The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-21 00:00:00

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selves trained and instruc'ed in I
arms. (A l pp ause.
If in the absence of reinforcements they had been
enabled to hold their own it might be confidently
hoped that when the reinforcements arrived we
' should bo speedily victorious. There w,arld. 13.
' an army as great or greater, than that in the
Crimea, and led by an efficient commander
—Sir Colin Campbell. (Applause.) He was a
man who did not owe his position to high birth,
but lie ha I earned his rank by his achievements
and behaviour in numberless battles ; but he was
afraid ht would b 3 hampered wish bands of red
tape. However, if he was, he must b ryeeankgetecem,.
He was not the one to brew he the cry of
but maters could not be minced. The ringleaders
. must suffer death, and after the mutiny had been
put down it was then the time to talk of clemency,
and not at present. Nothing would give hiin
greater pleasure than to see a gang of the high caste
Brahmins breaking stones on the roads. (" Hear,
hear," and applause.) Transpottation would he the
punishment of all excepting the ringleaders, who
must suffer death. The higher the ciste the greater
had been the atrocities. The fourth questiln was
the most important of all. That was, " How were
they to prevent a recurrence, and permanently
secure their Indian empire ?" This was a question
which must without delay occupy the attention of
Perham nt and the country. It was necessary the
pe iple of England should speak their minds, and
whateier was required to he done aronld by the
voice of public opinion be carried int i eff-ct. Pub-
lic opinion was as necessary to ventilate the Go-
vernment department as the air which they breathe
was necessary to ventilate a room. Indian discus-
sions were never attended by the members of the
House ; but this was because the debates on t le
subject were never read ; and--it the people had
read them more interest would have been felt by the
in-mberP. It was nominally ruled by the'"East In-
dia Co•npany, but really by the Board of Control,
and it did s-em to him that under this system
there was a sort of 'jtrzgled hocus-pocus exist-
ing, and no one kn-w who was regpontrble for
what. All governing powers should b i vested in a
Prime Minister, who alone should be as r-spousible
.for the government of India as he was of this coun-
try. In organizing a future Indian army great care
should be taken that the European element was
l:trger in proportion than hitherto. A native army
must be organized—as the army could not be
entirely an European one—and it must be re-
organized on different principles. Hitherto high
caste Brahmins had. been selected, and these were
the men who were at the bottom of the mischief.
Civil reforms must also be made, and a new system
of magisterial jurisdiction, so as to secure to every
man as far as possible his rights and privileges.
(Applause.)
Mr. WHITE, in the course of his address, said
that until he entered Parliament he had no idea of
the extent to which the time and physic it endurance
of the members were taxed. He give a brief
sketch of the personnel of the house, remarked that
the present speaker had failed to fulfil the expecta-
tions of those who assisted to place him in the chair,
and said that, notwithstanding the opinion gener-
ally entertained that the past session had been
prolific of business, he thought more might well
have been done. With respect to the Indian
mutiny, he said he believed we had given good
cause for whit did not take place—a revolt of the
people, and had given no cause for what did
take place—a rebellion of the military. It was,
however a gross popular delusion to attribute the
Indian disasters to the East India Company, which
bad long ceased to possess any practical power ;
it was the Board of Control that ruled India, and
which had offered the greatest obstructions to the
good government of that portion of the empire.
A resolution of continued confidence in Messrs.
Collier and White having been agreed to by the
meeting, the proceedings terminated.

Scriven.

MILITIA.

HEALTH OF LONDON I)UR NG THE
WEEK.

(Frogs the Report of the Registrar-General.)

