The Express.
London, England, 1855-12-26 00:00:00

IiZALTH OF LONDON.

(From as IleghterOmeart Mara.)
It was shown is the lost report that Lomita had
sabred an Mersin of aNtality, the that of mid voloaoa
la the week that faded MS &daselay, though the toms of
the mallet was tot aitlpled, bat aegsateed, the matt
of deaths righlpred was set pits opal to Ilist of Me pet
ailing week Lae asashins la the two patois MANS Moe
1,271 sal 101 W. It is Gimbals to easeisase, as well as
reesemlie ilesl4 to behove that some also
will elapse
beton tbs help Ms stage of tesapereare are telly ma-
holed it the
TM rate mortality averagevailed last week ap-
passim very= rate of Leaden it the
thbd week of
This !Name ineladae Oa deaths of 634 maim sad 623
haslet Peetribtr awe sad Weellei died whose has
had best pesiteged to 110 years or upwards. The deaths
prodased -bronekitis received a ocasidereble saw
mks; for having beet 119 it seek of the two
previous weeks, they :see last weak to 161, of whisk 46
oessred to mass leader 20 years of age, sad alma es
elosiiaidahats ; 9 between the ogee of 20 sad 40; 39 is
the 40.60; 10 at the ogee 16 to 90 ; sod wets
dea of octseteriess The deaths Mat paresseio or
inassatatiot of the tags, asatraarisi to IS, sad Allies
priasipally swag Andrea, an tee so ateeireas ae is NM
previous weeks. Against 60 tees breashiele is the Feist
of life 6040 pus are to be at 69 tees
selbhis (or ow
sampans), which marred is that period
20 to 40 yet" being about half et the tote ribs rase
this disease. Fatal mese of typist rose fret 46 to 46, of
whisk there were 10 in Shoreditak ; of these 19 few ea
is caned Eaggentoas West. Typhus, mesh%
tough, sad wariadas prevail now ate in the an=
than is the other divisions of Latta Foes baths beer
soulatiaa marred Is Hosts Old Tom. Three 6i
were registered as eased by intimperates, 4 by 'NNW
Masai, 8 by earbiasie, cm by watt of the siemens' if
life.
Last week the births of 769 boys wad 768 gislo, is ail'
1,611 children, were regimend I. Loudon. la Ms eau sew
respeading mike of the pen 1646-54 the avenge ambit.
was 1,434.
Then was a fall soma ea Sitarday. At the Royal Oh-
was r, Oreetwieb, the highest reading of the basomair
9 in. as the monies of Wednesday. The toss
reading el the week was 29 936 in. TM seta teaperetweif
the week wee 26.2 deg., whisk is 19.8 deg. below the maw
of the mass week it 38 men. The semi of the previews •
week was 82.7 deg. The as was coldest ea Friday sad 11*
tatty,
velythe lama teamsters ea those days betas bees
respecti
Saturday theme
6 thermos's, MI to 161) deg., the lowest mite
is the week. TM Whist twaperatase wee 42 deg., NM
warred ea Seaday (Me 16th). The seat daily temp-
ruse was below the mezege throughout Os week ; and or
every day alter Tuesday the stem of depressist wee mew
than 13 deg. The sou dew mitt tempositare
19.2 deg., sad the diffuses between this and the Mee& sk '
seawater, was 9 deg. The mesa temperas* of the
water of the Theme was 36.3 deg. The wind, whisk bad
bees plurally in the east, 'Magid on Wards, to :nerth-
eeit, and la the evening to @oath- west. Oa maid days the
sir is described by the observer as " reesarlobly dry." Cla
Saturday night mow fell ; the Sweeter of the weather
eaddealy @banged, sad at ;midnight the teamster, wee
6 dig. higher than it bad been three hours before.

THE PRESS OF ST. PETERSBURG.

