The Express.
London, England, 1866-12-19 00:00:00

NEW AND REVISED EDITION OF "LADY LISLE."
This clay, thoroughly revised, and In parts rewritten, uniform
with Library Edition of Miss Braddinis Novels, price ea.,
LADY LISLE. By the Author of " Lady
Auilley's Secret," &c.
" Miss Braddon has written nothing stronger or fuller of
human interest. . . The story is hitensely readable to Its
last line."--The lobe, Dec. 8,104 Si.
Ward, Lock, and Tyler, Paternoster-row.

QT. VINCENT'S, CORK.—TheI3IILDER, an
1,7 Illustrated Journal, conducted by Mr. Godwin, F.A.S., is
published every FRIDAY, and addresses itself not alone to amid-
tects, builders, and operatives, but to the lovers of art, anti-
quaries. friend• of sanitary reform, and all interested in the
material prOgTeRS of the cmintry. The number for this week
o,lllalllS a nue View and Plan of the St. Vincent's It. c. (Aura
and Presbytery, Cork--oroperatiou versus Competition—llu
cipal Managenient of Patisht, more Light—Old London—
The late David Roberts. R.A., and various other interesting
papers, with all the cognate news. ,or by post Id-1, York-
street, Covent-garden, W C. and all newsmen
_

THE LATE MR. PARKIN JEFTCOCK. —At a meet-
ing of the Society of Engineers, held on Min day
evchenair,
ing
last, Mr. W. H. Le Feuvre vice.president, ihe
the circumstance was referred' to that the late Mr. Parkin
Jeffcock, whose noble conduct in endeavouring to save life
at the recent colliers c.:,•plosion at Barnsley had cost him
his own, was an old member of the ZOciety. The following
resolution was passed The society Of Engineers re-
ceives with sincere regret the announcement of loss of
one of its early members, in the person of Mr. Para2i
Jeffcock, who met his death in the noble and laudable
endeavour to save life at the recent fatal explosion at the
Oaks Colliery, Barnsley ; and the society hereby begs to
express its sympathy with Mr."
Jeffcock's relatives and
friends under their bereavement.
THE HEALTH or LONDON.—It appears from the
return of the Registrar-General that in the week that
ended on Saturday, December 15, the births registered in
London and twelve other large towns of the United
Kingdom were 4,379 ; the deaths registered The
annual rate of mortality was 26 per 1,000 persons living.
In London the births of 1,02') boys and 1,045 girls, in all
2,074 children, were registered in the week. In the cor-
responding weeks of ten years, 185&65, the average num-
ber, corrected for increase of population, was 2,084. The
deaths registered in London during the week were 1,369.
It was the fiftieth week of the year • and the average
number of deaths for that week is, wit'h a correction for
increase of population, 1,469. The deaths in the present
return are less by 80 than the estimated number. Two
cues of cholera and 2.5 of diarrhoea were registered last
week. A. boiler maker, aged 18 years, died on December
9th of bronchitis after cholera, at 17, Orchard-street,
Woolwich. The son of a silk dyer, aged one year, died on
December 10th of cholera (24 bouts), at 17, Fleet-street,
Bethnal-green. Although thee pidemic has sub
the sided, is
o-
lated cues still demand the vigilant attention of auth
rites. This is one of the lessons of the year. For while
cholera raged between the Tower, the Isle of Dogs, and
Victoria-park—over the area traversed by the Blackwell
Railway, and the Greet Eastern Railway as far as Strat-
ford and West Ham—among a population in uninterrupted
communication, through lima of streets, the Regent's
Canal, and the Thames, with the rest of London and
per-
surrounding districts, to which many of the infecte
sons living in the east of London fled, the conflagration
was strictly circumscribed within well defined bounds.
The fierceness of the disease extended thus far and no
further, although the movements of the people were as
free as air. The futility of quarantine lines is so well
known, that their establiehment was never proposed in
London. The supply of impure water was at once
arrested ; the water engineers grew Careful; the sewage
was now less inefficient than it had ever been before, for
South London was dram, the health officers became
vigilant ; premonitory was treated ; every we
as it
to was peWished to the world ; and the cholera
excreta were destroyed by carbolic acid and other disin-
fectants. The disease we, communicated by contact with
the poison in a few cases, but its general diffusion was
stopped. This is the 'tent of the sweeties of London in
controlling an epidomic that during the year has been so
fatal in otatinental cities.