Alistellantous.

The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed ander the Great Seal granting the dignity of an Earl of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland unto his Royal Highness Albert Edward Prince of Wales, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, and his heirs, Kings of the said United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, for ever, by the name, style, and title of Earl of Dublin.—London Gazette, Sept. 11.

Mr. More O'Ferrall, having been severely censured by the Colonial Office for his recent conduct towards the Italian refugees, has resigned the Governorship of Malta; but it is uncertain whether or not his resignation will be accepted. Mr. O'Ferrall was in London last week, and is now said to be at Boulogne.—Daily News.

General Sir Charles Napier quits India in the spring of next year. He has sent home instructions for the purchase of an estate on the banks of the Thames, where he intends to take up his permanent residence.—Timer.

It is highly probable, says the United Service Gazette, that Sir William Gomm will continue in India, with the expectation of succeeding Sir Charles Napier on his retirement from the Indian command in the spring.

An Episcopal see is placed at the disposal of the Ministry by the death of Dr. Edward Stanley, Bishop of Norwich. Dr. Stanley was appointed to the see of Norwich in 1837; William the Fourth being King, and Lord Melbourne Prime Minister. His death will be a loss equally felt in pri- vate circles, in scientific reunions, and in the Parliamentary forum. He was a good scholar, a liberal divine, an accomplished man of science and a politician of popular sympathies. Dr. Stanley was born in fanning 1779. He was the second son of Sir John Thomas Stanley of Alderley-, and brother of the present Baron Stanley of Alderley. He leaves several children ; the eldest son, Owen, is a Commander in the Royal Navy ; the second son, Charles Edward, a Lieutenant of Engineers. Mrs. Stanley, who survives the Bishop, was the daughter of the Reverend Oswald Leycester, Rector of Stoke-upon-Trent.

The vacancy in the diocese of Norwich opens to Dr. Graham, Bishop of Chester, a seat in the House of Lords; while the new Bishop of Norwich will be excluded until another vacancy on the list of Bishops takes place.

The obituary announces the death of Mr. Musters, of Colwick Hall, husband of Miss Mary Anne Chaworth, of Annesley Park; the lady im- mortalized by Lord Byron's youthful love. The joint estates descend to a grandson—Mr. John Chaworth Musters, "a minor." Mrs. Musters died in 1832.

The following; is the special form of prayer, to be used instead of the prayer used in any time of common plague or sickness, in all churches and chapels throughout those parts of the United Kingdom called England and Ireland, on Sunday the 16th of September, and during the prevalence of the cholera in this country, "for obtaining pardon of our sins, and par- ticularly for beseeching God to remove from us that grievous disease with which many pluses in this kingdom are now visited "— " 0 Almighty God and Father, whose power no creature is able to resist, and in whose hand are the =ales of life' and death, look down, we beseech Thee from Heaven, Thy dwelling-place, upon us Thine unworthy servants, who turn to Thee, their only refuge, in this season of sickness and great mortality. We confess, 0 Lord, that we have not deserved to be free from that visitation of Thywrath which has afflicted other nations of the earth. We acknowledge with shame and con- trition that we have shown ourselves unthankful for many special mercies vouch- safed to us, and have not made that return for our national blessings which Thou mightest justly require at our hands. We have departed from Thy command- ments; we have followed too much the things of this present world; and in our prosperity we have not sufficiently honoured 'Thee, the Author and Giver of it all. If Thou wert to deal with us after our sins or reward us according to our iniqui- ties, we could not stand in Thy sight.

