CITY PITECATJTIONS AGAINST Cie:memo—The City of London Board of Health,
appointed by the Court of Common Council, have chosen Mr. Charles Pearson to be their Chairman, and Mr. De Grave their Medical Secretary. A resolution has been adopted, requesting the Com- mon Councilmen and parochial officers in the different wards to take ac- tive measures, in co-operation with the Commissioners of Sewers, to cleanse the streets and alleys in their different districts. Arrangements will be made for an increased supply of water in the public streets, by which an under-current of air will be constantly kept up, and every pre- cautionary measure will be adopted which prudence can suggest. Of the value of any other regulations than cleanliness and temperance, the following extract from a letter just received from Prague affords to. lerable evidence. " The terrors of the pestilential touch of this demon of the East has vanished from amongst us. Notwithstanding our fre- quent intercourse with countries suffering under its visitation, Bohemia remains entirely free from infection. Numberless travellers and goods of all descriptions continually arrive in our city from Vienna and other places where the cholera prevails, and yet no instance of the disease has occurred amongst us, although no letters are fumigated, no cordons sani- taires are maintained, and business proceeds throughout the country as if no such malady existed. What stronger proof against the opinions of the contagionists can be adduced ?" At Alexandria the disease is raging. It broke out at Cairo on the 16th August, and at Alexandria on the 22d, and is causing great mortality at both places, most of the victims dying of it in the short space of three hours. The malady is now subsiding, and in a few days more it is expected to entirely cease. We need hardly remark, that the Egyp- tians are the filthiest and most wretched population in the world. METROPOLITAN POLITICAL Urnox.—The meeting to which we alluded last week was to have taken place in the great room at the Crown and Anchor, but it was found to be inadequate for the purpose, and an ad- journment took place to Lincoln's Inn Fields. After considerable delay, the landlord of Green's Hotel having refused to the Committee the ac- commodation of his balcony, the speakers were accommodated on the roof of an office belonging to the adjoining house. Sir Francis Burdett, as was intended, took the chair. Mr. Hume, Colonel Jones, Colonel Evans, old Mr. Thelwall, Mr. Wakley, and a number of other public persons, were present. The meeting was very respectable, and numerous. The number might be about 6,000. The first two resolutions—namely, "That the interests of the People are most effectually promoted by well-organized and comprehensive Associations ; That it is highly desirable, at thepresent moment, that a union should be formed of all real Reformers who wish to see the middle and working classes fairly represented ;"
were carried by acclamation. On the third being put,
"That the present meeting hereby forms itself into a National Political Union, on the plan and with the objects set forth in the printed Rules, &c." A Mr. Lovett,—the same, we believe, who has rendered himself con- spicuous by a very foolish opposition to the Militia Laws,—stood forward to move an amendment, to the effect that the Union " should never relax in their efforts until they obtained for every man of twenty-one years of age, or capable of bearing arms for the defence of his country, full en- franchisement;" a proposal which went, of course, to exclude from the Union every person who happened to look on universal suffrage as chi. merical, inconvenient, or dangerous. This amendment was seconded by a Mr. Cleave, and was received with great disapprobation. In order to ter- minate the schism which these two persons seem to have been anxious to introduce, Mr. Wakley proposed a second amendment, "That the meeting should form itself into a National Political Union, and meet to consider the rules agreed to by the Council, and that half the Council shall be chosen from the working classes." The third resolution, and Mr. Lo- vett's amendment being withdrawn, the second amendment was ulti- mately carried, after a short discussion on a point of order ; and thanks having been voted to the Chairman, the meeting broke up.
VAL'XIL LL BRIDGE.—The Company held their half-yearly meeting on Thursday. The tolls have increased 1364 compared with the cor- responding period last year ; the total receipts have been 4,2601. A di- vidend of 10s. a share was declared.
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