The Express.
London, England, 1853-02-02 00:00:00

VOTES FOR FREEHOLDS.

TO THE EDITOR OP TEE EXPRESS.

Sru,—Can you find space to inform your readers
that those of them who have previously to yesterday, Jan.
31, become possessed of freehold property, or in the receipt
of rents or profits thereof, will be entitled to be placed on
the register for the county, if they make a legal claim be-
fore the 20th of July.—Yours, obediently,
OEO. lIUGGETT.
1 4, Beaufort-buildiege, Strand, Feb. 1, 1833.

A FAMILY SUFFOCATED.—On Friday morning
great excitement prevailed in Springburn, a village to the
north of Glasgow, by the intelligence that • family, con-
sisting of the mother and four children, were found suf-
focated in bed. The father, John Burns, a labourer, em-
ployed on the night shift of the Springburn Colliery, left
his dwelling house in Fyfe's land, about halt past five o'clock
on Thursday evening, to follow his nightly occupation, at
which time his wife and children were in their ordinary
state of health. On his return from his employment, be-
tween eight and nine o'clock on Friday morning, he en-
deavoured to enter his house as usual, but was astonished to
find the door fastened., and to bear no noise of any person
within. He knocked at the door repeatedly, but re-
ceiving no answer, he became alarmed as to something
being wrong. He than proceeded to look in at the
window, and, in doing so he heard the low moanings of
his wife. He then quickly forced an entrance by the
window, and the poor man had the misery of finding his
wife and four children lying in a state of insensibility. He
communicated the painful intelligence to some of his
neighbours, who came to his assistance, and were not long
in discovering that one of the children, • boy about eight
years of age, was quite dead. Dr. Walker, of Castle-street,
was as soon after as possible in attendance on the living
and pronounced that the boy died froth suffocation, caused
by noxious air. The woman was too ill to be able to give
any account which might lead to an idea of the manner in
which the fatal effluvia had been generated. The fire was
completely extinguished in the morning, but it is suppostd
that a large fire composed of impure coal had been left
burning when the family retired to bed, and the house not
being well ventilated, led to the melancholy catastrophe.—
North Brigid' Mai'.

KINGSTON-By-SEA.—A "JOSE!" AND In END.—
On Friday night, the 21st inst., between eleven and twelve
o'clock, when the servant maid at the Kingston Inn wentto
one of the bedrooms she discovered that two men, named
John Benson and Thomas Ambridger, had secreted them-
selves there, one under the bed and the other behind the
door. Upon giving the alarm, assistance was immediately
at hand, and the intruders secured. They were the next
morning taken before the magistrate at Steyning, and
remanded till Monday, the 24th, when they were com-
mitted to Petworth Gaol, Benson for one week, and Am-
bridger, who was very abusive, for three weeks. Their
' defence was that they only did it for a joke. We hope they
will not look upon their punishment as a joke, and be in-
clined to practice such jokes again when set at liberty.—
Susses /Stress.