"But Thou bast revealed Thyself unto as as a God of mercy and forgiveness, towards those who confess their unworthiness, and turn to Thee in repentance and prayer. When Israel had provoked Thee to wrath, and thousands fell by the de- stroying pestilence, Thou didst stay the sword of the avenging angel, when the purpose. of Thy judgment was fulfilled. When the men of Nineveh repented of their iniquity, Thou didst lay aside the fierceness of Thine anger, and sparedst the guilty city when Thou sawest that they turned from their evil way. "And now, 0 Lord, we entreat Thee after Thy rich mercy to grant unto Us Thine afflicted servants the like spirit of repentance, that Thou may.est withdraw Thy chastisements from our land, and stay the plague and grievons sickness which is abroad, making many desolate. May the judgments which Thou hark sent work in us a more lively faith, a more entire obedience, a more earnest endeavour to conform to Thy will and to advance Thy glory. Make us duly sensible of Thy goodness, in maintaining the domestic tranquillity of our land, in preserving us from intestine commotious, and in granting a plentiful return to the labours of our husbandmeu. Teach us to show our thankfulness for these mercies by an increasing desire to relieve distress, and to remove all occasions of discontent and murmunngs, and to promote good-will and concord amongst ourselves. And may the frequent instances of mortality which we have beheld remind us all of the nearness of death, and dispose us so to number our days that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom; that, whether living or dying, we may be found faithful disciples of Him who has taken away the sting of death, and opened the gate of everlasting life to all believers.

"Hear us, 0 Lord, for Thy goodness is great; and according to the multitude of Thy mercies receive these our petitions, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen."' The example set by the Bishop of Salisbury has been followed by other Prelates. The Bishop of London has advised his clergy to sot aside some one Sunday as a day of "special supplication and intercession "; an injunc- tion which has been followed by Islington, St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, &a. The Bishop of Exeter has specially recommended a day of fasting and hu- miliation for the afflicted parishes of Plymouth, Stonehouse, and Daven- port, and also "a similar observance in every parish or district the minis- ter of which shall deem it expedient": yesterday, the 14th instant, was the day fixed for Plymouth, Stonehouse, and Devonport. The Bishop of Hereford has issued a similar recommendation to the parishes of Mary's and St. Leonard's, Bridgnorth. The Bishop of Ripon, on the suggestion of Dr. Hook, Vicar of Leeds, has intimated that it would be well for the clergy of each church in Leeds to invite their devout parishioners to assemble in public worship on Wednesday, the 19th instant, and humble themselves

In Camberwell the corsuegatiom___ef_thil_perish-ebnrch -has-hearia- sited toAtteud Divine service were/mum-0v elusingthe preeentwonk, from Monday to Saturday inclusive, for the purpose of humbling ourselvrn be- fore Almighty God, and deprecating his anger against, the land underthe present awful visitation of cholera." The notice conveying this invitation was announced from the pulpit as having the warmest approval of the Bi- shop, and the services are to be continued for another 'week. • Among those who have fallen victims to cholera during the past week, have been.the Archdeacon Jeffreys, late of Bornbaye--Dr. William Cooke Taylor' of Trinity College, Dublin, well known as arlituirateur_and a suc- cessful political statist; Thomas Inekip, the poetical writer sa'many years associated in-reputation with his friend the poet Bloomfield; and Mr..Tohn- son, formerly Alderman of London.

A correspondent of the Times states that the well-known efficacy of chloride of lime as a disinfectant is greatly increased by the additien of common sulphate of iron, or of common alum. The evolution of the chlorine gas is made more rapid and abundant by the mixture. It is better to dissolve the sulphate of iron, or alum, by itself, and to add the solution ti3 the solution of the chloride of lime when the latter is about to be used. Attention has been directed to the merits of chloride of zinc, which is stated to be cheaper and more rapid in its effect on organic miasma than the Chloride of lime. Lieutenant Jackson, of the Royal Navy, lately sub- mitted to the Lord Mayor a•gr,eatmass...of offinial.ffertificates from the Ad- iniralty authorities of its 'effectiveiese in the oinvielt, hulks and elsewhere.

. An Amsterciam letter of the 3d instant states, that the difficult operation of draining the sea or lake of Haarlem is carried on with the greatest activity. The works are not even suspended on Sundays or fete-days; nay, they are sometimes continued during the night. During the month of Au- gust, the waters of this immense lake were lowered to the extent of .27i inches, Dutch measure. It is hoped and expected that they will be entirely drained off before the month of March 1850.

