The Express.
London, England, 1851-01-29 00:00:00

FINSBURY FREEHOLD LAND SOCIETY.

Last evesiog a public meeting wu held in the
theme of the London Mechanics' Institution, Southampton-
buildings, for the purpose of explaining the principles and
objects of the Finsbury Freehold Lend Society.
On the notion of Mr. Buie, Mr. WakJey, M.P., wee
called to the chair.

The CHAIRMAN said they were assembled that night
for the purpose of carrying out a twofold object—the im-
provement of the *oval condition of the rot's and the
increase of their political power. This society, he cowl-
doted, was calculated to impulse the physical condition of
the people, and, if that were improved, an improvement
in their moral condition would follow. Their object was to
enable men to take a step up in life ; and though he was one
of those who thought that every man was entitled to the suf•
frage without property, yet, aa property of itself was no bed
thing, and as with the property they got votes also, he
thought freehold land societies of •dvan:age, also, in a pelt.
deal point of view.
Mr. dAhIRS TAYLOR, of Birmingham, the founder of
freehold lend societies, then addressed the meeting, and
at some length detailed the history of the movement
they were met to further. T►e Westminster and the Bt.
Pancras societies, he said, had accomplished results equally
satiafactory to the vaults of the one at Birmingham, sad
surely t►e men :of Finsbury could do whet the men of St.
Pumas and of Westminster had done. Mr. Taylor con
elided his speech amidst the hearty and ent►usiastic plaudits
of the meeting.
Mr. BEALE moved a resolution soprani's of confidence
in the principles on which the society was founded, and
pledging the meeting to support it. He contended that
these societies offered not only a much more prasable but •
much safer investment than either benefit emisties or savings
banks.

A number of questions were then put by several persons in
the riven, es to the details of the workieg of the society,
which were answered by the chairman, Mr. Beale, Mr.
Deasy, and a member of the committee of the St. Pancras
Society, apparently so the satisfaction of the meeting.
After which a vote of thanks was given to Mr. Taylor and
another to the chairman, whirlx wound up the proosediegs.

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK.

The official report says :—A decrease has occurred
in the mortality of the metropolitan districts during toe
week that ended last Saturday ; the death., which in the
two preceding weeks were 1023 and 1037, having now
fallen to 950. Taking correrpondiag weeks of the ten years
(184140), the lowest return was made in 1846, when the
deaths registered were only 908, in a week of unusually high
temperature, the mean of which rose about ten degrees
above tha ge ; and the highest occurred in Ib4B,
namely 1437 deaths, when inanimate bad not diesppeered,l
when other epidemics abouuded, and the mean temperature I
was singularly low, haviug fallen nearly as much below the
leverage as in 1846 it had been above it. The seems aura-
her of deaths is the ten corresportaing weeks was 1104, com-
! pared with which (without any correction for sup-
' posed increase of population) the account for last
week presents a favourable result. But as jape
tion of the tables of ages and fatal diseases snow
that though there is a marked diminution of mortality
from bronchitis, which had previously thinned the ranks of
the aged, who are thy greatest cuff by it; and though
the number who die from what is rather vaguely described
"old age," has declined from 46 en the preceding week to
35 in the last, arid in some complain:a common to the young
there is also a decrease; yet pteumonia, which is principally
fatal to children, has actually increased, and in the epidemic
clue small pox and fever exhibit a considerable advance.
Zymotic or epidemic diiames in the aggregate have risen
from 196 in the previous week to 211 is the lad; small-pox
from 21 to 32. Of these 32 deaths, 9 occurred above 15 years
of age ; 2114 in only two cases, out of the whole number from
small pox, does it appear probable that vaccination had been
properly performed.
Eight of the deaths from small pox occurred between the
18th and 25th January in the hospital for this disease, which
was recently removed to Holloway; and with the exception
of a child aged 16 months, which hen been brought from
Rowtraary•laat, the ages of the patients ranged from 16 to
23 yours. Two were seamen brought from the Dreadnought
Hospital ship; three female servants from Moitlake and
Marylebone; a married woman from Clerkenwell; and a
porter from St. Odes. All the cams are described as "con-
fluent, unprotected," except that of a sailor, who is stated to
have died from "small-pox, confluent unmodified (9 days),
dysentery (several months), vaccinated when young—no
cicatrix."

