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section, we agree unanimously to report to your ho
nountble court, that in our judgment all intramural
interments within grave-yards or within vaults should
be discontinued, an opinion in which your past pro-
c(sedings have materially- proved that you concur. 'We
would add that it is right that attention be called to
the necessity of having one uniform law in this re-
spect throughout the metropolis, otherwise the evils
resulting from such interments would only be removed
from one locality to another. As we find the atten-
tion of Government and the Legislature is called to
this matter, we do not think it necessary that your
honourable court should at present take any further
steps therein.

" STATE OF TAR DWELLINGS OF TUE POOR.
" Upon the vast and difficult questions referred to
in the sth section of Mr. Simon's report, we feel that
we are to some extent spared the necessity of entering,
the Court of Common Council having (as it belongs
to them in reference to this city) taken up the ques-
tions connected with the filthy and bad conditions
Of the houses of the poor in many of the confined
courts and alleys of London, and the best means
of remedying the alarming evils that result there-
from. We feel it due to Mr. Simon to add from
the result of personal investigation, that the staten tents
contained in his report under this section are not ex-
aggerated. The very filthy habits of some of the
lowest portions of the community, which we have had
opportunities of witnessing, are such that it beca mes
an exceedingly difficult question to deal with th em.
Already, under your directions, in many of th ese
localities various works have been effected,
calculated to improve materially the condition and to
increase the comforts of the inhabitants ' • and yet ex-
perience has shown that they have been far from an-
preciating these improvements. We do not mean t
ay that this is so in all cases ; and we can only h ,pa
that the Court of Common. Council will not cease
from their efforts to improve the conditions of the
localities in question, by widening the avenues and
admitting more freely the light and air to these hon los
of poverty. The erection of lodging-houses for the
pour upon an improved plan, of public baths and or
wash-houses, are among the questions of serious
portance connected with this subject. But however
desirable it may be deemed that these propositions
should be carried ont, yet we do not consider that
that they come within the objects for which the rates
under your authority are raised. We cannot pass
the subject, however, without recording our opinion
that the operation of the window-tax is directly
opposed to the sanitary interests of the population of
the city, and that its continuance must in a great de-
gree neutralize the effect of those exertions which
your honourable court is making for the purpoies of
sanitary improvement. We find that it affords in-
ducements to the construction of houses with de-
f ective supply of light and air, that it opposes great
obstacles to the improvement of such houses as have
already been constructed on a faulty principle, and
that these circumstances tend to aggravate the fre-
quency and malignity of epidemic diseases, and to in-
crease the mortality of the population.
" CARRYING OUT OF A SANITARY SYSTEM.
" We have taken into consideration the various s ug-
gestions which have been made by the medical ()Dicer
of health, for the more effectually obtaining that
extent of information necessary far the duly carrying
out of a system of a sanitary improvement within
thts city. We consider it is quite indispensable that
any committee on health which may be appointed
should receive the largest and most accurate returns
that can 12e procured of all sickness occurring among
the poorer classes, and particularly in respect of all
epidemic, endemic, and infectious disorders. That
the medical practitioner who communicates the
fact of illness should likewise report the existence
of any local causes, or other influences of general
operation, which have tended to produce, or are tend-
ing to continue such Mons; and having duly
weighed the various considerations connected with
this subject, and your past proceedings therein, and
believing that it would not be judicious to appoint
eleven medical officers, or any additional medical:
staff to be attached to your court, but at the same
time deeming it necessary that the information asked,
for in Mr. Simon's report should be obtained, we re-
commend that your honourable court empower Mr:.
Simon to obtain such information at an aggregat.e
annual expense not to exceed 2501.
"We have also taken into consideration the Ist
suggestion in Mr. Simon's report (page 71)—' That
an account should be kept, corrected year by year, of
every house in the city, as to the area of the build-
ings, the number of floors, rooms, and windows—as
to its ventilation, drainage, water supply, and other
facilities for cleanliness—as to its method of occupa-
tion, and number of inhabitants, And having had a
report from your surveyor upon the matter laid before
us, we are of opinion that it is desirable to have in-
formation in the form prepared under the direction of
the surveyor, and that such additional assistance be
obtained for that purpose as may be necessary.
"We have thus endeavoured to give to the leading
points contained in Mr., Simon's report our best
consideration, and to offer our opinions to your
honourable court as to the course to be pursued in
reference to them.

" The question of the sanitary condition of the
city of London is one in which not merely its in-
habitants, but the whole metropolis are interested,
and we have regarded it in that light, while con-
sidering the details of the work requisite to carry out
a system of improvement therein, which has been
suggested to us.
" The question of applying to Parliament for a
renewal of your Act must occupy your attention at
the close of the present session ' • and as the provisions
of the Act, in connexion with some of the subjects
on which we have reported, will need to be amended,
enlarged, and modified in various ways, as the past
year's experience has shown, we feel it right to draw
the attention of your honourable court to the impor-
tance of taking early steps to carry into effect the
suggestions we have ventured to make, either by re-
porting to the Court of Common Council, to invite
their concurrence in the work of sanitary improve-
ments, or otherwise as may seem to you best.
"All which we submit to the judgment of your
honourable court."

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, Amt. 1.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market has been dull to-
day-, and the amount of business done was very limited,
but prices are almost stationary. The transactions were
as follow :—London and North-Western, 105 c. Ditto,
New Quarters, I3s. 9d.—Ditto, Fifths, ls. 3d.—Lancashire
and Yorkshire, Consol., 34—Ditto, Fifths, 10% dis.—Man-
cheater, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Preference, 6% —North
Union (A), 235—Midland, 38% c--Ditto Halves, 261. ls. 3d.
—York. Newcastle, and Berwick (Extension, Nos. 1 and 2),
12 dis.

MANCHESTER, Arlin, 1.
STOCK EXCHASIGE.—The market was very dull to-dap
and prices were much lower. The transactions were as fol..
low :—Eastern Counties (Perpet. 5 per cent. No. 2).
VA—Lancashire and Yorkshire Fifths, 10% die. —Ditto
(Preston and Wyre), 411,1—London and North-Western.
104 N —Ditto, Manchester and Birmingham (C), Quarters.
c. p—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 1234--
Ditto, Preference 674 —SOUth-Eastern and Dover, 14%...-•
Ditto, Thirds (No. 4), 45,4—Ditto' Scrip, 474.
BIRMINGHAM, APRIL 1.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The only transactions to-day were--
Birini ngham,Wolv erhampton, and Stour Valley,3%—Shrews:
bury and Birmingham (A), B:ri dis.—Ditto, Preference, 9%
—South Staffordshire, 4E/5 dis.

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