The Express.
London, England, 1849-11-07 00:00:00

EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 7,

THE REGISTRAR GENERAL'S QUARTERLY
RETURN OF TUE ILIAZIAGES, BIRTHS, AND
DEATHS.

The following return camping do births and
drat* whith wan registered in all the dhlriels of linglead
by UN regleftry ia the mum, quarter salmi September
lids. Will and W marriages in above MON eh yds and
•3,186 regiment plains et warship eassawassil
whit thesolablishei Walk and 628 aseedWendent web-
Iran' oases, la thegasetir wag /sae fikik
The Mara al aleesieges M hismyWle; hot the awahers
wanting we imewilheable. awl haw am wad hew
the provisos yew. liabss•• of the births eel Ardis law
bees resolved heat swim registrar; awl thaw Is wawa to
believe that nadir the Wen* that has UMW the kin-
dew, me deaths base seemed regbaratiss, sr been=
hp the embed sitsailents to say bat whoa they
the true 'SWIM The wham self* ether esteem is this
sad other sereateise, laslaies every parishes& plow, whether
healthy or sailleiag her as opsdentis. sal deaths few
every cause • se that the tables sad the reghlrere limas
exhibit the ;webs et • rapid but general whim marvel at
the country. We have no epees for the tables shwa,
but the result .unveil y is, that the manieges are a little
above the average, the births slightly below the avenge, the
deaths in greater number than have ever Deices Dies revie-
wed. The demise is three swaths were 136,364, or 47,602
rare thaa were registered in the summer gainer of 1848.
They weeded the births (135,200) by 104; sad as the
fre
es Linde*, Liverpool. sad Ply-
mouth Wow sweated, sewrWg to the Emigratisa
Cwanissiosers, as 46,668, the popWadea:ot Baglend has
suffered, died, and degreased during the quarter to a degree
of which there is so ezaseple in the pressed military.

The marriages (34,702), ii;;;;;arter ending Jane 30M,
1848, wen fewer thin the swinges in the eerrespoading
querters of 1848 7 ; in the Jane quarter of 1849 the am-
bers incresesd In Lone" Bedfordshire, Gloom stershin,
Shropshire, Warwickshire, Nottinshiwashin, Cheshire. Lea-
whin, end the West Marna of Yorkshire. In the other
mantis; the segregate wane differ hale from those of 1848.
The marriages were about 33,908 in the three months.

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BIRTHS.
136,200 births were registered in the quarter eading Sep-
tember*, UM; the births were 163,716 In the privies,
quarter, end 140,361 in the mmentending quarter et 1848.
the rate et birth was higher than in the Septombei quarter
of 1847; mellower, with this exemption, than in any ihp..
umber gamin sines 1840. In Landon the births were
17,224, which is RUN HIS average number ; in the ether
divisioas the births were he than in the September quay.
in of 1848 ; when they were, however, considerably above
the average.
BIRTHS AHD DRATILS—DuRRAss OF POPULATION.
The deaths exceed the firths registered by 164 ; but all
On births are not registered, sad a certain number of Scotch
and Irish people eater England every quarter, so that were
it sot for emigration It is probable that notwitestanding the
mortality, the population would have slightly increased.
Emigration has, however, gone on rapidly, and England has
now Ins inhabitants by several thousands than were within
its shores at Midways, r.

BTATI OF TEI PUBLIC HEALTH.
In the Live summer quieten ending September3oth,
1846-9, the deaths were 74,872, 101,663, 93,435, 87,762,
sad 135,364. The deaths is the last summer quarter ex-
ceeded the deaths is the mummer of 1815 by 60,492; the
annual rata of mortality in the two summers wen 1'767
and 3,030 respeetively ; so that the latter exceeded the
former by 71 per ant. The average rats per annum of mor-
tality is generally lower in the summer than in either 41 the
whir three quarters: during the 11 summers 1838 48 It was
1 983. The annual mortality of the summer quarter 1849
eat:waded the quarterly average by 63 per cent. The excess
has been caused almost entirely by the cholera. The !mor-
tality will be found to `are been very unequally distributed
WIT the country ; and to have generally been greatest is the
dime town populations. This is evident on comparing the
deaths in the 117 districts of the old quarterly return—com-
prising London, some agricultural districts, and the principal
towns and cities —with the rest of England. It Ina be ob-
served that the average annual rate of mortality in the town
gaol-inn is 26, in the country districts 18 in a thousand;
during the lest quarter then numbers became 41 and 23 re-
spectively. While the mortality has been caressive in nine
divisions, it has been below or little above the average in
two divisions—the North Midland and the South Midland—
or in the counties of Buckingham, Oxford, Northampton,
Huntingdon, Bedford, Camltridge, Hereford, Worcester,
Leicester, Rutland, Lincoln, Nottingham, Derby ; else in
the North Riding of Yorkshire. Cumberland, Westmorland,
and Moth Wales. The difference will be more apparent
upon examining the several districts ; in some the people
have died by hundreds or by thousands ; in others, not far
distant, few have died, the inhabitants have been unusually
healthy, the " medical men (says a registrar) say they have
had nothing to do."

