The Express.
London, England, 1855-08-02 00:00:00

MARRIAGES, BIRTHS, AND DEATHS.

The following is from the guerterly return of the
marriages, births, and deaths registered is ti .e divisions
counties and districts of England. The return of marriagei
extends from January to March, 1855; and the births aid
deaths from April to Jute, 1855 :
. . . . .

This return comprises the births and deaths registered by
2,196 registrars in all the districts of England daring the
spring quarter that ended on June 30, 1855 ; end the mar-
riages in 12,129 churches or chapels, about 3,631 registered
places of worship unaonneoted with the Established Church,
and 628 superintendent reeisiran' offices, in the quarter
that ended on March 31, 1856.

The returns present these g 1 results : the marriages
in** winterlgaarter were much below the go nom-
ben; the births and the deaths in the spring quarter
slightly exceeded the average proportions. The severe wea-
ther, the high pries of provisions, the diminution of em-
ployment in some diatricn, and the withdrawal of an in-
creased number of men from the wintry by the army and
navy abroad, account for the decrease in the marriages.
The stagnation in the winter wee, however, probably only
temporary ; for war, instead of depressing, appears to in-
crease the industry, the invention, and the energy of Eng-
lishmen. The rapid rate of growth of the British population
commenced and attained its ettiminaticg point at the close
of the last war. _ _
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--Miadissiii.-29,131 marriages were celebrated in the
first three months of the year, or less in number by nearly
6,000 than the marriages in the winter gunner of the year
1853, when the marriages as much exceeded as in 1855 they
fell below the average. The marriages are invariably fewer
in the beginning then in the end of the year, and were at
the annual rate of 1,262 persons married in 1(10,000 living
in the winter spatter, whores,' the ge rote is 1,426.
The excess of marriages in the winter quarter 9(1853, and
the diminution in the winter quarter of 1855, are meet re-
markable in London and in Lancashire ; but they are more
or lees apparent in every county, except Hampshire Suf-
folk, the North Riding of Yorkshire, Durham, Nerilinns-
holland, and Monmouthshire.
_ _ _

BilCriall.—The ►irths of 165,250 children were registered
in the quarter that ended on June 30, 1855; or less by
7,000 than were registered in the corresponding quarter of
the previous year, and more, to nearly the same extent,
than wee, registered in the spring quarters of 1851.53. IR
the West Midland Counties, particularly in Staffordshire,
and also in Cheshire, in Lancashire, in the West Riding of
Yorkshire, and in the northern counties, the births of the
quarter exceeded to some extent .the births in the spring
quarter of 1853.
Itionsaan or POPULATION.—As the number of births
was 165,250, and of deaths 106,584, the natural increase of
the English population in three months may be set down it
68,666, exclusive of immigrants from Scotland, Ireland, and
the colonies, or brain° paths.
Tae PRICES oF PROVISIONS ♦ND THE WZATII7IH.
The abundance or the scarcity of food eensibiy effete the
births, deaths, and marriages; and the state of public credit
effaces the employment, and consequently the prosperity of
the people. The average price of wheat, which in the three
menthe, April, May, June, 1853, was at 41.. 61. a quarter,
was in 1864 at 78s. 4d., and in the correepondiog months of
the present year at 73,. 4d. Bread hoe boon dear for two
years, or since the harvest of 1863. Beef is somewhat
cheaper, and so are potatoes, while mutton is at the same
price as in the spring quarter of 18.54. The wee. her during
the gutter was remarkable for the continuance of the cold,
which in the previous quarter bad been unusually severe.
Except on a tow days only, the temperature was below the
go. There was a deficiency of rain.
STATE OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH.—The public health
has partly recovered hoot the effects of the late epidemic
cholera, and from the severe weather of last winter, and the
mortality, which is on the average at the annual rate of
22.67 in 1,000 on the population, was 22.79 in 1,000 in the
last quarter. The average rate of mortality in the spring
quarter in 117 districts, comprising the chief towns, is 24.60
in 1,000 persons living, in the smell towns and counuy
pariahs. 20•88 in 1,000. The mortality in the last quarter
was at the rate of 2603 in 1,000 in the t nth districts, 20 97
in 1,000 in the country districts. There were 106,584 deaths in
the quarter; or 3,918 more deaths than were recorded in the
corresponding quarter of 18.54; for the cholera, which wee
epidemic in that veal, only became fatal in the subsequent
quarter. In the t 1 divisions the deaths varied little during
the spring quarters of 1853, 1854, 1855.

..."'CIIIJRCIIYARD INTERMENTS IN LONDON.—Yeetee-
day at a Court of the City Commission of Sewers, stientina
was drawn toe bill before parliament, introduced by the
government, and which contains a clause which it was re-
presented would rceeind, or at least modify, the orders
nand by Lord Palmerston, when Horne Secretary, fog
closing the metropolitan churchyards aid burial grounds.
Several members of the commission strongly deprecated any
re-opening of such grievous sources of nuisance and disease,
especially after the City of London and other out-parishes
had been compelled by government to obtain new cemeteries
at a great expense. The bill having passed the House of
Lords, it was ultimately resolved that the 110Hee of Com-
mons should be petitioned not to pass the measure in its
present term. The bill, it was stated, would be committed
on Thursday.
THE CITY OF LONDON BURIAL BOARD.—Yester►
day, at a court of the City Commission of Sewer', a diem*.
Idols took place upon the memorial of the Archdeacon of
London and certain of the clergy, to be placed upon the
Burial Board of the said city. The question hail heen
referred to the commission by the Court of Common
Council, and the commit.ioners, who form the Ddrial
Board, seemed to consider that the application came late,
seeing that they had been in existence as mob for three
years, and it was rather extraordinary that, just as they bad
completed all the works of the cemetery, the seemorisliste
should for the First time express a wish to become members
of the board. For these and other reasons the commissioners
came to a unanimous resolution not to comply with,tbe
application of the memorialists.
THE MUSEUM OF ORNAMENTAL ART AT MARL.
DOEnting•SOCSE.—Tbe numbers attending, &c, during
the month of July were as follow. :—.6,860 p„,o„s c„ the
public days, and admitted free; 678 persona on the ens-
dente days, and admitted as students ou the payment of
61. each, besides the registered students of the charges and
solsosis.
MAILS FOR THE BRITISH HOSPITALS AT ASTDOS
AND RZNE.tOI. NEAR THE DARDANELLES.—OENEnAL
Poe -owes, JOLT, 1865.—Letters snn newepowdrrid- •
dressed to the British hospitals at Abyta aid Itenkisi
will in future be dispatched from this country-through
Femme, and by French packet, via klarssiller, twioe. •
weak, instead of once it week, as lit retotorr. 4nsi, isms
will be made up in London every Tu. wi:sy enetnioit and
every &daisy me*.

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LONDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 2.

A NAIL from the Crimea excites, now-a-day% as
little eeasatios se an Overland Mail. The

avidity with which intelligence from the seat
of war was ought up, some months back
pressate a strange centrist to the listlessness and

;nor want of eipectation with which it is now lis-
tened to. The electric, telegraph is in part the oases

of : its swift, laconic mirages anticipate all the
salient points of the news that comes lumbering after
them by mail. But the Electric Telegraph is not
alone the cause. When the telegraph briefly announced
hats of stirring interest, or operations or mov.