The Sun.
London, England, 1850-02-21 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS.

(From the Yates and Proceedings of the House of Commons.'
WEDNESDAY, FEB. '2O.
BANKRUPT AND INSOLVENT MEMBERS BILL.
Order for Second Reading read ; Motion made, and Ques-
tion proposed, "That the Bill be now read a second time:"—
Amendment proposed, to leave out the word " now," and at
the end of the Question to add the words " upon this day
six months:"— Question put, " That the word now stand
par. of the Question." The House divided :
MINORITY—AYES, 34.
Fellowcs, E. Pechell, Sir G.
Frewen, C. H. Pilkington, James
Grosvenor, Lord R. Ricardo, Osman
Gwyn, Howel Sibthorp, Colonel
Harris, Richard Stuart, Lord J.
Hotham, Lord Thickness% Ralph
Kershaw, James Thornely, Thomas
King, P. j.- Williams, John
Lacy, H. C.
Mackinnon, W. A.
M`Naghten, Sir E.
M'Taggart, Sir J.
Ogle, S. C.

Arkwright, George
Base, Thomas
Berkeley, C. L. G.
Blair; Stephen
Brisco, M.
Brown, W.
Clive, H. B.
"jolebrooka, Sir T.
Divett, Edward
Duneuft, John
Ellis, John
Evans,
Farm:, James

TELLZI S.
Moffatt, George
Mullings, J. R.

MAJORITY-NOES. 73.
Sainte, 11. J. Harris, Captain Pugh, David
Raines, M. T.
Chatterton, Colonel ilatchell, John Reynolds,
Berkeley, G. F.
. Smith, Vernon
lieneage, G. IL W. Rice, E. R.
Boldero, 11. G. Herbert, li. A. Salwey, Colonel
Buck, Lewis W.
IBlli:lld,gLoes,rdEL...
ilildyard, T. B. T. Shafto, R. D.
Buller, Sir J. V. Sianey, R. A.
Christopher, R. Herman, E. Somers, J. P.
Clay, James Hume, Joseph Somerville, Sir W.
'
Clay, Sir W. Lewis, G. C. Sotheron, T. H. S.
Clifford, Henry 11. Lindsay, Colonel Spooner, R. .
Corbttlly, M. B. Lushington, CharleS Stanton, W. S.
Craig, W. G. ' JVl`Cullagli W. T. Sullivan, Michael
Deedes, W. • Meagher, Thomas Thompson, Colonel
Drumlanrig, Vie. Melgund, Viscount Trollope, Sir J.
Drummond, Henry hieux, Sir H. Tyrell, Sir J.
Dundas, Sir David Monsell,'William Vivian; J. H.
Dunne, Francis P. ' Mostyn, E. M. L. Waddington, H. S.
E'steourt, J. B. B. Napier, Joseph Wawn, J. T.
Fagan, W. O'Flaherty, Anthony Wilson, Matthew
Forbes, Wm. Pakington, Sir J. s. Wodehouse, Edmund
Fox, S. L. Palmer, Robert
Fuller, A. E. Periict, Robert
Gore, W. it. 0. • Pigott, Francis
Grey, Sir G. Plunaptre, 3. P.
Halsey, T. P. Power, t N icholas

TELLERS.
Goulburn, Henry
Packet C. W.

SMALL TENEMENTS RATING BILL.

Order for Second Reading read ; Motion made, and Ques-
tion proposed, " That the Bill be DOW read a second time :"
Amendment proposed, to leave out the word ." now," and
at the end of the Question to add the words " upon this day
six months." Question put, "That the word new' stand
part of the question." The Muse divided :
MAJORITY—AYES, 182.

MINORITY--NOES. 2.

O'Connor, Feargus TELLERS.
Scrope, 0. P.
l'ilkington,•_James
`yawn, J. T.

Tilt METROPOLITAN POLICE.—The accounts of
the metropolitan police force for the year ending the 31st
of December last, as presented to Parliament, west, yes-
terday printed. The receipts of the year amounted to
442,518/. 13s. Bd. The total sum paid for the force was
373,640/. 11s. I Id., leaving a balance in hand of 68,878/.
Is. 9d. The accounts show an increass in the number
of constables compared with the previous year. The
number of the force on the Ist of January last was-5,492,
of which 4,769 were constables-1,218 in the first class,
2,354 in the second, and 1,146 in the third class.
ST. AUGUSTINE'S COLLEGE, CANTERRURY.—On
Wednesday, Feb. 20, the Rev. Henry Bailey, 8.D.,
Fellow and Hebrew- Lecturer of St. John's College,
Cambridge, was admitted Warden of the Missionary
College of St. Augustine Canterbury.

