The Express.
London, England, 1849-11-14 00:00:00

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK.

In the meek ending last Saturday, we learn from
the Itiristrar General's Weekly Report, the deaths re-
gistered in the metropolitan disthees were 893 ; a number
which shows an excess of 66 on the return of the previous
week, but a reduction of 289 on the corrected average of five
autumns. It the present renal be compared with that
made in the same week of each of the years 1840 8, it wilt
be found that, with but one exception (in 1841, when the
deaths were 841), the mortality ranged formerly from 910
to 1,166, and therefore wee co..siduably higher than in
last week, though the population in these years mu las.
The increase of 66 now observed oa the week ending No-
veaber 3, partly arises from pneumonia and bronchitis.
the deaths from which become more numerous as the winter
advances, having been 104 in the previous week, 127 In
the last. The total camber of deaths hem chola.' in the
week was only 8 (6 leo than in the previous week) ; in
the same week of 1848 there were 62. The steady decline
of diarriscee and !treater, is shown by the numbers of the
last two weeks which were ....mainly 105. 63. 61.40, and
29 A hes died of ilorrisusi in Peteroerviagn.TOW, FYIISSOB,
whose father had been carried off by cholera in Septem-
ber; a boy of the same disease at 13rudenell-plash, New
North-road, from an unwholesome condition of the house ;
and e girl at Meidstane•place, in the house in which a death
from cholera, reported in the former week, occurred, and in
a locality then described as " low and ill-drained." Of the
six deaths from cholera, one occurred at Water-lane, Ho.
marten; one at Westherhesd-gardens (Hackney road), a
place low, undrained, and drenched by waste water ; one in
Christchurch, St. Saviour's ; one at Drummond-read, St
James, Bermondsey ; one in Walworth ; and one in Lam-
beth. A death from apoplexy, on which an inquest was
held, occurred in Huntingdon-street, Hoston. The de-
owed was a tamale of 66, who for the last four years kid
lived in an underground cellar, which is only 11 feet in
length, 8 feet 6 inches In width, 6 feet 9 inches in beiiiht,
and sunk 6 feet 7 inches below the surface of the street. A
small window rarer gives light or ventilation, and " th.
walla (says the Registrar) are es damp that you might brush
the water from them." The MOM daily reading of the ba-
rometer was above 80 hakes on the last three days of the
week. The mean of the week was 29 732. The tempe-
rature on the last three days was considerably higher than
the avenge of the same days in seven years. The mean of
the week was 60.2 deg., which is higher than the average
by 4•1 deg.

CURIOUS Cafiß OF THUT.—To s charger,
with the wwwww,7 wrilwasst, is an set of ambition cona.
mon enough in this world, but it is rarely indulged as in the
case we are about to record. A boa, about fourteen years
of age, named Johnston, from the air of Culloden, was in
the town a Nairn on the Lair day, about a fortnight ego.
lie sew standing masterless at a duor a steed not quite
Arabian in appearance, but the claire to panes it seems
to have drink him, and whilst the owner was enjoying his
glass thu boy quietly mounted the bare•backed charger, and
girras:t.ng the stable-oollar It wore, at once rode off home-
From that time till last week he fed the horse by
Lading it at night from field to field, and at intervals stole
from different quarters a pair of spun, a bridle, a whip, an
cotler's jet kat and treason, and some oats—all to mike his
" turn out " more genteel. His ambition has led him a step
too far—that is, to the goal, for he was apprehended a day or
two sae by Donald Noble, county_ constable, and after an
nvongation was an to Nain Gaol on Tuesday to
answer the charge of hcessitealing.—lnowness Cowie.