Totals
Males
Fumales

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---: ;:71 &,i3i.litiZrinientitl- ship of a new class, carrying as a S
lacking speed. The screw
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irnMensearin,arnen- t; but
t 9 feetforward atill,`2l. feet aft ; the force of the •
~.The steamw torrk'alwhealvlining
wind.about 2; :I:ArfLgif3t.t?!,.22 ;' and steam pressure
50g.0t Athe little
say '1.71b. ; revolutions averaging
Priming . was •13-reejltftble; but Vibratory notion
Amiaeodrs
to
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scarcely to lid,knrktved,
bnehednerceoutnelvuarlft,
jl.au,lfishlaffilise:o
stays, but she is cOnsid.jr'bly underer;gg.>d for so
powerful a frigate ;•.anct her gallant c•-namander
must make up.for her failure as a fast war steamer
by -his pi a,otical experience as a gunnery officer, nor
,
Aeaction. ' :.- •.. , . . _
•shoull we 1-:..e at•all dafetful as to results could he
nervy int 6 OLO
..........A..i-i.., Sir G. Seymour paid a visit to Captain
Albin, of the Brazilian o -rrverte Imperial Marin-
heir-, at Spithead, on M •nday, and was received
with all the honours due to his distinguished rank.
In tin evening be entertained the captain and chief
irfficers at the Admiralty-house.
The following appointments were made ysst,,r-
clay at the Admiralty :
Lieotena .t W. H. Johnstone, Flag Lieutenant
o Rear-Admiral H. Johnvone, has been promoted
to the rank of commander.
Robert. Sproule, surgeon, to the Heron ; Samuel
Cl fr, surgeon, to the Persian ; H. Usher, acting
assistant—oirgeon, to the Heron ; W. Y. Howison, '
:Laing assistant-surgeon,• to tho Persian ; Arthur
M'Kenria, assistant-surgeon, to the Triton • and
peter M. Roe, assistant-surgeon, to the Spitfire.'

The 4th Mid llesex Militia, consisting of 30 offi-
cers and 688 men, arrived at Aldershot yesterday
from Hounslow, under the command of Colonel
•

Viscount Hill, the Lord-Lieutenant, has com-
nunie Lted to t Shropshire Coun'y MI titi% that
;he regiment is to be forthwith embodsed. Some of
the offic,-rs have volunteered .r service in India.

The Highland Borderers, or Stirliuv,sl4,eßeli-
ment, has offer,d for fo' eign service, bid the offer
hiS ben declined by the War-...ffice. The regiment
will be at once embo ied and c died oat for active
duty at home.

The total number of deaths re.iistered in Lon-
don, which in the previous week was 993, was_ in
the week that ended ott Saturday, Oct. 17, 1,003,
of which 507 wet e deaths of males, 496 of females.
[n the ten years 1847 57 the average number of
deaths in the weeks corresponding with last week
was 1,019 ; but as the deaths of last week occurred
in an increased population, the averaee, to admit
of comparison, should be raised in prtpertion to
the increase, in which cage it will become 1,118. It
is to be inferred that the metropolitan population
now enjoy good heilth, for the 6geres show that
more than a hundred persons survived last week,
whose names would hive been placed on the regis-
ters if the average rate of mortality had prevailed.
The births were very numerous last week, and
exceeded the deaths by 782.
The deaths from diarrhoea were 39, being nearly
the same as in the previous week. Of that number
25 occurred to children under two years of age.
Seat latina has increased considerably ; it was fatal
in 52 and 49 cases in the last two weeks. Threw
children died within nine days of scarlatina maligna
in a house in Wilderness-row, Clerkenwell ; in re-
ference to which cases the medical attendant ad-
verts to the bad condition of the house and its
neighbourhood, and to the fact that one of the
dead b.idies was retained for seven days among the
living. Four children died of the same disease in
the south sub-di-trict of Chelsea ; two of these in
a family in Beaufort-terrace West. Two deaths
occur, ed from small-pox in Wellesley-street, So-
mers-town; iu one of the cases a woman of-27 years
was the sufferers.

