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HEALTH of LONDON DURING the WEEK.
(From the Registrar-General's Return.)
This return, in connexion with the two previous, in-
dicates a continuous increase in the mortality of the
metropolitan districts. The deaths which in the two
preceding weeks were successively 781, 863, rose last
week to 898. In the corresponding weeks of nine years
(1840-8) the lowest number occurred in 1843, and was
749; the highest in 1848, when it was 1,201; but last
year in the same week the deaths rose to 1,931, when
pestilence rapidly multiplied its victims. The average
of the corresponding weeks of ten years (1840-9) is
1,022, which, with a correction for increase of popula-
tion, becomes 1,115. The i9S deaths of last week,
therefore, show a decrease on the latter number, amount-
ing to 217; but it will be observed that the average is
in part founded on the aggravated mortality of last
year. The deaths from phthsis or consumption are still
less numerous than usual, having last week been 121;
in corresponding weeks they fluctuated between 120 and
156. In the class which comprises other diseases of the
respiratory organs, the deaths, amounting to 74, also fall
below the average. The zymotic or epidemic class
numbers 272 deaths; and though this mortality is not
yet excessive as compared with that of the same week in
some previous years, it shows a tendency to increase as
the autumnal season approaches. Small-pox, measles,
scarlatina, hooping-cough, and typhus, show less than
the usual fatality or differ little from the average; but
diarrhea exhibits a rapid increase on the previous weeks,
and has now risen above the average. The numbers
from diarrheas in the last four weeks have been succes-
sively 40, 37, 51, and 104. Of the 104 persons who died
of it last week, 84 were infants under 1 year, 14 were 1
year old and under 60, and 6 were 60 years of age and
upwards. Last week 13 deaths were ascribed to cholera,
showing an increase, when compared with those of the
previous returns; but an investigation of the cases as
detailed in the registers proves that in a certain propor-
tion of them it was the common English form of the
complaint. In the Rectory sub-district, Marylebone, on
the 24th July, at 11, Orchard-place, the son of a la-
bourer, aged 3 years, " cholera (24 hours)". " This
(says Mr. Josephs) is a small house in the rear of a
densely crowded place, well known in Marylebone,
which, though in a much better condition than formerly,
is still imperfectly cleansed and ventilated." Also in
the Rectory sub-district, at 2, Paradise-row, on 233
July, the son of a smith, 3 yrs, "cholera (3 days)."
" The child had diarrhoea for a week previous. Its pa-
rents lived in a small front parlour, with five other
children. The locality is crowded." In St. John's,
Marylebone, at 14, Henry-street, on the 25th July, the
son of a shoemaker, aged 1 year, "English cholera (5
days)." In the same sub-district, at 16, Towashend-
cottages, on the 24th July, the son of a labourer, aged
three months, "cholera." In Islington East, at 48,
King-street-terrace, on the 20th July, a working wo-
man, spinster, aged 38 years, "cholera (12 hours). had
diarrhoea 2 days." In West Hackney, at 13, Tottenham-
square, on 23d July, the son of a contractor, aged 3
months, " English cholera (3 days)." In the same
neighbourhood, at 11, Tottenham-road, on 25th July,
the daughter of a draper, aged 1 year, " English cholera
(5 days), convulsions (12 hours)." In North St. Giles's-
in-the Fields, at 12, Great White Lion-street, on 23d
July, the daughter of a printer, aged 7 months, "Eng-
lish cholera (7 days)." In Pentonville, at 9, Penton-
grove, on 23d July, the son of a police-constable, aged
6 months, "infantile cholera." In Whitechapel-church
sub-district, at 17, Colchester-street, on 24th July, the
daughter of a shoemaker, aged 4 months, "Asiatic
cholera (2 days)." Mr. Hems, the registrar, states that
" the child was suckled by the mother for a fortnight,
was afterwards brought up by hand, and never thrived,
It was attacked with violent vomiting and purging on
Sunday, recovered, and grew worse on Monday. when
the medical attendant first saw the case, and pronounced
it hopeless. The house is well aired." In Lambeth, at
39, Wotton-street, on 24th July, the wife of a printer,
aged 25 years, " cholera (2 days), peritonitis (3 weeks)."
Mr. Mears states that " the house is clean and tolerably
airy. It has a cesspool." Also in Lambeth, at 8, Vine-
terrace, Waterloo-road, on 21st July, the wife of a stone-
mason, aged 24 years, "cholera (10 hours)." " This
person (says Mr. Dews) had been in delicate health for
some months, and had only come the day before from
Somersetshire." The medical attendant adds on his cer-
tificate that there " was no purging, all the other symp-
toms were urgent, the secretion of urine suspended, the
catheter was passed, but no urine in the bladder." The
house is in an airy situation and well drained. In
Lambeth, at 7, High-street, on the 19th July, a carpen-
ter, aged 36, " Asiatic cholera (44 hours)." Mr. Har-
wood states that " the deceased retired to rest about
eleven o'clock in his usual state of health, but in about
two hours awoke with violent cramp, which was fol-
lowed by sickness and diarrhoea: these continued till
death." In comparison with the above thirteen deaths
from cholera, registered last week, it is proper to men-
tion that in the corresponding week of 1846 there were
26 from the same disease ; also 26 in that of 1848; and
in that of 1849, the deaths from cholera rose to 783.

