The Express.
London, England, 1853-05-18 00:00:00

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEJL

The Amid report is as follows :—The mortality of
Landon lost week wu considerably higher than is mat in
the aides d May, but it exhibits a reduction as sea=
with tad dthe precediog week. The numbers of
la the last three weeks were 1,089, 1,160, sad
ri,t6ll.ll4be masa temperatures is the same times were 42.6
dig.. 47.1 &at" mad 45-.3 deg. The depression of tempera-
Imo at the old darn was followed by an increase of mor-
tniky at die beglaalag of May.
Ike ton weeks, corresponding to the week that ended
hot Ilstnalas„ of the yews 1443-52 the average number of
haft woo nd, :astir rommetion for ioarease of pa.
polities. lama 1 . Imo the 1,099 deaths of last
week eau& the among by 72.
Oa refocuses to du table of MA diseases, a Maimed*m
of greater or lam aneonnt will Ito men ander inset of those
heads that Natgllado the toque poopostisas Is the weekly
sum. Typhon' tam ma onospdkra, foe die dodo this this
disuse base dun this 41 in Nob of the SIM know weeks
to 71 la the hat Pus lisoln~wiso the mortality is
high, sad doss sot show otash- to subside ; it
wet fetal to a &Wren.
Last week the births of 870 bops god MIS girls, in all
1,676 ahadosa, were registered to Loodea. The straw
number 1a the eight corresponding weeks of the years 1846-
62 was 1
At the legal Observatory, Greenwich, the mew height
of the bagamuar in the week was 29.760 in. The mean
temperate's* d the week was 45.3 deg., which 158.6 deg.
below du 1111111101 of the same week in 38 years. The
mean daily Issagersture was below the avenge en *very
day of the week, and this depression amounted to 12 deg.,
10 deg., end 9 deg. on the first three days. The sir be-
came gradually warmer, and on Batorday the mean was
51 deg. The mean difference between the dew point tem.
water* and air temperature wee 7.9 deg. ; the greatest
difference was 17.4 deg. on Thursday; the least was 2.1 deg.
oaths tans day.

THE LATE MR. GEORGE PALMER, FORMERLY
M.P. 7011 SOUTH Easax.—This much respected gentleman
died, after • short illness, oa the 12th inst., at his seat,
Easing Park. Mr. Palmer had represented South Essex
in parliament successively from 183.5 to 1847, when, on ac-
count of advanced age and increasing infirmities, be TS- '
signed his seat, much to the regret of his constituent'. He
will long be remembered as chairman of several select com-
mittees an shipwrecks in tho House of Commons, for his
exertions to lessen the causes of disasters at sea, and to
improve the qualifications of our merchant seamen. Mr.
Palmer was the inventor of a valuable plan of life-
boat, which, uuder the auspices of the Royal Ns-
Hanel Institution for the Preservation of Life
from Shipwreck, has been the means of saving
some hundreds of shipwrecked persons on our coasts, and
for which be was, a few weeks before his lamented death.
presented with the gold medallion of the society. He had
also been the deputy-chairman of the institution for more
than • quarter of • century. Mr. Palmer had been in his
earlier years extensively engaged as a merchant and ship-
owner in the City of London. He always exercised great
caution in providing his ships with every means necessary
for the preservation of life in cases of accidents. He had
for many years past supyorted, at his own expense, a corps
of yeomanry, which we believe will be continued by his son
and heir, Major Palmer. Mr. l'almer was in his eighty-
fourth year when he died, and was the elder brother of
Mr. Horaley Palmer, the ex-mentor et the Dank of
Ragland.