Four deaths from cholera and choleraic diarrlicea
were registered last week. In Bethnal-green, one
girl, aged 4t, years, and one boy, aged 6 years, died
at 17, Cranlirook-street, of choleraic diarrhoea ; and
one girl, aged 2, died of cholera infantum at 2,
Sweet Apple-square, on the 10th October. The son
of a brass-finisher, aged 14, died of " Asiatic cho-
lera" at 2, Peter-street, Bromley, after an illness of
20 hours. He worked in a factory on the banks of
the Thames. "He was perfectly well," Dr. Bain
reports, "on Thursday Night, his father having
taken him to a tailor's for a new coat ; at 5 o'clock
on Friday morning he was seized with diarrhoea,
vomiting, great prostration, darkness of the surface,
thirst, loss of voice." At 1 o'clock on Saturday
morning the poor boy died. Seven deaths by cho.
lera have also been registered in the West Ham
district, which adjoins London, but is not within
the jurisdiction ot the Metropolitan Ac}.
Oases of diarrhoea and ot cholera occur every
year in L,lndoti ; but the annexed case, which was
published in a former table, appeared to bear an
epidemic character :

I"St. Olave, St. John—At Horselydown, on board
the Lu.cken, on September 22, a seaman, aged 27
yearA, 'cholera Asi,,tioa (19 hours).' Mr: Platt, the
tir,ogrissteryrd,owsay, s--.' T..e ship Lutcken arrived at
21st inst., fromSt.H.T,o,rhbr::st, ou the alt,rnoon of the
g (Hanover) ; she had
touched at Gluckstadt, and stopped there 26 hours,
at which place cholera raged lately, and carried of
5 per cent, of the inhabitants. ' • Deceased had not
been ashore at Horselydown.'"
An immense commerce is carried on between Eng-
la►nd and Hamburg on the Elbe in vesst.l4 which are
in a very unsatisfactory sanitary condition, the
berths of the steamers conveying passengers being
at times saturated by the steam of water-closets.
The condition of the ordinary vessels maybe easily
imagined. To avoid the delays of quarantine, all
steamers should undergo sanitary inspection; and
the sailing vessels in the river should be thoroughly
cleansed. They should get pure water, and they
would not then form a bridge over which epidemics
c.in march from Hamburg to London.
Dr. R. D. Thomson has repeated his analysis of
the water supplied by the Southwark Company.
On October 14th a gallon of it contained only 17.6
grs. of extraneous matter. On Octo'ier 15th, the
total impurity in the pump-well of Abbey-row,
West Ham, amounted to 56-16 grs. in a gallon,
comprising 4.40 grs. of organic matter.
All the London waters should be analpsed weekly
under present circumstances, for the protection of
the public.

At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
barometrical reading in .he week was 29.915 in.; on
two days the mean reading was above 30in. The
mean temperature of the week was 55.2 deg., which
is 4.9 deg. above the average of the same week in 43
years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher). The mean
daily temperature was above the average through-
out the week. The highest reading of the thermo-
meter in the shade occurred on Monday, and was
67.7 deg. ; the lowest was 42.3 deg , and occurred
on Wednesday. The range of the week was there-
fore 25.4 deg. The mean due point temperature
was 53.3 ; and the difference between this and the
mean temperature of the air was only 1.9 deg. The
amount of rain was. 0.19 iu., all of which fell on
Sunday the 11th.

MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.
NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED

IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, OCT. 17.
Zymotic Diseases
Diseases of Uncertain Seat
"tubercular Diseases
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves and Senses 93
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 32
Diseases of the Lungs and other Organs of
Respiration lB3
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs
of Digestion • 59
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c.
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. ... 7
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles • ... :
Diseases of the Skin, &c.
Malformations ---2
Premature Birth and Debility 3O
atrophy
Old Age
5udden.................................................... 7
Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance, 3¢
Causes not specified

DEATHS THOM ALL CAUSES ..................... 1,003
Population Deaths in corn- Deaths!
Enumerated. sponding week in the
1851. of 1856. Week.
West Districts
North Districts
...... 198
Central Districts,,.,, 393,256 ...... 166
East Districts.,...... 485,522
south Districts ...... 616,635 ...... 251

1,003
507
496