• TO THE EDITOR OF THE sPECTATon.
Leeds, 6#4 April 1847. Sra—I have for many years been a reader of the Spectator, which I have al- -ways believed to be most careful and accurate in its selection of news: I am there- 'fore much grieved to see your statement in page 318—" Some old shareholders of 'the Oxford and Birmingham Railway have carried their grievances," &c. In those few lines your reporter has ingeniously contrived to exactly reverse the -facts.
The new shareholders are applying for an injunction to restrain the old di- rectors from acting in the Great Western Railway interest. It is difficult to zonceive how so gross a blunder could have arisen; but it is -most unsatisfactory to your readers, and I trust will be noticed in the proper quarter, in order to prevent such errors for the future.
I am years respectfully, J. P. S.
'f The blunder of transposition, which this was, is of a simpler kind, and oc- 'curs oftener in newspaper writing and printing, than our correspondent is aware Results of the Registrar-General's return of mortality in the Metropolis for the week ending on Saturday last— Total (including unspecified causes) 1004 914 The temperature of the thermometer ranged from 67.0° in the sun to 16.8° in the shade; the mean temperature by day being colder than the average mean temperature by 7.0°. The direction of the wind for the week was variable
Number of Spring deaths. average. Zyniotic (or Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious) Diseases 107 .. . 166 Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat 128 Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses 177 Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration 302 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 53 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion 78 Dieeaaesof the Kidneys, Ho 10 8 Childbirth, diseases of the 'Uterus, EC 11 Niseumatism, diseases of the Bones, Joints, Ha. 13 Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, He. 2 Old Age Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance ... 138 .... 275 .... 22 58 60 8 2 . 67
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