nEALIII OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK.'
otheial report aye:—A thousand and eleven
deaths w, re registered in London in the week Chet ended
tam :40 orley. This return ezhibita • very inconsiderable in.
• .. the previous three weeks In the ten correspond.
6. .f the years 1843-52 the average number was
jj,s wt.:, if raised in proportion to Merges of impute-1
tion. would gin • mortality for the present time of 1,173.1
The !deaths of last week are therefore leas than the sett.
sated Maid by 1,4. During the month of January the
j.„,‘„,hty has been low for the season, 965 deaths having
beta must, red in the first week, and in the subsequent
sw▪ ab s • Alt ~ember not baring attained or having warmly
lured, d 1,000.
In the table of fatal causes the results of Isst week en.
moped nearly with thin of the preceding, the chief differ-
tin being iu diseases of the respiratory organs, the cases of
iminating fatally, become more frequent. These
rose in the two weeks frum 171 to 199, and in the present
retUtla are thus distributed:-5 to laryngitis, 91 to bran-
chili., 7 to pleurisy, 71 to pneumonia, 18 to asthma, and 7
to pulmonary complaints, nut specifically designated. The I
oftttted as, tsar for this class in the ten corresponding
weeks is Phthisio, which carried off 138 persons lest
seek, exhibits a mortality very near the ordinary amount.
Epj•1•1111,` diseases do not discover any remarkable
feature. Typhus nuculien 50 death. the larg. it contribu-
son to tle mortality of this class ; scarlatina 43, huoping.
comb is, measles 12, small-pas 4, diarrhea 21, rheumatic
genet, infinite remittent fever 2, repute 2, influenza 1.
le the subilistaiet of Brampton, at 1, Farmer's. place, on
jlek hineary, the daughter of an ostler, aged 2 years, died
pf "hydrocephalus, dentition, perinea's." Mr. Stone says :
the second death in one family in less than 3
wi•
cks the former occurred un 6th January, on which (T-
-aoism 1 stated that the houses in Fanner's-place were is a
state Ingli:y prepolicial to the health of the occupants."
In Me men rub-district of Belinal•green, at 17, Selby.
amo 27th January, the wife of a labourer, sped
23 years, died of "typhus (7 days)." The medical attend-
ed ellen, the following note to his certificate The
gisisage in this locality is very bed and offensive, and
Men have lately died of typhus" Mr. Gregory, the re-
▪ itoas that "from the beginning of October to the
inner time, in this immediate locality, he has had only two
pees of typhus, and one of fey. r and bronchitis, and in a
eiree of about halt a mils (including this place), four other
gases of tem,. There is • sewer in Wellingtm-street which
yam !v. the end of Selby.street East."
In linn.ntten sab-district (2nd part), at Denmark-road,
Laos ih, nn _tith January, the son of • carp:sit. r, aged 1
par, 4.101 ,1 eearlatina. Mr. Doult, the registrar, remarks
got " the house has no drainage, and the yard is entirely
godly water from the cesspool having overflowed." In
eh a`dis.rict, out of 9 deaths registered in the week, 3
inn caved by seulatina, and by beeping-cough.
Ikea oksths were registered is the work in the sub-die-
feet of St. J Bermondsey ; one of there from seria-
tim. at 2, Napo neemirt, and two nn 21st and 23rd /Mt.
lan ItSUSett4Z ON hone, 38, tialiebary-street, from
"clench, " the deceased children having been
the daezi.ters a bricklayer, aged 10 months and 5 mouths
a. sot-district of Saint Peter, Walworth, at 3, Mount-
Mem, is 21st January, a lady, !tired 40 years, died tot
"Aver with cerebral congestion.' She had come from
Croydon cm a visit, and had been is Wslworth but a few
like'. following occurred in the London Fever Hospital,
' ton :—Ga 23rd January, • stonemason, aged 36 years,
gssm Berv-street, Clerkenwell, from " typhus (9 days)."
fo hospital 2 days. On 24th, • man, aged 72 years, from
Le en workhouse, " typhus (duration unknown)." In
Isemital 2 days. On 25th, a man, aged 60 years, from Lam-
beth •.akhause, "typhus (moribund on admission)." In
bespisal one day. Os 26th a female, aged 28 yens, from
Midelmez-olme, Somers Town, " typhoid fever (6 weeks)."
la liirltal4 days. Oa 26th a man, aged 18 years, from
Ehedercuttsee, Islington, "typhoid fever (22 days)." Is
kipital one day. On 28th a baker, aged 76 years, from
Ismbeth W.thtlOUlt, "typhus (duration unknown)." In
hospital one day
Three deaths from carbuncle were registered in the week.
A lady. erred 39 years, died of " carbuncle (5 months), abs-
cesses, whitlows (.5 weeks) ;" a widow, aged 80 years, died
of " carbuncle (6 weeks);" and a woman, aged 51 years
died of the I.IIIIC disease. A woman aged 40 years, died of
tops: a *Juan, aged 81, of lupus ; a girl, aged 1 year, of
pemphigus ; a boy, spd 7 months, of chickenpoz. One
person was the victim of intemperance ; 7 children died
from want of breastmilk ; 2 children from malt rotation of
the palate.
Lam week the births of 902 boys and 810 girls, in all
1,712 eteihiren, were registered in London. In the eight
overspending weeks of the years 1845-52 the average num-
ber was 1.110.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height
of the barometer in the week was 29.750 in.; the mean
daily reeding an Monday was 30.022 in. ; the mean
temperature of the week wee 37.7 dep., which is about the
anryze of the same week in thirty eight years. The meal,
daily temperature was on Sunday 38.6 deg., after which it
steadily deceaed till Thursday, when it was 36 deg., or
tl3 deg. below the average. I rose on the two following
days to 30 2 deg. and 38.4 deg. The wind blew generally
from the northeast. The mean dew point temperature
was 11.8 deg.