Sonic weeks since, the Times gave insertion to a letter from Mr. Jaapar Tomsett Judge, the defendant in the suits lately prosecuted by the Queen and Prince Albert about their private etchings, complaining of the hard steps that had been taken against _him in, relation to the costs of those suits. The following letter from Mr. Anson to Mrs. Judge is now pub- lished by the Times, to show "how unfounded Mr. Judge's statements were, and with how mach kindness and charity he has been treated by the Royal objects of his unwearied calumny."

" Balmoral, Sept. 8.

" Madam—I am commanded to acknowledge the receipt of your petition to the Queen for intercession in behalf of your husband, Mr. Judge ; and to say, that having been directed to make inquiries into the allegations brought forward by you, it appears that they are wholly unfounded. Neither have Mr. Strange's costs been added to Mr. Judge's, nor is Mr. Judge's debt owing to his Royal Highness Prince Albert.

"Mr. Judge was from the beginning liable for the whole costs: the suit against Mr. Strange was dropped from his having made his submission; your husband, on the contrary, obliged it to proceed against him, by following the opposite course; and the heaviness of the costs are entirely the consequence of his perti- nacity, and the costs are dm to the solicitors employed in the cause. Any pay- ment of costs, therefore, on the part of her Majesty and the Prince, would be a gratuitous donation to your husband. 'From your knowledge of his unremitting efforts for many years to inflict every possible injury on her Majesty, the Prince, their family, and the Court, by a system of espionage into, misrepresentation and vilifying of, all the acts of their private life, you will be the best judge whether he deserves such a boon at their hands. Nevertheless, it is repugnant to the feelings of her Majesty and his Royal Highness, that innocent persons like yourself and children should suffer in a cause with which their names are in any way connected; and I am commanded to forward to you a check for 1804 with which you may pay your husband's oasts, and extricate him from prison; and may he in future support his -family by a more honourable industry. "Requesting you will acknowledge the receipt of this money,

"I am, Madam, your obedient servant, G. E. Assort." "Mrs. Judge."

A Perth paper lately published a paragraph concerning a kind attention paid by Sir Robert Peel to Sergeant John Macpherson, an old Highland gamekeeper at Kinguaaie. Macpherson has written to the Inverness Courier, stating his opinion that full lustice has not been done to the event, and has forwarded particulars to the Courser and an original letter from Sir Robert, which he would "not part with for a whole year's pension." The Inverness Courier relates, that "Sir Robert Peel formerly had Cluny Castle and shootings for four years. His first visit to the Highlands was made in company with the Marquis of Huntly, (the late and the last Duke of Gordon) at Pitmain, some thirty years ago. Hence his acquaintance with Sergeant John Macphersou' well known to all sportsmen and visiters in that quarter. John volunteered in 1790 into Duke Alexander's company, which afterwards joined the first battalion of the Forty-secomiltegnient. liewatt some time servant to General Sir Ralph Abereiomby; and was wounded- at the battle of Aboukir in 1801, while his company, the grenadiers were taking the enemy's cannon on the sandy hills. He was also one of the -Aar sergeants who accompanied Abeseromby's remains to Malts. Shortly afterwards, John came home and entered into the service of the Illanmia of Mundy, with whom he wait a rent favourite. He continued in the sitnatkie Of head garnekeeper io Badenoch until the death of his patron. It was, he thinks, in the year 1819, and on the 12th of August, that the Marquis ordered him to accompany Mr. Peel to the wore of Corrydner, above Ringussie, the blarquie's favourite shooting. John hesitated; for he says, lookiog at so young anise, and only plain Mr. Peel, and knowing that the Marquis permitted no one but himself to shoot over this moor, he thought this was just one of the Marquis's jokes or tricks. The Marquis's 'quick eye soon saw through the matter, andle repeated his order; adding, Ser- geant, show the young gentleman the best part of the moor, for I will not be sur- prised to see him yet Prime Minister of England.' These words, the Sergeant remarks, were said in Sir Robert Peel's own hearing; and they must have occurred to his mind when he approached Pitmain this season. Unfortunately, John' was out fishing when Sir Robert inquired for him; but be took the liberty next day -to write to Eileen Aigas, thanking the great statesman for the honour he had done him by inquiring for him, and stating some of the changes that had occurred in the country. By return of poet, the Sergeant received a letter in Sir Robert's own band, enclosing a handsome present. The letter we shall faithfully return, seeing that the Sergeant says he would not part with it for a year's pension, namely, 181. 5s. It is verbatim as follows--

