The Express.
London, England, 1851-08-06 00:00:00

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OSBORNE, TVZSDAY, Acores 6.
Her Majesty, Prince Albert, and the younger
breathes of the royal family took their usual w.dka sad
drives in the neighbourhood of Osborne yesterday.
M. and Madame Van de Weyer and Lord Cowley arrived
on a visit, and had the honour of dining with her Majesty
and Prince Albert.

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The Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Augusta Bruce,
the Baroness de Speth, and Sir George Couper, arrived at
her residence, Clarence-house, St. James's, yesterday morn-
ing, (ruin Frogmore. Lord James Murray had the honour
of dining with her royal highness yesterday. Her royal
highness, attended by Lady Augusta Bruce and Lord James
Murray, honoured her Majesty's Theatre with her presence
last evening.
Messrs. William Henry Coffin and John Walker, M.D.,
from Honduras, accompanied by Mr. John Hodge, agent
for the settlement, had an interview with Earl Grey yester-
day at the Colonial-office. Captain Hindmarsh had also an
interview with the noble earl.

(From lost olobt's G.nefle.)
LORD GREAT CH AMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, ACGCST 4.
—All Peeresses, on announcing their intention of being pre-
sent on the occasion of the prorogation of Parliament, will
have places reserved for them in the House of Lords, if
the announcement be made, at this Office, before five
o'clock on Thursday, the ith instant. Peers eldest sons
will have tickets fur the Peers' eldest sons' box forwarded
to them upon a written or personal application at the Office.
No strangers can be admitted except by a ticket from the
Lord Great Chamberlain's Office. The doors will be opened
at twelve o'clock.—WlLLol7olll4lf or. EIIESIIY, G.C.
CROWN-OFFICE, Allit7sT 4.—Member returned to
serve in this present Parliament for the City of Limerick :
Henry Granville Fitralan Howard, commonly called Earl
of Aruadel and Surrey, in the room of John O'Connell,
Esq., who has accepted the office of Steward of her Ma-
jesty's Chiltern Hundreds.

lIEALTII OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK.

(From the Registrar t•eneral's R.pnrt.)
The mortality exhibits a continued tendency to
increase; the deaths iu London, which in the three preced-
ing weeks of July were successively 881, 873, 956, rose in
the last week to 1,010. The average number of deaths in
the ten corresponding weeks of 1841-50 was 1028, and witk
the same rate of mortality amongst a population equal to
the present number of inhabitants it would have been
1,131; but excluding 1819 from the account, in the corres-
ponding week of which year cholera had raised the morta-
lity from all CaIIICS to nearly 2,000, the number of deaths
registered last week dues not differ materially from the
average thus obtained awl corrected fur increase of popu-
lation.

While the persons who sunk under diseases of the respi-
ratory omens were K-1, almost exactly the same number as in
the preceding week which showed a decided reduction, and
while phtl kiS ~, one of the tubercular class, has fallen to 122,
the complaints classed as epidemic" continue to increase
rapidly. lipidvmiei were fatal in the two previous weeks
in 20:1 and 242 eases respectively, and in last week the
number rose to 334.

This increase arises from diarrhcra, the growing preva-
lence of which, concurrently with the approach of autumn,
is shown by the nutnbers tit the Ladd weeks, six., 23, 53, (11,
b 3, and (in week ending last Saturday) 143. The number
now returned does not exceed the usual weekly amount at
thi► period during the last live year. ; but it would appear
from a review of the last decennial period that the fatality
of this disease among children has of late years increased to
an enormous extent.

It will be seen that the Registrars specify local nuisances
in connexion with the appearance of diarrhira in particular
instances. A child died of it, LA reported in the last return,
in a house in Payne-street, Islington; another has since
been regutered, and now the fattier and a third child are
suffering. The swell of a drain, which the Registrar de-
scribes as "overpowering," is considered the exciting
cause.

