The Express.
London, England, 1859-02-16 00:00:00

HBALTE 07 LONDON DEMING Till WEEK.

The return of births and deaths in London tamed
by authority of the Bagistrer-Gemerel toe the week 'adios
Saturday, February 12, statue that the deaths Registered in
Loudon, which is the previous week had fallen to 1,942,
were 1,274 in the week that ended last Saturday, shortages
Increase, but sot of considereble .mount. Is the ten years
1849-68 the avetage number of deaths fa the weeks curia
epondlug with lest week was 1,180; bat as the deaths re-
tuned for last week occurred in a ppedation which has in-
crew& they con only be competed wi,l2 the avenge 'shed
proper io3r to the increase, namely 1,298. The earl
somber of deaths lest week was therefore lather less than
the number obtained bybye alculation.
The Medea arising teem scarlatina and diphtheria matinee
slightly fa the decrease, the numbers from the two diseases
together in the last three weeks having lr ea 119, 92, and
N. Ninnies death. from diphtheria occurred hat week in
the fallouts; seb-distrkts ; one in St. John, Peddlers%
one in Humverumare, one In Soignee, 2 in Christchurch,
Maryletoos, ono in Kentish. town, 2 in Islington West, one
Is lelingtoc East, one in Stanford-WV one In St. Clike
North, one in St George, Holborn, one in Holywell, Slp
• one b Ea. Leonard, Sbomditab, one ha Heston Now-
town, one in Naggerstone Wert, one In Spitalfielle, ate in
Kent-road, sad one In Battereee. It appears that all, except
two, occurred as the sortie side of the river. The indioa-
Noes of en increase of smallpox which the n ports of recent
wake heve contented we now wry decidedly confirmed, the
deaths from this disease baring risen last week to 29.
Tweety.four of these occurred in the ceseral sad out die-
Wets, the per* chiefiy in'es ed being cheated in the sub-
date:cis of Finsbury, Whitemos-rreer, But mid West
Heggerston. The Registrar of Finsbury reeordai no leas
then six deaths free smallpox last week, 2 of these is •
family st 19 Cowper street. He stet that en mama
number of children are suffering from this complaint is
Persdisapire and Cowper-an e that the locality Is 1,41
payed and drained, bat lies rather low, and that the habits
of the peer pe lie who occupy It are very ditty.
Weems nottagamarisna, whose deaths were regkand last
week. 6 ware 90 and 91 years at age, sad a worm wu9B
years.
Lai week the births of 898 b ys and 856 nit* fa all
1.714 children, were reentered in London. In the ten oor-
responding weeks of the years 1849.38 the average number
wee 1,718.

PARLIAMINTAZT Hiroaa.—A nurnerousky at-
teteei meeting of the inhati•atta of Stratford, West Ham,
Plat.tow, and adjamint dietticts welt held at Roksby-house,
Stratford, on Monday evening. to er nadir the s: i• racy of
petitioning the legislature for en amendment and intension of
the frevaleee. Amongst those preset on the plated wore
Mt. Wineleid, M.P. for South Bala, and leveret of the
le idieg lehabitents of tte neighbourhood. Mr. R. Madam
took the chair, and explained the objects of the meeting.
Le doing so he raid the taros beg intelligence of the people ds-
mania a material estrasise of the fratichts., for the House of
Commena. as at parent cots Patel, did not IMr'y represent
them. They moults d • Ito's* of Commons to be formed of
men defies's.% without say nudes proportion elan, peel-
wear late eat. It would also be ne:eeesry to have the balk*.
At meat they gars a vote to • nun who often meld not use
It conscientiously without indicting Injury upon Itlmeelf.
What wss replied, therefore, was, that the voter clamed
be protected ia the exerts. of bit eolith al egtit.
The essettag was addressed by seers] gentlemen, and see s-
tencils NM adopted In favour of an exteadoa of tbo fran-
chise, sad of eleriarial districts, the at &Non of snail and
atrairt bnroagt2s, and vote by ballot; and a peition to
perliameet fun kd on the rewletions was adopted. Mr.
Winnfield, M.P., gladly accepted the duty of proventeg the
petition. He capreserd himwit hvomahle to as extension of
Its hanch;s_• but thought that all donator) from deb ex-
tension would be bet if the ballot were adopted. However,
ho bad sleep acted in &demos to the wishes of Ids con-
stituent', and bad Inver rob d easiest
,the bola.. Ho nor
steered that though Mr. Br igLt's was a rtnerrhst liberal,
it um not jut in rewurd to the secant-4 intormt. He
(Mr. Wiogeold) wan.d, however, deal with the questire of
ref rut Is • fair and redouble *putt, when it *me to be
dircuseed. _ _

tug CAMBRIDGE MIDDLE-CLASS EXAMINATIONS.
—ln the Hat of reboot" ending seecemfal stadente to the
i tdle elms imnilsatione pablieLed en Ilireday, we
etetd that Mr. Templeton, of the Mensiombome School,
gretrr, eentoaly one student In the second dam. Tb's wee
ea
erne, es tweet the students in that clan were rent boot
Mr. Toe's eetablisbenent.
Tal MIT= COVET or SISSION.—In the past
=6 1616, Inn were 1,420 mow enrolled in the Outer
it dry first time before all the Lads Oratory.
466 &ewes* Is ahem% end 626 Gael Judgments pronmared
le litlgaMi MOM I. the loner Homo, 319 hn.l Juan-
Iffisamingis itiwated moms without the
oweermmemerwr eseryoall treaq-flve causes were tried by
18.1,0 .

FRANCE.

The letter of our Paris correspondent, dated
yesterday evening, had not reached us at the time of
outgoing to press.