The Express.
London, England, 1867-07-10 00:00:00

SPAIN.

MADRID, .KILT 10.

The committee appointed to examine the pro-
posed suppression of the differential duties will
meet to-clay.

AMERICA.
QUEENSTOWN, JULY 10.

The Guion steamer Nebraska arrived here from
New York at 2 a.m. to-day wich 45 cabin and 44
steerage passengers. She landd passengers, and
proceeded fur Liverpool immediately.

(ET ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.)
NEW YORK, JOLT 9, 6 P.M.

Closing prices :—Ciold, 138 g. Sterling exchange
on London, 1104. 5-20 United States Bonds, Ill! ;
Illinois, 1231 ; Erie, 681. Cotton : Midland Up-
land, 26i. Petroleum, refined, 27.

The Scotia has arrived out.
[Arrival in London at 4.30 a.m., July 10.]

MARRIED MEN V. BACHELORS.-PROPOR-
TIONATE MORTALITY.

The tenth " detailed annual report" of the Re-
gistrar-General of births, deaths, and marriages in Scot-
land, issued this morning, directs attention to the striking
difference between the death rates of the married and
unmarried men at each quinquennial period of life. Taking
the mean of the years 1863 and 1844, it seems that
at every quinquennial period of life from 20 years
of age up to 85 married men died in Scot-
land at a much lower rate than the unmarried.
Thus, from 20 to 25 years of age, in every thousand married
men only 6'26 died annually, but in every thousand un-
married men at the same ages 15'01 died. From 25 to 30
years of age, only 8-2 I died annually in every thousand
married men, but 14'94 in every thousand unmarried.
From 30 to 35 years of age, only 8'65 died in every thou-
sand married men, but 1594 in every thousand un•
married. From 45 to 50 years of age, in every thousand of
each class, only 17'04 married, but 21'18 unmarried died
annually. In every thousand of each class from 50 to 55
years of age, 19'54 married men died annually, but 26'34
unmarried. In every thousand of each class from 60 to
6.5 years of age, 35'63 married men died annually, but
44'54 unmarried men. In every thousand of each class
from 70 to 75 years of age, 81'56 mar.iel men died an-
nually, but 102'17 unmarried men. Even at the extreme
age of 80 to 85 years, in every thousand of each clsss, there
died annually only 173'88 married men, but 195'40 un-
married. Above this age the numbers for both classes
were too small to yield trustworthy or steady results ; and
so few attain these extreme ages, that no discrepancies in
the results, at such ages, could affect the conclusions de-
duced from the mortality at the other ages. Small, how-
ever, am are the numbers who attain such extreme ages,
the difference on the whole preponderates in favour of the
married men. " These carefully ascertained facts," says
the registrar, " applicable to the whole male population
of Scotland who are above 20 years of age, and for a period
of two years, seem to prove that the married state is the
condition of life best fitted for mankind, and that, at every
successive stage of life, married men die at a much lower
rate than unmarried men of the same ages. It seems, im-
possible, therefore, to avoid drawing the conclusion, that
it is to marriage, and the more regular domestic habits
which attend that state, that this result is attributable.
Were this conclusion based on small numbers, or on the
statistics of a particular class, or on the comparison of the
mortality of married and unmarried men during the earlier
years of life (as below 40 years of age), doubts might rest
on the conclusions deduced. But whether the explana-
tion attempted to be given be satisfactory or the reverse*
the fact itself must remain unchallenged, that at every
successive stage of life, up even to extreme old ages
married men die in a much lower ratio than those who are
unmarried. It is a known fact, that at the earlier ages,
say from 18 to 40 years, among the unmarried are a consi-
derable number of men who, from natural infirmity, de-
licacy of constitution, the existence of chronic disease, bad
health, or from being addicted to dissipated and licen-
tious habits, or by want of succru in life, do not merry.
The annual mortality among such men is annually greater
than among the strong and vigorous bachelors ; and this
greater mortality among such unmarried men to some
extent swells the proportional deaths of the unmarried at
these early ages, as compared with those of the same age
who are married. But almost all such die out, by the
course of nature, before they have attained their fortieth
year—none survive their fiftieth year. But the tables for
the two years proved that at every successive year of life,
from 50 to extreme old age, the married men continued to
die at a much lower ratio than the unmarried who were of
the corresponding ages. Thus, even at the great ate 70 to
75 years, in every thousand married men only 81 died, but
in every thousand unmarried men at the same ages 102
died annually. No arguments can explain away this ascer-
tained fact. And as the sole difference in the two puties
at every age above 50 years of age is that the one is
married and that the other is unmarried, it aeons impossi-
ble to resist the conclusion that it in marriage, and the
habits connected with marriage, which is the cause of the
difference. Strange it is that it is only now, after the
lapse of several thousands of years, that statistics have
proved the truth of one of the first natural laws revealed
to man—' It is not good that the man should live alone.'
The above conclusion relative to the much smaller death-
rate of the married men is strikingly confirmed by calcu.
luting the mean age at death of the married and unmarried
men ►bove 20 years of age. From the facts published in
Table XVIII. of the Ninth Detailed Annual Report, it
was ascertained that the mean age at death of the married
men was 591 years, whereas the mean age at death of the
urnarried men above 20 years of age was only 40 years—
giving a difference of 19S years in favour of the married
men. Calculating the mean age at death in the same
manner for the year 1864, it appears, from the facts stated
in Table XXX., that the mean age at death of the married
men was 591 years, whereas that of the unmarried men
who were shove 20 years of age was 401 years,— showing a
difference of 19 years of life in favour of married men."

To view the Paris Exhibition it is necessary to
devote on an average five minutes to the glass case of each
setibitor. These number, it is stated, 45,000; it would,
therefore, take 225,000 minutes, making 3,750 hours, or
156 days 6 hours; that is, 5 months, 6 days, and 6 hours,
reckoning 24 hours for each day. But as the interior of
the palace can only be visited from 10 o'clock in the
morning till 6 in the evening, there are only 8 hours at
the visitor's disposal instead of 24. One would, therefore,
be occupied in the inspection 15 months, 20 days, 2 hours,
supposing that he entered the building every day at 10
o'clock and did not leave it until 6. From this calcula-
tion it will be obvious that it is by no means possible to
examine the whole of the Exhibition during the period of
its duration.

There are now in Chicago 355 lawyers, 333
doctors, 105 hotels, 768 growls., 188 drug stores, 152 dry
goods' stores, 203 meat markets, and 1,171 saloons. The
caksgo Diredory csoataias nearly 90,000 Twos&