Tae Foo I.r LONDON.—This usually punctual
'intent cf our metropolis having delayed its appearance by
about three months, has at length descended with all its
stcient characteristics On Monday night a dense fog b,.
gas to set in over the metropolis about five o'clock, and in
the course of an hour it becalms thick and chilly. The
pavements were soon greasy, and the air so thick that the
eadth of the street was distance enough to remove objects
out of sight. During the night the drivers of vehicles
?mewling along the streets were obliged to have torches,
in addition to their usual lights. By the morning the fog
bad increased in density, making the confusion of the night
lull more confounded, and past ngers had much difficulty in
Ending their nay to their places of destination. As the day
advanced the inconvenience of the damp, dark, and misty
atmosphere became more felt, and in many places business
was suspended. In the government offices, the banks, and
other public offices, gas burners were kept lighted all day
sad the greatest inconvenience, and in many cues a total
cessatem of butane was the consequence of the first great
fog of the season. On the River many of the steamers
awed to p!v, and along the streets several accidents, but
loss of a serious nature, occurred. A great deal of con-
Nies, attended with several trifling
_ accidents, woe
observed amongst the craft in the Pool below London
Bridge. Last night the fog was as dense as twenty-four
boars before. _ _

THE OUTRAGE ON THE YORK AND NORTH MID
LEM J. 31.—Tbe man named
Darid Halliday, who was apprehended on suspicion of being
gummed in the death of Mrs. OWED, who wan killed by
ether being thrown or driven out of a carriage of a train
on the York :and North Midland Hallway, underwent a
deal examination to-day at the police court of this town.
The facts connected with the affair are of the most extraor.
tug character. The unfortunate deceased was the wife
of a licensed victualler of this town, and some few days
beck visited some friends at Hell. On preparing to return
limas by the train the deceased and her friends, who aecom-
pusied her to see her off, encountered Halliday, who, it
would seem, was about to depart by the same train. On
reaching the station he inquired of her what Slant she was
pies in. She replied, " Second class ;" and he observed,
get one too," and went into the booking oaks. He
cuss out with a second elms ticket. He had also a third
claw ticket (return) in his hand, which he tore up. She
teemed) got iatoadault oompartment,there being noon.
it but herself. Soddenly, however, Halliday joined her,
when she remsrked to one of her friends, " There is no one
is the carriage but Halliday and myself, and I don't like
Is es" Halliday observed—" You are all right with me ;"
ad, after some few other words, the train went on with the
Mose seated. Just after it had re-started from an inter-
Modiste station, the port*? of the train saw a woman pert
kr head out of a carriage and call out, "A thief, a thief;"
sad he saw a hand attempting to open the does. He called
at " Keep in, keep is ;" but the door almost immediately
afterwards dew open sideways, and a female was thrown or
humped nut. Kb. was found lying on one of the siding
metals, her head bleeding, and in an insensible condition.
She wee removed to the station, and then to her husband's
residence here, where, after scene days' suffering, she died.
Oa the train reaching the Rest statics, Beverley, the com-
partment was found empty, Halliday had contrived to
swipe, and it transpired that be bed eemeseded in leaving the
tentage on the traia commenting im slacken its sped. His
arrest, however, was quickly effecesd. Dr. Sand w ith,who at-
tended the deceased, spoke of the injury which she sustained
by leaving the carriage, sad the ease of death. Several cir-
anattutere were adduced, from which it would appear that
the nafortunue woman in all probability imagined that the
kiln lid not entirely left the platform of the station, and
that there was Mebane. of escaping tam the carriage, when,
la ittemptiog it, she fell en to the line, and sustained her fatal
levity. lhe magistrate determined upon sending the pri-
soner
for trial at the nest 'mites at York, upon the charge
elmuslaughter, and the toronar'sjary decided in a similar
mat
HITENsITE FORE AT FOXHOLES, NEAR LANCASTER.
--Oa Friday morning last, between two and three o'clock,
the emu mill at Foxholes, the property et W. T. Both-
well, Evl., was dimiovered te be on fire. A messenger was
dmpetehed is Lancaster for the 11re-engine, but long e"
that arrived, the whole of therein in the mill, the valuable
a4ctenet7, and the entire stocn in an adjoining barn, were
sompletely destroyed by the devouring element. When
St., roof fell in, the flames rose to such • height as to be
seen distinctly for several miles round. The total lose to
He Rabid ! will he from 4,0001. to 3,000 i., as no part of
the ;napery was lammed. It is not knows how the are
Imputed.