IetIONSTER FREEHOLD LAND SOCIETY

A paha moan for the purpose of explaining the
prlceiplee sal oliteas of *is society, wee held last algid et
the Gas Tme Vaasa

Mr. JAMES WTLD, M.P., cm teldm the chair, sell that
giberd of tee sedes, was twofold. Med, to give to every
a [Nadi segfelease, *said, mionarsolag habits of
loollatniPlllsllriadlo elleambsine:=l"Enadthballith."4“ m elasael
to give;to"athi
amigos toga a alga la ti• smirk right et Waft
fairly npromated is perilasagOL The sovietism et this de-
seriptica lestitated threaghent t e Oraatip, ago rmitim•sil
$ 20' with about 10,000 weaken welled ea their leekleeks.
They had originated in gad had been gaveled
me with es mash mosses fa dirt tows, that so lege than 226
seembees had bees pat I. peessmiga of freeholds, the effect
el veld* &mos la tho woad no doubt be
mode wiliest at the ne abhor South Staffordshire
med Keith Warwickshire. (Hear, hoar.) The amenity for
tankor *lmp_ is the nature of oar sepreseatative systsse,
was IBM ~ow upoa a glum tie relative 'umbers
of the moieties sai electors of the United Kingdom.
Taking the aniatt representation of Upload, the 40 counties
which Maned 144 members, with a populatioa of 8,336,263,
had but ealy 476,036 eleston. la Weise, 12 counties, with
ftPoleulotiO• of 609,871, returning 16 members, had only
37.340 .listen. la Scotland, MI centaties, rourniag 30
members, sad with a population of 1,800,000, had only
48,968 siestas. So that, including Ireland's St entities, h•
foetid that 114 counties in England, Ireland, sad Scotland,
reamed 263 members through only 581,329 elector., out of
11111,41495161 of 14,773,750. There were 309 boroughs,
renaming 406 members, through 383,144 elector,, out of a
populating of 9,516,952. From this it appeared that the
whets agasber et members was 658, and the whole number
of alataga ally 944,473, cut of a population of 26,000,000, or
one dogleg eat of every 26 of the populatisa. (Hear, hear.)
To east a &sage in these relative numbers, which show
hew Imaiscrately the people were repressated in the House
of Oemnamia, was the object of this society, sad that object
Noll be accomplished at the small cost of one shilling and
siz a week in the muse of Ave ears;y for
as 40L treehold could be pocheired for about 191. His sin-
een ardent advice to the working dames was, to en-
deavour to obtain an lancelet in the soil of the country.
(Hear, hear.) It was a remarkable fact that of ad the con.
stitutional stakes of Earop• or Amok* Great Briggs was
that omit?, in which the people held the smallest stake In
the god. Prance, with a population of 32,660,934, had
10,896,682 loaded proprietor, or one in three. The United
States, with a population of 20 000,000, had 5,000,000 pro-
pri-tors, or one In four. Belgium, with a population of
5,022,677, bad 9`.0,723 Proprietor*, or .as ta are. Holland,
a commercial and shipping country, with a population of
3,690,000, had 400,000 proprietors, or no in nue. Sweden
with a population of 3,874.203, had 300,000 proprietors, or
one in 12. While Great Britain and Ireland, the richest

reentry in the world, with a population of 27,641,060, only
633,421, or one in 40 of the population, including freeholders
and copybolders had a direct interest in the soil. (Hear,
hear.) It had beeni stated that the dominant repres•ntation
was that of lead. They were ready to admit it, and therefore
did they intend by the purchase of land to obtain that poli-
tics which their status and intelligence demanded. The sys-
tem of this society had been tried at Birmingham, and had
been found most sneensful, not oin a political but social
point of view. He hoped that Westminster, hitherto fore-
most in every great and good movement, would not be back-
ward in this. (Hear, hear.) They were represented at pre-
sent by a neatness* who bad upon all 00Caais1111 advocated
the best Interests of the people—Mr. Bernal Osborne.
(Cheers.) And if the principles of the society were carried
out actively sad energetically, they would be able to return
to the (House of COllllllOllll other am equally devoted to
their interests. While revolutionary evils were destroying
other states, such societies as this would act ea safety valves
for the feelings of the people, which, he was sure, their in-
nate love denier would induce them to support and join, so
that their voice might be brought eventually toinfluence the
House of Commons, by their having • due interest in the soil.
(Hear, hear.)
Mr. BLANCHARD moved the following resolution:
" That it is the upinion of this meeting that the establish-
ment of freehold land societies oft, re a profitable investment
for the savings of the industrious classes, is an efficient agent
for elevating their moral and social condition, and calculated
to engender habits of forethought and a spirit of self-
reliance.
Mr. OF.RI3IN, seconded the resolution, which was
agreed to.
Mr. GEORGE moved, and Mr. WADDY seconded the
following resolution :
" That this meeting recognises in the general establishment
of then societies a most efficient mode of extending the suf-
. (rage, by increasing the number of voters for county mem-
ber., and thus legally and gradually clearing the way to an
effectual reform of parliament ; and this meeting is of opi-
nion that it behoves every man who is anxious to extend the
representation of the people to contribute by all means in his
power to their encouragement and support."
, The resolution having been supported in :ible addresses by
, Mr. Davis and Mr. KiNssLa, was cordially adopted ; and
, Unlike having been voted to the chairman, the meeting