The Express.
London, England, 1860-02-01 00:00:00

—Temp rte lee gredeelly declined; the wasp samba of
Mpars in Tomtit el real *urine the lem thirteen weeks of
7-8-9, were napeotively 069,766, 826,616, end 793,101.
109,460deatheware regieened In molest quarts of the year
1869. and the mortality wee at the raft of 2109 per eget. pw
manna. TOM ie slightly abovearrizwgver yeas (It ; het
ia much below the rates in the opertsee of the
two.previess years (2133 end 3 . In the lent year
441,349 deaths were rigistemi; and the stertaiity wee at the
rate of 3.381 per cent.; or maw more than 13i died out of
1,000 living. By a *ere Induration, drawn from an aten-
efw of obeermetione on various portions eljthe papule-
tics, It wears that the deaths shoaled not have isceedid
322,6111 in the year, at what may be caned the
nateral rate, setnally
_prevail* in districts of
the esentry. The II ,8631 la ether of this Entabw
were, therefore, unnatural deaths. If we divide the popela-
lion into two nearly equal parte, the town popu-
lation, it is found, ma at the rate at wetly 20
in 1,000 ; the ennatry populists& at the rate d
19 la 1,000 on an average during ten previews autumn
quaetere. In the Met trearaw the mortality of the towns wee
between cue and two in I,OOU below the average. This re-
dualism may be fairly relined to the fall employment of the
people in the manufacturing districts, and to the wild
sanitary improvements which have bees mode in several
large towns. That it le not the(elind of the wsethsr, or of
any universal muse, It proved by the fact that in the country
end ea town elegies. the seartenty thee bath the average
of 19 to 90 daubs out el 1,000 living. The MINIM of
the lungs ware unnenstly fetal, ht of the severity
of the weather; end the new form of throat dieser* (diph-
theria) bee aimed mesh Mom" and in some please hes
destroyed many lives. Fever he. she been untunally prove-
lent ht cartels diet:lots. Pathelogisie mow distinguish three
kinds of fiver which have been Where° confounded together ;
end ere still apparently andiednohked by &certain number
of medial practitioners. The typhoid fever, or typAas as it
may be called to distinguish it frees typhus, Dr. Southwood
flesith, Dr. Murehieon, and others have shown is a kind al
night-toil fever. It was the awe of many death, In franiliee
daring the quarter. Cholera and diarrhcea have proved fatal
in about 27 cease.

liaiTzoProinesst at dr beef& el the labouring popoktion
of the kingdom IN one al the noel pregnant armee@ of de-
fines that nut be ceminteed ; and triß not be oyerlooked by
the great landed proprieties.

.111.1LTI OF LONDON.

The week]l return of births and deaths in London,
Inmed by the Nowa, exhibits • higher mortality
they that recorded is say pmvionsretant since the beginning
the The deaths is Loaderin the week that ended
&Sudsy were 1,388. Is the tea yews 1860-69 the
airmageammiline of deaths in the weeks earespendiag with
, week wee MTh; bat rthe deaths aositskad in the pre-
' mut return occurred in a mulattos. which has increased,
I they should be oempared with the emu. naked is
tics to the hams" namely, with 1,281. It spew=
the comparison that the utortaliW of lag week undid to
the extent of 96 deaths the samba, which the average rues
of mortality, is @sionista* for the fourth week of leathery,
would have produesed. By commis, the results of the last
two weeks, it will be MSS that from synod° diseases In the
aggregate there was so increase ; that the mortality bees
constitational " diseases reausined erectly the Ems, and
that the was an is from " local" sad afro "i
rasatal " dlsessee. Underthe third head (boa dlsseselsesM
deaths by anthem of the nervous system rose from 123
to 139 ; those by diagnose of the heart rose from 63 to
66 ; those by diseases of the respiratory organs from 367 to
368; and by dismiss of the digestive organs the deaths rose
from 6/ to fa. While there is an increase which is not in-
considerable la the deaths from all mune, it is satisfactory
to remark a decrease but week in mnallpou and alto a can-
named diereses is scarlatina, The deaths from the former
disease were 26; 2 of these occurred is one family in the
Leadon.road sub-diariot. From samlatiea the deaths in
the lest three weeks were successively 62, 48, and 33. Last
week there were 11 from diphtheria. Mae infants died from
syphilitic disease; and no Ism than 16 from suffocation ar.-
reedy by saideet, and an or for the most pat in bed. Two
Waldrop, one at the age of 6 weeks, the other 7 weeks, and
belonging to the seam family, were suffocated In bed, the
former oa the 70 and the latter on the 17th that. The
Resister of the Heat-road rub-district returns three
chiklrea, belonging to different families, who were " sod-
distally 'holocaust in bed," two an the 17th tact., end erne es
the 23rd. Two parse= died from private's. The oldest
person who died last meek was a widow, seed 96 years,
Lest week the births of 1,089 boys and 978 girls, in an
2,067 °Wide's, wets regiawed In Loudon. In the ten oor •
reepostling weeks of the yam 1860.9 the average number
wee 1,691.

Cant= Or A SLAVS& BY H.M.S. PLATO.—The
followtog letter has bees racelved from • lad oo board
the Plato H.Y.S. Plato, at is. Nov. 30, 1859.—We
lift Masemba Yrithy last, and stood out for • maim W.
an Dow about SOO Wise off Um land, sad yesterday and the
day bebre we oilseed *Tasks* brigantine; bat this morn-
ing—what do yen think f—ere lave actually taken the
notable Orion, with 888 slaves 00 board. Only fancy, altar
the Timken, hays sent Mr to New York, and she has bees
let go, sad aow the Yankees have taken her Into oho Oonsa
Slkli elated bar, sad the Triton bad her is tow, that Ire
should take bar with very little trouble. It was • glorious
sight. I Asa SOW forget it. We saw her at daylight,
about eight or Ma miles of, and Maimed after ber, congas up
to her in alma 'abater. Well, we did not hoist our colours till
we were close le kir, sad than she sent ap the Mara and
stripes ; thin we elsomed round her, and our captain hailed
M bow what ship it was; the fellow sump out Orion, and
that be ma going to New York; so our captain said he
mini& board her ; and as he our stapvisg oat of tag boat to
mem board, they hauled down thou colours, ton them In
UK sod hove them overboard. Our ram thin pm them
Mears, which was answered by the liberated slaves in sma-
rter that we shall all ranstabir as keg as we live. Bh. fa a
Sdprise.This is • great loss to the slave dialers, as
fLdl the loss of slaves are than ships, sad this makes
2, takes in IMO thintwo martaths." noes previous be-
ton It appears that this notarloue Orion was priors,' is
atige lust by her ILolootf • ship Taos. She Aga sailed the
Americas fag to Mr matt, sad rolthell to atnealiw. bat was
afterwards takes of by the Ansoiama misses sad
mama to Now wk.
M 0211711 or Paint, Bourg /Ciiisixorox.—
Number of vigils, far dm wait teilfal Jon. 9111:-11 ontlato,
fel ; moisgo, 1411 •; total, 2.172. Moo the gain of law
mom boo bay OW Li, 1588),166,4@.