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS.
NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN
THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1850.
Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases ... '1272
Diseises of Uncertain Seat ... 37
Tubercular Diseases ... 170
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... ... 104
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels .. 33
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration ..• 74
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs
of Digestion... 52
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. ••• ... 14
••
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. s
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles ~, 6
Diseases of the Skir, &c.
Malformations... ... ..• ••• •.. ... 6
Premature Birth ...
Atrcphy
Old Ago
Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance ... 28
causes not specified 3

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, August 1.

The LORD CHANCELLOR took hit seat on the Wool-
sack at Five o'clock.

The Earl of CARLISLE presented several petitions in
favour of the Marriage Bill.

COURT OF CHANCERY (IRELAND) BILL.
Lord BROUGHAM moved th© third reading of this
Bill.

The motion was agreed to.
IRISH FRANCHISE BILL.

The Marqttn.s of LANSDOWNE moved for a confE•-
rence with the Commons on the Irish Franchise Bill.

The motion was agreed to, and the Marquis of Salis-
bury, the Bishop of Oxfcrd, Lord Beaumont, and other
Peers were appointed to manage the conference.
On their return, the Marquis of SALISBURY re-
ported that the Cammons had disagreed to certain of the
Lords' amendments, and had assigned their reasons,
which he delivered, and which were ordered to be printed.
CANTERBURY SETTLEMENT LANDS BILL.
On the motion of Earl GREY this Bill was read a
third time and passed.
SLAVE TRADE.

The Bishop of OXFORD presented several petitions
praying the House to adopt measures to compel the Go-
vernments of Brazil and Spain to do away with the slave
trade in compliance with ttib treaties which they had
entered into with this country. He trusted the prayer
of these petitions would be attended to.
Lord BROUGHAM supported the prayer of these
petitions.
NAVY PAY BILL.

On the motion of Esrl GREY this Bill was read a
second time.

DEATHS PROM ALL CAUSES ... ... 898
Population Deaths in corre- Deaths
Enumerated, sponding week in the
1841. of 1849. Week.
West Districts... 301,189 . . 206 ... 130
North Districts.. 376,568 .. 278 ... 177
Central Districts 374,199 ... 274 ... 158
East Districts ... 393,067 ... 344 ... 202
South Districts.. 503,346 ... 829 ... 231

Totals... ..... 1,948,369 ... 1,931
... 898
Mal( s ••• ••• ... 439
Females ... ••• ••• ••• 459

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 2, 1850.

attentive to the business of that House and to the welfare
of this country, and more psrticularly to that of Ireland,
but he apprehended that the Noble Lord did not foresee
the mischief which his motio❑ would create throughout
Ireland. As such a motion would tend to interfere
with the forms of government, he felt it his duty to op-
pose it.

The Earl of GLENGALL said that be apprehended
that the House shout,' know what was the state of the
landlord and tenant law in England and Ireland before
it could decide on the system suggested by the Noble
Lord in his motion. He should at the same time ex-
press his regret that the Government had expressed their
dissent to ossimilate the law between the two countries,
while on other occasions he had frequently heard such a
course and such a principle urged by the same Govern-
ment. While he dissented from the present motion, he
would say that he considered that one in some specific
shape should be brought on, and hoped that the Noble
and Learned Lord (the Lord Chancellor) would lend his
able aid to facilitate such, as he felt convinced from his
knowledge of the state of Ireland, that some Commission
should be issued. He attributed much of the bad
feeling of the people t ) the negligence of the public
press, who, while they were afforded facilities,
yet when any Irish question was brought
forward (with the exception of Dolly's Bran) he
never kee Pt a fair report to be given. The Noble Earl
then referred to several long and excellent speeches de-
livered i❑ that House; and on the following morning, to
his astonishment, did not find more than seven or eight
lines in the newspapers. Again, he adverted to the cor-
respondents designating them us bilious philanthropists
who took blue-books into the sterile parts of Ireland,
and from them gleaned what suited their prejudice to
make up a pamphlet, or a column or two for some of the
morning papers. Who, ho asked, were the informants
of then• correspondents? They were generally the pro-
prietors of hotels, or their waiters, and very frequently
some peasant dressed something between a gamekeeper
and a member of the swell mob. He then eulogised the
exertions of the Secretary for Ireland (Sir W. Somer-
ville) who had materially improved some of the bad
laws of the country. Ho hoped that some specific mo-
tion would be brought on instead of the present.
The motion was then withdrawn, and their Lordships
adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, August 1.
AUSTRALIAN COLONIES GOVERNMENT
BILL.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)

