The Express.
London, England, 1863-10-31 00:00:00

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India-office appears in last night's damage that the prise
rolls of the officers, non-oomuinsioued officer, and wee of
the A company 3rd battalion Madras Artillery (Dow A
battery 23rd brigade Royal Artillery) entitled to Lnektiow
prise money, have been received at that office. Payment
of thee shares will be made at the office, oe end after
Monday, the Zed proximo, between the hours of eleven and
three. Notice is also give from the Royal H:tta.l
Chelsea, that prize rolls of the unclaimed shares of
sad men of the following corps have now been received
from India, and the shares are in course of distribution at
that hospital, via.:—god Dragoon Guards, 2nd Battalion
Military Train, 64th, 78th, 84th, end 93rd Regiments of
Foot. _ _

Pans Mormr.—Notice is given in last
aigitt's Gazelle, that preps/Minos are Dow being made for
the iot.oded distribution of the slave bouoty of the
Mamma* captured on the 10th of August, 1860, by her
Majesty's ship Brisk, and that preparations are pow being
made for the intended distribution of the tonnage bounty
of a slave barque, name unkoown, captured on the 18th of
April, 1862, by her Majesty's ship Flying Fish.

TIER REGISTILAR-GENERAL'S QUARTERLY RETURN.
—This return, comprising the births sad deaths in Use
quarter ended Sept. 30, and the marriages is the quarter
midis, June 30. shows swum important changes :—" After a
season of depression which extended over two years, the
marriage rate rallied in the first quarter of the current rear,
and roes decidedly above the average io the subsequent
quarter. The improvement indicates lucre:teed ounfidence in
the minds of the people in respect to their ability to earn a
sufficient and comfortable suheistenetahe births were more
numerous than they had ever been in the simmer quarter
before ; sod the proportion they tom to the population in
which they occurred wee higher than usual. Rut while the
aspect of the returns is favourable as wards marriages and
births, a tale of deaths, which is heavier than that of any
summer quarter sloe, theyear of epidemiccholere, 1854, shows
that the public health was far from being io a satisfactory
state. The death rate was considerably nigher than it had
been in any of the corresponding quarters that have inter-
vened since 1851. Epidemic diseases spread with &atroci-
ties form amongst the young ; and apparently the season
was lees salubnons than it usually is to older persons. The
number of persons married hi the ,tune quarter was 84,116
they were married at an annual rate of 112 to a hundred
persona in the population. The average rate for the game
quarter is 1'69 per cent. In the two corresponding quarters
of 1861.2 the rates were I'6B and I'6l. A oertaio number
of the prospective alliances of those two years, deferred in
! expectation of better times, would doubtless attain their
mosumruation in the present year."
METROPOLITAN Morin OF WORE& —The weekly
meeting of the board was bald yesterday intim Board-roars,
Spnag-gardens. Mr. Thwaites peuided. The cash balance
to the credit of the board, exclusive of cheques for 18,363/.
Os. 41, amounted to 196 223/. Ile. Id. A report was mad
' from the Works sad Improvemeeta Committee, recommend-
ing that on account of the special nature of the work the
board do contribute two-thirds of the cost of effecting a
back
improvement in Masuriombouemetreet by getting
back certain premises in that street, as Amen upon the
plan produced to the committee, such coat being estimated
appeozimately at 5.2001. ; that such cootribution do not
exoeed the sum of 34661. 13e. 4d., aced that it be paid to
the Commissioners of Sewers of the City of London on a
certificate from the arehiteet of this board of the completion
and cost of the work, and that the commiuioners be re-
quested to take the necessary steps for currying out the im-
provement under the provismes contained in the acts of
parliament.—Mr. Savage moved the adoption of the report.
Mr. Diffaager moved as ao amendment that tbe oontsibm
Hos should only be use-half, instead of two-thirds mean.
mended in the report—Mr. L. Taylor supported the motion
for the adoption of the report. A discussion ensued.
and the board divided :—For the amendment, 21 ; against
it, 12; majority for the ameodnieot 9. A letter
wee read from the Poplar district board respecting
the drainage of the Med Dogs and its camisole° with the
main intercepting scheme. It was referred to the Main
Drainage Committee. The engineer reported reseeding the
coestructioo of a steamboat pier at Chorine:roes Railway
bridge, and recommended that the railway company be re-
quested to °attribute towards its wet. The report was
referred to the Thames Embankment Committee. It was
ordered that the seal of the hoard be affixed to the eosins*
for works between Weendoster and Waterloo Briftes.
Letters were received from Mr. CharlaaJohoson with refer-
enc. to his plan for the otilisatioe of sewage, sad from Mr.
Shepherd, C.E., with reference to plans of Mr. Ellis and
himself for utilising sewage, and referred to the Main
Drainage Committee. A proper! from Viscount Tor-
rington, Sir Charles Fox, and Mr. Thornton Hunt for the
nistropolitan sewage was also referred to the Main Drainage
Committee.

CRYSTAL PILACIL —The Palace wan exposed
tbroashout yesterday le one of the exec furious gales it has
cateasz
spavined. nit without say demote beyoed the
el • few paean of elms. At the concert this day
Ndlle. (Matta Petti sad nth,. emioent artiste. will
appear. Same fetereetios photoeraphe of the cer of the
Giast have buss received from N. Nader, and will be sheen
baths emirs Issessre.