The Express.
London, England, 1862-04-02 00:00:00

THE NUMB MUSEUM.

To obviate any misapprehension which may
arises. to the areasegementa made for the admission of the
public to the national collection during the approaching
Exhibition samean, we subjoin a rerfeatini copy of the notice
affixed yesterday, by order of the trustees, at the various
entrances :—" In order to pro the public generally the
utmost facilities for seeing the British Museum during the
time of the International Exhibition at Kensington, the
trustees have laid down the following special regulations :-
1. That the Museum, instead of being closed from the let
to the 7th of May next, be closed ou Monday, the 28th of
April, and re-opened the following Monday, the sth of May.
2. That from the sth of May to the 30th of August in-
clusive, the reading-room be kept open for readers as usual,
daily, Sundays only excepted ; but not later than 5 o'clock.
3. That the Museum collections, including those pane of
the library of printed books and manuscript' to which
visitors are now admitted on publicdsys, be kept open daily,
Thursdays and Sundays only excepted, from 10 o'clock in
the morning till S in the evening, during the months of
May, June, July, to the 16th of August. inclusive ; but till
half-put 7 only for the remainder of next month. 4.
That during the same months and days the readiog.room
and a small portion of the libraries annexed to it, as well
en the whole of the north Maury, with the exception of the
western extremity, be open for the admission of the public
generally only from 5 o'clock to 8, or half-put 7, as before-
mentioned ; and that from 9to 5 o'clock none but readers,
for the purpose of study, be admitted to the readiocroom,
or to any of the libraries!, except such of the moms as are
usually acoemible to visitors throughout the year on public
days 5. That atter 5 o'clock the reading-room and the
library generally be not used for the purpose of study.
6. That Thursdays be reserved for cleaning the several de-
MAMMAS, and that no visitors, except readers, be admitted
into the Museum on this ray.—A. PANIZZI, Principal
librarian. March 1862."

THE CONTEST FOR THE COMMON COUNoILIIIII..
Yesterday, at 4 o'clock, the poll of the ward of Colman-
street, for the election of a common councilman, in the I
room of Mr. Deputy Davies, was declared by the Alderman
of the ward to have resulted in favour of Mr. Hobson.
cs,_
HEALTH or LONI)OI4.—IS appears from the aso-
gistrarGeserare return that thedeaths in London, which ;
had fallen to 1,271 in the third week of March, rose to 1,360
in the fourth week (that ended last Saturday). But the
mortality is not high relatively to the average mortality for
the end of March in ten previous years, which when cor-
rected for Increase of population is 1,560. The deaths from
typhus, which bad been 123 and 106 in the first and second
weeks of the month, and had declined to 63 in the third,
rose to 89 last week. Eleven of this last number m-
in the London Fever Hospital. Out of 25 deaths
from measles, 4 were returned in the west sub-district of
Mile-end Old Town ; out of 43 from scarlatina, there were 4
in the west sub-district of Islington, 4 in Peckham. Diph-
theria was fatal in 21 cams. In a family living at 249, Tot-
tenham-court.road, the father died of phthisis, two children
of whooping-cough, slid whom, with a third child, have
died within a week, and the registrar states that the four
bodies will be buried together. On 27th March, at 18, Esa.
ware-toed, the son of a jeweller, aged 5 years' died of di -
Iberia after 6 days' illness. Last week the births of 1, 1
boys and 1,663 girls, in all 2,124 children, were registered
in London. In the ten corresponding week, of the years
1852-61 the average number (corrected) was 20111.
AtTION AOILINST A RAILWAY COMPANY FOR
NEm.inence.—At the Liverpool Assizes yesterday before
Mr. Justice Mellor, en action of " Clementoon r. the hoodoo
and North Westermitailway Company " woe tried. On the
night of the 18th of December the plaintiff, a cotton broker,
while en route from visiting his brother at Kooky. went to
the station them to take • ticket for Ashtonuoder-Lyne.
The Mosley station was at that time in process of rebuild-
ing, and, in the creek the plaintiff tripped over • railway
sleeper and fell on MN fees on a pile of slates, severely M-
ier* his face and permarently in
(luring his powers of Inas-
thetiou. The plaintiff aimed the efendants with rem nag-
l*eeoe, they laying the We fault of the accident at the door
of the plaintiff. The may. shot hearing medical and other
evidence, awarded the plaintiff 200 i. demagog.
la numberless instances of chronic bronchitis
sad wilder Offset Dr. de Jamb's Light-Brown Cod Liver on has
been red with esuroullimary vareese. M. Champouillon. the
reeleeet plusleima to the hospital of Val de Grace, mart%
" That this 0111 s Hod efficacious Iu curing all chronic affections
of the resplratoey swim" No remedy so effectually allays the
liwymmal Irritation which provokes haressing and prolendel
cosghlog. bold only in emended bottles, 2s. ed., la 94., and
r by the pole &gotta Anew, Harford. end 77. IMMtestl.
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