• Dear Sergeant Macpherson-I think It Is just thirty years sincewe met at Pitman: but t assure you that I have not forgotten you, and that j heard with great pleasure on passing through KIngussle on Thursday last, that you were In good health.' Pray ac- cept the enclosed for the sake of add langsyne.

'Faithfully yours, ROBERT PRES.'

• Ellen Algae, near Beauly, Inverness-ahlre.'

The old roan's joy wait complete. He treated his friends and drank the Baronet's erflowing bitumessa—while-.4he-preeiens-letter, was treasured-iv-14 it,legany to hissoneaudgrreadchildrunItereir.e Tollemacho,-ESqeaff PeCkfindireflo,' brie of the respected repreii? titee-of South Cheshire;salled froth ;LiVerie661' on Saturday, in the Stemma • Ciambris, Captain. Lateh, 'hence to NeW Terle, on a tour to the faiitiltik nit and choise-grewing districts of the United States, for the purpose and making himself personally acquainted with subjects of such vital im ;obis_ oonstituenta-.Chester Cirstt, • . „ • We regret to hoar that the Cholera has broken out at the house Of the SiStee.. hood [of Mercy] in Stoke Terrace, and that one of the heusehold, ternied a setying or•waiting 'sister, has fallenza victim: Tire of the sisters, we are sorry to hear, also are suffering from marked premonitorysyMptoms. The Christian and arduous duties undertaken by the sitterhbod, tinder the most trying and afflicting circum- stances, have created more than ordinary interest hi their welfare; and it would be a cause of great concern to hear that those who have dared to brave every danger 'should ultimately sacrifice valuable lives in the task they have chosen as the duty of life.—Devonport Telegraph.

One of the,niast eecentric characters of modern times died A' few days ago at

the Cochin Hospital at Paris. This man, whose name was Jules Andre Garet being possessed,When twenty-five years of age, of a considerable , fortune, eesolved never to marry. He converted his entire estate into hard cash, and, in order not to suffer any losses from failures, depreciation of property, &e., he kept his money in his corn possession. He had made the following calculation. "The life of a sober man extends over a period of seventy years, that of a man who denies him- self no kind of amusement may attain fifty-five or sixty.-- Thus, the whole of my hopes cannot go beyond that period; at any, rate, as- a last resort, suicide is at my command." He divided his money Into equal portions for each year's expendittfre. This division was so nicely arranged, that at the expiration of the sixtieth year Gueret would have nothing left, an,d each year-he scrupulously spent the sum set apart. It But, alas, he had not reflected_on oaths clingMg attachment of man to- life; o

1843, having exceeded the prescribed period !he:patiently submitted to his

misfortune, and, heitig then old and infirm, tools his stand On the Quai des C4lestins with a small box sod a few lucifermatches, living on the charity of the passers-by. Ile wore stispeodeel ron4d Ids neck apiece of pasteboard, on which were'written.the following lines, of his own composing-

.. Ayez putt, passants„ du pauvre Andre Gueret, ' Dont la vie eat plus longue, helas, qu'il no croyait."

The cholera carried him off at last; to the great regret of the artistesof Ile St, Louis,. Whose- leistre ' hours he whiled away by the. relation of his youthful re- dollectrons.--Galignonfs gessenger.

James Metiers, coffinmaker for the Nenagh Union Workhouse, on Thursday sent inshill to the &nag!) Board of Guardians for 1,130 cabs, furnished by him from. the 25th of list March to the 25th of Judy—just four Mouths.