Sir DE LACY EVANS said it was preposterous to
suppose that, stf.er this country had gone to great ex-•
pence in maintaining her colonies, she should surrender
all claim to the different territories, and give them up to
the present inhabitants. Although he approved of the
Bill as a whole, he entertained objections to particular
parts of it—such, for instance, as the appointment of a
large Church establishment in the colony. He
thought the colony would get on extremely well,
in a religious as well as in a moral sense,
without a spiritual" establishment; but hardly a new set-
tlement, with a few hundred inhabitants, sprung up be-
fore a bishop was appointed and sent out. Much of the
allowance provided for the Ecclesiastical establishments
of the colony might, therefore, he thought, be dispensed
with ;- at any rate. he hoped it would not be
augmented in proportion as the population increased.
But taking the measure altogether it was a very fair
ind liberal one, and would have a very beneficial effect
upon the colony, and he was gratified to find that a direct
intimation was given to the colonists in the Bill to suggest
any alteration or modifications of it which they might
think necessary. O❑ the whole he thought the Govern-
ment had acted right in not prematurely disposing of this
question, but leaving it to be eventually settled by the
colonists themselves.

Mr. VERNON SMITH was not at a loss to form
an opinion as to whether or not the Govern-
ment intended to persevere with this Bill this
session. In the present state of the House they
could carry almost anything, and he could, therefore, not
hesitate in deciding that they intended to carry this
measure, but still before they proceeded further Go-
vernment ought to disclose what amendments of the
Lords they intended to reject and what agree to. The majo-
rity of the amendments improved the Bill. He agreed with
the amendment which struck out the clauses which were
proposed to establish a federal assembly in the colonies ;
and ho should be glad to know if Government would
venture to go the length of re-introducing them. The
next amendment established a franchise for the
squatting interest, a provision which be vainly
struggled for when the Bill was under discussion
and in its progress through this House. The next series
of alterations which had been made by the Lords
were far more extensive and far more objectionable. They
would restrict thefunctions of the colonial legislature, end
continuo in the hands of the Colonial-office powers
which ought to be abandoned without delay.
The amendments would preclude the legislature of
the colony from altering the franchise, but he
did hope the House and the Government would not
assent to this alteration, while the clause which had
been introduced by the Lords in the room of the clause
giving the local legislature the power he had
referred to was calculated to lead to doubt and
mystification as to its true and real meaning, and it ought
to be struck out. -The next alteration was of still greater
importance, it struck out the words which gave the
local council power to vary its forms and constitu-
tion, which be thought ought to be restored to
the Bill ; and he therefore jcoped, for the sake
of keeping faith with the colonists themselves, the
Government would insist upon carrying that point. As
this was the last opportunity he should have of speaking
on the subject of this Bill, he must again repeat his
regret that the measure had not been made more
liberal and extensive.