1)EtIll OF GREAT GRAND-CITILDIEN OF BITRAIS. -
We lad the few' ag melancholy announcement in the
faielfries Cosner of Tuesday lest:—" Hied, at sea, on
Ord the *hip Cheat*, from Liverpool to Port Phillip, on
the 7th September last, Arabella Ann ; on the Bth Septem.
bee. Robert Burns; on the 18th September, Arthur Vio-
lent, the only children of Mr. Berkeley W. Hutchinson, mar-
giverurnent medical °Meer of the Chance, end
lst.gianchddeMakt Robert Burns." Mrs. H
lath dr uAdhter oine J•mes Gleneains Buenautchinson and was adecatPd in Dumfries under the are of her grandmother
„Bvaie Joan."

F.aßTlltßw►RL FROM TITS tho
window of a goldsmith's s►op in Bemard•street, Southamp-
ton, there is exhibited a water-bottle made from Use clay
fosad at the Australian gold diggings. The clay is of •
much darker colour than that from which water pitchers
'Teas& in this eoantry. The bottle is shapely, but it is
led.r visaed nor ornamented. Una close inspection
leveral minute specks of gold are observable ea ON 1111/1100
ot t►e bout..

BIRTHS, AND DEATHS IN
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Yesterday the Registrar-General issued his return
comprising the births and deaths registered by 2,190 regis-
trars in all the districts of England during the autumn
quarter, ending December 31, 1852; sad the marriages in
more than 12,000 churches or chapels, about 3,342 registered
places of worship sneonnected with the established church,
and 024 superintendent registrars offices, in the quarter
that ended September 30, 18,62.
The return of marriages is not complete ; but the defects
are inconsiderab:e, and approx.mstive numbers have been
supplied iron sue reesrd• or pres.ous years.
The marriages sad the births, in nearly the same propor-
tion, greatly exceed the average number of the season ; and
the average of the corresponding quarters of previous years
.s sligbiy excenled by the de.iths.
The ngistration of the year 18.52 is completed, for the
births and deaths, by the present return. The births were
818,251 tu 1861, and 824,171 in 1862. The deaths 396,933
in 1841, and 407,938 in 1852. The average annual rate of
birth is 3.282 per cent., or nearly lin 30. In 1b32 it rose
to 3.172 per cent. or lin 29. The average annual rate of
death is 2.212 per cent. (rather len than 1 in 4-)) ; in 1862
it was 2 2b9, or slightly strove the average (I in 41 nearly).
MARRIAOLS.
_ . _

76,562 'anima were marred in the quarter ending Sep-
tember, 1352, giving a ct.groder.ible excess on the numbers
(74,310) married in the corresponding quarter of the pre-
vious )eir. The number of marriages was 38,291, while in
the summer quarters of 1840-3 the number of marriages
never exceeded 29,397 and in 1842 fell so low as 27,288; in
the summer of 1044 ;here WAS • sudden increase, and in
the summer or 1315 the marriages were 35,903 ; in 1847-8
the numbers fell back to 32,439, and rose slowly until the
summer tf 1849; in each of the three succeeding summers
(1850-2) the marriages have net been less than 37,165 in
number. Nothing probably indicates more accurately than
these figure* the cuudition of the people, or the view which
they took of their prospects in life during the last eleven
111.2. mt rs.

