The Express.
London, England, 1858-08-03 00:00:00

THE REUISTRAR GENERAL'S Qt'il &MILT
11TU6N OP MAIRIAGILS, BIRIES, AND
DEATHS IN ENGLAND.

This return comprises the births and deaths regis-
tered by 2,lts; registrars in all the dtatricte of Englead
during the spring quarter that goaded ca Jaw 30, 1868 ; sad
the u.arrisges in 12,2283 churches or chapels, about 3,968
'swish rvt pI ices of worship usoonnected with the Esta-
blished Church, and 829 Superietendeet Registrars' °easy
to the quarter that ended on March 31, 1843.

The gloomy appearsaos of the winter quarter is gradually
giving Oars t.) a better state of things. Tho marriages in
that quarter were much below the average, and in the spring
quarter the births were 'Lightly below the average. But the
public health is the spin quarter exhibited ►igea of bit-
P"".a4" . . . . .

3.1,034 marriages took place in the quarter that ended on
March 31; and oomemasstly 60,068 per married in the
three moatba. The amebae is lees by 6,700 than the num-
bers of persons who married in each of the winter quarters of
the two previous years, and is rather more than the number
et lamas who married in the hard war Mater of 1866. The
marriage rate of the quarter was 1.251 per cent. par maim ;
or at such a rate, if It owitinued uniform, that 1,254 prams
mold marry in a year to every 100,000 perm. bring. The
average rate is 1 410, end the nre of the gutter is each,
that one out of every sine marriages wu deferred, or broken
at. The stagnation of trade had cast a shadow over the
=of the people, and they did mot marry. The lin
of the manufacturing dietrkge were wader the
Eart depreeskis ; and the number of marriages in
. sad Litaasehire fell true 6,611 to 4,793. Mr. than
• thousand; but all the parts of Ragland and Wales are so
Intimately suniated la evil as well as in good fortune that
in every division the Sairisiaa belied. It is to he as.
gritted that the relish. of menages In the spin=
cannot be obtained from the thou la time for p
with the returns of births and deaths fer this quarter, other-
wise ti is probable that some impeweenimt might be a
The births of 169,170 children wars registersdPrirt
W
quarter ending on Jane 30, 1868; led OM birth-rate was
3.482 per teat. per annum It wee slightly below the
average rate of the spring same. The births decreseed or
wave it/Amery in every divkion
169,170 Meths sad 107,193 armee was registered ; and the
natural hennas of the pentodes of Ragland and Wales
wee 61,977 in 91 day a ; or NI daily.
The probable natural lames* of the population of the
United Kingdom was 1,021 daily. la the receding winter
quarter It was estimated et 760.
40,!t61 persons add from the pmes of the United King-
loon at which there are government amigrellos spats. After
dietribuiing proportionality 4,084 of madiatiagnolsed birth-
place, it appears that 1.030 wire of torn while 20.077 were
of Irlah, 4,702 of Scotch, sad 14,232 of English, origin. Of
the English emigrants, 6 717 sailed to the Australian colonise,
1,543 is the North Accerioan colonise, 6,218 to the U
States, and 774 to other phloem
The emigration is still decreasiag ; it was at the mho of
167 daily from England and Wales, 429 daily trom the is-
habitants of the United Kingdom la the spring quarter of
1862, eta years ago, 1,376 of the people emigrated daily.
Tito mean temperature of April(46 deg.) and May (62 deg.)
differed little from the average at Greenwich; June wee hot