Six political journals are published at S. Peters-
burg every day. The pensive' wee is the humlitia .Risesg‘
the military eMial ewes. whisk was fiat started is Iplt
Its principal nine is Celan Lekedeff, of the eta[, pea
hens at the linkup Anatomy, gad its entente are at poe-
m% the noes is seseing of all, as is its columns en dart
published the WNW of the war.
Menet le the llorAlmiwiwishma Vedowetei (Gauge dr
tif. Palmieri). Thii jawed WM bees upwards se •
bunked years Is oilstone, sad n safer the epeeist ewe
of the Aeadway of Salinas, bevies log he editor K.
°Riskin. By its anteate it resenWas mart, of all the
Una* Jeannie, those of foreign sousteise, es, lembe-
peadeatly of its RUM part, which is only no
repredhmiliss of the articles published by the gorges
neat wpm, it gives ening Rants frog foreign im-
am* Whin alike free' the English, the Free*, and the '
Gonna print The 81•4,1104 Picks& (Abeille dos N 42
whin bass large oireulatke, wee founded by MM.
end Beeigerise, still Its proprietors sad pneeipal Mites. '
Tbisionseal temente the polities of the seeservative party
is Beads. Both then last sand jeareals are published is
the Rusin language. Then is, bean, the James! a
St. Petersbowrg, is Preen. which is the nest known par
laps abroad of all the Ronan jeered& The Genies
'missal in **Rusin espial is celled the St. Petivarryst
&item, whin is also published by the Academy of fleiescen
gad of which Dr. Meyer is the editor. It gives is Cion•
Ran the Rion' news of Rene gad the panel pointed
iatelliggeos translated frost foreignournals. Lastly.
there is the Typoden, a Polish journal, appear
leg twin a week, aid, like those Realigned above, giving
to a certain utast polities' iatelligenes. As to monthly
and weekly publication, they moist of Klestil. sod '
literary reviews, andel or asa-alidel. Alines% all the
, ealaisterbi &swamis have their organ of Riblistly
the Midst,y cif Manus has its Roma Maritime.

whisk is vet, ably coaduend. The Madsen of Pinks
Insiniedin. et the interior, sad of the Impend Domains,
ken sosb a ninthly journal, which dantslas, la oddities
blinial part, enistile Wines, statistics, phSelw, M. t
Infiter of the Imperial Domains also "pse the
Jsonsei doe Same et 4. Mann, and the MAW et •
Masan the Journal deo Mean, the Anneal dee Manila}
tars et dai Canwiserce, ead lastly, two Conneeski
noettee, one One tines a week Is Itstana, amine ether
Mee a week is German. There ere, bend% Itwelbut of
Npsilel jests& Waned by learned seekilies. Oil Neel
nopoio/ Sign on at Peterelsarg the
Leder% (waded is 1834 by K. Seekonk, ;ittelidhalnit
onessyn Zak! (porton review), handed by X. ILselw-
sky ; sad tie Seerandousid (Coateesperary), pabilabed feet
la 1847 by Mt. Peanstand Nehmen!. At he. Pedant.
also is published a theatrical )canel, ealdd the Paghilso. '
which contain set only drallatie stitleisse, but sleek% "
names from pls. 1, Ike., and is very szaesielly condoned.
Poland, Finland, sad the Baltic provinces likewise entail
a Bander of journals, bet ell are la the Russian hawse.

