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(From the Registrar-General's Weekly
In the week that ended on Saturday, rebruiryi6, 4,99:
births and 2,977 deaths were registered in London and in
airteep Other large towns of the United Kingdom. The
annual rate of mortality was 24 per 1,000 persons living.
The annual rate of mortality last week was 22 per 1,000
in London, 25 in Edinburgh, and 26 in Dublin ; 26 in
Bristol, 24 in Birmingham, 31 in Liverpool, 33 in
Manchester, 22 in Salford, 22 in Sheffield, 21 in
Leeds, 24 in null, 22 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and 29
in Glasgow. The rate in Vienna was 35 per 1,000 during
the week ending the Bth instant, when the mean tempera,
tube was 0.3 deg. Fahrenheit higher than in the same week
in London, where the rate was 23.

In London the births of 1,238 boys and 1,114 girls, in all
2,352 children, were registered in the week. In the corre-
sponding weeks of ten years, 1858-67, the average
number, corrected for increase of population, is 2,236.
The deaths registered in London during the week were
1,307. It was the seventh week of the year ; and the
average number of deaths for that week is, with a cor-
rection for increase of population, 1,519. The deaths in
the present return are less by 212 than the estimated
number. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 30-215 in. Tho
barometrical reading decreased from 30-40 in. on Sunday,
February 9, to 29-92 in. on Saturday, February 15. The
mean temperature of the air in the week was 40.9 deg.,
which is 2.4 deg. rl)ove the average of the same week in
fifty years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher). The highest
day temperature was 51'9 deg., on Monday, February 10.
The lowest night temperature was 26.7 deg., on Sunday,
February 9. The mean degree of humidity of the air was
84, complete saturation being represented by 100. Rain
fell to the amount of 0.04 in. The general direction of the
wind was W.S.W. Ozone was observed on Monday.

THE REFORM LEAGUE

On Wednesday night a meeting of the League was held
at the offices of the association, Adelphi-terrace. Mr.
Edmond Beaks presided, and in opening the proceedings
said he.had received a final letter from Sir Richard Mayne
regarding the suppression of certain branches of the
League, in which he merely referred him (the speaker)
to his former letter. He then detailed the circum-
stances which led to the correspondence referred to,
and said that the impression now left on his mind was
that the interference with the branches of the League
to which he alluded was wholly unauthorised. It was
then resolved that the' secretary should write to both
the members for Finsbury, in which borough the house
most particularly interfered with is situated, requesting
these gentlemen to ask the Secretary of the Home Depart-
ment by whose authorisation certain branches of the League
had been suppressed. A long report on the Irish question
was brought up by the sub-committee appointed for the
purpose of reporting on that subject. The first clause
recommended the total abolition of the Irish Church
at once. The president objected to the clause as it
stood, and suggested that it should be altered in such
a way that the life interests of beneficed clergymen at
present living should be regarded. A long - discussion
ensued, in which some rather vigorous lac was em-
ployed. At one point in the debate the president had to
call a Mr. Cooper to order for dencminiting the beneficed
clergymen of the Established Church of Ireland " thieves
and robbers." The president said that he would never sanc-
tion the sweeping away of one wrong by the committal of
another. He agreed with those who advocated the abolition
of the Irish Church, but he could never consent to the
destruction of vested interests without adequate compen-
sation. He believed that if the clause were sent for-
ward to the public in its present shape it would meet
with the reprobation of the vast majority of the people
of England. A document had been recently issued„signed
by Irish Liberal members, by ecclesiastical dignitaries,
and others, and in that manifesto due regard was paid to
existing vested interests. Ultimately, the clause as origi-
nally drawn up was passed by a considerable majority.
The president said that he would insist on his protest
being entered against t'ie clause passed. The following
sections, recommending the abolition of the endowment of
Maynooth Cullege and of the Regium Donnm to the Pres-
byterians, were passed without any opposition, as were
also those recommending the abolition of the customs of
entail and primogeniture. Regarding the clauses which
recommended the sale o 7 entailed property to the State, a
discussion arose, during which the president said that he
objected altogether to making the nation the landlord of
these estates. What they wanted Was, to change the pre-
sent rents into fixed and permanent rents, as suggested by
Mr. J. Stuart Mill and Sir John Gray. He was of opinion
that the law which converted leaselipld property, with
covenants for perpetual renewal, into tenures in fee, should
be extended to all leasehold property in Ireland. Th•
clauses as the 3 originally stood would obtain no more than
what was already provided for by Acts of Parliament. A
desultory conversatiou followed, and ultimately the debate
was adjourned to Wednesday next.