The Express.
London, England, 1863-10-14 00:00:00

HEALTH OP LONDON.

It appears from the weekly return issued by the
Rspastrar•Oemni that the total Dumber of deaths registered
in Leedom ia the week that ended Gs Saturday was 1,258.
The &map number in the eortespoadieg weeks of teneere
(188342), after the ontisioe of deaths from epidemic theism
in the forty-first of 1854, and a wreath= for inmates of
population, becomes 1.126. The actual math exceeds the
animated number by 132. Tbirtpone:deaths from small-
pox were returned ; and 146 from scarlatiaa. Sixteen fatal
awes of the lather disease occurred in hlarplebotee, 14 in
Winks. 5 in the anb-district of Whitecomostreet, and 5 io
that of St. Nary Magdalen, Bet moadaey. A man died at
the age of 96 years. A woman, aged 77 years, died of ele-
phantiasis ; and • boy Sr. years old trout swallowing •
cherry stone.
Some of the waters used for domestic purposes in Leedom,
eacceding to the maims ef Dr. Robert Dundee Thiensee,
F.A.S., have been purer, while others have coot/Med more
foreign ingredients than is the preceding month. The Kent
Company% water has been distinguished by the organic
matter being nearly all oxidized, and therefere con 'way
harmliee. The Thames waters have hese leas Im-
pure than in August.
Last week the births of 962 boyy.. sad 911 girls, in ell
1873 children, were registered in Lomdoa lo the ten ear.
responding weeks of the years 1853-62 the avenge number
(corrected) was 1,818.
At 23 minutes past 3 o'clock on Tuesday morning,
a slight shook of earthquake was felt. Coe of the
astroomakal mintage@ wee deeming • Axed **Similar,
and sew the mark appareetly descend through an angle
of km thee a quarter of • minute of arc, and rise again
after a few seconds of time to its former position. No
trace of the earthquake was left on the photographic records
of the self-registerung magnetometers. There west thunder-
storm on the mowing of Thursday. Lightning was very
frequent es Friday evening.
Bethnal-green—Church.—At 10. Hollybush-place, on 19th
September, the daughter of a shoemaker, aged owe year,
•' sudden death, blood poisoning from the inhalatice of im-
pure atmosphere.' Yost mort. larmeek la lame sub-dis-
trict, at 19, Thareldequare, on 21st Sephember, a girl, aged
14 months, "sudden death. blood disease from unwholesome
sir, want of water, nod sanitary measures." Inquest.
Newington—Trinity.—At Joheatreet, mlit October,
the widow of an upholsterer, aged 77 years, " elephantiasis,
muletilleatina ^

Greenwich—Woolwich Dockyard.—At Joseph-street, on
27th September, the sou of a wheelwright. aged 5 years,
" from the effects of having swallowed a cherry atone acci-
dentally." Post mort. Inquest.

Till FORTHCOMING MICH lALMAS TIMM.
ostanlay the eittiap paper of the common law courts op-
safewL The loog vacation will terminate on the 24th inst.
in ivearation for Michaelmas Term, commencing on the 2nd
of November, whets Mr. Baron Pigott will take his nat.
The Court of Queen's Bench will sit at nisi pries in Middle-
sex, in term, on November led, 13th, and 20th ; sad in
London ou 11th and 18th of November ; after term 26th of
November and 10th of December. The ()aut of Cosmos
Pleas will sit on the 3rd, 12th, 14th and 19th of November ;
and after term on the 26th of November and Stb December.
The Conti of Exchequer will sit in Middlesex oo led, 14th,
and 2lat of November ; and in London on the 12th and 19th
of November; and after term on the 26th November and
Bth of DC0911111111% The Jude, Ordinary of the Divorce
Court (Sir James P. Wilde) will take his seat at the cam.

at of term..

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A attinguoCs PLAYTIIINO.—A lad dwelling with
his parents in one of some cottages knows u Iladniore, near
Portsmouth, a few days since found an eight-inch spherical
shell on some of the adjacent mud lands of the harbour;
after omsiderable labour be managed to deposit it in the
garden plot io frost of his home. On Saturday, about four
p.m., the lad's father being absent from home " altrimpleg,"
the former determined to try it his prise was a "loaded"
sbeU, and if so, to let it off. A train of powder was
quickly laid to the half-filled fuse aperture in the shell,
and the lad, at the other end of the small gar-
den, fired the train. The shell exploded with a Jennie
roar. The inmates of the other cottages rushed out of
doors Ina state of terror. Seemly a pane of glau was left
unbroken, while doors and windowiiiishes were shaken from
their fastenings. The cause of the mischief was found lying
in the garden, bleeding and burnt by the lire from the
explosion, but strangely enough, untouched by any of the
fragments of the shell itself, which were thrown upwards,
and BOWs pieces fell at as immense distance. A baker's
boy, passing with his haodcart of bread in a lane at the
back of the cottage, wrap thrown down by the force of the
ex *Moo, and fouud himself suddenly scrambling among
his loaves on the ground. The poor boy who fired the shell
was conveyed to the L►ndport Hospital, where his injuries
were attended to, and hopes axe given of his speedy coo-
valesoence.

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ENLAROZIORNT OF TOR LONDON AND BRIGHTON
TIAMINCH AT LONDON-BRlDGE—Yesterday operations were
commented by the London and Brighton Company for the
acootanoodatioo of their increasing traffic at London-bridge,
the station monist present exiatiog there Bing tonal totally
inadequate for the 'impose. The widening of the main line
leading into the terminus at London-bridge, together with
the viaduct, about 100 feet wide sod 2,0011 feet an length,
leading up to the terminus, was commenced by a large body
of workmen, and others were engaged is demolishing the
buildings bought by the railway oosapisay is Mone-
street. Webbetreet, Broadway, andifdaza Feed, Bermondsey,
leading up to the Brighton terminus and International
Hotels. Parallel with the viaduct a new street will be ono-
saructisd between 3110 and 400 yards in length, leading from
the railway station into Bermondsey. There will be shops
sad warehouses underneath the whirled.
ARRIVAL OF Two BLoCKADI RIINNRIL9 AT
LlvcarooL.—Yesterday there arrived is Liverpool two
blockade runners—via, the Gladiator, Captain Wallace,
from Matamoros; and the Florida, °apish% Carter, from
Bermuda. Both thaw steamers brag large cargoes of
cotton, which, according to the advance which ham taken
ascii in the price of bee cotton, will leave handsome moms
to the owners of the cargoes. The Den by the Florida is any-
thing but encouraging for the blockade "runners," as the
neighbourhood of Wilmingtou and the route, takes by
thaw vessel@ between that port and Bermuda swarm with
Federal cruisers.
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