The Express.
London, England, 1859-11-02 00:00:00

TO Tag IDITOIit OT THE EXTZTOO.

SIB,—It is difficult to find out the cruel tyranny
which le teuredsed la the Austrian dominions by the police.
I will give you an instance.
Johann Pulkrabek, director of a printing machine in
Prague, and elder of the Moravian church in Berlin, said
one day when the tax-ptherere called on him, In the presence
of his fellow-workmen, that it was a shame that the Emperor
having Weed a depreciated paper, would not receive it in
payment of the taxes at the rate of its depreciation. In two
days he was seized and imprisoned. His starving wife and
children are refused all knowledge of when he is, and his
old friends in Berlin have been obliged to make a subeerip-
don for their eupport.
A Bohemian Roman catholic priest was acquainted with •
workman frets Berlin who had • German Bible. The
priest called often to read it. Another priest informed
against him in the Ecelesiesticsi Court ; he was imprieosed
in a convent, which places are always used for such pnr-
paa They
he
ee declared him mad, and refuse to tell his
therey
w is. This happened shortly before I was
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than any other journal.—l am, &c.,

Oct. 31.

A CONSTANT READER.

REGISTRAR-GENEZA.US QUARTERLYMITURB.

The following is the substance of the Quarterly
Return of the Births, Deaths, and Marriages registered laths
divisions, tountiee, and districts of England, Nat issued by
authority of the Registrar-General :
This return comprises the births sod deaths re-
gistered by 2,197 registrars in ell the district/ of
England during the summer quarter that ended on
September 30, 1859; and the wartiages in 12,377
churches or chapel', about 4,158 registered places of worship
unconnected with the established church, and 631 superin-
tendent regietrara' offices, in the quince that ended on June
30, 1859. The returns present a favourable view of the
Mate of the country. The marriages increased, as they do
when the prospect of life among the working classes is chew,
bag. Thousands of children in excess of the average were
born ; the rate of mortality diminished ; and the 'population
increased et an unusual rate. As the diminution in the rate
of mortality took place in the towns it may be fatly ascribed
to the prosperous state of trade, to the supply of better water,
the abolition of cesspools, the purification of the air, and the
various sanitary works which many of them have carried
out. . . _

MARRIAOI.S.-84,090 perSODA married in the quarter that
elided on June 30, or 4,272 in excess of the numbers whe
married in the corresponding quarter of last year. The
marriage rate wee 1.712; the average of the quarter being
1.698. In England marriage' are more numerous in the
spring quarter than in the first three months of the year ;
but they are always moat numerous in the Christmas
quarter.
Brame.—The births of 169,311 children were registered
in the quarter that enled on Bop ember 30. The number is
10,862 In elms of the births in the cones-inning quarter of
net year. Tbe birth rate in the quarter was 3.377; the
avenge being 3.246.
INCREAAH or POPCLATION.-63,972 was the eICSIII
of the number of births over the number of
I deaths, and that was tberefire the natural in.
crease of the population of England and Wales In
92 days. On an average 695 were added to the populaticto
daily, and the probable daily 'serene of the population of
the tutted Kingdom was 1,042, shith at the ordinary rates
of mortality will supply 347 men daily of the age of 20.
The youth of the country are grearinr at such a rate as to
add a battalion to Its strength every two or three days. A
certain number of them ere transplanted, and go to people
the colonies. 34,864 emigrants sailed daring the quarter,
or 379 men, women, and thiltren on an average daily, from
the ports of the United Kingdom at which there are go-
vernment agents ; of whom about 12,464 were of English
R:CFA, rag WEATHEIL, AND PAI:PERISII.—The prim of
wheat hurtmeined steadily aunty the wee figurefor a year
and nine months ; sad during the hod threw months it has
been 44e. a quarter. This steadiness of price In an article of
large consumption has a eilutsty effect. Beef has been 61d.
a pound, mutton 51d. a pound by the carcase at Leadenhall
and Between markete. The price of beef is the same as it
was in the corresponding qaarter of 1868, and the eighth of a
penny less than it was in 1867; the pies of mutton in the
same quarters was 6IeL, 61d., 514. The average prime of the
higher quailing of the two meats decreased 1d in the pound,
or beef from 61d. to 61d. ; mutton 7d. to 61d. Potato.;
were sold at the rate of 8.55. a ton at the waterside
marker, Southwark; in the corresponding quarter. of two
previous years the prices sore 105.. and 76e. 6d. The pricer
of the present year, like the temperatures of the seasons,
occupy an intermediate position between theme of 18.57, when
they were higher, and 1858, when they were lower.
The mean temperature of the quarter was 62 deg. 8 min.,
or 3 deg. 3 min. above the average temperature of the season
during 88 yew.. The exoes.ive heat was accumulated
chiefly in July, when the mean temperature was 68 deg.
1 min.; while on July 12th the air in the Ands reached
921 deg.. and 93 deg. on she 13th end the 18th ; so that
during 10 successive days the mean temperature of day and
night exceeded 70 deg., a thing unprecedented during the
period over which correct observation extended. The air
wu drier ( 72) than usual ; but the rain-fall (8.2 Inches)
somewhat exceeded the quarterly overap. The thermome.
ter on the grass never fell below 40cleg. in July and August,
whereas it lewdly Lille several titan to the freezing point of
water. Nape ism is below the average In the kingdom. The
average number of paupers in receipt of relief during the
quarter wee 783.449, or hull about 29,000 than the numbers
receiving relit( in the corn:ripening quarters of the two per
riots year,.