Lord JOHN RUSSELL should have stated ,in moving
the adoption of the first amendment, the course
which Government intended to pursue with respect to
the w hole, but tifter what had occurred to-day, he could
not further delay making a declaration on the subject.
He agreed with the Right Hon. Gentleman who had just
sat down that the greatest alteration which the Lords
had introduced was the omission of the clauses which
related to the establishment of a federal government.
Under all the circumstances, however, of the case he
thought his Noble Friend at the head of the Colonial-
office had acted right in consenting to the omission of the
clauses. Many objections were urged against them, and
above all it was said if the colonists desired a
federal assembly, it could be hereafter allowed
by the Legislature of the parent country On the
whole, therefore, Government was not indisposed to
adopt that amendment. Tho next alteration was the
introduction of words extending the franchise to squat-
ters. He would not say that this was an impolitic altera-
tion; perhaps it was only fair that the large body of
colonists who came under that denomination should
be represented in the local legislature—(Hear, hear)
—and Government did not therefore object to
this amendment. The next alteration deprived the
legislative council of power to make any change in its
forms and constitution. No doubt the giving that
power was one of the important objects of the 13111, but
not the object, and as much good would result from the
Bill, even as it now stood, particularly as it would
lead to the settlement of the important question
as to whether it was advisable to give the colonies a
single or a double chamber, Government was generally
disposed to adopt most of the amendments proposed
by the Lords. With respect to the 32d clause of the
Bill, it stood in f tot and in substance as it was originally
sent from that House to the House of Lords. They
had reduced by one-half the amount of franchise, but
they had left to the colonies the power of altering the
qualification of the electors and the elected. They had
also left to them the power of altering the constituent
body, and also the power of introducing a division
of the legislative body into two chambers, and the mode
in which these two chambers should act. But there had
been a change made, under which he did not think it
would be in the power of the legislative council to pass
an Act by which the whole body of the single chamber
could be elected, and no one member of which could be
nominated by the Crown. He did not think it
would be in the power of the council to
alter the proportions of its members, however they
might alter the qualification of the electors, and al-
though they might divide the present legislative council
into two chambers, they would not have the power of
saying there should be a single elective chamber, and
that the nominees of the Crown should be altogether
excluded from that second chamber. On that subject
he should certainly have been disposed to say that if
such au alteration bad been proposed by the legislative
council of New South Wales, although it was a
matter for their discussion and deliberation, he
should have felt very great objection to such an altera-
tion, He therefore felt the less objection to the altera-
tion which had been proposed. He certainly thought
there were advantages in leaving the whole subject to
the legislative council, but if there was anything on
which the House ought to place a restriction, he thought
it wax the power of altering the legislative council into
One legislative body. He therefore concurred in the
general policy of the amendments made by the House of
Lords, and he consideredp that this Bill upon the whole
would be a very great benefit to the Australian colonies.
Mr. GLADSTONE said the Bill before the House, in
his mind, was not a sutisfactory 13111 in its principle. No
doubt it had some advantages to recommend it; but in
his opinion a matter of the most crying necessity, that
of the separation of the colony of Port Philip from
New South Wales, should be accomplished. lie thought
the House would have acted more wisely in seeking to
pass a perfect measure on this subject in the next ses-
sion, when they would be in possession of more infot-
mation from the colonies, than in passing an imperfect
one at the end of the present session. The point in
which the Bill was not satisfactory lay in the third
amendment of the House of Lords, which took away the
power of the legislative council in the colonies of
altering the composition of the council.—(Hear,
hear.) The power of altering the consitution of
the council, and of affecting the balance of power as it
was fixed by the Bill between the Crown end the popular
body, was altogether taken away. The Government had
forgotten throughout all those discussions that unhappily
of all the changes which a single chamber was likely to
make, that of separating itself int two chambers
was the least likely, because it cut directly at
the pride and vanity of the parties most directly
interested in making it.—(Hear, hear.) Where they had
a popular body guiding the fortunes end the legislation
of the colony, it was must unlikely, unless under peculiar
circumstances, that that popular body would consent to
set up another popular body by its side. Again, they
might alter the aggregate number of members of the
council, but not the proportions. The proportions were
sacred, and must not be departed from. He wished to see
New South Wales establish for itself stable institu-
tions, but to be stable those institutions must spring out
of the soil of the colony, and the attempt by the officials
•in Downing-street to check the democratic principles of
the population of New South Wales, would not
only not
check, but would giye a more wildly democratic cha-
rector to the feelings of th 6 people of that Colony, and
fend to weaken the ties between it And the mother

country.—(Hear.) Ho considered those amendments
of the House of Lords amounted, ai nearly as possible,
to a breach of faith by the Government with the co-
lonists of New South Wales. The colonists would say
we had sent them a Bill which was most essentially
changed, and we had pleaded their consent to that Bill
for passing it in the House of Commons, and then had
permitted it to be altertd i❑ the House of Lords. In
fact, he (Mr. Gladstone) must register his pro-
test against this Bill, because, while profess-
ing to give free institutions to the colonists,
it maintained the control of the Crown over the legisla-
ture of the colony, and, introducing uncertainty and un-
easiness into its legislation, it ha -I taken away that
great gift of liberty which was the apology and the argu-
ment that certainly carried the Bill in the House of
Commona.