Twelve fatal cases of cholera were registered in the pre-
vious week, and the same number appear in the present ;
the following are the particulars :—ln l'addington, St.
John, at 3, Market-street, on 29th July, the daughter of a
servant, aged 2 months, died of " English cholera (40
hours.)" In the same sub-district at 18, Cambridge-place,
on 30th July, the daughttr of a servant, aged 1 year,
"cholera infantum (4 days)," past snort. In Chelsea,
north-west sub-district, in "The Vale," on 28th July, the
/KM of a gentleman, aged 5 months, " cholera infantum."
In the sub-district of Charing-cross, in the workhouse, on
28th July, the widow of a brewer, aged 44 years, "cholera
(3 days)." Mr. Leonard states that "this ease wes
brought from No. 16, Beilfordbury. Sine, the sani-
tary inspection in the spring of 1849, the cesspool
has been removed, and a trapped pan supplied with
water upon a drain has been substituted. The supply of
water is good in quantity, but bad in quality, and the butt
is uncovered, while the dust bin, which contains decompos-
ing vegetable matters, is also uncovered. The rooms,
though small, are clean. The patient, who was formerly a
flume in Buy's, St. Thomas, and Charing-cross hospital..
was of regular habits. lharrlicea continues prevalent."
In sub-district of Berwiek-street, at 7, Rupert-street, on
26th July, the keeper of an eating-house, aged 42 years,
"English cholera (3 dsr), delirium cum tremore (2 days),
apoplexy." In Itegent s-park sub-district, at 89, Albany-
street, on 28th July, an engraver, aged 49 years, " cholera,
exhaustion (8 day,)." In Tottenham-court sub-district, at
17, Fiteroy-marbet, on 21th July, the daughter of a brick-
layer, aged 2 years, " English cholera (7 days), chronic
bronchitis (4 months)" In Clerkenwell, at 3, Suffolk-
street, on 28th July, the son of a tailor, aged 1 year,
" English cholera, exhaustion." At 8, Rose-alley, Bishops-
gate, un 29th July, the son of a labourer, aged 11 months,
"choleraic diarrhcea (3 days) " Mr. Spencer describes this
as " a close and crowded neighbourhood; the parents of
the deceased are Irish, and with his wife and four children,
and his sister (a widow) with two children, making altoge-
ther nine persons, occupy a single apartment." In rub-
district of Hackney-raid, in Birdcage-walk, on 30th July,
the son of a iiCer Sell victualler, aged 3 months, " cholera
infantum (4 days)." In town sub-district of Bethnal-green,
at 11, Princes-court, on 28th July, the daughter of a trim-
ming manufacturer, aged 5 weeks, "infantile cholera (12
earl)." In Spitallields, at 63, Wentworth-street, on 28th
July, the daughter of a labourer, aged 2 months, "infantile
cholera (1 days), cerebral congestion (24 hours)." The
number of deaths from cholera near returned is not greater
than is usual in a week at the end of July in ordinary
years; and it appears from the above list that, with the ex-
ception of three eases which occurred to persons between
40 and 50 years, the sufferers were children of very tender age.
The births of 773 boys and 678 girls, in all 1,451 children,
were registered last week. The average number in six cor-
responding weeks of 1845-50 was 1,312.
At the 'Loyal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height
of the barometer in the week was 29.795 in. Thu mean
temperature was 63.4 deg., which is 2 degrees above the
average of the same week in ten years. The highest tem-
perature occurred on Friday and Saturday, when the means
were 68-3 deg. and 661 deg. respectively, being from 5 to 7
degrees above the averages of the same days. The wind
blew foe the most part from the south-west, but was gene-
rally calm.

THE LATE FATAL APFEAY IN SHOE-LANE—Last
evening a public meeting was held at the Literary and
Scientific Institution, Leicester-place, Little Saffron-hill,
" to consider what steps were necessary legally to effect Mr.
Long's release from prison," that individual being one of
the witnesses in a recent police case, which was charac-
terised in the bills convening the meeting, as a " brutal
police outrage in the City." Lord Dudley Coutts Stuart,
M.P., was announced to take the chair, but his lordship
havinz sent an excuse for his nun-attendance, Mr. t,.'A

Browne was called upon to preside, and in opening the pro-
ceedings, he observed that at a meeting recently held on
Clerkenwell-green, it was agreed that a memorial should
be seat to Sir George Grey, requesting him to offer a reward
for the apprehension of the policeman who it was stated
was guilty of the " murder of William Hogan
(in a disturbance which took place a short time ago
in Shoe-lane.) The reply of the Home Secretary was to
the effect that he (Sir George Grey) had received the me-
morial in reference to the death of William Mogan, and
that he had forwarded it to the Lord Mayor, together with
the letter accompanying it. This communication, it was
contended, left the memorialists in the same position which
they held before they addressed the Home Secretary ; and
the chairman now urged that it was the duty of all true
friends of freedom to make every effort to promote the ends
of justice in this important matter. Several persons after-
wards addressed the meeting in language strongly condem-
natory of the conduct of the police, and suggesting the
necessity of further agitating the question in order to effect
the release of Mr. Long, who, it was said, had been impri-
soned for the purpose of preventing him from giving
his evidence against the policeman alleged to have caused
the death dB illiarn Hogan. A resolution was passed con-
demning the course adopted by the police authorities in not
causing an investigation to be made in order to identify the
policemen. Other resolutions of a similar tendency were
also carried, and it was agreed that the cause of the de-
ceased Hogan was the cause of every lover of justice and
humanity, and ought to be taken up by the public, more
especially by working men, who were bound to protect their
own lives and property. In the various speeches which
were delivered, the rights of the labouring classes were
strongly advocated, seal it was ultimately proposed that
public meetings should be held upon the subject in a central
part of the city of London. A collection was made at the
doors to pay the expenses of the movement.
ABELST 01 ABSCONDING DEBTORS. Yesterday
the new act for the arrest of absconding debtors, which re-
ceived the royal assent on Friday, was printed. It contains
12 sections and two schedules. By virtue of this law, which
is now in force, the district commissioners of the Court of
Bankruptcy and the judges of the county courts, except in
Middlesex and Surrey, are empowered, on application by
or on behalf of any creditor, to grant arrant for the
arrest of absconding debtors. A eapias is to issue, and the
warrant of apprehension to he auxiliary to such writ of
mph's. Persons so arrested may be discharged on payment
of the debt and the (kilobit of 10f. for costs. When a per-
soh is arrested on a warrant, the effect of such warrant is to
mese ea detention by the writ of capias. Any person for
wham arrest a warrant shall have been granted, "either
before or after the arrest," may apply to a commissioner of
bankruptcy, judge of a county court, or judge of one of the
superior courts, for their protection from such warrant, and
the matter is to be heard and order made. There is a form
of the warrant given in a schedule annexed to the act, and
a notice of warning to a defendant of a eapias to be served
on him after the warrant. In another schedule a table of
fees is given, the highest of which is • fee of one guinea for
the caption of the warrant.

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 6, 1851.