The Express.
London, England, 1864-08-17 00:00:00

HEALTH OF LONDON.

The weekly return issued by authority of the
Rqcistrar-Omieral shows a manifest improvionest in the
health of Died= is het week, as compared with the two
previous weeks. The deaths, which were 1,607 and 1,505
respectively in the two weeks midi,' 6th August, declined
to 1.433 in that which ended last Saturday. The deaths of
young Pimps (u=44r 20 years of age) fell from about 980 to
862. The average number of deaths I. the thirty-sexed
weak of tee previous years, 1854-63, is, with • correction for
increase of population, 1,368, and tha number actually re-
turned for last week exhibits an excess of 65 over the
number estimated for the mond weak of August.
Last week the births of 1,014 hen and 948 girls, is all
1,962 childres, were registered is London. In the ten tar-
respoodieg weeks of the yeas 1864-63 the average number
(earrecied) was 1.832.
At the Royal OhesnakeT, Ormiewinh, the mean height
of the barometer in the week was 29.9684 a. The mean
daily reading way above 30in, on the lest three dap The
reeding fell to 29.62i0. on Tuesday. sod rose to 30.23 in. on
Saturday. The mean tempratnre of the air in the week
was 61.2 deg., which is 0.6 deg below the avenge of the
same week in 43 yeas (asdetermined by lfr. Welsher). The
mean daily temparstare was below the avenp os four days.
The highest day temperature was 82.4 deg. on lloeday ; the
lowest night temperature was 42.2 deg. on Friday. The
range in the weak was, therefore, az dig. Ralf an inch
of rain fell on Tuesday.
The births registered I. Dublin dont( the weak ending
13th August were 156, sad the deaths were 87, la a popula-
tion of 254,808 (in 1661), spread over as area of 3,BoBseatute
acres. The members are kindly furnished by the Registrar
General of Ireland._

The distils in Vienna as returned by Dr. Glitter were
336, in the week ending 6th August, when the mean tem-
perature was 68.9 dews., that at Greenwich having bon
65.0 dews.

ABCINT OT MONT BLANC TROY TEE ITALIAN SIDS
—The rimes captains • narrative of an sweat of Moat
Blanc from the Italia. aide of the Alps, which was made a
few days since by • member of the Italian Alpine Club, M.
Giordasso, mining engineer. It is as follows :—" Ots the
sth inst., I left Courmayeur, and, following the wool road
by the Col do Giant, arrived towards *resin ou the
Glacier de Thad, 'Lod passed the night there ia • but re-
Deafly erected at • height of about 11,000 fest above the
level of the sea. On the morning of the 6th, setting oat
before sunrise, I sealed Mont Thant and Moat Maeda.,
r iflis.s/ along an inclined plane of from 40 deg. to 110 deg.,
of granulons meow io ports and partly of ie., whore
it became constantly oecessary to eat each step with the
hatchet. Towards 11 I reached the Col do Greed Corridor,
which lies at the foot of the great dome. At two boars
after midday I stood on the summit of the prodigious inns,
overlooking an almost infinite horizon, save towards the
' plains./ Italy, which were hidden by • stride of low cloads.
All the great summits of the Alps, such as the Greed Pa-
radio, the Moot Cervix, the Mont Rosa, the Bermes Ober-
land, and the Ginn, es slut the Lake of Geneva, ware un-
clouded and perfectly distinct. The sky wee istessely dear
arid blue, such as it is often MOM atNaples, but serer towns*
the south at • lesser elevation than that where I stood.
After a abort stay on the summit I ri.deaceeded by theordi-
nary Chtunounix route—i.e., the Glacier des Barons, which
I lotted fax leas interesting and exciting than that which I
had followed in the moreissgg anoent. Chi the evening of the
afteradwat repose in Chamoonix, I leftfor Mootaavert.
where I pared the night ; sad on the Bth I traversed the
whole 'welt of the Mee de Glace, where I met with peat
and unexpected difficulties, particularly in passing the
&mos, which as the line I followed were in • most
dangerous state. It took me mural boars to pass them,
daring which I was often is immissot danger. I soon after
arrived at the Col do Great. at my starting point three
days previously. sad at half•past Bis the 'reeling I was
again at Courmayeur, where I was received with firing,
mess, and oongtstulatises, superior to the real merit of the
estwpriee. The Duke of Aosta, mood son of the Bing of
Ital . who wee then at • ball at the Cele*, bevies arrived
at year that moraine, hearing of my arrival, seat
for me, wish* to see me immediately to hear some details
of the ascent. I therefore woe fouled myself in the hal=
surrounded by ladies in elegant costumes, being
myself in Alps.. customs enesiderably the womb for its last
four days' wear, and with shoes soled an inch thick sad
studded with iron. The whole of sey insides sad porters
(of whom two remained at Chamounix affected. with tem-
porary ophthalmia) was Courmayeur wee, sad I had every
reams to be satisfied with the teal sad intrepidity they
displayed Is every emerprecv."
UOLLISION AT SILL. —I2LTNOTTII, A I:00AT 16.
The Federal war corvette Siscramemto pat I. here this
wreaks& harlot res dews this aftereoos .it the Mart the
Nerwagiae brig Core, from Cadiz, with salt fee Shame
The hems au were reed. The Beereassete wee set
iwaeced.