TRE BLEA.LTH OF LONDON.
(Feein the weekly return of the Registrar-General.)
'lt is sati4astory to obserie that the,puhlie health,
as compared with .that of 'former perindS, is in 'a
favourable state,
,test week the mortality in-Lendon,
corOnued to decline, and the deaths were only
93q, showing a decrease of 19 on these of the 'former
and of 159 on those of the weekly average of last
Jaouary. In the corresponding weeks of 10 previous
years (1846-9), the average was 1,041, which, if c9r-
rected for increased . population, becomes 1,136 ; the
present .decrease of. mortality, ae compared with
former yew, ,is therefore 198. In the epidemic
or zymotic class of diseases the deaths last week were
144 ; !Ln the corresponding weeks of the years 1840 9
th4.flactuated between 129 and 333; thecorrected ave-
rage is 209. , From pbtbisis (or consumption) the
deaths last week were 113 ; at the same period of pre-
vious years they ranged from 115 to 170. Frbm other
distasee that affect the respiratory organs (exclusive
of hooping cough) the deaths were 199 ; in preiious
year et,,>rbi tune, they ranged froth -11 g to 330.
'To take ,partieular •diseases :—smallpox was fatal :to
6 persens, lesd.tban one-third of its former ;nortality;
rsdarlat,ina, t 9 13, while
.the average is 34 "i hqoping-,
coi4gb to 31, the' average being 46 ; typhus to 29;
the everage bellag 36. The deaths &Om measlena'were
91, a ,mortality ,which is about the usual arnount.;
From asthma end hronChitis there were 11-v deaths,
the
.ayerageAs, 100; from , pneumonia there,
,were
76; whilst' 96 forms the average. 'Diarrhoea was
fatal to 18 persons,' which exceeds the average by
7, !though- the.,nmeber .who died of 'this ,eoraplaiht,
its the same week of last year was 27. The wife or
L journeyman lainprnaker, aged 60, died in St. John
the Evangelist's, Westminster, of debility, which was
•the result of an attack of Asiatic cholera six months
before. Four nonagenarians died during "the week,
of whom three were women ; one man died in the
Goswell-street sub-district, at the advanced age of 99
years.
The mean height of the barometer at the Royal
Observatory, Greenwich, during the week was
29.754 in. The mean temperature was 49 deg.
8 min., and exceeded the average of the same week in
seven years by 6 deg. 9 min. ; on Sunday it was
9 deg., and on Friday 14 deg. 9 min. above the ave-
rage. On Wednesday, when the mean temperature
was 35 deg. 1 min., it was slightly below the average
of that day.
The following extracts are made from the regis-
trars' reports :---
"At the Potteries, Kensington, a boy, a month old,.
son of
.a journeyman baker, died convulsion's.' The
locality (says Mr. Gorham) is extremely dirty and badly.
drained.

"In Somers-town, at 3, Steven's place, the wife of a
carpenter, aged 56, died of 'rheumatism and disease of
the heart.' Mr. Matthews states that this place is
situated at the commencement of Brill-row; it is damp
and very unhealthy. It consists of 12 houses, some
containing two rooms, some three, and others four, all
in front. There are no back-rooms, yards, or water-
closets; water is not laid on in any of the houses, but is
suppliel from a pump, and there is only one privy for
the whole of the inhabitants.' He registered also the
death of a labourer's daughter, aged eight months, from
hooping-cough (seven months), at 11, Hampton-court,
which he describes as very crowded, and, in his opinion,
not healthy. A child of the same family, aged three
years, died of the same complaint on the 7th inst..
"In Camden-town, at 7, Thornley-place, a shoemaker,
of 65 years of age, died of bronchitis' (three months'
illness). Mr. Hod states that 'this is a -close confined
court, in a thickly populated neighbourhood, and most
unhealthy."
"In Camden-town, at 10, Lower Edmund-street, the
son and daughter of a carman, aged respectively 5 years
and 8 months, died on the 13th and 14th of February
of 'small-pox (after 14 days' illness), vaccination not
having been performed in either case.' The house stands
in a more open part of a crowded neighbourhood, and
is near the Smallpox Hospital. The children had not
been vaccinated, because a death had occurred some time
ago to a member of the same family on whom vaccina-
tion had been performed. Another child is now dan-
gerously ill of the same disorder.
"In Islington, at 9, Adelaide-square, the daughter of
a toothbrush-maker, a twin, died of diarrheas.' Mr.
Butterfield calls it a badly ventilated place, and a
square only in name.'
"In St. Clemeat Danes, at 9, Little Shire-lane, the
wife of a shoemaker, of 48 years, died of bronchitis'
(many years). This is stet]d by Mr. Jones to be a
close densely-peopled and dirty neighbourhood.' In the
same sub-district. at 5, Yeat's-court, the daughter of a
bricklayer deceased, of 3 years old, died of fever after
a month's illness.' Mr. Jones adds that this court,
which adjoins the worst part of St-elemener-lane, is
-atthealAyi..,th.chbases afro ram 0)18;40 ,fin'
ffithliff *floor, °rive