The r.te of marriage is still high in London, and the
marriages were 7,105 in the last, 7,345 in the previoushSep-
teintier quarter,whertiu they amounted only to 5,747 in the
corresponding quarter ef 1818. The marriages increased in
all the south-eastern counties. lu the south midland divi-
sion the marl:ages were nearly stationary. In EAsex,
Suffolk, and Normlk, the marriages also increased. In the
south-western division the increase of marriages was greatis•
in Devonshire and Somersetshirt ; was p-rticularly conspi
coons in St. Thomas, Newton Abb tt, i'l)mouth, Taunton,
Yeovil, and Bath. The marriages increased in each of the
west and the north miellaudeonnties, particularly in Stroud,
Cirencester, Ludlow, 'eel Clun (where a railway has re-
cently ewes carried), Shrewsbury, Dudley, Worcester,
king's Norton, Birniingbatu, Coventry, Warwick, Caistor,
Leicester, Nottingham, where manufactures an actively
carried on. In Cheshire and Lancashire marriages are
much more numerous than they wire in 1818, but Wes
numerous than they were iu 1850; in Manchester and in
Liverpool the marriages are declining. Yorkshire is nearly
in the a .me couditioo as Lancashire ; the marriages in the
West Biding have cot increased to any extent since 1850.
In the northern division the marriages decreased ; they in
creased ill Wide*.

BIRTHS.

152,066 births were registered in the last quarter of the
year, whereas the numbers in the quotes ending DtC3lll-
- 15-11, were 119,155. The births registered in Lou-
don, in the West Midiand counties, and iu Yorkshire in-
creased in the other divisions the numbers scarcely
exc.:stied those in the previous year.

txcamisa OP POPULATION.
As the births in the quarter were 142,066, the deaths
99,916, the natural increase was 52,120. The number of
etuntraets who sailed in the quarter from London was
12,322 ; Plymouth, 1,676; Liverpool, 41,317; from the
three English ports, 63.315. The total numbers who sailed
from the ports of the United Kingdom at which there are
government emigration agents amounted ta 67,913. Many
who sailed from other port are hot in the return, and it Is
well known that a Large proportim of the emigrants who
sail from Liverpool are be birth Irish. At present it is pro-
bable, taking all circumstances into account, that the
emi-
gration from England is not ulna; to its natural increase.
The number of emigrants who sailed during the year
1362 from the ports of the United Kingdom at which there
are emigration agents amounted to 340,017, or certainly
not less, taking the year through, and other ports into ac-
coma, than 1,900 a day.
The price of provisions hu increased since last year; in
the last three months of 1862, wheat was 40s. Sd.• quarter;
beet, by the carcass, at Lewlenhall and Newgate market',
id. a pound; mutton, 53d. a pound; potatoes (York re-
gents), 10Os. at the waterside market, Southwark. In the
currespor ding three =oaths of 1861 the prices were,—
wheat, 308.7 d. a quarter ; beef, 4d. per pound ; mutton,
41d. per pound ; potatoes, 70a. Potatoes are, therefore,
through the disease with which they have been infested,
dearer by 30 per cent., wholesale, in London, than they
were at the same time last year.
It should be recollected that the potato cannot be re-
' placed in the dietary of the people by bread or meat. Fruit
and vegetables are indispensable constituents of man's food,
and without a due supply of them to the population scurvy
and malignant diseases of various kinds break out. Tur-
nips, carrots, artichokes, green vegetables, oranges, and
lean .121, should be procured, where there are means, in
towns ;in the country, the old practice of drinking herb
teas with cream of tartar would be salutary.