The Express.
London, England, 1852-05-19 00:00:00

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK.

The official report says the mortality of the me-
tropolis exhibits in this return a considerable increase on
that of the preceding week. In the week that coded Bth
May the deaths fell to 972 ; in the week ending last Satur-
day they rose to 1,070. Last week was marked bye rise of
mean temperature from 48-1 deg. to 82.7 deg.; the wiad
which had blown with remarkable constancy for nearly
three months from the north-east, changed to south-west on
Friday, the 7th, and continued in the same direction
throughout last week, and there were frequent showers of
rain.

In the ten corresponding 'weeks of 1841-61 the average
number of deaths was 907, which, if raised in proportion
to increase of population, becomes 998. The deaths of last
week, therefore, exceed the estimated amount by 72.
Compared with the facts of the previous week, the pre-
sent return discoversan increase in deaths caused by epi-
demics from 193 to 234, while in thaw from diseases of the
respiratory organs the numbers are almost identical. There
is an increase from 130 to 142 in deaths by phthisis.
Diseases of the heart also rose in the two weeks from 37 to
45 ; those of the digestive organs from 60 to 74.
Amongst epidemics the increase arises chiefly from small-
pox, and in the next place from scarlatina. The former
malady was fatal last week to 38 children and 8 adults,
altogether to 46 persons ; the latter to 44. In only 4 eases
of small-pox is it stated that vaccination had hew per-
formed, apparently with effect, and in these the ages were
as follow : 6, 18, 28, and 41 years. Zymotics in the aggre-
gate produce at present considerably more than the average
mortality of the season.
Last week the births of 712 boys and 689 girls, in all
1,401 children, were registered in London. The average
number in seven corresponding weeks of 1846-51 was
1,380.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean read-
ing of the barometer in the week was 29.728 in. The
mean temperature of the week was 62.7 deg., which is
0.2 deg. below the average of corresponding weeks in ten
years. The air was warmest on Sunday (the 9th), when
the highest temperature was 73.2 deg., and the mean was
68.3 deg., or 3.7 deg. above the average. On Tuesday, the
coldest an the week, the highest was 82.5 deg.; and the
mean 48.8 deg., which is 4.1 deg. below the average. The
wind blew from the south-west. On Tuesday and lVed-
nesday the rain in inches was 0.10 and 0.14 ; the sum of the
week was 0.30 in.

LORD loax RussaLL has taken a lease for several
pen of Gart House, near Callender, the mullion of Ad-
miral Houston Stewart, M.P. for Greenwich, as an autumn
residence for himself and family. Gut House is de-
lightfully situated on the banks of the Teith.—FaLkirk
Herald.

BIRKENHEAD, LANCASHIRE, AND CHESHIRE JUNO-
now Reitwer.—Liverpool, Tuesday, May 18.—To-day,
pennant to advertisement, a special meeting of the share-
holders of the above railway mu held at the Monk's Ferry
Hike. Birkenhead, Bryan., Esq., in the chair, for the
purpose of considering and approving or otherwise of a cer-
tain bill now before parliament, entitled " A Bill to comb-
lidate into one act, and to amend the provisious of the
several acts relating to the Birkenhead, Lancashire, and
Cheshire Junction Railway Company ; to authorise the
construction of new works ; to define the undertaking of
the company, and for other purposes;" and also for the pur-
pose of considering and approving or otherwise of an agree-
ment for the working of the railways of the Birkenhead,
Lancashire and Cheshire Junction Railway Company by
the London and North Western Company, and for other
purposes. At the hour appointed about a down
gentlemen bail met at the Monk's Ferry Hotel,
the rain pouring in torrents. It appeared subse-
quently that there would be a meeting, only pro forma,
for the purpose of adjournment, as the chairman and secre-
tary , with the other officers of the company, were absent
in London. A quorum of the shareholders, sufficient to
constitute a meeting, bad not assembled, because at the
eleventh hour circulars were sent out to state that the meet-
ing would only be formal, and from this arose a number of
conjectures and rumours that the shareholders at large
must have been edified to hear. There were, despite the
weather, shareholders from the other side of Chester, from
London, and from Glasgow, whom the eleventh-hour cir-
culars had not reached, still there was not a quorum ; and
Mr. Robertson, after great labour, succeeded in getting the
requisite number, the last being Mr. Sowerhy, a retired
cheese-factor of Liverpool. Now the business of the
day commenced, and very speedily ended. Mr.
Bryan* stated that in consequence of the com-
mittee not meeting yesterday in the House of Lords,
the chairman of the board, Alderman Bancroft, and the
officers of the company, were compelled to remain in Lon-
don to-day; and he therefore proposed that the meeting
should be adjourned until Friday, at one o'clock. The
motion was seconded by Mr. Sowerby, and adopted. All
sorts of rumours and conjectures were current during the
interval when the " whipper-in" was procuring the quo-
rum. One party from London (a large proprietor) observed
that he did not care whether the Great Western or the
North-Western got it (the line), so that he got rid of the
company; another considered Mr. Alderman Bancroft •
very shrewd man, but not able to cope with Mr. Russell, of
the Great Western, and that Mr. Glyn must pale before
the acuteness of the Great Western people. Thus the
time spun out, but it is evident that some deep diplomacy
in the railway school of tactics is at work, and there will
undoubtedly be a bumper on Friday to find from the sharp
little aldermaa himself what all these " dodgings " are to
amount to.

MONMOUTH AND GLAMORGAN BANK.—Yestentay
at a meeting in this matter, before Master Ferrer, some in-
dividual cases of liability were taken, with a view to the
payment of the call of 601, declared by the official mana-
gers, to pay off debts, and which fell due for liquidation
yesterday.
NICHOLAS A 8 A HUNGARIAN. The Emperor
Nicholas entered Vienna, we are told, " wearing tho uni-
form of a linngarian general." Tho uniform of Hungary!
Thus may the clothes of the victim bo at times found upon
the back of the accomplice in his destruction.-4.,1 , ,
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