, In one of the windows of the house of Mr. Fotheringham, Leckerstone, is Swalleteli nest, not constructed :in the •usual manner of single apartments, con- fined to the first floor, but accommodating three distinct families, being a tene- ment of three stories, a distinct brood being in each apartment. In the next window there is a two-story nest, an old, bird sitting on eggs in each apartment.— Fshire Journal.

On the 31st August, the famous Peter Allan, who had hewn himself a suite of a dozen rooms out of the magnesian limestone rock at Marsden, on the sea-coast between South Shields and Monkwearmouth, died of inflammation, aged fifty; and on Sunday _his remains were interred at Whitburn, in the presence of his aged father and mother, both of them upwards of eighty-four years old.—Goteshant Observer.

A Berlin journal contains the following comparative table of the cost of a private soldier annually in the six following countries—

.62 D. Prussia Russia 68 79 1-3 - Austria France 113 1-3 England 170 United States (America) 181 1‘16

So that a. private soldier in England costs the country .nearly three ,tirnes as much as trt Pruitsia; or in other words, Prussia can maintain 300,000 ntienTor the same Mtn that it costs Englandlo support 100,000.

Berlin bass Zoological Garden„ !supported by a company. Inferior as the coi.

lection is in most respects, It is an object 'of interest to the City; but not sue- ficiently so, it seems, to pay the expenses, which exceed the reeeipts. • •At a meet- ing of shareholders lately held, it was proposed to break up and sell the remaining_ animals; but the Government encouraged them to desist for the present, by offering a grant of 3,000 rixd011arS. The entrance-money is only sixpence, but that is deolared MO high. The fact is; thatlittle encouragement iegiven to such establishments by the higher orders; and if the thing is teeContinne, Government had better purchase the whole and place it on a good footing. It is now wofully neglected; and the animals are apparently half starved.—Berlin Corresponeknt qf the _Morning Chronicle. . • The bills of mortality were commented in the reign of Queen Elizabeth ; and ever since the year 1603 have been published by authority in London. In this re- spect the English, Metropolis stands atom; no weekly tables of the causes of the death of every inhabitant are published in the capital of any other European state. Various motives fhr the measure have been assigned; but.the fact of coutinuons publication from a period anterior to the appearance of newspapers and gazettes is remarkable and characteristic. It may be fairly referred to the natural incli- natio*, of the English people when they are in trouble to know the truth; and to see. in .figures the precise extent of their-lessee; although at times the sight might- well. make the courage of the bravest quail. On the , Continent pre- cautions have beitn used' in publishing the mortality of cholera in 1849; and the deaths from all causes have not yet been made known. The parish,- clerks of- London in the seventeenth century, when the plague was at its .height, counted the deaths and recorded their supposed causes ; and the citizen, when the death-cart traversed the streets anxiously studied the, bill, surrounded by its gloomy sytribolieal border' annoturcing 8,297 deaths in a week out of a population of 600,000. In the hands of Price, He-

berden, Willis, Bateman, and other statists, these records have disclosed the laws

of mortality, and the causes of the insalithrity of the present cities. One-of their immediate advantages, however, is the evidence which they furnish that the most fatal and threatening plagues go through, with some perturbations, certain pre- scribed orbits, and, alter raging for a given number of weeks; disappear. plague,' influenza, and cholera, have been vanquished before; and to despair now would be as unreasonable as it was in the beginning of the year to deny that the 'cholera. epidemic was impending.—Report of the Registrar-General.-

Returns just published by order of the House of Commons show that the total

number of new homes built within the Metopolitan Police districts, since the 1st January 1839 up to the present time, amounts to 64,058; and the number of no streets formed to 1,652, two hundred miles in length. The increase of populaffem within the said district, from 1839 to 1849, is estimated at 325,904; the total po- pulation of the Metropolitan district being no about 2,336,960.

