The Express.
London, England, 1849-04-25 00:00:00

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

We havo received papers from Cape Town to Feb.
21, and Graham's Town to Feb. 17. They contain no
news of importance. Their general tone showed that
the colony was tranquil. The following vessels were
in Simons Bay : Her Majesty's ships Beringapatam,
Southampton, and Bingdove ; Dee and Geyser
steamers.

AUSTRALIA.
We bare received blelbourao journals to Jan. 12,
but their contents are not of general interest.

Etscattft PROM NZWOATIL —On Monday after-
noon about three o'clock, a oesoviet named Strudwick, under
sentence of tranaportatioo, contrived to affect his emu from
Hurgate, by climbing over the wall of the emit-yard and
descending into the street, by passinuthrough the house of
Mr. Macdonaldi_the Number Seven, Newgate-street.
LICENSED VICTUALLERS' ASYLUM.—THE "LADIES'
Wixo."—Prince Albert, patron of this institution, has pro-
mised
to lay the first stone of the propostd addition to this
asylum for the remade claimants to its resources. It is pro-
posed that that ceremony shall take place on Tuesday, the
29th of May neat, which will be the 21st anniversary of the
laying of the first stone of the original portion of the edifice
by the late Duke of Sum, the then patron of the society.
THE LAST NEW COMET. —Mr. A. Graham has ad-
dressed to the editor of the Dublin Evening Mail a rough
sketch of the orbit of the comet discovered on the 14th inst.
" I have just completed a set of elements (he says) founded
on the Marken Oheuvations of the 14th, 16th, and 19th.
They are—
Paha= ISO, lune, 8.73.3 Greenwich ILT.
Haden. Melia lima
Ass. Node Roden. Main. Stec.
Inclination— 67deg. ilmin. 43ena
Perihelion di5tan0e,0.69536.
Heliocentric motion. Direct.
The comet will be at least four times brr•'
sggh6ter towards the
end of this month. It is rapidly approaching us et present.
Its distance from us on the 19th was lees than three-tenths
of the sun's distance. This communication is addressed from
the Observatoraof Edward J. Cooper, Esq., Markle"
CONSEQUENCES OF WAIL—The commencement of
hostilities in the Baltic 'Leidy bogie severely to be felt in
this locality. A number of coal and other vessels, belonging
to the German porta, are lying in our river and harbour,
being deterred from sailing by tear of the Danish cruisers.
Some large ships, which have tailed for German ports to take
emigrants to Nor'* America, will be subject to much de-
tention, expense, and ineoneenience. Amongst the imports
from Germany likely immediately to be in great request
here is the article of butter. In consequence of the scarcity
of English firkin butter, foreign is in great demand ; but the
which shipments are made being blockaded,
rttris• will be able to reach oar markets.—Netocasile
Courant.
HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK.—The
deaths stered during the put week were 1,089. The
excess oute weekly average of spring is considerable, and
amounts to 126, The epidemic diseases exhibit an increase
on the average, the two numbers being 248 and 198, but it
is important to observe that most of the fatal complaints in
this ekes—measles, scarlatina, cholera, typhus—have pro-
duced this week a mortality searoely exceeding the usual
amount. Smallpox was fatal to 8 children and 4 adales,
while the average number of persons of all ages wbo died of
this disease is 21. The deaths from diarrhoss and dy=
were 23, or 9 sore than the average ; only one is
to cholera. The enema of mortality is ascribed to booping-
cough, bronchitis, and phthisis, which number reactively
69, 76, and 169, the averages being 36, 37, and 146--effeete
which are probably due in great measure to the increased
widows of the weather, the temperature of the ale,
biting one day with another, having been, aims
flamllay, the Bth instant, less than the mesa
lure of the same time, on an average of seven years,
amtTcilleg. This difference, on Thursday, the 19th, even
ounted to 141 deg. The mean temperature of the week
was only 374 deg. The highest temperature did not rise
on any day above 49.2 deg. ; it was lowest on Thursday—
namely, 36.3 deg.—on which day also the lowest mean oc-
curred-, and was only 32 4 deg. The mean reading of the
barometer in the week was 29.626 ; it was highest on Saws
day, teeing 29141. A. tallow chandler died an Gresawisk,
wording to the verdict of a jury, of " disuse of long dude
ing, hastened by destitution and want of common 114011111111,
ries," a case which, as appears from an observation that fell
from the Cfroller, was aggravated by wanton and atreeine
neglect is his own house. In the subdistrict of St. Mary-
shone, two children, the son and daughter of a labourer,
died of " the wont of the common necessaries of life." In-
quests were held in both cases. The wife of a labourer died
of " exhatotion, the natural effect of delay in proeuting for
herself medical aid in parturition ;" a return which was also
made by a coroner's jury. The blthe during the week num.
bend 1,348.
SUSPECTED POISONING CASE AT BATH.—Minh ex-
citement has for several days existed at Bath, in consequent*
of rumours having been circulated that a man bad been poi-
soned by Ws wife who had married again three drys after
her deceased husband's homed. The indecent baste of the
woman's marriage is certain, and a coroner's jury are inves-
tigating the circumstances connected with the man's death.
D, ceased was a quarryman, named Henry Merchant, about
28 years of age. On Saturday night, the 31st March, be was
in good health, and left a fellow workman at 12 o'clock,
saying he was going home. Oa reaching his lodgings his wife
made him a cup of tea, which wee very unusual for
her to de, and in about an hour after parMking of the tea
Merchant was mired with violent vomiting and pains in his
buried continued ill for about a week, and then died.
He was on Friday, the 13th of April, and on the fol-
lowing Monday his widow was married by House tea Mr.
Harris, a man of independent income, upwards of seventy
yearsizzeilsgThe is Mr. Harris had buried two wives within
the thirteen months, the last cal/ a hw weeks
for
M
e mu with Mrs. erchaat. —The jury decided
unanimously that the stomach of deemed shlald imbued
by Mr. Horvath, of Bristol; and the inquest wu adjourned
fee a week.