The registrar again report various familie►, which have
been fatally visited by this diseue, and where vacci-
nation is neglected from " prejudice entertained against it."
A house in St. Giles is mentioned, in which a cbild his died,
end six pineal are now suffering from the same complaint;
and the medical attendant adds, that the only child that has
escaped is one of two month., which bad been vaccinated in
the workhouse. la Boswell court (St. George the Martyr),
where a child had died without vaccination, the mother and
four children are now labouring under small pox.
In the returns of the week, a child of two years is stated
in the medical certificate to have died of "exhaustion from
ptyalisen." Two men died from intemperance.
The births of 764 boys and 759 girls, in all 1,523 children,
were registered in the week. The gs of six correspond.
fog weeks in 1845-50, is 1,381.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean daily
reeding of the barometer wu above 30 in. on Thursday
and Friday ; the mean of the week wu 29.&50 in. The mean
daily temperature was 45.8 degrees on Tuesday, when it
was highest; and 31.7 degrees on Friday, when it wu
lowest. The mean of the week wu 40.1 degrees, which
is 2.3 degrees above the average of the same week in 10
yttan. The daily mean was from 4to 8 degrees above the
averages of the several days, on Sunday, Monday, and Tie..
day; it then declined tall it fell considerably below the
average on Friday, when fog prevailed, and continued below
it on Saturday. Tits wind was, for the mat part, in the
south-west.

DIA= OP MAJOR. WILKINSON, 11. P., ROYAL
MAILDllll.—Major Wilkinson, who died on the 26th bucket,
at his residence at Kensington, entered the Royal Matinee
in the year 1797 and the twat year Nerved on board her.
Majesty's skip Diomede, in Lord Dencan's Beet off Camper.
down, in the blockade of the Dutch fleet in the Texel ;
afterwards he proceeded to India and his ship fell in with • I
large body of Malay pirates off Batavia, who were nom I
subj opted He afterwards served on board the
r at the capture of the French frigate, Ville de Milan,
as wall as at the tempters of the Cleopatra off the Bermudas.
I Major Wilkiesen also *erred In the expfelitioo to the north
of Spain, ander Sir Jamie Malcolm. lie had received the
geld medal for hie Nervier in Egypt. This gallant officer
had served with the Royal Marines in every quarter of the
globe, and oa one occasion when ramie, despatches was
takes prisoner by the Americans in Virginia. In the
brevet of 1630 he attained the rank of major, and since
1839 had been on half pay.
CLITER TRICK.—Oa Friday evening a young
woman attired in the dress and having the appearance or a
domestic servant, entered the shop of a respectable jeweller
ia town, in a very beading and excited manner, and tendered
a demand for a gold watch belooging to a lady whew the
mused, which had, she said, been given in to have a slight
repair performed on the promise that it would be executed
ere that time. The youth who was serving at the counter
in the abeam of the owner of the shop, knew nothing detach
a watch, or the eicaunkaion connected with it. Whilst he was
ondeavewing to explain this,andeatnet some Limitation re.
carding the circumitance, his dimming woe abruptly broken
to upon by the eager messenger, who, darting upon a watch
which lay on a side table, exclaimed that it was the article
she sought, she saw it was finished, it was wanted by her
Mils' trete immediately to wear at a wedding, and she would,
therefore, take it with her. Confided ancrunrespicious, the
lad allowed her to make off as she proposed. Oa the return
of his employer, he discovered that he.had bees deluded—
that a pare fabrication bad been played off upon him with
a singular degree of adreltame sad audacity. Nothing
has yet been hoard farther, either of the welsh or
the parson who acquired possession of It so readily. A
dausiption at her eppeassacas is in the hands of the
polies, however, by who., it is to be hoped, she will be
speedily osoonatered and reciognised, especially as the trick
described Is not the only sae of the kind she is suspected to
be gaiky of. In the meantime, it behoves pandas like those
imposed apse to beware of lead*, too easy • credos's to,
etch stories as she mesa to be is the habit of retelling.
Batter ram the risk ei prevocalic( a lady from displaying her
watch at a marriage party—though the disappointment, I.
be sun, would in soma ores be • 'Mom. ale—than incur
W Alsace of patting it beyond her power to display it at
all.—Olospom Daily Mail.
Animas Boansus.—On Tneeday evening lest,
from aims until about ten o'clock, • ma/alio/at arch of the
scalier* lights was observed at Bangor, over the northern
hosisin, with corawations shooting up in pointed pillars at
intervals of two or three depose The character of the Babe
avasligothotr:httne.dpladniitt telbuotera46llydevgirtur
frod;santked thei,eda pillars
North Wales Chroookk.