The Express.
London, England, 1859-08-23 00:00:00

BIRTLIS, DZA7BB, AND NAJLIGIAGM IN
110071. AND.

The qaarterly Prim of the Registrar-Greral for
Scotland, just raid, shows that in the second quarter of
1859 there were registered in Scotland 18,658 births, 15,663
deaths, and 5,131 marriages, being for the erred popu-
lation at the annual rate of one birth revery 27, ens death
in every 50, and one marring° in every 162 persons. The
births show en increase of 667 over the corresponding quarter
of 18.58, end the birth-rate of 1 in 27 la considerahly higher
than has yet prevailed since the (Scottish registrars system
came into operation, eve years ago. In the town rarer
the birth-rate was ss high as 1 in 25, and In the merry
districts lin 29. Of the 28,656 births, 2,455, or 8.6 per
rent., were illegitimate, a proportion slightly higher then
the corresponding quarter of last year. Ihe table showing
the proportions of illegitimate births in the different divi-
ars of Scotland corner ea formerly, to exhibit the
highest proportions in the north-eastern and southern die-
ters. EnoffAira, in the north-east division, still firm
etre head of the ignominious list, showing 17 per cent.;
the southern county of Selkirk follow. at 161 per oat.;
sad the north-meters county of Aberdeen succeeds at 141

per cent. The smallest proportions are in the extreme north
and in the wastern!sounties. The "proportion as between
town and country is respectively 8.4 and 81. The number
of deaths exceeded theoorresponding quarter by 46, less than
might have been expected from the inereaw of population.
In the 125 town districts (containing about bail the popula-
tin) the death-rate for the quarter was 1 in 43, and in the
875 country distriots lln 56, the mesa being Ila 60. The
registrar says that while, ae a whole, in conseeptenco of the
greater number of females to Scotland, the female deaths
preponderate over the whole mar, the male deaths are
4W11)11 in excess of the female in the second and third
quarters of the year. The =Magee show an incomes of
217 est the corresponding quarter of 1858, but 304
fewer than in the corresponding quarter of 1857,
and the number in this quarter la exactly the mann of
the second quarter of the five years since the act came into
operation, and would seem to indicate that the country has
nearly recovered from the commercial distress Into which It
IMO Minuted by the Wares of November, 1857. In the town
dietricte the testriegm were in the proportion of 1 in every
131 person., end in the country dietricts of 1 in every 182
persons. The health of the population has been good during
the quarter, being exactly the mean of the corresponding
quarter of former years. In • few locelltles smallpox rimmed
au epidemic form, and had been fstal in many mese, but in
only one use In which the deceased, a child, bad been ascer-
tained to:bie vasxisated. 13verlat fever in 'event instances had
appeared epidemically, sometimes in the form of diphthetia,
and had considerably Increased the mortality. The weather
during the quarter had mounted several anomalies, of whirl,
the marked deficiency to the rain-fall and in atmospheric
moisture were the chief. The mean temperature hod been
slightly below the smote.

LONDON, TILBURY AND SOUTHEND
RAILWAY.

The following are the material portions of the re-
ports of the directors and engineer :
The statement of the revenue account ea moldered by
the lessees shows that the receipts amount to 21,6761. 14e.
6d., and the expenditure to 14,6301. 16e. 64., leaving a
balance of 6,9451. 19s. Id., which is 6661. 16e. 10d. more
than at the otereeporeding period of last year. The present
amount includes the he and ferry charges and the pier and
ferry does for three months only, ending 31st March last.
Sinus that time a specie charge (but incorporated with the
railway fare) him been made for the service of the ferry be-
tween Tilbury and Gravesend; and the receipts and expeowe
of the ferry have been keptdistinct from the railway accounts.
Sir Morton Peto hes taken 40 acres of land, in on eligible
Mutation at Southend, for building purposes, sad bee given
directions for the immediate construction of about 60 houses,
so as to be ready for occupation early in next year, when the
buildings on other portions of the lead will be proceeded with.
The directors believe that the accommodation which .111 thus

for speedy and coavenient communication with the metro-
polis, will materially improve the traffic of the railway. In
mordancy with the wi•h expressed at the last meeting the
diesctors annex a report from the engineers upon the oondi-
tioa of the railway and works.

A COAL PIT FLOODED.—Two LIVES LOST.—
• dhereesing calamity has happened near to Tipton, in
Smith Staffordshire, in one of the coJ pita belonging to
Mew.. Bevan and Boas. William Jackson and Each
Swain, collie., in Mosul. flagsall's employ, wise award
in driving • road in one of their master,pats, when the
water that had accumulated In a disused oolliery Tubed In
upon them from the old working., .0.1 the poor bellows were
onickly overwhelmed by the current. Naps was impossi-
ble; death certain. It was some hours bed" Qs, amid Is
pedal; Ow W en Wifely Mrs.