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At a Court of Aldermen, held on Tuesday, favourable reports were re- ceived of the health of the prisoners in the City gaols throughout the trying period of the epidemic. Although there were 221 inmates in Wlaitecross Street prison, not one case of cholera occurred. A case of fraud was reported on the part of a broker : he had misappropriated the funds of a lady intrusted to him, and the City Solicitor was ordered to proceed against his sureties. On examination, however, it was found that the bondsmen had become sureties thirty-four years ago, and it is not known now what has become of them. Alderman Copeland warmly censured such laxity.
The cholera in the Metropolis continues to decrease. Last week the number of deaths had fallen from 754 in the previous week to 411. The Registrar-General supplies the following report.
"The deaths in London from all causes, which in the first week of Sep- tember rose to 3413, and in the three weeks following were 2836, 2504, and 2216, fell in the last week (the first week in October) to 1532. In the first week of October 1849, the total number of deaths registered was 1290. "The improvement in the public health is visible generally in the Metro- polis, but appears to be more slow in the Eastern and Southern districts than in other parts. The total deaths from cholera were 754 in the last week of September; they declined to 411 in the week that ended last Satur- day. The deaths from diarrhcea in the same times were 165 and 98. The returns of cholera for the last two weeks give 113 and 59 in the Western districts, 50 and 26 in the Northern, 62 and 31 in the Central, 146 and 95 in the Eastern, and 383 and 200 in the Southern districts." The temperature of the week was one degree above the average for thirty-eight years ; and on Thursday 8.2° above the average.
The City Corporation was likely to be defrauded of coals. Mr. George Helmore junior, a coal-merchant of Bank Street, Westminster, had to appear before the City Police Committee to explain how it was that he supplied certain sacks of coals to the Remembrancer's Office weighing less than 224 pounds each. The excuse was, that the man who should have weighed them got drunk and sent them out unweighed. Without imputing any intent to defraud, Alderman Carden fined the coal-merchant forty shillings.
Three butchers—James Martin, George Ware, and Robert Ware—sent up to Newgate Market, for sale, the flesh of a bullock found dead in the Thames : they were brought before Alderman Carden, and have been committed for Tbe-vomplainta against the Working Man's Emigration Society have be- ' 'nine so freqbent,'llsat Mr. Corrie, the Clerkenwell Magistrate, has advised J., goons°, the complainants to file a bill in Chancery against the trustees. The peopletsay that though they pay money in, they can neither recover it fOrd491- IPP#814e1'
The Newton brothers, who inflicted -such grievous injuries upon Mr. Stew- art Ker some weeks ago, have now been admitted to give bail to answer any charge at the Sessions. Mr. Ker was still too ill to attend the Police Court.
Elizabeth Clear has bean neat to prisms for &very heartless robbery. She undertook to tune a poor sempstresa who was attacked with cholera ; and while the patient was helpless, the nuns plundered her of all the best of her little stock of clothing.
In March last, Caton, a irework-maker hi Charles Street, Westminster Road, and two children, were killed by a explosion while making fireworks ; in July, there was another though a less serious explosion in the place : in spite of these occurrences, the widow of Caton continues the dangerous trade, apparently in a careless manner too. The terrified neighbours have invoked the aid of the Police, who have visited the place, and seen enough to war- rant their interference. Mrs. Caton appeared before the Lambeth Magis- trate this week ; but he allowed the summons to stand over, in order that the widow might have an opportunity to cease her unlawful practices.
At the Middlesex Sessions, three boys, two of them eight years of age and the third thirteen, have pleaded guilty to picking pockets in the Strand, in front of Ackermania's print-shop.
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