throughout, and its temperature (66 deg.) was 7 deg. above
the average. On the 16th of Jane the temperature near the
Apswa rose as high as 88 deg reached the point 96 deg.
ketween the Istitudoe 61 . and 62 deg. The mean tans-
persture of the day was 77 • ; which la Ulm Mellen ifinrc-
stare in Jane on mend. Saturation being represented by 100,
the degree of humidity in June wee 67 ; as the air wee dry,
or 7 deg. less humid then It was daring 17 previous Janes.
Ths ram-fall above the average in April sad May wee below
the average in J. The millofall In the three months wee
6-4 beau The air mews wasally M the raft of 4 miles ea
hour on sa &mew ; it seed et the vete of less than a mils
end half en been fa Jams The seen lemperetnre of the
Thames from 66 deg. in they use is 62 6sg. I. June. The
metereology of the diffseent parts et the cowry Is thews in
Mr. Cliaistarrs tables.
The prime ef the principal articles of food have hawed
affluent agile : the prise of the gamer et wheat has rem
Indy Nies I. the tbs. weft et kgra, May, June of the
rem 1866, 1317, es* 1918, fens Ilk. IL le 66a. 9d., and le
44a. Id. a Rarer; by the arena at Lesinahall sad New-
gate Market beef wee 11 341., AIL. end hid. ; and mutton
6 &U. the I 4.ll4.zonftd. WWb the pm of wheat
ha the prim of pstrthes ork mgemes) rase from 80e. aid
ISb N NU • Mar ee near enll. merket, Southwerti.
Tb. prises et mama bad issllmsd, the prim of wheat fell 36
pry eent. ; the prise of pearliess ter seam than. 100 per rent.
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162,1 th pampas died to the Wes leantha of April. May,
am/ June; the deaths were at the sets of 1,178 daily.
The mortality rate provaifilay Was 2 206 par omit, or
1006 la 1.000. ml. is slightly by the average ma, 231*
of the ha prowling spriag quarters.
The average death rata of the 63 Ltd unhealthy thstdeb
1.12 is 1,000, sad the "mortality of Ifegism/4, caumetell he
ege, should let let ; but the stheal rale in the memler was
ia mesa of this rate. Ths NAN alas la earn am
principally deaths from venom kinds of end an
therefore properly dreignamil unsalted
1.; nos divaloig the population he. tee porticos (1) the
8,247,017 people boas in rather elms proximity to each
edam. mad (2) the 9,680,592 living meth farther apart, the
mat le that the mosetality in the donee districts was et the
seN ef 34,73—nearty 26 In 1,000; while bathe other districts,
ever whkh small towns sad villeins me distributed, the
mortality was at the rate of 19.68, Essay 10 In 1,000 of the
population.
la the town districts the rate elf mortality was 8, in the
rest of the country 3, in 1,000 above the rate which actually
rune in comparavely healthy &Meth Of the 27,366 lan-
aalinral deaths, 18,668 took place la the large town diatricts;
8.117 Is other
Now la Engleatl end Wales the town porilation h in-
althisg much finer than the population of tun rest of the
tresstry ; sad the earths is thendon beaming every day
How le the health el the nation is be sustained le
rmill7st of the saw dangers which minima of its people
eve thaswatering
Is the last spin vertu, while the mortality of the
emby districts ilsereseed. the mortality of the town districts
sem es 21.73, the average of the preceding ten
ries hacteg bees 23.94 la 1,000. This wee probably dm
partly to the reduced earnings n the tow* to the march,
egrer, and to the intends heat, which accelerated the
tint of organic refuse in the limos, streets, ditches
midi rivers.

