The Express.
London, England, 1862-08-27 00:00:00

HEALTH OP LONDON.

It appears from the weekly return of the
Registrar-Goneral that the deaths in London now exhibit
that increase which is usually seen in the bills of mortality
at this assure when diarrhea or summer cholera is a pre-
vailing complaint. In, the week that ended last Saturday
they rose to 1,254. If the deaths from epidemic cholera in
the thirty-fourth week of the year 1854 are excluded from
the returns on which • comparison is hued, it may be shown
that the mortality of last week exceeded by 60 the average
mortality of corresponding weeks in 1852.61, after correc-
tion of the latter is made for increase of population.
In the first week of the current month the deaths from
diarrhou were 89 ; in the second, 116 ; last week they were
123. A large proportion of these 12;3 cases occurred to
infanta ; for yl5 deaths from diarrhoea were returned as
having occurred to persons above three years of age. The
disease wu fatal in 6 cases in the sub-district of St. John,
Marylebone, in 6in the west sub-district of Islington, in 5
in the Milo-end Old Town west, in 8 in Poplar, and in 5 in
the second sub-district, Waterloo-road. Besides the deaths
referred to diarrbrea, 7 from "cholera" or " choleraic
diarrheas" were returned, and these also were chiefly amongst
children. A man, aged 36 years died at 374, Caledonian-
road, of " Dubai; cholera," alto; seven days' illness. A
child, aged four months, died of "scurvy ; hydrocephalus
since birth."

There were 9 deaths in the week from small-pox, two of
which were those of adults. Typhus and scarlatina were
fatal in nearly equal numbers of cue', the former in 69, the
latter in 68 ; diphtheria numbered 16 deaths ; measles de-
clined to 39.

Lest week the births of 942 boys and 908 girls, in all 1,850
children, were registered in London. in the ten correapon-
ding weeks of the years 1832-61 the avenge number (c0r-
m,!4.).".!1+77.2:

At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height
of the barometer in the week was 29.803 in. The reading
rose from 29.65 in. on Sunday to 30.04 in. on Saturday. The
mean temperature of the air in the week was 59.6 deg.,
which is 1.1 deg. below the average of the same week in
43 years as determined by Mr. Glaisber). The highest
day temperature was 74.8 deg. on Tuesday; the lowest
night temperature wsa 46.8 deg. on Saturday. The range of
the thermometer in the week was 28 deg. The mean daily
range was 17.1 deg. The range on Sunday was 5.4 deg. ;
on Tuesday it was 25.4 deg. The difference between the
mean dew point temperature and air temperature was 3.5
deg. The mean degree of humidity of the air was 89,
complete saturation being represented by 100, which point
was attained on Sunday. The wind was in the north on
the first two days; afterward' in the south-west and west.
Rain fell to the amount of 1.57 in., of which no lees than
1.27 in. fell on Sunday (the 17th). On that day there was
rain almost without intermission till midnight. The ther-
mometer in the sun rose to 122.7 deg. on Tuesday. The
mean of the highest temperatures of the water of the
Thaw was 64 deg. ; the mean of the lowest was 61.8. deg.

NARROW ESCAPE OF A LADY.—One day last
week a lady, named Williamson belonging to Coventry,
was rambling with some friends amongst the ruins of
Kenilworth Castle, when she fell over a precipice into the
gardens adjacent to the highest accessible portion of the
ruins, from a height of about 50 feet. As she descended,
her as, which was extended by crinoline, caught in the
ivy which grows so luxuriantly upon the walls of Kenil-
worth, thereby breaking to a great extent the force of the
collision. On being taken up she was found to have sus-
tained bat little external injury.
The Court of Assizes of the Seine tried on Satur-
day a man named Eapargiliere' the keeper of • coffee.bouse
on the Boulevard Sebastopol, on the charge of wilfully
wounding, with intent to murder, a young man named
Dodos, who bed formerly been in his employ as a waiter.
It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner was exceed-
ingly jealous of his wife, whom be suspected of an illicit
connexion with Duclos ; and having, on the 18th June last,
discovered in his wife's poesession • letter which she had
written to Duclos, apparently making an appointment for •
meeting, he determined to wreak his vengeance on the
latter. For this purpose he engaged a room in a furnished
hotel of the Bus des Bons-Enfanta, and sent a person to
Duclos, to inform him that • lady wished for a short
interview. Dudes went at the hone fixed, but he
had no sooner entered the room than the prisoner
struck him several blows on the head with a loaded
cane, discharged a pistol at him, and stabbed him with a
knife. The explosion of the pistol having given the alarm,
two nta de ville forced an entry into the room, and
found lying insensible on the bed, having fainted
away. He soon recovered, however, and explained what
had occurred. Espargiliere was according) y arrested, bat
protested that he had never intended to kill Dacha, he only
wished to disfigure him ; and he repeated the same state-
ment in court. Mdme. Espargiliere was also examined as a
witness ; she asserted that she bad never had any improper
connexion with Ducks, sad that the letter was only to re-
quest the latter to calla her, as she wished him to enter
their establishment again as a waiter ; but she admitted
that the language of the letter was rather warmer than it
ought to have been. The jury seemed to think so too, for
they immediately brought in a verdict of not guilty, and
the court oared the prim*? to be set at batty.