The Press.
London, England, 1853-11-12 00:00:00

tout 11U tastion.

Wtxnsor. THEATRICALS commenced for the
season on Thursday night, when Shakspeare's Henry
the Filth was performed in the Ruben% gallery. Mr.
Phelps played Henry, and the remaining characters
were principally tilled by other members of the
Sadler.' Wells company. Mr. Kean, as usual, directed
and managed the representation, for which Mr.
grieve had painted some new scenery. Their impe-
rial Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Brabant
were among the distinguished audience invited by
the Queen to this performance.
KINO LEoroi.n took leave of her Majesty on Satin..
day last, and journeyed to Dover in order to return to
Belgium. Stormy weather, however, induced him to
postpone his transit until the following day, when
the passage was safely accomplished across a cairn
sea. The Puke and Duchess of Brabant accompa-
nied him to Ostend, but returned that same evening
and proceeded to Portsmouth, where the Duke spent
two days in visiting the harbour. dockards, and
shipping, remaining with the Duchess as guest to
the commander.in,chief. Admiral Sir T. Cochrane.
On Tuesday evening the Duke and Duchess returned
to Windsor.
Pin ‘-E Atertrr came to London on Tnesday, in
order to preside at a committee of the 'loyal Com-
miss' for the Exhibition of POI.
Tut: Decurtss OF ULOUCESTER is now stated to be
convalescent.
. TIIE PRINCE oF WALLS' BIRTHDAY was celebrated
wide the customary tbs.:nano:lt on Wednesday last.

SATURDAY,

Vtlibat aA Otnetal.

THE METRoPOLITAN MoRTALITE during the week
ending Saturday last was 1,114. This slightly ex•
coeds the corrected averages for the two previous
years. According to the llegistrar-General's report,
cholera continues to make great progress in London,
though its rate of increase ix not rapid. The deaths
referred to it last week were 102. In the last four
weeks the numbers have expanded as follows :--45,
53, 99, and 101 ; in the saute period diarrhtea and
dysentery were fatal in 55, 45, 43, and 42 cases,
showing a constant decrease. Of the 102 deaths la
cholera, 11 occurred in the west districts, 9 in the
north, 2 in the central, 21 in the east, and 59 in the
south districts. London is situated in a basin,
through the bottom of which the Thames flows ; and
it was discovered dining the epidemic of 184t4.9 that
the rate of mortality by that disease was nearly in the
inverse proportion of the elevation of the ground on
which the dwellings of the inhabitants stood. The
same relation between the rates of mortality at
di tterent elevations,thonigh the deaths have been man_
paratively few, has hitherto been observed in the pre-
sent epidemic. The mortality from cholera in the din
tricts at an average elevation of less than twenty feet
above Trinity high-water murk has been 31 in
1110,090 inhabitants; in the districts of an average
elevation of 20 and below 4(1 feet (10-44) feet) the
mortality has been 16 in 100,0041; at au elevation of
40-60 feet the mortality has been 11 in 100,000 ; at
60-50 it has been only 4; at NO-100 only 3.
Marylebone, at an average elevation of 100 feet, is
the only exception to the law : the mortality has been
there 13 in 100,600. At Hampstead, where the
elevation may be put at :150 feet., there has hitherto
been no death from cholera. Exceptional circum-
stances disturb the average in particular districts ;
but it is a general rule that the danger of dying of
cholera, and of all plagues, diminishes, within cer-
. tain limits, in proportion as the dwellings of the
population are raised above the level of the sea.
Tut: Thant: Alin NAAIGATIoN AccoUNT§i, published
on Wednesday, show an increase in the declared
value of goods exported during the month ending
19th of October of 1,4411,705/. as compared with the
corresponding month of last year; and of 1,452,155 a.
as compared with the same month of 1551. The
respective totals are:-1551, 6,346,2941.; 1551,
7,352,292/. ; and 155:1, 8,e29.1100/. For the nine
months of this year, ending 10th Oct., the declared
value amounts to 66,957,729/., being 12,590,2911.
over the corresponding period of last year, and
of 13,451,7511. over the nine months of 1551.
Av EXTRAORDINARY SALE by auction took place
last month at Jamaica, within the hall of the Govern-
ment Building, consisting of "all the brass cannon
and mortars" at present existing in the citadels and
fortresses of Panama, Porto Bello, and Chagres.
The collection was sold by order of the governor,
described as "excellent metal."
LETTERS for the Arctic ships Enterprise, Rattle-
snake, and Plover, in Behring Straits, may be sent to
the Admiralty on or before the 31st December.
ARRANtiENENTS are in progress for holding a great
public meeting in Glasgow, under the auspices of
the Scottish National Association, at which, it is
stated, the Earl of Eglinton is to preside.
Tnr. Terrible, with Sir Edmund Lyons, left Spit •
head on Sunday for the Dardanelles, but was to put
in at Plymouth, for the latest telegraphic orders from
Government.
AT THE SALE or THE MOI;TYN ESTATE9I, in the vale
of Llangollen, last week, the prices obtained were
beyond all ordinary calculation, several of the farms
realising between sixty-five and seventy years' purchase
on the present rentals. A large and influential com-
pany from London, Liverpool, Manchester, de.,
attended.
Deem& one week the committee who are pro-
moting the establishment of a park, to be called the
Albert Park, for the northern part of the metropolis,
received upwards of 1,300 signatures and testimonials
from the physicians and surgeons of London to a
memorial to Government urging its necessity as a
sanitary measure.
Mn. BicKHAM EScOTT, late M.P. for Winchester,
died on the 4th instant at his seat, Hartrow-manor,
Somersetshire. lle was a steady and useful member
of the Liberal party.
INTELLIOLNCE has reached London of the recent
decease, at Cephalonia, of Lieutenant-General Sir
Francis Count Rivarola, K.C.11., and &CAIN., and
St. George, for many years colonel of the Malta
Fencibles Regiment. lie has lett several suns in
the British army to lament his loss.
A NEW ROMAN CATHOLic CHURCH is being built in
Saffron-hill, intended, with the attached schools, for
the exclusive use of the poor of the district. The
church is to be dedicated to the Holy Family, and is
estimated to cost 2,000/.
TnE LATE MIL IL Nu-not.s..s. of Furnival's-inn,
has bequeathed 1001. to the Law Society for the
Benefit of the Widows and Children of Professional
Alen, and a sisnilsr Mllll to the Law Clerks' Society.