The Express.
London, England, 1853-10-19 00:00:00

HEALTH OF LONDO

The weekly return of the Registrar General shows
that the numberof deaths registered in the metropolitan
districts in the week that ended on Saturday was 1,039. In
the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1843.52, the aver-
age number was 949, which it raised in proportion to in-
crease of population will give 1,044. A comparison of the
actual and estimated results shows that Loudon last week
suffered not more than its ordinary rate of mortality.
Cholera, which has made its presence felt in various parts
of the metropolis, and during the four we. les that followed
I%lth September, showed a small hut continuous increase,
does not appear latterly to have gained ground. The deaths
from this disease were 66 in the first week of October; last
week they declined to 45. It is a somewhat remarkable
coincidence that 45 was the number registered in the cor-
responding week (via. the 42nd) of 1848 ; for many weeks
thereafter the deaths rose and tell, dropping so low as ens
and two in the spring of 1849, till the epidemic broke out
with violence in summer. The flue uations which mark its
previous history may attend its course again ; but expe-
rience affords sufficient warning that a temporary abate-
ment should not lull into security those whose business it is
to prepare for the attack. The 45 deaths of last week (21
of which occurred to males, 21 to 11-males) were thus dis-
tributed over London : In the West Districts 6, in the
North 3, is the Central 2, in the East 6, and on the South
aide of the Thames 28.
East week the births of 812 boys and 761 girls, in all
1,573 children, were registered in London. The average
number in eight corresponding weeks of 1845.52, was
1,561.
At the Royal Observatory.
Greenwich, the mean height
5h7
of the barometer in the week was 29. in. The mean
temperature was 52 deg., which is slightly above the aver-
age of the same week in 3$ years. The wind blew gene-
rally from the north-east.

NOTHING TOO HOT.—An Irish hop-picker, named
Matarthy, went, on the Bth instant, into the Broad Oak
Inn, Brede, where, finding a shoulder of mutton, just
cooked for the dinner of a couple of appraisers, placed under
a cover in the taproom previous to its transmission above
stairs to the dinner t0b1.., gently 'talked off with it. Shortly
afterwards the cook lifted the cover, and to her amazement
found the mutton gone. The house was raised : '• Where
is the mutton ?" was the cry, bat nobody answered " here."
At length the Irishwoman was remembered ; a furious pur-
suit ensued, and the landlord and his myrmidons at last
espied her hastening down a lane, and soon overtook her.
She indignantly denied the charge, but the landlord, hav-
ing tre fear of the appraisers before his eyes, forgot the
respect due to the other sex, seized her, and gave her a
violent shake, when the missing joint yet hot, savoury, and
reeking, fell from under garments. 'I he caterprising thief
was transferred to the care of the police, sod committed
neat day at Rye for trial,—ltlaidstonc Journal.

NAVAL.

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ADMIRALTV. ()Cr. IS.—APPOINTMENTS.—Second
Waters W. II Searle, to rialard, sad J. Milton, to
Apollo. Chief Eneine.•r, W. Andenur, to Hull Log. and
A. Y•lanu, t, Spa, rd. Muter Shipwright U. Chat& Id,
to Depttoru IlLek)ard. Maattr's Awi,staat W. II liaraey,
to l'reftiost. Acting Carpenter G. Hare. to Her/.s. Car-
penters J. B. Foreman, to Daunt/en, sad W. "ham, to
Terrible. Owner E. Pipers awl Dustewaia H. Brows, to
Dinar leas.

PORTSMOUTH, (k'r. 18.—The 11!enheito, 60, screw
sweat ship, Captain tame into harbour to-day true
Spithead. The Leopard, 12, padd!e•wbeel sham frig Ste.
Captain O. °drift!, was paid wages to•dy at Spithrad.
The Sprightly, it.,. vessel, Master C..mmsniliair
west to &.•ones Point this morning with Colonel Sir V.
Smith, R.E ,on a visit of inspection of the new fortifica-
tions in ;insignia there. The Dauntless, 21, screw steam
frigate, was taken out of t'.s Meats basis to-day, and the
}airy and Eifin were take■ in for tepsirs.
The Conflict, Kr. sr steam-sloop, went out of harhaur again
torlsy, under the (beige Leutenasit Clark, to make
another tiial of the Itounieraog prapeller, the invest,,,,, of
Lieut.-Colonel Sir T. Mitch.ll. A fine and calm day had
been waved fur for this trial, and to d.y being the most
suitable that has prese•ntsd Peel( since our last report of
these trials 'Oct. C, it say taken advantage of in order to
eneepar.. resul:s with those obtained by the canal... screw,
on the 21 et u.t., which were sit average of sit rue. of 9 772
knot. per b..ur —thegrratest speed ever gut by the comities
strew out ut thy Cdad.et. day it will be men by
the tuhj.,int.t • 0.1. that in the third and fourth runs an
average in lU,Pi•i knots per hour was oh•aised with the
Boni.rantr, s very high rate of speed considering the chia-
nti -r of the the trial was made, whilst the
mean at. run the stn run. was 9,913 knots per hour.
The weather, Omagh LasmaraMe, was nut the• dead calm
that it am un Sept. 21; the fire* of the wind to day being
beta I to it. The overage revolutions were 671 per minute.
The tenoning were the runs made at the me..sured mile
to-day. Sir T. Mitchell, Siemer,. Murray and Lys°, of the
aroma factory, and Mr. Webster, engineer, being e• board :
Knots Mesa

N. I. p r Hour. Average. Avi.rege.
let Min 627 11 009 }
9.821
21d „
l
4d „
G4B 8 8,4 1 10 076 ?, 9.913
4th „
6. b „
Illv ,
The !W.., .rt frigate Aurora, Yid oorustte Navariao, still
reabur. at Spithesil, ordering( hooks boos lit received for
them to eon* tow harbour.