THE MUM° ENGINEER OFFICERS. The two
Awe who have bees miming from the Beeson Bervaidis
IS MOOR am the 16th lastest, are believed, from what
W leimephel. to have perlshed. The boat has been fosado
beim Mss drives on the beak of the marshland, sear
Kierhok, which is above four talks down the river Meil-
en, with her sails set, and made tight for boating up sealers
the wind. She was fall of water, and her ballast was en
one aide. It 'ippon that • parson who rests the muskeg
saw the boat ea Moat" studiog on the bank, with her
sell up, sad seeing it Nets on the Wedseeday billow* fa
the muse position, he sent his shepherd to amulets shoat it, 4
who found that the boat was deserted. The vette being
emptied out,asthing whatever was &sad; tholes! weans&
secure, and • report to the fading of the boat has bees made
to Colonel Elead, the commanding oMosr. An °Meer%
regimental cup has been picked up in the water, which
proves, by the initials in it, to be that belonging to Lbw .
taunt &Wee. All day on Saturday, and dada.**
eight, &harms* have been dragging alt the creek. rinsing
into the river, without any stems In finding the Mesa.
From what has ease to our knowledge, it appears that, ea
the 16th hut.. about Ulf-pest 4 p.m., Llestesaut Ill'Heoeld.
Liestssaat Eden Lienteesat Batting, and his heather,
metered the White' Hone lan, at Rashest, a hews whisk
they have (militantly visited. Lieutenant Efts shook
hands with Ws. Cooningsby, the landlady, sad said they
had just rowed up with their boat Into the creek, sad they
requited some referthnent. Some sausages and Scold
boiled beef were supplied, sad they ate very heartily
and drank betimes them three pot' of ale. They were all
perfectly sober. Lieutenant Eden paid for the refreshment,
with the exception of 21., which be promised to pay the fol-
lowleg day, Sunday. They left the hoses ten EIIGOVINI be-
fore sir o'clock. Mr. Conniegsby wished them to remain,
and go to Chatham by the &Wilbourne omnibus, as the
eight we. so foggy. They said no, they would row home,
es they bad their boat very near, and that Mr. M'Donald.
Mr. Battle', and his brother. wen three good rowers. They
left the house sad pomaded down the Iwo to the creek
where their boat was lying. Mr. M'Donald is grandson to
(Naomi M'Donald, Mr. Betties is nephew to Lienteseat-
General &Wig, and Mr. Eden is the son of the Boa. sad
Rev. W. Idea, of Crowbar/.
DRUMM DEATH OP A CRIPPLE AT PRESTON.--
On Thursday an ['quest was held at the Tows-ball, Prestos,
before Mr. Myra, isomer, os the body of • crippled woman
11 aimed Mary Council, aged 49 years, • widow. Tits
death of the unfietunate woman, who had lived with her
children in Elitism-street, was accompanied by the
following' frightful circumstances :—On the previous day
I she bad been left in the house alone alter breakfast, one of
her daughters and a sou returning to their work, aid soothes
daughter, Elisabeth Cowell, having gone to take her sister-
lia.law's breakfast to • mill. On the return of the last-
mestioned person to the house of her mother, she found the
dew fesearri as Um beside. the latch bevies slipped, and
she then west round to the back of the house, sad after
Mali. over • wail, get through a window into the house,
wiling lee found bet mother, a frightful spectacle, lying on
tin leer. Her cloths. were mainly burned of. her body
was quite yellow, her tougeo was banging out, and she was
quite died. At the top of the lobby was found a portioa of
the domend's linsey-wooisey. petticoat, burned, end there
woe a mark on the wall, as if she had rubbed against it.
The whim and kitchen does* were blistered with heat,
and there were other indications that the wretched woman
bad, to her agony and despair, wandered about the house as
well as she was able. She had had two paralytie strokes,
which had deprived her of the use of her left arm and leg,
and Injured her speech. When her daughter discovered
1 bee she ran out immediately for help, but it was found
eamesary to pat the charred rental's of the poor wontaa at
Hese into a Whs. After evidence to the above effect had
Ws before the wiroser, • verdict of "Accidentally
bwawo7n was returned by the jury.—Morschasier Gwordiost.
NOME, 131/EJECT or TAXATION.—A bill hes beset
presented to the Legislature of Teeniest*, levying • tar
*Ave dollars on every gentleman who wean • moustache,
sod • flee of five dollen upou baehelers over thirty years of
age, for the purpose et raising mosey to Manes the 'shod
biol.—Now York Mime( of Cootornoreo.