The Express.
London, England, 1860-11-07 00:00:00

THE mitaLrm OP LONDON.

The weekly return of Births and Deaths in
Loudon, issued by
_authority of the Registrar-General,
stake that the London Mores still beer testimony
to a very favourable state of the priblie health. The
deaths registered in the week that aided last tiaturday
were 1,019. The average for corresponding weeks is
the tee years after correction for lacrosse of pope-
latioc, i. found to be 1,179. fleece it appears that the
number of penal' who died hut week wee less by 130 than
the number that would have died if a rate of mortality
are' to the average for this smarm had pnivailed. The
districts within the metropolitan bounds differ widely, and
those of bitio.t sanitary conditicie reduce " the mortality
of London. The best districts will, it may be reaaooably
Loped, i,o iu a few years permanently improved till they
approach the standard now represented by good country
district., and the wont districts at least raised to the pre-
meet eoodition of the bast.

.....
In limiest week the death' included under the symotic
class of diseases were 241 • the corrected average for corre-
sponding weeks being 30t There were only 2 deaths from
onall.put, and one from varicella There were 47 from
scarlatina, and 13 from diphtheria. Five from scarlatina
marred to the Kensington Town sub-district; 2 of there
on the same ilay in one family it. Kensington-place.
Forty-four children died of measles ; 3 of theoe in the Ba-
rney sub-district, 3 he the east enbAstrict of Langton, 3 in
the Church subAistrict of Bettinal•green (2 in one &Mt
!A awl 3in melia's*. Three infinite were murdered.
widow of a merchant, aged 77 years, died from her clothes
taking fire. Another woman died from hues; 3
children from owl& Of 5 death, from suffocation,
3 were those of children in bed. An infant, a week old,
died from the foul air of the room to which it
dept; another, aged it mouths, from having been fed
with two °owes of beef sausage. A widow died at the
Er of tlfi years, sod s female domestic eeriest at the age
(ea suited) of 100 years, in the Hackney workhouse. A
type-founder aged 44 years died from " the effect. of
poisonous metals, lead cad antimony."
i4lBi week the birthe of 956 boys and 912 girls, M all
1,864 children, were registered M Leedom. la the tee cot.•
responding weeks of the years 166046 the average number
was 1,617.

A MURDER CLAAN WA/MD.—The San Fran-
cine° correspondent of the New Yank serge, writing is
Rept saber List, describes with • item professional (Wing
the injurious rectrietlons placed on the press in that city :
" To-dav we are to hang a man, but probably not or• in s
handfed of our citizens know it. There has not • repartee
tom to IMO him sloes he was sentenced. Nobody has sated
whether be hes made a coefeesion. Having requested that
none but the priest and the Sisters of Mercy be permitted
to visit him his request has been complied with. We don't
work up oar stood...on, feu perceive, artistically. You re-
member we let uff the seine Jape out of whom you 'queened
su much good reading, with only two or three chasers, •
few rides, and tin• dedication of Mght or ten columns each
In our se wqapers to diet/doings. This Whitford, properly
two:aged, ought have been made quite • ern:l:Mud hero. He
owed a street contractor • few dollars, and nut wishing to
pay him called him out of his house one dark night sod shot
hUn. The jury found him guilty ; the prisoner made •
sharp brisk 'pawl for his life ; the judge sentenced him ;
nobody asked pardou for him. Nut an extra paper will be
sold on his secount."

A BULIAX.IS CUT TO PIE4:6{ ON Till GAUT
NORTHER:4 ItAILWAT.- Yesterday evening, between In
and sin o'cl.rek, a bullock was observed on this line by the
engine-driver, near the Eleven fileters.rood, Holloway. Ho
sounded his whistle and tried to get the simnel off the luie,
but without swoons, for it seemed determined oo an et,
counter with the engine, which it attacked full butt, and
we. literally cut to press. The occurrence ..used some
delay in the arrival of the trains from the north, owing to
the online being injured by the accident.
T. I PR4IVINCIAL Fll MISS —" We have
recently had the i.lemore of imperting the productions of see
,4 our neat taunt, badne manufacturer'', mad from the pocket
rhrontetwtvi of f•My guinea* down to the mechanic'. watch of
twos fulness, end through ell their various forme end Willow
ther duplex. lover. borinsitak or vortical , the mate beau.
tiful *dab stdsome-filly we. übeervebie. Such being the cam,
we hale greet ydemore In recommending to our ncial
friends and the peke milendly, the asenboatures of Mr. provi
!Me-
mo of rs and 34. Ludgatc hill, who. hewing succeeded fa pro-
4loteg a really good watch et • remarkably moderate prks,
foul; entitie.l to ell the breelite notoriety can bestow. —Cam-
eo !'iel belly LW. limmon's Illasteetad Pamphlet. poet free tar
to...tamps. b descriptive of every eou.trectioo of • arch sow
u..Je We obey eels by poet to all pert. of the globe.—(Ad-
verb/4mM

tift inuntgclut.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. —Nov. 0.
Sittings in Bongo. an tin lard Chief Julia, Mr. Jus-
tice-Wrn.) ighlinast, Kr. Janice Hill, and Mr. Justice Black-