The Express.
London, England, 1859-07-27 00:00:00

IIL4LTII OF LONDON.

The weekly return of births and deaths in London,
OEO4 by authority of the Registrar-General, elates that
the return. for the week that ended last Saturday
show • further and rather formidable rooms' of the deaths
in London. The weekly number was below a thousand in
Jain, till near the end of the meth; It tbm rr so shove •
thousand ; m tae first week of July it was 1,236, in the f,l-
- week the number was 1,400, and last week it tom to
1,606. The mean temperature of the air in Jane was 81.4
deg.; in three weeks of July it has been 69.1 deg. As foe
cream in the heat of nearly 8 deg., acting in connexion ai h
other eireumatmeoce that are necierwerily untavourable to
health, has been &needed by an focreate of 6001 s the/di:ohs.
I a the ten years 1849-58, the avenge number of deaths in
the weeks correeponding with lest week was 1,061; but as
the deaths included is the gement return occurred in a
population which has increased, they can only be
competed with the oversee retired in proportion to the in-
creme, namely, with 1,170. The thank of the etmparirion is
unusually unfavourable, ke regards the preterit time, for the
1,806 deaths of last week exoreded by 435 the number which
toe average rate of mortality would have produced.
Oa referring to the tallied of death the theisw is found
under diarrhoea, tile deaths from who h rose last week to 415,
a another which is touch greater thou that of any week in
previous years. The leverage slumber in emrespeerliar weeks
of 1849-68 (corrected for Menai. of population) le 1011; the
bombers previously ranged from 61 In the year 186 t, to 209 in
1807. It is important to remark that the conthlo-nt was far
more fetal but week in the east district., particulariy Shore-
ditch, BetnoM-green, 1111 e-end, than in the roper metro-
poiren divisions. Of the 416 deaths from diarrhea., 153
occurred in the east districts, although they CIPIEVIISe little
more than • tifth part of the populai ion of London. The
dimes, wee also fatal in Kentish Town, where no km than
16 deaths occurre I from it. A large majority of the fond
ream, as was shown in former returns, are amosget infanta,
381 out of the whole number in the present priers having
occurred to chrldren who were nut two years old. Of the
renielnieg 31. ton eccurre4 to children more advancer', only
4 between the ages of 10 and 60 year., and' 0 at 80 yen. and
upward/. Babes the deaths from doe:Those, 39 were re-
turned as ceased by cholera, " choleraic diarrhea.," /c.f., 9 of
which ware the deaths of adults. ScarLariee wee fetal in 48
wee, diphtheria fn 8.
Four deaths were recorded In the previous week se the te-
nth of the ueueual hest; last week 8 of • tile desonpilea
wem rettuned.

I..;;otsTselt ;he births of BM boys and 748 011, ill all 1,603
children, were reopetered is Lowden. Is the us cotroeyond-
taw weeks of the yams 1840-6 t the avenge samba was
1,491.
... . . .

At the Royal Oirervatory, Greenwich, the roma Might of
the barometer is the week wee 29 766 is. The !mad tem-
pera•ure was 69 des , which la 7,4 dee. above the eremite of
the same seek is 43 pare (se determined by Mr. (thusher).
TS. NM daily iatoperat UM woe ab We, the aver..se on every
day except Saturday ; sod as Sunday and Mmiday the es-
cam woe shoat 12 dig. On Monday the thermometer is the
shade reached 93 dee., and in the non 1151 nes. Oa tbi.
Wale day the thermometer in the sheds fell to MI deg, the
lowest point in the week. The entire range of temparatilm
of that day, and also of the we. k, wee 361 des. The mean
tempersture of the seat of toe Thawed was 73.9 deg., or
nearly 4 deg. above that of the air. The wind wee gsserally
Is the enath-west. Rain fell to the amount of 215 is., mere
then ban at it an Thumb,.

TEE GREENLAND FIeUBRY.—PETERHEAD, JULY
24.—The Elyse, Caron Rtepiten, arrived hare to-Ray from
Greetdend, reports the followorta venal.:—A.. Dee, 6,009
Kele, I flab, 80 tuns; Brilliant, clean; Debit; clean;
Intrepid, 900.e.1., 14 tuna; Kee, clean; Maziathlea, 45
tuna; North of Beetleattl, 60 tuna; Queen, 60 tone; Rene•
laden, doss; Zaathu., 600 nap Jana; later-
p Mae (uf Fraearbutf), 25 tune; Milecle (of Freseebure,
MO mak ; Jean (IA .o(istes), 1,000 1 bib,