The Express.
London, England, 1859-07-06 00:00:00

THB PUBLIC BIALTH.

(From the Weekly Retrum of the Registrar-General.)
The mortality in London begins to inereare se is
at this period of the year. The deaths, which were
913 end 970 fit the two previous weeks, rose to 1,024 in the
week that ended lest Saturday. In the tee years., 184948,
the average numberd deaths in the weeks corresponoling
with last week was 1,126 ; bet, as the deaths returned foe last
week meowed in an lorreand population, they can only be
compared with the average raised is proportion to the ilf•
crearos—niuudy, wish 1,268. It appears, therefore, that the
deaths reglattred lost wick were kw by 214 than the num-
ber as oLtained by calcalatiou ; but it should he observed
that deaths on which ioque.ta have been held are now regis-
tered with greater uhitomnity than they were previously,
when they were permitted to ammoniate till the end of the
quarter, a cirrourstence which to a considerable extent affects
the comparioon. The average number of deaths from vio-
lent* registered in the last weak of the spring quarter in
previous yeors was 107, whereas last week the number
was 48.

The diarrhow of summer Is now making perceptible pro-
gress. In tie last three week, rba deaths caused by it have
been onoonalvely 2), 34, and 68. Of these 68, all except two
occurred to childrent and • very large proportion to infants
in their first year. It is remarkable that, while 16 death
front Manistee occurred last week in the wait elletriesta, 13
in the north, 17 in the ewe, sad 11 fa the south, only owe
occurred in the centre! group, which, besides other
districts, coraprbes St. Oliva's, Holborn, Clerkenwell, and
the City. A child died at 6, An.tia-streee, Hackney-road,
from dlarrhers, In a family where two other death. have
occurred within a month, in consequence, it la stated of de-
ficient drainage, which is now remedied. A boy died of
cholera alter etc days' illness, at 79, High-eneet, Shadwell;
and an otter of "choleraic diarricea (four dap), st 36,
Chinlestetreet, Seffron-hal. A sailor was drowned in the
London Decks, and the coroner's jury were of opinion that,
though be bad been immersed only three minutes, recovery
was rendered imponoble by the foul condition of the water.
There were 42 deaths from scarlatina; else 21 from dipl -
theria, 3 of thaw in the au`edistrict of Belgrave, 3 in that
of Lost-acre. A child was choked by • cherrytet ma, ano-
ther by a nntelaell. A girl, aged three years, dial on Jose
22 from ,unstroke. Six violets died from intemperance,
tussles 5 whose deaths are recorded u caused by Ultima
tremens.

11t week the births of 883 !sly. and 907 girls, in all
1,790 children, were registered In ndnn. In the 10 cm-
rsern4ing weeks of the gears 1849 68 the eremite number
was 1,610.

FATAL GUS ACClDZNT.—lnformation has been
received by Charles:. Carina, Esq., coroner for Kent, of
the death of Abraham Nelson Sampson, a young man only
22 yeas of age, from a gun-shot wound Inflicted arx Heatedly
by himself on Monday. Ile woo in a field belonging to Mr.
May, fanner, of St. Paul's Cray, whither he bad goes scam-
panted by his brother and another person for the purpose t f
shooting rats, sod at the moment of the accident was kneel-
ing down holding his gun by the muzzle, and pushing it
from him on the ground. In so doing the trigger caught In
some way, and the contents of the gun were lodged in the
poor fellow's towels. lie less immediately attended by a
medical man, but the Injuries were moral, and he expked
about sa bout sad a WI alter the scddent.

ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY.

TO THE SDITOI 07 THE =PRESS.

SIR,—A number of malicious utatementa baying
been put in circulation with the object of iojuring this under.
taking by creating as impression that the Atlantic cable,
when successfully laid in August last, wee incapable of
transmitting montages between Ireland and Newfoundland,
I should feel greatly obliged if you will do me the favour to
record in your journal my solemn assurance that the follow-
ing is a correct and truthful statement of the number og
messages, words, and letters that paned through the con-
ducting wire of the Atlantic cable from shore to shore between
the 10th of August and the Ist of September inclusive
in 1868.
That there were not a great many more is owing simply to
the fact that the largest portion of even that interval was
oussumed in the neoessary arrangements for adjusting and
regulating the novel apparatus by which the signals were
transmitted.
The messages actually recorded, omitting conversations by
telegraph between the clerks at the respective termini, were
as follows .

From Valenti& to Newfoundland, 97 messages, containing
1,102 words, containing 6,476 letters. From Newfoundland
to Valenti., 269 messages, containing 2,840 words, containing
13,743 letters. Total 306 messages, 3,942 word., 20,219
letters.
Among these were the missteps announcing the eafety of
the Europa's peaseagers after her collision with the Arabia,
and two measages for her Majesty's Wm-otlice to Halifax
and Montreal respectively, by which latter a large sum wee
saved to the reverters of this country.-1 am, &c.,
GEORGE BAWARD, Secretary.
Atlantic Telegraph Company, 22, Old Broad-street,
London, July 5.