-.out in each 'MOM. gere fever and diarrbasa (as
cholera was last year) are nearly always present in one
or other of the tenements. The drains saaell_ dread-
fully.
'4.ln Hackney-road, Bethnal-;reen, at 16, Coiling-
wood-rtreet, the daughter of a cordwainer, aged fire
years, died of water on the brain (three weeks), con-
vulsions (three days).' The houses (says Mr. Murray)
are remarkably crowded, the custom being to let, not by
tenements, but by rooms.' Also, at 7, Virginia•row, the
wife of a cordwainer, aged 59 years, died paralysis
(24 hours).' The houses are capacious and are built on
the French model, in fiats, with common staircase!.
The street is crowded and ill-cleansed.

"In Trinity, Newington, at 27, Adam•street, the son
of a cigar-maker, aged two years, died of pertussis.'
Mr. Seagrave states that an open and very offensive
sewer runs behind the house.' "

Besides the above, the following'were registered :
" Shopman, aged 20, fell while running, and died in
about twenty minutes; this took place between ten and
eleven P.M., alter shutting up shop; be, with other young
men, went into the park to practise for a race, which
was to Ole place in a day or two with one of the per-
sons present.'
" Female child, aged 2 months, qmmorrhage from
mouth and nose (3 days).'
Woman, aged 40, cauliflower excrescence of the
uterus (18 months), exhaustion.'
" Male child, aged 4 weelo, congenital fungoid, dis-
ease of the eye.'
" Male child, aged 2 years, (edema glottidis (7 days).'"
The following deaths from cholera, occurred last
year in Lewisham village, but were not registeied
Illttbe week ending Februry 16, 1850 :
"July 5, aged 9, son of a baker, ' cholera, 14 hours.
—lcquest. At Southend.
"July 6, aged 45. woman,
quest. In Union Workhouse.
"July 6, aged 33, a gardener, cholera, 12 hours.'—
Inquest. At Southend.
"July 10, aged 6, son of shoemaker, Asiatic cholera,
12 hours.'--Inquest. In Hanover-street.

cholera, 10 hours.'—ln

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS.
NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN
THE WEEK
.ENDING SATURDAY, FEB. 16, 1550.
Epidemic,. Endemic, and Contagious Diseases ... *144
Diseases of Uncertain Seat ... ... 41

Tubercular Diseases ... ••• ••• ••• "• 166
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... ... 119
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels ... 3:
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration ••• ••• ••• ••• . 199
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs
of Digestion...
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. •• •••
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, 8,1.
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles
Diseases of the Skin, &c.
Malformations— ••• ••• ••• •••
Premature Birth ••
Atrophy ••• ••• ••• ••• •••
Old Age ••• ••• ••• ••• •••
Sudden ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• •••
Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance
Causes not. specified ••. ..• ••• •••
DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES

... 10

... 2

... 22

938
Deaths
In the
Week.
133
183
153
205
264

Deaths in corre-
sponding weak
of 1849.
163 .
222 .
193 .
299 .
34:8 .

Population
Enumerated,
1841.
West Districts... 301,189 . .
North D.Aricts.. 376,568 ..
Central Districts 374,199 ...
East Districts ... 393,067
South Districts .. 503,346 ...

Totals... ..... 1,948,369
Males ••• •••
Females ... t••

... 1,225

... 938
... 483
... 455

At Sy ie—The Spiteful steam-corvette, Commander
J. Carmichael.
At or near Athens—The Queen, 116,, Captain C.
'Vise, hearing the flag ot . Vice-Admiral Sir \V.
Parker'' G1C.8., the Commander-in Chia.; the Cale-
donia, 120; Captain T. W. Carter' the Howe, 120,
Captain Sir J. !Stirling; the lipllerophon, 78, Cap.;
tam Robert, Baynes; the-Powerful, 84, Captain
Ole Hop. R. S. Pundas ; the Vengeance, $4,: Captain
Sir H. M. Blackwood; the clanges, 84, Captain H.
Smith ;'-the Firebrand steam-frigate; Captain T. 0.
Knol ; the.Pulldog,' Cominander Key (on a cruise),
the Rosamond,- Commander Foote ' - the' Ardent,
Lieutenant Nowell; deam.sloops ' • the Odin"( the Hon.
Belhain, the Dragou, Captain W. IL Hall, steam.'
frigates ; the Porcupine, Lieutenant *.berta;
and Auxiliary; surveying tender to Voyage, Mate-
Commander J. Gover.