The tvientrninth annual report of her Majesty's Commissioners for Building New Churches was published on Saturday. The last report stated that 420 churches had been completed, with accommodation for 464,008 persons, including 267,767 free seats for the poor. The Commissioners now report that twenty-nine

shurcbes have been completed at various places throughout England, with ac- commodstion for 19,265 persons' including 13,309 seats for the poor. In the whole, 449 churches have now been completed, and provision made for 483,273 persons, including 281,076 free seats for the poor. Twenty-one new churches are now in course of erection, and plans for the building of twenty-two more have been approved.

In 1824, the total length of what were called "routes royales" in France was 33,538 kilometres, or about 20,637 miles. In 1836, they increased to 34,511 kilo- metres, or about 600 miles more; and in 1845, to 35,250 kilometres, or 460 miles more. Between 1830 and 1847, we find that there were grants to the amount of 266,000,000f. or 10,640,0001. for repairs and improvements of various kinds con- nected with roads; and that other special and exceptional grants were made, in order, among other things, to give employment to the working class, or to remedy disasters occasioned by inundations. The number of bridges constructed by the State, or by companies, on the "routes royales," and on the departmental, strategic, and country roads, amounted to 481. The Rhone, the Durance, the Dordogne, the Garonne, the Loire, the Same, and the Seine, are crossed by some of the finest among them. We would mention those of La Roche-Ber- nard, of Cubzac, of Tourney-Charente, and of St. Claude, as being chefs- dosurres in point of construction. The money appropriated for this purpose alone amounts to about 24,000,000f., or nearly 1,000,0001. In the course of six- teen years previous to 1830, fifty-seven bridges were constructed by companies; and from 1830 to 1847, as many as 162.—Builder.

A decree published at Borne on the 31st August, by the Sacred Congregation of the Index, prohibits several books, as being, contrary to the doctrines of Chris- tianity; among them, the "Gesuita Moderno, which procured Gioberti so much fame.

The Dix Dieembre announces that sixteen guillotines have been constructed in Paris during the last year, for the different states of Europe in which that mode of execution has been adopted.

John Lee and Thomas Richardson, of Chorlton-upon-Medlock, had frequently quarrelled; and Lee, who WAS a blacksmith, had warned Richardson to keep out of his smithy. On Friday, however, Richardson being drunk, he went, in disre- gard of this warning, into the smithy and provoked Lee by some remarks. Lee was in the act of welding together two rods of iron, and the rods were in the fire just at the white heat fit for welding; he took one in each hand, and rushing at Richardson drove them at the lower part of his body, one into his groin, the other into his thigh: Richardson screamed, fell on the ground, and almost immediately died. Lee is now in custody, charged with wilful murder.

Mr. Robert Parker, cotton-agent, of Nottingham, "a respectable gentleman," who had been married upwards of forty years, has eloped to America with a young girl lately in his service. Mr. and Mrs. Parker had no children ; they have adopted and brought up several orphans, and the girl with whom he ha e gone off was lately put to school by Mr. Parker. It is said that he has taken much money with him, and left his affairs in confusion.

A lunatic has been killed in the Stroud Union Workhouse, by immersion in a scalding bath, through the mistake of the attendants. The poor creature shrieked ; but no attention was paid, as he was 'in the habit of crying out to alarm the other paupers." The attendants pleaded that their attention was called suddenly to a cholera patient. The Board of Guardians have -solicited the Poor-law Com- mission to institute an inquiry.

A sad affair has occurred at Mr. Nelson Lee's Theatre at Reading. Mr. Thomas, the trombone-player, had a very slight razor-cut on his lip on Tuesday evening the 22d August, and by some means or other that green incrustation which is frequently seen on brass touched it and caused it to smart; but very little notice 191111 taken of this at the time. On Wednesday evening he was in his place in the otr.hestra, but his lip was much swollen. On 'Thursday morning it had become black and gangrenous, and continued to spread over:the month and down the in- side of the throat; until the afternoon, when death put an end to the poor man's sufferings, at the age of thirty-one years.—Bucks Herald.

As a party of young people were rowing on the Thames, on Sunday, their wherry was upset by fouling the mooring-chain of a barge. Among the party were a newly-married couple and their two bridesmaids. The bride and one of her bridesmaids were drowned, and some of the others were saved with great .difficulty.