Mr. ROEBUCK thought it his duty to enter hie sincere
and earnest protest against this Bill. The House learned
now that it was acting on imperfect information. Surely if
perfect information were requisite it might be obtained,
but the truth was, that the Noble Lord at the head of
the Colonial Department was so determined in his own
course that he would never listen either to the sugeee-
bons from the colonies or to the suggestions from
the House of Commons.—([fear.) The House did
not come to legislate on the colonies without ex-
perience ; they had experience enough to guide
them in that matter, and especially with reepect to the
formation of a federative assembly. The Noble Lord
at the head of the colonies was determined to have one
c )uncil, and one council only; but was told over and
over again that if. he adopted that plan it was im-
possible to make a fair and operative assembly.
The Noble Lord was told there was experience
about that matter to which no sane man
could shut his eyes ; and that there was a
plan at once simple and effective. That plan was simply
to have two chambers, one of them representing the po-
pulation cf the colonies, and the other chamber repre-
senting the colonies themselves. That was the plan of
the United States of America, hit upon by
the master-mind of the American revolution.
He charged every one of the Government who had had
anything to do with the Bill with an obstinacy which
could spring from nothing but personal vanity. There was
also another point. In a Bill which was to be a permanent
measure, how was it that they had introduced provisions
which would be a source of constant quarrel? He referred
the House to the constitution which had been lately
framed by the settlers at California, and he thought that
when it was compared with this miserable specimen of
their legislative wisdom it ought to shame every Mem-
ber of the British Parliament. There was nothing
in it which was satisfactory or certain, but
it was full of the seeds of eternal discord. The only
hope he had was that when it got there it would create
t.uch universal dissatisfaction that they would be obliged
to reconsider the measure. He had denied often that
this Bill would please the colonies, and he re-
iterated the denial. He thought that when they
heard an ex-Secretary for the Colonies de-
claring that there was no chance of governing
the colonies without two chambers, he thought it ought
to induce them to pause before they sent out this Bill.
It was, however, now too late, and all he could do was to
protest, and, as far as he was concerned, he had done his
duty.
Mr. CHISHOLM ANSTEY complained that the
only clause of any value had been struck out in
another place, and the Noble Lord had come down
and declared himself perfectly satisfied. He complained
also of the clause introduced there, which allowed con-
victs on tickets of leave an equal share in the franchise.
The Bill, he considered, was a contemptible Bill; and
he should have preferred going without it altogether
than taking it as it was.
Mr. MACGREGOR said the question was whether
this Bill gave or took away any privileges from
the colonists. He believed that it gave many of
them privileges which they never had before possessed.
Taking into consideration the moral and social condi-
tion of the colonies, he thought the Bill was a good
Bill, and that it had been rendered rather more
practical than otherwise by the amendments of the
Lords. He considered that the measure would be
very acceptable to the colonists, and he would give
it his cordial support, being anxious that they should be
kept ro longer in suspense as to what were the intentions
of the Legislature.
The Lords' amendments were then agreed to.
ASSESSED TAXES COMPOSITION BILL.

This Bill was read a second time.
The House then adjourned until five o'clock.

The House resumed et Five o'clock.
PETITIONS.

Mr. DISRAELI presented a petition from a body of
farmers in the county of Perth in favour of protection.
Mr. F. O'CONNOR presented a petition from Lei-
cester praying the [louse to restore the delivery of
letters at the Post-office on Sundays.
Mr. COBDEN presented a petition from a place in
Yorkshire against ehurchoentos.
RAILWAYS ABANDONMENT BILL.
Sir J. GRAHAM, after presenting a petition from a
gentleman in Birmingham complaining of the conduct of
the Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway Com-
pany, asked the President of the Board of Trade
what were the intentions of Government with reference
to the Rail% ays Abandonment Bill.
Mr. LABOUCHERE said the Bill was at present
under the consideration of his Learned Friend the At-
torney• General, who would shortly state what the inten-
tions of Government were with reference to it.

Mr. MULLINGS presented a petition from a place in
Glouceitershire, praying the House to rescind the reso-
lu'ion preventing the delivery of letters at the Post•office
on Sunday.

Mr. StiTHERON presented a petitio❑ from a place
in Wilts praying fur certain modifications in the Savings
Bank Bill before the House.

POLI mem, REFUGEES IN THIS COUNTRY.
Lord DUDLEY STUART gave notice that
he should to-morrow put a question to the Secre-
tary of State for the Home Department re-
specting certain political refugees, who it was
stated, having taken refuge in this country,
had been delivered up to one of the Governments of
Germany, and sent away from hero in consequence of
being blamed as accomplices in a murder committed on
the continent.