids of the district., who look with dis-
gust upon the success of the old 'un. The happy
pair were duly wed a few days ago, to the unut-
terable disgust of the jilted fair, who was robbed
of the darling of her heart by her gentle mammy.
The widows of the district feel elated at the success
of the veteran of 50, who succeeded in bearing off
the prize from juvenile 20, the age of the disap-
pointed one. The latter with some sympathising
young female friends endeavoured to get up a de-
monstration, with tin pans and kettles, to welcome
the return of the deceitful pair. The first husband
of the new triumphant wife died some ten months
ago in the lunatic ward of the Newport Union
House.---illonniouthshire Merlin.

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