The firework-manufactory of Mr. Jones, in Duckmanra Yard, near Kensington Old Church, blew up on Monday afternoon: Mrs. Jones lost her life by the ex- RIOSIOD, and Mr. Jones was almost burnt to death. The house itself was blown into the air, and parts of the next houses were carried away with it.

Results of the Registrar-General's return of mortality in the Metropolis for the week ending on Saturday last—

Number of Summer Deaths. Average. Zymotic Diseases 2469 .. 302 Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat- 40 Tubercular Diseases 161 Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses 120 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 30 Disenses of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration SO Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion 73 Diseases of the Kidneys, lne 15 .Childbirth, diseases of the Dteras, Sc 14 Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones, Joints, Se Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, Sc

Malformations 7

Premature Birth 34 Atrophy 37

Age .5 50 ... 43

Sudden 10 Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperanee 26 XOtal (including unspecified causes) 3183 1008

The temperature of the thermometer ranged from 85.0° in the sun to 36.00 in the shade ; the mean temperature by day being warmer than the average mean teuiperature by 5.8°.

"The mortality in the week ending Saturday, September 8th, declined in the West and East districts of London and increased slightly-in the North and Cen- tral districts; the deaths registered (1,741) on the North side of the Thames being 19 less than in the previous week. It was otherwise on the South side of the niter, where the deaths in the week were 1,4421 The total deaths registered in London were 3,183: of males, 1,460; females, 1,723. The deaths of females exceeded the deaths of males by 263, the reverse of the usual proportions. The deaths from cholera were 2,026: the numbers decreased in the districts of Shore. ditch Bethnal Green, Whitechapel, Stepney, Westminster; increased in Bermond- -sey, St. George, Southwark, Newington, Lambeth, Wandsworth, Camberwell, and Rotherhithe. The epidemic, which had been partially subdued, broke out again with terrible violence in Lambeth; where 279 persons died of cholera in the week. -"Mr. Dawes, one of the Registrars of Lambeth, who has made careful in- quiries on the subject, says—' At least half the cases I haveregistered were allowed to proceed unchecked until the most alarming and dangeresus symptoms had inanifhsted themselves; but lately more circumspection seems to have been used. Nevertheless, the cases are still marnerons in which persons seem (from the pain- less nature of the attack) to be unconscious how highly necessary it is that im- mediate attention should be paid to it.' People are so much sccustomed to asso- ciate danger exclusively with yarn, that the most fatal synnitoin, nsiaccentrmiel by pain, is neglected. They mit* however, be taught tdlook upon painless cliar- rtma with the anxiety that people in the plague looked upon the swellings called

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tokens,'—which were also painless,—but with less fear; for the premonitory symptom now seems to be sent not so much to announce death as to give timely warning, and to call attention to that stage of the malady in which medicine can heal.

"As medical skill is of most avail at the beginning and end of a fever, as the effect of the engines is most conspicuous at the outbreak and end of a conflagra- tion, and as most energy is demanded when the wreck nears the shore, so it is in an epidemic, which, if it has not been checked at first, may yet be cut short and combated with effect as it declines. None of the measures of relief in any dis- trict should therefore be discontinued, but be prosecuted with redoubled vigour, until it has been completely subdued ; and the districts which have not yet suf- fered greatly should immediately complete their preparations, for the time is short, and the evils of delay irreparable."

By the daily returns of the Board of Health, the progress of cholera and diar- rhcea during the current week is shown to have reached its climax on Sunday and Monday; when the returns gave upwards of 400 deaths per day in London, and a similar amount in the Country. Since that the returns for London have de- creased almost daily—they were about 200 per day on Thursday and yesterday. The Country returns have not similarly decreased. The deaths on Thursday were 579 by cholera and 108 by diarrhoea; yesterday, the numbers fell to 494 and 93. In Scotland, the highest return was on Wednesday, when more than 100 &tithe occurred: yesterday's return gives only 14.