BRITIF.II AttetINOLOGICAL AllSOCIATION.•111111-
terdsy morning the lift:teeth annual meeting of this semeies
Dog wish was womb:tatted is 1843 far the esicouragement
and preeteentin of researches into the arts mid monowwille
at the early end middle ages, was held at Salisbury, masa
the pewit!, Ley of the Marquis of Allesbury. The reception
of members and visitors took plan in the council chimney
sitar which a paper wee read by Mr. T. J. Pettigrew, F.R.S.,
on the anti:plias" of Wilts re, la reference to Moss
senatod far exausintion during the peogrem. The mambos
Fament to me exeminattor. of • • pima in
amongst others the Poultry-erns, which was erected in the
early part of the 14th rectory • the hostelry which was need
by pilgrims visiting the cathedral in Roman catholic times;
the hell of John Halle, situate in the street called Ito Casa,
and which in the time of Edward V. formed the
bauquanticg room of a princely establahment. The
members also visited the churches of St. Thi mos, St.
Zdnanml, and Bt. Matto, the throe parishes ic•o which the
cif yis divided. Mr. Planche read a paper on Ibto E.trls of
WStahlre. Thie (Tunny) morning the mem:_vri will pay
a snit to Old Sanas, nadir the guidance of Mr. 11. J. F.
Swayers. In the shaman they will inspect fiat cathedral,
attar which Mr. Planchl will deliver a disc:torso on the
mosennental sculpture, and Mr. L. B. Darts, F.S.A., will
gin a general dascriptica of the sacred edifies. The mimeos
will lam until Saturday, and the arrangements Include a visit
Wiltonto House, an examination of Wilton Church, visits to
Newel= Church, Buroxabe Church, Windom Castle and
HOW.. Ti•bury Church Stonsheopp, Amesbury, the Mote
at Downton, Clarendos, Imko-loass, tors There are oleo to
be coversationes at the Panes, tho Deanery, and the
Council-chamber, the Bt, the Dasa, and the Mayor
laving glen the most frity invitations to the niembors of
ths society.
THE ODD FILLOWS FETE AT THE CaTSTAL
PALACI —Yestorday the maim! tympana in all of the
Widow sad Orphes, sad Diastase Funds of the Metro-
poitasa districts of the Mantenter Uatty of Odd Fellows,
a caddy southern/ over three hundred thousand members,
took place in the Crystal Palace, se Sydashani. Frain en
early hour in the maniac the testae that left tie Leads"-
bridge mad Poen* ofdal one, conveyed easy thousand mem-
hare of the order sad their friend., and towards the middle
of ths afternoon the total number of persons was 10,390.
Many of the leading officers of the nudely won their sashes
and aprons, emblaamsed with mars, sad other insignia of the
order which had a gay and picturesque offset so they paned
through the erne& sad beealiful finer hada. A splendid
marquee, 200 tact nag by 40 broad, wee erected on the gams
sward, which IVY opted to the visitors for daacing,and &good
Mad being in euendeace the exhilarating exercise wmouried
out with great vigour until an advanced hoar in the swung.
The Ps' ei • Company placed for the use of the society the
Deny and during the roorningthe stewards sold tickets
emanating to upwards of 2001. Jeanne from the large
member of persons who attended the fits a very cosisidersble
sum send have been realbed by she epearlation, which la for
• praiseworthy endeavour to beer& the widow and her
fatherless children, se well as relieving those tormters is diet '
teem. This Pi:wkly, in coojooc'ion with the Ancient pram
al pasemsre, does en immense amount of geed in dispensing
relief in elcknemi sod at death. The two 'octet:, expend
onsmily over half a million sterling in relievial their mem.-
bin, and thereby adding considerably In keeping does the
poor rates. The marquee was eroded by the Meters Pigott
of Pare-street, City, and was surmounted with fine and
streamers. The whole of the fountains and caszsdes played
an the occasion, end everything paned off moat sat Iffectortly,
nothing ocourrisg to mar the enjoyment of any one. The
Jib le to be reignited this day.
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Tut RTE MURDER,:CAPTURE OF THE Mks.

nut.—Jobs White, the sou against 'aloes the ooronse's
jowl on Friday last retuned a vardiot for the wilftal enusder
of his wife, St,esensh White, at,,ltys, was coptur..d between
tear sad flan wiles of that tows on Saturday evening. Ha
made very hula ver.rrt to owAr, saying that he could so!
hare his children, of Wbolll he has scum. 3fa cosiness
that hawse the sauldtrer. He would have teen brought Wont
the Bye ••Istralas yeetaday (Monday) bad nJt • quer
Um NU W the tonrder W4S comwitted LI parish
of kye oar in that ei Ichleshern. It is now eacert4itnd that
the °tiaras) was oceninitted in the latter parish, end this willprobak4 Law to another invest Ling Lela.